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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 36 50
Rank change year-on-year -3 +14 -4
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,031 1,281 1,360
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.84% 5.32% 3.70%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.56% 37.55% 31.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,410 852 899
10th Percentile £316 £331 £325
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £671 £688 £723
UK median daily rate £485 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -3.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 23 81
10th Percentile £18.75 £48.40 £25.00
25th Percentile £24.19 £50.53 £37.55
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £77.00 -
UK median hourly rate £52.75 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.09% - -9.84%

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 5,007 3,411 4,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.94% 14.16% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,277 2,298 2,911
10th Percentile £349 £350 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £610 £638
90th Percentile £680 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 64 205
10th Percentile £36.13 £27.63 £31.43
25th Percentile £56.81 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -5.77% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.63 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.17% -9.23% +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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -1 896 £513 -0.68% 231
North of England -2 414 £450 - 92
Midlands +4 325 £450 -5.26% 58
West Midlands -2 260 £459 -3.37% 33
Yorkshire +2 223 £464 -7.20% 40
South East -22 205 £459 -5.85% 135
North West 0 173 £445 +4.71% 45
South West -11 110 £493 -14.35% 60
East Midlands +7 62 £393 -15.03% 25
East of England -9 54 £525 +13.51% 49
North East -21 22 £475 -13.64% 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
1 890 (43.82%) Confluence
2 114 (5.61%) SharePoint
3 37 (1.82%) SAS
4 31 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.79%) Apache
6 13 (0.64%) CMS
7 12 (0.59%) nginx
8 9 (0.44%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.30%) Ethereum
9 6 (0.30%) Hyperledger
9 6 (0.30%) Mattermost
10 5 (0.25%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.25%) JBoss
11 4 (0.20%) IIS
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.20%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.15%) Camunda
12 3 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 159 (7.83%) Microsoft Project
2 154 (7.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 84 (4.14%) MS Visio
4 79 (3.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 61 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
6 13 (0.64%) Trello
7 8 (0.39%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 5 (0.25%) Revit
9 3 (0.15%) Notion
10 2 (0.098%) CATIA
10 2 (0.098%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.049%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.049%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.049%) CANalyzer
11 1 (0.049%) Mingle
11 1 (0.049%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 28 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
3 16 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.54%) Loan IQ
5 9 (0.44%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.39%) SAP MDG
6 8 (0.39%) Workday HCM
7 7 (0.34%) Fidessa
7 7 (0.34%) Findur
8 5 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.25%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.25%) SAP Retail
8 5 (0.25%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.20%) Actimize
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.20%) SAP FI-AR
10 3 (0.15%) NetSuite
10 3 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 437 (21.52%) Azure
2 337 (16.59%) AWS
3 239 (11.77%) Azure DevOps
4 157 (7.73%) GitHub
5 150 (7.39%) Power Platform
6 93 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
7 89 (4.38%) GCP
8 81 (3.99%) SaaS
9 78 (3.84%) Entra ID
10 65 (3.20%) Amazon S3
11 63 (3.10%) Serverless
12 55 (2.71%) GitHub Actions
13 49 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
14 47 (2.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 44 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
16 36 (1.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 33 (1.62%) Slack
18 28 (1.38%) Figma
19 27 (1.33%) Amazon EKS
20 26 (1.28%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 77 (3.79%) Firewall
2 57 (2.81%) DNS
3 43 (2.12%) TCP/IP
4 33 (1.62%) Network Security
5 30 (1.48%) LAN
6 28 (1.38%) WAN
7 27 (1.33%) VPN
8 22 (1.08%) BIG-IP
8 22 (1.08%) DHCP
9 19 (0.94%) SSL
9 19 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
10 18 (0.89%) SAN
11 13 (0.64%) SD-WAN
12 12 (0.59%) HTTP
12 12 (0.59%) Internet
13 10 (0.49%) Unified Communications
14 9 (0.44%) Ethernet
15 8 (0.39%) FTP
15 8 (0.39%) NAS
15 8 (0.39%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (6.55%) Power BI
2 89 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
3 72 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
4 57 (2.81%) SQL Server
5 47 (2.31%) Tableau
6 45 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
7 36 (1.77%) MongoDB
8 30 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
9 26 (1.28%) NoSQL
10 25 (1.23%) DynamoDB
11 24 (1.18%) Relational Database
12 19 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
13 18 (0.89%) Pentaho
14 16 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 15 (0.74%) BusinessObjects
15 15 (0.74%) MySQL
16 14 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
17 13 (0.64%) Big Data
17 13 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
17 13 (0.64%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 236 (11.62%) Git
2 191 (9.40%) Jenkins
3 118 (5.81%) GitLab
4 98 (4.83%) Selenium
5 74 (3.64%) Postman
6 70 (3.45%) Zephyr
7 56 (2.76%) JUnit
8 55 (2.71%) Cucumber
9 54 (2.66%) Bitbucket
10 39 (1.92%) JMeter
11 33 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
12 28 (1.38%) REST Assured
13 25 (1.23%) TestRail
14 23 (1.13%) WebDriver
15 21 (1.03%) SonarQube
16 20 (0.98%) Cypress.io
17 18 (0.89%) Artifactory
18 14 (0.69%) Appium
19 13 (0.64%) Maven
20 11 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 798 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 591 (29.10%) Finance
3 375 (18.46%) Analytical Skills
4 263 (12.95%) Banking
5 209 (10.29%) Public Sector
6 76 (3.74%) Retail
7 74 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
8 71 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
9 41 (2.02%) Legal
9 41 (2.02%) Manufacturing
10 34 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
10 34 (1.67%) Investment Banking
10 34 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
11 29 (1.43%) Retail Banking
12 25 (1.23%) Front Office
13 24 (1.18%) Military
14 23 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 19 (0.94%) Corporate Banking
16 18 (0.89%) Law
16 18 (0.89%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 392 (19.30%) Analyst
2 247 (12.16%) Business Analyst
3 179 (8.81%) Developer
4 178 (8.76%) Lead
5 159 (7.83%) Senior
6 119 (5.86%) Project Manager
7 88 (4.33%) Delivery Manager
7 88 (4.33%) Tester
8 85 (4.19%) Architect
9 73 (3.59%) Data Engineer
10 71 (3.50%) Consultant
11 70 (3.45%) Scrum Master
12 61 (3.00%) IT Support
13 53 (2.61%) Support Engineer
14 47 (2.31%) Test Engineer
15 44 (2.17%) Test Leader
16 42 (2.07%) IT Engineer
17 41 (2.02%) IT Support Engineer
18 40 (1.97%) Java Developer
18 40 (1.97%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (5.17%) REST
2 62 (3.05%) Spring
3 56 (2.76%) .NET
4 54 (2.66%) React
5 47 (2.31%) Kafka
6 42 (2.07%) HTML
6 42 (2.07%) JSON
6 42 (2.07%) RESTful
7 40 (1.97%) Spring Boot
8 36 (1.77%) SOAP
9 31 (1.53%) OpenID
10 30 (1.48%) CSS
11 29 (1.43%) AngularJS
12 28 (1.38%) Playwright
13 27 (1.33%) LDAP
14 26 (1.28%) XML
15 25 (1.23%) Node.js
16 24 (1.18%) Middleware
17 23 (1.13%) ADO
17 23 (1.13%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 229 (11.28%) Product Ownership
2 105 (5.17%) Onboarding
3 80 (3.94%) Cloud Native
4 54 (2.66%) Data Centre
5 47 (2.31%) Management Information System
6 46 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
7 45 (2.22%) Virtual Team
8 43 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
9 40 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
10 36 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
11 32 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
12 29 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
13 25 (1.23%) Data Structures
14 19 (0.94%) Public Cloud
14 19 (0.94%) SCADA
15 18 (0.89%) PMI
16 16 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 16 (0.79%) Mobile App
17 15 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
18 13 (0.64%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 170 (8.37%) Windows
2 124 (6.11%) Linux
3 43 (2.12%) Unix
4 21 (1.03%) Windows 10
5 20 (0.98%) Mac OS
6 17 (0.84%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.74%) Android
8 13 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (0.54%) Windows Server
10 6 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.15%) AIX
12 3 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.098%) MVS
13 2 (0.098%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.049%) Solaris
14 1 (0.049%) SUSE
14 1 (0.049%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,145 (56.38%) Agile
2 516 (25.41%) DevOps
3 508 (25.01%) Stakeholder Management
4 450 (22.16%) Problem-Solving
5 410 (20.19%) CI/CD
6 401 (19.74%) Scrum
7 370 (18.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 336 (16.54%) Test Automation
9 256 (12.60%) Migration
10 248 (12.21%) Project Management
11 247 (12.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 231 (11.37%) User Acceptance Testing
13 215 (10.59%) User Stories
14 196 (9.65%) Change Management
14 196 (9.65%) Validation
15 188 (9.26%) Project Delivery
16 182 (8.96%) Sprint Planning
17 174 (8.57%) SDLC
18 172 (8.47%) Roadmaps
19 169 (8.32%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 324 (15.95%) SQL
2 233 (11.47%) Python
3 178 (8.76%) Java
4 81 (3.99%) JavaScript
5 78 (3.84%) C#
6 61 (3.00%) PowerShell
7 59 (2.90%) TypeScript
8 42 (2.07%) Bash
9 26 (1.28%) PL/SQL
10 22 (1.08%) C++
11 21 (1.03%) Shell Script
12 15 (0.74%) Perl
12 15 (0.74%) VBA
13 14 (0.69%) Apex Code
14 11 (0.54%) C
14 11 (0.54%) Groovy
15 9 (0.44%) ActionScript
15 9 (0.44%) Embedded C++
15 9 (0.44%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 524 (25.80%) Security Cleared
2 403 (19.84%) SC Cleared
3 183 (9.01%) Degree
4 72 (3.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 66 (3.25%) ISTQB
6 64 (3.15%) PMI Certification
7 63 (3.10%) DV Cleared
8 58 (2.86%) PMP
9 34 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 31 (1.53%) CISSP
11 26 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
12 24 (1.18%) Master's Degree
13 22 (1.08%) CISM
14 21 (1.03%) SAFe Agilist
15 20 (0.98%) Azure Certification
16 18 (0.89%) AWS Certification
17 16 (0.79%) IIBA
17 16 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
18 13 (0.64%) CCNA
19 12 (0.59%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 250 (12.31%) QA
2 115 (5.66%) Data Quality
3 109 (5.37%) PMO
4 50 (2.46%) Accessibility
5 44 (2.17%) GDPR
6 42 (2.07%) SLA
7 26 (1.28%) NIST
8 23 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 19 (0.94%) GRC
10 17 (0.84%) PCI DSS
10 17 (0.84%) WCAG
11 9 (0.44%) Basel III
11 9 (0.44%) NCSC
11 9 (0.44%) PSD2
12 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.34%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.34%) MiFID
12 7 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.30%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.30%) JSP 440
System Software
1 144 (7.09%) Docker
2 107 (5.27%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.84%) Firmware
5 10 (0.49%) Squid
6 9 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.15%) HDFS
8 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.15%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.098%) Postfix
10 1 (0.049%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.049%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 154 (7.58%) Kubernetes
2 129 (6.35%) Terraform
3 87 (4.28%) Ansible
4 66 (3.25%) Grafana
5 52 (2.56%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
8 21 (1.03%) Control-M
8 21 (1.03%) HP ALM
9 17 (0.84%) Nessus
10 16 (0.79%) IBM Guardium
11 14 (0.69%) Puppet
12 13 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
13 12 (0.59%) Consul
14 10 (0.49%) HP Quality Center
15 8 (0.39%) Dell DRAC
15 8 (0.39%) FortiGate
15 8 (0.39%) SCCM
16 7 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 7 (0.34%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 263 (12.95%) Microsoft
2 251 (12.36%) ServiceNow
3 164 (8.07%) Oracle
4 94 (4.63%) Salesforce
5 87 (4.28%) Atlassian
6 77 (3.79%) SAP
7 53 (2.61%) Google
8 38 (1.87%) Denodo
9 34 (1.67%) Remedy
9 34 (1.67%) Workday
10 32 (1.58%) Talend
11 30 (1.48%) F5
12 28 (1.38%) Red Hat
13 27 (1.33%) IBM
13 27 (1.33%) Informatica
13 27 (1.33%) VMware
14 26 (1.28%) Databricks
14 26 (1.28%) Splunk
15 24 (1.18%) MuleSoft
16 23 (1.13%) HP