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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 36 52
Rank change year-on-year -4 +16 -5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,030 1,281 1,358
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.87% 5.35% 3.68%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.65% 37.83% 31.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,410 855 897
10th Percentile £315 £331 £325
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £625
90th Percentile £668 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £485 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -3.10% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 24 82
10th Percentile £18.75 £48.60 £25.03
25th Percentile £24.19 £50.80 £40.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £76.75 -
UK median hourly rate £52.75 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.09% - -9.84%

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 4,994 3,386 4,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.98% 14.14% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,269 2,292 2,914
10th Percentile £348 £350 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £526
Median % change year-on-year - -4.85% -4.45%
75th Percentile £588 £609 £638
90th Percentile £676 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 63 208
10th Percentile £35.88 £27.59 £31.57
25th Percentile £56.25 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.75 £77.65
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +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 3 June 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 June 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 June 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 0 895 £513 -0.49% 275
North of England -3 414 £450 - 99
Midlands +6 324 £450 -5.26% 69
West Midlands -1 259 £459 -3.37% 45
Yorkshire -3 223 £468 -6.40% 39
South East -24 204 £459 -5.60% 146
North West +1 173 £444 +4.47% 52
South West -12 112 £495 -13.91% 59
East Midlands +8 62 £393 -17.26% 24
East of England -12 53 £525 +13.51% 54
North East -23 22 £475 -13.64% 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
1 891 (43.89%) Confluence
2 115 (5.67%) SharePoint
3 36 (1.77%) SAS
4 30 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.79%) Apache
6 13 (0.64%) CMS
7 12 (0.59%) nginx
8 9 (0.44%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.30%) Ethereum
9 6 (0.30%) Hyperledger
9 6 (0.30%) Mattermost
10 5 (0.25%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.25%) IIS
10 5 (0.25%) JBoss
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.20%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.15%) Camunda
12 3 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 163 (8.03%) Microsoft Project
2 156 (7.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 85 (4.19%) MS Visio
4 78 (3.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 65 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
6 14 (0.69%) Trello
7 8 (0.39%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.25%) AutoCAD
9 5 (0.25%) Revit
10 4 (0.20%) Notion
11 2 (0.099%) CATIA
11 2 (0.099%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.049%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.049%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.049%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.049%) Autodesk Smoke
12 1 (0.049%) InVision
12 1 (0.049%) Sketch
12 1 (0.049%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 28 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
3 16 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.54%) Loan IQ
5 9 (0.44%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.39%) SAP MDG
6 8 (0.39%) Workday HCM
7 7 (0.34%) Fidessa
7 7 (0.34%) Findur
8 5 (0.25%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.25%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.25%) SAP Retail
8 5 (0.25%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.20%) SAP FI-AR
10 3 (0.15%) Actimize
10 3 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 438 (21.58%) Azure
2 337 (16.60%) AWS
3 240 (11.82%) Azure DevOps
4 156 (7.68%) GitHub
5 152 (7.49%) Power Platform
6 91 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
7 90 (4.43%) GCP
8 82 (4.04%) SaaS
9 78 (3.84%) Entra ID
10 64 (3.15%) Amazon S3
11 62 (3.05%) Serverless
12 54 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
13 48 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
14 46 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 43 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
16 35 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 33 (1.63%) Slack
18 29 (1.43%) Figma
19 26 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
19 26 (1.28%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 75 (3.69%) Firewall
2 58 (2.86%) DNS
3 44 (2.17%) TCP/IP
4 33 (1.63%) Network Security
5 30 (1.48%) LAN
6 28 (1.38%) WAN
7 27 (1.33%) VPN
8 22 (1.08%) DHCP
9 21 (1.03%) BIG-IP
10 20 (0.99%) SSL
11 19 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
12 16 (0.79%) SAN
13 13 (0.64%) HTTP
13 13 (0.64%) Internet
13 13 (0.64%) SD-WAN
14 10 (0.49%) Unified Communications
15 9 (0.44%) Ethernet
16 8 (0.39%) FTP
16 8 (0.39%) NAS
16 8 (0.39%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (6.65%) Power BI
2 88 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
3 71 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
4 57 (2.81%) SQL Server
5 48 (2.36%) Tableau
6 45 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
7 36 (1.77%) MongoDB
8 30 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
9 26 (1.28%) NoSQL
10 25 (1.23%) DynamoDB
11 24 (1.18%) Relational Database
12 19 (0.94%) Amazon Athena
13 18 (0.89%) Pentaho
14 16 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 15 (0.74%) BusinessObjects
15 15 (0.74%) MySQL
16 14 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
16 14 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
17 13 (0.64%) Big Data
17 13 (0.64%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 236 (11.63%) Git
2 191 (9.41%) Jenkins
3 120 (5.91%) GitLab
4 98 (4.83%) Selenium
5 76 (3.74%) Postman
6 69 (3.40%) Zephyr
7 57 (2.81%) Cucumber
7 57 (2.81%) JUnit
8 53 (2.61%) Bitbucket
9 39 (1.92%) JMeter
10 33 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
11 29 (1.43%) REST Assured
12 25 (1.23%) TestRail
13 23 (1.13%) WebDriver
14 21 (1.03%) SonarQube
15 20 (0.99%) Cypress.io
16 18 (0.89%) Artifactory
17 14 (0.69%) Appium
18 13 (0.64%) Maven
19 12 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 794 (39.11%) Social Skills
2 594 (29.26%) Finance
3 373 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
4 262 (12.91%) Banking
5 211 (10.39%) Public Sector
6 74 (3.65%) Retail
7 72 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
8 70 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
9 41 (2.02%) Manufacturing
10 39 (1.92%) Legal
11 38 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
12 34 (1.67%) Investment Banking
12 34 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
13 29 (1.43%) Retail Banking
14 26 (1.28%) Military
15 25 (1.23%) Front Office
16 23 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 19 (0.94%) Corporate Banking
17 19 (0.94%) Telecoms
18 18 (0.89%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 391 (19.26%) Analyst
2 247 (12.17%) Business Analyst
3 179 (8.82%) Lead
4 177 (8.72%) Developer
5 161 (7.93%) Senior
6 120 (5.91%) Project Manager
7 89 (4.38%) Tester
8 86 (4.24%) Architect
8 86 (4.24%) Delivery Manager
9 73 (3.60%) Data Engineer
10 69 (3.40%) Consultant
11 68 (3.35%) Scrum Master
12 59 (2.91%) IT Support
13 52 (2.56%) Support Engineer
14 47 (2.32%) Test Engineer
15 44 (2.17%) Test Leader
16 41 (2.02%) IT Engineer
17 40 (1.97%) IT Support Engineer
17 40 (1.97%) Java Developer
18 39 (1.92%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (5.12%) REST
2 62 (3.05%) Spring
3 56 (2.76%) .NET
4 54 (2.66%) React
5 48 (2.36%) Kafka
6 44 (2.17%) JSON
7 43 (2.12%) HTML
8 42 (2.07%) RESTful
9 40 (1.97%) Spring Boot
10 35 (1.72%) SOAP
11 31 (1.53%) CSS
11 31 (1.53%) OpenID
12 29 (1.43%) AngularJS
13 28 (1.38%) Playwright
14 27 (1.33%) LDAP
14 27 (1.33%) XML
15 26 (1.28%) Middleware
16 25 (1.23%) ADO
16 25 (1.23%) Node.js
17 23 (1.13%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 230 (11.33%) Product Ownership
2 103 (5.07%) Onboarding
3 80 (3.94%) Cloud Native
4 51 (2.51%) Data Centre
5 48 (2.36%) Management Information System
6 46 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
7 45 (2.22%) Virtual Team
8 42 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
9 40 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
10 36 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
11 33 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
12 29 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
13 26 (1.28%) Data Structures
14 19 (0.94%) Public Cloud
14 19 (0.94%) SCADA
15 18 (0.89%) PMI
16 16 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 15 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
17 15 (0.74%) Mobile App
18 13 (0.64%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 169 (8.33%) Windows
2 123 (6.06%) Linux
3 43 (2.12%) Unix
4 20 (0.99%) Mac OS
4 20 (0.99%) Windows 10
5 16 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.74%) Android
7 13 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.59%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.15%) AIX
11 3 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.099%) MVS
12 2 (0.099%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.049%) Solaris
13 1 (0.049%) SUSE
13 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.049%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,146 (56.45%) Agile
2 518 (25.52%) DevOps
3 511 (25.17%) Stakeholder Management
4 449 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
5 410 (20.20%) CI/CD
6 400 (19.70%) Scrum
7 371 (18.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 336 (16.55%) Test Automation
9 257 (12.66%) Migration
10 256 (12.61%) Project Management
11 252 (12.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 226 (11.13%) User Acceptance Testing
13 214 (10.54%) User Stories
14 202 (9.95%) Change Management
15 198 (9.75%) Validation
16 185 (9.11%) Project Delivery
17 179 (8.82%) Sprint Planning
18 175 (8.62%) Roadmaps
19 171 (8.42%) SDLC
20 166 (8.18%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 327 (16.11%) SQL
2 233 (11.48%) Python
3 180 (8.87%) Java
4 82 (4.04%) JavaScript
5 79 (3.89%) C#
6 61 (3.00%) PowerShell
7 59 (2.91%) TypeScript
8 43 (2.12%) Bash
9 27 (1.33%) PL/SQL
10 22 (1.08%) C++
11 21 (1.03%) Shell Script
12 15 (0.74%) Perl
12 15 (0.74%) VBA
13 14 (0.69%) Apex Code
14 11 (0.54%) C
14 11 (0.54%) Groovy
15 9 (0.44%) Embedded C++
15 9 (0.44%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.39%) ActionScript
16 8 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 519 (25.57%) Security Cleared
2 402 (19.80%) SC Cleared
3 189 (9.31%) Degree
4 72 (3.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 66 (3.25%) PMI Certification
6 65 (3.20%) ISTQB
7 60 (2.96%) DV Cleared
7 60 (2.96%) PMP
8 34 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 31 (1.53%) CISSP
10 26 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
11 25 (1.23%) Master's Degree
12 22 (1.08%) CISM
13 20 (0.99%) Azure Certification
13 20 (0.99%) SAFe Agilist
14 18 (0.89%) AWS Certification
15 17 (0.84%) IIBA
16 15 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
17 14 (0.69%) CBAP
18 13 (0.64%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 252 (12.41%) QA
2 116 (5.71%) Data Quality
3 110 (5.42%) PMO
4 49 (2.41%) Accessibility
5 45 (2.22%) GDPR
6 41 (2.02%) SLA
7 25 (1.23%) NIST
8 21 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 18 (0.89%) WCAG
10 17 (0.84%) GRC
10 17 (0.84%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.44%) Basel III
11 9 (0.44%) NCSC
11 9 (0.44%) PSD2
12 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.34%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.34%) MiFID
12 7 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.30%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.30%) JSP 440
System Software
1 144 (7.09%) Docker
2 107 (5.27%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.79%) Firmware
5 10 (0.49%) Squid
6 9 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.15%) HDFS
8 3 (0.15%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.099%) Postfix
9 2 (0.099%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.049%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.049%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.049%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 156 (7.68%) Kubernetes
2 129 (6.35%) Terraform
3 88 (4.33%) Ansible
4 67 (3.30%) Grafana
5 53 (2.61%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
8 21 (1.03%) Control-M
8 21 (1.03%) HP ALM
9 17 (0.84%) Nessus
10 16 (0.79%) IBM Guardium
11 15 (0.74%) Puppet
12 13 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
13 12 (0.59%) Consul
14 10 (0.49%) HP Quality Center
15 9 (0.44%) SCCM
16 8 (0.39%) FortiGate
17 7 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 7 (0.34%) Dell DRAC
17 7 (0.34%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 263 (12.96%) Microsoft
2 245 (12.07%) ServiceNow
3 168 (8.28%) Oracle
4 94 (4.63%) Salesforce
5 88 (4.33%) Atlassian
6 78 (3.84%) SAP
7 53 (2.61%) Google
8 38 (1.87%) Denodo
9 35 (1.72%) Remedy
9 35 (1.72%) Workday
10 32 (1.58%) Talend
11 29 (1.43%) F5
12 28 (1.38%) Red Hat
12 28 (1.38%) Splunk
13 27 (1.33%) IBM
13 27 (1.33%) Informatica
14 26 (1.28%) Databricks
14 26 (1.28%) VMware
15 25 (1.23%) MuleSoft
16 23 (1.13%) HP