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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 31 46
Rank change year-on-year -9 +15 +1
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,131 1,544 1,436
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.75% 5.65% 4.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.49% 39.59% 32.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,433 1,052 959
10th Percentile £325 £325 £348
25th Percentile £403 £402 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £620
90th Percentile £674 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 40 94
10th Percentile £18.75 £47.95 £25.51
25th Percentile £25.00 £50.75 £40.00
Median hourly rate £53.00 £63.00 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -15.87% -4.91% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £85.60 -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £57.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% -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 5,263 3,900 4,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.73% 14.26% 12.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,365 2,675 2,938
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £631
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 91 214
10th Percentile £28.08 £40.00 £32.10
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.50 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.75 £73.93
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -7 976 £525 - 236
North of England -11 406 £455 -2.15% 91
Midlands 0 309 £450 -5.26% 56
West Midlands -1 265 £459 -3.37% 36
Yorkshire -6 225 £450 -7.22% 39
South East -28 220 £475 -3.46% 144
North West -19 161 £450 +5.88% 42
South West -7 130 £490 -12.89% 39
East of England -18 56 £425 +6.25% 37
East Midlands 0 42 £402 -10.07% 20
North East -31 25 £550 - 11
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
1 931 (43.69%) Confluence
2 117 (5.49%) SharePoint
3 34 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 30 (1.41%) SAS
5 13 (0.61%) Apache
5 13 (0.61%) CMS
6 8 (0.38%) nginx
7 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.33%) WebLogic
8 6 (0.28%) Mattermost
8 6 (0.28%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.23%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.19%) Camunda
10 4 (0.19%) IIS
10 4 (0.19%) JBoss
10 4 (0.19%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.19%) WordPress
11 3 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
11 3 (0.14%) Kentico
Applications
1 150 (7.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 149 (6.99%) Microsoft Project
3 86 (4.04%) MS Visio
4 72 (3.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 60 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
6 19 (0.89%) Trello
7 14 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.47%) AutoCAD
8 10 (0.47%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.38%) Revit
10 4 (0.19%) Notion
11 2 (0.094%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.094%) CATIA
12 1 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.047%) Mingle
12 1 (0.047%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.047%) Sketch
12 1 (0.047%) SOLIDWORKS
12 1 (0.047%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 35 (1.64%) Remedy ITSM
2 32 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.61%) Aladdin
3 13 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.47%) Workday HCM
5 9 (0.42%) Loan IQ
6 8 (0.38%) Findur
7 7 (0.33%) Fidessa
8 6 (0.28%) Teamcenter
9 5 (0.23%) SAP EWM
9 5 (0.23%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.19%) Actimize
10 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
11 3 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
11 3 (0.14%) Primavera
11 3 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 3 (0.14%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 524 (24.59%) Azure
2 334 (15.67%) AWS
3 290 (13.61%) Azure DevOps
4 177 (8.31%) GitHub
5 162 (7.60%) Power Platform
6 93 (4.36%) Microsoft 365
7 84 (3.94%) Entra ID
7 84 (3.94%) GCP
8 83 (3.89%) SaaS
9 69 (3.24%) Amazon S3
10 68 (3.19%) Serverless
11 65 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
12 57 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 54 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
14 48 (2.25%) Amazon EC2
15 34 (1.60%) Smartsheet
16 33 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 32 (1.50%) Miro
18 29 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
19 28 (1.31%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 84 (3.94%) Firewall
2 67 (3.14%) DNS
3 46 (2.16%) TCP/IP
4 36 (1.69%) Network Security
5 35 (1.64%) DHCP
6 31 (1.45%) VPN
7 29 (1.36%) WAN
8 28 (1.31%) LAN
9 24 (1.13%) BIG-IP
10 22 (1.03%) SAN
11 19 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
12 17 (0.80%) SSL
13 14 (0.66%) SD-WAN
14 12 (0.56%) Internet
15 10 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 10 (0.47%) HTTP
15 10 (0.47%) Unified Communications
16 9 (0.42%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 9 (0.42%) VLAN
17 8 (0.38%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (6.52%) Power BI
2 94 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
3 77 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
4 51 (2.39%) SQL Server
5 43 (2.02%) Oracle Reports
6 32 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
7 27 (1.27%) MongoDB
7 27 (1.27%) Tableau
8 26 (1.22%) Relational Database
9 24 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
9 24 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
9 24 (1.13%) DynamoDB
10 19 (0.89%) Data Lake
11 18 (0.84%) NoSQL
11 18 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 17 (0.80%) Oracle Database
12 17 (0.80%) Pentaho
13 14 (0.66%) Metadata
14 13 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
15 11 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 250 (11.73%) Git
2 196 (9.20%) Jenkins
3 113 (5.30%) GitLab
4 90 (4.22%) Selenium
5 77 (3.61%) Zephyr
6 63 (2.96%) Postman
7 61 (2.86%) Bitbucket
8 52 (2.44%) JUnit
9 50 (2.35%) Cucumber
10 37 (1.74%) JMeter
11 33 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
12 23 (1.08%) Cypress.io
12 23 (1.08%) REST Assured
12 23 (1.08%) WebDriver
13 22 (1.03%) TestRail
14 21 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 18 (0.84%) Artifactory
16 15 (0.70%) Appium
17 12 (0.56%) SonarQube
18 11 (0.52%) TestNG
General
1 833 (39.09%) Social Skills
2 605 (28.39%) Finance
3 392 (18.40%) Analytical Skills
4 266 (12.48%) Banking
5 234 (10.98%) Public Sector
6 79 (3.71%) Organisational Skills
7 73 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
8 70 (3.28%) Retail
9 44 (2.06%) Manufacturing
10 40 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
11 39 (1.83%) Legal
12 37 (1.74%) Investment Banking
13 33 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 31 (1.45%) Front Office
14 31 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
15 28 (1.31%) Retail Banking
16 25 (1.17%) Telecoms
17 23 (1.08%) Marketing
18 22 (1.03%) Financial Institution
19 20 (0.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 389 (18.25%) Analyst
2 240 (11.26%) Business Analyst
3 209 (9.81%) Developer
4 197 (9.24%) Lead
5 185 (8.68%) Senior
6 123 (5.77%) Project Manager
7 96 (4.50%) Delivery Manager
8 90 (4.22%) Tester
9 80 (3.75%) Architect
9 80 (3.75%) Scrum Master
10 75 (3.52%) Consultant
11 69 (3.24%) Data Engineer
12 63 (2.96%) IT Support
13 61 (2.86%) Support Engineer
14 52 (2.44%) Test Analyst
15 48 (2.25%) Test Leader
16 46 (2.16%) Product Owner
17 45 (2.11%) IT Engineer
17 45 (2.11%) Senior Manager
18 42 (1.97%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (5.49%) REST
2 73 (3.43%) .NET
3 56 (2.63%) Spring
4 50 (2.35%) React
4 50 (2.35%) RESTful
5 49 (2.30%) JSON
6 46 (2.16%) HTML
7 39 (1.83%) Kafka
8 36 (1.69%) CSS
8 36 (1.69%) SOAP
8 36 (1.69%) Spring Boot
9 34 (1.60%) AngularJS
9 34 (1.60%) Playwright
10 33 (1.55%) XML
11 32 (1.50%) Web Services
12 28 (1.31%) Middleware
12 28 (1.31%) Node.js
13 26 (1.22%) WireMock
14 25 (1.17%) .NET Core
15 24 (1.13%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 233 (10.93%) Product Ownership
2 130 (6.10%) Onboarding
3 90 (4.22%) Cloud Native
4 69 (3.24%) Data Centre
5 55 (2.58%) Enterprise Software
6 53 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
6 53 (2.49%) Virtual Team
7 51 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
8 45 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
9 41 (1.92%) Management Information System
10 35 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
11 33 (1.55%) Data Structures
12 32 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
13 20 (0.94%) Mobile App
14 18 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 18 (0.84%) SCADA
14 18 (0.84%) Security Posture
15 17 (0.80%) Enterprise Storage
16 16 (0.75%) Derivative
17 15 (0.70%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 172 (8.07%) Windows
2 125 (5.87%) Linux
3 50 (2.35%) Unix
4 26 (1.22%) Windows 10
5 21 (0.99%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.89%) Android
6 19 (0.89%) Mac OS
7 16 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.38%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.14%) AIX
10 3 (0.14%) Check Point GAiA
10 3 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.094%) MVS
11 2 (0.094%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.047%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.047%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.047%) Solaris
12 1 (0.047%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,247 (58.52%) Agile
2 596 (27.97%) Stakeholder Management
3 570 (26.75%) DevOps
4 475 (22.29%) Problem-Solving
5 462 (21.68%) CI/CD
6 425 (19.94%) Scrum
7 408 (19.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 356 (16.71%) Test Automation
9 286 (13.42%) Migration
10 248 (11.64%) User Acceptance Testing
11 234 (10.98%) Project Management
11 234 (10.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 231 (10.84%) User Stories
13 222 (10.42%) Validation
14 219 (10.28%) AI
15 214 (10.04%) Change Management
16 208 (9.76%) Sprint Planning
17 196 (9.20%) Project Delivery
18 195 (9.15%) ITIL
19 192 (9.01%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 343 (16.10%) SQL
2 268 (12.58%) Python
3 158 (7.41%) Java
4 91 (4.27%) C#
5 87 (4.08%) JavaScript
6 75 (3.52%) PowerShell
7 64 (3.00%) TypeScript
8 44 (2.06%) Bash
9 32 (1.50%) PL/SQL
10 18 (0.84%) VBA
11 16 (0.75%) Perl
12 15 (0.70%) Bicep
13 14 (0.66%) Apex Code
14 13 (0.61%) Groovy
14 13 (0.61%) Kotlin
14 13 (0.61%) Shell Script
15 11 (0.52%) C++
16 10 (0.47%) ActionScript
17 7 (0.33%) C
17 7 (0.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 551 (25.86%) Security Cleared
2 424 (19.90%) SC Cleared
3 189 (8.87%) Degree
4 81 (3.80%) DV Cleared
5 79 (3.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 67 (3.14%) ISTQB
7 59 (2.77%) PMI Certification
8 48 (2.25%) PMP
9 30 (1.41%) CISSP
10 27 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
11 24 (1.13%) Azure Certification
12 23 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
13 22 (1.03%) AWS Certification
14 18 (0.84%) CISM
14 18 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
15 17 (0.80%) Master's Degree
15 17 (0.80%) SAFe Agilist
16 16 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 16 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 14 (0.66%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 250 (11.73%) QA
2 123 (5.77%) PMO
3 119 (5.58%) Data Quality
4 63 (2.96%) Accessibility
5 40 (1.88%) SLA
6 37 (1.74%) GDPR
7 27 (1.27%) WCAG
8 26 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 21 (0.99%) NIST
10 18 (0.84%) NCSC
11 16 (0.75%) GRC
12 13 (0.61%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.47%) ISO 20022
14 7 (0.33%) SEPA
15 6 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.28%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.28%) JSP 440
15 6 (0.28%) MiFID
15 6 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 138 (6.48%) Docker
2 125 (5.87%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (0.47%) Firmware
5 10 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.19%) Squid
8 3 (0.14%) HDFS
9 2 (0.094%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.094%) Postfix
9 2 (0.094%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.047%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.047%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.047%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 158 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 146 (6.85%) Terraform
3 96 (4.50%) Ansible
4 66 (3.10%) Grafana
5 51 (2.39%) Prometheus
6 37 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
8 24 (1.13%) Control-M
9 23 (1.08%) HP ALM
10 17 (0.80%) Nessus
11 16 (0.75%) IBM Guardium
12 14 (0.66%) Puppet
13 13 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
14 10 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 8 (0.38%) Dell DRAC
15 8 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
15 8 (0.38%) SCCM
16 7 (0.33%) NetBackup
16 7 (0.33%) Packer
17 6 (0.28%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 305 (14.31%) Microsoft
2 264 (12.39%) ServiceNow
3 154 (7.23%) Oracle
4 98 (4.60%) Salesforce
5 92 (4.32%) Atlassian
5 92 (4.32%) SAP
6 56 (2.63%) Google
7 41 (1.92%) IBM
8 38 (1.78%) Remedy
9 37 (1.74%) Denodo
10 34 (1.60%) VMware
11 33 (1.55%) Splunk
12 32 (1.50%) Talend
13 30 (1.41%) F5
13 30 (1.41%) Workday
14 27 (1.27%) Databricks
15 26 (1.22%) HP
15 26 (1.22%) Informatica
16 23 (1.08%) MuleSoft
16 23 (1.08%) Red Hat