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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 36 47
Rank change year-on-year -4 +11 +1
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,106 1,373 1,442
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.85% 5.47% 3.85%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.84% 38.32% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,434 927 959
10th Percentile £319 £326 £321
25th Percentile £400 £410 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £623
90th Percentile £675 £695 £712
UK median daily rate £492 £500 £512
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.30% -2.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 30 97
10th Percentile £18.75 £47.38 £25.15
25th Percentile £24.19 £50.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £53.00 £56.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.78% -13.46% +1.96%
75th Percentile £67.00 £71.17 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.05 £78.88 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -3.61%

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 5,157 3,583 4,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.88% 14.27% 12.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,340 2,434 3,022
10th Percentile £350 £336 £350
25th Percentile £410 £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 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 76 234
10th Percentile £28.97 £27.72 £32.10
25th Percentile £56.25 £49.50 £51.56
Median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -5.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.17% -9.23% +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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -5 960 £514 -1.15% 113
North of England -4 419 £450 -4.05% 83
Midlands +3 313 £450 -5.26% 36
West Midlands +1 255 £459 -3.37% 25
Yorkshire -4 223 £468 -7.15% 35
South East -31 205 £469 -3.79% 119
North West -4 179 £447 +5.18% 42
South West -14 118 £493 -14.35% 46
East of England -4 62 £450 +9.09% 28
East Midlands +12 56 £401 -10.59% 11
North East -31 21 £475 -12.64% 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
1 918 (43.59%) Confluence
2 112 (5.32%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 35 (1.66%) SAS
4 15 (0.71%) Apache
5 12 (0.57%) CMS
5 12 (0.57%) nginx
6 9 (0.43%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.28%) Ethereum
8 6 (0.28%) Hyperledger
8 6 (0.28%) 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
10 4 (0.19%) WordPress
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 162 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 154 (7.31%) Microsoft Project
3 84 (3.99%) MS Visio
4 81 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 62 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.57%) Trello
7 10 (0.47%) Chatbot
8 9 (0.43%) AutoCAD
8 9 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
9 8 (0.38%) Revit
10 4 (0.19%) Notion
11 2 (0.095%) CATIA
12 1 (0.047%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.047%) CANalyzer
12 1 (0.047%) Mingle
12 1 (0.047%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.047%) SOLIDWORKS
12 1 (0.047%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 30 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 13 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.52%) Aladdin
4 11 (0.52%) Loan IQ
5 10 (0.47%) Workday HCM
6 9 (0.43%) Fidessa
7 8 (0.38%) Findur
7 8 (0.38%) SAP MDG
8 7 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.28%) Teamcenter
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
10 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
10 5 (0.24%) SAP Retail
11 4 (0.19%) Actimize
11 4 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
11 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
11 4 (0.19%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 475 (22.55%) Azure
2 346 (16.43%) AWS
3 267 (12.68%) Azure DevOps
4 161 (7.64%) GitHub
5 159 (7.55%) Power Platform
6 91 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
7 82 (3.89%) Entra ID
8 80 (3.80%) SaaS
9 78 (3.70%) GCP
10 75 (3.56%) Amazon S3
11 74 (3.51%) Serverless
12 58 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
13 56 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
14 55 (2.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 52 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
16 37 (1.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 31 (1.47%) Slack
18 28 (1.33%) Miro
19 26 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
19 26 (1.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 86 (4.08%) Firewall
2 58 (2.75%) DNS
3 46 (2.18%) TCP/IP
4 36 (1.71%) Network Security
5 30 (1.42%) LAN
6 29 (1.38%) VPN
6 29 (1.38%) WAN
7 25 (1.19%) BIG-IP
8 24 (1.14%) DHCP
9 22 (1.04%) SAN
10 19 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
11 17 (0.81%) SSL
12 14 (0.66%) HTTP
13 12 (0.57%) SD-WAN
14 11 (0.52%) Internet
15 10 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 10 (0.47%) Unified Communications
16 9 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 8 (0.38%) DKIM
17 8 (0.38%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (6.74%) Power BI
2 97 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
3 74 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (2.37%) SQL Server
5 44 (2.09%) Oracle Reports
6 41 (1.95%) Tableau
7 33 (1.57%) MongoDB
8 32 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
9 27 (1.28%) DynamoDB
9 27 (1.28%) Relational Database
10 25 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
10 25 (1.19%) NoSQL
11 24 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
12 20 (0.95%) Data Lake
13 19 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 18 (0.85%) Pentaho
15 17 (0.81%) Oracle Database
16 14 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
17 12 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
17 12 (0.57%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 248 (11.78%) Git
2 195 (9.26%) Jenkins
3 120 (5.70%) GitLab
4 91 (4.32%) Selenium
5 71 (3.37%) Postman
6 69 (3.28%) Zephyr
7 55 (2.61%) Bitbucket
8 54 (2.56%) JUnit
9 51 (2.42%) Cucumber
10 41 (1.95%) JMeter
11 32 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
12 25 (1.19%) REST Assured
13 22 (1.04%) Cypress.io
13 22 (1.04%) TestRail
14 21 (1.00%) WebDriver
15 20 (0.95%) SonarQube
16 18 (0.85%) Artifactory
17 14 (0.66%) Appium
18 12 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 12 (0.57%) Maven
General
1 819 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 601 (28.54%) Finance
3 377 (17.90%) Analytical Skills
4 272 (12.92%) Banking
5 220 (10.45%) Public Sector
6 80 (3.80%) Retail
7 77 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
8 76 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
9 44 (2.09%) Manufacturing
10 43 (2.04%) Legal
11 38 (1.80%) Investment Banking
12 36 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
13 32 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
14 31 (1.47%) Front Office
15 28 (1.33%) Retail Banking
16 26 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 24 (1.14%) Military
18 21 (1.00%) Telecoms
19 19 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
19 19 (0.90%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 407 (19.33%) Analyst
2 248 (11.78%) Business Analyst
3 195 (9.26%) Developer
4 175 (8.31%) Lead
5 169 (8.02%) Senior
6 119 (5.65%) Project Manager
7 98 (4.65%) Architect
8 89 (4.23%) Delivery Manager
9 87 (4.13%) Tester
10 78 (3.70%) Scrum Master
11 77 (3.66%) Data Engineer
12 76 (3.61%) Consultant
13 65 (3.09%) IT Support
14 55 (2.61%) Support Engineer
15 46 (2.18%) Test Analyst
16 45 (2.14%) Product Owner
17 44 (2.09%) IT Engineer
18 42 (1.99%) IT Support Engineer
19 41 (1.95%) Java Developer
20 40 (1.90%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (5.13%) REST
2 63 (2.99%) Spring
3 55 (2.61%) .NET
4 52 (2.47%) React
5 47 (2.23%) JSON
5 47 (2.23%) RESTful
6 46 (2.18%) HTML
7 43 (2.04%) Kafka
8 41 (1.95%) Spring Boot
9 38 (1.80%) SOAP
10 35 (1.66%) CSS
11 32 (1.52%) Playwright
12 31 (1.47%) AngularJS
13 27 (1.28%) XML
14 26 (1.23%) Middleware
14 26 (1.23%) OpenID
15 24 (1.14%) Node.js
15 24 (1.14%) WireMock
16 23 (1.09%) PySpark
17 22 (1.04%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 234 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 120 (5.70%) Onboarding
3 91 (4.32%) Cloud Native
4 63 (2.99%) Data Centre
5 52 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
6 50 (2.37%) Management Information System
7 49 (2.33%) Virtual Team
8 44 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
9 43 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
10 41 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
11 32 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
12 31 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
13 29 (1.38%) Data Structures
14 20 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 18 (0.85%) Public Cloud
15 18 (0.85%) SCADA
15 18 (0.85%) Security Posture
16 17 (0.81%) Enterprise Storage
16 17 (0.81%) Mobile App
17 15 (0.71%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 168 (7.98%) Windows
2 131 (6.22%) Linux
3 43 (2.04%) Unix
4 19 (0.90%) Apple iOS
4 19 (0.90%) Windows 10
5 17 (0.81%) Mac OS
6 16 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.71%) Android
8 10 (0.47%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.14%) AIX
11 3 (0.14%) Check Point GAiA
11 3 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.095%) MVS
12 2 (0.095%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.047%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.047%) Solaris
13 1 (0.047%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,216 (57.74%) Agile
2 548 (26.02%) Stakeholder Management
3 547 (25.97%) DevOps
4 456 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
5 445 (21.13%) CI/CD
6 411 (19.52%) Scrum
7 394 (18.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 349 (16.57%) Test Automation
9 265 (12.58%) Migration
10 246 (11.68%) User Acceptance Testing
11 240 (11.40%) Project Management
12 234 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 226 (10.73%) Validation
14 219 (10.40%) User Stories
15 207 (9.83%) Change Management
16 195 (9.26%) Project Delivery
17 193 (9.16%) Sprint Planning
18 192 (9.12%) AI
19 189 (8.97%) ITIL
20 187 (8.88%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 343 (16.29%) SQL
2 253 (12.01%) Python
3 169 (8.02%) Java
4 86 (4.08%) C#
5 85 (4.04%) JavaScript
6 64 (3.04%) TypeScript
7 58 (2.75%) PowerShell
8 39 (1.85%) Bash
9 32 (1.52%) PL/SQL
10 19 (0.90%) C++
10 19 (0.90%) VBA
11 15 (0.71%) Perl
11 15 (0.71%) Shell Script
12 14 (0.66%) Apex Code
13 11 (0.52%) ActionScript
13 11 (0.52%) Groovy
14 10 (0.47%) Bicep
15 9 (0.43%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 8 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 533 (25.31%) Security Cleared
2 416 (19.75%) SC Cleared
3 192 (9.12%) Degree
4 75 (3.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 67 (3.18%) ISTQB
6 66 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 63 (2.99%) PMI Certification
8 56 (2.66%) PMP
9 33 (1.57%) CISSP
9 33 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (1.14%) AWS Certification
12 23 (1.09%) Master's Degree
13 21 (1.00%) CISM
14 19 (0.90%) Azure Certification
14 19 (0.90%) SAFe Agilist
15 18 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
16 16 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 13 (0.62%) CCNA
18 11 (0.52%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 251 (11.92%) QA
2 119 (5.65%) Data Quality
3 111 (5.27%) PMO
4 57 (2.71%) Accessibility
5 41 (1.95%) GDPR
6 40 (1.90%) SLA
7 26 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (1.23%) NIST
8 20 (0.95%) WCAG
9 19 (0.90%) GRC
10 17 (0.81%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.71%) NCSC
12 9 (0.43%) ISO 20022
13 8 (0.38%) PSD2
14 7 (0.33%) MiFID
14 7 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.28%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.28%) SEPA
System Software
1 141 (6.70%) Docker
2 111 (5.27%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.76%) Firmware
5 9 (0.43%) Squid
5 9 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.14%) HDFS
10 2 (0.095%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.095%) Postfix
10 2 (0.095%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.047%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.047%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 159 (7.55%) Kubernetes
2 139 (6.60%) Terraform
3 88 (4.18%) Ansible
4 64 (3.04%) Grafana
5 52 (2.47%) Prometheus
6 39 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 21 (1.00%) Control-M
8 21 (1.00%) HP ALM
9 17 (0.81%) Nessus
10 16 (0.76%) IBM Guardium
11 15 (0.71%) Puppet
12 13 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
13 12 (0.57%) Consul
14 10 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 10 (0.47%) HP Quality Center
15 8 (0.38%) Dell DRAC
15 8 (0.38%) FortiGate
15 8 (0.38%) SCCM
16 7 (0.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 287 (13.63%) Microsoft
2 264 (12.54%) ServiceNow
3 167 (7.93%) Oracle
4 104 (4.94%) Salesforce
5 91 (4.32%) Atlassian
6 84 (3.99%) SAP
7 54 (2.56%) Google
8 38 (1.80%) Denodo
9 37 (1.76%) Workday
10 35 (1.66%) Remedy
11 34 (1.61%) Informatica
12 33 (1.57%) F5
12 33 (1.57%) Talend
13 31 (1.47%) IBM
14 30 (1.42%) Databricks
14 30 (1.42%) Red Hat
14 30 (1.42%) VMware
15 23 (1.09%) HP
15 23 (1.09%) Splunk
16 22 (1.04%) MuleSoft