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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 42 50
Rank change year-on-year +10 +8 -17
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,613 1,441 1,832
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.80% 4.38% 4.37%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.99% 32.74% 33.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,138 939 1,229
10th Percentile £313 £325 £357
25th Percentile £400 £413 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -2.62% +0.75%
75th Percentile £603 £606 £638
90th Percentile £688 £688 £743
UK median daily rate £492 £508 £525
% change year-on-year -3.15% -3.24% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 71 60
10th Percentile £46.25 £25.99 £44.32
25th Percentile £50.00 £52.31 £54.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £71.50 - £73.75
90th Percentile £83.00 - £75.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -17.86% +12.00% +4.17%

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 4,137 4,402 5,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.89% 13.37% 13.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,857 2,829 3,902
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -3.51%
75th Percentile £603 £631 £650
90th Percentile £700 £725 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 169 229
10th Percentile £44.63 £37.39 £46.18
25th Percentile £54.94 £54.36 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £81.50 £73.80 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 +21 804 £525 - 387
North of England +6 296 £467 -6.55% 152
South East +11 183 £475 +5.56% 308
Midlands +32 168 £475 -9.52% 139
North West +12 160 £440 -12.00% 83
West Midlands +45 140 £475 -13.64% 77
Yorkshire -4 118 £475 -3.11% 50
South West -16 79 £550 +4.76% 87
East of England -1 45 £400 -27.27% 61
East Midlands -10 28 £359 -20.22% 56
North East +11 24 £520 -9.17% 23
JIRA
UK

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 669 (41.48%) Confluence
2 80 (4.96%) SharePoint
3 35 (2.17%) nginx
4 27 (1.67%) Apache
5 24 (1.49%) CMS
6 19 (1.18%) SAS
7 15 (0.93%) JBoss
7 15 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
8 14 (0.87%) Tomcat
9 12 (0.74%) Apache Spark
10 10 (0.62%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
11 7 (0.43%) WordPress
12 6 (0.37%) Mule
13 5 (0.31%) CICS
13 5 (0.31%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 4 (0.25%) Drupal
14 4 (0.25%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 104 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 88 (5.46%) Microsoft Project
3 83 (5.15%) Microsoft Office
4 61 (3.78%) MS Visio
5 48 (2.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 37 (2.29%) Trello
7 12 (0.74%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 4 (0.25%) Simulink
8 4 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.25%) Windchill
9 3 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.19%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.12%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.062%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.062%) InVision
11 1 (0.062%) Notion
11 1 (0.062%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 21 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.18%) Remedy ITSM
3 11 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
5 8 (0.50%) SAP PM
6 6 (0.37%) SAP ERP
6 6 (0.37%) SAP HR
7 5 (0.31%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.25%) Endur
8 4 (0.25%) Magento
8 4 (0.25%) SAP PLM
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle BPM
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 3 (0.19%) Teamcenter
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 2 (0.12%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 327 (20.27%) Azure
2 315 (19.53%) AWS
3 144 (8.93%) Azure DevOps
4 125 (7.75%) GitHub
5 103 (6.39%) Power Platform
6 94 (5.83%) GCP
7 64 (3.97%) Serverless
8 61 (3.78%) Microsoft 365
9 58 (3.60%) Amazon S3
10 42 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
11 40 (2.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 38 (2.36%) SaaS
13 36 (2.23%) Slack
14 33 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
15 32 (1.98%) Power Automate
16 29 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
17 27 (1.67%) Miro
18 26 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 25 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
20 24 (1.49%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 70 (4.34%) DNS
2 62 (3.84%) Firewall
3 42 (2.60%) HTTP
4 40 (2.48%) SSH
5 30 (1.86%) VPN
6 28 (1.74%) SMTP
7 22 (1.36%) FTP
7 22 (1.36%) SSL
8 17 (1.05%) OpenLDAP
9 16 (0.99%) TCP/IP
10 15 (0.93%) DHCP
11 12 (0.74%) IMAP
11 12 (0.74%) Network Security
12 11 (0.68%) BGP
13 10 (0.62%) Unified Communications
14 9 (0.56%) MPLS
15 8 (0.50%) LAN
16 7 (0.43%) IPsec
16 7 (0.43%) iSCSI
16 7 (0.43%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (5.39%) Power BI
2 62 (3.84%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (3.66%) SQL Server
4 35 (2.17%) Relational Database
5 33 (2.05%) Tableau
6 29 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
7 28 (1.74%) Big Data
7 28 (1.74%) NoSQL
8 23 (1.43%) Oracle Database
9 22 (1.36%) MongoDB
10 21 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
10 21 (1.30%) MySQL
11 19 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
12 18 (1.12%) Pentaho
13 16 (0.99%) BigQuery
14 14 (0.87%) Data Lake
14 14 (0.87%) Hadoop
15 12 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
15 12 (0.74%) Metadata
16 10 (0.62%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 239 (14.82%) Git
2 209 (12.96%) Jenkins
3 102 (6.32%) GitLab
4 86 (5.33%) Selenium
5 66 (4.09%) Bitbucket
6 60 (3.72%) Postman
7 53 (3.29%) Cucumber
8 44 (2.73%) SonarQube
9 41 (2.54%) JUnit
10 36 (2.23%) REST Assured
11 34 (2.11%) SoapUI
12 32 (1.98%) Maven
13 31 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
13 31 (1.92%) Zephyr
14 27 (1.67%) Vagrant
15 25 (1.55%) TestRail
16 23 (1.43%) Cypress.io
16 23 (1.43%) ScriptRunner
17 22 (1.36%) Gradle
18 21 (1.30%) Artifactory
General
1 676 (41.91%) Social Skills
2 380 (23.56%) Finance
3 260 (16.12%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (11.97%) Banking
5 146 (9.05%) Public Sector
6 46 (2.85%) Retail
7 45 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
8 43 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
9 36 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
10 34 (2.11%) Front Office
11 33 (2.05%) Marketing
12 29 (1.80%) Legal
13 27 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
13 27 (1.67%) Investment Banking
14 24 (1.49%) Manufacturing
15 23 (1.43%) Telecoms
16 20 (1.24%) Back Office
17 18 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 18 (1.12%) Law
18 16 (0.99%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 282 (17.48%) Analyst
2 213 (13.21%) Developer
3 160 (9.92%) Business Analyst
4 145 (8.99%) Senior
5 143 (8.87%) Project Manager
6 95 (5.89%) Lead
7 75 (4.65%) Architect
8 68 (4.22%) Tester
9 59 (3.66%) Test Analyst
10 48 (2.98%) Administrator
10 48 (2.98%) DevOps Engineer
11 41 (2.54%) Consultant
12 40 (2.48%) Delivery Manager
13 39 (2.42%) Java Developer
14 38 (2.36%) Product Owner
14 38 (2.36%) Software Engineer
15 37 (2.29%) AWS Engineer
16 36 (2.23%) Data Engineer
17 32 (1.98%) Test Engineer
18 31 (1.92%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (9.92%) REST
2 91 (5.64%) AngularJS
3 88 (5.46%) SOAP
4 82 (5.08%) React
5 80 (4.96%) .NET
5 80 (4.96%) HTML
6 60 (3.72%) Kafka
6 60 (3.72%) RESTful
7 59 (3.66%) CSS
8 54 (3.35%) Spring Boot
9 48 (2.98%) JSON
10 47 (2.91%) Web Services
11 45 (2.79%) Node.js
11 45 (2.79%) Spring
12 41 (2.54%) XML
13 39 (2.42%) LDAP
14 33 (2.05%) Playwright
15 31 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
16 28 (1.74%) HTML5
17 22 (1.36%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 149 (9.24%) Product Ownership
2 46 (2.85%) Onboarding
3 42 (2.60%) Cloud Native
4 41 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
5 37 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
6 33 (2.05%) Management Information System
7 32 (1.98%) Data Structures
8 31 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
9 30 (1.86%) Data Centre
10 29 (1.80%) Replication
11 25 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
11 25 (1.55%) Virtual Team
12 24 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
13 21 (1.30%) Mobile App
14 20 (1.24%) Algorithms
14 20 (1.24%) PMI
14 20 (1.24%) SCADA
15 19 (1.18%) PKI
16 18 (1.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
17 16 (0.99%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 131 (8.12%) Windows
2 118 (7.32%) Linux
3 41 (2.54%) Unix
4 34 (2.11%) VMS
5 24 (1.49%) Amazon Linux
6 18 (1.12%) Ubuntu
7 15 (0.93%) Android
7 15 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (0.87%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.87%) Mac OS
9 11 (0.68%) CentOS
10 9 (0.56%) Windows Server
11 8 (0.50%) Windows 10
12 5 (0.31%) Windows Server 2003
13 4 (0.25%) zOS
14 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
15 2 (0.12%) Debian
15 2 (0.12%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.12%) Solaris
15 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 973 (60.32%) Agile
2 438 (27.15%) DevOps
3 390 (24.18%) Scrum
4 372 (23.06%) Problem-Solving
5 304 (18.85%) CI/CD
6 263 (16.31%) Stakeholder Management
7 261 (16.18%) Test Automation
8 255 (15.81%) Project Management
9 198 (12.28%) Migration
10 185 (11.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 180 (11.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 167 (10.35%) Microservices
13 155 (9.61%) User Stories
14 152 (9.42%) Change Management
15 148 (9.18%) User Acceptance Testing
16 132 (8.18%) Analytics
17 131 (8.12%) SDLC
18 121 (7.50%) Waterfall
19 118 (7.32%) Roadmaps
20 115 (7.13%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 286 (17.73%) SQL
2 229 (14.20%) Python
3 209 (12.96%) Java
4 143 (8.87%) JavaScript
5 81 (5.02%) C#
6 69 (4.28%) PowerShell
7 67 (4.15%) TypeScript
8 57 (3.53%) Bash
9 54 (3.35%) Groovy
10 31 (1.92%) Go
11 30 (1.86%) Shell Script
12 29 (1.80%) Perl
13 20 (1.24%) C++
14 13 (0.81%) Apex Code
14 13 (0.81%) Scala
15 10 (0.62%) Kotlin
15 10 (0.62%) PHP
15 10 (0.62%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.37%) VB
17 5 (0.31%) R
Qualifications
1 352 (21.82%) Security Cleared
2 316 (19.59%) SC Cleared
3 211 (13.08%) Degree
4 62 (3.84%) PMI Certification
5 52 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 52 (3.22%) PMP
6 36 (2.23%) ISTQB
7 30 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 30 (1.86%) DV Cleared
8 28 (1.74%) CISSP
9 23 (1.43%) AWS Certification
10 20 (1.24%) Azure Certification
11 18 (1.12%) CISM
12 14 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.81%) CBAP
14 12 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.74%) Master's Degree
15 10 (0.62%) CSPO
15 10 (0.62%) Oracle Certification
16 9 (0.56%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (11.41%) QA
2 64 (3.97%) GDPR
3 52 (3.22%) Data Quality
3 52 (3.22%) PMO
4 41 (2.54%) Accessibility
5 33 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 22 (1.36%) NIST
7 21 (1.30%) PCI DSS
8 20 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (1.05%) ISO 20022
9 17 (1.05%) SEPA
10 14 (0.87%) PSD2
11 11 (0.68%) COBIT
11 11 (0.68%) WCAG
12 7 (0.43%) SLA
13 6 (0.37%) MiFID
13 6 (0.37%) NIST 800
14 5 (0.31%) EMIR
14 5 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 4 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 168 (10.42%) Docker
2 58 (3.60%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.36%) DFS Replication
5 14 (0.87%) Hyper-V
6 12 (0.74%) Dovecot
6 12 (0.74%) Firmware
6 12 (0.74%) Postfix
6 12 (0.74%) Squid
6 12 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.43%) vSphere
8 5 (0.31%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 3 (0.19%) VirtualBox
9 3 (0.19%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.12%) KVM
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.062%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.062%) Xen
Systems Management
1 155 (9.61%) Kubernetes
2 117 (7.25%) Terraform
3 92 (5.70%) Ansible
4 43 (2.67%) Grafana
5 40 (2.48%) Prometheus
6 27 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (1.61%) HP ALM
8 18 (1.12%) Progress Chef
9 15 (0.93%) Nessus
10 14 (0.87%) Consul
10 14 (0.87%) Packer
10 14 (0.87%) Podman
10 14 (0.87%) Puppet
11 11 (0.68%) NetBackup
12 10 (0.62%) Proxmox
12 10 (0.62%) SCCM
12 10 (0.62%) Tivoli
13 9 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
14 8 (0.50%) Control-M
14 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 237 (14.69%) Microsoft
2 195 (12.09%) ServiceNow
3 141 (8.74%) Oracle
4 74 (4.59%) Atlassian
5 69 (4.28%) Salesforce
6 59 (3.66%) Google
6 59 (3.66%) SAP
7 44 (2.73%) HP
8 36 (2.23%) VMware
9 31 (1.92%) Cisco
10 26 (1.61%) IBM
11 24 (1.49%) Remedy
11 24 (1.49%) Splunk
12 19 (1.18%) Red Hat
13 18 (1.12%) CA Agile Central
13 18 (1.12%) Databricks
13 18 (1.12%) Denodo
13 18 (1.12%) Talend
14 17 (1.05%) CheckPoint
14 17 (1.05%) Citrix