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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 49 58
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 -21
Contract jobs citing JIRA 69 29 55
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.28% 3.10% 2.86%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.43% 32.95% 35.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 18 31
10th Percentile £195 £377 £350
25th Percentile £325 £401 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £456 £410
Median % change year-on-year -6.85% +11.28% -20.00%
75th Percentile £666 £589 £494
90th Percentile £749 £639 £575
England median daily rate £489 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.25% -4.76% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 7
10th Percentile £69.00 - -
25th Percentile - - £45.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - £58.50
England median hourly rate £63.32 £62.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year +1.31% +36.22% -26.59%

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 175 88 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 8.33% 9.41% 8.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 51 66
10th Percentile £308 £399 £313
25th Percentile £413 £431 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £445
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +6.74% -11.88%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £503
90th Percentile £709 £638 £594
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -5.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 15 46
10th Percentile - £54.50 £49.63
25th Percentile £65.00 £64.38 £58.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £77.63 £90.00
90th Percentile - £87.50 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +1.63%

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 13 April 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 13 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
Hertfordshire +2 32 £400 +0.13% 17
Cambridgeshire +5 11 £600 +18.52% 15
Essex -6 9 £425 +15.25% 4
Suffolk - 9 £700 - 5
Norfolk - 7 £200 - 3
Bedfordshire -13 2 £513 -14.58% 1
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 22 (31.88%) Confluence
2 1 (1.45%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.90%) Sketch
3 1 (1.45%) CATIA
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.45%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.45%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 3 (4.35%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.45%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 9 (13.04%) Azure
2 7 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (7.25%) AWS
3 5 (7.25%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (5.80%) GitHub
4 4 (5.80%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.80%) SaaS
5 3 (4.35%) Miro
6 2 (2.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.90%) AWS Control Tower
6 2 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.90%) Boomi
6 2 (2.90%) Contentful
6 2 (2.90%) Figma
6 2 (2.90%) Sauce Labs
6 2 (2.90%) Serverless
6 2 (2.90%) TestFlight
6 2 (2.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.90%) Firewall
2 1 (1.45%) DNS
2 1 (1.45%) SSL
2 1 (1.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.80%) Power BI
2 2 (2.90%) DataStage
3 1 (1.45%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.45%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 13 (18.84%) Git
2 8 (11.59%) PVCS
2 8 (11.59%) Rational DOORS
3 6 (8.70%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.80%) Selenium
5 3 (4.35%) GitLab
6 2 (2.90%) Android Studio
6 2 (2.90%) Appium
6 2 (2.90%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.90%) MSTest
6 2 (2.90%) Postman
6 2 (2.90%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (2.90%) Sourcetree
6 2 (2.90%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (2.90%) Xcode
7 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (1.45%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.45%) JMeter
7 1 (1.45%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.59%) Electronics
3 6 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.25%) Banking
4 5 (7.25%) Finance
4 5 (7.25%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (5.80%) Retail
6 3 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.90%) Law
7 2 (2.90%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.90%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.45%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (21.74%) Software Engineer
2 8 (11.59%) C++ Software Engineer
2 8 (11.59%) Tester
3 7 (10.14%) C Software Engineer
3 7 (10.14%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
3 7 (10.14%) C/C++ Software Engineer
3 7 (10.14%) Embedded C Engineer
3 7 (10.14%) Embedded C Software Engineer
3 7 (10.14%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
3 7 (10.14%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
3 7 (10.14%) Embedded C++ Engineer
3 7 (10.14%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
3 7 (10.14%) Embedded Engineer
3 7 (10.14%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 7 (10.14%) Manual Tester
4 6 (8.70%) Developer
5 5 (7.25%) Analyst
5 5 (7.25%) IT Support
5 5 (7.25%) IT Support Engineer
5 5 (7.25%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.04%) React
2 2 (2.90%) ADO
2 2 (2.90%) Framer.js
2 2 (2.90%) Middleware
2 2 (2.90%) pytest
3 1 (1.45%) .NET
3 1 (1.45%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.45%) CSS
3 1 (1.45%) FHIR
3 1 (1.45%) HTML
3 1 (1.45%) Node.js
3 1 (1.45%) WCF
3 1 (1.45%) Web Services
3 1 (1.45%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.84%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.90%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.90%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.45%) Hackathon
4 1 (1.45%) IoT
4 1 (1.45%) LIMS
4 1 (1.45%) PMI
4 1 (1.45%) Robotics
4 1 (1.45%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.94%) Windows
2 5 (7.25%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.90%) Android
3 2 (2.90%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (52.17%) Agile
2 16 (23.19%) Software Engineering
3 14 (20.29%) DevOps
4 12 (17.39%) Test Automation
5 11 (15.94%) Test Scripting
6 9 (13.04%) Manual Testing
6 9 (13.04%) Project Management
6 9 (13.04%) Scenario Testing
7 8 (11.59%) Code Coverage
7 8 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (11.59%) Requirements Analysis
7 8 (11.59%) Scrum
7 8 (11.59%) Unit Testing
7 8 (11.59%) User Acceptance Testing
7 8 (11.59%) Workflow
8 7 (10.14%) SDLC
8 7 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (8.70%) AI
9 6 (8.70%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.49%) C++
2 9 (13.04%) TypeScript
3 8 (11.59%) C
4 7 (10.14%) Embedded C
4 7 (10.14%) Embedded C++
5 6 (8.70%) SQL
6 5 (7.25%) Java
7 4 (5.80%) Python
8 3 (4.35%) C#
8 3 (4.35%) JavaScript
8 3 (4.35%) VBA
9 2 (2.90%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.45%) Bash
10 1 (1.45%) Groovy
10 1 (1.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 12 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.59%) Degree
4 3 (4.35%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (1.45%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.59%) QA
2 5 (7.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.45%) HL7
3 1 (1.45%) PMO
3 1 (1.45%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 8 (11.59%) Virtual Machines
1 8 (11.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (10.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.90%) Firmware
4 1 (1.45%) Squid
Systems Management
1 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (4.35%) HP ALM
2 3 (4.35%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (2.90%) Control-M
3 2 (2.90%) Grafana
3 2 (2.90%) Kibana
3 2 (2.90%) Rundeck
4 1 (1.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.59%) ANSYS
2 8 (11.59%) IBM
2 8 (11.59%) VMware
3 6 (8.70%) Salesforce
4 5 (7.25%) Atlassian
5 4 (5.80%) HP
5 4 (5.80%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.90%) BMC
6 2 (2.90%) Databricks
6 2 (2.90%) Dell
6 2 (2.90%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.90%) Siemens
6 2 (2.90%) Talend
7 1 (1.45%) CloudEndure
7 1 (1.45%) Ingenico
7 1 (1.45%) MEDITECH
7 1 (1.45%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.45%) PagerDuty
7 1 (1.45%) Trend Micro