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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 44 50
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 -10
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,955 1,184 1,446
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.52% 4.64% 3.81%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.53% 34.71% 32.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,400 746 1,007
10th Percentile £313 £313 £328
25th Percentile £400 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £630
90th Percentile £700 £675 £746
UK median daily rate £495 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.00% -2.44% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 21 55
10th Percentile £15.74 £47.00 £23.20
25th Percentile £25.00 £55.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.57 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £71.25 £75.92
UK median hourly rate £63.40 £62.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year +1.44% +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 4,945 3,411 4,397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.97% 13.36% 11.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,388 2,179 3,076
10th Percentile £340 £331 £363
25th Percentile £409 £410 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £530
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -3.77% -7.83%
75th Percentile £588 £636 £638
90th Percentile £696 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 60 204
10th Percentile £39.00 £27.38 £37.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.34 £47.73
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 £75.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £80.00 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +5 864 £520 +4.00% 165
North of England +14 351 £450 -5.26% 126
Midlands +10 283 £425 -13.27% 106
West Midlands +3 217 £450 -5.66% 71
South East -9 192 £480 -4.00% 192
Yorkshire -7 189 £480 -5.88% 62
South West +13 165 £575 +1.77% 99
North West +18 149 £431 -4.22% 54
East Midlands +5 64 £358 -26.94% 33
East of England -11 61 £425 - 69
North East -9 13 £375 -16.67% 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
1 931 (47.62%) Confluence
2 116 (5.93%) SharePoint
3 42 (2.15%) SAS
4 32 (1.64%) nginx
5 24 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
6 21 (1.07%) CMS
7 12 (0.61%) Apache
8 10 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.41%) WebLogic
10 7 (0.36%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.31%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.31%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.31%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.26%) Mattermost
13 4 (0.20%) IIS
13 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.15%) Drupal
14 3 (0.15%) SugarCRM
14 3 (0.15%) Traefik
Applications
1 208 (10.64%) Microsoft Project
2 176 (9.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 104 (5.32%) Microsoft Office
4 103 (5.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 77 (3.94%) MS Visio
6 23 (1.18%) Trello
7 7 (0.36%) 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 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.15%) InVision
11 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.10%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.10%) CATIA
11 2 (0.10%) InDesign
12 1 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 19 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.87%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
3 11 (0.56%) Workday HCM
4 10 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.51%) Fidessa
4 10 (0.51%) Loan IQ
5 8 (0.41%) Maximo
5 8 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 7 (0.36%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.26%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.20%) Endur
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 4 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.20%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 389 (19.90%) Azure
2 301 (15.40%) AWS
3 209 (10.69%) Azure DevOps
4 176 (9.00%) GitHub
5 134 (6.85%) Power Platform
6 84 (4.30%) GCP
7 76 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
8 59 (3.02%) SaaS
9 54 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
10 48 (2.46%) Entra ID
11 43 (2.20%) Serverless
12 33 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
13 32 (1.64%) Amazon S3
14 30 (1.53%) Figma
14 30 (1.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 29 (1.48%) Amazon EKS
15 29 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
16 27 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
16 27 (1.38%) Slack
17 24 (1.23%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 47 (2.40%) Firewall
2 34 (1.74%) DNS
3 33 (1.69%) TCP/IP
4 29 (1.48%) VPN
5 21 (1.07%) WAN
6 19 (0.97%) LAN
7 17 (0.87%) HTTP
8 15 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (0.72%) Network Security
10 12 (0.61%) SSH
11 10 (0.51%) SD-WAN
12 9 (0.46%) DHCP
12 9 (0.46%) Ethernet
12 9 (0.46%) FTP
13 8 (0.41%) SSL
13 8 (0.41%) Unified Communications
14 7 (0.36%) BIG-IP
14 7 (0.36%) Modbus
14 7 (0.36%) OpenVPN
14 7 (0.36%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (5.73%) Power BI
2 80 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (3.02%) Tableau
4 53 (2.71%) SQL Server
5 51 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
6 38 (1.94%) MongoDB
7 37 (1.89%) NoSQL
8 29 (1.48%) Pentaho
9 23 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
9 23 (1.18%) Oracle Reports
10 21 (1.07%) Oracle Database
11 20 (1.02%) MySQL
11 20 (1.02%) Relational Database
12 19 (0.97%) Metadata
13 17 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
14 16 (0.82%) Big Data
15 13 (0.66%) Data Vault
16 11 (0.56%) DynamoDB
16 11 (0.56%) Hadoop
16 11 (0.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 242 (12.38%) Git
2 231 (11.82%) Jenkins
3 118 (6.04%) GitLab
4 86 (4.40%) Selenium
5 78 (3.99%) Postman
6 65 (3.32%) Cucumber
7 61 (3.12%) Bitbucket
8 49 (2.51%) JUnit
9 42 (2.15%) Zephyr
10 37 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
11 34 (1.74%) JMeter
11 34 (1.74%) REST Assured
12 32 (1.64%) TestRail
13 31 (1.59%) SonarQube
14 20 (1.02%) Maven
15 17 (0.87%) Cypress.io
15 17 (0.87%) SpecFlow
16 15 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 15 (0.77%) Rational DOORS
16 15 (0.77%) WebDriver
General
1 808 (41.33%) Social Skills
2 546 (27.93%) Finance
3 373 (19.08%) Analytical Skills
4 237 (12.12%) Banking
5 202 (10.33%) Public Sector
6 77 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
7 72 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
8 66 (3.38%) Retail
9 54 (2.76%) Military
10 48 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
11 46 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
12 32 (1.64%) Legal
13 30 (1.53%) Investment Banking
14 29 (1.48%) Manufacturing
15 23 (1.18%) Front Office
15 23 (1.18%) Telecoms
16 21 (1.07%) Marketing
17 20 (1.02%) Retail Banking
18 16 (0.82%) Law
19 15 (0.77%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 399 (20.41%) Analyst
2 253 (12.94%) Business Analyst
3 183 (9.36%) Developer
4 152 (7.77%) Lead
5 147 (7.52%) Project Manager
6 133 (6.80%) Senior
7 126 (6.45%) Architect
8 96 (4.91%) Tester
9 57 (2.92%) Consultant
9 57 (2.92%) Delivery Manager
10 52 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
11 51 (2.61%) Data Engineer
11 51 (2.61%) Test Analyst
11 51 (2.61%) Test Engineer
12 46 (2.35%) Technical Analyst
13 45 (2.30%) Scrum Master
13 45 (2.30%) Software Engineer
14 44 (2.25%) Technical Business Analyst
15 41 (2.10%) Technical Manager
16 39 (1.99%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (7.31%) REST
2 61 (3.12%) .NET
3 60 (3.07%) Spring
4 49 (2.51%) XML
5 48 (2.46%) Kafka
6 47 (2.40%) JSON
7 45 (2.30%) HTML
7 45 (2.30%) RESTful
7 45 (2.30%) SOAP
8 43 (2.20%) Playwright
8 43 (2.20%) React
9 40 (2.05%) CSS
9 40 (2.05%) Spring Boot
10 33 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
11 27 (1.38%) Node.js
11 27 (1.38%) OpenID
12 25 (1.28%) FastAPI
12 25 (1.28%) LDAP
13 24 (1.23%) ADO
13 24 (1.23%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 222 (11.36%) Product Ownership
2 81 (4.14%) Onboarding
3 73 (3.73%) Cloud Native
4 49 (2.51%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
6 40 (2.05%) Virtual Team
7 35 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
10 28 (1.43%) Data Structures
11 26 (1.33%) PMI
12 25 (1.28%) Mobile App
13 23 (1.18%) Public Cloud
14 22 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
15 21 (1.07%) Data Centre
16 20 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
17 19 (0.97%) CMDB
18 15 (0.77%) Security Posture
18 15 (0.77%) Tandem
19 14 (0.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 148 (7.57%) Windows
2 131 (6.70%) Linux
3 35 (1.79%) Unix
4 21 (1.07%) Android
4 21 (1.07%) Windows 10
5 13 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.36%) FreeRTOS
10 6 (0.31%) VMS
11 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.051%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.051%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.051%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.051%) Windows Embedded Compact
13 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.051%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,158 (59.23%) Agile
2 538 (27.52%) DevOps
3 492 (25.17%) Stakeholder Management
4 457 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
5 419 (21.43%) Scrum
6 402 (20.56%) CI/CD
7 339 (17.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 312 (15.96%) Test Automation
9 292 (14.94%) Project Management
10 247 (12.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 206 (10.54%) Migration
12 201 (10.28%) User Stories
13 190 (9.72%) User Acceptance Testing
14 188 (9.62%) Project Delivery
15 183 (9.36%) Change Management
16 167 (8.54%) Decision-Making
17 166 (8.49%) Roadmaps
18 165 (8.44%) Analytics
19 164 (8.39%) Acceptance Criteria
20 161 (8.24%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 303 (15.50%) SQL
2 260 (13.30%) Python
3 184 (9.41%) Java
4 101 (5.17%) JavaScript
5 86 (4.40%) C#
6 81 (4.14%) PowerShell
7 53 (2.71%) TypeScript
8 42 (2.15%) Bash
9 34 (1.74%) C++
10 24 (1.23%) Go
10 24 (1.23%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.02%) Embedded C++
12 18 (0.92%) PL/SQL
13 14 (0.72%) C
14 13 (0.66%) PHP
15 11 (0.56%) Perl
15 11 (0.56%) Ruby
16 10 (0.51%) Apex Code
16 10 (0.51%) Embedded C
17 8 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 528 (27.01%) Security Cleared
2 427 (21.84%) SC Cleared
3 259 (13.25%) Degree
4 88 (4.50%) PMI Certification
5 79 (4.04%) PMP
6 66 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 64 (3.27%) ISTQB
8 51 (2.61%) DV Cleared
9 50 (2.56%) CISSP
10 49 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
11 44 (2.25%) TOGAF Certification
12 41 (2.10%) CISM
13 35 (1.79%) Master's Degree
14 28 (1.43%) AWS Certification
15 23 (1.18%) ISEB
16 22 (1.13%) CBAP
17 18 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
17 18 (0.92%) IIBA
17 18 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 17 (0.87%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 238 (12.17%) QA
2 115 (5.88%) PMO
3 88 (4.50%) Data Quality
4 49 (2.51%) Accessibility
5 43 (2.20%) GDPR
6 32 (1.64%) NIST
7 26 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 21 (1.07%) SLA
8 21 (1.07%) WCAG
9 15 (0.77%) PSD2
10 13 (0.66%) ISO 20022
11 12 (0.61%) GRC
12 11 (0.56%) Basel III
12 11 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (0.56%) SEPA
13 10 (0.51%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (0.41%) NIST 800
15 7 (0.36%) NCSC
16 6 (0.31%) HIPAA
System Software
1 195 (9.97%) Docker
2 72 (3.68%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (0.46%) Firmware
5 9 (0.46%) Squid
6 8 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.26%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.15%) HDFS
10 3 (0.15%) Postfix
11 2 (0.10%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.051%) Dovecot
12 1 (0.051%) etcd
12 1 (0.051%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 1 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.051%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 197 (10.08%) Kubernetes
2 90 (4.60%) Terraform
3 88 (4.50%) Ansible
4 70 (3.58%) Grafana
5 52 (2.66%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.53%) OPNET
7 29 (1.48%) Control-M
8 24 (1.23%) Nessus
8 24 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
9 23 (1.18%) HP ALM
9 23 (1.18%) IBM Guardium
9 23 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
10 21 (1.07%) Consul
11 18 (0.92%) Puppet
12 16 (0.82%) Packer
13 13 (0.66%) SCCM
14 12 (0.61%) NetBackup
15 10 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
16 7 (0.36%) Argo
16 7 (0.36%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 234 (11.97%) Microsoft
2 212 (10.84%) ServiceNow
3 171 (8.75%) Oracle
4 140 (7.16%) Atlassian
5 103 (5.27%) Salesforce
6 65 (3.32%) SAP
7 50 (2.56%) Remedy
8 44 (2.25%) Google
9 38 (1.94%) IBM
10 35 (1.79%) Talend
11 30 (1.53%) Red Hat
12 29 (1.48%) Workday
13 28 (1.43%) Denodo
13 28 (1.43%) Tenable
14 27 (1.38%) Databricks
14 27 (1.38%) Splunk
15 24 (1.23%) HP
16 23 (1.18%) BiZZdesign
17 20 (1.02%) Adobe
17 20 (1.02%) VMware