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

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 46 48
Rank change year-on-year +14 +2 -14
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,793 1,327 1,708
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.90% 4.22% 4.33%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.48% 32.28% 34.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,320 838 1,154
10th Percentile £317 £313 £358
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £526
Median % change year-on-year - -4.99% -2.55%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £635
90th Percentile £700 £677 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 40 53
10th Percentile £15.74 £37.10 £44.93
25th Percentile £45.66 £53.78 £51.25
Median hourly rate £63.27 £69.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.31% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £71.17 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £70.13 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £69.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -9.42% +15.00% -

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 4,660 4,111 4,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.33% 13.08% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,248 2,544 3,538
10th Percentile £328 £348 £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 £647
90th Percentile £695 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 118 223
10th Percentile £39.00 £37.55 £45.94
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £83.80 £75.00 £88.31
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.77% -2.69% +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 23 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 23 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 23 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 +11 840 £525 +0.48% 163
North of England +3 319 £470 -4.67% 56
Midlands +24 210 £450 -9.09% 66
South East +5 194 £489 +8.56% 182
West Midlands +35 171 £475 -9.52% 42
Yorkshire +1 156 £500 - 17
North West +1 145 £447 -10.60% 35
South West +9 131 £575 -2.54% 75
East of England -3 56 £425 +3.85% 46
East Midlands -3 39 £358 -19.55% 23
North East -1 18 £500 +10.13% 4
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
1 808 (45.06%) Confluence
2 105 (5.86%) SharePoint
3 51 (2.84%) nginx
4 35 (1.95%) SAS
5 32 (1.78%) CMS
6 20 (1.12%) Apache
7 12 (0.67%) JBoss
7 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.67%) Tomcat
8 8 (0.45%) WordPress
9 7 (0.39%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.33%) Drupal
10 6 (0.33%) Mule
11 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
11 4 (0.22%) CICS
11 4 (0.22%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 142 (7.92%) Microsoft Project
2 132 (7.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 106 (5.91%) Microsoft Office
4 78 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 65 (3.63%) MS Visio
6 30 (1.67%) Trello
7 12 (0.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 7 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.39%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.28%) Sketch
11 4 (0.22%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.22%) Simulink
11 4 (0.22%) Windchill
12 3 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
12 3 (0.17%) InVision
13 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.11%) InDesign
13 2 (0.11%) Notion
14 1 (0.056%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 18 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 17 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.45%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.45%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.45%) SAP PM
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
7 6 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.33%) SAP HR
8 5 (0.28%) Loan IQ
8 5 (0.28%) Maximo
8 5 (0.28%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
9 4 (0.22%) Endur
9 4 (0.22%) Fidessa
9 4 (0.22%) Magento
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
9 4 (0.22%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.22%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 343 (19.13%) Azure
2 321 (17.90%) AWS
3 176 (9.82%) Azure DevOps
4 165 (9.20%) GitHub
5 111 (6.19%) Power Platform
6 81 (4.52%) GCP
7 72 (4.02%) Serverless
8 60 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
9 55 (3.07%) Amazon S3
10 49 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
10 49 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
11 42 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
12 40 (2.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 40 (2.23%) SaaS
13 38 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
14 36 (2.01%) Slack
15 35 (1.95%) Power Automate
16 34 (1.90%) Miro
16 34 (1.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 31 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (3.68%) Firewall
2 60 (3.35%) DNS
3 40 (2.23%) SSH
4 38 (2.12%) HTTP
5 28 (1.56%) SMTP
5 28 (1.56%) VPN
6 24 (1.34%) FTP
7 18 (1.00%) SSL
8 17 (0.95%) OpenLDAP
9 16 (0.89%) TCP/IP
10 12 (0.67%) IMAP
11 11 (0.61%) Network Security
12 10 (0.56%) BGP
13 9 (0.50%) DHCP
13 9 (0.50%) MPLS
13 9 (0.50%) WAN
14 8 (0.45%) Unified Communications
15 7 (0.39%) IPsec
16 6 (0.33%) LAN
16 6 (0.33%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (5.41%) Power BI
2 76 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (2.84%) Tableau
4 42 (2.34%) SQL Server
5 36 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
6 35 (1.95%) Relational Database
7 34 (1.90%) NoSQL
8 33 (1.84%) Pentaho
9 25 (1.39%) Oracle Database
10 23 (1.28%) Big Data
11 21 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
11 21 (1.17%) Metadata
12 19 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
13 18 (1.00%) MongoDB
14 17 (0.95%) Hadoop
14 17 (0.95%) MySQL
15 13 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
16 12 (0.67%) BigQuery
17 10 (0.56%) Data Vault
18 9 (0.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 272 (15.17%) Git
2 244 (13.61%) Jenkins
3 108 (6.02%) GitLab
4 78 (4.35%) Bitbucket
5 73 (4.07%) Selenium
6 61 (3.40%) Postman
7 47 (2.62%) Cucumber
8 44 (2.45%) Sonatype Nexus
9 35 (1.95%) JUnit
9 35 (1.95%) SonarQube
10 30 (1.67%) Maven
11 29 (1.62%) TestRail
12 26 (1.45%) Vagrant
12 26 (1.45%) Zephyr
13 25 (1.39%) SoapUI
14 21 (1.17%) Cypress.io
14 21 (1.17%) SpecFlow
15 20 (1.12%) Artifactory
15 20 (1.12%) REST Assured
16 17 (0.95%) TeamCity
General
1 748 (41.72%) Social Skills
2 430 (23.98%) Finance
3 299 (16.68%) Analytical Skills
4 213 (11.88%) Banking
5 194 (10.82%) Public Sector
6 63 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
7 56 (3.12%) Documentation Skills
8 49 (2.73%) Retail
9 40 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
10 34 (1.90%) Investment Banking
10 34 (1.90%) Legal
11 32 (1.78%) Military
12 30 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
13 29 (1.62%) Front Office
14 27 (1.51%) Manufacturing
14 27 (1.51%) Marketing
15 22 (1.23%) Telecoms
16 15 (0.84%) Law
17 14 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 13 (0.73%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 315 (17.57%) Analyst
2 207 (11.54%) Developer
3 187 (10.43%) Business Analyst
4 155 (8.64%) Project Manager
5 130 (7.25%) Senior
6 129 (7.19%) Lead
7 110 (6.13%) Architect
8 71 (3.96%) Tester
9 63 (3.51%) DevOps Engineer
10 60 (3.35%) Test Analyst
11 52 (2.90%) Administrator
12 51 (2.84%) Solutions Architect
13 48 (2.68%) Consultant
14 45 (2.51%) Delivery Manager
15 41 (2.29%) Product Owner
15 41 (2.29%) Technical Analyst
16 39 (2.18%) Software Engineer
17 38 (2.12%) AWS Engineer
17 38 (2.12%) Data Engineer
18 37 (2.06%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (9.76%) REST
2 90 (5.02%) SOAP
3 82 (4.57%) .NET
4 80 (4.46%) AngularJS
5 79 (4.41%) React
6 75 (4.18%) HTML
7 59 (3.29%) CSS
8 54 (3.01%) RESTful
9 52 (2.90%) Kafka
10 51 (2.84%) JSON
11 50 (2.79%) Spring Boot
12 49 (2.73%) XML
13 48 (2.68%) Spring
14 41 (2.29%) Node.js
15 38 (2.12%) LDAP
15 38 (2.12%) Web Services
16 37 (2.06%) Playwright
17 36 (2.01%) RabbitMQ
18 28 (1.56%) OAuth
19 27 (1.51%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 186 (10.37%) Product Ownership
2 75 (4.18%) Onboarding
3 52 (2.90%) Cloud Native
4 44 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
4 44 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
5 38 (2.12%) Management Information System
6 33 (1.84%) Data Structures
7 31 (1.73%) Mobile App
8 29 (1.62%) Replication
9 28 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
10 26 (1.45%) PMI
11 25 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
12 24 (1.34%) CMDB
12 24 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
13 23 (1.28%) Virtual Team
14 20 (1.12%) PKI
15 19 (1.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 17 (0.95%) Algorithms
16 17 (0.95%) Data Centre
17 16 (0.89%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 143 (7.98%) Linux
2 141 (7.86%) Windows
3 53 (2.96%) Unix
4 32 (1.78%) VMS
5 24 (1.34%) Amazon Linux
6 16 (0.89%) Android
7 14 (0.78%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.73%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.67%) Apple iOS
9 12 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 11 (0.61%) Windows Server
11 9 (0.50%) Windows 10
12 6 (0.33%) CentOS
13 3 (0.17%) zOS
14 2 (0.11%) Debian
14 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.11%) Solaris
14 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.056%) Kali Linux
15 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,099 (61.29%) Agile
2 537 (29.95%) DevOps
3 440 (24.54%) Problem-Solving
4 430 (23.98%) Scrum
5 368 (20.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 365 (20.36%) CI/CD
7 273 (15.23%) Test Automation
8 268 (14.95%) Project Management
9 255 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 227 (12.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 198 (11.04%) Migration
12 183 (10.21%) Change Management
13 182 (10.15%) User Stories
14 178 (9.93%) User Acceptance Testing
15 163 (9.09%) Microservices
16 152 (8.48%) Project Delivery
17 147 (8.20%) ITIL
18 145 (8.09%) SDLC
19 144 (8.03%) Roadmaps
20 143 (7.98%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 292 (16.29%) SQL
2 283 (15.78%) Python
3 178 (9.93%) Java
4 148 (8.25%) JavaScript
5 100 (5.58%) PowerShell
6 84 (4.68%) C#
7 63 (3.51%) TypeScript
8 50 (2.79%) Bash
9 40 (2.23%) Go
10 35 (1.95%) Groovy
11 29 (1.62%) C++
12 28 (1.56%) Perl
13 20 (1.12%) Shell Script
14 15 (0.84%) Apex Code
15 13 (0.73%) PHP
16 12 (0.67%) PL/SQL
16 12 (0.67%) Ruby
17 9 (0.50%) Embedded C++
18 7 (0.39%) Korn
18 7 (0.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 461 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 410 (22.87%) SC Cleared
3 254 (14.17%) Degree
4 82 (4.57%) PMI Certification
5 68 (3.79%) PMP
6 59 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 58 (3.23%) CISSP
8 50 (2.79%) ISTQB
9 49 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
10 43 (2.40%) CISM
11 39 (2.18%) DV Cleared
12 30 (1.67%) AWS Certification
13 26 (1.45%) TOGAF Certification
14 19 (1.06%) Azure Certification
15 18 (1.00%) Oracle Certification
16 17 (0.95%) Master's Degree
16 17 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
17 15 (0.84%) CBAP
18 13 (0.73%) ISEB
18 13 (0.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (11.88%) QA
2 73 (4.07%) PMO
3 67 (3.74%) GDPR
4 62 (3.46%) Data Quality
5 50 (2.79%) Accessibility
6 48 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 39 (2.18%) NIST
8 23 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 19 (1.06%) ISO 20022
10 18 (1.00%) SEPA
11 17 (0.95%) PCI DSS
12 16 (0.89%) PSD2
13 15 (0.84%) WCAG
14 14 (0.78%) COBIT
14 14 (0.78%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.45%) GRC
15 8 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 7 (0.39%) NCSC
17 6 (0.33%) SLA
18 5 (0.28%) P3O
System Software
1 212 (11.82%) Docker
2 61 (3.40%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.23%) DFS Replication
5 19 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.67%) Dovecot
6 12 (0.67%) Postfix
6 12 (0.67%) Squid
7 11 (0.61%) Firmware
7 11 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.28%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.17%) vSphere
12 2 (0.11%) KVM
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.056%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 184 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 125 (6.97%) Terraform
3 96 (5.35%) Ansible
4 55 (3.07%) Grafana
5 46 (2.57%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (1.45%) HP ALM
8 25 (1.39%) Packer
9 24 (1.34%) Nessus
10 23 (1.28%) Consul
11 16 (0.89%) OPNET
11 16 (0.89%) Puppet
12 14 (0.78%) NetBackup
13 13 (0.73%) Control-M
14 12 (0.67%) RSA Archer
14 12 (0.67%) SCCM
15 11 (0.61%) IBM Guardium
15 11 (0.61%) Progress Chef
16 10 (0.56%) Proxmox
17 8 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 254 (14.17%) Microsoft
2 228 (12.72%) ServiceNow
3 147 (8.20%) Oracle
4 112 (6.25%) Atlassian
5 93 (5.19%) Salesforce
6 65 (3.63%) SAP
7 52 (2.90%) Google
8 43 (2.40%) HP
9 40 (2.23%) Remedy
10 34 (1.90%) IBM
10 34 (1.90%) Talend
11 32 (1.78%) Denodo
12 31 (1.73%) Cisco
13 29 (1.62%) CyberArk
13 29 (1.62%) Splunk
14 26 (1.45%) VMware
15 22 (1.23%) Red Hat
16 18 (1.00%) BiZZdesign
16 18 (1.00%) CheckPoint
16 18 (1.00%) Tenable