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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 48 49
Rank change year-on-year +9 +1 -7
Contract jobs citing JIRA 806 604 742
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.66% 4.28% 4.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.57% 31.20% 32.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 595 394 522
10th Percentile £325 £273 £363
25th Percentile £420 £388 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £641 £630 £675
90th Percentile £713 £725 £825
England median daily rate £500 £495 £533
% change year-on-year +1.01% -7.13% -1.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile £42.33 £20.75 £28.13
25th Percentile £42.44 £21.88 £32.66
Median hourly rate £43.75 £25.00 £39.38
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -36.51% +64.06%
75th Percentile £45.81 £29.38 £53.28
90th Percentile £46.38 £31.25 £57.50
England median hourly rate £65.20 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.32% +4.17% -7.69%

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 2,204 1,936 2,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.48% 13.72% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,501 1,264 1,682
10th Percentile £356 £345 £382
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £731 £800 £787
England median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 20
10th Percentile £42.55 £22.25 £25.71
25th Percentile £43.00 £25.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £56.50 £48.75 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +15.90% - -15.22%
75th Percentile £110.00 £77.19 £70.00
90th Percentile - £87.88 £73.66
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 9 January 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
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 9 January 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 +9 121 £510 -1.45% 38
South London +2 28 £525 +38.16% 18
West London -21 9 £400 -6.43% 7
East London -1 5 £450 -18.18% 6
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
1 375 (46.53%) Confluence
2 42 (5.21%) SharePoint
3 28 (3.47%) nginx
4 14 (1.74%) Apache
5 9 (1.12%) CMS
6 6 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.37%) Traefik
7 3 (0.37%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.37%) WordPress
8 2 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.25%) CICS
8 2 (0.25%) Magnolia
9 1 (0.12%) IIS
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.12%) SugarCRM
9 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 69 (8.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (8.31%) Microsoft Project
3 45 (5.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (5.21%) MS Visio
5 26 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
6 25 (3.10%) Trello
7 10 (1.24%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 6 (0.74%) Notion
9 4 (0.50%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.50%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.37%) InVision
10 3 (0.37%) Sketch
11 2 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.25%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.25%) InDesign
11 2 (0.25%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.12%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (1.74%) NetSuite
2 12 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (1.36%) Remedy ITSM
4 10 (1.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 6 (0.74%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.50%) Endur
7 4 (0.50%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS R12
7 4 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.50%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (0.37%) Algo Collateral
8 3 (0.37%) Loan IQ
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle BPM
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.37%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.37%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 182 (22.58%) Azure
2 148 (18.36%) AWS
3 96 (11.91%) Azure DevOps
4 84 (10.42%) GitHub
5 63 (7.82%) Power Platform
6 41 (5.09%) GCP
7 35 (4.34%) Microsoft 365
8 34 (4.22%) Serverless
9 27 (3.35%) Amazon EC2
10 26 (3.23%) Amazon S3
11 25 (3.10%) SaaS
12 22 (2.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 20 (2.48%) Power Automate
13 20 (2.48%) Slack
14 19 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (2.36%) Figma
14 19 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (2.11%) Snowflake
15 17 (2.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 16 (1.99%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.35%) Firewall
2 19 (2.36%) DNS
3 16 (1.99%) SSH
4 15 (1.86%) OpenLDAP
5 13 (1.61%) FTP
5 13 (1.61%) HTTP
5 13 (1.61%) SSL
6 11 (1.36%) SMTP
7 10 (1.24%) IMAP
8 7 (0.87%) SD-WAN
8 7 (0.87%) VPN
8 7 (0.87%) WAN
9 6 (0.74%) Ethernet
9 6 (0.74%) Modbus
9 6 (0.74%) Network Security
9 6 (0.74%) RS-232
9 6 (0.74%) RS-485
10 5 (0.62%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.25%) SNMP
11 2 (0.25%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (6.70%) Power BI
2 38 (4.71%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (3.72%) Tableau
4 28 (3.47%) SQL Server
5 18 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (1.99%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (1.99%) Big Data
7 15 (1.86%) Hadoop
7 15 (1.86%) Relational Database
8 14 (1.74%) NoSQL
9 13 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (1.49%) Oracle Database
11 11 (1.36%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (1.36%) Data Vault
11 11 (1.36%) Metadata
12 9 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
13 7 (0.87%) DB2
13 7 (0.87%) Star Schema
14 6 (0.74%) BigQuery
14 6 (0.74%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 100 (12.41%) Git
2 80 (9.93%) Jenkins
3 51 (6.33%) GitLab
4 37 (4.59%) Selenium
5 29 (3.60%) Bitbucket
6 26 (3.23%) Postman
7 22 (2.73%) Cucumber
8 18 (2.23%) SonarQube
8 18 (2.23%) TestRail
9 15 (1.86%) JUnit
9 15 (1.86%) SpecFlow
9 15 (1.86%) Zephyr
10 11 (1.36%) Maven
11 10 (1.24%) REST Assured
11 10 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (1.24%) Vagrant
12 9 (1.12%) ER Studio
12 9 (1.12%) ERwin
12 9 (1.12%) JMeter
12 9 (1.12%) PowerDesigner
General
1 326 (40.45%) Social Skills
2 258 (32.01%) Finance
3 141 (17.49%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (13.15%) Banking
5 81 (10.05%) Public Sector
6 29 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
6 29 (3.60%) Retail
7 28 (3.47%) Investment Banking
8 26 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
9 24 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
10 23 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
11 22 (2.73%) Front Office
12 20 (2.48%) Legal
13 13 (1.61%) Marketing
14 12 (1.49%) Publishing
14 12 (1.49%) Telecoms
15 11 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (1.12%) Back Office
16 9 (1.12%) Financial Institution
17 8 (0.99%) Billing
Job Titles
1 152 (18.86%) Analyst
2 111 (13.77%) Business Analyst
3 94 (11.66%) Developer
4 81 (10.05%) Senior
5 76 (9.43%) Project Manager
6 66 (8.19%) Lead
7 33 (4.09%) Technical Analyst
8 31 (3.85%) Tester
9 28 (3.47%) Consultant
9 28 (3.47%) Technical Business Analyst
10 25 (3.10%) Architect
10 25 (3.10%) DevOps Engineer
11 23 (2.85%) Product Owner
11 23 (2.85%) Scrum Master
11 23 (2.85%) Test Engineer
12 22 (2.73%) Senior Analyst
13 21 (2.61%) Senior Business Analyst
14 20 (2.48%) QA Engineer
15 18 (2.23%) Delivery Manager
16 17 (2.11%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (7.94%) REST
2 39 (4.84%) SOAP
3 32 (3.97%) .NET
3 32 (3.97%) HTML
4 28 (3.47%) AngularJS
5 26 (3.23%) Kafka
6 25 (3.10%) JSON
6 25 (3.10%) LDAP
7 23 (2.85%) React
8 22 (2.73%) CSS
8 22 (2.73%) XML
9 20 (2.48%) Playwright
9 20 (2.48%) RESTful
9 20 (2.48%) Web Services
10 19 (2.36%) Oracle Fusion
11 16 (1.99%) Node.js
11 16 (1.99%) Spring
12 15 (1.86%) RabbitMQ
13 13 (1.61%) Apache NiFi
14 12 (1.49%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 79 (9.80%) Product Ownership
2 33 (4.09%) Onboarding
3 24 (2.98%) Management Information System
4 22 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
5 20 (2.48%) PMI
6 18 (2.23%) CMDB
6 18 (2.23%) Data Structures
7 16 (1.99%) Cloud Native
8 15 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
8 15 (1.86%) Replication
9 13 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.61%) Virtual Team
10 12 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.36%) Fixed Income
12 10 (1.24%) Equities
13 9 (1.12%) Derivative
13 9 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.12%) Mobile App
14 8 (0.99%) Public Cloud
14 8 (0.99%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 53 (6.58%) Linux
2 44 (5.46%) Windows
3 24 (2.98%) Unix
4 13 (1.61%) VMS
5 10 (1.24%) Amazon Linux
5 10 (1.24%) Android
5 10 (1.24%) Ubuntu
6 7 (0.87%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.74%) FreeRTOS
8 4 (0.50%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.25%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 508 (63.03%) Agile
2 221 (27.42%) Scrum
3 216 (26.80%) DevOps
4 206 (25.56%) Stakeholder Management
5 172 (21.34%) Problem-Solving
6 144 (17.87%) CI/CD
7 134 (16.63%) Project Management
8 126 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 120 (14.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 115 (14.27%) Test Automation
11 101 (12.53%) User Stories
12 88 (10.92%) Migration
13 87 (10.79%) Analytics
14 83 (10.30%) Project Delivery
15 81 (10.05%) User Acceptance Testing
16 76 (9.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 73 (9.06%) SDLC
18 72 (8.93%) Requirements Gathering
19 71 (8.81%) Kanban
19 71 (8.81%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 159 (19.73%) SQL
2 107 (13.28%) Python
3 74 (9.18%) Java
3 74 (9.18%) JavaScript
4 33 (4.09%) C#
5 26 (3.23%) TypeScript
6 25 (3.10%) PowerShell
7 17 (2.11%) Bash
8 15 (1.86%) Go
8 15 (1.86%) Groovy
9 11 (1.36%) C++
10 10 (1.24%) Apex Code
11 8 (0.99%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.87%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.87%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.74%) Embedded C++
13 6 (0.74%) Korn
14 5 (0.62%) Ruby
14 5 (0.62%) XPath
15 4 (0.50%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 172 (21.34%) Security Cleared
2 163 (20.22%) SC Cleared
3 104 (12.90%) Degree
4 46 (5.71%) PMI Certification
5 31 (3.85%) PMP
6 29 (3.60%) ISTQB
7 21 (2.61%) CBAP
7 21 (2.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (2.48%) AWS Certification
8 20 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (2.11%) DV Cleared
10 13 (1.61%) Azure Certification
11 12 (1.49%) CISSP
12 9 (1.12%) CSPO
12 9 (1.12%) ISEB
13 8 (0.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 7 (0.87%) CFA
14 7 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.74%) CEH
15 6 (0.74%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (11.66%) QA
2 42 (5.21%) PMO
3 29 (3.60%) Data Quality
4 28 (3.47%) Accessibility
5 20 (2.48%) GDPR
6 17 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.61%) NIST
8 10 (1.24%) WCAG
9 9 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.87%) GRC
11 6 (0.74%) SLA
12 5 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.62%) NCSC
12 5 (0.62%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.50%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.50%) SEPA
14 3 (0.37%) Basel III
14 3 (0.37%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.37%) PSD2
15 2 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 68 (8.44%) Docker
2 23 (2.85%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.36%) Squid
4 10 (1.24%) DFS Replication
4 10 (1.24%) Dovecot
4 10 (1.24%) Postfix
5 6 (0.74%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.74%) Firmware
6 3 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.12%) etcd
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 52 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 45 (5.58%) Terraform
3 21 (2.61%) Grafana
4 19 (2.36%) Ansible
5 16 (1.99%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.36%) HP ALM
6 11 (1.36%) Nessus
6 11 (1.36%) Packer
6 11 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (1.24%) Consul
7 10 (1.24%) Proxmox
8 5 (0.62%) Control-M
9 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.50%) Puppet
10 3 (0.37%) Ambari
10 3 (0.37%) Istio
10 3 (0.37%) RSA Archer
10 3 (0.37%) SCCM
10 3 (0.37%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.25%) Argo
Vendors
1 99 (12.28%) Microsoft
2 88 (10.92%) ServiceNow
3 60 (7.44%) Oracle
4 55 (6.82%) Salesforce
5 38 (4.71%) SAP
6 34 (4.22%) Atlassian
7 23 (2.85%) Google
8 18 (2.23%) HP
9 15 (1.86%) Remedy
10 14 (1.74%) Databricks
11 13 (1.61%) Adobe
11 13 (1.61%) Cloudera
12 12 (1.49%) Foundry
12 12 (1.49%) Palantir
13 11 (1.36%) MuleSoft
14 10 (1.24%) Citrix
14 10 (1.24%) Jaspersoft
14 10 (1.24%) Sparx
15 9 (1.12%) Splunk
16 8 (0.99%) BMC