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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 31 43
Rank change year-on-year -15 +12 +7
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,045 1,618 1,433
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.43% 5.83% 4.35%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.85% 39.22% 32.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,330 1,141 933
10th Percentile £350 £313 £331
25th Percentile £413 £400 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.10%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 41 74
10th Percentile £22.68 £46.25 £25.99
25th Percentile £35.00 £50.00 £50.63
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £69.00
Median % change year-on-year - -9.42% +10.40%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.83 £83.00 -
UK median hourly rate £59.37 £57.50 £69.00
% change year-on-year +3.25% -16.67% +10.84%

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 5,264 4,125 4,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.40% 14.87% 13.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,335 2,854 2,828
10th Percentile £356 £325 £354
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 £635
90th Percentile £693 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 95 172
10th Percentile £34.90 £44.30 £36.83
25th Percentile £52.29 £54.88 £53.63
Median hourly rate £67.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.08% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.80 £81.80 £71.88
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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -12 965 £525 - 531
North of England -14 373 £475 +2.10% 133
Midlands -4 258 £463 -2.63% 66
West Midlands -10 222 £469 -1.26% 43
Yorkshire -3 209 £500 +5.26% 47
South East -39 205 £475 - 178
North West -37 141 £460 +4.84% 66
South West -2 135 £525 -4.55% 98
East of England +1 69 £491 +22.75% 74
East Midlands -9 35 £404 +12.40% 23
North East -33 30 £515 -0.96% 21
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
1 907 (44.35%) Confluence
2 104 (5.09%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (1.22%) SAS
5 19 (0.93%) CMS
6 14 (0.68%) Apache
7 10 (0.49%) Camunda
8 9 (0.44%) nginx
9 7 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
10 6 (0.29%) Apache Spark
11 5 (0.24%) IIS
11 5 (0.24%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.24%) MTS
12 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.20%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.20%) WordPress
13 3 (0.15%) Kentico
13 3 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 142 (6.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 122 (5.97%) Microsoft Project
3 78 (3.81%) MS Visio
4 66 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 62 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
6 22 (1.08%) Trello
7 14 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.49%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.39%) Revit
10 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.24%) Notion
12 3 (0.15%) Windchill
13 2 (0.098%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.098%) Mingle
13 2 (0.098%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.049%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 1 (0.049%) CATIA
14 1 (0.049%) Gliffy
14 1 (0.049%) Mozilla Thunderbird
14 1 (0.049%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 34 (1.66%) Remedy ITSM
2 24 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.49%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
4 9 (0.44%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
6 5 (0.24%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.24%) Findur
6 5 (0.24%) ResourceLink
6 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
6 5 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.20%) SAP FI-AR
7 4 (0.20%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.15%) Magento
8 3 (0.15%) SAP CRM
8 3 (0.15%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 491 (24.01%) Azure
2 313 (15.31%) AWS
3 277 (13.55%) Azure DevOps
4 164 (8.02%) Power Platform
5 159 (7.78%) GitHub
6 93 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
7 92 (4.50%) GCP
8 73 (3.57%) SaaS
9 64 (3.13%) Serverless
10 63 (3.08%) Entra ID
11 58 (2.84%) Amazon S3
12 55 (2.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 52 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
14 51 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
15 40 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
15 40 (1.96%) Miro
16 39 (1.91%) Microsoft Copilot
17 32 (1.56%) Smartsheet
18 28 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 27 (1.32%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 82 (4.01%) Firewall
2 69 (3.37%) DNS
3 46 (2.25%) TCP/IP
4 35 (1.71%) DHCP
5 32 (1.56%) VPN
6 28 (1.37%) Network Security
7 22 (1.08%) WAN
8 20 (0.98%) BIG-IP
9 18 (0.88%) SSL
10 17 (0.83%) SAN
11 12 (0.59%) SD-WAN
12 11 (0.54%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 11 (0.54%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 11 (0.54%) LAN
12 11 (0.54%) VLAN
12 11 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
13 10 (0.49%) Internet
13 10 (0.49%) IPv4
13 10 (0.49%) IPv6
13 10 (0.49%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (7.04%) Power BI
2 88 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
3 64 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 60 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
5 40 (1.96%) Oracle Reports
6 37 (1.81%) Relational Database
7 26 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
9 21 (1.03%) Amazon Athena
10 20 (0.98%) Data Lake
10 20 (0.98%) Metadata
11 19 (0.93%) Oracle Database
11 19 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 17 (0.83%) DynamoDB
12 17 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (0.83%) MongoDB
12 17 (0.83%) Tableau
13 16 (0.78%) NoSQL
14 15 (0.73%) Power Query
14 15 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 258 (12.62%) Git
2 173 (8.46%) Jenkins
3 115 (5.62%) GitLab
4 74 (3.62%) Zephyr
5 73 (3.57%) Selenium
6 64 (3.13%) Bitbucket
7 59 (2.89%) Postman
8 36 (1.76%) JUnit
9 31 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
10 26 (1.27%) Cucumber
11 25 (1.22%) Maven
12 23 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 23 (1.12%) Cypress.io
12 23 (1.12%) JMeter
12 23 (1.12%) REST Assured
13 22 (1.08%) Mockito
14 21 (1.03%) SonarQube
15 20 (0.98%) Artifactory
15 20 (0.98%) TestRail
16 16 (0.78%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 802 (39.22%) Social Skills
2 592 (28.95%) Finance
3 395 (19.32%) Analytical Skills
4 285 (13.94%) Banking
5 234 (11.44%) Public Sector
6 85 (4.16%) Organisational Skills
7 76 (3.72%) Retail
8 64 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
9 50 (2.44%) Investment Banking
10 49 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
11 42 (2.05%) Manufacturing
12 38 (1.86%) Front Office
12 38 (1.86%) Legal
13 36 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 36 (1.76%) Telecoms
14 33 (1.61%) Marketing
15 27 (1.32%) Retail Banking
16 21 (1.03%) Law
16 21 (1.03%) Military
17 20 (0.98%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 351 (17.16%) Analyst
2 219 (10.71%) Lead
3 212 (10.37%) Business Analyst
4 200 (9.78%) Developer
5 180 (8.80%) Senior
6 105 (5.13%) Project Manager
7 87 (4.25%) Delivery Manager
8 83 (4.06%) Scrum Master
9 79 (3.86%) Consultant
10 71 (3.47%) Architect
11 63 (3.08%) Tester
12 54 (2.64%) Data Engineer
13 52 (2.54%) Product Owner
14 49 (2.40%) Support Engineer
15 48 (2.35%) Administrator
15 48 (2.35%) Test Analyst
16 44 (2.15%) Test Leader
17 42 (2.05%) Senior Manager
18 36 (1.76%) Java Developer
18 36 (1.76%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (6.94%) Terraform
2 141 (6.89%) REST
3 77 (3.77%) .NET
4 62 (3.03%) HTML
5 56 (2.74%) RESTful
6 53 (2.59%) AngularJS
6 53 (2.59%) React
7 45 (2.20%) SOAP
8 44 (2.15%) CSS
8 44 (2.15%) JSON
8 44 (2.15%) Kafka
9 42 (2.05%) Spring
10 39 (1.91%) Spring Boot
11 38 (1.86%) Playwright
12 35 (1.71%) Web Services
13 34 (1.66%) XML
14 33 (1.61%) Node.js
15 30 (1.47%) Middleware
16 23 (1.12%) .NET Core
16 23 (1.12%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 273 (13.35%) Product Ownership
2 140 (6.85%) Onboarding
3 89 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 68 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 61 (2.98%) Enterprise Software
6 56 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
7 50 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
8 46 (2.25%) Virtual Team
9 42 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
9 42 (2.05%) Data Structures
10 34 (1.66%) Management Information System
11 29 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.17%) Credit Risk
13 22 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
13 22 (1.08%) SCADA
14 20 (0.98%) Mobile App
15 18 (0.88%) Replication
16 17 (0.83%) AI Agents
16 17 (0.83%) Derivative
17 15 (0.73%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 149 (7.29%) Windows
2 130 (6.36%) Linux
3 45 (2.20%) Unix
4 28 (1.37%) Windows 10
5 21 (1.03%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.88%) Android
7 15 (0.73%) Mac OS
7 15 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.73%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.34%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.29%) CentOS
11 5 (0.24%) VMS
12 4 (0.20%) AIX
12 4 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
13 3 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.098%) MVS
14 2 (0.098%) Solaris
14 2 (0.098%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,224 (59.85%) Agile
2 651 (31.83%) Stakeholder Management
3 554 (27.09%) DevOps
4 454 (22.20%) Problem-Solving
5 440 (21.52%) Scrum
6 433 (21.17%) CI/CD
7 388 (18.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 345 (16.87%) Test Automation
9 294 (14.38%) Migration
10 252 (12.32%) User Acceptance Testing
11 248 (12.13%) User Stories
12 237 (11.59%) AI
12 237 (11.59%) Sprint Planning
13 233 (11.39%) Validation
14 231 (11.30%) Project Management
15 220 (10.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 211 (10.32%) SDLC
17 202 (9.88%) Project Delivery
18 187 (9.14%) Acceptance Criteria
19 182 (8.90%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 352 (17.21%) SQL
2 253 (12.37%) Python
3 135 (6.60%) Java
4 103 (5.04%) JavaScript
5 74 (3.62%) TypeScript
6 72 (3.52%) PowerShell
7 67 (3.28%) C#
8 40 (1.96%) Bash
9 34 (1.66%) PL/SQL
10 22 (1.08%) C++
11 21 (1.03%) Groovy
12 15 (0.73%) Apex Code
12 15 (0.73%) Bicep
12 15 (0.73%) C
12 15 (0.73%) Kotlin
13 13 (0.64%) Perl
14 12 (0.59%) VBA
15 11 (0.54%) ActionScript
16 8 (0.39%) T-SQL
17 7 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 542 (26.50%) Security Cleared
2 417 (20.39%) SC Cleared
3 165 (8.07%) Degree
4 92 (4.50%) DV Cleared
5 89 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 67 (3.28%) ISTQB
7 54 (2.64%) PMI Certification
8 42 (2.05%) PMP
9 28 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
10 22 (1.08%) AWS Certification
11 21 (1.03%) Master's Degree
12 20 (0.98%) Azure Certification
13 19 (0.93%) CISSP
14 18 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 17 (0.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 17 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
15 17 (0.83%) SAFe Agilist
16 13 (0.64%) IIBA
17 11 (0.54%) CISM
17 11 (0.54%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (13.35%) QA
2 125 (6.11%) Data Quality
2 125 (6.11%) PMO
3 61 (2.98%) Accessibility
4 37 (1.81%) SLA
5 24 (1.17%) WCAG
6 21 (1.03%) GDPR
6 21 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (0.98%) NCSC
8 19 (0.93%) GRC
9 17 (0.83%) NIST
10 13 (0.64%) ISO 20022
11 9 (0.44%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.39%) SEPA
13 7 (0.34%) JSP 440
14 6 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
15 5 (0.24%) COBIT
15 5 (0.24%) MiFID
15 5 (0.24%) P3O
16 4 (0.20%) EMIR
System Software
1 122 (5.97%) Docker
2 111 (5.43%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (0.44%) Firmware
6 7 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.20%) Squid
9 2 (0.098%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.098%) Dovecot
9 2 (0.098%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.098%) Postfix
9 2 (0.098%) vSphere
10 1 (0.049%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.049%) NFS
10 1 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.049%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.049%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 1 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.049%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 109 (5.33%) Kubernetes
2 78 (3.81%) Ansible
3 52 (2.54%) Grafana
4 41 (2.00%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (1.17%) HP ALM
7 15 (0.73%) Control-M
7 15 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.44%) Packer
9 8 (0.39%) Dell DRAC
9 8 (0.39%) Puppet
10 7 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.34%) Istio
10 7 (0.34%) Nessus
10 7 (0.34%) SCCM
10 7 (0.34%) SCOM
11 6 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (0.24%) HP Quality Center
12 5 (0.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 312 (15.26%) Microsoft
2 245 (11.98%) ServiceNow
3 144 (7.04%) Oracle
4 90 (4.40%) SAP
5 87 (4.25%) Salesforce
6 77 (3.77%) Atlassian
7 65 (3.18%) Google
8 53 (2.59%) IBM
9 46 (2.25%) VMware
10 38 (1.86%) Splunk
11 36 (1.76%) Remedy
12 32 (1.56%) Denodo
13 26 (1.27%) Talend
14 25 (1.22%) HP
15 24 (1.17%) F5
16 22 (1.08%) Adobe
16 22 (1.08%) Informatica
17 21 (1.03%) Databricks
17 21 (1.03%) MuleSoft
18 19 (0.93%) Workday