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 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 31 46
Rank change year-on-year -13 +15 +2
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,125 1,573 1,397
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.67% 5.70% 4.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.88% 39.63% 32.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,413 1,090 929
10th Percentile £348 £317 £331
25th Percentile £405 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £619
90th Percentile £671 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 40 90
10th Percentile £18.75 £47.38 £25.92
25th Percentile £25.63 £50.75 £40.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £63.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% -6.67% +8.00%
75th Percentile £66.13 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £85.60 -
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.83% -11.54% +4.84%

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 5,329 3,969 4,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.71% 14.38% 12.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,393 2,751 2,841
10th Percentile £350 £321 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £630
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 94 207
10th Percentile £30.75 £40.68 £32.48
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.02 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.53 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.15% - +4.00%

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 1 August 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 1 August 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 1 August 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 -9 980 £525 +0.96% 331
North of England -11 392 £465 +0.16% 115
Midlands -3 307 £455 -4.21% 69
West Midlands -3 266 £459 -3.37% 43
South East -25 223 £494 +0.51% 170
Yorkshire -4 221 £463 -2.63% 44
North West -28 152 £450 +4.90% 57
South West -9 133 £500 -11.11% 61
East of England -7 59 £438 +9.38% 40
East Midlands -4 39 £402 -2.55% 26
North East -32 26 £550 +1.15% 15
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
1 932 (43.86%) Confluence
2 106 (4.99%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.46%) SAS
4 27 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.71%) CMS
6 14 (0.66%) Apache
7 9 (0.42%) nginx
8 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.33%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.28%) Mattermost
9 6 (0.28%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
11 4 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.19%) Camunda
11 4 (0.19%) IIS
11 4 (0.19%) JBoss
11 4 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.19%) WordPress
12 3 (0.14%) CICS
12 3 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 145 (6.82%) Microsoft Project
2 144 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 84 (3.95%) MS Visio
4 66 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 58 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
6 23 (1.08%) Trello
7 15 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.47%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.38%) Revit
10 7 (0.33%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.24%) Notion
12 2 (0.094%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.094%) CATIA
13 1 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.047%) Mingle
13 1 (0.047%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.047%) Sketch
13 1 (0.047%) SOLIDWORKS
13 1 (0.047%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 40 (1.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 30 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.56%) Aladdin
3 12 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.47%) Workday HCM
5 8 (0.38%) Findur
6 7 (0.33%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.28%) Fidessa
7 6 (0.28%) Teamcenter
8 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.24%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.19%) Actimize
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
10 3 (0.14%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 531 (24.99%) Azure
2 343 (16.14%) AWS
3 287 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
4 182 (8.56%) GitHub
5 164 (7.72%) Power Platform
6 94 (4.42%) GCP
7 85 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
8 76 (3.58%) Entra ID
8 76 (3.58%) SaaS
9 68 (3.20%) Amazon S3
9 68 (3.20%) Serverless
10 67 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
11 60 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 54 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
13 48 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
14 33 (1.55%) Smartsheet
14 33 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 32 (1.51%) Miro
16 31 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
17 30 (1.41%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 85 (4.00%) Firewall
2 67 (3.15%) DNS
3 47 (2.21%) TCP/IP
4 35 (1.65%) DHCP
4 35 (1.65%) Network Security
5 31 (1.46%) VPN
6 24 (1.13%) BIG-IP
7 23 (1.08%) WAN
8 19 (0.89%) SAN
9 18 (0.85%) LAN
9 18 (0.85%) SSL
10 15 (0.71%) SD-WAN
11 13 (0.61%) Internet
12 10 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 10 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.42%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 9 (0.42%) VLAN
14 8 (0.38%) BGP
14 8 (0.38%) HTTP
14 8 (0.38%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (6.73%) Power BI
2 97 (4.56%) Data Warehouse
3 79 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
4 52 (2.45%) SQL Server
5 45 (2.12%) Oracle Reports
6 32 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
7 28 (1.32%) MongoDB
7 28 (1.32%) Relational Database
8 26 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
9 24 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
9 24 (1.13%) DynamoDB
10 23 (1.08%) Tableau
11 22 (1.04%) Data Lake
12 21 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 18 (0.85%) Pentaho
14 16 (0.75%) NoSQL
14 16 (0.75%) Oracle Database
15 15 (0.71%) Metadata
16 14 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 13 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 260 (12.24%) Git
2 199 (9.36%) Jenkins
3 111 (5.22%) GitLab
4 91 (4.28%) Selenium
5 78 (3.67%) Zephyr
6 71 (3.34%) Bitbucket
7 62 (2.92%) Postman
8 51 (2.40%) JUnit
9 50 (2.35%) Cucumber
10 38 (1.79%) JMeter
11 31 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
12 28 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 26 (1.22%) Cypress.io
14 23 (1.08%) REST Assured
14 23 (1.08%) WebDriver
15 22 (1.04%) TestRail
16 19 (0.89%) Artifactory
17 14 (0.66%) Appium
18 12 (0.56%) Maven
19 11 (0.52%) Mockito
General
1 833 (39.20%) Social Skills
2 607 (28.56%) Finance
3 397 (18.68%) Analytical Skills
4 263 (12.38%) Banking
5 240 (11.29%) Public Sector
6 84 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
7 70 (3.29%) Retail
8 68 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
9 48 (2.26%) Manufacturing
10 41 (1.93%) Investment Banking
11 39 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
12 37 (1.74%) Legal
13 36 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 33 (1.55%) Front Office
15 29 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
16 27 (1.27%) Retail Banking
17 25 (1.18%) Marketing
17 25 (1.18%) Telecoms
18 23 (1.08%) Financial Institution
19 19 (0.89%) Military
Job Titles
1 373 (17.55%) Analyst
2 233 (10.96%) Business Analyst
3 209 (9.84%) Lead
4 207 (9.74%) Developer
5 188 (8.85%) Senior
6 116 (5.46%) Project Manager
7 97 (4.56%) Delivery Manager
8 85 (4.00%) Tester
9 79 (3.72%) Consultant
10 76 (3.58%) Architect
10 76 (3.58%) Scrum Master
11 68 (3.20%) Data Engineer
12 59 (2.78%) Support Engineer
13 56 (2.64%) IT Support
14 51 (2.40%) Product Owner
15 49 (2.31%) Test Leader
16 48 (2.26%) Test Analyst
17 43 (2.02%) Senior Manager
18 42 (1.98%) IT Engineer
19 39 (1.84%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (5.88%) REST
2 73 (3.44%) .NET
3 58 (2.73%) Spring
4 51 (2.40%) JSON
4 51 (2.40%) React
5 46 (2.16%) HTML
5 46 (2.16%) RESTful
6 40 (1.88%) Kafka
7 39 (1.84%) SOAP
8 38 (1.79%) AngularJS
9 37 (1.74%) Playwright
10 36 (1.69%) Spring Boot
11 34 (1.60%) CSS
11 34 (1.60%) Web Services
12 33 (1.55%) Node.js
12 33 (1.55%) XML
13 30 (1.41%) Middleware
14 26 (1.22%) WireMock
15 23 (1.08%) .NET Core
15 23 (1.08%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 240 (11.29%) Product Ownership
2 130 (6.12%) Onboarding
3 87 (4.09%) Cloud Native
4 73 (3.44%) Data Centre
5 57 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
6 53 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
6 53 (2.49%) Virtual Team
7 48 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
8 42 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
9 39 (1.84%) Management Information System
10 36 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
11 33 (1.55%) Data Structures
12 31 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
13 19 (0.89%) SCADA
14 18 (0.85%) Mobile App
14 18 (0.85%) Security Posture
15 17 (0.80%) Derivative
15 17 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 16 (0.75%) Credit Risk
16 16 (0.75%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 163 (7.67%) Windows
2 126 (5.93%) Linux
3 48 (2.26%) Unix
4 25 (1.18%) Windows 10
5 20 (0.94%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.85%) Android
7 17 (0.80%) Mac OS
7 17 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.42%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.14%) AIX
11 3 (0.14%) Check Point GAiA
11 3 (0.14%) zOS
12 2 (0.094%) MVS
12 2 (0.094%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.047%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.047%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,255 (59.06%) Agile
2 602 (28.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 575 (27.06%) DevOps
4 474 (22.31%) Problem-Solving
5 465 (21.88%) CI/CD
6 435 (20.47%) Scrum
7 410 (19.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 360 (16.94%) Test Automation
9 292 (13.74%) Migration
10 247 (11.62%) User Acceptance Testing
11 235 (11.06%) Project Management
12 229 (10.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 229 (10.78%) User Stories
13 221 (10.40%) AI
13 221 (10.40%) Validation
14 217 (10.21%) Sprint Planning
15 210 (9.88%) Change Management
16 200 (9.41%) Project Delivery
17 196 (9.22%) SDLC
18 191 (8.99%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 347 (16.33%) SQL
2 261 (12.28%) Python
3 157 (7.39%) Java
4 96 (4.52%) JavaScript
5 88 (4.14%) C#
6 71 (3.34%) PowerShell
7 65 (3.06%) TypeScript
8 44 (2.07%) Bash
9 33 (1.55%) PL/SQL
10 18 (0.85%) VBA
11 17 (0.80%) Perl
12 16 (0.75%) Groovy
12 16 (0.75%) Kotlin
13 15 (0.71%) Bicep
14 14 (0.66%) Apex Code
15 13 (0.61%) Shell Script
16 11 (0.52%) C++
17 10 (0.47%) ActionScript
18 7 (0.33%) C
19 6 (0.28%) VB
Qualifications
1 568 (26.73%) Security Cleared
2 439 (20.66%) SC Cleared
3 180 (8.47%) Degree
4 88 (4.14%) DV Cleared
5 78 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 66 (3.11%) ISTQB
7 57 (2.68%) PMI Certification
8 47 (2.21%) PMP
9 29 (1.36%) CISSP
10 26 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
11 24 (1.13%) Azure Certification
12 22 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (0.99%) AWS Certification
14 17 (0.80%) CISM
14 17 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
14 17 (0.80%) Master's Degree
14 17 (0.80%) SAFe Agilist
15 16 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 16 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 13 (0.61%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 252 (11.86%) QA
2 125 (5.88%) PMO
3 121 (5.69%) Data Quality
4 63 (2.96%) Accessibility
5 38 (1.79%) SLA
6 37 (1.74%) GDPR
7 26 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (1.22%) WCAG
8 20 (0.94%) NIST
9 19 (0.89%) NCSC
10 16 (0.75%) GRC
11 12 (0.56%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.47%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.28%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.28%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.28%) MiFID
13 6 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.28%) SEPA
14 5 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 139 (6.54%) Docker
2 122 (5.74%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (0.47%) Firmware
5 10 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.19%) Squid
8 3 (0.14%) HDFS
9 2 (0.094%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.094%) Postfix
9 2 (0.094%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.047%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.047%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.047%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 162 (7.62%) Kubernetes
2 149 (7.01%) Terraform
3 90 (4.24%) Ansible
4 66 (3.11%) Grafana
5 51 (2.40%) Prometheus
6 34 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (1.08%) HP ALM
8 21 (0.99%) Control-M
9 19 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (0.66%) Puppet
11 13 (0.61%) Nessus
12 12 (0.56%) IBM Guardium
13 8 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.38%) Dell DRAC
13 8 (0.38%) Packer
14 7 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.33%) NetBackup
15 6 (0.28%) HP Quality Center
15 6 (0.28%) Istio
15 6 (0.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 300 (14.12%) Microsoft
2 270 (12.71%) ServiceNow
3 159 (7.48%) Oracle
4 98 (4.61%) Atlassian
5 93 (4.38%) SAP
6 91 (4.28%) Salesforce
7 56 (2.64%) Google
8 44 (2.07%) IBM
9 42 (1.98%) Remedy
10 39 (1.84%) VMware
11 38 (1.79%) Denodo
12 33 (1.55%) Splunk
12 33 (1.55%) Talend
13 30 (1.41%) Databricks
14 29 (1.36%) F5
15 28 (1.32%) Workday
16 27 (1.27%) Informatica
17 26 (1.22%) HP
18 24 (1.13%) MuleSoft
19 22 (1.04%) Adobe