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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 36 58
Rank change year-on-year -7 +22 -9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 977 773 669
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.91% 5.65% 4.05%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.44% 36.76% 28.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 523 467
10th Percentile £350 £326 £324
25th Percentile £425 £413 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 17
10th Percentile - £33.10 £22.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £36.63 £25.99
Median hourly rate £19.50 £45.00 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -56.67% +41.91% -41.28%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.20 £80.50 £71.25
England median hourly rate £53.00 £63.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -15.87% -6.67% +8.00%

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 2,477 2,103 2,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.45% 15.38% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,598 1,428 1,651
10th Percentile £363 £343 £363
25th Percentile £435 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £752 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 24
10th Percentile - £26.04 £22.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £33.50 £25.99
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £35.29
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +27.53% -49.59%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.63 £71.25
90th Percentile £83.95 £88.75 £71.69
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -13 116 £550 +8.37% 35
South London +7 29 £513 -11.85% 3
West London -11 24 £400 -3.61% 6
North London -1 2 - - 1
East London -1 1 £300 -26.38% 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
1 402 (41.15%) Confluence
2 55 (5.63%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.92%) CMS
5 7 (0.72%) SAS
6 6 (0.61%) Apache
7 4 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.41%) JBoss
7 4 (0.41%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.31%) nginx
8 3 (0.31%) WordPress
9 2 (0.20%) Camunda
9 2 (0.20%) Kentico
10 1 (0.10%) Appian
10 1 (0.10%) Ethereum
10 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.10%) Hyperledger
10 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 64 (6.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (5.83%) Microsoft Project
3 41 (4.20%) MS Visio
4 33 (3.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 24 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (1.02%) AutoCAD
6 10 (1.02%) Trello
7 8 (0.82%) Revit
8 5 (0.51%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.51%) Notion
9 4 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.10%) Mingle
10 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 18 (1.84%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (1.33%) Aladdin
2 13 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.82%) Findur
3 8 (0.82%) Loan IQ
4 7 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.72%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.41%) Actimize
7 3 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.31%) SAP FI-AR
7 3 (0.31%) Summit
7 3 (0.31%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.20%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
8 2 (0.20%) IntelliMatch
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.20%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.20%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 283 (28.97%) Azure
2 155 (15.86%) Azure DevOps
3 148 (15.15%) AWS
4 83 (8.50%) Power Platform
5 70 (7.16%) GitHub
6 58 (5.94%) Entra ID
7 53 (5.42%) SaaS
8 44 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
9 43 (4.40%) Amazon S3
9 43 (4.40%) Serverless
10 37 (3.79%) GCP
11 33 (3.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 33 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
12 30 (3.07%) GitHub Actions
13 29 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
14 21 (2.15%) Snowflake
15 20 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
16 19 (1.94%) PowerApps
17 18 (1.84%) Azure Logic Apps
17 18 (1.84%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.25%) DNS
1 22 (2.25%) Firewall
2 16 (1.64%) VPN
3 15 (1.54%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.92%) WAN
5 8 (0.82%) DHCP
6 7 (0.72%) Network Security
7 5 (0.51%) DKIM
7 5 (0.51%) DMARC
7 5 (0.51%) HTTP
7 5 (0.51%) LAN
7 5 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.41%) FTP
8 4 (0.41%) PSTN
8 4 (0.41%) SSL
8 4 (0.41%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.31%) Internet
9 3 (0.31%) NGFW
9 3 (0.31%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.20%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (6.96%) Power BI
2 35 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (2.56%) SQL Server
5 18 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
5 18 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (1.74%) Tableau
7 16 (1.64%) Relational Database
8 14 (1.43%) DynamoDB
9 13 (1.33%) Metadata
10 12 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
11 11 (1.13%) Data Lake
12 10 (1.02%) Oracle Database
13 9 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
14 8 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (0.72%) Crystal Reports
15 7 (0.72%) MongoDB
16 6 (0.61%) NoSQL
16 6 (0.61%) Redis
16 6 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 109 (11.16%) Git
2 71 (7.27%) Jenkins
3 42 (4.30%) GitLab
4 33 (3.38%) Selenium
5 29 (2.97%) Zephyr
6 19 (1.94%) JUnit
7 18 (1.84%) Cucumber
8 17 (1.74%) Bitbucket
9 15 (1.54%) Cypress.io
10 14 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
11 12 (1.23%) REST Assured
12 11 (1.13%) TestRail
13 10 (1.02%) Postman
14 9 (0.92%) Appium
15 8 (0.82%) JMeter
16 7 (0.72%) Mockito
17 6 (0.61%) ScriptRunner
17 6 (0.61%) SonarQube
18 5 (0.51%) Artifactory
18 5 (0.51%) TeamCity
General
1 387 (39.61%) Finance
2 384 (39.30%) Social Skills
3 184 (18.83%) Banking
4 176 (18.01%) Analytical Skills
5 108 (11.05%) Public Sector
6 43 (4.40%) Organisational Skills
7 38 (3.89%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (3.89%) Retail
8 32 (3.28%) Front Office
9 31 (3.17%) Investment Banking
10 26 (2.66%) Legal
11 21 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 17 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (1.74%) Marketing
13 16 (1.64%) Financial Institution
13 16 (1.64%) Retail Banking
14 14 (1.43%) Corporate Banking
15 13 (1.33%) Back Office
16 10 (1.02%) Law
Job Titles
1 196 (20.06%) Analyst
2 127 (13.00%) Business Analyst
3 110 (11.26%) Developer
4 105 (10.75%) Lead
5 92 (9.42%) Senior
6 56 (5.73%) Project Manager
7 48 (4.91%) Delivery Manager
8 43 (4.40%) IT Support
9 38 (3.89%) Architect
10 33 (3.38%) Support Engineer
11 31 (3.17%) Consultant
12 29 (2.97%) Scrum Master
12 29 (2.97%) Tester
13 28 (2.87%) Test Leader
14 26 (2.66%) IT Engineer
14 26 (2.66%) Product Owner
15 25 (2.56%) Data Engineer
15 25 (2.56%) IT Support Engineer
15 25 (2.56%) Test Manager
16 24 (2.46%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (5.53%) REST
2 42 (4.30%) .NET
3 31 (3.17%) React
4 23 (2.35%) JSON
5 21 (2.15%) SOAP
6 18 (1.84%) AngularJS
6 18 (1.84%) CSS
6 18 (1.84%) HTML
6 18 (1.84%) Kafka
6 18 (1.84%) PySpark
7 16 (1.64%) Playwright
7 16 (1.64%) RESTful
8 15 (1.54%) Lightning Web Components
8 15 (1.54%) Spring
9 14 (1.43%) Node.js
9 14 (1.43%) XML
10 13 (1.33%) Web Services
11 12 (1.23%) Middleware
11 12 (1.23%) OAuth
12 11 (1.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 103 (10.54%) Product Ownership
2 66 (6.76%) Onboarding
3 24 (2.46%) Data Centre
4 23 (2.35%) Cloud Native
5 22 (2.25%) Data Structures
6 20 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (1.94%) Management Information System
8 18 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (1.84%) Virtual Team
9 17 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 17 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.64%) Derivative
11 15 (1.54%) Credit Risk
11 15 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 14 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
13 12 (1.23%) Fixed Income
13 12 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 10 (1.02%) Mobile App
14 10 (1.02%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 57 (5.83%) Windows
2 33 (3.38%) Linux
3 11 (1.13%) Apple iOS
4 10 (1.02%) Android
4 10 (1.02%) Mac OS
4 10 (1.02%) Unix
5 7 (0.72%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.20%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.10%) SUSE
8 1 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 566 (57.93%) Agile
2 315 (32.24%) Stakeholder Management
3 267 (27.33%) DevOps
4 217 (22.21%) Problem-Solving
5 179 (18.32%) CI/CD
6 174 (17.81%) Scrum
7 164 (16.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 155 (15.86%) Migration
9 140 (14.33%) User Acceptance Testing
10 133 (13.61%) Test Automation
11 125 (12.79%) AI
11 125 (12.79%) User Stories
12 107 (10.95%) SDLC
13 104 (10.64%) Change Management
14 101 (10.34%) Acceptance Criteria
14 101 (10.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 99 (10.13%) Validation
16 95 (9.72%) Project Management
17 91 (9.31%) Roadmaps
18 90 (9.21%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 176 (18.01%) SQL
2 107 (10.95%) Python
3 77 (7.88%) Java
4 62 (6.35%) C#
5 38 (3.89%) JavaScript
6 35 (3.58%) PowerShell
7 34 (3.48%) TypeScript
8 14 (1.43%) Apex Code
8 14 (1.43%) Bash
9 10 (1.02%) Groovy
10 9 (0.92%) Perl
10 9 (0.92%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.61%) VBA
12 4 (0.41%) C++
12 4 (0.41%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.31%) Bicep
13 3 (0.31%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.31%) Swift
13 3 (0.31%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.20%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 216 (22.11%) Security Cleared
2 189 (19.34%) SC Cleared
3 73 (7.47%) Degree
4 26 (2.66%) PMI Certification
5 21 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 20 (2.05%) PMP
7 19 (1.94%) DV Cleared
8 17 (1.74%) ISTQB
9 14 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (1.23%) AWS Certification
11 10 (1.02%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.02%) CISSP
12 9 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (0.92%) Master's Degree
13 8 (0.82%) CISM
13 8 (0.82%) IIBA
14 7 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 7 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 7 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (11.98%) QA
2 68 (6.96%) Data Quality
3 41 (4.20%) PMO
4 27 (2.76%) SLA
5 26 (2.66%) Accessibility
5 26 (2.66%) GDPR
6 20 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.23%) WCAG
8 8 (0.82%) ISO 20022
8 8 (0.82%) NIST
9 7 (0.72%) GRC
10 6 (0.61%) MiFID
10 6 (0.61%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.61%) SEPA
11 5 (0.51%) COBIT
12 4 (0.41%) EMIR
12 4 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.41%) NCSC
12 4 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 52 (5.32%) Active Directory
2 36 (3.68%) Docker
3 8 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.20%) Firmware
6 2 (0.20%) Squid
7 1 (0.10%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 71 (7.27%) Terraform
2 57 (5.83%) Kubernetes
3 28 (2.87%) Ansible
4 20 (2.05%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (1.94%) Grafana
5 19 (1.94%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (1.02%) HP ALM
8 9 (0.92%) Control-M
9 7 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (0.51%) Consul
11 4 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.41%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.41%) PingFederate
11 4 (0.41%) Podman
12 3 (0.31%) Istio
12 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Clustering
12 3 (0.31%) SCOM
13 2 (0.20%) Argo
13 2 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 137 (14.02%) Microsoft
2 127 (13.00%) ServiceNow
3 71 (7.27%) Salesforce
4 47 (4.81%) Oracle
5 36 (3.68%) SAP
6 32 (3.28%) Atlassian
7 31 (3.17%) Google
8 18 (1.84%) Adobe
8 18 (1.84%) Remedy
9 17 (1.74%) Okta
10 16 (1.64%) Databricks
10 16 (1.64%) IBM
10 16 (1.64%) Splunk
11 15 (1.54%) MuleSoft
12 12 (1.23%) Informatica
13 11 (1.13%) HP
13 11 (1.13%) Workday
14 10 (1.02%) DocuSign
14 10 (1.02%) ForgeRock
15 9 (0.92%) PagerDuty