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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 33 41
Rank change year-on-year -15 +8 +10
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,020 1,651 1,411
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.34% 5.91% 4.37%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.01% 38.99% 32.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,296 1,171 900
10th Percentile £350 £313 £321
25th Percentile £413 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year - -1.16% -5.27%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £681
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 44 65
10th Percentile £19.25 £34.20 £28.09
25th Percentile £24.19 £50.00 £54.70
Median hourly rate £58.74 £57.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.04% -18.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 -
90th Percentile £78.70 £82.10 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -21.43% +12.00%

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 5,314 4,234 4,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.41% 15.15% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,358 2,937 2,726
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £634
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 96 164
10th Percentile £24.06 £38.13 £39.03
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.56 £54.68
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.53 £76.25 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 -14 948 £538 +2.38% 715
North of England -19 349 £485 +3.19% 232
Midlands -11 245 £459 -2.34% 129
Yorkshire -6 212 £500 +2.56% 85
West Midlands -11 212 £469 -1.26% 82
South East -39 201 £459 -3.37% 231
South West +1 149 £525 -4.55% 120
North West -46 116 £475 +8.57% 120
East of England +4 87 £510 +21.57% 114
East Midlands -17 32 £405 +12.81% 47
North East -32 28 £515 -0.96% 28
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
1 907 (44.90%) Confluence
2 103 (5.10%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.09%) CMS
5 20 (0.99%) SAS
6 11 (0.54%) Apache
7 10 (0.50%) Camunda
8 9 (0.45%) nginx
9 7 (0.35%) IIS
10 6 (0.30%) CICS
11 5 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.25%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.25%) MTS
12 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
12 4 (0.20%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.20%) Traefik
12 4 (0.20%) WordPress
13 3 (0.15%) Kentico
13 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 140 (6.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 114 (5.64%) Microsoft Project
3 78 (3.86%) MS Visio
4 62 (3.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 60 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
6 20 (0.99%) Trello
7 16 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.50%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.40%) Revit
10 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.25%) Notion
11 4 (0.20%) Windchill
12 3 (0.15%) Mingle
13 2 (0.099%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.099%) Gliffy
13 2 (0.099%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.050%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.050%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 1 (0.050%) Mozilla Thunderbird
14 1 (0.050%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 35 (1.73%) Remedy ITSM
2 19 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.64%) Workday HCM
4 12 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
5 11 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
6 9 (0.45%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.30%) Teamcenter
8 5 (0.25%) Fidessa
8 5 (0.25%) ResourceLink
8 5 (0.25%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.20%) Findur
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.20%) SAP FI-AR
9 4 (0.20%) SAP HCM
10 3 (0.15%) Magento
10 3 (0.15%) Maximo
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 491 (24.31%) Azure
2 317 (15.69%) AWS
3 275 (13.61%) Azure DevOps
4 166 (8.22%) Power Platform
5 164 (8.12%) GitHub
6 104 (5.15%) GCP
7 98 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
8 70 (3.47%) SaaS
9 58 (2.87%) Serverless
10 56 (2.77%) Amazon S3
11 55 (2.72%) Entra ID
12 50 (2.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 47 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
14 44 (2.18%) Miro
15 42 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
16 37 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
17 35 (1.73%) Smartsheet
18 33 (1.63%) Microsoft Copilot
19 29 (1.44%) Snowflake
20 25 (1.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 77 (3.81%) Firewall
2 72 (3.56%) DNS
3 44 (2.18%) TCP/IP
4 34 (1.68%) VPN
5 33 (1.63%) DHCP
6 24 (1.19%) Network Security
7 22 (1.09%) WAN
8 19 (0.94%) BIG-IP
9 17 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (0.79%) IPv4
10 16 (0.79%) IPv6
11 15 (0.74%) Broadband
11 15 (0.74%) SAN
11 15 (0.74%) VLAN
12 13 (0.64%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 13 (0.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 12 (0.59%) SD-WAN
13 12 (0.59%) SSL
14 10 (0.50%) LAN
14 10 (0.50%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (7.28%) Power BI
2 92 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
3 70 (3.47%) SQL Server
4 59 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (1.93%) Oracle Reports
6 38 (1.88%) Relational Database
7 26 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
9 23 (1.14%) MongoDB
10 20 (0.99%) Data Lake
10 20 (0.99%) Oracle Database
11 19 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 18 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
12 18 (0.89%) Metadata
13 17 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
14 16 (0.79%) Tableau
15 15 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 14 (0.69%) NoSQL
17 13 (0.64%) DynamoDB
17 13 (0.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 249 (12.33%) Git
2 168 (8.32%) Jenkins
3 121 (5.99%) GitLab
4 77 (3.81%) Zephyr
5 71 (3.51%) Selenium
6 65 (3.22%) Bitbucket
7 61 (3.02%) Postman
8 36 (1.78%) JUnit
9 31 (1.53%) Cucumber
10 29 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
11 27 (1.34%) JMeter
11 27 (1.34%) Maven
12 25 (1.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 25 (1.24%) REST Assured
13 24 (1.19%) Cypress.io
14 23 (1.14%) Mockito
15 21 (1.04%) Rational Rhapsody
15 21 (1.04%) SonarQube
15 21 (1.04%) TestRail
16 17 (0.84%) Artifactory
General
1 802 (39.70%) Social Skills
2 575 (28.47%) Finance
3 396 (19.60%) Analytical Skills
4 273 (13.51%) Banking
5 236 (11.68%) Public Sector
6 89 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
7 74 (3.66%) Retail
8 66 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
9 55 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
10 52 (2.57%) Investment Banking
11 49 (2.43%) Manufacturing
12 44 (2.18%) Telecoms
13 39 (1.93%) Front Office
14 38 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 38 (1.88%) Legal
15 35 (1.73%) Marketing
16 25 (1.24%) Retail Banking
17 22 (1.09%) Financial Institution
18 21 (1.04%) Military
19 20 (0.99%) Law
Job Titles
1 349 (17.28%) Analyst
2 221 (10.94%) Lead
3 208 (10.30%) Business Analyst
4 199 (9.85%) Developer
5 178 (8.81%) Senior
6 112 (5.54%) Project Manager
7 79 (3.91%) Consultant
8 76 (3.76%) Delivery Manager
9 73 (3.61%) Scrum Master
10 69 (3.42%) Architect
11 64 (3.17%) Tester
12 52 (2.57%) Administrator
13 50 (2.48%) Product Owner
14 49 (2.43%) Test Leader
15 46 (2.28%) Support Engineer
15 46 (2.28%) Test Analyst
16 45 (2.23%) Data Engineer
17 42 (2.08%) Senior Manager
18 40 (1.98%) Product Manager
18 40 (1.98%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (7.33%) REST
2 131 (6.49%) Terraform
3 73 (3.61%) .NET
4 63 (3.12%) HTML
5 59 (2.92%) RESTful
6 51 (2.52%) SOAP
7 50 (2.48%) React
8 48 (2.38%) AngularJS
8 48 (2.38%) JSON
9 46 (2.28%) Web Services
10 43 (2.13%) CSS
10 43 (2.13%) Kafka
11 39 (1.93%) Spring
12 38 (1.88%) Playwright
12 38 (1.88%) Spring Boot
13 37 (1.83%) XML
14 34 (1.68%) Middleware
15 27 (1.34%) Node.js
15 27 (1.34%) pytest
16 26 (1.29%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 267 (13.22%) Product Ownership
2 140 (6.93%) Onboarding
3 91 (4.50%) Cloud Native
4 69 (3.42%) Data Centre
5 68 (3.37%) Enterprise Software
6 57 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
7 53 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
8 45 (2.23%) Virtual Team
9 38 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
9 38 (1.88%) Data Structures
10 37 (1.83%) Management Information System
11 28 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
12 25 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
13 23 (1.14%) Credit Risk
14 21 (1.04%) Mobile App
15 20 (0.99%) SCADA
16 19 (0.94%) Derivative
16 19 (0.94%) Replication
17 17 (0.84%) Low-Code
18 16 (0.79%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 144 (7.13%) Windows
2 133 (6.58%) Linux
3 42 (2.08%) Unix
4 29 (1.44%) Windows 10
5 22 (1.09%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.89%) Android
7 17 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 16 (0.79%) Mac OS
9 15 (0.74%) Windows Server
10 10 (0.50%) VMS
11 9 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
12 8 (0.40%) CentOS
12 8 (0.40%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.30%) zOS
14 5 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
15 4 (0.20%) AIX
16 3 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
17 2 (0.099%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
17 2 (0.099%) Windows Server 2008
17 2 (0.099%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,192 (59.01%) Agile
2 671 (33.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 544 (26.93%) DevOps
4 448 (22.18%) Problem-Solving
5 432 (21.39%) Scrum
6 430 (21.29%) CI/CD
7 375 (18.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 342 (16.93%) Test Automation
9 307 (15.20%) Migration
10 266 (13.17%) User Acceptance Testing
11 249 (12.33%) User Stories
12 239 (11.83%) Validation
13 236 (11.68%) AI
14 228 (11.29%) Project Management
15 222 (10.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 219 (10.84%) Sprint Planning
17 210 (10.40%) Project Delivery
18 205 (10.15%) SDLC
19 199 (9.85%) Acceptance Criteria
20 180 (8.91%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 359 (17.77%) SQL
2 260 (12.87%) Python
3 129 (6.39%) Java
4 96 (4.75%) JavaScript
5 74 (3.66%) PowerShell
6 70 (3.47%) TypeScript
7 68 (3.37%) C#
8 44 (2.18%) Bash
9 35 (1.73%) PL/SQL
10 24 (1.19%) C++
11 19 (0.94%) Groovy
12 18 (0.89%) Kotlin
13 16 (0.79%) Bicep
14 15 (0.74%) C
15 13 (0.64%) ActionScript
15 13 (0.64%) Apex Code
16 12 (0.59%) Perl
17 10 (0.50%) Shell Script
17 10 (0.50%) VBA
18 9 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 536 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 413 (20.45%) SC Cleared
3 161 (7.97%) Degree
4 96 (4.75%) DV Cleared
5 88 (4.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 66 (3.27%) ISTQB
7 61 (3.02%) PMI Certification
8 49 (2.43%) PMP
9 31 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (1.29%) AWS Certification
11 22 (1.09%) Azure Certification
11 22 (1.09%) Master's Degree
12 19 (0.94%) CISSP
13 17 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
14 16 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 15 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 13 (0.64%) CISM
17 12 (0.59%) SAFe Agilist
18 11 (0.54%) IIBA
18 11 (0.54%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 275 (13.61%) QA
2 127 (6.29%) Data Quality
3 120 (5.94%) PMO
4 63 (3.12%) Accessibility
5 38 (1.88%) SLA
6 24 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (1.19%) WCAG
7 21 (1.04%) NIST
8 20 (0.99%) NCSC
9 19 (0.94%) GRC
10 14 (0.69%) GDPR
10 14 (0.69%) ISO 20022
11 9 (0.45%) COBIT
11 9 (0.45%) SEPA
12 8 (0.40%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.30%) JSP 440
14 5 (0.25%) MiFID
14 5 (0.25%) P3O
14 5 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 128 (6.34%) Docker
2 104 (5.15%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (0.50%) Firmware
6 8 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.30%) vSphere
9 3 (0.15%) Squid
10 2 (0.099%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.099%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.099%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.099%) Postfix
10 2 (0.099%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.050%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.050%) NFS
11 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.050%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.050%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 1 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 117 (5.79%) Kubernetes
2 70 (3.47%) Ansible
3 54 (2.67%) Grafana
4 43 (2.13%) Prometheus
5 29 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (1.19%) HP ALM
7 17 (0.84%) Control-M
8 11 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.45%) Istio
9 9 (0.45%) Packer
10 7 (0.35%) Dell DRAC
10 7 (0.35%) Nessus
10 7 (0.35%) SCCM
10 7 (0.35%) SCOM
11 6 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (0.25%) Argo
12 5 (0.25%) HP Quality Center
12 5 (0.25%) IBM Guardium
12 5 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 309 (15.30%) Microsoft
2 218 (10.79%) ServiceNow
3 145 (7.18%) Oracle
4 95 (4.70%) SAP
5 84 (4.16%) Salesforce
6 70 (3.47%) Atlassian
7 64 (3.17%) Google
8 55 (2.72%) IBM
9 48 (2.38%) VMware
10 38 (1.88%) Remedy
10 38 (1.88%) Splunk
11 28 (1.39%) Denodo
12 26 (1.29%) Databricks
13 25 (1.24%) HP
14 23 (1.14%) Workday
15 22 (1.09%) Adobe
15 22 (1.09%) F5
15 22 (1.09%) Talend
16 21 (1.04%) Informatica
16 21 (1.04%) MuleSoft