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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 38 52
Rank change year-on-year 0 +14 -5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,065 1,245 1,362
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.11% 5.10% 3.67%
As % of the Development Applications category 41.23% 37.56% 31.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,448 807 906
10th Percentile £317 £319 £350
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £630
90th Percentile £696 £692 £750
UK median daily rate £485 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 24 64
10th Percentile £18.75 £48.60 £22.00
25th Percentile £25.00 £52.14 £35.81
Median hourly rate £62.50 £57.63 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.46% +4.77% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £76.75 £70.88
UK median hourly rate £62.75 £57.63 £45.88
% change year-on-year +8.89% +25.60% -29.07%

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 5,008 3,315 4,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.39% 13.58% 11.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,337 2,220 2,910
10th Percentile £341 £350 £355
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -6.41% -2.86%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £694 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 62 183
10th Percentile £38.39 £27.54 £31.97
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.30 £53.75
Median hourly rate £67.75 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% -3.85% +7.28%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.67 £82.20
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +2 917 £505 +0.95% 215
North of England +3 375 £450 - 94
Midlands +2 320 £450 -9.09% 73
West Midlands -2 252 £456 -8.90% 54
South East -21 193 £475 -5.00% 112
Yorkshire -7 190 £452 -9.70% 41
North West +3 170 £442 +4.06% 44
South West +4 158 £564 +0.22% 41
East Midlands 0 65 £393 -19.90% 19
East of England -3 62 £438 -4.11% 34
North East -14 18 £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
1 933 (45.18%) Confluence
2 107 (5.18%) SharePoint
3 39 (1.89%) SAS
4 28 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 19 (0.92%) nginx
6 18 (0.87%) Apache
7 14 (0.68%) CMS
8 9 (0.44%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.29%) Ethereum
10 6 (0.29%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.29%) Mattermost
10 6 (0.29%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.24%) JBoss
11 5 (0.24%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.19%) IIS
12 4 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 228 (11.04%) Microsoft Project
2 180 (8.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 102 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
4 96 (4.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 88 (4.26%) MS Visio
6 20 (0.97%) Trello
7 9 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.39%) Chatbot
9 6 (0.29%) Notion
10 3 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.15%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.15%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.15%) Revit
11 2 (0.097%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.097%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.097%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.097%) CATIA
11 2 (0.097%) InVision
11 2 (0.097%) Sketch
12 1 (0.048%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 26 (1.26%) Remedy ITSM
1 26 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.73%) NetSuite
3 14 (0.68%) Loan IQ
4 9 (0.44%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.39%) Fidessa
5 8 (0.39%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.29%) Maximo
6 6 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
6 6 (0.29%) SAP MDG
7 5 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.24%) SAP Retail
8 4 (0.19%) Findur
8 4 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
8 4 (0.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 427 (20.68%) Azure
2 308 (14.92%) AWS
3 240 (11.62%) Azure DevOps
4 157 (7.60%) GitHub
5 152 (7.36%) Power Platform
6 80 (3.87%) GCP
6 80 (3.87%) SaaS
7 75 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
8 69 (3.34%) Entra ID
9 54 (2.62%) Amazon S3
9 54 (2.62%) GitHub Actions
10 49 (2.37%) Serverless
11 41 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
12 36 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 35 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
13 35 (1.69%) Figma
14 33 (1.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 31 (1.50%) Miro
16 28 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
17 27 (1.31%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 65 (3.15%) Firewall
2 44 (2.13%) DNS
3 40 (1.94%) TCP/IP
4 28 (1.36%) LAN
5 25 (1.21%) Network Security
5 25 (1.21%) WAN
6 24 (1.16%) VPN
7 19 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (0.87%) SSL
9 16 (0.77%) DHCP
10 15 (0.73%) HTTP
11 14 (0.68%) SAN
12 13 (0.63%) BIG-IP
13 12 (0.58%) Internet
14 11 (0.53%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.48%) Ethernet
15 10 (0.48%) FTP
15 10 (0.48%) Unified Communications
16 9 (0.44%) NAS
17 7 (0.34%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (6.44%) Power BI
2 82 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
3 69 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
4 56 (2.71%) SQL Server
5 52 (2.52%) Tableau
6 39 (1.89%) MongoDB
7 36 (1.74%) Oracle Reports
8 30 (1.45%) NoSQL
9 24 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
9 24 (1.16%) DynamoDB
10 23 (1.11%) Pentaho
11 22 (1.07%) Relational Database
12 18 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
13 15 (0.73%) Big Data
13 15 (0.73%) BusinessObjects
13 15 (0.73%) MySQL
13 15 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 13 (0.63%) Metadata
15 12 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (0.58%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 247 (11.96%) Git
2 185 (8.96%) Jenkins
3 103 (4.99%) GitLab
4 100 (4.84%) Selenium
5 77 (3.73%) Postman
6 61 (2.95%) Zephyr
7 60 (2.91%) Cucumber
8 55 (2.66%) Bitbucket
9 52 (2.52%) JUnit
10 39 (1.89%) JMeter
11 37 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
12 32 (1.55%) REST Assured
13 29 (1.40%) TestRail
14 25 (1.21%) SonarQube
15 22 (1.07%) Cypress.io
16 21 (1.02%) WebDriver
17 16 (0.77%) Appium
17 16 (0.77%) Maven
18 12 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 12 (0.58%) TestNG
General
1 847 (41.02%) Social Skills
2 601 (29.10%) Finance
3 422 (20.44%) Analytical Skills
4 260 (12.59%) Banking
5 220 (10.65%) Public Sector
6 75 (3.63%) Organisational Skills
7 72 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
8 71 (3.44%) Retail
9 59 (2.86%) Military
10 40 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
11 38 (1.84%) Legal
12 37 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
13 36 (1.74%) Manufacturing
14 33 (1.60%) Investment Banking
15 24 (1.16%) Front Office
15 24 (1.16%) Retail Banking
16 21 (1.02%) Marketing
17 20 (0.97%) Telecoms
18 19 (0.92%) Law
19 17 (0.82%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 409 (19.81%) Analyst
2 255 (12.35%) Business Analyst
3 181 (8.77%) Developer
4 174 (8.43%) Lead
5 158 (7.65%) Senior
6 144 (6.97%) Project Manager
7 110 (5.33%) Architect
8 93 (4.50%) Tester
9 89 (4.31%) Delivery Manager
10 71 (3.44%) Data Engineer
11 65 (3.15%) Scrum Master
12 63 (3.05%) Consultant
13 51 (2.47%) Test Analyst
13 51 (2.47%) Test Engineer
14 50 (2.42%) IT Support
15 48 (2.32%) Support Engineer
16 44 (2.13%) Technical Manager
17 43 (2.08%) Software Engineer
17 43 (2.08%) Test Leader
18 39 (1.89%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (5.18%) REST
2 62 (3.00%) .NET
2 62 (3.00%) Spring
3 58 (2.81%) React
4 46 (2.23%) HTML
5 45 (2.18%) Kafka
6 41 (1.99%) JSON
7 40 (1.94%) Spring Boot
8 39 (1.89%) RESTful
9 36 (1.74%) CSS
10 32 (1.55%) Playwright
10 32 (1.55%) SOAP
11 30 (1.45%) XML
12 29 (1.40%) ADO
12 29 (1.40%) OpenID
13 27 (1.31%) LDAP
13 27 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
14 26 (1.26%) AngularJS
14 26 (1.26%) Middleware
15 24 (1.16%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 259 (12.54%) Product Ownership
2 96 (4.65%) Onboarding
3 72 (3.49%) Cloud Native
4 48 (2.32%) Management Information System
5 45 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
6 44 (2.13%) Virtual Team
7 41 (1.99%) Data Centre
7 41 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
8 35 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
9 34 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
10 29 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
11 25 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
12 23 (1.11%) Data Structures
13 22 (1.07%) PMI
14 21 (1.02%) Mobile App
15 16 (0.77%) Public Cloud
16 15 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 15 (0.73%) SCADA
17 13 (0.63%) Derivative
17 13 (0.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 161 (7.80%) Windows
2 127 (6.15%) Linux
3 27 (1.31%) Unix
4 21 (1.02%) Android
5 17 (0.82%) Windows 10
6 14 (0.68%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.58%) Mac OS
7 12 (0.58%) Windows Server
8 11 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.39%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (0.15%) AIX
10 3 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.097%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.097%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.048%) MVS
12 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.048%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,200 (58.11%) Agile
2 523 (25.33%) DevOps
3 519 (25.13%) Stakeholder Management
4 459 (22.23%) Problem-Solving
5 417 (20.19%) Scrum
6 384 (18.60%) CI/CD
7 369 (17.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 322 (15.59%) Test Automation
9 295 (14.29%) Project Management
10 264 (12.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 246 (11.91%) Migration
12 228 (11.04%) User Acceptance Testing
13 216 (10.46%) User Stories
14 203 (9.83%) Change Management
15 196 (9.49%) Project Delivery
16 189 (9.15%) ITIL
17 188 (9.10%) Acceptance Criteria
18 186 (9.01%) Validation
19 179 (8.67%) Analytics
20 172 (8.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 318 (15.40%) SQL
2 216 (10.46%) Python
3 185 (8.96%) Java
4 93 (4.50%) JavaScript
5 84 (4.07%) C#
6 62 (3.00%) TypeScript
7 61 (2.95%) PowerShell
8 37 (1.79%) Bash
9 30 (1.45%) C++
10 24 (1.16%) Shell Script
11 19 (0.92%) PL/SQL
12 17 (0.82%) C
13 15 (0.73%) Perl
14 14 (0.68%) Embedded C++
14 14 (0.68%) VBA
15 13 (0.63%) Apex Code
16 10 (0.48%) Embedded C
16 10 (0.48%) Go
17 9 (0.44%) Kotlin
18 8 (0.39%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 569 (27.55%) Security Cleared
2 440 (21.31%) SC Cleared
3 243 (11.77%) Degree
4 74 (3.58%) PMI Certification
5 68 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
5 68 (3.29%) PMP
6 67 (3.24%) ISTQB
7 64 (3.10%) DV Cleared
8 36 (1.74%) TOGAF Certification
9 35 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
10 30 (1.45%) CISSP
11 29 (1.40%) Master's Degree
12 25 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
13 22 (1.07%) CISM
14 21 (1.02%) Azure Certification
14 21 (1.02%) SAFe Agilist
15 20 (0.97%) IIBA
16 19 (0.92%) AWS Certification
16 19 (0.92%) CBAP
17 14 (0.68%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 260 (12.59%) QA
2 127 (6.15%) PMO
3 108 (5.23%) Data Quality
4 54 (2.62%) Accessibility
5 50 (2.42%) GDPR
6 30 (1.45%) SLA
7 28 (1.36%) NIST
8 20 (0.97%) WCAG
9 18 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 17 (0.82%) GRC
11 12 (0.58%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.58%) PSD2
12 11 (0.53%) Basel III
12 11 (0.53%) ISO 20022
13 8 (0.39%) NCSC
13 8 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.34%) SEPA
15 6 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
System Software
1 153 (7.41%) Docker
2 94 (4.55%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.73%) Firmware
5 9 (0.44%) Squid
5 9 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
7 5 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.15%) HDFS
9 2 (0.097%) Postfix
9 2 (0.097%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.048%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.048%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.048%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 165 (7.99%) Kubernetes
2 115 (5.57%) Terraform
3 89 (4.31%) Ansible
4 68 (3.29%) Grafana
5 48 (2.32%) Prometheus
6 33 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.45%) OPNET
8 25 (1.21%) HP ALM
9 23 (1.11%) Control-M
9 23 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
10 17 (0.82%) Nessus
11 16 (0.77%) Consul
11 16 (0.77%) IBM Guardium
11 16 (0.77%) Puppet
12 11 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
13 9 (0.44%) SCCM
14 8 (0.39%) FortiGate
14 8 (0.39%) HP Quality Center
15 7 (0.34%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.34%) Packer
Vendors
1 254 (12.30%) ServiceNow
2 244 (11.82%) Microsoft
3 168 (8.14%) Oracle
4 136 (6.59%) Atlassian
5 97 (4.70%) Salesforce
6 76 (3.68%) SAP
7 64 (3.10%) Remedy
8 49 (2.37%) Google
9 34 (1.65%) Workday
10 30 (1.45%) IBM
11 29 (1.40%) Denodo
12 28 (1.36%) Talend
13 27 (1.31%) HP
13 27 (1.31%) Red Hat
13 27 (1.31%) Splunk
13 27 (1.31%) VMware
14 26 (1.26%) Databricks
14 26 (1.26%) Informatica
15 21 (1.02%) MuleSoft
16 20 (0.97%) Adobe