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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 44 52
Rank change year-on-year +9 +8 -12
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,816 1,188 1,444
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.49% 4.56% 3.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.56% 33.78% 32.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,331 716 1,027
10th Percentile £313 £308 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% -6.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 25 42
10th Percentile £15.64 £45.80 £36.09
25th Percentile £39.00 £54.63 £45.88
Median hourly rate £64.20 £62.50 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.72% +11.11% -13.46%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.02 £69.39
90th Percentile £95.00 £70.25 £74.69
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +13.64% -15.38%

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 4,710 3,517 4,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.24% 13.49% 11.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,268 2,159 3,155
10th Percentile £340 £340 £369
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
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% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 61 205
10th Percentile £39.53 £45.00 £44.76
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.63 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £81.75 £76.25 £89.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 3 February 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 3 February 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 3 February 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 +4 817 £525 +5.00% 189
North of England +9 334 £450 -5.26% 102
Midlands +11 235 £450 -8.16% 112
South East -6 194 £475 - 177
Yorkshire -3 176 £492 -0.91% 52
West Midlands +11 172 £488 +2.20% 80
South West +20 148 £575 +7.48% 64
North West +7 141 £430 -4.44% 44
East Midlands +12 62 £358 -28.40% 32
East of England -16 50 £450 +9.96% 47
North East -4 17 £450 - 7
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
1 854 (47.03%) Confluence
2 108 (5.95%) SharePoint
3 44 (2.42%) SAS
4 35 (1.93%) nginx
5 23 (1.27%) CMS
6 21 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.66%) Apache
8 11 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.33%) Ethereum
10 6 (0.33%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.28%) WebSphere
12 4 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.17%) Drupal
13 3 (0.17%) IIS
13 3 (0.17%) Mule
13 3 (0.17%) SugarCRM
13 3 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 186 (10.24%) Microsoft Project
2 161 (8.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 112 (6.17%) Microsoft Office
4 96 (5.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 70 (3.85%) MS Visio
6 26 (1.43%) Trello
7 7 (0.39%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 5 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.28%) Notion
8 5 (0.28%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.28%) 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 (0.17%) 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 (0.94%) NetSuite
2 16 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.50%) Fidessa
4 9 (0.50%) Loan IQ
5 8 (0.44%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.44%) Maximo
5 8 (0.44%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.22%) Endur
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 4 (0.22%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.22%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 363 (19.99%) Azure
2 267 (14.70%) AWS
3 197 (10.85%) Azure DevOps
4 161 (8.87%) GitHub
5 125 (6.88%) Power Platform
6 79 (4.35%) GCP
7 73 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
8 54 (2.97%) SaaS
9 43 (2.37%) GitHub Actions
9 43 (2.37%) Serverless
10 35 (1.93%) Entra ID
10 35 (1.93%) Figma
11 32 (1.76%) Amazon EC2
12 31 (1.71%) Amazon S3
12 31 (1.71%) Slack
13 29 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
13 29 (1.60%) Power Automate
14 28 (1.54%) Miro
14 28 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 27 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.70%) Firewall
2 37 (2.04%) DNS
3 29 (1.60%) TCP/IP
4 26 (1.43%) VPN
5 25 (1.38%) HTTP
6 22 (1.21%) SSH
7 18 (0.99%) WAN
8 15 (0.83%) LAN
9 14 (0.77%) FTP
10 12 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (0.61%) SMTP
12 10 (0.55%) Network Security
13 9 (0.50%) SD-WAN
13 9 (0.50%) SSL
14 8 (0.44%) Ethernet
15 7 (0.39%) IMAP
15 7 (0.39%) OpenLDAP
15 7 (0.39%) RS-232
15 7 (0.39%) RS-485
15 7 (0.39%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (5.95%) Power BI
2 66 (3.63%) Tableau
3 63 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
4 48 (2.64%) SQL Server
5 37 (2.04%) NoSQL
6 34 (1.87%) Pentaho
7 32 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
8 28 (1.54%) MongoDB
9 22 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
9 22 (1.21%) Relational Database
10 20 (1.10%) Oracle Database
11 19 (1.05%) Metadata
12 18 (0.99%) Big Data
13 17 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
13 17 (0.94%) MySQL
14 16 (0.88%) Data Vault
15 11 (0.61%) Star Schema
16 10 (0.55%) BigQuery
16 10 (0.55%) Hadoop
17 9 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 224 (12.33%) Jenkins
2 220 (12.11%) Git
3 116 (6.39%) GitLab
4 78 (4.30%) Selenium
5 68 (3.74%) Postman
6 58 (3.19%) Bitbucket
7 52 (2.86%) Cucumber
8 36 (1.98%) Sonatype Nexus
9 34 (1.87%) REST Assured
9 34 (1.87%) SonarQube
9 34 (1.87%) TestRail
10 28 (1.54%) Zephyr
11 26 (1.43%) JUnit
12 19 (1.05%) Maven
12 19 (1.05%) SpecFlow
13 17 (0.94%) JMeter
14 13 (0.72%) Rational DOORS
14 13 (0.72%) SoapUI
15 12 (0.66%) Cypress.io
16 11 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 755 (41.57%) Social Skills
2 511 (28.14%) Finance
3 345 (19.00%) Analytical Skills
4 237 (13.05%) Banking
5 193 (10.63%) Public Sector
6 66 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
6 66 (3.63%) Retail
7 65 (3.58%) Organisational Skills
8 55 (3.03%) Military
9 43 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
10 41 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
11 33 (1.82%) Investment Banking
12 31 (1.71%) Legal
13 24 (1.32%) Front Office
13 24 (1.32%) Marketing
14 23 (1.27%) Telecoms
15 20 (1.10%) Retail Banking
16 18 (0.99%) Manufacturing
17 15 (0.83%) Law
18 14 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 363 (19.99%) Analyst
2 238 (13.11%) Business Analyst
3 178 (9.80%) Developer
4 146 (8.04%) Project Manager
5 142 (7.82%) Lead
6 124 (6.83%) Senior
7 120 (6.61%) Architect
8 77 (4.24%) Tester
9 56 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
10 51 (2.81%) Consultant
11 46 (2.53%) Delivery Manager
11 46 (2.53%) Technical Analyst
12 45 (2.48%) Test Engineer
13 43 (2.37%) Technical Business Analyst
13 43 (2.37%) Test Analyst
14 42 (2.31%) Scrum Master
15 41 (2.26%) Data Engineer
16 40 (2.20%) DevOps Engineer
17 39 (2.15%) Software Engineer
18 35 (1.93%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (8.65%) REST
2 65 (3.58%) .NET
3 57 (3.14%) SOAP
4 54 (2.97%) RESTful
5 48 (2.64%) XML
6 47 (2.59%) HTML
7 46 (2.53%) Kafka
7 46 (2.53%) Spring
8 44 (2.42%) React
9 40 (2.20%) CSS
10 39 (2.15%) JSON
11 38 (2.09%) Playwright
12 37 (2.04%) Spring Boot
13 34 (1.87%) Oracle Fusion
14 33 (1.82%) AngularJS
15 30 (1.65%) LDAP
16 28 (1.54%) Node.js
17 25 (1.38%) OpenID
18 21 (1.16%) OAuth
19 20 (1.10%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 230 (12.67%) Product Ownership
2 84 (4.63%) Onboarding
3 65 (3.58%) Cloud Native
4 44 (2.42%) Management Information System
5 41 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
6 36 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
7 32 (1.76%) PMI
8 29 (1.60%) Data Structures
9 28 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
9 28 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
10 27 (1.49%) Virtual Team
11 26 (1.43%) CMDB
12 24 (1.32%) Mobile App
13 22 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
13 22 (1.21%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 14 (0.77%) Public Cloud
14 14 (0.77%) Tandem
15 13 (0.72%) PKI
15 13 (0.72%) Reinsurance
16 11 (0.61%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 141 (7.76%) Windows
2 115 (6.33%) Linux
3 32 (1.76%) Unix
4 19 (1.05%) Android
5 17 (0.94%) Windows 10
6 14 (0.77%) VMS
7 13 (0.72%) Windows Server
8 11 (0.61%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
10 8 (0.44%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.39%) FreeRTOS
11 7 (0.39%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.055%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.055%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.055%) Windows Embedded Compact
14 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.055%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,108 (61.01%) Agile
2 530 (29.19%) DevOps
3 464 (25.55%) Stakeholder Management
4 440 (24.23%) Problem-Solving
5 419 (23.07%) Scrum
6 361 (19.88%) CI/CD
7 291 (16.02%) Continuous Improvement
8 284 (15.64%) Test Automation
9 282 (15.53%) Project Management
10 247 (13.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 203 (11.18%) User Stories
12 196 (10.79%) User Acceptance Testing
13 184 (10.13%) Migration
14 182 (10.02%) Project Delivery
15 177 (9.75%) Analytics
16 168 (9.25%) Change Management
17 166 (9.14%) Acceptance Criteria
18 156 (8.59%) Business Intelligence
19 153 (8.43%) Roadmaps
20 148 (8.15%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 307 (16.91%) SQL
2 241 (13.27%) Python
3 163 (8.98%) Java
4 109 (6.00%) JavaScript
5 82 (4.52%) PowerShell
6 69 (3.80%) C#
7 52 (2.86%) TypeScript
8 37 (2.04%) Bash
9 30 (1.65%) C++
10 26 (1.43%) Go
11 20 (1.10%) Embedded C++
12 16 (0.88%) Groovy
12 16 (0.88%) PL/SQL
12 16 (0.88%) Shell Script
13 14 (0.77%) PHP
14 12 (0.66%) C
15 11 (0.61%) Ruby
16 10 (0.55%) Apex Code
16 10 (0.55%) Embedded C
17 9 (0.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 468 (25.77%) Security Cleared
2 384 (21.15%) SC Cleared
3 261 (14.37%) Degree
4 89 (4.90%) PMI Certification
5 74 (4.07%) PMP
6 61 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
7 57 (3.14%) ISTQB
8 47 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 43 (2.37%) CISSP
9 43 (2.37%) TOGAF Certification
10 42 (2.31%) DV Cleared
11 33 (1.82%) CISM
11 33 (1.82%) Master's Degree
12 29 (1.60%) AWS Certification
13 26 (1.43%) CBAP
14 21 (1.16%) ISEB
15 17 (0.94%) Azure Certification
15 17 (0.94%) Oracle Certification
16 16 (0.88%) IIBA
17 15 (0.83%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (12.56%) QA
2 100 (5.51%) PMO
3 87 (4.79%) Data Quality
4 55 (3.03%) Accessibility
5 45 (2.48%) GDPR
6 27 (1.49%) NIST
7 26 (1.43%) PSD2
8 24 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 22 (1.21%) ISO 20022
10 19 (1.05%) SEPA
10 19 (1.05%) WCAG
11 17 (0.94%) SLA
12 13 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.66%) GRC
13 12 (0.66%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.55%) Basel III
15 8 (0.44%) NCSC
15 8 (0.44%) NIST 800
16 7 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
17 5 (0.28%) P3O
System Software
1 190 (10.46%) Docker
2 54 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.72%) Squid
6 11 (0.61%) Firmware
7 10 (0.55%) DFS Replication
8 7 (0.39%) Dovecot
8 7 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
8 7 (0.39%) Postfix
8 7 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.055%) etcd
12 1 (0.055%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.055%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.055%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 169 (9.31%) Kubernetes
2 94 (5.18%) Terraform
3 74 (4.07%) Ansible
4 53 (2.92%) Grafana
5 43 (2.37%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.65%) OPNET
7 24 (1.32%) Nessus
8 23 (1.27%) Control-M
9 21 (1.16%) HP ALM
10 20 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
11 19 (1.05%) Consul
12 17 (0.94%) IBM Guardium
12 17 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
13 16 (0.88%) Packer
14 12 (0.66%) NetBackup
14 12 (0.66%) Puppet
15 11 (0.61%) SCCM
16 8 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
17 7 (0.39%) Argo
17 7 (0.39%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 224 (12.33%) Microsoft
2 197 (10.85%) ServiceNow
3 167 (9.20%) Oracle
4 120 (6.61%) Atlassian
5 100 (5.51%) Salesforce
6 59 (3.25%) SAP
7 45 (2.48%) Google
8 44 (2.42%) Remedy
9 37 (2.04%) Talend
10 35 (1.93%) IBM
11 33 (1.82%) Denodo
12 27 (1.49%) Splunk
13 24 (1.32%) HP
13 24 (1.32%) Red Hat
14 23 (1.27%) Workday
15 22 (1.21%) Tenable
16 21 (1.16%) BiZZdesign
16 21 (1.16%) Databricks
17 19 (1.05%) Adobe
18 18 (0.99%) VMware