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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 31 43
Rank change year-on-year -8 +12 +7
Contract jobs citing JIRA 115 116 94
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.10% 6.55% 4.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 43.89% 43.45% 31.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 84 60
10th Percentile £314 £313 £390
25th Percentile £463 £405 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £500 £531
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% -5.88% -11.46%
75th Percentile £642 £638 £633
90th Percentile £725 £679 £804
Central London median daily rate £547 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +9.40% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £17.41 - -
25th Percentile £18.27 £86.25 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £87.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -77.71% - -
75th Percentile £20.25 £88.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £87.50 -
% change year-on-year -77.71% - -

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 262 267 295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.62% 15.08% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 179 194
10th Percentile £389 £356 £402
25th Percentile £462 £425 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £705
90th Percentile £733 £714 £786
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £565
% change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £17.41 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £18.27 £67.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -74.00% - -
75th Percentile £20.25 £82.50 -
90th Percentile - £86.25 -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £75.00 -
% change year-on-year -74.00% - -

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 14 September 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
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 46 (40.00%) Confluence
2 7 (6.09%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.74%) CMS
6 1 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.87%) Apache
6 1 (0.87%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.87%) IIS
6 1 (0.87%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.22%) MS Visio
3 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.87%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (6.09%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.87%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.87%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.87%) OneSumX
2 1 (0.87%) SAP FI-AR
Cloud Services
1 21 (18.26%) Azure
2 20 (17.39%) AWS
3 13 (11.30%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (9.57%) Power Platform
5 10 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (6.96%) GCP
6 8 (6.96%) GitHub
7 7 (6.09%) Serverless
8 6 (5.22%) Amazon S3
9 5 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (3.48%) SaaS
11 3 (2.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (2.61%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Copilot
12 2 (1.74%) dbt
12 2 (1.74%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.43%) DNS
2 11 (9.57%) VPN
3 8 (6.96%) TCP/IP
4 7 (6.09%) DHCP
5 3 (2.61%) Firewall
6 2 (1.74%) VLAN
7 1 (0.87%) INAP
7 1 (0.87%) Intelligent Network
7 1 (0.87%) Internet
7 1 (0.87%) Network Security
7 1 (0.87%) NGFW
7 1 (0.87%) RTP
7 1 (0.87%) SSH
7 1 (0.87%) SSL
7 1 (0.87%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.87%) VoIP
7 1 (0.87%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.57%) Power BI
2 9 (7.83%) SQL Server
3 6 (5.22%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.48%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.48%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (3.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (3.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.61%) BigQuery
5 3 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.61%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.74%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.74%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.74%) Tableau
7 1 (0.87%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.87%) Metadata
7 1 (0.87%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (0.87%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.87%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 14 (12.17%) Jenkins
2 13 (11.30%) Git
3 9 (7.83%) GitLab
4 5 (4.35%) JUnit
4 5 (4.35%) Mockito
5 4 (3.48%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.61%) Zephyr
7 2 (1.74%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.74%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.74%) Maven
7 2 (1.74%) Postman
7 2 (1.74%) Selenium
7 2 (1.74%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.74%) Xcode
8 1 (0.87%) JMeter
8 1 (0.87%) Locust
8 1 (0.87%) Newman
8 1 (0.87%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.87%) TestCafe
General
1 52 (45.22%) Finance
2 41 (35.65%) Social Skills
3 28 (24.35%) Banking
4 21 (18.26%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.83%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (6.96%) Public Sector
7 7 (6.09%) Front Office
8 5 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (4.35%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.48%) Retail
9 4 (3.48%) Retail Banking
10 3 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.61%) Marketing
11 2 (1.74%) Back Office
11 2 (1.74%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.87%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.87%) Law
12 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.87%) Publishing
12 1 (0.87%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (14.78%) Analyst
2 12 (10.43%) Developer
3 11 (9.57%) Senior
4 9 (7.83%) Lead
4 9 (7.83%) Project Manager
5 8 (6.96%) Business Analyst
6 6 (5.22%) Delivery Manager
6 6 (5.22%) Product Owner
6 6 (5.22%) Support Engineer
7 5 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (4.35%) Coordinator
7 5 (4.35%) Scrum Master
8 4 (3.48%) Architect
8 4 (3.48%) IT Support
8 4 (3.48%) Network Engineer
8 4 (3.48%) QA Engineer
8 4 (3.48%) Senior Developer
8 4 (3.48%) Support Analyst
8 4 (3.48%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.09%) Terraform
2 6 (5.22%) SOAP
3 5 (4.35%) REST
3 5 (4.35%) Spring
3 5 (4.35%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.48%) AngularJS
4 4 (3.48%) Kafka
5 3 (2.61%) JSON
5 3 (2.61%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (2.61%) RESTful
5 3 (2.61%) Web Services
6 2 (1.74%) .NET
6 2 (1.74%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (1.74%) Hibernate
6 2 (1.74%) HTML
6 2 (1.74%) JPA
6 2 (1.74%) SwiftUI
6 2 (1.74%) UIKit
6 2 (1.74%) XML
6 2 (1.74%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.91%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.96%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.22%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.48%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.61%) Clustering
6 3 (2.61%) Derivative
6 3 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.74%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.74%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.74%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (1.74%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.74%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.87%) CSOC
8 1 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.04%) Windows
2 6 (5.22%) Linux
3 5 (4.35%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.48%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.61%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.61%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.74%) Unix
7 1 (0.87%) Android
7 1 (0.87%) CentOS
7 1 (0.87%) SUSE
7 1 (0.87%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.87%) VMS
7 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (53.04%) Agile
2 41 (35.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 35 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (23.48%) Migration
4 27 (23.48%) Scrum
5 25 (21.74%) CI/CD
6 24 (20.87%) DevOps
7 21 (18.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (17.39%) Sprint Planning
9 16 (13.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 16 (13.91%) Test Automation
10 15 (13.04%) Project Management
10 15 (13.04%) User Stories
11 13 (11.30%) Incident Management
12 12 (10.43%) Backlog Management
12 12 (10.43%) Data Migration
13 11 (9.57%) AI
13 11 (9.57%) Infrastructure as Code
13 11 (9.57%) ITSM
13 11 (9.57%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 18 (15.65%) SQL
2 16 (13.91%) Python
3 8 (6.96%) Java
4 7 (6.09%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.35%) C#
6 4 (3.48%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.48%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.61%) Bash
8 2 (1.74%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.74%) Korn
8 2 (1.74%) Swift
9 1 (0.87%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.87%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.30%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.83%) Degree
4 5 (4.35%) PMI Certification
5 4 (3.48%) PMP
6 2 (1.74%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.74%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.74%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.87%) CBAP
7 1 (0.87%) CHECK Team Leader
7 1 (0.87%) CISM
7 1 (0.87%) CISSP
7 1 (0.87%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.87%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.87%) IIBA
7 1 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.87%) OSCP
7 1 (0.87%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (16.52%) QA
2 9 (7.83%) PMO
3 5 (4.35%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.61%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.61%) SLA
5 2 (1.74%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.87%) GDPR
6 1 (0.87%) GRC
6 1 (0.87%) NCSC
6 1 (0.87%) NIST
6 1 (0.87%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.87%) P3O
6 1 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.87%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.87%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.96%) Docker
3 4 (3.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.74%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (10.43%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.35%) Grafana
3 4 (3.48%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.61%) Istio
4 3 (2.61%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (2.61%) SCCM
4 3 (2.61%) SCOM
4 3 (2.61%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.87%) Ansible
5 1 (0.87%) Consul
5 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 24 (20.87%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.91%) ServiceNow
3 7 (6.09%) Oracle
3 7 (6.09%) Remedy
4 6 (5.22%) Google
5 5 (4.35%) Bloomberg
6 4 (3.48%) Atlassian
6 4 (3.48%) BMC
6 4 (3.48%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.48%) VMware
7 3 (2.61%) Commvault
7 3 (2.61%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.61%) Okta
7 3 (2.61%) Refinitiv
8 2 (1.74%) Adobe
8 2 (1.74%) Citrix
8 2 (1.74%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.74%) ION Trading
8 2 (1.74%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.74%) Splunk