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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 46 49
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing JIRA 836 605 748
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.52% 4.48% 4.06%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.47% 31.49% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 383 537
10th Percentile £335 £288 £350
25th Percentile £425 £389 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £628 £673
90th Percentile £716 £725 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 8
10th Percentile £51.40 £20.75 £29.38
25th Percentile £64.00 £21.88 £31.60
Median hourly rate £90.00 £25.00 £35.23
Median % change year-on-year +260.00% -29.04% +18.42%
75th Percentile £95.00 £29.38 £44.84
90th Percentile - £31.25 £57.50
England median hourly rate £63.40 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +1.44% +13.64% -15.38%

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 2,292 1,921 2,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.15% 14.22% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,564 1,244 1,728
10th Percentile £356 £345 £375
25th Percentile £421 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £568
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -5.73% -5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £730 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £508 £535
% change year-on-year -1.48% -5.14% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 20
10th Percentile £55.60 £22.25 £25.71
25th Percentile £74.50 £25.63 £31.60
Median hourly rate £90.00 £48.75 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% +18.18% -28.26%
75th Percentile £98.75 £77.19 £57.81
90th Percentile £105.50 £87.88 £72.17
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 11 February 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 11 February 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 11 February 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 -5 113 £525 +3.61% 28
South London +1 29 £519 +15.23% 7
West London -25 7 £500 +30.72% 11
East London +2 5 £450 -18.18% 7
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 (44.86%) Confluence
2 44 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 31 (3.71%) nginx
4 12 (1.44%) Apache
5 9 (1.08%) CMS
6 8 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.96%) Palantir Foundry
7 6 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.72%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.72%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.48%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.36%) Traefik
10 2 (0.24%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.24%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) CICS
11 1 (0.12%) IIS
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.12%) SugarCRM
11 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 74 (8.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (8.01%) Microsoft Project
3 46 (5.50%) MS Visio
4 45 (5.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
6 19 (2.27%) Trello
7 6 (0.72%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 5 (0.60%) Notion
9 4 (0.48%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.48%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.36%) InVision
10 3 (0.36%) Sketch
11 2 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.24%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.24%) InDesign
11 2 (0.24%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.12%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (1.67%) NetSuite
2 10 (1.20%) Fidessa
2 10 (1.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 9 (1.08%) Loan IQ
3 9 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.96%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.60%) Oracle EBS R12
6 5 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.48%) Endur
7 4 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.48%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 4 (0.48%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.36%) Algo Collateral
8 3 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.36%) SAP Retail
8 3 (0.36%) SimCorp Dimension
8 3 (0.36%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 205 (24.52%) Azure
2 148 (17.70%) AWS
3 116 (13.88%) Azure DevOps
4 86 (10.29%) GitHub
5 66 (7.89%) Power Platform
6 41 (4.90%) GCP
7 33 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
8 30 (3.59%) SaaS
8 30 (3.59%) Serverless
9 25 (2.99%) Amazon S3
10 24 (2.87%) Figma
11 22 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
12 19 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (2.27%) Power Automate
12 19 (2.27%) PowerApps
12 19 (2.27%) Slack
12 19 (2.27%) Snowflake
12 19 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 18 (2.15%) Amazon EKS
14 17 (2.03%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.11%) Firewall
2 21 (2.51%) DNS
3 15 (1.79%) HTTP
4 12 (1.44%) TCP/IP
4 12 (1.44%) VPN
5 11 (1.32%) WAN
6 9 (1.08%) FTP
6 9 (1.08%) SSH
7 7 (0.84%) Ethernet
7 7 (0.84%) Modbus
7 7 (0.84%) RS-232
7 7 (0.84%) RS-485
7 7 (0.84%) SD-WAN
7 7 (0.84%) SMTP
8 6 (0.72%) IMAP
8 6 (0.72%) OpenLDAP
8 6 (0.72%) OpenVPN
8 6 (0.72%) SSL
9 5 (0.60%) Network Security
9 5 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.10%) Power BI
2 34 (4.07%) SQL Server
3 32 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (3.71%) Tableau
5 19 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (2.27%) NoSQL
6 17 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
7 16 (1.91%) Data Vault
8 14 (1.67%) MongoDB
9 13 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
9 13 (1.56%) Oracle Database
9 13 (1.56%) Relational Database
10 12 (1.44%) Big Data
11 10 (1.20%) Metadata
12 9 (1.08%) Hadoop
12 9 (1.08%) Snowflake Schema
13 7 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (0.84%) Star Schema
13 7 (0.84%) Tick Data
14 6 (0.72%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 97 (11.60%) Git
2 79 (9.45%) Jenkins
3 49 (5.86%) GitLab
4 41 (4.90%) Selenium
5 31 (3.71%) Bitbucket
6 25 (2.99%) Postman
7 23 (2.75%) Cucumber
7 23 (2.75%) SonarQube
8 22 (2.63%) JUnit
9 20 (2.39%) TestRail
10 18 (2.15%) Zephyr
11 15 (1.79%) Maven
12 14 (1.67%) SpecFlow
13 13 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
14 12 (1.44%) REST Assured
15 11 (1.32%) JMeter
16 10 (1.20%) Cypress.io
17 9 (1.08%) ER Studio
17 9 (1.08%) ERwin
17 9 (1.08%) PowerDesigner
General
1 333 (39.83%) Social Skills
2 288 (34.45%) Finance
3 156 (18.66%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (13.76%) Banking
5 80 (9.57%) Public Sector
6 32 (3.83%) Documentation Skills
6 32 (3.83%) Investment Banking
7 31 (3.71%) Retail
8 30 (3.59%) Presentation Skills
9 28 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (3.11%) Front Office
11 24 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
12 22 (2.63%) Legal
13 14 (1.67%) Financial Institution
13 14 (1.67%) Marketing
14 12 (1.44%) Back Office
14 12 (1.44%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.20%) Billing
15 10 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (1.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 184 (22.01%) Analyst
2 134 (16.03%) Business Analyst
3 106 (12.68%) Developer
4 82 (9.81%) Senior
5 71 (8.49%) Lead
6 63 (7.54%) Project Manager
7 32 (3.83%) Technical Analyst
7 32 (3.83%) Tester
8 28 (3.35%) Technical Business Analyst
9 26 (3.11%) Architect
9 26 (3.11%) Consultant
10 24 (2.87%) Test Engineer
11 23 (2.75%) Delivery Manager
11 23 (2.75%) Scrum Master
11 23 (2.75%) Senior Analyst
12 22 (2.63%) Senior Business Analyst
13 19 (2.27%) DevOps Engineer
13 19 (2.27%) Product Owner
14 18 (2.15%) Test Analyst
15 17 (2.03%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (7.18%) REST
2 34 (4.07%) .NET
3 31 (3.71%) SOAP
4 27 (3.23%) HTML
5 26 (3.11%) React
5 26 (3.11%) RESTful
6 25 (2.99%) Kafka
6 25 (2.99%) Spring
7 23 (2.75%) AngularJS
7 23 (2.75%) CSS
8 22 (2.63%) XML
9 21 (2.51%) Playwright
10 19 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
11 18 (2.15%) Node.js
12 16 (1.91%) JSON
13 15 (1.79%) Spring Boot
14 14 (1.67%) LDAP
14 14 (1.67%) Web Services
15 12 (1.44%) Lightning Web Components
16 10 (1.20%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 85 (10.17%) Product Ownership
2 33 (3.95%) Onboarding
3 26 (3.11%) Management Information System
4 24 (2.87%) Analytical Mindset
5 23 (2.75%) Data Structures
6 20 (2.39%) CMDB
7 19 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
8 15 (1.79%) Cloud Native
8 15 (1.79%) PMI
9 14 (1.67%) Virtual Team
10 13 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.56%) Public Cloud
10 13 (1.56%) Reinsurance
10 13 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.44%) Fixed Income
12 11 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 11 (1.32%) Mobile App
13 10 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (1.08%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 55 (6.58%) Linux
2 42 (5.02%) Windows
3 17 (2.03%) Unix
4 10 (1.20%) Android
5 9 (1.08%) VMS
6 7 (0.84%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.84%) FreeRTOS
7 6 (0.72%) Amazon Linux
7 6 (0.72%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.48%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.48%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 529 (63.28%) Agile
2 229 (27.39%) Scrum
3 228 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 217 (25.96%) DevOps
5 181 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
6 142 (16.99%) CI/CD
7 138 (16.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 128 (15.31%) Test Automation
9 120 (14.35%) Project Management
10 116 (13.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 116 (13.88%) User Stories
11 96 (11.48%) Analytics
12 94 (11.24%) User Acceptance Testing
13 91 (10.89%) Migration
14 88 (10.53%) Project Delivery
15 86 (10.29%) Roadmaps
16 85 (10.17%) Requirements Gathering
17 83 (9.93%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 81 (9.69%) SDLC
19 80 (9.57%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 161 (19.26%) SQL
2 114 (13.64%) Python
3 84 (10.05%) Java
4 66 (7.89%) JavaScript
5 42 (5.02%) C#
6 36 (4.31%) TypeScript
7 25 (2.99%) PowerShell
8 18 (2.15%) Bash
9 14 (1.67%) C++
10 10 (1.20%) Apex Code
10 10 (1.20%) Groovy
11 9 (1.08%) Go
11 9 (1.08%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.84%) Embedded C++
12 7 (0.84%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.72%) Korn
13 6 (0.72%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.60%) Ruby
14 5 (0.60%) XPath
15 4 (0.48%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 176 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 161 (19.26%) SC Cleared
3 98 (11.72%) Degree
4 38 (4.55%) PMI Certification
5 35 (4.19%) ISTQB
6 25 (2.99%) PMP
7 23 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 22 (2.63%) CBAP
9 18 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (1.91%) AWS Certification
11 15 (1.79%) DV Cleared
12 13 (1.56%) ISEB
13 10 (1.20%) Azure Certification
14 9 (1.08%) CISSP
15 8 (0.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 7 (0.84%) CFA
16 7 (0.84%) CSPO
16 7 (0.84%) IIBA
16 7 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
17 6 (0.72%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (12.56%) QA
2 42 (5.02%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.95%) Accessibility
3 33 (3.95%) PMO
4 17 (2.03%) GDPR
5 12 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (1.44%) NIST
6 11 (1.32%) WCAG
7 9 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (1.08%) SLA
8 7 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (0.84%) GRC
9 6 (0.72%) ISO 20022
10 5 (0.60%) NCSC
10 5 (0.60%) NIST 800
10 5 (0.60%) SEPA
11 4 (0.48%) MiFID
12 3 (0.36%) Basel III
12 3 (0.36%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.36%) PSD2
System Software
1 70 (8.37%) Docker
2 20 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.56%) Squid
4 7 (0.84%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (0.84%) Firmware
5 6 (0.72%) DFS Replication
5 6 (0.72%) Dovecot
5 6 (0.72%) Postfix
6 3 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.12%) etcd
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 56 (6.70%) Kubernetes
2 48 (5.74%) Terraform
3 23 (2.75%) Grafana
4 20 (2.39%) Prometheus
5 19 (2.27%) Ansible
6 18 (2.15%) Consul
7 13 (1.56%) Packer
8 11 (1.32%) HP ALM
8 11 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.84%) Nessus
11 6 (0.72%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (0.72%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.48%) Control-M
13 3 (0.36%) Istio
13 3 (0.36%) Puppet
13 3 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.36%) RSA Archer
13 3 (0.36%) SCCM
Vendors
1 101 (12.08%) Microsoft
2 86 (10.29%) ServiceNow
3 71 (8.49%) Oracle
4 61 (7.30%) Salesforce
5 39 (4.67%) Atlassian
6 36 (4.31%) SAP
7 24 (2.87%) Google
8 19 (2.27%) Databricks
9 15 (1.79%) Adobe
10 12 (1.44%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.44%) Murex
11 11 (1.32%) HP
12 10 (1.20%) MuleSoft
12 10 (1.20%) Sparx
13 9 (1.08%) Bloomberg
13 9 (1.08%) CA Agile Central
13 9 (1.08%) Citrix
13 9 (1.08%) Informatica
13 9 (1.08%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.08%) Splunk