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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 33 47
Rank change year-on-year -7 +14 +1
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,112 1,402 1,443
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.82% 5.47% 3.89%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.57% 38.52% 32.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,435 953 959
10th Percentile £325 £331 £324
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £622
90th Percentile £684 £695 £705
UK median daily rate £497 £500 £511
% change year-on-year -0.55% -2.15% -2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 30 98
10th Percentile £18.75 £47.95 £25.29
25th Percentile £24.19 £50.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £53.00 £56.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.78% -13.46% +6.12%
75th Percentile £67.00 £71.17 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.05 £78.88 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -1.64%

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 5,206 3,640 4,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.88% 14.20% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,359 2,476 3,012
10th Percentile £350 £335 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £709 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 78 234
10th Percentile £28.97 £28.27 £33.02
25th Percentile £59.00 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% -3.85% +4.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -4 965 £519 -1.23% 258
North of England -6 426 £450 -3.23% 128
Midlands 0 307 £450 -5.26% 51
West Midlands -1 253 £457 -3.89% 32
Yorkshire -2 233 £460 -8.00% 41
South East -28 201 £475 -2.81% 153
North West -6 177 £447 +4.68% 77
South West -5 121 £490 -14.78% 68
East of England +1 61 £450 +9.09% 36
East Midlands +7 52 £401 -10.59% 19
North East -28 21 £475 -12.64% 11
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
1 923 (43.70%) Confluence
2 111 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (1.47%) SAS
5 12 (0.57%) Apache
5 12 (0.57%) CMS
5 12 (0.57%) nginx
6 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.28%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.28%) Hyperledger
7 6 (0.28%) Mattermost
7 6 (0.28%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.19%) IIS
9 4 (0.19%) JBoss
9 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
9 4 (0.19%) WordPress
10 3 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
10 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.14%) Kentico
Applications
1 158 (7.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 150 (7.10%) Microsoft Project
3 88 (4.17%) MS Visio
4 79 (3.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 64 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.57%) Trello
7 10 (0.47%) AutoCAD
7 10 (0.47%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.38%) Revit
9 4 (0.19%) Notion
10 2 (0.095%) CATIA
11 1 (0.047%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.047%) CANalyzer
11 1 (0.047%) Mingle
11 1 (0.047%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.047%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.047%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 30 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.37%) Remedy ITSM
3 13 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.52%) Aladdin
4 11 (0.52%) Loan IQ
5 10 (0.47%) Workday HCM
6 9 (0.43%) Fidessa
7 8 (0.38%) Findur
8 7 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.28%) SAP MDG
9 6 (0.28%) Teamcenter
10 5 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
10 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
11 4 (0.19%) Actimize
11 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
11 4 (0.19%) Summit
12 3 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
12 3 (0.14%) Primavera
12 3 (0.14%) SAP Retail
12 3 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 489 (23.15%) Azure
2 349 (16.52%) AWS
3 273 (12.93%) Azure DevOps
4 165 (7.81%) GitHub
5 157 (7.43%) Power Platform
6 88 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
7 82 (3.88%) Entra ID
8 78 (3.69%) GCP
8 78 (3.69%) SaaS
9 75 (3.55%) Amazon S3
9 75 (3.55%) Serverless
10 59 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
11 58 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
12 55 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 52 (2.46%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 29 (1.37%) Miro
15 29 (1.37%) Slack
16 27 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
16 27 (1.28%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 88 (4.17%) Firewall
2 59 (2.79%) DNS
3 47 (2.23%) TCP/IP
4 37 (1.75%) Network Security
5 30 (1.42%) LAN
5 30 (1.42%) VPN
6 29 (1.37%) WAN
7 25 (1.18%) BIG-IP
7 25 (1.18%) DHCP
8 23 (1.09%) SAN
9 19 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
10 17 (0.80%) SSL
11 14 (0.66%) HTTP
12 12 (0.57%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.52%) Internet
14 10 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 10 (0.47%) Unified Communications
15 9 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 8 (0.38%) DKIM
16 8 (0.38%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (6.58%) Power BI
2 97 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
4 52 (2.46%) SQL Server
5 43 (2.04%) Oracle Reports
6 37 (1.75%) Tableau
7 34 (1.61%) MongoDB
8 32 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
9 27 (1.28%) DynamoDB
9 27 (1.28%) Relational Database
10 25 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
10 25 (1.18%) NoSQL
11 24 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
12 19 (0.90%) Data Lake
13 17 (0.80%) Oracle Database
13 17 (0.80%) Pentaho
13 17 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 14 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
14 14 (0.66%) Neo4j
15 13 (0.62%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 253 (11.98%) Git
2 203 (9.61%) Jenkins
3 122 (5.78%) GitLab
4 95 (4.50%) Selenium
5 74 (3.50%) Postman
6 72 (3.41%) Zephyr
7 55 (2.60%) JUnit
8 54 (2.56%) Bitbucket
9 52 (2.46%) Cucumber
10 40 (1.89%) JMeter
11 36 (1.70%) Sonatype Nexus
12 26 (1.23%) REST Assured
13 23 (1.09%) Cypress.io
14 22 (1.04%) WebDriver
15 21 (0.99%) TestRail
16 20 (0.95%) SonarQube
17 18 (0.85%) Artifactory
18 14 (0.66%) Appium
19 13 (0.62%) Maven
20 12 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 822 (38.92%) Social Skills
2 603 (28.55%) Finance
3 377 (17.85%) Analytical Skills
4 272 (12.88%) Banking
5 219 (10.37%) Public Sector
6 77 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
7 75 (3.55%) Retail
8 74 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
9 45 (2.13%) Manufacturing
10 41 (1.94%) Legal
11 40 (1.89%) Investment Banking
12 39 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
13 32 (1.52%) Front Office
14 29 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
15 26 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 25 (1.18%) Retail Banking
17 23 (1.09%) Military
18 21 (0.99%) Financial Institution
18 21 (0.99%) Telecoms
19 20 (0.95%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 394 (18.66%) Analyst
2 244 (11.55%) Business Analyst
3 206 (9.75%) Developer
4 174 (8.24%) Lead
5 172 (8.14%) Senior
6 120 (5.68%) Project Manager
7 97 (4.59%) Architect
8 91 (4.31%) Delivery Manager
9 88 (4.17%) Tester
10 78 (3.69%) Scrum Master
11 77 (3.65%) Consultant
12 76 (3.60%) Data Engineer
13 66 (3.13%) IT Support
14 57 (2.70%) Support Engineer
15 46 (2.18%) IT Engineer
15 46 (2.18%) Product Owner
16 45 (2.13%) Test Analyst
17 43 (2.04%) IT Support Engineer
18 42 (1.99%) Test Engineer
19 41 (1.94%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (5.59%) REST
2 66 (3.13%) .NET
3 63 (2.98%) Spring
4 53 (2.51%) React
5 49 (2.32%) JSON
5 49 (2.32%) RESTful
6 48 (2.27%) HTML
7 43 (2.04%) Kafka
8 41 (1.94%) Spring Boot
9 38 (1.80%) SOAP
10 37 (1.75%) CSS
11 36 (1.70%) AngularJS
11 36 (1.70%) Playwright
12 27 (1.28%) OpenID
13 26 (1.23%) Middleware
13 26 (1.23%) Node.js
13 26 (1.23%) Web Services
13 26 (1.23%) XML
14 24 (1.14%) .NET Framework
14 24 (1.14%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 230 (10.89%) Product Ownership
2 126 (5.97%) Onboarding
3 94 (4.45%) Cloud Native
4 63 (2.98%) Data Centre
5 51 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
6 49 (2.32%) Virtual Team
7 48 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
7 48 (2.27%) Management Information System
8 45 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
9 42 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
10 32 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
10 32 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
11 31 (1.47%) Data Structures
12 19 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 18 (0.85%) Enterprise Storage
13 18 (0.85%) Public Cloud
13 18 (0.85%) SCADA
13 18 (0.85%) Security Posture
14 17 (0.80%) Mobile App
15 16 (0.76%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 170 (8.05%) Windows
2 129 (6.11%) Linux
3 45 (2.13%) Unix
4 20 (0.95%) Windows 10
5 19 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.80%) Mac OS
7 16 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (0.71%) Android
9 9 (0.43%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.14%) AIX
11 3 (0.14%) Check Point GAiA
11 3 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
11 3 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.095%) MVS
12 2 (0.095%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.047%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.047%) Solaris
13 1 (0.047%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,223 (57.91%) Agile
2 551 (26.09%) DevOps
3 549 (25.99%) Stakeholder Management
4 462 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
5 457 (21.64%) CI/CD
6 410 (19.41%) Scrum
7 391 (18.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 361 (17.09%) Test Automation
9 267 (12.64%) Migration
10 250 (11.84%) User Acceptance Testing
11 237 (11.22%) Project Management
12 234 (11.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 228 (10.80%) Validation
14 217 (10.27%) User Stories
15 207 (9.80%) Change Management
16 201 (9.52%) AI
17 195 (9.23%) Project Delivery
18 192 (9.09%) Sprint Planning
19 189 (8.95%) SDLC
20 188 (8.90%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 344 (16.29%) SQL
2 263 (12.45%) Python
3 168 (7.95%) Java
4 90 (4.26%) C#
5 87 (4.12%) JavaScript
6 69 (3.27%) TypeScript
7 60 (2.84%) PowerShell
8 39 (1.85%) Bash
9 32 (1.52%) PL/SQL
10 19 (0.90%) VBA
11 16 (0.76%) C++
12 15 (0.71%) Apex Code
12 15 (0.71%) Perl
12 15 (0.71%) Shell Script
13 12 (0.57%) Bicep
14 11 (0.52%) ActionScript
14 11 (0.52%) Groovy
15 9 (0.43%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.38%) Scala
17 7 (0.33%) C
Qualifications
1 536 (25.38%) Security Cleared
2 416 (19.70%) SC Cleared
3 189 (8.95%) Degree
4 72 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 71 (3.36%) DV Cleared
6 66 (3.13%) ISTQB
7 58 (2.75%) PMI Certification
8 52 (2.46%) PMP
9 33 (1.56%) CISSP
10 31 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
11 27 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
12 24 (1.14%) AWS Certification
13 21 (0.99%) CISM
14 20 (0.95%) Azure Certification
15 18 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
15 18 (0.85%) Master's Degree
15 18 (0.85%) SAFe Agilist
16 16 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 13 (0.62%) CCNA
18 11 (0.52%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 258 (12.22%) QA
2 119 (5.63%) Data Quality
3 108 (5.11%) PMO
4 59 (2.79%) Accessibility
5 39 (1.85%) GDPR
6 38 (1.80%) SLA
7 26 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 24 (1.14%) NIST
9 22 (1.04%) WCAG
10 19 (0.90%) GRC
11 17 (0.80%) PCI DSS
12 16 (0.76%) NCSC
13 9 (0.43%) ISO 20022
14 8 (0.38%) PSD2
15 7 (0.33%) MiFID
16 6 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 6 (0.28%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.28%) JSP 440
16 6 (0.28%) SEPA
17 5 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 147 (6.96%) Docker
2 115 (5.45%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.66%) Firmware
5 9 (0.43%) Squid
5 9 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.14%) HDFS
10 2 (0.095%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.095%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.095%) Postfix
10 2 (0.095%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.047%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.047%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 165 (7.81%) Kubernetes
2 143 (6.77%) Terraform
3 94 (4.45%) Ansible
4 67 (3.17%) Grafana
5 53 (2.51%) Prometheus
6 41 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 22 (1.04%) HP ALM
9 21 (0.99%) Control-M
10 18 (0.85%) Nessus
11 17 (0.80%) IBM Guardium
12 15 (0.71%) Puppet
13 13 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
14 12 (0.57%) Consul
15 11 (0.52%) HP Quality Center
16 10 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 8 (0.38%) Dell DRAC
17 8 (0.38%) FortiGate
17 8 (0.38%) SCCM
18 7 (0.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 294 (13.92%) Microsoft
2 264 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 162 (7.67%) Oracle
4 103 (4.88%) Salesforce
5 91 (4.31%) Atlassian
6 80 (3.79%) SAP
7 54 (2.56%) Google
8 37 (1.75%) Denodo
9 33 (1.56%) F5
9 33 (1.56%) Remedy
9 33 (1.56%) Workday
10 32 (1.52%) Talend
11 31 (1.47%) Informatica
12 30 (1.42%) Databricks
12 30 (1.42%) Red Hat
12 30 (1.42%) VMware
13 28 (1.33%) IBM
14 25 (1.18%) HP
14 25 (1.18%) Splunk
15 23 (1.09%) MuleSoft