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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 31 46
Rank change year-on-year -9 +15 +1
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,128 1,554 1,428
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.73% 5.68% 4.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.43% 39.72% 32.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,428 1,059 953
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £402 £402 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.59% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £584 £600 £619
90th Percentile £669 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 40 94
10th Percentile £18.75 £47.95 £25.51
25th Percentile £25.00 £50.75 £40.00
Median hourly rate £53.00 £63.00 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -15.87% -4.91% +6.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £85.60 -
UK median hourly rate £52.58 £57.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -7.75% -8.80% +2.46%

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 5,263 3,912 4,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.71% 14.30% 12.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,361 2,686 2,920
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £632
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 236 91 213
10th Percentile £28.53 £40.00 £31.97
25th Percentile £55.94 £50.50 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.75 £73.95
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -6 974 £525 - 211
North of England -11 406 £453 -2.69% 86
Midlands -3 307 £450 -5.26% 52
West Midlands -2 263 £459 -3.37% 35
Yorkshire -5 226 £450 -7.69% 33
South East -27 220 £475 -3.46% 147
North West -18 162 £450 +5.88% 42
South West -9 132 £493 -12.44% 54
East of England -11 57 £413 +3.13% 40
East Midlands +3 42 £402 -7.80% 17
North East -29 25 £550 - 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
1 931 (43.75%) Confluence
2 117 (5.50%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
4 30 (1.41%) SAS
5 13 (0.61%) Apache
5 13 (0.61%) CMS
6 8 (0.38%) nginx
7 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.33%) WebLogic
8 6 (0.28%) Mattermost
8 6 (0.28%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.23%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.19%) Camunda
10 4 (0.19%) IIS
10 4 (0.19%) JBoss
10 4 (0.19%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.19%) WordPress
11 3 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
11 3 (0.14%) Kentico
Applications
1 152 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 147 (6.91%) Microsoft Project
3 85 (3.99%) MS Visio
4 73 (3.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 60 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
6 19 (0.89%) Trello
7 14 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.47%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.38%) Revit
10 7 (0.33%) Chatbot
11 4 (0.19%) Notion
12 2 (0.094%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.094%) CATIA
13 1 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.047%) Mingle
13 1 (0.047%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.047%) Sketch
13 1 (0.047%) SOLIDWORKS
13 1 (0.047%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 38 (1.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 32 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.61%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
5 10 (0.47%) Workday HCM
6 9 (0.42%) Loan IQ
7 8 (0.38%) Findur
8 7 (0.33%) Fidessa
9 6 (0.28%) Teamcenter
10 5 (0.23%) SAP EWM
10 5 (0.23%) SAP MDG
11 4 (0.19%) Actimize
11 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
12 3 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
12 3 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
12 3 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
12 3 (0.14%) Primavera
12 3 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 3 (0.14%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 528 (24.81%) Azure
2 335 (15.74%) AWS
3 290 (13.63%) Azure DevOps
4 177 (8.32%) GitHub
5 165 (7.75%) Power Platform
6 94 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
7 86 (4.04%) Entra ID
8 84 (3.95%) GCP
9 82 (3.85%) SaaS
10 68 (3.20%) Amazon S3
10 68 (3.20%) Serverless
11 65 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
12 57 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 54 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
14 48 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
15 33 (1.55%) Miro
15 33 (1.55%) Smartsheet
15 33 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 30 (1.41%) Microsoft Copilot
17 29 (1.36%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 83 (3.90%) Firewall
2 68 (3.20%) DNS
3 46 (2.16%) TCP/IP
4 36 (1.69%) DHCP
4 36 (1.69%) Network Security
5 31 (1.46%) VPN
6 28 (1.32%) LAN
6 28 (1.32%) WAN
7 24 (1.13%) BIG-IP
8 21 (0.99%) SAN
9 19 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
10 17 (0.80%) SSL
11 14 (0.66%) SD-WAN
12 12 (0.56%) Internet
13 10 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 10 (0.47%) Unified Communications
14 9 (0.42%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 9 (0.42%) HTTP
14 9 (0.42%) VLAN
15 8 (0.38%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (6.63%) Power BI
2 94 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
3 77 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
4 52 (2.44%) SQL Server
5 44 (2.07%) Oracle Reports
6 32 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
7 27 (1.27%) Tableau
8 26 (1.22%) MongoDB
8 26 (1.22%) Relational Database
9 24 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
9 24 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
9 24 (1.13%) DynamoDB
10 19 (0.89%) Data Lake
10 19 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 18 (0.85%) Oracle Database
12 17 (0.80%) NoSQL
12 17 (0.80%) Pentaho
13 14 (0.66%) Metadata
14 13 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
15 12 (0.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 249 (11.70%) Git
2 196 (9.21%) Jenkins
3 110 (5.17%) GitLab
4 91 (4.28%) Selenium
5 77 (3.62%) Zephyr
6 63 (2.96%) Postman
7 61 (2.87%) Bitbucket
8 51 (2.40%) Cucumber
9 50 (2.35%) JUnit
10 37 (1.74%) JMeter
11 33 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
12 23 (1.08%) Cypress.io
12 23 (1.08%) REST Assured
12 23 (1.08%) WebDriver
13 21 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 21 (0.99%) TestRail
14 19 (0.89%) Artifactory
15 14 (0.66%) Appium
16 10 (0.47%) Gatling
16 10 (0.47%) SonarQube
General
1 837 (39.33%) Social Skills
2 604 (28.38%) Finance
3 393 (18.47%) Analytical Skills
4 265 (12.45%) Banking
5 235 (11.04%) Public Sector
6 81 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
7 73 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
8 70 (3.29%) Retail
9 46 (2.16%) Manufacturing
10 39 (1.83%) Legal
11 38 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
12 37 (1.74%) Investment Banking
13 33 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 32 (1.50%) Front Office
15 31 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
16 28 (1.32%) Retail Banking
17 25 (1.17%) Telecoms
18 24 (1.13%) Marketing
19 22 (1.03%) Financial Institution
20 20 (0.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 389 (18.28%) Analyst
2 239 (11.23%) Business Analyst
3 209 (9.82%) Developer
4 196 (9.21%) Lead
5 188 (8.83%) Senior
6 122 (5.73%) Project Manager
7 95 (4.46%) Delivery Manager
8 89 (4.18%) Tester
9 78 (3.67%) Scrum Master
10 77 (3.62%) Architect
10 77 (3.62%) Consultant
11 69 (3.24%) Data Engineer
12 63 (2.96%) Support Engineer
13 62 (2.91%) IT Support
14 52 (2.44%) Test Analyst
15 48 (2.26%) Test Leader
16 47 (2.21%) Product Owner
17 45 (2.11%) IT Engineer
18 44 (2.07%) Senior Manager
19 42 (1.97%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (5.64%) REST
2 72 (3.38%) .NET
3 56 (2.63%) Spring
4 50 (2.35%) JSON
4 50 (2.35%) React
5 47 (2.21%) RESTful
6 46 (2.16%) HTML
7 38 (1.79%) Kafka
7 38 (1.79%) SOAP
8 36 (1.69%) CSS
8 36 (1.69%) Spring Boot
9 34 (1.60%) AngularJS
9 34 (1.60%) Playwright
9 34 (1.60%) Web Services
10 33 (1.55%) XML
11 29 (1.36%) Middleware
11 29 (1.36%) Node.js
12 26 (1.22%) WireMock
13 25 (1.17%) .NET Core
14 24 (1.13%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 233 (10.95%) Product Ownership
2 128 (6.02%) Onboarding
3 87 (4.09%) Cloud Native
4 70 (3.29%) Data Centre
5 54 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
6 53 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
6 53 (2.49%) Virtual Team
7 52 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
8 43 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
9 41 (1.93%) Management Information System
10 35 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
11 34 (1.60%) Data Structures
12 32 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
13 19 (0.89%) Mobile App
13 19 (0.89%) SCADA
14 18 (0.85%) Security Posture
15 17 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 16 (0.75%) Derivative
16 16 (0.75%) Enterprise Storage
17 15 (0.70%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 172 (8.08%) Windows
2 124 (5.83%) Linux
3 50 (2.35%) Unix
4 27 (1.27%) Windows 10
5 20 (0.94%) Apple iOS
6 19 (0.89%) Mac OS
7 18 (0.85%) Android
8 17 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.38%) 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%) MVS
12 2 (0.094%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.047%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.047%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.047%) Solaris
13 1 (0.047%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,246 (58.55%) Agile
2 602 (28.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 570 (26.79%) DevOps
4 474 (22.27%) Problem-Solving
5 458 (21.52%) CI/CD
6 422 (19.83%) Scrum
7 403 (18.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 358 (16.82%) Test Automation
9 288 (13.53%) Migration
10 250 (11.75%) User Acceptance Testing
11 232 (10.90%) Project Management
11 232 (10.90%) User Stories
12 229 (10.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 225 (10.57%) Validation
14 214 (10.06%) Change Management
15 213 (10.01%) AI
16 209 (9.82%) Sprint Planning
17 196 (9.21%) ITIL
18 194 (9.12%) Project Delivery
19 190 (8.93%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 346 (16.26%) SQL
2 268 (12.59%) Python
3 155 (7.28%) Java
4 90 (4.23%) C#
5 89 (4.18%) JavaScript
6 76 (3.57%) PowerShell
7 63 (2.96%) TypeScript
8 43 (2.02%) Bash
9 33 (1.55%) PL/SQL
10 18 (0.85%) VBA
11 16 (0.75%) Perl
12 15 (0.70%) Bicep
13 14 (0.66%) Apex Code
14 13 (0.61%) Groovy
14 13 (0.61%) Kotlin
14 13 (0.61%) Shell Script
15 11 (0.52%) C++
16 10 (0.47%) ActionScript
17 7 (0.33%) C
17 7 (0.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 553 (25.99%) Security Cleared
2 424 (19.92%) SC Cleared
3 189 (8.88%) Degree
4 81 (3.81%) DV Cleared
5 78 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 67 (3.15%) ISTQB
7 58 (2.73%) PMI Certification
8 47 (2.21%) PMP
9 30 (1.41%) CISSP
10 27 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
11 24 (1.13%) Azure Certification
12 22 (1.03%) AWS Certification
12 22 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (0.85%) CISM
13 18 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
14 17 (0.80%) Master's Degree
14 17 (0.80%) SAFe Agilist
15 16 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 16 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 14 (0.66%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 251 (11.80%) QA
2 124 (5.83%) PMO
3 119 (5.59%) Data Quality
4 63 (2.96%) Accessibility
5 40 (1.88%) SLA
6 37 (1.74%) GDPR
7 26 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (1.22%) WCAG
8 21 (0.99%) NIST
9 18 (0.85%) NCSC
10 16 (0.75%) GRC
11 13 (0.61%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.47%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.33%) SEPA
14 6 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.28%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.28%) JSP 440
14 6 (0.28%) MiFID
14 6 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 138 (6.48%) Docker
2 129 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (0.47%) Firmware
5 10 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.19%) Squid
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%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.047%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 158 (7.42%) Kubernetes
2 146 (6.86%) Terraform
3 96 (4.51%) Ansible
4 66 (3.10%) Grafana
5 50 (2.35%) Prometheus
6 37 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
8 24 (1.13%) Control-M
9 23 (1.08%) HP ALM
10 17 (0.80%) Nessus
11 16 (0.75%) IBM Guardium
12 14 (0.66%) Puppet
13 13 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
14 10 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 9 (0.42%) SCCM
16 8 (0.38%) Dell DRAC
16 8 (0.38%) HP Quality Center
17 7 (0.33%) NetBackup
17 7 (0.33%) Packer
18 6 (0.28%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 311 (14.61%) Microsoft
2 267 (12.55%) ServiceNow
3 156 (7.33%) Oracle
4 95 (4.46%) Salesforce
5 93 (4.37%) SAP
6 92 (4.32%) Atlassian
7 56 (2.63%) Google
8 41 (1.93%) IBM
8 41 (1.93%) Remedy
9 37 (1.74%) Denodo
10 35 (1.64%) VMware
11 33 (1.55%) Splunk
12 32 (1.50%) Talend
13 29 (1.36%) F5
13 29 (1.36%) Workday
14 27 (1.27%) Databricks
15 26 (1.22%) HP
15 26 (1.22%) Informatica
16 24 (1.13%) MuleSoft
17 23 (1.08%) Adobe