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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 34 47
Rank change year-on-year -6 +13 +1
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,103 1,383 1,438
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.84% 5.47% 3.86%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.70% 38.46% 31.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,431 941 956
10th Percentile £322 £331 £321
25th Percentile £400 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £585 £600 £623
90th Percentile £675 £695 £703
UK median daily rate £493 £500 £512
% change year-on-year -1.50% -2.30% -2.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 30 97
10th Percentile £18.75 £47.38 £25.28
25th Percentile £24.14 £50.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £51.50 £56.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -13.46% +6.12%
75th Percentile £65.69 £71.17 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.38 £78.88 -
UK median hourly rate £49.36 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -10.25% -8.33% -1.64%

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 5,167 3,596 4,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.89% 14.23% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,340 2,445 3,015
10th Percentile £350 £338 £350
25th Percentile £413 £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 £688 £712 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 76 234
10th Percentile £27.19 £27.72 £33.02
25th Percentile £56.25 £49.50 £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 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.17% -9.23% +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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -3 960 £518 -1.05% 134
North of England -4 422 £450 -4.05% 89
Midlands 0 313 £450 -5.26% 36
West Midlands 0 258 £459 -3.37% 25
Yorkshire -1 230 £460 -8.00% 30
South East -31 198 £475 -2.56% 120
North West -10 176 £447 +5.18% 48
South West -10 117 £493 -14.35% 52
East of England -4 61 £450 +9.09% 28
East Midlands +9 53 £397 -11.78% 11
North East -32 21 £475 -12.64% 13
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
1 918 (43.65%) Confluence
2 112 (5.33%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 35 (1.66%) SAS
4 15 (0.71%) Apache
5 12 (0.57%) CMS
5 12 (0.57%) nginx
6 8 (0.38%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.29%) Ethereum
8 6 (0.29%) Hyperledger
8 6 (0.29%) Mattermost
9 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.19%) IIS
10 4 (0.19%) JBoss
10 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.19%) WordPress
11 3 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 159 (7.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 148 (7.04%) Microsoft Project
3 86 (4.09%) MS Visio
4 80 (3.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 64 (3.04%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.57%) Trello
7 10 (0.48%) AutoCAD
7 10 (0.48%) Chatbot
8 9 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
9 8 (0.38%) Revit
10 4 (0.19%) Notion
11 2 (0.095%) CATIA
12 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.048%) CANalyzer
12 1 (0.048%) Mingle
12 1 (0.048%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.048%) SOLIDWORKS
12 1 (0.048%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 30 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 13 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.52%) Aladdin
4 11 (0.52%) Loan IQ
5 10 (0.48%) Workday HCM
6 9 (0.43%) Fidessa
7 8 (0.38%) Findur
8 7 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.33%) SAP MDG
9 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
10 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
11 4 (0.19%) Actimize
11 4 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
11 4 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
11 4 (0.19%) SAP Retail
11 4 (0.19%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 481 (22.87%) Azure
2 352 (16.74%) AWS
3 267 (12.70%) Azure DevOps
4 164 (7.80%) GitHub
5 153 (7.28%) Power Platform
6 89 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
7 82 (3.90%) Entra ID
8 79 (3.76%) GCP
8 79 (3.76%) SaaS
9 75 (3.57%) Amazon S3
9 75 (3.57%) Serverless
10 58 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
11 57 (2.71%) GitHub Actions
12 55 (2.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 52 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (1.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 30 (1.43%) Slack
16 28 (1.33%) Miro
17 26 (1.24%) Amazon EKS
17 26 (1.24%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 87 (4.14%) Firewall
2 59 (2.81%) DNS
3 47 (2.23%) TCP/IP
4 37 (1.76%) Network Security
5 30 (1.43%) LAN
5 30 (1.43%) VPN
6 29 (1.38%) WAN
7 25 (1.19%) BIG-IP
7 25 (1.19%) DHCP
8 23 (1.09%) SAN
9 19 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
10 17 (0.81%) SSL
11 14 (0.67%) HTTP
12 12 (0.57%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.52%) Internet
14 10 (0.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 10 (0.48%) Unified Communications
15 9 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 8 (0.38%) DKIM
16 8 (0.38%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (6.42%) Power BI
2 97 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
3 74 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
4 53 (2.52%) SQL Server
5 44 (2.09%) Oracle Reports
6 38 (1.81%) Tableau
7 33 (1.57%) MongoDB
8 32 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
9 27 (1.28%) DynamoDB
9 27 (1.28%) Relational Database
10 25 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
10 25 (1.19%) NoSQL
11 24 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
12 19 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 18 (0.86%) Data Lake
13 18 (0.86%) Pentaho
14 17 (0.81%) Oracle Database
15 14 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
16 13 (0.62%) Neo4j
17 12 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 249 (11.84%) Git
2 201 (9.56%) Jenkins
3 121 (5.75%) GitLab
4 92 (4.37%) Selenium
5 73 (3.47%) Postman
6 71 (3.38%) Zephyr
7 55 (2.62%) Bitbucket
8 54 (2.57%) JUnit
9 51 (2.43%) Cucumber
10 40 (1.90%) JMeter
11 36 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
12 25 (1.19%) REST Assured
13 22 (1.05%) Cypress.io
13 22 (1.05%) TestRail
14 21 (1.00%) WebDriver
15 20 (0.95%) SonarQube
16 18 (0.86%) Artifactory
17 14 (0.67%) Appium
18 12 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 12 (0.57%) Gatling
General
1 818 (38.90%) Social Skills
2 599 (28.48%) Finance
3 376 (17.88%) Analytical Skills
4 271 (12.89%) Banking
5 217 (10.32%) Public Sector
6 77 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
7 75 (3.57%) Retail
8 74 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
9 45 (2.14%) Manufacturing
10 42 (2.00%) Legal
11 38 (1.81%) Investment Banking
12 37 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
13 31 (1.47%) Front Office
14 30 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
15 27 (1.28%) Retail Banking
16 26 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 23 (1.09%) Military
18 21 (1.00%) Telecoms
19 19 (0.90%) Financial Institution
20 18 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 399 (18.97%) Analyst
2 248 (11.79%) Business Analyst
3 201 (9.56%) Developer
4 174 (8.27%) Lead
5 172 (8.18%) Senior
6 117 (5.56%) Project Manager
7 96 (4.56%) Architect
8 90 (4.28%) Delivery Manager
9 87 (4.14%) Tester
10 79 (3.76%) Scrum Master
11 77 (3.66%) Data Engineer
12 75 (3.57%) Consultant
13 66 (3.14%) IT Support
14 56 (2.66%) Support Engineer
15 46 (2.19%) IT Engineer
15 46 (2.19%) Product Owner
15 46 (2.19%) Test Analyst
16 43 (2.04%) IT Support Engineer
17 41 (1.95%) Java Developer
17 41 (1.95%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (5.42%) REST
2 63 (3.00%) Spring
3 62 (2.95%) .NET
4 52 (2.47%) React
5 48 (2.28%) JSON
6 47 (2.23%) RESTful
7 46 (2.19%) HTML
8 43 (2.04%) Kafka
9 41 (1.95%) Spring Boot
10 39 (1.85%) SOAP
11 35 (1.66%) AngularJS
11 35 (1.66%) CSS
12 34 (1.62%) Playwright
13 27 (1.28%) Middleware
13 27 (1.28%) OpenID
13 27 (1.28%) XML
14 25 (1.19%) Web Services
15 24 (1.14%) Node.js
15 24 (1.14%) WireMock
16 23 (1.09%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 232 (11.03%) Product Ownership
2 122 (5.80%) Onboarding
3 91 (4.33%) Cloud Native
4 64 (3.04%) Data Centre
5 50 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
5 50 (2.38%) Management Information System
6 49 (2.33%) Virtual Team
7 48 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
8 43 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
8 43 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
9 31 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
9 31 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
10 29 (1.38%) Data Structures
11 19 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 18 (0.86%) Enterprise Storage
12 18 (0.86%) Public Cloud
12 18 (0.86%) SCADA
12 18 (0.86%) Security Posture
13 17 (0.81%) Mobile App
14 15 (0.71%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 167 (7.94%) Windows
2 131 (6.23%) Linux
3 44 (2.09%) Unix
4 20 (0.95%) Windows 10
5 19 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.81%) Mac OS
7 16 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (0.71%) Android
9 9 (0.43%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
11 3 (0.14%) AIX
11 3 (0.14%) Check Point GAiA
11 3 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.095%) MVS
12 2 (0.095%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.048%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.048%) Solaris
13 1 (0.048%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,218 (57.92%) Agile
2 546 (25.96%) DevOps
2 546 (25.96%) Stakeholder Management
3 458 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
4 451 (21.45%) CI/CD
5 413 (19.64%) Scrum
6 388 (18.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 358 (17.02%) Test Automation
8 265 (12.60%) Migration
9 250 (11.89%) User Acceptance Testing
10 236 (11.22%) Project Management
11 233 (11.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 227 (10.79%) Validation
13 219 (10.41%) User Stories
14 206 (9.80%) Change Management
15 193 (9.18%) AI
16 192 (9.13%) Sprint Planning
17 191 (9.08%) Project Delivery
18 189 (8.99%) SDLC
19 187 (8.89%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 346 (16.45%) SQL
2 256 (12.17%) Python
3 169 (8.04%) Java
4 87 (4.14%) C#
5 85 (4.04%) JavaScript
6 65 (3.09%) TypeScript
7 58 (2.76%) PowerShell
8 39 (1.85%) Bash
9 31 (1.47%) PL/SQL
10 19 (0.90%) VBA
11 17 (0.81%) C++
12 15 (0.71%) Perl
12 15 (0.71%) Shell Script
13 14 (0.67%) Apex Code
14 11 (0.52%) ActionScript
14 11 (0.52%) Bicep
14 11 (0.52%) Groovy
15 9 (0.43%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.38%) Scala
17 7 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 531 (25.25%) Security Cleared
2 416 (19.78%) SC Cleared
3 189 (8.99%) Degree
4 73 (3.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 66 (3.14%) DV Cleared
6 65 (3.09%) ISTQB
7 62 (2.95%) PMI Certification
8 55 (2.62%) PMP
9 33 (1.57%) CISSP
10 32 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
11 27 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
12 24 (1.14%) AWS Certification
13 21 (1.00%) CISM
14 20 (0.95%) Master's Degree
15 19 (0.90%) Azure Certification
16 18 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
16 18 (0.86%) SAFe Agilist
17 16 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
18 13 (0.62%) CCNA
19 11 (0.52%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 254 (12.08%) QA
2 119 (5.66%) Data Quality
3 105 (4.99%) PMO
4 57 (2.71%) Accessibility
5 41 (1.95%) GDPR
6 39 (1.85%) SLA
7 26 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 24 (1.14%) NIST
9 20 (0.95%) WCAG
10 18 (0.86%) GRC
11 17 (0.81%) PCI DSS
12 15 (0.71%) NCSC
13 9 (0.43%) ISO 20022
14 8 (0.38%) PSD2
15 7 (0.33%) MiFID
16 6 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.29%) JSP 440
16 6 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.29%) SEPA
System Software
1 146 (6.94%) Docker
2 115 (5.47%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.71%) Firmware
5 9 (0.43%) Squid
5 9 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.14%) HDFS
10 2 (0.095%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.095%) Postfix
10 2 (0.095%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.048%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.048%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 164 (7.80%) Kubernetes
2 140 (6.66%) Terraform
3 93 (4.42%) Ansible
4 65 (3.09%) Grafana
5 52 (2.47%) Prometheus
6 41 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 23 (1.09%) HP ALM
9 20 (0.95%) Control-M
10 17 (0.81%) Nessus
11 16 (0.76%) IBM Guardium
12 15 (0.71%) Puppet
13 13 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
14 12 (0.57%) Consul
15 11 (0.52%) HP Quality Center
16 10 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 8 (0.38%) Dell DRAC
17 8 (0.38%) FortiGate
17 8 (0.38%) SCCM
18 7 (0.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 291 (13.84%) Microsoft
2 264 (12.55%) ServiceNow
3 165 (7.85%) Oracle
4 102 (4.85%) Salesforce
5 90 (4.28%) Atlassian
6 82 (3.90%) SAP
7 54 (2.57%) Google
8 38 (1.81%) Denodo
9 35 (1.66%) Workday
10 34 (1.62%) Remedy
11 33 (1.57%) F5
11 33 (1.57%) Informatica
11 33 (1.57%) Talend
12 30 (1.43%) Databricks
12 30 (1.43%) Red Hat
12 30 (1.43%) VMware
13 29 (1.38%) IBM
14 26 (1.24%) HP
15 23 (1.09%) MuleSoft
15 23 (1.09%) Splunk