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

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 43 50
Rank change year-on-year +7 +7 -7
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,035 1,201 1,349
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.22% 4.92% 3.61%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.12% 36.11% 32.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,421 782 927
10th Percentile £313 £316 £343
25th Percentile £400 £405 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £630
90th Percentile £695 £688 £756
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £522
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.26% -2.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 22 53
10th Percentile £18.75 £48.31 £20.80
25th Percentile £29.64 £55.28 £36.75
Median hourly rate £63.32 £62.50 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% +36.22% -26.59%
75th Percentile £72.81 £74.06 £65.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.50 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £42.97
% change year-on-year +4.00% +45.45% -31.25%

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 5,072 3,326 4,162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.01% 13.64% 11.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,398 2,223 2,904
10th Percentile £340 £340 £358
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £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 208 65 159
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.12 £31.71
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +2.40% +1.63%
75th Percentile £75.44 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.43 £83.75
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +5.47% +6.67% -2.44%

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 7 April 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 7 April 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 7 April 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 +7 900 £510 +2.00% 202
North of England -4 369 £450 - 115
Midlands +2 307 £426 -10.32% 70
West Midlands +2 242 £453 -4.74% 42
South East -17 195 £475 -5.00% 145
Yorkshire -6 185 £460 -8.00% 37
North West +4 171 £447 -0.67% 60
South West +15 160 £568 +0.89% 42
East of England -5 66 £425 -8.11% 47
East Midlands +2 62 £358 -24.63% 28
North East -12 14 £475 +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
1 934 (45.90%) Confluence
2 105 (5.16%) SharePoint
3 44 (2.16%) SAS
4 32 (1.57%) nginx
5 23 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
6 20 (0.98%) Apache
7 17 (0.84%) CMS
8 9 (0.44%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.39%) WebLogic
10 6 (0.29%) Ethereum
10 6 (0.29%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.29%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.25%) JBoss
11 5 (0.25%) Mattermost
11 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
13 3 (0.15%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 224 (11.01%) Microsoft Project
2 193 (9.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 110 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 104 (5.11%) Microsoft Office
5 93 (4.57%) MS Visio
6 22 (1.08%) Trello
7 9 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.34%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
9 5 (0.25%) Notion
9 5 (0.25%) Photoshop
9 5 (0.25%) 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 26 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
3 17 (0.84%) NetSuite
4 13 (0.64%) Loan IQ
5 11 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
5 11 (0.54%) Workday HCM
6 10 (0.49%) Aladdin
7 8 (0.39%) Fidessa
8 7 (0.34%) Maximo
9 6 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.29%) SAP MDG
10 5 (0.25%) 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 EWM
11 4 (0.20%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.20%) SAP Retail
11 4 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 414 (20.34%) Azure
2 295 (14.50%) AWS
3 234 (11.50%) Azure DevOps
4 167 (8.21%) GitHub
5 146 (7.17%) Power Platform
6 74 (3.64%) GCP
6 74 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
7 69 (3.39%) Entra ID
8 68 (3.34%) SaaS
9 58 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
10 49 (2.41%) Serverless
11 39 (1.92%) Amazon S3
12 37 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
13 36 (1.77%) Figma
14 31 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
15 30 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
16 29 (1.43%) Miro
17 28 (1.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 25 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
19 24 (1.18%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 59 (2.90%) Firewall
2 40 (1.97%) TCP/IP
3 39 (1.92%) DNS
4 29 (1.43%) LAN
5 27 (1.33%) VPN
6 26 (1.28%) WAN
7 25 (1.23%) Network Security
8 19 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
9 18 (0.88%) SSL
10 17 (0.84%) HTTP
11 15 (0.74%) DHCP
12 12 (0.59%) Internet
12 12 (0.59%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.54%) BIG-IP
13 11 (0.54%) SAN
14 10 (0.49%) Ethernet
14 10 (0.49%) NAS
14 10 (0.49%) Unified Communications
15 9 (0.44%) FTP
16 7 (0.34%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (6.14%) Power BI
2 70 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
3 64 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
3 64 (3.14%) Tableau
4 51 (2.51%) SQL Server
5 39 (1.92%) MongoDB
6 34 (1.67%) NoSQL
7 28 (1.38%) Pentaho
8 27 (1.33%) Oracle Reports
9 21 (1.03%) Relational Database
10 20 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
10 20 (0.98%) Metadata
11 19 (0.93%) MySQL
12 18 (0.88%) DynamoDB
13 17 (0.84%) Big Data
14 16 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (0.64%) Oracle Database
16 12 (0.59%) Hadoop
16 12 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 11 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 255 (12.53%) Git
2 206 (10.12%) Jenkins
3 107 (5.26%) GitLab
4 98 (4.82%) Selenium
5 72 (3.54%) Postman
6 64 (3.14%) Cucumber
7 57 (2.80%) Bitbucket
8 52 (2.56%) JUnit
8 52 (2.56%) Zephyr
9 38 (1.87%) JMeter
10 36 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
11 33 (1.62%) REST Assured
12 32 (1.57%) TestRail
13 25 (1.23%) SonarQube
14 20 (0.98%) WebDriver
15 17 (0.84%) Cypress.io
15 17 (0.84%) Maven
16 15 (0.74%) SpecFlow
17 14 (0.69%) Appium
18 13 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 826 (40.59%) Social Skills
2 591 (29.04%) Finance
3 398 (19.56%) Analytical Skills
4 261 (12.83%) Banking
5 213 (10.47%) Public Sector
6 75 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
7 73 (3.59%) Documentation Skills
8 70 (3.44%) Retail
9 50 (2.46%) Military
10 47 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
11 42 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
12 33 (1.62%) Legal
13 29 (1.43%) Investment Banking
13 29 (1.43%) Manufacturing
14 25 (1.23%) Front Office
15 22 (1.08%) Retail Banking
16 21 (1.03%) Marketing
16 21 (1.03%) Telecoms
17 18 (0.88%) Financial Institution
17 18 (0.88%) Law
Job Titles
1 397 (19.51%) Analyst
2 258 (12.68%) Business Analyst
3 182 (8.94%) Developer
4 158 (7.76%) Lead
5 151 (7.42%) Senior
6 149 (7.32%) Project Manager
7 125 (6.14%) Architect
8 101 (4.96%) Tester
9 71 (3.49%) Delivery Manager
10 63 (3.10%) Data Engineer
11 62 (3.05%) Consultant
12 56 (2.75%) Test Engineer
13 55 (2.70%) Scrum Master
14 49 (2.41%) Solutions Architect
15 47 (2.31%) IT Support
15 47 (2.31%) Support Engineer
15 47 (2.31%) Test Analyst
16 46 (2.26%) Technical Manager
17 43 (2.11%) Software Engineer
18 40 (1.97%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (6.44%) REST
2 65 (3.19%) Spring
3 58 (2.85%) .NET
4 53 (2.60%) React
5 49 (2.41%) Kafka
6 46 (2.26%) RESTful
7 45 (2.21%) JSON
8 43 (2.11%) HTML
8 43 (2.11%) Spring Boot
9 40 (1.97%) XML
10 38 (1.87%) CSS
11 36 (1.77%) Playwright
12 33 (1.62%) SOAP
13 29 (1.43%) Middleware
13 29 (1.43%) Node.js
13 29 (1.43%) OpenID
13 29 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
14 28 (1.38%) ADO
15 27 (1.33%) AngularJS
15 27 (1.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 252 (12.38%) Product Ownership
2 89 (4.37%) Onboarding
3 71 (3.49%) Cloud Native
4 45 (2.21%) Management Information System
5 44 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
5 44 (2.16%) Virtual Team
6 40 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
7 38 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
8 31 (1.52%) Data Centre
9 29 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
10 25 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
11 24 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
11 24 (1.18%) Mobile App
12 22 (1.08%) Data Structures
12 22 (1.08%) PMI
13 16 (0.79%) Public Cloud
14 15 (0.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 13 (0.64%) Distributed Architecture
15 13 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 11 (0.54%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 159 (7.81%) Windows
2 137 (6.73%) Linux
3 31 (1.52%) Unix
4 19 (0.93%) Android
4 19 (0.93%) Windows 10
5 11 (0.54%) Mac OS
5 11 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (0.54%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.49%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.39%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (0.098%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.098%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.049%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.049%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,192 (58.57%) Agile
2 554 (27.22%) DevOps
3 511 (25.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 470 (23.10%) Problem-Solving
5 433 (21.28%) Scrum
6 392 (19.26%) CI/CD
7 372 (18.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 321 (15.77%) Test Automation
9 299 (14.69%) Project Management
10 250 (12.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 211 (10.37%) User Acceptance Testing
12 210 (10.32%) Migration
13 207 (10.17%) Change Management
14 205 (10.07%) User Stories
15 197 (9.68%) Project Delivery
16 187 (9.19%) ITIL
17 178 (8.75%) Decision-Making
18 177 (8.70%) Acceptance Criteria
19 176 (8.65%) Analytics
19 176 (8.65%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 319 (15.68%) SQL
2 241 (11.84%) Python
3 191 (9.39%) Java
4 102 (5.01%) JavaScript
5 86 (4.23%) C#
6 77 (3.78%) PowerShell
7 59 (2.90%) TypeScript
8 42 (2.06%) Bash
9 32 (1.57%) C++
10 23 (1.13%) Shell Script
11 17 (0.84%) C
11 17 (0.84%) PL/SQL
12 16 (0.79%) Embedded C++
13 13 (0.64%) Apex Code
13 13 (0.64%) Go
13 13 (0.64%) Perl
14 12 (0.59%) VBA
15 10 (0.49%) Embedded C
16 9 (0.44%) PHP
17 8 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 558 (27.42%) Security Cleared
2 440 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 251 (12.33%) Degree
4 77 (3.78%) PMI Certification
5 73 (3.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 72 (3.54%) PMP
7 70 (3.44%) ISTQB
8 57 (2.80%) DV Cleared
9 39 (1.92%) CISSP
10 38 (1.87%) TOGAF Certification
11 37 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
12 29 (1.43%) Master's Degree
13 28 (1.38%) CISM
14 24 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
15 20 (0.98%) Azure Certification
15 20 (0.98%) IIBA
16 19 (0.93%) CBAP
17 18 (0.88%) AWS Certification
17 18 (0.88%) ISEB
18 17 (0.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 262 (12.87%) QA
2 123 (6.04%) PMO
3 103 (5.06%) Data Quality
4 51 (2.51%) GDPR
5 46 (2.26%) Accessibility
6 32 (1.57%) NIST
7 26 (1.28%) SLA
8 24 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 18 (0.88%) WCAG
10 17 (0.84%) GRC
11 13 (0.64%) ISO 20022
11 13 (0.64%) PCI DSS
11 13 (0.64%) PSD2
12 11 (0.54%) Basel III
13 10 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (0.39%) SEPA
15 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.34%) NIST 800
16 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 171 (8.40%) Docker
2 92 (4.52%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.59%) Firmware
5 11 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.44%) Squid
7 7 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 5 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
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
1 183 (8.99%) Kubernetes
2 103 (5.06%) Terraform
3 88 (4.32%) Ansible
4 58 (2.85%) Grafana
5 41 (2.01%) Prometheus
6 33 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.47%) OPNET
8 26 (1.28%) HP ALM
9 25 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
10 21 (1.03%) Consul
10 21 (1.03%) Control-M
11 19 (0.93%) Puppet
12 15 (0.74%) Nessus
12 15 (0.74%) Packer
13 14 (0.69%) IBM Guardium
14 11 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
14 11 (0.54%) NetBackup
15 10 (0.49%) SCCM
16 9 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 8 (0.39%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 244 (11.99%) ServiceNow
2 243 (11.94%) Microsoft
3 168 (8.26%) Oracle
4 151 (7.42%) Atlassian
5 108 (5.31%) Salesforce
6 69 (3.39%) SAP
7 59 (2.90%) Remedy
8 47 (2.31%) Google
9 35 (1.72%) Workday
10 34 (1.67%) Talend
11 33 (1.62%) Red Hat
11 33 (1.62%) Splunk
12 30 (1.47%) Denodo
13 28 (1.38%) HP
13 28 (1.38%) IBM
14 26 (1.28%) Databricks
15 22 (1.08%) VMware
16 20 (0.98%) Adobe
16 20 (0.98%) MuleSoft
16 20 (0.98%) Tenable