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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 33 41
Rank change year-on-year -15 +8 +9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,002 1,623 1,414
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.32% 5.89% 4.37%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.99% 39.14% 32.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,287 1,148 904
10th Percentile £350 £313 £321
25th Percentile £413 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £509
Median % change year-on-year - -1.77% -4.68%
75th Percentile £600 £607 £606
90th Percentile £675 £688 £687
UK median daily rate £500 £494 £500
% change year-on-year +1.27% -1.25% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 44 65
10th Percentile £19.25 £34.20 £28.09
25th Percentile £24.19 £50.00 £54.70
Median hourly rate £58.74 £57.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.04% -18.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 -
90th Percentile £79.35 £82.10 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -21.43% +12.00%

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 5,270 4,147 4,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.38% 15.05% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,335 2,875 2,739
10th Percentile £353 £325 £350
25th Percentile £416 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £634
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 96 163
10th Percentile £24.15 £38.13 £38.54
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.56 £54.66
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £76.25 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 29 September 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 29 September 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 29 September 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 -14 943 £537 +2.29% 659
North of England -18 345 £485 +3.19% 216
Midlands -7 246 £462 -2.74% 120
West Midlands -10 213 £469 -1.26% 84
Yorkshire -4 209 £500 +3.09% 79
South East -44 199 £460 -2.23% 212
South West -3 143 £525 -4.55% 108
North West -44 115 £475 +8.26% 107
East of England +2 84 £472 +15.19% 104
East Midlands -18 32 £405 +13.13% 36
North East -35 28 £515 -0.96% 31
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
1 894 (44.66%) Confluence
2 103 (5.14%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.10%) CMS
4 22 (1.10%) SAS
5 10 (0.50%) Camunda
6 9 (0.45%) Apache
6 9 (0.45%) nginx
7 5 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.25%) CICS
7 5 (0.25%) IIS
7 5 (0.25%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.25%) MTS
8 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.20%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.20%) Traefik
8 4 (0.20%) WordPress
9 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
9 3 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 138 (6.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 111 (5.54%) Microsoft Project
3 77 (3.85%) MS Visio
4 61 (3.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 59 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
6 20 (1.00%) Trello
7 16 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.50%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.40%) Revit
10 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.25%) Notion
11 4 (0.20%) Windchill
12 3 (0.15%) Mingle
13 2 (0.100%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.100%) Gliffy
13 2 (0.100%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.050%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.050%) Adobe Illustrator
14 1 (0.050%) Adobe Premiere
14 1 (0.050%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 32 (1.60%) Remedy ITSM
2 20 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.65%) Workday HCM
4 12 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
5 11 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
6 9 (0.45%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.30%) Teamcenter
8 5 (0.25%) Fidessa
8 5 (0.25%) ResourceLink
8 5 (0.25%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.20%) Findur
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.20%) SAP FI-AR
9 4 (0.20%) SAP HCM
10 3 (0.15%) Maximo
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
10 3 (0.15%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 481 (24.03%) Azure
2 315 (15.73%) AWS
3 268 (13.39%) Azure DevOps
4 167 (8.34%) Power Platform
5 160 (7.99%) GitHub
6 101 (5.04%) GCP
7 96 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
8 70 (3.50%) SaaS
9 57 (2.85%) Serverless
10 55 (2.75%) Amazon S3
10 55 (2.75%) Entra ID
11 49 (2.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 46 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
13 44 (2.20%) Miro
14 41 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
15 36 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
16 34 (1.70%) Smartsheet
17 33 (1.65%) Microsoft Copilot
18 29 (1.45%) Snowflake
19 25 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 76 (3.80%) Firewall
2 73 (3.65%) DNS
3 46 (2.30%) TCP/IP
4 35 (1.75%) DHCP
5 34 (1.70%) VPN
6 24 (1.20%) Network Security
7 22 (1.10%) WAN
8 21 (1.05%) BIG-IP
9 17 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (0.80%) IPv4
10 16 (0.80%) IPv6
11 15 (0.75%) Broadband
11 15 (0.75%) SAN
12 14 (0.70%) VLAN
13 13 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 13 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 13 (0.65%) SSL
14 12 (0.60%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.50%) LAN
15 10 (0.50%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (7.39%) Power BI
2 91 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 71 (3.55%) SQL Server
4 58 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (1.95%) Oracle Reports
6 38 (1.90%) Relational Database
7 27 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (1.10%) MongoDB
10 20 (1.00%) Data Lake
10 20 (1.00%) Oracle Database
11 19 (0.95%) Metadata
11 19 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 18 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
13 17 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
14 16 (0.80%) Tableau
15 15 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 13 (0.65%) DynamoDB
16 13 (0.65%) MySQL
16 13 (0.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 247 (12.34%) Git
2 168 (8.39%) Jenkins
3 120 (5.99%) GitLab
4 76 (3.80%) Zephyr
5 71 (3.55%) Selenium
6 62 (3.10%) Bitbucket
7 61 (3.05%) Postman
8 35 (1.75%) JUnit
9 29 (1.45%) Cucumber
9 29 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
10 27 (1.35%) JMeter
11 26 (1.30%) Maven
12 25 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 25 (1.25%) REST Assured
13 24 (1.20%) Cypress.io
14 22 (1.10%) Mockito
15 21 (1.05%) SonarQube
16 20 (1.00%) Rational Rhapsody
16 20 (1.00%) TestRail
17 17 (0.85%) Artifactory
General
1 795 (39.71%) Social Skills
2 571 (28.52%) Finance
3 390 (19.48%) Analytical Skills
4 275 (13.74%) Banking
5 233 (11.64%) Public Sector
6 87 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
7 74 (3.70%) Retail
8 65 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
9 55 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
10 51 (2.55%) Investment Banking
11 47 (2.35%) Manufacturing
12 44 (2.20%) Telecoms
13 38 (1.90%) Front Office
13 38 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 38 (1.90%) Legal
14 35 (1.75%) Marketing
15 25 (1.25%) Retail Banking
16 21 (1.05%) Military
17 20 (1.00%) Financial Institution
17 20 (1.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 347 (17.33%) Analyst
2 220 (10.99%) Lead
3 208 (10.39%) Business Analyst
4 192 (9.59%) Developer
5 172 (8.59%) Senior
6 105 (5.24%) Project Manager
7 76 (3.80%) Consultant
7 76 (3.80%) Delivery Manager
8 75 (3.75%) Scrum Master
9 72 (3.60%) Architect
10 65 (3.25%) Tester
11 51 (2.55%) Administrator
12 50 (2.50%) Product Owner
13 48 (2.40%) Test Leader
14 47 (2.35%) Data Engineer
15 46 (2.30%) Support Engineer
15 46 (2.30%) Test Analyst
16 39 (1.95%) Product Manager
16 39 (1.95%) Test Engineer
17 38 (1.90%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (7.19%) REST
2 130 (6.49%) Terraform
3 73 (3.65%) .NET
4 60 (3.00%) HTML
5 56 (2.80%) RESTful
6 51 (2.55%) SOAP
7 49 (2.45%) JSON
7 49 (2.45%) React
8 48 (2.40%) AngularJS
9 43 (2.15%) CSS
9 43 (2.15%) Web Services
10 42 (2.10%) Kafka
11 39 (1.95%) Spring
12 38 (1.90%) Playwright
12 38 (1.90%) Spring Boot
13 36 (1.80%) XML
14 31 (1.55%) Middleware
15 27 (1.35%) Node.js
16 26 (1.30%) Hibernate
16 26 (1.30%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 268 (13.39%) Product Ownership
2 138 (6.89%) Onboarding
3 89 (4.45%) Cloud Native
4 69 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 63 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
6 57 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
7 53 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
8 44 (2.20%) Virtual Team
9 38 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
9 38 (1.90%) Data Structures
10 36 (1.80%) Management Information System
11 28 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
12 25 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
13 23 (1.15%) Credit Risk
14 21 (1.05%) Mobile App
15 20 (1.00%) Derivative
15 20 (1.00%) SCADA
16 19 (0.95%) Replication
17 17 (0.85%) Low-Code
18 16 (0.80%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 141 (7.04%) Windows
2 130 (6.49%) Linux
3 42 (2.10%) Unix
4 29 (1.45%) Windows 10
5 22 (1.10%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.90%) Android
7 17 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 16 (0.80%) Mac OS
9 15 (0.75%) Windows Server
10 10 (0.50%) VMS
11 9 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
12 8 (0.40%) CentOS
12 8 (0.40%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.25%) zOS
14 4 (0.20%) AIX
14 4 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
15 3 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
16 2 (0.100%) MVS
16 2 (0.100%) Solaris
16 2 (0.100%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,183 (59.09%) Agile
2 660 (32.97%) Stakeholder Management
3 535 (26.72%) DevOps
4 441 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
5 432 (21.58%) Scrum
6 425 (21.23%) CI/CD
7 375 (18.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 339 (16.93%) Test Automation
9 306 (15.28%) Migration
10 261 (13.04%) User Acceptance Testing
11 245 (12.24%) User Stories
12 236 (11.79%) Validation
13 235 (11.74%) AI
14 222 (11.09%) Project Management
15 219 (10.94%) Sprint Planning
16 217 (10.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 205 (10.24%) Project Delivery
18 203 (10.14%) SDLC
19 197 (9.84%) Acceptance Criteria
20 176 (8.79%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 357 (17.83%) SQL
2 260 (12.99%) Python
3 127 (6.34%) Java
4 96 (4.80%) JavaScript
5 71 (3.55%) PowerShell
5 71 (3.55%) TypeScript
6 67 (3.35%) C#
7 41 (2.05%) Bash
8 35 (1.75%) PL/SQL
9 23 (1.15%) C++
10 19 (0.95%) Groovy
11 16 (0.80%) Kotlin
12 15 (0.75%) Bicep
12 15 (0.75%) C
13 13 (0.65%) ActionScript
14 12 (0.60%) Apex Code
14 12 (0.60%) Perl
14 12 (0.60%) VBA
15 9 (0.45%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 533 (26.62%) Security Cleared
2 408 (20.38%) SC Cleared
3 160 (7.99%) Degree
4 95 (4.75%) DV Cleared
5 90 (4.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 66 (3.30%) ISTQB
7 58 (2.90%) PMI Certification
8 46 (2.30%) PMP
9 29 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (1.30%) AWS Certification
11 21 (1.05%) Azure Certification
11 21 (1.05%) Master's Degree
12 19 (0.95%) CISSP
13 17 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
14 16 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 15 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 13 (0.65%) CISM
17 12 (0.60%) SAFe Agilist
18 11 (0.55%) IIBA
18 11 (0.55%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 274 (13.69%) QA
2 127 (6.34%) Data Quality
3 119 (5.94%) PMO
4 63 (3.15%) Accessibility
5 38 (1.90%) SLA
6 24 (1.20%) WCAG
7 23 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (1.00%) NCSC
8 20 (1.00%) NIST
9 19 (0.95%) GRC
10 15 (0.75%) GDPR
11 14 (0.70%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.45%) COBIT
12 9 (0.45%) SEPA
13 8 (0.40%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.30%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.25%) MiFID
15 5 (0.25%) P3O
15 5 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 126 (6.29%) Docker
2 101 (5.04%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (0.50%) Firmware
6 8 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.25%) vSphere
9 3 (0.15%) Squid
10 2 (0.100%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.100%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.100%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.100%) Postfix
10 2 (0.100%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.050%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.050%) NFS
11 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.050%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.050%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 1 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 114 (5.69%) Kubernetes
2 72 (3.60%) Ansible
3 54 (2.70%) Grafana
4 43 (2.15%) Prometheus
5 30 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (1.20%) HP ALM
7 17 (0.85%) Control-M
8 11 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.45%) Istio
9 9 (0.45%) Packer
10 8 (0.40%) Nessus
11 7 (0.35%) Dell DRAC
11 7 (0.35%) SCCM
11 7 (0.35%) SCOM
12 6 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
13 5 (0.25%) Argo
13 5 (0.25%) IBM Guardium
13 5 (0.25%) Puppet
13 5 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 304 (15.18%) Microsoft
2 221 (11.04%) ServiceNow
3 147 (7.34%) Oracle
4 96 (4.80%) SAP
5 83 (4.15%) Salesforce
6 68 (3.40%) Atlassian
7 63 (3.15%) Google
8 55 (2.75%) IBM
9 47 (2.35%) VMware
10 37 (1.85%) Splunk
11 35 (1.75%) Remedy
12 30 (1.50%) Denodo
13 25 (1.25%) Databricks
13 25 (1.25%) HP
14 24 (1.20%) F5
14 24 (1.20%) Talend
15 23 (1.15%) Workday
16 22 (1.10%) Adobe
16 22 (1.10%) Informatica
17 21 (1.05%) MuleSoft