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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 43 49
Rank change year-on-year -15 +6 -9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 46 42 58
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.88% 3.82% 3.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 32.17% 33.87% 34.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 20 38
10th Percentile £378 £306 £339
25th Percentile £410 £312 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £409 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.01% -9.06% -12.20%
75th Percentile £688 £491 £503
90th Percentile £750 £718 £596
England median daily rate £500 £489 £534
% change year-on-year +2.30% -8.47% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile - £56.03 £52.88
25th Percentile - £58.03 £55.33
Median hourly rate £70.00 £63.70 £60.03
Median % change year-on-year +9.89% +6.11% -7.65%
75th Percentile - £67.03 £64.11
90th Percentile - £67.61 £66.18
England median hourly rate £63.27 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +1.23% +4.17% -7.69%

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 143 124 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 8.94% 11.27% 9.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 52 73
10th Percentile £404 £301 £350
25th Percentile £431 £317 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £431 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.84% -9.21% -13.16%
75th Percentile £623 £525 £550
90th Percentile £693 £671 £600
England median daily rate £500 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 15 53
10th Percentile - £49.63 £65.00
25th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £69.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £78.73
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -17.43% +21.12%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £90.00
90th Percentile - £75.15 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 +3 29 £425 +32.81% 24
Suffolk - 5 £700 - 10
Essex -2 4 £425 - 20
Cambridgeshire -17 4 £488 +11.43% 16
Norfolk - 3 £331 - 10
Bedfordshire -12 2 £441 -37.45% 10
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 14 (30.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.35%) Sketch
3 1 (2.17%) Simulink
3 1 (2.17%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 3 (6.52%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.17%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (2.17%) Primavera
2 1 (2.17%) SAP EWM
2 1 (2.17%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 7 (15.22%) Azure
2 4 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (4.35%) Apigee
3 2 (4.35%) AWS
3 2 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (4.35%) Boomi
3 2 (4.35%) Contentful
3 2 (4.35%) Figma
3 2 (4.35%) GitHub
3 2 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (4.35%) Serverless
4 1 (2.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (2.17%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (2.17%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.17%) OCI
4 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.17%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.17%) Firewall
1 1 (2.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.35%) DataStage
2 1 (2.17%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.17%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (2.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (19.57%) Rational DOORS
2 8 (17.39%) Git
2 8 (17.39%) PVCS
3 4 (8.70%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.52%) GitLab
4 3 (6.52%) Rational Rhapsody
5 2 (4.35%) Selenium
6 1 (2.17%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.17%) TestRail
6 1 (2.17%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 15 (32.61%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.39%) Electronics
3 5 (10.87%) Finance
3 5 (10.87%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (8.70%) Retail
5 3 (6.52%) Banking
5 3 (6.52%) Law
5 3 (6.52%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Local Government
7 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (28.26%) Software Engineer
2 8 (17.39%) C++ Software Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) C Software Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) C/C++ Software Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Embedded C Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Embedded C Software Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Embedded C++ Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Embedded Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 5 (10.87%) Developer
5 3 (6.52%) Applications Tester
5 3 (6.52%) Consultant
5 3 (6.52%) Manual Tester
5 3 (6.52%) Project Manager
5 3 (6.52%) Senior
5 3 (6.52%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.04%) React
2 2 (4.35%) CSS
2 2 (4.35%) Framer.js
2 2 (4.35%) HTML
3 1 (2.17%) FHIR
3 1 (2.17%) JSON
3 1 (2.17%) Middleware
3 1 (2.17%) Playwright
3 1 (2.17%) Redux
3 1 (2.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.35%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.17%) LIMS
3 1 (2.17%) NHS
3 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.17%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Windows
2 2 (4.35%) Linux
3 1 (2.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (47.83%) Agile
2 14 (30.43%) Software Engineering
3 10 (21.74%) Test Automation
3 10 (21.74%) Workflow
4 9 (19.57%) DevOps
5 8 (17.39%) Code Coverage
5 8 (17.39%) Requirements Analysis
5 8 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (17.39%) Unit Testing
6 5 (10.87%) Acceptance Criteria
6 5 (10.87%) CI/CD
6 5 (10.87%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (10.87%) Project Management
6 5 (10.87%) Roadmaps
6 5 (10.87%) Scenario Testing
6 5 (10.87%) SDLC
6 5 (10.87%) Sprint Review
6 5 (10.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (10.87%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (8.70%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.74%) C++
2 8 (17.39%) C
3 7 (15.22%) Embedded C
3 7 (15.22%) Embedded C++
4 6 (13.04%) TypeScript
5 3 (6.52%) SQL
6 2 (4.35%) Java
6 2 (4.35%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.35%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.17%) MATLAB
7 1 (2.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.22%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.70%) Degree
4 2 (4.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (2.17%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (2.17%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.70%) QA
2 2 (4.35%) PMO
3 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.17%) GRC
3 1 (2.17%) HL7
3 1 (2.17%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 8 (17.39%) Virtual Machines
1 8 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.17%) Docker
3 1 (2.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (4.35%) Control-M
2 1 (2.17%) HP ALM
2 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (17.39%) ANSYS
1 8 (17.39%) IBM
1 8 (17.39%) VMware
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.52%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.35%) BMC
3 2 (4.35%) Dell
3 2 (4.35%) Oracle
3 2 (4.35%) SAP
3 2 (4.35%) Talend
4 1 (2.17%) Avature
4 1 (2.17%) Cerner
4 1 (2.17%) CloudEndure
4 1 (2.17%) HP
4 1 (2.17%) MEDITECH
4 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow