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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 30 43
Rank change year-on-year -15 +13 +8
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,040 1,629 1,421
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.47% 5.87% 4.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.02% 39.83% 32.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,348 1,137 939
10th Percentile £350 £313 £340
25th Percentile £407 £400 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £511
% change year-on-year - -2.15% -2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 41 75
10th Percentile £19.25 £47.50 £25.99
25th Percentile £39.45 £50.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £82.00 £85.25 -
UK median hourly rate £58.74 £57.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year +3.04% -15.56% +8.43%

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 5,228 4,090 4,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.44% 14.74% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,318 2,834 2,825
10th Percentile £357 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £628
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 97 181
10th Percentile £36.25 £41.35 £33.07
25th Percentile £58.44 £51.06 £54.00
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.98 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +2.46%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -10 963 £525 - 194
North of England -16 365 £475 +1.28% 68
Midlands -5 274 £450 -5.26% 60
West Midlands -5 233 £458 -3.63% 46
South East -33 215 £475 -0.52% 117
Yorkshire -6 207 £475 - 22
North West -39 139 £472 +7.16% 30
South West -8 134 £525 -4.55% 68
East of England -21 51 £510 +27.50% 35
East Midlands -2 40 £409 +7.57% 14
North East -35 26 £550 +4.76% 17
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
1 899 (44.07%) Confluence
2 106 (5.20%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.32%) SAS
4 25 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 19 (0.93%) CMS
6 14 (0.69%) Apache
7 8 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.39%) nginx
8 5 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.25%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.25%) IIS
8 5 (0.25%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.20%) Camunda
9 4 (0.20%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.20%) WordPress
10 3 (0.15%) JBoss
10 3 (0.15%) Kentico
10 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.15%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 139 (6.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 133 (6.52%) Microsoft Project
3 84 (4.12%) MS Visio
4 68 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 65 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
6 22 (1.08%) Trello
7 12 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.49%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.39%) Revit
10 7 (0.34%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.25%) Notion
12 2 (0.098%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.098%) Windchill
13 1 (0.049%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.049%) CATIA
13 1 (0.049%) Gliffy
13 1 (0.049%) Mingle
13 1 (0.049%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.049%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 33 (1.62%) Remedy ITSM
2 25 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.59%) Aladdin
4 11 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
5 9 (0.44%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.25%) Fidessa
7 5 (0.25%) Findur
7 5 (0.25%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.25%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.20%) SAP FI-AR
8 4 (0.20%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.15%) Primavera
9 3 (0.15%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 513 (25.15%) Azure
2 317 (15.54%) AWS
3 289 (14.17%) Azure DevOps
4 167 (8.19%) GitHub
4 167 (8.19%) Power Platform
5 90 (4.41%) GCP
6 82 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
7 74 (3.63%) Entra ID
7 74 (3.63%) SaaS
8 70 (3.43%) Serverless
9 61 (2.99%) Amazon S3
10 59 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
11 57 (2.79%) AWS Lambda
12 53 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 39 (1.91%) Miro
14 38 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
15 35 (1.72%) Microsoft Copilot
16 32 (1.57%) Smartsheet
17 30 (1.47%) Figma
18 28 (1.37%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 87 (4.26%) Firewall
2 64 (3.14%) DNS
3 44 (2.16%) TCP/IP
4 32 (1.57%) DHCP
4 32 (1.57%) Network Security
4 32 (1.57%) VPN
5 23 (1.13%) WAN
6 19 (0.93%) SAN
7 18 (0.88%) BIG-IP
7 18 (0.88%) SSL
8 15 (0.74%) LAN
8 15 (0.74%) SD-WAN
9 12 (0.59%) Internet
10 10 (0.49%) VLAN
11 9 (0.44%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 9 (0.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 8 (0.39%) DKIM
12 8 (0.39%) DMARC
12 8 (0.39%) SSH
13 7 (0.34%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (7.30%) Power BI
2 92 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
4 51 (2.50%) SQL Server
5 40 (1.96%) Oracle Reports
6 28 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
7 26 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
7 26 (1.27%) Relational Database
8 25 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
9 23 (1.13%) Tableau
10 21 (1.03%) DynamoDB
10 21 (1.03%) MongoDB
10 21 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 19 (0.93%) Data Lake
12 18 (0.88%) Metadata
13 17 (0.83%) Oracle Database
14 16 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
14 16 (0.78%) NoSQL
15 15 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 14 (0.69%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 251 (12.30%) Git
2 173 (8.48%) Jenkins
3 107 (5.25%) GitLab
4 84 (4.12%) Selenium
5 79 (3.87%) Zephyr
6 75 (3.68%) Bitbucket
7 63 (3.09%) Postman
8 32 (1.57%) Cucumber
8 32 (1.57%) JUnit
9 29 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
10 28 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 27 (1.32%) JMeter
12 26 (1.27%) Cypress.io
13 19 (0.93%) REST Assured
13 19 (0.93%) TestRail
14 18 (0.88%) Artifactory
15 16 (0.78%) WebDriver
16 11 (0.54%) Maven
16 11 (0.54%) MSI
17 10 (0.49%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 815 (39.95%) Social Skills
2 604 (29.61%) Finance
3 386 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
4 275 (13.48%) Banking
5 243 (11.91%) Public Sector
6 78 (3.82%) Retail
7 75 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
8 71 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
9 48 (2.35%) Investment Banking
10 43 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
11 36 (1.76%) Manufacturing
12 35 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 35 (1.72%) Legal
13 34 (1.67%) Front Office
14 31 (1.52%) Marketing
15 29 (1.42%) Telecoms
16 26 (1.27%) Retail Banking
17 21 (1.03%) Financial Institution
17 21 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
18 19 (0.93%) Law
Job Titles
1 349 (17.11%) Analyst
2 220 (10.78%) Business Analyst
3 210 (10.29%) Lead
4 198 (9.71%) Developer
5 179 (8.77%) Senior
6 110 (5.39%) Project Manager
7 83 (4.07%) Consultant
8 82 (4.02%) Delivery Manager
9 77 (3.77%) Scrum Master
10 74 (3.63%) Tester
11 71 (3.48%) Architect
12 59 (2.89%) Data Engineer
13 54 (2.65%) Product Owner
14 53 (2.60%) Support Engineer
15 48 (2.35%) Test Analyst
16 45 (2.21%) Test Leader
17 42 (2.06%) IT Support
18 41 (2.01%) Administrator
18 41 (2.01%) Senior Manager
19 37 (1.81%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 148 (7.25%) Terraform
2 130 (6.37%) REST
3 75 (3.68%) .NET
4 56 (2.75%) HTML
5 52 (2.55%) React
6 46 (2.25%) RESTful
7 45 (2.21%) JSON
8 44 (2.16%) AngularJS
9 40 (1.96%) Kafka
10 39 (1.91%) CSS
10 39 (1.91%) Spring
11 38 (1.86%) Playwright
12 35 (1.72%) SOAP
13 33 (1.62%) Middleware
13 33 (1.62%) XML
14 31 (1.52%) Node.js
15 28 (1.37%) Web Services
16 27 (1.32%) Spring Boot
17 23 (1.13%) .NET Core
18 22 (1.08%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 258 (12.65%) Product Ownership
2 137 (6.72%) Onboarding
3 82 (4.02%) Cloud Native
4 68 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 60 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
6 52 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
7 49 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
8 44 (2.16%) Virtual Team
9 41 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
10 35 (1.72%) Management Information System
11 32 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
11 32 (1.57%) Data Structures
12 25 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
13 22 (1.08%) Credit Risk
14 21 (1.03%) SCADA
15 20 (0.98%) Mobile App
16 18 (0.88%) Derivative
17 16 (0.78%) Clustering
17 16 (0.78%) Enterprise Storage
17 16 (0.78%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 157 (7.70%) Windows
2 126 (6.18%) Linux
3 51 (2.50%) Unix
4 23 (1.13%) Windows 10
5 20 (0.98%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.83%) Android
7 15 (0.74%) Mac OS
8 13 (0.64%) Windows Server
9 11 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 3 (0.15%) AIX
12 3 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
13 2 (0.098%) MVS
13 2 (0.098%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.098%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.098%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.098%) zOS
14 1 (0.049%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,224 (60.00%) Agile
2 624 (30.59%) Stakeholder Management
3 571 (27.99%) DevOps
4 448 (21.96%) Problem-Solving
5 437 (21.42%) CI/CD
6 420 (20.59%) Scrum
7 386 (18.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 342 (16.76%) Test Automation
9 294 (14.41%) Migration
10 253 (12.40%) User Acceptance Testing
11 235 (11.52%) User Stories
12 229 (11.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 227 (11.13%) Project Management
14 224 (10.98%) Validation
15 223 (10.93%) Sprint Planning
16 216 (10.59%) AI
17 208 (10.20%) Project Delivery
18 203 (9.95%) SDLC
19 185 (9.07%) Acceptance Criteria
20 184 (9.02%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 346 (16.96%) SQL
2 245 (12.01%) Python
3 133 (6.52%) Java
4 104 (5.10%) JavaScript
5 74 (3.63%) C#
5 74 (3.63%) PowerShell
6 69 (3.38%) TypeScript
7 42 (2.06%) Bash
8 32 (1.57%) PL/SQL
9 18 (0.88%) C++
9 18 (0.88%) Groovy
10 17 (0.83%) Bicep
11 16 (0.78%) Apex Code
11 16 (0.78%) Kotlin
12 15 (0.74%) Perl
13 13 (0.64%) VBA
14 10 (0.49%) C
15 9 (0.44%) ActionScript
16 7 (0.34%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 552 (27.06%) Security Cleared
2 426 (20.88%) SC Cleared
3 175 (8.58%) Degree
4 87 (4.26%) DV Cleared
5 78 (3.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 67 (3.28%) ISTQB
7 54 (2.65%) PMI Certification
8 44 (2.16%) PMP
9 26 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 22 (1.08%) CISSP
11 21 (1.03%) AWS Certification
11 21 (1.03%) Azure Certification
12 20 (0.98%) Master's Degree
13 18 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 17 (0.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 17 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
15 16 (0.78%) SAFe Agilist
16 14 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
17 13 (0.64%) IIBA
18 12 (0.59%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 265 (12.99%) QA
2 124 (6.08%) PMO
3 117 (5.74%) Data Quality
4 64 (3.14%) Accessibility
5 41 (2.01%) SLA
6 24 (1.18%) GDPR
6 24 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (1.18%) WCAG
7 21 (1.03%) NCSC
8 19 (0.93%) GRC
9 18 (0.88%) NIST
10 12 (0.59%) ISO 20022
10 12 (0.59%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.34%) JSP 440
11 7 (0.34%) SEPA
12 6 (0.29%) MiFID
12 6 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.25%) COBIT
13 5 (0.25%) GxP
13 5 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 119 (5.83%) Docker
2 115 (5.64%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (0.49%) Firmware
6 8 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.15%) Squid
9 2 (0.098%) HDFS
9 2 (0.098%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.098%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.049%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.049%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 126 (6.18%) Kubernetes
2 84 (4.12%) Ansible
3 50 (2.45%) Grafana
4 38 (1.86%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
6 21 (1.03%) HP ALM
7 15 (0.74%) Control-M
7 15 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (0.49%) Puppet
9 9 (0.44%) Packer
10 8 (0.39%) Dell DRAC
11 7 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.34%) HP Quality Center
11 7 (0.34%) Istio
11 7 (0.34%) Nessus
12 6 (0.29%) IBM Guardium
12 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
12 6 (0.29%) SCOM
12 6 (0.29%) vCenter Server
13 5 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 301 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 255 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 145 (7.11%) Oracle
4 93 (4.56%) Atlassian
5 89 (4.36%) Salesforce
6 88 (4.31%) SAP
7 60 (2.94%) Google
8 43 (2.11%) VMware
9 41 (2.01%) IBM
10 36 (1.76%) Splunk
11 34 (1.67%) Denodo
12 33 (1.62%) Remedy
13 27 (1.32%) Informatica
13 27 (1.32%) Talend
14 24 (1.18%) Databricks
14 24 (1.18%) HP
14 24 (1.18%) MuleSoft
15 23 (1.13%) F5
15 23 (1.13%) Workday
16 22 (1.08%) Adobe