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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 36 48
Rank change year-on-year -4 +12 0
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,066 1,326 1,420
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.83% 5.38% 3.78%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.77% 38.13% 31.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,422 889 942
10th Percentile £318 £325 £322
25th Percentile £400 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% -1.41%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £623
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
UK median daily rate £486 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -2.80% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 27 92
10th Percentile £18.75 £47.30 £25.32
25th Percentile £24.60 £50.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% -
75th Percentile £69.00 £70.08 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £78.00 -
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.64% -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 5,067 3,478 4,460
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.85% 14.10% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,298 2,359 2,990
10th Percentile £350 £336 £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 £681 £715 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 70 224
10th Percentile £34.64 £27.35 £33.02
25th Percentile £59.44 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £59.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.45% -8.46% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.30 £76.83
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.55% -11.15% +4.84%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 0 933 £512 -1.59% 182
North of England -2 414 £450 - 87
Midlands +3 317 £450 -5.26% 44
West Midlands 0 256 £459 -3.37% 29
Yorkshire -1 219 £460 -8.00% 42
South East -22 198 £459 -4.87% 125
North West -2 176 £434 +2.78% 41
South West -5 117 £495 -13.16% 51
East Midlands +7 59 £393 -12.67% 15
East of England -6 59 £588 +28.77% 42
North East -27 23 £475 -12.64% 5
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
1 912 (44.14%) Confluence
2 113 (5.47%) SharePoint
3 39 (1.89%) SAS
4 34 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.73%) Apache
6 12 (0.58%) CMS
6 12 (0.58%) nginx
7 9 (0.44%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.29%) Ethereum
8 6 (0.29%) Hyperledger
8 6 (0.29%) Mattermost
9 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.24%) JBoss
10 4 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.19%) IIS
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.15%) Camunda
11 3 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 158 (7.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 153 (7.41%) Microsoft Project
3 84 (4.07%) MS Visio
4 80 (3.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 62 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.58%) Trello
7 10 (0.48%) Chatbot
8 9 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
9 7 (0.34%) AutoCAD
9 7 (0.34%) Revit
10 4 (0.19%) Notion
11 1 (0.048%) CANalyzer
11 1 (0.048%) CATIA
11 1 (0.048%) Mingle
11 1 (0.048%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.048%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 28 (1.36%) Remedy ITSM
1 28 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.53%) Loan IQ
4 9 (0.44%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.44%) Workday HCM
5 8 (0.39%) Findur
5 8 (0.39%) SAP MDG
6 7 (0.34%) Fidessa
6 7 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.24%) SAP Retail
7 5 (0.24%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.19%) Actimize
8 4 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.15%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 454 (21.97%) Azure
2 339 (16.41%) AWS
3 256 (12.39%) Azure DevOps
4 158 (7.65%) GitHub
5 153 (7.41%) Power Platform
6 91 (4.40%) Microsoft 365
7 81 (3.92%) GCP
8 78 (3.78%) Entra ID
9 75 (3.63%) SaaS
10 69 (3.34%) Amazon S3
11 67 (3.24%) Serverless
12 55 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
13 52 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
14 51 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 48 (2.32%) Amazon EC2
16 37 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 33 (1.60%) Slack
18 28 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
19 27 (1.31%) Miro
20 26 (1.26%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 80 (3.87%) Firewall
2 59 (2.86%) DNS
3 46 (2.23%) TCP/IP
4 34 (1.65%) Network Security
5 30 (1.45%) LAN
6 28 (1.36%) WAN
7 27 (1.31%) VPN
8 24 (1.16%) BIG-IP
9 23 (1.11%) DHCP
10 19 (0.92%) SAN
10 19 (0.92%) SSL
10 19 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (0.68%) HTTP
12 12 (0.58%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.53%) Internet
14 10 (0.48%) Unified Communications
15 9 (0.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 8 (0.39%) Ethernet
16 8 (0.39%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 8 (0.39%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (6.53%) Power BI
2 91 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
3 74 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
4 52 (2.52%) SQL Server
5 47 (2.27%) Tableau
6 45 (2.18%) Oracle Reports
7 38 (1.84%) MongoDB
8 30 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
9 26 (1.26%) DynamoDB
9 26 (1.26%) NoSQL
9 26 (1.26%) Relational Database
10 22 (1.06%) Amazon Athena
11 18 (0.87%) Pentaho
12 17 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
13 16 (0.77%) Oracle Database
13 16 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (0.73%) BusinessObjects
15 14 (0.68%) Data Lake
16 12 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
16 12 (0.58%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 246 (11.91%) Git
2 192 (9.29%) Jenkins
3 122 (5.91%) GitLab
4 92 (4.45%) Selenium
5 69 (3.34%) Postman
6 68 (3.29%) Zephyr
7 54 (2.61%) Bitbucket
7 54 (2.61%) JUnit
8 49 (2.37%) Cucumber
9 39 (1.89%) JMeter
10 33 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
11 26 (1.26%) REST Assured
12 21 (1.02%) WebDriver
13 20 (0.97%) Cypress.io
13 20 (0.97%) SonarQube
13 20 (0.97%) TestRail
14 18 (0.87%) Artifactory
15 14 (0.68%) Appium
16 12 (0.58%) Maven
17 11 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 801 (38.77%) Social Skills
2 603 (29.19%) Finance
3 382 (18.49%) Analytical Skills
4 269 (13.02%) Banking
5 210 (10.16%) Public Sector
6 78 (3.78%) Documentation Skills
7 74 (3.58%) Organisational Skills
8 72 (3.48%) Retail
9 43 (2.08%) Legal
10 39 (1.89%) Manufacturing
11 37 (1.79%) Investment Banking
12 34 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
12 34 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
13 31 (1.50%) Retail Banking
14 27 (1.31%) Front Office
14 27 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 23 (1.11%) Military
16 20 (0.97%) Corporate Banking
16 20 (0.97%) Telecoms
17 19 (0.92%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 407 (19.70%) Analyst
2 257 (12.44%) Business Analyst
3 192 (9.29%) Developer
4 173 (8.37%) Lead
5 165 (7.99%) Senior
6 117 (5.66%) Project Manager
7 95 (4.60%) Architect
8 89 (4.31%) Delivery Manager
9 88 (4.26%) Tester
10 75 (3.63%) Scrum Master
11 74 (3.58%) Data Engineer
12 70 (3.39%) Consultant
13 64 (3.10%) IT Support
14 55 (2.66%) Support Engineer
15 43 (2.08%) IT Engineer
15 43 (2.08%) Test Engineer
16 42 (2.03%) IT Support Engineer
16 42 (2.03%) Test Analyst
17 40 (1.94%) Java Developer
18 39 (1.89%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (5.03%) REST
2 62 (3.00%) Spring
3 55 (2.66%) React
4 53 (2.57%) .NET
5 48 (2.32%) JSON
6 47 (2.27%) HTML
7 46 (2.23%) Kafka
7 46 (2.23%) RESTful
8 40 (1.94%) SOAP
8 40 (1.94%) Spring Boot
9 35 (1.69%) CSS
10 31 (1.50%) AngularJS
11 30 (1.45%) Playwright
12 27 (1.31%) XML
13 25 (1.21%) OpenID
14 24 (1.16%) Middleware
14 24 (1.16%) Node.js
15 23 (1.11%) ADO
15 23 (1.11%) WireMock
16 21 (1.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 233 (11.28%) Product Ownership
2 115 (5.57%) Onboarding
3 84 (4.07%) Cloud Native
4 59 (2.86%) Data Centre
5 50 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
6 48 (2.32%) Management Information System
7 47 (2.27%) Virtual Team
8 43 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
9 42 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
10 39 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
11 29 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
11 29 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
12 26 (1.26%) Data Structures
13 18 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 18 (0.87%) PMI
13 18 (0.87%) Public Cloud
13 18 (0.87%) SCADA
14 16 (0.77%) Mobile App
15 15 (0.73%) Distributed Architecture
16 14 (0.68%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 173 (8.37%) Windows
2 134 (6.49%) Linux
3 44 (2.13%) Unix
4 21 (1.02%) Windows 10
5 19 (0.92%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.87%) Mac OS
7 17 (0.82%) Android
8 14 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (0.53%) Windows Server
10 6 (0.29%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.15%) AIX
12 3 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 2 (0.097%) MVS
13 2 (0.097%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.048%) Check Point GAiA
14 1 (0.048%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.048%) Solaris
14 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.048%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,175 (56.87%) Agile
2 532 (25.75%) DevOps
3 528 (25.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 459 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 429 (20.76%) CI/CD
6 414 (20.04%) Scrum
7 375 (18.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 341 (16.51%) Test Automation
9 259 (12.54%) Migration
10 243 (11.76%) Project Management
11 242 (11.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 239 (11.57%) User Acceptance Testing
13 224 (10.84%) User Stories
14 211 (10.21%) Validation
15 199 (9.63%) Change Management
16 192 (9.29%) Sprint Planning
17 187 (9.05%) Project Delivery
18 183 (8.86%) SDLC
19 178 (8.62%) ITIL
20 174 (8.42%) AI
Programming Languages
1 331 (16.02%) SQL
2 240 (11.62%) Python
3 170 (8.23%) Java
4 82 (3.97%) JavaScript
5 81 (3.92%) C#
6 62 (3.00%) TypeScript
7 60 (2.90%) PowerShell
8 43 (2.08%) Bash
9 31 (1.50%) PL/SQL
10 20 (0.97%) C++
11 19 (0.92%) Shell Script
12 16 (0.77%) VBA
13 15 (0.73%) Apex Code
13 15 (0.73%) Perl
14 11 (0.53%) Groovy
15 10 (0.48%) ActionScript
15 10 (0.48%) C
16 9 (0.44%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.39%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 533 (25.80%) Security Cleared
2 418 (20.23%) SC Cleared
3 185 (8.95%) Degree
4 75 (3.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 66 (3.19%) PMI Certification
6 65 (3.15%) ISTQB
7 61 (2.95%) DV Cleared
8 58 (2.81%) PMP
9 32 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 31 (1.50%) CISSP
11 26 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
12 24 (1.16%) Master's Degree
13 22 (1.06%) CISM
14 21 (1.02%) AWS Certification
15 20 (0.97%) Azure Certification
15 20 (0.97%) SAFe Agilist
16 17 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
17 16 (0.77%) IIBA
18 15 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 13 (0.63%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 246 (11.91%) QA
2 117 (5.66%) Data Quality
3 105 (5.08%) PMO
4 54 (2.61%) Accessibility
5 44 (2.13%) GDPR
6 42 (2.03%) SLA
7 26 (1.26%) NIST
8 25 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 20 (0.97%) GRC
9 20 (0.97%) WCAG
10 17 (0.82%) PCI DSS
11 13 (0.63%) NCSC
12 9 (0.44%) PSD2
13 8 (0.39%) Basel III
13 8 (0.39%) ISO 20022
14 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.29%) JSP 440
15 6 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 144 (6.97%) Docker
2 108 (5.23%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.82%) Firmware
5 10 (0.48%) Squid
6 9 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.19%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.15%) HDFS
10 3 (0.15%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.097%) Postfix
12 1 (0.048%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.048%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 159 (7.70%) Kubernetes
2 135 (6.53%) Terraform
3 89 (4.31%) Ansible
4 67 (3.24%) Grafana
5 52 (2.52%) Prometheus
6 35 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
8 21 (1.02%) Control-M
9 19 (0.92%) HP ALM
10 17 (0.82%) Nessus
11 16 (0.77%) IBM Guardium
12 14 (0.68%) Puppet
13 13 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
14 12 (0.58%) Consul
15 10 (0.48%) HP Quality Center
16 8 (0.39%) Dell DRAC
16 8 (0.39%) FortiGate
16 8 (0.39%) SCCM
17 7 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 7 (0.34%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 272 (13.17%) Microsoft
2 257 (12.44%) ServiceNow
3 166 (8.03%) Oracle
4 101 (4.89%) Salesforce
5 89 (4.31%) Atlassian
6 77 (3.73%) SAP
7 54 (2.61%) Google
8 38 (1.84%) Denodo
9 35 (1.69%) Remedy
9 35 (1.69%) Workday
10 32 (1.55%) F5
10 32 (1.55%) Talend
11 30 (1.45%) IBM
11 30 (1.45%) Informatica
12 29 (1.40%) Red Hat
13 28 (1.36%) VMware
14 26 (1.26%) Databricks
14 26 (1.26%) Splunk
15 24 (1.16%) MuleSoft
16 22 (1.06%) Tenable