JIRA Contracts in the City of London

Atlassian JIRA
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring JIRA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JIRA over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 46 51
Rank change year-on-year +14 +5 -17
Contract jobs citing JIRA 107 87 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 6.09% 4.11% 4.35%
As % of the Development Applications category 42.46% 29.00% 29.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 57 106
10th Percentile £352 £380 £394
25th Percentile £419 £445 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £688
90th Percentile £706 £709 £776
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% +3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £86.25 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 - -
75th Percentile £88.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £87.50 £33.00 -
% change year-on-year +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 252 300 503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 14.33% 14.16% 14.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 205 328
10th Percentile £394 £400 £400
25th Percentile £435 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -8.17% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £738
90th Percentile £738 £772 £800
Central London median daily rate £545 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -0.91% -8.33% +0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £36.63
25th Percentile £86.25 £46.75 £39.06
Median hourly rate £87.50 £48.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +80.41% +10.86% -16.67%
75th Percentile £88.75 £50.25 £49.06
90th Percentile - - £51.88
Central London median hourly rate £87.50 £40.75 £43.75
% change year-on-year +114.72% -6.86% -16.67%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the City of London

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for JIRA in the City of London

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 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the City of London

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend 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 30 June 2025. 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 - -
JIRA
Central London

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 49 (45.79%) Confluence
2 4 (3.74%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.80%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.87%) Apache
4 2 (1.87%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.87%) nginx
5 1 (0.93%) Camunda
5 1 (0.93%) Drupal
5 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.93%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (14.02%) Microsoft Project
2 12 (11.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (9.35%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (6.54%) MS Visio
5 6 (5.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (5.61%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.93%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.93%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.93%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 26 (24.30%) Azure
2 21 (19.63%) AWS
3 14 (13.08%) Power Platform
4 13 (12.15%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (7.48%) GitHub
6 5 (4.67%) GCP
7 4 (3.74%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (3.74%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.80%) IaaS
8 3 (2.80%) Miro
8 3 (2.80%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.80%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.87%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.87%) SaaS
9 2 (1.87%) Tricentis Tosca
10 1 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.67%) Firewall
2 3 (2.80%) DNS
2 3 (2.80%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.87%) SSH
3 2 (1.87%) WAN
4 1 (0.93%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.93%) LAN
4 1 (0.93%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.93%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.28%) Power BI
2 5 (4.67%) Data Lake
2 5 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (4.67%) Tableau
3 4 (3.74%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.87%) Apache Hive
4 2 (1.87%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.87%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.87%) CockroachDB
4 2 (1.87%) Delta Lake
4 2 (1.87%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.87%) Looker
4 2 (1.87%) MySQL
4 2 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.87%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.93%) Big Data
5 1 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 16 (14.95%) Git
2 10 (9.35%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.54%) Postman
4 6 (5.61%) REST Assured
4 6 (5.61%) ScriptRunner
4 6 (5.61%) Selenium
5 5 (4.67%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.74%) Zephyr
7 3 (2.80%) LoadRunner
8 2 (1.87%) Appium
8 2 (1.87%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.87%) GitLab
8 2 (1.87%) JMeter
8 2 (1.87%) RStudio
8 2 (1.87%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.87%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.93%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.93%) Hamcrest
General
1 48 (44.86%) Finance
2 44 (41.12%) Social Skills
3 29 (27.10%) Banking
4 21 (19.63%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (6.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (6.54%) Investment Banking
6 6 (5.61%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.67%) Front Office
8 4 (3.74%) Law
9 3 (2.80%) Back Office
9 3 (2.80%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.80%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.87%) Legal
10 2 (1.87%) Military
10 2 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.87%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.93%) Marketing
11 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.93%) Police
Job Titles
1 24 (22.43%) Analyst
2 17 (15.89%) Business Analyst
3 15 (14.02%) Project Manager
4 13 (12.15%) Developer
5 8 (7.48%) Senior
6 5 (4.67%) Data Business Analyst
6 5 (4.67%) Data Manager
7 4 (3.74%) Consultant
7 4 (3.74%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (3.74%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 4 (3.74%) IT Manager
7 4 (3.74%) IT Project Manager
7 4 (3.74%) Lead
7 4 (3.74%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (2.80%) Architect
8 3 (2.80%) JIRA Developer
8 3 (2.80%) Python Engineer
8 3 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.80%) Test Engineer
8 3 (2.80%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.35%) REST
2 5 (4.67%) CSS
2 5 (4.67%) HTML
3 4 (3.74%) .NET
3 4 (3.74%) React
4 3 (2.80%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.80%) HTML5
4 3 (2.80%) Next.js
4 3 (2.80%) pytest
4 3 (2.80%) XML
5 2 (1.87%) JSON
5 2 (1.87%) Kafka
5 2 (1.87%) pydantic
5 2 (1.87%) PySpark
5 2 (1.87%) Spring
5 2 (1.87%) Swagger
5 2 (1.87%) YAML
6 1 (0.93%) Akka
6 1 (0.93%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.93%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.35%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.67%) Data Centre
3 4 (3.74%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.74%) Fixed Income
3 4 (3.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (3.74%) Public Cloud
3 4 (3.74%) Reference Data
4 3 (2.80%) Derivative
4 3 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.80%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.87%) Equities
5 2 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.87%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.87%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.87%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.87%) Reinsurance
5 2 (1.87%) Replication
5 2 (1.87%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (1.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.41%) Linux
1 9 (8.41%) Windows
2 4 (3.74%) Unix
3 3 (2.80%) Android
3 3 (2.80%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.80%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.93%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.93%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (65.42%) Agile
2 31 (28.97%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (26.17%) Scrum
4 25 (23.36%) DevOps
5 23 (21.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 22 (20.56%) Project Management
7 17 (15.89%) CI/CD
7 17 (15.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (11.21%) Business Intelligence
8 12 (11.21%) Migration
8 12 (11.21%) Project Delivery
8 12 (11.21%) User Stories
9 11 (10.28%) Roadmaps
9 11 (10.28%) SDLC
9 11 (10.28%) Test Automation
10 10 (9.35%) Analytics
10 10 (9.35%) ITIL
10 10 (9.35%) Requirements Gathering
10 10 (9.35%) Risk Management
11 9 (8.41%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 23 (21.50%) Python
2 22 (20.56%) SQL
3 15 (14.02%) Java
4 7 (6.54%) Groovy
5 6 (5.61%) Bash
5 6 (5.61%) C#
5 6 (5.61%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.74%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.80%) Scala
7 3 (2.80%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.87%) Perl
8 2 (1.87%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.93%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.93%) C
9 1 (0.93%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.93%) Ruby
9 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (17.76%) Degree
2 13 (12.15%) SC Cleared
2 13 (12.15%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.54%) PMI Certification
3 7 (6.54%) PMP
4 5 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.80%) CBAP
6 2 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.93%) APMG
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.93%) CFA
7 1 (0.93%) IIBA
7 1 (0.93%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.93%) PhD
7 1 (0.93%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.48%) QA
2 5 (4.67%) PMO
3 4 (3.74%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.74%) GDPR
4 3 (2.80%) MiFID
5 2 (1.87%) EMIR
5 2 (1.87%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.87%) SEPA
5 2 (1.87%) SLA
6 1 (0.93%) COBIT
6 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.93%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.93%) NCSC
6 1 (0.93%) NIST
6 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.93%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.93%) UCITS
6 1 (0.93%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (6.54%) Docker
2 2 (1.87%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.87%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.93%) Lustre
3 1 (0.93%) NFS
3 1 (0.93%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.93%) Veritas File System
3 1 (0.93%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 6 (5.61%) Ansible
2 5 (4.67%) Terraform
3 4 (3.74%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.80%) HP ALM
5 2 (1.87%) Control-M
5 2 (1.87%) Opsgenie
5 2 (1.87%) Podman
5 2 (1.87%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.87%) SCCM
5 2 (1.87%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.93%) Consul
6 1 (0.93%) Grafana
6 1 (0.93%) Istio
6 1 (0.93%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.93%) Karpenter
6 1 (0.93%) Netcool
6 1 (0.93%) Packer
6 1 (0.93%) QRadar
6 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (0.93%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (14.02%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.48%) Atlassian
3 6 (5.61%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.67%) HP
4 5 (4.67%) Oracle
5 4 (3.74%) Cisco
5 4 (3.74%) Databricks
5 4 (3.74%) Google
5 4 (3.74%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.80%) Bloomberg
6 3 (2.80%) IBM
6 3 (2.80%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.80%) SAP
6 3 (2.80%) Splunk
6 3 (2.80%) VMware
7 2 (1.87%) Arista
7 2 (1.87%) Dell
7 2 (1.87%) Logitech
8 1 (0.93%) BMC
8 1 (0.93%) Duck Creek