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 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 36 47
Rank change year-on-year -4 +11 +1
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,067 1,321 1,407
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.85% 5.39% 3.75%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.74% 38.00% 31.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,424 885 934
10th Percentile £318 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £623
90th Percentile £674 £678 £713
UK median daily rate £485 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -3.00% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 26 90
10th Percentile £18.75 £49.00 £25.23
25th Percentile £25.00 £50.27 £40.00
Median hourly rate £57.50 £57.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year - -6.12% -2.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.12 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.40 £78.13 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - - -11.65%

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 5,074 3,476 4,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.90% 14.18% 11.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,302 2,356 2,988
10th Percentile £350 £338 £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 £600 £638
90th Percentile £680 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 68 217
10th Percentile £35.50 £27.06 £32.48
25th Percentile £59.13 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -5.77% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.89 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.17% -9.23% +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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +1 927 £510 -1.40% 168
North of England -1 418 £450 - 83
Midlands +3 319 £450 -5.26% 42
West Midlands -1 257 £459 -3.37% 26
Yorkshire 0 223 £460 -8.00% 40
South East -27 198 £459 -4.38% 120
North West -1 176 £434 +2.78% 39
South West -3 118 £495 -13.91% 50
East Midlands +7 59 £393 -12.67% 16
East of England -2 58 £588 +28.77% 40
North East -27 23 £475 -12.64% 5
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
1 909 (43.98%) Confluence
2 113 (5.47%) SharePoint
3 39 (1.89%) SAS
4 33 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.73%) Apache
6 12 (0.58%) CMS
6 12 (0.58%) nginx
7 9 (0.44%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.29%) Ethereum
8 6 (0.29%) Hyperledger
8 6 (0.29%) Mattermost
9 5 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.24%) JBoss
10 4 (0.19%) IIS
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.15%) Camunda
11 3 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 157 (7.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 154 (7.45%) Microsoft Project
3 84 (4.06%) MS Visio
4 79 (3.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 59 (2.85%) Microsoft Office
6 13 (0.63%) Trello
7 10 (0.48%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.34%) AutoCAD
9 7 (0.34%) Revit
10 4 (0.19%) Notion
11 1 (0.048%) CANalyzer
11 1 (0.048%) CATIA
11 1 (0.048%) Mingle
11 1 (0.048%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.048%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 28 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.31%) Remedy ITSM
3 15 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.53%) Loan IQ
5 9 (0.44%) Aladdin
5 9 (0.44%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.39%) Findur
6 8 (0.39%) SAP MDG
7 7 (0.34%) Fidessa
7 7 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.24%) SAP Retail
8 5 (0.24%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.19%) Actimize
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 452 (21.87%) Azure
2 345 (16.69%) AWS
3 251 (12.14%) Azure DevOps
4 157 (7.60%) GitHub
5 153 (7.40%) Power Platform
6 89 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
7 86 (4.16%) GCP
8 81 (3.92%) SaaS
9 77 (3.73%) Entra ID
10 69 (3.34%) Amazon S3
11 68 (3.29%) Serverless
12 54 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
13 53 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
14 51 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 48 (2.32%) Amazon EC2
16 37 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 34 (1.64%) Slack
18 28 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
19 27 (1.31%) Miro
20 26 (1.26%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 80 (3.87%) Firewall
2 59 (2.85%) DNS
3 45 (2.18%) TCP/IP
4 33 (1.60%) Network Security
5 30 (1.45%) LAN
6 29 (1.40%) WAN
7 27 (1.31%) VPN
8 23 (1.11%) BIG-IP
8 23 (1.11%) DHCP
9 20 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
10 19 (0.92%) SAN
10 19 (0.92%) SSL
11 14 (0.68%) HTTP
12 13 (0.63%) SD-WAN
13 12 (0.58%) Internet
14 10 (0.48%) Unified Communications
15 9 (0.44%) Ethernet
15 9 (0.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 8 (0.39%) FTP
16 8 (0.39%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (6.58%) Power BI
2 91 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
4 56 (2.71%) SQL Server
5 47 (2.27%) Tableau
6 46 (2.23%) Oracle Reports
7 36 (1.74%) MongoDB
8 30 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
9 26 (1.26%) DynamoDB
9 26 (1.26%) NoSQL
9 26 (1.26%) Relational Database
10 22 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
11 18 (0.87%) Pentaho
12 17 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
13 16 (0.77%) Oracle Database
13 16 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (0.73%) BusinessObjects
15 14 (0.68%) Data Lake
16 13 (0.63%) MySQL
17 12 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 245 (11.85%) Git
2 196 (9.48%) Jenkins
3 125 (6.05%) GitLab
4 98 (4.74%) Selenium
5 75 (3.63%) Postman
6 70 (3.39%) Zephyr
7 56 (2.71%) JUnit
8 54 (2.61%) Bitbucket
8 54 (2.61%) Cucumber
9 39 (1.89%) JMeter
10 33 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
11 30 (1.45%) REST Assured
12 24 (1.16%) TestRail
13 23 (1.11%) WebDriver
14 20 (0.97%) Cypress.io
14 20 (0.97%) SonarQube
15 18 (0.87%) Artifactory
16 14 (0.68%) Appium
17 13 (0.63%) Maven
18 11 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 801 (38.75%) Social Skills
2 599 (28.98%) Finance
3 379 (18.34%) Analytical Skills
4 269 (13.01%) Banking
5 209 (10.11%) Public Sector
6 77 (3.73%) Documentation Skills
7 74 (3.58%) Organisational Skills
8 72 (3.48%) Retail
9 43 (2.08%) Legal
10 39 (1.89%) Manufacturing
11 37 (1.79%) Investment Banking
12 36 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
13 34 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
14 31 (1.50%) Retail Banking
15 27 (1.31%) Front Office
15 27 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 24 (1.16%) Military
17 20 (0.97%) Corporate Banking
18 19 (0.92%) Law
18 19 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 406 (19.64%) Analyst
2 257 (12.43%) Business Analyst
3 191 (9.24%) Developer
4 177 (8.56%) Lead
5 167 (8.08%) Senior
6 118 (5.71%) Project Manager
7 95 (4.60%) Architect
8 88 (4.26%) Delivery Manager
8 88 (4.26%) Tester
9 75 (3.63%) Scrum Master
10 74 (3.58%) Data Engineer
11 70 (3.39%) Consultant
12 62 (3.00%) IT Support
13 55 (2.66%) Support Engineer
14 48 (2.32%) Test Engineer
15 43 (2.08%) IT Engineer
16 42 (2.03%) IT Support Engineer
16 42 (2.03%) Test Analyst
17 41 (1.98%) Test Leader
18 40 (1.94%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (5.32%) REST
2 62 (3.00%) Spring
3 57 (2.76%) .NET
4 56 (2.71%) React
5 47 (2.27%) HTML
5 47 (2.27%) JSON
5 47 (2.27%) RESTful
6 46 (2.23%) Kafka
7 40 (1.94%) SOAP
7 40 (1.94%) Spring Boot
8 35 (1.69%) CSS
9 32 (1.55%) AngularJS
10 30 (1.45%) OpenID
10 30 (1.45%) Playwright
11 27 (1.31%) XML
12 26 (1.26%) LDAP
12 26 (1.26%) SailPoint
13 24 (1.16%) Middleware
13 24 (1.16%) Node.js
14 23 (1.11%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 231 (11.18%) Product Ownership
2 112 (5.42%) Onboarding
3 84 (4.06%) Cloud Native
4 59 (2.85%) Data Centre
5 50 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
6 48 (2.32%) Management Information System
7 47 (2.27%) Virtual Team
8 43 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
9 42 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
10 39 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
11 30 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
12 29 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
13 26 (1.26%) Data Structures
14 19 (0.92%) SCADA
15 18 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 18 (0.87%) Public Cloud
16 17 (0.82%) PMI
17 16 (0.77%) Mobile App
18 15 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
19 14 (0.68%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 172 (8.32%) Windows
2 132 (6.39%) Linux
3 43 (2.08%) Unix
4 21 (1.02%) Windows 10
5 18 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 18 (0.87%) Mac OS
6 16 (0.77%) Android
7 14 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.53%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.15%) AIX
11 3 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.097%) MVS
12 2 (0.097%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.048%) Solaris
13 1 (0.048%) SUSE
13 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.048%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,176 (56.89%) Agile
2 530 (25.64%) DevOps
3 522 (25.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 452 (21.87%) Problem-Solving
5 430 (20.80%) CI/CD
6 413 (19.98%) Scrum
7 372 (18.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 345 (16.69%) Test Automation
9 259 (12.53%) Migration
10 244 (11.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 243 (11.76%) Project Management
12 239 (11.56%) User Acceptance Testing
13 223 (10.79%) User Stories
14 208 (10.06%) Validation
15 198 (9.58%) Change Management
16 191 (9.24%) Sprint Planning
17 187 (9.05%) Project Delivery
18 182 (8.81%) SDLC
19 174 (8.42%) ITIL
20 172 (8.32%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 334 (16.16%) SQL
2 243 (11.76%) Python
3 176 (8.51%) Java
4 86 (4.16%) JavaScript
5 81 (3.92%) C#
6 63 (3.05%) TypeScript
7 60 (2.90%) PowerShell
8 42 (2.03%) Bash
9 30 (1.45%) PL/SQL
10 20 (0.97%) C++
11 19 (0.92%) Shell Script
12 15 (0.73%) Apex Code
12 15 (0.73%) Perl
12 15 (0.73%) VBA
13 11 (0.53%) Groovy
14 10 (0.48%) ActionScript
14 10 (0.48%) C
15 9 (0.44%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 8 (0.39%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 534 (25.83%) Security Cleared
2 417 (20.17%) SC Cleared
3 182 (8.81%) Degree
4 75 (3.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 67 (3.24%) ISTQB
6 63 (3.05%) PMI Certification
7 61 (2.95%) DV Cleared
8 56 (2.71%) PMP
9 32 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 31 (1.50%) CISSP
11 26 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
12 24 (1.16%) Master's Degree
13 22 (1.06%) CISM
14 21 (1.02%) AWS Certification
15 20 (0.97%) Azure Certification
15 20 (0.97%) SAFe Agilist
16 16 (0.77%) IIBA
16 16 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
17 15 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 13 (0.63%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (12.00%) QA
2 117 (5.66%) Data Quality
3 107 (5.18%) PMO
4 53 (2.56%) Accessibility
5 44 (2.13%) GDPR
6 41 (1.98%) SLA
7 26 (1.26%) NIST
8 24 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 20 (0.97%) WCAG
10 19 (0.92%) GRC
11 17 (0.82%) PCI DSS
12 13 (0.63%) NCSC
13 9 (0.44%) PSD2
14 8 (0.39%) Basel III
14 8 (0.39%) ISO 20022
15 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.29%) JSP 440
16 6 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 144 (6.97%) Docker
2 107 (5.18%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.82%) Firmware
5 10 (0.48%) Squid
6 9 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 5 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.15%) HDFS
10 3 (0.15%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.097%) Postfix
12 1 (0.048%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.048%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 158 (7.64%) Kubernetes
2 136 (6.58%) Terraform
3 89 (4.31%) Ansible
4 67 (3.24%) Grafana
5 52 (2.52%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 21 (1.02%) Control-M
9 19 (0.92%) HP ALM
10 17 (0.82%) Nessus
11 16 (0.77%) IBM Guardium
12 14 (0.68%) Puppet
13 13 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
14 12 (0.58%) Consul
15 10 (0.48%) HP Quality Center
16 8 (0.39%) Dell DRAC
16 8 (0.39%) FortiGate
16 8 (0.39%) SCCM
17 7 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 7 (0.34%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 268 (12.97%) Microsoft
2 258 (12.48%) ServiceNow
3 166 (8.03%) Oracle
4 101 (4.89%) Salesforce
5 89 (4.31%) Atlassian
6 76 (3.68%) SAP
7 54 (2.61%) Google
8 38 (1.84%) Denodo
9 35 (1.69%) Workday
10 34 (1.64%) Remedy
11 32 (1.55%) Talend
12 31 (1.50%) F5
13 30 (1.45%) IBM
13 30 (1.45%) Informatica
14 29 (1.40%) Red Hat
15 28 (1.35%) VMware
16 26 (1.26%) Databricks
16 26 (1.26%) Splunk
17 24 (1.16%) MuleSoft
18 22 (1.06%) Tenable