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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 45 49
Rank change year-on-year +12 +4 -15
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,755 1,287 1,703
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.83% 4.19% 4.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.14% 31.99% 34.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,295 816 1,150
10th Percentile £319 £313 £358
25th Percentile £402 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £531
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% -1.62%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £638
90th Percentile £692 £678 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 44 57
10th Percentile £15.74 £37.55 £45.59
25th Percentile £43.62 £54.68 £51.25
Median hourly rate £60.50 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £70.00 - £70.00
90th Percentile £86.88 - £74.25
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.86% +16.67% -

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 4,602 4,023 4,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.28% 13.11% 12.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,214 2,499 3,544
10th Percentile £325 £350 £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 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 121 229
10th Percentile £39.00 £37.55 £46.12
25th Percentile £54.88 £51.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £69.38 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +6.25%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +13 832 £525 +0.48% 442
North of England +3 319 £473 -4.82% 118
Midlands +21 199 £450 -8.16% 107
South East +6 190 £480 +6.67% 228
West Midlands +34 162 £475 -11.63% 59
Yorkshire -2 157 £500 - 42
North West +6 142 £447 -8.31% 65
South West +6 117 £560 -5.08% 116
East of England -4 56 £425 +3.03% 62
East Midlands -9 37 £358 -19.55% 48
North East +2 20 £510 +12.33% 11
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
1 797 (45.41%) Confluence
2 102 (5.81%) SharePoint
3 54 (3.08%) nginx
4 33 (1.88%) SAS
5 30 (1.71%) CMS
6 19 (1.08%) Apache
7 12 (0.68%) JBoss
7 12 (0.68%) Tomcat
8 9 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.46%) WordPress
10 7 (0.40%) Drupal
10 7 (0.40%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.34%) Mule
12 5 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
12 5 (0.28%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.23%) Apache Spark
13 4 (0.23%) CICS
13 4 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 4 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 128 (7.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 128 (7.29%) Microsoft Project
2 97 (5.53%) Microsoft Office
3 72 (4.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 62 (3.53%) MS Visio
5 30 (1.71%) Trello
6 12 (0.68%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 7 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (0.40%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.28%) Sketch
10 4 (0.23%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.23%) Simulink
10 4 (0.23%) Windchill
11 3 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.17%) InVision
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.11%) InDesign
12 2 (0.11%) Notion
13 1 (0.057%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 18 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
2 17 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.46%) Aladdin
4 8 (0.46%) SAP PM
5 7 (0.40%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
6 6 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.34%) SAP HR
7 5 (0.28%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.23%) Endur
8 4 (0.23%) Fidessa
8 4 (0.23%) Magento
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
8 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.23%) SAP PLM
9 3 (0.17%) Algo Collateral
9 3 (0.17%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 345 (19.66%) Azure
2 321 (18.29%) AWS
3 177 (10.09%) Azure DevOps
4 165 (9.40%) GitHub
5 109 (6.21%) Power Platform
6 83 (4.73%) GCP
7 72 (4.10%) Serverless
8 56 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
9 55 (3.13%) Amazon S3
10 49 (2.79%) Amazon EC2
11 47 (2.68%) GitHub Actions
12 42 (2.39%) AWS Lambda
13 41 (2.34%) AWS CloudFormation
14 40 (2.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 36 (2.05%) Slack
16 35 (1.99%) SaaS
17 34 (1.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 33 (1.88%) Miro
18 33 (1.88%) Power Automate
19 31 (1.77%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (3.87%) Firewall
2 64 (3.65%) DNS
3 40 (2.28%) SSH
4 39 (2.22%) HTTP
5 31 (1.77%) VPN
6 28 (1.60%) SMTP
7 23 (1.31%) FTP
8 20 (1.14%) SSL
9 17 (0.97%) OpenLDAP
10 16 (0.91%) TCP/IP
11 12 (0.68%) IMAP
12 11 (0.63%) DHCP
12 11 (0.63%) Network Security
13 10 (0.57%) BGP
13 10 (0.57%) WAN
14 9 (0.51%) MPLS
15 8 (0.46%) Unified Communications
16 7 (0.40%) IPsec
16 7 (0.40%) LAN
16 7 (0.40%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (5.53%) Power BI
2 78 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (2.96%) Tableau
4 43 (2.45%) SQL Server
5 36 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
5 36 (2.05%) Relational Database
6 34 (1.94%) NoSQL
7 31 (1.77%) Pentaho
8 25 (1.42%) Oracle Database
9 21 (1.20%) Big Data
9 21 (1.20%) Metadata
10 20 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
11 19 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
11 19 (1.08%) MongoDB
12 18 (1.03%) MySQL
13 16 (0.91%) Hadoop
14 13 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
14 13 (0.74%) BigQuery
15 10 (0.57%) Data Vault
15 10 (0.57%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 275 (15.67%) Git
2 246 (14.02%) Jenkins
3 110 (6.27%) GitLab
4 77 (4.39%) Bitbucket
5 73 (4.16%) Selenium
6 60 (3.42%) Postman
7 47 (2.68%) Cucumber
8 44 (2.51%) Sonatype Nexus
9 37 (2.11%) JUnit
10 35 (1.99%) SonarQube
11 31 (1.77%) TestRail
12 29 (1.65%) Maven
13 27 (1.54%) Zephyr
14 26 (1.48%) Vagrant
15 25 (1.42%) SoapUI
16 22 (1.25%) Cypress.io
16 22 (1.25%) SpecFlow
17 21 (1.20%) REST Assured
18 19 (1.08%) Artifactory
18 19 (1.08%) TeamCity
General
1 721 (41.08%) Social Skills
2 423 (24.10%) Finance
3 289 (16.47%) Analytical Skills
4 215 (12.25%) Banking
5 190 (10.83%) Public Sector
6 58 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
7 55 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
8 49 (2.79%) Retail
9 38 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
10 33 (1.88%) Investment Banking
10 33 (1.88%) Legal
11 31 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
12 30 (1.71%) Front Office
13 26 (1.48%) Marketing
14 25 (1.42%) Manufacturing
15 22 (1.25%) Military
16 21 (1.20%) Telecoms
17 15 (0.85%) Law
18 14 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 12 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 302 (17.21%) Analyst
2 209 (11.91%) Developer
3 176 (10.03%) Business Analyst
4 149 (8.49%) Project Manager
5 131 (7.46%) Senior
6 125 (7.12%) Lead
7 103 (5.87%) Architect
8 71 (4.05%) Tester
9 63 (3.59%) DevOps Engineer
10 59 (3.36%) Test Analyst
11 54 (3.08%) Administrator
12 50 (2.85%) Consultant
12 50 (2.85%) Solutions Architect
13 43 (2.45%) Delivery Manager
14 42 (2.39%) Product Owner
15 38 (2.17%) AWS Engineer
15 38 (2.17%) Technical Analyst
16 37 (2.11%) Software Engineer
17 36 (2.05%) Data Engineer
18 34 (1.94%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (9.91%) REST
2 93 (5.30%) SOAP
3 84 (4.79%) .NET
4 82 (4.67%) AngularJS
5 79 (4.50%) React
6 76 (4.33%) HTML
7 59 (3.36%) CSS
8 56 (3.19%) RESTful
9 51 (2.91%) Kafka
10 50 (2.85%) XML
11 49 (2.79%) JSON
11 49 (2.79%) Spring Boot
12 47 (2.68%) Spring
13 42 (2.39%) Web Services
14 41 (2.34%) Node.js
15 38 (2.17%) LDAP
15 38 (2.17%) Playwright
16 35 (1.99%) RabbitMQ
17 28 (1.60%) OAuth
18 27 (1.54%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 177 (10.09%) Product Ownership
2 68 (3.87%) Onboarding
3 49 (2.79%) Cloud Native
4 45 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
5 42 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
6 35 (1.99%) Management Information System
7 32 (1.82%) Data Structures
8 30 (1.71%) Mobile App
9 29 (1.65%) Replication
10 28 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
11 25 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
11 25 (1.42%) PMI
12 23 (1.31%) CMDB
13 22 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
14 21 (1.20%) Virtual Team
15 19 (1.08%) Algorithms
16 18 (1.03%) Data Centre
17 17 (0.97%) PKI
17 17 (0.97%) SWIFT Messaging Network
18 16 (0.91%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 145 (8.26%) Linux
2 138 (7.86%) Windows
3 53 (3.02%) Unix
4 32 (1.82%) VMS
5 24 (1.37%) Amazon Linux
6 16 (0.91%) Android
6 16 (0.91%) Ubuntu
7 13 (0.74%) Mac OS
8 12 (0.68%) Apple iOS
8 12 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (0.63%) Windows Server
10 9 (0.51%) Windows 10
11 8 (0.46%) CentOS
12 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (0.17%) zOS
13 2 (0.11%) Debian
13 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.11%) Solaris
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.057%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,074 (61.20%) Agile
2 531 (30.26%) DevOps
3 424 (24.16%) Problem-Solving
4 423 (24.10%) Scrum
5 363 (20.68%) CI/CD
6 353 (20.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 263 (14.99%) Test Automation
8 256 (14.59%) Project Management
9 243 (13.85%) Continuous Improvement
10 224 (12.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 193 (11.00%) Migration
12 183 (10.43%) Change Management
13 176 (10.03%) User Stories
14 168 (9.57%) User Acceptance Testing
15 162 (9.23%) Microservices
16 145 (8.26%) Project Delivery
17 142 (8.09%) Kanban
18 141 (8.03%) SDLC
19 140 (7.98%) Roadmaps
20 135 (7.69%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 290 (16.52%) SQL
2 286 (16.30%) Python
3 180 (10.26%) Java
4 149 (8.49%) JavaScript
5 98 (5.58%) PowerShell
6 85 (4.84%) C#
7 64 (3.65%) TypeScript
8 51 (2.91%) Bash
9 39 (2.22%) Go
10 35 (1.99%) Groovy
11 29 (1.65%) Perl
12 26 (1.48%) C++
13 22 (1.25%) Shell Script
14 15 (0.85%) Apex Code
15 13 (0.74%) PHP
15 13 (0.74%) PL/SQL
16 12 (0.68%) Ruby
17 9 (0.51%) Kotlin
18 8 (0.46%) Korn
19 7 (0.40%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 440 (25.07%) Security Cleared
2 392 (22.34%) SC Cleared
3 245 (13.96%) Degree
4 78 (4.44%) PMI Certification
5 64 (3.65%) PMP
6 58 (3.30%) CISSP
6 58 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 49 (2.79%) ISTQB
8 48 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 43 (2.45%) CISM
10 38 (2.17%) DV Cleared
11 30 (1.71%) AWS Certification
12 19 (1.08%) Azure Certification
12 19 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
13 18 (1.03%) Oracle Certification
14 17 (0.97%) Master's Degree
14 17 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
15 14 (0.80%) CBAP
16 13 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 12 (0.68%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (11.68%) QA
2 71 (4.05%) PMO
3 65 (3.70%) GDPR
4 57 (3.25%) Data Quality
5 50 (2.85%) Accessibility
6 47 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 39 (2.22%) NIST
8 23 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 18 (1.03%) PCI DSS
10 16 (0.91%) ISO 20022
10 16 (0.91%) SEPA
11 14 (0.80%) COBIT
11 14 (0.80%) NIST 800
11 14 (0.80%) PSD2
11 14 (0.80%) WCAG
12 8 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 7 (0.40%) GRC
13 7 (0.40%) NCSC
14 6 (0.34%) SLA
15 5 (0.28%) P3O
System Software
1 211 (12.02%) Docker
2 60 (3.42%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.25%) DFS Replication
3 22 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.68%) Dovecot
5 12 (0.68%) Postfix
5 12 (0.68%) Squid
6 11 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.57%) Firmware
8 9 (0.51%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.28%) vSphere
10 4 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.11%) KVM
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.057%) NFS
Systems Management
1 184 (10.48%) Kubernetes
2 129 (7.35%) Terraform
3 98 (5.58%) Ansible
4 53 (3.02%) Grafana
5 46 (2.62%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (1.60%) Packer
8 26 (1.48%) Consul
9 25 (1.42%) HP ALM
10 24 (1.37%) Nessus
11 16 (0.91%) Puppet
12 15 (0.85%) Control-M
13 14 (0.80%) NetBackup
14 12 (0.68%) RSA Archer
14 12 (0.68%) SCCM
15 11 (0.63%) IBM Guardium
15 11 (0.63%) Progress Chef
16 10 (0.57%) Proxmox
17 9 (0.51%) OPNET
18 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 248 (14.13%) Microsoft
2 218 (12.42%) ServiceNow
3 143 (8.15%) Oracle
4 100 (5.70%) Atlassian
5 91 (5.19%) Salesforce
6 64 (3.65%) SAP
7 53 (3.02%) Google
8 42 (2.39%) HP
9 33 (1.88%) Remedy
10 32 (1.82%) IBM
10 32 (1.82%) Talend
11 31 (1.77%) Cisco
12 30 (1.71%) Denodo
13 29 (1.65%) CyberArk
13 29 (1.65%) Splunk
13 29 (1.65%) VMware
14 22 (1.25%) Red Hat
15 18 (1.03%) BiZZdesign
15 18 (1.03%) CheckPoint
15 18 (1.03%) Tenable