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

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 37 52
Rank change year-on-year -1 +15 -5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,073 1,250 1,353
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.11% 5.13% 3.67%
As % of the Development Applications category 41.42% 37.63% 31.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,450 809 909
10th Percentile £317 £319 £341
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £630
90th Percentile £694 £695 £742
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £522
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.26% -0.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 24 66
10th Percentile £18.75 £48.60 £22.00
25th Percentile £25.00 £52.14 £36.95
Median hourly rate £62.50 £57.63 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.46% +4.77% -17.52%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £76.75 £70.63
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £57.63 £45.88
% change year-on-year +8.46% +25.60% -29.42%

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 5,005 3,322 4,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.33% 13.63% 11.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,327 2,222 2,906
10th Percentile £343 £346 £352
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £529
Median % change year-on-year - -5.48% -3.82%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £694 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 65 189
10th Percentile £38.62 £27.68 £32.74
25th Percentile £60.00 £50.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.43 £81.30
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +5 916 £508 +1.50% 240
North of England +2 382 £450 - 101
Midlands +1 322 £450 -10.00% 76
West Midlands -1 253 £457 -8.70% 57
Yorkshire -4 195 £453 -9.40% 41
South East -25 194 £475 -5.00% 123
North West +3 170 £447 +5.18% 48
South West +4 156 £564 +0.22% 46
East Midlands 0 66 £393 -19.85% 19
East of England -12 63 £450 -1.37% 39
North East -11 20 £475 -9.52% 13
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
1 936 (45.15%) Confluence
2 107 (5.16%) SharePoint
3 39 (1.88%) SAS
4 28 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (0.87%) Apache
6 17 (0.82%) nginx
7 14 (0.68%) CMS
8 9 (0.43%) WebSphere
9 7 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.29%) Ethereum
10 6 (0.29%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.29%) Mattermost
10 6 (0.29%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.24%) JBoss
12 4 (0.19%) IIS
12 4 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.14%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 228 (11.00%) Microsoft Project
2 181 (8.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 101 (4.87%) Microsoft Office
4 96 (4.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 89 (4.29%) MS Visio
6 20 (0.96%) Trello
7 8 (0.39%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.29%) Notion
9 3 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.14%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.14%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.14%) Revit
10 2 (0.096%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.096%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.096%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.096%) CATIA
10 2 (0.096%) InVision
10 2 (0.096%) Sketch
11 1 (0.048%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 29 (1.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 26 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.72%) NetSuite
4 14 (0.68%) Loan IQ
5 9 (0.43%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.39%) Fidessa
6 8 (0.39%) Workday HCM
7 7 (0.34%) SAP MDG
8 6 (0.29%) Maximo
8 6 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
9 5 (0.24%) SAP Retail
9 5 (0.24%) Teamcenter
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
Cloud Services
1 429 (20.69%) Azure
2 306 (14.76%) AWS
3 241 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
4 155 (7.48%) GitHub
5 154 (7.43%) Power Platform
6 80 (3.86%) SaaS
7 79 (3.81%) GCP
8 75 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
9 71 (3.42%) Entra ID
10 54 (2.60%) Amazon S3
10 54 (2.60%) GitHub Actions
11 48 (2.32%) Serverless
12 40 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
13 36 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 35 (1.69%) Figma
15 34 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
16 32 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 31 (1.50%) Miro
18 27 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
18 27 (1.30%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 65 (3.14%) Firewall
2 44 (2.12%) DNS
3 40 (1.93%) TCP/IP
4 28 (1.35%) LAN
5 26 (1.25%) Network Security
6 25 (1.21%) WAN
7 24 (1.16%) VPN
8 19 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
9 18 (0.87%) SSL
10 16 (0.77%) DHCP
11 15 (0.72%) HTTP
12 14 (0.68%) SAN
13 13 (0.63%) BIG-IP
14 12 (0.58%) Internet
15 11 (0.53%) SD-WAN
16 10 (0.48%) Ethernet
16 10 (0.48%) Unified Communications
17 9 (0.43%) FTP
17 9 (0.43%) NAS
18 7 (0.34%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (6.51%) Power BI
2 81 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
3 67 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
4 56 (2.70%) SQL Server
5 52 (2.51%) Tableau
6 38 (1.83%) MongoDB
7 36 (1.74%) Oracle Reports
8 28 (1.35%) NoSQL
9 24 (1.16%) DynamoDB
10 23 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
10 23 (1.11%) Pentaho
11 22 (1.06%) Relational Database
12 17 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
13 15 (0.72%) Big Data
13 15 (0.72%) BusinessObjects
13 15 (0.72%) MySQL
13 15 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 13 (0.63%) Metadata
15 12 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 243 (11.72%) Git
2 182 (8.78%) Jenkins
3 102 (4.92%) GitLab
4 100 (4.82%) Selenium
5 77 (3.71%) Postman
6 61 (2.94%) Zephyr
7 60 (2.89%) Cucumber
8 52 (2.51%) Bitbucket
8 52 (2.51%) JUnit
9 39 (1.88%) JMeter
10 36 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
11 33 (1.59%) REST Assured
12 29 (1.40%) TestRail
13 25 (1.21%) SonarQube
14 22 (1.06%) Cypress.io
15 21 (1.01%) WebDriver
16 16 (0.77%) Appium
16 16 (0.77%) Maven
17 12 (0.58%) TestNG
18 11 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 852 (41.10%) Social Skills
2 601 (28.99%) Finance
3 423 (20.41%) Analytical Skills
4 260 (12.54%) Banking
5 222 (10.71%) Public Sector
6 75 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
7 72 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
7 72 (3.47%) Retail
8 59 (2.85%) Military
9 40 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
10 39 (1.88%) Legal
11 38 (1.83%) Manufacturing
11 38 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
12 33 (1.59%) Investment Banking
13 25 (1.21%) Front Office
13 25 (1.21%) Retail Banking
14 21 (1.01%) Marketing
15 20 (0.96%) Telecoms
16 19 (0.92%) Law
17 18 (0.87%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 408 (19.68%) Analyst
2 255 (12.30%) Business Analyst
3 182 (8.78%) Developer
4 179 (8.63%) Lead
5 162 (7.81%) Senior
6 145 (6.99%) Project Manager
7 113 (5.45%) Architect
8 92 (4.44%) Tester
9 89 (4.29%) Delivery Manager
10 71 (3.42%) Data Engineer
11 64 (3.09%) Scrum Master
12 63 (3.04%) Consultant
13 51 (2.46%) Test Analyst
13 51 (2.46%) Test Engineer
14 50 (2.41%) IT Support
15 48 (2.32%) Support Engineer
16 44 (2.12%) Technical Manager
17 42 (2.03%) Software Engineer
17 42 (2.03%) Test Leader
18 39 (1.88%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (5.16%) REST
2 63 (3.04%) Spring
3 62 (2.99%) .NET
4 58 (2.80%) React
5 46 (2.22%) HTML
6 45 (2.17%) Kafka
7 42 (2.03%) JSON
8 41 (1.98%) Spring Boot
9 39 (1.88%) RESTful
10 36 (1.74%) CSS
11 32 (1.54%) Playwright
11 32 (1.54%) SOAP
12 29 (1.40%) ADO
12 29 (1.40%) OpenID
12 29 (1.40%) XML
13 27 (1.30%) LDAP
13 27 (1.30%) Middleware
13 27 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
14 26 (1.25%) AngularJS
15 23 (1.11%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 259 (12.49%) Product Ownership
2 95 (4.58%) Onboarding
3 72 (3.47%) Cloud Native
4 48 (2.32%) Management Information System
5 45 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
6 44 (2.12%) Virtual Team
7 42 (2.03%) Data Centre
8 41 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
9 35 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
10 34 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
11 29 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
12 25 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
13 23 (1.11%) Data Structures
13 23 (1.11%) PMI
14 21 (1.01%) Mobile App
15 16 (0.77%) Public Cloud
16 15 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 15 (0.72%) SCADA
17 14 (0.68%) Operational Technology
18 13 (0.63%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 161 (7.77%) Windows
2 123 (5.93%) Linux
3 29 (1.40%) Unix
4 21 (1.01%) Android
5 17 (0.82%) Windows 10
6 14 (0.68%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.58%) Mac OS
7 12 (0.58%) Windows Server
8 10 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.39%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (0.14%) AIX
10 3 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.096%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.096%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.048%) MVS
12 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.048%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,201 (57.94%) Agile
2 523 (25.23%) Stakeholder Management
3 519 (25.04%) DevOps
4 457 (22.05%) Problem-Solving
5 412 (19.87%) Scrum
6 386 (18.62%) CI/CD
7 369 (17.80%) Continuous Improvement
8 325 (15.68%) Test Automation
9 293 (14.13%) Project Management
10 267 (12.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 247 (11.92%) Migration
12 230 (11.10%) User Acceptance Testing
13 217 (10.47%) User Stories
14 204 (9.84%) Change Management
15 195 (9.41%) Project Delivery
16 190 (9.17%) ITIL
16 190 (9.17%) Validation
17 189 (9.12%) Acceptance Criteria
18 178 (8.59%) Analytics
19 172 (8.30%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 318 (15.34%) SQL
2 212 (10.23%) Python
3 185 (8.92%) Java
4 93 (4.49%) JavaScript
5 84 (4.05%) C#
6 62 (2.99%) TypeScript
7 59 (2.85%) PowerShell
8 35 (1.69%) Bash
9 30 (1.45%) C++
10 23 (1.11%) Shell Script
11 21 (1.01%) PL/SQL
12 17 (0.82%) C
13 14 (0.68%) Apex Code
13 14 (0.68%) Embedded C++
13 14 (0.68%) VBA
14 13 (0.63%) Perl
15 10 (0.48%) Embedded C
15 10 (0.48%) Go
16 9 (0.43%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.39%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 570 (27.50%) Security Cleared
2 440 (21.23%) SC Cleared
3 242 (11.67%) Degree
4 75 (3.62%) PMI Certification
5 68 (3.28%) PMP
6 66 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 66 (3.18%) DV Cleared
6 66 (3.18%) ISTQB
7 36 (1.74%) TOGAF Certification
8 35 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 30 (1.45%) CISSP
10 29 (1.40%) Master's Degree
11 25 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (1.06%) CISM
13 21 (1.01%) SAFe Agilist
14 20 (0.96%) Azure Certification
14 20 (0.96%) CBAP
14 20 (0.96%) IIBA
15 17 (0.82%) AWS Certification
16 13 (0.63%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 261 (12.59%) QA
2 127 (6.13%) PMO
3 108 (5.21%) Data Quality
4 54 (2.60%) Accessibility
5 50 (2.41%) GDPR
6 30 (1.45%) SLA
7 27 (1.30%) NIST
8 20 (0.96%) WCAG
9 17 (0.82%) GRC
9 17 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 12 (0.58%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.58%) PSD2
11 11 (0.53%) Basel III
11 11 (0.53%) ISO 20022
12 8 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.34%) MiFID
13 7 (0.34%) NCSC
13 7 (0.34%) SEPA
14 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
System Software
1 150 (7.24%) Docker
2 96 (4.63%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.72%) Firmware
5 9 (0.43%) Squid
5 9 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
7 5 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
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%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.048%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 159 (7.67%) Kubernetes
2 115 (5.55%) Terraform
3 89 (4.29%) Ansible
4 68 (3.28%) Grafana
5 48 (2.32%) Prometheus
6 33 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.45%) OPNET
8 24 (1.16%) HP ALM
9 23 (1.11%) Control-M
9 23 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
10 17 (0.82%) Nessus
11 16 (0.77%) IBM Guardium
11 16 (0.77%) Puppet
12 15 (0.72%) Consul
13 11 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
14 9 (0.43%) SCCM
15 8 (0.39%) FortiGate
15 8 (0.39%) HP Quality Center
16 7 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 7 (0.34%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 257 (12.40%) ServiceNow
2 245 (11.82%) Microsoft
3 167 (8.06%) Oracle
4 132 (6.37%) Atlassian
5 96 (4.63%) Salesforce
6 77 (3.71%) SAP
7 67 (3.23%) Remedy
8 49 (2.36%) Google
9 34 (1.64%) Workday
10 31 (1.50%) Denodo
11 30 (1.45%) IBM
11 30 (1.45%) Talend
12 27 (1.30%) Splunk
12 27 (1.30%) VMware
13 26 (1.25%) HP
13 26 (1.25%) Informatica
13 26 (1.25%) Red Hat
14 25 (1.21%) Databricks
15 22 (1.06%) MuleSoft
16 21 (1.01%) Tenable