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 9 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 46 48
Rank change year-on-year +13 +2 -13
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,825 1,323 1,649
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.89% 4.36% 4.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.96% 32.91% 34.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,335 843 1,115
10th Percentile £317 £313 £363
25th Percentile £402 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -0.46%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £685 £754
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 33 46
10th Percentile £15.74 £45.40 £43.20
25th Percentile £44.23 £54.70 £51.25
Median hourly rate £63.40 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% - -
75th Percentile £72.88 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.63 - £74.38
UK median hourly rate £63.40 £64.76 £62.50
% change year-on-year -2.10% +3.62% +2.04%

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 4,684 4,020 4,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.13% 13.26% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,277 2,521 3,424
10th Percentile £330 £345 £375
25th Percentile £408 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £645
90th Percentile £700 £730 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 101 214
10th Percentile £39.00 £46.18 £45.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.36 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.40 £75.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 2025. 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 +12 854 £525 +1.45% 221
North of England +4 319 £475 -3.11% 162
Midlands +19 211 £450 -9.55% 102
South East -4 191 £475 +3.26% 216
West Midlands +20 169 £475 -5.00% 55
Yorkshire -3 166 £496 -0.75% 68
South West +15 150 £578 +4.52% 81
North West +10 136 £458 -8.50% 83
East of England -2 57 £425 +4.68% 75
East Midlands +1 42 £358 -21.96% 45
North East +4 17 £500 +11.11% 12
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
1 823 (45.10%) Confluence
2 104 (5.70%) SharePoint
3 44 (2.41%) nginx
4 35 (1.92%) SAS
5 31 (1.70%) CMS
6 13 (0.71%) Apache
7 12 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.38%) WordPress
9 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.33%) Drupal
9 6 (0.33%) Mule
10 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.22%) CICS
10 4 (0.22%) JBoss
10 4 (0.22%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.22%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.16%) IIS
11 3 (0.16%) SugarCRM
11 3 (0.16%) Tomcat
Applications
1 175 (9.59%) Microsoft Project
2 137 (7.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 119 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
4 82 (4.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 73 (4.00%) MS Visio
6 35 (1.92%) Trello
7 11 (0.60%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 7 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.38%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.33%) Notion
9 6 (0.33%) Sketch
9 6 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.27%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
11 4 (0.22%) InVision
11 4 (0.22%) Simulink
11 4 (0.22%) Windchill
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.11%) InDesign
13 1 (0.055%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 18 (0.99%) Remedy ITSM
1 18 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.77%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.44%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.44%) Oracle EBS R12
5 8 (0.44%) SAP PM
6 6 (0.33%) Maximo
6 6 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.33%) SAP HR
7 5 (0.27%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.27%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
8 4 (0.22%) Endur
8 4 (0.22%) Fidessa
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.22%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.22%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 340 (18.63%) Azure
2 302 (16.55%) AWS
3 176 (9.64%) Azure DevOps
4 174 (9.53%) GitHub
5 111 (6.08%) Power Platform
6 77 (4.22%) GCP
7 67 (3.67%) Serverless
8 59 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
9 52 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
10 50 (2.74%) Amazon S3
11 45 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
12 41 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
13 40 (2.19%) SaaS
14 36 (1.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 35 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
15 35 (1.92%) Power Automate
16 34 (1.86%) Slack
16 34 (1.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 31 (1.70%) Figma
17 31 (1.70%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 57 (3.12%) Firewall
2 48 (2.63%) DNS
3 38 (2.08%) SSH
4 37 (2.03%) HTTP
5 23 (1.26%) VPN
6 22 (1.21%) FTP
6 22 (1.21%) SMTP
7 21 (1.15%) SSL
8 18 (0.99%) TCP/IP
9 16 (0.88%) OpenLDAP
10 11 (0.60%) IMAP
11 8 (0.44%) DHCP
12 7 (0.38%) WAN
13 6 (0.33%) Network Security
13 6 (0.33%) SD-WAN
14 5 (0.27%) Kerberos
14 5 (0.27%) LAN
14 5 (0.27%) Wireless
15 4 (0.22%) VoIP
15 4 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (5.37%) Power BI
2 73 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (3.01%) Tableau
4 40 (2.19%) SQL Server
5 34 (1.86%) NoSQL
5 34 (1.86%) Relational Database
6 33 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
6 33 (1.81%) Pentaho
7 25 (1.37%) Big Data
8 22 (1.21%) Oracle Database
9 20 (1.10%) MongoDB
10 19 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
11 18 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
11 18 (0.99%) Metadata
12 17 (0.93%) Hadoop
13 16 (0.88%) MySQL
14 12 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
15 11 (0.60%) BigQuery
15 11 (0.60%) Redis
16 10 (0.55%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 256 (14.03%) Git
2 240 (13.15%) Jenkins
3 114 (6.25%) GitLab
4 75 (4.11%) Bitbucket
4 75 (4.11%) Selenium
5 66 (3.62%) Postman
6 52 (2.85%) Cucumber
7 38 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
8 35 (1.92%) SonarQube
9 33 (1.81%) TestRail
10 29 (1.59%) JUnit
11 28 (1.53%) Zephyr
12 26 (1.42%) SoapUI
13 23 (1.26%) Vagrant
14 22 (1.21%) Maven
14 22 (1.21%) REST Assured
14 22 (1.21%) SpecFlow
15 20 (1.10%) Cypress.io
16 18 (0.99%) Artifactory
17 16 (0.88%) Rational DOORS
General
1 763 (41.81%) Social Skills
2 449 (24.60%) Finance
3 312 (17.10%) Analytical Skills
4 206 (11.29%) Banking
5 202 (11.07%) Public Sector
6 69 (3.78%) Organisational Skills
7 55 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
8 49 (2.68%) Military
9 45 (2.47%) Retail
10 40 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
11 38 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
12 37 (2.03%) Legal
13 32 (1.75%) Investment Banking
14 28 (1.53%) Front Office
15 27 (1.48%) Manufacturing
16 26 (1.42%) Marketing
17 22 (1.21%) Telecoms
18 15 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 15 (0.82%) Law
18 15 (0.82%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 319 (17.48%) Analyst
2 196 (10.74%) Developer
3 194 (10.63%) Business Analyst
4 168 (9.21%) Project Manager
5 143 (7.84%) Senior
6 134 (7.34%) Lead
7 117 (6.41%) Architect
8 75 (4.11%) Tester
9 60 (3.29%) Test Analyst
10 59 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
11 50 (2.74%) Consultant
11 50 (2.74%) Delivery Manager
12 48 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
13 46 (2.52%) Administrator
13 46 (2.52%) Product Owner
14 40 (2.19%) Software Engineer
14 40 (2.19%) Technical Analyst
15 38 (2.08%) Data Engineer
15 38 (2.08%) Scrum Master
15 38 (2.08%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (9.04%) REST
2 84 (4.60%) SOAP
3 77 (4.22%) .NET
4 76 (4.16%) HTML
5 73 (4.00%) AngularJS
6 71 (3.89%) React
7 57 (3.12%) CSS
8 54 (2.96%) JSON
9 53 (2.90%) Kafka
9 53 (2.90%) XML
10 52 (2.85%) RESTful
11 44 (2.41%) Node.js
11 44 (2.41%) Spring Boot
12 41 (2.25%) Spring
13 38 (2.08%) Playwright
14 37 (2.03%) LDAP
15 36 (1.97%) RabbitMQ
16 35 (1.92%) Web Services
17 29 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
18 28 (1.53%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 214 (11.73%) Product Ownership
2 78 (4.27%) Onboarding
3 57 (3.12%) Cloud Native
4 44 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
5 41 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
6 39 (2.14%) Management Information System
7 33 (1.81%) Data Structures
8 30 (1.64%) Mobile App
9 28 (1.53%) PMI
10 27 (1.48%) Replication
11 26 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
12 24 (1.32%) CMDB
12 24 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
12 24 (1.32%) Virtual Team
13 21 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
13 21 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
14 18 (0.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 17 (0.93%) Algorithms
15 17 (0.93%) Data Centre
16 16 (0.88%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 135 (7.40%) Windows
2 131 (7.18%) Linux
3 47 (2.58%) Unix
4 29 (1.59%) VMS
5 21 (1.15%) Amazon Linux
6 19 (1.04%) Android
7 14 (0.77%) Apple iOS
7 14 (0.77%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.71%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 10 (0.55%) Windows Server
10 9 (0.49%) Windows 10
11 6 (0.33%) CentOS
12 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.16%) zOS
13 2 (0.11%) Debian
13 2 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
13 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.11%) Solaris
14 1 (0.055%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,137 (62.30%) Agile
2 540 (29.59%) DevOps
3 441 (24.16%) Problem-Solving
4 438 (24.00%) Scrum
5 393 (21.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 371 (20.33%) CI/CD
7 282 (15.45%) Project Management
8 275 (15.07%) Test Automation
9 270 (14.79%) Continuous Improvement
10 240 (13.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 201 (11.01%) Migration
12 191 (10.47%) User Stories
13 190 (10.41%) Change Management
14 182 (9.97%) User Acceptance Testing
15 158 (8.66%) Project Delivery
16 157 (8.60%) Microservices
17 152 (8.33%) ITIL
18 150 (8.22%) Roadmaps
19 145 (7.95%) Kanban
20 144 (7.89%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 301 (16.49%) SQL
2 269 (14.74%) Python
3 170 (9.32%) Java
4 151 (8.27%) JavaScript
5 90 (4.93%) PowerShell
6 81 (4.44%) C#
7 57 (3.12%) TypeScript
8 47 (2.58%) Bash
9 39 (2.14%) Go
10 30 (1.64%) C++
10 30 (1.64%) Groovy
11 25 (1.37%) Perl
12 16 (0.88%) PL/SQL
13 15 (0.82%) Apex Code
13 15 (0.82%) Shell Script
14 14 (0.77%) Ruby
15 12 (0.66%) PHP
16 11 (0.60%) Embedded C++
17 8 (0.44%) C
17 8 (0.44%) Korn
Qualifications
1 476 (26.08%) Security Cleared
2 418 (22.90%) SC Cleared
3 279 (15.29%) Degree
4 87 (4.77%) PMI Certification
5 72 (3.95%) PMP
6 59 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 57 (3.12%) CISSP
8 53 (2.90%) ISTQB
9 49 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 43 (2.36%) CISM
11 41 (2.25%) TOGAF Certification
12 38 (2.08%) DV Cleared
13 30 (1.64%) AWS Certification
14 22 (1.21%) CBAP
15 20 (1.10%) Azure Certification
15 20 (1.10%) Master's Degree
15 20 (1.10%) Oracle Certification
16 16 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
17 14 (0.77%) ISEB
17 14 (0.77%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (12.49%) QA
2 85 (4.66%) PMO
3 69 (3.78%) GDPR
4 62 (3.40%) Data Quality
5 53 (2.90%) Accessibility
6 43 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 38 (2.08%) NIST
8 23 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 18 (0.99%) ISO 20022
10 17 (0.93%) PSD2
10 17 (0.93%) SEPA
11 16 (0.88%) PCI DSS
11 16 (0.88%) WCAG
12 14 (0.77%) COBIT
12 14 (0.77%) NIST 800
13 8 (0.44%) GRC
13 8 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 8 (0.44%) NCSC
14 7 (0.38%) P3O
15 6 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 212 (11.62%) Docker
2 60 (3.29%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.10%) DFS Replication
4 19 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.66%) Firmware
7 11 (0.60%) Dovecot
7 11 (0.60%) Postfix
7 11 (0.60%) Squid
8 7 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.22%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.16%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.16%) vSphere
11 2 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.11%) KVM
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.055%) Xen
Systems Management
1 190 (10.41%) Kubernetes
2 119 (6.52%) Terraform
3 88 (4.82%) Ansible
4 52 (2.85%) Grafana
5 43 (2.36%) Prometheus
6 32 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.64%) OPNET
8 29 (1.59%) HP ALM
9 23 (1.26%) Nessus
10 22 (1.21%) Packer
11 20 (1.10%) Consul
12 18 (0.99%) Puppet
13 15 (0.82%) Control-M
14 14 (0.77%) NetBackup
15 13 (0.71%) SCCM
16 12 (0.66%) RSA Archer
17 11 (0.60%) IBM Guardium
17 11 (0.60%) Progress Chef
18 10 (0.55%) Proxmox
19 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 251 (13.75%) Microsoft
2 228 (12.49%) ServiceNow
3 155 (8.49%) Oracle
4 121 (6.63%) Atlassian
5 94 (5.15%) Salesforce
6 66 (3.62%) SAP
7 56 (3.07%) Google
8 54 (2.96%) Remedy
9 46 (2.52%) HP
10 36 (1.97%) IBM
10 36 (1.97%) Talend
11 32 (1.75%) Denodo
12 30 (1.64%) CyberArk
12 30 (1.64%) Splunk
13 20 (1.10%) Red Hat
13 20 (1.10%) VMware
14 18 (0.99%) BiZZdesign
14 18 (0.99%) Cisco
14 18 (0.99%) Tenable
15 17 (0.93%) BMC