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 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 44 51
Rank change year-on-year +11 +7 -10
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,861 1,198 1,425
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.45% 4.60% 3.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.69% 33.98% 32.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,338 729 1,006
10th Percentile £313 £313 £345
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £620
90th Percentile £700 £675 £735
UK median daily rate £498 £486 £513
% change year-on-year +2.31% -5.12% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 23 47
10th Percentile £15.70 £45.40 £31.53
25th Percentile £29.48 £52.98 £42.30
Median hourly rate £63.40 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.50 £68.78
90th Percentile £95.00 £70.75 £75.61
UK median hourly rate £64.20 £62.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +2.72% +14.68% -16.15%

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 4,810 3,526 4,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.09% 13.53% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,310 2,203 3,090
10th Percentile £340 £340 £363
25th Percentile £409 £410 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -4.67% -6.96%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 61 202
10th Percentile £39.00 £27.50 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.70 £48.85
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.25
90th Percentile £81.50 £80.00 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 13 February 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 13 February 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 13 February 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 +5 824 £525 +5.00% 125
North of England +12 348 £450 -0.99% 74
Midlands +9 244 £443 -7.23% 91
South East -7 202 £478 +0.53% 141
Yorkshire -5 187 £480 -2.64% 33
West Midlands +6 179 £475 -0.42% 69
South West +19 150 £575 +2.22% 49
North West +17 146 £430 -4.44% 39
East Midlands +9 63 £347 -30.60% 22
East of England -10 59 £425 +3.03% 35
North East -6 15 £425 -5.56% 3
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
1 879 (47.23%) Confluence
2 112 (6.02%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.88%) nginx
4 31 (1.67%) SAS
5 24 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
6 22 (1.18%) CMS
7 12 (0.64%) Apache
8 11 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.38%) WebLogic
11 6 (0.32%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.32%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.32%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.32%) WebSphere
12 4 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.16%) Drupal
13 3 (0.16%) IIS
13 3 (0.16%) SugarCRM
13 3 (0.16%) Traefik
14 2 (0.11%) Mule
Applications
1 197 (10.59%) Microsoft Project
2 173 (9.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 110 (5.91%) Microsoft Office
4 104 (5.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 75 (4.03%) MS Visio
6 25 (1.34%) Trello
7 6 (0.32%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 5 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.27%) Notion
8 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.27%) Sketch
8 5 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.21%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.21%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.16%) InVision
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.11%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.11%) CATIA
11 2 (0.11%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 17 (0.91%) NetSuite
2 16 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.59%) Workday HCM
4 10 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.54%) Fidessa
4 10 (0.54%) Loan IQ
4 10 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 8 (0.43%) Maximo
6 7 (0.38%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
7 6 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.27%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.21%) Endur
9 4 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 4 (0.21%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.21%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 361 (19.40%) Azure
2 281 (15.10%) AWS
3 190 (10.21%) Azure DevOps
4 166 (8.92%) GitHub
5 134 (7.20%) Power Platform
6 79 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
7 75 (4.03%) GCP
8 58 (3.12%) SaaS
9 46 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
10 44 (2.36%) Serverless
11 39 (2.10%) Amazon S3
11 39 (2.10%) Entra ID
12 38 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
13 34 (1.83%) Figma
13 34 (1.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 31 (1.67%) Slack
15 29 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
16 28 (1.50%) Miro
17 27 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
17 27 (1.45%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.69%) Firewall
2 39 (2.10%) DNS
3 32 (1.72%) TCP/IP
4 28 (1.50%) VPN
5 22 (1.18%) HTTP
6 21 (1.13%) WAN
7 20 (1.07%) LAN
8 19 (1.02%) SSH
9 16 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (0.70%) FTP
10 13 (0.70%) Network Security
11 10 (0.54%) SD-WAN
12 9 (0.48%) Ethernet
12 9 (0.48%) SMTP
12 9 (0.48%) SSL
12 9 (0.48%) Unified Communications
13 8 (0.43%) DHCP
14 7 (0.38%) Modbus
14 7 (0.38%) RS-232
14 7 (0.38%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (6.13%) Power BI
2 71 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
3 64 (3.44%) Tableau
4 49 (2.63%) SQL Server
5 38 (2.04%) NoSQL
6 35 (1.88%) MongoDB
7 30 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
8 29 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
9 22 (1.18%) Oracle Database
10 21 (1.13%) Pentaho
11 18 (0.97%) Big Data
11 18 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
11 18 (0.97%) Metadata
11 18 (0.97%) Relational Database
12 17 (0.91%) MySQL
13 16 (0.86%) Data Vault
14 11 (0.59%) DynamoDB
14 11 (0.59%) Star Schema
15 10 (0.54%) BigQuery
15 10 (0.54%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 216 (11.61%) Jenkins
2 215 (11.55%) Git
3 115 (6.18%) GitLab
4 80 (4.30%) Selenium
5 70 (3.76%) Postman
6 57 (3.06%) Bitbucket
7 51 (2.74%) Cucumber
8 37 (1.99%) REST Assured
9 36 (1.93%) Sonatype Nexus
10 35 (1.88%) SonarQube
11 34 (1.83%) TestRail
12 30 (1.61%) JUnit
12 30 (1.61%) Zephyr
13 22 (1.18%) Maven
14 21 (1.13%) JMeter
15 17 (0.91%) SpecFlow
16 16 (0.86%) Cypress.io
17 14 (0.75%) SoapUI
18 13 (0.70%) Rational DOORS
19 11 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 768 (41.27%) Social Skills
2 525 (28.21%) Finance
3 363 (19.51%) Analytical Skills
4 236 (12.68%) Banking
5 198 (10.64%) Public Sector
6 68 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
7 66 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
7 66 (3.55%) Retail
8 54 (2.90%) Military
9 46 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
10 44 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
11 33 (1.77%) Investment Banking
12 30 (1.61%) Legal
13 27 (1.45%) Front Office
14 26 (1.40%) Telecoms
15 24 (1.29%) Manufacturing
16 23 (1.24%) Retail Banking
17 22 (1.18%) Marketing
18 17 (0.91%) Automotive
19 15 (0.81%) Law
Job Titles
1 383 (20.58%) Analyst
2 248 (13.33%) Business Analyst
3 175 (9.40%) Developer
4 151 (8.11%) Project Manager
5 140 (7.52%) Lead
6 128 (6.88%) Senior
7 125 (6.72%) Architect
8 81 (4.35%) Tester
9 55 (2.96%) Consultant
9 55 (2.96%) Delivery Manager
9 55 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
10 47 (2.53%) Technical Analyst
10 47 (2.53%) Test Analyst
11 46 (2.47%) Test Engineer
12 43 (2.31%) Scrum Master
12 43 (2.31%) Technical Business Analyst
13 41 (2.20%) Software Engineer
14 37 (1.99%) Senior Analyst
14 37 (1.99%) Technical Manager
15 36 (1.93%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (7.90%) REST
2 66 (3.55%) .NET
3 54 (2.90%) RESTful
4 51 (2.74%) Spring
5 48 (2.58%) SOAP
6 47 (2.53%) HTML
6 47 (2.53%) Kafka
7 45 (2.42%) XML
8 44 (2.36%) React
9 42 (2.26%) Spring Boot
10 41 (2.20%) CSS
11 40 (2.15%) JSON
12 39 (2.10%) Playwright
13 32 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
14 31 (1.67%) AngularJS
15 30 (1.61%) LDAP
16 28 (1.50%) Node.js
17 26 (1.40%) OpenID
18 25 (1.34%) FastAPI
19 23 (1.24%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 226 (12.14%) Product Ownership
2 85 (4.57%) Onboarding
3 64 (3.44%) Cloud Native
4 45 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
5 42 (2.26%) Management Information System
6 39 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
7 33 (1.77%) Virtual Team
8 31 (1.67%) Data Structures
9 30 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
10 29 (1.56%) PMI
11 28 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.29%) Mobile App
13 22 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
14 19 (1.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 18 (0.97%) CMDB
16 17 (0.91%) Public Cloud
17 15 (0.81%) Data Centre
17 15 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
18 14 (0.75%) Tandem
19 13 (0.70%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 148 (7.95%) Windows
2 124 (6.66%) Linux
3 32 (1.72%) Unix
4 22 (1.18%) Android
5 20 (1.07%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.64%) VMS
6 12 (0.64%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.48%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.43%) Amazon Linux
10 7 (0.38%) FreeRTOS
11 6 (0.32%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.054%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.054%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.054%) Windows Embedded Compact
13 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.054%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,114 (59.86%) Agile
2 506 (27.19%) DevOps
3 472 (25.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 452 (24.29%) Problem-Solving
5 406 (21.82%) Scrum
6 362 (19.45%) CI/CD
7 306 (16.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 288 (15.48%) Project Management
9 273 (14.67%) Test Automation
10 243 (13.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 202 (10.85%) User Stories
12 193 (10.37%) User Acceptance Testing
13 185 (9.94%) Project Delivery
14 183 (9.83%) Migration
15 180 (9.67%) Change Management
16 168 (9.03%) Acceptance Criteria
17 163 (8.76%) Roadmaps
18 157 (8.44%) Analytics
19 153 (8.22%) Decision-Making
20 150 (8.06%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 293 (15.74%) SQL
2 255 (13.70%) Python
3 172 (9.24%) Java
4 105 (5.64%) JavaScript
5 80 (4.30%) PowerShell
6 77 (4.14%) C#
7 56 (3.01%) TypeScript
8 35 (1.88%) Bash
9 32 (1.72%) C++
10 26 (1.40%) Go
11 20 (1.07%) Embedded C++
11 20 (1.07%) Shell Script
12 17 (0.91%) PL/SQL
13 14 (0.75%) Groovy
14 13 (0.70%) C
14 13 (0.70%) PHP
15 11 (0.59%) Perl
15 11 (0.59%) Ruby
16 10 (0.54%) Apex Code
16 10 (0.54%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 472 (25.36%) Security Cleared
2 384 (20.63%) SC Cleared
3 267 (14.35%) Degree
4 89 (4.78%) PMI Certification
5 77 (4.14%) PMP
6 64 (3.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 59 (3.17%) ISTQB
8 47 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 46 (2.47%) CISSP
9 46 (2.47%) DV Cleared
10 44 (2.36%) TOGAF Certification
11 37 (1.99%) CISM
12 35 (1.88%) Master's Degree
13 32 (1.72%) AWS Certification
14 24 (1.29%) CBAP
15 21 (1.13%) ISEB
16 19 (1.02%) Azure Certification
17 17 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 17 (0.91%) Oracle Certification
18 16 (0.86%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (12.52%) QA
2 106 (5.70%) PMO
3 78 (4.19%) Data Quality
4 56 (3.01%) Accessibility
5 43 (2.31%) GDPR
6 29 (1.56%) NIST
7 24 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (1.07%) PSD2
8 20 (1.07%) WCAG
9 19 (1.02%) ISO 20022
10 17 (0.91%) SLA
11 16 (0.86%) SEPA
12 13 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.64%) GRC
14 11 (0.59%) Basel III
14 11 (0.59%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.43%) NCSC
15 8 (0.43%) NIST 800
16 5 (0.27%) P3O
System Software
1 182 (9.78%) Docker
2 61 (3.28%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.70%) Squid
6 9 (0.48%) Firmware
7 8 (0.43%) DFS Replication
7 8 (0.43%) Postfix
8 7 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
8 7 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.32%) Dovecot
10 5 (0.27%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 4 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.054%) etcd
13 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
13 1 (0.054%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.054%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
13 1 (0.054%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 167 (8.97%) Kubernetes
2 94 (5.05%) Terraform
3 74 (3.98%) Ansible
4 62 (3.33%) Grafana
5 47 (2.53%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.61%) OPNET
7 28 (1.50%) Control-M
7 28 (1.50%) Nessus
8 25 (1.34%) HP ALM
9 22 (1.18%) IBM Guardium
10 21 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
10 21 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
11 20 (1.07%) Consul
12 16 (0.86%) Packer
13 13 (0.70%) Puppet
14 11 (0.59%) SCCM
15 10 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
16 9 (0.48%) NetBackup
17 7 (0.38%) Argo
18 6 (0.32%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 233 (12.52%) Microsoft
2 202 (10.85%) ServiceNow
3 155 (8.33%) Oracle
4 131 (7.04%) Atlassian
5 98 (5.27%) Salesforce
6 62 (3.33%) SAP
7 45 (2.42%) Google
7 45 (2.42%) Remedy
8 36 (1.93%) IBM
9 28 (1.50%) Workday
10 27 (1.45%) HP
10 27 (1.45%) Tenable
11 26 (1.40%) Red Hat
11 26 (1.40%) Splunk
12 24 (1.29%) Talend
13 23 (1.24%) BiZZdesign
14 21 (1.13%) Adobe
14 21 (1.13%) Databricks
15 20 (1.07%) Denodo
16 18 (0.97%) VMware