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 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 34 50
Rank change year-on-year -15 +16 -2
Contract jobs citing JIRA 935 817 690
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.64% 6.09% 4.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.45% 38.05% 29.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 610 590 474
10th Percentile £350 £331 £300
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £647 £620
90th Percentile £750 £738 £730
England median daily rate £500 £500 £504
% change year-on-year - -0.74% -5.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 8
10th Percentile £18.75 £35.35 £24.19
25th Percentile £27.31 £42.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £62.50 £44.50 £29.74
Median % change year-on-year +40.45% +49.66% -44.94%
75th Percentile £84.31 £47.50 £43.13
90th Percentile £87.92 £72.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £58.74 £56.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +3.96% -19.29% +12.00%

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 2,565 2,147 2,348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.73% 16.01% 14.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,680 1,459 1,571
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £431 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £642 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 14
10th Percentile £19.20 £36.63 £25.99
25th Percentile £40.00 £41.69 £27.30
Median hourly rate £58.25 £45.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +29.44% -2.70% -31.23%
75th Percentile £77.27 £70.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £89.63 £107.88 £71.69
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 5 October 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 -12 128 £544 +5.63% 74
West London -9 27 £400 +1.27% 12
South London -12 15 £526 -9.42% 13
North London +3 4 £525 +19.32%
East London -1 3 £583 +42.94% 2
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
1 400 (42.78%) Confluence
2 53 (5.67%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (1.71%) CMS
5 6 (0.64%) SAS
6 5 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.53%) Camunda
6 5 (0.53%) MTS
7 4 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.43%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.32%) Traefik
8 3 (0.32%) WordPress
9 2 (0.21%) IIS
9 2 (0.21%) Kentico
9 2 (0.21%) nginx
10 1 (0.11%) Apache
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 64 (6.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (4.60%) Microsoft Project
3 38 (4.06%) MS Visio
4 34 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 31 (3.32%) Microsoft Office
6 14 (1.50%) Trello
7 9 (0.96%) AutoCAD
8 7 (0.75%) Revit
9 5 (0.53%) Notion
10 4 (0.43%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.32%) Mingle
12 2 (0.21%) Gliffy
12 2 (0.21%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
13 1 (0.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
13 1 (0.11%) Sketch
13 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 18 (1.93%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (0.96%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.53%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.53%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.43%) Findur
6 4 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.32%) Maximo
7 3 (0.32%) SAP FI-AR
7 3 (0.32%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.21%) Actimize
8 2 (0.21%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
8 2 (0.21%) IntelliMatch
8 2 (0.21%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.21%) Summit
8 2 (0.21%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 260 (27.81%) Azure
2 153 (16.36%) AWS
3 145 (15.51%) Azure DevOps
4 93 (9.95%) Power Platform
5 75 (8.02%) GitHub
6 51 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
7 48 (5.13%) SaaS
8 46 (4.92%) GCP
9 40 (4.28%) Amazon S3
9 40 (4.28%) Serverless
10 34 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 32 (3.42%) Entra ID
12 28 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
13 26 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
13 26 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
14 25 (2.67%) Microsoft Copilot
15 23 (2.46%) Miro
16 22 (2.35%) Snowflake
17 19 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
18 17 (1.82%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.89%) DNS
2 20 (2.14%) Firewall
3 19 (2.03%) VPN
4 16 (1.71%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.28%) DHCP
6 7 (0.75%) Network Security
6 7 (0.75%) WAN
7 6 (0.64%) HTTP
8 5 (0.53%) DKIM
8 5 (0.53%) DMARC
8 5 (0.53%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.43%) IPv4
9 4 (0.43%) SSH
10 3 (0.32%) Internet
10 3 (0.32%) IPv6
10 3 (0.32%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (0.32%) SSL
11 2 (0.21%) DSL
11 2 (0.21%) MPLS
11 2 (0.21%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (8.88%) Power BI
2 45 (4.81%) Data Warehouse
3 42 (4.49%) SQL Server
4 30 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (2.14%) Relational Database
6 18 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (1.71%) MongoDB
8 13 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (1.28%) Data Lake
9 12 (1.28%) Metadata
9 12 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
10 11 (1.18%) Oracle Database
10 11 (1.18%) Redis
11 10 (1.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 10 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (0.96%) Tableau
13 8 (0.86%) DynamoDB
13 8 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 120 (12.83%) Git
2 78 (8.34%) Jenkins
3 50 (5.35%) GitLab
4 35 (3.74%) Selenium
5 25 (2.67%) Zephyr
6 23 (2.46%) Bitbucket
7 19 (2.03%) Postman
8 18 (1.93%) Cypress.io
9 16 (1.71%) REST Assured
10 14 (1.50%) Cucumber
10 14 (1.50%) JUnit
10 14 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
10 14 (1.50%) TestRail
11 12 (1.28%) JMeter
11 12 (1.28%) Maven
12 10 (1.07%) Mockito
13 9 (0.96%) Gradle
14 8 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 7 (0.75%) SonarQube
16 6 (0.64%) Appium
General
1 391 (41.82%) Finance
2 385 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 204 (21.82%) Banking
4 194 (20.75%) Analytical Skills
5 106 (11.34%) Public Sector
6 49 (5.24%) Organisational Skills
7 47 (5.03%) Investment Banking
8 39 (4.17%) Retail
9 38 (4.06%) Front Office
10 33 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
11 30 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
12 22 (2.35%) Marketing
13 21 (2.25%) Legal
14 20 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 18 (1.93%) Telecoms
16 16 (1.71%) Financial Institution
16 16 (1.71%) Retail Banking
17 13 (1.39%) Back Office
18 12 (1.28%) Law
19 11 (1.18%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 188 (20.11%) Analyst
2 117 (12.51%) Business Analyst
3 110 (11.76%) Lead
4 96 (10.27%) Developer
5 92 (9.84%) Senior
6 57 (6.10%) Project Manager
7 37 (3.96%) Architect
8 32 (3.42%) Consultant
9 31 (3.32%) Delivery Manager
9 31 (3.32%) Product Owner
10 28 (2.99%) Test Leader
11 27 (2.89%) Scrum Master
12 26 (2.78%) Tester
13 23 (2.46%) Applications Support
13 23 (2.46%) Support Engineer
13 23 (2.46%) Technical Analyst
14 22 (2.35%) Senior Manager
15 21 (2.25%) IT Manager
15 21 (2.25%) Senior Analyst
16 20 (2.14%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (7.06%) REST
2 65 (6.95%) Terraform
3 40 (4.28%) .NET
4 24 (2.57%) JSON
4 24 (2.57%) Kafka
4 24 (2.57%) React
5 23 (2.46%) AngularJS
6 22 (2.35%) Playwright
7 21 (2.25%) SOAP
8 20 (2.14%) HTML
8 20 (2.14%) RESTful
9 17 (1.82%) Middleware
9 17 (1.82%) pytest
10 16 (1.71%) Web Services
11 15 (1.60%) CSS
11 15 (1.60%) Spring
12 14 (1.50%) XML
13 13 (1.39%) Lightning Web Components
13 13 (1.39%) Spring Boot
14 10 (1.07%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 129 (13.80%) Product Ownership
2 71 (7.59%) Onboarding
3 29 (3.10%) Cloud Native
4 25 (2.67%) Data Structures
5 24 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (2.25%) Data Centre
8 20 (2.14%) Derivative
8 20 (2.14%) Management Information System
9 19 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
9 19 (2.03%) Virtual Team
10 18 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (1.82%) Credit Risk
12 15 (1.60%) Replication
13 14 (1.50%) Fixed Income
14 11 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
14 11 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 11 (1.18%) Mobile App
14 11 (1.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 10 (1.07%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 53 (5.67%) Windows
2 48 (5.13%) Linux
3 13 (1.39%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.18%) Mac OS
5 10 (1.07%) Android
5 10 (1.07%) Unix
6 9 (0.96%) Amazon Linux
6 9 (0.96%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.75%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.43%) VMS
10 2 (0.21%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.11%) CentOS
11 1 (0.11%) SUSE
11 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.11%) VxWorks
11 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 566 (60.53%) Agile
2 371 (39.68%) Stakeholder Management
3 267 (28.56%) DevOps
4 224 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
5 196 (20.96%) Scrum
6 194 (20.75%) CI/CD
7 151 (16.15%) Migration
8 150 (16.04%) AI
8 150 (16.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 144 (15.40%) User Acceptance Testing
10 141 (15.08%) User Stories
11 130 (13.90%) Test Automation
12 125 (13.37%) Validation
13 112 (11.98%) Acceptance Criteria
14 110 (11.76%) Project Management
15 104 (11.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 99 (10.59%) SDLC
17 94 (10.05%) Analytics
18 90 (9.63%) Project Delivery
18 90 (9.63%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 196 (20.96%) SQL
2 114 (12.19%) Python
3 61 (6.52%) Java
4 42 (4.49%) C#
5 40 (4.28%) PowerShell
6 35 (3.74%) JavaScript
7 26 (2.78%) Bash
8 22 (2.35%) TypeScript
9 14 (1.50%) Groovy
10 13 (1.39%) Apex Code
11 11 (1.18%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.07%) Perl
13 6 (0.64%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.53%) Go
14 5 (0.53%) Tcl
14 5 (0.53%) VBA
15 4 (0.43%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.43%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.32%) Korn
16 3 (0.32%) Swift
Qualifications
1 206 (22.03%) Security Cleared
2 181 (19.36%) SC Cleared
3 79 (8.45%) Degree
4 42 (4.49%) PMI Certification
5 34 (3.64%) PMP
6 26 (2.78%) DV Cleared
7 22 (2.35%) AWS Certification
8 21 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (1.82%) ISTQB
10 14 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
11 13 (1.39%) Master's Degree
12 12 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
13 10 (1.07%) Azure Certification
14 9 (0.96%) CBAP
15 8 (0.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 7 (0.75%) IIBA
17 5 (0.53%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.53%) MBA
17 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 5 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (14.97%) QA
2 71 (7.59%) Data Quality
3 46 (4.92%) PMO
4 31 (3.32%) SLA
5 23 (2.46%) Accessibility
6 15 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.28%) ISO 20022
8 10 (1.07%) WCAG
9 8 (0.86%) GDPR
9 8 (0.86%) GRC
9 8 (0.86%) NIST
9 8 (0.86%) SEPA
10 6 (0.64%) COBIT
11 5 (0.53%) MiFID
12 4 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.43%) EMIR
12 4 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.43%) P3O
12 4 (0.43%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.32%) IFRS
System Software
1 50 (5.35%) Docker
2 44 (4.71%) Active Directory
3 7 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.21%) DFS Replication
5 2 (0.21%) Dovecot
5 2 (0.21%) Firmware
5 2 (0.21%) Postfix
5 2 (0.21%) Squid
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 53 (5.67%) Kubernetes
2 32 (3.42%) Grafana
3 27 (2.89%) Prometheus
4 25 (2.67%) Ansible
5 17 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.96%) HP ALM
7 8 (0.86%) Control-M
8 7 (0.75%) Istio
9 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Clustering
9 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.64%) SCOM
10 5 (0.53%) Argo
10 5 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (0.53%) SCCM
11 4 (0.43%) Podman
12 3 (0.32%) Consul
12 3 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.32%) Kibana
13 2 (0.21%) Packer
13 2 (0.21%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 159 (17.01%) Microsoft
2 99 (10.59%) ServiceNow
3 54 (5.78%) Salesforce
4 46 (4.92%) Oracle
5 31 (3.32%) Google
6 27 (2.89%) SAP
7 26 (2.78%) Splunk
8 23 (2.46%) Atlassian
9 21 (2.25%) Remedy
10 20 (2.14%) IBM
11 17 (1.82%) Adobe
12 16 (1.71%) Databricks
13 14 (1.50%) Bloomberg
13 14 (1.50%) MuleSoft
14 12 (1.28%) BMC
14 12 (1.28%) Informatica
14 12 (1.28%) ION Trading
14 12 (1.28%) Planview
15 11 (1.18%) Dynatrace
15 11 (1.18%) Workday