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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 43 52
Rank change year-on-year +9 +9 -9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,033 1,182 1,367
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.36% 4.83% 3.63%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.23% 35.56% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,434 774 941
10th Percentile £313 £314 £350
25th Percentile £400 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £630
90th Percentile £691 £684 £756
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -2.50% -3.85% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 24 53
10th Percentile £18.75 £48.92 £22.00
25th Percentile £26.28 £55.34 £36.88
Median hourly rate £63.14 £62.50 £52.21
Median % change year-on-year +1.02% +19.72% -18.11%
75th Percentile £73.13 £72.19 £63.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £64.25 £62.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +2.80% +38.89% -29.41%

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 5,054 3,324 4,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.33% 13.59% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,396 2,218 2,943
10th Percentile £340 £340 £358
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -5.86%
75th Percentile £588 £626 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 67 165
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.17 £34.50
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.72 £46.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.28 £86.25
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% +0.81%

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 30 March 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 30 March 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 30 March 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 +9 897 £511 +2.10% 202
North of England +3 378 £450 - 115
Midlands +6 302 £425 -10.53% 70
West Midlands +1 238 £450 -5.26% 42
South East -15 197 £487 -2.55% 145
Yorkshire -9 192 £468 -4.25% 37
North West +7 175 £447 -0.33% 60
South West +18 165 £560 -0.44% 42
East Midlands -1 62 £358 -24.63% 28
East of England -6 62 £425 - 47
North East -12 11 £450 -2.70% 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
1 955 (46.97%) Confluence
2 110 (5.41%) SharePoint
3 40 (1.97%) SAS
4 31 (1.52%) nginx
5 21 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
6 19 (0.93%) Apache
7 16 (0.79%) CMS
8 9 (0.44%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.39%) WebLogic
10 6 (0.30%) Ethereum
10 6 (0.30%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.30%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.25%) JBoss
11 5 (0.25%) Mattermost
11 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
13 3 (0.15%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 223 (10.97%) Microsoft Project
2 193 (9.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 112 (5.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 105 (5.16%) Microsoft Office
5 95 (4.67%) MS Visio
6 23 (1.13%) Trello
7 9 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.34%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
9 5 (0.25%) Notion
9 5 (0.25%) Photoshop
9 5 (0.25%) Sketch
10 4 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.15%) InVision
12 2 (0.098%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.098%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.098%) CATIA
12 2 (0.098%) InDesign
13 1 (0.049%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 25 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
3 17 (0.84%) NetSuite
4 13 (0.64%) Loan IQ
5 12 (0.59%) Workday HCM
6 11 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
7 10 (0.49%) Aladdin
8 9 (0.44%) Fidessa
9 7 (0.34%) Maximo
10 6 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 6 (0.30%) SAP MDG
11 5 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
12 4 (0.20%) Findur
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 4 (0.20%) SAP FI
12 4 (0.20%) SAP Retail
12 4 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
13 3 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 415 (20.41%) Azure
2 296 (14.56%) AWS
3 241 (11.85%) Azure DevOps
4 178 (8.76%) GitHub
5 143 (7.03%) Power Platform
6 78 (3.84%) GCP
7 68 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
8 62 (3.05%) Entra ID
8 62 (3.05%) SaaS
9 61 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
10 50 (2.46%) Serverless
11 40 (1.97%) Amazon S3
12 37 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
13 35 (1.72%) Figma
14 31 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
14 31 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
15 30 (1.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 26 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
16 26 (1.28%) Miro
17 25 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 61 (3.00%) Firewall
2 37 (1.82%) DNS
2 37 (1.82%) TCP/IP
3 30 (1.48%) VPN
4 27 (1.33%) WAN
5 26 (1.28%) LAN
6 24 (1.18%) Network Security
7 18 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
8 15 (0.74%) HTTP
8 15 (0.74%) SSL
9 14 (0.69%) SD-WAN
10 11 (0.54%) SAN
11 10 (0.49%) DHCP
11 10 (0.49%) Internet
11 10 (0.49%) NAS
12 9 (0.44%) Ethernet
12 9 (0.44%) FTP
12 9 (0.44%) Unified Communications
13 8 (0.39%) BIG-IP
14 7 (0.34%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (6.00%) Power BI
2 71 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (3.20%) Tableau
4 61 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
5 50 (2.46%) SQL Server
6 39 (1.92%) MongoDB
7 35 (1.72%) NoSQL
8 26 (1.28%) Pentaho
9 23 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
10 21 (1.03%) Relational Database
11 20 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
12 19 (0.93%) Metadata
13 18 (0.89%) DynamoDB
13 18 (0.89%) MySQL
14 17 (0.84%) Big Data
15 16 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
16 14 (0.69%) Oracle Database
17 12 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
17 12 (0.59%) Hadoop
17 12 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 255 (12.54%) Git
2 221 (10.87%) Jenkins
3 116 (5.71%) GitLab
4 94 (4.62%) Selenium
5 69 (3.39%) Postman
6 65 (3.20%) Cucumber
7 61 (3.00%) Bitbucket
8 52 (2.56%) JUnit
9 47 (2.31%) Zephyr
10 38 (1.87%) JMeter
10 38 (1.87%) Sonatype Nexus
11 33 (1.62%) REST Assured
12 32 (1.57%) TestRail
13 26 (1.28%) SonarQube
14 20 (0.98%) WebDriver
15 19 (0.93%) Maven
16 17 (0.84%) Cypress.io
17 16 (0.79%) SpecFlow
18 14 (0.69%) Appium
18 14 (0.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 827 (40.68%) Social Skills
2 588 (28.92%) Finance
3 396 (19.48%) Analytical Skills
4 255 (12.54%) Banking
5 213 (10.48%) Public Sector
6 77 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
7 76 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
8 67 (3.30%) Retail
9 50 (2.46%) Military
10 48 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
11 43 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
12 34 (1.67%) Legal
13 29 (1.43%) Investment Banking
14 28 (1.38%) Manufacturing
15 25 (1.23%) Front Office
16 21 (1.03%) Retail Banking
16 21 (1.03%) Telecoms
17 20 (0.98%) Marketing
18 17 (0.84%) Financial Institution
18 17 (0.84%) Law
Job Titles
1 403 (19.82%) Analyst
2 258 (12.69%) Business Analyst
3 181 (8.90%) Developer
4 155 (7.62%) Lead
5 152 (7.48%) Project Manager
6 148 (7.28%) Senior
7 129 (6.35%) Architect
8 95 (4.67%) Tester
9 70 (3.44%) Delivery Manager
10 63 (3.10%) Consultant
11 61 (3.00%) Data Engineer
12 54 (2.66%) Scrum Master
12 54 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
13 53 (2.61%) Test Engineer
14 48 (2.36%) Test Analyst
15 46 (2.26%) IT Support
15 46 (2.26%) Support Engineer
15 46 (2.26%) Technical Manager
16 45 (2.21%) Technical Analyst
17 44 (2.16%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (6.84%) REST
2 65 (3.20%) Spring
3 59 (2.90%) .NET
4 51 (2.51%) Kafka
5 49 (2.41%) React
6 46 (2.26%) RESTful
7 44 (2.16%) JSON
7 44 (2.16%) XML
8 43 (2.12%) Spring Boot
9 42 (2.07%) HTML
10 38 (1.87%) Playwright
11 37 (1.82%) SOAP
12 36 (1.77%) CSS
13 30 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
14 29 (1.43%) OpenID
15 28 (1.38%) ADO
15 28 (1.38%) Node.js
16 27 (1.33%) AngularJS
16 27 (1.33%) Middleware
17 26 (1.28%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 247 (12.15%) Product Ownership
2 90 (4.43%) Onboarding
3 73 (3.59%) Cloud Native
4 50 (2.46%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.26%) Virtual Team
6 43 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
7 39 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
8 35 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
9 29 (1.43%) Data Centre
10 25 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
11 24 (1.18%) PMI
12 23 (1.13%) Mobile App
13 22 (1.08%) Data Structures
14 21 (1.03%) Public Cloud
15 20 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
16 18 (0.89%) CMDB
17 15 (0.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
18 13 (0.64%) Distributed Architecture
18 13 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 160 (7.87%) Windows
2 139 (6.84%) Linux
3 34 (1.67%) Unix
4 20 (0.98%) Android
5 19 (0.93%) Windows 10
6 11 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (0.54%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.49%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.44%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.098%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.098%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.049%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.049%) Windows Embedded Compact
12 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.049%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,190 (58.53%) Agile
2 564 (27.74%) DevOps
3 515 (25.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 470 (23.12%) Problem-Solving
5 436 (21.45%) Scrum
6 403 (19.82%) CI/CD
7 368 (18.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 324 (15.94%) Test Automation
9 296 (14.56%) Project Management
10 256 (12.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 209 (10.28%) Change Management
11 209 (10.28%) Migration
12 207 (10.18%) User Acceptance Testing
12 207 (10.18%) User Stories
13 201 (9.89%) Project Delivery
14 187 (9.20%) ITIL
15 186 (9.15%) Decision-Making
16 176 (8.66%) Acceptance Criteria
16 176 (8.66%) Validation
17 169 (8.31%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 311 (15.30%) SQL
2 250 (12.30%) Python
3 189 (9.30%) Java
4 100 (4.92%) JavaScript
5 89 (4.38%) C#
6 82 (4.03%) PowerShell
7 55 (2.71%) TypeScript
8 44 (2.16%) Bash
9 33 (1.62%) C++
10 23 (1.13%) Shell Script
11 17 (0.84%) C
11 17 (0.84%) Embedded C++
11 17 (0.84%) PL/SQL
12 15 (0.74%) Go
13 13 (0.64%) Apex Code
13 13 (0.64%) Perl
14 10 (0.49%) Embedded C
14 10 (0.49%) PHP
15 9 (0.44%) VBA
16 7 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 557 (27.40%) Security Cleared
2 442 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 260 (12.79%) Degree
4 80 (3.94%) PMI Certification
5 73 (3.59%) PMP
6 70 (3.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 67 (3.30%) ISTQB
8 56 (2.75%) DV Cleared
9 50 (2.46%) CISSP
10 43 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
10 43 (2.12%) TOGAF Certification
11 36 (1.77%) CISM
12 34 (1.67%) Master's Degree
13 24 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
14 20 (0.98%) AWS Certification
14 20 (0.98%) CBAP
14 20 (0.98%) IIBA
15 19 (0.93%) ISEB
16 18 (0.89%) Azure Certification
16 18 (0.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 255 (12.54%) QA
2 121 (5.95%) PMO
3 98 (4.82%) Data Quality
4 50 (2.46%) GDPR
5 44 (2.16%) Accessibility
6 30 (1.48%) NIST
7 24 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 24 (1.18%) SLA
8 18 (0.89%) GRC
8 18 (0.89%) WCAG
9 13 (0.64%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.64%) PSD2
10 12 (0.59%) ISO 20022
11 11 (0.54%) Basel III
11 11 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.39%) SEPA
13 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.30%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.30%) NCSC
14 6 (0.30%) NIST 800
System Software
1 176 (8.66%) Docker
2 84 (4.13%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.59%) Firmware
6 9 (0.44%) Squid
7 7 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.15%) HDFS
10 2 (0.098%) Postfix
10 2 (0.098%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.098%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.049%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.049%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.049%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 182 (8.95%) Kubernetes
2 112 (5.51%) Terraform
3 92 (4.53%) Ansible
4 60 (2.95%) Grafana
5 45 (2.21%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.48%) OPNET
7 29 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
8 25 (1.23%) HP ALM
9 24 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
10 22 (1.08%) Control-M
11 21 (1.03%) Consul
11 21 (1.03%) Puppet
12 16 (0.79%) Packer
13 15 (0.74%) IBM Guardium
13 15 (0.74%) Nessus
14 13 (0.64%) NetBackup
15 10 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
15 10 (0.49%) SCCM
16 8 (0.39%) FortiGate
16 8 (0.39%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 243 (11.95%) Microsoft
2 239 (11.76%) ServiceNow
3 163 (8.02%) Oracle
4 156 (7.67%) Atlassian
5 103 (5.07%) Salesforce
6 67 (3.30%) SAP
7 56 (2.75%) Remedy
8 45 (2.21%) Google
9 35 (1.72%) Workday
10 34 (1.67%) Red Hat
11 33 (1.62%) IBM
11 33 (1.62%) Splunk
12 32 (1.57%) Talend
13 27 (1.33%) HP
14 25 (1.23%) Databricks
14 25 (1.23%) Denodo
15 24 (1.18%) CyberArk
16 22 (1.08%) BiZZdesign
17 21 (1.03%) Cisco
17 21 (1.03%) VMware