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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 37 52
Rank change year-on-year -1 +15 -4
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,049 1,289 1,358
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.98% 5.27% 3.73%
As % of the Development Applications category 41.06% 38.19% 31.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,424 844 908
10th Percentile £317 £319 £347
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £630
90th Percentile £681 £689 £734
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 25 74
10th Percentile £18.75 £46.20 £22.90
25th Percentile £25.00 £50.00 £38.16
Median hourly rate £62.00 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.83% -4.17% -10.07%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £76.50 -
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £56.38 £55.00
% change year-on-year +3.77% +2.50% -17.53%

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 4,990 3,375 4,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.14% 13.80% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,290 2,277 2,907
10th Percentile £343 £340 £352
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -3.64%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £638
90th Percentile £688 £736 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 63 192
10th Percentile £37.25 £27.59 £31.84
25th Percentile £59.25 £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 £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.37 £78.68
UK median hourly rate £66.75 £58.88 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.38% -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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +1 900 £502 +0.45% 199
North of England 0 390 £450 - 89
Midlands -1 325 £453 -7.65% 57
West Midlands -3 259 £459 -6.99% 43
Yorkshire -4 204 £455 -9.00% 43
South East -21 199 £464 -4.82% 128
North West +1 169 £447 +5.18% 37
South West +3 144 £550 -2.22% 43
East Midlands +5 63 £393 -18.55% 14
East of England -6 57 £600 +33.33% 44
North East -13 21 £475 -9.52% 10
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
1 920 (44.90%) Confluence
2 110 (5.37%) SharePoint
3 38 (1.85%) SAS
4 31 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (0.88%) Apache
6 14 (0.68%) CMS
7 12 (0.59%) nginx
8 9 (0.44%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.29%) Ethereum
9 6 (0.29%) Hyperledger
9 6 (0.29%) Mattermost
9 6 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.24%) IIS
10 5 (0.24%) JBoss
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.20%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.15%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 210 (10.25%) Microsoft Project
2 173 (8.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 92 (4.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 87 (4.25%) Microsoft Office
4 87 (4.25%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.88%) Trello
6 8 (0.39%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.29%) Notion
9 3 (0.15%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.15%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.15%) Revit
10 2 (0.098%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.098%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.098%) CATIA
11 1 (0.049%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.049%) InDesign
11 1 (0.049%) InVision
11 1 (0.049%) Mingle
11 1 (0.049%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 27 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
1 27 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.68%) Loan IQ
4 11 (0.54%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.39%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.39%) SAP MDG
5 8 (0.39%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.29%) Fidessa
6 6 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.24%) Findur
7 5 (0.24%) Maximo
7 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.24%) SAP Retail
7 5 (0.24%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.20%) SAP FI-AR
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 435 (21.23%) Azure
2 316 (15.42%) AWS
3 240 (11.71%) Azure DevOps
4 152 (7.42%) GitHub
4 152 (7.42%) Power Platform
5 84 (4.10%) SaaS
6 81 (3.95%) GCP
7 80 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
8 77 (3.76%) Entra ID
9 59 (2.88%) Amazon S3
10 54 (2.64%) GitHub Actions
11 52 (2.54%) Serverless
12 43 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
13 40 (1.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 40 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
14 35 (1.71%) Figma
14 35 (1.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 31 (1.51%) Amazon EKS
16 30 (1.46%) Slack
17 25 (1.22%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 67 (3.27%) Firewall
2 47 (2.29%) DNS
3 42 (2.05%) TCP/IP
4 28 (1.37%) LAN
5 27 (1.32%) Network Security
6 26 (1.27%) VPN
7 25 (1.22%) WAN
8 19 (0.93%) DHCP
8 19 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
9 18 (0.88%) SSL
10 14 (0.68%) HTTP
10 14 (0.68%) SAN
11 13 (0.63%) BIG-IP
12 12 (0.59%) Internet
13 11 (0.54%) Ethernet
13 11 (0.54%) SD-WAN
14 10 (0.49%) Unified Communications
15 9 (0.44%) FTP
15 9 (0.44%) NAS
16 7 (0.34%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (6.54%) Power BI
2 81 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
3 67 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
4 55 (2.68%) SQL Server
5 52 (2.54%) Tableau
6 38 (1.85%) MongoDB
7 37 (1.81%) Oracle Reports
8 27 (1.32%) NoSQL
9 26 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (1.17%) DynamoDB
11 23 (1.12%) Pentaho
12 22 (1.07%) Relational Database
13 16 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
13 16 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (0.73%) Big Data
14 15 (0.73%) MySQL
15 14 (0.68%) BusinessObjects
16 13 (0.63%) Data Lake
16 13 (0.63%) Metadata
17 12 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 233 (11.37%) Git
2 184 (8.98%) Jenkins
3 107 (5.22%) GitLab
4 96 (4.69%) Selenium
5 73 (3.56%) Postman
6 60 (2.93%) Zephyr
7 56 (2.73%) Cucumber
8 52 (2.54%) Bitbucket
9 50 (2.44%) JUnit
10 38 (1.85%) JMeter
11 34 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
12 29 (1.42%) REST Assured
13 25 (1.22%) TestRail
14 24 (1.17%) SonarQube
15 21 (1.02%) WebDriver
16 20 (0.98%) Cypress.io
17 17 (0.83%) Appium
18 15 (0.73%) Artifactory
19 13 (0.63%) Maven
20 11 (0.54%) TestNG
General
1 831 (40.56%) Social Skills
2 597 (29.14%) Finance
3 405 (19.77%) Analytical Skills
4 253 (12.35%) Banking
5 218 (10.64%) Public Sector
6 74 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
7 73 (3.56%) Retail
8 69 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
9 53 (2.59%) Military
10 40 (1.95%) Manufacturing
11 38 (1.85%) Legal
11 38 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
12 37 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
13 33 (1.61%) Investment Banking
14 28 (1.37%) Retail Banking
15 25 (1.22%) Front Office
16 21 (1.02%) Telecoms
17 20 (0.98%) Marketing
18 19 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
18 19 (0.93%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 402 (19.62%) Analyst
2 254 (12.40%) Business Analyst
3 180 (8.78%) Developer
4 178 (8.69%) Lead
5 167 (8.15%) Senior
6 134 (6.54%) Project Manager
7 106 (5.17%) Architect
8 90 (4.39%) Delivery Manager
9 84 (4.10%) Tester
10 73 (3.56%) Data Engineer
11 66 (3.22%) Scrum Master
12 62 (3.03%) Consultant
13 51 (2.49%) IT Support
13 51 (2.49%) Test Engineer
14 49 (2.39%) Support Engineer
15 47 (2.29%) Test Analyst
16 44 (2.15%) Technical Manager
16 44 (2.15%) Test Leader
17 40 (1.95%) Software Engineer
18 39 (1.90%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (5.22%) REST
2 61 (2.98%) Spring
3 58 (2.83%) .NET
4 56 (2.73%) React
5 47 (2.29%) Kafka
6 46 (2.24%) HTML
7 41 (2.00%) JSON
7 41 (2.00%) RESTful
7 41 (2.00%) Spring Boot
8 34 (1.66%) CSS
9 33 (1.61%) SOAP
10 30 (1.46%) ADO
10 30 (1.46%) Node.js
11 29 (1.42%) AngularJS
11 29 (1.42%) OpenID
11 29 (1.42%) Playwright
12 27 (1.32%) LDAP
12 27 (1.32%) Middleware
13 26 (1.27%) XML
14 25 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 256 (12.49%) Product Ownership
2 99 (4.83%) Onboarding
3 75 (3.66%) Cloud Native
4 51 (2.49%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
6 43 (2.10%) Virtual Team
7 42 (2.05%) Data Centre
7 42 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
8 33 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
8 33 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
9 30 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
10 26 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
11 24 (1.17%) Data Structures
12 21 (1.02%) PMI
13 19 (0.93%) Mobile App
14 17 (0.83%) SCADA
15 16 (0.78%) Public Cloud
16 15 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 14 (0.68%) Operational Technology
18 13 (0.63%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 164 (8.00%) Windows
2 121 (5.91%) Linux
3 35 (1.71%) Unix
4 20 (0.98%) Android
5 18 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 18 (0.88%) Windows 10
6 16 (0.78%) Mac OS
7 11 (0.54%) Windows Server
8 10 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.39%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.15%) AIX
12 2 (0.098%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.098%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.049%) MVS
13 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.049%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,185 (57.83%) Agile
2 520 (25.38%) DevOps
3 509 (24.84%) Stakeholder Management
4 456 (22.25%) Problem-Solving
5 411 (20.06%) Scrum
6 391 (19.08%) CI/CD
7 367 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 329 (16.06%) Test Automation
9 285 (13.91%) Project Management
10 259 (12.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 251 (12.25%) Migration
12 230 (11.22%) User Acceptance Testing
13 216 (10.54%) User Stories
14 200 (9.76%) Change Management
15 190 (9.27%) Project Delivery
16 188 (9.18%) Validation
17 181 (8.83%) Acceptance Criteria
17 181 (8.83%) ITIL
18 178 (8.69%) Sprint Planning
19 174 (8.49%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 315 (15.37%) SQL
2 210 (10.25%) Python
3 185 (9.03%) Java
4 91 (4.44%) JavaScript
5 78 (3.81%) C#
6 60 (2.93%) TypeScript
7 56 (2.73%) PowerShell
8 36 (1.76%) Bash
9 28 (1.37%) C++
10 23 (1.12%) PL/SQL
11 22 (1.07%) Shell Script
12 15 (0.73%) C
13 14 (0.68%) Apex Code
13 14 (0.68%) Perl
13 14 (0.68%) VBA
14 13 (0.63%) Embedded C++
15 10 (0.49%) Go
15 10 (0.49%) Groovy
16 9 (0.44%) Embedded C
17 8 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 552 (26.94%) Security Cleared
2 427 (20.84%) SC Cleared
3 228 (11.13%) Degree
4 73 (3.56%) PMI Certification
5 70 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 66 (3.22%) PMP
7 63 (3.07%) DV Cleared
8 61 (2.98%) ISTQB
9 35 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
10 28 (1.37%) CISSP
11 27 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
12 26 (1.27%) Master's Degree
13 25 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
14 22 (1.07%) SAFe Agilist
15 21 (1.02%) Azure Certification
16 20 (0.98%) CBAP
16 20 (0.98%) CISM
16 20 (0.98%) IIBA
17 18 (0.88%) AWS Certification
18 14 (0.68%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 251 (12.25%) QA
2 119 (5.81%) PMO
3 112 (5.47%) Data Quality
4 53 (2.59%) Accessibility
5 48 (2.34%) GDPR
6 33 (1.61%) SLA
7 26 (1.27%) NIST
8 20 (0.98%) WCAG
9 18 (0.88%) GRC
10 17 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 13 (0.63%) PCI DSS
12 12 (0.59%) PSD2
13 11 (0.54%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.49%) Basel III
15 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.34%) MiFID
15 7 (0.34%) NCSC
15 7 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.34%) SEPA
16 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
System Software
1 151 (7.37%) Docker
2 106 (5.17%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.78%) Firmware
5 9 (0.44%) Squid
5 9 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.15%) HDFS
10 2 (0.098%) Postfix
10 2 (0.098%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.049%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.049%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.049%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 161 (7.86%) Kubernetes
2 119 (5.81%) Terraform
3 85 (4.15%) Ansible
4 69 (3.37%) Grafana
5 50 (2.44%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (1.22%) HP ALM
8 24 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
9 23 (1.12%) Control-M
9 23 (1.12%) OPNET
10 17 (0.83%) Nessus
11 16 (0.78%) IBM Guardium
11 16 (0.78%) Puppet
12 12 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
13 11 (0.54%) 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%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 253 (12.35%) ServiceNow
2 245 (11.96%) Microsoft
3 169 (8.25%) Oracle
4 120 (5.86%) Atlassian
5 95 (4.64%) Salesforce
6 77 (3.76%) SAP
7 57 (2.78%) Remedy
8 48 (2.34%) Google
9 35 (1.71%) Denodo
9 35 (1.71%) Workday
10 34 (1.66%) Talend
11 29 (1.42%) IBM
11 29 (1.42%) Splunk
12 27 (1.32%) HP
13 26 (1.27%) Informatica
13 26 (1.27%) Red Hat
14 25 (1.22%) Databricks
15 24 (1.17%) VMware
16 23 (1.12%) MuleSoft
17 22 (1.07%) Tenable