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

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 43 51
Rank change year-on-year +9 +8 -9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,922 1,161 1,444
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.49% 4.57% 3.82%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.39% 34.19% 32.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,377 724 1,011
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 £490 £520
% change year-on-year +0.46% -5.77% -3.70%
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 £50.94
% change year-on-year +1.02% +22.69% -21.63%

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 4,880 3,396 4,379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.95% 13.38% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,351 2,160 3,082
10th Percentile £340 £331 £363
25th Percentile £408 £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 144 58 202
10th Percentile £30.11 £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 £82.78 £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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +8 858 £520 +4.00% 143
North of England +11 352 £450 -1.10% 76
Midlands +9 265 £435 -11.22% 86
West Midlands +2 202 £465 -2.52% 65
South East -6 193 £475 -5.00% 159
Yorkshire -4 189 £480 -4.00% 34
South West +18 158 £575 +0.88% 63
North West +19 148 £430 -4.44% 36
East Midlands +4 61 £356 -27.35% 21
East of England -6 60 £425 - 33
North East -7 15 £375 -16.67% 8
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
1 910 (47.35%) Confluence
2 116 (6.04%) SharePoint
3 40 (2.08%) SAS
4 33 (1.72%) nginx
5 24 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
6 22 (1.14%) CMS
7 13 (0.68%) Apache
8 11 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.42%) WebLogic
10 7 (0.36%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.31%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.31%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.31%) 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
1 207 (10.77%) Microsoft Project
2 178 (9.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 104 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
3 104 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 77 (4.01%) MS Visio
5 24 (1.25%) Trello
6 6 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.26%) Notion
7 5 (0.26%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.26%) Sketch
8 4 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
8 4 (0.21%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.16%) InVision
9 3 (0.16%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.10%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.10%) CATIA
10 2 (0.10%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 17 (0.88%) NetSuite
1 17 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 11 (0.57%) Workday HCM
3 10 (0.52%) Fidessa
3 10 (0.52%) Loan IQ
4 9 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 8 (0.42%) Maximo
6 6 (0.31%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.31%) 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%) Oracle EBS R12
8 4 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.21%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.21%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 379 (19.72%) Azure
2 296 (15.40%) AWS
3 201 (10.46%) Azure DevOps
4 173 (9.00%) GitHub
5 131 (6.82%) Power Platform
6 82 (4.27%) GCP
7 78 (4.06%) Microsoft 365
8 56 (2.91%) SaaS
9 51 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
10 42 (2.19%) Serverless
11 41 (2.13%) Entra ID
12 35 (1.82%) Amazon S3
13 34 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
14 32 (1.66%) Figma
15 31 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 29 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
17 28 (1.46%) Amazon EKS
17 28 (1.46%) Slack
18 26 (1.35%) Miro
19 25 (1.30%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 46 (2.39%) Firewall
2 36 (1.87%) DNS
3 32 (1.66%) TCP/IP
4 28 (1.46%) VPN
5 21 (1.09%) WAN
6 19 (0.99%) LAN
7 18 (0.94%) HTTP
8 15 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (0.73%) SSH
10 13 (0.68%) Network Security
11 11 (0.57%) FTP
12 10 (0.52%) 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 (0.36%) BIG-IP
15 7 (0.36%) Modbus
15 7 (0.36%) RS-232
15 7 (0.36%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (5.67%) Power BI
2 77 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (3.07%) Tableau
4 54 (2.81%) SQL Server
5 45 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
6 37 (1.93%) MongoDB
6 37 (1.93%) NoSQL
7 27 (1.40%) Pentaho
8 25 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
9 21 (1.09%) Oracle Database
10 20 (1.04%) Relational Database
11 19 (0.99%) Metadata
12 18 (0.94%) Big Data
12 18 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
12 18 (0.94%) MySQL
12 18 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
13 14 (0.73%) Data Vault
14 11 (0.57%) Hadoop
14 11 (0.57%) Star Schema
15 10 (0.52%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 231 (12.02%) Git
2 222 (11.55%) Jenkins
3 114 (5.93%) GitLab
4 83 (4.32%) Selenium
5 76 (3.95%) Postman
6 61 (3.17%) Cucumber
7 51 (2.65%) Bitbucket
8 44 (2.29%) JUnit
9 38 (1.98%) Zephyr
10 37 (1.93%) Sonatype Nexus
11 33 (1.72%) REST Assured
11 33 (1.72%) TestRail
12 30 (1.56%) JMeter
12 30 (1.56%) SonarQube
13 20 (1.04%) Maven
14 17 (0.88%) Cypress.io
14 17 (0.88%) SpecFlow
15 14 (0.73%) Rational DOORS
16 12 (0.62%) WebDriver
17 11 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 794 (41.31%) Social Skills
2 543 (28.25%) Finance
3 375 (19.51%) Analytical Skills
4 234 (12.17%) Banking
5 194 (10.09%) Public Sector
6 77 (4.01%) Organisational Skills
7 69 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
8 67 (3.49%) Retail
9 54 (2.81%) Military
10 47 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
11 45 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
12 31 (1.61%) Investment Banking
12 31 (1.61%) Legal
13 29 (1.51%) Manufacturing
14 24 (1.25%) Telecoms
15 23 (1.20%) Marketing
16 22 (1.14%) Front Office
17 21 (1.09%) Retail Banking
18 16 (0.83%) Law
19 15 (0.78%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 403 (20.97%) Analyst
2 256 (13.32%) Business Analyst
3 177 (9.21%) Developer
4 156 (8.12%) Project Manager
5 146 (7.60%) Lead
6 133 (6.92%) Senior
7 126 (6.56%) Architect
8 92 (4.79%) Tester
9 57 (2.97%) Consultant
10 56 (2.91%) Delivery Manager
11 52 (2.71%) Solutions Architect
12 49 (2.55%) Test Analyst
13 48 (2.50%) Test Engineer
14 47 (2.45%) Technical Analyst
15 46 (2.39%) Data Engineer
16 43 (2.24%) Scrum Master
16 43 (2.24%) Technical Business Analyst
17 40 (2.08%) Senior Analyst
18 39 (2.03%) Software Engineer
18 39 (2.03%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (7.34%) REST
2 62 (3.23%) .NET
3 55 (2.86%) Spring
4 50 (2.60%) Kafka
5 48 (2.50%) XML
6 46 (2.39%) RESTful
7 45 (2.34%) HTML
7 45 (2.34%) React
8 44 (2.29%) JSON
9 43 (2.24%) Playwright
9 43 (2.24%) SOAP
10 39 (2.03%) CSS
11 38 (1.98%) Spring Boot
12 31 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
13 27 (1.40%) Node.js
13 27 (1.40%) OpenID
14 26 (1.35%) LDAP
15 25 (1.30%) AngularJS
15 25 (1.30%) FastAPI
16 24 (1.25%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 223 (11.60%) Product Ownership
2 84 (4.37%) Onboarding
3 70 (3.64%) Cloud Native
4 49 (2.55%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
6 37 (1.93%) Virtual Team
7 34 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
9 30 (1.56%) PMI
10 29 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
10 29 (1.51%) Data Structures
11 25 (1.30%) Mobile App
12 21 (1.09%) Data Centre
12 21 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
13 20 (1.04%) Public Cloud
14 19 (0.99%) CMDB
15 15 (0.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 15 (0.78%) Tandem
16 12 (0.62%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 141 (7.34%) Windows
2 124 (6.45%) Linux
3 32 (1.66%) Unix
4 21 (1.09%) Android
4 21 (1.09%) Windows 10
5 12 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.57%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.52%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.47%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.42%) VMS
10 7 (0.36%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.21%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.16%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.052%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.052%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.052%) Windows Embedded Compact
13 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.052%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,139 (59.26%) Agile
2 519 (27.00%) DevOps
3 489 (25.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 455 (23.67%) Problem-Solving
5 417 (21.70%) Scrum
6 379 (19.72%) CI/CD
7 331 (17.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 298 (15.50%) Test Automation
9 293 (15.24%) Project Management
10 245 (12.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 199 (10.35%) Migration
11 199 (10.35%) User Stories
12 190 (9.89%) Project Delivery
13 189 (9.83%) User Acceptance Testing
14 177 (9.21%) Change Management
15 166 (8.64%) Decision-Making
16 165 (8.58%) Acceptance Criteria
16 165 (8.58%) Roadmaps
17 161 (8.38%) Analytics
18 156 (8.12%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 291 (15.14%) SQL
2 255 (13.27%) Python
3 173 (9.00%) Java
4 100 (5.20%) JavaScript
5 79 (4.11%) C#
5 79 (4.11%) PowerShell
6 52 (2.71%) TypeScript
7 40 (2.08%) Bash
8 31 (1.61%) C++
9 25 (1.30%) Go
10 23 (1.20%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.04%) Embedded C++
12 16 (0.83%) PL/SQL
13 13 (0.68%) C
13 13 (0.68%) PHP
14 11 (0.57%) Perl
14 11 (0.57%) Ruby
15 10 (0.52%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.52%) Embedded C
16 8 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 501 (26.07%) Security Cleared
2 406 (21.12%) SC Cleared
3 262 (13.63%) Degree
4 91 (4.73%) PMI Certification
5 79 (4.11%) PMP
6 64 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 62 (3.23%) ISTQB
8 51 (2.65%) DV Cleared
9 49 (2.55%) CISSP
10 47 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
11 44 (2.29%) TOGAF Certification
12 40 (2.08%) CISM
13 36 (1.87%) Master's Degree
14 29 (1.51%) AWS Certification
15 25 (1.30%) CBAP
16 23 (1.20%) ISEB
17 19 (0.99%) Azure Certification
18 18 (0.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
19 17 (0.88%) IIBA
20 15 (0.78%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (12.12%) QA
2 114 (5.93%) PMO
3 85 (4.42%) Data Quality
4 53 (2.76%) Accessibility
5 50 (2.60%) GDPR
6 31 (1.61%) NIST
7 25 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 22 (1.14%) WCAG
9 18 (0.94%) SLA
10 15 (0.78%) ISO 20022
10 15 (0.78%) PSD2
11 13 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 12 (0.62%) GRC
12 12 (0.62%) SEPA
13 11 (0.57%) Basel III
14 10 (0.52%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.42%) NCSC
15 8 (0.42%) NIST 800
16 6 (0.31%) HIPAA
System Software
1 192 (9.99%) Docker
2 69 (3.59%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.52%) Squid
6 9 (0.47%) Firmware
7 7 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.36%) 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 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.052%) etcd
12 1 (0.052%) HDFS
12 1 (0.052%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.052%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 1 (0.052%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 188 (9.78%) Kubernetes
2 91 (4.73%) Terraform
3 80 (4.16%) Ansible
4 67 (3.49%) Grafana
5 51 (2.65%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.56%) OPNET
7 29 (1.51%) Control-M
8 26 (1.35%) Nessus
9 23 (1.20%) HP ALM
9 23 (1.20%) IBM Guardium
9 23 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
10 22 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
11 20 (1.04%) Consul
12 16 (0.83%) Packer
13 15 (0.78%) Puppet
14 13 (0.68%) SCCM
15 11 (0.57%) NetBackup
16 10 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
17 7 (0.36%) Argo
18 6 (0.31%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 239 (12.43%) Microsoft
2 206 (10.72%) ServiceNow
3 165 (8.58%) Oracle
4 131 (6.82%) Atlassian
5 104 (5.41%) Salesforce
6 64 (3.33%) SAP
7 52 (2.71%) Remedy
8 44 (2.29%) Google
9 40 (2.08%) IBM
10 32 (1.66%) Talend
11 29 (1.51%) Red Hat
12 28 (1.46%) Tenable
12 28 (1.46%) Workday
13 26 (1.35%) Denodo
14 25 (1.30%) Databricks
14 25 (1.30%) Splunk
15 24 (1.25%) HP
16 23 (1.20%) BiZZdesign
17 22 (1.14%) Adobe
18 19 (0.99%) Sonatype