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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 31 43
Rank change year-on-year -15 +12 +9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,013 1,600 1,420
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.41% 5.84% 4.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.70% 39.48% 32.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,322 1,121 932
10th Percentile £350 £313 £332
25th Percentile £410 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £614
90th Percentile £675 £688 £692
UK median daily rate £500 £492 £514
% change year-on-year +1.63% -4.23% -2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 40 75
10th Percentile £23.05 £47.38 £25.99
25th Percentile £44.86 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £68.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -11.76% +8.80%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.83 £83.58 -
UK median hourly rate £60.41 £56.50 £67.75
% change year-on-year +6.91% -16.61% +8.84%

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 5,202 4,053 4,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.41% 14.80% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,318 2,809 2,845
10th Percentile £356 £325 £354
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 £600 £630
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 97 172
10th Percentile £36.75 £42.40 £36.30
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.75 £53.63
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £72.75 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.18 £82.98 £71.84
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - -

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -12 960 £525 +0.96% 715
North of England -13 361 £475 +2.70% 200
Midlands -6 253 £457 -3.89% 83
South East -31 215 £475 - 199
West Midlands -7 214 £459 -3.37% 55
Yorkshire -6 204 £485 +2.91% 60
North West -37 136 £473 +8.11% 107
South West -4 132 £525 -4.55% 142
East of England -12 58 £491 +22.75% 93
East Midlands -3 38 £409 +13.86% 28
North East -37 28 £550 +5.26% 35
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
1 896 (44.51%) Confluence
2 104 (5.17%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (1.24%) SAS
5 19 (0.94%) CMS
6 13 (0.65%) Apache
7 9 (0.45%) Camunda
7 9 (0.45%) nginx
8 8 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.25%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.25%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.25%) MTS
10 4 (0.20%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.20%) IIS
10 4 (0.20%) WordPress
11 3 (0.15%) Kentico
11 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.15%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 134 (6.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 129 (6.41%) Microsoft Project
3 84 (4.17%) MS Visio
4 66 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 64 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
6 21 (1.04%) Trello
7 11 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.50%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.40%) Revit
10 7 (0.35%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.25%) Notion
12 3 (0.15%) Windchill
13 2 (0.099%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.099%) Mingle
14 1 (0.050%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 1 (0.050%) CATIA
14 1 (0.050%) Gliffy
14 1 (0.050%) Mozilla Thunderbird
14 1 (0.050%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.050%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 32 (1.59%) Remedy ITSM
2 22 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.55%) Aladdin
3 11 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
5 9 (0.45%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.30%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.25%) Fidessa
7 5 (0.25%) Findur
7 5 (0.25%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.20%) SAP FI-AR
8 4 (0.20%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.15%) CA PPM
9 3 (0.15%) Magento
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.15%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 504 (25.04%) Azure
2 314 (15.60%) AWS
3 285 (14.16%) Azure DevOps
4 164 (8.15%) GitHub
5 163 (8.10%) Power Platform
6 87 (4.32%) GCP
6 87 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
7 74 (3.68%) SaaS
8 69 (3.43%) Serverless
9 66 (3.28%) Entra ID
10 63 (3.13%) Amazon S3
11 56 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
11 56 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
12 54 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 39 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
13 39 (1.94%) Miro
14 37 (1.84%) Microsoft Copilot
15 33 (1.64%) Smartsheet
16 29 (1.44%) Figma
17 28 (1.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 83 (4.12%) Firewall
2 69 (3.43%) DNS
3 47 (2.33%) TCP/IP
4 35 (1.74%) DHCP
5 33 (1.64%) VPN
6 28 (1.39%) Network Security
7 23 (1.14%) WAN
8 20 (0.99%) SAN
9 19 (0.94%) SSL
10 18 (0.89%) BIG-IP
11 15 (0.75%) LAN
11 15 (0.75%) SD-WAN
12 12 (0.60%) Internet
13 11 (0.55%) VLAN
14 10 (0.50%) HTTP
14 10 (0.50%) SSH
15 9 (0.45%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 9 (0.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 8 (0.40%) DKIM
16 8 (0.40%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (7.15%) Power BI
2 87 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
3 58 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
4 57 (2.83%) SQL Server
5 37 (1.84%) Oracle Reports
6 33 (1.64%) Relational Database
7 26 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
7 26 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
8 25 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
9 20 (0.99%) DynamoDB
9 20 (0.99%) Tableau
10 19 (0.94%) Data Lake
11 18 (0.89%) Metadata
11 18 (0.89%) MongoDB
11 18 (0.89%) Oracle Database
12 17 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 16 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
13 16 (0.79%) NoSQL
14 15 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 14 (0.70%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 249 (12.37%) Git
2 173 (8.59%) Jenkins
3 113 (5.61%) GitLab
4 80 (3.97%) Selenium
5 75 (3.73%) Zephyr
6 65 (3.23%) Bitbucket
7 60 (2.98%) Postman
8 35 (1.74%) JUnit
9 33 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
10 29 (1.44%) Cucumber
11 27 (1.34%) Cypress.io
12 25 (1.24%) JMeter
13 23 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 22 (1.09%) REST Assured
15 21 (1.04%) TestRail
16 20 (0.99%) Maven
17 18 (0.89%) Artifactory
17 18 (0.89%) Mockito
18 17 (0.84%) SonarQube
19 13 (0.65%) WebDriver
General
1 795 (39.49%) Social Skills
2 599 (29.76%) Finance
3 382 (18.98%) Analytical Skills
4 276 (13.71%) Banking
5 234 (11.62%) Public Sector
6 79 (3.92%) Retail
7 76 (3.78%) Organisational Skills
8 67 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
9 49 (2.43%) Investment Banking
10 45 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
11 37 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 36 (1.79%) Front Office
13 35 (1.74%) Manufacturing
14 33 (1.64%) Legal
15 31 (1.54%) Marketing
16 29 (1.44%) Telecoms
17 26 (1.29%) Retail Banking
18 21 (1.04%) Law
19 20 (0.99%) Financial Institution
19 20 (0.99%) Military
Job Titles
1 356 (17.69%) Analyst
2 224 (11.13%) Business Analyst
3 213 (10.58%) Lead
4 198 (9.84%) Developer
5 178 (8.84%) Senior
6 112 (5.56%) Project Manager
7 83 (4.12%) Consultant
8 82 (4.07%) Delivery Manager
9 77 (3.83%) Scrum Master
10 74 (3.68%) Architect
11 66 (3.28%) Tester
12 54 (2.68%) Data Engineer
13 51 (2.53%) Product Owner
14 49 (2.43%) Support Engineer
15 47 (2.33%) Test Analyst
16 46 (2.29%) Test Leader
17 40 (1.99%) Administrator
18 39 (1.94%) Senior Manager
19 37 (1.84%) Test Engineer
20 35 (1.74%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (7.30%) Terraform
2 133 (6.61%) REST
3 76 (3.78%) .NET
4 61 (3.03%) HTML
5 55 (2.73%) React
6 52 (2.58%) RESTful
7 49 (2.43%) AngularJS
8 44 (2.19%) JSON
8 44 (2.19%) Kafka
9 43 (2.14%) CSS
10 40 (1.99%) Spring
11 39 (1.94%) Playwright
11 39 (1.94%) SOAP
12 35 (1.74%) Spring Boot
13 33 (1.64%) XML
14 32 (1.59%) Node.js
14 32 (1.59%) Web Services
15 31 (1.54%) Middleware
16 23 (1.14%) .NET Core
17 22 (1.09%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 264 (13.11%) Product Ownership
2 137 (6.81%) Onboarding
3 86 (4.27%) Cloud Native
4 65 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 59 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
6 54 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
7 47 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
8 42 (2.09%) Virtual Team
9 40 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
10 39 (1.94%) Data Structures
11 35 (1.74%) Management Information System
12 32 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
13 23 (1.14%) Credit Risk
13 23 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
14 22 (1.09%) SCADA
15 21 (1.04%) Mobile App
16 18 (0.89%) Replication
17 17 (0.84%) Derivative
18 16 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
19 15 (0.75%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 150 (7.45%) Windows
2 124 (6.16%) Linux
3 48 (2.38%) Unix
4 26 (1.29%) Windows 10
5 21 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.89%) Android
7 15 (0.75%) Mac OS
8 13 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 13 (0.65%) Windows Server
9 9 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
10 5 (0.25%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.20%) AIX
11 4 (0.20%) CentOS
11 4 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
13 2 (0.099%) MVS
13 2 (0.099%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.099%) Solaris
13 2 (0.099%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,213 (60.26%) Agile
2 633 (31.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 565 (28.07%) DevOps
4 436 (21.66%) Problem-Solving
5 427 (21.21%) CI/CD
6 426 (21.16%) Scrum
7 378 (18.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 341 (16.94%) Test Automation
9 289 (14.36%) Migration
10 255 (12.67%) User Acceptance Testing
11 248 (12.32%) User Stories
12 232 (11.53%) Project Management
13 228 (11.33%) Validation
14 227 (11.28%) Sprint Planning
14 227 (11.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 226 (11.23%) AI
16 209 (10.38%) SDLC
17 203 (10.08%) Project Delivery
18 189 (9.39%) Acceptance Criteria
19 180 (8.94%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 344 (17.09%) SQL
2 245 (12.17%) Python
3 132 (6.56%) Java
4 106 (5.27%) JavaScript
5 74 (3.68%) PowerShell
6 73 (3.63%) TypeScript
7 66 (3.28%) C#
8 40 (1.99%) Bash
9 30 (1.49%) PL/SQL
10 20 (0.99%) Groovy
11 17 (0.84%) C++
12 16 (0.79%) Bicep
12 16 (0.79%) Kotlin
13 15 (0.75%) Apex Code
14 14 (0.70%) Perl
15 13 (0.65%) VBA
16 10 (0.50%) C
17 9 (0.45%) ActionScript
18 7 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 7 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 534 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 414 (20.57%) SC Cleared
3 172 (8.54%) Degree
4 89 (4.42%) DV Cleared
5 79 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 67 (3.33%) ISTQB
7 54 (2.68%) PMI Certification
8 42 (2.09%) PMP
9 28 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
10 22 (1.09%) AWS Certification
10 22 (1.09%) Azure Certification
11 21 (1.04%) 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 13 (0.65%) IIBA
17 11 (0.55%) CISM
17 11 (0.55%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 262 (13.02%) QA
2 123 (6.11%) PMO
3 117 (5.81%) Data Quality
4 62 (3.08%) Accessibility
5 36 (1.79%) SLA
6 24 (1.19%) WCAG
7 23 (1.14%) GDPR
8 22 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 20 (0.99%) GRC
9 20 (0.99%) NCSC
10 17 (0.84%) NIST
11 12 (0.60%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.45%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.35%) JSP 440
13 7 (0.35%) SEPA
14 5 (0.25%) COBIT
14 5 (0.25%) GxP
14 5 (0.25%) MiFID
14 5 (0.25%) P3O
14 5 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 119 (5.91%) Docker
2 113 (5.61%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (0.45%) Firmware
6 7 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.20%) Squid
8 2 (0.099%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.099%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.099%) OpenAM
8 2 (0.099%) Postfix
9 1 (0.050%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.050%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.050%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.050%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 1 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.050%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.050%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 112 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 78 (3.87%) Ansible
3 51 (2.53%) Grafana
4 41 (2.04%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (1.19%) HP ALM
7 16 (0.79%) Control-M
8 14 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.45%) Packer
10 8 (0.40%) Dell DRAC
10 8 (0.40%) Nessus
10 8 (0.40%) Puppet
11 7 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.35%) Istio
11 7 (0.35%) SCOM
12 6 (0.30%) HP Quality Center
12 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
13 5 (0.25%) IBM Guardium
13 5 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 303 (15.05%) Microsoft
2 246 (12.22%) ServiceNow
3 141 (7.00%) Oracle
4 88 (4.37%) Salesforce
5 85 (4.22%) SAP
6 82 (4.07%) Atlassian
7 61 (3.03%) Google
8 50 (2.48%) IBM
9 44 (2.19%) VMware
10 35 (1.74%) Splunk
11 32 (1.59%) Denodo
11 32 (1.59%) Remedy
12 27 (1.34%) HP
13 26 (1.29%) Talend
14 22 (1.09%) Adobe
14 22 (1.09%) Databricks
14 22 (1.09%) F5
14 22 (1.09%) Informatica
14 22 (1.09%) MuleSoft
15 21 (1.04%) Workday