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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 51 60
Rank change year-on-year -4 +9 -27
Contract jobs citing JIRA 62 37 54
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.77% 3.48% 2.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.25% 34.58% 36.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 19 24
10th Percentile £188 £223 £358
25th Percentile £300 £238 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £506
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -18.52% +6.58%
75th Percentile £638 £528 £583
90th Percentile £731 £603 £638
England median daily rate £485 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% -0.94%
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% -24.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £60.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £53.00 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -5.78% -13.46% +1.96%

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 181 107 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 8.08% 10.08% 7.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 54 44
10th Percentile £300 £225 £347
25th Percentile £425 £352 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £464 £480
Median % change year-on-year +7.28% -3.39% -1.79%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £567
90th Percentile £689 £600 £643
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 22 59
10th Percentile £58.33 £30.57 £49.60
25th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £57.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -4.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £86.50 £75.25
England median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.20% -5.77% +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 25 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 25 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 -8 22 £350 -22.22% 14
Cambridgeshire +1 13 £600 +20.00% 6
Suffolk - 9 £700 -
Essex -16 7 £300 +9.09% 5
Norfolk - 7 £200 -
Bedfordshire -7 4 £513 -14.58% 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 (33.87%) 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 9 (14.52%) Azure
2 8 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (9.68%) AWS
3 6 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (8.06%) Miro
4 5 (8.06%) Power Platform
4 5 (8.06%) SaaS
5 3 (4.84%) GitHub
6 2 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.23%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.23%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.23%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (3.23%) Datadog
6 2 (3.23%) Sauce Labs
6 2 (3.23%) Serverless
6 2 (3.23%) TestFlight
6 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 27 (43.55%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.06%) 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%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.23%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.61%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.61%) Law
6 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (16.13%) 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%) Manual Tester
4 4 (6.45%) Project Manager
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%) Developer
5 3 (4.84%) Excel Analyst
5 3 (4.84%) Salesforce Analyst
5 3 (4.84%) Scrum Master
6 2 (3.23%) Business Data Analyst
6 2 (3.23%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
6 2 (3.23%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.52%) 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 15 (24.19%) 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
4 2 (3.23%) Virtual Team
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
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%) Scrum
3 13 (20.97%) Test Automation
4 12 (19.35%) DevOps
5 11 (17.74%) AI
5 11 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (17.74%) Software Engineering
6 9 (14.52%) Project Management
7 8 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (12.90%) Software Delivery
7 8 (12.90%) Sprint Planning
7 8 (12.90%) Validation
8 7 (11.29%) CI/CD
8 7 (11.29%) Front End Development
8 7 (11.29%) ITIL
8 7 (11.29%) SDLC
8 7 (11.29%) Test Scripting
9 6 (9.68%) Data Modelling
9 6 (9.68%) Migration
9 6 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.52%) 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 15 (24.19%) Security Cleared
2 12 (19.35%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.29%) Degree
4 2 (3.23%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.23%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.61%) PMP
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 3 (4.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.23%) Firmware
3 2 (3.23%) Squid
3 2 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
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
4 3 (4.84%) VMware
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
6 1 (1.61%) Adobe
6 1 (1.61%) Fiserv
6 1 (1.61%) Ingenico
6 1 (1.61%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.61%) Oracle
6 1 (1.61%) Red Hat