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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 42 57
Rank change year-on-year +1 +15 -5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 938 654 689
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.96% 5.29% 3.91%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.30% 34.77% 28.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 437 482
10th Percentile £350 £343 £322
25th Percentile £422 £420 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £533
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -2.44% -7.10%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £788
England median daily rate £481 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -4.76% -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 20
10th Percentile - £30.50 £22.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £35.00 £25.80
Median hourly rate £27.50 £45.00 £32.11
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% +40.17% -40.55%
75th Percentile £68.13 £68.13 £59.38
90th Percentile £90.00 £80.50 £71.25
England median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +2.04%

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 2,387 1,881 2,382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.62% 15.21% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,564 1,266 1,699
10th Percentile £360 £354 £363
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £626 £653 £671
90th Percentile £742 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 27
10th Percentile - £24.49 £23.80
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.14 £25.99
Median hourly rate £37.50 £38.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -3.13% -46.67%
75th Percentile £73.00 £52.50 £69.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £73.88 £71.50
England median hourly rate £67.50 £59.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.45% -8.46% +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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 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
Central London -11 116 £550 +4.76% 19
South London +11 33 £513 +7.89% 6
West London -10 24 £400 +1.27% 6
East London -1 5 £450 +18.42% 4
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
1 391 (41.68%) Confluence
2 49 (5.22%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (1.17%) Apache
5 10 (1.07%) nginx
6 7 (0.75%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.64%) CMS
7 6 (0.64%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.64%) Hyperledger
7 6 (0.64%) SAS
8 4 (0.43%) JBoss
8 4 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.21%) Kentico
9 2 (0.21%) WordPress
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.11%) Appian
10 1 (0.11%) Camunda
10 1 (0.11%) Drupal
Applications
1 64 (6.82%) Microsoft Project
2 61 (6.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 41 (4.37%) MS Visio
4 32 (3.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
6 8 (0.85%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.85%) Revit
7 6 (0.64%) Trello
8 5 (0.53%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.43%) Notion
10 3 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.11%) Mingle
11 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 13 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.17%) Loan IQ
3 9 (0.96%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.96%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.85%) Findur
5 7 (0.75%) Fidessa
6 6 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
7 5 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.43%) Actimize
8 4 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.43%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.43%) SAP Retail
8 4 (0.43%) Summit
9 3 (0.32%) IntelliMatch
9 3 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 3 (0.32%) SAP FI-AR
9 3 (0.32%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 240 (25.59%) Azure
2 146 (15.57%) Azure DevOps
3 143 (15.25%) AWS
4 67 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 58 (6.18%) GitHub
6 50 (5.33%) Entra ID
7 49 (5.22%) SaaS
8 46 (4.90%) Amazon S3
9 42 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
10 41 (4.37%) Serverless
11 33 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
12 31 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
13 30 (3.20%) GCP
14 28 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 22 (2.35%) Slack
16 21 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
16 21 (2.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 19 (2.03%) Google Workspace
18 17 (1.81%) Figma
19 16 (1.71%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.67%) Firewall
2 18 (1.92%) DNS
3 15 (1.60%) TCP/IP
4 14 (1.49%) VPN
5 10 (1.07%) HTTP
6 7 (0.75%) Network Security
6 7 (0.75%) OpenVPN
6 7 (0.75%) WAN
7 6 (0.64%) Ethernet
7 6 (0.64%) SSL
8 5 (0.53%) FTP
8 5 (0.53%) LAN
8 5 (0.53%) Modbus
8 5 (0.53%) RS-232
8 5 (0.53%) RS-485
8 5 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.43%) DKIM
9 4 (0.43%) DMARC
9 4 (0.43%) PSTN
9 4 (0.43%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (5.65%) Power BI
2 33 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (3.09%) SQL Server
4 24 (2.56%) Tableau
5 21 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.71%) Relational Database
8 14 (1.49%) DynamoDB
8 14 (1.49%) NoSQL
9 13 (1.39%) MongoDB
10 10 (1.07%) Delta Lake
10 10 (1.07%) Metadata
10 10 (1.07%) Oracle Reports
11 9 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (0.96%) Crystal Reports
11 9 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (0.96%) Oracle Database
12 8 (0.85%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.75%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 111 (11.83%) Git
2 63 (6.72%) Jenkins
3 39 (4.16%) GitLab
4 32 (3.41%) Selenium
5 27 (2.88%) Zephyr
6 24 (2.56%) JUnit
7 17 (1.81%) Bitbucket
8 15 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
9 14 (1.49%) Cucumber
10 13 (1.39%) Cypress.io
11 10 (1.07%) REST Assured
11 10 (1.07%) SonarQube
12 9 (0.96%) Appium
12 9 (0.96%) TestRail
13 8 (0.85%) JMeter
14 7 (0.75%) Maven
14 7 (0.75%) Postman
15 6 (0.64%) Mockito
15 6 (0.64%) ScriptRunner
16 4 (0.43%) Liquibase
General
1 360 (38.38%) Finance
2 350 (37.31%) Social Skills
3 161 (17.16%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (16.74%) Banking
5 102 (10.87%) Public Sector
6 42 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
7 41 (4.37%) Retail
8 39 (4.16%) Organisational Skills
9 31 (3.30%) Investment Banking
9 31 (3.30%) Legal
10 30 (3.20%) Front Office
11 27 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (1.60%) Financial Institution
14 15 (1.60%) Marketing
15 13 (1.39%) Back Office
16 12 (1.28%) Corporate Banking
17 10 (1.07%) Retail Banking
18 9 (0.96%) Billing
Job Titles
1 199 (21.22%) Analyst
2 126 (13.43%) Business Analyst
3 104 (11.09%) Developer
4 98 (10.45%) Lead
5 88 (9.38%) Senior
6 49 (5.22%) Delivery Manager
6 49 (5.22%) Project Manager
7 42 (4.48%) IT Support
8 36 (3.84%) Architect
9 31 (3.30%) Data Engineer
9 31 (3.30%) Scrum Master
10 30 (3.20%) Consultant
11 28 (2.99%) Technical Manager
12 27 (2.88%) Banking Analyst
12 27 (2.88%) Tester
13 26 (2.77%) Support Engineer
14 25 (2.67%) Salesforce Analyst
15 24 (2.56%) Test Leader
15 24 (2.56%) Test Manager
16 23 (2.45%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (4.37%) REST
2 28 (2.99%) React
3 27 (2.88%) .NET
4 24 (2.56%) Kafka
5 21 (2.24%) AngularJS
5 21 (2.24%) SOAP
6 20 (2.13%) Spring
7 19 (2.03%) HTML
8 18 (1.92%) RESTful
9 17 (1.81%) CSS
9 17 (1.81%) Lightning Web Components
9 17 (1.81%) PySpark
10 16 (1.71%) JSON
11 15 (1.60%) Spring Boot
12 14 (1.49%) OpenID
13 12 (1.28%) Node.js
13 12 (1.28%) OAuth
13 12 (1.28%) Playwright
14 11 (1.17%) ADO
14 11 (1.17%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 93 (9.91%) Product Ownership
2 57 (6.08%) Onboarding
3 24 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
3 24 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 22 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (2.24%) Cloud Native
6 19 (2.03%) Data Centre
7 18 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
7 18 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 18 (1.92%) Virtual Team
8 15 (1.60%) Data Structures
8 15 (1.60%) Derivative
9 13 (1.39%) Public Cloud
9 13 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.28%) Credit Risk
11 11 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.17%) Reinsurance
12 10 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.07%) Market Risk
12 10 (1.07%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 50 (5.33%) Windows
2 38 (4.05%) Linux
3 9 (0.96%) Apple iOS
3 9 (0.96%) Mac OS
3 9 (0.96%) Unix
4 6 (0.64%) Android
5 5 (0.53%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (0.43%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.43%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.32%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.11%) SUSE
8 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 525 (55.97%) Agile
2 267 (28.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 239 (25.48%) DevOps
4 194 (20.68%) Problem-Solving
5 180 (19.19%) Scrum
6 170 (18.12%) Continuous Improvement
7 153 (16.31%) CI/CD
8 133 (14.18%) Test Automation
9 128 (13.65%) Migration
10 125 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
11 114 (12.15%) User Stories
12 106 (11.30%) SDLC
13 102 (10.87%) AI
14 101 (10.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 98 (10.45%) Change Management
15 98 (10.45%) Project Management
16 97 (10.34%) Roadmaps
17 94 (10.02%) Data Modelling
18 93 (9.91%) Acceptance Criteria
19 92 (9.81%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 168 (17.91%) SQL
2 106 (11.30%) Python
3 80 (8.53%) Java
4 58 (6.18%) C#
5 36 (3.84%) JavaScript
5 36 (3.84%) TypeScript
6 21 (2.24%) PowerShell
7 15 (1.60%) Apex Code
7 15 (1.60%) Bash
8 9 (0.96%) C++
9 8 (0.85%) Groovy
9 8 (0.85%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.75%) Perl
11 5 (0.53%) Embedded C++
11 5 (0.53%) VBA
12 4 (0.43%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.32%) Bicep
13 3 (0.32%) C
14 2 (0.21%) PHP
14 2 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 203 (21.64%) Security Cleared
2 179 (19.08%) SC Cleared
3 67 (7.14%) Degree
4 29 (3.09%) PMI Certification
5 24 (2.56%) ISTQB
6 23 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 23 (2.45%) PMP
7 17 (1.81%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (1.17%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.07%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.07%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.96%) CBAP
11 9 (0.96%) CISSP
11 9 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 7 (0.75%) CISM
12 7 (0.75%) ISEB
13 6 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (12.37%) QA
2 71 (7.57%) Data Quality
3 37 (3.94%) PMO
4 27 (2.88%) Accessibility
5 26 (2.77%) GDPR
6 24 (2.56%) SLA
7 19 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.17%) NIST
8 11 (1.17%) WCAG
9 9 (0.96%) GRC
10 7 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.75%) MiFID
11 6 (0.64%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.53%) COBIT
12 5 (0.53%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.43%) EMIR
13 4 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.43%) NCSC
14 3 (0.32%) Basel III
System Software
1 42 (4.48%) Active Directory
2 40 (4.26%) Docker
3 8 (0.85%) Squid
4 7 (0.75%) Firmware
4 7 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 65 (6.93%) Terraform
2 59 (6.29%) Kubernetes
3 23 (2.45%) Ansible
4 22 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
5 21 (2.24%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.13%) Grafana
7 12 (1.28%) Consul
8 8 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.75%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.75%) HP ALM
9 7 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (0.53%) Control-M
11 4 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.43%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.43%) PingFederate
12 3 (0.32%) Packer
13 2 (0.21%) Podman
13 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.21%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.21%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 124 (13.22%) ServiceNow
2 118 (12.58%) Microsoft
3 80 (8.53%) Salesforce
4 62 (6.61%) Oracle
5 37 (3.94%) SAP
6 36 (3.84%) Atlassian
7 32 (3.41%) Google
8 18 (1.92%) Databricks
8 18 (1.92%) Informatica
9 16 (1.71%) MuleSoft
10 15 (1.60%) Adobe
11 13 (1.39%) Workday
12 12 (1.28%) Murex
12 12 (1.28%) Okta
13 11 (1.17%) Bloomberg
13 11 (1.17%) CA Agile Central
13 11 (1.17%) IBM
13 11 (1.17%) Red Hat
13 11 (1.17%) Remedy
14 10 (1.07%) ForgeRock