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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 31 46
Rank change year-on-year -8 +15 +6
Contract jobs citing JIRA 112 116 85
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.80% 6.29% 4.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 42.59% 43.28% 30.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 81 54
10th Percentile £410 £306 £397
25th Percentile £477 £405 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% -1.90% -12.50%
75th Percentile £666 £638 £614
90th Percentile £751 £713 £713
Central London median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £18.17 - -
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 £37.20 - -
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 263 268 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.27% 14.54% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 176 189
10th Percentile £409 £345 £404
25th Percentile £463 £421 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -1.74%
75th Percentile £657 £644 £690
90th Percentile £738 £722 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 0
10th Percentile £18.17 £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 £37.20 £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 20 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in the City of London over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in the City of London

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the City of London region over the 6 months to 20 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge +1 1 £650 -
JIRA
Central London

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 41 (36.61%) Confluence
2 7 (6.25%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.79%) CMS
5 1 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.89%) IIS
5 1 (0.89%) JBoss
5 1 (0.89%) SAS
5 1 (0.89%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (4.46%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (8.04%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.89%) Actimize
2 1 (0.89%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.89%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.89%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.89%) SAP FI-AR
Cloud Services
1 20 (17.86%) AWS
2 19 (16.96%) Azure
3 11 (9.82%) Power Platform
3 11 (9.82%) Serverless
4 10 (8.93%) Amazon S3
4 10 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (8.93%) GitHub
5 9 (8.04%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (6.25%) GCP
6 7 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (4.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (4.46%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (3.57%) SaaS
9 3 (2.68%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (2.68%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.68%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (2.68%) Miro
10 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.04%) DNS
1 9 (8.04%) VPN
2 6 (5.36%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.57%) DHCP
4 3 (2.68%) Firewall
5 2 (1.79%) VLAN
6 1 (0.89%) Internet
6 1 (0.89%) Network Security
6 1 (0.89%) NGFW
6 1 (0.89%) SSH
6 1 (0.89%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.82%) Power BI
2 8 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (7.14%) DynamoDB
2 8 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.46%) Amazon Athena
4 4 (3.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (3.57%) Tableau
5 3 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.79%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.79%) Looker
6 2 (1.79%) Metadata
6 2 (1.79%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.89%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.89%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (0.89%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (14.29%) Git
2 15 (13.39%) Jenkins
3 10 (8.93%) GitLab
4 6 (5.36%) JUnit
5 5 (4.46%) Mockito
6 4 (3.57%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.57%) Cucumber
6 4 (3.57%) Postman
7 3 (2.68%) Zephyr
8 2 (1.79%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.79%) Selenium
8 2 (1.79%) Xcode
9 1 (0.89%) Cypress.io
General
1 53 (47.32%) Finance
2 41 (36.61%) Social Skills
3 30 (26.79%) Banking
4 19 (16.96%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.57%) Front Office
7 4 (3.57%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.57%) Retail
8 3 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.68%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.79%) Back Office
9 2 (1.79%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.89%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.89%) Law
10 1 (0.89%) Legal
10 1 (0.89%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 19 (16.96%) Analyst
2 15 (13.39%) Developer
3 10 (8.93%) Senior
4 8 (7.14%) Business Analyst
5 6 (5.36%) Automation Engineer
5 6 (5.36%) Product Owner
5 6 (5.36%) Project Manager
6 5 (4.46%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (4.46%) Delivery Manager
6 5 (4.46%) IT Support
6 5 (4.46%) Lead
6 5 (4.46%) Support Engineer
7 4 (3.57%) Applications Engineer
7 4 (3.57%) Consultant
7 4 (3.57%) Coordinator
7 4 (3.57%) Network Engineer
7 4 (3.57%) Scrum Master
7 4 (3.57%) Tester
8 3 (2.68%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 3 (2.68%) iOS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.04%) Terraform
2 6 (5.36%) SOAP
2 6 (5.36%) Spring
3 5 (4.46%) Kafka
3 5 (4.46%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.57%) Gherkin
4 4 (3.57%) WireMock
4 4 (3.57%) YAML
5 3 (2.68%) JSON
5 3 (2.68%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (2.68%) React
5 3 (2.68%) REST
5 3 (2.68%) SwiftUI
5 3 (2.68%) UIKit
6 2 (1.79%) .NET
6 2 (1.79%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.79%) HTML
6 2 (1.79%) Web Services
6 2 (1.79%) XML
7 1 (0.89%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.61%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.36%) Data Centre
3 6 (5.36%) Mobile App
4 5 (4.46%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.57%) Derivative
6 3 (2.68%) Clustering
6 3 (2.68%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (1.79%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.79%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (0.89%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.89%) CSOC
8 1 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.89%) FMCG
8 1 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.71%) Windows
2 6 (5.36%) Linux
3 4 (3.57%) Apple iOS
3 4 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.68%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.68%) Unix
5 2 (1.79%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.89%) Android
6 1 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.89%) SUSE
6 1 (0.89%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.89%) VMS
6 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (53.57%) Agile
2 31 (27.68%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (27.68%) Stakeholder Management
3 24 (21.43%) Scrum
4 22 (19.64%) CI/CD
5 21 (18.75%) Migration
6 18 (16.07%) DevOps
7 17 (15.18%) Test Automation
8 16 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
9 15 (13.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (11.61%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (11.61%) ITSM
12 11 (9.82%) Backlog Management
12 11 (9.82%) User Stories
13 10 (8.93%) Analytics
13 10 (8.93%) Incident Management
13 10 (8.93%) Sprint Retrospective
14 9 (8.04%) Customer Service
14 9 (8.04%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (16.96%) SQL
2 17 (15.18%) Python
3 10 (8.93%) Java
4 7 (6.25%) C#
4 7 (6.25%) PowerShell
5 6 (5.36%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.57%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.68%) Bash
7 3 (2.68%) Swift
8 2 (1.79%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.89%) Korn
9 1 (0.89%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.89%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.89%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (15.18%) Security Cleared
2 15 (13.39%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.04%) Degree
4 2 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.79%) DBS Check
4 2 (1.79%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.89%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.89%) CBAP
5 1 (0.89%) CEH
5 1 (0.89%) CHECK Team Leader
5 1 (0.89%) CISM
5 1 (0.89%) CISSP
5 1 (0.89%) CREST Certified
5 1 (0.89%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.89%) IIBA
5 1 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.89%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.89%) OSCP
5 1 (0.89%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.29%) QA
2 7 (6.25%) PMO
3 4 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.57%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.68%) SLA
5 2 (1.79%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.89%) GDPR
6 1 (0.89%) GRC
6 1 (0.89%) NCSC
6 1 (0.89%) NIST
6 1 (0.89%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.89%) P3O
6 1 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.89%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 8 (7.14%) Docker
2 4 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.68%) Grafana
2 3 (2.68%) Istio
2 3 (2.68%) ITRS Geneos
2 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Clustering
2 3 (2.68%) SCOM
2 3 (2.68%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.79%) Ansible
3 2 (1.79%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.89%) Consul
4 1 (0.89%) Control-M
4 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.89%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (15.18%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 9 (8.04%) Remedy
4 7 (6.25%) Google
5 6 (5.36%) Oracle
6 4 (3.57%) VMware
7 3 (2.68%) Adobe
7 3 (2.68%) Atlassian
7 3 (2.68%) Bloomberg
7 3 (2.68%) BMC
7 3 (2.68%) Commvault
7 3 (2.68%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.68%) Okta
7 3 (2.68%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.68%) Splunk
8 2 (1.79%) Citrix
8 2 (1.79%) Databricks
8 2 (1.79%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.79%) ION Trading
8 2 (1.79%) Palo Alto