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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 30 49
Rank change year-on-year -15 +19 -2
Contract jobs citing JIRA 106 115 90
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.36% 6.18% 4.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 43.62% 42.75% 29.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 74 58
10th Percentile £380 £327 £384
25th Percentile £470 £405 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -0.95% -10.64%
75th Percentile £648 £625 £614
90th Percentile £725 £703 £715
Central London median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -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 243 269 310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.99% 14.45% 14.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 164 210
10th Percentile £369 £377 £400
25th Percentile £453 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £539 £565
Median % change year-on-year +0.23% -4.65% -5.83%
75th Percentile £644 £638 £675
90th Percentile £725 £725 £768
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £551
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.68% -4.22%
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 15 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 15 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 15 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 36 (33.96%) Confluence
2 5 (4.72%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.89%) CMS
3 2 (1.89%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.89%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.89%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.94%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.94%) IIS
4 1 (0.94%) JBoss
4 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.94%) SAS
4 1 (0.94%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (6.60%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (6.60%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (5.66%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (6.60%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.94%) Actimize
2 1 (0.94%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.94%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.94%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.94%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.94%) SAP FI-AR
Cloud Services
1 22 (20.75%) AWS
1 22 (20.75%) Azure
2 14 (13.21%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (10.38%) GitHub
3 11 (10.38%) Serverless
4 10 (9.43%) Amazon S3
5 9 (8.49%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (6.60%) Power Platform
7 6 (5.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (4.72%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (3.77%) GCP
9 4 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.77%) SaaS
10 3 (2.83%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (2.83%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.89%) Slack
11 2 (1.89%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.83%) DNS
1 3 (2.83%) Firewall
2 2 (1.89%) DHCP
2 2 (1.89%) HTTP
2 2 (1.89%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.89%) VPN
3 1 (0.94%) Internet
3 1 (0.94%) Network Security
3 1 (0.94%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.49%) DynamoDB
2 8 (7.55%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (5.66%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (5.66%) Power BI
4 4 (3.77%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.77%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.83%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.83%) Tableau
6 2 (1.89%) Data Vault
6 2 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.89%) Metadata
6 2 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.94%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.94%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.94%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (0.94%) Oracle BI EE
7 1 (0.94%) QlikView
7 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (18.87%) Git
2 16 (15.09%) Jenkins
3 10 (9.43%) GitLab
4 9 (8.49%) JUnit
5 6 (5.66%) Mockito
5 6 (5.66%) Postman
6 5 (4.72%) Cucumber
6 5 (4.72%) Selenium
7 3 (2.83%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.83%) Zephyr
8 2 (1.89%) Ant
8 2 (1.89%) Liquibase
8 2 (1.89%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.89%) Xcode
9 1 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.94%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.94%) SpecFlow
General
1 48 (45.28%) Finance
2 38 (35.85%) Social Skills
3 31 (29.25%) Banking
4 13 (12.26%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (5.66%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.77%) Investment Banking
6 4 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.77%) Retail
7 3 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.83%) Front Office
7 3 (2.83%) Legal
7 3 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.89%) Back Office
8 2 (1.89%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.94%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.94%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.94%) Marketing
9 1 (0.94%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.94%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (16.04%) Analyst
2 15 (14.15%) Developer
3 12 (11.32%) Senior
4 8 (7.55%) Business Analyst
4 8 (7.55%) IT Support
5 7 (6.60%) Automation Engineer
6 6 (5.66%) Delivery Manager
7 5 (4.72%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 5 (4.72%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (4.72%) Lead
7 5 (4.72%) Product Owner
7 5 (4.72%) Scrum Master
8 4 (3.77%) Coordinator
8 4 (3.77%) Project Manager
8 4 (3.77%) Senior Developer
8 4 (3.77%) Tester
9 3 (2.83%) Consultant
9 3 (2.83%) Java Developer
9 3 (2.83%) QA Engineer
9 3 (2.83%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.49%) Spring
2 8 (7.55%) Kafka
2 8 (7.55%) Spring Boot
3 7 (6.60%) SOAP
4 6 (5.66%) REST
5 5 (4.72%) Gherkin
5 5 (4.72%) WireMock
5 5 (4.72%) YAML
6 4 (3.77%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (2.83%) J2EE
7 3 (2.83%) JSON
7 3 (2.83%) Playwright
7 3 (2.83%) React
7 3 (2.83%) RESTful
7 3 (2.83%) SwiftUI
7 3 (2.83%) UIKit
8 2 (1.89%) Spring Batch
8 2 (1.89%) Web Services
8 2 (1.89%) WebSphere MQ
8 2 (1.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.21%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.60%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.72%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.72%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.83%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.83%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.83%) Mobile Banking
5 2 (1.89%) Derivative
5 2 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.89%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.94%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.94%) Credit Risk
6 1 (0.94%) CSOC
6 1 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.94%) FMCG
6 1 (0.94%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.94%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.94%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.72%) Windows
2 4 (3.77%) Linux
3 3 (2.83%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.83%) Unix
4 2 (1.89%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.94%) SUSE
5 1 (0.94%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (56.60%) Agile
2 29 (27.36%) Scrum
3 25 (23.58%) CI/CD
4 22 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (18.87%) DevOps
6 19 (17.92%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (16.98%) Test Automation
8 17 (16.04%) Migration
9 16 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (13.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (12.26%) Sprint Planning
12 12 (11.32%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (10.38%) ITSM
13 11 (10.38%) Sprint Retrospective
14 10 (9.43%) Decision-Making
14 10 (9.43%) Roadmaps
15 9 (8.49%) Problem Management
15 9 (8.49%) User Stories
16 8 (7.55%) AI
16 8 (7.55%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 14 (13.21%) Python
2 13 (12.26%) Java
3 12 (11.32%) SQL
4 10 (9.43%) C#
5 6 (5.66%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.72%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.83%) Swift
8 2 (1.89%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.89%) Bash
8 2 (1.89%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.94%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.94%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.94%) Scala
Qualifications
1 20 (18.87%) Security Cleared
2 17 (16.04%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.38%) Degree
4 3 (2.83%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.89%) CBAP
5 2 (1.89%) IIBA
5 2 (1.89%) PMP
6 1 (0.94%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.94%) CEH
6 1 (0.94%) CHECK Team Leader
6 1 (0.94%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.94%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.94%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.94%) ISEB
6 1 (0.94%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.94%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.94%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.09%) QA
2 8 (7.55%) PMO
3 5 (4.72%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.77%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.89%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.94%) GRC
7 1 (0.94%) NCSC
7 1 (0.94%) NIST
7 1 (0.94%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.94%) P3O
7 1 (0.94%) SLA
7 1 (0.94%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (10.38%) Docker
2 5 (4.72%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (12.26%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.43%) Terraform
3 4 (3.77%) Ansible
4 3 (2.83%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.89%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.94%) Consul
6 1 (0.94%) Control-M
6 1 (0.94%) Grafana
6 1 (0.94%) Istio
6 1 (0.94%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 15 (14.15%) ServiceNow
2 12 (11.32%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.60%) Remedy
4 5 (4.72%) Oracle
4 5 (4.72%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.77%) Google
6 3 (2.83%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.83%) Databricks
6 3 (2.83%) Okta
6 3 (2.83%) Planview
7 2 (1.89%) Adobe
7 2 (1.89%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.89%) Citrix
7 2 (1.89%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.89%) IBM
7 2 (1.89%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.94%) Informatica
8 1 (0.94%) Murex
8 1 (0.94%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.94%) SAP