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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 31 43
Rank change year-on-year -15 +12 +8
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,055 1,624 1,433
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.43% 5.84% 4.35%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.85% 39.25% 32.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,336 1,144 932
10th Percentile £350 £313 £331
25th Percentile £413 £400 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £493 £513
% change year-on-year +1.52% -3.90% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 41 74
10th Percentile £22.68 £46.25 £25.99
25th Percentile £35.94 £50.00 £50.63
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £69.00
Median % change year-on-year - -9.42% +12.65%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.83 £83.00 -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £69.00
% change year-on-year +4.35% -16.67% +13.11%

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 5,289 4,138 4,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.41% 14.87% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,352 2,861 2,833
10th Percentile £356 £325 £356
25th Percentile £415 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £635
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 96 172
10th Percentile £35.00 £44.63 £36.30
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.94 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.80% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.85 £82.98 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 12 September 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 September 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 September 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 -13 970 £525 - 505
North of England -15 372 £475 +2.15% 134
Midlands -7 259 £463 -2.63% 69
West Midlands -12 223 £469 -1.26% 46
Yorkshire -6 209 £500 +5.26% 48
South East -32 209 £475 - 164
North West -36 140 £460 +5.14% 66
South West 0 137 £525 -4.55% 97
East of England +2 69 £491 +22.75% 77
East Midlands -10 35 £404 +12.40% 23
North East -38 30 £515 -0.96% 21
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
1 913 (44.43%) Confluence
2 105 (5.11%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (1.22%) SAS
5 19 (0.92%) CMS
6 14 (0.68%) Apache
7 10 (0.49%) Camunda
8 9 (0.44%) nginx
9 7 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
10 6 (0.29%) Apache Spark
11 5 (0.24%) IIS
11 5 (0.24%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.24%) MTS
12 4 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.19%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.19%) WordPress
13 3 (0.15%) Kentico
13 3 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
13 3 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 143 (6.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 124 (6.03%) Microsoft Project
3 82 (3.99%) MS Visio
4 68 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 62 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
6 22 (1.07%) Trello
7 14 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.49%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.39%) Revit
10 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.24%) Notion
12 3 (0.15%) Windchill
13 2 (0.097%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.097%) Mingle
13 2 (0.097%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.049%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.049%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 1 (0.049%) Gliffy
14 1 (0.049%) Mozilla Thunderbird
14 1 (0.049%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 35 (1.70%) Remedy ITSM
2 24 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.49%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
3 10 (0.49%) Workday HCM
4 6 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
4 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.24%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.24%) Findur
5 5 (0.24%) ResourceLink
5 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
5 5 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
6 4 (0.19%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.15%) Magento
7 3 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.15%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 494 (24.04%) Azure
2 316 (15.38%) AWS
3 279 (13.58%) Azure DevOps
4 166 (8.08%) Power Platform
5 161 (7.83%) GitHub
6 93 (4.53%) Microsoft 365
7 92 (4.48%) GCP
8 75 (3.65%) SaaS
9 65 (3.16%) Serverless
10 64 (3.11%) Entra ID
11 59 (2.87%) Amazon S3
12 55 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 53 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
14 52 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
15 40 (1.95%) Amazon EC2
15 40 (1.95%) Miro
16 39 (1.90%) Microsoft Copilot
17 32 (1.56%) Smartsheet
18 28 (1.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 27 (1.31%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 83 (4.04%) Firewall
2 70 (3.41%) DNS
3 46 (2.24%) TCP/IP
4 36 (1.75%) DHCP
5 32 (1.56%) VPN
6 28 (1.36%) Network Security
7 22 (1.07%) WAN
8 20 (0.97%) BIG-IP
9 19 (0.92%) SAN
10 18 (0.88%) SSL
11 13 (0.63%) SD-WAN
12 12 (0.58%) LAN
13 11 (0.54%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 11 (0.54%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 11 (0.54%) VLAN
13 11 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
14 10 (0.49%) Internet
14 10 (0.49%) SSH
15 9 (0.44%) IPv4
15 9 (0.44%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (7.10%) Power BI
2 89 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
3 64 (3.11%) SQL Server
4 60 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
5 40 (1.95%) Oracle Reports
6 37 (1.80%) Relational Database
7 26 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
8 25 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (1.07%) Amazon Athena
10 20 (0.97%) Data Lake
10 20 (0.97%) Metadata
11 19 (0.92%) Oracle Database
11 19 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 18 (0.88%) DynamoDB
12 18 (0.88%) Tableau
13 17 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
13 17 (0.83%) MongoDB
14 16 (0.78%) NoSQL
15 15 (0.73%) Power Query
15 15 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 258 (12.55%) Git
2 173 (8.42%) Jenkins
3 115 (5.60%) GitLab
4 75 (3.65%) Zephyr
5 74 (3.60%) Selenium
6 65 (3.16%) Bitbucket
7 59 (2.87%) Postman
8 36 (1.75%) JUnit
9 31 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
10 26 (1.27%) Cucumber
11 25 (1.22%) Maven
12 24 (1.17%) Cypress.io
13 23 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 23 (1.12%) JMeter
13 23 (1.12%) REST Assured
14 22 (1.07%) Mockito
15 21 (1.02%) SonarQube
16 20 (0.97%) Artifactory
16 20 (0.97%) TestRail
17 16 (0.78%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 806 (39.22%) Social Skills
2 596 (29.00%) Finance
3 397 (19.32%) Analytical Skills
4 285 (13.87%) Banking
5 237 (11.53%) Public Sector
6 86 (4.18%) Organisational Skills
7 76 (3.70%) Retail
8 64 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
9 50 (2.43%) Investment Banking
10 48 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
11 40 (1.95%) Manufacturing
12 38 (1.85%) Front Office
12 38 (1.85%) Legal
13 37 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 36 (1.75%) Telecoms
15 33 (1.61%) Marketing
16 27 (1.31%) Retail Banking
17 21 (1.02%) Law
17 21 (1.02%) Military
18 20 (0.97%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 355 (17.27%) Analyst
2 219 (10.66%) Lead
3 215 (10.46%) Business Analyst
4 203 (9.88%) Developer
5 179 (8.71%) Senior
6 107 (5.21%) Project Manager
7 87 (4.23%) Delivery Manager
8 83 (4.04%) Scrum Master
9 80 (3.89%) Consultant
10 72 (3.50%) Architect
11 63 (3.07%) Tester
12 54 (2.63%) Data Engineer
13 51 (2.48%) Product Owner
14 49 (2.38%) Support Engineer
15 48 (2.34%) Test Analyst
16 46 (2.24%) Administrator
17 44 (2.14%) Test Leader
18 42 (2.04%) Senior Manager
19 36 (1.75%) IT Support
19 36 (1.75%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (6.96%) Terraform
2 140 (6.81%) REST
3 77 (3.75%) .NET
4 62 (3.02%) HTML
5 56 (2.73%) RESTful
6 54 (2.63%) React
7 53 (2.58%) AngularJS
8 45 (2.19%) SOAP
9 44 (2.14%) CSS
9 44 (2.14%) JSON
9 44 (2.14%) Kafka
10 42 (2.04%) Spring
11 39 (1.90%) Spring Boot
12 38 (1.85%) Playwright
13 35 (1.70%) Web Services
14 34 (1.65%) XML
15 33 (1.61%) Node.js
16 30 (1.46%) Middleware
17 23 (1.12%) .NET Core
17 23 (1.12%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 272 (13.24%) Product Ownership
2 140 (6.81%) Onboarding
3 89 (4.33%) Cloud Native
4 69 (3.36%) Data Centre
5 61 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
6 57 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
7 51 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
8 46 (2.24%) Virtual Team
9 44 (2.14%) Data Structures
10 42 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
11 36 (1.75%) Management Information System
12 31 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
13 24 (1.17%) Credit Risk
14 22 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
14 22 (1.07%) SCADA
15 20 (0.97%) Mobile App
16 19 (0.92%) Replication
17 17 (0.83%) AI Agents
17 17 (0.83%) Derivative
18 15 (0.73%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 150 (7.30%) Windows
2 131 (6.37%) Linux
3 45 (2.19%) Unix
4 28 (1.36%) Windows 10
5 21 (1.02%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.88%) Android
7 15 (0.73%) Mac OS
7 15 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.73%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.34%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.29%) CentOS
11 5 (0.24%) VMS
12 4 (0.19%) AIX
12 4 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
13 3 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.097%) Solaris
14 2 (0.097%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.097%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,229 (59.81%) Agile
2 655 (31.87%) Stakeholder Management
3 559 (27.20%) DevOps
4 457 (22.24%) Problem-Solving
5 442 (21.51%) Scrum
6 434 (21.12%) CI/CD
7 390 (18.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 348 (16.93%) Test Automation
9 299 (14.55%) Migration
10 258 (12.55%) User Acceptance Testing
11 251 (12.21%) User Stories
12 237 (11.53%) Sprint Planning
13 236 (11.48%) AI
13 236 (11.48%) Validation
14 235 (11.44%) Project Management
15 222 (10.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 211 (10.27%) SDLC
17 202 (9.83%) Project Delivery
18 187 (9.10%) Acceptance Criteria
19 183 (8.91%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 352 (17.13%) SQL
2 253 (12.31%) Python
3 135 (6.57%) Java
4 104 (5.06%) JavaScript
5 75 (3.65%) TypeScript
6 72 (3.50%) PowerShell
7 67 (3.26%) C#
8 40 (1.95%) Bash
9 34 (1.65%) PL/SQL
10 22 (1.07%) C++
11 21 (1.02%) Groovy
12 15 (0.73%) Apex Code
12 15 (0.73%) Bicep
12 15 (0.73%) C
12 15 (0.73%) Kotlin
13 13 (0.63%) Perl
13 13 (0.63%) VBA
14 11 (0.54%) ActionScript
15 8 (0.39%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 545 (26.52%) Security Cleared
2 420 (20.44%) SC Cleared
3 170 (8.27%) Degree
4 92 (4.48%) DV Cleared
5 87 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 68 (3.31%) ISTQB
7 57 (2.77%) PMI Certification
8 45 (2.19%) PMP
9 28 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
10 22 (1.07%) AWS Certification
11 21 (1.02%) Master's Degree
12 20 (0.97%) Azure Certification
13 19 (0.92%) CISSP
14 18 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 17 (0.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 17 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
15 17 (0.83%) SAFe Agilist
16 13 (0.63%) IIBA
17 11 (0.54%) CISM
17 11 (0.54%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (13.43%) QA
2 128 (6.23%) Data Quality
3 125 (6.08%) PMO
4 61 (2.97%) Accessibility
5 38 (1.85%) SLA
6 24 (1.17%) WCAG
7 23 (1.12%) GDPR
8 22 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 20 (0.97%) NCSC
10 19 (0.92%) GRC
11 18 (0.88%) NIST
12 13 (0.63%) ISO 20022
13 9 (0.44%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.39%) SEPA
15 7 (0.34%) JSP 440
16 6 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
17 5 (0.24%) COBIT
17 5 (0.24%) MiFID
17 5 (0.24%) P3O
18 4 (0.19%) GxP
System Software
1 122 (5.94%) Docker
2 113 (5.50%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (0.44%) Firmware
6 7 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.19%) Squid
9 2 (0.097%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.097%) Dovecot
9 2 (0.097%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.097%) Postfix
9 2 (0.097%) vSphere
10 1 (0.049%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.049%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.049%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.049%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 1 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.049%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 109 (5.30%) Kubernetes
2 78 (3.80%) Ansible
3 52 (2.53%) Grafana
4 41 (2.00%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
6 25 (1.22%) HP ALM
7 15 (0.73%) Control-M
7 15 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.44%) Packer
9 8 (0.39%) Dell DRAC
9 8 (0.39%) Puppet
10 7 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.34%) Istio
10 7 (0.34%) Nessus
10 7 (0.34%) SCCM
10 7 (0.34%) SCOM
11 6 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (0.24%) HP Quality Center
12 5 (0.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 314 (15.28%) Microsoft
2 248 (12.07%) ServiceNow
3 145 (7.06%) Oracle
4 90 (4.38%) SAP
5 88 (4.28%) Salesforce
6 80 (3.89%) Atlassian
7 65 (3.16%) Google
8 53 (2.58%) IBM
9 47 (2.29%) VMware
10 38 (1.85%) Splunk
11 37 (1.80%) Remedy
12 32 (1.56%) Denodo
13 26 (1.27%) HP
13 26 (1.27%) Talend
14 24 (1.17%) F5
15 22 (1.07%) Adobe
15 22 (1.07%) Informatica
16 21 (1.02%) Databricks
16 21 (1.02%) MuleSoft
17 20 (0.97%) Workday