JIRA Agile Contracts in England

Atlassian JIRA Agile (formerly GreenHopper)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring JIRA Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JIRA Agile over the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 498 547 622
Rank change year-on-year +49 +75 +168
Contract jobs citing JIRA Agile 4 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.015% 0.006% 0.006%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.10% 0.045% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile £371 £374 £388
25th Percentile £386 £391 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £438 £431
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +1.45% -13.75%
75th Percentile £456 £491 £448
90th Percentile £468 £511 £449
UK median daily rate £425 £438 £431
% change year-on-year -2.86% +1.45% -13.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £54.00
Median hourly rate - - £57.99
75th Percentile - - £61.99
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £57.99

All Development Application Skills
England

JIRA Agile 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,892 4,438 6,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.18% 12.41% 13.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,665 2,962 4,576
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £631 £670
90th Percentile £700 £725 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 218 203
10th Percentile £35.70 £31.71 £45.94
25th Percentile £50.00 £51.56 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £83.08 £73.83 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -2.31% +4.00% +13.64%

JIRA Agile
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing JIRA Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA Agile in England

JIRA Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA Agile in England.

Daily rate trend for JIRA Agile in England

JIRA Agile
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA Agile within the England region over the 6 months to 20 July 2025. 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
London +38 2 £405 -7.43%
North West - 1 - - 1
South East - 1 £425 -
North of England - 1 - - 1
JIRA Agile
UK

JIRA Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) eggPlant
2 1 (25.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (25.00%) ScriptRunner
2 1 (25.00%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Avionics
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) ADO
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Kanban
3 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Management
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Groovy
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) SAP