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 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 48 52
Rank change year-on-year +9 +4 -5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 903 575 699
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.41% 4.55% 3.86%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.61% 32.25% 30.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 380 486
10th Percentile £350 £307 £325
25th Percentile £416 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% -6.78%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £670
90th Percentile £713 £738 £850
England median daily rate £492 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 12
10th Percentile - - £22.30
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.50 £30.03
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £35.88
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% -16.38% -46.46%
75th Percentile £75.69 £32.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £64.25
England median hourly rate £63.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +0.80% +19.05% -17.65%

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 2,401 1,783 2,260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.40% 14.10% 12.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,616 1,220 1,641
10th Percentile £353 £343 £374
25th Percentile £420 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% -6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 20
10th Percentile - £22.93 £24.70
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £30.34
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £44.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% -32.20% -23.04%
75th Percentile £75.69 £67.50 £65.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £84.00 £71.50
England median hourly rate £67.50 £63.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.72% +1.20% +1.63%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -1 119 £550 +4.76% 52
South London +3 37 £519 +9.17% 3
West London -25 9 £500 +28.21% 9
East London +3 6 £450 - 16
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
1 404 (44.74%) Confluence
2 48 (5.32%) SharePoint
3 27 (2.99%) nginx
4 16 (1.77%) Apache
5 9 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.78%) CMS
6 7 (0.78%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.66%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.66%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.44%) JBoss
10 3 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.33%) SAS
11 2 (0.22%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.22%) WordPress
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.11%) CICS
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 86 (9.52%) Microsoft Project
2 72 (7.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 51 (5.65%) MS Visio
4 44 (4.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
6 17 (1.88%) Trello
7 5 (0.55%) Notion
8 4 (0.44%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.33%) InVision
9 3 (0.33%) Sketch
10 2 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.22%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.22%) InDesign
10 2 (0.22%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.11%) EPLAN
11 1 (0.11%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 14 (1.55%) NetSuite
2 13 (1.44%) Loan IQ
2 13 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (1.11%) Aladdin
4 9 (1.00%) Fidessa
5 8 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
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%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.33%) Algo Collateral
8 3 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.33%) SAP Retail
8 3 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
8 3 (0.33%) Summit
9 2 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 216 (23.92%) Azure
2 145 (16.06%) Azure DevOps
3 137 (15.17%) AWS
4 81 (8.97%) GitHub
5 62 (6.87%) Power Platform
6 33 (3.65%) Entra ID
6 33 (3.65%) Serverless
7 31 (3.43%) GCP
8 26 (2.88%) Amazon S3
8 26 (2.88%) SaaS
9 25 (2.77%) Microsoft 365
10 24 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
11 22 (2.44%) Figma
12 20 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (2.10%) Amazon EC2
14 18 (1.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 17 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
15 17 (1.88%) Miro
15 17 (1.88%) Slack
16 15 (1.66%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.77%) Firewall
2 16 (1.77%) DNS
3 14 (1.55%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.44%) VPN
5 11 (1.22%) WAN
6 8 (0.89%) HTTP
7 7 (0.78%) Ethernet
7 7 (0.78%) FTP
7 7 (0.78%) Modbus
7 7 (0.78%) OpenVPN
7 7 (0.78%) RS-232
7 7 (0.78%) RS-485
7 7 (0.78%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.55%) LAN
9 5 (0.55%) Network Security
10 4 (0.44%) NAS
10 4 (0.44%) PSTN
10 4 (0.44%) SSL
10 4 (0.44%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (5.09%) Power BI
2 32 (3.54%) Tableau
3 29 (3.21%) SQL Server
4 27 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (2.21%) NoSQL
6 16 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (1.77%) Relational Database
7 15 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (1.33%) Big Data
8 12 (1.33%) MongoDB
9 10 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (1.11%) Delta Lake
10 9 (1.00%) DynamoDB
10 9 (1.00%) Metadata
10 9 (1.00%) Oracle Database
11 7 (0.78%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.78%) Data Vault
11 7 (0.78%) Tick Data
12 6 (0.66%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 119 (13.18%) Git
2 74 (8.19%) Jenkins
3 43 (4.76%) Selenium
4 42 (4.65%) GitLab
5 30 (3.32%) Bitbucket
6 28 (3.10%) Cucumber
6 28 (3.10%) JUnit
7 24 (2.66%) Zephyr
8 16 (1.77%) Postman
8 16 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
8 16 (1.77%) TestRail
9 13 (1.44%) SonarQube
10 12 (1.33%) JMeter
10 12 (1.33%) SpecFlow
11 11 (1.22%) Maven
11 11 (1.22%) REST Assured
12 10 (1.11%) Appium
12 10 (1.11%) Cypress.io
13 9 (1.00%) Team Foundation Server
14 6 (0.66%) TeamCity
General
1 342 (37.87%) Social Skills
2 330 (36.54%) Finance
3 167 (18.49%) Analytical Skills
4 133 (14.73%) Banking
5 88 (9.75%) Public Sector
6 40 (4.43%) Documentation Skills
7 35 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
8 33 (3.65%) Retail
9 32 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
10 30 (3.32%) Legal
11 26 (2.88%) Investment Banking
12 24 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (2.55%) Front Office
14 15 (1.66%) Financial Institution
14 15 (1.66%) Marketing
15 11 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (1.11%) Publishing
16 10 (1.11%) Telecoms
17 9 (1.00%) Billing
18 8 (0.89%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 201 (22.26%) Analyst
2 144 (15.95%) Business Analyst
3 104 (11.52%) Developer
4 91 (10.08%) Senior
5 75 (8.31%) Lead
6 66 (7.31%) Project Manager
7 38 (4.21%) Delivery Manager
8 31 (3.43%) Architect
8 31 (3.43%) Tester
9 30 (3.32%) Test Engineer
10 29 (3.21%) IT Support
10 29 (3.21%) Technical Analyst
11 28 (3.10%) Consultant
12 27 (2.99%) Senior Analyst
12 27 (2.99%) Technical Business Analyst
13 26 (2.88%) Technical Manager
14 23 (2.55%) Data Engineer
14 23 (2.55%) Scrum Master
15 22 (2.44%) Support Engineer
16 20 (2.21%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (5.43%) REST
2 35 (3.88%) .NET
3 29 (3.21%) React
4 28 (3.10%) Kafka
5 25 (2.77%) Spring
6 23 (2.55%) XML
7 22 (2.44%) HTML
8 21 (2.33%) RESTful
9 20 (2.21%) AngularJS
9 20 (2.21%) Playwright
9 20 (2.21%) SOAP
10 19 (2.10%) CSS
10 19 (2.10%) JSON
11 18 (1.99%) Node.js
12 16 (1.77%) Oracle Fusion
13 15 (1.66%) Lightning Web Components
13 15 (1.66%) Spring Boot
14 12 (1.33%) ADO
14 12 (1.33%) Web Services
15 11 (1.22%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 85 (9.41%) Product Ownership
2 43 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 29 (3.21%) Management Information System
4 23 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
5 22 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.10%) Cloud Native
6 19 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.10%) Virtual Team
7 17 (1.88%) Public Cloud
8 15 (1.66%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.55%) Mobile App
10 12 (1.33%) Data Centre
11 11 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 11 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.00%) Equities
12 9 (1.00%) Fixed Income
12 9 (1.00%) PMI
12 9 (1.00%) Reinsurance
12 9 (1.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 8 (0.89%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 50 (5.54%) Linux
2 48 (5.32%) Windows
3 16 (1.77%) Unix
4 10 (1.11%) Android
5 8 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.78%) FreeRTOS
7 5 (0.55%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.44%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.33%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 548 (60.69%) Agile
2 245 (27.13%) Stakeholder Management
3 232 (25.69%) DevOps
4 213 (23.59%) Scrum
5 183 (20.27%) Problem-Solving
6 171 (18.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 150 (16.61%) Test Automation
8 149 (16.50%) CI/CD
9 129 (14.29%) Project Management
10 122 (13.51%) User Stories
11 117 (12.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 108 (11.96%) User Acceptance Testing
13 106 (11.74%) Migration
14 99 (10.96%) Project Delivery
15 98 (10.85%) SDLC
16 95 (10.52%) Roadmaps
17 92 (10.19%) Decision-Making
18 89 (9.86%) Change Management
19 88 (9.75%) Analytics
19 88 (9.75%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 163 (18.05%) SQL
2 115 (12.74%) Python
3 93 (10.30%) Java
4 62 (6.87%) C#
5 51 (5.65%) JavaScript
6 37 (4.10%) TypeScript
7 20 (2.21%) PowerShell
8 17 (1.88%) Bash
9 14 (1.55%) C++
10 13 (1.44%) Apex Code
11 8 (0.89%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.78%) Embedded C++
13 6 (0.66%) Korn
13 6 (0.66%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.55%) C
14 5 (0.55%) Perl
14 5 (0.55%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.55%) Ruby
14 5 (0.55%) XPath
15 4 (0.44%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 197 (21.82%) Security Cleared
2 181 (20.04%) SC Cleared
3 82 (9.08%) Degree
4 33 (3.65%) PMI Certification
5 32 (3.54%) ISTQB
6 27 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 26 (2.88%) PMP
8 20 (2.21%) CBAP
9 15 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (1.44%) DV Cleared
10 13 (1.44%) ISEB
11 12 (1.33%) CISSP
12 11 (1.22%) IIBA
13 9 (1.00%) AWS Certification
14 8 (0.89%) Azure Certification
14 8 (0.89%) CSPO
15 7 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 7 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.78%) Master's Degree
16 6 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (13.51%) QA
2 48 (5.32%) Data Quality
3 37 (4.10%) PMO
4 32 (3.54%) Accessibility
5 25 (2.77%) GDPR
6 15 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.44%) NIST
8 11 (1.22%) SLA
8 11 (1.22%) WCAG
9 10 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.89%) GRC
11 7 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.55%) MiFID
12 5 (0.55%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.44%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.33%) Basel III
14 3 (0.33%) NCSC
14 3 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
15 2 (0.22%) P3O
15 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 57 (6.31%) Docker
2 29 (3.21%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.89%) Squid
4 7 (0.78%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (0.78%) Firmware
5 5 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 62 (6.87%) Terraform
2 59 (6.53%) Kubernetes
3 24 (2.66%) Ansible
4 19 (2.10%) Consul
5 17 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (1.66%) Grafana
7 14 (1.55%) Prometheus
8 13 (1.44%) Packer
9 12 (1.33%) HP ALM
10 8 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (0.78%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.66%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.55%) Control-M
14 4 (0.44%) RSA Archer
15 3 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
16 2 (0.22%) CASB
16 2 (0.22%) Puppet
16 2 (0.22%) SCCM
17 1 (0.11%) Network Intrusion Detection System
17 1 (0.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 101 (11.18%) Microsoft
2 97 (10.74%) ServiceNow
3 72 (7.97%) Oracle
4 68 (7.53%) Salesforce
5 43 (4.76%) Atlassian
6 36 (3.99%) SAP
7 29 (3.21%) Google
8 21 (2.33%) Databricks
9 16 (1.77%) Adobe
10 14 (1.55%) Citrix
11 13 (1.44%) IBM
11 13 (1.44%) Murex
12 12 (1.33%) HP
13 11 (1.22%) Dynatrace
13 11 (1.22%) MuleSoft
13 11 (1.22%) Remedy
13 11 (1.22%) Workday
14 10 (1.11%) Informatica
14 10 (1.11%) Planview
14 10 (1.11%) Red Hat