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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 32 45
Rank change year-on-year -8 +13 +2
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,132 1,515 1,463
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.76% 5.57% 4.00%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.57% 39.37% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,440 1,030 979
10th Percentile £325 £325 £331
25th Percentile £402 £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 £695 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 39 96
10th Percentile £18.75 £47.90 £25.28
25th Percentile £24.60 £50.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £53.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.20% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £65.13 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.40 £85.95 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -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 5,255 3,848 4,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.74% 14.16% 12.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,372 2,627 3,031
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 235 91 228
10th Percentile £28.08 £30.75 £32.61
25th Percentile £57.63 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -4 978 £525 +0.96% 144
North of England -10 418 £450 -3.23% 51
Midlands -3 301 £450 -5.26% 53
West Midlands -1 254 £459 -3.37% 34
Yorkshire -7 232 £455 -8.31% 18
South East -31 213 £475 -3.46% 120
North West -12 170 £447 +5.18% 30
South West 0 129 £490 -14.78% 54
East of England -12 59 £425 +6.25% 41
East Midlands +2 45 £402 -10.07% 19
North East -35 21 £550 - 4
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
1 932 (43.71%) Confluence
2 113 (5.30%) SharePoint
3 34 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 30 (1.41%) SAS
5 14 (0.66%) nginx
6 13 (0.61%) CMS
7 12 (0.56%) Apache
8 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.28%) Ethereum
9 6 (0.28%) Hyperledger
9 6 (0.28%) Mattermost
9 6 (0.28%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.23%) Apache Spark
11 4 (0.19%) Camunda
11 4 (0.19%) IIS
11 4 (0.19%) JBoss
11 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.19%) WordPress
12 3 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
12 3 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 152 (7.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 149 (6.99%) Microsoft Project
3 85 (3.99%) MS Visio
4 73 (3.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 62 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
6 15 (0.70%) Trello
7 13 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.47%) AutoCAD
8 10 (0.47%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.38%) Revit
10 4 (0.19%) Notion
11 2 (0.094%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.094%) CATIA
12 1 (0.047%) Mingle
12 1 (0.047%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.047%) Sketch
12 1 (0.047%) SOLIDWORKS
12 1 (0.047%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 32 (1.50%) Remedy ITSM
1 32 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.56%) Aladdin
4 10 (0.47%) Loan IQ
4 10 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
5 9 (0.42%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.38%) Findur
7 6 (0.28%) Fidessa
7 6 (0.28%) Teamcenter
8 5 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.23%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.23%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.19%) Actimize
9 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.14%) Primavera
10 3 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 3 (0.14%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 520 (24.39%) Azure
2 345 (16.18%) AWS
3 293 (13.74%) Azure DevOps
4 177 (8.30%) GitHub
5 159 (7.46%) Power Platform
6 88 (4.13%) Microsoft 365
7 82 (3.85%) Entra ID
8 81 (3.80%) GCP
9 80 (3.75%) SaaS
10 76 (3.56%) Amazon S3
11 74 (3.47%) Serverless
12 64 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
13 59 (2.77%) AWS Lambda
14 57 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 54 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
16 38 (1.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 33 (1.55%) Miro
18 30 (1.41%) Smartsheet
19 29 (1.36%) Figma
20 28 (1.31%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 88 (4.13%) Firewall
2 69 (3.24%) DNS
3 50 (2.35%) TCP/IP
4 37 (1.74%) Network Security
5 34 (1.59%) VPN
6 33 (1.55%) DHCP
7 29 (1.36%) LAN
8 27 (1.27%) WAN
9 24 (1.13%) BIG-IP
10 23 (1.08%) SAN
11 19 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
12 17 (0.80%) SSL
13 14 (0.66%) HTTP
14 12 (0.56%) Internet
14 12 (0.56%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 10 (0.47%) Unified Communications
16 9 (0.42%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 8 (0.38%) NAS
17 8 (0.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (6.52%) Power BI
2 96 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
3 78 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (2.35%) SQL Server
5 43 (2.02%) Oracle Reports
6 33 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
7 32 (1.50%) MongoDB
8 26 (1.22%) DynamoDB
8 26 (1.22%) Relational Database
8 26 (1.22%) Tableau
9 25 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
10 24 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
11 22 (1.03%) NoSQL
12 19 (0.89%) Data Lake
13 17 (0.80%) Oracle Database
13 17 (0.80%) Pentaho
14 16 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 13 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
15 13 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (0.61%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 254 (11.91%) Git
2 198 (9.29%) Jenkins
3 121 (5.68%) GitLab
4 94 (4.41%) Selenium
5 72 (3.38%) Zephyr
6 69 (3.24%) Postman
7 57 (2.67%) Bitbucket
7 57 (2.67%) JUnit
8 51 (2.39%) Cucumber
9 36 (1.69%) JMeter
10 33 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
11 25 (1.17%) REST Assured
12 24 (1.13%) Cypress.io
13 23 (1.08%) WebDriver
14 21 (0.98%) SonarQube
14 21 (0.98%) TestRail
15 17 (0.80%) Artifactory
16 15 (0.70%) Appium
16 15 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 11 (0.52%) TestNG
General
1 838 (39.31%) Social Skills
2 601 (28.19%) Finance
3 391 (18.34%) Analytical Skills
4 259 (12.15%) Banking
5 230 (10.79%) Public Sector
6 81 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
7 77 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
8 69 (3.24%) Retail
9 44 (2.06%) Manufacturing
10 40 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
10 40 (1.88%) Legal
11 37 (1.74%) Investment Banking
12 30 (1.41%) Front Office
13 29 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 27 (1.27%) Telecoms
16 24 (1.13%) Retail Banking
17 23 (1.08%) Marketing
18 20 (0.94%) Financial Institution
18 20 (0.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 393 (18.43%) Analyst
2 244 (11.44%) Business Analyst
3 212 (9.94%) Developer
4 188 (8.82%) Lead
4 188 (8.82%) Senior
5 121 (5.68%) Project Manager
6 93 (4.36%) Delivery Manager
7 90 (4.22%) Tester
8 88 (4.13%) Architect
9 79 (3.71%) Scrum Master
10 76 (3.56%) Consultant
11 71 (3.33%) Data Engineer
12 64 (3.00%) IT Support
13 60 (2.81%) Support Engineer
14 47 (2.20%) Product Owner
15 46 (2.16%) IT Engineer
15 46 (2.16%) Test Analyst
16 44 (2.06%) Senior Manager
16 44 (2.06%) Test Leader
17 43 (2.02%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (5.63%) REST
2 71 (3.33%) .NET
3 58 (2.72%) Spring
4 53 (2.49%) RESTful
5 52 (2.44%) React
6 51 (2.39%) JSON
7 48 (2.25%) HTML
8 45 (2.11%) Kafka
9 39 (1.83%) Spring Boot
10 38 (1.78%) AngularJS
10 38 (1.78%) SOAP
11 37 (1.74%) CSS
12 36 (1.69%) Playwright
13 30 (1.41%) XML
14 28 (1.31%) Middleware
14 28 (1.31%) Web Services
15 27 (1.27%) Node.js
16 26 (1.22%) WireMock
17 24 (1.13%) .NET Framework
18 23 (1.08%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 239 (11.21%) Product Ownership
2 131 (6.14%) Onboarding
3 90 (4.22%) Cloud Native
4 66 (3.10%) Data Centre
5 54 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
6 51 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
7 50 (2.35%) Virtual Team
8 49 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
9 46 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
10 45 (2.11%) Management Information System
11 33 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
12 31 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
12 31 (1.45%) Data Structures
13 20 (0.94%) Mobile App
14 19 (0.89%) SCADA
15 18 (0.84%) Enterprise Storage
15 18 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 18 (0.84%) Security Posture
16 16 (0.75%) Derivative
17 15 (0.70%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 166 (7.79%) Windows
2 130 (6.10%) Linux
3 50 (2.35%) Unix
4 25 (1.17%) Windows 10
5 20 (0.94%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.84%) Mac OS
7 17 (0.80%) Android
8 16 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.33%) Windows Server
10 5 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.14%) AIX
11 3 (0.14%) Check Point GAiA
11 3 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.094%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.094%) MVS
12 2 (0.094%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.047%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.047%) SUSE
13 1 (0.047%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,245 (58.40%) Agile
2 576 (27.02%) Stakeholder Management
3 569 (26.69%) DevOps
4 471 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
5 466 (21.86%) CI/CD
6 413 (19.37%) Scrum
7 398 (18.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 352 (16.51%) Test Automation
9 274 (12.85%) Migration
10 260 (12.20%) User Acceptance Testing
11 239 (11.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 233 (10.93%) Project Management
13 231 (10.83%) User Stories
14 222 (10.41%) Validation
15 213 (9.99%) AI
16 212 (9.94%) Change Management
17 206 (9.66%) Sprint Planning
18 195 (9.15%) ITIL
19 188 (8.82%) Project Delivery
20 186 (8.72%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 340 (15.95%) SQL
2 267 (12.52%) Python
3 159 (7.46%) Java
4 94 (4.41%) C#
5 89 (4.17%) JavaScript
6 67 (3.14%) PowerShell
6 67 (3.14%) TypeScript
7 43 (2.02%) Bash
8 32 (1.50%) PL/SQL
9 19 (0.89%) VBA
10 16 (0.75%) Perl
11 15 (0.70%) Apex Code
11 15 (0.70%) Shell Script
12 13 (0.61%) Bicep
13 12 (0.56%) C++
13 12 (0.56%) Groovy
13 12 (0.56%) Kotlin
14 11 (0.52%) ActionScript
15 7 (0.33%) C
15 7 (0.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 549 (25.75%) Security Cleared
2 421 (19.75%) SC Cleared
3 193 (9.05%) Degree
4 82 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 75 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 65 (3.05%) ISTQB
7 60 (2.81%) PMI Certification
8 51 (2.39%) PMP
9 32 (1.50%) CISSP
10 31 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
11 24 (1.13%) AWS Certification
11 24 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (1.08%) Azure Certification
13 20 (0.94%) CISM
14 19 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
15 17 (0.80%) SAFe Agilist
16 16 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 16 (0.75%) Master's Degree
17 11 (0.52%) CCNA
17 11 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 261 (12.24%) QA
2 123 (5.77%) Data Quality
3 117 (5.49%) PMO
4 66 (3.10%) Accessibility
5 39 (1.83%) SLA
6 38 (1.78%) GDPR
7 26 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (1.22%) WCAG
8 22 (1.03%) NIST
9 17 (0.80%) GRC
9 17 (0.80%) NCSC
10 16 (0.75%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.47%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.33%) SEPA
13 6 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.28%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.28%) JSP 440
13 6 (0.28%) MiFID
13 6 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 146 (6.85%) Docker
2 120 (5.63%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.61%) Firmware
5 10 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 10 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (0.42%) Squid
7 6 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.14%) HDFS
9 2 (0.094%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.094%) Postfix
9 2 (0.094%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.047%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.047%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.047%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.047%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 166 (7.79%) Kubernetes
2 151 (7.08%) Terraform
3 96 (4.50%) Ansible
4 70 (3.28%) Grafana
5 56 (2.63%) Prometheus
6 42 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
8 24 (1.13%) Control-M
8 24 (1.13%) HP ALM
9 18 (0.84%) Nessus
10 17 (0.80%) IBM Guardium
11 14 (0.66%) Puppet
12 13 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
13 12 (0.56%) Consul
14 10 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 10 (0.47%) HP Quality Center
15 8 (0.38%) Dell DRAC
15 8 (0.38%) FortiGate
15 8 (0.38%) Packer
15 8 (0.38%) SCCM
Vendors
1 303 (14.21%) Microsoft
2 265 (12.43%) ServiceNow
3 155 (7.27%) Oracle
4 109 (5.11%) Salesforce
5 93 (4.36%) Atlassian
6 84 (3.94%) SAP
7 52 (2.44%) Google
8 38 (1.78%) IBM
9 37 (1.74%) Denodo
10 35 (1.64%) Remedy
11 32 (1.50%) F5
11 32 (1.50%) Talend
12 31 (1.45%) VMware
13 30 (1.41%) Red Hat
13 30 (1.41%) Workday
14 29 (1.36%) Databricks
15 28 (1.31%) Informatica
15 28 (1.31%) Splunk
16 27 (1.27%) HP
17 24 (1.13%) MuleSoft