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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 44 51
Rank change year-on-year +10 +7 -11
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,842 1,186 1,435
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.48% 4.59% 3.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.93% 33.95% 32.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,337 720 1,017
10th Percentile £313 £313 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -5.24% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £734
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £513
% change year-on-year +3.09% -5.37% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 23 45
10th Percentile £15.71 £45.40 £31.43
25th Percentile £32.65 £52.98 £45.00
Median hourly rate £63.40 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £70.75 £75.92
UK median hourly rate £63.40 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +1.44% +13.64% -15.38%

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 4,731 3,493 4,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.08% 13.51% 11.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,275 2,166 3,123
10th Percentile £340 £340 £363
25th Percentile £409 £413 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -5.14% -6.96%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 56 199
10th Percentile £39.00 £36.25 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.11 £49.24
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.38 £75.89
90th Percentile £81.50 £76.88 £88.75
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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +6 828 £525 +5.00% 135
North of England +10 343 £450 -0.88% 82
Midlands +7 229 £430 -9.96% 101
South East -1 200 £480 +1.05% 157
Yorkshire -5 184 £480 -2.64% 35
West Midlands +2 165 £475 -0.42% 76
South West +19 149 £578 +5.00% 54
North West +13 143 £430 -4.44% 42
East Midlands +8 63 £356 -28.80% 25
East of England -9 56 £425 +3.85% 35
North East -3 16 £438 -2.78% 7
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
1 870 (47.23%) Confluence
2 112 (6.08%) SharePoint
3 34 (1.85%) nginx
4 31 (1.68%) SAS
5 24 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 23 (1.25%) CMS
7 12 (0.65%) Apache
8 11 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.33%) Ethereum
10 6 (0.33%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.33%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.33%) WebSphere
11 5 (0.27%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.16%) Drupal
13 3 (0.16%) IIS
13 3 (0.16%) SugarCRM
13 3 (0.16%) Traefik
13 3 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 194 (10.53%) Microsoft Project
2 172 (9.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 112 (6.08%) Microsoft Office
4 103 (5.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 76 (4.13%) MS Visio
6 26 (1.41%) Trello
7 6 (0.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 5 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.27%) Notion
8 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.27%) 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 (0.16%) InVision
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.11%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.11%) CATIA
11 2 (0.11%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 17 (0.92%) NetSuite
2 15 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 10 (0.54%) Workday HCM
4 9 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.49%) Fidessa
4 9 (0.49%) Loan IQ
5 8 (0.43%) Maximo
6 7 (0.38%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.27%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 4 (0.22%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.22%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 367 (19.92%) Azure
2 270 (14.66%) AWS
3 195 (10.59%) Azure DevOps
4 166 (9.01%) GitHub
5 133 (7.22%) Power Platform
6 77 (4.18%) GCP
6 77 (4.18%) Microsoft 365
7 56 (3.04%) SaaS
8 45 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
9 43 (2.33%) Serverless
10 38 (2.06%) Entra ID
11 36 (1.95%) Figma
12 31 (1.68%) Amazon S3
12 31 (1.68%) Slack
13 30 (1.63%) Amazon EC2
13 30 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
14 28 (1.52%) Miro
15 27 (1.47%) Power Automate
16 26 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
16 26 (1.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 48 (2.61%) Firewall
2 38 (2.06%) DNS
3 31 (1.68%) TCP/IP
4 27 (1.47%) VPN
5 22 (1.19%) HTTP
6 20 (1.09%) SSH
6 20 (1.09%) WAN
7 19 (1.03%) LAN
8 15 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (0.71%) FTP
9 13 (0.71%) Network Security
10 10 (0.54%) SSL
11 9 (0.49%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.49%) SMTP
11 9 (0.49%) Unified Communications
12 8 (0.43%) DHCP
12 8 (0.43%) Ethernet
13 7 (0.38%) Modbus
13 7 (0.38%) RS-232
13 7 (0.38%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (6.13%) Power BI
2 68 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
3 66 (3.58%) Tableau
4 47 (2.55%) SQL Server
5 38 (2.06%) NoSQL
6 30 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
7 29 (1.57%) MongoDB
8 22 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
9 21 (1.14%) Oracle Database
9 21 (1.14%) Pentaho
10 18 (0.98%) Big Data
10 18 (0.98%) Metadata
11 17 (0.92%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (0.92%) MySQL
11 17 (0.92%) Relational Database
12 16 (0.87%) Data Vault
13 11 (0.60%) DynamoDB
13 11 (0.60%) Star Schema
14 10 (0.54%) BigQuery
14 10 (0.54%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 217 (11.78%) Jenkins
2 205 (11.13%) Git
3 114 (6.19%) GitLab
4 83 (4.51%) Selenium
5 71 (3.85%) Postman
6 58 (3.15%) Bitbucket
7 54 (2.93%) Cucumber
8 37 (2.01%) REST Assured
9 36 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
10 35 (1.90%) TestRail
11 34 (1.85%) SonarQube
12 30 (1.63%) JUnit
13 28 (1.52%) Zephyr
14 22 (1.19%) Maven
15 20 (1.09%) JMeter
16 17 (0.92%) SpecFlow
17 16 (0.87%) Cypress.io
18 13 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
18 13 (0.71%) SoapUI
19 11 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 763 (41.42%) Social Skills
2 524 (28.45%) Finance
3 359 (19.49%) Analytical Skills
4 237 (12.87%) Banking
5 193 (10.48%) Public Sector
6 66 (3.58%) Documentation Skills
7 65 (3.53%) Retail
8 64 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
9 55 (2.99%) Military
10 44 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
11 40 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
12 33 (1.79%) Investment Banking
13 30 (1.63%) Legal
14 27 (1.47%) Front Office
15 25 (1.36%) Telecoms
16 24 (1.30%) Marketing
17 22 (1.19%) Manufacturing
18 21 (1.14%) Retail Banking
19 16 (0.87%) Automotive
19 16 (0.87%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 380 (20.63%) Analyst
2 246 (13.36%) Business Analyst
3 181 (9.83%) Developer
4 149 (8.09%) Project Manager
5 140 (7.60%) Lead
6 124 (6.73%) Architect
7 123 (6.68%) Senior
8 80 (4.34%) Tester
9 55 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
10 53 (2.88%) Consultant
11 48 (2.61%) Delivery Manager
12 47 (2.55%) Test Analyst
12 47 (2.55%) Test Engineer
13 45 (2.44%) Technical Analyst
14 42 (2.28%) Scrum Master
14 42 (2.28%) Technical Business Analyst
15 40 (2.17%) Software Engineer
16 36 (1.95%) DevOps Engineer
17 35 (1.90%) Senior Analyst
18 34 (1.85%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (8.52%) REST
2 65 (3.53%) .NET
3 56 (3.04%) SOAP
4 55 (2.99%) RESTful
5 48 (2.61%) HTML
5 48 (2.61%) Spring
6 47 (2.55%) Kafka
7 46 (2.50%) XML
8 45 (2.44%) React
9 42 (2.28%) CSS
10 41 (2.23%) JSON
11 39 (2.12%) Spring Boot
12 38 (2.06%) Playwright
13 32 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
14 31 (1.68%) AngularJS
14 31 (1.68%) Node.js
15 29 (1.57%) LDAP
16 25 (1.36%) OpenID
17 21 (1.14%) Web Services
18 20 (1.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 230 (12.49%) Product Ownership
2 87 (4.72%) Onboarding
3 64 (3.47%) Cloud Native
4 44 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
4 44 (2.39%) Management Information System
5 38 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (1.74%) PMI
7 30 (1.63%) Virtual Team
8 29 (1.57%) Data Structures
9 28 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
9 28 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
10 27 (1.47%) CMDB
11 25 (1.36%) Mobile App
12 22 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
13 21 (1.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 15 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
14 15 (0.81%) Public Cloud
15 14 (0.76%) Tandem
16 13 (0.71%) Fixed Income
16 13 (0.71%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 144 (7.82%) Windows
2 121 (6.57%) Linux
3 32 (1.74%) Unix
4 21 (1.14%) Android
5 19 (1.03%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.65%) VMS
6 12 (0.65%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.60%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.49%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.43%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.38%) FreeRTOS
11 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.054%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.054%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.054%) Windows Embedded Compact
13 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.054%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,110 (60.26%) Agile
2 510 (27.69%) DevOps
3 476 (25.84%) Stakeholder Management
4 441 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
5 416 (22.58%) Scrum
6 355 (19.27%) CI/CD
7 293 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 285 (15.47%) Project Management
9 274 (14.88%) Test Automation
10 250 (13.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 204 (11.07%) User Stories
12 195 (10.59%) User Acceptance Testing
13 182 (9.88%) Project Delivery
14 181 (9.83%) Migration
15 170 (9.23%) Change Management
16 168 (9.12%) Acceptance Criteria
17 164 (8.90%) Analytics
18 157 (8.52%) Roadmaps
19 152 (8.25%) Decision-Making
20 151 (8.20%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 290 (15.74%) SQL
2 251 (13.63%) Python
3 172 (9.34%) Java
4 116 (6.30%) JavaScript
5 80 (4.34%) PowerShell
6 72 (3.91%) C#
7 54 (2.93%) TypeScript
8 36 (1.95%) Bash
9 31 (1.68%) C++
10 26 (1.41%) Go
11 20 (1.09%) Embedded C++
12 18 (0.98%) Shell Script
13 17 (0.92%) PL/SQL
14 14 (0.76%) Groovy
14 14 (0.76%) PHP
15 13 (0.71%) C
16 11 (0.60%) Ruby
17 10 (0.54%) Apex Code
17 10 (0.54%) Embedded C
18 9 (0.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 467 (25.35%) Security Cleared
2 379 (20.58%) SC Cleared
3 268 (14.55%) Degree
4 91 (4.94%) PMI Certification
5 76 (4.13%) PMP
6 62 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 59 (3.20%) ISTQB
8 50 (2.71%) Computer Science Degree
9 45 (2.44%) CISSP
9 45 (2.44%) DV Cleared
10 44 (2.39%) TOGAF Certification
11 35 (1.90%) CISM
11 35 (1.90%) Master's Degree
12 32 (1.74%) AWS Certification
13 26 (1.41%) CBAP
14 22 (1.19%) ISEB
15 18 (0.98%) Azure Certification
16 17 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 17 (0.92%) Oracle Certification
17 16 (0.87%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 232 (12.60%) QA
2 103 (5.59%) PMO
3 74 (4.02%) Data Quality
4 56 (3.04%) Accessibility
5 44 (2.39%) GDPR
6 28 (1.52%) NIST
7 24 (1.30%) PSD2
8 23 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 21 (1.14%) ISO 20022
10 20 (1.09%) WCAG
11 18 (0.98%) SEPA
12 17 (0.92%) SLA
13 13 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 12 (0.65%) GRC
14 12 (0.65%) PCI DSS
15 11 (0.60%) Basel III
16 8 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.43%) NCSC
16 8 (0.43%) NIST 800
17 5 (0.27%) P3O
System Software
1 178 (9.66%) Docker
2 57 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.65%) Squid
6 9 (0.49%) Firmware
7 8 (0.43%) DFS Replication
7 8 (0.43%) Postfix
8 7 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
8 7 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.33%) Dovecot
10 5 (0.27%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.054%) etcd
13 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
13 1 (0.054%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.054%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
13 1 (0.054%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 160 (8.69%) Kubernetes
2 92 (4.99%) Terraform
3 75 (4.07%) Ansible
4 56 (3.04%) Grafana
5 41 (2.23%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.63%) OPNET
7 25 (1.36%) HP ALM
8 23 (1.25%) Control-M
8 23 (1.25%) Nessus
9 20 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
9 20 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (1.03%) Consul
11 17 (0.92%) IBM Guardium
12 16 (0.87%) Packer
13 12 (0.65%) Puppet
14 11 (0.60%) SCCM
15 10 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
15 10 (0.54%) NetBackup
16 7 (0.38%) Argo
17 6 (0.33%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 227 (12.32%) Microsoft
2 198 (10.75%) ServiceNow
3 151 (8.20%) Oracle
4 130 (7.06%) Atlassian
5 97 (5.27%) Salesforce
6 61 (3.31%) SAP
7 46 (2.50%) Google
8 45 (2.44%) Remedy
9 36 (1.95%) IBM
10 27 (1.47%) HP
10 27 (1.47%) Splunk
11 26 (1.41%) Workday
12 24 (1.30%) Red Hat
12 24 (1.30%) Talend
13 23 (1.25%) BiZZdesign
14 22 (1.19%) Tenable
15 21 (1.14%) Databricks
16 20 (1.09%) Adobe
16 20 (1.09%) Denodo
17 18 (0.98%) VMware