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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 43 53
Rank change year-on-year +5 +10 -9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,040 1,214 1,331
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.20% 4.98% 3.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.58% 36.47% 32.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,424 786 916
10th Percentile £313 £318 £336
25th Percentile £393 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £630
90th Percentile £693 £686 £756
UK median daily rate £485 £498 £525
% change year-on-year -2.51% -5.24% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 25 53
10th Percentile £18.75 £49.23 £20.80
25th Percentile £28.53 £55.25 £33.00
Median hourly rate £63.14 £62.50 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +1.02% +36.22% -26.59%
75th Percentile £71.25 £71.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.50 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £64.25 £62.50 £40.94
% change year-on-year +2.80% +52.66% -35.46%

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 5,027 3,329 4,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.82% 13.65% 11.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,360 2,226 2,878
10th Percentile £336 £341 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.25%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 66 160
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.88 £31.34
25th Percentile £60.00 £52.05 £46.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £63.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.72% +1.20% +1.63%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.31
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.36 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% +0.81%

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 15 April 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 15 April 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 15 April 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 +7 901 £500 - 198
North of England -1 371 £450 - 101
Midlands +7 306 £425 -10.53% 62
West Midlands 0 244 £453 -4.74% 39
South East -18 193 £475 -5.00% 121
Yorkshire -10 181 £450 -10.00% 38
North West +2 174 £447 -0.33% 51
South West +12 162 £575 +2.68% 41
East of England +5 66 £425 -6.85% 46
East Midlands 0 59 £358 -24.63% 23
North East -9 19 £475 -3.80% 12
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
1 926 (45.39%) Confluence
2 103 (5.05%) SharePoint
3 44 (2.16%) SAS
4 32 (1.57%) nginx
5 23 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
6 19 (0.93%) Apache
7 17 (0.83%) CMS
8 9 (0.44%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.39%) WebLogic
10 6 (0.29%) Ethereum
10 6 (0.29%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.29%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.25%) JBoss
11 5 (0.25%) Mattermost
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.15%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 221 (10.83%) Microsoft Project
2 190 (9.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 108 (5.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 103 (5.05%) Microsoft Office
5 91 (4.46%) MS Visio
6 22 (1.08%) Trello
7 9 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.34%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.25%) Notion
9 5 (0.25%) Sketch
10 4 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.20%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.15%) InVision
12 2 (0.098%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.098%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.098%) CATIA
12 2 (0.098%) Revit
13 1 (0.049%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 25 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.13%) Remedy ITSM
3 16 (0.78%) NetSuite
4 15 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
5 13 (0.64%) Loan IQ
6 10 (0.49%) Aladdin
6 10 (0.49%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.39%) Fidessa
8 7 (0.34%) Maximo
9 6 (0.29%) SAP MDG
10 5 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
11 4 (0.20%) Findur
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 4 (0.20%) SAP EWM
11 4 (0.20%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 418 (20.49%) Azure
2 304 (14.90%) AWS
3 236 (11.57%) Azure DevOps
4 164 (8.04%) GitHub
5 144 (7.06%) Power Platform
6 73 (3.58%) GCP
6 73 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
7 72 (3.53%) SaaS
8 68 (3.33%) Entra ID
9 57 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
10 46 (2.25%) Serverless
11 41 (2.01%) Amazon S3
12 36 (1.76%) Figma
13 35 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
13 35 (1.72%) Miro
14 30 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
16 26 (1.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 25 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
17 25 (1.23%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 56 (2.75%) Firewall
2 40 (1.96%) TCP/IP
3 38 (1.86%) DNS
4 28 (1.37%) LAN
5 25 (1.23%) Network Security
5 25 (1.23%) VPN
5 25 (1.23%) WAN
6 19 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
7 18 (0.88%) SSL
8 17 (0.83%) HTTP
9 15 (0.74%) DHCP
10 12 (0.59%) Internet
10 12 (0.59%) SAN
11 11 (0.54%) BIG-IP
11 11 (0.54%) SD-WAN
12 10 (0.49%) Ethernet
12 10 (0.49%) FTP
12 10 (0.49%) NAS
12 10 (0.49%) Unified Communications
13 7 (0.34%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (6.03%) Power BI
2 71 (3.48%) PostgreSQL
3 70 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
4 60 (2.94%) Tableau
5 51 (2.50%) SQL Server
6 39 (1.91%) MongoDB
7 35 (1.72%) NoSQL
8 32 (1.57%) Oracle Reports
9 28 (1.37%) Pentaho
10 22 (1.08%) Relational Database
11 20 (0.98%) Metadata
12 18 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
12 18 (0.88%) DynamoDB
12 18 (0.88%) MySQL
13 16 (0.78%) Big Data
14 15 (0.74%) Oracle Database
15 14 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
16 13 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 12 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
18 10 (0.49%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 262 (12.84%) Git
2 202 (9.90%) Jenkins
3 105 (5.15%) GitLab
4 103 (5.05%) Selenium
5 77 (3.77%) Postman
6 64 (3.14%) Cucumber
7 57 (2.79%) Zephyr
8 55 (2.70%) Bitbucket
9 52 (2.55%) JUnit
10 40 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
11 38 (1.86%) JMeter
12 33 (1.62%) REST Assured
12 33 (1.62%) TestRail
13 25 (1.23%) SonarQube
14 20 (0.98%) WebDriver
15 18 (0.88%) Cypress.io
16 17 (0.83%) Maven
17 14 (0.69%) Appium
17 14 (0.69%) SpecFlow
18 13 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 826 (40.49%) Social Skills
2 581 (28.48%) Finance
3 405 (19.85%) Analytical Skills
4 255 (12.50%) Banking
5 220 (10.78%) Public Sector
6 73 (3.58%) Organisational Skills
7 71 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
8 69 (3.38%) Retail
9 53 (2.60%) Military
10 44 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
11 37 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
12 33 (1.62%) Legal
13 31 (1.52%) Manufacturing
14 30 (1.47%) Investment Banking
15 25 (1.23%) Front Office
16 22 (1.08%) Retail Banking
17 20 (0.98%) Marketing
17 20 (0.98%) Telecoms
18 18 (0.88%) Law
19 17 (0.83%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 403 (19.75%) Analyst
2 256 (12.55%) Business Analyst
3 178 (8.73%) Developer
4 161 (7.89%) Lead
5 154 (7.55%) Senior
6 145 (7.11%) Project Manager
7 118 (5.78%) Architect
8 102 (5.00%) Tester
9 85 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
10 60 (2.94%) Consultant
10 60 (2.94%) Data Engineer
10 60 (2.94%) Scrum Master
11 54 (2.65%) Test Engineer
12 51 (2.50%) Test Analyst
13 48 (2.35%) IT Support
13 48 (2.35%) Support Engineer
14 44 (2.16%) Technical Manager
15 43 (2.11%) Software Engineer
16 42 (2.06%) Solutions Architect
16 42 (2.06%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (6.27%) REST
2 64 (3.14%) Spring
3 58 (2.84%) .NET
4 55 (2.70%) React
5 47 (2.30%) Kafka
6 44 (2.16%) JSON
7 43 (2.11%) RESTful
8 42 (2.06%) HTML
9 41 (2.01%) Spring Boot
10 40 (1.96%) XML
11 37 (1.81%) CSS
12 36 (1.76%) Playwright
13 32 (1.57%) SOAP
14 29 (1.42%) ADO
14 29 (1.42%) OpenID
14 29 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
15 27 (1.32%) LDAP
15 27 (1.32%) Node.js
16 26 (1.27%) AngularJS
16 26 (1.27%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 246 (12.06%) Product Ownership
2 86 (4.22%) Onboarding
3 73 (3.58%) Cloud Native
4 44 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
4 44 (2.16%) Management Information System
5 43 (2.11%) Virtual Team
6 41 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
7 38 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
8 32 (1.57%) Data Centre
9 29 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
10 26 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
11 24 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
12 23 (1.13%) Data Structures
13 22 (1.08%) PMI
14 21 (1.03%) Mobile App
15 16 (0.78%) Public Cloud
16 14 (0.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
17 13 (0.64%) Distributed Architecture
17 13 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 12 (0.59%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 159 (7.79%) Windows
2 137 (6.72%) Linux
3 31 (1.52%) Unix
4 19 (0.93%) Windows 10
5 18 (0.88%) Android
6 11 (0.54%) Mac OS
6 11 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.49%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.49%) Windows Server
8 8 (0.39%) FreeRTOS
9 2 (0.098%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.098%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.049%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.049%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,195 (58.58%) Agile
2 554 (27.16%) DevOps
3 498 (24.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 473 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
5 430 (21.08%) Scrum
6 398 (19.51%) CI/CD
7 371 (18.19%) Continuous Improvement
8 326 (15.98%) Test Automation
9 291 (14.26%) Project Management
10 256 (12.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 222 (10.88%) Migration
12 215 (10.54%) User Acceptance Testing
13 204 (10.00%) Change Management
13 204 (10.00%) User Stories
14 193 (9.46%) Project Delivery
15 190 (9.31%) ITIL
16 181 (8.87%) Validation
17 179 (8.77%) Acceptance Criteria
18 175 (8.58%) Analytics
19 169 (8.28%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 322 (15.78%) SQL
2 238 (11.67%) Python
3 188 (9.22%) Java
4 102 (5.00%) JavaScript
5 87 (4.26%) C#
6 75 (3.68%) PowerShell
7 60 (2.94%) TypeScript
8 40 (1.96%) Bash
9 31 (1.52%) C++
10 23 (1.13%) Shell Script
11 19 (0.93%) PL/SQL
12 17 (0.83%) C
13 15 (0.74%) Embedded C++
14 13 (0.64%) Apex Code
14 13 (0.64%) Perl
15 12 (0.59%) Go
15 12 (0.59%) VBA
16 10 (0.49%) Embedded C
17 8 (0.39%) PHP
18 7 (0.34%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 566 (27.75%) Security Cleared
2 447 (21.91%) SC Cleared
3 246 (12.06%) Degree
4 80 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 75 (3.68%) PMI Certification
6 71 (3.48%) ISTQB
7 70 (3.43%) PMP
8 58 (2.84%) DV Cleared
9 37 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
10 36 (1.76%) TOGAF Certification
11 34 (1.67%) CISSP
12 27 (1.32%) Master's Degree
13 24 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
13 24 (1.18%) CISM
14 20 (0.98%) IIBA
15 19 (0.93%) Azure Certification
16 18 (0.88%) AWS Certification
16 18 (0.88%) CBAP
16 18 (0.88%) ISEB
17 17 (0.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 265 (12.99%) QA
2 120 (5.88%) PMO
3 105 (5.15%) Data Quality
4 50 (2.45%) GDPR
5 46 (2.25%) Accessibility
6 32 (1.57%) NIST
7 28 (1.37%) SLA
8 22 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 18 (0.88%) WCAG
10 17 (0.83%) GRC
11 12 (0.59%) ISO 20022
11 12 (0.59%) PCI DSS
11 12 (0.59%) PSD2
12 11 (0.54%) Basel III
13 10 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.34%) NCSC
14 7 (0.34%) NIST 800
14 7 (0.34%) SEPA
15 6 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 170 (8.33%) Docker
2 92 (4.51%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.64%) Firmware
5 10 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (0.44%) Squid
7 7 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 5 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.15%) HDFS
10 2 (0.098%) Postfix
10 2 (0.098%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.098%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.049%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.049%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.049%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 185 (9.07%) Kubernetes
2 110 (5.39%) Terraform
3 84 (4.12%) Ansible
4 59 (2.89%) Grafana
5 43 (2.11%) Prometheus
6 32 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.47%) OPNET
8 26 (1.27%) HP ALM
9 24 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
10 22 (1.08%) Consul
10 22 (1.08%) Control-M
11 16 (0.78%) Nessus
11 16 (0.78%) Puppet
12 15 (0.74%) IBM Guardium
12 15 (0.74%) Packer
13 11 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
14 10 (0.49%) SCCM
15 9 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 8 (0.39%) FortiGate
16 8 (0.39%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 255 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 243 (11.91%) Microsoft
3 176 (8.63%) Oracle
4 151 (7.40%) Atlassian
5 104 (5.10%) Salesforce
6 73 (3.58%) SAP
7 61 (2.99%) Remedy
8 47 (2.30%) Google
9 37 (1.81%) Talend
10 34 (1.67%) Splunk
10 34 (1.67%) Workday
11 30 (1.47%) Denodo
12 28 (1.37%) HP
12 28 (1.37%) IBM
12 28 (1.37%) Red Hat
13 26 (1.27%) Databricks
14 22 (1.08%) VMware
15 20 (0.98%) Adobe
15 20 (0.98%) MuleSoft
16 19 (0.93%) Informatica