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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 37 51
Rank change year-on-year 0 +14 -3
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,032 1,289 1,362
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.96% 5.27% 3.74%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.98% 38.19% 31.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,412 844 909
10th Percentile £318 £319 £348
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £630
90th Percentile £675 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 25 74
10th Percentile £18.75 £46.20 £22.90
25th Percentile £25.00 £50.00 £38.16
Median hourly rate £62.00 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.83% -4.17% -10.07%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £76.50 -
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £56.38 £55.00
% change year-on-year +3.77% +2.50% -17.53%

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 4,959 3,375 4,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.10% 13.79% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,271 2,278 2,915
10th Percentile £343 £340 £353
25th Percentile £409 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £528
Median % change year-on-year - -5.30% -4.00%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £638
90th Percentile £688 £736 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 63 192
10th Percentile £37.25 £27.59 £31.84
25th Percentile £59.00 £49.00 £54.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.37 £78.68
UK median hourly rate £66.75 £58.88 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.38% -9.42% +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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +2 895 £505 +0.91% 203
North of England +1 388 £450 - 84
Midlands +1 318 £450 -8.16% 58
West Midlands -2 253 £459 -6.99% 44
Yorkshire -6 202 £454 -9.20% 40
South East -23 198 £469 -3.79% 127
North West -2 169 £447 +5.18% 35
South West +6 142 £550 -2.22% 44
East Midlands +2 62 £393 -18.55% 14
East of England -6 57 £600 +33.33% 42
North East -13 21 £475 -9.52% 10
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
1 914 (44.98%) Confluence
2 109 (5.36%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.72%) SAS
4 31 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (0.89%) Apache
6 14 (0.69%) CMS
7 12 (0.59%) nginx
8 9 (0.44%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.30%) Ethereum
9 6 (0.30%) Hyperledger
9 6 (0.30%) Mattermost
10 5 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.25%) IIS
10 5 (0.25%) JBoss
11 4 (0.20%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.20%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
12 3 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 207 (10.19%) Microsoft Project
2 171 (8.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 91 (4.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 87 (4.28%) MS Visio
5 84 (4.13%) Microsoft Office
6 18 (0.89%) Trello
7 8 (0.39%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.30%) Notion
10 3 (0.15%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.15%) Revit
11 2 (0.098%) CATIA
11 2 (0.098%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.049%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.049%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.049%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.049%) Autodesk Smoke
12 1 (0.049%) InVision
12 1 (0.049%) Mingle
12 1 (0.049%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 27 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
1 27 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.69%) Loan IQ
4 11 (0.54%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.39%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.39%) SAP MDG
5 8 (0.39%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.30%) Fidessa
6 6 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.25%) Findur
7 5 (0.25%) Maximo
7 5 (0.25%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.25%) SAP Retail
7 5 (0.25%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.20%) SAP FI-AR
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 432 (21.26%) Azure
2 314 (15.45%) AWS
3 239 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
4 151 (7.43%) Power Platform
5 147 (7.23%) GitHub
6 83 (4.08%) SaaS
7 81 (3.99%) GCP
8 80 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
9 77 (3.79%) Entra ID
10 59 (2.90%) Amazon S3
11 51 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
11 51 (2.51%) Serverless
12 43 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
13 40 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 40 (1.97%) Amazon EC2
14 35 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 33 (1.62%) Figma
16 30 (1.48%) Amazon EKS
16 30 (1.48%) Slack
17 25 (1.23%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 67 (3.30%) Firewall
2 47 (2.31%) DNS
3 42 (2.07%) TCP/IP
4 28 (1.38%) LAN
5 27 (1.33%) Network Security
6 26 (1.28%) VPN
7 25 (1.23%) WAN
8 19 (0.94%) DHCP
8 19 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
9 18 (0.89%) SSL
10 14 (0.69%) HTTP
10 14 (0.69%) SAN
11 13 (0.64%) BIG-IP
12 12 (0.59%) Internet
13 11 (0.54%) Ethernet
13 11 (0.54%) SD-WAN
14 10 (0.49%) Unified Communications
15 9 (0.44%) FTP
15 9 (0.44%) NAS
16 7 (0.34%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (6.55%) Power BI
2 81 (3.99%) Data Warehouse
3 67 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
4 55 (2.71%) SQL Server
5 52 (2.56%) Tableau
6 38 (1.87%) MongoDB
7 37 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
8 27 (1.33%) NoSQL
9 26 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (1.18%) DynamoDB
11 22 (1.08%) Relational Database
12 20 (0.98%) Pentaho
13 16 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
13 16 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (0.74%) Big Data
14 15 (0.74%) MySQL
15 14 (0.69%) BusinessObjects
16 13 (0.64%) Data Lake
16 13 (0.64%) Metadata
17 12 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 229 (11.27%) Git
2 177 (8.71%) Jenkins
3 103 (5.07%) GitLab
4 96 (4.72%) Selenium
5 71 (3.49%) Postman
6 60 (2.95%) Zephyr
7 55 (2.71%) Cucumber
8 51 (2.51%) Bitbucket
9 49 (2.41%) JUnit
10 37 (1.82%) JMeter
11 33 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
12 29 (1.43%) REST Assured
13 25 (1.23%) TestRail
14 22 (1.08%) SonarQube
15 21 (1.03%) WebDriver
16 20 (0.98%) Cypress.io
17 16 (0.79%) Appium
18 15 (0.74%) Artifactory
19 13 (0.64%) Maven
20 11 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 821 (40.40%) Social Skills
2 592 (29.13%) Finance
3 398 (19.59%) Analytical Skills
4 252 (12.40%) Banking
5 216 (10.63%) Public Sector
6 74 (3.64%) Retail
7 71 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
8 68 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
9 51 (2.51%) Military
10 40 (1.97%) Manufacturing
11 38 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
12 37 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
12 37 (1.82%) Legal
13 33 (1.62%) Investment Banking
14 29 (1.43%) Retail Banking
15 25 (1.23%) Front Office
16 20 (0.98%) Corporate Banking
17 19 (0.94%) Financial Institution
17 19 (0.94%) Marketing
17 19 (0.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 400 (19.69%) Analyst
2 253 (12.45%) Business Analyst
3 180 (8.86%) Developer
4 178 (8.76%) Lead
5 165 (8.12%) Senior
6 133 (6.55%) Project Manager
7 104 (5.12%) Architect
8 90 (4.43%) Delivery Manager
9 84 (4.13%) Tester
10 70 (3.44%) Data Engineer
11 66 (3.25%) Scrum Master
12 62 (3.05%) Consultant
13 51 (2.51%) IT Support
14 49 (2.41%) Support Engineer
14 49 (2.41%) Test Engineer
15 47 (2.31%) Test Analyst
16 44 (2.17%) Technical Manager
16 44 (2.17%) Test Leader
17 40 (1.97%) Product Owner
18 39 (1.92%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (5.27%) REST
2 61 (3.00%) Spring
3 57 (2.81%) .NET
4 56 (2.76%) React
5 46 (2.26%) HTML
6 45 (2.21%) Kafka
7 41 (2.02%) JSON
7 41 (2.02%) RESTful
7 41 (2.02%) Spring Boot
8 34 (1.67%) CSS
9 33 (1.62%) SOAP
10 29 (1.43%) ADO
10 29 (1.43%) AngularJS
10 29 (1.43%) Node.js
10 29 (1.43%) OpenID
10 29 (1.43%) Playwright
11 27 (1.33%) LDAP
11 27 (1.33%) Middleware
12 26 (1.28%) XML
13 25 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 252 (12.40%) Product Ownership
2 99 (4.87%) Onboarding
3 75 (3.69%) Cloud Native
4 50 (2.46%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
6 43 (2.12%) Virtual Team
7 42 (2.07%) Data Centre
8 41 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
9 32 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
9 32 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
10 30 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
11 26 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
12 24 (1.18%) Data Structures
13 21 (1.03%) PMI
14 18 (0.89%) Mobile App
15 17 (0.84%) SCADA
16 16 (0.79%) Public Cloud
17 15 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 14 (0.69%) Operational Technology
19 13 (0.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 162 (7.97%) Windows
2 119 (5.86%) Linux
3 35 (1.72%) Unix
4 19 (0.94%) Android
5 18 (0.89%) Windows 10
6 17 (0.84%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.79%) Mac OS
8 11 (0.54%) Windows Server
9 10 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (0.39%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.15%) AIX
13 2 (0.098%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.098%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.049%) MVS
14 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.049%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,171 (57.63%) Agile
2 511 (25.15%) DevOps
3 509 (25.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 449 (22.10%) Problem-Solving
5 406 (19.98%) Scrum
6 385 (18.95%) CI/CD
7 364 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 325 (15.99%) Test Automation
9 281 (13.83%) Project Management
10 257 (12.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 250 (12.30%) Migration
12 229 (11.27%) User Acceptance Testing
13 216 (10.63%) User Stories
14 199 (9.79%) Change Management
15 190 (9.35%) Project Delivery
16 187 (9.20%) Validation
17 179 (8.81%) Acceptance Criteria
17 179 (8.81%) ITIL
18 175 (8.61%) Sprint Planning
19 173 (8.51%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 310 (15.26%) SQL
2 207 (10.19%) Python
3 183 (9.01%) Java
4 88 (4.33%) JavaScript
5 77 (3.79%) C#
6 58 (2.85%) TypeScript
7 56 (2.76%) PowerShell
8 36 (1.77%) Bash
9 27 (1.33%) C++
10 23 (1.13%) PL/SQL
11 22 (1.08%) Shell Script
12 15 (0.74%) C
13 14 (0.69%) Apex Code
13 14 (0.69%) Perl
13 14 (0.69%) VBA
14 13 (0.64%) Embedded C++
15 10 (0.49%) Groovy
16 9 (0.44%) Embedded C
17 8 (0.39%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 547 (26.92%) Security Cleared
2 422 (20.77%) SC Cleared
3 224 (11.02%) Degree
4 73 (3.59%) PMI Certification
5 70 (3.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 66 (3.25%) PMP
7 63 (3.10%) DV Cleared
8 61 (3.00%) ISTQB
9 34 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 28 (1.38%) CISSP
11 25 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
11 25 (1.23%) Master's Degree
11 25 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
12 22 (1.08%) SAFe Agilist
13 21 (1.03%) Azure Certification
14 20 (0.98%) CBAP
14 20 (0.98%) CISM
14 20 (0.98%) IIBA
15 18 (0.89%) AWS Certification
16 14 (0.69%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (12.20%) QA
2 117 (5.76%) PMO
3 110 (5.41%) Data Quality
4 51 (2.51%) Accessibility
5 48 (2.36%) GDPR
6 33 (1.62%) SLA
7 26 (1.28%) NIST
8 20 (0.98%) WCAG
9 18 (0.89%) GRC
10 17 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 13 (0.64%) PCI DSS
12 12 (0.59%) PSD2
13 11 (0.54%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.49%) Basel III
15 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.34%) MiFID
15 7 (0.34%) NCSC
15 7 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.34%) SEPA
16 6 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 145 (7.14%) Docker
2 106 (5.22%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.79%) Firmware
5 9 (0.44%) Squid
5 9 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.15%) HDFS
10 2 (0.098%) Postfix
10 2 (0.098%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.049%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.049%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.049%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 155 (7.63%) Kubernetes
2 117 (5.76%) Terraform
3 81 (3.99%) Ansible
4 67 (3.30%) Grafana
5 50 (2.46%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (1.23%) HP ALM
8 24 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
9 23 (1.13%) Control-M
10 21 (1.03%) OPNET
11 17 (0.84%) Nessus
12 16 (0.79%) IBM Guardium
12 16 (0.79%) Puppet
13 12 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
14 11 (0.54%) Consul
15 10 (0.49%) HP Quality Center
16 9 (0.44%) SCCM
17 8 (0.39%) FortiGate
18 7 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 7 (0.34%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 251 (12.35%) ServiceNow
2 244 (12.01%) Microsoft
3 166 (8.17%) Oracle
4 117 (5.76%) Atlassian
5 95 (4.68%) Salesforce
6 77 (3.79%) SAP
7 55 (2.71%) Remedy
8 48 (2.36%) Google
9 35 (1.72%) Workday
10 32 (1.57%) Denodo
11 31 (1.53%) Talend
12 29 (1.43%) IBM
12 29 (1.43%) Splunk
13 27 (1.33%) HP
14 26 (1.28%) Informatica
14 26 (1.28%) Red Hat
15 25 (1.23%) Databricks
16 24 (1.18%) VMware
17 23 (1.13%) MuleSoft
18 22 (1.08%) Tenable