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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 28 48
Rank change year-on-year -15 +20 -2
Contract jobs citing JIRA 107 117 86
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.45% 6.25% 4.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 43.50% 44.15% 29.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 76 56
10th Percentile £378 £319 £376
25th Percentile £465 £405 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.19% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £628 £614
90th Percentile £725 £696 £713
Central London median daily rate £550 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +5.77% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 0
10th Percentile £18.56 - -
25th Percentile £18.75 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £87.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -77.71% - -
75th Percentile £20.25 £88.75 -
90th Percentile £25.90 - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £87.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -77.71% +165.15% -

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 246 265 290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.24% 14.16% 13.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 162 195
10th Percentile £364 £364 £406
25th Percentile £456 £425 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -1.74%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £724 £772
Central London median daily rate £550 £540 £551
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.91% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 0
10th Percentile £18.56 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% - -
75th Percentile £20.25 £82.50 -
90th Percentile £25.90 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -74.00% +127.27% -37.14%

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 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 +1 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 37 (34.58%) Confluence
2 5 (4.67%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.87%) CMS
4 2 (1.87%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.93%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.93%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.93%) IIS
5 1 (0.93%) JBoss
5 1 (0.93%) SAS
5 1 (0.93%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (6.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.61%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (4.67%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (8.41%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.93%) Actimize
2 1 (0.93%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.93%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.93%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.93%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.93%) SAP FI-AR
Cloud Services
1 21 (19.63%) AWS
2 19 (17.76%) Azure
3 10 (9.35%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (9.35%) GitHub
3 10 (9.35%) Serverless
4 9 (8.41%) Amazon S3
5 8 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (6.54%) Power Platform
7 6 (5.61%) GCP
7 6 (5.61%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (4.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (4.67%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.74%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.74%) Entra ID
9 4 (3.74%) SaaS
10 3 (2.80%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (2.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (1.87%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.87%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.48%) DNS
1 8 (7.48%) VPN
2 5 (4.67%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.74%) DHCP
4 3 (2.80%) Firewall
5 1 (0.93%) HTTP
5 1 (0.93%) Internet
5 1 (0.93%) Network Security
5 1 (0.93%) NGFW
5 1 (0.93%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.48%) DynamoDB
2 7 (6.54%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (6.54%) Power BI
3 5 (4.67%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (4.67%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.80%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.80%) Tableau
5 2 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.87%) Metadata
5 2 (1.87%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.93%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.93%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.93%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.93%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 18 (16.82%) Git
2 15 (14.02%) Jenkins
3 10 (9.35%) GitLab
4 7 (6.54%) JUnit
5 5 (4.67%) Mockito
6 4 (3.74%) Cucumber
6 4 (3.74%) Postman
7 3 (2.80%) Selenium
7 3 (2.80%) Zephyr
8 2 (1.87%) Ant
8 2 (1.87%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.87%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.87%) Liquibase
8 2 (1.87%) Xcode
9 1 (0.93%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.93%) REST Assured
General
1 50 (46.73%) Finance
2 36 (33.64%) Social Skills
3 32 (29.91%) Banking
4 15 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.54%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.67%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.74%) Front Office
7 4 (3.74%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.80%) Retail
8 3 (2.80%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.87%) Back Office
9 2 (1.87%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.87%) Legal
10 1 (0.93%) Law
10 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.93%) Military
Job Titles
1 17 (15.89%) Analyst
2 14 (13.08%) Developer
3 10 (9.35%) Senior
4 8 (7.48%) Business Analyst
4 8 (7.48%) IT Support
5 6 (5.61%) Automation Engineer
5 6 (5.61%) Delivery Manager
6 5 (4.67%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 5 (4.67%) 2nd Line Support
6 5 (4.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (4.67%) Lead
6 5 (4.67%) Product Owner
6 5 (4.67%) Support Engineer
7 4 (3.74%) Coordinator
7 4 (3.74%) Network Engineer
7 4 (3.74%) Project Manager
7 4 (3.74%) Scrum Master
7 4 (3.74%) Tester
8 3 (2.80%) PMO Manager
8 3 (2.80%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.54%) Spring
2 6 (5.61%) Kafka
2 6 (5.61%) SOAP
2 6 (5.61%) Spring Boot
3 4 (3.74%) Gherkin
3 4 (3.74%) REST
3 4 (3.74%) WireMock
3 4 (3.74%) YAML
4 3 (2.80%) JSON
4 3 (2.80%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (2.80%) React
4 3 (2.80%) SwiftUI
4 3 (2.80%) UIKit
5 2 (1.87%) Jakarta EE
5 2 (1.87%) Playwright
5 2 (1.87%) RESTful
5 2 (1.87%) Web Services
5 2 (1.87%) WebSphere MQ
5 2 (1.87%) XML
6 1 (0.93%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.15%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.54%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.67%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.67%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.74%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.80%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (1.87%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.87%) Derivative
6 2 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.87%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.93%) Clustering
7 1 (0.93%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.93%) FMCG
7 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.93%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.93%) NHS
7 1 (0.93%) PMI
7 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.35%) Windows
2 5 (4.67%) Linux
3 4 (3.74%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.80%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.80%) Unix
5 2 (1.87%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.87%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.93%) Android
6 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.93%) SUSE
6 1 (0.93%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (50.47%) Agile
2 26 (24.30%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (24.30%) Scrum
3 23 (21.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 22 (20.56%) CI/CD
5 19 (17.76%) Migration
6 18 (16.82%) DevOps
7 15 (14.02%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (14.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 15 (14.02%) Test Automation
8 13 (12.15%) ITSM
9 12 (11.21%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (10.28%) Sprint Planning
11 10 (9.35%) Problem Management
12 9 (8.41%) Backlog Management
12 9 (8.41%) Customer Service
12 9 (8.41%) Roadmaps
12 9 (8.41%) Sprint Retrospective
12 9 (8.41%) User Stories
13 8 (7.48%) Backlog Prioritisation
Programming Languages
1 13 (12.15%) Python
2 12 (11.21%) SQL
3 11 (10.28%) Java
4 9 (8.41%) C#
5 5 (4.67%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.67%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.74%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.80%) Bash
7 3 (2.80%) Swift
8 2 (1.87%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.93%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.93%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (18.69%) Security Cleared
2 17 (15.89%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.41%) Degree
4 2 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.87%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.93%) CBAP
5 1 (0.93%) CEH
5 1 (0.93%) CHECK Team Leader
5 1 (0.93%) CREST Certified
5 1 (0.93%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.93%) IIBA
5 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.93%) OSCP
5 1 (0.93%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.02%) QA
2 7 (6.54%) PMO
3 4 (3.74%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.80%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.87%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.87%) SLA
6 1 (0.93%) GRC
6 1 (0.93%) NCSC
6 1 (0.93%) NIST
6 1 (0.93%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.93%) P3O
6 1 (0.93%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.93%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (9.35%) Docker
2 7 (6.54%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.87%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (13.08%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.35%) Terraform
3 4 (3.74%) Ansible
4 3 (2.80%) Istio
4 3 (2.80%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.87%) Grafana
5 2 (1.87%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (1.87%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.93%) Consul
6 1 (0.93%) Control-M
6 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.93%) SCCM
6 1 (0.93%) SCOM
Vendors
1 16 (14.95%) ServiceNow
2 14 (13.08%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.41%) Remedy
4 6 (5.61%) Google
5 5 (4.67%) Oracle
6 3 (2.80%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.80%) Bloomberg
6 3 (2.80%) Okta
6 3 (2.80%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.87%) Adobe
7 2 (1.87%) Citrix
7 2 (1.87%) Databricks
7 2 (1.87%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.87%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.87%) IBM
7 2 (1.87%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.87%) Planview
7 2 (1.87%) Splunk
7 2 (1.87%) VMware
8 1 (0.93%) Alias