JIRA Contract Job Trends in London

Atlassian JIRA
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring JIRA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 44 53
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 -5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 917 632 682
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.16% 5.03% 3.83%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.63% 34.74% 29.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 411 465
10th Percentile £350 £310 £328
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £728 £745 £850
England median daily rate £484 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.20% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 18
10th Percentile - - £22.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.50 £25.43
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -5.39% -41.28%
75th Percentile £68.13 £32.50 £63.13
90th Percentile £87.70 - £71.25
England median hourly rate £62.50 £57.63 £55.00
% change year-on-year +8.46% +4.77% -15.38%

All Development Application Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,374 1,819 2,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.36% 14.47% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,582 1,229 1,661
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £420 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £626 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £532
% change year-on-year - -6.02% -3.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 25
10th Percentile - £23.97 £23.20
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.77 £25.99
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% -6.25% -30.43%
75th Percentile £72.63 £53.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £85.88 £78.50 £71.63
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +6.25%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JIRA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

JIRA job vacancy trend in London

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing JIRA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing JIRA

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in London

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing JIRA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing JIRA

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in London

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the London region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Central London -5 112 £550 +4.76% 70
South London +8 38 £513 +7.89% 3
West London -23 19 £400 +0.63% 10
East London +1 5 £450 +25.00% 8
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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
1 395 (43.08%) Confluence
2 47 (5.13%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.64%) nginx
4 14 (1.53%) Apache
5 12 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.76%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.65%) CMS
7 6 (0.65%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.65%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.44%) JBoss
8 4 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.44%) SAS
9 2 (0.22%) Kentico
9 2 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.22%) WordPress
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.11%) Drupal
10 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 84 (9.16%) Microsoft Project
2 75 (8.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (4.91%) MS Visio
4 44 (4.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
6 13 (1.42%) Trello
7 6 (0.65%) Notion
8 3 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.33%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.33%) Revit
9 2 (0.22%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.22%) Autodesk Smoke
9 2 (0.22%) InVision
9 2 (0.22%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.22%) Sketch
9 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.11%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 14 (1.53%) Loan IQ
2 13 (1.42%) NetSuite
3 12 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.98%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.87%) Fidessa
5 8 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.44%) Findur
7 4 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 4 (0.44%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.44%) SAP Retail
8 3 (0.33%) Actimize
8 3 (0.33%) Algo Collateral
8 3 (0.33%) SAP FI-AR
8 3 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
8 3 (0.33%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 209 (22.79%) Azure
2 134 (14.61%) Azure DevOps
3 126 (13.74%) AWS
4 64 (6.98%) GitHub
5 60 (6.54%) Power Platform
6 42 (4.58%) Entra ID
7 39 (4.25%) SaaS
8 33 (3.60%) Amazon S3
9 29 (3.16%) GCP
10 28 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
10 28 (3.05%) Serverless
11 27 (2.94%) Figma
12 24 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
13 21 (2.29%) Slack
14 20 (2.18%) Amazon EC2
15 19 (2.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 17 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
17 16 (1.74%) Miro
18 15 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 15 (1.64%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.40%) Firewall
2 14 (1.53%) DNS
3 11 (1.20%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.09%) HTTP
5 8 (0.87%) SSL
5 8 (0.87%) VPN
6 7 (0.76%) Ethernet
6 7 (0.76%) Modbus
6 7 (0.76%) OpenVPN
6 7 (0.76%) RS-232
6 7 (0.76%) RS-485
7 6 (0.65%) FTP
7 6 (0.65%) WAN
8 5 (0.55%) LAN
8 5 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.44%) PSTN
9 4 (0.44%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.33%) DKIM
10 3 (0.33%) NAS
10 3 (0.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (5.13%) Power BI
2 31 (3.38%) SQL Server
3 29 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (3.05%) Tableau
5 17 (1.85%) NoSQL
5 17 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (1.64%) Relational Database
7 13 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (1.31%) Amazon Athena
8 12 (1.31%) DynamoDB
8 12 (1.31%) Metadata
8 12 (1.31%) MongoDB
9 11 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (1.09%) Delta Lake
10 10 (1.09%) Oracle Database
11 9 (0.98%) Big Data
12 8 (0.87%) Data Vault
13 7 (0.76%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (0.65%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 109 (11.89%) Git
2 58 (6.32%) Jenkins
3 39 (4.25%) Selenium
4 30 (3.27%) GitLab
4 30 (3.27%) Zephyr
5 24 (2.62%) JUnit
6 22 (2.40%) Cucumber
7 21 (2.29%) Bitbucket
8 17 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
9 15 (1.64%) Postman
9 15 (1.64%) TestRail
10 14 (1.53%) Cypress.io
11 13 (1.42%) SonarQube
12 12 (1.31%) Appium
12 12 (1.31%) JMeter
13 9 (0.98%) Maven
13 9 (0.98%) REST Assured
14 8 (0.87%) SpecFlow
15 6 (0.65%) ScriptRunner
15 6 (0.65%) Subversion
General
1 348 (37.95%) Finance
2 337 (36.75%) Social Skills
3 174 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
4 142 (15.49%) Banking
5 99 (10.80%) Public Sector
6 40 (4.36%) Documentation Skills
7 37 (4.03%) Retail
8 34 (3.71%) Organisational Skills
9 32 (3.49%) Legal
10 30 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
11 29 (3.16%) Investment Banking
12 23 (2.51%) Front Office
13 19 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
14 17 (1.85%) Marketing
15 16 (1.74%) Financial Institution
16 10 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (1.09%) Publishing
17 9 (0.98%) Billing
17 9 (0.98%) Corporate Banking
17 9 (0.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 202 (22.03%) Analyst
2 136 (14.83%) Business Analyst
3 102 (11.12%) Developer
4 92 (10.03%) Lead
5 89 (9.71%) Senior
6 61 (6.65%) Project Manager
7 41 (4.47%) Delivery Manager
8 32 (3.49%) IT Support
8 32 (3.49%) Tester
9 30 (3.27%) Consultant
10 28 (3.05%) Senior Analyst
11 27 (2.94%) Technical Manager
11 27 (2.94%) Test Engineer
12 26 (2.84%) Architect
12 26 (2.84%) Data Engineer
13 25 (2.73%) Scrum Master
14 24 (2.62%) Banking Analyst
14 24 (2.62%) Support Engineer
14 24 (2.62%) Technical Analyst
15 22 (2.40%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (4.58%) REST
2 34 (3.71%) .NET
3 31 (3.38%) React
4 25 (2.73%) Kafka
5 23 (2.51%) HTML
6 22 (2.40%) Spring
7 20 (2.18%) CSS
8 19 (2.07%) AngularJS
9 18 (1.96%) RESTful
10 17 (1.85%) Node.js
11 16 (1.74%) JSON
11 16 (1.74%) Lightning Web Components
11 16 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
11 16 (1.74%) SOAP
11 16 (1.74%) XML
12 15 (1.64%) Playwright
13 14 (1.53%) Spring Boot
14 12 (1.31%) ADO
14 12 (1.31%) OpenID
15 11 (1.20%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 91 (9.92%) Product Ownership
2 47 (5.13%) Onboarding
3 27 (2.94%) Management Information System
4 25 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
5 22 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
6 21 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (2.07%) Virtual Team
8 17 (1.85%) Data Centre
9 15 (1.64%) Cloud Native
10 14 (1.53%) Mobile App
11 13 (1.42%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.42%) Derivative
11 13 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 12 (1.31%) Public Cloud
12 12 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (1.20%) Reinsurance
14 10 (1.09%) Market Risk
15 9 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
16 8 (0.87%) Equities
16 8 (0.87%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 51 (5.56%) Windows
2 38 (4.14%) Linux
3 12 (1.31%) Android
4 10 (1.09%) Apple iOS
5 8 (0.87%) Unix
6 7 (0.76%) FreeRTOS
7 5 (0.55%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.44%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 529 (57.69%) Agile
2 252 (27.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 216 (23.56%) DevOps
4 189 (20.61%) Scrum
5 178 (19.41%) Problem-Solving
6 168 (18.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 140 (15.27%) Test Automation
8 129 (14.07%) CI/CD
9 124 (13.52%) Migration
9 124 (13.52%) Project Management
10 120 (13.09%) User Stories
11 111 (12.10%) User Acceptance Testing
12 110 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 100 (10.91%) Change Management
13 100 (10.91%) SDLC
14 95 (10.36%) Roadmaps
15 94 (10.25%) Analytics
16 91 (9.92%) Decision-Making
16 91 (9.92%) Project Delivery
17 89 (9.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 160 (17.45%) SQL
2 101 (11.01%) Python
3 93 (10.14%) Java
4 62 (6.76%) C#
5 44 (4.80%) JavaScript
6 41 (4.47%) TypeScript
7 17 (1.85%) PowerShell
8 14 (1.53%) C++
9 13 (1.42%) Apex Code
10 12 (1.31%) Bash
11 8 (0.87%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.76%) Embedded C++
12 7 (0.76%) Perl
13 6 (0.65%) Groovy
13 6 (0.65%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.55%) C
14 5 (0.55%) XPath
15 4 (0.44%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.33%) Bicep
16 3 (0.33%) Korn
Qualifications
1 196 (21.37%) Security Cleared
2 170 (18.54%) SC Cleared
3 70 (7.63%) Degree
4 28 (3.05%) ISTQB
5 27 (2.94%) PMI Certification
6 26 (2.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 20 (2.18%) PMP
8 18 (1.96%) DV Cleared
9 17 (1.85%) CBAP
10 12 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (1.20%) Azure Certification
11 11 (1.20%) IIBA
12 9 (0.98%) CISSP
12 9 (0.98%) ISEB
13 8 (0.87%) AWS Certification
13 8 (0.87%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.76%) CISM
14 7 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.65%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (13.52%) QA
2 57 (6.22%) Data Quality
3 42 (4.58%) PMO
4 33 (3.60%) Accessibility
5 28 (3.05%) GDPR
6 16 (1.74%) SLA
7 14 (1.53%) WCAG
8 13 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.42%) NIST
9 7 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.76%) GRC
9 7 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.65%) MiFID
11 4 (0.44%) ISO 20022
11 4 (0.44%) NCSC
12 3 (0.33%) Basel III
12 3 (0.33%) EMIR
12 3 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.33%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (5.02%) Docker
2 35 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.87%) Squid
4 7 (0.76%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (0.76%) Firmware
5 4 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 54 (5.89%) Kubernetes
2 49 (5.34%) Terraform
3 21 (2.29%) Ansible
4 20 (2.18%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (1.85%) Grafana
5 17 (1.85%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.64%) Consul
7 12 (1.31%) HP ALM
8 9 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.76%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.65%) Packer
11 5 (0.55%) Control-M
11 5 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.44%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.44%) PingFederate
13 2 (0.22%) CASB
13 2 (0.22%) Puppet
13 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.22%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 106 (11.56%) ServiceNow
2 103 (11.23%) Microsoft
3 74 (8.07%) Salesforce
4 72 (7.85%) Oracle
5 41 (4.47%) SAP
6 38 (4.14%) Atlassian
7 31 (3.38%) Google
8 19 (2.07%) Databricks
9 17 (1.85%) Adobe
10 14 (1.53%) Citrix
10 14 (1.53%) MuleSoft
11 13 (1.42%) IBM
12 12 (1.31%) HP
12 12 (1.31%) Murex
12 12 (1.31%) Workday
13 11 (1.20%) Dynatrace
13 11 (1.20%) Informatica
13 11 (1.20%) Okta
13 11 (1.20%) Remedy
14 10 (1.09%) ForgeRock