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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 43 50
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 -8
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,966 1,160 1,439
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.52% 4.64% 3.80%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.65% 34.67% 32.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,405 735 999
10th Percentile £313 £313 £329
25th Percentile £400 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £630
90th Percentile £700 £675 £748
UK median daily rate £497 £496 £510
% change year-on-year +0.20% -2.70% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 19 55
10th Percentile £15.74 £47.40 £23.20
25th Percentile £25.00 £55.31 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.57 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £72.00 £75.92
UK median hourly rate £63.40 £62.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year +1.44% +36.22% -26.59%

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 4,958 3,346 4,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.93% 13.37% 11.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,387 2,139 3,052
10th Percentile £340 £331 £363
25th Percentile £409 £410 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £636 £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 162 58 201
10th Percentile £39.00 £27.13 £37.50
25th Percentile £52.81 £55.50 £48.31
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 £74.44
90th Percentile £85.33 £80.00 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 +7 865 £520 +4.00% 165
North of England +13 354 £450 -5.26% 109
Midlands +6 287 £425 -12.10% 93
West Midlands +5 221 £450 -5.66% 64
South East -4 194 £475 -5.00% 174
Yorkshire -7 193 £480 -4.95% 49
South West +20 165 £571 +0.22% 68
North West +16 148 £431 -4.22% 49
East Midlands +1 64 £358 -26.94% 29
East of England -7 62 £425 - 65
North East -9 13 £375 -16.67% 13
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
1 931 (47.36%) Confluence
2 119 (6.05%) SharePoint
3 42 (2.14%) SAS
4 32 (1.63%) nginx
5 25 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 21 (1.07%) CMS
7 13 (0.66%) Apache
8 10 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.41%) WebLogic
10 7 (0.36%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.31%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.31%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.31%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.25%) Mattermost
13 4 (0.20%) IIS
13 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.15%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.15%) Drupal
14 3 (0.15%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 211 (10.73%) Microsoft Project
2 181 (9.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 106 (5.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 105 (5.34%) Microsoft Office
5 77 (3.92%) MS Visio
6 23 (1.17%) Trello
7 7 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.25%) Notion
8 5 (0.25%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.25%) Sketch
9 4 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.20%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.15%) InVision
11 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.10%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.10%) CATIA
11 2 (0.10%) InDesign
12 1 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 19 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.86%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.61%) Loan IQ
3 12 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
4 11 (0.56%) Workday HCM
5 10 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
5 10 (0.51%) Fidessa
6 8 (0.41%) Maximo
6 8 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 7 (0.36%) Aladdin
8 6 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.25%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.20%) Endur
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 4 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.20%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 389 (19.79%) Azure
2 303 (15.41%) AWS
3 209 (10.63%) Azure DevOps
4 176 (8.95%) GitHub
5 133 (6.77%) Power Platform
6 84 (4.27%) GCP
7 75 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
8 59 (3.00%) SaaS
9 54 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
10 48 (2.44%) Entra ID
11 43 (2.19%) Serverless
12 33 (1.68%) Amazon EC2
13 32 (1.63%) Amazon S3
14 30 (1.53%) Figma
14 30 (1.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 29 (1.48%) Amazon EKS
15 29 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
16 27 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
16 27 (1.37%) Slack
17 24 (1.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.54%) Firewall
2 34 (1.73%) DNS
3 33 (1.68%) TCP/IP
4 29 (1.48%) VPN
5 21 (1.07%) WAN
6 19 (0.97%) LAN
7 17 (0.86%) HTTP
8 16 (0.81%) Network Security
9 15 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (0.61%) SSH
11 10 (0.51%) FTP
11 10 (0.51%) SD-WAN
12 9 (0.46%) DHCP
12 9 (0.46%) Ethernet
13 8 (0.41%) SSL
13 8 (0.41%) Unified Communications
14 7 (0.36%) BIG-IP
14 7 (0.36%) OpenVPN
14 7 (0.36%) RS-232
14 7 (0.36%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (5.65%) Power BI
2 80 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (3.05%) Tableau
4 53 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (2.70%) SQL Server
5 38 (1.93%) MongoDB
6 37 (1.88%) NoSQL
7 29 (1.48%) Pentaho
8 23 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (1.17%) Oracle Reports
9 21 (1.07%) MySQL
9 21 (1.07%) Oracle Database
10 20 (1.02%) Relational Database
11 17 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
12 16 (0.81%) Big Data
12 16 (0.81%) Metadata
13 13 (0.66%) Data Vault
14 11 (0.56%) DynamoDB
14 11 (0.56%) Hadoop
14 11 (0.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 242 (12.31%) Git
2 231 (11.75%) Jenkins
3 118 (6.00%) GitLab
4 87 (4.43%) Selenium
5 78 (3.97%) Postman
6 65 (3.31%) Cucumber
7 61 (3.10%) Bitbucket
8 49 (2.49%) JUnit
9 43 (2.19%) Zephyr
10 37 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
11 34 (1.73%) JMeter
11 34 (1.73%) REST Assured
12 32 (1.63%) TestRail
13 31 (1.58%) SonarQube
14 20 (1.02%) Maven
15 17 (0.86%) Cypress.io
15 17 (0.86%) SpecFlow
16 15 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 15 (0.76%) Rational DOORS
16 15 (0.76%) WebDriver
General
1 811 (41.25%) Social Skills
2 550 (27.98%) Finance
3 376 (19.13%) Analytical Skills
4 237 (12.05%) Banking
5 203 (10.33%) Public Sector
6 78 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
7 72 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
8 66 (3.36%) Retail
9 54 (2.75%) Military
10 48 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
11 47 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
12 32 (1.63%) Legal
13 31 (1.58%) Investment Banking
14 29 (1.48%) Manufacturing
15 23 (1.17%) Front Office
16 22 (1.12%) Telecoms
17 21 (1.07%) Marketing
18 20 (1.02%) Retail Banking
19 16 (0.81%) Law
20 15 (0.76%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 402 (20.45%) Analyst
2 253 (12.87%) Business Analyst
3 183 (9.31%) Developer
4 153 (7.78%) Lead
5 149 (7.58%) Project Manager
6 133 (6.77%) Senior
7 125 (6.36%) Architect
8 96 (4.88%) Tester
9 58 (2.95%) Consultant
9 58 (2.95%) Delivery Manager
10 52 (2.64%) Data Engineer
10 52 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
11 51 (2.59%) Test Analyst
11 51 (2.59%) Test Engineer
12 46 (2.34%) Technical Analyst
13 45 (2.29%) Software Engineer
14 44 (2.24%) Technical Business Analyst
15 42 (2.14%) Scrum Master
15 42 (2.14%) Technical Manager
16 39 (1.98%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (7.27%) REST
2 61 (3.10%) .NET
3 60 (3.05%) Spring
4 49 (2.49%) XML
5 48 (2.44%) Kafka
6 47 (2.39%) JSON
7 45 (2.29%) HTML
7 45 (2.29%) RESTful
7 45 (2.29%) SOAP
8 44 (2.24%) React
9 43 (2.19%) Playwright
10 40 (2.03%) CSS
10 40 (2.03%) Spring Boot
11 33 (1.68%) Oracle Fusion
12 27 (1.37%) Node.js
12 27 (1.37%) OpenID
13 25 (1.27%) FastAPI
13 25 (1.27%) LDAP
14 24 (1.22%) ADO
14 24 (1.22%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 223 (11.34%) Product Ownership
2 87 (4.43%) Onboarding
3 73 (3.71%) Cloud Native
4 51 (2.59%) Management Information System
5 47 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
6 40 (2.03%) Virtual Team
7 37 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
10 28 (1.42%) Data Structures
11 26 (1.32%) PMI
12 25 (1.27%) Mobile App
13 23 (1.17%) Data Centre
13 23 (1.17%) Public Cloud
14 22 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
15 19 (0.97%) CMDB
15 19 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
16 16 (0.81%) Tandem
17 15 (0.76%) Security Posture
18 14 (0.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 148 (7.53%) Windows
2 132 (6.71%) Linux
3 36 (1.83%) Unix
4 21 (1.07%) Android
4 21 (1.07%) Windows 10
5 13 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.36%) FreeRTOS
10 6 (0.31%) VMS
11 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.051%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.051%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.051%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.051%) Windows Embedded Compact
13 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.051%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,162 (59.10%) Agile
2 537 (27.31%) DevOps
3 495 (25.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 464 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
5 417 (21.21%) Scrum
6 402 (20.45%) CI/CD
7 347 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 314 (15.97%) Test Automation
9 293 (14.90%) Project Management
10 249 (12.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 209 (10.63%) Migration
12 200 (10.17%) User Stories
13 194 (9.87%) User Acceptance Testing
14 193 (9.82%) Project Delivery
15 184 (9.36%) Change Management
16 169 (8.60%) Decision-Making
17 165 (8.39%) Roadmaps
18 164 (8.34%) Acceptance Criteria
19 163 (8.29%) Analytics
20 162 (8.24%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 304 (15.46%) SQL
2 259 (13.17%) Python
3 184 (9.36%) Java
4 101 (5.14%) JavaScript
5 86 (4.37%) C#
6 81 (4.12%) PowerShell
7 53 (2.70%) TypeScript
8 42 (2.14%) Bash
9 34 (1.73%) C++
10 24 (1.22%) Go
10 24 (1.22%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.02%) Embedded C++
12 18 (0.92%) PL/SQL
13 14 (0.71%) C
13 14 (0.71%) PHP
14 12 (0.61%) Perl
15 11 (0.56%) Ruby
16 10 (0.51%) Apex Code
16 10 (0.51%) Embedded C
17 8 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 527 (26.81%) Security Cleared
2 425 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 263 (13.38%) Degree
4 88 (4.48%) PMI Certification
5 79 (4.02%) PMP
6 66 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 65 (3.31%) ISTQB
8 51 (2.59%) DV Cleared
9 50 (2.54%) CISSP
10 49 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
11 44 (2.24%) TOGAF Certification
12 41 (2.09%) CISM
13 35 (1.78%) Master's Degree
14 28 (1.42%) AWS Certification
15 23 (1.17%) ISEB
16 21 (1.07%) CBAP
17 18 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
17 18 (0.92%) IIBA
17 18 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 16 (0.81%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (12.16%) QA
2 116 (5.90%) PMO
3 91 (4.63%) Data Quality
4 49 (2.49%) Accessibility
5 43 (2.19%) GDPR
6 32 (1.63%) NIST
7 26 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 22 (1.12%) SLA
9 21 (1.07%) WCAG
10 15 (0.76%) PSD2
11 13 (0.66%) ISO 20022
12 12 (0.61%) GRC
13 11 (0.56%) Basel III
13 11 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.56%) SEPA
14 10 (0.51%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.41%) NIST 800
16 7 (0.36%) NCSC
17 6 (0.31%) HIPAA
System Software
1 195 (9.92%) Docker
2 72 (3.66%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
5 9 (0.46%) Firmware
5 9 (0.46%) Squid
6 8 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.15%) HDFS
10 3 (0.15%) Postfix
11 2 (0.10%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.051%) Dovecot
12 1 (0.051%) etcd
12 1 (0.051%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 1 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.051%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 197 (10.02%) Kubernetes
2 91 (4.63%) Terraform
3 88 (4.48%) Ansible
4 70 (3.56%) Grafana
5 52 (2.64%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.53%) OPNET
7 29 (1.48%) Control-M
8 24 (1.22%) HP ALM
8 24 (1.22%) Nessus
8 24 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
9 23 (1.17%) IBM Guardium
9 23 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
10 21 (1.07%) Consul
11 18 (0.92%) Puppet
12 16 (0.81%) Packer
13 13 (0.66%) SCCM
14 12 (0.61%) NetBackup
15 10 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
16 7 (0.36%) Argo
16 7 (0.36%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 234 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 213 (10.83%) ServiceNow
3 172 (8.75%) Oracle
4 142 (7.22%) Atlassian
5 102 (5.19%) Salesforce
6 65 (3.31%) SAP
7 50 (2.54%) Remedy
8 44 (2.24%) Google
9 38 (1.93%) IBM
10 35 (1.78%) Talend
11 30 (1.53%) Red Hat
11 30 (1.53%) Workday
12 28 (1.42%) Denodo
12 28 (1.42%) Tenable
13 27 (1.37%) Splunk
14 26 (1.32%) Databricks
15 25 (1.27%) HP
16 23 (1.17%) BiZZdesign
17 22 (1.12%) VMware
18 20 (1.02%) Adobe