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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 32 43
Rank change year-on-year -13 +11 +4
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,096 1,589 1,410
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.60% 5.71% 4.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.29% 39.51% 33.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,400 1,101 943
10th Percentile £350 £314 £340
25th Percentile £406 £400 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.69%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £619
90th Percentile £669 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £519
% change year-on-year - -3.61% -1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 40 85
10th Percentile £18.75 £47.38 £25.99
25th Percentile £26.25 £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 £67.12 £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 5,335 4,022 4,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.71% 14.45% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,388 2,779 2,837
10th Percentile £353 £320 £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 £598 £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 245 97 198
10th Percentile £35.00 £38.50 £35.30
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.00 £52.88
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.30 £73.83
UK median hourly rate £67.24 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.44% - +0.97%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -7 987 £525 +0.96% 394
North of England -13 380 £474 +1.94% 111
Midlands -3 300 £456 -4.11% 71
West Midlands -4 261 £459 -8.20% 47
South East -33 213 £487 +1.41% 154
Yorkshire -9 212 £468 -1.42% 42
North West -29 149 £470 +9.30% 50
South West -10 131 £490 -12.89% 64
East of England -9 53 £480 +20.00% 43
East Midlands -1 37 £402 -6.73% 24
North East -36 26 £550 +2.33% 21
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
1 930 (44.37%) Confluence
2 104 (4.96%) SharePoint
3 33 (1.57%) SAS
4 26 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (0.81%) CMS
6 15 (0.72%) Apache
7 9 (0.43%) nginx
8 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.29%) Mattermost
9 6 (0.29%) WebLogic
10 5 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.24%) WebSphere
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%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 147 (7.01%) Microsoft Project
2 139 (6.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 81 (3.86%) MS Visio
4 62 (2.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 59 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
6 23 (1.10%) Trello
7 15 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.48%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.38%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.38%) Revit
10 5 (0.24%) Notion
11 2 (0.095%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.048%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.048%) CATIA
12 1 (0.048%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.048%) Mingle
12 1 (0.048%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.048%) Sketch
12 1 (0.048%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 41 (1.96%) Remedy ITSM
2 27 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.57%) Aladdin
3 12 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
5 9 (0.43%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.38%) Findur
7 7 (0.33%) Loan IQ
8 6 (0.29%) Fidessa
8 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
9 5 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.19%) Actimize
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
10 4 (0.19%) SAP MDG
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
11 3 (0.14%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 527 (25.14%) Azure
2 336 (16.03%) AWS
3 293 (13.98%) Azure DevOps
4 175 (8.35%) GitHub
5 160 (7.63%) Power Platform
6 94 (4.48%) GCP
7 82 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
8 75 (3.58%) Entra ID
9 74 (3.53%) SaaS
10 67 (3.20%) Serverless
11 66 (3.15%) Amazon S3
12 65 (3.10%) GitHub Actions
13 58 (2.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 54 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
15 46 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
16 33 (1.57%) Microsoft Copilot
16 33 (1.57%) Miro
16 33 (1.57%) Smartsheet
16 33 (1.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 30 (1.43%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 85 (4.06%) Firewall
2 66 (3.15%) DNS
3 44 (2.10%) TCP/IP
4 33 (1.57%) DHCP
5 31 (1.48%) Network Security
6 30 (1.43%) VPN
7 22 (1.05%) WAN
8 20 (0.95%) BIG-IP
9 19 (0.91%) SAN
10 18 (0.86%) SSL
11 15 (0.72%) LAN
11 15 (0.72%) SD-WAN
12 13 (0.62%) Internet
13 9 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 9 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 9 (0.43%) VLAN
14 8 (0.38%) DKIM
14 8 (0.38%) DMARC
15 7 (0.33%) BGP
15 7 (0.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (6.73%) Power BI
2 100 (4.77%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
4 54 (2.58%) SQL Server
5 48 (2.29%) Oracle Reports
6 30 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
7 28 (1.34%) Relational Database
8 27 (1.29%) MongoDB
9 26 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 24 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
11 23 (1.10%) Tableau
12 22 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 21 (1.00%) Data Lake
13 21 (1.00%) DynamoDB
14 20 (0.95%) Pentaho
15 18 (0.86%) Metadata
16 15 (0.72%) NoSQL
16 15 (0.72%) Oracle Database
16 15 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 13 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 265 (12.64%) Git
2 189 (9.02%) Jenkins
3 105 (5.01%) GitLab
4 86 (4.10%) Selenium
5 82 (3.91%) Zephyr
6 70 (3.34%) Bitbucket
7 64 (3.05%) Postman
8 47 (2.24%) Cucumber
8 47 (2.24%) JUnit
9 35 (1.67%) JMeter
10 31 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
11 28 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 24 (1.15%) WebDriver
13 23 (1.10%) Cypress.io
14 22 (1.05%) TestRail
15 19 (0.91%) REST Assured
16 18 (0.86%) Artifactory
17 12 (0.57%) Appium
18 11 (0.52%) MSI
19 10 (0.48%) Maven
General
1 830 (39.60%) Social Skills
2 602 (28.72%) Finance
3 390 (18.61%) Analytical Skills
4 265 (12.64%) Banking
5 240 (11.45%) Public Sector
6 86 (4.10%) Organisational Skills
7 73 (3.48%) Retail
8 68 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
9 43 (2.05%) Manufacturing
10 42 (2.00%) Investment Banking
11 40 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
12 38 (1.81%) Legal
13 37 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 31 (1.48%) Front Office
15 29 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
15 29 (1.38%) Telecoms
16 27 (1.29%) Marketing
17 25 (1.19%) Retail Banking
18 20 (0.95%) Financial Institution
19 19 (0.91%) Military
Job Titles
1 361 (17.22%) Analyst
2 225 (10.73%) Business Analyst
3 211 (10.07%) Lead
4 200 (9.54%) Developer
5 191 (9.11%) Senior
6 115 (5.49%) Project Manager
7 92 (4.39%) Delivery Manager
8 84 (4.01%) Tester
9 82 (3.91%) Consultant
10 74 (3.53%) Scrum Master
11 71 (3.39%) Architect
12 70 (3.34%) Data Engineer
13 55 (2.62%) Support Engineer
14 53 (2.53%) Product Owner
15 52 (2.48%) IT Support
16 50 (2.39%) Test Leader
17 46 (2.19%) Test Analyst
18 44 (2.10%) Senior Manager
19 39 (1.86%) Administrator
20 38 (1.81%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (5.87%) REST
2 75 (3.58%) .NET
3 53 (2.53%) Spring
4 47 (2.24%) React
5 46 (2.19%) HTML
5 46 (2.19%) JSON
6 44 (2.10%) RESTful
7 40 (1.91%) Kafka
8 39 (1.86%) AngularJS
9 36 (1.72%) Playwright
9 36 (1.72%) SOAP
10 33 (1.57%) CSS
11 32 (1.53%) XML
12 31 (1.48%) Middleware
12 31 (1.48%) Spring Boot
13 30 (1.43%) Node.js
13 30 (1.43%) Web Services
14 26 (1.24%) WireMock
15 25 (1.19%) .NET Core
16 24 (1.15%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 239 (11.40%) Product Ownership
2 130 (6.20%) Onboarding
3 87 (4.15%) Cloud Native
4 73 (3.48%) Data Centre
5 57 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
6 50 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
6 50 (2.39%) Virtual Team
7 49 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
8 42 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
9 40 (1.91%) Management Information System
10 33 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
10 33 (1.57%) Data Structures
11 32 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
12 19 (0.91%) Mobile App
12 19 (0.91%) SCADA
13 18 (0.86%) Credit Risk
13 18 (0.86%) Derivative
13 18 (0.86%) Security Posture
14 16 (0.76%) Clustering
14 16 (0.76%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 159 (7.59%) Windows
2 121 (5.77%) Linux
3 48 (2.29%) Unix
4 24 (1.15%) Windows 10
5 21 (1.00%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.76%) Android
6 16 (0.76%) Mac OS
7 15 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.48%) 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
12 2 (0.095%) MVS
12 2 (0.095%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.095%) zOS
13 1 (0.048%) SUSE
13 1 (0.048%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,242 (59.26%) Agile
2 608 (29.01%) Stakeholder Management
3 577 (27.53%) DevOps
4 460 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
5 456 (21.76%) CI/CD
6 422 (20.13%) Scrum
7 400 (19.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 359 (17.13%) Test Automation
9 297 (14.17%) Migration
10 244 (11.64%) User Acceptance Testing
11 233 (11.12%) Project Management
12 228 (10.88%) User Stories
13 226 (10.78%) Validation
14 225 (10.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 220 (10.50%) AI
16 212 (10.11%) Sprint Planning
17 205 (9.78%) Project Delivery
18 201 (9.59%) Change Management
19 190 (9.06%) SDLC
20 189 (9.02%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 352 (16.79%) SQL
2 251 (11.98%) Python
3 145 (6.92%) Java
4 91 (4.34%) JavaScript
5 83 (3.96%) C#
6 73 (3.48%) PowerShell
7 65 (3.10%) TypeScript
8 44 (2.10%) Bash
9 32 (1.53%) PL/SQL
10 17 (0.81%) Bicep
11 16 (0.76%) Groovy
11 16 (0.76%) Kotlin
11 16 (0.76%) Perl
12 15 (0.72%) VBA
13 14 (0.67%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.48%) C++
14 10 (0.48%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.43%) ActionScript
16 6 (0.29%) C
16 6 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 565 (26.96%) Security Cleared
2 437 (20.85%) SC Cleared
3 175 (8.35%) Degree
4 88 (4.20%) DV Cleared
5 78 (3.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 71 (3.39%) ISTQB
7 55 (2.62%) PMI Certification
8 45 (2.15%) PMP
9 28 (1.34%) CISSP
10 23 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
11 22 (1.05%) Azure Certification
12 20 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (0.86%) Master's Degree
14 17 (0.81%) AWS Certification
15 16 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 16 (0.76%) CISM
15 16 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
15 16 (0.76%) SAFe Agilist
16 14 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 12 (0.57%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 252 (12.02%) QA
2 127 (6.06%) PMO
3 123 (5.87%) Data Quality
4 65 (3.10%) Accessibility
5 41 (1.96%) SLA
6 37 (1.77%) GDPR
7 27 (1.29%) WCAG
8 26 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 21 (1.00%) NCSC
10 19 (0.91%) NIST
11 16 (0.76%) GRC
12 12 (0.57%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.52%) ISO 20022
14 7 (0.33%) JSP 440
15 6 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.29%) MiFID
15 6 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.29%) SEPA
16 5 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 138 (6.58%) Docker
2 124 (5.92%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (0.48%) Firmware
5 10 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.19%) Squid
8 3 (0.14%) HDFS
9 2 (0.095%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.095%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.048%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.048%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 159 (7.59%) Kubernetes
2 150 (7.16%) Terraform
3 87 (4.15%) Ansible
4 61 (2.91%) Grafana
5 51 (2.43%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (1.00%) Control-M
8 19 (0.91%) HP ALM
9 16 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (0.67%) Puppet
11 13 (0.62%) Nessus
12 12 (0.57%) IBM Guardium
13 9 (0.43%) Packer
14 8 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 8 (0.38%) Dell DRAC
15 7 (0.33%) HP Quality Center
15 7 (0.33%) NetBackup
16 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
16 6 (0.29%) SCOM
16 6 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 304 (14.50%) Microsoft
2 271 (12.93%) ServiceNow
3 163 (7.78%) Oracle
4 92 (4.39%) Atlassian
5 91 (4.34%) Salesforce
6 90 (4.29%) SAP
7 55 (2.62%) Google
8 43 (2.05%) IBM
9 42 (2.00%) Remedy
10 41 (1.96%) VMware
11 40 (1.91%) Denodo
12 35 (1.67%) Talend
13 34 (1.62%) Splunk
14 29 (1.38%) Databricks
15 27 (1.29%) Informatica
16 25 (1.19%) Workday
17 24 (1.15%) F5
17 24 (1.15%) MuleSoft
18 23 (1.10%) Adobe
19 22 (1.05%) HP