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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 44 51
Rank change year-on-year +10 +7 -11
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,870 1,171 1,440
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.45% 4.57% 3.80%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.00% 33.92% 32.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,343 715 1,008
10th Percentile £313 £311 £331
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £592 £588 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £738
UK median daily rate £498 £485 £510
% change year-on-year +2.58% -4.90% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 23 52
10th Percentile £15.74 £45.40 £31.71
25th Percentile £25.00 £52.98 £40.00
Median hourly rate £63.14 £62.50 £54.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.02% +14.16% -15.77%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.50 £65.31
90th Percentile £95.00 £70.75 £74.69
UK median hourly rate £63.40 £62.50 £53.50
% change year-on-year +1.44% +16.82% -17.69%

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 4,795 3,452 4,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.98% 13.46% 11.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,300 2,163 3,081
10th Percentile £338 £338 £363
25th Percentile £409 £410 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £533
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -5.16% -7.39%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 60 209
10th Percentile £30.11 £27.38 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.11 £48.47
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.25
90th Percentile £80.30 £80.00 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 17 February 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 17 February 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 17 February 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 +7 840 £525 +5.00% 145
North of England +14 346 £447 -0.61% 85
Midlands +10 243 £448 -6.18% 97
South East -4 194 £478 +0.53% 160
Yorkshire +1 184 £480 -4.00% 39
West Midlands +4 180 £473 -0.94% 76
South West +16 153 £575 +2.00% 69
North West +22 146 £428 -5.00% 44
East Midlands +11 61 £356 -28.08% 21
East of England -11 60 £425 +3.03% 37
North East -4 16 £400 -11.11% 3
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
1 885 (47.33%) Confluence
2 114 (6.10%) SharePoint
3 34 (1.82%) nginx
4 31 (1.66%) SAS
5 24 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
6 22 (1.18%) CMS
7 12 (0.64%) Apache
8 11 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.43%) WebLogic
10 7 (0.37%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.32%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.32%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.32%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.16%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.16%) Drupal
13 3 (0.16%) IIS
13 3 (0.16%) SugarCRM
13 3 (0.16%) Traefik
Applications
1 198 (10.59%) Microsoft Project
2 173 (9.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 109 (5.83%) Microsoft Office
4 103 (5.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 77 (4.12%) MS Visio
6 24 (1.28%) Trello
7 6 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.27%) Notion
8 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.27%) Sketch
9 4 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.21%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.21%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.21%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 3 (0.16%) InVision
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.11%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.11%) CATIA
11 2 (0.11%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 17 (0.91%) NetSuite
2 16 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.59%) Workday HCM
4 10 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.53%) Fidessa
4 10 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 9 (0.48%) Loan IQ
6 8 (0.43%) Maximo
7 7 (0.37%) Aladdin
7 7 (0.37%) Oracle EBS R12
8 6 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.27%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.21%) Endur
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.21%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.21%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 361 (19.30%) Azure
2 281 (15.03%) AWS
3 193 (10.32%) Azure DevOps
4 167 (8.93%) GitHub
5 131 (7.01%) Power Platform
6 78 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
7 75 (4.01%) GCP
8 57 (3.05%) SaaS
9 47 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
10 43 (2.30%) Serverless
11 40 (2.14%) Entra ID
12 38 (2.03%) Amazon S3
13 37 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
14 33 (1.76%) Figma
14 33 (1.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 29 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
16 28 (1.50%) Amazon EKS
16 28 (1.50%) Slack
17 27 (1.44%) Miro
18 26 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 48 (2.57%) Firewall
2 39 (2.09%) DNS
3 32 (1.71%) TCP/IP
4 28 (1.50%) VPN
5 21 (1.12%) WAN
6 20 (1.07%) HTTP
6 20 (1.07%) LAN
7 17 (0.91%) SSH
8 16 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (0.70%) Network Security
10 11 (0.59%) FTP
11 10 (0.53%) SD-WAN
12 9 (0.48%) DHCP
12 9 (0.48%) Ethernet
12 9 (0.48%) SSL
12 9 (0.48%) Unified Communications
13 7 (0.37%) Modbus
13 7 (0.37%) RS-232
13 7 (0.37%) RS-485
13 7 (0.37%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (5.94%) Power BI
2 68 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
3 64 (3.42%) Tableau
4 47 (2.51%) SQL Server
5 37 (1.98%) NoSQL
6 36 (1.93%) MongoDB
7 31 (1.66%) Data Warehouse
8 27 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
9 21 (1.12%) Oracle Database
9 21 (1.12%) Pentaho
10 18 (0.96%) Big Data
10 18 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (0.96%) Metadata
10 18 (0.96%) Relational Database
11 17 (0.91%) MySQL
12 16 (0.86%) Data Vault
13 11 (0.59%) Star Schema
14 10 (0.53%) DynamoDB
14 10 (0.53%) Hadoop
15 9 (0.48%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 218 (11.66%) Git
2 216 (11.55%) Jenkins
3 114 (6.10%) GitLab
4 78 (4.17%) Selenium
5 69 (3.69%) Postman
6 54 (2.89%) Bitbucket
7 49 (2.62%) Cucumber
8 37 (1.98%) Sonatype Nexus
9 35 (1.87%) TestRail
10 34 (1.82%) REST Assured
11 32 (1.71%) SonarQube
12 31 (1.66%) Zephyr
13 30 (1.60%) JUnit
14 22 (1.18%) JMeter
15 21 (1.12%) Maven
16 17 (0.91%) Cypress.io
16 17 (0.91%) SpecFlow
17 14 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
18 12 (0.64%) SoapUI
19 11 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 772 (41.28%) Social Skills
2 522 (27.91%) Finance
3 368 (19.68%) Analytical Skills
4 235 (12.57%) Banking
5 197 (10.53%) Public Sector
6 68 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
7 67 (3.58%) Organisational Skills
8 66 (3.53%) Retail
9 54 (2.89%) Military
10 45 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
10 45 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
11 34 (1.82%) Investment Banking
12 30 (1.60%) Legal
13 26 (1.39%) Front Office
13 26 (1.39%) Manufacturing
14 25 (1.34%) Telecoms
15 22 (1.18%) Marketing
16 21 (1.12%) Retail Banking
17 16 (0.86%) Automotive
17 16 (0.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 385 (20.59%) Analyst
2 252 (13.48%) Business Analyst
3 175 (9.36%) Developer
4 153 (8.18%) Project Manager
5 143 (7.65%) Lead
6 125 (6.68%) Architect
6 125 (6.68%) Senior
7 79 (4.22%) Tester
8 56 (2.99%) Delivery Manager
9 55 (2.94%) Consultant
10 54 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
11 48 (2.57%) Test Engineer
12 47 (2.51%) Technical Analyst
13 46 (2.46%) Test Analyst
14 43 (2.30%) Technical Business Analyst
15 42 (2.25%) Scrum Master
16 40 (2.14%) Software Engineer
17 38 (2.03%) Technical Manager
18 37 (1.98%) Data Engineer
19 36 (1.93%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (7.65%) REST
2 60 (3.21%) .NET
3 52 (2.78%) Spring
4 48 (2.57%) RESTful
5 46 (2.46%) HTML
5 46 (2.46%) XML
6 45 (2.41%) Kafka
7 44 (2.35%) SOAP
8 43 (2.30%) React
9 42 (2.25%) Spring Boot
10 41 (2.19%) JSON
11 40 (2.14%) CSS
11 40 (2.14%) Playwright
12 31 (1.66%) Oracle Fusion
13 28 (1.50%) LDAP
14 27 (1.44%) AngularJS
14 27 (1.44%) Node.js
15 26 (1.39%) OpenID
16 25 (1.34%) FastAPI
17 23 (1.23%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 225 (12.03%) Product Ownership
2 84 (4.49%) Onboarding
3 64 (3.42%) Cloud Native
4 45 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
5 42 (2.25%) Management Information System
6 35 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (1.82%) Virtual Team
8 31 (1.66%) Data Structures
9 30 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
10 29 (1.55%) PMI
11 28 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
12 25 (1.34%) Mobile App
13 22 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
14 19 (1.02%) Public Cloud
14 19 (1.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 18 (0.96%) CMDB
16 17 (0.91%) Data Centre
17 14 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
17 14 (0.75%) Tandem
18 13 (0.70%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 144 (7.70%) Windows
2 124 (6.63%) Linux
3 31 (1.66%) Unix
4 23 (1.23%) Android
5 20 (1.07%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.70%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.64%) Windows Server
8 10 (0.53%) VMS
9 9 (0.48%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.37%) FreeRTOS
11 6 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.21%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.053%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.053%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.053%) Windows Embedded Compact
14 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.053%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,116 (59.68%) Agile
2 506 (27.06%) DevOps
3 475 (25.40%) Stakeholder Management
4 453 (24.22%) Problem-Solving
5 412 (22.03%) Scrum
6 363 (19.41%) CI/CD
7 309 (16.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 294 (15.72%) Project Management
9 272 (14.55%) Test Automation
10 245 (13.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 201 (10.75%) User Stories
12 192 (10.27%) User Acceptance Testing
13 187 (10.00%) Project Delivery
14 183 (9.79%) Migration
15 175 (9.36%) Change Management
16 166 (8.88%) Acceptance Criteria
17 160 (8.56%) Decision-Making
17 160 (8.56%) Roadmaps
18 155 (8.29%) Analytics
19 150 (8.02%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 282 (15.08%) SQL
2 252 (13.48%) Python
3 176 (9.41%) Java
4 105 (5.61%) JavaScript
5 80 (4.28%) PowerShell
6 75 (4.01%) C#
7 55 (2.94%) TypeScript
8 36 (1.93%) Bash
9 32 (1.71%) C++
10 26 (1.39%) Go
11 21 (1.12%) Shell Script
12 20 (1.07%) Embedded C++
13 16 (0.86%) PL/SQL
14 13 (0.70%) C
14 13 (0.70%) PHP
15 12 (0.64%) Perl
16 11 (0.59%) Groovy
16 11 (0.59%) Ruby
17 10 (0.53%) Apex Code
17 10 (0.53%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 482 (25.78%) Security Cleared
2 394 (21.07%) SC Cleared
3 266 (14.22%) Degree
4 88 (4.71%) PMI Certification
5 76 (4.06%) PMP
6 66 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 59 (3.16%) ISTQB
8 47 (2.51%) CISSP
8 47 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 47 (2.51%) DV Cleared
9 44 (2.35%) TOGAF Certification
10 39 (2.09%) CISM
11 35 (1.87%) Master's Degree
12 29 (1.55%) AWS Certification
13 24 (1.28%) CBAP
14 21 (1.12%) ISEB
15 18 (0.96%) Azure Certification
16 17 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 16 (0.86%) IIBA
18 15 (0.80%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 231 (12.35%) QA
2 107 (5.72%) PMO
3 78 (4.17%) Data Quality
4 55 (2.94%) Accessibility
5 44 (2.35%) GDPR
6 29 (1.55%) NIST
7 26 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (1.07%) PSD2
9 19 (1.02%) ISO 20022
9 19 (1.02%) WCAG
10 17 (0.91%) SLA
11 16 (0.86%) SEPA
12 13 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.64%) GRC
14 11 (0.59%) Basel III
14 11 (0.59%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.43%) NCSC
15 8 (0.43%) NIST 800
16 5 (0.27%) P3O
System Software
1 181 (9.68%) Docker
2 63 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.59%) Squid
6 9 (0.48%) Firmware
7 7 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.32%) DFS Replication
8 6 (0.32%) Postfix
9 5 (0.27%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 4 (0.21%) Dovecot
10 4 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.053%) etcd
12 1 (0.053%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.053%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.053%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 1 (0.053%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 169 (9.04%) Kubernetes
2 94 (5.03%) Terraform
3 78 (4.17%) Ansible
4 60 (3.21%) Grafana
5 45 (2.41%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.60%) OPNET
7 28 (1.50%) Control-M
8 26 (1.39%) Nessus
9 25 (1.34%) HP ALM
10 22 (1.18%) IBM Guardium
10 22 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
11 21 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
12 20 (1.07%) Consul
13 16 (0.86%) Packer
14 14 (0.75%) Puppet
15 12 (0.64%) SCCM
16 10 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
17 9 (0.48%) NetBackup
18 7 (0.37%) Argo
19 6 (0.32%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 234 (12.51%) Microsoft
2 202 (10.80%) ServiceNow
3 152 (8.13%) Oracle
4 132 (7.06%) Atlassian
5 98 (5.24%) Salesforce
6 62 (3.32%) SAP
7 47 (2.51%) Remedy
8 45 (2.41%) Google
9 40 (2.14%) IBM
10 27 (1.44%) HP
10 27 (1.44%) Red Hat
10 27 (1.44%) Tenable
10 27 (1.44%) Workday
11 25 (1.34%) Splunk
12 24 (1.28%) Talend
13 23 (1.23%) BiZZdesign
14 21 (1.12%) Adobe
14 21 (1.12%) Databricks
15 20 (1.07%) Denodo
16 18 (0.96%) VMware