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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 32 41
Rank change year-on-year -17 +9 +9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,024 1,669 1,421
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.32% 5.93% 4.43%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.29% 39.01% 32.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,300 1,205 899
10th Percentile £350 £318 £321
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year - -0.99% -5.61%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £685
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 46 63
10th Percentile £18.85 £15.74 £33.97
25th Percentile £24.10 £43.81 £60.00
Median hourly rate £58.74 £55.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.79% -21.43% +12.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 -
90th Percentile £78.35 £85.88 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £53.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.77% -24.29% +12.90%

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 5,428 4,278 4,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.59% 15.20% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,441 2,975 2,713
10th Percentile £354 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 97 159
10th Percentile £22.68 £33.90 £41.51
25th Percentile £50.38 £50.00 £54.66
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £77.50 £72.25
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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -16 949 £538 +2.38% 80
North of England -24 343 £484 +1.79% 46
Midlands -9 247 £459 +2.00% 45
West Midlands -13 216 £459 -3.37% 31
Yorkshire -9 211 £485 -3.00% 22
South East -37 207 £459 -4.38% 79
South West -3 150 £525 -2.33% 31
North West -49 115 £475 +8.15% 22
East of England +7 91 £472 +10.15% 23
East Midlands -16 31 £405 +12.50% 14
North East -39 21 £400 -23.08% 2
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
1 919 (45.41%) Confluence
2 104 (5.14%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.33%) SAS
4 26 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 24 (1.19%) CMS
6 10 (0.49%) Apache
6 10 (0.49%) Camunda
7 8 (0.40%) nginx
8 7 (0.35%) IIS
9 6 (0.30%) Apache Spark
9 6 (0.30%) CICS
9 6 (0.30%) Traefik
9 6 (0.30%) WebLogic
10 5 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.25%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.25%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.25%) Kentico
10 5 (0.25%) MTS
10 5 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 141 (6.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 123 (6.08%) Microsoft Project
3 82 (4.05%) MS Visio
4 67 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
5 61 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 19 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
6 19 (0.94%) Trello
7 8 (0.40%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.30%) Revit
9 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.25%) Notion
10 4 (0.20%) Windchill
11 3 (0.15%) Mingle
12 2 (0.099%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.099%) Gliffy
12 2 (0.099%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.049%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.049%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.049%) Mozilla Thunderbird
13 1 (0.049%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 32 (1.58%) Remedy ITSM
2 18 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.64%) Workday HCM
4 12 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
5 10 (0.49%) Aladdin
6 9 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
7 6 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.30%) Teamcenter
8 5 (0.25%) Fidessa
8 5 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
8 5 (0.25%) ResourceLink
8 5 (0.25%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.20%) Findur
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.20%) SAP HCM
10 3 (0.15%) Magento
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 499 (24.65%) Azure
2 315 (15.56%) AWS
3 285 (14.08%) Azure DevOps
4 169 (8.35%) GitHub
5 163 (8.05%) Power Platform
6 109 (5.39%) GCP
7 96 (4.74%) Microsoft 365
8 64 (3.16%) Serverless
9 62 (3.06%) SaaS
10 60 (2.96%) Amazon S3
11 52 (2.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 52 (2.57%) Entra ID
12 46 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
13 44 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
14 39 (1.93%) Miro
15 38 (1.88%) Amazon EC2
16 36 (1.78%) Smartsheet
17 33 (1.63%) Microsoft Copilot
17 33 (1.63%) Snowflake
18 26 (1.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 73 (3.61%) Firewall
2 71 (3.51%) DNS
3 45 (2.22%) TCP/IP
4 34 (1.68%) VPN
5 30 (1.48%) DHCP
6 26 (1.28%) Network Security
7 23 (1.14%) IPv4
7 23 (1.14%) IPv6
8 20 (0.99%) WAN
9 19 (0.94%) BIG-IP
9 19 (0.94%) Broadband
9 19 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (0.74%) SAN
10 15 (0.74%) VLAN
11 14 (0.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 14 (0.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 11 (0.54%) SSL
12 11 (0.54%) Wireless
13 10 (0.49%) 5G
13 10 (0.49%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (7.16%) Power BI
2 92 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 80 (3.95%) SQL Server
4 58 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
5 41 (2.03%) Relational Database
6 32 (1.58%) Oracle Reports
7 28 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (1.24%) MongoDB
9 24 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
10 22 (1.09%) Oracle Database
11 21 (1.04%) Metadata
12 20 (0.99%) Data Lake
13 19 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 19 (0.94%) Tableau
14 17 (0.84%) Amazon Athena
14 17 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
15 15 (0.74%) MySQL
15 15 (0.74%) Neo4j
15 15 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 13 (0.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 246 (12.15%) Git
2 173 (8.55%) Jenkins
3 127 (6.27%) GitLab
4 73 (3.61%) Zephyr
5 72 (3.56%) Bitbucket
6 65 (3.21%) Selenium
7 60 (2.96%) Postman
8 37 (1.83%) JUnit
9 35 (1.73%) Cucumber
10 31 (1.53%) REST Assured
11 30 (1.48%) JMeter
12 28 (1.38%) Maven
13 27 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 27 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
14 25 (1.24%) Rational Rhapsody
15 24 (1.19%) Cypress.io
16 23 (1.14%) Mockito
16 23 (1.14%) TestRail
17 21 (1.04%) SonarQube
18 18 (0.89%) Artifactory
General
1 805 (39.77%) Social Skills
2 608 (30.04%) Finance
3 405 (20.01%) Analytical Skills
4 290 (14.33%) Banking
5 237 (11.71%) Public Sector
6 93 (4.59%) Organisational Skills
7 71 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
8 70 (3.46%) Retail
9 60 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
10 55 (2.72%) Investment Banking
11 53 (2.62%) Telecoms
12 51 (2.52%) Manufacturing
13 40 (1.98%) Legal
14 39 (1.93%) Front Office
14 39 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 34 (1.68%) Marketing
16 26 (1.28%) Retail Banking
17 25 (1.24%) Financial Institution
18 20 (0.99%) Aerospace
19 19 (0.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 358 (17.69%) Analyst
2 221 (10.92%) Lead
3 208 (10.28%) Business Analyst
4 204 (10.08%) Developer
5 176 (8.70%) Senior
6 118 (5.83%) Project Manager
7 77 (3.80%) Consultant
8 76 (3.75%) Architect
9 70 (3.46%) Delivery Manager
10 65 (3.21%) Scrum Master
11 61 (3.01%) Tester
12 53 (2.62%) Test Analyst
13 51 (2.52%) Product Owner
14 50 (2.47%) Administrator
14 50 (2.47%) Test Leader
15 45 (2.22%) Support Engineer
16 44 (2.17%) Data Engineer
17 43 (2.12%) Test Engineer
18 40 (1.98%) Senior Analyst
19 38 (1.88%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (8.15%) REST
2 130 (6.42%) Terraform
3 81 (4.00%) .NET
4 62 (3.06%) HTML
4 62 (3.06%) RESTful
5 56 (2.77%) SOAP
6 50 (2.47%) Web Services
7 48 (2.37%) AngularJS
8 47 (2.32%) JSON
8 47 (2.32%) React
9 44 (2.17%) Kafka
10 42 (2.08%) Playwright
11 41 (2.03%) Spring
11 41 (2.03%) XML
12 40 (1.98%) Spring Boot
13 38 (1.88%) CSS
14 32 (1.58%) Middleware
14 32 (1.58%) pytest
15 29 (1.43%) Node.js
16 28 (1.38%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 279 (13.78%) Product Ownership
2 142 (7.02%) Onboarding
3 90 (4.45%) Cloud Native
4 72 (3.56%) Data Centre
5 65 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
6 56 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
7 52 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
7 52 (2.57%) Virtual Team
8 40 (1.98%) Management Information System
9 39 (1.93%) Data Structures
10 38 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
11 31 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
12 26 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
13 23 (1.14%) Credit Risk
14 21 (1.04%) Replication
15 20 (0.99%) Low-Code
15 20 (0.99%) Mobile App
16 19 (0.94%) Derivative
17 18 (0.89%) AI Agents
17 18 (0.89%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 144 (7.11%) Windows
2 140 (6.92%) Linux
3 42 (2.08%) Unix
4 30 (1.48%) Windows 10
5 22 (1.09%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.89%) Android
6 18 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 16 (0.79%) Windows Server
8 15 (0.74%) macOS
9 12 (0.59%) VMS
10 9 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
11 8 (0.40%) CentOS
11 8 (0.40%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
12 6 (0.30%) zOS
13 4 (0.20%) AIX
14 3 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
15 2 (0.099%) Solaris
15 2 (0.099%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 2 (0.099%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,199 (59.24%) Agile
2 695 (34.34%) Stakeholder Management
3 549 (27.12%) DevOps
4 457 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
5 441 (21.79%) CI/CD
6 435 (21.49%) Scrum
7 385 (19.02%) Continuous Improvement
8 362 (17.89%) Test Automation
9 316 (15.61%) Migration
10 277 (13.69%) User Acceptance Testing
11 262 (12.94%) User Stories
12 258 (12.75%) Validation
13 247 (12.20%) AI
14 239 (11.81%) Project Management
15 226 (11.17%) Project Delivery
16 225 (11.12%) Acceptance Criteria
17 217 (10.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 214 (10.57%) SDLC
19 213 (10.52%) Sprint Planning
20 190 (9.39%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 384 (18.97%) SQL
2 281 (13.88%) Python
3 140 (6.92%) Java
4 101 (4.99%) JavaScript
5 75 (3.71%) PowerShell
6 73 (3.61%) C#
7 71 (3.51%) TypeScript
8 46 (2.27%) Bash
9 33 (1.63%) PL/SQL
10 29 (1.43%) C++
11 21 (1.04%) Kotlin
12 20 (0.99%) Groovy
13 16 (0.79%) Bicep
14 14 (0.69%) ActionScript
14 14 (0.69%) C
15 13 (0.64%) Perl
16 12 (0.59%) Apex Code
17 11 (0.54%) Shell Script
18 9 (0.44%) VBA
19 7 (0.35%) Ada
Qualifications
1 531 (26.24%) Security Cleared
2 407 (20.11%) SC Cleared
3 169 (8.35%) Degree
4 93 (4.59%) DV Cleared
5 85 (4.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 76 (3.75%) ISTQB
7 71 (3.51%) PMI Certification
8 59 (2.92%) PMP
9 31 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 30 (1.48%) AWS Certification
11 27 (1.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 22 (1.09%) Master's Degree
13 21 (1.04%) Azure Certification
13 21 (1.04%) CISSP
14 17 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
15 15 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 15 (0.74%) CISM
16 14 (0.69%) IIBA
16 14 (0.69%) ISEB
17 13 (0.64%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 274 (13.54%) QA
2 134 (6.62%) Data Quality
3 118 (5.83%) PMO
4 65 (3.21%) Accessibility
5 35 (1.73%) SLA
6 26 (1.28%) WCAG
7 23 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (0.99%) GDPR
9 19 (0.94%) NCSC
10 18 (0.89%) GRC
11 17 (0.84%) NIST
12 13 (0.64%) ISO 20022
13 9 (0.44%) COBIT
13 9 (0.44%) SEPA
14 8 (0.40%) PCI DSS
15 6 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
15 6 (0.30%) JSP 440
15 6 (0.30%) P3O
16 5 (0.25%) MISRA
16 5 (0.25%) MISRA C
System Software
1 133 (6.57%) Docker
2 99 (4.89%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (0.54%) Firmware
6 8 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.30%) vSphere
9 3 (0.15%) Squid
10 2 (0.099%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.099%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.099%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.099%) Postfix
10 2 (0.099%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.049%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.049%) NFS
11 1 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.049%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.049%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 1 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 118 (5.83%) Kubernetes
2 66 (3.26%) Ansible
3 57 (2.82%) Grafana
4 42 (2.08%) Prometheus
5 27 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
6 21 (1.04%) HP ALM
7 16 (0.79%) Control-M
8 11 (0.54%) Istio
9 10 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
10 9 (0.44%) Packer
11 7 (0.35%) SCCM
11 7 (0.35%) SCOM
12 6 (0.30%) Dell DRAC
12 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
12 6 (0.30%) Nessus
12 6 (0.30%) vCenter Server
13 5 (0.25%) Argo
13 5 (0.25%) HP Quality Center
13 5 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 321 (15.86%) Microsoft
2 204 (10.08%) ServiceNow
3 145 (7.16%) Oracle
4 96 (4.74%) SAP
5 81 (4.00%) Salesforce
6 75 (3.71%) Atlassian
7 60 (2.96%) Google
8 59 (2.92%) IBM
9 50 (2.47%) VMware
10 39 (1.93%) Splunk
11 35 (1.73%) Remedy
12 30 (1.48%) Databricks
13 25 (1.24%) Denodo
14 22 (1.09%) F5
14 22 (1.09%) HP
14 22 (1.09%) Informatica
14 22 (1.09%) Workday
15 20 (0.99%) Adobe
15 20 (0.99%) MuleSoft
16 19 (0.94%) Talend