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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 33 46
Rank change year-on-year -6 +13 +1
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,102 1,441 1,458
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.79% 5.52% 3.90%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.45% 38.91% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,422 987 967
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £406 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £622
90th Percentile £687 £695 £702
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 31 97
10th Percentile £18.75 £47.50 £25.28
25th Percentile £24.14 £50.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £51.50 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -15.38% +6.12%
75th Percentile £65.69 £70.83 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.38 £78.75 -
UK median hourly rate £49.36 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -10.25% -8.33% -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 5,196 3,703 4,553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.83% 14.19% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,349 2,528 3,056
10th Percentile £350 £332 £350
25th Percentile £413 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £706 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 79 231
10th Percentile £27.64 £28.32 £33.00
25th Percentile £59.00 £50.00 £51.88
Median hourly rate £68.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% -3.85% +4.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £59.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +9.24% -8.46% +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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -6 966 £519 -0.28% 235
North of England -8 422 £450 -3.23% 111
Midlands 0 300 £450 -5.26% 48
West Midlands 0 252 £458 -3.63% 31
Yorkshire -4 234 £460 -8.00% 37
South East -26 204 £475 -3.26% 152
North West -13 172 £447 +5.18% 66
South West -6 118 £489 -15.00% 56
East of England 0 60 £450 +9.09% 37
East Midlands +2 46 £401 -10.59% 17
North East -33 21 £480 -11.72% 9
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
1 913 (43.43%) Confluence
2 111 (5.28%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 30 (1.43%) SAS
5 12 (0.57%) Apache
5 12 (0.57%) CMS
5 12 (0.57%) nginx
6 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.29%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.29%) Hyperledger
7 6 (0.29%) Mattermost
7 6 (0.29%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.19%) IIS
9 4 (0.19%) JBoss
9 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
9 4 (0.19%) WordPress
10 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 153 (7.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 147 (6.99%) Microsoft Project
3 87 (4.14%) MS Visio
4 75 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 65 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.57%) Trello
7 10 (0.48%) AutoCAD
7 10 (0.48%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.38%) Revit
9 4 (0.19%) Notion
10 2 (0.095%) CATIA
11 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.048%) CANalyzer
11 1 (0.048%) Mingle
11 1 (0.048%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.048%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.048%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 30 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 12 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.52%) Aladdin
4 11 (0.52%) Loan IQ
5 10 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
5 10 (0.48%) Workday HCM
6 9 (0.43%) Fidessa
7 8 (0.38%) Findur
8 6 (0.29%) SAP MDG
8 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
9 5 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
10 4 (0.19%) Actimize
10 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
10 4 (0.19%) Summit
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
11 3 (0.14%) Primavera
11 3 (0.14%) SAP Retail
11 3 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 489 (23.26%) Azure
2 347 (16.51%) AWS
3 273 (12.99%) Azure DevOps
4 169 (8.04%) GitHub
5 152 (7.23%) Power Platform
6 86 (4.09%) Microsoft 365
7 81 (3.85%) Entra ID
8 79 (3.76%) GCP
9 76 (3.62%) SaaS
10 75 (3.57%) Amazon S3
11 74 (3.52%) Serverless
12 63 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
13 58 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
14 55 (2.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 52 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
16 37 (1.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 30 (1.43%) Miro
18 29 (1.38%) Slack
19 28 (1.33%) Snowflake
20 27 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 88 (4.19%) Firewall
2 59 (2.81%) DNS
3 45 (2.14%) TCP/IP
4 37 (1.76%) Network Security
5 30 (1.43%) LAN
5 30 (1.43%) VPN
6 29 (1.38%) WAN
7 25 (1.19%) BIG-IP
7 25 (1.19%) DHCP
8 23 (1.09%) SAN
9 19 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
10 17 (0.81%) SSL
11 14 (0.67%) HTTP
12 12 (0.57%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.52%) Internet
14 10 (0.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 10 (0.48%) Unified Communications
15 9 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 8 (0.38%) DKIM
16 8 (0.38%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (6.37%) Power BI
2 96 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
3 74 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (2.38%) SQL Server
5 43 (2.05%) Oracle Reports
6 33 (1.57%) MongoDB
7 32 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
7 32 (1.52%) Tableau
8 27 (1.28%) DynamoDB
8 27 (1.28%) Relational Database
9 25 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
10 24 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
10 24 (1.14%) NoSQL
11 19 (0.90%) Data Lake
12 17 (0.81%) Oracle Database
12 17 (0.81%) Pentaho
13 16 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (0.71%) Neo4j
15 13 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
15 13 (0.62%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 252 (11.99%) Git
2 204 (9.71%) Jenkins
3 123 (5.85%) GitLab
4 98 (4.66%) Selenium
5 75 (3.57%) Postman
6 73 (3.47%) Zephyr
7 55 (2.62%) Cucumber
7 55 (2.62%) JUnit
8 54 (2.57%) Bitbucket
9 41 (1.95%) JMeter
10 36 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
11 26 (1.24%) REST Assured
12 23 (1.09%) Cypress.io
13 22 (1.05%) WebDriver
14 21 (1.00%) TestRail
15 20 (0.95%) SonarQube
16 17 (0.81%) Artifactory
17 14 (0.67%) Appium
18 13 (0.62%) Gatling
18 13 (0.62%) Maven
General
1 817 (38.87%) Social Skills
2 597 (28.40%) Finance
3 376 (17.89%) Analytical Skills
4 264 (12.56%) Banking
5 217 (10.32%) Public Sector
6 76 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
7 74 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
8 72 (3.43%) Retail
9 45 (2.14%) Manufacturing
10 43 (2.05%) Legal
11 41 (1.95%) Investment Banking
12 40 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
13 32 (1.52%) Front Office
14 29 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
15 26 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 24 (1.14%) Retail Banking
17 21 (1.00%) Financial Institution
17 21 (1.00%) Marketing
17 21 (1.00%) Telecoms
18 20 (0.95%) Military
Job Titles
1 387 (18.41%) Analyst
2 241 (11.47%) Business Analyst
3 205 (9.75%) Developer
4 174 (8.28%) Lead
4 174 (8.28%) Senior
5 117 (5.57%) Project Manager
6 93 (4.42%) Architect
7 91 (4.33%) Delivery Manager
8 89 (4.23%) Tester
9 79 (3.76%) Scrum Master
10 77 (3.66%) Consultant
11 75 (3.57%) Data Engineer
12 66 (3.14%) IT Support
13 57 (2.71%) Support Engineer
14 46 (2.19%) IT Engineer
14 46 (2.19%) Product Owner
14 46 (2.19%) Test Engineer
15 45 (2.14%) Test Analyst
16 43 (2.05%) IT Support Engineer
17 41 (1.95%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (5.76%) REST
2 65 (3.09%) .NET
3 63 (3.00%) Spring
4 51 (2.43%) RESTful
5 50 (2.38%) React
6 48 (2.28%) JSON
7 46 (2.19%) HTML
8 43 (2.05%) Kafka
9 41 (1.95%) SOAP
9 41 (1.95%) Spring Boot
10 40 (1.90%) Playwright
11 36 (1.71%) AngularJS
12 35 (1.67%) CSS
13 28 (1.33%) OpenID
14 27 (1.28%) Node.js
14 27 (1.28%) Web Services
15 26 (1.24%) Middleware
15 26 (1.24%) XML
16 24 (1.14%) LDAP
16 24 (1.14%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 223 (10.61%) Product Ownership
2 124 (5.90%) Onboarding
3 95 (4.52%) Cloud Native
4 63 (3.00%) Data Centre
5 51 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
6 50 (2.38%) Virtual Team
7 49 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
8 48 (2.28%) Management Information System
9 46 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
10 42 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
11 32 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
11 32 (1.52%) Data Structures
11 32 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
12 19 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 18 (0.86%) Enterprise Storage
13 18 (0.86%) Public Cloud
13 18 (0.86%) SCADA
13 18 (0.86%) Security Posture
14 17 (0.81%) Mobile App
15 16 (0.76%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 167 (7.94%) Windows
2 129 (6.14%) Linux
3 47 (2.24%) Unix
4 20 (0.95%) Windows 10
5 19 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.81%) Mac OS
7 16 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (0.67%) Android
9 9 (0.43%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.14%) AIX
11 3 (0.14%) Check Point GAiA
11 3 (0.14%) FreeRTOS
11 3 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.095%) MVS
12 2 (0.095%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.048%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.048%) Solaris
13 1 (0.048%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,220 (58.04%) Agile
2 546 (25.98%) DevOps
3 545 (25.93%) Stakeholder Management
4 461 (21.93%) Problem-Solving
5 459 (21.84%) CI/CD
6 406 (19.31%) Scrum
7 392 (18.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 364 (17.32%) Test Automation
9 265 (12.61%) Migration
10 252 (11.99%) User Acceptance Testing
11 233 (11.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 229 (10.89%) Project Management
13 228 (10.85%) Validation
14 213 (10.13%) User Stories
15 209 (9.94%) Change Management
16 204 (9.71%) AI
17 192 (9.13%) Sprint Planning
18 190 (9.04%) ITIL
19 189 (8.99%) Project Delivery
19 189 (8.99%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 343 (16.32%) SQL
2 267 (12.70%) Python
3 168 (7.99%) Java
4 92 (4.38%) C#
5 85 (4.04%) JavaScript
6 68 (3.24%) TypeScript
7 58 (2.76%) PowerShell
8 39 (1.86%) Bash
9 32 (1.52%) PL/SQL
10 19 (0.90%) VBA
11 15 (0.71%) Apex Code
11 15 (0.71%) C++
11 15 (0.71%) Perl
11 15 (0.71%) Shell Script
12 12 (0.57%) Bicep
13 11 (0.52%) ActionScript
13 11 (0.52%) Groovy
14 9 (0.43%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.38%) Cypher
15 8 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 530 (25.21%) Security Cleared
2 413 (19.65%) SC Cleared
3 186 (8.85%) Degree
4 72 (3.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 71 (3.38%) DV Cleared
6 67 (3.19%) ISTQB
7 57 (2.71%) PMI Certification
8 50 (2.38%) PMP
9 34 (1.62%) CISSP
10 31 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
11 27 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
12 24 (1.14%) AWS Certification
13 22 (1.05%) CISM
14 19 (0.90%) Azure Certification
15 18 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
16 16 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 16 (0.76%) SAFe Agilist
17 15 (0.71%) Master's Degree
18 13 (0.62%) CCNA
19 12 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 256 (12.18%) QA
2 118 (5.61%) Data Quality
3 108 (5.14%) PMO
4 60 (2.85%) Accessibility
5 38 (1.81%) GDPR
5 38 (1.81%) SLA
6 26 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 24 (1.14%) NIST
8 23 (1.09%) WCAG
9 19 (0.90%) GRC
10 17 (0.81%) PCI DSS
11 16 (0.76%) NCSC
12 9 (0.43%) ISO 20022
13 8 (0.38%) PSD2
14 7 (0.33%) MiFID
15 6 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.29%) JSP 440
15 6 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.29%) SEPA
System Software
1 146 (6.95%) Docker
2 115 (5.47%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.67%) Firmware
5 9 (0.43%) Squid
5 9 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.14%) HDFS
9 2 (0.095%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.095%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.095%) Postfix
9 2 (0.095%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.048%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.048%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 164 (7.80%) Kubernetes
2 144 (6.85%) Terraform
3 95 (4.52%) Ansible
4 69 (3.28%) Grafana
5 54 (2.57%) Prometheus
6 41 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 22 (1.05%) HP ALM
9 21 (1.00%) Control-M
10 18 (0.86%) Nessus
11 17 (0.81%) IBM Guardium
12 15 (0.71%) Puppet
13 13 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
14 12 (0.57%) Consul
15 11 (0.52%) HP Quality Center
16 10 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 8 (0.38%) Dell DRAC
17 8 (0.38%) FortiGate
17 8 (0.38%) SCCM
18 7 (0.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 290 (13.80%) Microsoft
2 264 (12.56%) ServiceNow
3 161 (7.66%) Oracle
4 104 (4.95%) Salesforce
5 89 (4.23%) Atlassian
6 81 (3.85%) SAP
7 55 (2.62%) Google
8 37 (1.76%) Denodo
9 34 (1.62%) Workday
10 33 (1.57%) F5
10 33 (1.57%) Remedy
11 32 (1.52%) Talend
12 31 (1.47%) Informatica
13 30 (1.43%) Databricks
13 30 (1.43%) Red Hat
14 29 (1.38%) IBM
14 29 (1.38%) VMware
15 25 (1.19%) HP
15 25 (1.19%) Splunk
16 23 (1.09%) MuleSoft