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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 31 46
Rank change year-on-year -12 +15 +1
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,096 1,571 1,402
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.67% 5.71% 4.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.19% 39.77% 32.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,398 1,084 930
10th Percentile £347 £318 £349
25th Percentile £405 £400 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £619
90th Percentile £671 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £519
% change year-on-year - -3.61% -1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 39 90
10th Percentile £18.75 £49.50 £25.92
25th Percentile £25.00 £51.03 £40.00
Median hourly rate £53.00 £63.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.54% -5.93% +8.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £85.95 -
UK median hourly rate £52.67 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -8.41% -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 5,215 3,950 4,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.63% 14.36% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,319 2,731 2,859
10th Percentile £350 £320 £350
25th Percentile £413 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £590 £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 236 92 205
10th Percentile £28.53 £40.25 £32.23
25th Percentile £55.94 £51.05 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.68 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -7 965 £525 +0.96% 226
North of England -15 382 £465 -0.11% 73
Midlands 0 306 £455 -4.21% 49
West Midlands -2 266 £459 -3.37% 35
South East -26 221 £488 -0.91% 140
Yorkshire -10 213 £463 -3.39% 25
North West -27 151 £450 +4.90% 37
South West -7 133 £493 -12.44% 48
East of England -9 59 £413 +3.13% 31
East Midlands -5 38 £402 -2.55% 14
North East -38 25 £550 - 12
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
1 919 (43.85%) Confluence
2 108 (5.15%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.43%) SAS
4 27 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.67%) Apache
6 13 (0.62%) CMS
7 9 (0.43%) nginx
8 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.33%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.29%) Mattermost
9 6 (0.29%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
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%) IBM HTTP Server
12 3 (0.14%) Kentico
Applications
1 144 (6.87%) Microsoft Excel
1 144 (6.87%) Microsoft Project
2 83 (3.96%) MS Visio
3 66 (3.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 57 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
5 21 (1.00%) Trello
6 15 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.48%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.38%) Revit
9 7 (0.33%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.24%) Notion
11 2 (0.095%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.095%) CATIA
12 1 (0.048%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.048%) Mingle
12 1 (0.048%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.048%) Sketch
12 1 (0.048%) SOLIDWORKS
12 1 (0.048%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 40 (1.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 30 (1.43%) 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%) SAP EWM
9 5 (0.24%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.19%) Actimize
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.14%) Primavera
11 3 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 527 (25.14%) Azure
2 341 (16.27%) AWS
3 288 (13.74%) Azure DevOps
4 177 (8.44%) GitHub
5 163 (7.78%) Power Platform
6 87 (4.15%) GCP
7 86 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
8 76 (3.63%) Entra ID
9 74 (3.53%) SaaS
10 68 (3.24%) Amazon S3
10 68 (3.24%) Serverless
11 66 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
12 59 (2.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 54 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
14 48 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
15 33 (1.57%) Smartsheet
15 33 (1.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 32 (1.53%) Miro
17 31 (1.48%) Microsoft Copilot
18 28 (1.34%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 84 (4.01%) Firewall
2 67 (3.20%) DNS
3 46 (2.19%) TCP/IP
4 35 (1.67%) DHCP
4 35 (1.67%) Network Security
5 30 (1.43%) VPN
6 24 (1.15%) BIG-IP
7 23 (1.10%) WAN
8 19 (0.91%) SAN
9 18 (0.86%) LAN
9 18 (0.86%) SSL
10 15 (0.72%) SD-WAN
11 12 (0.57%) Internet
12 10 (0.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 10 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 9 (0.43%) VLAN
14 8 (0.38%) DKIM
14 8 (0.38%) HTTP
14 8 (0.38%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (6.77%) Power BI
2 95 (4.53%) Data Warehouse
3 75 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
4 51 (2.43%) SQL Server
5 44 (2.10%) Oracle Reports
6 32 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
7 27 (1.29%) Relational Database
8 26 (1.24%) MongoDB
9 24 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
9 24 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
9 24 (1.15%) DynamoDB
10 23 (1.10%) Tableau
11 20 (0.95%) Data Lake
12 19 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 17 (0.81%) Pentaho
14 16 (0.76%) NoSQL
14 16 (0.76%) Oracle Database
15 15 (0.72%) Metadata
16 13 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
17 12 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 251 (11.98%) Git
2 196 (9.35%) Jenkins
3 110 (5.25%) GitLab
4 89 (4.25%) Selenium
5 78 (3.72%) Zephyr
6 70 (3.34%) Bitbucket
7 62 (2.96%) Postman
8 51 (2.43%) Cucumber
8 51 (2.43%) JUnit
9 38 (1.81%) JMeter
10 30 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
11 28 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 23 (1.10%) Cypress.io
12 23 (1.10%) REST Assured
12 23 (1.10%) WebDriver
13 22 (1.05%) TestRail
14 19 (0.91%) Artifactory
15 14 (0.67%) Appium
16 11 (0.52%) Maven
16 11 (0.52%) Mockito
General
1 824 (39.31%) Social Skills
2 590 (28.15%) Finance
3 388 (18.51%) Analytical Skills
4 253 (12.07%) Banking
5 236 (11.26%) Public Sector
6 83 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
7 69 (3.29%) Retail
8 68 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
9 46 (2.19%) Manufacturing
10 38 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
11 37 (1.77%) Investment Banking
11 37 (1.77%) Legal
12 35 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 32 (1.53%) Front Office
14 29 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
15 27 (1.29%) Retail Banking
16 25 (1.19%) Marketing
16 25 (1.19%) Telecoms
17 21 (1.00%) Financial Institution
18 19 (0.91%) Military
Job Titles
1 371 (17.70%) Analyst
2 229 (10.93%) Business Analyst
3 205 (9.78%) Lead
4 204 (9.73%) Developer
5 183 (8.73%) Senior
6 116 (5.53%) Project Manager
7 95 (4.53%) Delivery Manager
8 86 (4.10%) Tester
9 77 (3.67%) Consultant
10 75 (3.58%) Architect
10 75 (3.58%) Scrum Master
11 67 (3.20%) Data Engineer
12 60 (2.86%) Support Engineer
13 58 (2.77%) IT Support
14 50 (2.39%) Test Analyst
15 48 (2.29%) Test Leader
16 46 (2.19%) Product Owner
17 43 (2.05%) IT Engineer
18 42 (2.00%) Senior Manager
19 40 (1.91%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (5.82%) REST
2 72 (3.44%) .NET
3 57 (2.72%) Spring
4 50 (2.39%) JSON
5 49 (2.34%) React
6 47 (2.24%) HTML
7 44 (2.10%) RESTful
8 39 (1.86%) Kafka
8 39 (1.86%) SOAP
9 36 (1.72%) AngularJS
9 36 (1.72%) Spring Boot
10 35 (1.67%) CSS
11 34 (1.62%) Playwright
11 34 (1.62%) Web Services
12 32 (1.53%) XML
13 30 (1.43%) Node.js
14 29 (1.38%) Middleware
15 26 (1.24%) WireMock
16 24 (1.15%) .NET Core
17 23 (1.10%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 231 (11.02%) Product Ownership
2 129 (6.15%) Onboarding
3 87 (4.15%) Cloud Native
4 72 (3.44%) Data Centre
5 56 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
6 54 (2.58%) Virtual Team
7 53 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
8 49 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
9 42 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
10 39 (1.86%) Management Information System
11 36 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
12 33 (1.57%) Data Structures
13 31 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
14 19 (0.91%) SCADA
15 18 (0.86%) Mobile App
15 18 (0.86%) Security Posture
16 17 (0.81%) Derivative
16 17 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 16 (0.76%) Credit Risk
17 16 (0.76%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 163 (7.78%) Windows
2 122 (5.82%) Linux
3 48 (2.29%) Unix
4 26 (1.24%) Windows 10
5 20 (0.95%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.86%) Android
7 17 (0.81%) Mac OS
7 17 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.38%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.14%) AIX
10 3 (0.14%) Check Point GAiA
10 3 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.095%) MVS
11 2 (0.095%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.095%) zOS
12 1 (0.048%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.048%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,234 (58.87%) Agile
2 588 (28.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 571 (27.24%) DevOps
4 461 (21.99%) Problem-Solving
5 454 (21.66%) CI/CD
6 422 (20.13%) Scrum
7 403 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 355 (16.94%) Test Automation
9 289 (13.79%) Migration
10 248 (11.83%) User Acceptance Testing
11 230 (10.97%) Project Management
12 226 (10.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 225 (10.73%) User Stories
14 221 (10.54%) Validation
15 213 (10.16%) AI
15 213 (10.16%) Sprint Planning
16 210 (10.02%) Change Management
17 198 (9.45%) Project Delivery
18 193 (9.21%) ITIL
18 193 (9.21%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 343 (16.36%) SQL
2 259 (12.36%) Python
3 155 (7.40%) Java
4 92 (4.39%) JavaScript
5 89 (4.25%) C#
6 71 (3.39%) PowerShell
7 63 (3.01%) TypeScript
8 43 (2.05%) Bash
9 33 (1.57%) PL/SQL
10 18 (0.86%) VBA
11 17 (0.81%) Perl
12 15 (0.72%) Bicep
12 15 (0.72%) Groovy
12 15 (0.72%) Kotlin
13 14 (0.67%) Apex Code
14 13 (0.62%) Shell Script
15 11 (0.52%) C++
16 10 (0.48%) ActionScript
17 7 (0.33%) C
17 7 (0.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 562 (26.81%) Security Cleared
2 435 (20.75%) SC Cleared
3 178 (8.49%) Degree
4 88 (4.20%) DV Cleared
5 77 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 66 (3.15%) ISTQB
7 57 (2.72%) PMI Certification
8 47 (2.24%) PMP
9 29 (1.38%) CISSP
10 25 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
11 24 (1.15%) Azure Certification
12 21 (1.00%) AWS Certification
12 21 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
13 17 (0.81%) CISM
13 17 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
13 17 (0.81%) Master's Degree
13 17 (0.81%) SAFe Agilist
14 16 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 16 (0.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 13 (0.62%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 253 (12.07%) QA
2 124 (5.92%) PMO
3 118 (5.63%) Data Quality
4 63 (3.01%) Accessibility
5 38 (1.81%) SLA
6 37 (1.77%) GDPR
7 26 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (1.24%) WCAG
8 20 (0.95%) NIST
9 18 (0.86%) NCSC
10 16 (0.76%) GRC
11 12 (0.57%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.43%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.29%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.29%) MiFID
13 6 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.29%) SEPA
14 5 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 136 (6.49%) Docker
2 123 (5.87%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (0.48%) Firmware
5 10 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.19%) Squid
8 3 (0.14%) HDFS
9 2 (0.095%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.095%) Postfix
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%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 155 (7.40%) Kubernetes
2 146 (6.97%) Terraform
3 90 (4.29%) Ansible
4 65 (3.10%) Grafana
5 49 (2.34%) Prometheus
6 34 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (1.10%) HP ALM
8 20 (0.95%) Control-M
8 20 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
9 14 (0.67%) Puppet
10 12 (0.57%) Nessus
11 11 (0.52%) IBM Guardium
12 8 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.38%) Dell DRAC
12 8 (0.38%) Packer
13 7 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
13 7 (0.33%) NetBackup
14 6 (0.29%) HP Quality Center
14 6 (0.29%) Istio
14 6 (0.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 299 (14.27%) Microsoft
2 268 (12.79%) ServiceNow
3 155 (7.40%) Oracle
4 98 (4.68%) Atlassian
5 92 (4.39%) SAP
6 91 (4.34%) Salesforce
7 55 (2.62%) Google
8 42 (2.00%) IBM
8 42 (2.00%) Remedy
9 38 (1.81%) VMware
10 37 (1.77%) Denodo
11 32 (1.53%) Splunk
11 32 (1.53%) Talend
12 29 (1.38%) F5
13 27 (1.29%) Databricks
13 27 (1.29%) Informatica
14 26 (1.24%) HP
14 26 (1.24%) Workday
15 24 (1.15%) MuleSoft
16 23 (1.10%) Adobe