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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 29 42
Rank change year-on-year -10 +13 +6
Contract jobs citing JIRA 120 115 100
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.56% 6.67% 4.70%
As % of the Development Applications category 42.25% 42.91% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 90 62
10th Percentile £295 £313 £302
25th Percentile £443 £406 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% -0.95% -8.70%
75th Percentile £644 £648 £614
90th Percentile £725 £697 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -8.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
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 -
% 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 284 268 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 13.15% 15.55% 14.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 191 187
10th Percentile £363 £358 £370
25th Percentile £455 £424 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.09% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £694
90th Percentile £738 £725 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £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 -
% 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 15 October 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 47 (39.17%) Confluence
2 6 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.50%) 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%) SAS
5 1 (0.83%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (5.83%) MS Visio
4 3 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.83%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (5.83%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.83%) Aladdin
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 (20.83%) Azure
2 17 (14.17%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (13.33%) AWS
4 12 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 10 (8.33%) GitHub
5 10 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (6.67%) Serverless
7 7 (5.83%) GCP
8 6 (5.00%) Amazon S3
8 6 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (4.17%) Snowflake
10 3 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (2.50%) Entra ID
10 3 (2.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (2.50%) SaaS
11 2 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.83%) DNS
2 12 (10.00%) VPN
3 9 (7.50%) TCP/IP
4 7 (5.83%) DHCP
5 3 (2.50%) VLAN
6 2 (1.67%) Firewall
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 (10.83%) SQL Server
2 12 (10.00%) Power BI
3 6 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.33%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (2.50%) BigQuery
5 3 (2.50%) DynamoDB
5 3 (2.50%) Tableau
6 2 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.67%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.83%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.83%) Looker
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 16 (13.33%) Git
1 16 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 10 (8.33%) GitLab
3 6 (5.00%) JUnit
4 5 (4.17%) Bitbucket
4 5 (4.17%) Mockito
4 5 (4.17%) Postman
5 4 (3.33%) Selenium
5 4 (3.33%) Zephyr
6 3 (2.50%) Artifactory
6 3 (2.50%) Maven
7 2 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (1.67%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.67%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.67%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.67%) Xcode
8 1 (0.83%) Locust
8 1 (0.83%) Newman
8 1 (0.83%) TestCafe
8 1 (0.83%) TestRail
General
1 55 (45.83%) Finance
2 43 (35.83%) Social Skills
3 29 (24.17%) Banking
4 22 (18.33%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.00%) Front Office
7 5 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (4.17%) Investment Banking
7 5 (4.17%) Marketing
8 4 (3.33%) Retail Banking
9 3 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.50%) Retail
10 2 (1.67%) Back Office
10 2 (1.67%) Publishing
11 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.83%) Games
11 1 (0.83%) Law
11 1 (0.83%) Military
11 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (18.33%) Analyst
2 13 (10.83%) Developer
2 13 (10.83%) Senior
3 11 (9.17%) Business Analyst
3 11 (9.17%) Lead
4 8 (6.67%) Project Manager
5 7 (5.83%) Support Engineer
6 6 (5.00%) Product Owner
7 5 (4.17%) Applications Engineer
7 5 (4.17%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (4.17%) Network Engineer
7 5 (4.17%) Senior Developer
8 4 (3.33%) Applications Support
8 4 (3.33%) Architect
8 4 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (3.33%) Consultant
8 4 (3.33%) Coordinator
8 4 (3.33%) Scrum Master
8 4 (3.33%) Support Analyst
8 4 (3.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.50%) REST
2 8 (6.67%) Terraform
3 6 (5.00%) SOAP
3 6 (5.00%) Spring
3 6 (5.00%) Spring Boot
4 5 (4.17%) .NET
4 5 (4.17%) AngularJS
5 4 (3.33%) JSON
5 4 (3.33%) Kafka
5 4 (3.33%) RESTful
6 3 (2.50%) Hibernate
6 3 (2.50%) JPA
6 3 (2.50%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (2.50%) Web Services
7 2 (1.67%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (1.67%) Gherkin
7 2 (1.67%) Spring Cloud
7 2 (1.67%) SwiftUI
7 2 (1.67%) UIKit
7 2 (1.67%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.17%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 5 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.33%) Derivative
5 4 (3.33%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.50%) Clustering
6 3 (2.50%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.67%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.67%) Mobile Banking
7 2 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.67%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.83%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.83%) Media Streaming
8 1 (0.83%) PKI
8 1 (0.83%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.33%) Windows
2 7 (5.83%) Linux
3 6 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.33%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.50%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.50%) macOS
6 2 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.67%) 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 62 (51.67%) Agile
2 44 (36.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 36 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (25.00%) DevOps
5 27 (22.50%) Migration
5 27 (22.50%) Scrum
6 25 (20.83%) CI/CD
7 21 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (17.50%) Sprint Planning
8 18 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 17 (14.17%) Test Automation
9 17 (14.17%) User Stories
10 15 (12.50%) Incident Management
11 14 (11.67%) Acceptance Criteria
11 14 (11.67%) Validation
12 13 (10.83%) AI
12 13 (10.83%) Project Management
13 12 (10.00%) ITSM
13 12 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
13 12 (10.00%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 23 (19.17%) SQL
2 18 (15.00%) Python
3 10 (8.33%) Java
4 8 (6.67%) PowerShell
5 6 (5.00%) C#
6 5 (4.17%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.50%) Bash
7 3 (2.50%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.67%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.67%) Korn
8 2 (1.67%) Swift
9 1 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.83%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.67%) Degree
4 5 (4.17%) PMI Certification
5 4 (3.33%) PMP
6 3 (2.50%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.67%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.67%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.83%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.83%) CISA
8 1 (0.83%) CISM
8 1 (0.83%) CISSP
8 1 (0.83%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.83%) GSEC
8 1 (0.83%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.83%) MOS
8 1 (0.83%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (0.83%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (17.50%) QA
2 6 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.00%) PMO
3 4 (3.33%) SLA
4 2 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.67%) GDPR
4 2 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.67%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.83%) GRC
5 1 (0.83%) P3O
5 1 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.83%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 10 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.50%) Docker
3 4 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (9.17%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.00%) Grafana
3 4 (3.33%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (2.50%) Istio
4 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Clustering
4 3 (2.50%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.50%) SCCM
4 3 (2.50%) SCOM
4 3 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 28 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 18 (15.00%) ServiceNow
3 11 (9.17%) Oracle
4 8 (6.67%) Remedy
5 5 (4.17%) Atlassian
5 5 (4.17%) Bloomberg
5 5 (4.17%) Google
6 4 (3.33%) BMC
6 4 (3.33%) Dynatrace
6 4 (3.33%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.33%) Splunk
6 4 (3.33%) VMware
7 3 (2.50%) Commvault
7 3 (2.50%) ION Trading
7 3 (2.50%) Okta
7 3 (2.50%) Refinitiv
7 3 (2.50%) SAP
8 2 (1.67%) IFS
8 2 (1.67%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.67%) UiPath