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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 35 49
Rank change year-on-year -5 +14 -1
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,039 1,318 1,407
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.83% 5.39% 3.75%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.73% 37.91% 31.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,410 885 931
10th Percentile £317 £325 £321
25th Percentile £400 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £678 £713
UK median daily rate £485 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -3.00% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 26 89
10th Percentile £18.75 £49.00 £25.20
25th Percentile £24.60 £50.27 £40.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -8.00% -
75th Percentile £69.00 £70.12 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £78.13 -
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £55.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -3.64% -4.35% -7.63%

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 5,006 3,477 4,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.85% 14.21% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,265 2,359 2,979
10th Percentile £350 £333 £350
25th Percentile £409 £410 £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 £675 £713 £733
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 68 216
10th Percentile £35.38 £27.06 £32.36
25th Percentile £56.25 £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 £58.38 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.35% -10.19% +5.26%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -3 905 £513 -0.49% 180
North of England -1 417 £450 - 79
Midlands +2 319 £450 -5.26% 52
West Midlands +1 257 £459 -3.37% 30
Yorkshire -2 223 £464 -7.20% 37
South East -25 197 £459 -4.38% 117
North West -5 175 £438 +2.94% 38
South West 0 116 £495 -13.91% 51
East Midlands +6 59 £393 -12.67% 22
East of England -7 57 £525 +15.07% 43
North East -15 23 £475 -13.64% 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
1 898 (44.04%) Confluence
2 111 (5.44%) SharePoint
3 39 (1.91%) SAS
4 32 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.74%) Apache
6 12 (0.59%) CMS
6 12 (0.59%) 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 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 5 (0.25%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.25%) JBoss
10 4 (0.20%) IIS
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.20%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.15%) Camunda
11 3 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 157 (7.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 153 (7.50%) Microsoft Project
3 84 (4.12%) MS Visio
4 79 (3.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 60 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
6 13 (0.64%) Trello
7 8 (0.39%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.34%) AutoCAD
8 7 (0.34%) Revit
9 3 (0.15%) Notion
10 1 (0.049%) CANalyzer
10 1 (0.049%) CATIA
10 1 (0.049%) Mingle
10 1 (0.049%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.049%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 29 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
3 15 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.54%) Loan IQ
5 9 (0.44%) Aladdin
5 9 (0.44%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.39%) SAP MDG
7 7 (0.34%) Fidessa
7 7 (0.34%) Findur
8 6 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.25%) SAP EWM
9 5 (0.25%) SAP Retail
9 5 (0.25%) Teamcenter
10 4 (0.20%) Actimize
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.20%) SAP FI-AR
11 3 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
11 3 (0.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 441 (21.63%) Azure
2 341 (16.72%) AWS
3 243 (11.92%) Azure DevOps
4 155 (7.60%) GitHub
5 149 (7.31%) Power Platform
6 89 (4.36%) Microsoft 365
7 87 (4.27%) GCP
8 81 (3.97%) SaaS
9 77 (3.78%) Entra ID
10 65 (3.19%) Amazon S3
11 63 (3.09%) Serverless
12 54 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
13 49 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
14 47 (2.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 44 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
16 36 (1.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 33 (1.62%) Slack
18 28 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
19 26 (1.28%) Figma
19 26 (1.28%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 77 (3.78%) Firewall
2 58 (2.84%) DNS
3 44 (2.16%) TCP/IP
4 33 (1.62%) Network Security
5 30 (1.47%) LAN
6 28 (1.37%) WAN
7 26 (1.28%) VPN
8 23 (1.13%) DHCP
9 22 (1.08%) BIG-IP
10 20 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
11 19 (0.93%) SSL
12 18 (0.88%) SAN
13 13 (0.64%) SD-WAN
14 12 (0.59%) HTTP
14 12 (0.59%) Internet
15 10 (0.49%) Unified Communications
16 9 (0.44%) Ethernet
17 8 (0.39%) FTP
17 8 (0.39%) NAS
17 8 (0.39%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (6.47%) Power BI
2 88 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
3 72 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
4 57 (2.80%) SQL Server
5 47 (2.31%) Tableau
6 45 (2.21%) Oracle Reports
7 36 (1.77%) MongoDB
8 30 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
9 26 (1.28%) DynamoDB
9 26 (1.28%) NoSQL
10 25 (1.23%) Relational Database
11 19 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
12 18 (0.88%) Pentaho
13 16 (0.78%) Oracle Database
13 16 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (0.74%) BusinessObjects
15 14 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
15 14 (0.69%) Data Lake
15 14 (0.69%) MySQL
16 12 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 239 (11.72%) Git
2 192 (9.42%) Jenkins
3 122 (5.98%) GitLab
4 99 (4.86%) Selenium
5 76 (3.73%) Postman
6 70 (3.43%) Zephyr
7 56 (2.75%) JUnit
8 55 (2.70%) Cucumber
9 54 (2.65%) Bitbucket
10 39 (1.91%) JMeter
11 33 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
12 31 (1.52%) REST Assured
13 25 (1.23%) TestRail
14 23 (1.13%) WebDriver
15 21 (1.03%) SonarQube
16 20 (0.98%) Cypress.io
17 18 (0.88%) Artifactory
18 14 (0.69%) Appium
19 13 (0.64%) Maven
20 11 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 790 (38.74%) Social Skills
2 587 (28.79%) Finance
3 376 (18.44%) Analytical Skills
4 268 (13.14%) Banking
5 209 (10.25%) Public Sector
6 75 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
7 73 (3.58%) Organisational Skills
8 72 (3.53%) Retail
9 41 (2.01%) Legal
10 39 (1.91%) Manufacturing
11 38 (1.86%) Investment Banking
12 34 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
12 34 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
13 31 (1.52%) Retail Banking
14 26 (1.28%) Front Office
14 26 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 24 (1.18%) Military
16 20 (0.98%) Corporate Banking
17 19 (0.93%) Telecoms
18 18 (0.88%) Law
Job Titles
1 401 (19.67%) Analyst
2 253 (12.41%) Business Analyst
3 185 (9.07%) Developer
4 177 (8.68%) Lead
5 163 (7.99%) Senior
6 116 (5.69%) Project Manager
7 91 (4.46%) Architect
8 88 (4.32%) Tester
9 87 (4.27%) Delivery Manager
10 72 (3.53%) Scrum Master
11 71 (3.48%) Data Engineer
12 70 (3.43%) Consultant
13 61 (2.99%) IT Support
14 54 (2.65%) Support Engineer
15 49 (2.40%) Test Engineer
16 42 (2.06%) IT Engineer
16 42 (2.06%) Test Leader
17 41 (2.01%) IT Support Engineer
17 41 (2.01%) Test Analyst
18 40 (1.96%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (5.30%) REST
2 62 (3.04%) Spring
3 58 (2.84%) .NET
4 55 (2.70%) React
5 46 (2.26%) Kafka
6 45 (2.21%) HTML
6 45 (2.21%) RESTful
7 44 (2.16%) JSON
8 40 (1.96%) Spring Boot
9 37 (1.81%) SOAP
10 33 (1.62%) CSS
11 31 (1.52%) OpenID
12 30 (1.47%) AngularJS
12 30 (1.47%) Playwright
13 27 (1.32%) LDAP
13 27 (1.32%) SailPoint
13 27 (1.32%) XML
14 25 (1.23%) Node.js
15 24 (1.18%) Middleware
16 23 (1.13%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 230 (11.28%) Product Ownership
2 109 (5.35%) Onboarding
3 82 (4.02%) Cloud Native
4 56 (2.75%) Data Centre
5 48 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
5 48 (2.35%) Management Information System
6 45 (2.21%) Virtual Team
7 42 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
8 41 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
9 38 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
10 32 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
11 29 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
12 26 (1.28%) Data Structures
13 19 (0.93%) SCADA
14 18 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 18 (0.88%) Public Cloud
15 16 (0.78%) Mobile App
15 16 (0.78%) PMI
16 15 (0.74%) Distributed Architecture
17 14 (0.69%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 172 (8.44%) Windows
2 131 (6.42%) Linux
3 42 (2.06%) Unix
4 20 (0.98%) Windows 10
5 18 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 18 (0.88%) Mac OS
6 16 (0.78%) Android
7 13 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.54%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.15%) AIX
11 3 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.098%) MVS
12 2 (0.098%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.049%) Solaris
13 1 (0.049%) SUSE
13 1 (0.049%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,154 (56.60%) Agile
2 520 (25.50%) DevOps
3 511 (25.06%) Stakeholder Management
4 448 (21.97%) Problem-Solving
5 420 (20.60%) CI/CD
6 404 (19.81%) Scrum
7 367 (18.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 342 (16.77%) Test Automation
9 258 (12.65%) Migration
10 244 (11.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 242 (11.87%) Project Management
12 235 (11.53%) User Acceptance Testing
13 220 (10.79%) User Stories
14 206 (10.10%) Validation
15 194 (9.51%) Change Management
16 187 (9.17%) Project Delivery
16 187 (9.17%) Sprint Planning
17 175 (8.58%) SDLC
18 172 (8.44%) ITIL
19 169 (8.29%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 328 (16.09%) SQL
2 239 (11.72%) Python
3 178 (8.73%) Java
4 84 (4.12%) JavaScript
5 80 (3.92%) C#
6 63 (3.09%) TypeScript
7 61 (2.99%) PowerShell
8 42 (2.06%) Bash
9 30 (1.47%) PL/SQL
10 21 (1.03%) C++
11 19 (0.93%) Shell Script
12 15 (0.74%) Perl
12 15 (0.74%) VBA
13 13 (0.64%) Apex Code
14 11 (0.54%) Groovy
15 10 (0.49%) C
16 9 (0.44%) ActionScript
16 9 (0.44%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.39%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 529 (25.94%) Security Cleared
2 411 (20.16%) SC Cleared
3 181 (8.88%) Degree
4 74 (3.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 67 (3.29%) ISTQB
6 62 (3.04%) PMI Certification
7 61 (2.99%) DV Cleared
8 56 (2.75%) PMP
9 34 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 31 (1.52%) CISSP
11 26 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (1.13%) Master's Degree
13 22 (1.08%) CISM
14 20 (0.98%) Azure Certification
14 20 (0.98%) SAFe Agilist
15 18 (0.88%) AWS Certification
16 16 (0.78%) IIBA
16 16 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
17 13 (0.64%) CCNA
18 12 (0.59%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 250 (12.26%) QA
2 114 (5.59%) Data Quality
3 107 (5.25%) PMO
4 52 (2.55%) Accessibility
5 44 (2.16%) GDPR
6 41 (2.01%) SLA
7 26 (1.28%) NIST
8 24 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 20 (0.98%) WCAG
10 19 (0.93%) GRC
11 17 (0.83%) PCI DSS
12 13 (0.64%) NCSC
13 9 (0.44%) PSD2
14 8 (0.39%) Basel III
15 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.34%) ISO 20022
15 7 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.29%) JSP 440
16 6 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 145 (7.11%) Docker
2 106 (5.20%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.83%) Firmware
5 10 (0.49%) Squid
6 9 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 5 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.15%) HDFS
9 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.15%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.098%) Postfix
11 1 (0.049%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.049%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 157 (7.70%) Kubernetes
2 131 (6.42%) Terraform
3 88 (4.32%) Ansible
4 67 (3.29%) Grafana
5 52 (2.55%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
8 21 (1.03%) Control-M
9 19 (0.93%) HP ALM
10 17 (0.83%) Nessus
11 16 (0.78%) IBM Guardium
12 13 (0.64%) Jamf Pro
12 13 (0.64%) Puppet
13 12 (0.59%) Consul
14 10 (0.49%) HP Quality Center
15 8 (0.39%) Dell DRAC
15 8 (0.39%) FortiGate
15 8 (0.39%) SCCM
16 7 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 7 (0.34%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 267 (13.09%) Microsoft
2 255 (12.51%) ServiceNow
3 165 (8.09%) Oracle
4 97 (4.76%) Salesforce
5 87 (4.27%) Atlassian
6 78 (3.83%) SAP
7 53 (2.60%) Google
8 38 (1.86%) Denodo
9 35 (1.72%) Workday
10 34 (1.67%) Remedy
11 32 (1.57%) Talend
12 30 (1.47%) F5
12 30 (1.47%) IBM
13 28 (1.37%) Red Hat
14 27 (1.32%) Informatica
14 27 (1.32%) VMware
15 26 (1.28%) Databricks
15 26 (1.28%) Splunk
16 24 (1.18%) MuleSoft
17 22 (1.08%) Tenable