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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 35 64
Rank change year-on-year -4 +29 -28
Contract jobs citing JIRA 109 108 72
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.32% 5.86% 3.03%
As % of the Development Applications category 41.13% 38.57% 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 61 49
10th Percentile £363 £348 £361
25th Percentile £463 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -4.97%
75th Percentile £650 £585 £675
90th Percentile £706 £638 £756
Central London median daily rate £550 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.75 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - -
75th Percentile £20.25 - -
90th Percentile £54.15 - -
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 265 280 240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.94% 15.18% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 162 164
10th Percentile £357 £383 £422
25th Percentile £424 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% -
75th Percentile £651 £638 £688
90th Percentile £766 £738 £756
Central London median daily rate £550 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 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 £54.15 - £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 7 March 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 7 March 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 7 March 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 48 (44.04%) Confluence
2 11 (10.09%) 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
4 1 (0.92%) JBoss
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.92%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (11.93%) MS Visio
2 10 (9.17%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (5.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.67%) Trello
5 3 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.92%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (4.59%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (2.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.75%) Fidessa
3 2 (1.83%) Algo Collateral
3 2 (1.83%) Summit
4 1 (0.92%) Actimize
4 1 (0.92%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.92%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.92%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.92%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.92%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 20 (18.35%) Azure
2 16 (14.68%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (11.01%) AWS
4 9 (8.26%) GitHub
5 8 (7.34%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (3.67%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (3.67%) GCP
7 3 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.75%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.75%) Google Workspace
7 3 (2.75%) Serverless
8 2 (1.83%) Firebase
8 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.83%) Miro
8 2 (1.83%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (1.83%) Slack
8 2 (1.83%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.83%) DNS
1 2 (1.83%) HTTP
2 1 (0.92%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.42%) Tableau
2 6 (5.50%) Power BI
3 3 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.75%) Tick Data
4 2 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.83%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.83%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.83%) NoSQL
4 2 (1.83%) SQLite
5 1 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.92%) CouchDB
5 1 (0.92%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.92%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.92%) GIS
5 1 (0.92%) Looker
5 1 (0.92%) Metadata
5 1 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (14.68%) Jenkins
2 12 (11.01%) Git
3 8 (7.34%) Selenium
4 6 (5.50%) JUnit
5 5 (4.59%) Postman
6 4 (3.67%) Cucumber
6 4 (3.67%) GitLab
6 4 (3.67%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.75%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.75%) Maven
8 2 (1.83%) Ant
8 2 (1.83%) CocoaPods
8 2 (1.83%) Crashlytics
8 2 (1.83%) fastlane
8 2 (1.83%) Mockito
8 2 (1.83%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.83%) SpecFlow
8 2 (1.83%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (1.83%) TestRail
8 2 (1.83%) Xcode
General
1 50 (45.87%) Finance
2 44 (40.37%) Social Skills
3 29 (26.61%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (23.85%) Banking
5 10 (9.17%) Public Sector
6 8 (7.34%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (5.50%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (5.50%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (4.59%) Front Office
8 5 (4.59%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.59%) Legal
9 4 (3.67%) Retail
10 3 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.75%) Marketing
11 2 (1.83%) Back Office
12 1 (0.92%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.92%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.92%) French Language
12 1 (0.92%) Military
12 1 (0.92%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (31.19%) Analyst
2 26 (23.85%) Business Analyst
3 22 (20.18%) Senior
4 11 (10.09%) Developer
5 10 (9.17%) Senior Analyst
6 8 (7.34%) Banking Analyst
6 8 (7.34%) Lead
7 7 (6.42%) Project Manager
7 7 (6.42%) Senior Business Analyst
8 6 (5.50%) Banking Business Analyst
8 6 (5.50%) Technical Analyst
9 5 (4.59%) Delivery Manager
9 5 (4.59%) IT Support
9 5 (4.59%) Java Developer
9 5 (4.59%) Technical Business Analyst
10 4 (3.67%) 1st/2nd Line Support
10 4 (3.67%) 2nd Line Support
10 4 (3.67%) Junior
10 4 (3.67%) Senior Manager
10 4 (3.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.34%) Spring
2 5 (4.59%) REST
3 4 (3.67%) Kafka
3 4 (3.67%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.75%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.75%) J2EE
4 3 (2.75%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (2.75%) Playwright
4 3 (2.75%) SOAP
4 3 (2.75%) WireMock
5 2 (1.83%) .NET
5 2 (1.83%) Core Animation
5 2 (1.83%) CSS
5 2 (1.83%) Gherkin
5 2 (1.83%) HTML
5 2 (1.83%) RESTful
5 2 (1.83%) Spring Batch
5 2 (1.83%) Web Services
5 2 (1.83%) WebSphere MQ
5 2 (1.83%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.01%) Product Ownership
2 11 (10.09%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.67%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.67%) Derivative
3 4 (3.67%) Equities
3 4 (3.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (2.75%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.75%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.75%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.83%) Animation
5 2 (1.83%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.83%) PMI
6 1 (0.92%) CMDB
6 1 (0.92%) Educational Technology
6 1 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.92%) Replication
6 1 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.75%) Windows
2 2 (1.83%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.83%) Linux
3 1 (0.92%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (60.55%) Agile
2 33 (30.28%) Scrum
3 29 (26.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 26 (23.85%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (22.94%) Stakeholder Management
6 24 (22.02%) Continuous Improvement
7 22 (20.18%) DevOps
8 21 (19.27%) Project Delivery
9 19 (17.43%) Project Management
10 18 (16.51%) User Acceptance Testing
11 17 (15.60%) CI/CD
11 17 (15.60%) Workshop Facilitation
12 15 (13.76%) User Stories
12 15 (13.76%) Waterfall
13 14 (12.84%) Decision-Making
13 14 (12.84%) Migration
13 14 (12.84%) Requirements Gathering
13 14 (12.84%) Test Automation
14 13 (11.93%) Risk Management
15 12 (11.01%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.76%) Java
2 12 (11.01%) Python
2 12 (11.01%) SQL
3 5 (4.59%) C#
3 5 (4.59%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.75%) Bash
5 2 (1.83%) Apex Code
5 2 (1.83%) Korn
5 2 (1.83%) Objective-C
5 2 (1.83%) Swift
5 2 (1.83%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.92%) PHP
6 1 (0.92%) SOQL
6 1 (0.92%) XPath
Qualifications
1 25 (22.94%) Security Cleared
2 24 (22.02%) SC Cleared
3 13 (11.93%) Degree
4 6 (5.50%) PMI Certification
5 5 (4.59%) CBAP
5 5 (4.59%) ISTQB
6 4 (3.67%) PMP
7 3 (2.75%) ISEB
7 3 (2.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.83%) CESG Certified Professional
8 2 (1.83%) CFA
8 2 (1.83%) CISSP
8 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.83%) IIBA
8 2 (1.83%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.76%) QA
2 6 (5.50%) PMO
3 3 (2.75%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.75%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.75%) ISO 20022
3 3 (2.75%) SLA
4 2 (1.83%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.83%) GRC
5 1 (0.92%) Basel III
5 1 (0.92%) EMIR
5 1 (0.92%) GDPR
5 1 (0.92%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.92%) MiFID
5 1 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (5.50%) Docker
2 3 (2.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (4.59%) Ansible
2 3 (2.75%) Terraform
3 2 (1.83%) HP ALM
3 2 (1.83%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.92%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.92%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (11.93%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.09%) ServiceNow
3 9 (8.26%) Google
3 9 (8.26%) Salesforce
4 6 (5.50%) Oracle
5 5 (4.59%) Atlassian
5 5 (4.59%) Planview
5 5 (4.59%) Remedy
6 3 (2.75%) Apple
6 3 (2.75%) Databricks
6 3 (2.75%) IBM
6 3 (2.75%) Solace
6 3 (2.75%) Workday
7 2 (1.83%) Adobe
7 2 (1.83%) Ahrefs
7 2 (1.83%) HP
7 2 (1.83%) Murex
7 2 (1.83%) SAP
7 2 (1.83%) SmartStream
8 1 (0.92%) Sonatype