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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 43 49
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -6
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,039 1,199 1,349
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.22% 4.92% 3.61%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.32% 36.13% 32.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,424 783 927
10th Percentile £313 £316 £343
25th Percentile £400 £405 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £630
90th Percentile £698 £687 £756
UK median daily rate £490 £500 £522
% change year-on-year -2.00% -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% -28.03%
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% -32.60%

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 5,057 3,319 4,162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.94% 13.63% 11.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,388 2,220 2,904
10th Percentile £340 £341 £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 209 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 £75.00 £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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +7 901 £510 +2.00% 202
North of England 0 373 £450 - 115
Midlands +4 305 £428 -9.84% 70
West Midlands +1 241 £458 -3.68% 42
South East -13 196 £475 -5.00% 145
Yorkshire -8 185 £454 -6.87% 37
North West +4 175 £447 -0.67% 60
South West +13 160 £568 +0.89% 42
East of England +2 65 £425 -6.85% 47
East Midlands +3 61 £358 -24.63% 28
North East -14 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
1 936 (45.90%) Confluence
2 104 (5.10%) SharePoint
3 44 (2.16%) SAS
4 32 (1.57%) nginx
5 23 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
6 20 (0.98%) Apache
7 17 (0.83%) 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%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.25%) JBoss
11 5 (0.25%) Mattermost
11 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.15%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 223 (10.94%) Microsoft Project
2 191 (9.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 110 (5.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 104 (5.10%) Microsoft Office
5 94 (4.61%) 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 (0.83%) 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%) SAP MDG
10 5 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
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 (20.30%) Azure
2 298 (14.62%) AWS
3 234 (11.48%) Azure DevOps
4 166 (8.14%) GitHub
5 144 (7.06%) Power Platform
6 74 (3.63%) GCP
7 73 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
8 69 (3.38%) Entra ID
9 68 (3.33%) SaaS
10 58 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
11 49 (2.40%) Serverless
12 39 (1.91%) Amazon S3
13 37 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
14 36 (1.77%) Figma
15 32 (1.57%) Miro
16 31 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
16 31 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
17 28 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 25 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
19 24 (1.18%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 59 (2.89%) Firewall
2 40 (1.96%) TCP/IP
3 39 (1.91%) DNS
4 28 (1.37%) LAN
5 27 (1.32%) VPN
6 25 (1.23%) Network Security
6 25 (1.23%) WAN
7 19 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (0.88%) SSL
9 17 (0.83%) HTTP
10 15 (0.74%) DHCP
11 12 (0.59%) Internet
11 12 (0.59%) SAN
12 11 (0.54%) BIG-IP
12 11 (0.54%) SD-WAN
13 10 (0.49%) Ethernet
13 10 (0.49%) NAS
13 10 (0.49%) Unified Communications
14 9 (0.44%) FTP
15 7 (0.34%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (6.03%) Power BI
2 70 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
4 63 (3.09%) Tableau
5 52 (2.55%) SQL Server
6 39 (1.91%) MongoDB
7 35 (1.72%) NoSQL
8 28 (1.37%) Pentaho
9 27 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
10 21 (1.03%) Relational Database
11 20 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (0.98%) Metadata
12 19 (0.93%) MySQL
13 18 (0.88%) DynamoDB
14 17 (0.83%) Big Data
15 16 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
16 14 (0.69%) Oracle Database
17 13 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 12 (0.59%) Hadoop
19 11 (0.54%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 257 (12.60%) Git
2 207 (10.15%) Jenkins
3 107 (5.25%) GitLab
4 99 (4.86%) Selenium
5 73 (3.58%) Postman
6 64 (3.14%) Cucumber
7 57 (2.80%) Bitbucket
8 52 (2.55%) JUnit
8 52 (2.55%) Zephyr
9 38 (1.86%) 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 (0.83%) Cypress.io
15 17 (0.83%) Maven
16 15 (0.74%) SpecFlow
17 14 (0.69%) Appium
18 13 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 827 (40.56%) Social Skills
2 589 (28.89%) Finance
3 399 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
4 261 (12.80%) Banking
5 213 (10.45%) Public Sector
6 75 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
7 73 (3.58%) Documentation Skills
8 70 (3.43%) Retail
9 50 (2.45%) Military
10 47 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
11 41 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
12 34 (1.67%) Legal
13 30 (1.47%) Manufacturing
14 29 (1.42%) Investment Banking
15 25 (1.23%) Front Office
16 22 (1.08%) Retail Banking
17 21 (1.03%) Marketing
18 20 (0.98%) Telecoms
19 19 (0.93%) Law
20 18 (0.88%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 398 (19.52%) Analyst
2 258 (12.65%) Business Analyst
3 183 (8.97%) Developer
4 159 (7.80%) Lead
5 150 (7.36%) Senior
6 149 (7.31%) Project Manager
7 124 (6.08%) Architect
8 101 (4.95%) Tester
9 73 (3.58%) Delivery Manager
10 62 (3.04%) Consultant
10 62 (3.04%) Data Engineer
11 56 (2.75%) Test Engineer
12 55 (2.70%) Scrum Master
13 48 (2.35%) Solutions Architect
14 47 (2.31%) IT Support
14 47 (2.31%) Support Engineer
14 47 (2.31%) Test Analyst
15 46 (2.26%) Technical Manager
16 43 (2.11%) Software Engineer
17 40 (1.96%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (6.47%) REST
2 65 (3.19%) Spring
3 59 (2.89%) .NET
4 53 (2.60%) React
5 49 (2.40%) Kafka
6 46 (2.26%) RESTful
7 44 (2.16%) JSON
8 43 (2.11%) HTML
8 43 (2.11%) Spring Boot
9 40 (1.96%) XML
10 38 (1.86%) CSS
11 37 (1.81%) Playwright
12 33 (1.62%) SOAP
13 29 (1.42%) Middleware
13 29 (1.42%) Node.js
13 29 (1.42%) OpenID
13 29 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
14 28 (1.37%) ADO
15 27 (1.32%) AngularJS
15 27 (1.32%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 251 (12.31%) Product Ownership
2 87 (4.27%) Onboarding
3 71 (3.48%) Cloud Native
4 45 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
4 45 (2.21%) Management Information System
5 44 (2.16%) Virtual Team
6 40 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
7 38 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
8 32 (1.57%) Data Centre
9 29 (1.42%) 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 (0.78%) 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 (7.80%) Windows
2 138 (6.77%) 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
6 10 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.49%) Windows Server
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 1,193 (58.51%) Agile
2 556 (27.27%) DevOps
3 509 (24.96%) Stakeholder Management
4 470 (23.05%) Problem-Solving
5 433 (21.24%) Scrum
6 395 (19.37%) CI/CD
7 373 (18.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 321 (15.74%) Test Automation
9 298 (14.62%) Project Management
10 248 (12.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 211 (10.35%) User Acceptance Testing
12 210 (10.30%) Migration
13 206 (10.10%) Change Management
14 205 (10.05%) User Stories
15 198 (9.71%) Project Delivery
16 187 (9.17%) ITIL
17 178 (8.73%) Acceptance Criteria
17 178 (8.73%) Analytics
17 178 (8.73%) Validation
18 177 (8.68%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 318 (15.60%) SQL
2 242 (11.87%) Python
3 191 (9.37%) Java
4 102 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 88 (4.32%) C#
6 76 (3.73%) PowerShell
7 59 (2.89%) TypeScript
8 42 (2.06%) Bash
9 32 (1.57%) C++
10 23 (1.13%) Shell Script
11 17 (0.83%) C
11 17 (0.83%) PL/SQL
12 16 (0.78%) 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
1 560 (27.46%) Security Cleared
2 442 (21.68%) SC Cleared
3 250 (12.26%) Degree
4 77 (3.78%) PMI Certification
5 74 (3.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 72 (3.53%) PMP
7 70 (3.43%) ISTQB
8 57 (2.80%) DV Cleared
9 38 (1.86%) CISSP
9 38 (1.86%) TOGAF Certification
10 37 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
11 29 (1.42%) Master's Degree
12 27 (1.32%) CISM
13 24 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
14 20 (0.98%) IIBA
15 19 (0.93%) Azure Certification
16 18 (0.88%) AWS Certification
16 18 (0.88%) CBAP
16 18 (0.88%) ISEB
17 17 (0.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 265 (13.00%) QA
2 122 (5.98%) PMO
3 104 (5.10%) Data Quality
4 51 (2.50%) GDPR
5 48 (2.35%) Accessibility
6 32 (1.57%) NIST
7 26 (1.28%) SLA
8 23 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 18 (0.88%) WCAG
10 17 (0.83%) 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
1 172 (8.44%) Docker
2 92 (4.51%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.64%) 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
1 185 (9.07%) Kubernetes
2 103 (5.05%) Terraform
3 88 (4.32%) Ansible
4 58 (2.84%) Grafana
5 42 (2.06%) Prometheus
6 33 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.47%) OPNET
8 26 (1.28%) HP ALM
9 24 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
10 22 (1.08%) Consul
11 21 (1.03%) Control-M
12 18 (0.88%) Puppet
13 15 (0.74%) Nessus
13 15 (0.74%) Packer
14 14 (0.69%) IBM Guardium
15 11 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
16 10 (0.49%) NetBackup
16 10 (0.49%) SCCM
17 9 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 8 (0.39%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 244 (11.97%) Microsoft
1 244 (11.97%) ServiceNow
2 167 (8.19%) Oracle
3 152 (7.45%) Atlassian
4 107 (5.25%) Salesforce
5 70 (3.43%) SAP
6 59 (2.89%) Remedy
7 47 (2.31%) Google
8 35 (1.72%) Workday
9 34 (1.67%) Talend
10 33 (1.62%) Splunk
11 32 (1.57%) Red Hat
12 30 (1.47%) Denodo
13 28 (1.37%) HP
13 28 (1.37%) IBM
14 26 (1.28%) Databricks
15 22 (1.08%) VMware
16 20 (0.98%) Adobe
16 20 (0.98%) Tenable
17 19 (0.93%) Informatica