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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 41 58
Rank change year-on-year +11 +17 -25
Contract jobs citing JIRA 114 91 82
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.28% 4.73% 3.34%
As % of the Development Applications category 41.61% 33.70% 33.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 48 61
10th Percentile £359 £315 £450
25th Percentile £421 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £503 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -16.11% +2.13%
75th Percentile £644 £591 £688
90th Percentile £687 £690 £775
Central London median daily rate £510 £518 £600
% change year-on-year -1.45% -13.75% +4.35%

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 274 270 245
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 15.09% 14.04% 9.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 154 183
10th Percentile £363 £368 £413
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £746 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £71.25
Median hourly rate - - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +26.09%
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £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 10 January 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 58 (50.88%) Confluence
2 11 (9.65%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.63%) CMS
4 2 (1.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.88%) Apache
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.88%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (9.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (9.65%) MS Visio
2 7 (6.14%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (4.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (3.51%) Trello
5 1 (0.88%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (2.63%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.75%) Algo Collateral
2 2 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.75%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.88%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.88%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.88%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.88%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.88%) Summit
3 1 (0.88%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 21 (18.42%) Azure
2 15 (13.16%) AWS
3 13 (11.40%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (8.77%) Power Platform
5 6 (5.26%) GitHub
6 5 (4.39%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.63%) Amazon S3
8 3 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.63%) GCP
8 3 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.63%) Google Workspace
8 3 (2.63%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.63%) SaaS
8 3 (2.63%) Serverless
9 2 (1.75%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 2 (1.75%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.75%) DNS
1 2 (1.75%) Firewall
1 2 (1.75%) SSL
2 1 (0.88%) DKIM
2 1 (0.88%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (0.88%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.89%) Power BI
2 5 (4.39%) Tableau
3 3 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.75%) Metadata
4 2 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.75%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.75%) SQLite
4 2 (1.75%) Tick Data
5 1 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.88%) CouchDB
5 1 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.88%) GIS
5 1 (0.88%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.88%) MySQL
5 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.88%) Redis
5 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (7.89%) Jenkins
2 8 (7.02%) Selenium
3 6 (5.26%) Git
4 3 (2.63%) GitLab
4 3 (2.63%) Postman
4 3 (2.63%) SonarQube
4 3 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.75%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.75%) CocoaPods
5 2 (1.75%) Crashlytics
5 2 (1.75%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.75%) Cypress.io
5 2 (1.75%) fastlane
5 2 (1.75%) Maven
5 2 (1.75%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.75%) TestRail
5 2 (1.75%) Xcode
6 1 (0.88%) JUnit
6 1 (0.88%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.88%) Zephyr
General
1 44 (38.60%) Finance
2 42 (36.84%) Social Skills
3 33 (28.95%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (21.05%) Banking
5 8 (7.02%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (7.02%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.14%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.39%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.51%) Front Office
8 4 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.63%) Legal
9 3 (2.63%) Marketing
9 3 (2.63%) Retail
10 2 (1.75%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.88%) Back Office
11 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.88%) French Language
11 1 (0.88%) Private Banking
11 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (26.32%) Analyst
2 23 (20.18%) Business Analyst
3 22 (19.30%) Senior
4 10 (8.77%) Lead
5 9 (7.89%) Developer
5 9 (7.89%) Project Manager
6 7 (6.14%) Senior Analyst
6 7 (6.14%) Senior Business Analyst
6 7 (6.14%) Tester
7 6 (5.26%) Technical Analyst
8 5 (4.39%) Banking Analyst
8 5 (4.39%) Senior Manager
8 5 (4.39%) Technical Business Analyst
9 4 (3.51%) Architect
9 4 (3.51%) Banking Business Analyst
9 4 (3.51%) Consultant
9 4 (3.51%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (3.51%) Junior
9 4 (3.51%) Scrum Master
9 4 (3.51%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.39%) HTML
1 5 (4.39%) REST
2 4 (3.51%) .NET
2 4 (3.51%) JSON
2 4 (3.51%) SOAP
3 3 (2.63%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.63%) CSS
3 3 (2.63%) LDAP
3 3 (2.63%) Spring
3 3 (2.63%) Web Services
4 2 (1.75%) Apache Camel
4 2 (1.75%) AVFoundation
4 2 (1.75%) Core Animation
4 2 (1.75%) Core Data
4 2 (1.75%) HTML5
4 2 (1.75%) JDBC
4 2 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (1.75%) RxSwift
4 2 (1.75%) UIKit
4 2 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.40%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.02%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.39%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.51%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.51%) Equities
4 4 (3.51%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (2.63%) Derivative
5 3 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.63%) PMI
5 3 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.75%) Animation
6 2 (1.75%) CMDB
6 2 (1.75%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.75%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.75%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.88%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.51%) Unix
1 4 (3.51%) Windows
2 2 (1.75%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.75%) Linux
3 1 (0.88%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (61.40%) Agile
2 34 (29.82%) Stakeholder Management
3 30 (26.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 29 (25.44%) Scrum
5 27 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (22.81%) DevOps
7 23 (20.18%) Project Management
8 22 (19.30%) Project Delivery
9 20 (17.54%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
11 16 (14.04%) Migration
12 15 (13.16%) Test Automation
12 15 (13.16%) User Stories
12 15 (13.16%) Waterfall
13 14 (12.28%) Workshop Facilitation
14 13 (11.40%) Backlog Management
14 13 (11.40%) Roadmaps
15 12 (10.53%) CI/CD
15 12 (10.53%) Requirements Gathering
16 11 (9.65%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (11.40%) SQL
2 12 (10.53%) Java
2 12 (10.53%) Python
3 9 (7.89%) JavaScript
4 3 (2.63%) Apex Code
5 2 (1.75%) Bash
5 2 (1.75%) Korn
5 2 (1.75%) Objective-C
5 2 (1.75%) Swift
6 1 (0.88%) C#
6 1 (0.88%) Go
6 1 (0.88%) PHP
6 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.88%) SOQL
6 1 (0.88%) VBA
6 1 (0.88%) XPath
Qualifications
1 23 (20.18%) SC Cleared
1 23 (20.18%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.28%) Degree
3 6 (5.26%) PMI Certification
4 5 (4.39%) CBAP
5 4 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.51%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.63%) CISSP
6 3 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (2.63%) PMP
7 2 (1.75%) CESG Certified Professional
7 2 (1.75%) CFA
7 2 (1.75%) ISEB
7 2 (1.75%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.88%) CISA
8 1 (0.88%) CRISC
8 1 (0.88%) IIBA
8 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.88%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.04%) QA
2 7 (6.14%) PMO
3 3 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.63%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.75%) GDPR
4 2 (1.75%) GRC
4 2 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.75%) SLA
5 1 (0.88%) Basel III
5 1 (0.88%) EMIR
5 1 (0.88%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.88%) MiFID
5 1 (0.88%) NCSC
5 1 (0.88%) NIST
5 1 (0.88%) PSD2
5 1 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.88%) SEPA
5 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (1.75%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.51%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (1.75%) Ansible
2 2 (1.75%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.88%) Ambari
3 1 (0.88%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.88%) Puppet
3 1 (0.88%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.88%) SCCM
3 1 (0.88%) Terraform
3 1 (0.88%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.77%) Salesforce
3 8 (7.02%) Google
4 7 (6.14%) ServiceNow
5 6 (5.26%) Atlassian
5 6 (5.26%) Oracle
6 4 (3.51%) HP
6 4 (3.51%) SAP
7 3 (2.63%) Apple
7 3 (2.63%) Remedy
8 2 (1.75%) Adobe
8 2 (1.75%) Bloomberg
8 2 (1.75%) BMC
8 2 (1.75%) IBM
8 2 (1.75%) Ivanti
8 2 (1.75%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.75%) Planview
8 2 (1.75%) SmartStream
8 2 (1.75%) Solace
8 2 (1.75%) Workday