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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 32 44
Rank change year-on-year -13 +12 +3
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,112 1,584 1,403
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.64% 5.73% 4.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.66% 39.49% 32.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,409 1,101 932
10th Percentile £350 £319 £340
25th Percentile £406 £400 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £619
90th Percentile £671 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 40 88
10th Percentile £18.75 £47.38 £25.78
25th Percentile £26.25 £50.75 £40.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £63.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% -6.67% +8.00%
75th Percentile £67.47 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £85.60 -
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.83% -11.54% +4.84%

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 5,325 4,011 4,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.70% 14.52% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,388 2,780 2,839
10th Percentile £352 £320 £352
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £631
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 95 200
10th Percentile £35.00 £40.90 £31.71
25th Percentile £57.75 £51.03 £51.25
Median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.45 £73.78
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - -

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -8 990 £525 +0.96% 332
North of England -16 379 £473 +2.27% 104
Midlands -3 305 £455 -4.21% 72
West Midlands -4 264 £459 -7.46% 48
South East -31 217 £500 +3.26% 166
Yorkshire -8 209 £463 -2.63% 40
North West -30 151 £461 +7.15% 45
South West -12 134 £493 -12.44% 58
East of England -12 55 £450 +12.50% 39
East Midlands +2 39 £402 -2.55% 24
North East -34 26 £550 +2.33% 21
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
1 938 (44.41%) Confluence
2 104 (4.92%) SharePoint
3 33 (1.56%) SAS
4 26 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (0.80%) CMS
6 15 (0.71%) Apache
7 10 (0.47%) nginx
8 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.28%) Mattermost
9 6 (0.28%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.28%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
11 4 (0.19%) Camunda
11 4 (0.19%) IIS
11 4 (0.19%) JBoss
11 4 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.19%) WordPress
12 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 149 (7.05%) Microsoft Project
2 145 (6.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 84 (3.98%) MS Visio
4 62 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 59 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
6 23 (1.09%) Trello
7 15 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.47%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.38%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.38%) Revit
10 5 (0.24%) Notion
11 2 (0.095%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.047%) CATIA
12 1 (0.047%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.047%) Mingle
12 1 (0.047%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.047%) Sketch
12 1 (0.047%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 41 (1.94%) Remedy ITSM
2 27 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.57%) Aladdin
3 12 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
5 8 (0.38%) Findur
5 8 (0.38%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.33%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.28%) Fidessa
7 6 (0.28%) Teamcenter
8 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.19%) Actimize
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
9 4 (0.19%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
10 3 (0.14%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 533 (25.24%) Azure
2 341 (16.15%) AWS
3 293 (13.87%) Azure DevOps
4 180 (8.52%) GitHub
5 162 (7.67%) Power Platform
6 94 (4.45%) GCP
7 84 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
8 76 (3.60%) Entra ID
9 74 (3.50%) SaaS
10 68 (3.22%) Amazon S3
11 67 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
11 67 (3.17%) Serverless
12 60 (2.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 54 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
14 48 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
15 33 (1.56%) Smartsheet
15 33 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 32 (1.52%) Microsoft Copilot
16 32 (1.52%) Miro
17 30 (1.42%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 86 (4.07%) Firewall
2 66 (3.13%) DNS
3 44 (2.08%) TCP/IP
4 33 (1.56%) DHCP
5 32 (1.52%) Network Security
6 30 (1.42%) VPN
7 22 (1.04%) WAN
8 20 (0.95%) BIG-IP
9 19 (0.90%) SAN
10 18 (0.85%) SSL
11 17 (0.80%) LAN
12 15 (0.71%) SD-WAN
13 13 (0.62%) Internet
14 9 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 9 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 9 (0.43%) VLAN
15 8 (0.38%) DKIM
15 8 (0.38%) DMARC
15 8 (0.38%) HTTP
15 8 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (6.82%) Power BI
2 99 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
3 77 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
4 53 (2.51%) SQL Server
5 47 (2.23%) Oracle Reports
6 32 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
7 28 (1.33%) Relational Database
8 27 (1.28%) MongoDB
9 26 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
10 24 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
11 23 (1.09%) DynamoDB
11 23 (1.09%) Tableau
12 22 (1.04%) Data Lake
12 22 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 20 (0.95%) Pentaho
14 18 (0.85%) Metadata
15 16 (0.76%) Oracle Database
16 15 (0.71%) NoSQL
16 15 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 13 (0.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 265 (12.55%) Git
2 193 (9.14%) Jenkins
3 107 (5.07%) GitLab
4 87 (4.12%) Selenium
5 81 (3.84%) Zephyr
6 71 (3.36%) Bitbucket
7 64 (3.03%) Postman
8 51 (2.41%) JUnit
9 48 (2.27%) Cucumber
10 38 (1.80%) JMeter
11 31 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
12 28 (1.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 24 (1.14%) WebDriver
14 23 (1.09%) Cypress.io
15 22 (1.04%) REST Assured
16 21 (0.99%) TestRail
17 19 (0.90%) Artifactory
18 13 (0.62%) Maven
19 12 (0.57%) Appium
20 11 (0.52%) Mockito
General
1 840 (39.77%) Social Skills
2 609 (28.84%) Finance
3 398 (18.84%) Analytical Skills
4 264 (12.50%) Banking
5 243 (11.51%) Public Sector
6 87 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
7 74 (3.50%) Retail
8 68 (3.22%) Documentation Skills
9 42 (1.99%) Manufacturing
10 41 (1.94%) Investment Banking
11 39 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
12 38 (1.80%) Legal
13 37 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 30 (1.42%) Front Office
14 30 (1.42%) Telecoms
15 29 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
16 27 (1.28%) Marketing
16 27 (1.28%) Retail Banking
17 23 (1.09%) Financial Institution
18 19 (0.90%) Military
Job Titles
1 367 (17.38%) Analyst
2 228 (10.80%) Business Analyst
3 212 (10.04%) Lead
4 205 (9.71%) Developer
5 189 (8.95%) Senior
6 116 (5.49%) Project Manager
7 93 (4.40%) Delivery Manager
8 85 (4.02%) Tester
9 81 (3.84%) Consultant
10 75 (3.55%) Scrum Master
11 73 (3.46%) Architect
12 70 (3.31%) Data Engineer
13 57 (2.70%) Support Engineer
14 54 (2.56%) IT Support
15 53 (2.51%) Product Owner
16 50 (2.37%) Test Leader
17 45 (2.13%) Test Analyst
18 44 (2.08%) Senior Manager
19 40 (1.89%) IT Engineer
20 39 (1.85%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (6.01%) REST
2 76 (3.60%) .NET
3 55 (2.60%) Spring
4 50 (2.37%) React
5 48 (2.27%) JSON
6 47 (2.23%) HTML
7 46 (2.18%) RESTful
8 40 (1.89%) Kafka
9 39 (1.85%) AngularJS
10 38 (1.80%) SOAP
11 37 (1.75%) Playwright
12 35 (1.66%) CSS
13 33 (1.56%) Spring Boot
14 32 (1.52%) Node.js
14 32 (1.52%) XML
15 31 (1.47%) Middleware
15 31 (1.47%) Web Services
16 26 (1.23%) .NET Core
16 26 (1.23%) WireMock
17 24 (1.14%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 241 (11.41%) Product Ownership
2 133 (6.30%) Onboarding
3 88 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 71 (3.36%) Data Centre
5 57 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
6 51 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
7 50 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
7 50 (2.37%) Virtual Team
8 42 (1.99%) Data Protection Act
9 39 (1.85%) Management Information System
10 34 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
11 33 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
11 33 (1.56%) Data Structures
12 19 (0.90%) Mobile App
12 19 (0.90%) SCADA
13 18 (0.85%) Credit Risk
13 18 (0.85%) Derivative
13 18 (0.85%) Security Posture
14 17 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 16 (0.76%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 164 (7.77%) Windows
2 124 (5.87%) Linux
3 48 (2.27%) Unix
4 26 (1.23%) Windows 10
5 21 (0.99%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.80%) Mac OS
7 16 (0.76%) Android
7 16 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.47%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.14%) AIX
11 3 (0.14%) Check Point GAiA
12 2 (0.095%) MVS
12 2 (0.095%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.095%) zOS
13 1 (0.047%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.047%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,252 (59.28%) Agile
2 608 (28.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 581 (27.51%) DevOps
4 464 (21.97%) CI/CD
5 463 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
6 427 (20.22%) Scrum
7 401 (18.99%) Continuous Improvement
8 362 (17.14%) Test Automation
9 295 (13.97%) Migration
10 244 (11.55%) User Acceptance Testing
11 236 (11.17%) Project Management
12 230 (10.89%) User Stories
13 228 (10.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 225 (10.65%) Validation
15 224 (10.61%) AI
16 212 (10.04%) Sprint Planning
17 204 (9.66%) Project Delivery
18 203 (9.61%) Change Management
19 195 (9.23%) SDLC
20 190 (9.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 350 (16.57%) SQL
2 255 (12.07%) Python
3 152 (7.20%) Java
4 93 (4.40%) JavaScript
5 86 (4.07%) C#
6 72 (3.41%) PowerShell
7 67 (3.17%) TypeScript
8 43 (2.04%) Bash
9 32 (1.52%) PL/SQL
10 17 (0.80%) Bicep
11 16 (0.76%) Groovy
11 16 (0.76%) Kotlin
11 16 (0.76%) Perl
12 15 (0.71%) VBA
13 14 (0.66%) Apex Code
14 11 (0.52%) Shell Script
15 10 (0.47%) C++
16 9 (0.43%) ActionScript
17 6 (0.28%) C
17 6 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 572 (27.08%) Security Cleared
2 441 (20.88%) SC Cleared
3 177 (8.38%) Degree
4 90 (4.26%) DV Cleared
5 78 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 70 (3.31%) ISTQB
7 56 (2.65%) PMI Certification
8 46 (2.18%) PMP
9 28 (1.33%) CISSP
10 24 (1.14%) Azure Certification
10 24 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
11 21 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
12 20 (0.95%) AWS Certification
13 18 (0.85%) Master's Degree
14 17 (0.80%) SAFe Agilist
15 16 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 16 (0.76%) CISM
15 16 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
16 14 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 12 (0.57%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 257 (12.17%) QA
2 127 (6.01%) PMO
3 123 (5.82%) Data Quality
4 66 (3.13%) Accessibility
5 41 (1.94%) SLA
6 37 (1.75%) GDPR
7 28 (1.33%) WCAG
8 26 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 21 (0.99%) NCSC
10 20 (0.95%) NIST
11 16 (0.76%) GRC
12 12 (0.57%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.52%) ISO 20022
14 7 (0.33%) JSP 440
15 6 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.28%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.28%) MiFID
15 6 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.28%) SEPA
16 5 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 142 (6.72%) Docker
2 127 (6.01%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (0.47%) Firmware
5 10 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.19%) Squid
8 3 (0.14%) HDFS
9 2 (0.095%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.095%) Postfix
9 2 (0.095%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.047%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.047%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.047%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.047%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 160 (7.58%) Kubernetes
2 151 (7.15%) Terraform
3 87 (4.12%) Ansible
4 63 (2.98%) Grafana
5 51 (2.41%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (0.99%) Control-M
8 19 (0.90%) HP ALM
9 17 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (0.66%) Puppet
11 13 (0.62%) Nessus
12 12 (0.57%) IBM Guardium
13 9 (0.43%) Packer
14 8 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 8 (0.38%) Dell DRAC
15 7 (0.33%) HP Quality Center
15 7 (0.33%) NetBackup
16 6 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
16 6 (0.28%) SCCM
16 6 (0.28%) SCOM
Vendors
1 305 (14.44%) Microsoft
2 271 (12.83%) ServiceNow
3 163 (7.72%) Oracle
4 91 (4.31%) Salesforce
5 90 (4.26%) Atlassian
5 90 (4.26%) SAP
6 56 (2.65%) Google
7 44 (2.08%) IBM
8 42 (1.99%) Remedy
9 41 (1.94%) VMware
10 40 (1.89%) Denodo
11 35 (1.66%) Talend
12 34 (1.61%) Splunk
13 30 (1.42%) Databricks
14 27 (1.28%) Informatica
15 25 (1.18%) Workday
16 24 (1.14%) F5
16 24 (1.14%) MuleSoft
17 23 (1.09%) Adobe
18 22 (1.04%) HP