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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 48 41
Rank change year-on-year +7 -7 +5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 91 51 60
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.78% 3.68% 4.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 41.18% 31.68% 40.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 20 27
10th Percentile £279 £225 £306
25th Percentile £360 £250 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £429 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.15% -14.30% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £567 £581
90th Percentile £623 £654 £663
England median daily rate £500 £500 £505
% change year-on-year - -0.99% -5.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 7 7
10th Percentile £19.84 £63.70 £52.82
25th Percentile £22.68 £65.25 £57.35
Median hourly rate £23.18 £67.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.40% +11.67% -15.79%
75th Percentile £45.80 - £62.05
90th Percentile £64.38 £70.20 £65.66
England median hourly rate £58.74 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +6.79% -21.43% +12.00%

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 221 161 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 9.19% 11.61% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 63 47
10th Percentile £328 £250 £285
25th Percentile £403 £403 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% +11.76% -10.53%
75th Percentile £580 £550 £574
90th Percentile £633 £624 £667
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 42 36
10th Percentile £22.68 £62.08 £48.13
25th Percentile £24.19 £65.00 £55.41
Median hourly rate £63.00 £66.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.31% -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.25 -
90th Percentile £75.30 £73.53 £66.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 16 October 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in the East of England

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 16 October 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 +7 53 £525 -2.33% 5
Suffolk - 20 £367 - 3
Cambridgeshire -5 6 £588 +56.67% 8
Bedfordshire +2 5 £510 +15.65%
Essex -18 5 £463 +105.56% 2
Norfolk -3 2 £400 -13.51% 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 27 (29.67%) Confluence
2 1 (1.10%) Apache
2 1 (1.10%) Mendix
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (1.10%) Adobe XD
3 1 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (5.49%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (8.79%) Azure
2 6 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (4.40%) Miro
4 3 (3.30%) AWS
4 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (3.30%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.20%) BlazeMeter
5 2 (2.20%) Figma
5 2 (2.20%) GitHub
5 2 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.10%) AtomSphere
6 1 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.10%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.10%) Boomi
6 1 (1.10%) Datadog
6 1 (1.10%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.10%) GCP
6 1 (1.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 16 (17.58%) IPv6
1 16 (17.58%) Wi-Fi
2 15 (16.48%) Broadband
2 15 (16.48%) IPv4
3 10 (10.99%) Firewall
4 9 (9.89%) 4G
4 9 (9.89%) 5G
4 9 (9.89%) xDSL
5 8 (8.79%) PPP
5 8 (8.79%) TCP/IP
5 8 (8.79%) UPnP
6 7 (7.69%) Wireless
7 6 (6.59%) DNS
8 5 (5.49%) VLAN
9 4 (4.40%) VoIP
10 3 (3.30%) RTP
10 3 (3.30%) tcpdump
10 3 (3.30%) Wireshark
11 2 (2.20%) INAP
11 2 (2.20%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.30%) Power BI
2 2 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.20%) Metadata
2 2 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.20%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.10%) InfluxDB
3 1 (1.10%) MySQL
3 1 (1.10%) Power Query
3 1 (1.10%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (1.10%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 21 (23.08%) GitLab
2 20 (21.98%) Git
3 4 (4.40%) Robot Framework
4 3 (3.30%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.20%) Artifactory
5 2 (2.20%) JMeter
5 2 (2.20%) Locust
5 2 (2.20%) TestCafe
6 1 (1.10%) Gerrit
6 1 (1.10%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (1.10%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 19 (20.88%) Social Skills
2 18 (19.78%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (17.58%) Telecoms
4 13 (14.29%) Manufacturing
5 9 (9.89%) Aerospace
6 8 (8.79%) Finance
7 4 (4.40%) Retail
8 3 (3.30%) Banking
8 3 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.20%) Aviation
9 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.20%) Law
10 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.10%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (21.98%) Administrator
2 19 (20.88%) Technical Administrator
3 13 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (12.09%) Test Engineer
5 7 (7.69%) Broadband Engineer
6 5 (5.49%) Customer Engineer
6 5 (5.49%) Project Engineer
6 5 (5.49%) Project Manager
6 5 (5.49%) Software Testing Engineer
6 5 (5.49%) Technical Engineer
6 5 (5.49%) Testing Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Coordinator
7 4 (4.40%) Lead
7 4 (4.40%) Project Coordinator
8 3 (3.30%) Analyst
8 3 (3.30%) NetApp Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) Senior
8 3 (3.30%) Software Test Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) Test Automation Engineer
9 2 (2.20%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.30%) REST
2 2 (2.20%) React
2 2 (2.20%) Taurus
2 2 (2.20%) Terraform
3 1 (1.10%) Flutter
3 1 (1.10%) Jolokia
3 1 (1.10%) JSON
3 1 (1.10%) LAMP
3 1 (1.10%) LAPP Stack
3 1 (1.10%) LDAP
3 1 (1.10%) OAuth
3 1 (1.10%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.10%) SAML
3 1 (1.10%) SOAP
3 1 (1.10%) Web Services
3 1 (1.10%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.79%) Wiki
2 7 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.59%) Replication
4 5 (5.49%) Embedded Systems
4 5 (5.49%) IoT
5 4 (4.40%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.30%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (3.30%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.20%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.20%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (2.20%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.10%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.10%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.10%) NVMe
8 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.10%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 31 (34.07%) Linux
2 8 (8.79%) VMS
3 7 (7.69%) Windows
4 4 (4.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.30%) Android
5 3 (3.30%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.20%) CentOS
6 2 (2.20%) Check Point GAiA
6 2 (2.20%) Unix
7 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.10%) macOS
7 1 (1.10%) Rocky
7 1 (1.10%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.10%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (43.96%) Agile
2 26 (28.57%) Scrum
3 24 (26.37%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (23.08%) Test Automation
5 19 (20.88%) ERP
6 16 (17.58%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 14 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 12 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (12.09%) Project Management
9 11 (12.09%) Validation
10 10 (10.99%) DevOps
10 10 (10.99%) Project Delivery
10 10 (10.99%) Software Delivery
11 9 (9.89%) Containerisation
11 9 (9.89%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (9.89%) Data Analysis
11 9 (9.89%) Workflow
12 8 (8.79%) Root Cause Analysis
12 8 (8.79%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (27.47%) Python
2 5 (5.49%) SQL
3 3 (3.30%) Bash
3 3 (3.30%) Groovy
4 2 (2.20%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.10%) C
5 1 (1.10%) C++
5 1 (1.10%) Java
5 1 (1.10%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.10%) Perl
5 1 (1.10%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 35 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 27 (29.67%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.69%) Degree
4 6 (6.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.30%) ISTQB
5 3 (3.30%) MOS
6 2 (2.20%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.20%) PMP
7 1 (1.10%) CCNA
7 1 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.10%) CISM
7 1 (1.10%) CISSP
7 1 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.10%) MCSE
7 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.19%) QA
2 7 (7.69%) PMO
3 4 (4.40%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.20%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.20%) GDPR
5 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.10%) NCSC
5 1 (1.10%) NIST
5 1 (1.10%) P3O
5 1 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (10.99%) Docker
2 7 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.59%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (5.49%) Firmware
4 5 (5.49%) vSphere
5 3 (3.30%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.10%) Squid
6 1 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (3.30%) HP ALM
2 2 (2.20%) Ansible
2 2 (2.20%) Puppet
3 1 (1.10%) Grafana
3 1 (1.10%) HAProxy
3 1 (1.10%) Packer
3 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.10%) SnapVault
3 1 (1.10%) vCenter Server
3 1 (1.10%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (26.37%) SAP
2 9 (9.89%) IBM
3 8 (8.79%) VMware
4 7 (7.69%) Microsoft
5 6 (6.59%) NetApp
5 6 (6.59%) ServiceNow
5 6 (6.59%) Veeam
6 5 (5.49%) Remedy
7 3 (3.30%) HP
8 2 (2.20%) Adobe
8 2 (2.20%) Atlassian
8 2 (2.20%) CheckPoint
8 2 (2.20%) Dell
8 2 (2.20%) Dialogic
8 2 (2.20%) Google
8 2 (2.20%) Metaswitch
8 2 (2.20%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.20%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.10%) Alteryx
9 1 (1.10%) SOTI