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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 30 43
Rank change year-on-year -15 +13 +8
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,025 1,617 1,418
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.43% 5.87% 4.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.89% 39.73% 32.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,336 1,127 936
10th Percentile £350 £313 £340
25th Percentile £407 £400 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £589 £600 £611
90th Percentile £675 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.57% -3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 41 75
10th Percentile £19.25 £47.50 £25.99
25th Percentile £43.20 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.50 £85.25 -
UK median hourly rate £59.37 £57.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +4.15% -15.56% +8.00%

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 5,207 4,070 4,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.40% 14.77% 13.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,314 2,822 2,821
10th Percentile £357 £325 £353
25th Percentile £415 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £625
90th Percentile £699 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 97 181
10th Percentile £36.25 £41.35 £33.07
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.06 £54.00
Median hourly rate £68.22 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.95% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.98 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +0.48%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -13 960 £533 +1.52% 213
North of England -17 365 £475 +2.15% 73
Midlands -5 265 £456 -4.00% 51
West Midlands -8 225 £459 -3.37% 35
South East -33 216 £475 - 84
Yorkshire -6 207 £475 - 27
North West -42 139 £474 +7.61% 32
South West -10 129 £525 -4.55% 84
East of England -18 53 £543 +35.63% 26
East Midlands -3 39 £409 +13.86% 16
North East -36 26 £550 +4.76% 16
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
1 892 (44.05%) Confluence
2 108 (5.33%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (1.23%) SAS
5 19 (0.94%) CMS
6 14 (0.69%) Apache
7 9 (0.44%) nginx
8 8 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.35%) Camunda
10 5 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.25%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.25%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.20%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.20%) IIS
11 4 (0.20%) MTS
11 4 (0.20%) WordPress
12 3 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
12 3 (0.15%) JBoss
12 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 139 (6.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 134 (6.62%) Microsoft Project
3 84 (4.15%) MS Visio
4 67 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 65 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
6 21 (1.04%) Trello
7 12 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.49%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.40%) Revit
10 7 (0.35%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.25%) Notion
12 2 (0.099%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.099%) Windchill
13 1 (0.049%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.049%) CATIA
13 1 (0.049%) Gliffy
13 1 (0.049%) Mingle
13 1 (0.049%) Mozilla Thunderbird
13 1 (0.049%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.049%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 33 (1.63%) Remedy ITSM
2 24 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.54%) Aladdin
3 11 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
4 9 (0.44%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
5 6 (0.30%) Teamcenter
6 5 (0.25%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.25%) Findur
6 5 (0.25%) Loan IQ
6 5 (0.25%) SAP EWM
6 5 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.20%) SAP FI-AR
7 4 (0.20%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.15%) Primavera
8 3 (0.15%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 514 (25.38%) Azure
2 312 (15.41%) AWS
3 292 (14.42%) Azure DevOps
4 166 (8.20%) Power Platform
5 164 (8.10%) GitHub
6 90 (4.44%) GCP
7 87 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
8 72 (3.56%) SaaS
9 69 (3.41%) Entra ID
10 68 (3.36%) Serverless
11 63 (3.11%) Amazon S3
12 58 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
13 55 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
14 54 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 39 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
16 38 (1.88%) Miro
17 37 (1.83%) Microsoft Copilot
18 32 (1.58%) Smartsheet
19 29 (1.43%) Figma
20 28 (1.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 88 (4.35%) Firewall
2 66 (3.26%) DNS
3 44 (2.17%) TCP/IP
4 33 (1.63%) DHCP
4 33 (1.63%) VPN
5 32 (1.58%) Network Security
6 23 (1.14%) WAN
7 19 (0.94%) SAN
8 18 (0.89%) BIG-IP
8 18 (0.89%) SSL
9 15 (0.74%) LAN
9 15 (0.74%) SD-WAN
10 13 (0.64%) Internet
11 10 (0.49%) SSH
11 10 (0.49%) VLAN
12 9 (0.44%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 9 (0.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 8 (0.40%) DKIM
13 8 (0.40%) DMARC
13 8 (0.40%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (7.31%) Power BI
2 88 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
4 53 (2.62%) SQL Server
5 36 (1.78%) Oracle Reports
6 27 (1.33%) Relational Database
7 26 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
7 26 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
8 25 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
9 23 (1.14%) Tableau
10 21 (1.04%) MongoDB
11 20 (0.99%) DynamoDB
11 20 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 19 (0.94%) Data Lake
13 18 (0.89%) Metadata
14 17 (0.84%) Oracle Database
15 16 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
15 16 (0.79%) NoSQL
16 15 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 14 (0.69%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 247 (12.20%) Git
2 170 (8.40%) Jenkins
3 106 (5.23%) GitLab
4 84 (4.15%) Selenium
5 75 (3.70%) Zephyr
6 70 (3.46%) Bitbucket
7 58 (2.86%) Postman
8 33 (1.63%) JUnit
9 32 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
10 30 (1.48%) Cucumber
11 27 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 26 (1.28%) Cypress.io
13 25 (1.23%) JMeter
14 21 (1.04%) REST Assured
15 19 (0.94%) TestRail
16 18 (0.89%) Artifactory
17 16 (0.79%) WebDriver
18 13 (0.64%) Maven
19 11 (0.54%) Mockito
19 11 (0.54%) MSI
General
1 810 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 608 (30.02%) Finance
3 386 (19.06%) Analytical Skills
4 276 (13.63%) Banking
5 238 (11.75%) Public Sector
6 78 (3.85%) Retail
7 77 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
8 69 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
9 49 (2.42%) Investment Banking
10 42 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
11 36 (1.78%) Front Office
12 35 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 35 (1.73%) Legal
12 35 (1.73%) Manufacturing
13 31 (1.53%) Marketing
14 29 (1.43%) Telecoms
15 26 (1.28%) Retail Banking
16 22 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
17 21 (1.04%) Financial Institution
18 19 (0.94%) Law
Job Titles
1 351 (17.33%) Analyst
2 222 (10.96%) Business Analyst
3 210 (10.37%) Lead
4 197 (9.73%) Developer
5 176 (8.69%) Senior
6 111 (5.48%) Project Manager
7 83 (4.10%) Consultant
8 80 (3.95%) Delivery Manager
9 78 (3.85%) Scrum Master
10 72 (3.56%) Architect
11 70 (3.46%) Tester
12 56 (2.77%) Data Engineer
13 54 (2.67%) Product Owner
14 53 (2.62%) Support Engineer
15 46 (2.27%) Test Leader
16 45 (2.22%) Test Analyst
17 40 (1.98%) IT Support
17 40 (1.98%) Senior Manager
18 39 (1.93%) Administrator
19 36 (1.78%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (7.31%) Terraform
2 130 (6.42%) REST
3 75 (3.70%) .NET
4 59 (2.91%) HTML
5 54 (2.67%) React
6 46 (2.27%) RESTful
7 45 (2.22%) JSON
8 44 (2.17%) AngularJS
9 41 (2.02%) CSS
9 41 (2.02%) Kafka
10 38 (1.88%) Spring
11 36 (1.78%) Playwright
12 35 (1.73%) SOAP
13 33 (1.63%) XML
14 32 (1.58%) Node.js
15 31 (1.53%) Middleware
16 29 (1.43%) Spring Boot
17 28 (1.38%) Web Services
18 23 (1.14%) .NET Core
19 22 (1.09%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 262 (12.94%) Product Ownership
2 139 (6.86%) Onboarding
3 81 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 68 (3.36%) Data Centre
5 59 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
6 51 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
7 48 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
8 42 (2.07%) Virtual Team
9 40 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
10 36 (1.78%) Management Information System
11 35 (1.73%) Data Structures
12 32 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
13 25 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
14 22 (1.09%) Credit Risk
15 21 (1.04%) Mobile App
15 21 (1.04%) SCADA
16 18 (0.89%) Derivative
16 18 (0.89%) Replication
17 16 (0.79%) Enterprise Storage
17 16 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 153 (7.56%) Windows
2 124 (6.12%) Linux
3 49 (2.42%) Unix
4 25 (1.23%) Windows 10
5 21 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.89%) Android
7 15 (0.74%) Mac OS
8 12 (0.59%) Windows Server
9 11 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.15%) AIX
12 3 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
13 2 (0.099%) MVS
13 2 (0.099%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.099%) VMS
13 2 (0.099%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.099%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,212 (59.85%) Agile
2 633 (31.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 571 (28.20%) DevOps
4 443 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
5 428 (21.14%) CI/CD
6 420 (20.74%) Scrum
7 386 (19.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 336 (16.59%) Test Automation
9 294 (14.52%) Migration
10 259 (12.79%) User Acceptance Testing
11 237 (11.70%) User Stories
12 230 (11.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 228 (11.26%) Project Management
14 226 (11.16%) Validation
15 221 (10.91%) Sprint Planning
16 216 (10.67%) AI
17 208 (10.27%) Project Delivery
18 201 (9.93%) SDLC
19 186 (9.19%) Acceptance Criteria
20 182 (8.99%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 344 (16.99%) SQL
2 241 (11.90%) Python
3 127 (6.27%) Java
4 105 (5.19%) JavaScript
5 73 (3.60%) PowerShell
6 69 (3.41%) C#
7 68 (3.36%) TypeScript
8 40 (1.98%) Bash
9 30 (1.48%) PL/SQL
10 20 (0.99%) Groovy
11 17 (0.84%) Bicep
11 17 (0.84%) C++
12 16 (0.79%) Apex Code
12 16 (0.79%) Kotlin
13 15 (0.74%) Perl
14 13 (0.64%) VBA
15 10 (0.49%) C
16 9 (0.44%) ActionScript
17 7 (0.35%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 542 (26.77%) Security Cleared
2 418 (20.64%) SC Cleared
3 174 (8.59%) Degree
4 87 (4.30%) DV Cleared
5 77 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 65 (3.21%) ISTQB
7 55 (2.72%) PMI Certification
8 44 (2.17%) PMP
9 27 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 23 (1.14%) Azure Certification
11 22 (1.09%) AWS Certification
11 22 (1.09%) CISSP
12 20 (0.99%) Master's Degree
13 18 (0.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 17 (0.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 17 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
15 16 (0.79%) SAFe Agilist
16 12 (0.59%) CISM
16 12 (0.59%) IIBA
17 11 (0.54%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 260 (12.84%) QA
2 126 (6.22%) PMO
3 119 (5.88%) Data Quality
4 63 (3.11%) Accessibility
5 41 (2.02%) SLA
6 24 (1.19%) GDPR
6 24 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (1.19%) WCAG
7 21 (1.04%) NCSC
8 20 (0.99%) GRC
9 18 (0.89%) NIST
10 12 (0.59%) ISO 20022
11 11 (0.54%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.35%) JSP 440
12 7 (0.35%) SEPA
13 6 (0.30%) MiFID
13 6 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.25%) COBIT
14 5 (0.25%) GxP
14 5 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 119 (5.88%) Docker
2 113 (5.58%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (0.49%) Firmware
6 8 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.20%) Squid
9 2 (0.099%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.099%) Dovecot
9 2 (0.099%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.099%) Postfix
10 1 (0.049%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.049%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.049%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 117 (5.78%) Kubernetes
2 78 (3.85%) Ansible
3 49 (2.42%) Grafana
4 40 (1.98%) Prometheus
5 34 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
6 22 (1.09%) HP ALM
7 16 (0.79%) Control-M
8 15 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.44%) Nessus
9 9 (0.44%) Packer
10 8 (0.40%) Dell DRAC
10 8 (0.40%) Puppet
11 7 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.35%) Istio
12 6 (0.30%) HP Quality Center
12 6 (0.30%) IBM Guardium
12 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
12 6 (0.30%) SCOM
13 5 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 304 (15.01%) Microsoft
2 258 (12.74%) ServiceNow
3 139 (6.86%) Oracle
4 89 (4.40%) Atlassian
4 89 (4.40%) Salesforce
4 89 (4.40%) SAP
5 60 (2.96%) Google
6 45 (2.22%) IBM
7 40 (1.98%) VMware
8 37 (1.83%) Splunk
9 33 (1.63%) Remedy
10 32 (1.58%) Denodo
11 25 (1.23%) HP
11 25 (1.23%) Informatica
12 24 (1.19%) MuleSoft
12 24 (1.19%) Talend
13 23 (1.14%) Databricks
13 23 (1.14%) F5
14 22 (1.09%) Adobe
14 22 (1.09%) Workday