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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 50 47
Rank change year-on-year +14 -3 -8
Contract jobs citing JIRA 836 645 901
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.99% 4.16% 4.47%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.19% 29.61% 32.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 434 606
10th Percentile £350 £270 £375
25th Percentile £416 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £624 £675
90th Percentile £738 £725 £810
England median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.10% -1.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 9
10th Percentile £34.20 £22.25 £29.20
25th Percentile £39.38 £25.63 £36.88
Median hourly rate £43.75 £32.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -38.68% +205.04%
75th Percentile £57.25 £33.41 £57.50
90th Percentile £76.15 £33.61 £70.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -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 2,248 2,178 2,780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 16.09% 14.04% 13.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,548 1,443 2,051
10th Percentile £350 £363 £398
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £688
90th Percentile £735 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 29
10th Percentile £39.95 £25.63 £29.15
25th Percentile £42.50 £31.71 £41.25
Median hourly rate £56.50 £35.29 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.12% -35.85% +24.69%
75th Percentile £88.75 £55.76 £73.65
90th Percentile £110.00 £66.34 £79.31
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 12 November 2025.

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 12 November 2025.

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 12 November 2025. 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 +20 135 £500 -4.76% 185
South London +1 29 £578 +28.44% 16
West London -8 12 £300 -35.48% 37
East London +1 6 £439 -9.54% 14
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
1 409 (48.92%) Confluence
2 42 (5.02%) nginx
2 42 (5.02%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.03%) Apache
3 17 (2.03%) CMS
4 7 (0.84%) WordPress
5 5 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.48%) Drupal
6 4 (0.48%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.36%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.36%) Camunda
7 3 (0.36%) Traefik
8 2 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.24%) Appian
8 2 (0.24%) CICS
8 2 (0.24%) JBoss
8 2 (0.24%) Magnolia
8 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 61 (7.30%) Microsoft Project
2 58 (6.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (4.43%) MS Visio
4 35 (4.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
6 23 (2.75%) Trello
7 10 (1.20%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 4 (0.48%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.36%) InVision
9 3 (0.36%) Sketch
10 2 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.24%) Notion
10 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.12%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.12%) EPLAN
11 1 (0.12%) InDesign
11 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 16 (1.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 14 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (1.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.84%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.60%) Oracle EBS R12
7 4 (0.48%) Endur
7 4 (0.48%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.48%) Magento
7 4 (0.48%) Oracle BPM
7 4 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.48%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.36%) Algo Collateral
8 3 (0.36%) NetSuite
8 3 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 2 (0.24%) Eagle PACE
9 2 (0.24%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 189 (22.61%) Azure
2 171 (20.45%) AWS
3 96 (11.48%) Azure DevOps
4 79 (9.45%) GitHub
5 65 (7.78%) Power Platform
6 47 (5.62%) GCP
7 35 (4.19%) Serverless
8 30 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
8 30 (3.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 30 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
9 28 (3.35%) Amazon S3
10 23 (2.75%) SaaS
11 22 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 22 (2.63%) Power Automate
12 21 (2.51%) Miro
13 20 (2.39%) Slack
14 18 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (2.03%) GitHub Actions
16 16 (1.91%) PowerApps
16 16 (1.91%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.59%) Firewall
2 22 (2.63%) DNS
3 16 (1.91%) SSH
3 16 (1.91%) SSL
4 15 (1.79%) OpenLDAP
5 13 (1.56%) HTTP
6 11 (1.32%) FTP
6 11 (1.32%) SMTP
6 11 (1.32%) VPN
7 10 (1.20%) IMAP
8 8 (0.96%) WAN
9 6 (0.72%) Network Security
9 6 (0.72%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.72%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.36%) Internet
11 2 (0.24%) DHCP
11 2 (0.24%) DKIM
11 2 (0.24%) LAN
11 2 (0.24%) SNMP
11 2 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (6.70%) Power BI
2 43 (5.14%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (3.47%) SQL Server
4 24 (2.87%) Tableau
5 19 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (2.27%) Oracle Database
6 17 (2.03%) Big Data
6 17 (2.03%) Hadoop
7 16 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (1.56%) Metadata
9 12 (1.44%) Relational Database
10 11 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
10 11 (1.32%) NoSQL
11 10 (1.20%) Data Vault
12 9 (1.08%) BigQuery
12 9 (1.08%) Snowflake Schema
13 8 (0.96%) Data Lake
14 7 (0.84%) DB2
14 7 (0.84%) Redis
Development Applications
1 119 (14.23%) Git
2 86 (10.29%) Jenkins
3 46 (5.50%) GitLab
4 38 (4.55%) Selenium
5 36 (4.31%) Bitbucket
6 25 (2.99%) Postman
7 19 (2.27%) TestRail
7 19 (2.27%) Zephyr
8 18 (2.15%) Cucumber
9 17 (2.03%) JUnit
9 17 (2.03%) SonarQube
9 17 (2.03%) SpecFlow
10 14 (1.67%) Maven
11 13 (1.56%) REST Assured
12 12 (1.44%) ER Studio
12 12 (1.44%) ERwin
12 12 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (1.32%) Vagrant
14 10 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 10 (1.20%) Cypress.io
General
1 363 (43.42%) Social Skills
2 239 (28.59%) Finance
3 132 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 123 (14.71%) Banking
5 78 (9.33%) Public Sector
6 32 (3.83%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (3.71%) Front Office
8 29 (3.47%) Retail
9 28 (3.35%) Investment Banking
10 26 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
10 26 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
11 19 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (1.56%) Back Office
12 13 (1.56%) Legal
13 12 (1.44%) Marketing
14 11 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (1.32%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.08%) Military
16 8 (0.96%) Billing
16 8 (0.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 144 (17.22%) Analyst
2 107 (12.80%) Developer
3 101 (12.08%) Business Analyst
4 83 (9.93%) Senior
5 79 (9.45%) Project Manager
6 65 (7.78%) Lead
7 45 (5.38%) Architect
8 32 (3.83%) Tester
9 31 (3.71%) Consultant
10 30 (3.59%) Product Owner
10 30 (3.59%) Technical Analyst
11 29 (3.47%) DevOps Engineer
12 23 (2.75%) Technical Business Analyst
13 22 (2.63%) Administrator
14 21 (2.51%) Scrum Master
15 20 (2.39%) Delivery Manager
16 19 (2.27%) ServiceNow Developer
17 17 (2.03%) AWS Engineer
17 17 (2.03%) Platform Engineer
17 17 (2.03%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (9.45%) REST
2 53 (6.34%) SOAP
3 52 (6.22%) AngularJS
4 50 (5.98%) .NET
5 41 (4.90%) HTML
6 32 (3.83%) React
6 32 (3.83%) Web Services
7 31 (3.71%) JSON
8 30 (3.59%) Kafka
8 30 (3.59%) LDAP
9 28 (3.35%) CSS
10 26 (3.11%) RESTful
11 23 (2.75%) Playwright
12 22 (2.63%) HTML5
12 22 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
13 20 (2.39%) XML
14 18 (2.15%) Spring
15 16 (1.91%) jQuery
16 14 (1.67%) .NET Framework
16 14 (1.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 86 (10.29%) Product Ownership
2 27 (3.23%) Onboarding
3 20 (2.39%) Management Information System
4 18 (2.15%) CMDB
4 18 (2.15%) Data Structures
5 17 (2.03%) Cloud Native
5 17 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
6 16 (1.91%) PMI
6 16 (1.91%) Reinsurance
7 15 (1.79%) Replication
8 14 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.44%) Derivative
10 12 (1.44%) Equities
10 12 (1.44%) Fixed Income
10 12 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 11 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
11 11 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (1.32%) Mobile App
12 10 (1.20%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 75 (8.97%) Linux
2 41 (4.90%) Windows
3 32 (3.83%) Unix
4 13 (1.56%) VMS
5 12 (1.44%) Ubuntu
6 10 (1.20%) Amazon Linux
6 10 (1.20%) Android
7 7 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.72%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.60%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.36%) CentOS
11 2 (0.24%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.24%) Windows Server
12 1 (0.12%) Debian
12 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.12%) tvOS
12 1 (0.12%) watchOS
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 547 (65.43%) Agile
2 232 (27.75%) Scrum
3 227 (27.15%) DevOps
4 187 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
5 175 (20.93%) Stakeholder Management
6 143 (17.11%) CI/CD
7 134 (16.03%) Project Management
8 126 (15.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 114 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 97 (11.60%) Test Automation
10 97 (11.60%) User Stories
11 92 (11.00%) Migration
12 86 (10.29%) User Acceptance Testing
13 83 (9.93%) Microservices
14 79 (9.45%) SDLC
15 77 (9.21%) Roadmaps
16 75 (8.97%) Kanban
17 69 (8.25%) Risk Management
18 68 (8.13%) Analytics
19 67 (8.01%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 161 (19.26%) SQL
2 124 (14.83%) Python
3 92 (11.00%) Java
4 85 (10.17%) JavaScript
5 40 (4.78%) C#
6 32 (3.83%) TypeScript
7 29 (3.47%) PowerShell
8 23 (2.75%) Bash
9 21 (2.51%) Groovy
10 16 (1.91%) Go
11 10 (1.20%) Kotlin
12 8 (0.96%) PL/SQL
12 8 (0.96%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.72%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.72%) C++
13 6 (0.72%) Korn
13 6 (0.72%) Ruby
14 5 (0.60%) PHP
15 4 (0.48%) Objective-C
15 4 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 185 (22.13%) Security Cleared
2 177 (21.17%) SC Cleared
3 116 (13.88%) Degree
4 45 (5.38%) PMI Certification
5 36 (4.31%) PMP
6 31 (3.71%) ISTQB
7 22 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (2.15%) AWS Certification
8 18 (2.15%) DV Cleared
9 17 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 14 (1.67%) CISSP
11 13 (1.56%) Azure Certification
12 8 (0.96%) CBAP
12 8 (0.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 7 (0.84%) ISEB
14 6 (0.72%) CEH
14 6 (0.72%) CFA
14 6 (0.72%) CSPO
14 6 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.72%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (11.24%) QA
2 32 (3.83%) PMO
3 30 (3.59%) Data Quality
4 29 (3.47%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (2.15%) GDPR
7 13 (1.56%) NIST
8 8 (0.96%) SEPA
8 8 (0.96%) WCAG
9 7 (0.84%) ISO 20022
9 7 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.72%) NCSC
11 5 (0.60%) NIST 800
11 5 (0.60%) SLA
12 4 (0.48%) GRC
12 4 (0.48%) MiFID
12 4 (0.48%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.36%) ITGC
13 3 (0.36%) PSD2
13 3 (0.36%) Solvency II
System Software
1 79 (9.45%) Docker
2 20 (2.39%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.20%) DFS Replication
3 10 (1.20%) Dovecot
3 10 (1.20%) Postfix
3 10 (1.20%) Squid
4 3 (0.36%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 3 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.12%) etcd
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 72 (8.61%) Kubernetes
2 61 (7.30%) Terraform
3 25 (2.99%) Ansible
3 25 (2.99%) Packer
4 24 (2.87%) Consul
5 23 (2.75%) Grafana
6 17 (2.03%) Prometheus
7 16 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (1.56%) HP ALM
9 12 (1.44%) Nessus
10 10 (1.20%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.72%) SCCM
12 5 (0.60%) Puppet
13 4 (0.48%) Control-M
14 3 (0.36%) Ambari
14 3 (0.36%) Istio
14 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (0.36%) Tivoli
14 3 (0.36%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.24%) Argo
Vendors
1 100 (11.96%) ServiceNow
2 95 (11.36%) Microsoft
3 56 (6.70%) Oracle
4 50 (5.98%) Salesforce
5 32 (3.83%) Atlassian
6 31 (3.71%) SAP
7 25 (2.99%) HP
8 22 (2.63%) Google
9 18 (2.15%) Remedy
10 16 (1.91%) Splunk
11 15 (1.79%) Cloudera
12 14 (1.67%) Foundry
12 14 (1.67%) Palantir
13 12 (1.44%) BMC
13 12 (1.44%) Ivanti
14 11 (1.32%) Databricks
15 10 (1.20%) Adobe
15 10 (1.20%) CA Agile Central
15 10 (1.20%) Duck Creek
15 10 (1.20%) Sparx