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

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 40 49
Rank change year-on-year +11 +9 -16
Contract jobs citing JIRA 123 99 100
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.84% 4.63% 3.79%
As % of the Development Applications category 42.12% 32.67% 36.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 57 60
10th Percentile £316 £311 £374
25th Percentile £413 £413 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +2.13%
75th Percentile £650 £621 £700
90th Percentile £706 £815 £828
Central London median daily rate £525 £535 £600
% change year-on-year -1.87% -10.83% +2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £87.50 - -

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 292 303 277
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 16.25% 14.19% 10.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 176 194
10th Percentile £353 £369 £358
25th Percentile £425 £463 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.50% -10.16%
75th Percentile £668 £691 £675
90th Percentile £765 £779 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £551
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.54% -8.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.09%
75th Percentile £82.50 - £73.75
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £75.00 - £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 11 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
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 11 December 2025. 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 - -
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 60 (48.78%) Confluence
2 11 (8.94%) SharePoint
3 7 (5.69%) CMS
4 4 (3.25%) WordPress
5 3 (2.44%) Drupal
6 2 (1.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.81%) nginx
7 1 (0.81%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 14 (11.38%) MS Visio
2 13 (10.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (6.50%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (4.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (3.25%) Trello
6 2 (1.63%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.81%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.81%) InVision
7 1 (0.81%) Notion
7 1 (0.81%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (2.44%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.63%) Algo Collateral
2 2 (1.63%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.81%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.81%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.81%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 21 (17.07%) Azure
2 15 (12.20%) AWS
3 13 (10.57%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (7.32%) Power Platform
5 6 (4.88%) GitHub
6 4 (3.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (3.25%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (3.25%) Figma
6 4 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.25%) Miro
7 3 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.44%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.44%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.44%) Serverless
8 2 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.63%) Firebase
8 2 (1.63%) PaaS
8 2 (1.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.44%) Firewall
2 2 (1.63%) DNS
2 2 (1.63%) SSL
3 1 (0.81%) DKIM
3 1 (0.81%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (0.81%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.50%) Power BI
2 3 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.63%) Metadata
3 2 (1.63%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.63%) SQLite
3 2 (1.63%) Tableau
3 2 (1.63%) Tick Data
4 1 (0.81%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.81%) CouchDB
4 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.81%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.81%) GIS
4 1 (0.81%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.81%) MySQL
4 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.81%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.81%) Redis
4 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (8.13%) Jenkins
2 9 (7.32%) Git
3 8 (6.50%) Selenium
4 4 (3.25%) Postman
5 3 (2.44%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.44%) GitLab
5 3 (2.44%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (2.44%) TestRail
6 2 (1.63%) CocoaPods
6 2 (1.63%) Crashlytics
6 2 (1.63%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.63%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.63%) fastlane
6 2 (1.63%) Maven
6 2 (1.63%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.63%) Xcode
7 1 (0.81%) JUnit
7 1 (0.81%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.81%) Serenity BDD
General
1 47 (38.21%) Finance
2 43 (34.96%) Social Skills
3 30 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (19.51%) Banking
5 10 (8.13%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.07%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.07%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.25%) Legal
9 3 (2.44%) Front Office
9 3 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.44%) Retail
10 2 (1.63%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.81%) Automotive
11 1 (0.81%) Back Office
11 1 (0.81%) Billing
11 1 (0.81%) French Language
11 1 (0.81%) Marketing
11 1 (0.81%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.81%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (24.39%) Analyst
2 25 (20.33%) Business Analyst
3 20 (16.26%) Senior
4 11 (8.94%) Project Manager
5 10 (8.13%) Developer
6 9 (7.32%) Lead
7 8 (6.50%) Tester
8 6 (4.88%) Consultant
8 6 (4.88%) Product Owner
8 6 (4.88%) Technical Analyst
9 5 (4.07%) Architect
9 5 (4.07%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (4.07%) Senior Business Analyst
9 5 (4.07%) Senior Manager
9 5 (4.07%) Technical Business Analyst
10 4 (3.25%) Administrator
10 4 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.25%) Test Engineer
11 3 (2.44%) Delivery Manager
11 3 (2.44%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.88%) HTML
1 6 (4.88%) REST
2 4 (3.25%) .NET
2 4 (3.25%) CSS
2 4 (3.25%) JSON
2 4 (3.25%) SOAP
3 3 (2.44%) ADO
3 3 (2.44%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.44%) LDAP
3 3 (2.44%) Spring
3 3 (2.44%) Web Services
3 3 (2.44%) XML
4 2 (1.63%) Apache Camel
4 2 (1.63%) AVFoundation
4 2 (1.63%) Core Animation
4 2 (1.63%) HTML5
4 2 (1.63%) JDBC
4 2 (1.63%) ODBC
4 2 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.63%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.63%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.88%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.07%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.07%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.25%) Derivative
4 4 (3.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (2.44%) Equities
5 3 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.63%) Animation
6 2 (1.63%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.63%) CMDB
6 2 (1.63%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.63%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.63%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.63%) e-Learning
6 2 (1.63%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.63%) NHS
6 2 (1.63%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.25%) Unix
1 4 (3.25%) Windows
2 3 (2.44%) Linux
3 2 (1.63%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.81%) Android
4 1 (0.81%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (60.98%) Agile
2 31 (25.20%) Stakeholder Management
3 30 (24.39%) Scrum
3 30 (24.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 28 (22.76%) DevOps
4 28 (22.76%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (18.70%) User Acceptance Testing
5 23 (18.70%) User Stories
6 20 (16.26%) Project Management
7 19 (15.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (14.63%) Project Delivery
9 16 (13.01%) Migration
9 16 (13.01%) Roadmaps
9 16 (13.01%) Test Automation
10 15 (12.20%) CI/CD
11 13 (10.57%) Workshop Facilitation
12 12 (9.76%) Acceptance Criteria
12 12 (9.76%) Risk Management
12 12 (9.76%) Waterfall
13 11 (8.94%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 16 (13.01%) SQL
2 14 (11.38%) Java
3 12 (9.76%) Python
4 9 (7.32%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.44%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.63%) Bash
6 2 (1.63%) Korn
6 2 (1.63%) Objective-C
6 2 (1.63%) Swift
7 1 (0.81%) C#
7 1 (0.81%) Go
7 1 (0.81%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.81%) PHP
7 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.81%) SOQL
7 1 (0.81%) VBA
7 1 (0.81%) XPath
Qualifications
1 23 (18.70%) SC Cleared
1 23 (18.70%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.01%) Degree
3 5 (4.07%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.25%) ISTQB
4 4 (3.25%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.44%) CBAP
5 3 (2.44%) CISSP
5 3 (2.44%) PMP
6 2 (1.63%) CESG Certified Professional
6 2 (1.63%) ISEB
7 1 (0.81%) CFA
7 1 (0.81%) CISA
7 1 (0.81%) CRISC
7 1 (0.81%) CSSLP
7 1 (0.81%) IIBA
7 1 (0.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.81%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.01%) QA
2 8 (6.50%) PMO
3 7 (5.69%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.44%) ISO 20022
4 3 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.63%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.63%) GDPR
5 2 (1.63%) GRC
5 2 (1.63%) NCSC
5 2 (1.63%) NIST
5 2 (1.63%) SEPA
6 1 (0.81%) COBIT
6 1 (0.81%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.81%) PSD2
6 1 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.44%) Docker
2 2 (1.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.25%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (2.44%) HP ALM
2 3 (2.44%) Terraform
3 2 (1.63%) Ansible
3 2 (1.63%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.81%) Ambari
4 1 (0.81%) Consul
4 1 (0.81%) Packer
4 1 (0.81%) Puppet
4 1 (0.81%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.81%) SCCM
4 1 (0.81%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (20.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.50%) Salesforce
2 8 (6.50%) ServiceNow
3 7 (5.69%) Google
4 6 (4.88%) Atlassian
5 5 (4.07%) HP
6 4 (3.25%) SAP
7 3 (2.44%) Adobe
7 3 (2.44%) Apple
7 3 (2.44%) Oracle
7 3 (2.44%) Remedy
8 2 (1.63%) Ahrefs
8 2 (1.63%) BMC
8 2 (1.63%) IBM
8 2 (1.63%) Ivanti
8 2 (1.63%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.63%) Planview
8 2 (1.63%) SmartStream
8 2 (1.63%) Solace
8 2 (1.63%) Tenable