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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 36 49
Rank change year-on-year -4 +13 -1
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,085 1,352 1,422
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.84% 5.44% 3.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.83% 38.29% 31.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,433 908 942
10th Percentile £318 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% -1.41%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £619
90th Percentile £675 £688 £706
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -2.50% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 27 95
10th Percentile £18.75 £47.30 £25.10
25th Percentile £21.72 £50.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.08 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £78.00 -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -1.64%

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 5,106 3,531 4,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.85% 14.20% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,322 2,399 3,006
10th Percentile £349 £332 £350
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 71 228
10th Percentile £30.75 £27.50 £32.61
25th Percentile £59.00 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £58.38 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.35% -10.19% +4.84%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -3 940 £510 -1.92% 130
North of England -2 414 £450 -0.99% 80
Midlands +2 319 £450 -5.26% 39
West Midlands -1 259 £459 -3.37% 27
Yorkshire -3 221 £475 -5.00% 36
South East -26 204 £459 -4.38% 117
North West -6 175 £445 +4.71% 40
South West -4 119 £490 -14.04% 39
East of England -4 62 £519 +25.76% 33
East Midlands +9 58 £393 -12.37% 12
North East -30 22 £475 -12.64% 6
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
1 922 (44.22%) Confluence
2 111 (5.32%) SharePoint
3 39 (1.87%) SAS
4 35 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.72%) Apache
6 12 (0.58%) CMS
6 12 (0.58%) nginx
7 9 (0.43%) WebSphere
8 7 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.29%) Ethereum
9 6 (0.29%) Hyperledger
9 6 (0.29%) Mattermost
10 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
11 4 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.19%) IIS
11 4 (0.19%) JBoss
11 4 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.14%) Kentico
12 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 162 (7.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 155 (7.43%) Microsoft Project
3 84 (4.03%) MS Visio
4 81 (3.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 62 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.58%) Trello
7 10 (0.48%) Chatbot
8 9 (0.43%) AutoCAD
8 9 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
9 8 (0.38%) Revit
10 4 (0.19%) Notion
11 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.048%) CANalyzer
11 1 (0.048%) CATIA
11 1 (0.048%) Mingle
11 1 (0.048%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.048%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 29 (1.39%) Remedy ITSM
1 29 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.53%) Loan IQ
4 10 (0.48%) Workday HCM
5 9 (0.43%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.38%) Findur
6 8 (0.38%) SAP MDG
7 7 (0.34%) Fidessa
7 7 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.24%) SAP Retail
8 5 (0.24%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.19%) Actimize
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
9 4 (0.19%) Summit
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 463 (22.21%) Azure
2 350 (16.79%) AWS
3 260 (12.47%) Azure DevOps
4 158 (7.58%) GitHub
5 156 (7.48%) Power Platform
6 91 (4.36%) Microsoft 365
7 81 (3.88%) Entra ID
8 80 (3.84%) GCP
9 78 (3.74%) SaaS
10 74 (3.55%) Amazon S3
11 73 (3.50%) Serverless
12 57 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
13 54 (2.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 54 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
14 51 (2.45%) Amazon EC2
15 37 (1.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 33 (1.58%) Slack
17 27 (1.29%) Miro
18 26 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
19 25 (1.20%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 83 (3.98%) Firewall
2 58 (2.78%) DNS
3 48 (2.30%) TCP/IP
4 36 (1.73%) Network Security
5 30 (1.44%) LAN
6 29 (1.39%) VPN
6 29 (1.39%) WAN
7 25 (1.20%) BIG-IP
8 24 (1.15%) DHCP
9 20 (0.96%) SAN
10 19 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
11 17 (0.82%) SSL
12 14 (0.67%) HTTP
13 12 (0.58%) SD-WAN
14 11 (0.53%) Internet
15 10 (0.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 10 (0.48%) Unified Communications
16 9 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 8 (0.38%) DKIM
17 8 (0.38%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (6.67%) Power BI
2 94 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
3 74 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
4 53 (2.54%) SQL Server
5 46 (2.21%) Tableau
6 44 (2.11%) Oracle Reports
7 34 (1.63%) MongoDB
8 31 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
9 27 (1.29%) Relational Database
10 26 (1.25%) DynamoDB
10 26 (1.25%) NoSQL
11 24 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
12 20 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
13 18 (0.86%) Pentaho
14 16 (0.77%) Oracle Database
14 16 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 15 (0.72%) BusinessObjects
15 15 (0.72%) Data Lake
16 12 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
16 12 (0.58%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 247 (11.85%) Git
2 191 (9.16%) Jenkins
3 119 (5.71%) GitLab
4 90 (4.32%) Selenium
5 69 (3.31%) Zephyr
6 67 (3.21%) Postman
7 55 (2.64%) Bitbucket
8 53 (2.54%) JUnit
9 49 (2.35%) Cucumber
10 40 (1.92%) JMeter
11 32 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
12 24 (1.15%) REST Assured
13 21 (1.01%) Cypress.io
13 21 (1.01%) WebDriver
14 20 (0.96%) SonarQube
14 20 (0.96%) TestRail
15 18 (0.86%) Artifactory
16 14 (0.67%) Appium
17 12 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 12 (0.58%) Maven
General
1 809 (38.80%) Social Skills
2 597 (28.63%) Finance
3 381 (18.27%) Analytical Skills
4 265 (12.71%) Banking
5 217 (10.41%) Public Sector
6 79 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
7 75 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
8 73 (3.50%) Retail
9 43 (2.06%) Legal
10 38 (1.82%) Manufacturing
11 36 (1.73%) Investment Banking
12 34 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
13 33 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
14 31 (1.49%) Retail Banking
15 29 (1.39%) Front Office
16 28 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 25 (1.20%) Military
18 21 (1.01%) Telecoms
19 20 (0.96%) Corporate Banking
20 19 (0.91%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 401 (19.23%) Analyst
2 248 (11.89%) Business Analyst
3 196 (9.40%) Developer
4 173 (8.30%) Lead
5 169 (8.11%) Senior
6 117 (5.61%) Project Manager
7 99 (4.75%) Architect
8 89 (4.27%) Delivery Manager
9 87 (4.17%) Tester
10 78 (3.74%) Data Engineer
10 78 (3.74%) Scrum Master
11 69 (3.31%) Consultant
12 65 (3.12%) IT Support
13 55 (2.64%) Support Engineer
14 44 (2.11%) IT Engineer
15 43 (2.06%) Test Analyst
16 42 (2.01%) IT Support Engineer
17 41 (1.97%) Java Developer
17 41 (1.97%) Product Owner
17 41 (1.97%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (4.89%) REST
2 62 (2.97%) Spring
3 56 (2.69%) React
4 55 (2.64%) .NET
5 48 (2.30%) HTML
6 47 (2.25%) JSON
6 47 (2.25%) RESTful
7 43 (2.06%) Kafka
8 40 (1.92%) Spring Boot
9 37 (1.77%) CSS
9 37 (1.77%) SOAP
10 31 (1.49%) AngularJS
11 30 (1.44%) Playwright
12 26 (1.25%) XML
13 25 (1.20%) Middleware
14 24 (1.15%) Node.js
14 24 (1.15%) OpenID
15 23 (1.10%) .NET Framework
15 23 (1.10%) PySpark
15 23 (1.10%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 236 (11.32%) Product Ownership
2 119 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 90 (4.32%) Cloud Native
4 62 (2.97%) Data Centre
5 52 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
6 47 (2.25%) Management Information System
6 47 (2.25%) Virtual Team
7 43 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
8 41 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
8 41 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
9 31 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
10 30 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
11 28 (1.34%) Data Structures
12 20 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 18 (0.86%) Public Cloud
13 18 (0.86%) SCADA
14 16 (0.77%) Mobile App
14 16 (0.77%) PMI
14 16 (0.77%) Security Posture
15 15 (0.72%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 171 (8.20%) Windows
2 133 (6.38%) Linux
3 43 (2.06%) Unix
4 19 (0.91%) Windows 10
5 18 (0.86%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.82%) Mac OS
7 16 (0.77%) Android
7 16 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.48%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.14%) AIX
11 3 (0.14%) Check Point GAiA
11 3 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.096%) MVS
12 2 (0.096%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.048%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.048%) SUSE
13 1 (0.048%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,197 (57.41%) Agile
2 543 (26.04%) DevOps
3 537 (25.76%) Stakeholder Management
4 457 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
5 435 (20.86%) CI/CD
6 407 (19.52%) Scrum
7 391 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 346 (16.59%) Test Automation
9 263 (12.61%) Migration
10 244 (11.70%) User Acceptance Testing
11 239 (11.46%) Project Management
12 238 (11.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 221 (10.60%) User Stories
14 216 (10.36%) Validation
15 207 (9.93%) Change Management
16 190 (9.11%) Sprint Planning
17 189 (9.06%) Project Delivery
18 184 (8.82%) ITIL
19 182 (8.73%) SDLC
20 180 (8.63%) AI
Programming Languages
1 333 (15.97%) SQL
2 248 (11.89%) Python
3 167 (8.01%) Java
4 84 (4.03%) C#
4 84 (4.03%) JavaScript
5 65 (3.12%) TypeScript
6 58 (2.78%) PowerShell
7 39 (1.87%) Bash
8 31 (1.49%) PL/SQL
9 19 (0.91%) C++
10 18 (0.86%) VBA
11 15 (0.72%) Apex Code
11 15 (0.72%) Perl
11 15 (0.72%) Shell Script
12 11 (0.53%) ActionScript
12 11 (0.53%) Groovy
13 10 (0.48%) Bicep
14 9 (0.43%) C
14 9 (0.43%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 541 (25.95%) Security Cleared
2 425 (20.38%) SC Cleared
3 187 (8.97%) Degree
4 76 (3.65%) BPSS Clearance
5 67 (3.21%) ISTQB
6 64 (3.07%) PMI Certification
7 63 (3.02%) DV Cleared
8 58 (2.78%) PMP
9 32 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 31 (1.49%) CISSP
11 26 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
12 24 (1.15%) Master's Degree
13 23 (1.10%) AWS Certification
14 20 (0.96%) Azure Certification
14 20 (0.96%) CISM
14 20 (0.96%) SAFe Agilist
15 17 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
16 16 (0.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 14 (0.67%) IIBA
18 13 (0.62%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 249 (11.94%) QA
2 121 (5.80%) Data Quality
3 109 (5.23%) PMO
4 55 (2.64%) Accessibility
5 44 (2.11%) GDPR
6 39 (1.87%) SLA
7 25 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 25 (1.20%) NIST
8 20 (0.96%) WCAG
9 19 (0.91%) GRC
10 17 (0.82%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.72%) NCSC
12 8 (0.38%) ISO 20022
12 8 (0.38%) PSD2
13 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.34%) Basel III
13 7 (0.34%) MiFID
13 7 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.29%) JSP 440
System Software
1 143 (6.86%) Docker
2 110 (5.28%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.82%) Firmware
5 9 (0.43%) Squid
5 9 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
7 5 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.14%) HDFS
9 2 (0.096%) Postfix
9 2 (0.096%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.048%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.048%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.048%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 159 (7.63%) Kubernetes
2 139 (6.67%) Terraform
3 88 (4.22%) Ansible
4 64 (3.07%) Grafana
5 52 (2.49%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
8 21 (1.01%) Control-M
9 19 (0.91%) HP ALM
10 17 (0.82%) Nessus
11 16 (0.77%) IBM Guardium
12 15 (0.72%) Puppet
13 13 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
14 12 (0.58%) Consul
15 10 (0.48%) HP Quality Center
16 9 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 8 (0.38%) Dell DRAC
17 8 (0.38%) FortiGate
17 8 (0.38%) SCCM
18 7 (0.34%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 278 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 259 (12.42%) ServiceNow
3 164 (7.87%) Oracle
4 102 (4.89%) Salesforce
5 92 (4.41%) Atlassian
6 78 (3.74%) SAP
7 55 (2.64%) Google
8 38 (1.82%) Denodo
9 37 (1.77%) Workday
10 36 (1.73%) Remedy
11 34 (1.63%) Informatica
12 33 (1.58%) F5
12 33 (1.58%) Talend
13 30 (1.44%) IBM
13 30 (1.44%) Red Hat
14 27 (1.29%) VMware
15 26 (1.25%) Databricks
16 23 (1.10%) MuleSoft
16 23 (1.10%) Splunk
17 22 (1.06%) Tenable