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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 44 51
Rank change year-on-year +11 +7 -11
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,895 1,173 1,443
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.46% 4.57% 3.81%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.28% 34.14% 32.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,358 729 1,008
10th Percentile £313 £313 £340
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £745
UK median daily rate £492 £500 £515
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.91% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 21 54
10th Percentile £15.74 £47.00 £26.88
25th Percentile £25.00 £55.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +16.82% -17.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £71.25 £76.07
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £62.50 £51.89
% change year-on-year +1.02% +20.46% -20.18%

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 4,824 3,436 4,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.91% 13.39% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,309 2,183 3,093
10th Percentile £340 £331 £363
25th Percentile £409 £409 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £535
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -5.89% -6.96%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 58 202
10th Percentile £28.84 £39.75 £37.75
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.87 £48.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £74.69
90th Percentile £82.85 £80.00 £88.31
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 February 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 23 February 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 23 February 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 +6 850 £520 +4.00% 149
North of England +12 345 £449 -1.37% 82
Midlands +6 258 £443 -9.69% 90
West Midlands +3 195 £469 -1.68% 68
South East -2 189 £475 -5.00% 155
Yorkshire -6 185 £480 -4.00% 35
South West +18 157 £575 +0.88% 61
North West +21 145 £425 -5.56% 43
East Midlands +6 61 £356 -27.35% 22
East of England -10 60 £425 +1.49% 31
North East -9 15 £375 -16.67% 6
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
1 898 (47.39%) Confluence
2 115 (6.07%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.01%) SAS
4 33 (1.74%) nginx
5 24 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 22 (1.16%) CMS
7 13 (0.69%) Apache
8 11 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.42%) WebLogic
10 7 (0.37%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.32%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.32%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.32%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.26%) Mattermost
13 4 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.16%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.16%) Drupal
14 3 (0.16%) SugarCRM
14 3 (0.16%) Traefik
Applications
1 205 (10.82%) Microsoft Project
2 176 (9.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 104 (5.49%) Microsoft Office
4 103 (5.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 77 (4.06%) MS Visio
6 24 (1.27%) Trello
7 6 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.26%) Notion
8 5 (0.26%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.26%) Sketch
9 4 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.21%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.16%) InVision
10 3 (0.16%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.11%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.11%) CATIA
11 2 (0.11%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 17 (0.90%) NetSuite
1 17 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
2 11 (0.58%) Workday HCM
3 10 (0.53%) Fidessa
3 10 (0.53%) Loan IQ
4 9 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 8 (0.42%) Maximo
6 6 (0.32%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.26%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.21%) Endur
8 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
8 4 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.21%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 372 (19.63%) Azure
2 289 (15.25%) AWS
3 197 (10.40%) Azure DevOps
4 170 (8.97%) GitHub
5 130 (6.86%) Power Platform
6 81 (4.27%) GCP
7 77 (4.06%) Microsoft 365
8 56 (2.96%) SaaS
9 50 (2.64%) GitHub Actions
10 42 (2.22%) Serverless
11 41 (2.16%) Entra ID
12 35 (1.85%) Amazon S3
13 34 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
14 32 (1.69%) Figma
15 31 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 29 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
17 28 (1.48%) Amazon EKS
18 27 (1.42%) Miro
18 27 (1.42%) Slack
19 25 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 45 (2.37%) Firewall
2 36 (1.90%) DNS
3 32 (1.69%) TCP/IP
4 28 (1.48%) VPN
5 21 (1.11%) WAN
6 19 (1.00%) LAN
7 18 (0.95%) HTTP
8 15 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (0.74%) SSH
10 13 (0.69%) Network Security
11 11 (0.58%) FTP
12 10 (0.53%) SD-WAN
13 9 (0.47%) DHCP
13 9 (0.47%) Ethernet
14 8 (0.42%) SSL
14 8 (0.42%) Unified Communications
15 7 (0.37%) Modbus
15 7 (0.37%) RS-232
15 7 (0.37%) RS-485
16 6 (0.32%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (5.70%) Power BI
2 73 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (3.11%) Tableau
4 52 (2.74%) SQL Server
5 38 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
6 37 (1.95%) NoSQL
7 36 (1.90%) MongoDB
8 26 (1.37%) Pentaho
9 25 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
10 21 (1.11%) Oracle Database
11 20 (1.06%) Relational Database
12 19 (1.00%) Metadata
13 18 (0.95%) Big Data
13 18 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
14 17 (0.90%) MySQL
15 14 (0.74%) Data Vault
15 14 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
16 11 (0.58%) Star Schema
17 10 (0.53%) Hadoop
18 9 (0.47%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 227 (11.98%) Git
2 218 (11.50%) Jenkins
3 113 (5.96%) GitLab
4 83 (4.38%) Selenium
5 71 (3.75%) Postman
6 61 (3.22%) Cucumber
7 50 (2.64%) Bitbucket
8 44 (2.32%) JUnit
9 36 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
10 33 (1.74%) REST Assured
10 33 (1.74%) TestRail
10 33 (1.74%) Zephyr
11 30 (1.58%) JMeter
11 30 (1.58%) SonarQube
12 20 (1.06%) Maven
13 17 (0.90%) Cypress.io
13 17 (0.90%) SpecFlow
14 14 (0.74%) Rational DOORS
15 12 (0.63%) WebDriver
16 11 (0.58%) SoapUI
General
1 782 (41.27%) Social Skills
2 536 (28.28%) Finance
3 370 (19.53%) Analytical Skills
4 230 (12.14%) Banking
5 194 (10.24%) Public Sector
6 77 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
7 68 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
8 67 (3.54%) Retail
9 54 (2.85%) Military
10 46 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
11 44 (2.32%) Presentation Skills
12 31 (1.64%) Investment Banking
13 30 (1.58%) Legal
14 29 (1.53%) Manufacturing
15 24 (1.27%) Telecoms
16 22 (1.16%) Front Office
16 22 (1.16%) Marketing
17 21 (1.11%) Retail Banking
18 16 (0.84%) Law
19 15 (0.79%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 397 (20.95%) Analyst
2 251 (13.25%) Business Analyst
3 174 (9.18%) Developer
4 153 (8.07%) Project Manager
5 145 (7.65%) Lead
6 132 (6.97%) Senior
7 126 (6.65%) Architect
8 87 (4.59%) Tester
9 56 (2.96%) Delivery Manager
10 55 (2.90%) Consultant
11 52 (2.74%) Solutions Architect
12 48 (2.53%) Test Analyst
12 48 (2.53%) Test Engineer
13 46 (2.43%) Technical Analyst
14 44 (2.32%) Data Engineer
15 43 (2.27%) Scrum Master
16 42 (2.22%) Technical Business Analyst
17 40 (2.11%) Senior Analyst
18 39 (2.06%) Technical Manager
19 38 (2.01%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (7.39%) REST
2 62 (3.27%) .NET
3 55 (2.90%) Spring
4 48 (2.53%) Kafka
4 48 (2.53%) XML
5 46 (2.43%) RESTful
6 45 (2.37%) HTML
6 45 (2.37%) React
7 44 (2.32%) JSON
8 43 (2.27%) SOAP
9 42 (2.22%) Playwright
10 39 (2.06%) CSS
11 38 (2.01%) Spring Boot
12 31 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
13 27 (1.42%) Node.js
13 27 (1.42%) OpenID
14 26 (1.37%) LDAP
15 25 (1.32%) AngularJS
16 24 (1.27%) FastAPI
17 23 (1.21%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 222 (11.72%) Product Ownership
2 83 (4.38%) Onboarding
3 66 (3.48%) Cloud Native
4 48 (2.53%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
6 35 (1.85%) Virtual Team
7 33 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
8 31 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
9 29 (1.53%) Data Structures
9 29 (1.53%) PMI
10 25 (1.32%) Mobile App
11 21 (1.11%) Data Centre
11 21 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
13 19 (1.00%) CMDB
13 19 (1.00%) Public Cloud
14 15 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 15 (0.79%) Tandem
15 12 (0.63%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 140 (7.39%) Windows
2 123 (6.49%) Linux
3 31 (1.64%) Unix
4 21 (1.11%) Android
5 20 (1.06%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.58%) Windows Server
8 10 (0.53%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.42%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.42%) VMS
10 7 (0.37%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.053%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.053%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.053%) Windows Embedded Compact
13 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.053%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,121 (59.16%) Agile
2 510 (26.91%) DevOps
3 482 (25.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 449 (23.69%) Problem-Solving
5 411 (21.69%) Scrum
6 370 (19.53%) CI/CD
7 329 (17.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 292 (15.41%) Project Management
9 290 (15.30%) Test Automation
10 244 (12.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 196 (10.34%) User Stories
12 190 (10.03%) Migration
13 188 (9.92%) Project Delivery
14 184 (9.71%) User Acceptance Testing
15 175 (9.23%) Change Management
16 164 (8.65%) Decision-Making
17 163 (8.60%) Acceptance Criteria
17 163 (8.60%) Roadmaps
18 158 (8.34%) Analytics
19 156 (8.23%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 284 (14.99%) SQL
2 248 (13.09%) Python
3 172 (9.08%) Java
4 100 (5.28%) JavaScript
5 78 (4.12%) C#
5 78 (4.12%) PowerShell
6 52 (2.74%) TypeScript
7 38 (2.01%) Bash
8 31 (1.64%) C++
9 24 (1.27%) Go
10 22 (1.16%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.06%) Embedded C++
12 15 (0.79%) PL/SQL
13 13 (0.69%) C
13 13 (0.69%) PHP
14 11 (0.58%) Perl
14 11 (0.58%) Ruby
15 10 (0.53%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.53%) Embedded C
16 8 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 494 (26.07%) Security Cleared
2 400 (21.11%) SC Cleared
3 260 (13.72%) Degree
4 90 (4.75%) PMI Certification
5 78 (4.12%) PMP
6 63 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 59 (3.11%) ISTQB
8 51 (2.69%) DV Cleared
9 47 (2.48%) CISSP
10 45 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
11 44 (2.32%) TOGAF Certification
12 39 (2.06%) CISM
13 35 (1.85%) Master's Degree
14 28 (1.48%) AWS Certification
15 25 (1.32%) CBAP
16 23 (1.21%) ISEB
17 18 (0.95%) Azure Certification
18 17 (0.90%) IIBA
18 17 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
19 15 (0.79%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 227 (11.98%) QA
2 113 (5.96%) PMO
3 83 (4.38%) Data Quality
4 52 (2.74%) Accessibility
5 48 (2.53%) GDPR
6 30 (1.58%) NIST
7 25 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 21 (1.11%) WCAG
9 18 (0.95%) SLA
10 15 (0.79%) ISO 20022
10 15 (0.79%) PSD2
11 13 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 12 (0.63%) GRC
12 12 (0.63%) SEPA
13 11 (0.58%) Basel III
14 10 (0.53%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.42%) NCSC
15 8 (0.42%) NIST 800
16 5 (0.26%) P3O
System Software
1 188 (9.92%) Docker
2 69 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.53%) Squid
6 9 (0.47%) Firmware
7 7 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.26%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 5 (0.26%) Postfix
9 4 (0.21%) DFS Replication
9 4 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.16%) Dovecot
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.053%) etcd
12 1 (0.053%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.053%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 1 (0.053%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 184 (9.71%) Kubernetes
2 90 (4.75%) Terraform
3 77 (4.06%) Ansible
4 65 (3.43%) Grafana
5 50 (2.64%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.58%) OPNET
7 28 (1.48%) Control-M
8 25 (1.32%) Nessus
9 23 (1.21%) HP ALM
9 23 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
10 22 (1.16%) IBM Guardium
11 21 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
12 20 (1.06%) Consul
13 16 (0.84%) Packer
14 14 (0.74%) Puppet
15 13 (0.69%) SCCM
16 10 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
16 10 (0.53%) NetBackup
17 7 (0.37%) Argo
18 6 (0.32%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 235 (12.40%) Microsoft
2 204 (10.77%) ServiceNow
3 156 (8.23%) Oracle
4 131 (6.91%) Atlassian
5 101 (5.33%) Salesforce
6 63 (3.32%) SAP
7 52 (2.74%) Remedy
8 44 (2.32%) Google
9 40 (2.11%) IBM
10 29 (1.53%) Talend
11 28 (1.48%) Red Hat
11 28 (1.48%) Workday
12 27 (1.42%) Tenable
13 25 (1.32%) Denodo
14 24 (1.27%) Databricks
14 24 (1.27%) HP
14 24 (1.27%) Splunk
15 23 (1.21%) BiZZdesign
16 22 (1.16%) Adobe
17 18 (0.95%) VMware