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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 43 53
Rank change year-on-year +9 +10 -10
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,996 1,187 1,375
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.43% 4.80% 3.63%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.69% 35.52% 32.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,416 756 952
10th Percentile £313 £313 £330
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £630
90th Percentile £695 £675 £750
UK median daily rate £492 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% -4.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 21 53
10th Percentile £15.74 £48.00 £22.60
25th Percentile £19.00 £55.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £63.27 £62.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year +1.23% +36.22% -28.03%

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 5,029 3,342 4,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.67% 13.51% 11.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,394 2,202 2,971
10th Percentile £338 £337 £358
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% -4.38% -7.89%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £638
90th Percentile £689 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 62 183
10th Percentile £35.80 £26.06 £37.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.48 £48.39
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £77.13 £71.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%

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 16 March 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 16 March 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 16 March 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 +8 868 £519 +3.71% 148
North of England +8 360 £450 - 90
Midlands +6 295 £425 -10.90% 69
West Midlands 0 228 £450 -5.66% 47
South East -7 204 £475 -5.00% 144
Yorkshire -1 197 £475 -5.00% 29
South West +10 166 £568 +0.44% 46
North West +12 155 £447 -0.67% 46
East of England -5 66 £425 - 39
East Midlands +2 65 £358 -26.94% 22
North East -15 8 £413 -9.14% 16
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
1 948 (47.49%) Confluence
2 114 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 37 (1.85%) SAS
4 31 (1.55%) nginx
5 20 (1.00%) CMS
5 20 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (0.75%) Apache
7 9 (0.45%) WebSphere
8 8 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.40%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.30%) Ethereum
9 6 (0.30%) Hyperledger
9 6 (0.30%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.25%) JBoss
10 5 (0.25%) Mattermost
11 4 (0.20%) IIS
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.15%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.15%) Drupal
Applications
1 222 (11.12%) Microsoft Project
2 187 (9.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 110 (5.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 107 (5.36%) Microsoft Office
5 85 (4.26%) MS Visio
6 22 (1.10%) Trello
7 8 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.30%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
9 5 (0.25%) Notion
9 5 (0.25%) Photoshop
9 5 (0.25%) Sketch
10 4 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.15%) InVision
12 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.10%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.10%) CATIA
12 2 (0.10%) InDesign
13 1 (0.050%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 21 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.85%) NetSuite
3 14 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
4 13 (0.65%) Loan IQ
5 12 (0.60%) Workday HCM
6 11 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
7 10 (0.50%) Aladdin
7 10 (0.50%) Fidessa
8 8 (0.40%) Maximo
9 6 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 5 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
10 5 (0.25%) SAP MDG
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 4 (0.20%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.20%) SAP Retail
12 3 (0.15%) Algo Collateral
12 3 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 389 (19.49%) Azure
2 292 (14.63%) AWS
3 222 (11.12%) Azure DevOps
4 174 (8.72%) GitHub
5 136 (6.81%) Power Platform
6 77 (3.86%) GCP
7 66 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
8 61 (3.06%) SaaS
9 55 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
10 54 (2.71%) Entra ID
11 46 (2.30%) Serverless
12 33 (1.65%) Amazon S3
13 31 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
13 31 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
14 30 (1.50%) Figma
15 28 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
15 28 (1.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 25 (1.25%) Amazon EKS
17 24 (1.20%) OpenShift
18 23 (1.15%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 55 (2.76%) Firewall
2 37 (1.85%) DNS
3 36 (1.80%) TCP/IP
4 31 (1.55%) VPN
5 25 (1.25%) WAN
6 24 (1.20%) LAN
7 20 (1.00%) Network Security
8 17 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (0.80%) HTTP
10 14 (0.70%) SD-WAN
11 12 (0.60%) DHCP
12 10 (0.50%) SSL
13 9 (0.45%) Ethernet
13 9 (0.45%) FTP
13 9 (0.45%) Internet
13 9 (0.45%) NAS
13 9 (0.45%) SAN
13 9 (0.45%) SSH
14 8 (0.40%) Unified Communications
15 7 (0.35%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (5.76%) Power BI
2 81 (4.06%) PostgreSQL
3 66 (3.31%) Tableau
4 55 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
5 51 (2.56%) SQL Server
6 39 (1.95%) MongoDB
7 34 (1.70%) NoSQL
8 24 (1.20%) Pentaho
9 23 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
10 21 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (1.00%) Relational Database
12 19 (0.95%) MySQL
13 17 (0.85%) Big Data
13 17 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
14 16 (0.80%) Oracle Database
15 15 (0.75%) DynamoDB
15 15 (0.75%) Metadata
16 12 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 11 (0.55%) Hadoop
18 10 (0.50%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 240 (12.02%) Git
2 229 (11.47%) Jenkins
3 118 (5.91%) GitLab
4 94 (4.71%) Selenium
5 74 (3.71%) Postman
6 69 (3.46%) Cucumber
7 61 (3.06%) Bitbucket
8 55 (2.76%) JUnit
9 44 (2.20%) Zephyr
10 41 (2.05%) Sonatype Nexus
11 36 (1.80%) JMeter
12 33 (1.65%) REST Assured
13 30 (1.50%) TestRail
14 28 (1.40%) SonarQube
15 20 (1.00%) Maven
16 18 (0.90%) Cypress.io
16 18 (0.90%) WebDriver
17 15 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 15 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
17 15 (0.75%) SpecFlow
General
1 823 (41.23%) Social Skills
2 583 (29.21%) Finance
3 395 (19.79%) Analytical Skills
4 249 (12.47%) Banking
5 210 (10.52%) Public Sector
6 79 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
7 74 (3.71%) Documentation Skills
8 67 (3.36%) Retail
9 53 (2.66%) Military
10 48 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
11 46 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (1.80%) Legal
13 29 (1.45%) Investment Banking
14 28 (1.40%) Manufacturing
15 25 (1.25%) Front Office
16 20 (1.00%) Retail Banking
17 19 (0.95%) Telecoms
18 18 (0.90%) Marketing
19 17 (0.85%) Financial Institution
19 17 (0.85%) Law
Job Titles
1 405 (20.29%) Analyst
2 258 (12.93%) Business Analyst
3 187 (9.37%) Developer
4 155 (7.77%) Lead
5 153 (7.67%) Project Manager
6 140 (7.01%) Senior
7 126 (6.31%) Architect
8 97 (4.86%) Tester
9 63 (3.16%) Delivery Manager
10 61 (3.06%) Consultant
11 55 (2.76%) Data Engineer
12 53 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
13 51 (2.56%) Test Engineer
14 48 (2.40%) Technical Analyst
15 46 (2.30%) Scrum Master
15 46 (2.30%) Technical Business Analyst
15 46 (2.30%) Test Analyst
16 44 (2.20%) IT Support
16 44 (2.20%) Software Engineer
17 43 (2.15%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (7.16%) REST
2 65 (3.26%) Spring
3 56 (2.81%) .NET
4 52 (2.61%) Kafka
5 49 (2.45%) XML
6 46 (2.30%) JSON
7 45 (2.25%) React
7 45 (2.25%) RESTful
8 43 (2.15%) SOAP
9 42 (2.10%) Spring Boot
10 41 (2.05%) HTML
11 38 (1.90%) Playwright
12 36 (1.80%) CSS
13 32 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
14 27 (1.35%) FastAPI
14 27 (1.35%) OpenID
15 26 (1.30%) ADO
15 26 (1.30%) OpenTelemetry
16 25 (1.25%) Node.js
16 25 (1.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 224 (11.22%) Product Ownership
2 89 (4.46%) Onboarding
3 70 (3.51%) Cloud Native
4 53 (2.66%) Management Information System
5 45 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
6 41 (2.05%) Virtual Team
7 38 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
8 33 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
9 31 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
10 26 (1.30%) Data Centre
10 26 (1.30%) Mobile App
11 25 (1.25%) Data Structures
11 25 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
11 25 (1.25%) PMI
12 22 (1.10%) Public Cloud
13 19 (0.95%) CMDB
14 18 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
15 17 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 15 (0.75%) Tandem
17 13 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 157 (7.87%) Windows
2 138 (6.91%) Linux
3 39 (1.95%) Unix
4 21 (1.05%) Android
5 20 (1.00%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.65%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.55%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.50%) Mac OS
8 10 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.35%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.050%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.050%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.050%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.050%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.050%) Windows Embedded Compact
11 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.050%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,169 (58.57%) Agile
2 548 (27.45%) DevOps
3 514 (25.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 466 (23.35%) Problem-Solving
5 422 (21.14%) Scrum
6 398 (19.94%) CI/CD
7 353 (17.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 313 (15.68%) Test Automation
9 302 (15.13%) Project Management
10 255 (12.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 207 (10.37%) Migration
12 202 (10.12%) Project Delivery
13 200 (10.02%) User Stories
14 199 (9.97%) User Acceptance Testing
15 191 (9.57%) Change Management
16 179 (8.97%) Decision-Making
17 175 (8.77%) ITIL
18 170 (8.52%) Acceptance Criteria
19 167 (8.37%) Validation
20 165 (8.27%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 305 (15.28%) SQL
2 259 (12.98%) Python
3 183 (9.17%) Java
4 99 (4.96%) JavaScript
5 88 (4.41%) C#
6 81 (4.06%) PowerShell
7 51 (2.56%) TypeScript
8 41 (2.05%) Bash
9 34 (1.70%) C++
10 24 (1.20%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.00%) Embedded C++
12 19 (0.95%) Go
13 18 (0.90%) PL/SQL
14 14 (0.70%) C
14 14 (0.70%) Perl
15 12 (0.60%) PHP
16 11 (0.55%) Ruby
17 10 (0.50%) Apex Code
17 10 (0.50%) Embedded C
18 9 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 542 (27.15%) Security Cleared
2 431 (21.59%) SC Cleared
3 266 (13.33%) Degree
4 89 (4.46%) PMI Certification
5 81 (4.06%) PMP
6 67 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 66 (3.31%) ISTQB
8 55 (2.76%) DV Cleared
9 53 (2.66%) CISSP
10 50 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
11 44 (2.20%) TOGAF Certification
12 41 (2.05%) CISM
13 34 (1.70%) Master's Degree
14 25 (1.25%) AWS Certification
15 22 (1.10%) CBAP
16 21 (1.05%) ISEB
17 19 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
18 18 (0.90%) Azure Certification
18 18 (0.90%) IIBA
18 18 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 246 (12.32%) QA
2 119 (5.96%) PMO
3 89 (4.46%) Data Quality
4 45 (2.25%) Accessibility
5 43 (2.15%) GDPR
6 35 (1.75%) NIST
7 28 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 24 (1.20%) SLA
9 18 (0.90%) WCAG
10 14 (0.70%) GRC
10 14 (0.70%) PSD2
11 13 (0.65%) ISO 20022
12 12 (0.60%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.55%) Basel III
13 11 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (0.50%) SEPA
15 8 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.40%) NIST 800
16 6 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 6 (0.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 190 (9.52%) Docker
2 76 (3.81%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.55%) Firmware
5 8 (0.40%) Squid
6 7 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
6 7 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.15%) HDFS
10 2 (0.10%) Postfix
10 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.050%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.050%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.050%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.050%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 194 (9.72%) Kubernetes
2 95 (4.76%) Terraform
3 88 (4.41%) Ansible
4 69 (3.46%) Grafana
5 54 (2.71%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.55%) Control-M
7 30 (1.50%) OPNET
8 25 (1.25%) IBM Guardium
8 25 (1.25%) Nessus
8 25 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
9 24 (1.20%) HP ALM
10 22 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
11 21 (1.05%) Consul
12 19 (0.95%) Puppet
13 16 (0.80%) Packer
14 12 (0.60%) NetBackup
14 12 (0.60%) SCCM
15 10 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
16 8 (0.40%) HP Quality Center
17 7 (0.35%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 237 (11.87%) Microsoft
2 217 (10.87%) ServiceNow
3 164 (8.22%) Oracle
4 152 (7.62%) Atlassian
5 101 (5.06%) Salesforce
6 68 (3.41%) SAP
7 52 (2.61%) Remedy
8 43 (2.15%) Google
9 40 (2.00%) IBM
10 34 (1.70%) Workday
11 32 (1.60%) Red Hat
12 30 (1.50%) Splunk
12 30 (1.50%) Talend
13 29 (1.45%) Tenable
14 26 (1.30%) HP
15 25 (1.25%) Databricks
16 23 (1.15%) BiZZdesign
16 23 (1.15%) Denodo
17 21 (1.05%) VMware
18 19 (0.95%) Sonatype