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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 44 51
Rank change year-on-year +10 +7 -12
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,902 1,186 1,435
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.46% 4.57% 3.80%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.11% 34.13% 32.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,364 726 1,006
10th Percentile £313 £311 £331
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £745
UK median daily rate £492 £488 £513
% change year-on-year +0.92% -4.88% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 22 51
10th Percentile £15.74 £45.20 £31.71
25th Percentile £25.33 £52.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.57 £62.50 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +14.68% -16.15%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £71.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £63.27 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +1.23% +19.05% -19.23%

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 4,863 3,475 4,360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.96% 13.39% 11.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,331 2,194 3,065
10th Percentile £340 £335 £363
25th Percentile £409 £409 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £533
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -5.72% -7.30%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £695 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 59 204
10th Percentile £39.00 £27.25 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.31 £48.43
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.25
90th Percentile £83.00 £80.00 £87.43
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 +7 848 £520 +4.00% 203
North of England +15 350 £449 -1.16% 88
Midlands +11 260 £450 -8.16% 98
West Midlands +5 196 £475 -0.42% 75
South East -4 194 £480 +1.05% 170
Yorkshire -3 187 £480 -4.00% 38
South West +19 155 £575 +2.22% 69
North West +25 147 £425 -5.56% 48
East Midlands +7 62 £356 -27.35% 23
East of England -10 60 £425 +3.03% 32
North East -7 16 £400 -11.11% 3
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
1 908 (47.74%) Confluence
2 116 (6.10%) SharePoint
3 37 (1.95%) SAS
4 34 (1.79%) nginx
5 24 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 22 (1.16%) CMS
7 13 (0.68%) Apache
8 11 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.42%) WebLogic
10 7 (0.37%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.32%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.32%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.32%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.26%) Mattermost
13 4 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.16%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.16%) Drupal
14 3 (0.16%) SugarCRM
14 3 (0.16%) Traefik
Applications
1 203 (10.67%) Microsoft Project
2 176 (9.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 106 (5.57%) Microsoft Office
4 104 (5.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 77 (4.05%) MS Visio
6 24 (1.26%) Trello
7 5 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.26%) Notion
7 5 (0.26%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.26%) Sketch
7 5 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
8 4 (0.21%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.21%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 3 (0.16%) InVision
10 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.11%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.11%) CATIA
10 2 (0.11%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 17 (0.89%) NetSuite
1 17 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.58%) Workday HCM
3 10 (0.53%) Fidessa
3 10 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
4 9 (0.47%) Loan IQ
4 9 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 8 (0.42%) Maximo
6 6 (0.32%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.26%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.21%) Endur
8 4 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.21%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 372 (19.56%) Azure
2 288 (15.14%) AWS
3 196 (10.30%) Azure DevOps
4 171 (8.99%) GitHub
5 130 (6.83%) Power Platform
6 82 (4.31%) GCP
7 79 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
8 59 (3.10%) SaaS
9 51 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
10 42 (2.21%) Serverless
11 40 (2.10%) Entra ID
12 37 (1.95%) Amazon S3
13 36 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
14 33 (1.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 32 (1.68%) Figma
16 29 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
17 28 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
18 27 (1.42%) Miro
18 27 (1.42%) Slack
19 26 (1.37%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 48 (2.52%) Firewall
2 38 (2.00%) DNS
3 32 (1.68%) TCP/IP
4 28 (1.47%) VPN
5 21 (1.10%) WAN
6 20 (1.05%) HTTP
7 19 (1.00%) LAN
8 16 (0.84%) SSH
9 15 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (0.68%) FTP
10 13 (0.68%) Network Security
11 10 (0.53%) SD-WAN
12 9 (0.47%) DHCP
12 9 (0.47%) Ethernet
13 8 (0.42%) SSL
13 8 (0.42%) Unified Communications
14 7 (0.37%) Modbus
14 7 (0.37%) RS-232
14 7 (0.37%) RS-485
14 7 (0.37%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (5.68%) Power BI
2 76 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (3.15%) Tableau
4 51 (2.68%) SQL Server
5 37 (1.95%) NoSQL
6 36 (1.89%) MongoDB
7 34 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
8 27 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
9 26 (1.37%) Pentaho
10 21 (1.10%) Oracle Database
10 21 (1.10%) Relational Database
11 18 (0.95%) Big Data
11 18 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
11 18 (0.95%) Metadata
12 17 (0.89%) MySQL
13 14 (0.74%) Data Vault
14 11 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
14 11 (0.58%) Star Schema
15 10 (0.53%) DynamoDB
15 10 (0.53%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 231 (12.15%) Git
2 225 (11.83%) Jenkins
3 114 (5.99%) GitLab
4 85 (4.47%) Selenium
5 69 (3.63%) Postman
6 62 (3.26%) Cucumber
7 51 (2.68%) Bitbucket
8 44 (2.31%) JUnit
9 37 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
10 33 (1.74%) REST Assured
10 33 (1.74%) TestRail
11 32 (1.68%) SonarQube
12 31 (1.63%) JMeter
13 30 (1.58%) Zephyr
14 21 (1.10%) Maven
15 17 (0.89%) Cypress.io
15 17 (0.89%) SpecFlow
16 14 (0.74%) Rational DOORS
17 12 (0.63%) WebDriver
18 11 (0.58%) SoapUI
General
1 784 (41.22%) Social Skills
2 533 (28.02%) Finance
3 374 (19.66%) Analytical Skills
4 232 (12.20%) Banking
5 199 (10.46%) Public Sector
6 77 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
7 69 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
8 68 (3.58%) Retail
9 54 (2.84%) Military
10 46 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
11 44 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
12 31 (1.63%) Investment Banking
13 29 (1.52%) Legal
14 28 (1.47%) Manufacturing
15 25 (1.31%) Telecoms
16 22 (1.16%) Front Office
16 22 (1.16%) Marketing
17 21 (1.10%) Retail Banking
18 16 (0.84%) Law
19 15 (0.79%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 394 (20.72%) Analyst
2 252 (13.25%) Business Analyst
3 178 (9.36%) Developer
4 155 (8.15%) Project Manager
5 147 (7.73%) Lead
6 131 (6.89%) Senior
7 129 (6.78%) Architect
8 84 (4.42%) Tester
9 57 (3.00%) Delivery Manager
10 55 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
11 54 (2.84%) Consultant
12 49 (2.58%) Test Engineer
13 47 (2.47%) Test Analyst
14 46 (2.42%) Technical Analyst
15 44 (2.31%) Data Engineer
16 43 (2.26%) Scrum Master
17 42 (2.21%) Technical Business Analyst
18 39 (2.05%) Senior Analyst
18 39 (2.05%) Software Engineer
18 39 (2.05%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (7.41%) REST
2 63 (3.31%) .NET
3 58 (3.05%) Spring
4 49 (2.58%) Kafka
5 48 (2.52%) XML
6 47 (2.47%) HTML
6 47 (2.47%) RESTful
7 44 (2.31%) React
8 43 (2.26%) JSON
8 43 (2.26%) SOAP
9 41 (2.16%) CSS
10 40 (2.10%) Playwright
11 39 (2.05%) Spring Boot
12 30 (1.58%) Oracle Fusion
13 27 (1.42%) AngularJS
13 27 (1.42%) LDAP
13 27 (1.42%) Node.js
14 26 (1.37%) OpenID
15 25 (1.31%) FastAPI
16 24 (1.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 225 (11.83%) Product Ownership
2 85 (4.47%) Onboarding
3 64 (3.36%) Cloud Native
4 47 (2.47%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
6 35 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
6 35 (1.84%) Virtual Team
7 32 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
8 29 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
8 29 (1.52%) Data Structures
8 29 (1.52%) PMI
9 25 (1.31%) Mobile App
10 22 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
12 19 (1.00%) Public Cloud
13 18 (0.95%) CMDB
13 18 (0.95%) Data Centre
14 15 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 14 (0.74%) Tandem
16 13 (0.68%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 140 (7.36%) Windows
2 126 (6.62%) Linux
3 31 (1.63%) Unix
4 22 (1.16%) Android
5 20 (1.05%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.63%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.58%) Windows Server
8 10 (0.53%) VMS
9 8 (0.42%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.37%) FreeRTOS
11 6 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.21%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.053%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.053%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.053%) Windows Embedded Compact
14 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.053%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,124 (59.10%) Agile
2 515 (27.08%) DevOps
3 485 (25.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 454 (23.87%) Problem-Solving
5 411 (21.61%) Scrum
6 374 (19.66%) CI/CD
7 329 (17.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 289 (15.19%) Project Management
9 286 (15.04%) Test Automation
10 244 (12.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 198 (10.41%) User Stories
12 189 (9.94%) Project Delivery
13 186 (9.78%) Migration
14 182 (9.57%) User Acceptance Testing
15 179 (9.41%) Change Management
16 164 (8.62%) Acceptance Criteria
16 164 (8.62%) Roadmaps
17 163 (8.57%) Decision-Making
18 159 (8.36%) Validation
19 158 (8.31%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 284 (14.93%) SQL
2 253 (13.30%) Python
3 179 (9.41%) Java
4 104 (5.47%) JavaScript
5 78 (4.10%) C#
5 78 (4.10%) PowerShell
6 55 (2.89%) TypeScript
7 37 (1.95%) Bash
8 32 (1.68%) C++
9 25 (1.31%) Go
10 21 (1.10%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.05%) Embedded C++
12 15 (0.79%) PL/SQL
13 13 (0.68%) C
13 13 (0.68%) PHP
14 12 (0.63%) Perl
15 11 (0.58%) Groovy
15 11 (0.58%) Ruby
16 10 (0.53%) Apex Code
16 10 (0.53%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 498 (26.18%) Security Cleared
2 405 (21.29%) SC Cleared
3 264 (13.88%) Degree
4 89 (4.68%) PMI Certification
5 77 (4.05%) PMP
6 65 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 57 (3.00%) ISTQB
8 51 (2.68%) DV Cleared
9 47 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 46 (2.42%) CISSP
11 44 (2.31%) TOGAF Certification
12 39 (2.05%) CISM
13 36 (1.89%) Master's Degree
14 29 (1.52%) AWS Certification
15 25 (1.31%) CBAP
16 23 (1.21%) ISEB
17 18 (0.95%) Azure Certification
18 17 (0.89%) IIBA
18 17 (0.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
19 15 (0.79%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (11.99%) QA
2 112 (5.89%) PMO
3 81 (4.26%) Data Quality
4 53 (2.79%) Accessibility
5 46 (2.42%) GDPR
6 29 (1.52%) NIST
7 25 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (1.05%) WCAG
9 17 (0.89%) SLA
10 15 (0.79%) ISO 20022
10 15 (0.79%) PSD2
11 13 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 12 (0.63%) GRC
12 12 (0.63%) SEPA
13 11 (0.58%) Basel III
14 10 (0.53%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.42%) NCSC
15 8 (0.42%) NIST 800
16 5 (0.26%) P3O
System Software
1 194 (10.20%) Docker
2 68 (3.58%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.58%) Squid
6 9 (0.47%) Firmware
7 7 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.32%) DFS Replication
8 6 (0.32%) Postfix
9 5 (0.26%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 4 (0.21%) Dovecot
10 4 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.053%) etcd
12 1 (0.053%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.053%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.053%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 1 (0.053%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 188 (9.88%) Kubernetes
2 92 (4.84%) Terraform
3 78 (4.10%) Ansible
4 68 (3.58%) Grafana
5 53 (2.79%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.58%) OPNET
7 28 (1.47%) Control-M
8 26 (1.37%) Nessus
9 24 (1.26%) HP ALM
10 23 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
11 22 (1.16%) IBM Guardium
12 21 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
13 20 (1.05%) Consul
14 16 (0.84%) Packer
15 15 (0.79%) Puppet
16 12 (0.63%) SCCM
17 10 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
17 10 (0.53%) NetBackup
18 7 (0.37%) Argo
19 6 (0.32%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 235 (12.36%) Microsoft
2 202 (10.62%) ServiceNow
3 153 (8.04%) Oracle
4 132 (6.94%) Atlassian
5 99 (5.21%) Salesforce
6 62 (3.26%) SAP
7 52 (2.73%) Remedy
8 44 (2.31%) Google
9 40 (2.10%) IBM
10 29 (1.52%) Talend
11 28 (1.47%) Red Hat
11 28 (1.47%) Workday
12 27 (1.42%) Tenable
13 26 (1.37%) HP
14 25 (1.31%) Denodo
15 24 (1.26%) Splunk
16 23 (1.21%) BiZZdesign
16 23 (1.21%) Databricks
17 21 (1.10%) Adobe
18 18 (0.95%) VMware