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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 37 54
Rank change year-on-year 0 +17 -15
Contract jobs citing JIRA 111 97 80
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.21% 5.61% 3.43%
As % of the Development Applications category 43.70% 37.16% 31.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 55 50
10th Percentile £367 £413 £362
25th Percentile £463 £419 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year - -3.45% -9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £638
90th Percentile £706 £639 £717
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -5.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.75 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - -
75th Percentile £20.25 - -
90th Percentile £48.50 - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 - £33.00

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 254 261 257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.93% 15.09% 11.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 155 170
10th Percentile £363 £409 £420
25th Percentile £453 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £568
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -4.53% -5.29%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £685
90th Percentile £754 £725 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £540 £565
% change year-on-year +1.85% -4.42% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.20
25th Percentile £18.75 - £52.88
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.22%
75th Percentile £20.25 - £67.88
90th Percentile £48.50 - £71.40
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 - £48.50
% change year-on-year - - -15.65%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JIRA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

JIRA job vacancy trend 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 27 March 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in the City of London

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 27 March 2026. 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 0 1 £650 -
JIRA
Central London

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 47 (42.34%) Confluence
2 10 (9.01%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.80%) CMS
3 2 (1.80%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.80%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.80%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.90%) Apache
4 1 (0.90%) JBoss
4 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.90%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (10.81%) MS Visio
2 11 (9.91%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.60%) Trello
4 2 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.90%) Notion
Business Applications
1 6 (5.41%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.80%) Algo Collateral
3 2 (1.80%) Fidessa
3 2 (1.80%) Summit
4 1 (0.90%) Actimize
4 1 (0.90%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.90%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.90%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.90%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.90%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 20 (18.02%) Azure
2 15 (13.51%) AWS
2 15 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (8.11%) GitHub
4 8 (7.21%) Power Platform
5 7 (6.31%) Amazon S3
6 6 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (5.41%) GCP
6 6 (5.41%) Serverless
7 5 (4.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (3.60%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (3.60%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (2.70%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (2.70%) Google Workspace
9 3 (2.70%) Slack
10 2 (1.80%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (1.80%) Firebase
10 2 (1.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.80%) HTTP
2 1 (0.90%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.31%) Tableau
2 6 (5.41%) DynamoDB
2 6 (5.41%) Power BI
3 5 (4.50%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.60%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.80%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.80%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.80%) SQLite
6 2 (1.80%) Tick Data
7 1 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.90%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.90%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.90%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.90%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.90%) Looker
7 1 (0.90%) MySQL
7 1 (0.90%) Redis
7 1 (0.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (13.51%) Git
1 15 (13.51%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.41%) JUnit
2 6 (5.41%) Selenium
3 5 (4.50%) Postman
4 4 (3.60%) Cucumber
4 4 (3.60%) GitLab
5 3 (2.70%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.70%) Mockito
6 2 (1.80%) Ant
6 2 (1.80%) CocoaPods
6 2 (1.80%) Crashlytics
6 2 (1.80%) Liquibase
6 2 (1.80%) Maven
6 2 (1.80%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.80%) SpecFlow
6 2 (1.80%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.80%) TestRail
6 2 (1.80%) Xcode
General
1 52 (46.85%) Finance
2 42 (37.84%) Social Skills
3 30 (27.03%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (24.32%) Banking
5 11 (9.91%) Public Sector
6 9 (8.11%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (4.50%) Front Office
8 5 (4.50%) Legal
8 5 (4.50%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (3.60%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.60%) Retail
10 3 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.70%) Marketing
11 2 (1.80%) Back Office
11 2 (1.80%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.90%) French Language
12 1 (0.90%) Military
12 1 (0.90%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (30.63%) Analyst
2 25 (22.52%) Business Analyst
3 20 (18.02%) Senior
4 13 (11.71%) Developer
5 10 (9.01%) Senior Analyst
6 9 (8.11%) Lead
7 8 (7.21%) Banking Analyst
8 7 (6.31%) Delivery Manager
9 6 (5.41%) Banking Business Analyst
9 6 (5.41%) IT Support
9 6 (5.41%) Project Manager
9 6 (5.41%) Senior Business Analyst
10 5 (4.50%) 1st/2nd Line Support
10 5 (4.50%) 2nd Line Support
10 5 (4.50%) Technical Analyst
11 4 (3.60%) Java Developer
11 4 (3.60%) Junior
11 4 (3.60%) Senior Developer
11 4 (3.60%) Senior Manager
11 4 (3.60%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.21%) Spring
2 5 (4.50%) Kafka
2 5 (4.50%) Spring Boot
3 4 (3.60%) REST
4 3 (2.70%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.70%) Gherkin
4 3 (2.70%) J2EE
4 3 (2.70%) Playwright
4 3 (2.70%) React
4 3 (2.70%) SOAP
4 3 (2.70%) UIKit
4 3 (2.70%) WireMock
4 3 (2.70%) YAML
5 2 (1.80%) .NET
5 2 (1.80%) Core Data
5 2 (1.80%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (1.80%) RESTful
5 2 (1.80%) RxSwift
5 2 (1.80%) Web Services
5 2 (1.80%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.81%) Product Ownership
2 11 (9.91%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.41%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.60%) Derivative
4 4 (3.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (3.60%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.70%) Equities
5 3 (2.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.80%) Animation
6 2 (1.80%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.80%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.80%) PMI
7 1 (0.90%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.90%) DTCC
7 1 (0.90%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.90%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (0.90%) NHS
7 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.90%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.70%) Apple iOS
1 3 (2.70%) Windows
2 2 (1.80%) Linux
2 2 (1.80%) Unix
3 1 (0.90%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (62.16%) Agile
2 34 (30.63%) Scrum
3 28 (25.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 27 (24.32%) Stakeholder Management
5 26 (23.42%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (22.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (18.92%) Project Delivery
8 18 (16.22%) DevOps
8 18 (16.22%) Project Management
9 17 (15.32%) Workshop Facilitation
10 16 (14.41%) CI/CD
10 16 (14.41%) Test Automation
10 16 (14.41%) User Acceptance Testing
10 16 (14.41%) Waterfall
11 15 (13.51%) Migration
12 14 (12.61%) Decision-Making
12 14 (12.61%) User Stories
13 13 (11.71%) Requirements Gathering
13 13 (11.71%) Risk Management
14 12 (10.81%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.51%) Java
2 13 (11.71%) SQL
3 12 (10.81%) Python
4 6 (5.41%) C#
5 5 (4.50%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.50%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.70%) Swift
7 2 (1.80%) Bash
7 2 (1.80%) Korn
7 2 (1.80%) Objective-C
8 1 (0.90%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.90%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.90%) PHP
8 1 (0.90%) Scala
8 1 (0.90%) XPath
Qualifications
1 25 (22.52%) Security Cleared
2 24 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 13 (11.71%) Degree
4 6 (5.41%) PMI Certification
5 5 (4.50%) CBAP
5 5 (4.50%) ISTQB
6 4 (3.60%) PMP
7 3 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.70%) ISEB
7 3 (2.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.80%) CESG Certified Professional
8 2 (1.80%) CFA
8 2 (1.80%) CISSP
8 2 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.80%) IIBA
8 2 (1.80%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.41%) QA
2 7 (6.31%) PMO
3 5 (4.50%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.70%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.70%) ISO 20022
4 3 (2.70%) SLA
5 2 (1.80%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.80%) GRC
6 1 (0.90%) Basel III
6 1 (0.90%) EMIR
6 1 (0.90%) GDPR
6 1 (0.90%) MiFID
6 1 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.90%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (5.41%) Docker
2 3 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (5.41%) Terraform
2 4 (3.60%) Ansible
3 3 (2.70%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.80%) HP ALM
4 2 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.90%) Control-M
5 1 (0.90%) RSA Archer
5 1 (0.90%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (9.91%) ServiceNow
2 10 (9.01%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.11%) Google
4 7 (6.31%) Salesforce
5 6 (5.41%) Oracle
5 6 (5.41%) Remedy
6 5 (4.50%) Atlassian
6 5 (4.50%) Planview
7 3 (2.70%) Apple
7 3 (2.70%) Databricks
7 3 (2.70%) IBM
7 3 (2.70%) Murex
7 3 (2.70%) Workday
8 2 (1.80%) HP
8 2 (1.80%) SAP
8 2 (1.80%) SmartStream
8 2 (1.80%) Solace
9 1 (0.90%) Adobe
9 1 (0.90%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.90%) Informatica