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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 28 62
Rank change year-on-year -10 +34 -26
Contract jobs citing JIRA 105 109 70
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.47% 6.05% 2.93%
As % of the Development Applications category 41.34% 37.98% 29.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 59 53
10th Percentile £363 £343 £375
25th Percentile £426 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £675
90th Percentile £695 £646 £756
Central London median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.75 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - -
75th Percentile £20.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 - -

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 254 287 238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 13.22% 15.92% 9.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 163 170
10th Percentile £363 £401 £425
25th Percentile £422 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -10.00% -2.24%
75th Percentile £638 £634 £688
90th Percentile £760 £738 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £540 £600
% change year-on-year -2.78% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.20
25th Percentile £18.75 - £52.88
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.22%
75th Percentile £20.25 - £67.88
90th Percentile - - £71.40
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 - £60.50
% change year-on-year - - +5.22%

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 17 February 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 (43.81%) Confluence
2 12 (11.43%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.86%) CMS
4 2 (1.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (1.90%) Ethereum
4 2 (1.90%) Hyperledger
4 2 (1.90%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.95%) Apache
Applications
1 11 (10.48%) MS Visio
2 8 (7.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (7.62%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.81%) Trello
4 3 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.95%) Notion
Business Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Fidessa
1 3 (2.86%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.90%) Algo Collateral
2 2 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.90%) Summit
3 1 (0.95%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.95%) R3 Corda
3 1 (0.95%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.95%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 19 (18.10%) Azure
2 15 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (11.43%) AWS
4 8 (7.62%) GitHub
5 7 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.86%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.86%) GCP
7 3 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.86%) Google Workspace
7 3 (2.86%) Serverless
8 2 (1.90%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.90%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.90%) SaaS
8 2 (1.90%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (1.90%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.90%) DNS
1 2 (1.90%) HTTP
2 1 (0.95%) DKIM
2 1 (0.95%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.76%) Power BI
1 5 (4.76%) Tableau
2 3 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.86%) Tick Data
3 2 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.90%) Metadata
3 2 (1.90%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.90%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.90%) SQLite
4 1 (0.95%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.95%) CouchDB
4 1 (0.95%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.95%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.95%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.95%) GIS
4 1 (0.95%) MySQL
4 1 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.95%) Redis
4 1 (0.95%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 10 (9.52%) Git
3 8 (7.62%) Selenium
4 4 (3.81%) JUnit
4 4 (3.81%) Postman
4 4 (3.81%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (2.86%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.86%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.86%) GitLab
5 3 (2.86%) Maven
6 2 (1.90%) Ant
6 2 (1.90%) CocoaPods
6 2 (1.90%) Crashlytics
6 2 (1.90%) fastlane
6 2 (1.90%) Liquibase
6 2 (1.90%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.90%) SpecFlow
6 2 (1.90%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.90%) TestRail
6 2 (1.90%) Xcode
General
1 44 (41.90%) Social Skills
2 43 (40.95%) Finance
3 30 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (20.00%) Banking
5 9 (8.57%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.76%) Front Office
8 4 (3.81%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.81%) Legal
8 4 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.81%) Retail
9 3 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.86%) Marketing
10 2 (1.90%) Back Office
11 1 (0.95%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.95%) French Language
11 1 (0.95%) Military
Job Titles
1 29 (27.62%) Analyst
2 23 (21.90%) Business Analyst
3 21 (20.00%) Senior
4 10 (9.52%) Developer
5 8 (7.62%) Project Manager
5 8 (7.62%) Senior Analyst
6 7 (6.67%) Lead
6 7 (6.67%) Senior Business Analyst
7 6 (5.71%) Banking Analyst
7 6 (5.71%) Technical Analyst
8 5 (4.76%) Banking Business Analyst
8 5 (4.76%) Scrum Master
8 5 (4.76%) Senior Manager
8 5 (4.76%) Technical Business Analyst
9 4 (3.81%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (3.81%) Java Developer
9 4 (3.81%) Junior
9 4 (3.81%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.81%) Tester
10 3 (2.86%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.71%) Spring
2 5 (4.76%) REST
3 3 (2.86%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.86%) Kafka
3 3 (2.86%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (2.86%) Playwright
3 3 (2.86%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.90%) .NET
4 2 (1.90%) AVFoundation
4 2 (1.90%) Core Animation
4 2 (1.90%) Core Data
4 2 (1.90%) gRPC
4 2 (1.90%) HTML
4 2 (1.90%) J2EE
4 2 (1.90%) RESTful
4 2 (1.90%) RxSwift
4 2 (1.90%) Spring Batch
4 2 (1.90%) UIKit
4 2 (1.90%) WebSphere MQ
4 2 (1.90%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.43%) Product Ownership
2 9 (8.57%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.81%) Cloud Native
3 4 (3.81%) Equities
3 4 (3.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (3.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (2.86%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.86%) Derivative
4 3 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.90%) Animation
5 2 (1.90%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.90%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.90%) PMI
6 1 (0.95%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.95%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.95%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.86%) Windows
2 2 (1.90%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.90%) Linux
3 1 (0.95%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (60.00%) Agile
2 31 (29.52%) Scrum
3 28 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 26 (24.76%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (24.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 23 (21.90%) DevOps
6 22 (20.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (20.00%) Project Delivery
8 20 (19.05%) Project Management
9 17 (16.19%) User Acceptance Testing
10 16 (15.24%) CI/CD
11 15 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
12 14 (13.33%) Migration
12 14 (13.33%) User Stories
13 13 (12.38%) Test Automation
13 13 (12.38%) Waterfall
14 12 (11.43%) Decision-Making
14 12 (11.43%) Requirements Gathering
14 12 (11.43%) Risk Management
15 11 (10.48%) Backlog Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (12.38%) Java
2 11 (10.48%) Python
3 10 (9.52%) SQL
4 5 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.81%) C#
6 3 (2.86%) Bash
7 2 (1.90%) Apex Code
7 2 (1.90%) Korn
7 2 (1.90%) Objective-C
7 2 (1.90%) Swift
7 2 (1.90%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.95%) PHP
8 1 (0.95%) SOQL
8 1 (0.95%) XPath
Qualifications
1 25 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 24 (22.86%) SC Cleared
3 14 (13.33%) Degree
4 6 (5.71%) PMI Certification
5 5 (4.76%) CBAP
5 5 (4.76%) ISTQB
6 4 (3.81%) PMP
7 3 (2.86%) ISEB
7 3 (2.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (1.90%) CESG Certified Professional
8 2 (1.90%) CFA
8 2 (1.90%) CISSP
8 2 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.90%) IIBA
8 2 (1.90%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.29%) QA
2 6 (5.71%) PMO
3 3 (2.86%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.86%) ISO 20022
4 2 (1.90%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.90%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.90%) GDPR
4 2 (1.90%) GRC
4 2 (1.90%) SLA
5 1 (0.95%) Basel III
5 1 (0.95%) EMIR
5 1 (0.95%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.95%) MiFID
5 1 (0.95%) NCSC
5 1 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (4.76%) Docker
2 3 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.81%) Ansible
2 3 (2.86%) Terraform
3 2 (1.90%) HP ALM
3 2 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.95%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.95%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.95%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (16.19%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.52%) Salesforce
3 9 (8.57%) ServiceNow
4 8 (7.62%) Google
5 6 (5.71%) Oracle
6 5 (4.76%) Atlassian
7 4 (3.81%) Planview
8 3 (2.86%) Apple
8 3 (2.86%) IBM
8 3 (2.86%) Remedy
8 3 (2.86%) SAP
8 3 (2.86%) Solace
8 3 (2.86%) Workday
9 2 (1.90%) Adobe
9 2 (1.90%) Ahrefs
9 2 (1.90%) Databricks
9 2 (1.90%) HP
9 2 (1.90%) Murex
9 2 (1.90%) SmartStream
10 1 (0.95%) Tenable