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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 27 45
Rank change year-on-year -13 +18 -1
Contract jobs citing JIRA 109 112 91
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.47% 6.16% 4.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 44.31% 42.91% 29.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 68 57
10th Percentile £382 £345 £380
25th Percentile £471 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £628 £614
90th Percentile £725 £690 £716
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -8.70%
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 246 261 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.09% 14.36% 14.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 156 207
10th Percentile £364 £386 £400
25th Percentile £450 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £681
90th Percentile £725 £731 £771
Central London median daily rate £547 £545 £550
% change year-on-year +0.37% -0.91% -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 1
10th Percentile £18.56 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £67.50 £46.75
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% +54.64% -7.62%
75th Percentile £20.25 £82.50 £50.25
90th Percentile £25.90 £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 £40.75
% change year-on-year -74.00% +84.05% -22.38%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 38 (34.86%) Confluence
2 6 (5.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.83%) CMS
3 2 (1.83%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.83%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.83%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.92%) IIS
4 1 (0.92%) JBoss
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.92%) SAS
4 1 (0.92%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (6.42%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (6.42%) Microsoft Project
1 7 (6.42%) MS Visio
2 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (6.42%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.92%) Actimize
2 1 (0.92%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.92%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.92%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.92%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.92%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.92%) SAP FI-AR
2 1 (0.92%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 22 (20.18%) AWS
1 22 (20.18%) Azure
2 14 (12.84%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (11.01%) GitHub
4 11 (10.09%) Serverless
5 10 (9.17%) Amazon S3
6 9 (8.26%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (6.42%) Power Platform
8 6 (5.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (5.50%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.67%) GCP
10 4 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (3.67%) SaaS
11 3 (2.75%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (2.75%) Entra ID
12 2 (1.83%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.83%) Slack
12 2 (1.83%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.75%) DNS
1 3 (2.75%) Firewall
2 2 (1.83%) DHCP
2 2 (1.83%) HTTP
2 2 (1.83%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.83%) VPN
3 1 (0.92%) Internet
3 1 (0.92%) Network Security
3 1 (0.92%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.26%) DynamoDB
2 8 (7.34%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (5.50%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (5.50%) Power BI
4 4 (3.67%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.67%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.75%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.75%) Tableau
6 2 (1.83%) Data Vault
6 2 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.83%) Metadata
6 2 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.92%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.92%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.92%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (0.92%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.92%) QlikView
7 1 (0.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (18.35%) Git
2 17 (15.60%) Jenkins
3 10 (9.17%) GitLab
4 9 (8.26%) JUnit
5 6 (5.50%) Mockito
5 6 (5.50%) Postman
6 5 (4.59%) Cucumber
6 5 (4.59%) Selenium
7 3 (2.75%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.75%) Zephyr
8 2 (1.83%) Ant
8 2 (1.83%) Liquibase
8 2 (1.83%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.83%) Xcode
9 1 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.92%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.92%) Maven
9 1 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.92%) SpecFlow
General
1 50 (45.87%) Finance
2 39 (35.78%) Social Skills
3 32 (29.36%) Banking
4 15 (13.76%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.50%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.59%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.67%) Front Office
7 4 (3.67%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.67%) Retail
8 3 (2.75%) Back Office
8 3 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.75%) Legal
8 3 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.83%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.92%) Law
10 1 (0.92%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.92%) Marketing
10 1 (0.92%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.92%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (16.51%) Analyst
2 16 (14.68%) Developer
3 12 (11.01%) Senior
4 9 (8.26%) Business Analyst
5 8 (7.34%) IT Support
6 7 (6.42%) Automation Engineer
7 6 (5.50%) Delivery Manager
8 5 (4.59%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 5 (4.59%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (4.59%) Lead
8 5 (4.59%) Product Owner
8 5 (4.59%) Scrum Master
9 4 (3.67%) Banking Analyst
9 4 (3.67%) Coordinator
9 4 (3.67%) Java Developer
9 4 (3.67%) Project Manager
9 4 (3.67%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.67%) Tester
10 3 (2.75%) PMO Manager
10 3 (2.75%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.17%) Spring
2 8 (7.34%) Kafka
2 8 (7.34%) Spring Boot
3 7 (6.42%) SOAP
4 6 (5.50%) REST
5 5 (4.59%) Gherkin
5 5 (4.59%) WireMock
5 5 (4.59%) YAML
6 4 (3.67%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (2.75%) J2EE
7 3 (2.75%) JSON
7 3 (2.75%) Playwright
7 3 (2.75%) React
7 3 (2.75%) RESTful
7 3 (2.75%) SwiftUI
7 3 (2.75%) UIKit
8 2 (1.83%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.83%) gRPC
8 2 (1.83%) SailPoint
8 2 (1.83%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.76%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.42%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.59%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.59%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.75%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.75%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.75%) Mobile Banking
5 2 (1.83%) Derivative
5 2 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.83%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.92%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.92%) FMCG
6 1 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.92%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.92%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.59%) Windows
2 4 (3.67%) Linux
3 3 (2.75%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.75%) Unix
4 2 (1.83%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.92%) SUSE
5 1 (0.92%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (56.88%) Agile
2 29 (26.61%) Scrum
3 25 (22.94%) CI/CD
4 23 (21.10%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (19.27%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (18.35%) DevOps
7 18 (16.51%) Test Automation
8 17 (15.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (15.60%) Migration
9 15 (13.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (11.93%) Sprint Planning
11 12 (11.01%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (10.09%) ITSM
12 11 (10.09%) Roadmaps
12 11 (10.09%) Sprint Retrospective
13 10 (9.17%) Decision-Making
14 9 (8.26%) AI
14 9 (8.26%) Defect Management
14 9 (8.26%) Problem Management
14 9 (8.26%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.76%) Python
2 14 (12.84%) Java
3 12 (11.01%) SQL
4 10 (9.17%) C#
5 6 (5.50%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.59%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.75%) Swift
8 2 (1.83%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.83%) Bash
8 2 (1.83%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.92%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.92%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (19.27%) Security Cleared
2 18 (16.51%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.09%) Degree
4 3 (2.75%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.83%) CBAP
5 2 (1.83%) IIBA
5 2 (1.83%) PMP
6 1 (0.92%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.92%) CEH
6 1 (0.92%) CHECK Team Leader
6 1 (0.92%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.92%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.92%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.92%) ISEB
6 1 (0.92%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.92%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.92%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.68%) QA
2 8 (7.34%) PMO
3 5 (4.59%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.67%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.83%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.92%) GRC
7 1 (0.92%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.92%) NCSC
7 1 (0.92%) NIST
7 1 (0.92%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.92%) P3O
7 1 (0.92%) SLA
7 1 (0.92%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (10.09%) Docker
2 5 (4.59%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.83%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (11.93%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.17%) Terraform
3 4 (3.67%) Ansible
4 3 (2.75%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.83%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.92%) Consul
6 1 (0.92%) Control-M
6 1 (0.92%) Grafana
6 1 (0.92%) Istio
6 1 (0.92%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 15 (13.76%) ServiceNow
2 13 (11.93%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.42%) Remedy
4 5 (4.59%) Oracle
4 5 (4.59%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.67%) Google
6 3 (2.75%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.75%) Databricks
6 3 (2.75%) Okta
6 3 (2.75%) Planview
7 2 (1.83%) Adobe
7 2 (1.83%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.83%) Citrix
7 2 (1.83%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.83%) IBM
7 2 (1.83%) Murex
7 2 (1.83%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.92%) Alias
8 1 (0.92%) Informatica
8 1 (0.92%) VMware