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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 50 53
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -17
Contract jobs citing JIRA 61 33 56
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.74% 3.43% 2.96%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.66% 39.29% 37.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 19 28
10th Percentile £188 £250 £354
25th Percentile £313 £399 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £578 £559
90th Percentile £745 £630 £644
England median daily rate £485 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 9
10th Percentile £69.00 - -
25th Percentile - - £45.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £60.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.25 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +8.26% -4.17% -10.03%

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 176 84 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 7.90% 8.72% 7.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 48 53
10th Percentile £318 £319 £350
25th Percentile £425 £411 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £476 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.99% +0.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £616 £561 £550
90th Percentile £691 £625 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £531
% change year-on-year - -5.84% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 12 52
10th Percentile £61.25 £30.57 £51.38
25th Percentile £65.00 £58.44 £58.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +0.38% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £77.19 £75.25
90th Percentile - £87.50 £90.00
England median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -6 24 £350 -12.39% 13
Cambridgeshire +7 11 £600 +28.00% 16
Suffolk - 11 £700 - 3
Essex -8 7 £300 -18.64% 3
Norfolk - 6 £200 - 1
Bedfordshire -14 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 20 (32.79%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (9.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.64%) CATIA
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.64%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.64%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.64%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 6 (9.84%) Azure
1 6 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (8.20%) Power Platform
3 4 (6.56%) AWS
3 4 (6.56%) SaaS
4 3 (4.92%) GitHub
4 3 (4.92%) Miro
5 2 (3.28%) Apigee
5 2 (3.28%) Boomi
5 2 (3.28%) Sauce Labs
5 2 (3.28%) TestFlight
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.64%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.64%) Datadog
6 1 (1.64%) Google Ads
6 1 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) DNS
1 1 (1.64%) Firewall
1 1 (1.64%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.20%) Power BI
2 2 (3.28%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 15 (24.59%) Git
2 8 (13.11%) PVCS
2 8 (13.11%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (6.56%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.92%) Selenium
5 2 (3.28%) Android Studio
5 2 (3.28%) Appium
5 2 (3.28%) Cypress.io
5 2 (3.28%) MSTest
5 2 (3.28%) Postman
5 2 (3.28%) Rational Rhapsody
5 2 (3.28%) Sourcetree
5 2 (3.28%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (3.28%) Xcode
6 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.64%) GitLab
6 1 (1.64%) Hudson
6 1 (1.64%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (1.64%) Serenity BDD
General
1 24 (39.34%) Social Skills
2 8 (13.11%) Electronics
3 7 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.56%) Finance
5 3 (4.92%) Banking
5 3 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.92%) Retail
6 2 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.28%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.64%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.64%) Law
7 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (27.87%) Software Engineer
2 8 (13.11%) C++ Software Engineer
3 7 (11.48%) C Software Engineer
3 7 (11.48%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
3 7 (11.48%) C/C++ Software Engineer
3 7 (11.48%) Embedded C Engineer
3 7 (11.48%) Embedded C Software Engineer
3 7 (11.48%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
3 7 (11.48%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
3 7 (11.48%) Embedded C++ Engineer
3 7 (11.48%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
3 7 (11.48%) Embedded Engineer
3 7 (11.48%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 6 (9.84%) Developer
4 6 (9.84%) Tester
5 5 (8.20%) Analyst
5 5 (8.20%) IT Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) IT Support Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Manual Tester
5 5 (8.20%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.03%) React
2 2 (3.28%) ADO
2 2 (3.28%) pytest
3 1 (1.64%) .NET
3 1 (1.64%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.64%) Middleware
3 1 (1.64%) Node.js
3 1 (1.64%) WCF
3 1 (1.64%) Web Services
3 1 (1.64%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 15 (24.59%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.56%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (4.92%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.64%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.64%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.64%) Hackathon
5 1 (1.64%) IoT
5 1 (1.64%) PMI
5 1 (1.64%) Robotics
5 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.39%) Windows
2 5 (8.20%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.28%) Android
3 2 (3.28%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (50.82%) Agile
2 18 (29.51%) Software Engineering
3 11 (18.03%) DevOps
3 11 (18.03%) Test Automation
4 9 (14.75%) Workflow
5 8 (13.11%) Code Coverage
5 8 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (13.11%) Project Management
5 8 (13.11%) Requirements Analysis
5 8 (13.11%) Test Scripting
5 8 (13.11%) Unit Testing
6 7 (11.48%) AI
6 7 (11.48%) Front End Development
6 7 (11.48%) Manual Testing
6 7 (11.48%) SDLC
7 6 (9.84%) ITIL
7 6 (9.84%) Scrum
7 6 (9.84%) Sprint Review
7 6 (9.84%) User Stories
7 6 (9.84%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.03%) TypeScript
2 10 (16.39%) C++
3 8 (13.11%) C
4 7 (11.48%) Embedded C
4 7 (11.48%) Embedded C++
5 6 (9.84%) Java
5 6 (9.84%) SQL
6 5 (8.20%) Python
7 3 (4.92%) C#
7 3 (4.92%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.92%) VBA
8 2 (3.28%) Groovy
8 2 (3.28%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.64%) Bash
9 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (24.59%) Security Cleared
2 12 (19.67%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.48%) Degree
4 2 (3.28%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.64%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.48%) QA
2 5 (8.20%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.64%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (13.11%) Virtual Machines
1 8 (13.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (9.84%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.28%) Firmware
4 1 (1.64%) Squid
Systems Management
1 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (4.92%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (3.28%) Control-M
3 2 (3.28%) Grafana
3 2 (3.28%) HP ALM
3 2 (3.28%) Kibana
3 2 (3.28%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 10 (16.39%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.11%) ANSYS
2 8 (13.11%) IBM
2 8 (13.11%) VMware
3 6 (9.84%) Atlassian
4 4 (6.56%) Salesforce
4 4 (6.56%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.92%) HP
6 2 (3.28%) BMC
6 2 (3.28%) Databricks
6 2 (3.28%) Dell
6 2 (3.28%) Dynatrace
6 2 (3.28%) Siemens
6 2 (3.28%) Talend
7 1 (1.64%) Fiserv
7 1 (1.64%) Ingenico
7 1 (1.64%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.64%) Oracle
7 1 (1.64%) PagerDuty
7 1 (1.64%) Trend Micro