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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 33 43
Rank change year-on-year -15 +10 +5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,012 1,604 1,429
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.36% 5.82% 4.35%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.29% 39.05% 32.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,298 1,131 930
10th Percentile £350 £313 £325
25th Percentile £411 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -3.56%
75th Percentile £593 £602 £606
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £492 £506
% change year-on-year +1.63% -2.74% -3.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 43 70
10th Percentile £19.25 £42.60 £25.99
25th Percentile £26.25 £50.00 £51.16
Median hourly rate £58.74 £57.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -17.86% +12.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.83 -
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.40 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £56.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -2.65% -19.29% +12.00%

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 5,255 4,108 4,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.40% 14.90% 13.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,319 2,837 2,815
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £417 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £630
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 248 95 169
10th Percentile £24.79 £42.50 £37.39
25th Percentile £51.25 £52.25 £54.36
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.23 £78.25 £74.00
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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -14 946 £532 +1.33% 1,033
North of England -18 357 £475 +1.28% 272
Midlands -9 250 £459 -3.37% 129
West Midlands -11 215 £469 -1.26% 87
Yorkshire -3 211 £493 +3.68% 88
South East -35 202 £475 - 292
South West +2 139 £525 -4.55% 158
North West -43 125 £450 +0.67% 147
East of England 0 77 £472 +18.00% 147
East Midlands -12 34 £402 +11.98% 42
North East -37 28 £515 -0.96% 39
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
1 893 (44.38%) Confluence
2 100 (4.97%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 24 (1.19%) SAS
5 22 (1.09%) CMS
6 10 (0.50%) Apache
6 10 (0.50%) Camunda
7 9 (0.45%) nginx
8 5 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.25%) IIS
8 5 (0.25%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.25%) MTS
9 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.20%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.20%) WordPress
10 3 (0.15%) Kentico
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 141 (7.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 116 (5.77%) Microsoft Project
3 76 (3.78%) MS Visio
4 64 (3.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 60 (2.98%) Microsoft Office
6 21 (1.04%) Trello
7 16 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.50%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.40%) Revit
10 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.25%) Notion
11 3 (0.15%) Windchill
12 2 (0.099%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.099%) Mingle
12 2 (0.099%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.050%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.050%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.050%) Gliffy
13 1 (0.050%) Mozilla Thunderbird
13 1 (0.050%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 35 (1.74%) Remedy ITSM
2 24 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
5 9 (0.45%) Aladdin
5 9 (0.45%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.30%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.25%) Fidessa
7 5 (0.25%) ResourceLink
7 5 (0.25%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.25%) SAP MDG
7 5 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.20%) Findur
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.20%) SAP FI-AR
9 3 (0.15%) Maximo
9 3 (0.15%) SAP CRM
9 3 (0.15%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 471 (23.41%) Azure
2 308 (15.31%) AWS
3 260 (12.92%) Azure DevOps
4 166 (8.25%) Power Platform
5 154 (7.65%) GitHub
6 96 (4.77%) GCP
7 93 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
8 70 (3.48%) SaaS
9 59 (2.93%) Serverless
10 58 (2.88%) Entra ID
11 52 (2.58%) Amazon S3
12 50 (2.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 44 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
13 44 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
14 40 (1.99%) Miro
15 37 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
15 37 (1.84%) Microsoft Copilot
16 33 (1.64%) Smartsheet
17 27 (1.34%) Snowflake
18 26 (1.29%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 81 (4.03%) Firewall
2 73 (3.63%) DNS
3 48 (2.39%) TCP/IP
4 35 (1.74%) DHCP
5 32 (1.59%) VPN
6 27 (1.34%) Network Security
7 23 (1.14%) WAN
8 21 (1.04%) BIG-IP
9 18 (0.89%) SSL
10 16 (0.80%) SAN
11 14 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
12 13 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 13 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 13 (0.65%) IPv4
12 13 (0.65%) IPv6
12 13 (0.65%) VLAN
13 12 (0.60%) Broadband
13 12 (0.60%) SD-WAN
14 11 (0.55%) LAN
15 10 (0.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 147 (7.31%) Power BI
2 92 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
3 67 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 59 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (1.94%) Oracle Reports
6 38 (1.89%) Relational Database
7 27 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
9 21 (1.04%) Metadata
10 20 (0.99%) Data Lake
10 20 (0.99%) MongoDB
10 20 (0.99%) Oracle Database
11 19 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 18 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
13 17 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
13 17 (0.84%) Tableau
14 16 (0.80%) Power Query
15 15 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 13 (0.65%) DynamoDB
16 13 (0.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 250 (12.43%) Git
2 169 (8.40%) Jenkins
3 115 (5.72%) GitLab
4 74 (3.68%) Zephyr
5 70 (3.48%) Selenium
6 61 (3.03%) Bitbucket
6 61 (3.03%) Postman
7 34 (1.69%) JUnit
8 28 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
9 27 (1.34%) Cucumber
10 25 (1.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 25 (1.24%) JMeter
10 25 (1.24%) Maven
11 23 (1.14%) REST Assured
12 22 (1.09%) Cypress.io
13 21 (1.04%) Mockito
14 20 (0.99%) SonarQube
15 18 (0.89%) Rational Rhapsody
15 18 (0.89%) TestRail
16 17 (0.84%) Artifactory
General
1 796 (39.56%) Social Skills
2 571 (28.38%) Finance
3 397 (19.73%) Analytical Skills
4 274 (13.62%) Banking
5 232 (11.53%) Public Sector
6 89 (4.42%) Organisational Skills
7 77 (3.83%) Retail
8 63 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
9 52 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
10 49 (2.44%) Investment Banking
11 45 (2.24%) Manufacturing
12 40 (1.99%) Telecoms
13 39 (1.94%) Legal
14 36 (1.79%) Front Office
14 36 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 34 (1.69%) Marketing
16 26 (1.29%) Retail Banking
17 21 (1.04%) Law
17 21 (1.04%) Military
18 19 (0.94%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 344 (17.10%) Analyst
2 216 (10.74%) Lead
3 206 (10.24%) Business Analyst
4 194 (9.64%) Developer
5 175 (8.70%) Senior
6 103 (5.12%) Project Manager
7 79 (3.93%) Delivery Manager
8 75 (3.73%) Consultant
8 75 (3.73%) Scrum Master
9 72 (3.58%) Architect
10 64 (3.18%) Tester
11 52 (2.58%) Administrator
12 51 (2.53%) Product Owner
13 50 (2.49%) Data Engineer
14 47 (2.34%) Support Engineer
15 46 (2.29%) Test Analyst
16 44 (2.19%) Test Leader
17 39 (1.94%) Product Manager
17 39 (1.94%) Senior Manager
18 36 (1.79%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (7.26%) REST
2 130 (6.46%) Terraform
3 72 (3.58%) .NET
4 62 (3.08%) HTML
5 56 (2.78%) RESTful
6 54 (2.68%) AngularJS
7 50 (2.49%) React
8 48 (2.39%) SOAP
9 44 (2.19%) JSON
10 42 (2.09%) CSS
11 41 (2.04%) Kafka
11 41 (2.04%) Spring
12 40 (1.99%) Web Services
13 39 (1.94%) Spring Boot
14 37 (1.84%) Playwright
15 33 (1.64%) XML
16 32 (1.59%) Node.js
17 31 (1.54%) Middleware
18 25 (1.24%) Hibernate
19 23 (1.14%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 270 (13.42%) Product Ownership
2 135 (6.71%) Onboarding
3 90 (4.47%) Cloud Native
4 70 (3.48%) Data Centre
5 61 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
6 59 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
7 52 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
8 45 (2.24%) Virtual Team
9 40 (1.99%) Data Structures
10 39 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
11 34 (1.69%) Management Information System
12 28 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
13 24 (1.19%) Credit Risk
14 23 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
15 21 (1.04%) SCADA
16 19 (0.94%) Mobile App
17 18 (0.89%) Derivative
17 18 (0.89%) Replication
18 17 (0.84%) AI Agents
19 16 (0.80%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 143 (7.11%) Windows
2 129 (6.41%) Linux
3 42 (2.09%) Unix
4 29 (1.44%) Windows 10
5 20 (0.99%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.84%) Android
6 17 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.75%) Mac OS
7 15 (0.75%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (0.40%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.35%) CentOS
10 7 (0.35%) VMS
11 4 (0.20%) AIX
11 4 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
12 3 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
12 3 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.099%) MVS
13 2 (0.099%) Solaris
13 2 (0.099%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,193 (59.29%) Agile
2 652 (32.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 531 (26.39%) DevOps
4 449 (22.32%) Problem-Solving
5 428 (21.27%) Scrum
6 427 (21.22%) CI/CD
7 381 (18.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 336 (16.70%) Test Automation
9 297 (14.76%) Migration
10 247 (12.28%) User Acceptance Testing
11 240 (11.93%) User Stories
12 232 (11.53%) AI
13 231 (11.48%) Validation
14 225 (11.18%) Sprint Planning
15 223 (11.08%) Project Management
16 218 (10.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 203 (10.09%) Project Delivery
18 201 (9.99%) SDLC
19 188 (9.34%) Acceptance Criteria
20 179 (8.90%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 350 (17.40%) SQL
2 260 (12.92%) Python
3 135 (6.71%) Java
4 99 (4.92%) JavaScript
5 74 (3.68%) TypeScript
6 70 (3.48%) PowerShell
7 64 (3.18%) C#
8 39 (1.94%) Bash
9 34 (1.69%) PL/SQL
10 24 (1.19%) C++
11 23 (1.14%) Groovy
12 17 (0.84%) C
13 16 (0.80%) Kotlin
14 15 (0.75%) Bicep
15 14 (0.70%) Apex Code
16 13 (0.65%) ActionScript
16 13 (0.65%) Perl
17 12 (0.60%) VBA
18 8 (0.40%) T-SQL
19 7 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 538 (26.74%) Security Cleared
2 412 (20.48%) SC Cleared
3 164 (8.15%) Degree
4 96 (4.77%) DV Cleared
5 89 (4.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 65 (3.23%) ISTQB
7 57 (2.83%) PMI Certification
8 45 (2.24%) PMP
9 28 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (1.24%) AWS Certification
11 21 (1.04%) Azure Certification
11 21 (1.04%) Master's Degree
12 18 (0.89%) CISSP
13 16 (0.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 16 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
14 15 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 12 (0.60%) IIBA
15 12 (0.60%) SAFe Agilist
16 11 (0.55%) CISM
16 11 (0.55%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 266 (13.22%) QA
2 127 (6.31%) Data Quality
3 125 (6.21%) PMO
4 62 (3.08%) Accessibility
5 37 (1.84%) SLA
6 24 (1.19%) WCAG
7 20 (0.99%) NCSC
8 19 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 18 (0.89%) GDPR
9 18 (0.89%) GRC
10 15 (0.75%) NIST
11 14 (0.70%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.45%) SEPA
13 8 (0.40%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.35%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.25%) COBIT
15 5 (0.25%) MiFID
15 5 (0.25%) P3O
15 5 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
16 4 (0.20%) EMIR
System Software
1 120 (5.96%) Docker
2 108 (5.37%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (0.50%) Firmware
6 7 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.20%) Squid
8 4 (0.20%) vSphere
9 2 (0.099%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.099%) Dovecot
9 2 (0.099%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.099%) Postfix
9 2 (0.099%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.050%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.050%) NFS
10 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.050%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.050%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 1 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 110 (5.47%) Kubernetes
2 73 (3.63%) Ansible
3 53 (2.63%) Grafana
4 43 (2.14%) Prometheus
5 32 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (1.19%) HP ALM
7 15 (0.75%) Control-M
8 13 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.45%) Packer
10 8 (0.40%) Dell DRAC
10 8 (0.40%) Nessus
11 7 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.35%) SCOM
12 6 (0.30%) Istio
12 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
12 6 (0.30%) SCCM
13 5 (0.25%) IBM Guardium
13 5 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.25%) Puppet
13 5 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 305 (15.16%) Microsoft
2 236 (11.73%) ServiceNow
3 144 (7.16%) Oracle
4 95 (4.72%) SAP
5 85 (4.22%) Salesforce
6 76 (3.78%) Atlassian
7 64 (3.18%) Google
8 53 (2.63%) IBM
9 46 (2.29%) VMware
10 40 (1.99%) Splunk
11 38 (1.89%) Remedy
12 32 (1.59%) Denodo
13 26 (1.29%) Talend
14 25 (1.24%) HP
15 24 (1.19%) Databricks
15 24 (1.19%) F5
16 22 (1.09%) Informatica
16 22 (1.09%) MuleSoft
17 21 (1.04%) Adobe
18 19 (0.94%) Workday