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 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 33 62
Rank change year-on-year -7 +29 -19
Contract jobs citing JIRA 109 104 73
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.91% 5.95% 3.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 44.49% 39.25% 28.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 59 45
10th Percentile £366 £362 £388
25th Percentile £463 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -14.00%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £638
90th Percentile £709 £640 £708
Central London median daily rate £538 £525 £531
% change year-on-year +2.38% -1.18% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £17.98 - -
25th Percentile £18.75 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - -
75th Percentile £20.25 - -
90th Percentile £42.85 - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 - £33.00

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 245 265 259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 11.05% 15.15% 11.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 158 173
10th Percentile £361 £406 £421
25th Percentile £433 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% -7.57%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £688
90th Percentile £750 £725 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £564
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -6.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £17.98 - £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 £42.85 - £71.40
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 - £48.50
% change year-on-year - - -15.65%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 16 April 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 0 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 42 (38.53%) Confluence
2 10 (9.17%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.83%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.83%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.83%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.92%) Apache
4 1 (0.92%) CMS
4 1 (0.92%) JBoss
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.92%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (9.17%) MS Visio
2 9 (8.26%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.75%) Trello
5 2 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.92%) Notion
Business Applications
1 6 (5.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (2.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.83%) Algo Collateral
3 2 (1.83%) Fidessa
3 2 (1.83%) Summit
4 1 (0.92%) Actimize
4 1 (0.92%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.92%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.92%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.92%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.92%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.92%) SAP FI-AR
4 1 (0.92%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.92%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 18 (16.51%) AWS
1 18 (16.51%) Azure
2 12 (11.01%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (7.34%) GitHub
4 6 (5.50%) Amazon S3
4 6 (5.50%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (5.50%) GCP
4 6 (5.50%) Power Platform
4 6 (5.50%) Serverless
5 4 (3.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (3.67%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.75%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.75%) Google Workspace
6 3 (2.75%) SaaS
6 3 (2.75%) Slack
7 2 (1.83%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (1.83%) Figma
7 2 (1.83%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.83%) HTTP
2 1 (0.92%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.50%) DynamoDB
1 6 (5.50%) Tableau
2 5 (4.59%) Power BI
3 4 (3.67%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.75%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.83%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.83%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.83%) Tick Data
6 1 (0.92%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.92%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.92%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.92%) Looker
6 1 (0.92%) Metadata
6 1 (0.92%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 14 (12.84%) Git
1 14 (12.84%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.50%) JUnit
3 5 (4.59%) Postman
3 5 (4.59%) Selenium
4 4 (3.67%) Cucumber
4 4 (3.67%) GitLab
5 3 (2.75%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.75%) Mockito
6 2 (1.83%) Ant
6 2 (1.83%) Liquibase
6 2 (1.83%) Maven
6 2 (1.83%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.83%) SpecFlow
6 2 (1.83%) TestRail
7 1 (0.92%) CocoaPods
7 1 (0.92%) Crashlytics
7 1 (0.92%) fastlane
7 1 (0.92%) Zephyr
General
1 50 (45.87%) Finance
2 37 (33.94%) Social Skills
3 29 (26.61%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (24.77%) Banking
5 10 (9.17%) Public Sector
6 8 (7.34%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (6.42%) Front Office
8 6 (5.50%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (5.50%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (4.59%) Investment Banking
9 5 (4.59%) Legal
9 5 (4.59%) Retail
10 4 (3.67%) Back Office
11 3 (2.75%) Marketing
12 1 (0.92%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.92%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.92%) French Language
12 1 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.92%) Military
12 1 (0.92%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (27.52%) Analyst
2 22 (20.18%) Business Analyst
3 20 (18.35%) Senior
4 12 (11.01%) Developer
5 10 (9.17%) Lead
5 10 (9.17%) Senior Analyst
6 8 (7.34%) Banking Analyst
6 8 (7.34%) Delivery Manager
7 6 (5.50%) Banking Business Analyst
7 6 (5.50%) IT Support
7 6 (5.50%) Senior Business Analyst
8 5 (4.59%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 5 (4.59%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (4.59%) Project Manager
9 4 (3.67%) Java Developer
9 4 (3.67%) Junior
9 4 (3.67%) Scrum Master
9 4 (3.67%) Tester
10 3 (2.75%) CRM Manager
10 3 (2.75%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.34%) Spring
2 5 (4.59%) Kafka
2 5 (4.59%) Spring Boot
3 4 (3.67%) REST
4 3 (2.75%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.75%) Gherkin
4 3 (2.75%) J2EE
4 3 (2.75%) Playwright
4 3 (2.75%) React
4 3 (2.75%) SOAP
4 3 (2.75%) WireMock
4 3 (2.75%) YAML
5 2 (1.83%) gRPC
5 2 (1.83%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (1.83%) RESTful
5 2 (1.83%) Spring Batch
5 2 (1.83%) UIKit
5 2 (1.83%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (0.92%) Node.js
6 1 (0.92%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.17%) Onboarding
2 9 (8.26%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.50%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.67%) Derivative
4 4 (3.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.75%) Equities
5 3 (2.75%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.83%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.83%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.83%) PMI
6 2 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.92%) Animation
7 1 (0.92%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.92%) DTCC
7 1 (0.92%) FMCG
7 1 (0.92%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.92%) NHS
7 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.75%) Windows
2 2 (1.83%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.83%) Linux
2 2 (1.83%) Unix
3 1 (0.92%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (61.47%) Agile
2 31 (28.44%) Scrum
3 28 (25.69%) Stakeholder Management
4 27 (24.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 24 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (21.10%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (15.60%) Test Automation
8 16 (14.68%) CI/CD
8 16 (14.68%) Migration
8 16 (14.68%) Project Delivery
8 16 (14.68%) Workshop Facilitation
9 15 (13.76%) DevOps
9 15 (13.76%) Project Management
9 15 (13.76%) User Acceptance Testing
9 15 (13.76%) Waterfall
10 14 (12.84%) Decision-Making
11 13 (11.93%) User Stories
12 12 (11.01%) Requirements Gathering
13 11 (10.09%) Defect Management
13 11 (10.09%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 13 (11.93%) Java
2 12 (11.01%) Python
2 12 (11.01%) SQL
3 7 (6.42%) C#
4 5 (4.59%) JavaScript
4 5 (4.59%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.83%) Bash
5 2 (1.83%) Swift
6 1 (0.92%) Korn
6 1 (0.92%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.92%) Objective-C
6 1 (0.92%) Scala
6 1 (0.92%) XPath
Qualifications
1 24 (22.02%) Security Cleared
2 22 (20.18%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.26%) Degree
4 5 (4.59%) ISTQB
5 4 (3.67%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.75%) CBAP
6 3 (2.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.83%) CFA
7 2 (1.83%) IIBA
7 2 (1.83%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.83%) PMP
8 1 (0.92%) CEH
8 1 (0.92%) CHECK Team Leader
8 1 (0.92%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.92%) ISEB
8 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.92%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (16.51%) QA
2 8 (7.34%) PMO
3 4 (3.67%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.75%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.75%) ISO 20022
4 3 (2.75%) SLA
5 2 (1.83%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.92%) Basel III
6 1 (0.92%) EMIR
6 1 (0.92%) GRC
6 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.92%) MiFID
6 1 (0.92%) NCSC
6 1 (0.92%) NIST
6 1 (0.92%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (5.50%) Docker
2 3 (2.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (4.59%) Kubernetes
1 5 (4.59%) Terraform
2 4 (3.67%) Ansible
3 2 (1.83%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.92%) Consul
4 1 (0.92%) Control-M
4 1 (0.92%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.92%) SCCM
4 1 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (11.01%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.17%) ServiceNow
3 8 (7.34%) Google
4 6 (5.50%) Oracle
4 6 (5.50%) Remedy
4 6 (5.50%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.67%) Planview
6 3 (2.75%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.75%) Databricks
6 3 (2.75%) IBM
6 3 (2.75%) Murex
6 3 (2.75%) SAP
6 3 (2.75%) Workday
7 2 (1.83%) Apple
7 2 (1.83%) HP
7 2 (1.83%) SmartStream
7 2 (1.83%) Solace
8 1 (0.92%) Adobe
8 1 (0.92%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.92%) Informatica