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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 37 49
Rank change year-on-year +4 +12 -16
Contract jobs citing JIRA 114 98 96
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.25% 4.74% 3.78%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.45% 33.45% 35.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 53 60
10th Percentile £320 £327 £419
25th Percentile £413 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +2.56%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £700
90th Percentile £683 £785 £791
Central London median daily rate £500 £535 £600
% change year-on-year -6.54% -10.83% +3.00%

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 289 293 267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 15.84% 14.18% 10.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 167 189
10th Percentile £357 £370 £361
25th Percentile £425 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £551
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.45% -11.92%
75th Percentile £663 £681 £678
90th Percentile £767 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £566 £551
% change year-on-year -2.87% +2.86% -10.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.09%
75th Percentile £63.75 - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +26.09%

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 20 December 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
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 55 (48.25%) Confluence
2 12 (10.53%) SharePoint
3 7 (6.14%) CMS
4 4 (3.51%) WordPress
5 3 (2.63%) Drupal
6 2 (1.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 12 (10.53%) MS Visio
2 11 (9.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (3.51%) Trello
6 2 (1.75%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.88%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.88%) InVision
7 1 (0.88%) Notion
7 1 (0.88%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (2.63%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.75%) Algo Collateral
2 2 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.75%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.88%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.88%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.88%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.88%) Summit
3 1 (0.88%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 19 (16.67%) Azure
2 14 (12.28%) AWS
3 11 (9.65%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (8.77%) Power Platform
5 6 (5.26%) GitHub
6 5 (4.39%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (3.51%) Figma
7 4 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (3.51%) Miro
8 3 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.63%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.63%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.63%) Serverless
9 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.75%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (1.75%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.75%) DNS
1 2 (1.75%) Firewall
1 2 (1.75%) SSL
2 1 (0.88%) DKIM
2 1 (0.88%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (0.88%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.89%) Power BI
2 3 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.63%) Tableau
3 2 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.75%) Metadata
3 2 (1.75%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.75%) SQLite
3 2 (1.75%) Tick Data
4 1 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.88%) CouchDB
4 1 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.88%) GIS
4 1 (0.88%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.88%) MySQL
4 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.88%) Redis
4 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (7.89%) Jenkins
2 8 (7.02%) Selenium
3 6 (5.26%) Git
4 3 (2.63%) GitLab
4 3 (2.63%) Postman
4 3 (2.63%) SonarQube
4 3 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.75%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.75%) CocoaPods
5 2 (1.75%) Crashlytics
5 2 (1.75%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.75%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.75%) fastlane
5 2 (1.75%) Maven
5 2 (1.75%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.75%) TestRail
5 2 (1.75%) Xcode
6 1 (0.88%) JUnit
6 1 (0.88%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.88%) TestNG
General
1 45 (39.47%) Finance
2 40 (35.09%) Social Skills
3 29 (25.44%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (21.05%) Banking
5 8 (7.02%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.14%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.39%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.39%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.51%) Front Office
8 4 (3.51%) Legal
9 3 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.75%) Retail
10 2 (1.75%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.88%) Back Office
11 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.88%) French Language
11 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.88%) Marketing
11 1 (0.88%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (23.68%) Analyst
2 21 (18.42%) Business Analyst
3 20 (17.54%) Senior
4 9 (7.89%) Developer
5 8 (7.02%) Lead
5 8 (7.02%) Project Manager
6 7 (6.14%) Product Owner
6 7 (6.14%) Tester
7 6 (5.26%) Technical Analyst
8 5 (4.39%) Consultant
8 5 (4.39%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (4.39%) Senior Business Analyst
8 5 (4.39%) Senior Manager
8 5 (4.39%) Technical Business Analyst
9 4 (3.51%) Administrator
9 4 (3.51%) Architect
9 4 (3.51%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (3.51%) Test Engineer
10 3 (2.63%) Agile Business Analyst
10 3 (2.63%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.26%) HTML
2 5 (4.39%) REST
3 4 (3.51%) .NET
3 4 (3.51%) CSS
3 4 (3.51%) JSON
3 4 (3.51%) SOAP
4 3 (2.63%) ADO
4 3 (2.63%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.63%) LDAP
4 3 (2.63%) Spring
4 3 (2.63%) Web Services
5 2 (1.75%) Apache Camel
5 2 (1.75%) AVFoundation
5 2 (1.75%) Core Animation
5 2 (1.75%) Core Data
5 2 (1.75%) HTML5
5 2 (1.75%) JDBC
5 2 (1.75%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (1.75%) RxSwift
5 2 (1.75%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.04%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.02%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.39%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.51%) Equities
4 4 (3.51%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (2.63%) Derivative
5 3 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.63%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.75%) Animation
6 2 (1.75%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.75%) CMDB
6 2 (1.75%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.75%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.75%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.75%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.51%) Unix
1 4 (3.51%) Windows
2 2 (1.75%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.75%) Linux
3 1 (0.88%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (60.53%) Agile
2 31 (27.19%) Stakeholder Management
3 30 (26.32%) Scrum
3 30 (26.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 26 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (21.93%) DevOps
6 23 (20.18%) User Acceptance Testing
7 20 (17.54%) Project Management
8 19 (16.67%) User Stories
9 18 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (15.79%) Project Delivery
10 17 (14.91%) Test Automation
11 15 (13.16%) Migration
11 15 (13.16%) Roadmaps
12 13 (11.40%) Workshop Facilitation
13 12 (10.53%) CI/CD
13 12 (10.53%) Defect Management
13 12 (10.53%) Waterfall
14 11 (9.65%) Acceptance Criteria
14 11 (9.65%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (11.40%) SQL
2 12 (10.53%) Java
2 12 (10.53%) Python
3 9 (7.89%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.63%) Apex Code
5 2 (1.75%) Bash
5 2 (1.75%) Korn
5 2 (1.75%) Objective-C
5 2 (1.75%) Swift
6 1 (0.88%) C#
6 1 (0.88%) Go
6 1 (0.88%) PHP
6 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.88%) SOQL
6 1 (0.88%) VBA
6 1 (0.88%) XPath
Qualifications
1 22 (19.30%) SC Cleared
1 22 (19.30%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.28%) Degree
3 5 (4.39%) PMI Certification
4 4 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.51%) ISTQB
4 4 (3.51%) PMP
5 3 (2.63%) CBAP
5 3 (2.63%) CISSP
6 2 (1.75%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (1.75%) CFA
6 2 (1.75%) ISEB
7 1 (0.88%) CISA
7 1 (0.88%) CRISC
7 1 (0.88%) CSSLP
7 1 (0.88%) IIBA
7 1 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.88%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (15.79%) QA
2 7 (6.14%) PMO
3 6 (5.26%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.63%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.63%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.75%) GDPR
5 2 (1.75%) GRC
5 2 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.88%) Basel III
6 1 (0.88%) EMIR
6 1 (0.88%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.88%) MiFID
6 1 (0.88%) NCSC
6 1 (0.88%) NIST
6 1 (0.88%) PSD2
6 1 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.88%) SEPA
6 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (1.75%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.51%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (2.63%) HP ALM
3 2 (1.75%) Ansible
4 1 (0.88%) Ambari
4 1 (0.88%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.88%) Puppet
4 1 (0.88%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.88%) SCCM
4 1 (0.88%) Terraform
4 1 (0.88%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 26 (22.81%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.02%) Salesforce
3 7 (6.14%) ServiceNow
4 6 (5.26%) Atlassian
4 6 (5.26%) Google
5 5 (4.39%) HP
5 5 (4.39%) SAP
6 3 (2.63%) Adobe
6 3 (2.63%) Apple
6 3 (2.63%) Oracle
6 3 (2.63%) Remedy
7 2 (1.75%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.75%) BMC
7 2 (1.75%) IBM
7 2 (1.75%) Ivanti
7 2 (1.75%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.75%) Planview
7 2 (1.75%) SmartStream
7 2 (1.75%) Solace
7 2 (1.75%) Workday