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 11 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 45 48
Rank change year-on-year +12 +3 -14
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,730 1,306 1,725
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.82% 4.26% 4.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.92% 32.18% 34.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,271 833 1,160
10th Percentile £325 £313 £360
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £528
Median % change year-on-year - -5.21% -2.31%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £627
90th Percentile £688 £685 £726
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 46 56
10th Percentile £15.74 £35.31 £45.42
25th Percentile £43.62 £54.64 £51.25
Median hourly rate £60.50 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £70.12 - £70.00
90th Percentile £86.88 - £74.38
UK median hourly rate £56.50 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -19.29% +16.67% -

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 4,562 4,059 5,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.35% 13.24% 12.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,192 2,546 3,597
10th Percentile £325 £350 £375
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 122 228
10th Percentile £39.00 £37.55 £45.88
25th Percentile £54.88 £51.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.08 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £79.50 £74.94 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.78% -0.77% +8.33%

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 11 November 2025.

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 11 November 2025.

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 11 November 2025. 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 +13 829 £541 +3.10% 555
North of England +6 323 £474 -4.57% 164
Midlands +23 192 £450 -5.66% 120
South East +6 185 £480 +6.67% 339
West Midlands +34 159 £475 -13.64% 64
Yorkshire -1 157 £500 - 51
North West +3 145 £448 -10.50% 96
South West -2 104 £558 -5.42% 126
East of England -5 54 £425 - 99
East Midlands -12 33 £359 -19.33% 56
North East -1 21 £510 +12.33% 17
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
1 777 (44.91%) Confluence
2 99 (5.72%) SharePoint
3 53 (3.06%) nginx
4 30 (1.73%) SAS
5 29 (1.68%) CMS
6 21 (1.21%) Apache
7 13 (0.75%) JBoss
8 12 (0.69%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.46%) WebSphere
10 8 (0.46%) WordPress
11 7 (0.40%) Drupal
12 6 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
12 6 (0.35%) Mule
13 5 (0.29%) Apache Spark
13 5 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 4 (0.23%) CICS
14 4 (0.23%) WebLogic
15 3 (0.17%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 126 (7.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 109 (6.30%) Microsoft Project
3 83 (4.80%) Microsoft Office
4 69 (3.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 60 (3.47%) MS Visio
6 31 (1.79%) Trello
7 12 (0.69%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 6 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
8 6 (0.35%) Photoshop
9 5 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.23%) Simulink
10 4 (0.23%) Sketch
10 4 (0.23%) Windchill
11 3 (0.17%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.12%) InVision
12 2 (0.12%) Notion
13 1 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.058%) Autodesk Smoke
13 1 (0.058%) Chatbot
13 1 (0.058%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 19 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.98%) Remedy ITSM
3 11 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 8 (0.46%) SAP PM
6 7 (0.40%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
7 6 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
7 6 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.35%) SAP HR
8 5 (0.29%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.29%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.23%) Endur
9 4 (0.23%) Fidessa
9 4 (0.23%) Magento
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.23%) SAP PLM
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 345 (19.94%) Azure
2 321 (18.55%) AWS
3 176 (10.17%) Azure DevOps
4 163 (9.42%) GitHub
5 107 (6.18%) Power Platform
6 85 (4.91%) GCP
7 72 (4.16%) Serverless
8 56 (3.24%) Amazon S3
8 56 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
9 50 (2.89%) Amazon EC2
10 44 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
11 42 (2.43%) AWS CloudFormation
11 42 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
12 40 (2.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 35 (2.02%) SaaS
13 35 (2.02%) Slack
13 35 (2.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 33 (1.91%) Power Automate
15 31 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
16 29 (1.68%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 69 (3.99%) Firewall
2 65 (3.76%) DNS
3 40 (2.31%) SSH
4 39 (2.25%) HTTP
5 32 (1.85%) VPN
6 28 (1.62%) SMTP
7 23 (1.33%) FTP
8 21 (1.21%) SSL
9 17 (0.98%) OpenLDAP
9 17 (0.98%) TCP/IP
10 12 (0.69%) DHCP
10 12 (0.69%) IMAP
11 11 (0.64%) Network Security
11 11 (0.64%) WAN
12 10 (0.58%) BGP
13 9 (0.52%) MPLS
14 8 (0.46%) LAN
14 8 (0.46%) Unified Communications
15 7 (0.40%) IPsec
15 7 (0.40%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (5.49%) Power BI
2 78 (4.51%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (2.95%) Tableau
4 44 (2.54%) SQL Server
5 36 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
6 34 (1.97%) Relational Database
7 33 (1.91%) NoSQL
8 28 (1.62%) Pentaho
9 27 (1.56%) Oracle Database
10 22 (1.27%) Big Data
11 21 (1.21%) Metadata
12 20 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
12 20 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
12 20 (1.16%) MongoDB
13 18 (1.04%) MySQL
14 17 (0.98%) Hadoop
15 14 (0.81%) BigQuery
16 13 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
17 10 (0.58%) Data Vault
17 10 (0.58%) Redis
Development Applications
1 269 (15.55%) Git
2 240 (13.87%) Jenkins
3 102 (5.90%) GitLab
4 76 (4.39%) Bitbucket
5 74 (4.28%) Selenium
6 59 (3.41%) Postman
7 45 (2.60%) Cucumber
8 44 (2.54%) Sonatype Nexus
9 36 (2.08%) JUnit
10 33 (1.91%) SonarQube
11 32 (1.85%) TestRail
12 30 (1.73%) Maven
13 28 (1.62%) Zephyr
14 27 (1.56%) SoapUI
15 26 (1.50%) Vagrant
16 23 (1.33%) SpecFlow
17 22 (1.27%) Cypress.io
17 22 (1.27%) REST Assured
18 19 (1.10%) Artifactory
18 19 (1.10%) TeamCity
General
1 700 (40.46%) Social Skills
2 415 (23.99%) Finance
3 273 (15.78%) Analytical Skills
4 214 (12.37%) Banking
5 185 (10.69%) Public Sector
6 57 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
6 57 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
7 50 (2.89%) Retail
8 38 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
9 32 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
9 32 (1.85%) Investment Banking
10 31 (1.79%) Front Office
11 30 (1.73%) Legal
12 24 (1.39%) Manufacturing
12 24 (1.39%) Marketing
13 18 (1.04%) Telecoms
14 14 (0.81%) Law
15 13 (0.75%) Back Office
15 13 (0.75%) Military
16 12 (0.69%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 305 (17.63%) Analyst
2 211 (12.20%) Developer
3 176 (10.17%) Business Analyst
4 141 (8.15%) Project Manager
5 134 (7.75%) Senior
6 122 (7.05%) Lead
7 95 (5.49%) Architect
8 70 (4.05%) Tester
9 62 (3.58%) DevOps Engineer
10 60 (3.47%) Test Analyst
11 52 (3.01%) Administrator
12 51 (2.95%) Consultant
13 49 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
14 43 (2.49%) Delivery Manager
15 42 (2.43%) Product Owner
16 39 (2.25%) Technical Analyst
17 38 (2.20%) AWS Engineer
18 35 (2.02%) Scrum Master
19 34 (1.97%) AWS DevOps
19 34 (1.97%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (10.06%) REST
2 95 (5.49%) SOAP
3 84 (4.86%) AngularJS
4 82 (4.74%) .NET
5 77 (4.45%) React
6 76 (4.39%) HTML
7 58 (3.35%) CSS
8 57 (3.29%) RESTful
9 53 (3.06%) Kafka
9 53 (3.06%) XML
10 50 (2.89%) JSON
10 50 (2.89%) Spring Boot
11 48 (2.77%) Spring
12 42 (2.43%) Web Services
13 40 (2.31%) Node.js
14 39 (2.25%) Playwright
15 38 (2.20%) LDAP
16 34 (1.97%) RabbitMQ
17 28 (1.62%) HTML5
17 28 (1.62%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 163 (9.42%) Product Ownership
2 67 (3.87%) Onboarding
3 48 (2.77%) Cloud Native
4 46 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
5 42 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
6 36 (2.08%) Management Information System
7 32 (1.85%) Data Structures
8 29 (1.68%) Replication
9 28 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
9 28 (1.62%) Mobile App
10 24 (1.39%) PMI
11 23 (1.33%) CMDB
12 22 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
12 22 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
13 20 (1.16%) Data Centre
13 20 (1.16%) Virtual Team
14 19 (1.10%) Algorithms
14 19 (1.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 17 (0.98%) PKI
15 17 (0.98%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 144 (8.32%) Linux
2 137 (7.92%) Windows
3 55 (3.18%) Unix
4 32 (1.85%) VMS
5 24 (1.39%) Amazon Linux
6 16 (0.92%) Android
6 16 (0.92%) Ubuntu
7 14 (0.81%) Mac OS
8 13 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (0.64%) Apple iOS
9 11 (0.64%) Windows Server
10 9 (0.52%) Windows 10
11 8 (0.46%) CentOS
12 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.17%) zOS
14 2 (0.12%) Debian
14 2 (0.12%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.12%) Solaris
14 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.058%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,054 (60.92%) Agile
2 517 (29.88%) DevOps
3 428 (24.74%) Scrum
4 417 (24.10%) Problem-Solving
5 355 (20.52%) CI/CD
6 341 (19.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 262 (15.14%) Test Automation
8 254 (14.68%) Project Management
9 235 (13.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 224 (12.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 195 (11.27%) Migration
12 182 (10.52%) Change Management
13 176 (10.17%) User Stories
14 166 (9.60%) Microservices
15 165 (9.54%) User Acceptance Testing
16 140 (8.09%) Kanban
17 139 (8.03%) Roadmaps
17 139 (8.03%) SDLC
18 137 (7.92%) Project Delivery
19 129 (7.46%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 286 (16.53%) SQL
2 284 (16.42%) Python
3 183 (10.58%) Java
4 145 (8.38%) JavaScript
5 98 (5.66%) PowerShell
6 83 (4.80%) C#
7 60 (3.47%) TypeScript
8 51 (2.95%) Bash
9 37 (2.14%) Groovy
10 36 (2.08%) Go
11 29 (1.68%) Perl
12 24 (1.39%) Shell Script
13 23 (1.33%) C++
14 15 (0.87%) Apex Code
15 13 (0.75%) PHP
16 12 (0.69%) PL/SQL
16 12 (0.69%) Ruby
17 10 (0.58%) Kotlin
18 8 (0.46%) Korn
19 6 (0.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 422 (24.39%) Security Cleared
2 378 (21.85%) SC Cleared
3 231 (13.35%) Degree
4 77 (4.45%) PMI Certification
5 64 (3.70%) PMP
6 57 (3.29%) CISSP
7 56 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 49 (2.83%) ISTQB
9 48 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
10 42 (2.43%) CISM
11 37 (2.14%) DV Cleared
12 30 (1.73%) AWS Certification
13 19 (1.10%) Azure Certification
14 16 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
14 16 (0.92%) Oracle Certification
15 15 (0.87%) Master's Degree
16 14 (0.81%) CBAP
17 13 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 12 (0.69%) ISEB
19 11 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (11.21%) QA
2 63 (3.64%) GDPR
2 63 (3.64%) PMO
3 56 (3.24%) Data Quality
4 48 (2.77%) Accessibility
5 47 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (2.25%) NIST
7 23 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 18 (1.04%) PCI DSS
8 18 (1.04%) SEPA
9 17 (0.98%) ISO 20022
10 14 (0.81%) COBIT
10 14 (0.81%) NIST 800
10 14 (0.81%) PSD2
11 13 (0.75%) WCAG
12 8 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 7 (0.40%) NCSC
14 6 (0.35%) GRC
14 6 (0.35%) SLA
15 5 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 204 (11.79%) Docker
2 60 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.27%) DFS Replication
4 20 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.69%) Dovecot
6 12 (0.69%) Postfix
6 12 (0.69%) Squid
6 12 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.58%) Firmware
7 10 (0.58%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.35%) vSphere
10 4 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.17%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.12%) KVM
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.12%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.058%) etcd
Systems Management
1 179 (10.35%) Kubernetes
2 128 (7.40%) Terraform
3 96 (5.55%) Ansible
4 51 (2.95%) Grafana
5 46 (2.66%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (1.62%) Packer
8 26 (1.50%) Consul
8 26 (1.50%) HP ALM
9 24 (1.39%) Nessus
10 17 (0.98%) Control-M
11 16 (0.92%) Puppet
12 14 (0.81%) NetBackup
13 13 (0.75%) SCCM
14 11 (0.64%) IBM Guardium
14 11 (0.64%) Progress Chef
14 11 (0.64%) RSA Archer
15 10 (0.58%) Proxmox
16 9 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
17 7 (0.40%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 244 (14.10%) Microsoft
2 209 (12.08%) ServiceNow
3 140 (8.09%) Oracle
4 89 (5.14%) Salesforce
5 88 (5.09%) Atlassian
6 65 (3.76%) SAP
7 53 (3.06%) Google
8 44 (2.54%) HP
9 33 (1.91%) IBM
10 32 (1.85%) Cisco
11 30 (1.73%) Splunk
12 28 (1.62%) CyberArk
12 28 (1.62%) Talend
12 28 (1.62%) VMware
13 27 (1.56%) Denodo
14 23 (1.33%) Remedy
15 22 (1.27%) Red Hat
16 18 (1.04%) CheckPoint
16 18 (1.04%) Cloudera
16 18 (1.04%) Tenable