JIRA Contracts in England

Atlassian JIRA
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring JIRA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JIRA over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 45 47
Rank change year-on-year +13 +2 -13
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,471 1,470 2,113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.54% 3.95% 4.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.06% 32.07% 31.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,005 975 1,442
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £405 £418 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £638
90th Percentile £693 £710 £762
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 97 60
10th Percentile £47.50 £25.28 £45.81
25th Percentile £50.00 £40.00 £53.62
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +6.12% +19.51%
75th Percentile £70.83 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £78.75 - £75.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +20.00%

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 3,766 4,584 6,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.18% 12.32% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,567 3,060 4,799
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £409 £425 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £637 £675
90th Percentile £707 £730 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 234 208
10th Percentile £28.41 £33.02 £46.18
25th Percentile £50.00 £52.50 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +16.82%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.83 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +15.74%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in England

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA in England.

Daily rate trend for JIRA in England

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in England

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JIRA in England.

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in England

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in England over the 6 months to 6 July 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 6 July 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 +18 726 £520 -2.16% 816
North of England +17 256 £465 -7.00% 225
South East +17 184 £489 +8.61% 304
Midlands +37 135 £475 +4.97% 136
North West +13 132 £425 -15.42% 116
Yorkshire +25 113 £493 +2.60% 90
West Midlands +54 105 £475 -9.31% 96
South West -13 89 £570 +6.05% 131
East of England +12 40 £413 -21.43% 101
East Midlands -10 29 £449 +0.79% 39
North East +5 17 £544 -0.46% 20
JIRA
UK

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 619 (42.08%) Confluence
2 52 (3.54%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.90%) Apache
4 26 (1.77%) CMS
4 26 (1.77%) JBoss
5 21 (1.43%) nginx
6 15 (1.02%) Apache Spark
6 15 (1.02%) Tomcat
7 14 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
8 9 (0.61%) Drupal
9 8 (0.54%) WordPress
10 7 (0.48%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.41%) Camunda
12 5 (0.34%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.27%) Headless CMS
13 4 (0.27%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.27%) Skype for Business
13 4 (0.27%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
14 3 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 88 (5.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 85 (5.78%) Microsoft Office
3 75 (5.10%) Microsoft Project
4 48 (3.26%) MS Visio
5 39 (2.65%) Trello
6 37 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.14%) InVision
8 2 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 2 (0.14%) Simulink
8 2 (0.14%) UserZoom
8 2 (0.14%) Windchill
9 1 (0.068%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.068%) CATIA
9 1 (0.068%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.27%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.27%) SAP PM
6 3 (0.20%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.20%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.20%) Shopify
6 3 (0.20%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.14%) Magento
7 2 (0.14%) MultiFonds
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.14%) Primavera
7 2 (0.14%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.14%) SAP PLM
7 2 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 294 (19.99%) AWS
2 249 (16.93%) Azure
3 107 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
4 95 (6.46%) GitHub
5 83 (5.64%) Power Platform
6 80 (5.44%) GCP
7 43 (2.92%) SaaS
8 42 (2.86%) Serverless
9 34 (2.31%) Amazon S3
9 34 (2.31%) Microsoft 365
10 30 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 30 (2.04%) IaaS
11 29 (1.97%) OpenShift
12 28 (1.90%) Miro
13 24 (1.63%) Cloud Computing
14 22 (1.50%) Power Automate
15 21 (1.43%) Asana
15 21 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
15 21 (1.43%) Slack
16 20 (1.36%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 56 (3.81%) DNS
2 49 (3.33%) Firewall
3 31 (2.11%) VPN
4 30 (2.04%) HTTP
5 18 (1.22%) DHCP
6 17 (1.16%) TCP/IP
7 15 (1.02%) SSL
8 14 (0.95%) SAN
8 14 (0.95%) SMTP
8 14 (0.95%) SSH
9 13 (0.88%) Network Security
10 12 (0.82%) BGP
10 12 (0.82%) Unified Communications
11 10 (0.68%) MPLS
11 10 (0.68%) VLAN
12 8 (0.54%) Cisco ISE
12 8 (0.54%) IPsec
13 7 (0.48%) Kerberos
13 7 (0.48%) SNMP
13 7 (0.48%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (4.55%) Power BI
2 52 (3.54%) SQL Server
3 46 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
4 44 (2.99%) Relational Database
5 35 (2.38%) NoSQL
6 31 (2.11%) Tableau
7 30 (2.04%) Big Data
8 28 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
8 28 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
8 28 (1.90%) MySQL
9 20 (1.36%) Data Lake
10 19 (1.29%) MongoDB
11 18 (1.22%) Oracle Database
12 16 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
12 16 (1.09%) BigQuery
12 16 (1.09%) RDBMS
13 11 (0.75%) Delta Lake
14 10 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 9 (0.61%) Hadoop
16 8 (0.54%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 229 (15.57%) Git
2 179 (12.17%) Jenkins
3 86 (5.85%) Selenium
4 83 (5.64%) GitLab
5 69 (4.69%) Bitbucket
6 52 (3.54%) Postman
7 48 (3.26%) Cucumber
8 44 (2.99%) JUnit
9 39 (2.65%) SonarQube
10 38 (2.58%) Maven
11 37 (2.52%) REST Assured
12 34 (2.31%) Sonatype Nexus
13 30 (2.04%) SoapUI
13 30 (2.04%) TeamCity
14 27 (1.84%) Gradle
15 26 (1.77%) Subversion
15 26 (1.77%) Zephyr
16 25 (1.70%) Cypress.io
17 24 (1.63%) ScriptRunner
18 23 (1.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 599 (40.72%) Social Skills
2 350 (23.79%) Finance
3 258 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
4 159 (10.81%) Banking
5 102 (6.93%) Public Sector
6 41 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
7 39 (2.65%) Front Office
8 35 (2.38%) Retail
9 34 (2.31%) Marketing
10 27 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
11 26 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
12 23 (1.56%) Legal
13 22 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
13 22 (1.50%) Investment Banking
14 20 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 19 (1.29%) Law
16 18 (1.22%) Back Office
16 18 (1.22%) Telecoms
17 17 (1.16%) Automotive
17 17 (1.16%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 253 (17.20%) Analyst
2 198 (13.46%) Developer
3 151 (10.27%) Business Analyst
4 135 (9.18%) Senior
5 126 (8.57%) Project Manager
6 90 (6.12%) Lead
7 67 (4.55%) Tester
8 53 (3.60%) Architect
9 52 (3.54%) Delivery Manager
10 45 (3.06%) Consultant
11 43 (2.92%) Test Analyst
12 42 (2.86%) Administrator
13 41 (2.79%) Software Engineer
14 39 (2.65%) Java Developer
15 36 (2.45%) DevOps Engineer
15 36 (2.45%) Test Engineer
16 31 (2.11%) Test Manager
17 30 (2.04%) Technical Manager
18 28 (1.90%) Product Owner
18 28 (1.90%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (9.45%) REST
2 81 (5.51%) AngularJS
3 70 (4.76%) SOAP
4 63 (4.28%) .NET
5 61 (4.15%) HTML
6 58 (3.94%) Spring Boot
7 56 (3.81%) React
8 53 (3.60%) CSS
8 53 (3.60%) Kafka
9 48 (3.26%) RESTful
10 46 (3.13%) Web Services
11 40 (2.72%) Spring
12 36 (2.45%) XML
13 31 (2.11%) Node.js
14 27 (1.84%) JSON
15 20 (1.36%) Middleware
15 20 (1.36%) Playwright
16 19 (1.29%) Hibernate
16 19 (1.29%) LDAP
16 19 (1.29%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 131 (8.91%) Product Ownership
2 41 (2.79%) Onboarding
3 36 (2.45%) Data Centre
4 31 (2.11%) Virtual Team
5 30 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (1.97%) Management Information System
6 29 (1.97%) SCADA
7 27 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
8 25 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
9 20 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (1.36%) Mobile App
10 19 (1.29%) Cloud Native
10 19 (1.29%) Data Structures
11 18 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
11 18 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 18 (1.22%) PKI
12 15 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
13 13 (0.88%) Derivative
13 13 (0.88%) Fixed Income
13 13 (0.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 140 (9.52%) Linux
2 134 (9.11%) Windows
3 50 (3.40%) Unix
4 29 (1.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (1.84%) Windows Server
6 15 (1.02%) Android
7 14 (0.95%) CentOS
8 12 (0.82%) Apple iOS
9 11 (0.75%) VMS
9 11 (0.75%) Windows 10
10 10 (0.68%) Ubuntu
11 8 (0.54%) Amazon Linux
12 7 (0.48%) Mac OS
13 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2003
13 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
14 4 (0.27%) Debian
14 4 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
15 3 (0.20%) Solaris
15 3 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 882 (59.96%) Agile
2 338 (22.98%) Scrum
3 328 (22.30%) Problem-Solving
4 307 (20.87%) DevOps
5 253 (17.20%) Project Management
6 230 (15.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 212 (14.41%) CI/CD
7 212 (14.41%) Test Automation
8 190 (12.92%) Migration
9 145 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 132 (8.97%) Microservices
11 126 (8.57%) User Stories
12 124 (8.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 119 (8.09%) Validation
14 118 (8.02%) Waterfall
15 106 (7.21%) SDLC
15 106 (7.21%) Service Management
16 105 (7.14%) Roadmaps
16 105 (7.14%) User Acceptance Testing
17 104 (7.07%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 253 (17.20%) SQL
2 219 (14.89%) Java
3 207 (14.07%) Python
4 123 (8.36%) JavaScript
5 81 (5.51%) C#
6 63 (4.28%) PowerShell
7 59 (4.01%) TypeScript
8 53 (3.60%) Bash
9 40 (2.72%) Groovy
10 35 (2.38%) Shell Script
11 31 (2.11%) Perl
12 25 (1.70%) PL/SQL
13 21 (1.43%) C++
14 18 (1.22%) Go
15 14 (0.95%) Scala
16 8 (0.54%) Bicep
16 8 (0.54%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.54%) PHP
16 8 (0.54%) Ruby
17 7 (0.48%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 283 (19.24%) Security Cleared
2 250 (17.00%) SC Cleared
3 189 (12.85%) Degree
4 54 (3.67%) PMI Certification
5 50 (3.40%) PMP
6 42 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 32 (2.18%) ISTQB
8 27 (1.84%) DV Cleared
9 25 (1.70%) CISSP
10 24 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (1.56%) Master's Degree
12 22 (1.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 16 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
14 15 (1.02%) CCNP
14 15 (1.02%) CISM
15 13 (0.88%) CBAP
15 13 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
16 11 (0.75%) AWS Certification
16 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
17 10 (0.68%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 154 (10.47%) QA
2 39 (2.65%) PMO
3 38 (2.58%) GDPR
4 28 (1.90%) Accessibility
5 27 (1.84%) Data Quality
6 24 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 19 (1.29%) PCI DSS
8 18 (1.22%) NIST
9 15 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (0.82%) SLA
11 10 (0.68%) MiFID
12 9 (0.61%) COBIT
13 8 (0.54%) EMIR
14 7 (0.48%) ISO 20022
14 7 (0.48%) SEPA
15 6 (0.41%) NIST 800
16 5 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 5 (0.34%) WCAG
17 4 (0.27%) HIPAA
17 4 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 108 (7.34%) Docker
2 60 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 46 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (0.88%) Hyper-V
6 12 (0.82%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.54%) Firmware
8 8 (0.54%) vSphere
9 6 (0.41%) DFS Replication
9 6 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (0.34%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 5 (0.34%) VirtualBox
11 4 (0.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 3 (0.20%) Lustre
12 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.14%) Squid
13 2 (0.14%) Veritas File System
13 2 (0.14%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 110 (7.48%) Kubernetes
2 97 (6.59%) Terraform
3 86 (5.85%) Ansible
4 37 (2.52%) Progress Chef
5 27 (1.84%) HP ALM
5 27 (1.84%) Puppet
6 20 (1.36%) Grafana
6 20 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
6 20 (1.36%) vCenter Server
7 18 (1.22%) Prometheus
8 16 (1.09%) Packer
8 16 (1.09%) Podman
9 15 (1.02%) Consul
9 15 (1.02%) Kibana
10 13 (0.88%) Tivoli
11 9 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
12 8 (0.54%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.48%) Control-M
14 6 (0.41%) RSA Archer
14 6 (0.41%) Salt
Vendors
1 199 (13.53%) Microsoft
2 146 (9.93%) ServiceNow
3 136 (9.25%) Oracle
4 113 (7.68%) Atlassian
5 64 (4.35%) Google
6 62 (4.21%) VMware
7 54 (3.67%) Cisco
8 47 (3.20%) Salesforce
9 40 (2.72%) SAP
10 38 (2.58%) Splunk
11 37 (2.52%) HP
12 32 (2.18%) Red Hat
13 25 (1.70%) IBM
14 18 (1.22%) CA Agile Central
15 17 (1.16%) AppDynamics
15 17 (1.16%) Citrix
16 16 (1.09%) CheckPoint
17 14 (0.95%) Dell
17 14 (0.95%) MuleSoft
18 13 (0.88%) CyberArk