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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 35 47
Rank change year-on-year -5 +12 +1
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,105 1,371 1,434
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.85% 5.47% 3.84%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.87% 38.34% 32.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,437 925 952
10th Percentile £320 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £410 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £578 £600 £622
90th Percentile £675 £695 £706
UK median daily rate £490 £500 £511
% change year-on-year -2.00% -2.15% -2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 29 97
10th Percentile £18.75 £47.25 £25.15
25th Percentile £24.14 £50.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £51.50 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -15.38% +1.96%
75th Percentile £65.69 £70.16 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £79.00 -
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 5,150 3,576 4,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.85% 14.28% 11.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,337 2,430 3,000
10th Percentile £350 £337 £350
25th Percentile £409 £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 236 75 234
10th Percentile £28.53 £27.68 £32.10
25th Percentile £56.25 £49.00 £51.56
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £58.38 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.35% -10.19% +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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -6 955 £513 -1.44% 181
North of England -6 420 £450 -4.05% 100
Midlands +3 316 £450 -5.26% 37
West Midlands +1 255 £459 -3.37% 26
Yorkshire -4 223 £475 -6.31% 42
South East -27 205 £475 -2.31% 115
North West -9 179 £447 +5.18% 50
South West -8 119 £495 -13.91% 45
East of England -4 62 £450 +9.09% 28
East Midlands +13 59 £402 -10.48% 11
North East -30 22 £475 -12.64% 10
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
1 922 (43.80%) Confluence
2 111 (5.27%) SharePoint
3 36 (1.71%) SAS
4 35 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.71%) Apache
6 12 (0.57%) CMS
6 12 (0.57%) nginx
7 9 (0.43%) WebSphere
8 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.29%) Ethereum
9 6 (0.29%) Hyperledger
9 6 (0.29%) Mattermost
10 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
11 4 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.19%) IIS
11 4 (0.19%) JBoss
11 4 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.19%) WordPress
12 3 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 166 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 157 (7.46%) Microsoft Project
3 85 (4.04%) MS Visio
4 84 (3.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 62 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.57%) Trello
7 10 (0.48%) Chatbot
8 9 (0.43%) AutoCAD
8 9 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
9 8 (0.38%) Revit
10 4 (0.19%) Notion
11 2 (0.095%) CATIA
12 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.048%) CANalyzer
12 1 (0.048%) Mingle
12 1 (0.048%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.048%) SOLIDWORKS
12 1 (0.048%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 30 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (1.38%) Remedy ITSM
3 13 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.52%) Loan IQ
5 10 (0.48%) Workday HCM
6 9 (0.43%) Aladdin
7 8 (0.38%) Findur
7 8 (0.38%) SAP MDG
8 7 (0.33%) Fidessa
8 7 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.29%) 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
1 474 (22.52%) Azure
2 348 (16.53%) AWS
3 266 (12.64%) Azure DevOps
4 161 (7.65%) GitHub
4 161 (7.65%) Power Platform
5 91 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
6 81 (3.85%) Entra ID
7 80 (3.80%) SaaS
8 78 (3.71%) GCP
9 75 (3.56%) Amazon S3
10 74 (3.52%) Serverless
11 58 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
12 56 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
13 55 (2.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 52 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
15 37 (1.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 31 (1.47%) Slack
17 27 (1.28%) Miro
18 26 (1.24%) Amazon EKS
18 26 (1.24%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 86 (4.09%) Firewall
2 58 (2.76%) DNS
3 48 (2.28%) TCP/IP
4 36 (1.71%) Network Security
5 30 (1.43%) LAN
6 29 (1.38%) VPN
6 29 (1.38%) WAN
7 25 (1.19%) BIG-IP
8 24 (1.14%) DHCP
9 22 (1.05%) SAN
10 19 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
11 17 (0.81%) SSL
12 14 (0.67%) HTTP
13 12 (0.57%) SD-WAN
14 11 (0.52%) Internet
15 10 (0.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 10 (0.48%) Unified Communications
16 9 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 8 (0.38%) DKIM
17 8 (0.38%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (6.84%) Power BI
2 92 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
3 74 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
4 51 (2.42%) SQL Server
5 45 (2.14%) Tableau
6 44 (2.09%) Oracle Reports
7 33 (1.57%) MongoDB
8 32 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
9 27 (1.28%) DynamoDB
9 27 (1.28%) Relational Database
10 25 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
10 25 (1.19%) NoSQL
11 20 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
12 18 (0.86%) Pentaho
13 17 (0.81%) Oracle Database
14 16 (0.76%) Data Lake
15 15 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 14 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
17 12 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
17 12 (0.57%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 247 (11.73%) Git
2 195 (9.26%) Jenkins
3 120 (5.70%) GitLab
4 91 (4.32%) Selenium
5 71 (3.37%) Postman
6 68 (3.23%) Zephyr
7 55 (2.61%) Bitbucket
8 54 (2.57%) JUnit
9 51 (2.42%) Cucumber
10 41 (1.95%) JMeter
11 32 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
12 25 (1.19%) REST Assured
13 22 (1.05%) Cypress.io
13 22 (1.05%) TestRail
14 21 (1.00%) WebDriver
15 20 (0.95%) SonarQube
16 18 (0.86%) Artifactory
17 14 (0.67%) Appium
18 12 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 12 (0.57%) Maven
General
1 818 (38.86%) Social Skills
2 603 (28.65%) Finance
3 379 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
4 275 (13.06%) Banking
5 220 (10.45%) Public Sector
6 79 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
7 78 (3.71%) Retail
8 76 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
9 43 (2.04%) Legal
10 40 (1.90%) Manufacturing
11 37 (1.76%) Investment Banking
12 35 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
13 32 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
14 29 (1.38%) Front Office
14 29 (1.38%) Retail Banking
15 26 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 25 (1.19%) Military
17 21 (1.00%) Telecoms
18 20 (0.95%) Corporate Banking
19 19 (0.90%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 402 (19.10%) Analyst
2 244 (11.59%) Business Analyst
3 197 (9.36%) Developer
4 174 (8.27%) Lead
5 169 (8.03%) Senior
6 119 (5.65%) Project Manager
7 101 (4.80%) Architect
8 89 (4.23%) Delivery Manager
9 87 (4.13%) Tester
10 78 (3.71%) Scrum Master
11 77 (3.66%) Data Engineer
12 76 (3.61%) Consultant
13 65 (3.09%) IT Support
14 55 (2.61%) Support Engineer
15 45 (2.14%) Product Owner
16 44 (2.09%) IT Engineer
16 44 (2.09%) Test Analyst
17 42 (2.00%) IT Support Engineer
18 41 (1.95%) Java Developer
19 39 (1.85%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (5.13%) REST
2 63 (2.99%) Spring
3 56 (2.66%) .NET
4 55 (2.61%) React
5 48 (2.28%) HTML
5 48 (2.28%) JSON
5 48 (2.28%) RESTful
6 43 (2.04%) Kafka
7 41 (1.95%) Spring Boot
8 38 (1.81%) SOAP
9 37 (1.76%) CSS
10 32 (1.52%) Playwright
11 31 (1.47%) AngularJS
12 27 (1.28%) XML
13 26 (1.24%) Middleware
14 25 (1.19%) OpenID
15 24 (1.14%) Node.js
15 24 (1.14%) WireMock
16 23 (1.09%) .NET Framework
16 23 (1.09%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 238 (11.31%) Product Ownership
2 120 (5.70%) Onboarding
3 91 (4.32%) Cloud Native
4 63 (2.99%) Data Centre
5 51 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
6 50 (2.38%) Management Information System
6 50 (2.38%) Virtual Team
7 44 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
8 43 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
9 41 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
10 31 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
11 30 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
12 29 (1.38%) Data Structures
13 20 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 18 (0.86%) Public Cloud
14 18 (0.86%) SCADA
15 17 (0.81%) Enterprise Storage
15 17 (0.81%) Security Posture
16 16 (0.76%) Mobile App
16 16 (0.76%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 170 (8.08%) Windows
2 133 (6.32%) Linux
3 43 (2.04%) Unix
4 19 (0.90%) Windows 10
5 18 (0.86%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.81%) Mac OS
7 16 (0.76%) Android
7 16 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.48%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.14%) AIX
11 3 (0.14%) Check Point GAiA
11 3 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.095%) MVS
12 2 (0.095%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.048%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.048%) Solaris
13 1 (0.048%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,211 (57.53%) Agile
2 549 (26.08%) DevOps
3 548 (26.03%) Stakeholder Management
4 460 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
5 441 (20.95%) CI/CD
6 409 (19.43%) Scrum
7 393 (18.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 348 (16.53%) Test Automation
9 263 (12.49%) Migration
10 247 (11.73%) User Acceptance Testing
11 244 (11.59%) Project Management
12 236 (11.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 226 (10.74%) Validation
14 221 (10.50%) User Stories
15 207 (9.83%) Change Management
16 194 (9.22%) Project Delivery
17 193 (9.17%) Sprint Planning
18 189 (8.98%) AI
19 188 (8.93%) ITIL
20 186 (8.84%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 338 (16.06%) SQL
2 251 (11.92%) Python
3 168 (7.98%) Java
4 87 (4.13%) JavaScript
5 86 (4.09%) C#
6 66 (3.14%) TypeScript
7 59 (2.80%) PowerShell
8 39 (1.85%) Bash
9 32 (1.52%) PL/SQL
10 19 (0.90%) VBA
11 18 (0.86%) C++
12 15 (0.71%) Perl
12 15 (0.71%) Shell Script
13 14 (0.67%) Apex Code
14 11 (0.52%) ActionScript
14 11 (0.52%) Groovy
15 10 (0.48%) Bicep
16 9 (0.43%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.38%) C
17 8 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 535 (25.42%) Security Cleared
2 418 (19.86%) SC Cleared
3 192 (9.12%) Degree
4 75 (3.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 67 (3.18%) ISTQB
6 65 (3.09%) DV Cleared
7 63 (2.99%) PMI Certification
8 57 (2.71%) PMP
9 33 (1.57%) CISSP
9 33 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (1.14%) AWS Certification
11 24 (1.14%) Master's Degree
12 21 (1.00%) CISM
13 20 (0.95%) Azure Certification
13 20 (0.95%) SAFe Agilist
14 18 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
15 16 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 13 (0.62%) CCNA
17 11 (0.52%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 251 (11.92%) QA
2 118 (5.61%) Data Quality
3 111 (5.27%) PMO
4 55 (2.61%) Accessibility
5 42 (2.00%) GDPR
6 40 (1.90%) SLA
7 26 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (1.24%) 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%) Basel III
14 7 (0.33%) MiFID
14 7 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.29%) JSP 440
15 6 (0.29%) SEPA
System Software
1 142 (6.75%) Docker
2 110 (5.23%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.76%) Firmware
5 9 (0.43%) Squid
5 9 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.14%) HDFS
10 2 (0.095%) Postfix
10 2 (0.095%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.048%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.048%) OpenAM
11 1 (0.048%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 160 (7.60%) Kubernetes
2 139 (6.60%) Terraform
3 88 (4.18%) Ansible
4 64 (3.04%) Grafana
5 52 (2.47%) Prometheus
6 39 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 21 (1.00%) Control-M
8 21 (1.00%) HP ALM
9 17 (0.81%) Nessus
10 16 (0.76%) IBM Guardium
11 15 (0.71%) Puppet
12 13 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
13 12 (0.57%) Consul
14 10 (0.48%) HP Quality Center
15 9 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 8 (0.38%) Dell DRAC
16 8 (0.38%) FortiGate
16 8 (0.38%) SCCM
17 7 (0.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 286 (13.59%) Microsoft
2 263 (12.49%) ServiceNow
3 167 (7.93%) Oracle
4 104 (4.94%) Salesforce
5 91 (4.32%) Atlassian
6 83 (3.94%) SAP
7 54 (2.57%) Google
8 38 (1.81%) Denodo
9 37 (1.76%) Workday
10 35 (1.66%) Remedy
11 34 (1.62%) Informatica
12 33 (1.57%) F5
12 33 (1.57%) Talend
13 31 (1.47%) IBM
14 30 (1.43%) Red Hat
14 30 (1.43%) VMware
15 26 (1.24%) Databricks
16 23 (1.09%) HP
16 23 (1.09%) Splunk
17 22 (1.05%) MuleSoft