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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 44 51
Rank change year-on-year +10 +7 -8
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,049 1,168 1,369
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.46% 4.81% 3.63%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.45% 35.65% 32.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,449 760 946
10th Percentile £313 £313 £350
25th Percentile £400 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £630
90th Percentile £693 £676 £750
UK median daily rate £491 £500 £514
% change year-on-year -1.80% -2.68% -4.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 24 53
10th Percentile £18.15 £48.92 £22.60
25th Percentile £25.00 £55.34 £40.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +19.05% -17.65%
75th Percentile £72.50 £72.19 £65.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £63.32 £62.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year +1.31% +36.22% -26.59%

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 5,065 3,276 4,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.49% 13.50% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,411 2,185 2,926
10th Percentile £340 £340 £360
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £588 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 66 170
10th Percentile £39.37 £26.15 £37.50
25th Percentile £59.25 £52.26 £48.85
Median hourly rate £67.50 £63.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.72% +1.20% +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.00 £70.94
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.36 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 +9 903 £513 +2.50% 202
North of England +3 378 £450 - 115
Midlands +10 306 £425 -10.90% 70
West Midlands +1 240 £450 -5.46% 42
South East -10 199 £500 -0.10% 145
Yorkshire -6 193 £472 -5.70% 37
North West +10 174 £447 - 60
South West +17 168 £560 -0.44% 42
East Midlands +1 64 £368 -21.65% 28
East of England -2 62 £425 -2.86% 47
North East -12 11 £450 -2.70% 18
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
1 965 (47.10%) Confluence
2 112 (5.47%) SharePoint
3 38 (1.85%) SAS
4 31 (1.51%) nginx
5 22 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
6 19 (0.93%) Apache
6 19 (0.93%) CMS
7 9 (0.44%) WebSphere
8 8 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.39%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.29%) Ethereum
9 6 (0.29%) Hyperledger
9 6 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.24%) JBoss
10 5 (0.24%) Mattermost
10 5 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
12 3 (0.15%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
12 3 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 229 (11.18%) Microsoft Project
2 193 (9.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 113 (5.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 106 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
5 95 (4.64%) MS Visio
6 23 (1.12%) Trello
7 9 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.34%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
9 5 (0.24%) Notion
9 5 (0.24%) Photoshop
9 5 (0.24%) Sketch
10 4 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.15%) InVision
12 2 (0.098%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.098%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.098%) CATIA
12 2 (0.098%) InDesign
13 1 (0.049%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 25 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.83%) NetSuite
3 15 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
4 13 (0.63%) Loan IQ
5 12 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
5 12 (0.59%) Workday HCM
6 10 (0.49%) Aladdin
7 9 (0.44%) Fidessa
8 7 (0.34%) Maximo
9 6 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.29%) SAP MDG
10 5 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
11 4 (0.20%) Findur
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 4 (0.20%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.20%) SAP Retail
11 4 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 3 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 417 (20.35%) Azure
2 293 (14.30%) AWS
3 245 (11.96%) Azure DevOps
4 179 (8.74%) GitHub
5 146 (7.13%) Power Platform
6 77 (3.76%) GCP
7 68 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
8 62 (3.03%) SaaS
9 61 (2.98%) GitHub Actions
10 59 (2.88%) Entra ID
11 48 (2.34%) Serverless
12 38 (1.85%) Amazon S3
13 35 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
14 33 (1.61%) Figma
15 30 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
15 30 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (1.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 26 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
17 26 (1.27%) Miro
18 23 (1.12%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 60 (2.93%) Firewall
2 37 (1.81%) DNS
2 37 (1.81%) TCP/IP
3 30 (1.46%) VPN
4 27 (1.32%) WAN
5 26 (1.27%) LAN
6 25 (1.22%) Network Security
7 18 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
8 15 (0.73%) HTTP
9 14 (0.68%) SD-WAN
10 11 (0.54%) DHCP
10 11 (0.54%) SAN
10 11 (0.54%) SSL
11 10 (0.49%) Internet
11 10 (0.49%) NAS
12 9 (0.44%) Ethernet
12 9 (0.44%) FTP
12 9 (0.44%) Unified Communications
13 8 (0.39%) BIG-IP
14 7 (0.34%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (6.05%) Power BI
2 70 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (3.17%) Tableau
4 60 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
5 49 (2.39%) SQL Server
6 39 (1.90%) MongoDB
7 35 (1.71%) NoSQL
8 24 (1.17%) Pentaho
9 23 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
10 21 (1.02%) Relational Database
11 20 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
12 18 (0.88%) DynamoDB
12 18 (0.88%) MySQL
13 17 (0.83%) Big Data
13 17 (0.83%) Metadata
14 16 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
15 14 (0.68%) Oracle Database
16 12 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
16 12 (0.59%) Hadoop
16 12 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 253 (12.35%) Git
2 224 (10.93%) Jenkins
3 118 (5.76%) GitLab
4 94 (4.59%) Selenium
5 69 (3.37%) Postman
6 66 (3.22%) Cucumber
7 61 (2.98%) Bitbucket
8 53 (2.59%) JUnit
9 47 (2.29%) Zephyr
10 39 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
11 38 (1.85%) JMeter
12 33 (1.61%) REST Assured
13 32 (1.56%) TestRail
14 26 (1.27%) SonarQube
15 19 (0.93%) Maven
15 19 (0.93%) WebDriver
16 17 (0.83%) Cypress.io
17 15 (0.73%) Rational DOORS
17 15 (0.73%) SpecFlow
18 14 (0.68%) Appium
General
1 830 (40.51%) Social Skills
2 592 (28.89%) Finance
3 398 (19.42%) Analytical Skills
4 257 (12.54%) Banking
5 214 (10.44%) Public Sector
6 78 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
7 77 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
8 68 (3.32%) Retail
9 52 (2.54%) Military
10 50 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
11 43 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
12 35 (1.71%) Legal
13 28 (1.37%) Investment Banking
13 28 (1.37%) Manufacturing
14 25 (1.22%) Front Office
15 22 (1.07%) Telecoms
16 20 (0.98%) Marketing
16 20 (0.98%) Retail Banking
17 17 (0.83%) Financial Institution
17 17 (0.83%) Law
Job Titles
1 410 (20.01%) Analyst
2 263 (12.84%) Business Analyst
3 182 (8.88%) Developer
4 162 (7.91%) Lead
5 156 (7.61%) Project Manager
6 150 (7.32%) Senior
7 129 (6.30%) Architect
8 94 (4.59%) Tester
9 71 (3.47%) Delivery Manager
10 62 (3.03%) Consultant
11 57 (2.78%) Data Engineer
12 55 (2.68%) Scrum Master
13 54 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
14 53 (2.59%) Test Engineer
15 47 (2.29%) Technical Analyst
15 47 (2.29%) Test Analyst
16 46 (2.24%) IT Support
16 46 (2.24%) Support Engineer
17 45 (2.20%) Technical Business Analyst
17 45 (2.20%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (6.83%) REST
2 65 (3.17%) Spring
3 60 (2.93%) .NET
4 52 (2.54%) Kafka
5 49 (2.39%) React
6 46 (2.24%) RESTful
7 45 (2.20%) JSON
7 45 (2.20%) XML
8 43 (2.10%) Spring Boot
9 42 (2.05%) HTML
10 38 (1.85%) Playwright
11 37 (1.81%) SOAP
12 36 (1.76%) CSS
13 30 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
14 28 (1.37%) ADO
15 27 (1.32%) AngularJS
15 27 (1.32%) Node.js
16 26 (1.27%) Middleware
16 26 (1.27%) OpenID
17 23 (1.12%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 248 (12.10%) Product Ownership
2 92 (4.49%) Onboarding
3 73 (3.56%) Cloud Native
4 51 (2.49%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.24%) Virtual Team
6 45 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
7 38 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
8 34 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
9 30 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
10 29 (1.42%) Data Centre
11 25 (1.22%) Data Structures
11 25 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
12 24 (1.17%) Mobile App
12 24 (1.17%) PMI
13 21 (1.02%) Public Cloud
14 20 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
15 16 (0.78%) CMDB
15 16 (0.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 13 (0.63%) Distributed Architecture
16 13 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 162 (7.91%) Windows
2 140 (6.83%) Linux
3 36 (1.76%) Unix
4 21 (1.02%) Android
5 19 (0.93%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.63%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.54%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.44%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.098%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.098%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.049%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.049%) Windows Embedded Compact
12 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.049%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,208 (58.96%) Agile
2 564 (27.53%) DevOps
3 524 (25.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 475 (23.18%) Problem-Solving
5 439 (21.43%) Scrum
6 400 (19.52%) CI/CD
7 373 (18.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 320 (15.62%) Test Automation
9 305 (14.89%) Project Management
10 259 (12.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 210 (10.25%) Migration
11 210 (10.25%) User Stories
12 209 (10.20%) User Acceptance Testing
13 208 (10.15%) Change Management
14 206 (10.05%) Project Delivery
15 191 (9.32%) Decision-Making
16 183 (8.93%) ITIL
17 176 (8.59%) Validation
18 175 (8.54%) Acceptance Criteria
19 173 (8.44%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 308 (15.03%) SQL
2 250 (12.20%) Python
3 186 (9.08%) Java
4 99 (4.83%) JavaScript
5 89 (4.34%) C#
6 83 (4.05%) PowerShell
7 54 (2.64%) TypeScript
8 44 (2.15%) Bash
9 34 (1.66%) C++
10 23 (1.12%) Shell Script
11 18 (0.88%) Embedded C++
12 17 (0.83%) C
12 17 (0.83%) PL/SQL
13 16 (0.78%) Go
14 13 (0.63%) Apex Code
14 13 (0.63%) Perl
15 10 (0.49%) Embedded C
15 10 (0.49%) PHP
16 9 (0.44%) Ruby
16 9 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 560 (27.33%) Security Cleared
2 447 (21.82%) SC Cleared
3 267 (13.03%) Degree
4 82 (4.00%) PMI Certification
5 75 (3.66%) PMP
6 69 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 68 (3.32%) ISTQB
8 55 (2.68%) DV Cleared
9 48 (2.34%) CISSP
10 45 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
11 44 (2.15%) TOGAF Certification
12 35 (1.71%) CISM
12 35 (1.71%) Master's Degree
13 24 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
14 22 (1.07%) CBAP
15 20 (0.98%) AWS Certification
15 20 (0.98%) IIBA
15 20 (0.98%) ISEB
16 19 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 18 (0.88%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 257 (12.54%) QA
2 121 (5.91%) PMO
3 95 (4.64%) Data Quality
4 47 (2.29%) GDPR
5 45 (2.20%) Accessibility
6 30 (1.46%) NIST
7 25 (1.22%) SLA
8 24 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 19 (0.93%) WCAG
10 16 (0.78%) GRC
11 13 (0.63%) PSD2
12 12 (0.59%) ISO 20022
12 12 (0.59%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.54%) Basel III
13 11 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.44%) SEPA
15 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.29%) NCSC
16 6 (0.29%) NIST 800
System Software
1 175 (8.54%) Docker
2 80 (3.90%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.59%) Firmware
6 8 (0.39%) Squid
7 7 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.15%) HDFS
10 2 (0.098%) Postfix
10 2 (0.098%) Virtual Servers
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
1 180 (8.78%) Kubernetes
2 112 (5.47%) Terraform
3 95 (4.64%) Ansible
4 60 (2.93%) Grafana
5 45 (2.20%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.46%) OPNET
7 28 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
8 25 (1.22%) HP ALM
9 23 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
10 22 (1.07%) Control-M
11 21 (1.02%) Consul
11 21 (1.02%) Puppet
12 16 (0.78%) Packer
13 15 (0.73%) IBM Guardium
13 15 (0.73%) Nessus
14 13 (0.63%) NetBackup
15 11 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
15 11 (0.54%) SCCM
16 8 (0.39%) FortiGate
16 8 (0.39%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 246 (12.01%) Microsoft
2 230 (11.22%) ServiceNow
3 161 (7.86%) Oracle
4 155 (7.56%) Atlassian
5 103 (5.03%) Salesforce
6 68 (3.32%) SAP
7 53 (2.59%) Remedy
8 45 (2.20%) Google
9 37 (1.81%) IBM
10 35 (1.71%) Workday
11 34 (1.66%) Red Hat
12 33 (1.61%) Splunk
13 30 (1.46%) Talend
14 27 (1.32%) HP
15 25 (1.22%) Databricks
16 24 (1.17%) CyberArk
17 23 (1.12%) BiZZdesign
17 23 (1.12%) Denodo
17 23 (1.12%) VMware
18 22 (1.07%) Tenable