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 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 54 50 62
Rank change year-on-year -4 +12 -25
Contract jobs citing JIRA 62 37 53
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.79% 3.55% 2.66%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.44% 35.92% 36.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 19 24
10th Percentile £188 £223 £352
25th Percentile £300 £250 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £450 £456
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% -1.37% -6.89%
75th Percentile £681 £578 £559
90th Percentile £744 £630 £638
England median daily rate £481 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -4.76% -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 11
10th Percentile £63.50 - £45.00
25th Percentile - £65.00 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +27.27% -22.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +2.04%

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 180 103 146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 8.10% 9.89% 7.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 54 45
10th Percentile £303 £233 £347
25th Percentile £425 £352 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £464 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.82% -2.37% -5.00%
75th Percentile £603 £550 £550
90th Percentile £699 £609 £642
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 20 57
10th Percentile £58.33 £28.36 £49.20
25th Percentile £65.00 £60.69 £57.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.06 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £87.50 £80.65
England median hourly rate £67.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +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 18 June 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 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
Hertfordshire -5 20 £350 -22.22% 16
Cambridgeshire +6 13 £600 +15.66% 12
Suffolk - 11 £700 - 1
Essex -18 7 £300 -7.69% 4
Norfolk - 7 £200 - 3
Bedfordshire -7 4 £513 -14.58% 3
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 19 (30.65%) Confluence
2 1 (1.61%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.61%) Mendix
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.61%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.61%) CATIA
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.61%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.61%) SOLIDWORKS
2 1 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.90%) Azure
2 7 (11.29%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (9.68%) AWS
3 6 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (8.06%) Power Platform
5 4 (6.45%) Miro
5 4 (6.45%) SaaS
6 3 (4.84%) GitHub
7 2 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.23%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.23%) AWS CloudTrail
7 2 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.23%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (3.23%) Datadog
7 2 (3.23%) Sauce Labs
7 2 (3.23%) Serverless
7 2 (3.23%) TestFlight
7 2 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.45%) Firewall
2 2 (3.23%) DNS
2 2 (3.23%) Network Security
2 2 (3.23%) SSL
2 2 (3.23%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.61%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (1.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.06%) Power BI
2 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (16.13%) Git
2 4 (6.45%) GitLab
2 4 (6.45%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.84%) Selenium
4 2 (3.23%) Android Studio
4 2 (3.23%) Appium
4 2 (3.23%) Cypress.io
4 2 (3.23%) MSTest
4 2 (3.23%) Postman
4 2 (3.23%) PVCS
4 2 (3.23%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (3.23%) Rational Rhapsody
4 2 (3.23%) Sourcetree
4 2 (3.23%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (3.23%) Xcode
5 1 (1.61%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (1.61%) JMeter
5 1 (1.61%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (1.61%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (1.61%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (41.94%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.45%) Finance
4 3 (4.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (4.84%) Retail
5 2 (3.23%) Banking
5 2 (3.23%) Electronics
5 2 (3.23%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.61%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.61%) Law
6 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (17.74%) Software Engineer
2 6 (9.68%) Analyst
3 5 (8.06%) IT Engineer
3 5 (8.06%) IT Support
3 5 (8.06%) IT Support Engineer
3 5 (8.06%) Support Engineer
3 5 (8.06%) Tester
4 4 (6.45%) Developer
4 4 (6.45%) Manual Tester
4 4 (6.45%) Software Test Engineer
4 4 (6.45%) Test Engineer
5 3 (4.84%) C++ Software Engineer
5 3 (4.84%) Data Analyst
5 3 (4.84%) Excel Analyst
5 3 (4.84%) Project Manager
5 3 (4.84%) Salesforce Analyst
5 3 (4.84%) Scrum Master
6 2 (3.23%) Data Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Embedded Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.74%) React
2 2 (3.23%) ADO
2 2 (3.23%) pytest
3 1 (1.61%) .NET
3 1 (1.61%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.61%) Middleware
3 1 (1.61%) Node.js
3 1 (1.61%) WCF
3 1 (1.61%) Web Services
3 1 (1.61%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 16 (25.81%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.45%) Data Structures
2 4 (6.45%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (4.84%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (4.84%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.23%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.61%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.61%) Hackathon
5 1 (1.61%) IoT
5 1 (1.61%) PMI
5 1 (1.61%) Robotics
5 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (19.35%) Windows
2 10 (16.13%) Linux
3 5 (8.06%) Windows 10
4 3 (4.84%) Android
5 2 (3.23%) Check Point GAiA
5 2 (3.23%) Unix
6 1 (1.61%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.61%) Mac OS X
6 1 (1.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (59.68%) Agile
2 15 (24.19%) Test Automation
3 13 (20.97%) Scrum
4 12 (19.35%) Software Engineering
5 11 (17.74%) AI
5 11 (17.74%) DevOps
6 10 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (12.90%) Project Management
7 8 (12.90%) Software Delivery
7 8 (12.90%) Validation
8 7 (11.29%) CI/CD
8 7 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (11.29%) Front End Development
8 7 (11.29%) Sprint Review
8 7 (11.29%) Test Scripting
9 6 (9.68%) End-to-End Testing
9 6 (9.68%) Manual Testing
9 6 (9.68%) Sprint Planning
9 6 (9.68%) User Acceptance Testing
9 6 (9.68%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 11 (17.74%) TypeScript
2 6 (9.68%) Python
3 5 (8.06%) SQL
4 4 (6.45%) C++
4 4 (6.45%) Java
5 3 (4.84%) C#
5 3 (4.84%) Groovy
5 3 (4.84%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.84%) VBA
6 2 (3.23%) Bash
6 2 (3.23%) C
6 2 (3.23%) Embedded C
6 2 (3.23%) Embedded C++
6 2 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (27.42%) Security Cleared
2 13 (20.97%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.68%) Degree
4 2 (3.23%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.61%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.68%) Data Quality
1 6 (9.68%) QA
2 2 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.61%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (12.90%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.23%) Firmware
2 2 (3.23%) Squid
2 2 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (8.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (4.84%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (3.23%) Grafana
3 2 (3.23%) HP ALM
3 2 (3.23%) Kibana
3 2 (3.23%) Rundeck
4 1 (1.61%) Ansible
4 1 (1.61%) Packer
4 1 (1.61%) Puppet
4 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (17.74%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.29%) ServiceNow
3 6 (9.68%) Atlassian
3 6 (9.68%) IBM
4 3 (4.84%) HP
4 3 (4.84%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.23%) ANSYS
5 2 (3.23%) CheckPoint
5 2 (3.23%) Databricks
5 2 (3.23%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.23%) PagerDuty
5 2 (3.23%) Siemens
5 2 (3.23%) Trend Micro
5 2 (3.23%) VMware
6 1 (1.61%) Fiserv
6 1 (1.61%) Ingenico
6 1 (1.61%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.61%) OpenText
6 1 (1.61%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.61%) Serena