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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 29 48
Rank change year-on-year -15 +19 +2
Contract jobs citing JIRA 108 107 89
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.46% 6.19% 4.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 45.96% 43.85% 29.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 63 58
10th Percentile £399 £361 £384
25th Percentile £471 £413 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £575
90th Percentile £725 £670 £638
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 0
10th Percentile £18.56 - -
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 £25.90 - -
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 235 244 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.69% 14.12% 13.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 145 206
10th Percentile £369 £391 £400
25th Percentile £450 £425 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% -1.82% -8.37%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £722 £738 £756
Central London median daily rate £547 £540 £550
% change year-on-year +1.30% -1.82% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 1
10th Percentile £18.56 - -
25th Percentile £18.75 £86.25 £46.75
Median hourly rate £19.50 £87.50 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -77.71% +80.41% +10.86%
75th Percentile £20.25 £88.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £25.90 - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £87.50 £40.75
% change year-on-year -77.71% +114.72% -6.86%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 40 (37.04%) Confluence
2 5 (4.63%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.85%) Ethereum
3 2 (1.85%) Hyperledger
3 2 (1.85%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.93%) Apache
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.93%) IIS
4 1 (0.93%) JBoss
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.93%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.56%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (6.48%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.93%) Actimize
2 1 (0.93%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.93%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.93%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.93%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.93%) R3 Corda
2 1 (0.93%) SAP FI-AR
2 1 (0.93%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 23 (21.30%) AWS
2 19 (17.59%) Azure
3 14 (12.96%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (10.19%) GitHub
5 10 (9.26%) Serverless
6 9 (8.33%) Amazon S3
7 8 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (6.48%) Power Platform
9 6 (5.56%) GCP
9 6 (5.56%) SaaS
10 5 (4.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (4.63%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
11 4 (3.70%) Slack
12 3 (2.78%) Amazon SQS
12 3 (2.78%) Entra ID
12 3 (2.78%) Google Workspace
13 2 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.78%) DNS
2 2 (1.85%) DHCP
2 2 (1.85%) Firewall
2 2 (1.85%) HTTP
2 2 (1.85%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.85%) VPN
3 1 (0.93%) Internet
3 1 (0.93%) Network Security
3 1 (0.93%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.41%) DynamoDB
2 7 (6.48%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (5.56%) Power BI
4 5 (4.63%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (4.63%) Tableau
5 4 (3.70%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.78%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.78%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.85%) Data Vault
7 2 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.85%) Metadata
8 1 (0.93%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.93%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.93%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.93%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.93%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.93%) QlikView
8 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (16.67%) Git
2 16 (14.81%) Jenkins
3 9 (8.33%) GitLab
4 8 (7.41%) JUnit
5 5 (4.63%) Mockito
5 5 (4.63%) Postman
6 4 (3.70%) Cucumber
6 4 (3.70%) Selenium
7 3 (2.78%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.85%) Ant
8 2 (1.85%) Liquibase
8 2 (1.85%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.85%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.93%) Maven
9 1 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.93%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.93%) Xcode
General
1 46 (42.59%) Finance
2 43 (39.81%) Social Skills
3 27 (25.00%) Banking
4 17 (15.74%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (5.56%) Retail
7 5 (4.63%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.70%) Front Office
8 4 (3.70%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.78%) Back Office
9 3 (2.78%) Legal
9 3 (2.78%) Marketing
10 2 (1.85%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.93%) Law
11 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.93%) Military
11 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.93%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (19.44%) Analyst
2 15 (13.89%) Developer
3 12 (11.11%) Senior
4 10 (9.26%) Business Analyst
5 8 (7.41%) IT Support
6 7 (6.48%) Lead
7 6 (5.56%) Banking Analyst
7 6 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
7 6 (5.56%) Scrum Master
8 5 (4.63%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 5 (4.63%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (4.63%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) Product Owner
8 5 (4.63%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (3.70%) Banking Business Analyst
9 4 (3.70%) Coordinator
9 4 (3.70%) Java Developer
9 4 (3.70%) Project Manager
9 4 (3.70%) Senior Developer
10 3 (2.78%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.33%) Spring
2 7 (6.48%) Kafka
2 7 (6.48%) Spring Boot
3 5 (4.63%) REST
3 5 (4.63%) SOAP
4 4 (3.70%) Gherkin
4 4 (3.70%) Lightning Web Components
4 4 (3.70%) WireMock
4 4 (3.70%) YAML
5 3 (2.78%) J2EE
5 3 (2.78%) React
5 3 (2.78%) RESTful
6 2 (1.85%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.85%) gRPC
6 2 (1.85%) JSON
6 2 (1.85%) SailPoint
6 2 (1.85%) Spring Batch
6 2 (1.85%) UIKit
6 2 (1.85%) Web Services
6 2 (1.85%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.89%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.48%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.48%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.70%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.78%) PMI
5 2 (1.85%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.85%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.85%) Derivative
5 2 (1.85%) Mobile Banking
5 2 (1.85%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.93%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.70%) Windows
2 3 (2.78%) Linux
3 2 (1.85%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.85%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.85%) Unix
4 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.93%) SUSE
4 1 (0.93%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (59.26%) Agile
2 29 (26.85%) Scrum
3 24 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (21.30%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (20.37%) CI/CD
5 22 (20.37%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (18.52%) DevOps
7 16 (14.81%) Test Automation
8 15 (13.89%) Migration
8 15 (13.89%) Sprint Planning
8 15 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 13 (12.04%) Project Management
10 12 (11.11%) Backlog Management
10 12 (11.11%) Roadmaps
11 11 (10.19%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 11 (10.19%) Infrastructure as Code
11 11 (10.19%) Sprint Retrospective
12 10 (9.26%) Decision-Making
12 10 (9.26%) User Stories
12 10 (9.26%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 13 (12.04%) Java
1 13 (12.04%) Python
2 10 (9.26%) SQL
3 9 (8.33%) C#
4 6 (5.56%) TypeScript
5 5 (4.63%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.85%) Apex Code
6 2 (1.85%) Bash
6 2 (1.85%) Swift
7 1 (0.93%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.93%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (21.30%) Security Cleared
2 20 (18.52%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.19%) Degree
4 5 (4.63%) PMI Certification
5 4 (3.70%) CBAP
6 3 (2.78%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.85%) PMP
8 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.93%) CEH
8 1 (0.93%) CHECK Team Leader
8 1 (0.93%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.93%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.93%) IIBA
8 1 (0.93%) ISEB
8 1 (0.93%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.93%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.04%) QA
2 8 (7.41%) PMO
3 4 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.70%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.78%) SLA
5 2 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.85%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.93%) GRC
6 1 (0.93%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.93%) NCSC
6 1 (0.93%) NIST
6 1 (0.93%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.93%) P3O
6 1 (0.93%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.93%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (8.33%) Docker
2 5 (4.63%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (10.19%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.26%) Terraform
3 4 (3.70%) Ansible
4 2 (1.85%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.93%) Consul
5 1 (0.93%) Control-M
5 1 (0.93%) Grafana
5 1 (0.93%) Istio
Vendors
1 11 (10.19%) ServiceNow
2 9 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.41%) Oracle
4 7 (6.48%) Remedy
4 7 (6.48%) Salesforce
5 6 (5.56%) Google
6 3 (2.78%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.78%) Databricks
6 3 (2.78%) Planview
7 2 (1.85%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.85%) Citrix
7 2 (1.85%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.85%) IBM
7 2 (1.85%) Murex
7 2 (1.85%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.93%) Adobe
8 1 (0.93%) Alias
8 1 (0.93%) Informatica
8 1 (0.93%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.93%) VMware