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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 44 51
Rank change year-on-year +11 +7 -12
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,895 1,185 1,425
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.46% 4.57% 3.80%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.14% 34.08% 32.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,355 729 999
10th Percentile £313 £312 £331
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £739
UK median daily rate £492 £486 £511
% change year-on-year +1.18% -4.89% -5.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 23 51
10th Percentile £15.74 £45.40 £31.71
25th Percentile £25.33 £52.98 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.57 £62.50 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +14.68% -16.15%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £70.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £63.27 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +1.23% +19.05% -19.23%

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 4,842 3,477 4,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.95% 13.42% 11.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,319 2,197 3,042
10th Percentile £340 £334 £363
25th Percentile £407 £409 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £533
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -5.68% -7.35%
75th Percentile £588 £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 137 60 208
10th Percentile £33.92 £27.38 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.11 £49.62
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.25
90th Percentile £81.70 £80.00 £88.75
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 19 February 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 19 February 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 19 February 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 +5 851 £520 +4.00% 146
North of England +8 347 £447 -1.05% 79
Midlands +7 254 £445 -6.71% 92
South East -3 195 £478 +0.53% 156
West Midlands +6 190 £470 -1.47% 71
Yorkshire -2 186 £480 -4.00% 37
South West +15 154 £575 +2.22% 66
North West +22 145 £425 -5.56% 40
East Midlands +10 62 £356 -27.35% 21
East of England -10 60 £425 +3.03% 29
North East -6 16 £400 -11.11% 3
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
1 906 (47.81%) Confluence
2 116 (6.12%) SharePoint
3 34 (1.79%) nginx
4 32 (1.69%) SAS
5 24 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 22 (1.16%) CMS
7 13 (0.69%) Apache
8 11 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.42%) WebLogic
10 7 (0.37%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.32%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.32%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.32%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.16%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.16%) Drupal
13 3 (0.16%) IIS
13 3 (0.16%) SugarCRM
13 3 (0.16%) Traefik
Applications
1 201 (10.61%) Microsoft Project
2 177 (9.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 106 (5.59%) Microsoft Office
4 104 (5.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 76 (4.01%) MS Visio
6 24 (1.27%) Trello
7 6 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.26%) Notion
8 5 (0.26%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.26%) Sketch
9 4 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.21%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.21%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 3 (0.16%) InVision
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.11%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.11%) CATIA
11 2 (0.11%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 17 (0.90%) NetSuite
2 16 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.58%) Workday HCM
4 10 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.53%) Fidessa
5 9 (0.47%) Loan IQ
5 9 (0.47%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 8 (0.42%) Maximo
7 7 (0.37%) Aladdin
8 6 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
8 6 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.26%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.21%) Endur
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.21%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.21%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 373 (19.68%) Azure
2 289 (15.25%) AWS
3 197 (10.40%) Azure DevOps
4 173 (9.13%) GitHub
5 134 (7.07%) Power Platform
6 82 (4.33%) GCP
7 79 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
8 59 (3.11%) SaaS
9 51 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
10 43 (2.27%) Serverless
11 40 (2.11%) Entra ID
12 38 (2.01%) Amazon S3
13 37 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
14 33 (1.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 32 (1.69%) Figma
16 29 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
17 28 (1.48%) Amazon EKS
18 27 (1.42%) Slack
19 26 (1.37%) Miro
19 26 (1.37%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 48 (2.53%) Firewall
2 39 (2.06%) DNS
3 32 (1.69%) TCP/IP
4 28 (1.48%) VPN
5 21 (1.11%) WAN
6 20 (1.06%) HTTP
6 20 (1.06%) LAN
7 16 (0.84%) SSH
7 16 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (0.69%) Network Security
9 12 (0.63%) FTP
10 10 (0.53%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.47%) DHCP
11 9 (0.47%) Ethernet
12 8 (0.42%) SSL
12 8 (0.42%) Unified Communications
13 7 (0.37%) Modbus
13 7 (0.37%) RS-232
13 7 (0.37%) RS-485
13 7 (0.37%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (5.91%) Power BI
2 77 (4.06%) PostgreSQL
3 63 (3.32%) Tableau
4 50 (2.64%) SQL Server
5 37 (1.95%) NoSQL
6 36 (1.90%) MongoDB
7 34 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
8 27 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
9 22 (1.16%) Pentaho
10 21 (1.11%) Oracle Database
10 21 (1.11%) Relational Database
11 18 (0.95%) Big Data
11 18 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
11 18 (0.95%) Metadata
12 17 (0.90%) MySQL
13 15 (0.79%) Data Vault
14 11 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
14 11 (0.58%) Star Schema
15 10 (0.53%) DynamoDB
15 10 (0.53%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 229 (12.08%) Git
2 222 (11.72%) Jenkins
3 116 (6.12%) GitLab
4 86 (4.54%) Selenium
5 69 (3.64%) Postman
6 60 (3.17%) Cucumber
7 53 (2.80%) Bitbucket
8 41 (2.16%) JUnit
9 37 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
10 35 (1.85%) TestRail
11 34 (1.79%) REST Assured
12 32 (1.69%) SonarQube
13 31 (1.64%) JMeter
14 30 (1.58%) Zephyr
15 21 (1.11%) Maven
16 17 (0.90%) Cypress.io
16 17 (0.90%) SpecFlow
17 14 (0.74%) Rational DOORS
18 12 (0.63%) WebDriver
19 11 (0.58%) SoapUI
General
1 788 (41.58%) Social Skills
2 532 (28.07%) Finance
3 376 (19.84%) Analytical Skills
4 233 (12.30%) Banking
5 198 (10.45%) Public Sector
6 75 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
7 70 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
8 68 (3.59%) Retail
9 54 (2.85%) Military
10 46 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
11 45 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
12 34 (1.79%) Investment Banking
13 29 (1.53%) Legal
14 27 (1.42%) Manufacturing
15 26 (1.37%) Front Office
16 25 (1.32%) Telecoms
17 22 (1.16%) Marketing
18 21 (1.11%) Retail Banking
19 16 (0.84%) Automotive
19 16 (0.84%) Law
Job Titles
1 390 (20.58%) Analyst
2 254 (13.40%) Business Analyst
3 180 (9.50%) Developer
4 154 (8.13%) Project Manager
5 149 (7.86%) Lead
6 135 (7.12%) Senior
7 128 (6.75%) Architect
8 85 (4.49%) Tester
9 56 (2.96%) Delivery Manager
10 55 (2.90%) Consultant
10 55 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
11 49 (2.59%) Test Engineer
12 47 (2.48%) Test Analyst
13 46 (2.43%) Technical Analyst
14 43 (2.27%) Scrum Master
15 42 (2.22%) Technical Business Analyst
16 40 (2.11%) Software Engineer
17 39 (2.06%) Data Engineer
17 39 (2.06%) Senior Analyst
17 39 (2.06%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (7.55%) REST
2 64 (3.38%) .NET
3 59 (3.11%) Spring
4 49 (2.59%) RESTful
5 47 (2.48%) HTML
5 47 (2.48%) XML
6 46 (2.43%) Kafka
7 44 (2.32%) React
7 44 (2.32%) SOAP
8 43 (2.27%) JSON
9 41 (2.16%) CSS
10 40 (2.11%) Playwright
10 40 (2.11%) Spring Boot
11 31 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
12 28 (1.48%) LDAP
13 27 (1.42%) AngularJS
13 27 (1.42%) Node.js
14 26 (1.37%) OpenID
15 25 (1.32%) FastAPI
16 24 (1.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 226 (11.93%) Product Ownership
2 85 (4.49%) Onboarding
3 63 (3.32%) Cloud Native
4 46 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
5 43 (2.27%) Management Information System
6 35 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
6 35 (1.85%) Virtual Team
7 32 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
8 30 (1.58%) Data Structures
9 29 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
9 29 (1.53%) PMI
10 25 (1.32%) Mobile App
11 22 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
13 19 (1.00%) Public Cloud
14 18 (0.95%) CMDB
14 18 (0.95%) Data Centre
15 16 (0.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 14 (0.74%) Tandem
17 13 (0.69%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 144 (7.60%) Windows
2 124 (6.54%) Linux
3 31 (1.64%) Unix
4 23 (1.21%) Android
5 20 (1.06%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.69%) Apple iOS
7 12 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.63%) Windows Server
8 10 (0.53%) VMS
9 9 (0.47%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.37%) FreeRTOS
11 6 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.21%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.053%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.053%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.053%) Windows Embedded Compact
14 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.053%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,124 (59.31%) Agile
2 509 (26.86%) DevOps
3 486 (25.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 454 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
5 411 (21.69%) Scrum
6 376 (19.84%) CI/CD
7 324 (17.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 291 (15.36%) Project Management
9 285 (15.04%) Test Automation
10 247 (13.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 201 (10.61%) User Stories
12 188 (9.92%) Migration
12 188 (9.92%) Project Delivery
12 188 (9.92%) User Acceptance Testing
13 176 (9.29%) Change Management
14 166 (8.76%) Acceptance Criteria
15 162 (8.55%) Decision-Making
15 162 (8.55%) Roadmaps
16 160 (8.44%) Validation
17 154 (8.13%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 283 (14.93%) SQL
2 255 (13.46%) Python
3 177 (9.34%) Java
4 105 (5.54%) JavaScript
5 80 (4.22%) PowerShell
6 79 (4.17%) C#
7 56 (2.96%) TypeScript
8 37 (1.95%) Bash
9 32 (1.69%) C++
10 26 (1.37%) Go
11 21 (1.11%) Shell Script
12 20 (1.06%) Embedded C++
13 16 (0.84%) PL/SQL
14 13 (0.69%) C
14 13 (0.69%) PHP
15 12 (0.63%) Perl
16 11 (0.58%) Groovy
16 11 (0.58%) Ruby
17 10 (0.53%) Apex Code
17 10 (0.53%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 492 (25.96%) Security Cleared
2 403 (21.27%) SC Cleared
3 267 (14.09%) Degree
4 88 (4.64%) PMI Certification
5 76 (4.01%) PMP
6 66 (3.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 59 (3.11%) ISTQB
8 47 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 46 (2.43%) CISSP
9 46 (2.43%) DV Cleared
10 44 (2.32%) TOGAF Certification
11 39 (2.06%) CISM
12 36 (1.90%) Master's Degree
13 29 (1.53%) AWS Certification
14 25 (1.32%) CBAP
15 22 (1.16%) ISEB
16 18 (0.95%) Azure Certification
17 17 (0.90%) IIBA
17 17 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 15 (0.79%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (12.14%) QA
2 111 (5.86%) PMO
3 77 (4.06%) Data Quality
4 54 (2.85%) Accessibility
5 46 (2.43%) GDPR
6 29 (1.53%) NIST
7 25 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 19 (1.00%) WCAG
9 17 (0.90%) PSD2
9 17 (0.90%) SLA
10 16 (0.84%) ISO 20022
11 13 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.69%) SEPA
12 12 (0.63%) GRC
13 11 (0.58%) Basel III
14 10 (0.53%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.42%) NCSC
15 8 (0.42%) NIST 800
16 5 (0.26%) P3O
System Software
1 188 (9.92%) Docker
2 63 (3.32%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.58%) Squid
6 9 (0.47%) Firmware
7 8 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
9 6 (0.32%) DFS Replication
9 6 (0.32%) Postfix
10 5 (0.26%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 4 (0.21%) Dovecot
11 4 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.053%) etcd
13 1 (0.053%) Hyper-V
13 1 (0.053%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.053%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
13 1 (0.053%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 179 (9.45%) Kubernetes
2 94 (4.96%) Terraform
3 79 (4.17%) Ansible
4 68 (3.59%) Grafana
5 53 (2.80%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.58%) OPNET
7 28 (1.48%) Control-M
8 26 (1.37%) Nessus
9 25 (1.32%) HP ALM
10 23 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
11 22 (1.16%) IBM Guardium
12 21 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
13 20 (1.06%) Consul
14 16 (0.84%) Packer
15 15 (0.79%) Puppet
16 12 (0.63%) SCCM
17 10 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
17 10 (0.53%) NetBackup
18 7 (0.37%) Argo
19 6 (0.32%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 235 (12.40%) Microsoft
2 202 (10.66%) ServiceNow
3 152 (8.02%) Oracle
4 132 (6.97%) Atlassian
5 99 (5.22%) Salesforce
6 61 (3.22%) SAP
7 47 (2.48%) Remedy
8 44 (2.32%) Google
9 40 (2.11%) IBM
10 28 (1.48%) Red Hat
10 28 (1.48%) Workday
11 27 (1.42%) HP
11 27 (1.42%) Tenable
12 25 (1.32%) Talend
13 24 (1.27%) Databricks
13 24 (1.27%) Splunk
14 23 (1.21%) BiZZdesign
15 21 (1.11%) Adobe
15 21 (1.11%) Denodo
16 18 (0.95%) VMware