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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 32 46
Rank change year-on-year -8 +14 +1
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,146 1,519 1,457
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.79% 5.57% 3.97%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.57% 39.38% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,453 1,033 968
10th Percentile £325 £325 £331
25th Percentile £401 £402 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £622
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £514
% change year-on-year - -2.68% -2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 37 97
10th Percentile £18.75 £47.80 £25.28
25th Percentile £24.60 £50.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £53.00 £57.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.23% -11.15% +4.00%
75th Percentile £66.13 £70.16 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.40 £79.25 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -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 5,289 3,857 4,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.80% 14.13% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,406 2,640 3,029
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 239 88 230
10th Percentile £29.86 £30.05 £32.87
25th Percentile £59.00 £50.00 £51.56
Median hourly rate £68.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £74.04
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +6.40% -3.85% +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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -5 987 £525 +0.96% 230
North of England -8 426 £450 -3.23% 97
Midlands -1 306 £450 -5.26% 58
West Midlands -2 256 £459 -3.37% 37
Yorkshire -7 234 £454 -8.51% 37
South East -34 210 £475 -3.26% 140
North West -12 175 £447 +5.18% 49
South West -7 128 £490 -13.08% 62
East of England -11 59 £425 +4.62% 36
East Midlands +5 48 £401 -10.59% 21
North East -30 22 £515 -6.36% 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
1 939 (43.76%) Confluence
2 112 (5.22%) SharePoint
3 33 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 29 (1.35%) SAS
5 14 (0.65%) nginx
6 13 (0.61%) Apache
6 13 (0.61%) CMS
7 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.28%) Ethereum
8 6 (0.28%) Hyperledger
8 6 (0.28%) Mattermost
8 6 (0.28%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.23%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.19%) IIS
10 4 (0.19%) JBoss
10 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.19%) WordPress
11 3 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
11 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
Applications
1 155 (7.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 148 (6.90%) Microsoft Project
3 89 (4.15%) MS Visio
4 77 (3.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 65 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
6 13 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.61%) Trello
7 10 (0.47%) AutoCAD
7 10 (0.47%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.37%) Revit
9 4 (0.19%) Notion
10 2 (0.093%) CATIA
11 1 (0.047%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.047%) CANalyzer
11 1 (0.047%) Mingle
11 1 (0.047%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.047%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.047%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 31 (1.44%) Remedy ITSM
1 31 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.51%) Aladdin
3 11 (0.51%) Loan IQ
3 11 (0.51%) Workday HCM
4 10 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
5 8 (0.37%) Fidessa
5 8 (0.37%) Findur
6 6 (0.28%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.23%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.23%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.19%) Actimize
8 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
8 4 (0.19%) Summit
9 3 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.14%) Primavera
9 3 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 513 (23.90%) Azure
2 349 (16.26%) AWS
3 289 (13.47%) Azure DevOps
4 180 (8.39%) GitHub
5 157 (7.32%) Power Platform
6 89 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
7 84 (3.91%) Entra ID
8 80 (3.73%) GCP
9 79 (3.68%) SaaS
10 76 (3.54%) Amazon S3
11 74 (3.45%) Serverless
12 63 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
13 58 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
14 57 (2.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 53 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
16 38 (1.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 31 (1.44%) Miro
18 29 (1.35%) Figma
19 28 (1.30%) Slack
19 28 (1.30%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 89 (4.15%) Firewall
2 66 (3.08%) DNS
3 49 (2.28%) TCP/IP
4 39 (1.82%) Network Security
5 32 (1.49%) DHCP
5 32 (1.49%) VPN
6 31 (1.44%) LAN
7 28 (1.30%) WAN
8 24 (1.12%) BIG-IP
9 23 (1.07%) SAN
10 19 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
11 18 (0.84%) SSL
12 14 (0.65%) HTTP
13 12 (0.56%) Internet
13 12 (0.56%) SD-WAN
14 10 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 10 (0.47%) Unified Communications
15 9 (0.42%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 8 (0.37%) NAS
16 8 (0.37%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (6.48%) Power BI
2 96 (4.47%) Data Warehouse
3 77 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
4 53 (2.47%) SQL Server
5 43 (2.00%) Oracle Reports
6 33 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
6 33 (1.54%) MongoDB
7 31 (1.44%) Tableau
8 27 (1.26%) DynamoDB
9 25 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
9 25 (1.16%) Relational Database
10 24 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
10 24 (1.12%) NoSQL
11 19 (0.89%) Data Lake
12 17 (0.79%) Oracle Database
12 17 (0.79%) Pentaho
13 16 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (0.70%) Neo4j
15 13 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
15 13 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 256 (11.93%) Git
2 203 (9.46%) Jenkins
3 122 (5.68%) GitLab
4 99 (4.61%) Selenium
5 75 (3.49%) Postman
6 72 (3.36%) Zephyr
7 59 (2.75%) Bitbucket
8 56 (2.61%) JUnit
9 54 (2.52%) Cucumber
10 41 (1.91%) JMeter
11 36 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
12 26 (1.21%) REST Assured
13 24 (1.12%) Cypress.io
14 23 (1.07%) WebDriver
15 20 (0.93%) SonarQube
15 20 (0.93%) TestRail
16 17 (0.79%) Artifactory
17 15 (0.70%) Appium
17 15 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 14 (0.65%) Gatling
General
1 840 (39.14%) Social Skills
2 610 (28.42%) Finance
3 392 (18.27%) Analytical Skills
4 264 (12.30%) Banking
5 224 (10.44%) Public Sector
6 80 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
7 77 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
8 70 (3.26%) Retail
9 46 (2.14%) Manufacturing
10 40 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
10 40 (1.86%) Investment Banking
10 40 (1.86%) Legal
11 31 (1.44%) Front Office
12 29 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
13 28 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 24 (1.12%) Retail Banking
15 23 (1.07%) Telecoms
16 21 (0.98%) Financial Institution
16 21 (0.98%) Marketing
17 20 (0.93%) Military
Job Titles
1 391 (18.22%) Analyst
2 247 (11.51%) Business Analyst
3 213 (9.93%) Developer
4 188 (8.76%) Lead
5 183 (8.53%) Senior
6 121 (5.64%) Project Manager
7 94 (4.38%) Architect
8 91 (4.24%) Tester
9 90 (4.19%) Delivery Manager
10 79 (3.68%) Scrum Master
11 76 (3.54%) Consultant
12 75 (3.49%) Data Engineer
13 69 (3.22%) IT Support
14 63 (2.94%) Support Engineer
15 50 (2.33%) IT Engineer
16 47 (2.19%) IT Support Engineer
16 47 (2.19%) Product Owner
17 45 (2.10%) Test Engineer
18 44 (2.05%) Test Analyst
18 44 (2.05%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (5.78%) REST
2 71 (3.31%) .NET
3 63 (2.94%) Spring
4 52 (2.42%) JSON
4 52 (2.42%) RESTful
5 50 (2.33%) React
6 48 (2.24%) HTML
7 45 (2.10%) Kafka
8 41 (1.91%) Spring Boot
9 40 (1.86%) Playwright
10 39 (1.82%) SOAP
11 38 (1.77%) AngularJS
12 36 (1.68%) CSS
13 30 (1.40%) XML
14 28 (1.30%) Node.js
14 28 (1.30%) Web Services
15 26 (1.21%) Middleware
15 26 (1.21%) OpenID
15 26 (1.21%) WireMock
16 24 (1.12%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 236 (11.00%) Product Ownership
2 130 (6.06%) Onboarding
3 94 (4.38%) Cloud Native
4 65 (3.03%) Data Centre
5 53 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
6 52 (2.42%) Virtual Team
7 49 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
7 49 (2.28%) Management Information System
7 49 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
8 43 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
9 33 (1.54%) Data Structures
9 33 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
10 31 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
11 19 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 19 (0.89%) Mobile App
12 18 (0.84%) Enterprise Storage
12 18 (0.84%) SCADA
12 18 (0.84%) Security Posture
13 17 (0.79%) Public Cloud
14 16 (0.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 171 (7.97%) Windows
2 133 (6.20%) Linux
3 48 (2.24%) Unix
4 26 (1.21%) Windows 10
5 19 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.84%) Mac OS
7 16 (0.75%) Android
7 16 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.33%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
10 3 (0.14%) AIX
10 3 (0.14%) Check Point GAiA
10 3 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 2 (0.093%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.093%) MVS
11 2 (0.093%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.047%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.047%) Solaris
12 1 (0.047%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,253 (58.39%) Agile
2 569 (26.51%) Stakeholder Management
3 568 (26.47%) DevOps
4 477 (22.23%) Problem-Solving
5 469 (21.85%) CI/CD
6 417 (19.43%) Scrum
7 388 (18.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 365 (17.01%) Test Automation
9 271 (12.63%) Migration
10 260 (12.12%) User Acceptance Testing
11 238 (11.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 234 (10.90%) Project Management
13 230 (10.72%) Validation
14 228 (10.62%) User Stories
15 209 (9.74%) Change Management
16 208 (9.69%) AI
17 201 (9.37%) Sprint Planning
18 195 (9.09%) ITIL
19 193 (8.99%) SDLC
20 191 (8.90%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 347 (16.17%) SQL
2 274 (12.77%) Python
3 169 (7.88%) Java
4 93 (4.33%) C#
5 89 (4.15%) JavaScript
6 71 (3.31%) TypeScript
7 66 (3.08%) PowerShell
8 42 (1.96%) Bash
9 32 (1.49%) PL/SQL
10 19 (0.89%) VBA
11 16 (0.75%) Perl
12 15 (0.70%) Apex Code
12 15 (0.70%) C++
13 14 (0.65%) Shell Script
14 13 (0.61%) Bicep
15 12 (0.56%) Groovy
15 12 (0.56%) Kotlin
16 11 (0.51%) ActionScript
17 8 (0.37%) Cypher
17 8 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 552 (25.72%) Security Cleared
2 424 (19.76%) SC Cleared
3 193 (8.99%) Degree
4 82 (3.82%) DV Cleared
5 76 (3.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 64 (2.98%) ISTQB
7 56 (2.61%) PMI Certification
8 50 (2.33%) PMP
9 34 (1.58%) CISSP
10 31 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
11 25 (1.16%) AWS Certification
11 25 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (1.07%) Azure Certification
13 22 (1.03%) CISM
14 19 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
15 16 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 16 (0.75%) Master's Degree
15 16 (0.75%) SAFe Agilist
16 12 (0.56%) CCNA
17 11 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 264 (12.30%) QA
2 127 (5.92%) Data Quality
3 113 (5.27%) PMO
4 64 (2.98%) Accessibility
5 37 (1.72%) GDPR
5 37 (1.72%) SLA
6 26 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 24 (1.12%) WCAG
8 23 (1.07%) NIST
9 18 (0.84%) GRC
10 17 (0.79%) NCSC
10 17 (0.79%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.56%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.42%) SEPA
13 8 (0.37%) PSD2
14 7 (0.33%) MiFID
15 6 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.28%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.28%) JSP 440
15 6 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 148 (6.90%) Docker
2 122 (5.68%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.61%) Firmware
5 10 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (0.42%) Squid
6 9 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.23%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.14%) HDFS
9 2 (0.093%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.093%) Postfix
9 2 (0.093%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.047%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.047%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.047%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 166 (7.74%) Kubernetes
2 150 (6.99%) Terraform
3 96 (4.47%) Ansible
4 70 (3.26%) Grafana
5 56 (2.61%) Prometheus
6 42 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
8 24 (1.12%) Control-M
8 24 (1.12%) HP ALM
9 18 (0.84%) Nessus
10 17 (0.79%) IBM Guardium
11 14 (0.65%) Puppet
12 13 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
13 12 (0.56%) Consul
13 12 (0.56%) HP Quality Center
14 10 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 8 (0.37%) Dell DRAC
15 8 (0.37%) FortiGate
15 8 (0.37%) Packer
15 8 (0.37%) SCCM
Vendors
1 307 (14.31%) Microsoft
2 267 (12.44%) ServiceNow
3 160 (7.46%) Oracle
4 106 (4.94%) Salesforce
5 92 (4.29%) Atlassian
6 81 (3.77%) SAP
7 54 (2.52%) Google
8 37 (1.72%) Denodo
9 36 (1.68%) IBM
10 34 (1.58%) Remedy
10 34 (1.58%) Workday
11 32 (1.49%) Databricks
11 32 (1.49%) F5
11 32 (1.49%) Talend
12 31 (1.44%) Informatica
12 31 (1.44%) VMware
13 30 (1.40%) Red Hat
14 28 (1.30%) Splunk
15 27 (1.26%) HP
16 23 (1.07%) MuleSoft