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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 32 42
Rank change year-on-year -15 +10 +7
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,027 1,617 1,440
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.39% 5.81% 4.37%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.40% 39.12% 32.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,308 1,142 937
10th Percentile £350 £313 £325
25th Percentile £412 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -2.62%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £606
90th Percentile £679 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £492 £508
% change year-on-year +1.63% -3.15% -3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 41 71
10th Percentile £20.62 £46.25 £25.99
25th Percentile £35.00 £50.00 £52.31
Median hourly rate £60.81 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 -
90th Percentile £83.00 £83.00 -
UK median hourly rate £58.12 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +1.07% -17.86% +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 5,279 4,133 4,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.43% 14.86% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,337 2,855 2,828
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £416 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £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 242 95 169
10th Percentile £34.54 £44.30 £37.39
25th Percentile £52.29 £54.88 £54.36
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.68 £79.50 £73.80
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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -13 954 £536 +2.10% 776
North of England -17 363 £475 +2.04% 220
Midlands -8 254 £465 -2.11% 114
West Midlands -6 218 £470 -1.08% 74
Yorkshire -6 211 £493 +3.68% 74
South East -32 203 £468 -1.58% 268
South West +5 139 £525 -4.55% 125
North West -39 131 £449 +2.22% 112
East of England -6 73 £491 +22.75% 117
East Midlands -10 35 £404 +12.71% 40
North East -41 28 £515 -0.96% 35
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
1 903 (44.55%) Confluence
2 102 (5.03%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (1.23%) SAS
5 20 (0.99%) CMS
6 10 (0.49%) Apache
6 10 (0.49%) Camunda
7 9 (0.44%) nginx
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%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.20%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.20%) WordPress
10 3 (0.15%) Kentico
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 143 (7.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 119 (5.87%) Microsoft Project
3 79 (3.90%) MS Visio
4 65 (3.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 62 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
6 20 (0.99%) Trello
7 15 (0.74%) 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 (0.099%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.099%) Mingle
12 2 (0.099%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.049%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.049%) CATIA
13 1 (0.049%) Gliffy
13 1 (0.049%) Mozilla Thunderbird
13 1 (0.049%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 35 (1.73%) Remedy ITSM
2 25 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
5 9 (0.44%) Aladdin
5 9 (0.44%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.30%) SAP MDG
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%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
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
1 481 (23.73%) Azure
2 310 (15.29%) AWS
3 269 (13.27%) Azure DevOps
4 168 (8.29%) Power Platform
5 157 (7.75%) GitHub
6 95 (4.69%) GCP
6 95 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
7 73 (3.60%) SaaS
8 62 (3.06%) Entra ID
9 60 (2.96%) Serverless
10 55 (2.71%) Amazon S3
11 51 (2.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 47 (2.32%) AWS Lambda
13 46 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
14 43 (2.12%) Miro
15 37 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
15 37 (1.83%) Microsoft Copilot
16 34 (1.68%) Smartsheet
17 27 (1.33%) Figma
18 26 (1.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 81 (4.00%) Firewall
2 73 (3.60%) DNS
3 48 (2.37%) TCP/IP
4 35 (1.73%) DHCP
5 32 (1.58%) VPN
6 26 (1.28%) Network Security
7 24 (1.18%) WAN
8 21 (1.04%) BIG-IP
9 18 (0.89%) SSL
10 17 (0.84%) SAN
11 15 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
12 13 (0.64%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 13 (0.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 13 (0.64%) IPv4
12 13 (0.64%) IPv6
12 13 (0.64%) VLAN
13 12 (0.59%) Broadband
13 12 (0.59%) LAN
13 12 (0.59%) SD-WAN
14 10 (0.49%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (7.30%) Power BI
2 92 (4.54%) Data Warehouse
3 67 (3.31%) SQL Server
4 60 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
6 38 (1.87%) Relational Database
7 28 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 21 (1.04%) Metadata
10 20 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
10 20 (0.99%) Data Lake
10 20 (0.99%) Oracle Database
11 19 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 17 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (0.84%) MongoDB
12 17 (0.84%) Tableau
13 16 (0.79%) DynamoDB
14 15 (0.74%) Power Query
14 15 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 14 (0.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 256 (12.63%) Git
2 170 (8.39%) Jenkins
3 114 (5.62%) GitLab
4 74 (3.65%) Zephyr
5 71 (3.50%) Selenium
6 62 (3.06%) Bitbucket
7 61 (3.01%) Postman
8 34 (1.68%) JUnit
9 30 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
10 27 (1.33%) Cucumber
11 25 (1.23%) JMeter
11 25 (1.23%) Maven
12 24 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 24 (1.18%) Cypress.io
13 23 (1.13%) REST Assured
14 22 (1.09%) SonarQube
15 21 (1.04%) Mockito
16 19 (0.94%) Artifactory
16 19 (0.94%) TestRail
17 17 (0.84%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 802 (39.57%) Social Skills
2 584 (28.81%) Finance
3 396 (19.54%) Analytical Skills
4 278 (13.71%) Banking
5 232 (11.45%) Public Sector
6 90 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
7 77 (3.80%) Retail
8 64 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
9 52 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
10 49 (2.42%) Investment Banking
11 42 (2.07%) Manufacturing
12 39 (1.92%) Legal
12 39 (1.92%) Telecoms
13 36 (1.78%) Front Office
13 36 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 31 (1.53%) Marketing
15 26 (1.28%) Retail Banking
16 21 (1.04%) Law
16 21 (1.04%) Military
17 19 (0.94%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 348 (17.17%) Analyst
2 218 (10.75%) Lead
3 209 (10.31%) Business Analyst
4 198 (9.77%) Developer
5 180 (8.88%) Senior
6 104 (5.13%) Project Manager
7 80 (3.95%) Delivery Manager
8 76 (3.75%) Consultant
9 74 (3.65%) Architect
10 73 (3.60%) Scrum Master
11 65 (3.21%) Tester
12 52 (2.57%) Data Engineer
13 51 (2.52%) Product Owner
14 49 (2.42%) Support Engineer
15 47 (2.32%) Administrator
15 47 (2.32%) Test Analyst
16 44 (2.17%) Test Leader
17 39 (1.92%) Product Manager
17 39 (1.92%) Senior Manager
18 37 (1.83%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (7.15%) REST
2 134 (6.61%) Terraform
3 75 (3.70%) .NET
4 63 (3.11%) HTML
5 57 (2.81%) RESTful
6 55 (2.71%) AngularJS
7 53 (2.61%) React
8 48 (2.37%) SOAP
9 44 (2.17%) JSON
10 43 (2.12%) CSS
11 42 (2.07%) Spring
12 41 (2.02%) Kafka
13 40 (1.97%) Spring Boot
13 40 (1.97%) Web Services
14 38 (1.87%) Playwright
15 33 (1.63%) Node.js
15 33 (1.63%) XML
16 31 (1.53%) Middleware
17 25 (1.23%) Hibernate
18 23 (1.13%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 268 (13.22%) Product Ownership
2 137 (6.76%) Onboarding
3 91 (4.49%) Cloud Native
4 70 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 63 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
6 59 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
7 53 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
8 45 (2.22%) Virtual Team
9 40 (1.97%) Data Structures
10 39 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
11 34 (1.68%) Management Information System
12 29 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
13 24 (1.18%) Credit Risk
14 23 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
15 21 (1.04%) SCADA
16 20 (0.99%) Mobile App
17 19 (0.94%) Replication
18 18 (0.89%) Derivative
19 17 (0.84%) AI Agents
20 16 (0.79%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 147 (7.25%) Windows
2 132 (6.51%) Linux
3 44 (2.17%) Unix
4 29 (1.43%) Windows 10
5 21 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.89%) Android
7 16 (0.79%) 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
11 7 (0.35%) CentOS
11 7 (0.35%) VMS
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
14 2 (0.099%) MVS
14 2 (0.099%) Solaris
14 2 (0.099%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,208 (59.60%) Agile
2 655 (32.31%) Stakeholder Management
3 542 (26.74%) DevOps
4 450 (22.20%) Problem-Solving
5 432 (21.31%) Scrum
6 431 (21.26%) CI/CD
7 382 (18.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 340 (16.77%) Test Automation
9 300 (14.80%) Migration
10 250 (12.33%) User Acceptance Testing
11 244 (12.04%) User Stories
12 234 (11.54%) AI
12 234 (11.54%) Validation
13 226 (11.15%) Project Management
13 226 (11.15%) Sprint Planning
14 220 (10.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 205 (10.11%) Project Delivery
16 200 (9.87%) SDLC
17 188 (9.27%) Acceptance Criteria
18 182 (8.98%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 356 (17.56%) SQL
2 261 (12.88%) Python
3 139 (6.86%) Java
4 102 (5.03%) JavaScript
5 77 (3.80%) TypeScript
6 71 (3.50%) PowerShell
7 66 (3.26%) C#
8 38 (1.87%) Bash
9 34 (1.68%) PL/SQL
10 23 (1.13%) C++
11 22 (1.09%) Groovy
12 16 (0.79%) C
12 16 (0.79%) Kotlin
13 15 (0.74%) Bicep
14 14 (0.69%) Apex Code
15 13 (0.64%) ActionScript
16 12 (0.59%) Perl
16 12 (0.59%) VBA
17 8 (0.39%) T-SQL
18 7 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 537 (26.49%) Security Cleared
2 412 (20.33%) SC Cleared
3 166 (8.19%) Degree
4 95 (4.69%) DV Cleared
5 88 (4.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 67 (3.31%) ISTQB
7 57 (2.81%) PMI Certification
8 45 (2.22%) PMP
9 29 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 24 (1.18%) AWS Certification
11 21 (1.04%) Azure Certification
11 21 (1.04%) Master's Degree
12 19 (0.94%) CISSP
13 17 (0.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 17 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
14 15 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 12 (0.59%) IIBA
15 12 (0.59%) SAFe Agilist
16 11 (0.54%) CISM
16 11 (0.54%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 270 (13.32%) QA
2 130 (6.41%) Data Quality
3 126 (6.22%) PMO
4 62 (3.06%) Accessibility
5 37 (1.83%) SLA
6 24 (1.18%) WCAG
7 20 (0.99%) GDPR
7 20 (0.99%) NCSC
8 19 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 18 (0.89%) GRC
10 16 (0.79%) NIST
11 13 (0.64%) ISO 20022
12 8 (0.39%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.39%) SEPA
13 7 (0.35%) JSP 440
14 5 (0.25%) COBIT
14 5 (0.25%) MiFID
14 5 (0.25%) P3O
14 5 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
15 4 (0.20%) EMIR
System Software
1 118 (5.82%) Docker
2 110 (5.43%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (0.49%) Firmware
6 7 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.20%) Squid
8 4 (0.20%) vSphere
9 2 (0.099%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.099%) Dovecot
9 2 (0.099%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.099%) Postfix
9 2 (0.099%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.049%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.049%) NFS
10 1 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.049%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.049%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 1 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 108 (5.33%) Kubernetes
2 76 (3.75%) Ansible
3 51 (2.52%) Grafana
4 41 (2.02%) Prometheus
5 34 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
6 25 (1.23%) HP ALM
7 15 (0.74%) Control-M
8 14 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.44%) Packer
10 8 (0.39%) Dell DRAC
10 8 (0.39%) Istio
11 7 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.35%) Nessus
11 7 (0.35%) Puppet
11 7 (0.35%) SCOM
12 6 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
12 6 (0.30%) SCCM
13 5 (0.25%) HP Quality Center
13 5 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 313 (15.44%) Microsoft
2 240 (11.84%) ServiceNow
3 145 (7.15%) Oracle
4 92 (4.54%) SAP
5 85 (4.19%) Salesforce
6 76 (3.75%) Atlassian
7 64 (3.16%) Google
8 53 (2.61%) IBM
9 46 (2.27%) VMware
10 41 (2.02%) Splunk
11 38 (1.87%) Remedy
12 32 (1.58%) Denodo
13 26 (1.28%) HP
13 26 (1.28%) Talend
14 24 (1.18%) F5
15 22 (1.09%) Adobe
15 22 (1.09%) Databricks
15 22 (1.09%) Informatica
15 22 (1.09%) MuleSoft
16 19 (0.94%) Workday