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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 33 41
Rank change year-on-year -15 +8 +8
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,031 1,619 1,414
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.36% 5.82% 4.34%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.18% 38.86% 32.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,307 1,144 914
10th Percentile £350 £313 £321
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.30% -4.17%
75th Percentile £597 £604 £606
90th Percentile £675 £688 £687
UK median daily rate £500 £493 £503
% change year-on-year +1.52% -1.99% -4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 40 69
10th Percentile £19.25 £42.48 £25.99
25th Percentile £26.25 £50.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £57.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -18.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.75 -
90th Percentile £81.00 £83.58 -
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +2.27% -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 5,319 4,166 4,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.42% 14.97% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,358 2,884 2,772
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £419 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £630
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 93 169
10th Percentile £24.87 £42.30 £37.39
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.75 £54.36
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £77.50 £74.00
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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -12 960 £532 +1.38% 790
North of England -18 354 £475 +1.28% 238
Midlands -7 249 £459 -3.37% 124
West Midlands -10 215 £469 -1.26% 90
Yorkshire -5 211 £493 +3.68% 77
South East -37 204 £475 +3.83% 275
South West +1 142 £525 -4.55% 133
North West -41 122 £450 +1.12% 130
East of England -1 80 £472 +18.00% 111
East Midlands -17 33 £404 +12.40% 34
North East -39 28 £515 -0.96% 32
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
1 905 (44.56%) Confluence
2 102 (5.02%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 24 (1.18%) SAS
5 22 (1.08%) CMS
6 10 (0.49%) Apache
6 10 (0.49%) Camunda
7 9 (0.44%) nginx
8 5 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.25%) IIS
8 5 (0.25%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.25%) MTS
9 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.20%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.20%) Traefik
9 4 (0.20%) WordPress
10 3 (0.15%) CICS
10 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 141 (6.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 115 (5.66%) Microsoft Project
3 78 (3.84%) MS Visio
4 64 (3.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 60 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
6 20 (0.98%) Trello
7 16 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.49%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.39%) Revit
10 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.25%) Notion
11 3 (0.15%) Windchill
12 2 (0.098%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.098%) Gliffy
12 2 (0.098%) Mingle
12 2 (0.098%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.049%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.049%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.049%) Mozilla Thunderbird
13 1 (0.049%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 35 (1.72%) Remedy ITSM
2 23 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
4 11 (0.54%) Workday HCM
5 9 (0.44%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 6 (0.30%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.25%) Fidessa
7 5 (0.25%) ResourceLink
7 5 (0.25%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.25%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.20%) Findur
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.20%) SAP FI-AR
9 3 (0.15%) Maximo
9 3 (0.15%) SAP CRM
9 3 (0.15%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 477 (23.49%) Azure
2 318 (15.66%) AWS
3 264 (13.00%) Azure DevOps
4 170 (8.37%) Power Platform
5 158 (7.78%) GitHub
6 99 (4.87%) GCP
7 94 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
8 70 (3.45%) SaaS
9 59 (2.90%) Serverless
10 58 (2.86%) Entra ID
11 57 (2.81%) Amazon S3
12 51 (2.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 45 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
14 44 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
15 42 (2.07%) Miro
16 37 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
16 37 (1.82%) Microsoft Copilot
17 34 (1.67%) Smartsheet
18 30 (1.48%) Snowflake
19 26 (1.28%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 81 (3.99%) Firewall
2 74 (3.64%) DNS
3 47 (2.31%) TCP/IP
4 35 (1.72%) DHCP
5 33 (1.62%) VPN
6 27 (1.33%) Network Security
7 22 (1.08%) WAN
8 21 (1.03%) BIG-IP
9 18 (0.89%) SSL
10 16 (0.79%) SAN
11 15 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
12 14 (0.69%) IPv4
12 14 (0.69%) IPv6
12 14 (0.69%) VLAN
13 13 (0.64%) Broadband
13 13 (0.64%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 13 (0.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 12 (0.59%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.49%) Internet
15 10 (0.49%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 151 (7.43%) Power BI
2 94 (4.63%) Data Warehouse
3 71 (3.50%) SQL Server
4 60 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
6 38 (1.87%) Relational Database
7 27 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (1.08%) Metadata
10 20 (0.98%) Data Lake
10 20 (0.98%) MongoDB
10 20 (0.98%) Oracle Database
11 19 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 18 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
12 18 (0.89%) Tableau
13 17 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
14 16 (0.79%) Power Query
15 15 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 14 (0.69%) MySQL
17 13 (0.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 252 (12.41%) Git
2 169 (8.32%) Jenkins
3 118 (5.81%) GitLab
4 75 (3.69%) Zephyr
5 72 (3.55%) Selenium
6 62 (3.05%) Bitbucket
6 62 (3.05%) Postman
7 35 (1.72%) JUnit
8 28 (1.38%) Cucumber
8 28 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
9 26 (1.28%) JMeter
10 25 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 25 (1.23%) Maven
11 24 (1.18%) REST Assured
12 22 (1.08%) Cypress.io
13 21 (1.03%) Mockito
14 20 (0.98%) SonarQube
14 20 (0.98%) TestRail
15 19 (0.94%) Rational Rhapsody
16 17 (0.84%) Artifactory
General
1 797 (39.24%) Social Skills
2 573 (28.21%) Finance
3 400 (19.69%) Analytical Skills
4 276 (13.59%) Banking
5 234 (11.52%) Public Sector
6 88 (4.33%) Organisational Skills
7 76 (3.74%) Retail
8 65 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
9 53 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
10 49 (2.41%) Investment Banking
11 45 (2.22%) Manufacturing
12 42 (2.07%) Telecoms
13 39 (1.92%) Legal
14 37 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 36 (1.77%) Front Office
16 35 (1.72%) Marketing
17 26 (1.28%) Retail Banking
18 21 (1.03%) Law
18 21 (1.03%) Military
19 20 (0.98%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 348 (17.13%) Analyst
2 220 (10.83%) Lead
3 209 (10.29%) Business Analyst
4 197 (9.70%) Developer
5 177 (8.71%) Senior
6 103 (5.07%) Project Manager
7 79 (3.89%) Delivery Manager
8 77 (3.79%) Consultant
9 75 (3.69%) Scrum Master
10 74 (3.64%) Architect
11 64 (3.15%) Tester
12 51 (2.51%) Administrator
12 51 (2.51%) Product Owner
13 50 (2.46%) Data Engineer
14 47 (2.31%) Test Leader
15 46 (2.26%) Support Engineer
15 46 (2.26%) Test Analyst
16 40 (1.97%) Product Manager
17 39 (1.92%) Test Engineer
18 38 (1.87%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (7.39%) REST
2 131 (6.45%) Terraform
3 73 (3.59%) .NET
4 61 (3.00%) HTML
5 55 (2.71%) RESTful
6 52 (2.56%) SOAP
7 51 (2.51%) AngularJS
8 50 (2.46%) React
9 45 (2.22%) JSON
10 42 (2.07%) CSS
10 42 (2.07%) Kafka
10 42 (2.07%) Web Services
11 41 (2.02%) Spring
12 39 (1.92%) Spring Boot
13 38 (1.87%) Playwright
14 34 (1.67%) XML
15 32 (1.58%) Middleware
16 29 (1.43%) Node.js
17 26 (1.28%) pytest
18 25 (1.23%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 270 (13.29%) Product Ownership
2 134 (6.60%) Onboarding
3 89 (4.38%) Cloud Native
4 70 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 62 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
6 58 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
7 53 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
8 44 (2.17%) Virtual Team
9 40 (1.97%) Data Structures
10 38 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
11 34 (1.67%) Management Information System
12 28 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
13 24 (1.18%) Credit Risk
13 24 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
14 21 (1.03%) SCADA
15 20 (0.98%) Mobile App
16 19 (0.94%) Derivative
17 18 (0.89%) Replication
18 17 (0.84%) AI Agents
18 17 (0.84%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 142 (6.99%) Windows
2 130 (6.40%) Linux
3 42 (2.07%) Unix
4 29 (1.43%) Windows 10
5 21 (1.03%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.89%) Android
7 17 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (0.74%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.74%) Windows Server
9 9 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
10 8 (0.39%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.39%) VMS
11 7 (0.34%) CentOS
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
13 3 (0.15%) zOS
14 2 (0.098%) MVS
14 2 (0.098%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,197 (58.94%) Agile
2 659 (32.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 538 (26.49%) DevOps
4 451 (22.21%) Problem-Solving
5 432 (21.27%) Scrum
6 431 (21.22%) CI/CD
7 381 (18.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 339 (16.69%) Test Automation
9 304 (14.97%) Migration
10 254 (12.51%) User Acceptance Testing
11 243 (11.96%) User Stories
12 238 (11.72%) Validation
13 235 (11.57%) AI
14 226 (11.13%) Sprint Planning
15 224 (11.03%) Project Management
16 220 (10.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 204 (10.04%) Project Delivery
18 202 (9.95%) SDLC
19 191 (9.40%) Acceptance Criteria
20 180 (8.86%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 359 (17.68%) SQL
2 267 (13.15%) Python
3 137 (6.75%) Java
4 99 (4.87%) JavaScript
5 74 (3.64%) TypeScript
6 72 (3.55%) PowerShell
7 65 (3.20%) C#
8 41 (2.02%) Bash
9 35 (1.72%) PL/SQL
10 24 (1.18%) C++
11 23 (1.13%) Groovy
12 16 (0.79%) C
12 16 (0.79%) Kotlin
13 15 (0.74%) Bicep
14 13 (0.64%) ActionScript
14 13 (0.64%) Apex Code
14 13 (0.64%) Perl
15 12 (0.59%) VBA
16 9 (0.44%) T-SQL
17 8 (0.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 539 (26.54%) Security Cleared
2 413 (20.33%) SC Cleared
3 165 (8.12%) Degree
4 96 (4.73%) DV Cleared
5 91 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 66 (3.25%) ISTQB
7 58 (2.86%) PMI Certification
8 46 (2.26%) PMP
9 28 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (1.28%) AWS Certification
11 21 (1.03%) Azure Certification
11 21 (1.03%) Master's Degree
12 18 (0.89%) CISSP
13 17 (0.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 16 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
15 15 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 12 (0.59%) IIBA
16 12 (0.59%) SAFe Agilist
17 11 (0.54%) CISM
17 11 (0.54%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 271 (13.34%) QA
2 129 (6.35%) Data Quality
3 126 (6.20%) PMO
4 62 (3.05%) Accessibility
5 37 (1.82%) SLA
6 24 (1.18%) WCAG
7 21 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (0.98%) NCSC
9 19 (0.94%) GDPR
9 19 (0.94%) GRC
10 17 (0.84%) NIST
11 14 (0.69%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.44%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.44%) SEPA
13 6 (0.30%) JSP 440
14 5 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.25%) COBIT
14 5 (0.25%) MiFID
14 5 (0.25%) P3O
14 5 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 127 (6.25%) Docker
2 107 (5.27%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (0.49%) Firmware
6 8 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.25%) vSphere
9 4 (0.20%) Squid
10 2 (0.098%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.098%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.098%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.098%) Postfix
10 2 (0.098%) 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
1 116 (5.71%) Kubernetes
2 75 (3.69%) Ansible
3 53 (2.61%) Grafana
4 43 (2.12%) Prometheus
5 32 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (1.18%) HP ALM
7 16 (0.79%) Control-M
8 13 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.44%) Istio
9 9 (0.44%) Packer
10 8 (0.39%) Dell DRAC
10 8 (0.39%) Nessus
11 7 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.34%) SCOM
12 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
12 6 (0.30%) SCCM
13 5 (0.25%) Argo
13 5 (0.25%) IBM Guardium
13 5 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 305 (15.02%) Microsoft
2 237 (11.67%) ServiceNow
3 149 (7.34%) Oracle
4 95 (4.68%) SAP
5 85 (4.19%) Salesforce
6 77 (3.79%) Atlassian
7 64 (3.15%) Google
8 54 (2.66%) IBM
9 47 (2.31%) VMware
10 39 (1.92%) Splunk
11 38 (1.87%) Remedy
12 32 (1.58%) Denodo
13 27 (1.33%) Databricks
14 26 (1.28%) Talend
15 25 (1.23%) HP
16 24 (1.18%) F5
17 22 (1.08%) Adobe
17 22 (1.08%) Informatica
17 22 (1.08%) MuleSoft
18 21 (1.03%) Workday