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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 31 44
Rank change year-on-year -14 +13 +8
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,024 1,624 1,409
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.41% 5.85% 4.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.74% 39.58% 32.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,329 1,133 926
10th Percentile £350 £313 £336
25th Percentile £407 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £500 £492 £515
% change year-on-year +1.63% -4.47% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 41 75
10th Percentile £19.25 £47.50 £25.99
25th Percentile £44.86 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £68.00
Median % change year-on-year - -8.09% +8.80%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.83 £85.25 -
UK median hourly rate £60.41 £57.00 £67.75
% change year-on-year +5.97% -15.87% +8.40%

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 5,225 4,103 4,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.38% 14.79% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,326 2,843 2,827
10th Percentile £356 £325 £356
25th Percentile £414 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £630
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 96 174
10th Percentile £36.25 £42.38 £36.40
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.58 £54.09
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.90 £84.13 £71.76
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -12 965 £533 +1.52% 686
North of England -14 368 £475 +2.15% 187
Midlands -8 254 £456 -4.00% 88
West Midlands -9 215 £459 -3.37% 58
South East -36 215 £475 - 188
Yorkshire -4 209 £475 +0.41% 54
North West -42 138 £473 +8.11% 99
South West -4 131 £525 -4.55% 142
East of England -13 55 £543 +35.63% 69
East Midlands -2 38 £409 +13.86% 30
North East -31 28 £550 +4.76% 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
1 894 (44.17%) Confluence
2 109 (5.39%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (1.24%) SAS
5 19 (0.94%) CMS
6 13 (0.64%) Apache
7 9 (0.44%) Camunda
7 9 (0.44%) nginx
8 8 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.25%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.25%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.20%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.20%) IIS
10 4 (0.20%) MTS
10 4 (0.20%) WordPress
11 3 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
11 3 (0.15%) JBoss
11 3 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 139 (6.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 135 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
3 84 (4.15%) MS Visio
4 69 (3.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 66 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
6 21 (1.04%) Trello
7 11 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.49%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.40%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.40%) Revit
10 5 (0.25%) Notion
11 2 (0.099%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.099%) Windchill
12 1 (0.049%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.049%) CATIA
12 1 (0.049%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.049%) Mingle
12 1 (0.049%) Mozilla Thunderbird
12 1 (0.049%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.049%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 33 (1.63%) Remedy ITSM
2 23 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.54%) Aladdin
3 11 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
5 9 (0.44%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.30%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.25%) Fidessa
7 5 (0.25%) Findur
7 5 (0.25%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.25%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.20%) SAP FI-AR
8 4 (0.20%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.15%) CA PPM
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.15%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 504 (24.90%) Azure
2 311 (15.37%) AWS
3 287 (14.18%) Azure DevOps
4 165 (8.15%) Power Platform
5 162 (8.00%) GitHub
6 86 (4.25%) GCP
6 86 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
7 74 (3.66%) SaaS
8 68 (3.36%) Entra ID
8 68 (3.36%) Serverless
9 63 (3.11%) Amazon S3
10 56 (2.77%) GitHub Actions
11 55 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
12 54 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 39 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
14 38 (1.88%) Microsoft Copilot
14 38 (1.88%) Miro
15 33 (1.63%) Smartsheet
16 29 (1.43%) Figma
17 28 (1.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 86 (4.25%) Firewall
2 67 (3.31%) DNS
3 45 (2.22%) TCP/IP
4 33 (1.63%) DHCP
4 33 (1.63%) VPN
5 31 (1.53%) Network Security
6 23 (1.14%) WAN
7 20 (0.99%) SAN
8 18 (0.89%) BIG-IP
8 18 (0.89%) SSL
9 15 (0.74%) LAN
9 15 (0.74%) SD-WAN
10 13 (0.64%) Internet
11 10 (0.49%) SSH
11 10 (0.49%) VLAN
12 9 (0.44%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 9 (0.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 9 (0.44%) HTTP
13 8 (0.40%) DKIM
13 8 (0.40%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (7.21%) Power BI
2 89 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (2.72%) SQL Server
4 54 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
5 37 (1.83%) Oracle Reports
6 28 (1.38%) Relational Database
7 26 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
7 26 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
8 25 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
9 22 (1.09%) Tableau
10 20 (0.99%) DynamoDB
11 19 (0.94%) Data Lake
11 19 (0.94%) MongoDB
12 18 (0.89%) Metadata
12 18 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 17 (0.84%) Oracle Database
14 16 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
14 16 (0.79%) NoSQL
15 15 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 14 (0.69%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 244 (12.06%) Git
2 169 (8.35%) Jenkins
3 110 (5.43%) GitLab
4 82 (4.05%) Selenium
5 76 (3.75%) Zephyr
6 65 (3.21%) Bitbucket
7 60 (2.96%) Postman
8 33 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
9 31 (1.53%) JUnit
10 28 (1.38%) Cucumber
11 26 (1.28%) Cypress.io
12 24 (1.19%) JMeter
13 23 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 22 (1.09%) REST Assured
15 21 (1.04%) TestRail
16 18 (0.89%) Artifactory
17 15 (0.74%) Maven
18 13 (0.64%) Mockito
18 13 (0.64%) WebDriver
19 12 (0.59%) SonarQube
General
1 800 (39.53%) Social Skills
2 605 (29.89%) Finance
3 383 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
4 278 (13.74%) Banking
5 236 (11.66%) Public Sector
6 78 (3.85%) Retail
7 76 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
8 68 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
9 49 (2.42%) Investment Banking
10 45 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
11 36 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 35 (1.73%) Front Office
12 35 (1.73%) Manufacturing
13 34 (1.68%) Legal
14 31 (1.53%) Marketing
15 28 (1.38%) Telecoms
16 26 (1.28%) Retail Banking
17 21 (1.04%) Financial Institution
17 21 (1.04%) Law
18 20 (0.99%) Military
Job Titles
1 357 (17.64%) Analyst
2 224 (11.07%) Business Analyst
3 210 (10.38%) Lead
4 196 (9.68%) Developer
5 176 (8.70%) Senior
6 113 (5.58%) Project Manager
7 84 (4.15%) Consultant
8 83 (4.10%) Delivery Manager
9 78 (3.85%) Scrum Master
10 72 (3.56%) Architect
11 67 (3.31%) Tester
12 55 (2.72%) Data Engineer
13 53 (2.62%) Product Owner
14 50 (2.47%) Support Engineer
15 47 (2.32%) Test Analyst
16 45 (2.22%) Test Leader
17 40 (1.98%) Administrator
17 40 (1.98%) Senior Manager
18 38 (1.88%) IT Support
19 37 (1.83%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (7.41%) Terraform
2 128 (6.32%) REST
3 75 (3.71%) .NET
4 61 (3.01%) HTML
5 56 (2.77%) React
6 47 (2.32%) RESTful
7 44 (2.17%) AngularJS
7 44 (2.17%) JSON
8 43 (2.12%) CSS
8 43 (2.12%) Kafka
9 38 (1.88%) Playwright
10 36 (1.78%) Spring
11 34 (1.68%) SOAP
12 33 (1.63%) XML
13 32 (1.58%) Node.js
14 31 (1.53%) Middleware
15 30 (1.48%) Spring Boot
16 28 (1.38%) Web Services
17 23 (1.14%) .NET Core
18 22 (1.09%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 264 (13.04%) Product Ownership
2 139 (6.87%) Onboarding
3 79 (3.90%) Cloud Native
4 68 (3.36%) Data Centre
5 58 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
6 51 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
7 49 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
8 42 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
9 41 (2.03%) Virtual Team
10 39 (1.93%) Data Structures
11 37 (1.83%) Management Information System
12 32 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
13 23 (1.14%) Credit Risk
13 23 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
14 21 (1.04%) Mobile App
14 21 (1.04%) SCADA
15 18 (0.89%) Derivative
15 18 (0.89%) Replication
16 16 (0.79%) Enterprise Storage
16 16 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 150 (7.41%) Windows
2 121 (5.98%) Linux
3 48 (2.37%) Unix
4 25 (1.24%) Windows 10
5 21 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.89%) Android
7 15 (0.74%) Mac OS
8 12 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.59%) Windows Server
9 9 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.20%) AIX
10 4 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
12 2 (0.099%) MVS
12 2 (0.099%) Solaris
12 2 (0.099%) VMS
12 2 (0.099%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.099%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,217 (60.13%) Agile
2 637 (31.47%) Stakeholder Management
3 563 (27.82%) DevOps
4 439 (21.69%) Problem-Solving
5 427 (21.10%) Scrum
6 423 (20.90%) CI/CD
7 381 (18.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 334 (16.50%) Test Automation
9 290 (14.33%) Migration
10 259 (12.80%) User Acceptance Testing
11 243 (12.01%) User Stories
12 232 (11.46%) Project Management
13 229 (11.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 225 (11.12%) Validation
15 221 (10.92%) AI
16 219 (10.82%) Sprint Planning
17 210 (10.38%) Project Delivery
18 202 (9.98%) SDLC
19 190 (9.39%) Acceptance Criteria
20 177 (8.75%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 341 (16.85%) SQL
2 244 (12.06%) Python
3 128 (6.32%) Java
4 107 (5.29%) JavaScript
5 73 (3.61%) PowerShell
6 68 (3.36%) TypeScript
7 66 (3.26%) C#
8 40 (1.98%) Bash
9 30 (1.48%) PL/SQL
10 20 (0.99%) Groovy
11 17 (0.84%) Bicep
12 16 (0.79%) Apex Code
12 16 (0.79%) C++
12 16 (0.79%) Kotlin
13 14 (0.69%) Perl
14 13 (0.64%) VBA
15 9 (0.44%) ActionScript
15 9 (0.44%) C
16 7 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 7 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 536 (26.48%) Security Cleared
2 412 (20.36%) SC Cleared
3 178 (8.79%) Degree
4 89 (4.40%) DV Cleared
5 78 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 69 (3.41%) ISTQB
7 56 (2.77%) PMI Certification
8 44 (2.17%) PMP
9 29 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 23 (1.14%) AWS Certification
10 23 (1.14%) Azure Certification
11 21 (1.04%) CISSP
12 20 (0.99%) Master's Degree
13 18 (0.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 18 (0.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 17 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
15 16 (0.79%) SAFe Agilist
16 12 (0.59%) IIBA
17 11 (0.54%) CISM
17 11 (0.54%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 261 (12.90%) QA
2 126 (6.23%) PMO
3 118 (5.83%) Data Quality
4 62 (3.06%) Accessibility
5 38 (1.88%) SLA
6 24 (1.19%) WCAG
7 23 (1.14%) GDPR
7 23 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (0.99%) GRC
8 20 (0.99%) NCSC
9 18 (0.89%) NIST
10 12 (0.59%) ISO 20022
11 10 (0.49%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.35%) JSP 440
12 7 (0.35%) SEPA
13 5 (0.25%) COBIT
13 5 (0.25%) GxP
13 5 (0.25%) MiFID
13 5 (0.25%) P3O
13 5 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 117 (5.78%) Docker
2 113 (5.58%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (0.49%) Firmware
6 7 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.20%) Squid
8 2 (0.099%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.099%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.099%) OpenAM
8 2 (0.099%) Postfix
9 1 (0.049%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.049%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.049%) NFS
9 1 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.049%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.049%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 1 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.049%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 115 (5.68%) Kubernetes
2 80 (3.95%) Ansible
3 46 (2.27%) Grafana
4 37 (1.83%) Prometheus
5 34 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
6 25 (1.24%) HP ALM
7 17 (0.84%) Control-M
8 14 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.44%) Nessus
9 9 (0.44%) Packer
10 8 (0.40%) Dell DRAC
10 8 (0.40%) Puppet
11 7 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.35%) Istio
12 6 (0.30%) HP Quality Center
12 6 (0.30%) IBM Guardium
12 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
12 6 (0.30%) SCOM
13 5 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 307 (15.17%) Microsoft
2 251 (12.40%) ServiceNow
3 141 (6.97%) Oracle
4 90 (4.45%) Salesforce
5 87 (4.30%) SAP
6 86 (4.25%) Atlassian
7 59 (2.92%) Google
8 50 (2.47%) IBM
9 43 (2.12%) VMware
10 36 (1.78%) Splunk
11 33 (1.63%) Remedy
12 32 (1.58%) Denodo
13 28 (1.38%) HP
14 26 (1.28%) Talend
15 24 (1.19%) MuleSoft
16 23 (1.14%) Informatica
16 23 (1.14%) Workday
17 22 (1.09%) Adobe
17 22 (1.09%) Databricks
17 22 (1.09%) F5