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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 43 51
Rank change year-on-year +9 +8 -11
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,825 1,204 1,430
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.55% 4.53% 3.84%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.37% 33.59% 32.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,335 738 1,017
10th Percentile £313 £308 £350
25th Percentile £400 £399 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £627
90th Percentile £700 £675 £734
UK median daily rate £500 £486 £525
% change year-on-year +2.83% -7.38% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 24 40
10th Percentile £15.66 £45.60 £36.79
25th Percentile £39.00 £54.68 £47.70
Median hourly rate £63.40 £62.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% +6.38% -9.62%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.27 £70.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £70.50 £75.15
UK median hourly rate £64.20 £62.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +2.72% +8.70% -11.54%

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 4,756 3,584 4,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.47% 13.47% 11.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,297 2,215 3,108
10th Percentile £340 £339 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 64 201
10th Percentile £39.53 £45.35 £45.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.68 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +1.96%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £81.60 £75.95 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 29 January 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 +8 826 £525 +5.00% 135
North of England +7 338 £452 -0.66% 113
Midlands +10 230 £450 -8.16% 133
South East -5 196 £475 +5.56% 201
Yorkshire -5 174 £500 +2.56% 55
West Midlands +12 170 £485 +1.68% 83
South West +18 147 £575 +5.50% 81
North West +11 145 £431 -4.22% 48
East Midlands +8 59 £358 -28.40% 49
East of England -8 50 £463 +13.01% 74
North East -4 19 £475 +5.09% 11
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
1 862 (47.23%) Confluence
2 106 (5.81%) SharePoint
3 44 (2.41%) SAS
4 40 (2.19%) nginx
5 23 (1.26%) CMS
6 19 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.66%) Apache
8 10 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.38%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.33%) Ethereum
10 6 (0.33%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.16%) Drupal
12 3 (0.16%) IIS
12 3 (0.16%) Mule
12 3 (0.16%) SugarCRM
12 3 (0.16%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 187 (10.25%) Microsoft Project
2 160 (8.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 114 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
4 96 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 70 (3.84%) MS Visio
6 26 (1.42%) Trello
7 8 (0.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 5 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.27%) Notion
8 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.27%) Sketch
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.22%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.16%) InVision
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.11%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.11%) InDesign
12 1 (0.055%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 17 (0.93%) NetSuite
2 16 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.44%) Fidessa
5 8 (0.44%) Loan IQ
5 8 (0.44%) Maximo
5 8 (0.44%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.38%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.22%) Endur
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 4 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.22%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.22%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 359 (19.67%) Azure
2 277 (15.18%) AWS
3 193 (10.58%) Azure DevOps
4 168 (9.21%) GitHub
5 127 (6.96%) Power Platform
6 81 (4.44%) GCP
7 69 (3.78%) Microsoft 365
8 51 (2.79%) SaaS
9 50 (2.74%) Serverless
10 45 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
11 35 (1.92%) Amazon S3
12 34 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
12 34 (1.86%) Figma
13 33 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
13 33 (1.81%) Entra ID
13 33 (1.81%) Slack
14 30 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 29 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (1.59%) Power Automate
16 28 (1.53%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 53 (2.90%) Firewall
2 38 (2.08%) DNS
3 29 (1.59%) SSH
3 29 (1.59%) TCP/IP
4 27 (1.48%) HTTP
5 25 (1.37%) VPN
6 17 (0.93%) WAN
7 16 (0.88%) FTP
8 13 (0.71%) SMTP
9 12 (0.66%) LAN
10 10 (0.55%) SSL
11 9 (0.49%) Network Security
11 9 (0.49%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.44%) Ethernet
12 8 (0.44%) IMAP
12 8 (0.44%) OpenLDAP
13 7 (0.38%) Modbus
13 7 (0.38%) RS-232
13 7 (0.38%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (6.14%) Power BI
2 68 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
3 64 (3.51%) Tableau
4 46 (2.52%) SQL Server
5 39 (2.14%) NoSQL
6 34 (1.86%) Pentaho
7 29 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
8 28 (1.53%) MongoDB
9 26 (1.42%) Relational Database
10 24 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
11 19 (1.04%) Metadata
12 18 (0.99%) Big Data
12 18 (0.99%) Oracle Database
13 17 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
13 17 (0.93%) MySQL
14 16 (0.88%) Data Vault
15 11 (0.60%) BigQuery
15 11 (0.60%) Star Schema
16 10 (0.55%) Hadoop
17 9 (0.49%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 227 (12.44%) Jenkins
2 224 (12.27%) Git
3 115 (6.30%) GitLab
4 74 (4.05%) Selenium
5 67 (3.67%) Postman
6 60 (3.29%) Bitbucket
7 50 (2.74%) Cucumber
8 37 (2.03%) Sonatype Nexus
9 34 (1.86%) TestRail
10 33 (1.81%) REST Assured
10 33 (1.81%) SonarQube
11 27 (1.48%) Zephyr
12 26 (1.42%) JUnit
13 19 (1.04%) Maven
14 18 (0.99%) SpecFlow
15 17 (0.93%) JMeter
16 13 (0.71%) Cypress.io
16 13 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
16 13 (0.71%) SoapUI
17 12 (0.66%) Vagrant
General
1 760 (41.64%) Social Skills
2 517 (28.33%) Finance
3 343 (18.79%) Analytical Skills
4 242 (13.26%) Banking
5 197 (10.79%) Public Sector
6 65 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
6 65 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
6 65 (3.56%) Retail
7 54 (2.96%) Military
8 44 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
9 42 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
10 34 (1.86%) Investment Banking
11 31 (1.70%) Legal
12 25 (1.37%) Marketing
13 24 (1.32%) Front Office
13 24 (1.32%) Telecoms
14 20 (1.10%) Manufacturing
14 20 (1.10%) Retail Banking
15 14 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 13 (0.71%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 363 (19.89%) Analyst
2 239 (13.10%) Business Analyst
3 182 (9.97%) Developer
4 144 (7.89%) Project Manager
5 143 (7.84%) Lead
6 127 (6.96%) Senior
7 122 (6.68%) Architect
8 75 (4.11%) Tester
9 59 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
10 53 (2.90%) Consultant
11 47 (2.58%) Delivery Manager
11 47 (2.58%) Technical Analyst
12 44 (2.41%) Scrum Master
12 44 (2.41%) Technical Business Analyst
12 44 (2.41%) Test Engineer
13 42 (2.30%) DevOps Engineer
14 41 (2.25%) Data Engineer
15 40 (2.19%) Software Engineer
15 40 (2.19%) Test Analyst
16 36 (1.97%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (8.71%) REST
2 64 (3.51%) .NET
3 59 (3.23%) SOAP
4 56 (3.07%) RESTful
5 50 (2.74%) HTML
5 50 (2.74%) XML
6 48 (2.63%) Kafka
7 47 (2.58%) React
8 45 (2.47%) Spring
9 40 (2.19%) JSON
10 39 (2.14%) CSS
10 39 (2.14%) Playwright
11 36 (1.97%) Spring Boot
12 35 (1.92%) Oracle Fusion
13 33 (1.81%) AngularJS
14 32 (1.75%) LDAP
15 30 (1.64%) Node.js
16 26 (1.42%) OAuth
17 25 (1.37%) OpenID
18 20 (1.10%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 236 (12.93%) Product Ownership
2 83 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 69 (3.78%) Cloud Native
4 47 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
5 43 (2.36%) Management Information System
6 35 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (1.86%) PMI
8 29 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
9 27 (1.48%) Data Structures
10 26 (1.42%) CMDB
10 26 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
11 25 (1.37%) Virtual Team
12 23 (1.26%) Mobile App
13 22 (1.21%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 21 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
15 17 (0.93%) Replication
16 16 (0.88%) Tandem
17 15 (0.82%) Public Cloud
18 14 (0.77%) Reinsurance
19 13 (0.71%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 143 (7.84%) Windows
2 119 (6.52%) Linux
3 37 (2.03%) Unix
4 19 (1.04%) Android
5 16 (0.88%) VMS
6 15 (0.82%) Windows 10
7 13 (0.71%) Windows Server
8 12 (0.66%) Amazon Linux
9 11 (0.60%) Apple iOS
10 8 (0.44%) Mac OS
10 8 (0.44%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.38%) FreeRTOS
12 6 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.11%) Solaris
14 2 (0.11%) zOS
15 1 (0.055%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.055%) MVS
15 1 (0.055%) Windows Embedded Compact
15 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,123 (61.53%) Agile
2 537 (29.42%) DevOps
3 465 (25.48%) Stakeholder Management
4 438 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
5 427 (23.40%) Scrum
6 369 (20.22%) CI/CD
7 291 (15.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 291 (15.95%) Project Management
8 281 (15.40%) Test Automation
9 250 (13.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 211 (11.56%) User Stories
11 190 (10.41%) User Acceptance Testing
12 185 (10.14%) Project Delivery
13 181 (9.92%) Analytics
13 181 (9.92%) Migration
14 171 (9.37%) Change Management
15 165 (9.04%) Acceptance Criteria
16 159 (8.71%) Business Intelligence
17 154 (8.44%) Roadmaps
18 151 (8.27%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 305 (16.71%) SQL
2 246 (13.48%) Python
3 166 (9.10%) Java
4 111 (6.08%) JavaScript
5 82 (4.49%) PowerShell
6 66 (3.62%) C#
7 54 (2.96%) TypeScript
8 41 (2.25%) Bash
9 30 (1.64%) C++
10 28 (1.53%) Go
11 20 (1.10%) Embedded C++
12 18 (0.99%) Groovy
13 16 (0.88%) PL/SQL
14 15 (0.82%) Shell Script
15 14 (0.77%) Apex Code
15 14 (0.77%) PHP
16 12 (0.66%) C
16 12 (0.66%) Perl
17 11 (0.60%) Ruby
18 10 (0.55%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 464 (25.42%) Security Cleared
2 387 (21.21%) SC Cleared
3 272 (14.90%) Degree
4 91 (4.99%) PMI Certification
5 75 (4.11%) PMP
6 58 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 55 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 55 (3.01%) ISTQB
8 44 (2.41%) CISSP
9 43 (2.36%) TOGAF Certification
10 39 (2.14%) DV Cleared
11 34 (1.86%) CISM
12 33 (1.81%) Master's Degree
13 29 (1.59%) AWS Certification
14 26 (1.42%) CBAP
15 21 (1.15%) ISEB
16 18 (0.99%) Azure Certification
17 17 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
18 16 (0.88%) IIBA
19 15 (0.82%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (12.33%) QA
2 102 (5.59%) PMO
3 84 (4.60%) Data Quality
4 55 (3.01%) Accessibility
5 46 (2.52%) GDPR
6 27 (1.48%) NIST
7 25 (1.37%) PSD2
8 24 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 22 (1.21%) ISO 20022
10 19 (1.04%) SEPA
10 19 (1.04%) WCAG
11 17 (0.93%) SLA
12 13 (0.71%) GRC
12 13 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.60%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.55%) Basel III
15 8 (0.44%) NCSC
15 8 (0.44%) NIST 800
16 7 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
17 6 (0.33%) P3O
System Software
1 198 (10.85%) Docker
2 55 (3.01%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.77%) Squid
6 12 (0.66%) DFS Replication
7 11 (0.60%) Firmware
8 8 (0.44%) Dovecot
8 8 (0.44%) Postfix
9 7 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
9 7 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.27%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.16%) Hyper-V
13 2 (0.11%) KVM
13 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.055%) etcd
14 1 (0.055%) vSphere
14 1 (0.055%) Xen
Systems Management
1 172 (9.42%) Kubernetes
2 100 (5.48%) Terraform
3 79 (4.33%) Ansible
4 55 (3.01%) Grafana
5 45 (2.47%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.64%) OPNET
7 25 (1.37%) Nessus
8 23 (1.26%) Control-M
9 21 (1.15%) HP ALM
10 20 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
11 19 (1.04%) Consul
12 17 (0.93%) IBM Guardium
13 16 (0.88%) Packer
14 15 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
15 14 (0.77%) NetBackup
16 13 (0.71%) Puppet
17 11 (0.60%) SCCM
18 8 (0.44%) Proxmox
19 7 (0.38%) Argo
20 6 (0.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 222 (12.16%) Microsoft
2 196 (10.74%) ServiceNow
3 167 (9.15%) Oracle
4 121 (6.63%) Atlassian
5 103 (5.64%) Salesforce
6 61 (3.34%) SAP
7 47 (2.58%) Google
8 43 (2.36%) Remedy
9 38 (2.08%) IBM
10 37 (2.03%) Talend
11 33 (1.81%) Denodo
12 27 (1.48%) Splunk
13 26 (1.42%) Red Hat
14 24 (1.32%) HP
15 22 (1.21%) BiZZdesign
15 22 (1.21%) Databricks
15 22 (1.21%) Tenable
15 22 (1.21%) Workday
16 20 (1.10%) VMware
17 18 (0.99%) Adobe