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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 44 51
Rank change year-on-year +11 +7 -11
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,873 1,193 1,435
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.47% 4.58% 3.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.98% 33.90% 32.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,345 728 1,013
10th Percentile £313 £313 £342
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £620
90th Percentile £700 £675 £736
UK median daily rate £493 £485 £513
% change year-on-year +1.55% -5.37% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 23 47
10th Percentile £15.71 £45.40 £31.53
25th Percentile £32.65 £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 £63.40 £62.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +1.44% +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 4,805 3,519 4,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.04% 13.51% 11.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,307 2,206 3,114
10th Percentile £340 £340 £363
25th Percentile £409 £410 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -5.22% -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 132 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 £81.10 £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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +8 834 £525 +5.00% 126
North of England +13 350 £450 - 73
Midlands +11 244 £444 -6.97% 97
South East -4 200 £475 - 143
Yorkshire -4 186 £480 -2.64% 33
West Midlands +4 180 £475 -0.42% 71
South West +23 153 £575 +1.77% 55
North West +18 148 £430 -4.44% 37
East Midlands +10 62 £354 -28.48% 26
East of England -13 59 £425 +3.03% 33
North East -5 16 £400 -11.11% 4
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
1 887 (47.36%) Confluence
2 112 (5.98%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.87%) nginx
4 31 (1.66%) SAS
5 25 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
6 22 (1.17%) CMS
7 12 (0.64%) Apache
8 11 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.43%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.37%) WebLogic
11 6 (0.32%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.32%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.32%) OpenStack
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 (10.52%) Microsoft Project
2 173 (9.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 109 (5.82%) Microsoft Office
4 103 (5.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 77 (4.11%) MS Visio
6 25 (1.33%) Trello
7 6 (0.32%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 6 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.27%) Notion
8 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.27%) Sketch
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 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.59%) Workday HCM
4 10 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.53%) Fidessa
4 10 (0.53%) Loan IQ
4 10 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 8 (0.43%) Maximo
6 7 (0.37%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.37%) 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
1 364 (19.43%) Azure
2 283 (15.11%) AWS
3 190 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
4 168 (8.97%) GitHub
5 130 (6.94%) Power Platform
6 80 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
7 76 (4.06%) GCP
8 57 (3.04%) SaaS
9 48 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
10 44 (2.35%) Serverless
11 40 (2.14%) Entra ID
12 39 (2.08%) Amazon S3
13 38 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
14 34 (1.82%) Figma
14 34 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 31 (1.66%) Slack
16 29 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
17 28 (1.49%) Miro
18 27 (1.44%) Amazon EKS
18 27 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.67%) Firewall
2 40 (2.14%) DNS
3 32 (1.71%) TCP/IP
4 28 (1.49%) VPN
5 22 (1.17%) HTTP
6 21 (1.12%) WAN
7 20 (1.07%) LAN
8 19 (1.01%) SSH
9 16 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (0.69%) FTP
10 13 (0.69%) Network Security
11 10 (0.53%) SD-WAN
12 9 (0.48%) DHCP
12 9 (0.48%) Ethernet
12 9 (0.48%) SMTP
12 9 (0.48%) SSL
12 9 (0.48%) Unified Communications
13 7 (0.37%) Modbus
13 7 (0.37%) RS-232
13 7 (0.37%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (5.87%) Power BI
2 71 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
3 64 (3.42%) Tableau
4 49 (2.62%) SQL Server
5 37 (1.98%) NoSQL
6 35 (1.87%) MongoDB
7 31 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
8 29 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
9 22 (1.17%) Oracle Database
10 21 (1.12%) Pentaho
11 18 (0.96%) Big Data
11 18 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
11 18 (0.96%) Metadata
11 18 (0.96%) Relational Database
12 17 (0.91%) MySQL
13 16 (0.85%) Data Vault
14 11 (0.59%) DynamoDB
14 11 (0.59%) Star Schema
15 10 (0.53%) BigQuery
15 10 (0.53%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 221 (11.80%) Jenkins
2 218 (11.64%) Git
3 115 (6.14%) GitLab
4 82 (4.38%) Selenium
5 70 (3.74%) Postman
6 57 (3.04%) Bitbucket
7 52 (2.78%) Cucumber
8 38 (2.03%) REST Assured
9 37 (1.98%) Sonatype Nexus
10 35 (1.87%) TestRail
11 33 (1.76%) SonarQube
12 31 (1.66%) Zephyr
13 30 (1.60%) JUnit
14 22 (1.17%) JMeter
14 22 (1.17%) Maven
15 17 (0.91%) Cypress.io
15 17 (0.91%) SpecFlow
16 14 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
16 14 (0.75%) SoapUI
17 11 (0.59%) Gatling
General
1 770 (41.11%) Social Skills
2 525 (28.03%) Finance
3 364 (19.43%) Analytical Skills
4 234 (12.49%) Banking
5 203 (10.84%) Public Sector
6 68 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
7 67 (3.58%) Organisational Skills
8 66 (3.52%) Retail
9 54 (2.88%) Military
10 46 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
11 44 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
12 33 (1.76%) Investment Banking
13 31 (1.66%) Legal
14 26 (1.39%) Front Office
14 26 (1.39%) Telecoms
15 24 (1.28%) Manufacturing
16 22 (1.17%) Marketing
17 21 (1.12%) Retail Banking
18 17 (0.91%) Automotive
19 16 (0.85%) Law
Job Titles
1 383 (20.45%) Analyst
2 249 (13.29%) Business Analyst
3 176 (9.40%) Developer
4 153 (8.17%) Project Manager
5 141 (7.53%) Lead
6 129 (6.89%) Senior
7 124 (6.62%) Architect
8 81 (4.32%) Tester
9 56 (2.99%) Delivery Manager
10 55 (2.94%) Consultant
11 54 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
12 48 (2.56%) Test Engineer
13 47 (2.51%) Technical Analyst
13 47 (2.51%) Test Analyst
14 43 (2.30%) Technical Business Analyst
15 42 (2.24%) Scrum Master
16 41 (2.19%) Software Engineer
17 37 (1.98%) Data Engineer
17 37 (1.98%) Senior Analyst
17 37 (1.98%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (7.96%) REST
2 66 (3.52%) .NET
3 54 (2.88%) RESTful
4 51 (2.72%) Spring
5 49 (2.62%) SOAP
6 47 (2.51%) HTML
6 47 (2.51%) Kafka
7 46 (2.46%) XML
8 44 (2.35%) React
9 42 (2.24%) Spring Boot
10 41 (2.19%) CSS
10 41 (2.19%) JSON
11 40 (2.14%) Playwright
12 32 (1.71%) Oracle Fusion
13 31 (1.66%) AngularJS
14 30 (1.60%) LDAP
15 28 (1.49%) Node.js
16 26 (1.39%) OpenID
17 25 (1.33%) FastAPI
18 23 (1.23%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 224 (11.96%) Product Ownership
2 85 (4.54%) Onboarding
3 65 (3.47%) Cloud Native
4 46 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
5 42 (2.24%) Management Information System
6 36 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (1.82%) Virtual Team
8 31 (1.66%) Data Structures
9 30 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
10 29 (1.55%) PMI
11 28 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.28%) Mobile App
13 22 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
14 19 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 18 (0.96%) CMDB
15 18 (0.96%) Public Cloud
16 16 (0.85%) Data Centre
17 15 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
18 14 (0.75%) Tandem
19 13 (0.69%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 149 (7.96%) Windows
2 124 (6.62%) Linux
3 32 (1.71%) Unix
4 22 (1.17%) 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 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.48%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.43%) Amazon Linux
10 7 (0.37%) FreeRTOS
11 6 (0.32%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.053%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.053%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.053%) Windows Embedded Compact
13 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.053%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,119 (59.74%) Agile
2 510 (27.23%) DevOps
3 474 (25.31%) Stakeholder Management
4 455 (24.29%) Problem-Solving
5 409 (21.84%) Scrum
6 368 (19.65%) CI/CD
7 308 (16.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 291 (15.54%) Project Management
9 276 (14.74%) Test Automation
10 243 (12.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 200 (10.68%) User Stories
12 192 (10.25%) User Acceptance Testing
13 187 (9.98%) Project Delivery
14 185 (9.88%) Migration
15 179 (9.56%) Change Management
16 169 (9.02%) Acceptance Criteria
17 161 (8.60%) Roadmaps
18 156 (8.33%) Analytics
18 156 (8.33%) Decision-Making
19 150 (8.01%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 291 (15.54%) SQL
2 257 (13.72%) Python
3 175 (9.34%) Java
4 106 (5.66%) JavaScript
5 81 (4.32%) C#
5 81 (4.32%) PowerShell
6 56 (2.99%) TypeScript
7 36 (1.92%) Bash
8 32 (1.71%) C++
9 26 (1.39%) Go
10 21 (1.12%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.07%) Embedded C++
12 17 (0.91%) PL/SQL
13 14 (0.75%) Groovy
14 13 (0.69%) C
14 13 (0.69%) PHP
15 11 (0.59%) Perl
15 11 (0.59%) Ruby
16 10 (0.53%) Apex Code
16 10 (0.53%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 481 (25.68%) Security Cleared
2 390 (20.82%) SC Cleared
3 267 (14.26%) Degree
4 89 (4.75%) PMI Certification
5 77 (4.11%) PMP
6 66 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 59 (3.15%) ISTQB
8 47 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 47 (2.51%) DV Cleared
9 46 (2.46%) CISSP
10 44 (2.35%) TOGAF Certification
11 38 (2.03%) CISM
12 35 (1.87%) Master's Degree
13 31 (1.66%) AWS Certification
14 24 (1.28%) CBAP
15 21 (1.12%) ISEB
16 20 (1.07%) Azure Certification
17 17 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 17 (0.91%) Oracle Certification
18 16 (0.85%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (12.44%) QA
2 105 (5.61%) PMO
3 78 (4.16%) Data Quality
4 56 (2.99%) Accessibility
5 43 (2.30%) GDPR
6 29 (1.55%) NIST
7 25 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (1.07%) PSD2
8 20 (1.07%) WCAG
9 19 (1.01%) ISO 20022
10 17 (0.91%) SLA
11 16 (0.85%) SEPA
12 13 (0.69%) 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
1 185 (9.88%) Docker
2 63 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.69%) Squid
6 9 (0.48%) Firmware
7 8 (0.43%) DFS Replication
7 8 (0.43%) Postfix
8 7 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
8 7 (0.37%) 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 (0.053%) etcd
13 1 (0.053%) Hyper-V
13 1 (0.053%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.053%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
13 1 (0.053%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 168 (8.97%) Kubernetes
2 97 (5.18%) Terraform
3 76 (4.06%) Ansible
4 62 (3.31%) Grafana
5 47 (2.51%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.60%) OPNET
7 28 (1.49%) Control-M
7 28 (1.49%) Nessus
8 25 (1.33%) HP ALM
9 22 (1.17%) IBM Guardium
9 22 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
10 21 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
11 20 (1.07%) Consul
12 16 (0.85%) Packer
13 14 (0.75%) Puppet
14 12 (0.64%) SCCM
15 10 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
16 9 (0.48%) NetBackup
17 7 (0.37%) Argo
18 6 (0.32%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 234 (12.49%) Microsoft
2 202 (10.78%) ServiceNow
3 155 (8.28%) Oracle
4 132 (7.05%) Atlassian
5 97 (5.18%) Salesforce
6 62 (3.31%) SAP
7 45 (2.40%) Google
7 45 (2.40%) Remedy
8 39 (2.08%) IBM
9 28 (1.49%) Workday
10 27 (1.44%) HP
10 27 (1.44%) Tenable
11 26 (1.39%) Red Hat
11 26 (1.39%) Splunk
12 24 (1.28%) Talend
13 23 (1.23%) BiZZdesign
14 21 (1.12%) Adobe
14 21 (1.12%) Databricks
15 20 (1.07%) Denodo
16 18 (0.96%) VMware