JIRA Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Atlassian JIRA
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring JIRA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 42 53
Rank change year-on-year -6 +11 -13
Contract jobs citing JIRA 60 44 64
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.28% 4.17% 3.36%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.82% 40.74% 34.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 22 39
10th Percentile £188 £306 £350
25th Percentile £325 £344 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £419 £410
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% +2.13% -21.53%
75th Percentile £613 £542 £500
90th Percentile £744 £691 £579
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 6
10th Percentile £69.00 - -
25th Percentile - - £45.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £68.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +39.49% -25.00%
75th Percentile - - £56.56
90th Percentile - - £62.53
England median hourly rate £62.57 £62.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +0.11% +14.68% -16.15%

All Development Application Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 147 108 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 8.03% 10.23% 9.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 55 75
10th Percentile £325 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £399 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £463 £458
Median % change year-on-year +3.35% +1.09% -14.49%
75th Percentile £625 £566 £550
90th Percentile £699 £675 £604
England median daily rate £500 £504 £535
% change year-on-year -0.70% -5.89% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 10 63
10th Percentile £65.00 £63.50 £57.75
25th Percentile £65.75 £65.06 £65.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.50 £73.50
Median % change year-on-year - -8.16% +13.08%
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.06 £90.00
90th Percentile - £75.73 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JIRA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

JIRA job vacancy trend in the East of England

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing JIRA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing JIRA

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the East of England over the 6 months to 21 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the East of England

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing JIRA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing JIRA

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the East of England region over the 6 months to 21 February 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
Hertfordshire -5 31 £425 +23.64% 7
Cambridgeshire -12 8 £488 +6.85% 11
Essex -2 7 £363 +11.54% 9
Norfolk - 7 £200 -
Suffolk - 5 £700 - 1
Bedfordshire -18 3 £463 -22.92% 2
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 21 (35.00%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) Anypoint
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.33%) Sketch
4 1 (1.67%) CATIA
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.67%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (1.67%) Primavera
2 1 (1.67%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.00%) Azure
2 7 (11.67%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (6.67%) AWS
4 4 (6.67%) GitHub
5 2 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (3.33%) Apigee
5 2 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.33%) Boomi
5 2 (3.33%) Contentful
5 2 (3.33%) Figma
5 2 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.33%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.33%) SaaS
5 2 (3.33%) Sauce Labs
5 2 (3.33%) Serverless
5 2 (3.33%) TestFlight
6 1 (1.67%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (1.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) Firewall
1 1 (1.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.33%) DataStage
1 2 (3.33%) Power BI
2 1 (1.67%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.67%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 8 (13.33%) Git
1 8 (13.33%) PVCS
1 8 (13.33%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.67%) Selenium
4 3 (5.00%) Cypress.io
4 3 (5.00%) GitLab
5 2 (3.33%) Android Studio
5 2 (3.33%) Appium
5 2 (3.33%) MSTest
5 2 (3.33%) Postman
5 2 (3.33%) Rational Rhapsody
5 2 (3.33%) Sourcetree
5 2 (3.33%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (3.33%) Xcode
6 1 (1.67%) TestRail
6 1 (1.67%) Tricentis qTest
6 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.33%) Electronics
3 6 (10.00%) Finance
4 5 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.33%) Banking
4 5 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (6.67%) Retail
6 3 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Law
8 1 (1.67%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Local Government
8 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (23.33%) Software Engineer
2 8 (13.33%) C++ Software Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) C Software Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) C/C++ Software Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) Embedded C Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) Embedded C Software Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) Embedded C++ Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) Embedded Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Manual Tester
4 6 (10.00%) Tester
5 5 (8.33%) Developer
5 5 (8.33%) IT Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) IT Support
5 5 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.00%) React
2 2 (3.33%) CSS
2 2 (3.33%) Framer.js
2 2 (3.33%) HTML
2 2 (3.33%) Middleware
2 2 (3.33%) pytest
3 1 (1.67%) .NET
3 1 (1.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.67%) FHIR
3 1 (1.67%) JSON
3 1 (1.67%) Playwright
3 1 (1.67%) Redux
3 1 (1.67%) WCF
3 1 (1.67%) WPF
3 1 (1.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.67%) LIMS
4 1 (1.67%) NHS
4 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.67%) PMI
4 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.33%) Windows
2 5 (8.33%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.33%) Android
3 2 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (46.67%) Agile
2 14 (23.33%) Software Engineering
3 13 (21.67%) DevOps
3 13 (21.67%) Test Automation
4 10 (16.67%) Project Management
4 10 (16.67%) Workflow
5 9 (15.00%) Test Scripting
6 8 (13.33%) Code Coverage
6 8 (13.33%) Manual Testing
6 8 (13.33%) Requirements Analysis
6 8 (13.33%) Unit Testing
6 8 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
7 7 (11.67%) Scenario Testing
7 7 (11.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (10.00%) AI
8 6 (10.00%) ITSM
8 6 (10.00%) Roadmaps
8 6 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (8.33%) Migration
9 5 (8.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.67%) C++
2 8 (13.33%) C
3 7 (11.67%) Embedded C
3 7 (11.67%) Embedded C++
4 6 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 4 (6.67%) Java
5 4 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.00%) C#
6 3 (5.00%) Python
6 3 (5.00%) SQL
7 2 (3.33%) PL/SQL
7 2 (3.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (18.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.33%) Degree
4 3 (5.00%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.67%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.67%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.67%) QA
2 3 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.33%) PMO
4 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.67%) GRC
4 1 (1.67%) HL7
4 1 (1.67%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 8 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
1 8 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.33%) Firmware
4 1 (1.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (5.00%) HP ALM
3 2 (3.33%) Control-M
3 2 (3.33%) Grafana
3 2 (3.33%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (3.33%) Kibana
3 2 (3.33%) Rundeck
4 1 (1.67%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (18.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.33%) ANSYS
2 8 (13.33%) IBM
2 8 (13.33%) VMware
3 5 (8.33%) Salesforce
4 4 (6.67%) Atlassian
5 3 (5.00%) HP
6 2 (3.33%) BMC
6 2 (3.33%) Dell
6 2 (3.33%) Oracle
6 2 (3.33%) Siemens
6 2 (3.33%) Talend
7 1 (1.67%) Cerner
7 1 (1.67%) CloudEndure
7 1 (1.67%) MEDITECH
7 1 (1.67%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.67%) OpenText
7 1 (1.67%) SAP
7 1 (1.67%) Serena
7 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow