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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 32 41
Rank change year-on-year -17 +9 +10
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,993 1,669 1,436
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.31% 5.95% 4.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.41% 39.04% 32.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,281 1,198 906
10th Percentile £350 £313 £319
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -0.05% -6.32%
75th Percentile £595 £607 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 45 65
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.74 £31.98
25th Percentile £23.67 £46.25 £60.00
Median hourly rate £59.37 £55.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.94% -21.43% +12.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 -
90th Percentile £78.88 £81.80 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -21.43% +12.00%

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 5,328 4,275 4,379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.52% 15.24% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,374 2,970 2,733
10th Percentile £353 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £405 £419
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 £522
% change year-on-year - -4.21% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 96 164
10th Percentile £22.68 £33.38 £39.03
25th Percentile £51.21 £50.00 £54.68
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £76.25 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.17% -1.15% -

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -17 931 £539 +2.62% 828
North of England -25 337 £478 +0.63% 214
Midlands -12 246 £459 +2.00% 114
West Midlands -13 214 £467 -1.68% 71
Yorkshire -8 204 £482 -4.27% 96
South East -39 202 £459 -4.38% 255
South West -5 151 £525 -3.45% 95
North West -46 115 £475 +8.57% 97
East of England +3 89 £472 +12.51% 96
East Midlands -17 32 £405 +13.13% 43
North East -43 22 £388 -25.48% 22
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
1 903 (45.31%) Confluence
2 105 (5.27%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 24 (1.20%) CMS
5 21 (1.05%) SAS
6 10 (0.50%) Apache
6 10 (0.50%) Camunda
7 8 (0.40%) nginx
8 7 (0.35%) IIS
9 6 (0.30%) CICS
10 5 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.25%) Apache Spark
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
11 4 (0.20%) Traefik
11 4 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 143 (7.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 115 (5.77%) Microsoft Project
3 79 (3.96%) MS Visio
4 66 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
5 61 (3.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 20 (1.00%) Trello
7 18 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.40%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.30%) Revit
10 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.25%) Notion
11 4 (0.20%) Windchill
12 3 (0.15%) Mingle
13 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.10%) Gliffy
13 2 (0.10%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.050%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.050%) Adobe Illustrator
14 1 (0.050%) Adobe Premiere
14 1 (0.050%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 34 (1.71%) Remedy ITSM
2 18 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
3 12 (0.60%) Workday HCM
4 9 (0.45%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
5 6 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 6 (0.30%) Teamcenter
6 5 (0.25%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
6 5 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
6 5 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.25%) ResourceLink
6 5 (0.25%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.20%) Findur
7 4 (0.20%) SAP HCM
8 3 (0.15%) Maximo
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.15%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 483 (24.23%) Azure
2 304 (15.25%) AWS
3 273 (13.70%) Azure DevOps
4 164 (8.23%) GitHub
5 162 (8.13%) Power Platform
6 106 (5.32%) GCP
7 95 (4.77%) Microsoft 365
8 63 (3.16%) SaaS
9 60 (3.01%) Serverless
10 57 (2.86%) Amazon S3
11 51 (2.56%) Entra ID
12 50 (2.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 47 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
14 43 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
15 38 (1.91%) Miro
16 36 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
16 36 (1.81%) Smartsheet
17 33 (1.66%) Microsoft Copilot
18 29 (1.46%) Snowflake
19 25 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 73 (3.66%) Firewall
2 71 (3.56%) DNS
3 44 (2.21%) TCP/IP
4 34 (1.71%) VPN
5 30 (1.51%) DHCP
6 24 (1.20%) Network Security
7 21 (1.05%) IPv4
7 21 (1.05%) IPv6
8 20 (1.00%) WAN
9 19 (0.95%) BIG-IP
10 17 (0.85%) Broadband
10 17 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (0.75%) SAN
11 15 (0.75%) VLAN
12 14 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 14 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 11 (0.55%) SSL
14 10 (0.50%) SD-WAN
14 10 (0.50%) SSH
14 10 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (7.18%) Power BI
2 95 (4.77%) Data Warehouse
3 75 (3.76%) SQL Server
4 57 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
5 40 (2.01%) Relational Database
6 36 (1.81%) Oracle Reports
7 27 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 24 (1.20%) MongoDB
9 21 (1.05%) Oracle Database
10 20 (1.00%) Data Lake
10 20 (1.00%) Metadata
11 19 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 18 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
12 18 (0.90%) Tableau
13 17 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
14 15 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 14 (0.70%) Neo4j
16 13 (0.65%) NoSQL
16 13 (0.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 242 (12.14%) Git
2 170 (8.53%) Jenkins
3 123 (6.17%) GitLab
4 78 (3.91%) Zephyr
5 71 (3.56%) Bitbucket
6 68 (3.41%) Selenium
7 63 (3.16%) Postman
8 37 (1.86%) JUnit
9 33 (1.66%) Cucumber
10 29 (1.46%) JMeter
10 29 (1.46%) REST Assured
11 28 (1.40%) Maven
11 28 (1.40%) Sonatype Nexus
12 27 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 24 (1.20%) Cypress.io
13 24 (1.20%) Rational Rhapsody
13 24 (1.20%) TestRail
14 23 (1.15%) Mockito
15 21 (1.05%) SonarQube
16 18 (0.90%) Artifactory
General
1 793 (39.79%) Social Skills
2 586 (29.40%) Finance
3 399 (20.02%) Analytical Skills
4 282 (14.15%) Banking
5 239 (11.99%) Public Sector
6 92 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
7 71 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
8 70 (3.51%) Retail
9 59 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
10 55 (2.76%) Investment Banking
11 52 (2.61%) Manufacturing
12 49 (2.46%) Telecoms
13 40 (2.01%) Legal
14 39 (1.96%) Front Office
14 39 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 33 (1.66%) Marketing
16 26 (1.30%) Retail Banking
17 23 (1.15%) Financial Institution
18 19 (0.95%) Aerospace
18 19 (0.95%) Law
Job Titles
1 351 (17.61%) Analyst
2 221 (11.09%) Lead
3 206 (10.34%) Business Analyst
4 203 (10.19%) Developer
5 172 (8.63%) Senior
6 112 (5.62%) Project Manager
7 75 (3.76%) Consultant
8 73 (3.66%) Architect
9 69 (3.46%) Delivery Manager
10 67 (3.36%) Scrum Master
11 62 (3.11%) Tester
12 51 (2.56%) Test Analyst
12 51 (2.56%) Test Leader
13 50 (2.51%) Administrator
13 50 (2.51%) Product Owner
14 45 (2.26%) Support Engineer
15 44 (2.21%) Data Engineer
16 40 (2.01%) Test Engineer
17 38 (1.91%) Product Manager
17 38 (1.91%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (7.93%) REST
2 126 (6.32%) Terraform
3 80 (4.01%) .NET
4 62 (3.11%) HTML
5 60 (3.01%) RESTful
6 52 (2.61%) SOAP
7 48 (2.41%) Web Services
8 47 (2.36%) AngularJS
8 47 (2.36%) JSON
8 47 (2.36%) React
9 44 (2.21%) Kafka
10 40 (2.01%) Playwright
11 39 (1.96%) Spring
12 38 (1.91%) CSS
12 38 (1.91%) Spring Boot
12 38 (1.91%) XML
13 31 (1.56%) Middleware
14 29 (1.46%) pytest
15 27 (1.35%) Hibernate
15 27 (1.35%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 268 (13.45%) Product Ownership
2 137 (6.87%) Onboarding
3 87 (4.37%) Cloud Native
4 69 (3.46%) Data Centre
5 63 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
6 57 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
7 52 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
8 49 (2.46%) Virtual Team
9 39 (1.96%) Data Structures
9 39 (1.96%) Management Information System
10 38 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
11 29 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
12 25 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
13 23 (1.15%) Credit Risk
14 20 (1.00%) Low-Code
14 20 (1.00%) Replication
15 19 (0.95%) Mobile App
16 18 (0.90%) Derivative
16 18 (0.90%) SCADA
17 17 (0.85%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 142 (7.12%) Windows
2 136 (6.82%) Linux
3 42 (2.11%) Unix
4 30 (1.51%) Windows 10
5 22 (1.10%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.90%) Android
7 17 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 16 (0.80%) Windows Server
9 14 (0.70%) Mac OS
10 11 (0.55%) VMS
11 9 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
12 8 (0.40%) CentOS
12 8 (0.40%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
13 6 (0.30%) zOS
14 4 (0.20%) AIX
15 3 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
16 2 (0.10%) MVS
16 2 (0.10%) Solaris
16 2 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,175 (58.96%) Agile
2 681 (34.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 531 (26.64%) DevOps
4 453 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 431 (21.63%) CI/CD
6 426 (21.37%) Scrum
7 374 (18.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 353 (17.71%) Test Automation
9 311 (15.60%) Migration
10 270 (13.55%) User Acceptance Testing
11 254 (12.74%) User Stories
12 246 (12.34%) Validation
13 244 (12.24%) AI
14 229 (11.49%) Project Management
15 219 (10.99%) Project Delivery
16 215 (10.79%) Acceptance Criteria
17 210 (10.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 208 (10.44%) SDLC
19 206 (10.34%) Sprint Planning
20 183 (9.18%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 369 (18.51%) SQL
2 268 (13.45%) Python
3 135 (6.77%) Java
4 98 (4.92%) JavaScript
5 74 (3.71%) PowerShell
6 71 (3.56%) C#
7 70 (3.51%) TypeScript
8 46 (2.31%) Bash
9 33 (1.66%) PL/SQL
10 27 (1.35%) C++
11 20 (1.00%) Kotlin
12 19 (0.95%) Groovy
13 16 (0.80%) Bicep
14 14 (0.70%) ActionScript
14 14 (0.70%) C
15 13 (0.65%) Apex Code
16 12 (0.60%) Perl
17 11 (0.55%) Shell Script
18 9 (0.45%) VBA
19 7 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 529 (26.54%) Security Cleared
2 404 (20.27%) SC Cleared
3 163 (8.18%) Degree
4 95 (4.77%) DV Cleared
5 85 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 70 (3.51%) ISTQB
7 66 (3.31%) PMI Certification
8 54 (2.71%) PMP
9 31 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (1.35%) AWS Certification
11 22 (1.10%) Master's Degree
12 21 (1.05%) Azure Certification
12 21 (1.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 19 (0.95%) CISSP
14 17 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
15 15 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 14 (0.70%) IIBA
17 13 (0.65%) CISM
18 12 (0.60%) ISEB
18 12 (0.60%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 270 (13.55%) QA
2 132 (6.62%) Data Quality
3 116 (5.82%) PMO
4 64 (3.21%) Accessibility
5 35 (1.76%) SLA
6 27 (1.35%) WCAG
7 24 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (1.00%) NCSC
9 18 (0.90%) GRC
9 18 (0.90%) NIST
10 16 (0.80%) GDPR
11 13 (0.65%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.45%) COBIT
12 9 (0.45%) SEPA
13 8 (0.40%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.30%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.25%) MISRA
15 5 (0.25%) MISRA C
15 5 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 128 (6.42%) Docker
2 100 (5.02%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (0.50%) 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 (0.10%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.10%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.10%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.10%) Postfix
10 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.050%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.050%) NFS
11 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.050%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.050%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 1 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 112 (5.62%) Kubernetes
2 65 (3.26%) Ansible
3 55 (2.76%) Grafana
4 42 (2.11%) Prometheus
5 25 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
6 22 (1.10%) HP ALM
7 17 (0.85%) Control-M
8 10 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.45%) Istio
9 9 (0.45%) Packer
10 7 (0.35%) Nessus
10 7 (0.35%) SCCM
10 7 (0.35%) SCOM
11 6 (0.30%) Dell DRAC
11 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
11 6 (0.30%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.25%) Argo
12 5 (0.25%) IBM Guardium
12 5 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 315 (15.81%) Microsoft
2 205 (10.29%) ServiceNow
3 147 (7.38%) Oracle
4 96 (4.82%) SAP
5 77 (3.86%) Salesforce
6 72 (3.61%) Atlassian
7 61 (3.06%) Google
8 59 (2.96%) IBM
9 50 (2.51%) VMware
10 40 (2.01%) Splunk
11 37 (1.86%) Remedy
12 27 (1.35%) Databricks
13 25 (1.25%) Denodo
14 23 (1.15%) HP
15 22 (1.10%) F5
15 22 (1.10%) Informatica
15 22 (1.10%) Talend
16 21 (1.05%) MuleSoft
16 21 (1.05%) Workday
17 20 (1.00%) Adobe