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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 30 43
Rank change year-on-year -16 +13 +7
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,045 1,626 1,426
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.42% 5.85% 4.36%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.89% 39.27% 32.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,336 1,147 928
10th Percentile £350 £313 £331
25th Percentile £413 £400 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £614
90th Percentile £675 £690 £689
UK median daily rate £500 £496 £512
% change year-on-year +0.76% -3.03% -2.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 41 74
10th Percentile £23.34 £46.25 £25.99
25th Percentile £44.86 £50.00 £50.63
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £69.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% -9.42% +10.40%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.83 £83.00 -
UK median hourly rate £60.81 £57.50 £69.00
% change year-on-year +5.76% -16.67% +11.29%

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 5,258 4,141 4,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.35% 14.90% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,339 2,873 2,811
10th Percentile £357 £325 £355
25th Percentile £416 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £637
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 95 171
10th Percentile £36.25 £44.30 £36.25
25th Percentile £54.53 £54.88 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.70 £82.98 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.08% - -

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -14 968 £525 - 336
North of England -15 367 £475 +2.10% 117
Midlands -5 260 £459 -3.37% 56
West Midlands -8 223 £469 -1.26% 37
South East -35 213 £475 - 144
Yorkshire -4 208 £493 +3.68% 47
South West +4 137 £525 -4.55% 82
North West -39 137 £470 +6.82% 53
East of England -12 62 £491 +22.75% 64
East Midlands -8 36 £405 +12.50% 19
North East -37 29 £550 +5.77% 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
1 907 (44.35%) Confluence
2 103 (5.04%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (1.22%) SAS
5 19 (0.93%) CMS
6 14 (0.68%) Apache
7 10 (0.49%) Camunda
8 9 (0.44%) nginx
9 8 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
10 6 (0.29%) Apache Spark
11 5 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.24%) IIS
11 5 (0.24%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.24%) MTS
12 4 (0.20%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.20%) WordPress
13 3 (0.15%) Kentico
13 3 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 140 (6.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 128 (6.26%) Microsoft Project
3 80 (3.91%) MS Visio
4 66 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 62 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
6 22 (1.08%) Trello
7 14 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.49%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.39%) Revit
10 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.24%) Notion
12 3 (0.15%) Windchill
13 2 (0.098%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.098%) Mingle
13 2 (0.098%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.049%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.049%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 1 (0.049%) Gliffy
14 1 (0.049%) Mozilla Thunderbird
14 1 (0.049%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 35 (1.71%) Remedy ITSM
2 23 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.49%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
3 10 (0.49%) Workday HCM
4 6 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
4 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.24%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.24%) Findur
5 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
5 5 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.20%) ResourceLink
6 4 (0.20%) SAP FI-AR
6 4 (0.20%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.15%) CA PPM
7 3 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.15%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 497 (24.30%) Azure
2 319 (15.60%) AWS
3 278 (13.59%) Azure DevOps
4 165 (8.07%) GitHub
5 160 (7.82%) Power Platform
6 90 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
7 89 (4.35%) GCP
8 76 (3.72%) SaaS
9 68 (3.33%) Serverless
10 65 (3.18%) Entra ID
11 62 (3.03%) Amazon S3
12 57 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
13 55 (2.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 55 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
14 40 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
15 39 (1.91%) Miro
16 38 (1.86%) Microsoft Copilot
17 34 (1.66%) Smartsheet
18 28 (1.37%) Figma
18 28 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 84 (4.11%) Firewall
2 71 (3.47%) DNS
3 45 (2.20%) TCP/IP
4 34 (1.66%) DHCP
5 30 (1.47%) VPN
6 28 (1.37%) Network Security
7 21 (1.03%) WAN
8 20 (0.98%) BIG-IP
8 20 (0.98%) SAN
9 18 (0.88%) SSL
10 13 (0.64%) SD-WAN
11 12 (0.59%) LAN
12 11 (0.54%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 11 (0.54%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 11 (0.54%) Internet
12 11 (0.54%) VLAN
13 10 (0.49%) HTTP
13 10 (0.49%) SSH
14 8 (0.39%) DKIM
14 8 (0.39%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (6.85%) Power BI
2 88 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
3 64 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 62 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
5 40 (1.96%) Oracle Reports
6 37 (1.81%) Relational Database
7 26 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
7 26 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
8 23 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
9 20 (0.98%) Data Lake
10 19 (0.93%) DynamoDB
10 19 (0.93%) Metadata
10 19 (0.93%) Oracle Database
10 19 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 18 (0.88%) MongoDB
12 17 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
13 16 (0.78%) NoSQL
13 16 (0.78%) Tableau
14 15 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 14 (0.68%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 256 (12.52%) Git
2 175 (8.56%) Jenkins
3 116 (5.67%) GitLab
4 78 (3.81%) Selenium
5 75 (3.67%) Zephyr
6 65 (3.18%) Bitbucket
7 59 (2.89%) Postman
8 38 (1.86%) JUnit
9 31 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
10 28 (1.37%) Cucumber
11 25 (1.22%) Cypress.io
11 25 (1.22%) JMeter
11 25 (1.22%) Maven
12 23 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 23 (1.12%) REST Assured
13 22 (1.08%) Mockito
14 21 (1.03%) SonarQube
15 20 (0.98%) TestRail
16 18 (0.88%) Artifactory
17 16 (0.78%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 803 (39.27%) Social Skills
2 594 (29.05%) Finance
3 395 (19.32%) Analytical Skills
4 286 (13.99%) Banking
5 233 (11.39%) Public Sector
6 83 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
7 77 (3.77%) Retail
8 67 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
9 49 (2.40%) Investment Banking
10 46 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
11 38 (1.86%) Legal
11 38 (1.86%) Manufacturing
12 37 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 36 (1.76%) Front Office
14 33 (1.61%) Marketing
15 32 (1.56%) Telecoms
16 26 (1.27%) Retail Banking
17 21 (1.03%) Law
18 20 (0.98%) Military
19 18 (0.88%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 350 (17.11%) Analyst
2 217 (10.61%) Business Analyst
3 216 (10.56%) Lead
4 207 (10.12%) Developer
5 177 (8.66%) Senior
6 107 (5.23%) Project Manager
7 88 (4.30%) Delivery Manager
8 82 (4.01%) Scrum Master
9 80 (3.91%) Consultant
10 72 (3.52%) Architect
11 66 (3.23%) Tester
12 53 (2.59%) Data Engineer
13 52 (2.54%) Product Owner
14 49 (2.40%) Support Engineer
15 47 (2.30%) Test Analyst
16 44 (2.15%) Test Leader
17 42 (2.05%) Administrator
17 42 (2.05%) Senior Manager
18 36 (1.76%) Java Developer
18 36 (1.76%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (7.14%) Terraform
2 139 (6.80%) REST
3 77 (3.77%) .NET
4 62 (3.03%) HTML
5 56 (2.74%) RESTful
6 55 (2.69%) React
7 53 (2.59%) AngularJS
8 46 (2.25%) Kafka
9 44 (2.15%) CSS
9 44 (2.15%) JSON
9 44 (2.15%) SOAP
9 44 (2.15%) Spring
10 39 (1.91%) Spring Boot
11 38 (1.86%) Playwright
12 37 (1.81%) Web Services
13 34 (1.66%) XML
14 32 (1.56%) Node.js
15 31 (1.52%) Middleware
16 23 (1.12%) .NET Core
16 23 (1.12%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 270 (13.20%) Product Ownership
2 137 (6.70%) Onboarding
3 90 (4.40%) Cloud Native
4 69 (3.37%) Data Centre
5 62 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
6 57 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
7 51 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
8 43 (2.10%) Data Structures
8 43 (2.10%) Virtual Team
9 42 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
10 36 (1.76%) Management Information System
11 31 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.17%) Credit Risk
13 23 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
14 22 (1.08%) SCADA
15 21 (1.03%) Mobile App
16 18 (0.88%) Replication
17 17 (0.83%) Derivative
18 16 (0.78%) AI Agents
19 15 (0.73%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 149 (7.29%) Windows
2 126 (6.16%) Linux
3 46 (2.25%) Unix
4 27 (1.32%) Windows 10
5 21 (1.03%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.88%) Android
7 15 (0.73%) Windows Server
8 14 (0.68%) Mac OS
8 14 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
10 6 (0.29%) CentOS
10 6 (0.29%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.20%) AIX
11 4 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
12 3 (0.15%) VMS
13 2 (0.098%) MVS
13 2 (0.098%) Solaris
13 2 (0.098%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,228 (60.05%) Agile
2 646 (31.59%) Stakeholder Management
3 561 (27.43%) DevOps
4 451 (22.05%) Problem-Solving
5 441 (21.56%) Scrum
6 437 (21.37%) CI/CD
7 387 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 348 (17.02%) Test Automation
9 296 (14.47%) Migration
10 259 (12.67%) User Acceptance Testing
11 250 (12.22%) User Stories
12 238 (11.64%) Sprint Planning
13 235 (11.49%) AI
13 235 (11.49%) Project Management
14 234 (11.44%) Validation
15 222 (10.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 213 (10.42%) SDLC
17 203 (9.93%) Project Delivery
18 189 (9.24%) Acceptance Criteria
19 178 (8.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 348 (17.02%) SQL
2 249 (12.18%) Python
3 137 (6.70%) Java
4 106 (5.18%) JavaScript
5 76 (3.72%) TypeScript
6 72 (3.52%) PowerShell
7 67 (3.28%) C#
8 40 (1.96%) Bash
9 33 (1.61%) PL/SQL
10 21 (1.03%) C++
11 20 (0.98%) Groovy
12 16 (0.78%) Apex Code
12 16 (0.78%) Bicep
12 16 (0.78%) Kotlin
13 14 (0.68%) C
14 13 (0.64%) Perl
14 13 (0.64%) VBA
15 11 (0.54%) ActionScript
16 8 (0.39%) T-SQL
17 7 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 542 (26.50%) Security Cleared
2 420 (20.54%) SC Cleared
3 168 (8.22%) Degree
4 90 (4.40%) DV Cleared
5 86 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 68 (3.33%) ISTQB
7 56 (2.74%) PMI Certification
8 44 (2.15%) PMP
9 27 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
10 22 (1.08%) AWS Certification
11 21 (1.03%) Azure Certification
12 20 (0.98%) Master's Degree
13 19 (0.93%) CISSP
14 18 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 17 (0.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 16 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
16 16 (0.78%) SAFe Agilist
17 13 (0.64%) IIBA
18 11 (0.54%) CISM
18 11 (0.54%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (13.50%) QA
2 125 (6.11%) PMO
3 123 (6.01%) Data Quality
4 62 (3.03%) Accessibility
5 37 (1.81%) SLA
6 24 (1.17%) WCAG
7 23 (1.12%) GDPR
8 22 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 20 (0.98%) GRC
9 20 (0.98%) NCSC
10 18 (0.88%) NIST
11 12 (0.59%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.44%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.34%) JSP 440
13 7 (0.34%) SEPA
14 5 (0.24%) COBIT
14 5 (0.24%) GxP
14 5 (0.24%) MiFID
14 5 (0.24%) P3O
14 5 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 123 (6.01%) Docker
2 113 (5.53%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (0.39%) Firmware
6 7 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.20%) Squid
9 2 (0.098%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.098%) Dovecot
9 2 (0.098%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.098%) Postfix
9 2 (0.098%) vSphere
10 1 (0.049%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.049%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.049%) NFS
10 1 (0.049%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.049%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 1 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.049%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 112 (5.48%) Kubernetes
2 78 (3.81%) Ansible
3 53 (2.59%) Grafana
4 43 (2.10%) Prometheus
5 34 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (1.17%) HP ALM
7 16 (0.78%) Control-M
8 14 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.44%) Packer
10 8 (0.39%) Dell DRAC
10 8 (0.39%) Nessus
11 7 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.34%) Istio
11 7 (0.34%) Puppet
11 7 (0.34%) SCOM
12 6 (0.29%) HP Quality Center
12 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
13 5 (0.24%) IBM Guardium
13 5 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 309 (15.11%) Microsoft
2 249 (12.18%) ServiceNow
3 145 (7.09%) Oracle
4 89 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 87 (4.25%) SAP
6 79 (3.86%) Atlassian
7 61 (2.98%) Google
8 53 (2.59%) IBM
9 47 (2.30%) VMware
10 37 (1.81%) Remedy
11 34 (1.66%) Splunk
12 32 (1.56%) Denodo
13 26 (1.27%) HP
13 26 (1.27%) Talend
14 24 (1.17%) F5
15 23 (1.12%) Adobe
16 22 (1.08%) Databricks
16 22 (1.08%) MuleSoft
17 21 (1.03%) Informatica
18 20 (0.98%) Workday