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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 31 45
Rank change year-on-year -13 +14 +1
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,120 1,587 1,396
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.67% 5.71% 4.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.96% 39.63% 32.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,411 1,100 931
10th Percentile £348 £319 £340
25th Percentile £405 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £619
90th Percentile £671 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £514
% change year-on-year - -2.68% -2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 40 89
10th Percentile £18.75 £47.38 £25.85
25th Percentile £25.63 £50.75 £40.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £63.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% -6.67% +8.00%
75th Percentile £66.13 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £85.60 -
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.83% -11.54% +4.84%

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 5,305 4,005 4,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.70% 14.42% 12.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,377 2,773 2,847
10th Percentile £350 £321 £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 £589 £600 £629
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 242 95 199
10th Percentile £31.12 £40.90 £31.71
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.03 £51.88
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.45 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.15% - +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 3 August 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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -9 981 £525 +0.96% 311
North of England -12 388 £465 +0.16% 101
Midlands -5 306 £455 -4.21% 70
West Midlands -1 265 £459 -3.37% 45
South East -27 222 £500 +1.94% 181
Yorkshire -9 216 £461 -2.89% 40
North West -27 153 £453 +5.36% 47
South West -7 133 £500 -11.11% 65
East of England -3 59 £438 +9.38% 39
East Midlands -6 39 £402 -2.55% 25
North East -31 26 £550 +1.15% 15
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
1 934 (44.06%) Confluence
2 106 (5.00%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.46%) SAS
4 27 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.71%) CMS
6 14 (0.66%) Apache
7 9 (0.42%) nginx
8 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.33%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.28%) Mattermost
9 6 (0.28%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
11 4 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.19%) Camunda
11 4 (0.19%) IIS
11 4 (0.19%) JBoss
11 4 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.19%) WordPress
12 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 145 (6.84%) Microsoft Project
2 144 (6.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 84 (3.96%) MS Visio
4 66 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 58 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
6 23 (1.08%) Trello
7 15 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.47%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.38%) Revit
10 7 (0.33%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.24%) 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 40 (1.89%) Remedy ITSM
2 30 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.57%) Aladdin
3 12 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 10 (0.47%) Workday HCM
5 8 (0.38%) Findur
6 7 (0.33%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.28%) Fidessa
7 6 (0.28%) Teamcenter
8 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.24%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.19%) Actimize
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
10 3 (0.14%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 529 (24.95%) Azure
2 342 (16.13%) AWS
3 286 (13.49%) Azure DevOps
4 181 (8.54%) GitHub
5 164 (7.74%) Power Platform
6 93 (4.39%) GCP
7 85 (4.01%) Microsoft 365
8 76 (3.58%) Entra ID
8 76 (3.58%) SaaS
9 68 (3.21%) Amazon S3
9 68 (3.21%) Serverless
10 67 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
11 60 (2.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 54 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
13 48 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
14 33 (1.56%) Smartsheet
14 33 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 32 (1.51%) Miro
16 31 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
17 30 (1.42%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 85 (4.01%) Firewall
2 66 (3.11%) DNS
3 46 (2.17%) TCP/IP
4 34 (1.60%) DHCP
4 34 (1.60%) Network Security
5 31 (1.46%) VPN
6 23 (1.08%) BIG-IP
6 23 (1.08%) WAN
7 19 (0.90%) SAN
7 19 (0.90%) SSL
8 18 (0.85%) LAN
9 15 (0.71%) SD-WAN
10 13 (0.61%) Internet
11 10 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 10 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.42%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 9 (0.42%) VLAN
13 8 (0.38%) BGP
13 8 (0.38%) HTTP
13 8 (0.38%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (6.75%) Power BI
2 96 (4.53%) Data Warehouse
3 79 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
4 52 (2.45%) SQL Server
5 44 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
6 32 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
7 28 (1.32%) MongoDB
7 28 (1.32%) Relational Database
8 26 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 24 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
9 24 (1.13%) DynamoDB
10 23 (1.08%) Tableau
11 22 (1.04%) Data Lake
12 21 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 18 (0.85%) Pentaho
14 16 (0.75%) NoSQL
15 15 (0.71%) Metadata
15 15 (0.71%) Oracle Database
16 14 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 13 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 258 (12.17%) Git
2 197 (9.29%) Jenkins
3 108 (5.09%) GitLab
4 89 (4.20%) Selenium
5 77 (3.63%) Zephyr
6 71 (3.35%) Bitbucket
7 62 (2.92%) Postman
8 51 (2.41%) JUnit
9 49 (2.31%) Cucumber
10 38 (1.79%) JMeter
11 31 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
12 28 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 26 (1.23%) Cypress.io
14 23 (1.08%) WebDriver
15 22 (1.04%) REST Assured
15 22 (1.04%) TestRail
16 19 (0.90%) Artifactory
17 14 (0.66%) Appium
18 12 (0.57%) Maven
19 11 (0.52%) Mockito
General
1 833 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 606 (28.58%) Finance
3 395 (18.63%) Analytical Skills
4 266 (12.55%) Banking
5 240 (11.32%) Public Sector
6 84 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
7 71 (3.35%) Retail
8 68 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
9 48 (2.26%) Manufacturing
10 41 (1.93%) Investment Banking
11 40 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
12 36 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 36 (1.70%) Legal
13 33 (1.56%) Front Office
14 29 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
15 27 (1.27%) Retail Banking
16 25 (1.18%) Marketing
16 25 (1.18%) Telecoms
17 22 (1.04%) Financial Institution
18 19 (0.90%) Military
Job Titles
1 372 (17.55%) Analyst
2 232 (10.94%) Business Analyst
3 210 (9.91%) Lead
4 206 (9.72%) Developer
5 188 (8.87%) Senior
6 117 (5.52%) Project Manager
7 97 (4.58%) Delivery Manager
8 84 (3.96%) Tester
9 79 (3.73%) Consultant
10 76 (3.58%) Scrum Master
11 74 (3.49%) Architect
12 68 (3.21%) Data Engineer
13 58 (2.74%) Support Engineer
14 55 (2.59%) IT Support
15 52 (2.45%) Product Owner
16 49 (2.31%) Test Leader
17 48 (2.26%) Test Analyst
18 43 (2.03%) Senior Manager
19 41 (1.93%) IT Engineer
20 39 (1.84%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (5.75%) REST
2 73 (3.44%) .NET
3 57 (2.69%) Spring
4 51 (2.41%) React
5 49 (2.31%) JSON
6 46 (2.17%) HTML
7 45 (2.12%) RESTful
8 40 (1.89%) Kafka
9 38 (1.79%) AngularJS
9 38 (1.79%) SOAP
10 37 (1.75%) Playwright
11 35 (1.65%) Spring Boot
12 34 (1.60%) CSS
13 33 (1.56%) Node.js
13 33 (1.56%) Web Services
14 32 (1.51%) XML
15 30 (1.42%) Middleware
16 26 (1.23%) WireMock
17 23 (1.08%) .NET Core
17 23 (1.08%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 242 (11.42%) Product Ownership
2 131 (6.18%) Onboarding
3 85 (4.01%) Cloud Native
4 73 (3.44%) Data Centre
5 56 (2.64%) Enterprise Software
6 53 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
7 52 (2.45%) Virtual Team
8 47 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
9 43 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
10 39 (1.84%) Management Information System
11 36 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
12 33 (1.56%) Data Structures
13 31 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
14 19 (0.90%) SCADA
15 18 (0.85%) Credit Risk
15 18 (0.85%) Mobile App
15 18 (0.85%) Security Posture
16 17 (0.80%) Derivative
16 17 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 16 (0.75%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 163 (7.69%) Windows
2 125 (5.90%) Linux
3 48 (2.26%) Unix
4 25 (1.18%) Windows 10
5 20 (0.94%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.85%) Android
7 17 (0.80%) Mac OS
7 17 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.42%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.14%) AIX
11 3 (0.14%) Check Point GAiA
12 2 (0.094%) MVS
12 2 (0.094%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.094%) zOS
13 1 (0.047%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.047%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,255 (59.20%) Agile
2 605 (28.54%) Stakeholder Management
3 572 (26.98%) DevOps
4 471 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 463 (21.84%) CI/CD
6 435 (20.52%) Scrum
7 407 (19.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 357 (16.84%) Test Automation
9 290 (13.68%) Migration
10 246 (11.60%) User Acceptance Testing
11 236 (11.13%) Project Management
12 230 (10.85%) User Stories
13 229 (10.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 221 (10.42%) AI
14 221 (10.42%) Validation
15 216 (10.19%) Sprint Planning
16 208 (9.81%) Change Management
17 200 (9.43%) Project Delivery
18 196 (9.25%) SDLC
19 191 (9.01%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 345 (16.27%) SQL
2 258 (12.17%) Python
3 155 (7.31%) Java
4 95 (4.48%) JavaScript
5 86 (4.06%) C#
6 71 (3.35%) PowerShell
7 65 (3.07%) TypeScript
8 44 (2.08%) Bash
9 33 (1.56%) PL/SQL
10 17 (0.80%) Perl
10 17 (0.80%) VBA
11 16 (0.75%) Groovy
11 16 (0.75%) Kotlin
12 15 (0.71%) Bicep
13 14 (0.66%) Apex Code
14 12 (0.57%) Shell Script
15 11 (0.52%) C++
16 10 (0.47%) ActionScript
17 7 (0.33%) C
18 6 (0.28%) VB
Qualifications
1 567 (26.75%) Security Cleared
2 438 (20.66%) SC Cleared
3 180 (8.49%) Degree
4 88 (4.15%) DV Cleared
5 78 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 65 (3.07%) ISTQB
7 57 (2.69%) PMI Certification
8 48 (2.26%) PMP
9 29 (1.37%) CISSP
10 26 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
11 24 (1.13%) Azure Certification
12 22 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (0.99%) AWS Certification
14 17 (0.80%) CISM
14 17 (0.80%) 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 13 (0.61%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 250 (11.79%) QA
2 125 (5.90%) PMO
3 121 (5.71%) Data Quality
4 63 (2.97%) Accessibility
5 39 (1.84%) SLA
6 37 (1.75%) GDPR
7 26 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (1.23%) WCAG
8 20 (0.94%) NIST
9 19 (0.90%) NCSC
10 16 (0.75%) GRC
11 12 (0.57%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.47%) ISO 20022
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
13 6 (0.28%) SEPA
14 5 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 139 (6.56%) Docker
2 122 (5.75%) Active Directory
3 31 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (0.47%) Firmware
5 10 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.28%) 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
1 161 (7.59%) Kubernetes
2 149 (7.03%) Terraform
3 88 (4.15%) Ansible
4 66 (3.11%) Grafana
5 51 (2.41%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (1.08%) HP ALM
8 21 (0.99%) Control-M
9 19 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (0.66%) Puppet
11 13 (0.61%) Nessus
12 12 (0.57%) IBM Guardium
13 8 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 8 (0.38%) Dell DRAC
13 8 (0.38%) Packer
14 7 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.33%) NetBackup
15 6 (0.28%) HP Quality Center
15 6 (0.28%) Istio
15 6 (0.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 298 (14.06%) Microsoft
2 269 (12.69%) ServiceNow
3 158 (7.45%) Oracle
4 98 (4.62%) Atlassian
5 93 (4.39%) SAP
6 91 (4.29%) Salesforce
7 55 (2.59%) Google
8 44 (2.08%) IBM
9 42 (1.98%) Remedy
10 39 (1.84%) VMware
11 38 (1.79%) Denodo
12 33 (1.56%) Splunk
12 33 (1.56%) Talend
13 30 (1.42%) Databricks
14 28 (1.32%) F5
15 27 (1.27%) Informatica
15 27 (1.27%) Workday
16 26 (1.23%) HP
17 24 (1.13%) MuleSoft
18 22 (1.04%) Adobe