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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 36 46
Rank change year-on-year -3 +10 +2
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,070 1,330 1,416
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.82% 5.38% 3.78%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.88% 38.17% 31.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,424 892 938
10th Percentile £318 £325 £324
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -4.76% -1.41%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £623
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -2.50% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 27 94
10th Percentile £18.75 £47.30 £25.08
25th Percentile £22.96 £50.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £68.50 £70.08 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £78.00 -
UK median hourly rate £52.75 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -4.09% -8.33% -1.64%

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 5,063 3,484 4,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.79% 14.08% 11.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,296 2,364 2,973
10th Percentile £350 £334 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £716 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 70 226
10th Percentile £31.12 £27.35 £32.36
25th Percentile £59.00 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £59.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.45% -8.46% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.30 £75.13
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +5.26%

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 17 June 2026.

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 17 June 2026.

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 17 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
London +1 938 £513 -1.44% 163
North of England -2 411 £450 - 193
Midlands +2 317 £450 -5.26% 122
West Midlands +2 257 £459 -3.37% 62
Yorkshire -3 219 £475 -5.00% 74
South East -23 200 £459 -4.38% 236
North West -5 173 £443 +5.48% 84
South West -3 118 £490 -14.78% 86
East of England -4 60 £588 +30.56% 131
East Midlands +7 58 £393 -12.37% 60
North East -26 23 £475 -12.64% 37
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
1 920 (44.44%) Confluence
2 111 (5.36%) SharePoint
3 39 (1.88%) SAS
4 34 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.72%) Apache
6 12 (0.58%) CMS
6 12 (0.58%) nginx
7 9 (0.43%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.29%) Ethereum
8 6 (0.29%) Hyperledger
8 6 (0.29%) Mattermost
9 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.19%) IIS
10 4 (0.19%) JBoss
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
11 3 (0.14%) Kentico
Applications
1 160 (7.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 153 (7.39%) Microsoft Project
3 86 (4.15%) MS Visio
4 81 (3.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 63 (3.04%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.58%) Trello
7 10 (0.48%) Chatbot
8 9 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
9 8 (0.39%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.39%) Revit
10 4 (0.19%) Notion
11 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.048%) CANalyzer
11 1 (0.048%) CATIA
11 1 (0.048%) Mingle
11 1 (0.048%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.048%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 29 (1.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 28 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.53%) Loan IQ
5 9 (0.43%) Aladdin
5 9 (0.43%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.39%) Findur
6 8 (0.39%) SAP MDG
7 7 (0.34%) Fidessa
7 7 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.24%) SAP Retail
8 5 (0.24%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.19%) Actimize
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
9 4 (0.19%) Summit
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 458 (22.13%) Azure
2 344 (16.62%) AWS
3 259 (12.51%) Azure DevOps
4 157 (7.58%) GitHub
5 154 (7.44%) Power Platform
6 89 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
7 79 (3.82%) Entra ID
8 78 (3.77%) GCP
9 77 (3.72%) SaaS
10 71 (3.43%) Amazon S3
11 70 (3.38%) Serverless
12 54 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
12 54 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
13 53 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 50 (2.42%) Amazon EC2
15 37 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 32 (1.55%) Slack
17 27 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
17 27 (1.30%) Miro
18 25 (1.21%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 77 (3.72%) Firewall
2 56 (2.71%) DNS
3 44 (2.13%) TCP/IP
4 34 (1.64%) Network Security
5 30 (1.45%) LAN
6 28 (1.35%) WAN
7 27 (1.30%) VPN
8 24 (1.16%) BIG-IP
9 23 (1.11%) DHCP
10 19 (0.92%) SAN
10 19 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
11 18 (0.87%) SSL
12 14 (0.68%) HTTP
13 12 (0.58%) SD-WAN
14 11 (0.53%) Internet
15 10 (0.48%) Unified Communications
16 9 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 8 (0.39%) Ethernet
17 8 (0.39%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 8 (0.39%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (6.57%) Power BI
2 93 (4.49%) Data Warehouse
3 75 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
4 53 (2.56%) SQL Server
5 47 (2.27%) Tableau
6 45 (2.17%) Oracle Reports
7 35 (1.69%) MongoDB
8 30 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
9 27 (1.30%) Relational Database
10 26 (1.26%) DynamoDB
10 26 (1.26%) NoSQL
11 24 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
12 19 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
13 18 (0.87%) Pentaho
14 16 (0.77%) Oracle Database
14 16 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 15 (0.72%) BusinessObjects
16 14 (0.68%) Data Lake
17 12 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
18 11 (0.53%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 249 (12.03%) Git
2 190 (9.18%) Jenkins
3 121 (5.85%) GitLab
4 91 (4.40%) Selenium
5 69 (3.33%) Zephyr
6 68 (3.29%) Postman
7 54 (2.61%) Bitbucket
7 54 (2.61%) JUnit
8 47 (2.27%) Cucumber
9 39 (1.88%) JMeter
10 32 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
11 24 (1.16%) REST Assured
12 21 (1.01%) Cypress.io
12 21 (1.01%) WebDriver
13 20 (0.97%) SonarQube
13 20 (0.97%) TestRail
14 18 (0.87%) Artifactory
15 14 (0.68%) Appium
16 12 (0.58%) Maven
17 11 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 800 (38.65%) Social Skills
2 600 (28.99%) Finance
3 378 (18.26%) Analytical Skills
4 268 (12.95%) Banking
5 213 (10.29%) Public Sector
6 79 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
7 74 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
8 73 (3.53%) Retail
9 43 (2.08%) Legal
10 38 (1.84%) Manufacturing
11 37 (1.79%) Investment Banking
12 33 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
12 33 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
13 31 (1.50%) Retail Banking
14 30 (1.45%) Front Office
15 28 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 24 (1.16%) Military
17 21 (1.01%) Telecoms
18 20 (0.97%) Corporate Banking
19 19 (0.92%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 403 (19.47%) Analyst
2 253 (12.22%) Business Analyst
3 195 (9.42%) Developer
4 172 (8.31%) Lead
5 167 (8.07%) Senior
6 116 (5.60%) Project Manager
7 96 (4.64%) Architect
8 89 (4.30%) Delivery Manager
9 87 (4.20%) Tester
10 77 (3.72%) Scrum Master
11 76 (3.67%) Data Engineer
12 69 (3.33%) Consultant
13 64 (3.09%) IT Support
14 54 (2.61%) Support Engineer
15 42 (2.03%) IT Engineer
15 42 (2.03%) Product Owner
15 42 (2.03%) Test Analyst
15 42 (2.03%) Test Engineer
16 41 (1.98%) IT Support Engineer
16 41 (1.98%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (4.88%) REST
2 62 (3.00%) Spring
3 56 (2.71%) React
4 55 (2.66%) .NET
5 48 (2.32%) HTML
5 48 (2.32%) JSON
5 48 (2.32%) RESTful
6 44 (2.13%) Kafka
7 40 (1.93%) Spring Boot
8 38 (1.84%) SOAP
9 37 (1.79%) CSS
10 31 (1.50%) AngularJS
11 30 (1.45%) Playwright
12 27 (1.30%) XML
13 24 (1.16%) Middleware
13 24 (1.16%) OpenID
14 23 (1.11%) .NET Framework
14 23 (1.11%) ADO
14 23 (1.11%) Node.js
14 23 (1.11%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 236 (11.40%) Product Ownership
2 117 (5.65%) Onboarding
3 87 (4.20%) Cloud Native
4 60 (2.90%) Data Centre
5 52 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
6 47 (2.27%) Management Information System
6 47 (2.27%) Virtual Team
7 43 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
8 42 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
9 40 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
10 31 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
11 30 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
12 27 (1.30%) Data Structures
13 21 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 18 (0.87%) Public Cloud
14 18 (0.87%) SCADA
15 17 (0.82%) PMI
16 16 (0.77%) Mobile App
17 15 (0.72%) Derivative
17 15 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 169 (8.16%) Windows
2 131 (6.33%) Linux
3 42 (2.03%) Unix
4 18 (0.87%) Apple iOS
4 18 (0.87%) Windows 10
5 17 (0.82%) Mac OS
6 16 (0.77%) Android
7 14 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.48%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.14%) AIX
11 3 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.097%) MVS
12 2 (0.097%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.048%) Check Point GAiA
13 1 (0.048%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.048%) Solaris
13 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.048%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,188 (57.39%) Agile
2 538 (25.99%) DevOps
3 530 (25.60%) Stakeholder Management
4 455 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
5 433 (20.92%) CI/CD
6 410 (19.81%) Scrum
7 381 (18.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 344 (16.62%) Test Automation
9 258 (12.46%) Migration
10 243 (11.74%) User Acceptance Testing
11 240 (11.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 239 (11.55%) Project Management
13 222 (10.72%) User Stories
14 215 (10.39%) Validation
15 201 (9.71%) Change Management
16 191 (9.23%) Sprint Planning
17 189 (9.13%) Project Delivery
18 181 (8.74%) SDLC
19 180 (8.70%) AI
19 180 (8.70%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 333 (16.09%) SQL
2 243 (11.74%) Python
3 167 (8.07%) Java
4 84 (4.06%) C#
5 83 (4.01%) JavaScript
6 65 (3.14%) TypeScript
7 58 (2.80%) PowerShell
8 41 (1.98%) Bash
9 31 (1.50%) PL/SQL
10 20 (0.97%) C++
11 18 (0.87%) VBA
12 16 (0.77%) Shell Script
13 15 (0.72%) Apex Code
13 15 (0.72%) Perl
14 11 (0.53%) Groovy
15 10 (0.48%) ActionScript
15 10 (0.48%) Bicep
15 10 (0.48%) C
16 9 (0.43%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 535 (25.85%) Security Cleared
2 421 (20.34%) SC Cleared
3 184 (8.89%) Degree
4 75 (3.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 67 (3.24%) ISTQB
6 65 (3.14%) PMI Certification
7 61 (2.95%) DV Cleared
8 58 (2.80%) PMP
9 31 (1.50%) CISSP
9 31 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
11 25 (1.21%) Master's Degree
12 22 (1.06%) AWS Certification
12 22 (1.06%) CISM
13 20 (0.97%) Azure Certification
13 20 (0.97%) SAFe Agilist
14 17 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
15 16 (0.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 14 (0.68%) IIBA
17 13 (0.63%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (11.98%) QA
2 119 (5.75%) Data Quality
3 106 (5.12%) PMO
4 54 (2.61%) Accessibility
5 45 (2.17%) GDPR
6 40 (1.93%) SLA
7 26 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (1.26%) NIST
8 20 (0.97%) GRC
8 20 (0.97%) WCAG
9 17 (0.82%) PCI DSS
10 15 (0.72%) NCSC
11 9 (0.43%) ISO 20022
12 8 (0.39%) Basel III
12 8 (0.39%) PSD2
13 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.34%) MiFID
13 7 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.29%) JSP 440
System Software
1 145 (7.00%) Docker
2 108 (5.22%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.82%) Firmware
5 10 (0.48%) Squid
6 9 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.19%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.14%) HDFS
11 2 (0.097%) Postfix
11 2 (0.097%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.048%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.048%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.048%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 161 (7.78%) Kubernetes
2 139 (6.71%) Terraform
3 88 (4.25%) Ansible
4 66 (3.19%) Grafana
5 53 (2.56%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
8 21 (1.01%) Control-M
9 19 (0.92%) HP ALM
10 17 (0.82%) Nessus
11 16 (0.77%) IBM Guardium
12 14 (0.68%) Puppet
13 13 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
14 12 (0.58%) Consul
15 10 (0.48%) HP Quality Center
16 8 (0.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 8 (0.39%) Dell DRAC
16 8 (0.39%) FortiGate
16 8 (0.39%) SCCM
17 7 (0.34%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 276 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 255 (12.32%) ServiceNow
3 165 (7.97%) Oracle
4 101 (4.88%) Salesforce
5 92 (4.44%) Atlassian
6 77 (3.72%) SAP
7 54 (2.61%) Google
8 38 (1.84%) Denodo
9 36 (1.74%) Remedy
9 36 (1.74%) Workday
10 32 (1.55%) F5
10 32 (1.55%) Informatica
10 32 (1.55%) Talend
11 30 (1.45%) IBM
12 29 (1.40%) Red Hat
13 27 (1.30%) VMware
14 26 (1.26%) Databricks
15 24 (1.16%) MuleSoft
15 24 (1.16%) Splunk
16 22 (1.06%) Tenable