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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 33 66
Rank change year-on-year -3 +33 -29
Contract jobs citing JIRA 110 104 69
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.60% 5.76% 2.91%
As % of the Development Applications category 41.51% 37.68% 29.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 56 50
10th Percentile £364 £348 £362
25th Percentile £428 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £586 £675
90th Percentile £695 £634 £756
Central London median daily rate £525 £506 £550
% change year-on-year +3.70% -7.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.75 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - -
75th Percentile £20.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 - -

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 265 276 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 13.49% 15.30% 10.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 158 166
10th Percentile £362 £403 £425
25th Percentile £423 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £541 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -9.79% -
75th Percentile £638 £630 £688
90th Percentile £753 £738 £766
Central London median daily rate £550 £540 £600
% change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 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 - - £71.40
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 - £60.50
% change year-on-year - - +5.22%

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 24 February 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
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 49 (44.55%) Confluence
2 12 (10.91%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.73%) CMS
4 2 (1.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (1.82%) Ethereum
4 2 (1.82%) Hyperledger
4 2 (1.82%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.91%) Apache
5 1 (0.91%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (10.91%) MS Visio
2 8 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (7.27%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.64%) Trello
4 3 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.91%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (3.64%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (2.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.73%) Fidessa
3 2 (1.82%) Algo Collateral
3 2 (1.82%) Summit
4 1 (0.91%) Actimize
4 1 (0.91%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.91%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.91%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.91%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 20 (18.18%) Azure
2 15 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (10.91%) AWS
4 8 (7.27%) GitHub
4 8 (7.27%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.73%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.73%) GCP
6 3 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.73%) Google Workspace
6 3 (2.73%) Serverless
7 2 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.82%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (1.82%) Miro
7 2 (1.82%) Slack
7 2 (1.82%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.82%) DNS
1 2 (1.82%) HTTP
2 1 (0.91%) DKIM
2 1 (0.91%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.45%) Power BI
1 6 (5.45%) Tableau
2 3 (2.73%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.73%) Metadata
2 3 (2.73%) Tick Data
3 2 (1.82%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.82%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.82%) SQLite
4 1 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.91%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.91%) CouchDB
4 1 (0.91%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.91%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.91%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.91%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.91%) GIS
4 1 (0.91%) Looker
4 1 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.91%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (12.73%) Jenkins
2 10 (9.09%) Git
3 8 (7.27%) Selenium
4 4 (3.64%) JUnit
4 4 (3.64%) Postman
4 4 (3.64%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (2.73%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.73%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.73%) GitLab
5 3 (2.73%) Maven
6 2 (1.82%) Ant
6 2 (1.82%) CocoaPods
6 2 (1.82%) Crashlytics
6 2 (1.82%) fastlane
6 2 (1.82%) Liquibase
6 2 (1.82%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.82%) SpecFlow
6 2 (1.82%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.82%) TestRail
6 2 (1.82%) Xcode
General
1 48 (43.64%) Finance
2 47 (42.73%) Social Skills
3 30 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (20.91%) Banking
5 9 (8.18%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.36%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (6.36%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.55%) Front Office
7 5 (4.55%) Legal
8 4 (3.64%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.64%) Retail
9 3 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.73%) Marketing
10 2 (1.82%) Back Office
11 1 (0.91%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.91%) French Language
11 1 (0.91%) Military
Job Titles
1 32 (29.09%) Analyst
2 24 (21.82%) Business Analyst
3 23 (20.91%) Senior
4 10 (9.09%) Developer
4 10 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
5 8 (7.27%) Project Manager
6 7 (6.36%) Lead
6 7 (6.36%) Senior Business Analyst
7 6 (5.45%) Banking Analyst
7 6 (5.45%) Technical Analyst
8 5 (4.55%) Banking Business Analyst
8 5 (4.55%) Delivery Manager
8 5 (4.55%) Scrum Master
8 5 (4.55%) Senior Manager
8 5 (4.55%) Technical Business Analyst
9 4 (3.64%) Consultant
9 4 (3.64%) IT Support
9 4 (3.64%) Java Developer
9 4 (3.64%) Junior
9 4 (3.64%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.45%) Spring
2 5 (4.55%) REST
3 3 (2.73%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.73%) Kafka
3 3 (2.73%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (2.73%) Playwright
3 3 (2.73%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.82%) .NET
4 2 (1.82%) AVFoundation
4 2 (1.82%) Core Animation
4 2 (1.82%) Core Data
4 2 (1.82%) gRPC
4 2 (1.82%) HTML
4 2 (1.82%) J2EE
4 2 (1.82%) RESTful
4 2 (1.82%) RxSwift
4 2 (1.82%) Spring Batch
4 2 (1.82%) UIKit
4 2 (1.82%) WebSphere MQ
4 2 (1.82%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.91%) Product Ownership
2 10 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.64%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.64%) Equities
3 4 (3.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (3.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (2.73%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.73%) Derivative
4 3 (2.73%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.73%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.82%) Animation
5 2 (1.82%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.82%) PMI
6 1 (0.91%) CMDB
6 1 (0.91%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.91%) NHS
6 1 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.73%) Windows
2 2 (1.82%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.82%) Linux
3 1 (0.91%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.91%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (59.09%) Agile
2 34 (30.91%) Scrum
3 29 (26.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 28 (25.45%) Stakeholder Management
5 27 (24.55%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (20.91%) Continuous Improvement
6 23 (20.91%) DevOps
7 21 (19.09%) Project Delivery
7 21 (19.09%) Project Management
8 18 (16.36%) User Acceptance Testing
9 16 (14.55%) CI/CD
10 15 (13.64%) Migration
10 15 (13.64%) User Stories
10 15 (13.64%) Workshop Facilitation
11 14 (12.73%) Waterfall
12 13 (11.82%) Decision-Making
12 13 (11.82%) Requirements Gathering
12 13 (11.82%) Test Automation
13 12 (10.91%) Risk Management
14 11 (10.00%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (11.82%) Java
2 12 (10.91%) Python
2 12 (10.91%) SQL
3 5 (4.55%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.64%) C#
5 3 (2.73%) Bash
6 2 (1.82%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.82%) Korn
6 2 (1.82%) Objective-C
6 2 (1.82%) Swift
6 2 (1.82%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.91%) PHP
7 1 (0.91%) SOQL
7 1 (0.91%) XPath
Qualifications
1 25 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 24 (21.82%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.73%) Degree
4 6 (5.45%) PMI Certification
5 5 (4.55%) CBAP
5 5 (4.55%) ISTQB
6 4 (3.64%) PMP
7 3 (2.73%) ISEB
7 3 (2.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.82%) CESG Certified Professional
8 2 (1.82%) CFA
8 2 (1.82%) CISSP
8 2 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.82%) IIBA
8 2 (1.82%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.55%) QA
2 6 (5.45%) PMO
3 3 (2.73%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.73%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.73%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.82%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.82%) GDPR
4 2 (1.82%) GRC
4 2 (1.82%) SLA
5 1 (0.91%) Basel III
5 1 (0.91%) EMIR
5 1 (0.91%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.91%) MiFID
5 1 (0.91%) NCSC
5 1 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (4.55%) Docker
2 3 (2.73%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.64%) Ansible
2 3 (2.73%) Terraform
3 2 (1.82%) HP ALM
3 2 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.91%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.91%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.91%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (15.45%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.09%) Salesforce
2 10 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 9 (8.18%) Google
4 6 (5.45%) Oracle
5 5 (4.55%) Atlassian
6 4 (3.64%) Planview
6 4 (3.64%) Remedy
7 3 (2.73%) Adobe
7 3 (2.73%) Apple
7 3 (2.73%) Databricks
7 3 (2.73%) IBM
7 3 (2.73%) SAP
7 3 (2.73%) Solace
7 3 (2.73%) Workday
8 2 (1.82%) Ahrefs
8 2 (1.82%) HP
8 2 (1.82%) Murex
8 2 (1.82%) SmartStream
9 1 (0.91%) Tenable