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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 30 43
Rank change year-on-year -16 +13 +8
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,020 1,604 1,410
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.43% 5.86% 4.30%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.82% 39.50% 32.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,327 1,126 926
10th Percentile £350 £313 £340
25th Percentile £410 £400 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £618
90th Percentile £675 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £492 £520
% change year-on-year +1.63% -5.38% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 40 75
10th Percentile £23.05 £47.38 £25.99
25th Percentile £44.86 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £68.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -11.76% +8.80%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.83 £83.58 -
UK median hourly rate £60.41 £56.50 £67.75
% change year-on-year +6.91% -16.61% +8.84%

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 5,204 4,061 4,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.41% 14.84% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,325 2,816 2,819
10th Percentile £356 £325 £356
25th Percentile £415 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £630
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 97 172
10th Percentile £37.25 £42.40 £36.30
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.75 £53.63
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £71.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £82.98 £71.84
UK median hourly rate £67.24 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.44% - -

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -11 967 £525 - 716
North of England -14 363 £475 +2.43% 193
Midlands -6 251 £458 -3.63% 92
South East -29 213 £475 - 204
West Midlands -11 212 £459 -3.37% 59
Yorkshire -6 206 £485 +2.91% 63
North West -40 136 £473 +7.81% 100
South West -4 132 £525 -4.55% 142
East of England -9 58 £491 +22.75% 101
East Midlands -7 38 £409 +13.86% 33
North East -33 28 £550 +5.26% 33
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
1 895 (44.31%) Confluence
2 102 (5.05%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (1.24%) SAS
5 19 (0.94%) CMS
6 14 (0.69%) Apache
7 10 (0.50%) Camunda
8 9 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
8 9 (0.45%) nginx
9 6 (0.30%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.25%) IIS
10 5 (0.25%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.25%) MTS
11 4 (0.20%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.20%) WordPress
12 3 (0.15%) Kentico
12 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.15%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 137 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 129 (6.39%) Microsoft Project
3 81 (4.01%) MS Visio
4 67 (3.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 64 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
6 21 (1.04%) Trello
7 12 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.50%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.40%) Revit
10 7 (0.35%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.25%) Notion
12 3 (0.15%) Windchill
13 2 (0.099%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.099%) Mingle
14 1 (0.050%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 1 (0.050%) CATIA
14 1 (0.050%) Gliffy
14 1 (0.050%) Mozilla Thunderbird
14 1 (0.050%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.050%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 33 (1.63%) Remedy ITSM
2 22 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.54%) Aladdin
3 11 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
5 9 (0.45%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.30%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.25%) Fidessa
7 5 (0.25%) Findur
7 5 (0.25%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.20%) SAP FI-AR
8 4 (0.20%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.15%) CA PPM
9 3 (0.15%) Magento
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.15%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 502 (24.85%) Azure
2 320 (15.84%) AWS
3 284 (14.06%) Azure DevOps
4 165 (8.17%) GitHub
5 162 (8.02%) Power Platform
6 88 (4.36%) GCP
6 88 (4.36%) Microsoft 365
7 76 (3.76%) SaaS
8 70 (3.47%) Serverless
9 66 (3.27%) Entra ID
10 64 (3.17%) Amazon S3
11 58 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
12 57 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
13 55 (2.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 40 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
15 39 (1.93%) Miro
16 37 (1.83%) Microsoft Copilot
17 33 (1.63%) Smartsheet
18 29 (1.44%) Figma
19 28 (1.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 83 (4.11%) Firewall
2 70 (3.47%) DNS
3 47 (2.33%) TCP/IP
4 36 (1.78%) DHCP
5 33 (1.63%) VPN
6 28 (1.39%) Network Security
7 23 (1.14%) WAN
8 21 (1.04%) SAN
9 19 (0.94%) SSL
10 18 (0.89%) BIG-IP
11 15 (0.74%) LAN
11 15 (0.74%) SD-WAN
12 12 (0.59%) Internet
13 11 (0.54%) VLAN
14 10 (0.50%) HTTP
14 10 (0.50%) SSH
15 9 (0.45%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 9 (0.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 8 (0.40%) DKIM
16 8 (0.40%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (7.08%) Power BI
2 87 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
3 62 (3.07%) SQL Server
4 60 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
5 38 (1.88%) Oracle Reports
6 33 (1.63%) Relational Database
7 26 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
7 26 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
8 25 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
9 20 (0.99%) Data Lake
9 20 (0.99%) DynamoDB
10 19 (0.94%) Tableau
11 18 (0.89%) Metadata
11 18 (0.89%) MongoDB
11 18 (0.89%) Oracle Database
11 18 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 17 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
13 16 (0.79%) NoSQL
14 15 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 14 (0.69%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 252 (12.48%) Git
2 175 (8.66%) Jenkins
3 116 (5.74%) GitLab
4 79 (3.91%) Selenium
5 75 (3.71%) Zephyr
6 65 (3.22%) Bitbucket
7 60 (2.97%) Postman
8 36 (1.78%) JUnit
9 33 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
10 29 (1.44%) Cucumber
11 27 (1.34%) Cypress.io
12 26 (1.29%) JMeter
13 23 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 23 (1.14%) REST Assured
14 22 (1.09%) Maven
15 21 (1.04%) TestRail
16 20 (0.99%) Mockito
17 19 (0.94%) SonarQube
18 18 (0.89%) Artifactory
19 13 (0.64%) WebDriver
General
1 797 (39.46%) Social Skills
2 600 (29.70%) Finance
3 388 (19.21%) Analytical Skills
4 283 (14.01%) Banking
5 236 (11.68%) Public Sector
6 79 (3.91%) Retail
7 77 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
8 68 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
9 49 (2.43%) Investment Banking
10 45 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
11 37 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 36 (1.78%) Front Office
13 35 (1.73%) Manufacturing
14 34 (1.68%) Legal
15 32 (1.58%) Marketing
16 30 (1.49%) Telecoms
17 26 (1.29%) Retail Banking
18 21 (1.04%) Law
19 20 (0.99%) Military
20 19 (0.94%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 354 (17.52%) Analyst
2 221 (10.94%) Business Analyst
3 214 (10.59%) Lead
4 203 (10.05%) Developer
5 176 (8.71%) Senior
6 113 (5.59%) Project Manager
7 83 (4.11%) Consultant
7 83 (4.11%) Delivery Manager
8 76 (3.76%) Scrum Master
9 72 (3.56%) Architect
10 66 (3.27%) Tester
11 53 (2.62%) Data Engineer
12 51 (2.52%) Product Owner
13 48 (2.38%) Support Engineer
14 47 (2.33%) Test Analyst
15 46 (2.28%) Test Leader
16 41 (2.03%) Senior Manager
17 40 (1.98%) Administrator
18 36 (1.78%) Test Engineer
19 35 (1.73%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (7.28%) Terraform
2 135 (6.68%) REST
3 76 (3.76%) .NET
4 62 (3.07%) HTML
5 56 (2.77%) React
6 53 (2.62%) RESTful
7 50 (2.48%) AngularJS
8 46 (2.28%) Kafka
9 44 (2.18%) CSS
9 44 (2.18%) JSON
10 42 (2.08%) Spring
11 41 (2.03%) SOAP
12 39 (1.93%) Playwright
13 37 (1.83%) Spring Boot
14 33 (1.63%) Web Services
14 33 (1.63%) XML
15 32 (1.58%) Middleware
15 32 (1.58%) Node.js
16 23 (1.14%) .NET Core
17 22 (1.09%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 262 (12.97%) Product Ownership
2 139 (6.88%) Onboarding
3 87 (4.31%) Cloud Native
4 66 (3.27%) Data Centre
5 59 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
6 55 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
7 48 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
8 42 (2.08%) Virtual Team
9 41 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
9 41 (2.03%) Data Structures
10 36 (1.78%) Management Information System
11 32 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
12 23 (1.14%) Credit Risk
13 22 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
13 22 (1.09%) SCADA
14 21 (1.04%) Mobile App
15 18 (0.89%) Replication
16 17 (0.84%) Derivative
17 16 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
18 15 (0.74%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 152 (7.52%) Windows
2 127 (6.29%) Linux
3 48 (2.38%) Unix
4 26 (1.29%) Windows 10
5 21 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.89%) Android
7 15 (0.74%) Mac OS
7 15 (0.74%) Windows Server
8 14 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
10 5 (0.25%) CentOS
10 5 (0.25%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.20%) AIX
11 4 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
13 2 (0.099%) MVS
13 2 (0.099%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.099%) Solaris
13 2 (0.099%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,216 (60.20%) Agile
2 634 (31.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 568 (28.12%) DevOps
4 439 (21.73%) Problem-Solving
5 430 (21.29%) Scrum
6 428 (21.19%) CI/CD
7 376 (18.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 343 (16.98%) Test Automation
9 291 (14.41%) Migration
10 259 (12.82%) User Acceptance Testing
11 249 (12.33%) User Stories
12 233 (11.53%) Project Management
13 231 (11.44%) Validation
14 228 (11.29%) AI
14 228 (11.29%) Sprint Planning
15 227 (11.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 209 (10.35%) SDLC
17 201 (9.95%) Project Delivery
18 188 (9.31%) Acceptance Criteria
19 179 (8.86%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 349 (17.28%) SQL
2 247 (12.23%) Python
3 134 (6.63%) Java
4 107 (5.30%) JavaScript
5 74 (3.66%) TypeScript
6 73 (3.61%) PowerShell
7 67 (3.32%) C#
8 41 (2.03%) Bash
9 31 (1.53%) PL/SQL
10 20 (0.99%) Groovy
11 17 (0.84%) C++
12 16 (0.79%) Apex Code
12 16 (0.79%) Bicep
12 16 (0.79%) Kotlin
13 14 (0.69%) Perl
14 13 (0.64%) VBA
15 10 (0.50%) C
16 9 (0.45%) ActionScript
17 7 (0.35%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 537 (26.58%) Security Cleared
2 416 (20.59%) SC Cleared
3 173 (8.56%) Degree
4 89 (4.41%) DV Cleared
5 80 (3.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 67 (3.32%) ISTQB
7 54 (2.67%) PMI Certification
8 42 (2.08%) PMP
9 28 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
10 22 (1.09%) AWS Certification
10 22 (1.09%) Azure Certification
11 21 (1.04%) CISSP
12 20 (0.99%) Master's Degree
13 18 (0.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 17 (0.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 17 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
15 16 (0.79%) SAFe Agilist
16 13 (0.64%) IIBA
17 11 (0.54%) CISM
17 11 (0.54%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 267 (13.22%) QA
2 123 (6.09%) PMO
3 119 (5.89%) Data Quality
4 63 (3.12%) Accessibility
5 36 (1.78%) SLA
6 24 (1.19%) WCAG
7 23 (1.14%) GDPR
8 22 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 20 (0.99%) GRC
9 20 (0.99%) NCSC
10 18 (0.89%) NIST
11 12 (0.59%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.45%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.35%) JSP 440
13 7 (0.35%) SEPA
14 5 (0.25%) COBIT
14 5 (0.25%) GxP
14 5 (0.25%) MiFID
14 5 (0.25%) P3O
14 5 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 120 (5.94%) Docker
2 114 (5.64%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (0.45%) Firmware
6 7 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.20%) Squid
9 2 (0.099%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.099%) Dovecot
9 2 (0.099%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.099%) Postfix
10 1 (0.050%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.050%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.050%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.050%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 1 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.050%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.050%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 113 (5.59%) Kubernetes
2 77 (3.81%) Ansible
3 52 (2.57%) Grafana
4 42 (2.08%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (1.19%) HP ALM
7 16 (0.79%) Control-M
8 14 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.45%) Dell DRAC
9 9 (0.45%) Packer
10 8 (0.40%) Nessus
11 7 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.35%) Istio
11 7 (0.35%) Puppet
11 7 (0.35%) SCOM
12 6 (0.30%) HP Quality Center
12 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
13 5 (0.25%) IBM Guardium
13 5 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 305 (15.10%) Microsoft
2 249 (12.33%) ServiceNow
3 142 (7.03%) Oracle
4 88 (4.36%) Salesforce
5 85 (4.21%) SAP
6 81 (4.01%) Atlassian
7 61 (3.02%) Google
8 52 (2.57%) IBM
9 45 (2.23%) VMware
10 35 (1.73%) Splunk
11 34 (1.68%) Remedy
12 32 (1.58%) Denodo
13 27 (1.34%) HP
14 26 (1.29%) Talend
15 22 (1.09%) Adobe
15 22 (1.09%) Databricks
15 22 (1.09%) F5
15 22 (1.09%) MuleSoft
16 21 (1.04%) Informatica
16 21 (1.04%) Workday