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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 37 51
Rank change year-on-year -1 +14 -3
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,013 1,277 1,362
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.90% 5.25% 3.74%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.66% 38.14% 31.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,398 833 909
10th Percentile £317 £325 £348
25th Percentile £400 £411 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.78% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £630
90th Percentile £675 £690 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 25 74
10th Percentile £18.75 £46.20 £22.90
25th Percentile £20.69 £50.00 £38.16
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -10.03%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.45 £76.50 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £56.38 £55.00
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -16.47%

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 4,951 3,348 4,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.06% 13.76% 11.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,268 2,254 2,916
10th Percentile £344 £344 £353
25th Percentile £409 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £527
Median % change year-on-year - -5.12% -4.18%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £638
90th Percentile £688 £737 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 63 192
10th Percentile £36.25 £27.59 £31.84
25th Percentile £58.75 £49.00 £54.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.38 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.37 £78.68
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £58.88 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.40% -9.42% +5.69%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -1 889 £510 +2.00% 188
North of England +2 387 £450 - 79
Midlands 0 313 £450 -8.16% 47
West Midlands -5 247 £459 -6.99% 35
Yorkshire -5 204 £455 -9.00% 36
South East -26 194 £472 -3.67% 132
North West -2 166 £447 +5.18% 32
South West +4 139 £550 -2.22% 47
East Midlands +2 63 £393 -18.55% 12
East of England -7 57 £600 +33.33% 36
North East -14 21 £475 -9.52% 11
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
1 902 (44.81%) Confluence
2 107 (5.32%) SharePoint
3 33 (1.64%) SAS
4 28 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (0.89%) Apache
6 14 (0.70%) CMS
7 12 (0.60%) nginx
8 9 (0.45%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.30%) Ethereum
9 6 (0.30%) Hyperledger
9 6 (0.30%) Mattermost
10 5 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.25%) IIS
10 5 (0.25%) JBoss
11 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.20%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.15%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 204 (10.13%) Microsoft Project
2 168 (8.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 88 (4.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 86 (4.27%) MS Visio
5 81 (4.02%) Microsoft Office
6 18 (0.89%) Trello
7 8 (0.40%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.30%) Notion
10 3 (0.15%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.15%) Revit
11 2 (0.099%) CATIA
11 2 (0.099%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.050%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.050%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.050%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.050%) Autodesk Smoke
12 1 (0.050%) InVision
12 1 (0.050%) Mingle
12 1 (0.050%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 27 (1.34%) Remedy ITSM
1 27 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.70%) Loan IQ
4 10 (0.50%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.40%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.40%) SAP MDG
5 8 (0.40%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.30%) Fidessa
6 6 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.25%) Findur
7 5 (0.25%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.25%) SAP Retail
7 5 (0.25%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.20%) SAP FI-AR
9 3 (0.15%) Actimize
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 431 (21.41%) Azure
2 313 (15.55%) AWS
3 239 (11.87%) Azure DevOps
4 147 (7.30%) Power Platform
5 143 (7.10%) GitHub
6 81 (4.02%) GCP
7 80 (3.97%) SaaS
8 78 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
9 77 (3.83%) Entra ID
10 59 (2.93%) Amazon S3
11 52 (2.58%) Serverless
12 49 (2.43%) GitHub Actions
13 43 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
14 40 (1.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 40 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
15 35 (1.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 33 (1.64%) Figma
17 30 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
17 30 (1.49%) Slack
18 26 (1.29%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 67 (3.33%) Firewall
2 47 (2.33%) DNS
3 41 (2.04%) TCP/IP
4 29 (1.44%) LAN
5 28 (1.39%) Network Security
6 26 (1.29%) VPN
6 26 (1.29%) WAN
7 19 (0.94%) DHCP
7 19 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (0.89%) SSL
9 14 (0.70%) HTTP
9 14 (0.70%) SAN
10 13 (0.65%) BIG-IP
11 12 (0.60%) Internet
11 12 (0.60%) SD-WAN
12 10 (0.50%) Ethernet
12 10 (0.50%) Unified Communications
13 9 (0.45%) NAS
14 8 (0.40%) FTP
15 7 (0.35%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (6.56%) Power BI
2 81 (4.02%) Data Warehouse
3 67 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
4 55 (2.73%) SQL Server
5 52 (2.58%) Tableau
6 39 (1.94%) MongoDB
7 37 (1.84%) Oracle Reports
8 28 (1.39%) NoSQL
9 27 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (1.19%) DynamoDB
11 23 (1.14%) Relational Database
12 18 (0.89%) Pentaho
13 16 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
13 16 (0.79%) Big Data
13 16 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (0.75%) MySQL
15 14 (0.70%) BusinessObjects
16 13 (0.65%) Data Lake
16 13 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
16 13 (0.65%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 227 (11.28%) Git
2 176 (8.74%) Jenkins
3 102 (5.07%) GitLab
4 95 (4.72%) Selenium
5 71 (3.53%) Postman
6 59 (2.93%) Zephyr
7 55 (2.73%) Cucumber
8 51 (2.53%) Bitbucket
9 50 (2.48%) JUnit
10 37 (1.84%) JMeter
11 33 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
12 29 (1.44%) REST Assured
13 25 (1.24%) TestRail
14 22 (1.09%) SonarQube
15 21 (1.04%) WebDriver
16 20 (0.99%) Cypress.io
17 16 (0.79%) Appium
18 14 (0.70%) Artifactory
19 13 (0.65%) Maven
20 11 (0.55%) TestNG
General
1 810 (40.24%) Social Skills
2 587 (29.16%) Finance
3 395 (19.62%) Analytical Skills
4 253 (12.57%) Banking
5 216 (10.73%) Public Sector
6 74 (3.68%) Retail
7 69 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
8 66 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
9 48 (2.38%) Military
10 39 (1.94%) Manufacturing
11 38 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
11 38 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
12 37 (1.84%) Legal
13 33 (1.64%) Investment Banking
14 29 (1.44%) Retail Banking
15 25 (1.24%) Front Office
16 20 (0.99%) Corporate Banking
17 19 (0.94%) Financial Institution
17 19 (0.94%) Marketing
17 19 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 394 (19.57%) Analyst
2 249 (12.37%) Business Analyst
3 179 (8.89%) Developer
4 175 (8.69%) Lead
5 164 (8.15%) Senior
6 131 (6.51%) Project Manager
7 102 (5.07%) Architect
8 87 (4.32%) Delivery Manager
9 82 (4.07%) Tester
10 68 (3.38%) Data Engineer
11 66 (3.28%) Scrum Master
12 62 (3.08%) Consultant
13 52 (2.58%) IT Support
14 50 (2.48%) Support Engineer
15 49 (2.43%) Test Engineer
16 46 (2.29%) Test Analyst
17 44 (2.19%) Test Leader
18 43 (2.14%) Technical Manager
19 40 (1.99%) Java Developer
19 40 (1.99%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (5.17%) REST
2 60 (2.98%) Spring
3 57 (2.83%) .NET
4 56 (2.78%) React
5 46 (2.29%) HTML
6 45 (2.24%) Kafka
7 43 (2.14%) JSON
8 41 (2.04%) RESTful
9 40 (1.99%) Spring Boot
10 34 (1.69%) CSS
11 33 (1.64%) SOAP
12 29 (1.44%) AngularJS
12 29 (1.44%) Node.js
12 29 (1.44%) OpenID
12 29 (1.44%) Playwright
12 29 (1.44%) XML
13 28 (1.39%) Middleware
14 27 (1.34%) ADO
14 27 (1.34%) LDAP
15 25 (1.24%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 249 (12.37%) Product Ownership
2 97 (4.82%) Onboarding
3 74 (3.68%) Cloud Native
4 50 (2.48%) Management Information System
5 45 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
6 42 (2.09%) Data Centre
6 42 (2.09%) Virtual Team
7 41 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
8 34 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
9 32 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
10 30 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
11 26 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
12 24 (1.19%) Data Structures
13 21 (1.04%) PMI
14 18 (0.89%) Mobile App
15 17 (0.84%) SCADA
16 16 (0.79%) Public Cloud
17 15 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 14 (0.70%) Operational Technology
19 12 (0.60%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 160 (7.95%) Windows
2 117 (5.81%) Linux
3 35 (1.74%) Unix
4 18 (0.89%) Android
4 18 (0.89%) Windows 10
5 17 (0.84%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.79%) Mac OS
7 11 (0.55%) Windows Server
8 10 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.35%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.15%) AIX
12 2 (0.099%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.099%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.050%) MVS
13 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.050%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,155 (57.38%) Agile
2 506 (25.14%) DevOps
3 505 (25.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 439 (21.81%) Problem-Solving
5 405 (20.12%) Scrum
6 382 (18.98%) CI/CD
7 357 (17.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 318 (15.80%) Test Automation
9 275 (13.66%) Project Management
10 253 (12.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 248 (12.32%) Migration
12 223 (11.08%) User Acceptance Testing
13 214 (10.63%) User Stories
14 199 (9.89%) Change Management
15 188 (9.34%) Project Delivery
15 188 (9.34%) Validation
16 177 (8.79%) Acceptance Criteria
17 176 (8.74%) Sprint Planning
18 174 (8.64%) ITIL
19 170 (8.45%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 306 (15.20%) SQL
2 206 (10.23%) Python
3 182 (9.04%) Java
4 86 (4.27%) JavaScript
5 77 (3.83%) C#
6 59 (2.93%) TypeScript
7 55 (2.73%) PowerShell
8 36 (1.79%) Bash
9 26 (1.29%) C++
10 23 (1.14%) PL/SQL
11 22 (1.09%) Shell Script
12 14 (0.70%) Apex Code
12 14 (0.70%) C
12 14 (0.70%) Perl
12 14 (0.70%) VBA
13 12 (0.60%) Embedded C++
14 10 (0.50%) Groovy
15 8 (0.40%) Embedded C
15 8 (0.40%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 537 (26.68%) Security Cleared
2 414 (20.57%) SC Cleared
3 221 (10.98%) Degree
4 73 (3.63%) PMI Certification
5 71 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 66 (3.28%) PMP
7 63 (3.13%) DV Cleared
8 60 (2.98%) ISTQB
9 33 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
10 28 (1.39%) CISSP
11 25 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
11 25 (1.24%) Master's Degree
12 24 (1.19%) TOGAF Certification
13 21 (1.04%) Azure Certification
13 21 (1.04%) SAFe Agilist
14 20 (0.99%) CBAP
14 20 (0.99%) CISM
14 20 (0.99%) IIBA
15 18 (0.89%) AWS Certification
16 14 (0.70%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 246 (12.22%) QA
2 116 (5.76%) PMO
3 108 (5.37%) Data Quality
4 52 (2.58%) Accessibility
5 46 (2.29%) GDPR
6 33 (1.64%) SLA
7 26 (1.29%) NIST
8 20 (0.99%) WCAG
9 18 (0.89%) GRC
10 16 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 13 (0.65%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.50%) Basel III
12 10 (0.50%) PSD2
13 9 (0.45%) ISO 20022
14 7 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.35%) MiFID
14 7 (0.35%) NCSC
14 7 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.30%) HIPAA
System Software
1 142 (7.05%) Docker
2 104 (5.17%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.75%) Firmware
5 9 (0.45%) Squid
5 9 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.15%) HDFS
10 2 (0.099%) Postfix
10 2 (0.099%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.050%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.050%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.050%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 152 (7.55%) Kubernetes
2 117 (5.81%) Terraform
3 81 (4.02%) Ansible
4 65 (3.23%) Grafana
5 50 (2.48%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (1.24%) HP ALM
8 24 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
9 23 (1.14%) Control-M
10 20 (0.99%) OPNET
11 17 (0.84%) Nessus
12 16 (0.79%) IBM Guardium
12 16 (0.79%) Puppet
13 12 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
14 11 (0.55%) Consul
15 10 (0.50%) HP Quality Center
16 9 (0.45%) SCCM
17 8 (0.40%) FortiGate
18 7 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 7 (0.35%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 249 (12.37%) ServiceNow
2 242 (12.02%) Microsoft
3 162 (8.05%) Oracle
4 112 (5.56%) Atlassian
5 95 (4.72%) Salesforce
6 77 (3.83%) SAP
7 54 (2.68%) Remedy
8 48 (2.38%) Google
9 35 (1.74%) Workday
10 30 (1.49%) Denodo
11 29 (1.44%) Splunk
11 29 (1.44%) Talend
12 27 (1.34%) HP
12 27 (1.34%) IBM
13 26 (1.29%) Databricks
13 26 (1.29%) Informatica
13 26 (1.29%) Red Hat
14 24 (1.19%) VMware
15 23 (1.14%) MuleSoft
16 22 (1.09%) Tenable