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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 33 41
Rank change year-on-year -15 +8 +9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,994 1,632 1,421
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.32% 5.88% 4.36%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.10% 39.10% 32.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,280 1,154 910
10th Percentile £350 £313 £321
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% -5.09%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £606
90th Percentile £675 £688 £685
UK median daily rate £500 £493 £500
% change year-on-year +1.52% -1.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 44 66
10th Percentile £19.25 £34.20 £28.62
25th Percentile £24.19 £50.00 £56.03
Median hourly rate £59.37 £57.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.15% -18.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 -
90th Percentile £79.68 £82.10 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -21.43% +12.00%

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 5,233 4,174 4,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.34% 15.05% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,310 2,895 2,769
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £631
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 96 164
10th Percentile £24.10 £38.13 £39.03
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.56 £54.68
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.38 £76.25 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 28 September 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 28 September 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 28 September 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 -13 939 £538 +2.38% 650
North of England -19 345 £493 +4.90% 210
Midlands -10 246 £462 -2.74% 113
West Midlands -10 213 £469 -1.26% 76
Yorkshire -5 208 £500 +3.09% 74
South East -35 196 £460 +0.55% 212
South West -2 142 £525 -4.55% 109
North West -50 116 £475 +8.26% 109
East of England +3 84 £472 +15.19% 107
East Midlands -16 32 £405 +13.13% 37
North East -33 28 £515 -0.96% 28
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
1 891 (44.68%) Confluence
2 102 (5.12%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.10%) CMS
4 22 (1.10%) SAS
5 10 (0.50%) Camunda
6 9 (0.45%) Apache
6 9 (0.45%) nginx
7 5 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.25%) CICS
7 5 (0.25%) IIS
7 5 (0.25%) Jupyter
7 5 (0.25%) MTS
8 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.20%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.20%) Traefik
8 4 (0.20%) WordPress
9 3 (0.15%) Kentico
9 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 138 (6.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 111 (5.57%) Microsoft Project
3 74 (3.71%) MS Visio
4 60 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 59 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
6 20 (1.00%) Trello
7 16 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.50%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.40%) Revit
10 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.25%) Notion
11 4 (0.20%) Windchill
12 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.10%) Gliffy
12 2 (0.10%) Mingle
12 2 (0.10%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.050%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.050%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.050%) Mozilla Thunderbird
13 1 (0.050%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 32 (1.60%) Remedy ITSM
2 20 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
3 12 (0.60%) Workday HCM
4 11 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.45%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 6 (0.30%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.25%) Fidessa
7 5 (0.25%) ResourceLink
7 5 (0.25%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.20%) Findur
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.20%) SAP FI-AR
8 4 (0.20%) SAP HCM
9 3 (0.15%) Maximo
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.15%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 476 (23.87%) Azure
2 314 (15.75%) AWS
3 264 (13.24%) Azure DevOps
4 167 (8.38%) Power Platform
5 159 (7.97%) GitHub
6 101 (5.07%) GCP
7 95 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
8 70 (3.51%) SaaS
9 57 (2.86%) Serverless
10 55 (2.76%) Amazon S3
11 54 (2.71%) Entra ID
12 49 (2.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 46 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
14 43 (2.16%) Miro
15 41 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
16 36 (1.81%) Amazon EC2
17 34 (1.71%) Microsoft Copilot
18 32 (1.60%) Smartsheet
19 29 (1.45%) Snowflake
20 25 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 76 (3.81%) Firewall
2 72 (3.61%) DNS
3 46 (2.31%) TCP/IP
4 35 (1.76%) DHCP
5 33 (1.65%) VPN
6 24 (1.20%) Network Security
7 22 (1.10%) WAN
8 21 (1.05%) BIG-IP
9 17 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (0.80%) IPv4
10 16 (0.80%) IPv6
11 15 (0.75%) Broadband
11 15 (0.75%) SAN
12 14 (0.70%) VLAN
13 13 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 13 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 13 (0.65%) SSL
14 12 (0.60%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.50%) LAN
15 10 (0.50%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (7.42%) Power BI
2 90 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
3 72 (3.61%) SQL Server
4 58 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (1.96%) Oracle Reports
6 38 (1.91%) Relational Database
7 27 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (1.10%) MongoDB
10 20 (1.00%) Data Lake
10 20 (1.00%) Oracle Database
11 19 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 18 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
12 18 (0.90%) Metadata
13 17 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
14 16 (0.80%) Tableau
15 15 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 13 (0.65%) BigQuery
16 13 (0.65%) DynamoDB
16 13 (0.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 247 (12.39%) Git
2 168 (8.43%) Jenkins
3 120 (6.02%) GitLab
4 76 (3.81%) Zephyr
5 71 (3.56%) Selenium
6 62 (3.11%) Bitbucket
7 61 (3.06%) Postman
8 35 (1.76%) JUnit
9 29 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
10 28 (1.40%) Cucumber
11 27 (1.35%) JMeter
12 26 (1.30%) Maven
13 25 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 25 (1.25%) REST Assured
14 24 (1.20%) Cypress.io
15 22 (1.10%) Mockito
16 21 (1.05%) SonarQube
17 20 (1.00%) Rational Rhapsody
17 20 (1.00%) TestRail
18 17 (0.85%) Artifactory
General
1 794 (39.82%) Social Skills
2 569 (28.54%) Finance
3 388 (19.46%) Analytical Skills
4 274 (13.74%) Banking
5 233 (11.69%) Public Sector
6 87 (4.36%) Organisational Skills
7 74 (3.71%) Retail
8 64 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
9 55 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
10 50 (2.51%) Investment Banking
11 46 (2.31%) Manufacturing
12 43 (2.16%) Telecoms
13 38 (1.91%) Front Office
13 38 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 38 (1.91%) Legal
14 35 (1.76%) Marketing
15 25 (1.25%) Retail Banking
16 21 (1.05%) Military
17 20 (1.00%) Financial Institution
17 20 (1.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 343 (17.20%) Analyst
2 220 (11.03%) Lead
3 205 (10.28%) Business Analyst
4 193 (9.68%) Developer
5 171 (8.58%) Senior
6 103 (5.17%) Project Manager
7 76 (3.81%) Delivery Manager
8 75 (3.76%) Consultant
8 75 (3.76%) Scrum Master
9 72 (3.61%) Architect
10 65 (3.26%) Tester
11 51 (2.56%) Administrator
12 50 (2.51%) Product Owner
13 48 (2.41%) Test Leader
14 47 (2.36%) Data Engineer
15 46 (2.31%) Test Analyst
16 45 (2.26%) Support Engineer
17 39 (1.96%) Product Manager
17 39 (1.96%) Test Engineer
18 38 (1.91%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (7.22%) REST
2 130 (6.52%) Terraform
3 73 (3.66%) .NET
4 60 (3.01%) HTML
5 56 (2.81%) RESTful
6 51 (2.56%) SOAP
7 49 (2.46%) React
8 48 (2.41%) AngularJS
8 48 (2.41%) JSON
9 43 (2.16%) CSS
10 42 (2.11%) Web Services
11 41 (2.06%) Kafka
12 39 (1.96%) Spring
13 38 (1.91%) Playwright
13 38 (1.91%) Spring Boot
14 34 (1.71%) XML
15 30 (1.50%) Middleware
16 27 (1.35%) Node.js
17 26 (1.30%) Hibernate
17 26 (1.30%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 268 (13.44%) Product Ownership
2 138 (6.92%) Onboarding
3 89 (4.46%) Cloud Native
4 69 (3.46%) Data Centre
5 63 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
6 57 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
7 52 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
8 44 (2.21%) Virtual Team
9 39 (1.96%) Data Structures
10 38 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
11 35 (1.76%) Management Information System
12 28 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
13 25 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
14 23 (1.15%) Credit Risk
15 20 (1.00%) Derivative
15 20 (1.00%) Mobile App
15 20 (1.00%) SCADA
16 19 (0.95%) Replication
17 17 (0.85%) AI Agents
17 17 (0.85%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 141 (7.07%) Windows
2 130 (6.52%) Linux
3 42 (2.11%) Unix
4 29 (1.45%) Windows 10
5 22 (1.10%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.90%) Android
7 17 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 16 (0.80%) Mac OS
9 15 (0.75%) Windows Server
10 9 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
10 9 (0.45%) VMS
11 8 (0.40%) CentOS
11 8 (0.40%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.25%) zOS
13 4 (0.20%) AIX
13 4 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
14 3 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
15 2 (0.10%) Solaris
15 2 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,178 (59.08%) Agile
2 655 (32.85%) Stakeholder Management
3 531 (26.63%) DevOps
4 437 (21.92%) Problem-Solving
5 429 (21.51%) Scrum
6 426 (21.36%) CI/CD
7 374 (18.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 338 (16.95%) Test Automation
9 304 (15.25%) Migration
10 258 (12.94%) User Acceptance Testing
11 241 (12.09%) User Stories
12 235 (11.79%) AI
13 234 (11.74%) Validation
14 220 (11.03%) Project Management
15 219 (10.98%) Sprint Planning
16 216 (10.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 203 (10.18%) Project Delivery
18 200 (10.03%) SDLC
19 193 (9.68%) Acceptance Criteria
20 176 (8.83%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 355 (17.80%) SQL
2 260 (13.04%) Python
3 127 (6.37%) Java
4 96 (4.81%) JavaScript
5 71 (3.56%) TypeScript
6 70 (3.51%) PowerShell
7 66 (3.31%) C#
8 41 (2.06%) Bash
9 35 (1.76%) PL/SQL
10 23 (1.15%) C++
11 19 (0.95%) Groovy
12 16 (0.80%) Kotlin
13 15 (0.75%) Bicep
13 15 (0.75%) C
14 13 (0.65%) ActionScript
15 12 (0.60%) Apex Code
15 12 (0.60%) Perl
15 12 (0.60%) VBA
16 9 (0.45%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 533 (26.73%) Security Cleared
2 408 (20.46%) SC Cleared
3 159 (7.97%) Degree
4 95 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 90 (4.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 66 (3.31%) ISTQB
7 58 (2.91%) PMI Certification
8 46 (2.31%) PMP
9 28 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (1.30%) AWS Certification
11 21 (1.05%) Azure Certification
11 21 (1.05%) Master's Degree
12 19 (0.95%) CISSP
13 17 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
14 16 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 15 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 13 (0.65%) CISM
17 12 (0.60%) SAFe Agilist
18 11 (0.55%) IIBA
18 11 (0.55%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 272 (13.64%) QA
2 127 (6.37%) Data Quality
3 119 (5.97%) PMO
4 62 (3.11%) Accessibility
5 38 (1.91%) SLA
6 24 (1.20%) WCAG
7 23 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (1.00%) GRC
8 20 (1.00%) NCSC
8 20 (1.00%) NIST
9 15 (0.75%) GDPR
10 14 (0.70%) ISO 20022
11 9 (0.45%) COBIT
11 9 (0.45%) SEPA
12 8 (0.40%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.30%) JSP 440
14 5 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
14 5 (0.25%) MiFID
14 5 (0.25%) P3O
14 5 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 126 (6.32%) Docker
2 101 (5.07%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (0.50%) Firmware
6 8 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.25%) vSphere
9 3 (0.15%) Squid
10 2 (0.10%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.10%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.10%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.10%) Postfix
10 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.050%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.050%) NFS
11 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.050%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.050%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 1 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 114 (5.72%) Kubernetes
2 72 (3.61%) Ansible
3 54 (2.71%) Grafana
4 43 (2.16%) Prometheus
5 30 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (1.20%) HP ALM
7 17 (0.85%) Control-M
8 11 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.45%) Istio
9 9 (0.45%) Packer
10 8 (0.40%) Nessus
11 7 (0.35%) Dell DRAC
11 7 (0.35%) SCCM
11 7 (0.35%) SCOM
12 6 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
13 5 (0.25%) Argo
13 5 (0.25%) HP Quality Center
13 5 (0.25%) IBM Guardium
13 5 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 302 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 222 (11.13%) ServiceNow
3 147 (7.37%) Oracle
4 96 (4.81%) SAP
5 83 (4.16%) Salesforce
6 69 (3.46%) Atlassian
7 63 (3.16%) Google
8 55 (2.76%) IBM
9 47 (2.36%) VMware
10 37 (1.86%) Splunk
11 35 (1.76%) Remedy
12 30 (1.50%) Denodo
13 25 (1.25%) Databricks
13 25 (1.25%) HP
14 24 (1.20%) F5
14 24 (1.20%) Talend
15 22 (1.10%) Adobe
15 22 (1.10%) Informatica
15 22 (1.10%) Workday
16 21 (1.05%) MuleSoft