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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 44 48
Rank change year-on-year +10 +4 -14
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,794 1,286 1,588
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.70% 4.45% 4.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.05% 33.44% 34.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,297 819 1,086
10th Percentile £325 £313 £361
25th Percentile £402 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -1.01%
75th Percentile £613 £605 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £531
% change year-on-year - -5.88% -1.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 24 42
10th Percentile £15.74 £48.28 £40.18
25th Percentile £42.81 £55.11 £50.31
Median hourly rate £63.45 £62.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% +2.04% -3.92%
75th Percentile £70.38 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £70.88 £74.88
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £62.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year +1.60% +2.04% -2.00%

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 4,715 3,846 4,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.97% 13.32% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,263 2,422 3,299
10th Percentile £338 £340 £375
25th Percentile £411 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £644
90th Percentile £700 £732 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -2.44% -4.74% -3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 79 206
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £45.24
25th Percentile £54.94 £54.66 £48.85
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.30 £75.05 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.84%

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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 +10 825 £525 +3.96% 112
North of England +3 319 £467 -2.20% 67
Midlands +16 213 £450 -9.09% 55
South East -1 194 £475 +1.06% 133
Yorkshire -1 173 £485 -1.07% 24
West Midlands +17 169 £475 -5.00% 35
South West +11 144 £588 +6.33% 36
North West +3 130 £447 -5.89% 38
East of England -15 52 £425 +1.49% 30
East Midlands +4 43 £396 -13.62% 20
North East -2 16 £488 +8.33% 5
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
1 809 (45.09%) Confluence
2 112 (6.24%) SharePoint
3 36 (2.01%) nginx
4 35 (1.95%) SAS
5 31 (1.73%) CMS
6 13 (0.72%) Apache
7 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.39%) WordPress
10 6 (0.33%) Drupal
10 6 (0.33%) Mule
11 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.22%) CICS
11 4 (0.22%) JBoss
11 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.22%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.17%) IIS
12 3 (0.17%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 177 (9.87%) Microsoft Project
2 133 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 118 (6.58%) Microsoft Office
4 80 (4.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 70 (3.90%) MS Visio
6 36 (2.01%) Trello
7 11 (0.61%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 8 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
8 8 (0.45%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.33%) Notion
9 6 (0.33%) Sketch
9 6 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.28%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
11 4 (0.22%) InVision
11 4 (0.22%) Simulink
11 4 (0.22%) Windchill
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.11%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.11%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 19 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.84%) NetSuite
3 14 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
4 10 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 9 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.45%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.45%) SAP PM
7 7 (0.39%) SAP HR
8 6 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
8 6 (0.33%) Maximo
8 6 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
9 5 (0.28%) Loan IQ
9 5 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.28%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.22%) Endur
10 4 (0.22%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.22%) SAP ERP
10 4 (0.22%) SAP PLM
11 3 (0.17%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 355 (19.79%) Azure
2 287 (16.00%) AWS
3 176 (9.81%) Azure DevOps
4 163 (9.09%) GitHub
5 119 (6.63%) Power Platform
6 90 (5.02%) GCP
7 64 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
8 59 (3.29%) Serverless
9 55 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
10 46 (2.56%) Amazon S3
11 45 (2.51%) SaaS
12 42 (2.34%) Amazon EC2
13 40 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
14 36 (2.01%) Slack
15 35 (1.95%) Power Automate
16 34 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 34 (1.90%) Figma
17 33 (1.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 31 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
18 31 (1.73%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 58 (3.23%) Firewall
2 44 (2.45%) DNS
3 37 (2.06%) SSH
4 34 (1.90%) HTTP
5 23 (1.28%) VPN
6 21 (1.17%) FTP
6 21 (1.17%) TCP/IP
7 20 (1.11%) SMTP
8 19 (1.06%) SSL
9 16 (0.89%) OpenLDAP
10 11 (0.61%) IMAP
11 8 (0.45%) DHCP
11 8 (0.45%) WAN
12 7 (0.39%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.33%) Network Security
13 6 (0.33%) Wireless
14 5 (0.28%) Internet
14 5 (0.28%) Kerberos
14 5 (0.28%) LAN
14 5 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (5.85%) Power BI
2 71 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
3 56 (3.12%) Tableau
4 41 (2.29%) SQL Server
5 35 (1.95%) Relational Database
6 33 (1.84%) Pentaho
7 31 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
7 31 (1.73%) NoSQL
8 25 (1.39%) Big Data
9 22 (1.23%) Oracle Database
10 21 (1.17%) MongoDB
11 20 (1.11%) Metadata
11 20 (1.11%) MySQL
12 18 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
12 18 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
13 17 (0.95%) Hadoop
14 12 (0.67%) Amazon Aurora
15 11 (0.61%) Data Vault
15 11 (0.61%) Redis
16 10 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 239 (13.32%) Git
2 237 (13.21%) Jenkins
3 113 (6.30%) GitLab
4 76 (4.24%) Selenium
5 71 (3.96%) Postman
6 70 (3.90%) Bitbucket
7 50 (2.79%) Cucumber
8 34 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
9 33 (1.84%) TestRail
10 32 (1.78%) SonarQube
11 29 (1.62%) REST Assured
12 25 (1.39%) SoapUI
12 25 (1.39%) Zephyr
13 23 (1.28%) JUnit
14 21 (1.17%) SpecFlow
14 21 (1.17%) Vagrant
15 19 (1.06%) Maven
16 18 (1.00%) Rational DOORS
17 16 (0.89%) Artifactory
18 14 (0.78%) Cypress.io
General
1 769 (42.87%) Social Skills
2 457 (25.47%) Finance
3 307 (17.11%) Analytical Skills
4 203 (11.32%) Public Sector
5 202 (11.26%) Banking
6 68 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
7 53 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
8 51 (2.84%) Retail
9 48 (2.68%) Military
10 39 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
10 39 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
11 37 (2.06%) Legal
12 32 (1.78%) Investment Banking
13 27 (1.51%) Manufacturing
13 27 (1.51%) Marketing
14 25 (1.39%) Front Office
15 22 (1.23%) Telecoms
16 19 (1.06%) Law
17 16 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 14 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 314 (17.50%) Analyst
2 193 (10.76%) Business Analyst
3 173 (9.64%) Developer
4 166 (9.25%) Project Manager
5 138 (7.69%) Senior
6 132 (7.36%) Lead
7 109 (6.08%) Architect
8 72 (4.01%) Tester
9 56 (3.12%) DevOps Engineer
9 56 (3.12%) Test Analyst
10 53 (2.95%) Consultant
11 50 (2.79%) Delivery Manager
12 49 (2.73%) Product Owner
13 45 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
14 43 (2.40%) Software Engineer
14 43 (2.40%) Technical Analyst
15 41 (2.29%) Administrator
16 40 (2.23%) Technical Business Analyst
17 39 (2.17%) Test Engineer
18 38 (2.12%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (8.81%) REST
2 77 (4.29%) .NET
3 75 (4.18%) SOAP
4 68 (3.79%) HTML
5 59 (3.29%) AngularJS
6 58 (3.23%) React
7 52 (2.90%) CSS
7 52 (2.90%) Kafka
8 51 (2.84%) XML
9 49 (2.73%) JSON
10 48 (2.68%) RESTful
11 41 (2.29%) LDAP
11 41 (2.29%) Node.js
12 36 (2.01%) Playwright
13 35 (1.95%) Spring
14 33 (1.84%) Spring Boot
15 31 (1.73%) RabbitMQ
16 30 (1.67%) OAuth
16 30 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
17 27 (1.51%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 212 (11.82%) Product Ownership
2 79 (4.40%) Onboarding
3 56 (3.12%) Cloud Native
4 45 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
5 39 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 39 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
6 34 (1.90%) Data Structures
7 31 (1.73%) PMI
8 27 (1.51%) Mobile App
9 25 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
9 25 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
9 25 (1.39%) Replication
10 24 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
11 22 (1.23%) CMDB
12 21 (1.17%) Virtual Team
13 18 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
13 18 (1.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 17 (0.95%) Algorithms
15 16 (0.89%) Tandem
16 14 (0.78%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 134 (7.47%) Windows
2 121 (6.74%) Linux
3 48 (2.68%) Unix
4 26 (1.45%) VMS
5 19 (1.06%) Amazon Linux
5 19 (1.06%) Android
6 16 (0.89%) Mac OS
7 15 (0.84%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.72%) Ubuntu
9 11 (0.61%) Windows Server
10 10 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 10 (0.56%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.17%) CentOS
11 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.17%) zOS
12 2 (0.11%) Debian
12 2 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.11%) Solaris
13 1 (0.056%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,096 (61.09%) Agile
2 536 (29.88%) DevOps
3 437 (24.36%) Problem-Solving
4 427 (23.80%) Scrum
5 402 (22.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 367 (20.46%) CI/CD
7 281 (15.66%) Project Management
8 272 (15.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 265 (14.77%) Test Automation
10 239 (13.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 188 (10.48%) Change Management
12 187 (10.42%) User Stories
13 185 (10.31%) Migration
14 167 (9.31%) User Acceptance Testing
15 164 (9.14%) Project Delivery
16 156 (8.70%) Analytics
17 154 (8.58%) Roadmaps
18 148 (8.25%) ITIL
19 146 (8.14%) Business Intelligence
20 144 (8.03%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 295 (16.44%) SQL
2 261 (14.55%) Python
3 157 (8.75%) Java
4 134 (7.47%) JavaScript
5 88 (4.91%) PowerShell
6 76 (4.24%) C#
7 50 (2.79%) Bash
8 47 (2.62%) TypeScript
9 41 (2.29%) Go
10 31 (1.73%) C++
11 28 (1.56%) Groovy
12 23 (1.28%) Perl
13 18 (1.00%) Apex Code
14 17 (0.95%) PHP
14 17 (0.95%) Shell Script
15 16 (0.89%) PL/SQL
16 14 (0.78%) Ruby
17 13 (0.72%) Embedded C++
18 10 (0.56%) C
19 7 (0.39%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 467 (26.03%) Security Cleared
2 403 (22.46%) SC Cleared
3 276 (15.38%) Degree
4 85 (4.74%) PMI Certification
5 69 (3.85%) PMP
6 59 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 58 (3.23%) CISSP
8 51 (2.84%) ISTQB
9 45 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 45 (2.51%) CISM
10 41 (2.29%) TOGAF Certification
11 38 (2.12%) DV Cleared
12 30 (1.67%) AWS Certification
13 25 (1.39%) CBAP
14 21 (1.17%) Master's Degree
15 20 (1.11%) Azure Certification
16 19 (1.06%) Oracle Certification
17 16 (0.89%) CSPO
18 15 (0.84%) ISEB
19 14 (0.78%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (12.71%) QA
2 91 (5.07%) PMO
3 65 (3.62%) Data Quality
4 63 (3.51%) GDPR
5 57 (3.18%) Accessibility
6 43 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 38 (2.12%) NIST
8 18 (1.00%) ISO 20022
8 18 (1.00%) PSD2
8 18 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 18 (1.00%) WCAG
9 16 (0.89%) SEPA
10 14 (0.78%) NIST 800
10 14 (0.78%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.61%) COBIT
12 10 (0.56%) GRC
12 10 (0.56%) SLA
13 8 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 7 (0.39%) NCSC
14 7 (0.39%) P3O
System Software
1 206 (11.48%) Docker
2 57 (3.18%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.00%) DFS Replication
4 18 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.67%) Firmware
5 12 (0.67%) Squid
6 11 (0.61%) Dovecot
6 11 (0.61%) Postfix
7 7 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.11%) KVM
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.056%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.056%) etcd
Systems Management
1 184 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 101 (5.63%) Terraform
3 87 (4.85%) Ansible
4 53 (2.95%) Grafana
5 41 (2.29%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.67%) OPNET
7 29 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
8 26 (1.45%) HP ALM
9 23 (1.28%) Nessus
10 17 (0.95%) Puppet
11 15 (0.84%) Control-M
12 14 (0.78%) NetBackup
12 14 (0.78%) Packer
13 12 (0.67%) Consul
13 12 (0.67%) RSA Archer
13 12 (0.67%) SCCM
14 11 (0.61%) IBM Guardium
15 10 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
15 10 (0.56%) Proxmox
16 9 (0.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 239 (13.32%) Microsoft
2 218 (12.15%) ServiceNow
3 159 (8.86%) Oracle
4 123 (6.86%) Atlassian
5 94 (5.24%) Salesforce
6 69 (3.85%) SAP
7 54 (3.01%) Google
8 50 (2.79%) Remedy
9 38 (2.12%) HP
9 38 (2.12%) IBM
10 36 (2.01%) Talend
11 32 (1.78%) Denodo
12 31 (1.73%) Splunk
13 30 (1.67%) CyberArk
14 20 (1.11%) Red Hat
14 20 (1.11%) VMware
15 19 (1.06%) BiZZdesign
16 18 (1.00%) Tenable
17 17 (0.95%) Cisco
18 16 (0.89%) Adobe