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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 36 53
Rank change year-on-year -4 +17 -5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,057 1,294 1,352
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.90% 5.34% 3.68%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.64% 37.77% 31.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,429 864 896
10th Percentile £317 £331 £323
25th Percentile £400 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £625
90th Percentile £671 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £485 £500 £512
% change year-on-year -3.00% -2.30% -2.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 24 81
10th Percentile £18.75 £48.60 £25.00
25th Percentile £24.39 £50.80 £40.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £76.75 -
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.64% - -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 5,061 3,426 4,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.05% 14.14% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,314 2,319 2,916
10th Percentile £348 £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 £611 £638
90th Percentile £681 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 63 207
10th Percentile £36.25 £27.59 £31.53
25th Percentile £55.94 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.75 £77.70
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +1 902 £513 -0.49% 111
North of England -1 416 £450 - 47
Midlands +4 328 £450 -5.26% 38
West Midlands -3 261 £459 -3.37% 24
Yorkshire -3 225 £464 -7.25% 20
South East -27 205 £459 -5.60% 101
North West -3 173 £443 +4.24% 20
South West -7 124 £500 -13.04% 31
East Midlands +11 64 £393 -17.26% 14
East of England -13 54 £525 +13.51% 28
North East -16 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
1 903 (43.90%) Confluence
2 117 (5.69%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.70%) SAS
4 29 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.78%) Apache
6 12 (0.58%) CMS
6 12 (0.58%) nginx
7 9 (0.44%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.29%) Ethereum
8 6 (0.29%) Hyperledger
8 6 (0.29%) Mattermost
9 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.24%) IIS
9 5 (0.24%) JBoss
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.15%) Camunda
11 3 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 180 (8.75%) Microsoft Project
2 165 (8.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 87 (4.23%) MS Visio
4 84 (4.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 74 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
6 14 (0.68%) Trello
7 8 (0.39%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.34%) Notion
8 7 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.19%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.19%) Revit
10 2 (0.097%) CATIA
10 2 (0.097%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.049%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.049%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.049%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.049%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.049%) InVision
11 1 (0.049%) Sketch
11 1 (0.049%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 28 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.31%) Remedy ITSM
3 16 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.53%) Loan IQ
5 9 (0.44%) Aladdin
5 9 (0.44%) SAP MDG
6 8 (0.39%) Workday HCM
7 7 (0.34%) Fidessa
8 6 (0.29%) Findur
8 6 (0.29%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
9 5 (0.24%) SAP Retail
9 5 (0.24%) Teamcenter
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
11 3 (0.15%) Actimize
11 3 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 439 (21.34%) Azure
2 333 (16.19%) AWS
3 242 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 156 (7.58%) GitHub
5 154 (7.49%) Power Platform
6 90 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
7 89 (4.33%) GCP
8 81 (3.94%) SaaS
9 78 (3.79%) Entra ID
10 62 (3.01%) Amazon S3
11 59 (2.87%) Serverless
12 54 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
13 46 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
14 44 (2.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 42 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
16 36 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 31 (1.51%) Slack
18 30 (1.46%) Figma
19 28 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
20 26 (1.26%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 76 (3.69%) Firewall
2 58 (2.82%) DNS
3 44 (2.14%) TCP/IP
4 33 (1.60%) Network Security
5 30 (1.46%) LAN
6 28 (1.36%) WAN
7 27 (1.31%) VPN
8 22 (1.07%) DHCP
9 21 (1.02%) BIG-IP
9 21 (1.02%) SSL
10 19 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
11 16 (0.78%) SAN
12 13 (0.63%) HTTP
12 13 (0.63%) Internet
12 13 (0.63%) SD-WAN
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
1 137 (6.66%) Power BI
2 83 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
3 70 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
4 57 (2.77%) SQL Server
5 50 (2.43%) Tableau
6 43 (2.09%) Oracle Reports
7 37 (1.80%) MongoDB
8 30 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
9 27 (1.31%) NoSQL
10 25 (1.22%) DynamoDB
11 23 (1.12%) Relational Database
12 18 (0.88%) Pentaho
13 17 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
14 16 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 15 (0.73%) MySQL
16 14 (0.68%) BusinessObjects
16 14 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
17 13 (0.63%) Big Data
17 13 (0.63%) Data Lake
17 13 (0.63%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 233 (11.33%) Git
2 190 (9.24%) Jenkins
3 117 (5.69%) GitLab
4 98 (4.76%) Selenium
5 73 (3.55%) Postman
6 66 (3.21%) Zephyr
7 58 (2.82%) Cucumber
8 56 (2.72%) JUnit
9 53 (2.58%) Bitbucket
10 38 (1.85%) JMeter
11 33 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
12 30 (1.46%) REST Assured
13 24 (1.17%) TestRail
14 22 (1.07%) WebDriver
15 21 (1.02%) SonarQube
16 20 (0.97%) Cypress.io
17 18 (0.88%) Artifactory
18 14 (0.68%) Appium
19 13 (0.63%) Maven
20 12 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 811 (39.43%) Social Skills
2 601 (29.22%) Finance
3 380 (18.47%) Analytical Skills
4 266 (12.93%) Banking
5 212 (10.31%) Public Sector
6 74 (3.60%) Retail
7 73 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
8 71 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
9 41 (1.99%) Manufacturing
10 40 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
11 38 (1.85%) Legal
12 34 (1.65%) Investment Banking
12 34 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
13 30 (1.46%) Military
13 30 (1.46%) Retail Banking
14 26 (1.26%) Front Office
15 21 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 20 (0.97%) Corporate Banking
17 19 (0.92%) Marketing
17 19 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 397 (19.30%) Analyst
2 251 (12.20%) Business Analyst
3 183 (8.90%) Lead
4 178 (8.65%) Developer
5 160 (7.78%) Senior
6 127 (6.17%) Project Manager
7 90 (4.38%) Delivery Manager
8 88 (4.28%) Architect
9 87 (4.23%) Tester
10 72 (3.50%) Data Engineer
11 69 (3.35%) Scrum Master
12 67 (3.26%) Consultant
13 58 (2.82%) IT Support
14 51 (2.48%) Support Engineer
15 46 (2.24%) Test Engineer
15 46 (2.24%) Test Leader
16 42 (2.04%) Technical Manager
17 41 (1.99%) Java Developer
17 41 (1.99%) Product Owner
17 41 (1.99%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (5.10%) REST
2 62 (3.01%) Spring
3 57 (2.77%) .NET
4 56 (2.72%) React
5 49 (2.38%) Kafka
6 44 (2.14%) HTML
6 44 (2.14%) JSON
7 43 (2.09%) RESTful
8 41 (1.99%) Spring Boot
9 35 (1.70%) SOAP
10 31 (1.51%) CSS
10 31 (1.51%) OpenID
11 29 (1.41%) AngularJS
11 29 (1.41%) Playwright
12 28 (1.36%) Middleware
12 28 (1.36%) Node.js
13 27 (1.31%) LDAP
13 27 (1.31%) XML
14 26 (1.26%) ADO
15 23 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 240 (11.67%) Product Ownership
2 103 (5.01%) Onboarding
3 80 (3.89%) Cloud Native
4 52 (2.53%) Data Centre
5 48 (2.33%) Management Information System
6 46 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
7 45 (2.19%) Virtual Team
8 42 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
9 40 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
10 35 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
11 33 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
12 29 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
13 26 (1.26%) Data Structures
14 19 (0.92%) PMI
14 19 (0.92%) Public Cloud
14 19 (0.92%) SCADA
15 16 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 15 (0.73%) Mobile App
17 14 (0.68%) Distributed Architecture
18 13 (0.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 169 (8.22%) Windows
2 122 (5.93%) Linux
3 40 (1.94%) Unix
4 20 (0.97%) Windows 10
5 19 (0.92%) Mac OS
6 16 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.73%) Android
8 13 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 12 (0.58%) Windows Server
10 6 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.15%) AIX
12 3 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.097%) MVS
13 2 (0.097%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.049%) SUSE
14 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.049%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,169 (56.83%) Agile
2 524 (25.47%) DevOps
3 518 (25.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 453 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
5 408 (19.83%) CI/CD
5 408 (19.83%) Scrum
6 377 (18.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 331 (16.09%) Test Automation
8 266 (12.93%) Project Management
9 258 (12.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 257 (12.49%) Migration
11 228 (11.08%) User Acceptance Testing
12 220 (10.70%) User Stories
13 207 (10.06%) Change Management
14 196 (9.53%) Validation
15 185 (8.99%) Project Delivery
15 185 (8.99%) Sprint Planning
16 179 (8.70%) Roadmaps
17 172 (8.36%) Analytics
18 171 (8.31%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 320 (15.56%) SQL
2 230 (11.18%) Python
3 185 (8.99%) Java
4 83 (4.04%) JavaScript
5 78 (3.79%) C#
6 60 (2.92%) PowerShell
7 59 (2.87%) TypeScript
8 42 (2.04%) Bash
9 27 (1.31%) PL/SQL
10 23 (1.12%) C++
11 20 (0.97%) Shell Script
12 15 (0.73%) VBA
13 14 (0.68%) Apex Code
13 14 (0.68%) Perl
14 12 (0.58%) C
15 11 (0.53%) Groovy
16 10 (0.49%) Embedded C++
17 9 (0.44%) Kotlin
18 8 (0.39%) ActionScript
18 8 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 526 (25.57%) Security Cleared
2 405 (19.69%) SC Cleared
3 207 (10.06%) Degree
4 70 (3.40%) BPSS Clearance
4 70 (3.40%) PMI Certification
5 64 (3.11%) PMP
6 62 (3.01%) ISTQB
7 61 (2.97%) DV Cleared
8 34 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 32 (1.56%) CISSP
10 27 (1.31%) Master's Degree
11 26 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (1.12%) CISM
13 21 (1.02%) SAFe Agilist
14 20 (0.97%) Azure Certification
15 19 (0.92%) IIBA
16 17 (0.83%) CBAP
17 16 (0.78%) AWS Certification
18 15 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
19 13 (0.63%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 251 (12.20%) QA
2 117 (5.69%) PMO
3 113 (5.49%) Data Quality
4 50 (2.43%) Accessibility
5 46 (2.24%) GDPR
6 41 (1.99%) SLA
7 25 (1.22%) NIST
8 20 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 18 (0.88%) WCAG
10 17 (0.83%) GRC
11 16 (0.78%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.49%) Basel III
13 9 (0.44%) NCSC
13 9 (0.44%) PSD2
14 8 (0.39%) MiFID
15 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.34%) ISO 20022
15 7 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.29%) JSP 440
System Software
1 145 (7.05%) Docker
2 107 (5.20%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.78%) Firmware
5 10 (0.49%) Squid
5 10 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.15%) HDFS
8 3 (0.15%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.097%) Postfix
9 2 (0.097%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.049%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.049%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.049%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 160 (7.78%) Kubernetes
2 126 (6.13%) Terraform
3 87 (4.23%) Ansible
4 66 (3.21%) Grafana
5 52 (2.53%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
8 21 (1.02%) Control-M
8 21 (1.02%) HP ALM
9 17 (0.83%) Nessus
10 16 (0.78%) IBM Guardium
11 15 (0.73%) Puppet
12 13 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
13 12 (0.58%) Consul
14 10 (0.49%) HP Quality Center
15 9 (0.44%) SCCM
16 8 (0.39%) FortiGate
17 7 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 7 (0.34%) Dell DRAC
17 7 (0.34%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 265 (12.88%) Microsoft
2 246 (11.96%) ServiceNow
3 172 (8.36%) Oracle
4 94 (4.57%) Salesforce
5 92 (4.47%) Atlassian
6 78 (3.79%) SAP
7 51 (2.48%) Google
8 38 (1.85%) Remedy
9 36 (1.75%) Denodo
10 35 (1.70%) Workday
11 32 (1.56%) Talend
12 29 (1.41%) F5
13 28 (1.36%) Red Hat
13 28 (1.36%) Splunk
14 27 (1.31%) IBM
14 27 (1.31%) VMware
15 26 (1.26%) Databricks
16 25 (1.22%) Informatica
17 24 (1.17%) MuleSoft
18 23 (1.12%) HP