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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 33 46
Rank change year-on-year -6 +13 +2
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,111 1,386 1,437
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.86% 5.50% 3.85%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.77% 38.54% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,436 938 958
10th Percentile £321 £331 £321
25th Percentile £400 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £623
90th Percentile £675 £695 £708
UK median daily rate £492 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 30 97
10th Percentile £18.75 £47.38 £25.28
25th Percentile £24.14 £50.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £51.50 £56.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -13.46% +1.96%
75th Percentile £65.69 £71.17 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.38 £78.88 -
UK median hourly rate £49.36 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -10.25% -8.33% -3.61%

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 5,178 3,596 4,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.93% 14.27% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,354 2,444 3,027
10th Percentile £350 £338 £350
25th Percentile £411 £413 £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 £688 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 76 233
10th Percentile £27.64 £27.72 £33.01
25th Percentile £56.94 £49.50 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -5.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.17% -9.23% +4.00%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -1 961 £518 -0.48% 151
North of England -3 423 £450 -4.05% 88
Midlands 0 313 £450 -5.26% 38
West Midlands +1 258 £459 -3.37% 25
Yorkshire -3 229 £460 -8.00% 31
South East -23 204 £464 -4.82% 124
North West -4 178 £447 +5.18% 48
South West -7 117 £493 -14.35% 48
East of England -4 61 £450 +9.09% 29
East Midlands +12 53 £397 -11.78% 13
North East -27 21 £475 -12.64% 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
1 920 (43.58%) Confluence
2 113 (5.35%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 35 (1.66%) SAS
4 15 (0.71%) Apache
5 12 (0.57%) CMS
5 12 (0.57%) nginx
6 9 (0.43%) WebSphere
7 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.28%) Ethereum
8 6 (0.28%) Hyperledger
8 6 (0.28%) Mattermost
9 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.19%) IIS
10 4 (0.19%) JBoss
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.19%) WordPress
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 162 (7.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 153 (7.25%) Microsoft Project
3 86 (4.07%) MS Visio
4 79 (3.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 62 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.57%) Trello
7 10 (0.47%) AutoCAD
7 10 (0.47%) Chatbot
8 9 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
9 8 (0.38%) Revit
10 4 (0.19%) Notion
11 2 (0.095%) CATIA
12 1 (0.047%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.047%) CANalyzer
12 1 (0.047%) Mingle
12 1 (0.047%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.047%) SOLIDWORKS
12 1 (0.047%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 30 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.37%) Remedy ITSM
3 13 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.52%) Aladdin
4 11 (0.52%) Loan IQ
5 10 (0.47%) Workday HCM
6 9 (0.43%) Fidessa
7 8 (0.38%) Findur
7 8 (0.38%) SAP MDG
8 7 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.28%) Teamcenter
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
10 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
10 5 (0.24%) SAP Retail
11 4 (0.19%) Actimize
11 4 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
11 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
11 4 (0.19%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 484 (22.93%) Azure
2 353 (16.72%) AWS
3 269 (12.74%) Azure DevOps
4 164 (7.77%) GitHub
5 157 (7.44%) Power Platform
6 90 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
7 82 (3.88%) Entra ID
8 80 (3.79%) GCP
8 80 (3.79%) SaaS
9 75 (3.55%) Amazon S3
9 75 (3.55%) Serverless
10 58 (2.75%) AWS Lambda
11 57 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
12 55 (2.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 52 (2.46%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 30 (1.42%) Slack
16 28 (1.33%) Miro
17 26 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
17 26 (1.23%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 86 (4.07%) Firewall
2 59 (2.79%) DNS
3 47 (2.23%) TCP/IP
4 37 (1.75%) Network Security
5 30 (1.42%) LAN
5 30 (1.42%) VPN
6 29 (1.37%) WAN
7 25 (1.18%) BIG-IP
7 25 (1.18%) DHCP
8 22 (1.04%) SAN
9 19 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
10 17 (0.81%) SSL
11 14 (0.66%) HTTP
12 12 (0.57%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.52%) Internet
14 10 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 10 (0.47%) Unified Communications
15 9 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 8 (0.38%) DKIM
16 8 (0.38%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 139 (6.58%) Power BI
2 98 (4.64%) Data Warehouse
3 74 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
4 54 (2.56%) SQL Server
5 44 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
6 38 (1.80%) Tableau
7 33 (1.56%) MongoDB
8 32 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
9 27 (1.28%) DynamoDB
9 27 (1.28%) Relational Database
10 25 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
10 25 (1.18%) NoSQL
11 24 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
12 20 (0.95%) Data Lake
13 19 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 18 (0.85%) Pentaho
15 17 (0.81%) Oracle Database
16 14 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
17 13 (0.62%) Neo4j
18 12 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 249 (11.80%) Git
2 200 (9.47%) Jenkins
3 121 (5.73%) GitLab
4 91 (4.31%) Selenium
5 72 (3.41%) Postman
6 70 (3.32%) Zephyr
7 55 (2.61%) Bitbucket
8 54 (2.56%) JUnit
9 51 (2.42%) Cucumber
10 42 (1.99%) JMeter
11 35 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
12 25 (1.18%) REST Assured
13 22 (1.04%) Cypress.io
13 22 (1.04%) TestRail
14 21 (0.99%) WebDriver
15 20 (0.95%) SonarQube
16 18 (0.85%) Artifactory
17 14 (0.66%) Appium
18 12 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 12 (0.57%) Gatling
General
1 827 (39.18%) Social Skills
2 602 (28.52%) Finance
3 377 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 270 (12.79%) Banking
5 219 (10.37%) Public Sector
6 79 (3.74%) Retail
7 78 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
8 76 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
9 45 (2.13%) Manufacturing
10 43 (2.04%) Legal
11 38 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
11 38 (1.80%) Investment Banking
12 32 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
13 31 (1.47%) Front Office
14 27 (1.28%) Retail Banking
15 26 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 23 (1.09%) Military
17 21 (0.99%) Telecoms
18 19 (0.90%) Financial Institution
19 18 (0.85%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 404 (19.14%) Analyst
2 248 (11.75%) Business Analyst
3 199 (9.43%) Developer
4 177 (8.38%) Lead
5 170 (8.05%) Senior
6 118 (5.59%) Project Manager
7 96 (4.55%) Architect
8 89 (4.22%) Delivery Manager
9 87 (4.12%) Tester
10 79 (3.74%) Scrum Master
11 77 (3.65%) Data Engineer
12 76 (3.60%) Consultant
13 66 (3.13%) IT Support
14 56 (2.65%) Support Engineer
15 46 (2.18%) IT Engineer
15 46 (2.18%) Product Owner
15 46 (2.18%) Test Analyst
16 43 (2.04%) IT Support Engineer
17 41 (1.94%) Java Developer
17 41 (1.94%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (5.35%) REST
2 63 (2.98%) Spring
3 60 (2.84%) .NET
4 52 (2.46%) React
5 47 (2.23%) JSON
5 47 (2.23%) RESTful
6 46 (2.18%) HTML
7 43 (2.04%) Kafka
8 41 (1.94%) Spring Boot
9 38 (1.80%) SOAP
10 35 (1.66%) CSS
11 34 (1.61%) AngularJS
12 33 (1.56%) Playwright
13 27 (1.28%) OpenID
13 27 (1.28%) XML
14 26 (1.23%) Middleware
15 24 (1.14%) Node.js
15 24 (1.14%) Web Services
15 24 (1.14%) WireMock
16 23 (1.09%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 231 (10.94%) Product Ownership
2 121 (5.73%) Onboarding
3 92 (4.36%) Cloud Native
4 63 (2.98%) Data Centre
5 52 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
6 50 (2.37%) Management Information System
7 49 (2.32%) Virtual Team
8 47 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
9 44 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
10 43 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
11 32 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
12 31 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
13 29 (1.37%) Data Structures
14 20 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 18 (0.85%) Public Cloud
15 18 (0.85%) SCADA
15 18 (0.85%) Security Posture
16 17 (0.81%) Enterprise Storage
16 17 (0.81%) Mobile App
17 15 (0.71%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 168 (7.96%) Windows
2 131 (6.21%) Linux
3 43 (2.04%) Unix
4 20 (0.95%) Windows 10
5 19 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.81%) Mac OS
7 16 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (0.71%) Android
9 10 (0.47%) Windows Server
10 5 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.14%) AIX
12 3 (0.14%) Check Point GAiA
12 3 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.095%) MVS
13 2 (0.095%) Oracle Linux
13 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.047%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.047%) SUSE
14 1 (0.047%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,222 (57.89%) Agile
2 548 (25.96%) DevOps
3 547 (25.91%) Stakeholder Management
4 459 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
5 450 (21.32%) CI/CD
6 412 (19.52%) Scrum
7 395 (18.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 356 (16.86%) Test Automation
9 266 (12.60%) Migration
10 250 (11.84%) User Acceptance Testing
11 236 (11.18%) Project Management
12 234 (11.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 228 (10.80%) Validation
14 220 (10.42%) User Stories
15 208 (9.85%) Change Management
16 194 (9.19%) AI
17 193 (9.14%) Sprint Planning
18 192 (9.10%) Project Delivery
19 191 (9.05%) ITIL
19 191 (9.05%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 347 (16.44%) SQL
2 255 (12.08%) Python
3 169 (8.01%) Java
4 87 (4.12%) C#
5 85 (4.03%) JavaScript
6 65 (3.08%) TypeScript
7 58 (2.75%) PowerShell
8 39 (1.85%) Bash
9 32 (1.52%) PL/SQL
10 19 (0.90%) VBA
11 18 (0.85%) C++
12 15 (0.71%) Perl
12 15 (0.71%) Shell Script
13 14 (0.66%) Apex Code
14 11 (0.52%) ActionScript
14 11 (0.52%) Bicep
14 11 (0.52%) Groovy
15 9 (0.43%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.38%) Scala
17 7 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 532 (25.20%) Security Cleared
2 417 (19.75%) SC Cleared
3 190 (9.00%) Degree
4 74 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 67 (3.17%) ISTQB
6 66 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 62 (2.94%) PMI Certification
8 55 (2.61%) PMP
9 33 (1.56%) CISSP
9 33 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (1.14%) AWS Certification
12 21 (0.99%) CISM
12 21 (0.99%) Master's Degree
13 19 (0.90%) Azure Certification
14 18 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
14 18 (0.85%) SAFe Agilist
15 16 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 13 (0.62%) CCNA
17 11 (0.52%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 254 (12.03%) QA
2 118 (5.59%) Data Quality
3 110 (5.21%) PMO
4 57 (2.70%) Accessibility
5 41 (1.94%) GDPR
6 40 (1.89%) SLA
7 26 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (1.23%) NIST
8 20 (0.95%) WCAG
9 19 (0.90%) GRC
10 17 (0.81%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.71%) NCSC
12 9 (0.43%) ISO 20022
13 8 (0.38%) PSD2
14 7 (0.33%) MiFID
14 7 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.28%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.28%) JSP 440
15 6 (0.28%) SEPA
System Software
1 144 (6.82%) Docker
2 114 (5.40%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.76%) Firmware
5 9 (0.43%) Squid
5 9 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.14%) HDFS
11 2 (0.095%) OpenAM
11 2 (0.095%) Postfix
11 2 (0.095%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.047%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.047%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 162 (7.67%) Kubernetes
2 140 (6.63%) Terraform
3 92 (4.36%) Ansible
4 65 (3.08%) Grafana
5 52 (2.46%) Prometheus
6 41 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 22 (1.04%) HP ALM
9 21 (0.99%) Control-M
10 17 (0.81%) Nessus
11 16 (0.76%) IBM Guardium
12 15 (0.71%) Puppet
13 13 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
14 12 (0.57%) Consul
15 10 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 10 (0.47%) HP Quality Center
16 8 (0.38%) Dell DRAC
16 8 (0.38%) FortiGate
16 8 (0.38%) SCCM
17 7 (0.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 292 (13.83%) Microsoft
2 266 (12.60%) ServiceNow
3 166 (7.86%) Oracle
4 103 (4.88%) Salesforce
5 90 (4.26%) Atlassian
6 84 (3.98%) SAP
7 54 (2.56%) Google
8 38 (1.80%) Denodo
9 37 (1.75%) Workday
10 35 (1.66%) Remedy
11 34 (1.61%) Informatica
12 33 (1.56%) F5
12 33 (1.56%) Talend
13 30 (1.42%) Databricks
13 30 (1.42%) IBM
13 30 (1.42%) Red Hat
14 29 (1.37%) VMware
15 24 (1.14%) HP
16 23 (1.09%) MuleSoft
16 23 (1.09%) Splunk