JIRA Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Atlassian JIRA
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring JIRA skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 45 47
Rank change year-on-year +17 +2 -14
Contract jobs citing JIRA 114 94 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 6.51% 4.53% 4.07%
As % of the Development Applications category 43.18% 31.86% 30.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 60 86
10th Percentile £313 £390 £413
25th Percentile £405 £447 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £531 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -11.46% +4.35%
75th Percentile £639 £633 £675
90th Percentile £679 £804 £788
Central London median daily rate £500 £525 £569
% change year-on-year -4.76% -7.73% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £87.50 - -

All Development Application Skills
City of London

JIRA falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 264 295 413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 15.08% 14.20% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 194 283
10th Percentile £355 £402 £400
25th Percentile £425 £489 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £650 £705 £714
90th Percentile £714 £786 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -2.65% -1.74% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £75.00 - -

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the City of London

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing JIRA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing JIRA

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the City of London over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the City of London

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing JIRA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing JIRA

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the City of London region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 - -
JIRA
Central London

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 53 (46.49%) Confluence
2 7 (6.14%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.39%) CMS
4 4 (3.51%) Drupal
4 4 (3.51%) WordPress
5 2 (1.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (1.75%) Apache
5 2 (1.75%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.75%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.88%) Camunda
6 1 (0.88%) nginx
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.88%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.88%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (7.89%) MS Visio
3 8 (7.02%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (6.14%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (1.75%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (1.75%) Trello
7 1 (0.88%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.88%) InVision
7 1 (0.88%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.75%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.88%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.88%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 19 (16.67%) Azure
2 17 (14.91%) AWS
3 12 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 10 (8.77%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (3.51%) Miro
6 4 (3.51%) Power Automate
6 4 (3.51%) PowerApps
7 3 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.63%) Figma
7 3 (2.63%) GitHub
7 3 (2.63%) IaaS
7 3 (2.63%) SaaS
7 3 (2.63%) Serverless
8 2 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.75%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.26%) Firewall
2 3 (2.63%) DNS
2 3 (2.63%) SSH
3 2 (1.75%) SSL
3 2 (1.75%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.75%) WAN
4 1 (0.88%) DKIM
4 1 (0.88%) LAN
4 1 (0.88%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.77%) Power BI
2 4 (3.51%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.63%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.75%) Apache Hive
4 2 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.75%) Delta Lake
4 2 (1.75%) Metadata
4 2 (1.75%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.75%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.88%) Big Data
5 1 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.88%) GIS
5 1 (0.88%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (9.65%) Git
2 5 (4.39%) Selenium
3 4 (3.51%) Bitbucket
3 4 (3.51%) ScriptRunner
4 3 (2.63%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.63%) Postman
4 3 (2.63%) Zephyr
5 2 (1.75%) Appium
5 2 (1.75%) GitLab
5 2 (1.75%) REST Assured
5 2 (1.75%) RStudio
5 2 (1.75%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.75%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.88%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.88%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.88%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.88%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.88%) TestNG
6 1 (0.88%) TestRail
6 1 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 46 (40.35%) Finance
1 46 (40.35%) Social Skills
2 27 (23.68%) Banking
3 20 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (5.26%) Investment Banking
4 6 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.39%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.51%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.75%) Back Office
8 2 (1.75%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.75%) Front Office
8 2 (1.75%) Law
8 2 (1.75%) Legal
8 2 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.75%) Retail
8 2 (1.75%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.88%) Billing
9 1 (0.88%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (21.05%) Analyst
2 15 (13.16%) Business Analyst
3 11 (9.65%) Developer
3 11 (9.65%) Senior
4 10 (8.77%) Project Manager
5 8 (7.02%) Consultant
6 7 (6.14%) Architect
7 6 (5.26%) Product Owner
7 6 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (5.26%) Tester
8 5 (4.39%) Lead
9 4 (3.51%) Administrator
9 4 (3.51%) Data Engineer
9 4 (3.51%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 3 (2.63%) IT Manager
10 3 (2.63%) Management Consultant
10 3 (2.63%) Senior Architect
10 3 (2.63%) Senior Manager
10 3 (2.63%) Technical Analyst
10 3 (2.63%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.89%) HTML
2 7 (6.14%) CSS
2 7 (6.14%) REST
3 5 (4.39%) AngularJS
3 5 (4.39%) HTML5
3 5 (4.39%) JSON
4 4 (3.51%) ADO
4 4 (3.51%) React
5 3 (2.63%) .NET
5 3 (2.63%) jQuery
5 3 (2.63%) LDAP
5 3 (2.63%) Next.js
5 3 (2.63%) SOAP
5 3 (2.63%) XML
6 2 (1.75%) JDBC
6 2 (1.75%) ODBC
6 2 (1.75%) pydantic
6 2 (1.75%) PySpark
6 2 (1.75%) Spring
6 2 (1.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.16%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.51%) Fixed Income
2 4 (3.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (3.51%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.51%) Mobile App
2 4 (3.51%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 3 (2.63%) Reference Data
4 2 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.75%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.75%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.75%) Derivative
4 2 (1.75%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.75%) NHS
4 2 (1.75%) PMI
4 2 (1.75%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.88%) Educational Technology
5 1 (0.88%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.26%) Windows
2 4 (3.51%) Linux
2 4 (3.51%) Unix
3 2 (1.75%) Android
3 2 (1.75%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.88%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (63.16%) Agile
2 29 (25.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 28 (24.56%) Scrum
4 25 (21.93%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (21.05%) DevOps
6 17 (14.91%) Project Management
6 17 (14.91%) Roadmaps
7 16 (14.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 16 (14.04%) User Stories
8 14 (12.28%) Migration
8 14 (12.28%) User Acceptance Testing
9 13 (11.40%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (10.53%) Test Automation
11 11 (9.65%) CI/CD
12 9 (7.89%) Change Management
12 9 (7.89%) Incident Management
12 9 (7.89%) ITSM
12 9 (7.89%) Project Delivery
12 9 (7.89%) Waterfall
12 9 (7.89%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.16%) SQL
2 14 (12.28%) Java
3 13 (11.40%) Python
4 10 (8.77%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.51%) Bash
5 4 (3.51%) Groovy
6 3 (2.63%) C#
6 3 (2.63%) Scala
6 3 (2.63%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.75%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.88%) C
8 1 (0.88%) Go
8 1 (0.88%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.88%) SOQL
8 1 (0.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (14.91%) SC Cleared
1 17 (14.91%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.28%) Degree
3 5 (4.39%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.63%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.75%) PMP
7 1 (0.88%) APMG
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.88%) CBAP
7 1 (0.88%) CISA
7 1 (0.88%) CISSP
7 1 (0.88%) CRISC
7 1 (0.88%) CSSLP
7 1 (0.88%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.88%) PhD
7 1 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.88%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.53%) QA
2 7 (6.14%) Accessibility
2 7 (6.14%) PMO
3 4 (3.51%) GDPR
4 3 (2.63%) ISO 20022
4 3 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.63%) SEPA
5 2 (1.75%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.75%) NCSC
5 2 (1.75%) NIST
5 2 (1.75%) WCAG
6 1 (0.88%) COBIT
6 1 (0.88%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.88%) PSD2
6 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.63%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.88%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 3 (2.63%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.75%) HP ALM
2 2 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.75%) Terraform
3 1 (0.88%) Ambari
3 1 (0.88%) Consul
3 1 (0.88%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (0.88%) Opsgenie
3 1 (0.88%) Packer
3 1 (0.88%) Puppet
3 1 (0.88%) SCCM
3 1 (0.88%) Tivoli
3 1 (0.88%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.14%) Salesforce
2 7 (6.14%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.39%) Atlassian
3 5 (4.39%) SAP
4 4 (3.51%) Databricks
4 4 (3.51%) HP
5 3 (2.63%) Adobe
5 3 (2.63%) Oracle
6 2 (1.75%) BMC
6 2 (1.75%) DocuSign
6 2 (1.75%) Google
6 2 (1.75%) IBM
6 2 (1.75%) Ivanti
6 2 (1.75%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.75%) Remedy
6 2 (1.75%) Tenable
7 1 (0.88%) Ahrefs
7 1 (0.88%) Duck Creek
7 1 (0.88%) Screaming Frog