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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 30 43
Rank change year-on-year -15 +13 +5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,072 1,603 1,417
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.54% 5.80% 4.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.95% 40.05% 33.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,386 1,115 948
10th Percentile £350 £313 £340
25th Percentile £406 £400 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.69%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £621
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 41 83
10th Percentile £18.75 £47.50 £25.99
25th Percentile £26.25 £50.00 £46.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £67.24 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £85.25 -
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £57.00 £66.01
% change year-on-year -7.02% -13.65% +6.47%

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 5,320 4,002 4,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.67% 14.48% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,386 2,765 2,846
10th Percentile £353 £319 £352
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £630
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 94 194
10th Percentile £35.25 £40.68 £34.02
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.02 £54.09
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.99 £73.93
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - +4.00%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -7 977 £525 - 627
North of England -17 371 £475 +2.04% 151
Midlands -5 294 £450 -5.26% 86
West Midlands -6 253 £456 -5.69% 55
South East -37 215 £481 -1.44% 193
Yorkshire -9 209 £474 -0.21% 46
North West -33 143 £475 +10.35% 76
South West -9 128 £498 -10.76% 112
East of England -14 50 £510 +27.50% 57
East Midlands -10 40 £409 -3.82% 30
North East -38 26 £550 +3.53% 32
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
1 917 (44.26%) Confluence
2 104 (5.02%) SharePoint
3 33 (1.59%) SAS
4 25 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (0.82%) CMS
6 15 (0.72%) Apache
7 9 (0.43%) nginx
8 7 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.29%) Mattermost
10 5 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.24%) IIS
11 4 (0.19%) Camunda
11 4 (0.19%) JBoss
11 4 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.19%) WordPress
12 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.14%) Kentico
12 3 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 143 (6.90%) Microsoft Project
2 139 (6.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 79 (3.81%) MS Visio
4 63 (3.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 59 (2.85%) Microsoft Office
6 23 (1.11%) Trello
7 13 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.48%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.39%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.39%) Revit
10 5 (0.24%) Notion
11 2 (0.097%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.048%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.048%) CATIA
12 1 (0.048%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.048%) Mingle
12 1 (0.048%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.048%) Sketch
12 1 (0.048%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 41 (1.98%) Remedy ITSM
2 26 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.58%) Aladdin
4 11 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
5 10 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
6 8 (0.39%) Findur
6 8 (0.39%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.29%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
8 5 (0.24%) Fidessa
8 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.19%) Actimize
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
9 4 (0.19%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
10 3 (0.14%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 521 (25.14%) Azure
2 329 (15.88%) AWS
3 292 (14.09%) Azure DevOps
4 172 (8.30%) GitHub
5 162 (7.82%) Power Platform
6 96 (4.63%) GCP
7 80 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
8 75 (3.62%) SaaS
9 73 (3.52%) Entra ID
10 68 (3.28%) Serverless
11 63 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
12 59 (2.85%) Amazon S3
13 54 (2.61%) AWS Lambda
14 52 (2.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 39 (1.88%) Amazon EC2
16 34 (1.64%) Miro
17 33 (1.59%) Microsoft Copilot
17 33 (1.59%) Smartsheet
18 30 (1.45%) Snowflake
19 28 (1.35%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 87 (4.20%) Firewall
2 65 (3.14%) DNS
3 44 (2.12%) TCP/IP
4 32 (1.54%) DHCP
4 32 (1.54%) Network Security
5 31 (1.50%) VPN
6 22 (1.06%) WAN
7 19 (0.92%) BIG-IP
7 19 (0.92%) SAN
8 18 (0.87%) SSL
9 15 (0.72%) LAN
9 15 (0.72%) SD-WAN
10 12 (0.58%) Internet
11 10 (0.48%) VLAN
12 9 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 9 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 8 (0.39%) DKIM
13 8 (0.39%) DMARC
13 8 (0.39%) SSH
14 7 (0.34%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (6.90%) Power BI
2 100 (4.83%) Data Warehouse
3 70 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
4 54 (2.61%) SQL Server
5 48 (2.32%) Oracle Reports
6 30 (1.45%) Relational Database
7 26 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
8 24 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
8 24 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (1.16%) Tableau
9 22 (1.06%) MongoDB
10 21 (1.01%) Data Lake
10 21 (1.01%) DynamoDB
10 21 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 20 (0.97%) Pentaho
12 18 (0.87%) Metadata
13 15 (0.72%) NoSQL
13 15 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 14 (0.68%) Oracle Database
15 13 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 260 (12.55%) Git
2 183 (8.83%) Jenkins
3 103 (4.97%) GitLab
4 85 (4.10%) Selenium
5 84 (4.05%) Zephyr
6 70 (3.38%) Bitbucket
7 68 (3.28%) Postman
8 47 (2.27%) JUnit
9 46 (2.22%) Cucumber
10 34 (1.64%) JMeter
11 30 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
12 26 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 24 (1.16%) WebDriver
14 23 (1.11%) Cypress.io
15 20 (0.97%) TestRail
16 19 (0.92%) Artifactory
16 19 (0.92%) REST Assured
17 11 (0.53%) Maven
17 11 (0.53%) MSI
18 10 (0.48%) Appium
General
1 825 (39.82%) Social Skills
2 607 (29.30%) Finance
3 390 (18.82%) Analytical Skills
4 269 (12.98%) Banking
5 234 (11.29%) Public Sector
6 83 (4.01%) Organisational Skills
7 73 (3.52%) Retail
8 72 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
9 45 (2.17%) Investment Banking
10 43 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
11 41 (1.98%) Manufacturing
12 37 (1.79%) Legal
13 35 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 33 (1.59%) Front Office
15 30 (1.45%) Telecoms
16 28 (1.35%) Marketing
17 23 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
17 23 (1.11%) Retail Banking
18 20 (0.97%) Financial Institution
19 19 (0.92%) Military
Job Titles
1 361 (17.42%) Analyst
2 226 (10.91%) Business Analyst
3 210 (10.14%) Lead
4 196 (9.46%) Developer
5 188 (9.07%) Senior
6 112 (5.41%) Project Manager
7 87 (4.20%) Tester
8 85 (4.10%) Consultant
8 85 (4.10%) Delivery Manager
9 74 (3.57%) Scrum Master
10 72 (3.47%) Architect
11 66 (3.19%) Data Engineer
12 53 (2.56%) Product Owner
12 53 (2.56%) Support Engineer
13 49 (2.36%) Test Leader
14 48 (2.32%) Test Analyst
15 47 (2.27%) IT Support
16 43 (2.08%) Senior Manager
17 40 (1.93%) Administrator
18 36 (1.74%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (6.13%) REST
2 76 (3.67%) .NET
3 51 (2.46%) Spring
4 46 (2.22%) React
5 45 (2.17%) HTML
6 44 (2.12%) JSON
6 44 (2.12%) RESTful
7 42 (2.03%) Kafka
8 41 (1.98%) AngularJS
9 35 (1.69%) Playwright
9 35 (1.69%) SOAP
10 33 (1.59%) Middleware
11 32 (1.54%) CSS
12 31 (1.50%) Node.js
12 31 (1.50%) XML
13 29 (1.40%) Spring Boot
14 28 (1.35%) Web Services
15 26 (1.25%) WireMock
16 24 (1.16%) .NET Core
17 23 (1.11%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 248 (11.97%) Product Ownership
2 133 (6.42%) Onboarding
3 88 (4.25%) Cloud Native
4 71 (3.43%) Data Centre
5 58 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
6 50 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
6 50 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
7 48 (2.32%) Virtual Team
8 41 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
9 40 (1.93%) Management Information System
10 33 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
11 32 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
12 31 (1.50%) Data Structures
13 20 (0.97%) Mobile App
13 20 (0.97%) SCADA
14 18 (0.87%) Credit Risk
14 18 (0.87%) Derivative
14 18 (0.87%) Security Posture
15 16 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
15 16 (0.77%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 156 (7.53%) Windows
2 122 (5.89%) Linux
3 48 (2.32%) Unix
4 23 (1.11%) Windows 10
5 20 (0.97%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.77%) Mac OS
7 15 (0.72%) Android
8 13 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 12 (0.58%) Windows Server
10 6 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.14%) AIX
12 3 (0.14%) Check Point GAiA
13 2 (0.097%) MVS
13 2 (0.097%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.097%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.097%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.097%) zOS
14 1 (0.048%) SUSE
14 1 (0.048%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,231 (59.41%) Agile
2 613 (29.58%) Stakeholder Management
3 572 (27.61%) DevOps
4 448 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
5 444 (21.43%) CI/CD
6 419 (20.22%) Scrum
7 393 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 354 (17.08%) Test Automation
9 302 (14.58%) Migration
10 249 (12.02%) User Acceptance Testing
11 236 (11.39%) User Stories
12 229 (11.05%) Project Management
12 229 (11.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 228 (11.00%) Validation
14 218 (10.52%) Sprint Planning
15 215 (10.38%) AI
16 203 (9.80%) Project Delivery
17 190 (9.17%) Change Management
18 186 (8.98%) ITIL
18 186 (8.98%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 351 (16.94%) SQL
2 243 (11.73%) Python
3 141 (6.81%) Java
4 90 (4.34%) JavaScript
5 77 (3.72%) C#
6 76 (3.67%) PowerShell
7 63 (3.04%) TypeScript
8 43 (2.08%) Bash
9 32 (1.54%) PL/SQL
10 18 (0.87%) Bicep
11 17 (0.82%) Groovy
12 16 (0.77%) Apex Code
13 15 (0.72%) Kotlin
13 15 (0.72%) Perl
14 13 (0.63%) VBA
15 9 (0.43%) ActionScript
15 9 (0.43%) C++
16 7 (0.34%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.29%) C
17 6 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 560 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 433 (20.90%) SC Cleared
3 172 (8.30%) Degree
4 89 (4.30%) DV Cleared
5 75 (3.62%) ISTQB
6 73 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 56 (2.70%) PMI Certification
8 46 (2.22%) PMP
9 26 (1.25%) CISSP
10 23 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
11 22 (1.06%) Azure Certification
12 20 (0.97%) Master's Degree
13 19 (0.92%) AWS Certification
13 19 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 16 (0.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 16 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
14 16 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
14 16 (0.77%) SAFe Agilist
15 14 (0.68%) CISM
16 12 (0.58%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 255 (12.31%) QA
2 126 (6.08%) PMO
3 118 (5.69%) Data Quality
4 65 (3.14%) Accessibility
5 41 (1.98%) SLA
6 35 (1.69%) GDPR
7 27 (1.30%) WCAG
8 24 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 21 (1.01%) NCSC
10 19 (0.92%) NIST
11 16 (0.77%) GRC
12 12 (0.58%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.53%) ISO 20022
14 7 (0.34%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.34%) SEPA
15 6 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 5 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 132 (6.37%) Docker
2 119 (5.74%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (0.48%) Firmware
5 10 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.14%) HDFS
7 3 (0.14%) Squid
8 2 (0.097%) OpenAM
8 2 (0.097%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.048%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.048%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 150 (7.24%) Kubernetes
2 146 (7.05%) Terraform
3 84 (4.05%) Ansible
4 57 (2.75%) Grafana
5 46 (2.22%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (1.01%) HP ALM
8 16 (0.77%) Control-M
8 16 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
9 12 (0.58%) Puppet
10 9 (0.43%) Packer
11 8 (0.39%) Dell DRAC
11 8 (0.39%) Nessus
12 7 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.34%) HP Quality Center
12 7 (0.34%) IBM Guardium
12 7 (0.34%) Istio
13 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
13 6 (0.29%) SCOM
13 6 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 299 (14.43%) Microsoft
2 260 (12.55%) ServiceNow
3 165 (7.96%) Oracle
4 91 (4.39%) Atlassian
4 91 (4.39%) Salesforce
5 90 (4.34%) SAP
6 57 (2.75%) Google
7 42 (2.03%) Remedy
7 42 (2.03%) VMware
8 40 (1.93%) Denodo
8 40 (1.93%) IBM
9 35 (1.69%) Splunk
9 35 (1.69%) Talend
10 29 (1.40%) Databricks
11 27 (1.30%) Informatica
12 25 (1.21%) MuleSoft
13 24 (1.16%) F5
13 24 (1.16%) HP
14 23 (1.11%) Adobe
14 23 (1.11%) Workday