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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 30 42
Rank change year-on-year -15 +12 +8
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,057 1,621 1,415
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.51% 5.87% 4.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.93% 40.01% 32.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,368 1,132 946
10th Percentile £350 £314 £348
25th Percentile £406 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.69%
75th Percentile £589 £600 £619
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 41 78
10th Percentile £19.25 £47.50 £25.78
25th Percentile £35.00 £50.00 £50.63
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.35 £85.25 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £57.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -3.51% -15.56% +8.00%

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 5,284 4,051 4,292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.58% 14.68% 12.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,370 2,807 2,834
10th Percentile £356 £320 £356
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £631
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 96 183
10th Percentile £36.25 £41.13 £33.01
25th Percentile £58.25 £51.05 £54.18
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.98 £73.95
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -10 966 £530 +0.90% 299
North of England -14 370 £475 +1.28% 77
Midlands -5 282 £450 -5.26% 63
West Midlands -5 241 £456 -4.11% 48
South East -33 217 £481 +0.63% 130
Yorkshire -10 210 £475 - 28
North West -32 141 £475 +7.23% 33
South West -6 133 £525 -4.55% 75
East of England -16 50 £491 +22.75% 40
East Midlands -8 40 £409 +2.19% 15
North East -33 26 £550 +3.53% 17
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
1 905 (44.00%) Confluence
2 104 (5.06%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.31%) SAS
4 26 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (0.88%) CMS
6 14 (0.68%) Apache
7 8 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.39%) nginx
8 5 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.24%) IIS
8 5 (0.24%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.19%) Camunda
9 4 (0.19%) WordPress
10 3 (0.15%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.15%) JBoss
10 3 (0.15%) Kentico
10 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.15%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 139 (6.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 135 (6.56%) Microsoft Project
3 84 (4.08%) MS Visio
4 67 (3.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 64 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
6 23 (1.12%) Trello
7 13 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.49%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.39%) Revit
10 7 (0.34%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.24%) Notion
12 2 (0.097%) Adobe XD
13 1 (0.049%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.049%) CATIA
13 1 (0.049%) Gliffy
13 1 (0.049%) Mingle
13 1 (0.049%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.049%) Sketch
13 1 (0.049%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 34 (1.65%) Remedy ITSM
2 25 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.58%) Aladdin
4 10 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
5 9 (0.44%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.29%) Loan IQ
6 6 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.24%) Fidessa
7 5 (0.24%) Findur
7 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.19%) Actimize
8 4 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
8 4 (0.19%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.15%) Magento
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 516 (25.09%) Azure
2 323 (15.70%) AWS
3 291 (14.15%) Azure DevOps
4 170 (8.26%) GitHub
5 163 (7.92%) Power Platform
6 91 (4.42%) GCP
7 82 (3.99%) Microsoft 365
8 74 (3.60%) Entra ID
8 74 (3.60%) SaaS
9 69 (3.35%) Serverless
10 60 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
11 58 (2.82%) Amazon S3
12 55 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
13 51 (2.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 37 (1.80%) Amazon EC2
15 36 (1.75%) Miro
16 34 (1.65%) Microsoft Copilot
17 32 (1.56%) Smartsheet
18 28 (1.36%) Snowflake
19 27 (1.31%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 87 (4.23%) Firewall
2 64 (3.11%) DNS
3 44 (2.14%) TCP/IP
4 32 (1.56%) DHCP
4 32 (1.56%) Network Security
5 31 (1.51%) VPN
6 22 (1.07%) WAN
7 19 (0.92%) BIG-IP
7 19 (0.92%) SAN
8 18 (0.88%) SSL
9 15 (0.73%) LAN
9 15 (0.73%) SD-WAN
10 12 (0.58%) Internet
11 10 (0.49%) VLAN
12 9 (0.44%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 9 (0.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 8 (0.39%) DKIM
13 8 (0.39%) DMARC
13 8 (0.39%) SSH
14 7 (0.34%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (7.05%) Power BI
2 101 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
3 61 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
4 53 (2.58%) SQL Server
5 47 (2.28%) Oracle Reports
6 27 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
6 27 (1.31%) Relational Database
7 24 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
7 24 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (1.12%) MongoDB
8 23 (1.12%) Tableau
9 21 (1.02%) DynamoDB
9 21 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 19 (0.92%) Data Lake
10 19 (0.92%) Metadata
11 18 (0.88%) NoSQL
12 15 (0.73%) Oracle Database
12 15 (0.73%) Pentaho
12 15 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 14 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 250 (12.15%) Git
2 173 (8.41%) Jenkins
3 104 (5.06%) GitLab
4 86 (4.18%) Zephyr
5 81 (3.94%) Selenium
6 76 (3.69%) Bitbucket
7 70 (3.40%) Postman
8 32 (1.56%) Cucumber
8 32 (1.56%) JUnit
9 30 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
10 28 (1.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 25 (1.22%) Cypress.io
11 25 (1.22%) JMeter
12 21 (1.02%) TestRail
13 19 (0.92%) REST Assured
14 18 (0.88%) Artifactory
15 15 (0.73%) WebDriver
16 11 (0.53%) Maven
16 11 (0.53%) MSI
17 9 (0.44%) IntelliJ
General
1 823 (40.01%) Social Skills
2 606 (29.46%) Finance
3 389 (18.91%) Analytical Skills
4 273 (13.27%) Banking
5 236 (11.47%) Public Sector
6 76 (3.69%) Retail
7 74 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
8 72 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
9 47 (2.28%) Investment Banking
10 42 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
11 37 (1.80%) Legal
12 36 (1.75%) Manufacturing
13 35 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 34 (1.65%) Front Office
15 30 (1.46%) Marketing
16 29 (1.41%) Telecoms
17 26 (1.26%) Retail Banking
18 23 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
19 20 (0.97%) Financial Institution
20 19 (0.92%) Law
Job Titles
1 356 (17.31%) Analyst
2 225 (10.94%) Business Analyst
3 204 (9.92%) Lead
4 199 (9.67%) Developer
5 179 (8.70%) Senior
6 114 (5.54%) Project Manager
7 86 (4.18%) Consultant
8 83 (4.04%) Delivery Manager
9 82 (3.99%) Tester
10 75 (3.65%) Scrum Master
11 69 (3.35%) Architect
12 60 (2.92%) Data Engineer
13 54 (2.63%) Product Owner
14 53 (2.58%) Support Engineer
15 48 (2.33%) Test Analyst
16 43 (2.09%) IT Support
17 42 (2.04%) Test Leader
18 41 (1.99%) Senior Manager
19 40 (1.94%) Administrator
20 36 (1.75%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (7.15%) Terraform
2 131 (6.37%) REST
3 76 (3.69%) .NET
4 53 (2.58%) HTML
5 51 (2.48%) React
6 45 (2.19%) RESTful
7 44 (2.14%) AngularJS
7 44 (2.14%) JSON
8 41 (1.99%) Kafka
9 40 (1.94%) Playwright
10 39 (1.90%) Spring
11 37 (1.80%) CSS
12 35 (1.70%) SOAP
13 34 (1.65%) Middleware
14 32 (1.56%) XML
15 31 (1.51%) Node.js
16 28 (1.36%) Web Services
17 27 (1.31%) Spring Boot
18 24 (1.17%) .NET Core
19 23 (1.12%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 255 (12.40%) Product Ownership
2 133 (6.47%) Onboarding
3 87 (4.23%) Cloud Native
4 70 (3.40%) Data Centre
5 61 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
6 53 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
7 50 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
8 47 (2.28%) Virtual Team
9 41 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
10 38 (1.85%) Management Information System
11 32 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
11 32 (1.56%) Data Structures
12 26 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
13 21 (1.02%) Credit Risk
13 21 (1.02%) SCADA
14 19 (0.92%) Mobile App
15 18 (0.88%) Derivative
16 16 (0.78%) Clustering
16 16 (0.78%) Enterprise Storage
16 16 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 160 (7.78%) Windows
2 127 (6.17%) Linux
3 50 (2.43%) Unix
4 24 (1.17%) Windows 10
5 19 (0.92%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.78%) Mac OS
7 15 (0.73%) Android
8 13 (0.63%) Windows Server
9 11 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.15%) AIX
12 3 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
13 2 (0.097%) MVS
13 2 (0.097%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.097%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.097%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.097%) zOS
14 1 (0.049%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,235 (60.04%) Agile
2 625 (30.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 574 (27.90%) DevOps
4 451 (21.93%) Problem-Solving
5 438 (21.29%) CI/CD
6 425 (20.66%) Scrum
7 382 (18.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 346 (16.82%) Test Automation
9 303 (14.73%) Migration
10 254 (12.35%) User Acceptance Testing
11 237 (11.52%) User Stories
12 230 (11.18%) Project Management
13 227 (11.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 221 (10.74%) Sprint Planning
15 219 (10.65%) AI
15 219 (10.65%) Validation
16 207 (10.06%) Project Delivery
17 200 (9.72%) SDLC
18 185 (8.99%) Acceptance Criteria
18 185 (8.99%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 353 (17.16%) SQL
2 249 (12.11%) Python
3 131 (6.37%) Java
4 99 (4.81%) JavaScript
5 76 (3.69%) C#
5 76 (3.69%) PowerShell
6 66 (3.21%) TypeScript
7 45 (2.19%) Bash
8 33 (1.60%) PL/SQL
9 18 (0.88%) Bicep
10 17 (0.83%) Groovy
11 16 (0.78%) Apex Code
11 16 (0.78%) Kotlin
12 15 (0.73%) C++
13 14 (0.68%) Perl
14 13 (0.63%) VBA
15 9 (0.44%) ActionScript
16 8 (0.39%) C
17 7 (0.34%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 552 (26.84%) Security Cleared
2 425 (20.66%) SC Cleared
3 174 (8.46%) Degree
4 87 (4.23%) DV Cleared
5 76 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 74 (3.60%) ISTQB
7 56 (2.72%) PMI Certification
8 46 (2.24%) PMP
9 26 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (1.22%) CISSP
11 22 (1.07%) Azure Certification
12 21 (1.02%) Master's Degree
13 19 (0.92%) AWS Certification
14 18 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 17 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
16 16 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 16 (0.78%) SAFe Agilist
17 15 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
18 13 (0.63%) CISM
18 13 (0.63%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 268 (13.03%) QA
2 123 (5.98%) PMO
3 116 (5.64%) Data Quality
4 65 (3.16%) Accessibility
5 42 (2.04%) SLA
6 28 (1.36%) GDPR
7 26 (1.26%) WCAG
8 24 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 21 (1.02%) NCSC
10 20 (0.97%) NIST
11 18 (0.88%) GRC
12 12 (0.58%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.53%) ISO 20022
14 7 (0.34%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.34%) SEPA
15 6 (0.29%) MiFID
15 6 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.24%) COBIT
16 5 (0.24%) GxP
16 5 (0.24%) P3O
System Software
1 122 (5.93%) Docker
2 116 (5.64%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (0.49%) Firmware
6 8 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.15%) HDFS
8 3 (0.15%) Squid
9 2 (0.097%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.097%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.049%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.049%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 131 (6.37%) Kubernetes
2 86 (4.18%) Ansible
3 51 (2.48%) Grafana
4 38 (1.85%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
6 21 (1.02%) HP ALM
7 16 (0.78%) Control-M
7 16 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
8 11 (0.53%) Puppet
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%) HP Quality Center
11 7 (0.34%) IBM Guardium
11 7 (0.34%) Istio
12 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
12 6 (0.29%) SCOM
12 6 (0.29%) vCenter Server
13 5 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 305 (14.83%) Microsoft
2 262 (12.74%) ServiceNow
3 154 (7.49%) Oracle
4 93 (4.52%) Atlassian
5 92 (4.47%) Salesforce
6 90 (4.38%) SAP
7 61 (2.97%) Google
8 43 (2.09%) VMware
9 40 (1.94%) IBM
10 37 (1.80%) Splunk
11 35 (1.70%) Denodo
12 34 (1.65%) Remedy
13 30 (1.46%) Talend
14 27 (1.31%) Informatica
15 26 (1.26%) Databricks
16 24 (1.17%) F5
16 24 (1.17%) HP
16 24 (1.17%) MuleSoft
17 23 (1.12%) Adobe
17 23 (1.12%) Workday