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 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 32 46
Rank change year-on-year -8 +14 0
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,122 1,482 1,468
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.77% 5.55% 3.96%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.59% 39.13% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,433 1,014 973
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £405 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% -1.32%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £623
90th Percentile £684 £689 £711
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 31 97
10th Percentile £18.75 £47.50 £25.28
25th Percentile £24.19 £50.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £53.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -15.38% +6.12%
75th Percentile £65.25 £70.83 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.05 £78.75 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% -

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 5,228 3,787 4,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.76% 14.19% 12.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 2,580 3,058
10th Percentile £350 £331 £350
25th Percentile £413 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £635
90th Percentile £688 £700 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 82 234
10th Percentile £28.53 £28.64 £33.02
25th Percentile £58.31 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £68.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.80% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.88 £74.83
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +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 8 July 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 8 July 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 8 July 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 -7 969 £525 +0.96% 215
North of England -8 427 £450 -3.23% 102
Midlands +1 305 £450 -5.26% 57
West Midlands -2 256 £459 -3.37% 32
Yorkshire -2 239 £455 -7.61% 32
South East -34 209 £475 -3.06% 141
North West -13 171 £447 +5.18% 58
South West -13 120 £489 -14.25% 55
East of England -6 60 £450 +9.09% 46
East Midlands +4 47 £397 -11.48% 25
North East -32 22 £480 -11.72% 13
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
1 923 (43.50%) Confluence
2 108 (5.09%) SharePoint
3 33 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 30 (1.41%) SAS
5 13 (0.61%) nginx
6 12 (0.57%) Apache
6 12 (0.57%) CMS
7 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.28%) Ethereum
8 6 (0.28%) Hyperledger
8 6 (0.28%) Mattermost
8 6 (0.28%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.19%) IIS
10 4 (0.19%) JBoss
10 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.19%) WordPress
11 3 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
11 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.14%) Kentico
Applications
1 151 (7.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 146 (6.88%) Microsoft Project
3 87 (4.10%) MS Visio
4 75 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 65 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.57%) Trello
7 11 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.47%) AutoCAD
8 10 (0.47%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.38%) Revit
10 4 (0.19%) Notion
11 2 (0.094%) CATIA
12 1 (0.047%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.047%) CANalyzer
12 1 (0.047%) Mingle
12 1 (0.047%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.047%) SOLIDWORKS
12 1 (0.047%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 30 (1.41%) Remedy ITSM
1 30 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.52%) Aladdin
3 11 (0.52%) Loan IQ
3 11 (0.52%) Workday HCM
4 10 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
5 9 (0.42%) Fidessa
6 8 (0.38%) Findur
7 6 (0.28%) Teamcenter
8 5 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.24%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.19%) Actimize
9 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
9 4 (0.19%) Summit
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.14%) Primavera
10 3 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
10 3 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 500 (23.56%) Azure
2 350 (16.49%) AWS
3 279 (13.15%) Azure DevOps
4 174 (8.20%) GitHub
5 153 (7.21%) Power Platform
6 87 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
7 83 (3.91%) Entra ID
8 79 (3.72%) GCP
9 78 (3.68%) SaaS
10 76 (3.58%) Amazon S3
11 74 (3.49%) Serverless
12 63 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
13 58 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
14 56 (2.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 53 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
16 38 (1.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 30 (1.41%) Miro
17 30 (1.41%) Slack
18 28 (1.32%) Snowflake
19 27 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 89 (4.19%) Firewall
2 63 (2.97%) DNS
3 48 (2.26%) TCP/IP
4 39 (1.84%) Network Security
5 32 (1.51%) VPN
6 31 (1.46%) LAN
7 29 (1.37%) DHCP
8 28 (1.32%) WAN
9 25 (1.18%) BIG-IP
10 23 (1.08%) SAN
11 19 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
12 18 (0.85%) SSL
13 14 (0.66%) HTTP
14 12 (0.57%) Internet
15 11 (0.52%) SD-WAN
16 10 (0.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 10 (0.47%) Unified Communications
17 9 (0.42%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 8 (0.38%) DKIM
18 8 (0.38%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (6.36%) Power BI
2 95 (4.48%) Data Warehouse
3 75 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
4 51 (2.40%) SQL Server
5 43 (2.03%) Oracle Reports
6 33 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
6 33 (1.56%) MongoDB
7 32 (1.51%) Tableau
8 27 (1.27%) DynamoDB
8 27 (1.27%) Relational Database
9 25 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
10 24 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
10 24 (1.13%) NoSQL
11 18 (0.85%) Data Lake
12 17 (0.80%) Oracle Database
12 17 (0.80%) Pentaho
13 16 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (0.71%) Neo4j
15 13 (0.61%) BusinessObjects
15 13 (0.61%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 254 (11.97%) Git
2 207 (9.75%) Jenkins
3 123 (5.80%) GitLab
4 99 (4.67%) Selenium
5 76 (3.58%) Postman
6 73 (3.44%) Zephyr
7 58 (2.73%) Bitbucket
8 56 (2.64%) Cucumber
9 55 (2.59%) JUnit
10 40 (1.89%) JMeter
11 38 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
12 27 (1.27%) REST Assured
13 23 (1.08%) Cypress.io
14 22 (1.04%) WebDriver
15 21 (0.99%) TestRail
16 20 (0.94%) SonarQube
17 17 (0.80%) Artifactory
18 14 (0.66%) Appium
18 14 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 13 (0.61%) Maven
General
1 829 (39.07%) Social Skills
2 597 (28.13%) Finance
3 383 (18.05%) Analytical Skills
4 265 (12.49%) Banking
5 221 (10.41%) Public Sector
6 78 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
7 75 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
8 70 (3.30%) Retail
9 45 (2.12%) Manufacturing
10 41 (1.93%) Investment Banking
10 41 (1.93%) Legal
11 40 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
12 31 (1.46%) Front Office
13 28 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
14 27 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 24 (1.13%) Retail Banking
16 22 (1.04%) Telecoms
17 21 (0.99%) Financial Institution
17 21 (0.99%) Marketing
17 21 (0.99%) Military
Job Titles
1 390 (18.38%) Analyst
2 243 (11.45%) Business Analyst
3 211 (9.94%) Developer
4 177 (8.34%) Lead
5 176 (8.29%) Senior
6 118 (5.56%) Project Manager
7 93 (4.38%) Architect
8 90 (4.24%) Tester
9 89 (4.19%) Delivery Manager
10 78 (3.68%) Scrum Master
11 76 (3.58%) Consultant
12 75 (3.53%) Data Engineer
13 68 (3.20%) IT Support
14 61 (2.87%) Support Engineer
15 48 (2.26%) IT Engineer
16 47 (2.21%) Product Owner
17 46 (2.17%) Test Analyst
17 46 (2.17%) Test Engineer
18 45 (2.12%) IT Support Engineer
19 43 (2.03%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (5.80%) REST
2 70 (3.30%) .NET
3 63 (2.97%) Spring
4 52 (2.45%) React
5 51 (2.40%) RESTful
6 49 (2.31%) JSON
7 48 (2.26%) HTML
8 45 (2.12%) Kafka
9 41 (1.93%) Spring Boot
10 40 (1.89%) Playwright
10 40 (1.89%) SOAP
11 38 (1.79%) AngularJS
12 35 (1.65%) CSS
13 28 (1.32%) Node.js
13 28 (1.32%) OpenID
13 28 (1.32%) Web Services
14 27 (1.27%) XML
15 26 (1.23%) Middleware
16 25 (1.18%) SailPoint
16 25 (1.18%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 229 (10.79%) Product Ownership
2 127 (5.98%) Onboarding
3 94 (4.43%) Cloud Native
4 65 (3.06%) Data Centre
5 51 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
6 50 (2.36%) Virtual Team
7 49 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
8 48 (2.26%) Management Information System
8 48 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
9 43 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
10 32 (1.51%) Data Structures
10 32 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
11 31 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
12 19 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 18 (0.85%) Enterprise Storage
13 18 (0.85%) Public Cloud
13 18 (0.85%) SCADA
13 18 (0.85%) Security Posture
14 17 (0.80%) Mobile App
15 16 (0.75%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 169 (7.96%) Windows
2 134 (6.31%) Linux
3 49 (2.31%) Unix
4 23 (1.08%) Windows 10
5 19 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.85%) Mac OS
7 16 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (0.71%) Android
9 7 (0.33%) Windows Server
10 5 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.14%) AIX
11 3 (0.14%) Check Point GAiA
11 3 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.094%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.094%) MVS
12 2 (0.094%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.047%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.047%) Solaris
13 1 (0.047%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,235 (58.20%) Agile
2 557 (26.25%) DevOps
3 551 (25.97%) Stakeholder Management
4 466 (21.96%) CI/CD
4 466 (21.96%) Problem-Solving
5 408 (19.23%) Scrum
6 388 (18.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 368 (17.34%) Test Automation
8 269 (12.68%) Migration
9 258 (12.16%) User Acceptance Testing
10 234 (11.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 228 (10.74%) Validation
12 227 (10.70%) Project Management
13 220 (10.37%) User Stories
14 208 (9.80%) Change Management
15 202 (9.52%) AI
16 195 (9.19%) Sprint Planning
17 193 (9.10%) ITIL
18 189 (8.91%) Project Delivery
19 187 (8.81%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 346 (16.31%) SQL
2 273 (12.87%) Python
3 170 (8.01%) Java
4 92 (4.34%) C#
5 87 (4.10%) JavaScript
6 71 (3.35%) TypeScript
7 63 (2.97%) PowerShell
8 41 (1.93%) Bash
9 32 (1.51%) PL/SQL
10 19 (0.90%) VBA
11 16 (0.75%) Perl
12 15 (0.71%) Apex Code
12 15 (0.71%) C++
12 15 (0.71%) Shell Script
13 12 (0.57%) Bicep
13 12 (0.57%) Groovy
14 11 (0.52%) ActionScript
14 11 (0.52%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.38%) Cypher
15 8 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 542 (25.54%) Security Cleared
2 421 (19.84%) SC Cleared
3 187 (8.81%) Degree
4 74 (3.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 74 (3.49%) DV Cleared
5 67 (3.16%) ISTQB
6 54 (2.54%) PMI Certification
7 48 (2.26%) PMP
8 34 (1.60%) CISSP
9 31 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
11 25 (1.18%) AWS Certification
12 22 (1.04%) Azure Certification
12 22 (1.04%) CISM
13 19 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
14 16 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 16 (0.75%) SAFe Agilist
15 14 (0.66%) Master's Degree
16 13 (0.61%) CCNA
17 12 (0.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 257 (12.11%) QA
2 118 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 109 (5.14%) PMO
4 60 (2.83%) Accessibility
5 38 (1.79%) GDPR
6 36 (1.70%) SLA
7 26 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 23 (1.08%) NIST
8 23 (1.08%) WCAG
9 18 (0.85%) GRC
10 17 (0.80%) PCI DSS
11 16 (0.75%) NCSC
12 11 (0.52%) ISO 20022
13 8 (0.38%) PSD2
13 8 (0.38%) SEPA
14 7 (0.33%) MiFID
15 6 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.28%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.28%) JSP 440
15 6 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 148 (6.97%) Docker
2 119 (5.61%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.61%) Firmware
5 9 (0.42%) Squid
5 9 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 5 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.14%) HDFS
8 2 (0.094%) OpenAM
8 2 (0.094%) Postfix
8 2 (0.094%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.047%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.047%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.047%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 165 (7.78%) Kubernetes
2 149 (7.02%) Terraform
3 97 (4.57%) Ansible
4 70 (3.30%) Grafana
5 55 (2.59%) Prometheus
6 42 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
8 23 (1.08%) Control-M
8 23 (1.08%) HP ALM
9 18 (0.85%) Nessus
10 17 (0.80%) IBM Guardium
11 15 (0.71%) Puppet
12 13 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
13 12 (0.57%) Consul
13 12 (0.57%) HP Quality Center
14 10 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 8 (0.38%) Dell DRAC
15 8 (0.38%) FortiGate
15 8 (0.38%) SCCM
16 7 (0.33%) Packer
Vendors
1 295 (13.90%) Microsoft
2 266 (12.54%) ServiceNow
3 160 (7.54%) Oracle
4 104 (4.90%) Salesforce
5 91 (4.29%) Atlassian
6 79 (3.72%) SAP
7 56 (2.64%) Google
8 37 (1.74%) Denodo
9 34 (1.60%) Workday
10 33 (1.56%) F5
10 33 (1.56%) IBM
10 33 (1.56%) Remedy
11 32 (1.51%) Talend
12 31 (1.46%) Informatica
13 30 (1.41%) Databricks
13 30 (1.41%) Red Hat
13 30 (1.41%) VMware
14 27 (1.27%) Splunk
15 26 (1.23%) HP
16 23 (1.08%) MuleSoft