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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 31 46
Rank change year-on-year -9 +15 +1
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,122 1,535 1,437
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.73% 5.62% 4.06%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.43% 39.54% 32.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,431 1,048 955
10th Percentile £325 £325 £340
25th Percentile £402 £402 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £583 £600 £622
90th Percentile £671 £695 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 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 £51.25 £57.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -10.09% -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 5,248 3,882 4,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.70% 14.22% 12.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,360 2,665 2,938
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £630
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 234 89 216
10th Percentile £27.64 £39.25 £32.36
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £52.19
Median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.15 £73.88
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.17% -1.15% +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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -6 979 £525 - 240
North of England -11 405 £455 -2.15% 95
Midlands -1 303 £450 -5.26% 58
West Midlands 0 259 £459 -3.37% 36
Yorkshire -7 224 £453 -7.18% 37
South East -29 218 £475 -3.46% 153
North West -17 162 £450 +5.88% 47
South West -10 130 £490 -12.89% 48
East of England -15 55 £425 +6.25% 40
East Midlands 0 42 £402 -10.07% 22
North East -29 24 £550 - 12
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
1 923 (43.50%) Confluence
2 117 (5.51%) SharePoint
3 34 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 30 (1.41%) SAS
5 13 (0.61%) Apache
5 13 (0.61%) CMS
5 13 (0.61%) nginx
6 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.33%) WebLogic
7 6 (0.28%) Mattermost
7 6 (0.28%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.19%) Camunda
9 4 (0.19%) IIS
9 4 (0.19%) JBoss
9 4 (0.19%) WordPress
10 3 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
10 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.14%) Kentico
10 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 148 (6.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 147 (6.93%) Microsoft Project
3 87 (4.10%) MS Visio
4 71 (3.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 60 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
6 19 (0.90%) 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%) 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 (1.65%) Remedy ITSM
2 32 (1.51%) 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 (0.24%) SAP EWM
9 5 (0.24%) 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
1 522 (24.60%) Azure
2 338 (15.93%) AWS
3 288 (13.57%) Azure DevOps
4 176 (8.29%) GitHub
5 160 (7.54%) Power Platform
6 93 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
7 83 (3.91%) Entra ID
7 83 (3.91%) GCP
8 81 (3.82%) SaaS
9 74 (3.49%) Amazon S3
10 72 (3.39%) Serverless
11 65 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
12 58 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
13 57 (2.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 53 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
15 38 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 34 (1.60%) Miro
16 34 (1.60%) Smartsheet
17 28 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
17 28 (1.32%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 89 (4.19%) Firewall
2 72 (3.39%) DNS
3 51 (2.40%) TCP/IP
4 36 (1.70%) Network Security
4 36 (1.70%) VPN
5 35 (1.65%) DHCP
6 29 (1.37%) WAN
7 28 (1.32%) LAN
8 24 (1.13%) BIG-IP
9 22 (1.04%) SAN
10 19 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
11 17 (0.80%) SSL
12 14 (0.66%) SD-WAN
13 12 (0.57%) Internet
14 10 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 10 (0.47%) HTTP
14 10 (0.47%) Unified Communications
15 9 (0.42%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 9 (0.42%) VLAN
16 8 (0.38%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (6.50%) Power BI
2 94 (4.43%) Data Warehouse
3 77 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
4 51 (2.40%) SQL Server
5 43 (2.03%) Oracle Reports
6 32 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
7 27 (1.27%) MongoDB
8 26 (1.23%) Relational Database
8 26 (1.23%) Tableau
9 24 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
9 24 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
9 24 (1.13%) DynamoDB
10 19 (0.90%) Data Lake
11 18 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 17 (0.80%) NoSQL
12 17 (0.80%) Oracle Database
12 17 (0.80%) Pentaho
13 14 (0.66%) Metadata
14 13 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
14 13 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 247 (11.64%) Git
2 195 (9.19%) Jenkins
3 115 (5.42%) GitLab
4 90 (4.24%) Selenium
5 77 (3.63%) Zephyr
6 63 (2.97%) Postman
7 61 (2.87%) Bitbucket
8 52 (2.45%) JUnit
9 50 (2.36%) Cucumber
10 37 (1.74%) JMeter
11 33 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
12 23 (1.08%) Cypress.io
12 23 (1.08%) REST Assured
12 23 (1.08%) WebDriver
13 22 (1.04%) TestRail
14 19 (0.90%) SonarQube
15 18 (0.85%) Artifactory
16 16 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 15 (0.71%) Appium
18 11 (0.52%) TestNG
General
1 828 (39.02%) Social Skills
2 601 (28.32%) Finance
3 392 (18.47%) Analytical Skills
4 263 (12.39%) Banking
5 228 (10.74%) Public Sector
6 78 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
6 78 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
7 70 (3.30%) Retail
8 44 (2.07%) Manufacturing
9 41 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
10 39 (1.84%) Legal
11 37 (1.74%) Investment Banking
12 33 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 31 (1.46%) Front Office
14 28 (1.32%) Retail Banking
15 27 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
16 25 (1.18%) Telecoms
17 23 (1.08%) Marketing
18 21 (0.99%) Financial Institution
19 20 (0.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 391 (18.43%) Analyst
2 242 (11.40%) Business Analyst
3 205 (9.66%) Developer
4 192 (9.05%) Lead
5 184 (8.67%) Senior
6 121 (5.70%) Project Manager
7 95 (4.48%) Delivery Manager
8 90 (4.24%) Tester
9 85 (4.01%) Architect
10 81 (3.82%) Scrum Master
11 75 (3.53%) Consultant
12 69 (3.25%) Data Engineer
13 63 (2.97%) IT Support
14 61 (2.87%) Support Engineer
15 52 (2.45%) Test Analyst
16 48 (2.26%) Test Leader
17 46 (2.17%) Product Owner
18 45 (2.12%) IT Engineer
18 45 (2.12%) Senior Manager
19 42 (1.98%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (5.28%) REST
2 71 (3.35%) .NET
3 55 (2.59%) Spring
4 49 (2.31%) React
4 49 (2.31%) RESTful
5 48 (2.26%) JSON
6 45 (2.12%) HTML
7 39 (1.84%) Kafka
8 36 (1.70%) SOAP
9 35 (1.65%) CSS
9 35 (1.65%) Spring Boot
10 34 (1.60%) AngularJS
10 34 (1.60%) Playwright
11 33 (1.56%) XML
12 31 (1.46%) Web Services
13 28 (1.32%) Middleware
13 28 (1.32%) Node.js
14 26 (1.23%) WireMock
15 23 (1.08%) .NET Core
15 23 (1.08%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 231 (10.89%) Product Ownership
2 129 (6.08%) Onboarding
3 88 (4.15%) Cloud Native
4 68 (3.20%) Data Centre
5 54 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
6 53 (2.50%) Virtual Team
7 50 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
7 50 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
8 45 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
9 41 (1.93%) Management Information System
10 34 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
11 32 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
11 32 (1.51%) Data Structures
12 20 (0.94%) Mobile App
13 18 (0.85%) SCADA
13 18 (0.85%) Security Posture
14 17 (0.80%) Enterprise Storage
14 17 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 16 (0.75%) Derivative
16 15 (0.71%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 171 (8.06%) Windows
2 125 (5.89%) Linux
3 50 (2.36%) Unix
4 26 (1.23%) Windows 10
5 21 (0.99%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.90%) Android
6 19 (0.90%) Mac OS
7 16 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.38%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.24%) 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 1,238 (58.34%) Agile
2 589 (27.76%) Stakeholder Management
3 566 (26.67%) DevOps
4 475 (22.38%) Problem-Solving
5 454 (21.39%) CI/CD
6 416 (19.60%) Scrum
7 401 (18.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 352 (16.59%) Test Automation
9 278 (13.10%) Migration
10 248 (11.69%) User Acceptance Testing
11 232 (10.93%) Project Management
11 232 (10.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 232 (10.93%) User Stories
12 221 (10.41%) Validation
13 217 (10.23%) AI
14 214 (10.08%) Change Management
15 207 (9.75%) Sprint Planning
16 194 (9.14%) Roadmaps
17 191 (9.00%) Project Delivery
18 190 (8.95%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 342 (16.12%) SQL
2 264 (12.44%) Python
3 156 (7.35%) Java
4 89 (4.19%) C#
5 86 (4.05%) JavaScript
6 74 (3.49%) PowerShell
7 63 (2.97%) TypeScript
8 44 (2.07%) Bash
9 32 (1.51%) PL/SQL
10 18 (0.85%) VBA
11 16 (0.75%) Perl
12 14 (0.66%) Apex Code
13 13 (0.61%) Bicep
13 13 (0.61%) Groovy
13 13 (0.61%) Kotlin
13 13 (0.61%) Shell Script
14 11 (0.52%) C++
15 10 (0.47%) ActionScript
16 7 (0.33%) C
16 7 (0.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 549 (25.87%) Security Cleared
2 423 (19.93%) SC Cleared
3 187 (8.81%) Degree
4 80 (3.77%) DV Cleared
5 74 (3.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 67 (3.16%) ISTQB
7 59 (2.78%) PMI Certification
8 48 (2.26%) PMP
9 30 (1.41%) CISSP
10 26 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
11 23 (1.08%) Azure Certification
11 23 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (1.04%) AWS Certification
13 18 (0.85%) CISM
13 18 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
14 17 (0.80%) SAFe Agilist
15 16 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 16 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 16 (0.75%) Master's Degree
16 14 (0.66%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 250 (11.78%) QA
2 122 (5.75%) PMO
3 118 (5.56%) Data Quality
4 62 (2.92%) Accessibility
5 39 (1.84%) SLA
6 37 (1.74%) GDPR
7 26 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 25 (1.18%) WCAG
9 21 (0.99%) NIST
10 17 (0.80%) 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 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 137 (6.46%) Docker
2 124 (5.84%) 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 9 (0.42%) Squid
7 7 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
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
1 161 (7.59%) Kubernetes
2 149 (7.02%) Terraform
3 96 (4.52%) Ansible
4 71 (3.35%) Grafana
5 56 (2.64%) Prometheus
6 42 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (1.23%) 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
14 10 (0.47%) Consul
15 8 (0.38%) Dell DRAC
15 8 (0.38%) FortiGate
15 8 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
15 8 (0.38%) SCCM
16 7 (0.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 303 (14.28%) Microsoft
2 263 (12.39%) ServiceNow
3 154 (7.26%) Oracle
4 101 (4.76%) Salesforce
5 91 (4.29%) SAP
6 90 (4.24%) Atlassian
7 56 (2.64%) Google
8 41 (1.93%) IBM
9 38 (1.79%) Remedy
10 37 (1.74%) Denodo
11 34 (1.60%) VMware
12 33 (1.56%) Splunk
13 32 (1.51%) Talend
14 30 (1.41%) F5
14 30 (1.41%) Workday
15 28 (1.32%) Red Hat
16 27 (1.27%) Databricks
17 26 (1.23%) HP
17 26 (1.23%) Informatica
18 23 (1.08%) MuleSoft