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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 31 43
Rank change year-on-year -14 +12 +8
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,041 1,599 1,428
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.41% 5.84% 4.38%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.72% 39.22% 32.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,322 1,130 935
10th Percentile £350 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.78%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £611
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £493 £513
% change year-on-year +1.52% -3.90% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 41 72
10th Percentile £22.68 £46.25 £25.99
25th Percentile £35.31 £50.00 £51.88
Median hourly rate £61.66 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% -10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 -
90th Percentile £87.55 £83.00 -
UK median hourly rate £58.74 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +2.15% -17.86% +12.00%

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 5,271 4,077 4,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.40% 14.90% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,341 2,819 2,812
10th Percentile £355 £325 £353
25th Percentile £415 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £632
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 95 169
10th Percentile £34.79 £44.30 £37.39
25th Percentile £52.29 £54.88 £54.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.00 £81.80 £73.80
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -12 960 £527 +0.38% 1,015
North of England -16 370 £475 +2.04% 248
Midlands -7 259 £463 -2.63% 120
West Midlands -13 223 £469 -1.26% 83
Yorkshire -5 211 £500 +5.26% 78
South East -34 205 £475 - 257
South West -8 137 £525 -4.55% 150
North West -34 136 £447 +1.59% 135
East of England -10 69 £491 +22.75% 138
East Midlands -5 35 £404 +12.40% 37
North East -30 30 £515 -0.96% 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
1 906 (44.39%) Confluence
2 103 (5.05%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (1.22%) SAS
5 19 (0.93%) CMS
6 14 (0.69%) Apache
7 10 (0.49%) Camunda
8 9 (0.44%) nginx
9 7 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
10 6 (0.29%) Apache Spark
11 5 (0.24%) IIS
11 5 (0.24%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.24%) MTS
12 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.20%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.20%) WordPress
13 3 (0.15%) Kentico
13 3 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 143 (7.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
3 81 (3.97%) MS Visio
4 66 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 62 (3.04%) Microsoft Office
6 22 (1.08%) Trello
7 14 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.49%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.39%) Revit
10 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.24%) Notion
12 3 (0.15%) Windchill
13 2 (0.098%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.098%) Mingle
13 2 (0.098%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.049%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 1 (0.049%) CATIA
14 1 (0.049%) Gliffy
14 1 (0.049%) Mozilla Thunderbird
14 1 (0.049%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 34 (1.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 24 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
4 9 (0.44%) Workday HCM
5 8 (0.39%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.24%) Fidessa
7 5 (0.24%) Findur
7 5 (0.24%) ResourceLink
7 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.24%) 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%) Magento
9 3 (0.15%) SAP CRM
9 3 (0.15%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 488 (23.91%) Azure
2 316 (15.48%) AWS
3 273 (13.38%) Azure DevOps
4 166 (8.13%) Power Platform
5 161 (7.89%) GitHub
6 93 (4.56%) GCP
6 93 (4.56%) Microsoft 365
7 73 (3.58%) SaaS
8 64 (3.14%) Serverless
9 62 (3.04%) Entra ID
10 59 (2.89%) Amazon S3
11 55 (2.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 52 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
13 51 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
14 42 (2.06%) Miro
15 40 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
16 39 (1.91%) Microsoft Copilot
17 32 (1.57%) Smartsheet
18 29 (1.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 27 (1.32%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 82 (4.02%) Firewall
2 71 (3.48%) DNS
3 46 (2.25%) TCP/IP
4 35 (1.71%) DHCP
5 32 (1.57%) VPN
6 28 (1.37%) Network Security
7 24 (1.18%) WAN
8 22 (1.08%) BIG-IP
9 18 (0.88%) SSL
10 17 (0.83%) SAN
11 13 (0.64%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 13 (0.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 12 (0.59%) LAN
12 12 (0.59%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.54%) VLAN
13 11 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (0.49%) Internet
14 10 (0.49%) IPv4
14 10 (0.49%) IPv6
14 10 (0.49%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (7.15%) Power BI
2 90 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
3 67 (3.28%) SQL Server
4 61 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
5 40 (1.96%) Oracle Reports
6 38 (1.86%) Relational Database
7 28 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 21 (1.03%) Metadata
10 20 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
10 20 (0.98%) Data Lake
11 19 (0.93%) Oracle Database
11 19 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 17 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (0.83%) MongoDB
12 17 (0.83%) Tableau
13 16 (0.78%) DynamoDB
13 16 (0.78%) NoSQL
13 16 (0.78%) Power Query
14 15 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 257 (12.59%) Git
2 174 (8.53%) Jenkins
3 114 (5.59%) GitLab
4 74 (3.63%) Zephyr
5 73 (3.58%) Selenium
6 64 (3.14%) Bitbucket
7 59 (2.89%) Postman
8 35 (1.71%) JUnit
9 30 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
10 26 (1.27%) Maven
11 25 (1.22%) Cucumber
12 23 (1.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 23 (1.13%) Cypress.io
12 23 (1.13%) JMeter
12 23 (1.13%) REST Assured
13 22 (1.08%) SonarQube
14 21 (1.03%) Mockito
15 20 (0.98%) Artifactory
15 20 (0.98%) TestRail
16 16 (0.78%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 803 (39.34%) Social Skills
2 585 (28.66%) Finance
3 395 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
4 283 (13.87%) Banking
5 235 (11.51%) Public Sector
6 86 (4.21%) Organisational Skills
7 78 (3.82%) Retail
8 65 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
9 50 (2.45%) Investment Banking
10 49 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
11 42 (2.06%) Manufacturing
12 37 (1.81%) Legal
12 37 (1.81%) Telecoms
13 36 (1.76%) Front Office
13 36 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 33 (1.62%) Marketing
15 26 (1.27%) Retail Banking
16 21 (1.03%) Law
16 21 (1.03%) Military
17 20 (0.98%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 352 (17.25%) Analyst
2 216 (10.58%) Lead
3 214 (10.49%) Business Analyst
4 201 (9.85%) Developer
5 181 (8.87%) Senior
6 106 (5.19%) Project Manager
7 86 (4.21%) Delivery Manager
8 82 (4.02%) Scrum Master
9 77 (3.77%) Consultant
10 71 (3.48%) Architect
11 62 (3.04%) Tester
12 54 (2.65%) Data Engineer
13 52 (2.55%) Product Owner
14 48 (2.35%) Administrator
14 48 (2.35%) Support Engineer
15 47 (2.30%) Test Analyst
16 44 (2.16%) Test Leader
17 42 (2.06%) Senior Manager
18 37 (1.81%) Java Developer
19 36 (1.76%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (6.96%) REST
2 140 (6.86%) Terraform
3 76 (3.72%) .NET
4 63 (3.09%) HTML
5 57 (2.79%) RESTful
6 54 (2.65%) AngularJS
6 54 (2.65%) React
7 46 (2.25%) SOAP
8 45 (2.20%) CSS
8 45 (2.20%) JSON
9 43 (2.11%) Kafka
10 42 (2.06%) Spring
11 39 (1.91%) Spring Boot
12 38 (1.86%) Playwright
13 35 (1.71%) Web Services
14 34 (1.67%) XML
15 33 (1.62%) Node.js
16 30 (1.47%) Middleware
17 24 (1.18%) Hibernate
18 23 (1.13%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 274 (13.42%) Product Ownership
2 139 (6.81%) Onboarding
3 90 (4.41%) Cloud Native
4 71 (3.48%) Data Centre
5 62 (3.04%) Enterprise Software
6 55 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
7 52 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
8 46 (2.25%) Virtual Team
9 42 (2.06%) Data Structures
10 40 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
11 33 (1.62%) Management Information System
12 29 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
13 24 (1.18%) Credit Risk
14 22 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
14 22 (1.08%) SCADA
15 20 (0.98%) Mobile App
16 18 (0.88%) Replication
17 17 (0.83%) AI Agents
17 17 (0.83%) Derivative
18 15 (0.73%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 147 (7.20%) Windows
2 128 (6.27%) Linux
3 44 (2.16%) Unix
4 28 (1.37%) Windows 10
5 21 (1.03%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.88%) Android
7 15 (0.73%) Mac OS
7 15 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.73%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.34%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.29%) CentOS
11 5 (0.24%) VMS
12 4 (0.20%) AIX
12 4 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
13 3 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.098%) MVS
14 2 (0.098%) Solaris
14 2 (0.098%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,226 (60.07%) Agile
2 651 (31.90%) Stakeholder Management
3 550 (26.95%) DevOps
4 457 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
5 442 (21.66%) Scrum
6 433 (21.22%) CI/CD
7 387 (18.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 342 (16.76%) Test Automation
9 299 (14.65%) Migration
10 251 (12.30%) User Acceptance Testing
11 248 (12.15%) User Stories
12 237 (11.61%) AI
13 236 (11.56%) Sprint Planning
14 233 (11.42%) Validation
15 229 (11.22%) Project Management
16 221 (10.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 204 (10.00%) SDLC
18 203 (9.95%) Project Delivery
19 187 (9.16%) Acceptance Criteria
20 183 (8.97%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 354 (17.34%) SQL
2 256 (12.54%) Python
3 135 (6.61%) Java
4 104 (5.10%) JavaScript
5 75 (3.67%) TypeScript
6 72 (3.53%) PowerShell
7 65 (3.18%) C#
8 39 (1.91%) Bash
9 34 (1.67%) PL/SQL
10 22 (1.08%) C++
11 21 (1.03%) Groovy
12 15 (0.73%) Apex Code
12 15 (0.73%) Bicep
12 15 (0.73%) C
12 15 (0.73%) Kotlin
13 13 (0.64%) ActionScript
14 12 (0.59%) Perl
14 12 (0.59%) VBA
15 8 (0.39%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 544 (26.65%) Security Cleared
2 420 (20.58%) SC Cleared
3 166 (8.13%) Degree
4 91 (4.46%) DV Cleared
5 89 (4.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 66 (3.23%) ISTQB
7 55 (2.69%) PMI Certification
8 43 (2.11%) PMP
9 29 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
10 24 (1.18%) AWS Certification
11 22 (1.08%) Master's Degree
12 21 (1.03%) Azure Certification
13 18 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 18 (0.88%) CISSP
13 18 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
14 17 (0.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 17 (0.83%) SAFe Agilist
15 13 (0.64%) IIBA
16 11 (0.54%) CISM
16 11 (0.54%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 272 (13.33%) QA
2 126 (6.17%) Data Quality
2 126 (6.17%) PMO
3 61 (2.99%) Accessibility
4 37 (1.81%) SLA
5 24 (1.18%) WCAG
6 21 (1.03%) GDPR
7 20 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (0.98%) NCSC
8 19 (0.93%) GRC
9 16 (0.78%) NIST
10 13 (0.64%) ISO 20022
11 8 (0.39%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.39%) SEPA
12 7 (0.34%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
14 5 (0.24%) COBIT
14 5 (0.24%) MiFID
14 5 (0.24%) P3O
15 4 (0.20%) EMIR
System Software
1 122 (5.98%) Docker
2 110 (5.39%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (0.44%) Firmware
6 7 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.20%) Squid
9 3 (0.15%) vSphere
10 2 (0.098%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.098%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.098%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.098%) Postfix
10 2 (0.098%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.049%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.049%) NFS
11 1 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.049%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.049%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 1 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 110 (5.39%) Kubernetes
2 76 (3.72%) Ansible
3 52 (2.55%) Grafana
4 41 (2.01%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (1.18%) HP ALM
7 15 (0.73%) Control-M
7 15 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.44%) Packer
9 8 (0.39%) Dell DRAC
9 8 (0.39%) Istio
9 8 (0.39%) Puppet
10 7 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.34%) Nessus
10 7 (0.34%) SCCM
10 7 (0.34%) SCOM
11 6 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (0.24%) HP Quality Center
12 5 (0.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 312 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 244 (11.95%) ServiceNow
3 147 (7.20%) Oracle
4 91 (4.46%) SAP
5 88 (4.31%) Salesforce
6 77 (3.77%) Atlassian
7 65 (3.18%) Google
8 52 (2.55%) IBM
9 47 (2.30%) VMware
10 38 (1.86%) Splunk
11 36 (1.76%) Remedy
12 32 (1.57%) Denodo
13 26 (1.27%) F5
13 26 (1.27%) Talend
14 25 (1.22%) HP
15 22 (1.08%) Adobe
15 22 (1.08%) Informatica
16 21 (1.03%) Databricks
16 21 (1.03%) MuleSoft
17 19 (0.93%) Workday