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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 45 46
Rank change year-on-year +12 +1 -12
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,799 1,337 1,676
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.86% 4.32% 4.30%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.48% 32.83% 33.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,316 842 1,137
10th Percentile £313 £313 £359
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -6.37% -1.11%
75th Percentile £613 £608 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 41 47
10th Percentile £15.74 £37.55 £43.48
25th Percentile £44.85 £55.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £63.27 £68.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% +13.33% -2.04%
75th Percentile £72.19 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.63 - £74.25
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £68.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -7.15% +13.33% -

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 4,675 4,072 4,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.22% 13.14% 12.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,265 2,521 3,511
10th Percentile £325 £348 £375
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £645
90th Percentile £700 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 114 216
10th Percentile £39.00 £45.00 £45.88
25th Percentile £55.00 £54.09 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.08 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.20 £74.83 £89.38
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +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 29 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +12 842 £525 - 152
North of England +5 316 £470 -4.67% 61
Midlands +20 208 £450 -9.09% 59
South East 0 192 £483 +6.04% 189
West Midlands +31 167 £475 -7.99% 32
Yorkshire -1 156 £500 - 19
North West +3 143 £447 -10.60% 36
South West +9 138 £575 +0.66% 68
East of England -3 57 £425 +3.85% 43
East Midlands -1 41 £360 -20.00% 25
North East -2 17 £500 +10.62% 6
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
1 826 (45.91%) Confluence
2 104 (5.78%) SharePoint
3 49 (2.72%) nginx
4 35 (1.95%) SAS
5 31 (1.72%) CMS
6 17 (0.94%) Apache
7 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
8 11 (0.61%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.56%) JBoss
10 7 (0.39%) WordPress
11 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.33%) Drupal
11 6 (0.33%) Mule
12 5 (0.28%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
13 4 (0.22%) CICS
13 4 (0.22%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
14 3 (0.17%) Camunda
14 3 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 153 (8.50%) Microsoft Project
2 133 (7.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 109 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
4 77 (4.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 68 (3.78%) MS Visio
6 33 (1.83%) Trello
7 12 (0.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 7 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.39%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.28%) Sketch
11 4 (0.22%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.22%) Simulink
11 4 (0.22%) Windchill
12 3 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
12 3 (0.17%) InVision
13 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.11%) InDesign
13 2 (0.11%) Notion
14 1 (0.056%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 18 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
1 18 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.61%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.44%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.44%) Oracle EBS R12
5 8 (0.44%) SAP PM
6 6 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.33%) SAP HR
7 5 (0.28%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.28%) Maximo
7 5 (0.28%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.22%) Endur
8 4 (0.22%) Fidessa
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
8 4 (0.22%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.22%) SAP PLM
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.17%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 342 (19.01%) Azure
2 313 (17.40%) AWS
3 175 (9.73%) Azure DevOps
4 169 (9.39%) GitHub
5 110 (6.11%) Power Platform
6 79 (4.39%) GCP
7 68 (3.78%) Serverless
8 60 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
9 52 (2.89%) Amazon S3
10 49 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
12 42 (2.33%) SaaS
13 41 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
14 38 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 37 (2.06%) Slack
16 36 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
17 35 (1.95%) Power Automate
17 35 (1.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 32 (1.78%) Miro
19 31 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (3.17%) Firewall
2 55 (3.06%) DNS
3 39 (2.17%) SSH
4 37 (2.06%) HTTP
5 27 (1.50%) SMTP
6 26 (1.45%) VPN
7 23 (1.28%) FTP
8 20 (1.11%) SSL
9 17 (0.94%) OpenLDAP
9 17 (0.94%) TCP/IP
10 12 (0.67%) IMAP
11 9 (0.50%) DHCP
12 8 (0.44%) WAN
13 7 (0.39%) BGP
13 7 (0.39%) Network Security
14 6 (0.33%) LAN
14 6 (0.33%) MPLS
14 6 (0.33%) SD-WAN
15 5 (0.28%) Kerberos
15 5 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (5.39%) Power BI
2 74 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (2.89%) Tableau
4 42 (2.33%) SQL Server
5 35 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
6 34 (1.89%) NoSQL
6 34 (1.89%) Relational Database
7 33 (1.83%) Pentaho
8 25 (1.39%) Big Data
9 23 (1.28%) Oracle Database
10 19 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (1.06%) MongoDB
11 18 (1.00%) Metadata
12 17 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (0.94%) Hadoop
13 16 (0.89%) MySQL
14 13 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
15 11 (0.61%) BigQuery
16 10 (0.56%) Data Vault
16 10 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 262 (14.56%) Git
2 244 (13.56%) Jenkins
3 111 (6.17%) GitLab
4 75 (4.17%) Bitbucket
5 72 (4.00%) Selenium
6 62 (3.45%) Postman
7 47 (2.61%) Cucumber
8 44 (2.45%) Sonatype Nexus
9 35 (1.95%) SonarQube
10 33 (1.83%) JUnit
11 31 (1.72%) TestRail
12 28 (1.56%) Maven
13 26 (1.45%) SoapUI
13 26 (1.45%) Zephyr
14 25 (1.39%) Vagrant
15 21 (1.17%) Cypress.io
16 20 (1.11%) Artifactory
16 20 (1.11%) REST Assured
16 20 (1.11%) SpecFlow
17 15 (0.83%) Rational DOORS
General
1 758 (42.13%) Social Skills
2 441 (24.51%) Finance
3 311 (17.29%) Analytical Skills
4 210 (11.67%) Banking
5 196 (10.89%) Public Sector
6 63 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
7 54 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
8 49 (2.72%) Retail
9 41 (2.28%) Military
9 41 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
10 37 (2.06%) Legal
11 34 (1.89%) Investment Banking
12 31 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
13 28 (1.56%) Manufacturing
14 27 (1.50%) Front Office
15 26 (1.45%) Marketing
16 23 (1.28%) Telecoms
17 15 (0.83%) Law
17 15 (0.83%) Publishing
18 14 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 317 (17.62%) Analyst
2 206 (11.45%) Developer
3 188 (10.45%) Business Analyst
4 159 (8.84%) Project Manager
5 139 (7.73%) Senior
6 129 (7.17%) Lead
7 116 (6.45%) Architect
8 73 (4.06%) Tester
9 62 (3.45%) Test Analyst
10 61 (3.39%) DevOps Engineer
11 52 (2.89%) Administrator
12 51 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
13 50 (2.78%) Consultant
14 47 (2.61%) Delivery Manager
15 40 (2.22%) Product Owner
15 40 (2.22%) Technical Analyst
16 39 (2.17%) Software Engineer
17 38 (2.11%) Data Engineer
17 38 (2.11%) Technical Business Analyst
18 37 (2.06%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (9.73%) REST
2 90 (5.00%) SOAP
3 80 (4.45%) .NET
3 80 (4.45%) AngularJS
4 79 (4.39%) HTML
4 79 (4.39%) React
5 61 (3.39%) CSS
6 54 (3.00%) RESTful
7 53 (2.95%) Kafka
8 51 (2.83%) JSON
8 51 (2.83%) XML
9 50 (2.78%) Spring Boot
10 47 (2.61%) Spring
11 41 (2.28%) Node.js
12 38 (2.11%) LDAP
13 36 (2.00%) Playwright
13 36 (2.00%) Web Services
14 35 (1.95%) RabbitMQ
15 28 (1.56%) OAuth
16 26 (1.45%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 197 (10.95%) Product Ownership
2 76 (4.22%) Onboarding
3 54 (3.00%) Cloud Native
4 44 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
5 43 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
6 39 (2.17%) Management Information System
7 33 (1.83%) Mobile App
8 32 (1.78%) Data Structures
9 28 (1.56%) Replication
10 27 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
10 27 (1.50%) PMI
11 25 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
12 24 (1.33%) CMDB
12 24 (1.33%) Virtual Team
13 21 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
14 19 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
15 18 (1.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 17 (0.94%) Algorithms
17 16 (0.89%) Data Centre
17 16 (0.89%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 138 (7.67%) Linux
2 136 (7.56%) Windows
3 52 (2.89%) Unix
4 31 (1.72%) VMS
5 23 (1.28%) Amazon Linux
6 19 (1.06%) Android
7 14 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 14 (0.78%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.72%) Mac OS
9 11 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.50%) Windows 10
10 9 (0.50%) Windows Server
11 6 (0.33%) CentOS
12 3 (0.17%) zOS
13 2 (0.11%) Debian
13 2 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
13 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.11%) Solaris
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.056%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,108 (61.59%) Agile
2 534 (29.68%) DevOps
3 445 (24.74%) Problem-Solving
4 432 (24.01%) Scrum
5 379 (21.07%) Stakeholder Management
6 367 (20.40%) CI/CD
7 273 (15.18%) Test Automation
8 267 (14.84%) Project Management
9 257 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 230 (12.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 195 (10.84%) Migration
12 183 (10.17%) Change Management
13 181 (10.06%) User Stories
14 180 (10.01%) User Acceptance Testing
15 163 (9.06%) Microservices
16 158 (8.78%) Project Delivery
17 148 (8.23%) SDLC
18 147 (8.17%) ITIL
18 147 (8.17%) Roadmaps
19 143 (7.95%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 294 (16.34%) SQL
2 277 (15.40%) Python
3 175 (9.73%) Java
4 153 (8.50%) JavaScript
5 91 (5.06%) PowerShell
6 81 (4.50%) C#
7 64 (3.56%) TypeScript
8 48 (2.67%) Bash
9 39 (2.17%) Go
10 34 (1.89%) Groovy
11 30 (1.67%) C++
12 26 (1.45%) Perl
13 20 (1.11%) Shell Script
14 15 (0.83%) Apex Code
14 15 (0.83%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.67%) PHP
15 12 (0.67%) Ruby
16 10 (0.56%) Embedded C++
17 8 (0.44%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.39%) Korn
Qualifications
1 466 (25.90%) Security Cleared
2 411 (22.85%) SC Cleared
3 258 (14.34%) Degree
4 81 (4.50%) PMI Certification
5 66 (3.67%) PMP
6 60 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 57 (3.17%) CISSP
8 53 (2.95%) ISTQB
9 50 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
10 43 (2.39%) CISM
11 38 (2.11%) DV Cleared
12 33 (1.83%) TOGAF Certification
13 30 (1.67%) AWS Certification
14 20 (1.11%) Azure Certification
15 19 (1.06%) Oracle Certification
16 17 (0.94%) CBAP
16 17 (0.94%) Master's Degree
17 16 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
18 14 (0.78%) ISEB
19 13 (0.72%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (12.17%) QA
2 76 (4.22%) PMO
3 69 (3.84%) GDPR
4 60 (3.34%) Data Quality
5 52 (2.89%) Accessibility
6 48 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 40 (2.22%) NIST
8 23 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 18 (1.00%) ISO 20022
10 17 (0.94%) PSD2
10 17 (0.94%) SEPA
11 16 (0.89%) PCI DSS
12 15 (0.83%) WCAG
13 14 (0.78%) COBIT
13 14 (0.78%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.44%) GRC
14 8 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 8 (0.44%) NCSC
15 7 (0.39%) P3O
16 6 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 212 (11.78%) Docker
2 59 (3.28%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.17%) DFS Replication
4 20 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.67%) Dovecot
6 12 (0.67%) Firmware
6 12 (0.67%) Postfix
6 12 (0.67%) Squid
7 8 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.28%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.17%) vSphere
11 2 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.11%) KVM
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.056%) etcd
Systems Management
1 186 (10.34%) Kubernetes
2 122 (6.78%) Terraform
3 92 (5.11%) Ansible
4 53 (2.95%) Grafana
5 44 (2.45%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
7 29 (1.61%) HP ALM
8 24 (1.33%) Nessus
9 23 (1.28%) OPNET
9 23 (1.28%) Packer
10 21 (1.17%) Consul
11 18 (1.00%) Puppet
12 15 (0.83%) Control-M
13 14 (0.78%) NetBackup
14 12 (0.67%) RSA Archer
14 12 (0.67%) SCCM
15 11 (0.61%) IBM Guardium
16 10 (0.56%) Progress Chef
16 10 (0.56%) Proxmox
17 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 252 (14.01%) Microsoft
2 227 (12.62%) ServiceNow
3 148 (8.23%) Oracle
4 119 (6.61%) Atlassian
5 96 (5.34%) Salesforce
6 65 (3.61%) SAP
7 56 (3.11%) Google
8 47 (2.61%) Remedy
9 46 (2.56%) HP
10 36 (2.00%) Talend
11 34 (1.89%) IBM
12 32 (1.78%) Denodo
13 29 (1.61%) CyberArk
14 28 (1.56%) Splunk
15 23 (1.28%) VMware
16 22 (1.22%) Cisco
17 20 (1.11%) Red Hat
18 18 (1.00%) BiZZdesign
18 18 (1.00%) Tenable
19 17 (0.94%) BMC