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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 46 50
Rank change year-on-year +11 +4 -13
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,783 1,206 1,470
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.67% 4.39% 4.05%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.16% 33.17% 33.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,293 758 1,029
10th Percentile £313 £308 £363
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -0.46%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £675 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 22 36
10th Percentile £15.74 £45.20 £38.44
25th Percentile £43.00 £54.64 £50.94
Median hourly rate £67.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.76 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £71.00 £74.21
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +7.20% +4.17% -7.69%

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 4,673 3,636 4,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.85% 13.23% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,235 2,271 3,114
10th Percentile £333 £333 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £538
% change year-on-year -1.96% -5.12% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 65 194
10th Percentile £39.91 £46.18 £42.25
25th Percentile £54.75 £54.00 £48.85
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.20 £75.85 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 4 January 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 +8 813 £525 +5.00% 222
North of England +8 315 £459 -3.42% 140
Midlands +15 226 £453 -7.65% 117
South East -1 196 £475 +4.97% 201
West Midlands +12 171 £485 -2.02% 67
Yorkshire -6 156 £500 +1.99% 69
South West +13 144 £584 +3.78% 72
North West +10 141 £445 -3.78% 60
East Midlands +9 54 £358 -24.83% 46
East of England 0 54 £438 +7.76% 79
North East -1 18 £475 +5.56% 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
1 829 (46.49%) Confluence
2 109 (6.11%) SharePoint
3 43 (2.41%) SAS
4 35 (1.96%) nginx
5 25 (1.40%) CMS
6 13 (0.73%) Apache
7 11 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.39%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.34%) Mule
10 6 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.28%) WordPress
12 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
12 4 (0.22%) CICS
12 4 (0.22%) Drupal
12 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.17%) IIS
13 3 (0.17%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.17%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 185 (10.38%) Microsoft Project
2 149 (8.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 115 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
4 91 (5.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 73 (4.09%) MS Visio
6 32 (1.79%) Trello
7 10 (0.56%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 8 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
8 8 (0.45%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.34%) Notion
9 6 (0.34%) Sketch
9 6 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.28%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
11 4 (0.22%) InVision
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.11%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.11%) InDesign
12 2 (0.11%) Simulink
12 2 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 18 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.95%) NetSuite
3 13 (0.73%) Remedy ITSM
4 10 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 8 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.34%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.34%) Maximo
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.28%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.28%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.22%) Endur
8 4 (0.22%) Fidessa
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.22%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.22%) SAP HR
8 4 (0.22%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 339 (19.01%) Azure
2 272 (15.26%) AWS
3 177 (9.93%) Azure DevOps
4 169 (9.48%) GitHub
5 130 (7.29%) Power Platform
6 80 (4.49%) GCP
7 67 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
8 55 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
8 55 (3.08%) Serverless
9 46 (2.58%) SaaS
10 39 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
10 39 (2.19%) Amazon S3
11 36 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
11 36 (2.02%) Slack
12 32 (1.79%) Figma
13 31 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 30 (1.68%) Amazon ECS
14 30 (1.68%) Power Automate
14 30 (1.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 28 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 55 (3.08%) Firewall
2 40 (2.24%) DNS
3 34 (1.91%) SSH
4 26 (1.46%) HTTP
5 25 (1.40%) TCP/IP
6 22 (1.23%) VPN
7 19 (1.07%) FTP
8 18 (1.01%) SSL
9 17 (0.95%) SMTP
10 15 (0.84%) OpenLDAP
11 10 (0.56%) IMAP
12 8 (0.45%) WAN
13 7 (0.39%) DHCP
13 7 (0.39%) Ethernet
13 7 (0.39%) SD-WAN
14 6 (0.34%) Modbus
14 6 (0.34%) Network Security
14 6 (0.34%) RS-232
14 6 (0.34%) RS-485
15 5 (0.28%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (6.51%) Power BI
2 70 (3.93%) PostgreSQL
3 61 (3.42%) Tableau
4 43 (2.41%) SQL Server
5 34 (1.91%) Pentaho
6 32 (1.79%) NoSQL
7 28 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
7 28 (1.57%) Relational Database
8 25 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
9 22 (1.23%) Big Data
9 22 (1.23%) MongoDB
10 21 (1.18%) Oracle Database
11 20 (1.12%) Metadata
12 18 (1.01%) MySQL
13 16 (0.90%) Hadoop
14 15 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
15 11 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
15 11 (0.62%) Data Vault
15 11 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
15 11 (0.62%) Redis
Development Applications
1 230 (12.90%) Git
1 230 (12.90%) Jenkins
2 111 (6.23%) GitLab
3 70 (3.93%) Selenium
4 66 (3.70%) Bitbucket
5 61 (3.42%) Postman
6 45 (2.52%) Cucumber
7 34 (1.91%) TestRail
8 30 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
9 29 (1.63%) REST Assured
10 28 (1.57%) SonarQube
11 25 (1.40%) Zephyr
12 21 (1.18%) JUnit
13 19 (1.07%) SpecFlow
14 18 (1.01%) Rational DOORS
15 17 (0.95%) Artifactory
15 17 (0.95%) Maven
16 16 (0.90%) SoapUI
16 16 (0.90%) Vagrant
17 14 (0.79%) Cypress.io
General
1 739 (41.45%) Social Skills
2 468 (26.25%) Finance
3 325 (18.23%) Analytical Skills
4 225 (12.62%) Banking
5 208 (11.67%) Public Sector
6 71 (3.98%) Organisational Skills
7 61 (3.42%) Retail
8 57 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
9 52 (2.92%) Military
10 41 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
10 41 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
11 33 (1.85%) Legal
12 31 (1.74%) Investment Banking
13 26 (1.46%) Manufacturing
14 24 (1.35%) Marketing
15 23 (1.29%) Front Office
16 22 (1.23%) Telecoms
17 18 (1.01%) Retail Banking
18 16 (0.90%) Law
19 14 (0.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 340 (19.07%) Analyst
2 214 (12.00%) Business Analyst
3 167 (9.37%) Developer
4 155 (8.69%) Project Manager
5 137 (7.68%) Lead
6 128 (7.18%) Senior
7 112 (6.28%) Architect
8 73 (4.09%) Tester
9 53 (2.97%) Consultant
10 50 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
11 49 (2.75%) DevOps Engineer
12 46 (2.58%) Software Engineer
12 46 (2.58%) Test Analyst
13 44 (2.47%) Delivery Manager
13 44 (2.47%) Technical Analyst
14 39 (2.19%) Data Engineer
14 39 (2.19%) Product Owner
14 39 (2.19%) Technical Business Analyst
14 39 (2.19%) Test Engineer
15 37 (2.08%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (8.69%) REST
2 72 (4.04%) .NET
3 68 (3.81%) HTML
3 68 (3.81%) SOAP
4 56 (3.14%) React
5 52 (2.92%) CSS
6 50 (2.80%) AngularJS
7 49 (2.75%) Kafka
8 48 (2.69%) JSON
9 47 (2.64%) XML
10 45 (2.52%) RESTful
11 39 (2.19%) Node.js
12 37 (2.08%) LDAP
13 35 (1.96%) Spring
14 33 (1.85%) Oracle Fusion
14 33 (1.85%) Playwright
15 29 (1.63%) RabbitMQ
15 29 (1.63%) Spring Boot
16 28 (1.57%) OAuth
16 28 (1.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 216 (12.11%) Product Ownership
2 81 (4.54%) Onboarding
3 57 (3.20%) Cloud Native
4 43 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
5 38 (2.13%) Management Information System
6 35 (1.96%) PMI
7 34 (1.91%) Data Structures
7 34 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
8 26 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
9 25 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (1.29%) Mobile App
10 23 (1.29%) Replication
11 22 (1.23%) CMDB
11 22 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
12 21 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
12 21 (1.18%) Virtual Team
13 18 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 17 (0.95%) Algorithms
15 15 (0.84%) Tandem
16 13 (0.73%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 132 (7.40%) Windows
2 116 (6.51%) Linux
3 43 (2.41%) Unix
4 23 (1.29%) VMS
5 21 (1.18%) Android
6 16 (0.90%) Amazon Linux
7 14 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 14 (0.79%) Mac OS
8 11 (0.62%) Windows Server
9 10 (0.56%) Ubuntu
9 10 (0.56%) Windows 10
10 6 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
11 5 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.17%) zOS
13 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.11%) Solaris
14 1 (0.056%) MVS
14 1 (0.056%) Windows Embedded Compact
14 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,076 (60.35%) Agile
2 543 (30.45%) DevOps
3 430 (24.12%) Stakeholder Management
4 425 (23.84%) Problem-Solving
5 405 (22.71%) Scrum
6 356 (19.97%) CI/CD
7 288 (16.15%) Project Management
8 278 (15.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 254 (14.25%) Test Automation
10 240 (13.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 192 (10.77%) User Stories
12 181 (10.15%) Change Management
13 175 (9.81%) Project Delivery
14 173 (9.70%) User Acceptance Testing
15 172 (9.65%) Migration
16 170 (9.53%) Analytics
17 164 (9.20%) Business Intelligence
18 152 (8.52%) ITIL
19 149 (8.36%) Acceptance Criteria
20 146 (8.19%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 294 (16.49%) SQL
2 239 (13.40%) Python
3 149 (8.36%) Java
4 135 (7.57%) JavaScript
5 85 (4.77%) PowerShell
6 73 (4.09%) C#
7 50 (2.80%) TypeScript
8 45 (2.52%) Bash
9 38 (2.13%) Go
10 36 (2.02%) C++
11 25 (1.40%) Groovy
12 19 (1.07%) Embedded C++
13 17 (0.95%) Perl
13 17 (0.95%) PL/SQL
13 17 (0.95%) Shell Script
14 16 (0.90%) Apex Code
15 15 (0.84%) PHP
16 13 (0.73%) C
17 11 (0.62%) Ruby
18 10 (0.56%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 484 (27.15%) Security Cleared
2 415 (23.28%) SC Cleared
3 272 (15.26%) Degree
4 91 (5.10%) PMI Certification
5 76 (4.26%) PMP
6 55 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 49 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 45 (2.52%) ISTQB
9 43 (2.41%) CISSP
10 41 (2.30%) TOGAF Certification
11 37 (2.08%) DV Cleared
12 33 (1.85%) Master's Degree
13 32 (1.79%) CISM
14 29 (1.63%) AWS Certification
15 25 (1.40%) CBAP
16 21 (1.18%) Azure Certification
17 18 (1.01%) Oracle Certification
18 15 (0.84%) IIBA
18 15 (0.84%) ISEB
19 14 (0.79%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (11.72%) QA
2 106 (5.95%) PMO
3 70 (3.93%) Data Quality
4 54 (3.03%) Accessibility
5 53 (2.97%) GDPR
6 30 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (1.57%) NIST
8 18 (1.01%) ISO 20022
8 18 (1.01%) PSD2
8 18 (1.01%) WCAG
9 16 (0.90%) SEPA
10 14 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.62%) GRC
12 10 (0.56%) Basel III
12 10 (0.56%) SLA
13 8 (0.45%) NCSC
13 8 (0.45%) NIST 800
13 8 (0.45%) P3O
13 8 (0.45%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 204 (11.44%) Docker
2 52 (2.92%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (0.90%) DFS Replication
6 14 (0.79%) Firmware
7 11 (0.62%) Squid
8 10 (0.56%) Dovecot
8 10 (0.56%) Postfix
9 7 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
13 2 (0.11%) KVM
13 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
13 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.056%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
14 1 (0.056%) etcd
14 1 (0.056%) Xen
Systems Management
1 184 (10.32%) Kubernetes
2 99 (5.55%) Terraform
3 82 (4.60%) Ansible
4 49 (2.75%) Grafana
5 37 (2.08%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.68%) OPNET
7 25 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
8 23 (1.29%) HP ALM
9 21 (1.18%) Nessus
10 18 (1.01%) Control-M
11 15 (0.84%) Puppet
12 14 (0.79%) NetBackup
12 14 (0.79%) Packer
13 12 (0.67%) Consul
14 11 (0.62%) IBM Guardium
14 11 (0.62%) SCCM
15 10 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
15 10 (0.56%) Proxmox
16 7 (0.39%) Argo
17 6 (0.34%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 233 (13.07%) Microsoft
2 203 (11.39%) ServiceNow
3 160 (8.97%) Oracle
4 124 (6.95%) Atlassian
5 94 (5.27%) Salesforce
6 67 (3.76%) SAP
7 53 (2.97%) Remedy
8 46 (2.58%) Google
9 39 (2.19%) IBM
10 37 (2.08%) Talend
11 35 (1.96%) HP
12 33 (1.85%) Denodo
13 25 (1.40%) Splunk
14 21 (1.18%) CyberArk
15 20 (1.12%) VMware
16 19 (1.07%) BiZZdesign
17 18 (1.01%) Adobe
17 18 (1.01%) Red Hat
18 17 (0.95%) Cisco
19 16 (0.90%) Databricks