JIRA Contract Job Trends in England

Atlassian JIRA
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring JIRA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 41 49
Rank change year-on-year +6 +8 -15
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,678 1,368 1,730
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.83% 4.39% 4.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.00% 32.85% 33.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,216 868 1,161
10th Percentile £319 £318 £360
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.19% -1.30%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £675 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 58 56
10th Percentile £15.74 £37.55 £45.42
25th Percentile £43.00 £60.00 £51.44
Median hourly rate £56.50 £70.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -19.29% +14.29% -4.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £70.00
90th Percentile £85.75 - £75.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% -5.14%

All Development Application Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,416 4,164 5,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.35% 13.36% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,063 2,615 3,684
10th Percentile £325 £350 £375
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £545
% change year-on-year -3.85% -4.59% -1.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 145 226
10th Percentile £36.18 £39.53 £45.88
25th Percentile £50.00 £54.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.04 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JIRA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

JIRA job vacancy trend in England

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing JIRA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing JIRA

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in England over the 6 months to 28 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in England

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing JIRA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing JIRA

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in England over the 6 months to 28 October 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in England

JIRA
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 28 October 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 +10 788 £525 - 560
North of England +8 319 £470 -4.13% 178
Midlands +22 191 £450 -5.66% 119
South East +5 189 £480 +6.67% 558
West Midlands +41 156 £475 -13.64% 58
Yorkshire +5 151 £500 +2.56% 54
North West -1 146 £439 -12.25% 96
South West -7 99 £550 - 143
East of England -9 55 £425 - 84
East Midlands -13 35 £360 -20.88% 58
North East +3 22 £510 +12.33% 29
JIRA
UK

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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
1 746 (44.46%) Confluence
2 95 (5.66%) SharePoint
3 34 (2.03%) nginx
4 31 (1.85%) CMS
5 29 (1.73%) SAS
6 21 (1.25%) Apache
7 14 (0.83%) JBoss
8 13 (0.77%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
10 9 (0.54%) WebSphere
10 9 (0.54%) WordPress
11 7 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
11 7 (0.42%) Drupal
12 6 (0.36%) Mule
13 5 (0.30%) Apache Spark
13 5 (0.30%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 4 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 4 (0.24%) CICS
15 3 (0.18%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 117 (6.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 107 (6.38%) Microsoft Project
3 81 (4.83%) Microsoft Office
4 64 (3.81%) MS Visio
5 61 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 30 (1.79%) Trello
7 12 (0.72%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 6 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
8 6 (0.36%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.24%) Simulink
9 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.24%) Windchill
10 3 (0.18%) Sketch
11 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.12%) Notion
12 1 (0.060%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.060%) Chatbot
12 1 (0.060%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.060%) InDesign
12 1 (0.060%) InVision
Business Applications
1 18 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
3 11 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 8 (0.48%) SAP PM
6 7 (0.42%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
7 6 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
7 6 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.36%) SAP HR
8 4 (0.24%) Endur
8 4 (0.24%) Magento
8 4 (0.24%) Oracle BPM
8 4 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.24%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.24%) SAP PLM
9 3 (0.18%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.18%) Primavera
9 3 (0.18%) Teamcenter
9 3 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 343 (20.44%) Azure
2 301 (17.94%) AWS
3 170 (10.13%) Azure DevOps
4 145 (8.64%) GitHub
5 110 (6.56%) Power Platform
6 88 (5.24%) GCP
7 67 (3.99%) Serverless
8 56 (3.34%) Amazon S3
8 56 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
9 48 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
10 40 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 38 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
12 36 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
13 34 (2.03%) SaaS
14 33 (1.97%) Slack
15 32 (1.91%) Power Automate
15 32 (1.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 29 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
17 28 (1.67%) Entra ID
18 27 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 71 (4.23%) DNS
2 67 (3.99%) Firewall
3 40 (2.38%) SSH
4 39 (2.32%) HTTP
5 32 (1.91%) VPN
6 28 (1.67%) SMTP
7 22 (1.31%) FTP
7 22 (1.31%) SSL
8 18 (1.07%) TCP/IP
9 17 (1.01%) OpenLDAP
10 14 (0.83%) DHCP
11 12 (0.72%) IMAP
12 11 (0.66%) BGP
12 11 (0.66%) Network Security
12 11 (0.66%) WAN
13 9 (0.54%) MPLS
13 9 (0.54%) Unified Communications
14 8 (0.48%) LAN
15 7 (0.42%) IPsec
15 7 (0.42%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (5.78%) Power BI
2 73 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 45 (2.68%) Tableau
4 44 (2.62%) SQL Server
5 34 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
5 34 (2.03%) Relational Database
6 30 (1.79%) NoSQL
7 28 (1.67%) Pentaho
8 26 (1.55%) Oracle Database
9 23 (1.37%) Big Data
10 20 (1.19%) Metadata
11 19 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
11 19 (1.13%) MongoDB
11 19 (1.13%) MySQL
12 18 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
13 17 (1.01%) Hadoop
14 14 (0.83%) BigQuery
15 13 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
16 10 (0.60%) Data Vault
16 10 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 247 (14.72%) Git
2 228 (13.59%) Jenkins
3 98 (5.84%) GitLab
4 68 (4.05%) Selenium
5 67 (3.99%) Bitbucket
6 53 (3.16%) Postman
7 39 (2.32%) Cucumber
7 39 (2.32%) Sonatype Nexus
8 35 (2.09%) JUnit
9 33 (1.97%) SonarQube
10 28 (1.67%) SoapUI
11 27 (1.61%) Maven
12 26 (1.55%) Vagrant
13 25 (1.49%) TestRail
14 24 (1.43%) Zephyr
15 21 (1.25%) Cypress.io
16 20 (1.19%) TeamCity
17 19 (1.13%) Artifactory
17 19 (1.13%) SpecFlow
18 17 (1.01%) Subversion
General
1 689 (41.06%) Social Skills
2 399 (23.78%) Finance
3 264 (15.73%) Analytical Skills
4 203 (12.10%) Banking
5 162 (9.65%) Public Sector
6 56 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
7 53 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
8 48 (2.86%) Retail
9 40 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
10 32 (1.91%) Front Office
11 31 (1.85%) Legal
12 28 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
12 28 (1.67%) Investment Banking
13 24 (1.43%) Manufacturing
14 22 (1.31%) Marketing
15 18 (1.07%) Telecoms
16 16 (0.95%) Back Office
17 15 (0.89%) Military
18 12 (0.72%) Automotive
18 12 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 292 (17.40%) Analyst
2 217 (12.93%) Developer
3 171 (10.19%) Business Analyst
4 146 (8.70%) Project Manager
5 132 (7.87%) Senior
6 114 (6.79%) Lead
7 86 (5.13%) Architect
8 65 (3.87%) Tester
9 57 (3.40%) DevOps Engineer
10 53 (3.16%) Test Analyst
11 51 (3.04%) Administrator
12 49 (2.92%) Consultant
13 44 (2.62%) Solutions Architect
14 42 (2.50%) Delivery Manager
14 42 (2.50%) Product Owner
15 37 (2.21%) AWS Engineer
16 35 (2.09%) Technical Analyst
17 34 (2.03%) Data Engineer
18 33 (1.97%) Software Engineer
19 32 (1.91%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (10.01%) REST
2 97 (5.78%) SOAP
3 86 (5.13%) AngularJS
4 79 (4.71%) .NET
5 77 (4.59%) React
6 76 (4.53%) HTML
7 61 (3.64%) RESTful
8 58 (3.46%) CSS
9 55 (3.28%) Kafka
10 50 (2.98%) Spring Boot
11 47 (2.80%) JSON
12 46 (2.74%) Spring
13 45 (2.68%) XML
14 44 (2.62%) Web Services
15 38 (2.26%) LDAP
15 38 (2.26%) Node.js
16 36 (2.15%) Playwright
16 36 (2.15%) RabbitMQ
17 27 (1.61%) HTML5
17 27 (1.61%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 155 (9.24%) Product Ownership
2 65 (3.87%) Onboarding
3 46 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
4 42 (2.50%) Cloud Native
5 41 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
6 38 (2.26%) Management Information System
7 35 (2.09%) Data Structures
8 30 (1.79%) Replication
9 28 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
10 25 (1.49%) CMDB
10 25 (1.49%) Mobile App
11 23 (1.37%) Data Centre
11 23 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
11 23 (1.37%) PMI
12 21 (1.25%) Algorithms
12 21 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (1.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 19 (1.13%) SCADA
15 18 (1.07%) PKI
15 18 (1.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 133 (7.93%) Windows
2 122 (7.27%) Linux
3 50 (2.98%) Unix
4 32 (1.91%) VMS
5 24 (1.43%) Amazon Linux
6 18 (1.07%) Ubuntu
7 16 (0.95%) Android
8 15 (0.89%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.72%) Apple iOS
9 12 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 10 (0.60%) CentOS
10 10 (0.60%) Windows Server
11 8 (0.48%) Windows 10
12 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.18%) zOS
14 2 (0.12%) Debian
14 2 (0.12%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.12%) Solaris
14 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,015 (60.49%) Agile
2 491 (29.26%) DevOps
3 418 (24.91%) Scrum
4 410 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
5 345 (20.56%) CI/CD
6 319 (19.01%) Stakeholder Management
7 261 (15.55%) Project Management
8 257 (15.32%) Test Automation
9 218 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 214 (12.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 191 (11.38%) Migration
12 176 (10.49%) Microservices
13 173 (10.31%) User Stories
14 166 (9.89%) Change Management
15 160 (9.54%) User Acceptance Testing
16 136 (8.10%) SDLC
17 134 (7.99%) Project Delivery
18 133 (7.93%) Roadmaps
19 131 (7.81%) Analytics
19 131 (7.81%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 275 (16.39%) SQL
2 265 (15.79%) Python
3 176 (10.49%) Java
4 147 (8.76%) JavaScript
5 86 (5.13%) PowerShell
6 76 (4.53%) C#
7 61 (3.64%) TypeScript
8 47 (2.80%) Bash
9 38 (2.26%) Go
10 37 (2.21%) Groovy
11 27 (1.61%) Shell Script
12 26 (1.55%) Perl
13 23 (1.37%) C++
14 16 (0.95%) Apex Code
15 13 (0.77%) PHP
16 10 (0.60%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.60%) PL/SQL
17 9 (0.54%) Ruby
18 8 (0.48%) Korn
19 6 (0.36%) VB
Qualifications
1 378 (22.53%) Security Cleared
2 338 (20.14%) SC Cleared
3 236 (14.06%) Degree
4 76 (4.53%) PMI Certification
5 64 (3.81%) PMP
6 57 (3.40%) CISSP
6 57 (3.40%) Computer Science Degree
7 41 (2.44%) CISM
7 41 (2.44%) ISTQB
8 40 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 35 (2.09%) DV Cleared
10 27 (1.61%) AWS Certification
11 18 (1.07%) Azure Certification
12 15 (0.89%) CBAP
12 15 (0.89%) Master's Degree
12 15 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
14 12 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
15 11 (0.66%) CISA
15 11 (0.66%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (11.26%) QA
2 64 (3.81%) PMO
3 63 (3.75%) GDPR
4 59 (3.52%) Data Quality
5 47 (2.80%) Accessibility
6 45 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 37 (2.21%) NIST
8 22 (1.31%) PCI DSS
9 21 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 19 (1.13%) SEPA
11 18 (1.07%) ISO 20022
12 14 (0.83%) COBIT
12 14 (0.83%) PSD2
12 14 (0.83%) WCAG
13 12 (0.72%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 7 (0.42%) SLA
16 6 (0.36%) MiFID
16 6 (0.36%) NCSC
17 5 (0.30%) GRC
System Software
1 186 (11.08%) Docker
2 60 (3.58%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.31%) DFS Replication
5 16 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (0.77%) Hyper-V
8 12 (0.72%) Dovecot
8 12 (0.72%) Postfix
8 12 (0.72%) Squid
8 12 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (0.60%) Firmware
10 7 (0.42%) vSphere
11 4 (0.24%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.12%) KVM
13 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.12%) VirtualBox
14 1 (0.060%) Xen
Systems Management
1 158 (9.42%) Kubernetes
2 109 (6.50%) Terraform
3 93 (5.54%) Ansible
4 52 (3.10%) Grafana
5 47 (2.80%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (1.55%) HP ALM
8 24 (1.43%) Nessus
9 18 (1.07%) Puppet
10 17 (1.01%) Control-M
11 15 (0.89%) Packer
12 14 (0.83%) Consul
12 14 (0.83%) NetBackup
13 13 (0.77%) Progress Chef
13 13 (0.77%) SCCM
14 11 (0.66%) IBM Guardium
15 10 (0.60%) Proxmox
15 10 (0.60%) RSA Archer
16 9 (0.54%) Tivoli
17 8 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 245 (14.60%) Microsoft
2 203 (12.10%) ServiceNow
3 127 (7.57%) Oracle
4 78 (4.65%) Salesforce
5 75 (4.47%) Atlassian
6 59 (3.52%) SAP
7 51 (3.04%) Google
8 44 (2.62%) HP
9 35 (2.09%) VMware
10 34 (2.03%) IBM
11 33 (1.97%) Cisco
12 29 (1.73%) Splunk
13 28 (1.67%) Talend
14 27 (1.61%) CyberArk
14 27 (1.61%) Denodo
15 21 (1.25%) Red Hat
15 21 (1.25%) Remedy
16 18 (1.07%) CheckPoint
16 18 (1.07%) Cloudera
16 18 (1.07%) Tenable