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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 31 41
Rank change year-on-year -8 +10 +11
Contract jobs citing JIRA 121 114 98
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.42% 6.54% 4.62%
As % of the Development Applications category 43.68% 42.70% 33.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 86 62
10th Percentile £297 £311 £302
25th Percentile £452 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -4.76% -10.64%
75th Percentile £644 £640 £619
90th Percentile £725 £685 £792
Central London median daily rate £547 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +9.40% -4.76% -8.22%
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 277 267 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.42% 15.31% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 185 190
10th Percentile £363 £344 £375
25th Percentile £455 £423 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £566
Median % change year-on-year - -2.87% -5.63%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £697
90th Percentile £738 £723 £785
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - -0.05% -8.29%
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 26 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 48 (39.67%) Confluence
2 7 (5.79%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.48%) CMS
5 1 (0.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.83%) Apache
5 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.83%) IIS
5 1 (0.83%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (6.61%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (5.79%) MS Visio
4 4 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.83%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (5.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.83%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.83%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.83%) Maximo
2 1 (0.83%) OneSumX
2 1 (0.83%) SAP FI-AR
2 1 (0.83%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.83%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 25 (20.66%) Azure
2 19 (15.70%) AWS
3 16 (13.22%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (10.74%) Power Platform
5 10 (8.26%) GitHub
5 10 (8.26%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (5.79%) GCP
6 7 (5.79%) Serverless
7 6 (4.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (4.13%) Amazon S3
8 5 (4.13%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.31%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.31%) SaaS
9 4 (3.31%) Snowflake
10 3 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.48%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (1.65%) dbt
11 2 (1.65%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.92%) DNS
2 11 (9.09%) VPN
3 8 (6.61%) TCP/IP
4 7 (5.79%) DHCP
5 3 (2.48%) Firewall
6 2 (1.65%) VLAN
7 1 (0.83%) INAP
7 1 (0.83%) Intelligent Network
7 1 (0.83%) Internet
7 1 (0.83%) Network Security
7 1 (0.83%) NGFW
7 1 (0.83%) RTP
7 1 (0.83%) SSH
7 1 (0.83%) SSL
7 1 (0.83%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.83%) VoIP
7 1 (0.83%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.74%) Power BI
2 11 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.13%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.31%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (3.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (3.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.48%) BigQuery
5 3 (2.48%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.48%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.48%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.65%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.65%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.65%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.65%) Tableau
7 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.83%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.83%) Metadata
7 1 (0.83%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 14 (11.57%) Git
1 14 (11.57%) Jenkins
2 9 (7.44%) GitLab
3 5 (4.13%) JUnit
3 5 (4.13%) Mockito
4 4 (3.31%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.48%) Postman
5 3 (2.48%) Zephyr
6 2 (1.65%) Artifactory
6 2 (1.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 2 (1.65%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.65%) Maven
6 2 (1.65%) Selenium
6 2 (1.65%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.65%) Xcode
7 1 (0.83%) JMeter
7 1 (0.83%) Locust
7 1 (0.83%) Newman
7 1 (0.83%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.83%) TestCafe
General
1 53 (43.80%) Finance
2 42 (34.71%) Social Skills
3 28 (23.14%) Banking
4 21 (17.36%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.44%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (6.61%) Public Sector
7 7 (5.79%) Front Office
8 5 (4.13%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (4.13%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.31%) Marketing
9 4 (3.31%) Retail
9 4 (3.31%) Retail Banking
10 3 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.65%) Back Office
11 2 (1.65%) Publishing
12 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.83%) Games
12 1 (0.83%) Law
12 1 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 21 (17.36%) Analyst
2 12 (9.92%) Developer
2 12 (9.92%) Senior
3 11 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 10 (8.26%) Lead
5 9 (7.44%) Project Manager
6 6 (4.96%) Product Owner
6 6 (4.96%) Support Engineer
7 5 (4.13%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (4.13%) Coordinator
7 5 (4.13%) Network Engineer
8 4 (3.31%) Architect
8 4 (3.31%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (3.31%) Consultant
8 4 (3.31%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (3.31%) IT Support
8 4 (3.31%) Scrum Master
8 4 (3.31%) Senior Developer
8 4 (3.31%) Support Analyst
8 4 (3.31%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.79%) REST
1 7 (5.79%) Terraform
2 6 (4.96%) SOAP
3 5 (4.13%) Spring
3 5 (4.13%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.31%) AngularJS
4 4 (3.31%) JSON
4 4 (3.31%) Kafka
5 3 (2.48%) .NET
5 3 (2.48%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (2.48%) RESTful
5 3 (2.48%) Web Services
6 2 (1.65%) AWS CDK
6 2 (1.65%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.65%) JPA
6 2 (1.65%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (1.65%) SwiftUI
6 2 (1.65%) UIKit
6 2 (1.65%) WireMock
6 2 (1.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.40%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.61%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.96%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.96%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.31%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.31%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.48%) Clustering
5 3 (2.48%) Derivative
5 3 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.65%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.65%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.65%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.65%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (1.65%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.83%) CSOC
7 1 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.83%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.40%) Windows
2 6 (4.96%) Linux
3 5 (4.13%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.31%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.48%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.48%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.65%) Unix
7 1 (0.83%) Android
7 1 (0.83%) CentOS
7 1 (0.83%) SUSE
7 1 (0.83%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.83%) VMS
7 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (52.07%) Agile
2 45 (37.19%) Stakeholder Management
3 35 (28.93%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (23.14%) DevOps
5 27 (22.31%) Migration
6 26 (21.49%) CI/CD
7 25 (20.66%) Scrum
8 21 (17.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (15.70%) Sprint Planning
10 18 (14.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 16 (13.22%) Test Automation
12 15 (12.40%) User Stories
13 14 (11.57%) Incident Management
13 14 (11.57%) Project Management
14 12 (9.92%) AI
14 12 (9.92%) Backlog Management
14 12 (9.92%) Requirements Gathering
14 12 (9.92%) Validation
15 11 (9.09%) Acceptance Criteria
15 11 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 20 (16.53%) SQL
2 18 (14.88%) Python
3 7 (5.79%) Java
3 7 (5.79%) PowerShell
4 6 (4.96%) C#
5 4 (3.31%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.48%) Bash
6 3 (2.48%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.65%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.65%) Korn
7 2 (1.65%) Swift
8 1 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (13.22%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.74%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.44%) Degree
4 5 (4.13%) PMI Certification
5 4 (3.31%) PMP
6 3 (2.48%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.65%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.65%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.83%) CBAP
8 1 (0.83%) CHECK Team Leader
8 1 (0.83%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.83%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.83%) IIBA
8 1 (0.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.83%) OSCP
8 1 (0.83%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.53%) QA
2 8 (6.61%) PMO
3 6 (4.96%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.31%) SLA
5 3 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.65%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.65%) GDPR
6 2 (1.65%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.83%) GRC
7 1 (0.83%) NCSC
7 1 (0.83%) NIST
7 1 (0.83%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.83%) P3O
7 1 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.83%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 10 (8.26%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.44%) Docker
3 4 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.65%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (10.74%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.13%) Grafana
3 4 (3.31%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.48%) Istio
4 3 (2.48%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (2.48%) SCCM
4 3 (2.48%) SCOM
4 3 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.83%) Ansible
5 1 (0.83%) Consul
5 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 27 (22.31%) Microsoft
2 17 (14.05%) ServiceNow
3 9 (7.44%) Oracle
4 8 (6.61%) Remedy
5 5 (4.13%) Bloomberg
5 5 (4.13%) Google
6 4 (3.31%) Atlassian
6 4 (3.31%) BMC
6 4 (3.31%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.31%) VMware
7 3 (2.48%) Commvault
7 3 (2.48%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.48%) Okta
7 3 (2.48%) Refinitiv
7 3 (2.48%) SAP
7 3 (2.48%) Splunk
8 2 (1.65%) Databricks
8 2 (1.65%) IFS
8 2 (1.65%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.65%) Palo Alto