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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 44 49
Rank change year-on-year +10 +5 -10
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,791 1,206 1,446
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.53% 4.52% 3.84%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.16% 33.64% 32.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,317 742 1,022
10th Percentile £313 £308 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £589 £630
90th Percentile £700 £675 £732
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 24 40
10th Percentile £15.66 £45.60 £36.79
25th Percentile £39.00 £54.68 £48.43
Median hourly rate £63.40 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.27 £70.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £70.50 £75.15
UK median hourly rate £64.20 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +2.72% +4.17% -7.69%

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 4,694 3,585 4,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.48% 13.45% 11.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,262 2,221 3,146
10th Percentile £340 £340 £375
25th Percentile £411 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -4.70% -6.48%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 67 206
10th Percentile £39.53 £45.71 £44.80
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.94 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +1.96%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £76.00 £75.65 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 25 January 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 25 January 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 25 January 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 +6 811 £525 +5.00% 124
North of England +4 327 £455 -4.21% 123
Midlands +13 231 £450 -8.16% 134
South East -3 192 £475 +5.56% 205
West Midlands +8 171 £489 +2.41% 76
Yorkshire -6 166 £500 - 52
South West +13 145 £578 +5.00% 96
North West +9 141 £438 -2.78% 57
East Midlands +9 59 £358 -28.40% 56
East of England -8 50 £463 +12.12% 90
North East -2 19 £475 +5.09% 14
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
1 844 (47.12%) Confluence
2 104 (5.81%) SharePoint
3 44 (2.46%) SAS
4 40 (2.23%) nginx
5 23 (1.28%) CMS
6 13 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.67%) Apache
8 10 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.39%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.34%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.28%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.28%) Hyperledger
11 5 (0.28%) Mule
12 4 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.17%) Drupal
13 3 (0.17%) IIS
13 3 (0.17%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.17%) Traefik
13 3 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 184 (10.27%) Microsoft Project
2 158 (8.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 112 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
4 96 (5.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 69 (3.85%) MS Visio
6 26 (1.45%) Trello
7 8 (0.45%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 5 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.28%) Notion
8 5 (0.28%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.28%) Sketch
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.22%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.17%) InVision
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.11%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.11%) InDesign
12 1 (0.056%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 17 (0.95%) NetSuite
2 15 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.45%) Fidessa
4 8 (0.45%) Loan IQ
4 8 (0.45%) Maximo
5 7 (0.39%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
5 7 (0.39%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.22%) Endur
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.22%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 352 (19.65%) Azure
2 278 (15.52%) AWS
3 191 (10.66%) Azure DevOps
4 166 (9.27%) GitHub
5 123 (6.87%) Power Platform
6 84 (4.69%) GCP
7 66 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
8 50 (2.79%) Serverless
9 47 (2.62%) SaaS
10 46 (2.57%) GitHub Actions
11 35 (1.95%) Amazon S3
12 34 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
12 34 (1.90%) Figma
13 33 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
14 31 (1.73%) Slack
15 30 (1.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 29 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (1.62%) Power Automate
17 27 (1.51%) Miro
18 26 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (2.96%) Firewall
2 37 (2.07%) DNS
3 29 (1.62%) SSH
3 29 (1.62%) TCP/IP
4 26 (1.45%) HTTP
5 25 (1.40%) VPN
6 15 (0.84%) FTP
7 13 (0.73%) SMTP
7 13 (0.73%) WAN
8 10 (0.56%) SSL
9 9 (0.50%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.45%) Ethernet
10 8 (0.45%) IMAP
10 8 (0.45%) Network Security
10 8 (0.45%) OpenLDAP
11 7 (0.39%) Modbus
11 7 (0.39%) RS-232
11 7 (0.39%) RS-485
12 6 (0.34%) LAN
13 5 (0.28%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (6.14%) Power BI
2 63 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
3 62 (3.46%) Tableau
4 44 (2.46%) SQL Server
5 38 (2.12%) NoSQL
6 34 (1.90%) Pentaho
7 29 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
8 26 (1.45%) MongoDB
8 26 (1.45%) Relational Database
9 24 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
10 19 (1.06%) Metadata
11 18 (1.01%) Big Data
12 17 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (0.95%) MySQL
13 16 (0.89%) Data Vault
13 16 (0.89%) Oracle Database
14 11 (0.61%) BigQuery
14 11 (0.61%) Star Schema
15 10 (0.56%) Hadoop
16 9 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 226 (12.62%) Jenkins
2 224 (12.51%) Git
3 114 (6.37%) GitLab
4 77 (4.30%) Selenium
5 68 (3.80%) Postman
6 62 (3.46%) Bitbucket
7 50 (2.79%) Cucumber
8 35 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
8 35 (1.95%) TestRail
9 33 (1.84%) REST Assured
9 33 (1.84%) SonarQube
10 27 (1.51%) Zephyr
11 25 (1.40%) JUnit
12 20 (1.12%) SpecFlow
13 19 (1.06%) Maven
14 17 (0.95%) JMeter
15 13 (0.73%) Cypress.io
15 13 (0.73%) Rational DOORS
15 13 (0.73%) SoapUI
16 12 (0.67%) Vagrant
General
1 749 (41.82%) Social Skills
2 495 (27.64%) Finance
3 334 (18.65%) Analytical Skills
4 233 (13.01%) Banking
5 194 (10.83%) Public Sector
6 66 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
7 65 (3.63%) Retail
8 62 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
9 54 (3.02%) Military
10 44 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
11 40 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (2.01%) Investment Banking
13 30 (1.68%) Legal
14 24 (1.34%) Front Office
14 24 (1.34%) Marketing
14 24 (1.34%) Telecoms
15 20 (1.12%) Manufacturing
16 19 (1.06%) Retail Banking
17 14 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 13 (0.73%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 351 (19.60%) Analyst
2 232 (12.95%) Business Analyst
3 173 (9.66%) Developer
4 143 (7.98%) Lead
5 139 (7.76%) Project Manager
6 123 (6.87%) Senior
7 119 (6.64%) Architect
8 77 (4.30%) Tester
9 57 (3.18%) Solutions Architect
10 50 (2.79%) Consultant
11 49 (2.74%) Technical Analyst
12 45 (2.51%) Delivery Manager
12 45 (2.51%) Technical Business Analyst
13 44 (2.46%) Test Engineer
14 41 (2.29%) Data Engineer
14 41 (2.29%) Scrum Master
14 41 (2.29%) Software Engineer
15 40 (2.23%) DevOps Engineer
16 38 (2.12%) Product Owner
16 38 (2.12%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (8.77%) REST
2 64 (3.57%) .NET
3 59 (3.29%) SOAP
4 53 (2.96%) RESTful
5 49 (2.74%) HTML
5 49 (2.74%) XML
6 47 (2.62%) Kafka
7 46 (2.57%) React
8 43 (2.40%) Spring
9 40 (2.23%) JSON
9 40 (2.23%) Playwright
10 38 (2.12%) CSS
11 34 (1.90%) Spring Boot
12 33 (1.84%) AngularJS
12 33 (1.84%) Oracle Fusion
13 32 (1.79%) LDAP
14 30 (1.68%) Node.js
15 26 (1.45%) OAuth
16 25 (1.40%) OpenID
17 19 (1.06%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 234 (13.07%) Product Ownership
2 83 (4.63%) Onboarding
3 67 (3.74%) Cloud Native
4 45 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
5 42 (2.35%) Management Information System
6 35 (1.95%) PMI
6 35 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
7 29 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
8 28 (1.56%) Data Structures
9 25 (1.40%) Virtual Team
10 24 (1.34%) CMDB
11 23 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (1.28%) Mobile App
12 22 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
13 21 (1.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 17 (0.95%) Replication
15 16 (0.89%) Tandem
16 15 (0.84%) Public Cloud
17 14 (0.78%) Reinsurance
18 13 (0.73%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 135 (7.54%) Windows
2 116 (6.48%) Linux
3 35 (1.95%) Unix
4 19 (1.06%) Android
5 16 (0.89%) VMS
6 13 (0.73%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.73%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.67%) Amazon Linux
8 11 (0.61%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.45%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.39%) FreeRTOS
11 6 (0.34%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.11%) Solaris
14 2 (0.11%) zOS
15 1 (0.056%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.056%) MVS
15 1 (0.056%) Windows Embedded Compact
15 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,098 (61.31%) Agile
2 535 (29.87%) DevOps
3 448 (25.01%) Stakeholder Management
4 426 (23.79%) Problem-Solving
5 416 (23.23%) Scrum
6 360 (20.10%) CI/CD
7 289 (16.14%) Project Management
8 286 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
9 280 (15.63%) Test Automation
10 246 (13.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 205 (11.45%) User Stories
12 190 (10.61%) User Acceptance Testing
13 187 (10.44%) Project Delivery
14 179 (9.99%) Analytics
15 174 (9.72%) Migration
16 169 (9.44%) Change Management
17 161 (8.99%) Acceptance Criteria
18 157 (8.77%) Business Intelligence
19 151 (8.43%) Roadmaps
20 150 (8.38%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 302 (16.86%) SQL
2 235 (13.12%) Python
3 166 (9.27%) Java
4 113 (6.31%) JavaScript
5 77 (4.30%) PowerShell
6 66 (3.69%) C#
7 51 (2.85%) TypeScript
8 41 (2.29%) Bash
9 30 (1.68%) C++
10 29 (1.62%) Go
11 20 (1.12%) Embedded C++
12 18 (1.01%) Groovy
13 16 (0.89%) PL/SQL
14 15 (0.84%) Shell Script
15 14 (0.78%) Apex Code
15 14 (0.78%) PHP
16 13 (0.73%) Perl
17 12 (0.67%) C
18 11 (0.61%) Ruby
19 10 (0.56%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 464 (25.91%) Security Cleared
2 389 (21.72%) SC Cleared
3 265 (14.80%) Degree
4 91 (5.08%) PMI Certification
5 75 (4.19%) PMP
6 57 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 55 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 53 (2.96%) ISTQB
9 43 (2.40%) CISSP
10 42 (2.35%) TOGAF Certification
11 39 (2.18%) DV Cleared
12 33 (1.84%) CISM
12 33 (1.84%) Master's Degree
13 29 (1.62%) AWS Certification
14 26 (1.45%) CBAP
15 20 (1.12%) ISEB
16 18 (1.01%) Azure Certification
17 17 (0.95%) Oracle Certification
18 16 (0.89%) IIBA
19 15 (0.84%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (12.51%) QA
2 99 (5.53%) PMO
3 84 (4.69%) Data Quality
4 56 (3.13%) Accessibility
5 46 (2.57%) GDPR
6 26 (1.45%) NIST
7 24 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 24 (1.34%) PSD2
8 21 (1.17%) ISO 20022
9 19 (1.06%) WCAG
10 18 (1.01%) SEPA
11 15 (0.84%) SLA
12 13 (0.73%) GRC
12 13 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.61%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.56%) Basel III
15 8 (0.45%) NCSC
15 8 (0.45%) NIST 800
16 7 (0.39%) P3O
17 6 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 194 (10.83%) Docker
2 49 (2.74%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.78%) Squid
6 12 (0.67%) DFS Replication
6 12 (0.67%) Firmware
7 8 (0.45%) Dovecot
7 8 (0.45%) Postfix
8 7 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
8 7 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.11%) KVM
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.056%) etcd
13 1 (0.056%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 1 (0.056%) Xen
Systems Management
1 171 (9.55%) Kubernetes
2 101 (5.64%) Terraform
3 75 (4.19%) Ansible
4 50 (2.79%) Grafana
5 40 (2.23%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.68%) OPNET
7 22 (1.23%) HP ALM
8 20 (1.12%) Nessus
9 19 (1.06%) Consul
10 18 (1.01%) Control-M
10 18 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
11 16 (0.89%) Packer
12 14 (0.78%) NetBackup
13 13 (0.73%) Puppet
14 12 (0.67%) IBM Guardium
15 11 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
16 9 (0.50%) SCCM
17 8 (0.45%) Proxmox
18 7 (0.39%) Argo
19 6 (0.34%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 214 (11.95%) Microsoft
2 192 (10.72%) ServiceNow
3 162 (9.05%) Oracle
4 122 (6.81%) Atlassian
5 100 (5.58%) Salesforce
6 60 (3.35%) SAP
7 47 (2.62%) Google
8 43 (2.40%) Remedy
9 38 (2.12%) IBM
10 37 (2.07%) Talend
11 33 (1.84%) Denodo
12 25 (1.40%) HP
12 25 (1.40%) Red Hat
13 23 (1.28%) Splunk
14 21 (1.17%) BiZZdesign
14 21 (1.17%) Databricks
15 20 (1.12%) VMware
16 19 (1.06%) Workday
17 18 (1.01%) Adobe
18 17 (0.95%) Tenable