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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 31 43
Rank change year-on-year -15 +12 +8
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,006 1,618 1,419
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.39% 5.87% 4.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.58% 39.59% 32.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,318 1,130 931
10th Percentile £350 £313 £340
25th Percentile £409 £400 £419
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 £688 £693
UK median daily rate £500 £492 £515
% change year-on-year +1.63% -4.47% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 40 75
10th Percentile £23.05 £47.38 £25.99
25th Percentile £44.86 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.00 £68.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -11.76% +8.80%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.83 £83.58 -
UK median hourly rate £60.81 £56.50 £67.75
% change year-on-year +7.63% -16.61% +8.84%

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 5,199 4,087 4,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.38% 14.82% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,310 2,834 2,844
10th Percentile £356 £325 £355
25th Percentile £414 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £630
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 236 96 172
10th Percentile £36.75 £42.38 £36.30
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.58 £53.63
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £73.19 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.36 £82.98 £71.84
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - -

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -11 960 £526 +0.19% 704
North of England -13 360 £475 +2.43% 195
Midlands -9 250 £457 -3.89% 94
South East -31 213 £475 - 194
West Midlands -11 211 £459 -3.37% 62
Yorkshire -7 203 £475 +0.79% 62
North West -43 136 £473 +8.11% 102
South West -3 131 £525 -4.55% 141
East of England -13 56 £543 +35.63% 87
East Midlands -2 38 £409 +13.86% 32
North East -37 28 £550 +4.76% 33
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
1 892 (44.47%) Confluence
2 104 (5.18%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (1.25%) SAS
5 19 (0.95%) CMS
6 13 (0.65%) Apache
7 9 (0.45%) Camunda
7 9 (0.45%) nginx
8 8 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.25%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.25%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.25%) MTS
10 4 (0.20%) Headless CMS
10 4 (0.20%) IIS
10 4 (0.20%) WordPress
11 3 (0.15%) Kentico
11 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.15%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 133 (6.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 130 (6.48%) Microsoft Project
3 84 (4.19%) MS Visio
4 65 (3.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 64 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
6 21 (1.05%) Trello
7 11 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.50%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.40%) Revit
10 7 (0.35%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.25%) Notion
12 3 (0.15%) Windchill
13 2 (0.100%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.100%) Mingle
14 1 (0.050%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 1 (0.050%) CATIA
14 1 (0.050%) Gliffy
14 1 (0.050%) Mozilla Thunderbird
14 1 (0.050%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.050%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 32 (1.60%) Remedy ITSM
2 23 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.55%) Aladdin
3 11 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
5 9 (0.45%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.30%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.25%) Fidessa
7 5 (0.25%) Findur
7 5 (0.25%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.20%) SAP FI-AR
8 4 (0.20%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.15%) CA PPM
9 3 (0.15%) Magento
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.15%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 504 (25.12%) Azure
2 309 (15.40%) AWS
3 287 (14.31%) Azure DevOps
4 164 (8.18%) Power Platform
5 162 (8.08%) GitHub
6 86 (4.29%) GCP
6 86 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
7 74 (3.69%) SaaS
8 68 (3.39%) Serverless
9 67 (3.34%) Entra ID
10 63 (3.14%) Amazon S3
11 56 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
12 55 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
13 54 (2.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 39 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
15 38 (1.89%) Miro
16 37 (1.84%) Microsoft Copilot
17 33 (1.65%) Smartsheet
18 29 (1.45%) Figma
19 28 (1.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 84 (4.19%) Firewall
2 68 (3.39%) DNS
3 46 (2.29%) TCP/IP
4 33 (1.65%) DHCP
4 33 (1.65%) VPN
5 28 (1.40%) Network Security
6 23 (1.15%) WAN
7 19 (0.95%) SAN
8 18 (0.90%) BIG-IP
8 18 (0.90%) SSL
9 15 (0.75%) LAN
9 15 (0.75%) SD-WAN
10 13 (0.65%) Internet
11 11 (0.55%) VLAN
12 10 (0.50%) SSH
13 9 (0.45%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 9 (0.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 9 (0.45%) HTTP
14 8 (0.40%) DKIM
14 8 (0.40%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (7.23%) Power BI
2 87 (4.34%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (2.84%) SQL Server
4 56 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
5 37 (1.84%) Oracle Reports
6 30 (1.50%) Relational Database
7 26 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
7 26 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 25 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
9 21 (1.05%) Tableau
10 20 (1.00%) DynamoDB
11 19 (0.95%) Data Lake
11 19 (0.95%) MongoDB
12 18 (0.90%) Metadata
12 18 (0.90%) Oracle Database
13 17 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 16 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
14 16 (0.80%) NoSQL
15 15 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 14 (0.70%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 246 (12.26%) Git
2 169 (8.42%) Jenkins
3 111 (5.53%) GitLab
4 81 (4.04%) Selenium
5 75 (3.74%) Zephyr
6 65 (3.24%) Bitbucket
7 60 (2.99%) Postman
8 33 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
9 32 (1.60%) JUnit
10 29 (1.45%) Cucumber
11 27 (1.35%) Cypress.io
12 24 (1.20%) JMeter
13 23 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 22 (1.10%) REST Assured
15 21 (1.05%) TestRail
16 18 (0.90%) Artifactory
17 17 (0.85%) Maven
18 15 (0.75%) Mockito
19 14 (0.70%) SonarQube
20 13 (0.65%) WebDriver
General
1 790 (39.38%) Social Skills
2 601 (29.96%) Finance
3 379 (18.89%) Analytical Skills
4 278 (13.86%) Banking
5 230 (11.47%) Public Sector
6 79 (3.94%) Retail
7 74 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
8 67 (3.34%) Documentation Skills
9 49 (2.44%) Investment Banking
10 45 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
11 36 (1.79%) Front Office
11 36 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 35 (1.74%) Manufacturing
13 34 (1.69%) Legal
14 31 (1.55%) Marketing
15 29 (1.45%) Telecoms
16 26 (1.30%) Retail Banking
17 21 (1.05%) Financial Institution
17 21 (1.05%) Law
18 20 (1.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 355 (17.70%) Analyst
2 225 (11.22%) Business Analyst
3 211 (10.52%) Lead
4 197 (9.82%) Developer
5 176 (8.77%) Senior
6 111 (5.53%) Project Manager
7 83 (4.14%) Consultant
8 82 (4.09%) Delivery Manager
9 77 (3.84%) Scrum Master
10 73 (3.64%) Architect
11 67 (3.34%) Tester
12 54 (2.69%) Data Engineer
13 51 (2.54%) Product Owner
14 49 (2.44%) Support Engineer
15 47 (2.34%) Test Analyst
16 46 (2.29%) Test Leader
17 40 (1.99%) Administrator
18 39 (1.94%) Senior Manager
19 36 (1.79%) IT Support
19 36 (1.79%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (7.38%) Terraform
2 129 (6.43%) REST
3 76 (3.79%) .NET
4 61 (3.04%) HTML
5 55 (2.74%) React
6 49 (2.44%) RESTful
7 46 (2.29%) AngularJS
8 44 (2.19%) JSON
8 44 (2.19%) Kafka
9 43 (2.14%) CSS
10 39 (1.94%) Playwright
11 37 (1.84%) Spring
12 36 (1.79%) SOAP
13 33 (1.65%) XML
14 32 (1.60%) Node.js
14 32 (1.60%) Spring Boot
15 31 (1.55%) Middleware
16 29 (1.45%) Web Services
17 23 (1.15%) .NET Core
18 22 (1.10%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 262 (13.06%) Product Ownership
2 137 (6.83%) Onboarding
3 81 (4.04%) Cloud Native
4 64 (3.19%) Data Centre
5 58 (2.89%) Enterprise Software
6 51 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
7 47 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
8 41 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
8 41 (2.04%) Virtual Team
9 39 (1.94%) Data Structures
10 35 (1.74%) Management Information System
11 32 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
12 23 (1.15%) Credit Risk
12 23 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
13 21 (1.05%) Mobile App
13 21 (1.05%) SCADA
14 18 (0.90%) Replication
15 17 (0.85%) Derivative
16 16 (0.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
17 15 (0.75%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 147 (7.33%) Windows
2 121 (6.03%) Linux
3 48 (2.39%) Unix
4 25 (1.25%) Windows 10
5 21 (1.05%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.90%) Android
7 15 (0.75%) Mac OS
8 12 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.60%) Windows Server
9 9 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.20%) AIX
10 4 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 4 (0.20%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
12 2 (0.100%) MVS
12 2 (0.100%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.100%) Solaris
12 2 (0.100%) VMS
12 2 (0.100%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,208 (60.22%) Agile
2 632 (31.51%) Stakeholder Management
3 565 (28.17%) DevOps
4 434 (21.64%) Problem-Solving
5 423 (21.09%) Scrum
6 422 (21.04%) CI/CD
7 374 (18.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 335 (16.70%) Test Automation
9 289 (14.41%) Migration
10 256 (12.76%) User Acceptance Testing
11 245 (12.21%) User Stories
12 233 (11.62%) Project Management
13 226 (11.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 224 (11.17%) Validation
15 222 (11.07%) AI
15 222 (11.07%) Sprint Planning
16 205 (10.22%) Project Delivery
17 203 (10.12%) SDLC
18 189 (9.42%) Acceptance Criteria
19 179 (8.92%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 343 (17.10%) SQL
2 244 (12.16%) Python
3 129 (6.43%) Java
4 106 (5.28%) JavaScript
5 72 (3.59%) PowerShell
6 70 (3.49%) TypeScript
7 67 (3.34%) C#
8 40 (1.99%) Bash
9 30 (1.50%) PL/SQL
10 20 (1.00%) Groovy
11 17 (0.85%) Bicep
11 17 (0.85%) C++
12 16 (0.80%) Apex Code
12 16 (0.80%) Kotlin
13 14 (0.70%) Perl
14 13 (0.65%) VBA
15 10 (0.50%) C
16 9 (0.45%) ActionScript
17 7 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 7 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 532 (26.52%) Security Cleared
2 414 (20.64%) SC Cleared
3 172 (8.57%) Degree
4 87 (4.34%) DV Cleared
5 78 (3.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 67 (3.34%) ISTQB
7 55 (2.74%) PMI Certification
8 43 (2.14%) PMP
9 28 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
10 23 (1.15%) Azure Certification
11 22 (1.10%) AWS Certification
12 21 (1.05%) CISSP
13 20 (1.00%) Master's Degree
14 18 (0.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 18 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 17 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
16 16 (0.80%) SAFe Agilist
17 12 (0.60%) IIBA
18 11 (0.55%) CISM
18 11 (0.55%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 259 (12.91%) QA
2 123 (6.13%) PMO
3 115 (5.73%) Data Quality
4 62 (3.09%) Accessibility
5 36 (1.79%) SLA
6 24 (1.20%) WCAG
7 23 (1.15%) GDPR
8 22 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 20 (1.00%) NCSC
10 19 (0.95%) GRC
11 17 (0.85%) NIST
12 12 (0.60%) ISO 20022
13 9 (0.45%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.35%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.35%) SEPA
15 5 (0.25%) COBIT
15 5 (0.25%) GxP
15 5 (0.25%) MiFID
15 5 (0.25%) P3O
15 5 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 117 (5.83%) Docker
2 112 (5.58%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (0.45%) Firmware
6 7 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.20%) Squid
8 2 (0.100%) DFS Replication
8 2 (0.100%) Dovecot
8 2 (0.100%) OpenAM
8 2 (0.100%) Postfix
9 1 (0.050%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.050%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.050%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.050%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 1 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.050%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.050%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 113 (5.63%) Kubernetes
2 78 (3.89%) Ansible
3 48 (2.39%) Grafana
4 39 (1.94%) Prometheus
5 34 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (1.20%) HP ALM
7 17 (0.85%) Control-M
8 14 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.45%) Nessus
9 9 (0.45%) Packer
10 8 (0.40%) Puppet
11 7 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.35%) Dell DRAC
11 7 (0.35%) Istio
12 6 (0.30%) HP Quality Center
12 6 (0.30%) IBM Guardium
12 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
12 6 (0.30%) SCOM
13 5 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 302 (15.05%) Microsoft
2 246 (12.26%) ServiceNow
3 142 (7.08%) Oracle
4 90 (4.49%) Salesforce
5 87 (4.34%) SAP
6 83 (4.14%) Atlassian
7 59 (2.94%) Google
8 50 (2.49%) IBM
9 42 (2.09%) VMware
10 35 (1.74%) Splunk
11 32 (1.60%) Denodo
11 32 (1.60%) Remedy
12 27 (1.35%) HP
13 26 (1.30%) Talend
14 23 (1.15%) MuleSoft
15 22 (1.10%) Adobe
15 22 (1.10%) Databricks
15 22 (1.10%) F5
15 22 (1.10%) Informatica
15 22 (1.10%) Workday