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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 44 50
Rank change year-on-year +11 +6 -9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,966 1,188 1,451
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.53% 4.63% 3.84%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.53% 34.60% 32.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,407 746 1,012
10th Percentile £313 £313 £341
25th Percentile £400 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £630
90th Percentile £700 £675 £745
UK median daily rate £495 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -1.00% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 21 55
10th Percentile £15.74 £47.00 £23.20
25th Percentile £25.00 £55.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.57 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £71.25 £75.92
UK median hourly rate £63.40 £62.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year +1.44% +36.22% -28.03%

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 4,973 3,434 4,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.00% 13.37% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,408 2,189 3,089
10th Percentile £341 £331 £363
25th Percentile £409 £409 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -5.14% -6.96%
75th Percentile £588 £635 £638
90th Percentile £694 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 60 202
10th Percentile £37.73 £27.38 £37.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.34 £47.19
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £80.00 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%

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 February 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 28 February 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 28 February 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 +8 873 £520 +4.00% 131
North of England +12 353 £450 -5.26% 78
Midlands +10 285 £425 -13.27% 65
West Midlands +6 219 £450 -5.66% 50
South East -6 192 £480 -4.00% 139
Yorkshire -6 191 £480 -5.88% 38
South West +14 164 £575 +0.88% 59
North West +15 149 £431 -4.22% 34
East Midlands +8 64 £358 -26.94% 15
East of England -6 61 £425 - 33
North East -10 13 £375 -16.67% 8
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
1 937 (47.66%) Confluence
2 118 (6.00%) SharePoint
3 42 (2.14%) SAS
4 33 (1.68%) nginx
5 24 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 21 (1.07%) CMS
7 13 (0.66%) Apache
8 10 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.41%) WebLogic
10 7 (0.36%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.31%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.31%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.31%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.25%) Mattermost
13 4 (0.20%) IIS
13 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.15%) Drupal
14 3 (0.15%) SugarCRM
14 3 (0.15%) Traefik
Applications
1 208 (10.58%) Microsoft Project
2 177 (9.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 105 (5.34%) Microsoft Office
4 104 (5.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 78 (3.97%) MS Visio
6 24 (1.22%) Trello
7 6 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.25%) Notion
8 5 (0.25%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.25%) Sketch
9 4 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.15%) InVision
11 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.10%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.10%) CATIA
11 2 (0.10%) InDesign
11 2 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 19 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.86%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
3 11 (0.56%) Workday HCM
4 10 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.51%) Fidessa
4 10 (0.51%) Loan IQ
5 8 (0.41%) Maximo
5 8 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 7 (0.36%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.25%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.20%) Endur
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 4 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.20%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 391 (19.89%) Azure
2 303 (15.41%) AWS
3 209 (10.63%) Azure DevOps
4 176 (8.95%) GitHub
5 137 (6.97%) Power Platform
6 85 (4.32%) GCP
7 78 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
8 59 (3.00%) SaaS
9 54 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
10 48 (2.44%) Entra ID
11 44 (2.24%) Serverless
12 34 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
13 33 (1.68%) Amazon S3
14 31 (1.58%) Figma
14 31 (1.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 29 (1.48%) Amazon EKS
15 29 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
16 27 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
16 27 (1.37%) Slack
17 25 (1.27%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 48 (2.44%) Firewall
2 35 (1.78%) DNS
3 33 (1.68%) TCP/IP
4 29 (1.48%) VPN
5 21 (1.07%) WAN
6 19 (0.97%) LAN
7 18 (0.92%) HTTP
8 15 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (0.71%) Network Security
10 13 (0.66%) SSH
11 10 (0.51%) FTP
11 10 (0.51%) SD-WAN
12 9 (0.46%) DHCP
12 9 (0.46%) Ethernet
13 8 (0.41%) SSL
13 8 (0.41%) Unified Communications
14 7 (0.36%) BIG-IP
14 7 (0.36%) Modbus
14 7 (0.36%) OpenVPN
14 7 (0.36%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (5.85%) Power BI
2 81 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (3.00%) Tableau
4 53 (2.70%) SQL Server
5 51 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
6 38 (1.93%) MongoDB
7 37 (1.88%) NoSQL
8 29 (1.48%) Pentaho
9 24 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
10 23 (1.17%) Oracle Reports
11 21 (1.07%) Oracle Database
12 20 (1.02%) MySQL
12 20 (1.02%) Relational Database
13 19 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
13 19 (0.97%) Metadata
14 18 (0.92%) Big Data
15 13 (0.66%) Data Vault
15 13 (0.66%) Hadoop
16 11 (0.56%) DynamoDB
16 11 (0.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 243 (12.36%) Git
2 232 (11.80%) Jenkins
3 117 (5.95%) GitLab
4 86 (4.37%) Selenium
5 78 (3.97%) Postman
6 65 (3.31%) Cucumber
7 60 (3.05%) Bitbucket
8 49 (2.49%) JUnit
9 42 (2.14%) Zephyr
10 37 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
11 34 (1.73%) JMeter
11 34 (1.73%) REST Assured
12 32 (1.63%) TestRail
13 31 (1.58%) SonarQube
14 20 (1.02%) Maven
15 17 (0.86%) Cypress.io
15 17 (0.86%) SpecFlow
16 15 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 15 (0.76%) WebDriver
17 14 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
General
1 812 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 550 (27.98%) Finance
3 377 (19.18%) Analytical Skills
4 238 (12.11%) Banking
5 204 (10.38%) Public Sector
6 77 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
7 73 (3.71%) Documentation Skills
8 67 (3.41%) Retail
9 54 (2.75%) Military
10 48 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
11 47 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
12 32 (1.63%) Legal
13 30 (1.53%) Investment Banking
13 30 (1.53%) Manufacturing
14 24 (1.22%) Telecoms
15 23 (1.17%) Front Office
16 21 (1.07%) Marketing
17 20 (1.02%) Retail Banking
18 16 (0.81%) Law
19 15 (0.76%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 401 (20.40%) Analyst
2 255 (12.97%) Business Analyst
3 183 (9.31%) Developer
4 152 (7.73%) Lead
5 150 (7.63%) Project Manager
6 133 (6.77%) Senior
7 126 (6.41%) Architect
8 96 (4.88%) Tester
9 57 (2.90%) Consultant
9 57 (2.90%) Delivery Manager
10 52 (2.64%) Data Engineer
10 52 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
11 51 (2.59%) Test Analyst
11 51 (2.59%) Test Engineer
12 46 (2.34%) Technical Analyst
13 45 (2.29%) Scrum Master
14 44 (2.24%) Software Engineer
14 44 (2.24%) Technical Business Analyst
15 41 (2.09%) Technical Manager
16 39 (1.98%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (7.27%) REST
2 61 (3.10%) .NET
3 60 (3.05%) Spring
4 50 (2.54%) Kafka
5 49 (2.49%) XML
6 47 (2.39%) JSON
7 45 (2.29%) HTML
7 45 (2.29%) RESTful
7 45 (2.29%) SOAP
8 43 (2.19%) Playwright
8 43 (2.19%) React
9 40 (2.03%) CSS
9 40 (2.03%) Spring Boot
10 33 (1.68%) Oracle Fusion
11 27 (1.37%) Node.js
11 27 (1.37%) OpenID
12 26 (1.32%) LDAP
13 25 (1.27%) FastAPI
14 24 (1.22%) ADO
14 24 (1.22%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 223 (11.34%) Product Ownership
2 81 (4.12%) Onboarding
3 73 (3.71%) Cloud Native
4 49 (2.49%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
6 39 (1.98%) Virtual Team
7 35 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
8 33 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
10 28 (1.42%) Data Structures
11 27 (1.37%) PMI
12 25 (1.27%) Mobile App
13 23 (1.17%) Public Cloud
14 22 (1.12%) Data Centre
14 22 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
15 19 (0.97%) CMDB
15 19 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
16 15 (0.76%) Security Posture
16 15 (0.76%) Tandem
17 14 (0.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 148 (7.53%) Windows
2 132 (6.71%) Linux
3 35 (1.78%) Unix
4 21 (1.07%) Android
4 21 (1.07%) Windows 10
5 13 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.36%) FreeRTOS
9 7 (0.36%) VMS
10 3 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.10%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.051%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.051%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.051%) Windows Embedded Compact
12 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.051%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,164 (59.21%) Agile
2 539 (27.42%) DevOps
3 495 (25.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 462 (23.50%) Problem-Solving
5 421 (21.41%) Scrum
6 402 (20.45%) CI/CD
7 342 (17.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 312 (15.87%) Test Automation
9 294 (14.95%) Project Management
10 250 (12.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 208 (10.58%) Migration
12 201 (10.22%) User Stories
13 191 (9.72%) User Acceptance Testing
14 190 (9.66%) Project Delivery
15 186 (9.46%) Change Management
16 169 (8.60%) Decision-Making
17 166 (8.44%) Roadmaps
18 165 (8.39%) Analytics
19 164 (8.34%) Acceptance Criteria
20 161 (8.19%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 304 (15.46%) SQL
2 262 (13.33%) Python
3 184 (9.36%) Java
4 101 (5.14%) JavaScript
5 85 (4.32%) C#
6 82 (4.17%) PowerShell
7 53 (2.70%) TypeScript
8 42 (2.14%) Bash
9 33 (1.68%) C++
10 24 (1.22%) Go
10 24 (1.22%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.02%) Embedded C++
12 18 (0.92%) PL/SQL
13 14 (0.71%) C
14 13 (0.66%) PHP
15 11 (0.56%) Perl
15 11 (0.56%) Ruby
16 10 (0.51%) Apex Code
16 10 (0.51%) Embedded C
17 8 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 529 (26.91%) Security Cleared
2 429 (21.82%) SC Cleared
3 262 (13.33%) Degree
4 89 (4.53%) PMI Certification
5 80 (4.07%) PMP
6 66 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 64 (3.26%) ISTQB
8 52 (2.64%) DV Cleared
9 50 (2.54%) CISSP
10 49 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
11 44 (2.24%) TOGAF Certification
12 41 (2.09%) CISM
13 35 (1.78%) Master's Degree
14 29 (1.48%) AWS Certification
15 23 (1.17%) ISEB
16 22 (1.12%) CBAP
17 18 (0.92%) Azure Certification
17 18 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
17 18 (0.92%) IIBA
17 18 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 238 (12.11%) QA
2 116 (5.90%) PMO
3 88 (4.48%) Data Quality
4 50 (2.54%) Accessibility
5 45 (2.29%) GDPR
6 32 (1.63%) NIST
7 26 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 21 (1.07%) SLA
8 21 (1.07%) WCAG
9 15 (0.76%) PSD2
10 13 (0.66%) ISO 20022
10 13 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 12 (0.61%) GRC
12 11 (0.56%) Basel III
12 11 (0.56%) SEPA
13 10 (0.51%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (0.41%) NIST 800
15 7 (0.36%) NCSC
16 6 (0.31%) HIPAA
System Software
1 196 (9.97%) Docker
2 72 (3.66%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.51%) Squid
6 9 (0.46%) Firmware
7 8 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
9 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 4 (0.20%) Postfix
10 4 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.15%) DFS Replication
11 3 (0.15%) HDFS
12 2 (0.10%) Dovecot
12 2 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.051%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.051%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
13 1 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.051%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 197 (10.02%) Kubernetes
2 91 (4.63%) Terraform
3 88 (4.48%) Ansible
4 71 (3.61%) Grafana
5 53 (2.70%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.53%) OPNET
7 29 (1.48%) Control-M
8 25 (1.27%) Nessus
9 24 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
10 23 (1.17%) HP ALM
10 23 (1.17%) IBM Guardium
10 23 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
11 21 (1.07%) Consul
12 18 (0.92%) Puppet
13 16 (0.81%) Packer
14 13 (0.66%) SCCM
15 12 (0.61%) NetBackup
16 10 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
17 7 (0.36%) Argo
17 7 (0.36%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 236 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 214 (10.89%) ServiceNow
3 172 (8.75%) Oracle
4 140 (7.12%) Atlassian
5 105 (5.34%) Salesforce
6 68 (3.46%) SAP
7 51 (2.59%) Remedy
8 44 (2.24%) Google
9 38 (1.93%) IBM
10 35 (1.78%) Talend
11 30 (1.53%) Red Hat
12 29 (1.48%) Workday
13 28 (1.42%) Denodo
13 28 (1.42%) Tenable
14 27 (1.37%) Databricks
14 27 (1.37%) Splunk
15 24 (1.22%) HP
16 23 (1.17%) BiZZdesign
17 20 (1.02%) Adobe
17 20 (1.02%) VMware