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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 27 47
Rank change year-on-year -13 +20 +3
Contract jobs citing JIRA 114 113 92
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.02% 6.41% 4.47%
As % of the Development Applications category 44.19% 43.13% 31.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 81 58
10th Percentile £377 £313 £377
25th Percentile £465 £405 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £644 £638 £629
90th Percentile £725 £713 £743
Central London median daily rate £550 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -7.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £17.60 - -
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 - - -
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 258 262 296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.36% 14.85% 14.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 175 197
10th Percentile £409 £355 £400
25th Percentile £463 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £568
Median % change year-on-year - -3.08% -1.30%
75th Percentile £646 £646 £690
90th Percentile £727 £716 £778
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £565
% change year-on-year - -2.65% -0.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £17.60 £63.75 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £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 £33.00
% change year-on-year -74.00% +127.27% -

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 4 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 44 (38.60%) Confluence
2 6 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.75%) CMS
6 1 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.88%) Apache
6 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.88%) IIS
6 1 (0.88%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (6.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.39%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.88%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (7.02%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.88%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.88%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.88%) SAP FI-AR
Cloud Services
1 22 (19.30%) AWS
2 19 (16.67%) Azure
3 11 (9.65%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (8.77%) GitHub
4 10 (8.77%) Serverless
5 9 (7.89%) Amazon S3
5 9 (7.89%) Power Platform
6 8 (7.02%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (6.14%) GCP
8 6 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (4.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.51%) SaaS
11 3 (2.63%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (2.63%) Entra ID
11 3 (2.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 2 (1.75%) dbt
12 2 (1.75%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.65%) DNS
2 10 (8.77%) VPN
3 7 (6.14%) TCP/IP
4 6 (5.26%) DHCP
5 3 (2.63%) Firewall
6 2 (1.75%) VLAN
7 1 (0.88%) INAP
7 1 (0.88%) Intelligent Network
7 1 (0.88%) Internet
7 1 (0.88%) Network Security
7 1 (0.88%) NGFW
7 1 (0.88%) RTP
7 1 (0.88%) SSH
7 1 (0.88%) SSL
7 1 (0.88%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.88%) VoIP
7 1 (0.88%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.89%) Power BI
1 9 (7.89%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.14%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (6.14%) DynamoDB
3 4 (3.51%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 4 (3.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (3.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (2.63%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.63%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.75%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.75%) Tableau
6 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.88%) Flink
6 1 (0.88%) Looker
6 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 17 (14.91%) Git
2 16 (14.04%) Jenkins
3 10 (8.77%) GitLab
4 6 (5.26%) JUnit
4 6 (5.26%) Mockito
5 4 (3.51%) Bitbucket
6 3 (2.63%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.63%) Postman
6 3 (2.63%) Zephyr
7 2 (1.75%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.75%) Maven
7 2 (1.75%) Selenium
7 2 (1.75%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.75%) Xcode
8 1 (0.88%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.88%) JMeter
8 1 (0.88%) Locust
8 1 (0.88%) Robot Framework
8 1 (0.88%) TestCafe
General
1 50 (43.86%) Finance
2 40 (35.09%) Social Skills
3 28 (24.56%) Banking
4 21 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.89%) Public Sector
6 8 (7.02%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.39%) Front Office
7 5 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.51%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.51%) Retail
9 3 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.63%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.75%) Back Office
10 2 (1.75%) Marketing
11 1 (0.88%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.88%) Law
11 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.88%) Military
11 1 (0.88%) Publishing
11 1 (0.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (14.04%) Developer
2 15 (13.16%) Analyst
3 10 (8.77%) Senior
4 9 (7.89%) Lead
5 7 (6.14%) Business Analyst
5 7 (6.14%) Project Manager
6 6 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
6 6 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
6 6 (5.26%) Product Owner
6 6 (5.26%) Support Engineer
7 5 (4.39%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (4.39%) Scrum Master
8 4 (3.51%) Applications Engineer
8 4 (3.51%) Coordinator
8 4 (3.51%) IT Support
8 4 (3.51%) Network Engineer
8 4 (3.51%) QA Engineer
8 4 (3.51%) Senior Developer
8 4 (3.51%) Tester
9 3 (2.63%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.89%) Terraform
2 7 (6.14%) SOAP
3 6 (5.26%) Spring
3 6 (5.26%) Spring Boot
4 5 (4.39%) Kafka
4 5 (4.39%) REST
5 4 (3.51%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.63%) Gherkin
6 3 (2.63%) JSON
6 3 (2.63%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (2.63%) React
6 3 (2.63%) RESTful
6 3 (2.63%) SwiftUI
6 3 (2.63%) UIKit
6 3 (2.63%) Web Services
6 3 (2.63%) WireMock
6 3 (2.63%) YAML
7 2 (1.75%) .NET
7 2 (1.75%) HTML
7 2 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.16%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.14%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.39%) Mobile App
4 5 (4.39%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.63%) Clustering
5 3 (2.63%) Derivative
5 3 (2.63%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (1.75%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.75%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.75%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.88%) CSOC
7 1 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.88%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.28%) Windows
2 7 (6.14%) Linux
3 5 (4.39%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.51%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.63%) Mac OS
5 3 (2.63%) Unix
5 3 (2.63%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.88%) Android
7 1 (0.88%) CentOS
7 1 (0.88%) SUSE
7 1 (0.88%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.88%) VMS
7 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (53.51%) Agile
2 35 (30.70%) Stakeholder Management
3 34 (29.82%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (23.68%) Scrum
5 25 (21.93%) CI/CD
5 25 (21.93%) Migration
6 22 (19.30%) DevOps
7 19 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
7 19 (16.67%) Test Automation
8 15 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 14 (12.28%) User Stories
10 13 (11.40%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (11.40%) Project Management
11 12 (10.53%) Incident Management
11 12 (10.53%) ITSM
12 11 (9.65%) Backlog Management
12 11 (9.65%) Data Migration
12 11 (9.65%) Sprint Retrospective
13 10 (8.77%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 18 (15.79%) SQL
2 17 (14.91%) Python
3 10 (8.77%) Java
4 7 (6.14%) PowerShell
5 6 (5.26%) C#
5 6 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.26%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.63%) Bash
6 3 (2.63%) Swift
7 2 (1.75%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.75%) Korn
8 1 (0.88%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.88%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (14.04%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.28%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.89%) Degree
4 3 (2.63%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.75%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.75%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.75%) PMP
6 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.88%) CBAP
6 1 (0.88%) CEH
6 1 (0.88%) CHECK Team Leader
6 1 (0.88%) CISM
6 1 (0.88%) CISSP
6 1 (0.88%) CREST Certified
6 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.88%) IIBA
6 1 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.88%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.91%) QA
2 6 (5.26%) PMO
3 5 (4.39%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.51%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.63%) SLA
6 2 (1.75%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.88%) GDPR
7 1 (0.88%) GRC
7 1 (0.88%) NCSC
7 1 (0.88%) NIST
7 1 (0.88%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.88%) P3O
7 1 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.88%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (7.89%) Active Directory
1 9 (7.89%) Docker
2 4 (3.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.75%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (11.40%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.39%) Grafana
3 4 (3.51%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.63%) Istio
4 3 (2.63%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (2.63%) SCOM
4 3 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.75%) SCCM
6 1 (0.88%) Ansible
6 1 (0.88%) Consul
6 1 (0.88%) Control-M
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.04%) ServiceNow
3 8 (7.02%) Remedy
4 7 (6.14%) Oracle
5 6 (5.26%) Google
6 4 (3.51%) Bloomberg
6 4 (3.51%) BMC
6 4 (3.51%) VMware
7 3 (2.63%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.63%) Commvault
7 3 (2.63%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.63%) Okta
7 3 (2.63%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.63%) Splunk
8 2 (1.75%) Adobe
8 2 (1.75%) Citrix
8 2 (1.75%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.75%) ION Trading
8 2 (1.75%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.75%) Refinitiv