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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 34 50
Rank change year-on-year -6 +16 -4
Contract jobs citing JIRA 109 102 81
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.78% 5.80% 3.68%
As % of the Development Applications category 45.42% 38.93% 29.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 58 51
10th Percentile £371 £398 £396
25th Percentile £466 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £533 £510
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% +4.41% -18.40%
75th Percentile £653 £622 £638
90th Percentile £740 £650 £700
Central London median daily rate £545 £525 £515
% change year-on-year +3.81% +1.94% -12.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £18.17 - -
25th Percentile £18.75 - -
Median hourly rate £19.50 - -
75th Percentile £20.25 - -
90th Percentile £37.20 - -
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 240 262 272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.52% 14.89% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 154 182
10th Percentile £363 £413 £413
25th Percentile £443 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £557
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% -1.21% -7.94%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £750 £725 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile £18.17 - £49.20
25th Percentile £18.75 - £52.88
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £60.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £20.25 - £67.88
90th Percentile £37.20 - £71.40
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 - £48.50
% change year-on-year - - -11.82%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 40 (36.70%) Confluence
2 9 (8.26%) 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%) IIS
4 1 (0.92%) JBoss
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.92%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (9.17%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (7.34%) MS Visio
3 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (2.75%) Trello
6 2 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 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 20 (18.35%) Azure
2 18 (16.51%) AWS
3 13 (11.93%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (7.34%) GitHub
5 7 (6.42%) Power Platform
6 6 (5.50%) Amazon S3
6 6 (5.50%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (5.50%) GCP
6 6 (5.50%) Serverless
7 4 (3.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (3.67%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.75%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.75%) Google Workspace
8 3 (2.75%) SaaS
8 3 (2.75%) Slack
9 2 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.83%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.83%) HTTP
2 1 (0.92%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.50%) DynamoDB
1 6 (5.50%) Power BI
1 6 (5.50%) Tableau
2 4 (3.67%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.75%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.75%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.83%) Data Vault
4 2 (1.83%) Metadata
4 2 (1.83%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.83%) Tick Data
5 1 (0.92%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.92%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.92%) Looker
5 1 (0.92%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (0.92%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (13.76%) Git
2 13 (11.93%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.50%) JUnit
3 6 (5.50%) Selenium
4 5 (4.59%) Postman
5 4 (3.67%) Cucumber
5 4 (3.67%) GitLab
6 3 (2.75%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.75%) Mockito
7 2 (1.83%) Ant
7 2 (1.83%) Liquibase
7 2 (1.83%) Maven
7 2 (1.83%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.83%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.83%) TestRail
7 2 (1.83%) Zephyr
General
1 49 (44.95%) Finance
2 37 (33.94%) Social Skills
3 27 (24.77%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (24.77%) Banking
4 9 (8.26%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.42%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (5.50%) Front Office
6 6 (5.50%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (5.50%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (4.59%) Investment Banking
7 5 (4.59%) Legal
7 5 (4.59%) Retail
8 3 (2.75%) Back Office
8 3 (2.75%) Marketing
9 1 (0.92%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.92%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Military
9 1 (0.92%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (25.69%) Analyst
2 19 (17.43%) Business Analyst
2 19 (17.43%) Senior
3 13 (11.93%) Developer
4 9 (8.26%) Delivery Manager
4 9 (8.26%) Lead
4 9 (8.26%) Senior Analyst
5 8 (7.34%) Banking Analyst
6 6 (5.50%) IT Support
7 5 (4.59%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 5 (4.59%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (4.59%) Banking Business Analyst
7 5 (4.59%) Project Manager
7 5 (4.59%) Senior Business Analyst
8 4 (3.67%) Java Developer
8 4 (3.67%) Junior
8 4 (3.67%) Scrum Master
8 4 (3.67%) Tester
9 3 (2.75%) CRM Manager
9 3 (2.75%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.34%) Spring
2 5 (4.59%) Kafka
2 5 (4.59%) Spring Boot
3 4 (3.67%) React
3 4 (3.67%) REST
4 3 (2.75%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.75%) Gherkin
4 3 (2.75%) J2EE
4 3 (2.75%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (2.75%) Playwright
4 3 (2.75%) SOAP
4 3 (2.75%) WireMock
4 3 (2.75%) YAML
5 2 (1.83%) gRPC
5 2 (1.83%) RESTful
5 2 (1.83%) Spring Batch
5 2 (1.83%) Web Services
5 2 (1.83%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (0.92%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.92%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.09%) Product Ownership
2 10 (9.17%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.50%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.59%) Derivative
4 5 (4.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.75%) Equities
5 3 (2.75%) PMI
6 2 (1.83%) Market Risk
6 2 (1.83%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.92%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.92%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.92%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (0.92%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.92%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.75%) Windows
2 2 (1.83%) Linux
2 2 (1.83%) Unix
3 1 (0.92%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (61.47%) Agile
2 31 (28.44%) Scrum
3 26 (23.85%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (22.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 23 (21.10%) Continuous Improvement
6 22 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (15.60%) Test Automation
8 16 (14.68%) CI/CD
8 16 (14.68%) DevOps
8 16 (14.68%) Project Management
9 15 (13.76%) Migration
9 15 (13.76%) Project Delivery
10 14 (12.84%) Waterfall
11 13 (11.93%) Decision-Making
11 13 (11.93%) User Acceptance Testing
11 13 (11.93%) Workshop Facilitation
12 12 (11.01%) User Stories
13 11 (10.09%) Risk Management
14 10 (9.17%) Requirements Gathering
14 10 (9.17%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 13 (11.93%) Java
1 13 (11.93%) Python
2 12 (11.01%) SQL
3 8 (7.34%) C#
4 6 (5.50%) JavaScript
4 6 (5.50%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.83%) Bash
6 1 (0.92%) Apex Code
6 1 (0.92%) Korn
6 1 (0.92%) Kotlin
6 1 (0.92%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.92%) Scala
6 1 (0.92%) Swift
6 1 (0.92%) XPath
Qualifications
1 22 (20.18%) Security Cleared
2 20 (18.35%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.17%) Degree
4 5 (4.59%) ISTQB
4 5 (4.59%) PMI Certification
5 4 (3.67%) CBAP
6 3 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.75%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.83%) IIBA
7 2 (1.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.83%) PMP
8 1 (0.92%) CEH
8 1 (0.92%) CFA
8 1 (0.92%) CHECK Team Leader
8 1 (0.92%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.92%) ISEB
8 1 (0.92%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (16.51%) QA
2 9 (8.26%) PMO
3 4 (3.67%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.75%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.75%) SLA
5 2 (1.83%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.83%) ISO 20022
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%) P3O
6 1 (0.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (5.50%) Docker
2 3 (2.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
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
Vendors
1 11 (10.09%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.26%) ServiceNow
3 7 (6.42%) Google
3 7 (6.42%) Oracle
4 6 (5.50%) Remedy
4 6 (5.50%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.67%) Atlassian
5 4 (3.67%) Databricks
5 4 (3.67%) Planview
6 3 (2.75%) IBM
6 3 (2.75%) Murex
6 3 (2.75%) SAP
6 3 (2.75%) Workday
7 2 (1.83%) HP
7 2 (1.83%) SmartStream
7 2 (1.83%) Solace
8 1 (0.92%) LexisNexis
8 1 (0.92%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.92%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.92%) Splunk