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 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 37 51
Rank change year-on-year -1 +14 -3
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,028 1,267 1,358
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.92% 5.23% 3.73%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.72% 37.99% 31.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,413 825 906
10th Percentile £318 £325 £341
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £630
90th Percentile £675 £689 £735
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 25 75
10th Percentile £18.75 £46.20 £23.20
25th Percentile £20.69 £50.00 £38.77
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -10.02%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.45 £76.50 -
UK median hourly rate £54.00 £56.38 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.21% +2.50% -14.98%

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 4,980 3,335 4,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.08% 13.77% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,285 2,248 2,904
10th Percentile £346 £343 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £609 £638
90th Percentile £688 £728 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 62 194
10th Percentile £36.13 £27.54 £32.10
25th Percentile £57.94 £48.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £59.13 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.16% -9.04% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.06 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.88 £78.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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 +1 892 £511 +2.10% 169
North of England +2 398 £450 - 64
Midlands +1 314 £450 -8.16% 48
West Midlands -5 250 £457 -7.22% 36
Yorkshire -3 213 £464 -7.25% 25
South East -22 196 £469 -4.04% 109
North West +1 168 £447 +5.18% 31
South West +3 138 £550 -2.31% 43
East Midlands +3 61 £393 -18.55% 12
East of England -3 57 £525 +15.07% 35
North East -14 21 £475 -11.63% 9
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
1 907 (44.72%) Confluence
2 109 (5.37%) SharePoint
3 33 (1.63%) SAS
4 29 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (0.79%) Apache
6 13 (0.64%) CMS
7 12 (0.59%) nginx
8 9 (0.44%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.30%) Ethereum
9 6 (0.30%) Hyperledger
9 6 (0.30%) Mattermost
10 5 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.25%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.25%) IIS
10 5 (0.25%) JBoss
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.20%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.15%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 200 (9.86%) Microsoft Project
2 172 (8.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 88 (4.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 88 (4.34%) MS Visio
4 80 (3.94%) Microsoft Office
5 19 (0.94%) Trello
6 8 (0.39%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.30%) Notion
9 3 (0.15%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.15%) Revit
10 2 (0.099%) CATIA
10 2 (0.099%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.049%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.049%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.049%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.049%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.049%) InVision
11 1 (0.049%) Mingle
11 1 (0.049%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 27 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
1 27 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.64%) Loan IQ
4 10 (0.49%) NetSuite
5 9 (0.44%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.39%) SAP MDG
6 8 (0.39%) Workday HCM
7 7 (0.35%) Fidessa
8 6 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.25%) Findur
9 5 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.25%) SAP EWM
9 5 (0.25%) SAP Retail
9 5 (0.25%) Teamcenter
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.20%) SAP FI-AR
11 3 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 432 (21.30%) Azure
2 318 (15.68%) AWS
3 238 (11.74%) Azure DevOps
4 149 (7.35%) Power Platform
5 145 (7.15%) GitHub
6 85 (4.19%) GCP
7 79 (3.90%) SaaS
8 78 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
9 77 (3.80%) Entra ID
10 60 (2.96%) Amazon S3
11 55 (2.71%) Serverless
12 49 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
13 44 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
14 41 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 41 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
15 36 (1.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 32 (1.58%) Figma
16 32 (1.58%) Slack
17 30 (1.48%) Amazon EKS
18 25 (1.23%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 71 (3.50%) Firewall
2 49 (2.42%) DNS
3 40 (1.97%) TCP/IP
4 31 (1.53%) Network Security
5 29 (1.43%) LAN
6 28 (1.38%) WAN
7 26 (1.28%) VPN
8 20 (0.99%) SSL
9 19 (0.94%) DHCP
9 19 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (0.74%) SAN
11 14 (0.69%) BIG-IP
11 14 (0.69%) HTTP
12 13 (0.64%) SD-WAN
13 12 (0.59%) Internet
14 10 (0.49%) Ethernet
14 10 (0.49%) Unified Communications
15 8 (0.39%) FTP
15 8 (0.39%) NAS
16 7 (0.35%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (6.56%) Power BI
2 81 (3.99%) Data Warehouse
3 67 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
4 55 (2.71%) SQL Server
5 52 (2.56%) Tableau
6 39 (1.92%) MongoDB
7 37 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
8 29 (1.43%) NoSQL
9 27 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (1.18%) DynamoDB
11 22 (1.08%) Relational Database
12 18 (0.89%) Pentaho
13 16 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
13 16 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (0.74%) Big Data
14 15 (0.74%) MySQL
15 14 (0.69%) BusinessObjects
16 13 (0.64%) Data Lake
16 13 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
16 13 (0.64%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 230 (11.34%) Git
2 179 (8.83%) Jenkins
3 104 (5.13%) GitLab
4 96 (4.73%) Selenium
5 70 (3.45%) Postman
6 60 (2.96%) Zephyr
7 55 (2.71%) Cucumber
8 52 (2.56%) Bitbucket
9 51 (2.51%) JUnit
10 37 (1.82%) JMeter
11 33 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
12 29 (1.43%) REST Assured
13 25 (1.23%) TestRail
14 22 (1.08%) SonarQube
15 21 (1.04%) WebDriver
16 20 (0.99%) Cypress.io
17 16 (0.79%) Appium
18 14 (0.69%) Artifactory
19 12 (0.59%) Maven
20 11 (0.54%) TestNG
General
1 809 (39.89%) Social Skills
2 592 (29.19%) Finance
3 396 (19.53%) Analytical Skills
4 256 (12.62%) Banking
5 215 (10.60%) Public Sector
6 74 (3.65%) Retail
7 71 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
8 69 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
9 46 (2.27%) Military
10 41 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
11 40 (1.97%) Manufacturing
12 38 (1.87%) Legal
13 37 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
14 34 (1.68%) Investment Banking
15 29 (1.43%) Retail Banking
16 27 (1.33%) Front Office
17 20 (0.99%) Corporate Banking
17 20 (0.99%) Financial Institution
18 19 (0.94%) Telecoms
19 18 (0.89%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 397 (19.58%) Analyst
2 249 (12.28%) Business Analyst
3 179 (8.83%) Developer
4 177 (8.73%) Lead
5 164 (8.09%) Senior
6 131 (6.46%) Project Manager
7 100 (4.93%) Architect
8 89 (4.39%) Delivery Manager
9 83 (4.09%) Tester
10 67 (3.30%) Data Engineer
11 66 (3.25%) Scrum Master
12 63 (3.11%) Consultant
13 52 (2.56%) IT Support
14 49 (2.42%) Support Engineer
15 46 (2.27%) Test Analyst
15 46 (2.27%) Test Engineer
16 45 (2.22%) Test Leader
17 43 (2.12%) Technical Manager
18 41 (2.02%) Java Developer
18 41 (2.02%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (5.23%) REST
2 61 (3.01%) Spring
3 56 (2.76%) .NET
3 56 (2.76%) React
4 48 (2.37%) Kafka
5 47 (2.32%) HTML
6 43 (2.12%) JSON
7 41 (2.02%) RESTful
7 41 (2.02%) Spring Boot
8 33 (1.63%) CSS
8 33 (1.63%) SOAP
9 30 (1.48%) Node.js
10 29 (1.43%) AngularJS
10 29 (1.43%) OpenID
10 29 (1.43%) XML
11 28 (1.38%) Middleware
11 28 (1.38%) Playwright
12 27 (1.33%) ADO
12 27 (1.33%) LDAP
13 26 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 249 (12.28%) Product Ownership
2 97 (4.78%) Onboarding
3 79 (3.90%) Cloud Native
4 50 (2.47%) Management Information System
5 45 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
6 43 (2.12%) Data Centre
7 41 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
7 41 (2.02%) Virtual Team
8 39 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
9 35 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
10 31 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
11 27 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
12 25 (1.23%) Data Structures
13 20 (0.99%) PMI
14 18 (0.89%) Mobile App
14 18 (0.89%) SCADA
15 16 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 16 (0.79%) Public Cloud
16 14 (0.69%) Operational Technology
17 13 (0.64%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 160 (7.89%) Windows
2 118 (5.82%) Linux
3 36 (1.78%) Unix
4 19 (0.94%) Windows 10
5 17 (0.84%) Android
5 17 (0.84%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.79%) Mac OS
7 12 (0.59%) Windows Server
8 11 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.35%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.15%) AIX
12 2 (0.099%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.099%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.049%) MVS
13 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.049%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,163 (57.35%) Agile
2 513 (25.30%) DevOps
3 506 (24.95%) Stakeholder Management
4 443 (21.84%) Problem-Solving
5 405 (19.97%) Scrum
6 392 (19.33%) CI/CD
7 365 (18.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 320 (15.78%) Test Automation
9 276 (13.61%) Project Management
10 255 (12.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 248 (12.23%) Migration
12 223 (11.00%) User Acceptance Testing
13 213 (10.50%) User Stories
14 204 (10.06%) Change Management
15 191 (9.42%) Validation
16 188 (9.27%) Project Delivery
17 178 (8.78%) Sprint Planning
18 176 (8.68%) Acceptance Criteria
19 173 (8.53%) Roadmaps
20 170 (8.38%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 307 (15.14%) SQL
2 212 (10.45%) Python
3 185 (9.12%) Java
4 85 (4.19%) JavaScript
5 77 (3.80%) C#
6 59 (2.91%) TypeScript
7 55 (2.71%) PowerShell
8 38 (1.87%) Bash
9 26 (1.28%) C++
10 23 (1.13%) PL/SQL
11 22 (1.08%) Shell Script
12 14 (0.69%) Apex Code
12 14 (0.69%) C
12 14 (0.69%) Perl
13 13 (0.64%) VBA
14 12 (0.59%) Embedded C++
15 11 (0.54%) Groovy
16 9 (0.44%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.39%) Embedded C
17 8 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 534 (26.33%) Security Cleared
2 413 (20.36%) SC Cleared
3 218 (10.75%) Degree
4 71 (3.50%) PMI Certification
5 70 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 65 (3.21%) PMP
7 61 (3.01%) DV Cleared
8 60 (2.96%) ISTQB
9 33 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
10 28 (1.38%) CISSP
11 26 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
12 25 (1.23%) Master's Degree
13 21 (1.04%) Azure Certification
13 21 (1.04%) SAFe Agilist
13 21 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
14 20 (0.99%) CISM
15 19 (0.94%) CBAP
15 19 (0.94%) IIBA
16 18 (0.89%) AWS Certification
17 13 (0.64%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 243 (11.98%) QA
2 118 (5.82%) PMO
3 108 (5.33%) Data Quality
4 52 (2.56%) Accessibility
5 46 (2.27%) GDPR
6 33 (1.63%) SLA
7 26 (1.28%) NIST
8 18 (0.89%) WCAG
9 17 (0.84%) GRC
10 16 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 13 (0.64%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.49%) Basel III
12 10 (0.49%) PSD2
13 9 (0.44%) NCSC
14 8 (0.39%) ISO 20022
14 8 (0.39%) MiFID
15 7 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.30%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.30%) JSP 440
System Software
1 147 (7.25%) Docker
2 105 (5.18%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.79%) Firmware
5 10 (0.49%) Squid
6 9 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
9 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 3 (0.15%) HDFS
10 3 (0.15%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.099%) Postfix
12 1 (0.049%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.049%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 1 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.049%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 159 (7.84%) Kubernetes
2 121 (5.97%) Terraform
3 86 (4.24%) Ansible
4 65 (3.21%) Grafana
5 51 (2.51%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.73%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (1.18%) HP ALM
7 24 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
8 23 (1.13%) Control-M
9 18 (0.89%) OPNET
10 17 (0.84%) Nessus
10 17 (0.84%) Puppet
11 16 (0.79%) IBM Guardium
12 12 (0.59%) Consul
12 12 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
13 10 (0.49%) HP Quality Center
14 9 (0.44%) SCCM
15 8 (0.39%) FortiGate
16 7 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 7 (0.35%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 251 (12.38%) ServiceNow
2 245 (12.08%) Microsoft
3 165 (8.14%) Oracle
4 109 (5.37%) Atlassian
5 95 (4.68%) Salesforce
6 76 (3.75%) SAP
7 51 (2.51%) Remedy
8 49 (2.42%) Google
9 35 (1.73%) Workday
10 30 (1.48%) Denodo
11 29 (1.43%) Splunk
11 29 (1.43%) Talend
12 27 (1.33%) IBM
12 27 (1.33%) Red Hat
13 26 (1.28%) Databricks
13 26 (1.28%) HP
13 26 (1.28%) Informatica
13 26 (1.28%) VMware
14 23 (1.13%) MuleSoft
15 22 (1.08%) F5