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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 30 43
Rank change year-on-year -14 +13 +7
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,068 1,615 1,414
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.52% 5.86% 4.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.99% 40.03% 32.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,380 1,126 944
10th Percentile £350 £313 £343
25th Percentile £406 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.69%
75th Percentile £589 £600 £619
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £519
% change year-on-year - -3.61% -1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 41 77
10th Percentile £19.25 £47.50 £25.71
25th Percentile £35.00 £50.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £85.25 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £57.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -3.51% -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 5,304 4,034 4,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.60% 14.62% 12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,380 2,791 2,841
10th Percentile £356 £321 £356
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £631
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 247 96 182
10th Percentile £36.25 £41.13 £33.01
25th Percentile £58.63 £51.05 £54.09
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.98 £73.98
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -9 966 £532 +1.33% 440
North of England -16 374 £475 +1.28% 121
Midlands -4 288 £450 -5.26% 77
West Midlands -6 247 £456 -4.00% 55
South East -35 217 £481 +0.10% 150
Yorkshire -8 210 £475 -0.11% 36
North West -38 145 £475 +7.34% 62
South West -4 134 £503 -9.78% 99
East of England -24 50 £491 +22.75% 52
East Midlands -6 40 £409 +2.19% 21
North East -33 26 £550 +3.53% 25
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
1 909 (43.96%) Confluence
2 101 (4.88%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.55%) SAS
4 26 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (0.82%) CMS
6 14 (0.68%) Apache
7 8 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.39%) nginx
8 6 (0.29%) Mattermost
9 5 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.24%) IIS
9 5 (0.24%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.19%) Camunda
10 4 (0.19%) WordPress
11 3 (0.15%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.15%) JBoss
11 3 (0.15%) Kentico
11 3 (0.15%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 137 (6.62%) Microsoft Excel
1 137 (6.62%) Microsoft Project
2 84 (4.06%) MS Visio
3 66 (3.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 62 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
5 23 (1.11%) Trello
6 13 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.48%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.39%) Revit
9 7 (0.34%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.24%) Notion
11 2 (0.097%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.048%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.048%) CATIA
12 1 (0.048%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.048%) Mingle
12 1 (0.048%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.048%) Sketch
12 1 (0.048%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 39 (1.89%) Remedy ITSM
2 26 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.58%) Aladdin
4 11 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
5 9 (0.44%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.29%) Loan IQ
6 6 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.24%) Fidessa
7 5 (0.24%) Findur
7 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.19%) Actimize
8 4 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
8 4 (0.19%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.15%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 515 (24.90%) Azure
2 324 (15.67%) AWS
3 289 (13.97%) Azure DevOps
4 169 (8.17%) GitHub
5 161 (7.79%) Power Platform
6 92 (4.45%) GCP
7 81 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
8 74 (3.58%) Entra ID
8 74 (3.58%) SaaS
9 69 (3.34%) Serverless
10 60 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
11 58 (2.80%) Amazon S3
12 55 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
13 51 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 37 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
15 36 (1.74%) Miro
16 33 (1.60%) Microsoft Copilot
17 32 (1.55%) Smartsheet
18 28 (1.35%) Figma
18 28 (1.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 87 (4.21%) Firewall
2 64 (3.09%) DNS
3 44 (2.13%) TCP/IP
4 32 (1.55%) DHCP
4 32 (1.55%) Network Security
5 31 (1.50%) VPN
6 22 (1.06%) WAN
7 19 (0.92%) BIG-IP
7 19 (0.92%) SAN
8 18 (0.87%) SSL
9 15 (0.73%) LAN
9 15 (0.73%) SD-WAN
10 12 (0.58%) Internet
11 10 (0.48%) VLAN
12 9 (0.44%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 9 (0.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 8 (0.39%) DKIM
13 8 (0.39%) DMARC
13 8 (0.39%) SSH
14 7 (0.34%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (6.91%) Power BI
2 99 (4.79%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
4 51 (2.47%) SQL Server
5 45 (2.18%) Oracle Reports
6 27 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
6 27 (1.31%) Relational Database
7 24 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
7 24 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (1.11%) MongoDB
8 23 (1.11%) Tableau
9 21 (1.02%) DynamoDB
9 21 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 19 (0.92%) Data Lake
10 19 (0.92%) Pentaho
11 18 (0.87%) Metadata
11 18 (0.87%) NoSQL
12 15 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 13 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
13 13 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 254 (12.28%) Git
2 178 (8.61%) Jenkins
3 104 (5.03%) GitLab
4 86 (4.16%) Zephyr
5 79 (3.82%) Selenium
6 74 (3.58%) Bitbucket
7 70 (3.38%) Postman
8 35 (1.69%) Cucumber
8 35 (1.69%) JUnit
9 30 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
10 27 (1.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 25 (1.21%) Cypress.io
11 25 (1.21%) JMeter
12 21 (1.02%) TestRail
13 19 (0.92%) REST Assured
14 18 (0.87%) Artifactory
15 15 (0.73%) WebDriver
16 11 (0.53%) Maven
16 11 (0.53%) MSI
17 9 (0.44%) IntelliJ
General
1 820 (39.65%) Social Skills
2 607 (29.35%) Finance
3 388 (18.76%) Analytical Skills
4 275 (13.30%) Banking
5 236 (11.41%) Public Sector
6 75 (3.63%) Organisational Skills
6 75 (3.63%) Retail
7 72 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
8 46 (2.22%) Investment Banking
9 42 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
10 37 (1.79%) Legal
10 37 (1.79%) Manufacturing
11 35 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 34 (1.64%) Front Office
13 29 (1.40%) Marketing
13 29 (1.40%) Telecoms
14 26 (1.26%) Retail Banking
15 22 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
16 20 (0.97%) Financial Institution
17 19 (0.92%) Law
Job Titles
1 360 (17.41%) Analyst
2 225 (10.88%) Business Analyst
3 204 (9.86%) Lead
4 198 (9.57%) Developer
5 179 (8.66%) Senior
6 113 (5.46%) Project Manager
7 86 (4.16%) Consultant
8 84 (4.06%) Delivery Manager
9 80 (3.87%) Tester
10 75 (3.63%) Scrum Master
11 70 (3.38%) Architect
12 65 (3.14%) Data Engineer
13 54 (2.61%) Product Owner
13 54 (2.61%) Support Engineer
14 49 (2.37%) Test Analyst
15 44 (2.13%) IT Support
15 44 (2.13%) Test Leader
16 41 (1.98%) Senior Manager
17 40 (1.93%) Administrator
18 36 (1.74%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (6.29%) REST
2 73 (3.53%) .NET
3 51 (2.47%) HTML
4 50 (2.42%) React
5 45 (2.18%) RESTful
6 44 (2.13%) AngularJS
6 44 (2.13%) JSON
7 43 (2.08%) Kafka
8 39 (1.89%) Spring
9 38 (1.84%) Playwright
10 36 (1.74%) CSS
11 35 (1.69%) SOAP
12 33 (1.60%) XML
13 32 (1.55%) Middleware
14 31 (1.50%) Node.js
15 28 (1.35%) Web Services
16 27 (1.31%) Spring Boot
17 24 (1.16%) .NET Core
18 21 (1.02%) .NET Framework
18 21 (1.02%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 254 (12.28%) Product Ownership
2 133 (6.43%) Onboarding
3 89 (4.30%) Cloud Native
4 70 (3.38%) Data Centre
5 61 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
6 51 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
7 50 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
8 47 (2.27%) Virtual Team
9 41 (1.98%) Management Information System
10 40 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
11 32 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
11 32 (1.55%) Data Structures
12 26 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
13 21 (1.02%) Credit Risk
13 21 (1.02%) SCADA
14 19 (0.92%) Mobile App
15 18 (0.87%) Derivative
15 18 (0.87%) Security Posture
16 16 (0.77%) Clustering
16 16 (0.77%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 158 (7.64%) Windows
2 129 (6.24%) Linux
3 50 (2.42%) Unix
4 24 (1.16%) Windows 10
5 19 (0.92%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.77%) Mac OS
7 15 (0.73%) Android
8 13 (0.63%) Windows Server
9 11 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.15%) AIX
12 3 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
13 2 (0.097%) MVS
13 2 (0.097%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.097%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.097%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.097%) zOS
14 1 (0.048%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,240 (59.96%) Agile
2 624 (30.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 581 (28.09%) DevOps
4 455 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
5 441 (21.32%) CI/CD
6 431 (20.84%) Scrum
7 385 (18.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 349 (16.88%) Test Automation
9 305 (14.75%) Migration
10 253 (12.23%) User Acceptance Testing
11 236 (11.41%) User Stories
12 230 (11.12%) Project Management
13 227 (10.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 219 (10.59%) Sprint Planning
15 218 (10.54%) Validation
16 217 (10.49%) AI
17 205 (9.91%) Project Delivery
18 199 (9.62%) SDLC
19 189 (9.14%) Change Management
19 189 (9.14%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 356 (17.21%) SQL
2 251 (12.14%) Python
3 133 (6.43%) Java
4 97 (4.69%) JavaScript
5 76 (3.68%) PowerShell
6 74 (3.58%) C#
7 65 (3.14%) TypeScript
8 45 (2.18%) Bash
9 32 (1.55%) PL/SQL
10 18 (0.87%) Bicep
11 17 (0.82%) Groovy
12 16 (0.77%) Apex Code
13 15 (0.73%) Kotlin
14 14 (0.68%) Perl
15 13 (0.63%) C++
15 13 (0.63%) VBA
16 9 (0.44%) ActionScript
17 7 (0.34%) C
17 7 (0.34%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 559 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 428 (20.70%) SC Cleared
3 173 (8.37%) Degree
4 92 (4.45%) DV Cleared
5 75 (3.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 75 (3.63%) ISTQB
6 57 (2.76%) PMI Certification
7 47 (2.27%) PMP
8 26 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 25 (1.21%) CISSP
10 22 (1.06%) Azure Certification
11 19 (0.92%) AWS Certification
11 19 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 19 (0.92%) Master's Degree
12 17 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
13 16 (0.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 16 (0.77%) SAFe Agilist
14 15 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (0.63%) CISM
15 13 (0.63%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 268 (12.96%) QA
2 123 (5.95%) PMO
3 119 (5.75%) Data Quality
4 65 (3.14%) Accessibility
5 41 (1.98%) SLA
6 30 (1.45%) GDPR
7 27 (1.31%) WCAG
8 24 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 21 (1.02%) NCSC
10 20 (0.97%) NIST
11 18 (0.87%) GRC
12 12 (0.58%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.53%) ISO 20022
14 7 (0.34%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.34%) SEPA
15 6 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.24%) GxP
16 5 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 129 (6.24%) Docker
2 121 (5.85%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (0.48%) Firmware
6 9 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.15%) HDFS
8 3 (0.15%) Squid
9 2 (0.097%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.097%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.048%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.048%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 147 (7.11%) Terraform
2 142 (6.87%) Kubernetes
3 86 (4.16%) Ansible
4 51 (2.47%) Grafana
5 38 (1.84%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (1.02%) HP ALM
8 16 (0.77%) Control-M
8 16 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (0.53%) Puppet
10 9 (0.44%) Packer
11 8 (0.39%) Dell DRAC
11 8 (0.39%) Nessus
12 7 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 7 (0.34%) HP Quality Center
12 7 (0.34%) IBM Guardium
12 7 (0.34%) Istio
13 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
13 6 (0.29%) SCOM
13 6 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 303 (14.65%) Microsoft
2 263 (12.72%) ServiceNow
3 156 (7.54%) Oracle
4 92 (4.45%) Atlassian
4 92 (4.45%) Salesforce
5 90 (4.35%) SAP
6 61 (2.95%) Google
7 43 (2.08%) VMware
8 40 (1.93%) IBM
9 39 (1.89%) Denodo
9 39 (1.89%) Remedy
10 37 (1.79%) Splunk
11 34 (1.64%) Talend
12 27 (1.31%) Informatica
13 26 (1.26%) Databricks
14 24 (1.16%) F5
14 24 (1.16%) HP
14 24 (1.16%) MuleSoft
15 23 (1.11%) Adobe
15 23 (1.11%) Workday