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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 32 40
Rank change year-on-year -16 +8 +10
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,008 1,656 1,410
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.33% 5.97% 4.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.85% 39.37% 32.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,295 1,183 895
10th Percentile £350 £313 £319
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year - -0.10% -6.27%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 47 66
10th Percentile £19.15 £15.74 £28.62
25th Percentile £24.10 £46.88 £56.03
Median hourly rate £57.50 £55.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -21.43% +12.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 -
90th Percentile £79.00 £81.20 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -21.43% +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 5,305 4,206 4,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.45% 15.15% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,358 2,915 2,710
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £635
90th Percentile £700 £694 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 98 164
10th Percentile £22.68 £34.43 £39.03
25th Percentile £51.21 £50.00 £54.68
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.12 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £75.75 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £63.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.36% -2.31% -

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -16 934 £538 +2.38% 832
North of England -20 343 £485 +2.37% 285
Midlands -12 244 £459 -1.02% 160
West Midlands -14 212 £469 -1.26% 100
Yorkshire -8 206 £485 -3.00% 105
South East -42 204 £460 -3.26% 331
South West -1 150 £525 -4.55% 124
North West -44 118 £475 +8.57% 143
East of England +9 93 £467 +14.03% 131
East Midlands -10 32 £405 +12.81% 60
North East -36 25 £463 -11.06% 37
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
1 898 (44.72%) Confluence
2 102 (5.08%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.10%) CMS
5 19 (0.95%) SAS
6 11 (0.55%) Apache
7 10 (0.50%) Camunda
8 9 (0.45%) nginx
9 7 (0.35%) IIS
10 6 (0.30%) CICS
11 5 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.25%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.25%) MTS
12 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
12 4 (0.20%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.20%) Traefik
12 4 (0.20%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.20%) WordPress
13 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 139 (6.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 116 (5.78%) Microsoft Project
3 79 (3.93%) MS Visio
4 63 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
5 60 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 20 (1.00%) Trello
7 17 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.45%) AutoCAD
9 7 (0.35%) Revit
10 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.25%) Notion
11 4 (0.20%) Windchill
12 3 (0.15%) Mingle
13 2 (0.100%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.100%) Gliffy
13 2 (0.100%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.050%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.050%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 1 (0.050%) Mozilla Thunderbird
14 1 (0.050%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 33 (1.64%) Remedy ITSM
2 19 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.65%) Workday HCM
4 12 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
5 9 (0.45%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 6 (0.30%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.25%) Fidessa
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
7 5 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
7 5 (0.25%) ResourceLink
7 5 (0.25%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.20%) Findur
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.20%) SAP FI-AR
8 4 (0.20%) SAP HCM
9 3 (0.15%) Maximo
9 3 (0.15%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 489 (24.35%) Azure
2 315 (15.69%) AWS
3 274 (13.65%) Azure DevOps
4 165 (8.22%) GitHub
5 164 (8.17%) Power Platform
6 105 (5.23%) GCP
7 94 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
8 66 (3.29%) SaaS
9 60 (2.99%) Serverless
10 57 (2.84%) Amazon S3
11 51 (2.54%) Entra ID
12 50 (2.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 47 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
14 43 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
15 41 (2.04%) Miro
16 37 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
17 36 (1.79%) Smartsheet
18 33 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
19 30 (1.49%) Snowflake
20 26 (1.29%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (3.69%) Firewall
2 70 (3.49%) DNS
3 43 (2.14%) TCP/IP
4 32 (1.59%) VPN
5 30 (1.49%) DHCP
6 23 (1.15%) Network Security
7 19 (0.95%) BIG-IP
8 18 (0.90%) IPv4
8 18 (0.90%) IPv6
8 18 (0.90%) WAN
9 17 (0.85%) Broadband
9 17 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (0.80%) SAN
11 15 (0.75%) VLAN
12 14 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 14 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 11 (0.55%) SSL
14 10 (0.50%) SSH
15 9 (0.45%) 5G
15 9 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (7.22%) Power BI
2 94 (4.68%) Data Warehouse
3 72 (3.59%) SQL Server
4 58 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
5 40 (1.99%) Relational Database
6 37 (1.84%) Oracle Reports
7 27 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 24 (1.20%) MongoDB
9 21 (1.05%) Oracle Database
10 20 (1.00%) Data Lake
10 20 (1.00%) Metadata
11 19 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 18 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
13 17 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
14 16 (0.80%) Tableau
15 15 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 14 (0.70%) NoSQL
17 13 (0.65%) DynamoDB
17 13 (0.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 250 (12.45%) Git
2 167 (8.32%) Jenkins
3 123 (6.13%) GitLab
4 76 (3.78%) Zephyr
5 69 (3.44%) Selenium
6 66 (3.29%) Bitbucket
7 63 (3.14%) Postman
8 37 (1.84%) JUnit
9 32 (1.59%) Cucumber
10 29 (1.44%) REST Assured
10 29 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
11 28 (1.39%) JMeter
11 28 (1.39%) Maven
12 26 (1.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 24 (1.20%) Cypress.io
14 23 (1.15%) Mockito
14 23 (1.15%) TestRail
15 22 (1.10%) Rational Rhapsody
16 21 (1.05%) SonarQube
17 17 (0.85%) Artifactory
General
1 799 (39.79%) Social Skills
2 583 (29.03%) Finance
3 395 (19.67%) Analytical Skills
4 280 (13.94%) Banking
5 236 (11.75%) Public Sector
6 90 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
7 73 (3.64%) Retail
8 70 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
9 56 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
10 54 (2.69%) Investment Banking
11 51 (2.54%) Manufacturing
12 46 (2.29%) Telecoms
13 40 (1.99%) Legal
14 38 (1.89%) Front Office
14 38 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 34 (1.69%) Marketing
16 25 (1.25%) Financial Institution
16 25 (1.25%) Retail Banking
17 21 (1.05%) Military
18 20 (1.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 348 (17.33%) Analyst
2 222 (11.06%) Lead
3 206 (10.26%) Business Analyst
4 199 (9.91%) Developer
5 175 (8.72%) Senior
6 111 (5.53%) Project Manager
7 79 (3.93%) Delivery Manager
8 78 (3.88%) Consultant
9 73 (3.64%) Architect
10 70 (3.49%) Scrum Master
11 62 (3.09%) Tester
12 53 (2.64%) Administrator
13 50 (2.49%) Product Owner
13 50 (2.49%) Test Leader
14 48 (2.39%) Test Analyst
15 45 (2.24%) Support Engineer
16 44 (2.19%) Data Engineer
17 40 (1.99%) Test Engineer
18 39 (1.94%) Senior Manager
19 38 (1.89%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (7.52%) REST
2 134 (6.67%) Terraform
3 76 (3.78%) .NET
4 60 (2.99%) HTML
4 60 (2.99%) RESTful
5 49 (2.44%) SOAP
6 48 (2.39%) React
7 47 (2.34%) JSON
7 47 (2.34%) Web Services
8 46 (2.29%) AngularJS
9 43 (2.14%) Kafka
10 39 (1.94%) CSS
10 39 (1.94%) Playwright
10 39 (1.94%) Spring
10 39 (1.94%) XML
11 38 (1.89%) Spring Boot
12 33 (1.64%) Middleware
13 29 (1.44%) pytest
14 27 (1.34%) Hibernate
15 26 (1.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 262 (13.05%) Product Ownership
2 140 (6.97%) Onboarding
3 91 (4.53%) Cloud Native
4 68 (3.39%) Data Centre
5 64 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
6 55 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
7 52 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
8 46 (2.29%) Virtual Team
9 40 (1.99%) Data Structures
10 38 (1.89%) Management Information System
11 36 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
12 28 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
13 25 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
14 22 (1.10%) Credit Risk
15 20 (1.00%) Derivative
15 20 (1.00%) Replication
15 20 (1.00%) SCADA
16 19 (0.95%) Mobile App
17 18 (0.90%) Low-Code
18 17 (0.85%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 143 (7.12%) Windows
2 136 (6.77%) Linux
3 42 (2.09%) Unix
4 30 (1.49%) Windows 10
5 22 (1.10%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.90%) Android
7 17 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (0.75%) Windows Server
9 14 (0.70%) Mac OS
10 11 (0.55%) VMS
11 9 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
12 8 (0.40%) CentOS
12 8 (0.40%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.30%) zOS
14 5 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
15 4 (0.20%) AIX
16 3 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
17 2 (0.100%) MVS
17 2 (0.100%) Solaris
17 2 (0.100%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,182 (58.86%) Agile
2 674 (33.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 540 (26.89%) DevOps
4 450 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
5 431 (21.46%) CI/CD
5 431 (21.46%) Scrum
6 371 (18.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 349 (17.38%) Test Automation
8 309 (15.39%) Migration
9 263 (13.10%) User Acceptance Testing
10 248 (12.35%) User Stories
11 244 (12.15%) Validation
12 241 (12.00%) AI
13 229 (11.40%) Project Management
14 219 (10.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 214 (10.66%) Project Delivery
16 212 (10.56%) Sprint Planning
17 205 (10.21%) SDLC
18 201 (10.01%) Acceptance Criteria
19 183 (9.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 367 (18.28%) SQL
2 263 (13.10%) Python
3 130 (6.47%) Java
4 95 (4.73%) JavaScript
5 73 (3.64%) PowerShell
6 71 (3.54%) C#
7 69 (3.44%) TypeScript
8 46 (2.29%) Bash
9 35 (1.74%) PL/SQL
10 25 (1.25%) C++
11 19 (0.95%) Groovy
12 18 (0.90%) Kotlin
13 17 (0.85%) Bicep
14 14 (0.70%) ActionScript
14 14 (0.70%) C
15 13 (0.65%) Apex Code
16 12 (0.60%) Perl
17 11 (0.55%) Shell Script
18 9 (0.45%) VBA
19 8 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 527 (26.25%) Security Cleared
2 402 (20.02%) SC Cleared
3 159 (7.92%) Degree
4 96 (4.78%) DV Cleared
5 90 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 66 (3.29%) PMI Certification
7 65 (3.24%) ISTQB
8 54 (2.69%) PMP
9 31 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (1.34%) AWS Certification
11 22 (1.10%) Master's Degree
12 21 (1.05%) Azure Certification
13 18 (0.90%) CISSP
14 17 (0.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 17 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
15 15 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 12 (0.60%) CISM
16 12 (0.60%) ISEB
16 12 (0.60%) SAFe Agilist
17 11 (0.55%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 269 (13.40%) QA
2 132 (6.57%) Data Quality
3 119 (5.93%) PMO
4 64 (3.19%) Accessibility
5 38 (1.89%) SLA
6 24 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (1.20%) WCAG
7 20 (1.00%) NCSC
8 19 (0.95%) GRC
8 19 (0.95%) NIST
9 14 (0.70%) GDPR
9 14 (0.70%) ISO 20022
10 9 (0.45%) COBIT
10 9 (0.45%) SEPA
11 8 (0.40%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.30%) JSP 440
13 5 (0.25%) MiFID
13 5 (0.25%) P3O
14 4 (0.20%) EMIR
System Software
1 129 (6.42%) Docker
2 101 (5.03%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (0.55%) Firmware
6 8 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.30%) vSphere
9 3 (0.15%) Squid
10 2 (0.100%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.100%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.100%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.100%) Postfix
10 2 (0.100%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.050%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.050%) NFS
11 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.050%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.050%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 1 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 114 (5.68%) Kubernetes
2 66 (3.29%) Ansible
3 54 (2.69%) Grafana
4 43 (2.14%) Prometheus
5 24 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
6 23 (1.15%) HP ALM
7 17 (0.85%) Control-M
8 10 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.45%) Istio
9 9 (0.45%) Packer
10 7 (0.35%) Dell DRAC
10 7 (0.35%) Nessus
10 7 (0.35%) SCCM
10 7 (0.35%) SCOM
11 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
11 6 (0.30%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.25%) Argo
12 5 (0.25%) HP Quality Center
12 5 (0.25%) IBM Guardium
12 5 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 313 (15.59%) Microsoft
2 212 (10.56%) ServiceNow
3 147 (7.32%) Oracle
4 99 (4.93%) SAP
5 78 (3.88%) Salesforce
6 70 (3.49%) Atlassian
7 61 (3.04%) Google
8 55 (2.74%) IBM
9 49 (2.44%) VMware
10 38 (1.89%) Splunk
11 36 (1.79%) Remedy
12 28 (1.39%) Databricks
13 25 (1.25%) Denodo
14 24 (1.20%) HP
15 23 (1.15%) Workday
16 22 (1.10%) F5
16 22 (1.10%) Informatica
16 22 (1.10%) Talend
17 21 (1.05%) Adobe
18 20 (1.00%) MuleSoft