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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 44 51
Rank change year-on-year +10 +7 -11
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,830 1,215 1,460
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.53% 4.58% 3.84%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.57% 33.84% 32.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,343 742 1,040
10th Percentile £313 £308 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% -6.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £626
90th Percentile £700 £675 £733
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 25 41
10th Percentile £15.64 £45.80 £36.00
25th Percentile £39.00 £54.63 £45.88
Median hourly rate £64.20 £62.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.72% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £70.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +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 4,745 3,590 4,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.35% 13.53% 11.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,291 2,219 3,176
10th Percentile £340 £340 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% -4.74% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £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 127 62 203
10th Percentile £39.53 £45.12 £44.68
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.64 £50.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £81.70 £76.15 £89.75
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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +5 824 £525 +5.00% 139
North of England +7 339 £450 -5.26% 88
Midlands +14 235 £450 -8.16% 111
South East -9 194 £475 +2.15% 161
Yorkshire -7 175 £500 - 42
West Midlands +8 172 £485 +1.68% 77
South West +13 148 £575 +5.50% 57
North West +4 145 £431 -4.22% 41
East Midlands +13 62 £358 -28.40% 34
East of England -10 51 £450 +9.96% 42
North East -6 19 £475 +5.09% 6
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
1 863 (47.16%) Confluence
2 108 (5.90%) SharePoint
3 44 (2.40%) SAS
4 39 (2.13%) nginx
5 23 (1.26%) CMS
6 21 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.66%) Apache
8 11 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.38%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.33%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.33%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.33%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.16%) Drupal
13 3 (0.16%) IIS
13 3 (0.16%) Mule
13 3 (0.16%) SugarCRM
13 3 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 188 (10.27%) Microsoft Project
2 161 (8.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 112 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
4 96 (5.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 70 (3.83%) MS Visio
6 26 (1.42%) Trello
7 7 (0.38%) 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%) InDesign
12 1 (0.055%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 17 (0.93%) NetSuite
2 16 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.49%) Fidessa
4 9 (0.49%) Loan IQ
5 8 (0.44%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.44%) Maximo
5 8 (0.44%) Workday HCM
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
9 4 (0.22%) Endur
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 4 (0.22%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.22%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 363 (19.84%) Azure
2 276 (15.08%) AWS
3 196 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
4 168 (9.18%) GitHub
5 126 (6.89%) Power Platform
6 80 (4.37%) GCP
7 73 (3.99%) Microsoft 365
8 54 (2.95%) SaaS
9 50 (2.73%) Serverless
10 45 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
11 35 (1.91%) Entra ID
11 35 (1.91%) Figma
12 33 (1.80%) Amazon S3
12 33 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
13 32 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
13 32 (1.75%) Slack
14 29 (1.58%) AWS CloudFormation
14 29 (1.58%) Miro
14 29 (1.58%) Power Automate
15 28 (1.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 51 (2.79%) Firewall
2 36 (1.97%) DNS
3 29 (1.58%) TCP/IP
4 26 (1.42%) VPN
5 25 (1.37%) HTTP
6 23 (1.26%) SSH
7 19 (1.04%) WAN
8 16 (0.87%) LAN
9 14 (0.77%) FTP
10 12 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (0.60%) SMTP
12 10 (0.55%) SSL
13 9 (0.49%) Network Security
13 9 (0.49%) SD-WAN
14 8 (0.44%) Ethernet
15 7 (0.38%) IMAP
15 7 (0.38%) Modbus
15 7 (0.38%) NAS
15 7 (0.38%) OpenLDAP
15 7 (0.38%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (5.96%) Power BI
2 66 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
2 66 (3.61%) Tableau
3 48 (2.62%) SQL Server
4 39 (2.13%) NoSQL
5 34 (1.86%) Pentaho
6 31 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
7 28 (1.53%) MongoDB
8 26 (1.42%) Relational Database
9 22 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
10 19 (1.04%) Metadata
11 18 (0.98%) Big Data
11 18 (0.98%) Oracle Database
12 17 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (0.93%) MySQL
13 16 (0.87%) Data Vault
14 11 (0.60%) Star Schema
15 10 (0.55%) BigQuery
15 10 (0.55%) Hadoop
16 9 (0.49%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 225 (12.30%) Jenkins
2 221 (12.08%) Git
3 115 (6.28%) GitLab
4 76 (4.15%) Selenium
5 68 (3.72%) Postman
6 59 (3.22%) Bitbucket
7 51 (2.79%) Cucumber
8 37 (2.02%) Sonatype Nexus
9 34 (1.86%) SonarQube
9 34 (1.86%) TestRail
10 33 (1.80%) REST Assured
11 27 (1.48%) Zephyr
12 26 (1.42%) JUnit
13 19 (1.04%) Maven
14 18 (0.98%) SpecFlow
15 17 (0.93%) JMeter
16 13 (0.71%) Cypress.io
16 13 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
16 13 (0.71%) SoapUI
17 11 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 762 (41.64%) Social Skills
2 514 (28.09%) Finance
3 344 (18.80%) Analytical Skills
4 241 (13.17%) Banking
5 199 (10.87%) Public Sector
6 66 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
6 66 (3.61%) Retail
7 65 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
8 55 (3.01%) Military
9 44 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
10 41 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
11 34 (1.86%) Investment Banking
12 31 (1.69%) Legal
13 24 (1.31%) Front Office
13 24 (1.31%) Marketing
14 23 (1.26%) Telecoms
15 20 (1.09%) Retail Banking
16 18 (0.98%) Manufacturing
17 15 (0.82%) Law
18 14 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 364 (19.89%) Analyst
2 239 (13.06%) Business Analyst
3 182 (9.95%) Developer
4 147 (8.03%) Project Manager
5 143 (7.81%) Lead
6 127 (6.94%) Senior
7 119 (6.50%) Architect
8 75 (4.10%) Tester
9 56 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
10 52 (2.84%) Consultant
11 47 (2.57%) Delivery Manager
12 46 (2.51%) Technical Analyst
13 44 (2.40%) Scrum Master
13 44 (2.40%) Test Engineer
14 43 (2.35%) Data Engineer
14 43 (2.35%) Technical Business Analyst
14 43 (2.35%) Test Analyst
15 40 (2.19%) DevOps Engineer
15 40 (2.19%) Software Engineer
16 35 (1.91%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (8.74%) REST
2 64 (3.50%) .NET
3 60 (3.28%) SOAP
4 57 (3.11%) RESTful
5 51 (2.79%) XML
6 50 (2.73%) HTML
7 48 (2.62%) Kafka
8 46 (2.51%) React
9 45 (2.46%) Spring
10 41 (2.24%) JSON
11 39 (2.13%) CSS
11 39 (2.13%) Playwright
12 36 (1.97%) Spring Boot
13 34 (1.86%) Oracle Fusion
14 33 (1.80%) AngularJS
15 31 (1.69%) LDAP
16 30 (1.64%) Node.js
17 25 (1.37%) OAuth
18 24 (1.31%) OpenID
19 20 (1.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 235 (12.84%) Product Ownership
2 85 (4.64%) Onboarding
3 68 (3.72%) Cloud Native
4 46 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
5 44 (2.40%) Management Information System
6 36 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (1.86%) PMI
8 29 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
8 29 (1.58%) Data Structures
9 27 (1.48%) Virtual Team
10 26 (1.42%) CMDB
10 26 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
11 24 (1.31%) Mobile App
12 22 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 21 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (0.82%) Replication
15 14 (0.77%) Public Cloud
15 14 (0.77%) Tandem
16 13 (0.71%) PKI
16 13 (0.71%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 144 (7.87%) Windows
2 118 (6.45%) Linux
3 34 (1.86%) Unix
4 19 (1.04%) Android
5 17 (0.93%) Windows 10
6 14 (0.77%) VMS
7 13 (0.71%) Windows Server
8 11 (0.60%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
10 8 (0.44%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.38%) FreeRTOS
11 7 (0.38%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.11%) Solaris
14 2 (0.11%) zOS
15 1 (0.055%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.055%) MVS
15 1 (0.055%) Windows Embedded Compact
15 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,121 (61.26%) Agile
2 537 (29.34%) DevOps
3 469 (25.63%) Stakeholder Management
4 441 (24.10%) Problem-Solving
5 423 (23.11%) Scrum
6 372 (20.33%) CI/CD
7 289 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 285 (15.57%) Project Management
9 282 (15.41%) Test Automation
10 250 (13.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 209 (11.42%) User Stories
12 195 (10.66%) User Acceptance Testing
13 182 (9.95%) Migration
13 182 (9.95%) Project Delivery
14 180 (9.84%) Analytics
15 166 (9.07%) Acceptance Criteria
15 166 (9.07%) Change Management
16 157 (8.58%) Business Intelligence
17 153 (8.36%) Roadmaps
18 151 (8.25%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 307 (16.78%) SQL
2 245 (13.39%) Python
3 168 (9.18%) Java
4 110 (6.01%) JavaScript
5 82 (4.48%) PowerShell
6 67 (3.66%) C#
7 54 (2.95%) TypeScript
8 41 (2.24%) Bash
9 30 (1.64%) C++
10 28 (1.53%) Go
11 20 (1.09%) Embedded C++
12 16 (0.87%) Groovy
12 16 (0.87%) PL/SQL
13 15 (0.82%) Shell Script
14 14 (0.77%) PHP
15 12 (0.66%) C
16 11 (0.60%) Perl
16 11 (0.60%) Ruby
17 10 (0.55%) Apex Code
17 10 (0.55%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 469 (25.63%) Security Cleared
2 385 (21.04%) SC Cleared
3 269 (14.70%) Degree
4 92 (5.03%) PMI Certification
5 76 (4.15%) PMP
6 61 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 56 (3.06%) ISTQB
8 52 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 43 (2.35%) CISSP
9 43 (2.35%) TOGAF Certification
10 42 (2.30%) DV Cleared
11 33 (1.80%) CISM
11 33 (1.80%) Master's Degree
12 29 (1.58%) AWS Certification
13 26 (1.42%) CBAP
14 21 (1.15%) ISEB
15 17 (0.93%) Azure Certification
15 17 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
16 16 (0.87%) IIBA
17 15 (0.82%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (12.46%) QA
2 101 (5.52%) PMO
3 87 (4.75%) Data Quality
4 55 (3.01%) Accessibility
5 45 (2.46%) GDPR
6 27 (1.48%) NIST
7 26 (1.42%) PSD2
8 24 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 22 (1.20%) ISO 20022
10 19 (1.04%) SEPA
10 19 (1.04%) WCAG
11 17 (0.93%) SLA
12 13 (0.71%) GRC
12 13 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.66%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.55%) Basel III
15 8 (0.44%) NCSC
15 8 (0.44%) NIST 800
16 7 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
17 6 (0.33%) P3O
System Software
1 196 (10.71%) Docker
2 56 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.71%) Squid
6 11 (0.60%) Firmware
7 10 (0.55%) DFS Replication
8 7 (0.38%) Dovecot
8 7 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
8 7 (0.38%) Postfix
8 7 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.27%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.16%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.11%) KVM
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.055%) etcd
13 1 (0.055%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 1 (0.055%) Xen
Systems Management
1 172 (9.40%) Kubernetes
2 99 (5.41%) Terraform
3 79 (4.32%) Ansible
4 53 (2.90%) Grafana
5 43 (2.35%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.64%) OPNET
7 24 (1.31%) Nessus
8 23 (1.26%) Control-M
9 21 (1.15%) HP ALM
10 20 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
11 19 (1.04%) Consul
12 17 (0.93%) IBM Guardium
12 17 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
13 16 (0.87%) Packer
14 14 (0.77%) NetBackup
15 13 (0.71%) Puppet
16 11 (0.60%) SCCM
17 8 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
18 7 (0.38%) Argo
18 7 (0.38%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 225 (12.30%) Microsoft
2 196 (10.71%) ServiceNow
3 166 (9.07%) Oracle
4 120 (6.56%) Atlassian
5 100 (5.46%) Salesforce
6 59 (3.22%) SAP
7 46 (2.51%) Google
8 44 (2.40%) Remedy
9 37 (2.02%) Talend
10 35 (1.91%) IBM
11 33 (1.80%) Denodo
12 27 (1.48%) Splunk
13 26 (1.42%) Red Hat
14 24 (1.31%) HP
15 22 (1.20%) Tenable
15 22 (1.20%) Workday
16 21 (1.15%) BiZZdesign
16 21 (1.15%) Databricks
17 20 (1.09%) VMware
18 19 (1.04%) Adobe