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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 32 41
Rank change year-on-year -17 +9 +9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,022 1,661 1,417
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.34% 5.95% 4.43%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.52% 39.02% 32.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,304 1,198 893
10th Percentile £350 £316 £321
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year - -0.50% -6.07%
75th Percentile £590 £608 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £684
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 45 63
10th Percentile £18.80 £15.74 £33.97
25th Percentile £24.05 £43.00 £60.00
Median hourly rate £59.37 £55.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.94% -21.43% +12.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 -
90th Percentile £78.55 £81.80 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £51.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +7.84% -27.14% +12.00%

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 5,389 4,257 4,307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.58% 15.25% 13.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,416 2,963 2,694
10th Percentile £354 £325 £350
25th Percentile £416 £405 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 97 159
10th Percentile £22.68 £33.90 £41.51
25th Percentile £51.01 £50.00 £54.66
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.16 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £76.00 £72.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% -

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 -16 943 £538 +2.38% 607
North of England -24 341 £485 +2.11% 175
Midlands -8 255 £458 +0.33% 81
West Midlands -13 223 £459 -3.37% 50
Yorkshire -11 209 £485 -3.00% 81
South East -35 206 £459 -4.38% 211
South West +1 151 £525 -3.45% 62
North West -51 115 £475 +8.26% 78
East of England +10 89 £472 +12.51% 60
East Midlands -14 32 £405 +12.81% 31
North East -43 21 £400 -23.08% 16
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
1 920 (45.50%) Confluence
2 105 (5.19%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.34%) SAS
4 26 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 24 (1.19%) CMS
6 10 (0.49%) Apache
6 10 (0.49%) Camunda
7 8 (0.40%) nginx
8 7 (0.35%) IIS
9 6 (0.30%) CICS
9 6 (0.30%) WebLogic
10 5 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.25%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.25%) Headless CMS
10 5 (0.25%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.25%) Kentico
10 5 (0.25%) MTS
10 5 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.20%) Traefik
Applications
1 143 (7.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (5.93%) Microsoft Project
3 82 (4.06%) MS Visio
4 67 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
5 60 (2.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 20 (0.99%) Trello
7 19 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.40%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.30%) Revit
10 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.25%) Notion
11 4 (0.20%) Windchill
12 3 (0.15%) Mingle
13 2 (0.099%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.099%) Gliffy
13 2 (0.099%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.049%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.049%) Adobe Illustrator
14 1 (0.049%) Adobe Premiere
14 1 (0.049%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 32 (1.58%) Remedy ITSM
2 18 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
3 12 (0.59%) Workday HCM
4 10 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.45%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 6 (0.30%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.25%) Fidessa
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.25%) ResourceLink
7 5 (0.25%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.20%) Findur
8 4 (0.20%) SAP HCM
9 3 (0.15%) Maximo
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.15%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 494 (24.43%) Azure
2 313 (15.48%) AWS
3 283 (14.00%) Azure DevOps
4 167 (8.26%) GitHub
5 162 (8.01%) Power Platform
6 106 (5.24%) GCP
7 96 (4.75%) Microsoft 365
8 64 (3.17%) Serverless
9 63 (3.12%) SaaS
10 59 (2.92%) Amazon S3
11 52 (2.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 51 (2.52%) Entra ID
13 47 (2.32%) GitHub Actions
14 45 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
15 40 (1.98%) Miro
16 38 (1.88%) Amazon EC2
17 36 (1.78%) Smartsheet
18 33 (1.63%) Microsoft Copilot
18 33 (1.63%) Snowflake
19 26 (1.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 73 (3.61%) Firewall
2 71 (3.51%) DNS
3 44 (2.18%) TCP/IP
4 34 (1.68%) VPN
5 30 (1.48%) DHCP
6 25 (1.24%) Network Security
7 21 (1.04%) IPv4
7 21 (1.04%) IPv6
8 20 (0.99%) WAN
9 19 (0.94%) BIG-IP
10 17 (0.84%) Broadband
10 17 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (0.74%) SAN
11 15 (0.74%) VLAN
12 14 (0.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 14 (0.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 11 (0.54%) SSL
14 10 (0.49%) SD-WAN
14 10 (0.49%) SSH
14 10 (0.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (7.07%) Power BI
2 96 (4.75%) Data Warehouse
3 76 (3.76%) SQL Server
4 57 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
5 40 (1.98%) Relational Database
6 36 (1.78%) Oracle Reports
7 28 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (1.29%) MongoDB
9 24 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
10 22 (1.09%) Oracle Database
11 21 (1.04%) Metadata
12 20 (0.99%) Data Lake
13 19 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 19 (0.94%) Tableau
14 18 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
15 17 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
16 15 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 14 (0.69%) Neo4j
18 13 (0.64%) NoSQL
18 13 (0.64%) Redis
Development Applications
1 243 (12.02%) Git
2 171 (8.46%) Jenkins
3 124 (6.13%) GitLab
4 78 (3.86%) Zephyr
5 71 (3.51%) Bitbucket
6 69 (3.41%) Selenium
7 64 (3.17%) Postman
8 37 (1.83%) JUnit
9 33 (1.63%) Cucumber
10 30 (1.48%) REST Assured
11 29 (1.43%) JMeter
12 28 (1.38%) Maven
12 28 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
13 27 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 25 (1.24%) Rational Rhapsody
15 24 (1.19%) Cypress.io
15 24 (1.19%) TestRail
16 23 (1.14%) Mockito
17 21 (1.04%) SonarQube
18 18 (0.89%) Artifactory
General
1 806 (39.86%) Social Skills
2 603 (29.82%) Finance
3 408 (20.18%) Analytical Skills
4 287 (14.19%) Banking
5 241 (11.92%) Public Sector
6 93 (4.60%) Organisational Skills
7 71 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
7 71 (3.51%) Retail
8 59 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
9 55 (2.72%) Investment Banking
10 52 (2.57%) Manufacturing
11 51 (2.52%) Telecoms
12 40 (1.98%) Legal
13 39 (1.93%) Front Office
13 39 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 34 (1.68%) Marketing
15 26 (1.29%) Retail Banking
16 24 (1.19%) Financial Institution
17 19 (0.94%) Aerospace
17 19 (0.94%) Law
Job Titles
1 363 (17.95%) Analyst
2 222 (10.98%) Lead
3 208 (10.29%) Business Analyst
4 204 (10.09%) Developer
5 175 (8.65%) Senior
6 115 (5.69%) Project Manager
7 76 (3.76%) Consultant
8 74 (3.66%) Architect
9 71 (3.51%) Delivery Manager
10 68 (3.36%) Scrum Master
11 62 (3.07%) Tester
12 58 (2.87%) Test Analyst
13 51 (2.52%) Product Owner
13 51 (2.52%) Test Leader
14 50 (2.47%) Administrator
15 45 (2.23%) Support Engineer
16 44 (2.18%) Data Engineer
17 41 (2.03%) Test Engineer
18 40 (1.98%) Senior Analyst
19 38 (1.88%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (8.01%) REST
2 129 (6.38%) Terraform
3 81 (4.01%) .NET
4 62 (3.07%) HTML
5 60 (2.97%) RESTful
6 54 (2.67%) SOAP
7 48 (2.37%) Web Services
8 47 (2.32%) AngularJS
8 47 (2.32%) JSON
8 47 (2.32%) React
9 44 (2.18%) Kafka
10 40 (1.98%) Playwright
10 40 (1.98%) XML
11 39 (1.93%) Spring
12 38 (1.88%) CSS
12 38 (1.88%) Spring Boot
13 31 (1.53%) Middleware
13 31 (1.53%) pytest
14 27 (1.34%) Hibernate
14 27 (1.34%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 277 (13.70%) Product Ownership
2 139 (6.87%) Onboarding
3 89 (4.40%) Cloud Native
4 71 (3.51%) Data Centre
5 65 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
6 56 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
7 53 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
8 50 (2.47%) Virtual Team
9 41 (2.03%) Management Information System
10 39 (1.93%) Data Structures
11 38 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
12 30 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
13 25 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
14 23 (1.14%) Credit Risk
15 20 (0.99%) Low-Code
15 20 (0.99%) Mobile App
15 20 (0.99%) Replication
16 19 (0.94%) SCADA
17 18 (0.89%) Derivative
18 17 (0.84%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 144 (7.12%) Windows
2 136 (6.73%) Linux
3 42 (2.08%) Unix
4 30 (1.48%) Windows 10
5 22 (1.09%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.89%) Android
7 17 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 16 (0.79%) Windows Server
9 15 (0.74%) macOS
10 11 (0.54%) VMS
11 9 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
12 8 (0.40%) CentOS
12 8 (0.40%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
13 6 (0.30%) zOS
14 4 (0.20%) AIX
15 3 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
16 2 (0.099%) MVS
16 2 (0.099%) Solaris
16 2 (0.099%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,200 (59.35%) Agile
2 689 (34.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 546 (27.00%) DevOps
4 462 (22.85%) Problem-Solving
5 440 (21.76%) CI/CD
6 434 (21.46%) Scrum
7 383 (18.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 362 (17.90%) Test Automation
9 323 (15.97%) Migration
10 277 (13.70%) User Acceptance Testing
11 259 (12.81%) User Stories
12 256 (12.66%) Validation
13 245 (12.12%) AI
14 234 (11.57%) Project Management
15 224 (11.08%) Acceptance Criteria
15 224 (11.08%) Project Delivery
16 217 (10.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 212 (10.48%) SDLC
18 211 (10.44%) Sprint Planning
19 187 (9.25%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 379 (18.74%) SQL
2 277 (13.70%) Python
3 137 (6.78%) Java
4 98 (4.85%) JavaScript
5 75 (3.71%) PowerShell
6 72 (3.56%) C#
7 70 (3.46%) TypeScript
8 46 (2.27%) Bash
9 33 (1.63%) PL/SQL
10 28 (1.38%) C++
11 20 (0.99%) Groovy
11 20 (0.99%) Kotlin
12 16 (0.79%) Bicep
13 14 (0.69%) ActionScript
13 14 (0.69%) C
14 13 (0.64%) Apex Code
15 12 (0.59%) Perl
16 11 (0.54%) Shell Script
17 9 (0.45%) VBA
18 7 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 538 (26.61%) Security Cleared
2 413 (20.43%) SC Cleared
3 168 (8.31%) Degree
4 95 (4.70%) DV Cleared
5 86 (4.25%) BPSS Clearance
6 77 (3.81%) ISTQB
7 68 (3.36%) PMI Certification
8 56 (2.77%) PMP
9 31 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 30 (1.48%) AWS Certification
11 27 (1.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 22 (1.09%) Master's Degree
13 21 (1.04%) Azure Certification
14 20 (0.99%) CISSP
15 17 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
16 15 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 14 (0.69%) CISM
17 14 (0.69%) IIBA
17 14 (0.69%) ISEB
18 13 (0.64%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 271 (13.40%) QA
2 132 (6.53%) Data Quality
3 118 (5.84%) PMO
4 65 (3.21%) Accessibility
5 35 (1.73%) SLA
6 27 (1.34%) WCAG
7 24 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (0.99%) GDPR
8 20 (0.99%) NCSC
9 18 (0.89%) GRC
9 18 (0.89%) NIST
10 13 (0.64%) ISO 20022
11 9 (0.45%) COBIT
11 9 (0.45%) SEPA
12 8 (0.40%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.30%) JSP 440
14 5 (0.25%) MISRA
14 5 (0.25%) MISRA C
14 5 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 130 (6.43%) Docker
2 99 (4.90%) Active Directory
3 35 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (0.49%) Firmware
6 8 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.30%) vSphere
9 3 (0.15%) Squid
10 2 (0.099%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.099%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.099%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.099%) Postfix
10 2 (0.099%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.049%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.049%) NFS
11 1 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.049%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.049%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 1 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 114 (5.64%) Kubernetes
2 65 (3.21%) Ansible
3 55 (2.72%) Grafana
4 42 (2.08%) Prometheus
5 26 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
6 22 (1.09%) HP ALM
7 17 (0.84%) Control-M
8 10 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.45%) Istio
9 9 (0.45%) Packer
10 7 (0.35%) Nessus
10 7 (0.35%) SCCM
10 7 (0.35%) SCOM
11 6 (0.30%) Dell DRAC
11 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
11 6 (0.30%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.25%) Argo
12 5 (0.25%) IBM Guardium
12 5 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 320 (15.83%) Microsoft
2 204 (10.09%) ServiceNow
3 150 (7.42%) Oracle
4 98 (4.85%) SAP
5 80 (3.96%) Salesforce
6 74 (3.66%) Atlassian
7 60 (2.97%) Google
8 59 (2.92%) IBM
9 50 (2.47%) VMware
10 40 (1.98%) Splunk
11 35 (1.73%) Remedy
12 29 (1.43%) Databricks
13 25 (1.24%) Denodo
14 23 (1.14%) HP
15 22 (1.09%) F5
15 22 (1.09%) Informatica
15 22 (1.09%) Talend
16 21 (1.04%) MuleSoft
16 21 (1.04%) Workday
17 20 (0.99%) Adobe