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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 32 41
Rank change year-on-year -17 +9 +9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,988 1,670 1,432
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.30% 5.94% 4.42%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.33% 39.05% 32.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,281 1,197 907
10th Percentile £350 £313 £319
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.54%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 45 65
10th Percentile £19.15 £15.74 £31.98
25th Percentile £24.10 £46.25 £60.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £55.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -21.43% +12.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 -
90th Percentile £79.00 £81.80 -
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +2.27% -21.43% +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 5,325 4,277 4,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.52% 15.22% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,374 2,969 2,740
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £635
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £523
% change year-on-year - -4.31% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 96 164
10th Percentile £22.68 £33.38 £39.03
25th Percentile £51.25 £50.00 £54.68
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.80 £76.25 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.17% -1.15% -

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -15 927 £538 +2.38% 844
North of England -27 335 £478 +0.63% 224
Midlands -9 243 £459 +0.60% 120
West Midlands -15 211 £469 -1.26% 77
Yorkshire -10 203 £482 -4.27% 97
South East -35 202 £459 -3.87% 259
South West +1 152 £525 -4.55% 95
North West -46 114 £475 +8.57% 100
East of England +8 91 £472 +12.51% 101
East Midlands -21 32 £405 +12.81% 43
North East -41 22 £388 -25.48% 28
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 (44.97%) Confluence
2 104 (5.23%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (1.06%) CMS
5 19 (0.96%) SAS
6 10 (0.50%) Apache
6 10 (0.50%) Camunda
7 8 (0.40%) nginx
8 7 (0.35%) IIS
9 6 (0.30%) CICS
10 5 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.25%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.25%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.25%) MTS
11 4 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.20%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.20%) Traefik
11 4 (0.20%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.20%) WordPress
12 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 141 (7.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 115 (5.78%) Microsoft Project
3 80 (4.02%) MS Visio
4 65 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
5 62 (3.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 20 (1.01%) Trello
7 17 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.45%) AutoCAD
9 7 (0.35%) Revit
10 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.25%) Notion
11 4 (0.20%) Windchill
12 3 (0.15%) Mingle
13 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.10%) Gliffy
13 2 (0.10%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.050%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.050%) Adobe Illustrator
14 1 (0.050%) Adobe Premiere
14 1 (0.050%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 33 (1.66%) Remedy ITSM
2 18 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.65%) Workday HCM
4 12 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
5 9 (0.45%) Aladdin
5 9 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 6 (0.30%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.25%) Fidessa
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.25%) ResourceLink
7 5 (0.25%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.20%) Findur
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.20%) SAP FI-AR
8 4 (0.20%) SAP HCM
9 3 (0.15%) Maximo
9 3 (0.15%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 484 (24.35%) Azure
2 304 (15.29%) AWS
3 273 (13.73%) Azure DevOps
4 165 (8.30%) GitHub
5 162 (8.15%) Power Platform
6 105 (5.28%) GCP
7 95 (4.78%) Microsoft 365
8 65 (3.27%) SaaS
9 60 (3.02%) Serverless
10 57 (2.87%) Amazon S3
11 52 (2.62%) Entra ID
12 50 (2.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 47 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
14 43 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
15 39 (1.96%) Miro
16 36 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
16 36 (1.81%) Smartsheet
17 33 (1.66%) Microsoft Copilot
18 29 (1.46%) Snowflake
19 25 (1.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 74 (3.72%) Firewall
2 71 (3.57%) DNS
3 44 (2.21%) TCP/IP
4 34 (1.71%) VPN
5 30 (1.51%) DHCP
6 24 (1.21%) Network Security
7 21 (1.06%) IPv4
7 21 (1.06%) IPv6
8 20 (1.01%) WAN
9 19 (0.96%) BIG-IP
10 17 (0.86%) Broadband
10 17 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
11 16 (0.80%) VLAN
12 15 (0.75%) SAN
13 14 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 14 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 11 (0.55%) SSL
15 10 (0.50%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.50%) SSH
15 10 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (7.19%) Power BI
2 95 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
3 75 (3.77%) SQL Server
4 58 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
5 40 (2.01%) Relational Database
6 36 (1.81%) Oracle Reports
7 27 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
8 24 (1.21%) MongoDB
9 21 (1.06%) Oracle Database
10 20 (1.01%) Data Lake
10 20 (1.01%) Metadata
11 19 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 18 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
12 18 (0.91%) Tableau
13 17 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
14 15 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 14 (0.70%) Neo4j
16 13 (0.65%) NoSQL
16 13 (0.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 245 (12.32%) Git
2 169 (8.50%) Jenkins
3 123 (6.19%) GitLab
4 77 (3.87%) Zephyr
5 69 (3.47%) Bitbucket
6 67 (3.37%) Selenium
7 63 (3.17%) Postman
8 37 (1.86%) JUnit
9 32 (1.61%) Cucumber
10 29 (1.46%) REST Assured
11 28 (1.41%) JMeter
11 28 (1.41%) Maven
11 28 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
12 26 (1.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 24 (1.21%) Cypress.io
13 24 (1.21%) Rational Rhapsody
14 23 (1.16%) Mockito
14 23 (1.16%) TestRail
15 21 (1.06%) SonarQube
16 18 (0.91%) Artifactory
General
1 795 (39.99%) Social Skills
2 584 (29.38%) Finance
3 397 (19.97%) Analytical Skills
4 279 (14.03%) Banking
5 239 (12.02%) Public Sector
6 91 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
7 71 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
8 70 (3.52%) Retail
9 58 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
10 54 (2.72%) Investment Banking
11 52 (2.62%) Manufacturing
12 49 (2.46%) Telecoms
13 40 (2.01%) Legal
14 39 (1.96%) Front Office
15 38 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 33 (1.66%) Marketing
17 26 (1.31%) Retail Banking
18 23 (1.16%) Financial Institution
19 19 (0.96%) Aerospace
19 19 (0.96%) Law
Job Titles
1 347 (17.45%) Analyst
2 220 (11.07%) Lead
3 203 (10.21%) Developer
4 202 (10.16%) Business Analyst
5 173 (8.70%) Senior
6 112 (5.63%) Project Manager
7 76 (3.82%) Consultant
8 72 (3.62%) Architect
9 70 (3.52%) Delivery Manager
10 68 (3.42%) Scrum Master
11 61 (3.07%) Tester
12 52 (2.62%) Test Leader
13 50 (2.52%) Administrator
13 50 (2.52%) Product Owner
14 49 (2.46%) Test Analyst
15 46 (2.31%) Support Engineer
16 44 (2.21%) Data Engineer
17 40 (2.01%) Test Engineer
18 38 (1.91%) Senior Analyst
19 37 (1.86%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (7.90%) REST
2 127 (6.39%) Terraform
3 78 (3.92%) .NET
4 62 (3.12%) HTML
5 60 (3.02%) RESTful
6 52 (2.62%) SOAP
7 49 (2.46%) Web Services
8 48 (2.41%) React
9 47 (2.36%) AngularJS
9 47 (2.36%) JSON
10 44 (2.21%) Kafka
11 40 (2.01%) Playwright
12 39 (1.96%) Spring
12 39 (1.96%) XML
13 38 (1.91%) CSS
13 38 (1.91%) Spring Boot
14 31 (1.56%) Middleware
15 29 (1.46%) pytest
16 27 (1.36%) Hibernate
16 27 (1.36%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 266 (13.38%) Product Ownership
2 136 (6.84%) Onboarding
3 88 (4.43%) Cloud Native
4 69 (3.47%) Data Centre
5 65 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
6 57 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
7 51 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
8 47 (2.36%) Virtual Team
9 40 (2.01%) Data Structures
10 38 (1.91%) Management Information System
11 37 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
12 29 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
13 25 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
14 23 (1.16%) Credit Risk
15 20 (1.01%) Low-Code
15 20 (1.01%) Replication
16 19 (0.96%) Mobile App
17 18 (0.91%) Derivative
17 18 (0.91%) SCADA
18 17 (0.86%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 144 (7.24%) Windows
2 136 (6.84%) Linux
3 42 (2.11%) Unix
4 30 (1.51%) Windows 10
5 22 (1.11%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.91%) Android
7 17 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 16 (0.80%) Windows Server
9 14 (0.70%) Mac OS
10 11 (0.55%) VMS
11 9 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
12 8 (0.40%) CentOS
12 8 (0.40%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
13 6 (0.30%) zOS
14 4 (0.20%) AIX
15 3 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
16 2 (0.10%) MVS
16 2 (0.10%) Solaris
16 2 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,169 (58.80%) Agile
2 678 (34.10%) Stakeholder Management
3 532 (26.76%) DevOps
4 455 (22.89%) Problem-Solving
5 427 (21.48%) CI/CD
6 422 (21.23%) Scrum
7 373 (18.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 350 (17.61%) Test Automation
9 309 (15.54%) Migration
10 263 (13.23%) User Acceptance Testing
11 250 (12.58%) User Stories
12 243 (12.22%) AI
13 242 (12.17%) Validation
14 229 (11.52%) Project Management
15 218 (10.97%) Project Delivery
16 211 (10.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 208 (10.46%) SDLC
18 205 (10.31%) Acceptance Criteria
18 205 (10.31%) Sprint Planning
19 182 (9.15%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 368 (18.51%) SQL
2 266 (13.38%) Python
3 135 (6.79%) Java
4 97 (4.88%) JavaScript
5 74 (3.72%) PowerShell
6 72 (3.62%) C#
7 71 (3.57%) TypeScript
8 46 (2.31%) Bash
9 33 (1.66%) PL/SQL
10 27 (1.36%) C++
11 20 (1.01%) Kotlin
12 19 (0.96%) Groovy
13 16 (0.80%) Bicep
14 14 (0.70%) ActionScript
14 14 (0.70%) C
15 13 (0.65%) Apex Code
16 12 (0.60%) Perl
17 11 (0.55%) Shell Script
18 9 (0.45%) VBA
19 7 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 527 (26.51%) Security Cleared
2 402 (20.22%) SC Cleared
3 160 (8.05%) Degree
4 95 (4.78%) DV Cleared
5 85 (4.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 66 (3.32%) ISTQB
6 66 (3.32%) PMI Certification
7 54 (2.72%) PMP
8 31 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 27 (1.36%) AWS Certification
10 22 (1.11%) Master's Degree
11 21 (1.06%) Azure Certification
12 19 (0.96%) CISSP
13 18 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 17 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
15 15 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 13 (0.65%) CISM
17 12 (0.60%) ISEB
17 12 (0.60%) SAFe Agilist
18 11 (0.55%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 268 (13.48%) QA
2 131 (6.59%) Data Quality
3 116 (5.84%) PMO
4 61 (3.07%) Accessibility
5 36 (1.81%) SLA
6 24 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (1.21%) WCAG
7 20 (1.01%) NCSC
8 18 (0.91%) GRC
8 18 (0.91%) NIST
9 13 (0.65%) GDPR
9 13 (0.65%) ISO 20022
10 9 (0.45%) COBIT
10 9 (0.45%) SEPA
11 8 (0.40%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.30%) JSP 440
13 5 (0.25%) MISRA
13 5 (0.25%) MISRA C
13 5 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 128 (6.44%) Docker
2 101 (5.08%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (0.50%) Firmware
6 8 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.30%) vSphere
9 3 (0.15%) Squid
10 2 (0.10%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.10%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.10%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.10%) Postfix
10 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.050%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.050%) NFS
11 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.050%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.050%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 1 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 112 (5.63%) Kubernetes
2 65 (3.27%) Ansible
3 55 (2.77%) Grafana
4 42 (2.11%) Prometheus
5 25 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
6 22 (1.11%) HP ALM
7 17 (0.86%) Control-M
8 10 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.45%) Istio
9 9 (0.45%) Packer
10 7 (0.35%) Nessus
10 7 (0.35%) SCCM
10 7 (0.35%) SCOM
11 6 (0.30%) Dell DRAC
11 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
11 6 (0.30%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.25%) Argo
12 5 (0.25%) IBM Guardium
12 5 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 312 (15.69%) Microsoft
2 207 (10.41%) ServiceNow
3 147 (7.39%) Oracle
4 97 (4.88%) SAP
5 78 (3.92%) Salesforce
6 70 (3.52%) Atlassian
7 61 (3.07%) Google
8 56 (2.82%) IBM
9 50 (2.52%) VMware
10 40 (2.01%) Splunk
11 36 (1.81%) Remedy
12 27 (1.36%) Databricks
13 25 (1.26%) Denodo
14 23 (1.16%) HP
15 22 (1.11%) F5
15 22 (1.11%) Informatica
15 22 (1.11%) MuleSoft
15 22 (1.11%) Talend
15 22 (1.11%) Workday
16 21 (1.06%) Adobe