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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 35 47
Rank change year-on-year -5 +12 +1
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,100 1,360 1,427
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.86% 5.46% 3.78%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.95% 38.30% 31.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,439 915 945
10th Percentile £318 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £619
90th Percentile £675 £693 £703
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -2.50% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 28 96
10th Percentile £18.75 £47.48 £25.13
25th Percentile £24.60 £50.00 £39.39
Median hourly rate £53.00 £56.25 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year -5.78% -11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £66.13 £71.37 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £79.13 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -

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 5,128 3,551 4,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.87% 14.26% 11.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,330 2,412 3,005
10th Percentile £350 £333 £350
25th Percentile £409 £412 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 71 231
10th Percentile £33.36 £27.50 £31.71
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £51.88
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £58.38 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.35% -10.19% +5.69%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -3 948 £510 -1.92% 156
North of England -3 417 £450 -4.05% 88
Midlands +2 319 £450 -5.26% 42
West Midlands 0 259 £459 -3.37% 26
Yorkshire -3 222 £475 -5.00% 37
South East -29 207 £459 -5.36% 125
North West -7 177 £446 +4.94% 48
South West -6 120 £493 -14.35% 48
East of England -8 62 £519 +25.76% 30
East Midlands +11 58 £393 -12.37% 16
North East -30 22 £475 -12.64% 5
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
1 924 (44.00%) Confluence
2 112 (5.33%) SharePoint
3 39 (1.86%) SAS
4 35 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.71%) Apache
6 13 (0.62%) CMS
7 12 (0.57%) nginx
8 9 (0.43%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
10 6 (0.29%) Ethereum
10 6 (0.29%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.29%) Mattermost
11 5 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
12 4 (0.19%) IIS
12 4 (0.19%) JBoss
12 4 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.19%) WordPress
13 3 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 164 (7.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 157 (7.48%) Microsoft Project
3 84 (4.00%) MS Visio
4 82 (3.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 62 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.57%) Trello
7 10 (0.48%) Chatbot
8 9 (0.43%) AutoCAD
8 9 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
9 8 (0.38%) Revit
10 4 (0.19%) Notion
11 2 (0.095%) CATIA
12 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.048%) CANalyzer
12 1 (0.048%) Mingle
12 1 (0.048%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.048%) SOLIDWORKS
12 1 (0.048%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 29 (1.38%) Remedy ITSM
1 29 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.52%) Loan IQ
4 10 (0.48%) Workday HCM
5 9 (0.43%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.38%) Findur
6 8 (0.38%) SAP MDG
7 7 (0.33%) Fidessa
7 7 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
9 5 (0.24%) SAP Retail
10 4 (0.19%) Actimize
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
10 4 (0.19%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 468 (22.29%) Azure
2 353 (16.81%) AWS
3 264 (12.57%) Azure DevOps
4 161 (7.67%) GitHub
5 159 (7.57%) Power Platform
6 91 (4.33%) Microsoft 365
7 81 (3.86%) Entra ID
8 79 (3.76%) SaaS
9 78 (3.71%) GCP
10 75 (3.57%) Amazon S3
11 74 (3.52%) Serverless
12 58 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
13 55 (2.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 54 (2.57%) GitHub Actions
15 52 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
16 37 (1.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 32 (1.52%) Slack
18 27 (1.29%) Miro
19 26 (1.24%) Amazon EKS
20 25 (1.19%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 84 (4.00%) Firewall
2 58 (2.76%) DNS
3 48 (2.29%) TCP/IP
4 36 (1.71%) Network Security
5 30 (1.43%) LAN
6 29 (1.38%) VPN
6 29 (1.38%) WAN
7 25 (1.19%) BIG-IP
8 24 (1.14%) DHCP
9 20 (0.95%) SAN
10 19 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
11 17 (0.81%) SSL
12 14 (0.67%) HTTP
13 12 (0.57%) SD-WAN
14 11 (0.52%) Internet
15 10 (0.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 10 (0.48%) Unified Communications
16 9 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 8 (0.38%) DKIM
17 8 (0.38%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (6.76%) Power BI
2 95 (4.52%) Data Warehouse
3 74 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
4 52 (2.48%) SQL Server
5 46 (2.19%) Tableau
6 44 (2.10%) Oracle Reports
7 34 (1.62%) MongoDB
8 32 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
9 27 (1.29%) DynamoDB
9 27 (1.29%) Relational Database
10 26 (1.24%) NoSQL
11 25 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
12 20 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
13 18 (0.86%) Pentaho
14 16 (0.76%) Data Lake
14 16 (0.76%) Oracle Database
14 16 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 15 (0.71%) BusinessObjects
16 12 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
16 12 (0.57%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 248 (11.81%) Git
2 192 (9.14%) Jenkins
3 120 (5.71%) GitLab
4 90 (4.29%) Selenium
5 68 (3.24%) Postman
5 68 (3.24%) Zephyr
6 55 (2.62%) Bitbucket
7 54 (2.57%) JUnit
8 50 (2.38%) Cucumber
9 40 (1.90%) JMeter
10 32 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
11 24 (1.14%) REST Assured
12 21 (1.00%) Cypress.io
12 21 (1.00%) WebDriver
13 20 (0.95%) SonarQube
13 20 (0.95%) TestRail
14 18 (0.86%) Artifactory
15 14 (0.67%) Appium
16 12 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 12 (0.57%) Maven
General
1 816 (38.86%) Social Skills
2 602 (28.67%) Finance
3 383 (18.24%) Analytical Skills
4 270 (12.86%) Banking
5 218 (10.38%) Public Sector
6 79 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
7 74 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
8 73 (3.48%) Retail
9 42 (2.00%) Legal
10 40 (1.90%) Manufacturing
11 36 (1.71%) Investment Banking
12 34 (1.62%) Influencing Skills
13 32 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
14 31 (1.48%) Retail Banking
15 29 (1.38%) Front Office
16 26 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 25 (1.19%) Military
18 21 (1.00%) Telecoms
19 20 (0.95%) Corporate Banking
20 19 (0.90%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 406 (19.33%) Analyst
2 250 (11.90%) Business Analyst
3 196 (9.33%) Developer
4 175 (8.33%) Lead
5 168 (8.00%) Senior
6 117 (5.57%) Project Manager
7 101 (4.81%) Architect
8 89 (4.24%) Delivery Manager
9 88 (4.19%) Tester
10 78 (3.71%) Data Engineer
11 77 (3.67%) Scrum Master
12 70 (3.33%) Consultant
13 65 (3.10%) IT Support
14 55 (2.62%) Support Engineer
15 44 (2.10%) IT Engineer
15 44 (2.10%) Product Owner
16 42 (2.00%) IT Support Engineer
16 42 (2.00%) Test Analyst
17 41 (1.95%) Java Developer
17 41 (1.95%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (4.86%) REST
2 63 (3.00%) Spring
3 56 (2.67%) React
4 55 (2.62%) .NET
5 48 (2.29%) HTML
5 48 (2.29%) JSON
6 47 (2.24%) RESTful
7 43 (2.05%) Kafka
8 41 (1.95%) Spring Boot
9 38 (1.81%) SOAP
10 37 (1.76%) CSS
11 31 (1.48%) AngularJS
12 30 (1.43%) Playwright
13 26 (1.24%) XML
14 25 (1.19%) Middleware
14 25 (1.19%) OpenID
15 24 (1.14%) Node.js
15 24 (1.14%) WireMock
16 23 (1.10%) .NET Framework
16 23 (1.10%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 239 (11.38%) Product Ownership
2 119 (5.67%) Onboarding
3 91 (4.33%) Cloud Native
4 62 (2.95%) Data Centre
5 51 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
6 48 (2.29%) Management Information System
6 48 (2.29%) Virtual Team
7 44 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
8 42 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
9 41 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
10 31 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
11 30 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
12 29 (1.38%) Data Structures
13 20 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 18 (0.86%) Public Cloud
14 18 (0.86%) SCADA
15 17 (0.81%) Security Posture
16 16 (0.76%) Mobile App
16 16 (0.76%) PMI
17 15 (0.71%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 170 (8.10%) Windows
2 133 (6.33%) Linux
3 43 (2.05%) Unix
4 19 (0.90%) Windows 10
5 18 (0.86%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.81%) Mac OS
7 16 (0.76%) Android
7 16 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.48%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.14%) AIX
11 3 (0.14%) Check Point GAiA
11 3 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.095%) MVS
12 2 (0.095%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.048%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.048%) Solaris
13 1 (0.048%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,205 (57.38%) Agile
2 549 (26.14%) DevOps
3 543 (25.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 462 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
5 438 (20.86%) CI/CD
6 410 (19.52%) Scrum
7 392 (18.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 347 (16.52%) Test Automation
9 263 (12.52%) Migration
10 247 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
11 241 (11.48%) Project Management
12 238 (11.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 224 (10.67%) User Stories
14 221 (10.52%) Validation
15 208 (9.90%) Change Management
16 192 (9.14%) Project Delivery
17 191 (9.10%) Sprint Planning
18 185 (8.81%) ITIL
18 185 (8.81%) SDLC
19 183 (8.71%) AI
Programming Languages
1 336 (16.00%) SQL
2 250 (11.90%) Python
3 167 (7.95%) Java
4 85 (4.05%) C#
5 84 (4.00%) JavaScript
6 65 (3.10%) TypeScript
7 58 (2.76%) PowerShell
8 39 (1.86%) Bash
9 31 (1.48%) PL/SQL
10 19 (0.90%) C++
11 18 (0.86%) VBA
12 15 (0.71%) Apex Code
12 15 (0.71%) Perl
12 15 (0.71%) Shell Script
13 11 (0.52%) ActionScript
13 11 (0.52%) Groovy
14 10 (0.48%) Bicep
15 9 (0.43%) C
15 9 (0.43%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 541 (25.76%) Security Cleared
2 424 (20.19%) SC Cleared
3 191 (9.10%) Degree
4 76 (3.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 68 (3.24%) ISTQB
6 64 (3.05%) DV Cleared
6 64 (3.05%) PMI Certification
7 58 (2.76%) PMP
8 33 (1.57%) CISSP
9 32 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (1.14%) AWS Certification
11 24 (1.14%) Master's Degree
12 21 (1.00%) CISM
13 20 (0.95%) Azure Certification
13 20 (0.95%) SAFe Agilist
14 17 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
15 16 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 14 (0.67%) IIBA
17 13 (0.62%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 250 (11.90%) QA
2 121 (5.76%) Data Quality
3 110 (5.24%) PMO
4 55 (2.62%) Accessibility
5 44 (2.10%) GDPR
6 40 (1.90%) SLA
7 26 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (1.24%) NIST
8 20 (0.95%) WCAG
9 19 (0.90%) GRC
10 17 (0.81%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.71%) NCSC
12 8 (0.38%) ISO 20022
12 8 (0.38%) PSD2
13 7 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.33%) Basel III
13 7 (0.33%) MiFID
13 7 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.29%) JSP 440
System Software
1 144 (6.86%) Docker
2 110 (5.24%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.81%) Firmware
5 9 (0.43%) Squid
5 9 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
7 5 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.14%) HDFS
9 2 (0.095%) Postfix
9 2 (0.095%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.048%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.048%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.048%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 160 (7.62%) Kubernetes
2 139 (6.62%) Terraform
3 88 (4.19%) Ansible
4 64 (3.05%) Grafana
5 52 (2.48%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 21 (1.00%) Control-M
9 20 (0.95%) HP ALM
10 17 (0.81%) Nessus
11 16 (0.76%) IBM Guardium
12 15 (0.71%) Puppet
13 13 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
14 12 (0.57%) Consul
15 10 (0.48%) HP Quality Center
16 9 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 8 (0.38%) Dell DRAC
17 8 (0.38%) FortiGate
17 8 (0.38%) SCCM
18 7 (0.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 280 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 260 (12.38%) ServiceNow
3 164 (7.81%) Oracle
4 103 (4.90%) Salesforce
5 91 (4.33%) Atlassian
6 78 (3.71%) SAP
7 55 (2.62%) Google
8 38 (1.81%) Denodo
9 37 (1.76%) Workday
10 36 (1.71%) Remedy
11 34 (1.62%) Informatica
12 33 (1.57%) F5
12 33 (1.57%) Talend
13 31 (1.48%) IBM
14 30 (1.43%) Red Hat
15 27 (1.29%) VMware
16 26 (1.24%) Databricks
17 23 (1.10%) MuleSoft
17 23 (1.10%) Splunk
18 22 (1.05%) HP