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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 48 53
Rank change year-on-year +9 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing JIRA 899 578 695
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.38% 4.57% 3.84%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.49% 32.33% 30.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 636 382 479
10th Percentile £350 £308 £325
25th Percentile £418 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% -6.78%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £667
90th Percentile £714 £738 £850
England median daily rate £492 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 13
10th Percentile - - £22.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -9.09% -50.75%
75th Percentile £74.63 £32.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £63.50
England median hourly rate £63.00 £62.50 £52.35
% change year-on-year +0.80% +19.38% -17.88%

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 2,398 1,788 2,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.34% 14.15% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,610 1,223 1,636
10th Percentile £351 £345 £363
25th Percentile £420 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £530 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% -5.78% -6.25%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £529
% change year-on-year - -5.44% -6.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 21
10th Percentile - £22.93 £22.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £26.24
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -25.00% -30.43%
75th Percentile £74.63 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £84.00 £71.25
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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +2 118 £550 +4.76% 52
South London +6 38 £519 +9.17% 3
West London -23 9 £500 +28.21% 9
East London +2 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
1 401 (44.61%) Confluence
2 48 (5.34%) SharePoint
3 27 (3.00%) nginx
4 16 (1.78%) Apache
5 9 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.78%) CMS
6 7 (0.78%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.67%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.67%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.56%) 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 85 (9.45%) Microsoft Project
2 73 (8.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 51 (5.67%) MS Visio
4 44 (4.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
6 17 (1.89%) Trello
7 5 (0.56%) 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 (1.56%) NetSuite
2 13 (1.45%) Loan IQ
3 12 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (1.11%) Aladdin
5 9 (1.00%) Fidessa
6 8 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
7 7 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
8 5 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.44%) Findur
9 4 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
9 4 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 4 (0.44%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 3 (0.33%) Algo Collateral
10 3 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.33%) SAP Retail
10 3 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
10 3 (0.33%) Summit
11 2 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 212 (23.58%) Azure
2 142 (15.80%) Azure DevOps
3 135 (15.02%) AWS
4 81 (9.01%) GitHub
5 61 (6.79%) Power Platform
6 33 (3.67%) Entra ID
6 33 (3.67%) Serverless
7 30 (3.34%) GCP
8 26 (2.89%) Amazon S3
8 26 (2.89%) SaaS
9 25 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
10 24 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (2.56%) Figma
12 20 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
14 18 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 17 (1.89%) AWS CloudFormation
15 17 (1.89%) Miro
15 17 (1.89%) Slack
16 15 (1.67%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.78%) Firewall
2 16 (1.78%) DNS
3 14 (1.56%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.45%) 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 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.56%) LAN
10 4 (0.44%) NAS
10 4 (0.44%) Network Security
10 4 (0.44%) PSTN
10 4 (0.44%) SSL
10 4 (0.44%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (5.12%) Power BI
2 32 (3.56%) Tableau
3 29 (3.23%) SQL Server
4 27 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (2.22%) NoSQL
6 16 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (1.78%) Relational Database
7 15 (1.67%) 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 (0.67%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 119 (13.24%) Git
2 72 (8.01%) Jenkins
3 42 (4.67%) GitLab
3 42 (4.67%) Selenium
4 30 (3.34%) Bitbucket
5 27 (3.00%) Cucumber
5 27 (3.00%) JUnit
6 24 (2.67%) Zephyr
7 16 (1.78%) Postman
7 16 (1.78%) TestRail
8 15 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (1.45%) 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 7 (0.78%) ScriptRunner
General
1 341 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 330 (36.71%) Finance
3 167 (18.58%) Analytical Skills
4 133 (14.79%) Banking
5 88 (9.79%) Public Sector
6 40 (4.45%) Documentation Skills
7 36 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
8 32 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
8 32 (3.56%) Retail
9 30 (3.34%) Legal
10 27 (3.00%) Investment Banking
11 23 (2.56%) Front Office
11 23 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (1.67%) Financial Institution
12 15 (1.67%) Marketing
13 10 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (1.11%) Publishing
14 9 (1.00%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.89%) Back Office
15 8 (0.89%) Billing
Job Titles
1 198 (22.02%) Analyst
2 141 (15.68%) Business Analyst
3 105 (11.68%) Developer
4 91 (10.12%) Senior
5 72 (8.01%) Lead
6 64 (7.12%) Project Manager
7 38 (4.23%) Delivery Manager
8 31 (3.45%) Architect
8 31 (3.45%) Tester
9 30 (3.34%) Test Engineer
10 29 (3.23%) IT Support
11 28 (3.11%) Consultant
11 28 (3.11%) Technical Analyst
12 27 (3.00%) Senior Analyst
13 26 (2.89%) Technical Business Analyst
13 26 (2.89%) Technical Manager
14 24 (2.67%) Data Engineer
15 23 (2.56%) Scrum Master
16 22 (2.45%) Support Engineer
17 20 (2.22%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (5.45%) REST
2 35 (3.89%) .NET
3 29 (3.23%) React
4 28 (3.11%) Kafka
5 25 (2.78%) Spring
6 22 (2.45%) HTML
6 22 (2.45%) XML
7 21 (2.34%) RESTful
8 20 (2.22%) AngularJS
8 20 (2.22%) Playwright
9 19 (2.11%) CSS
9 19 (2.11%) SOAP
10 18 (2.00%) JSON
10 18 (2.00%) Node.js
11 16 (1.78%) Oracle Fusion
12 15 (1.67%) Lightning Web Components
12 15 (1.67%) Spring Boot
13 12 (1.33%) Web Services
14 11 (1.22%) .NET Framework
14 11 (1.22%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 86 (9.57%) Product Ownership
2 44 (4.89%) Onboarding
3 29 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 22 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 22 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
5 19 (2.11%) Cloud Native
5 19 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (2.11%) Virtual Team
6 17 (1.89%) Public Cloud
7 14 (1.56%) Data Structures
7 14 (1.56%) Mobile App
8 12 (1.33%) Data Centre
8 12 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.11%) CMDB
11 9 (1.00%) Equities
11 9 (1.00%) Fixed Income
11 9 (1.00%) PMI
11 9 (1.00%) Reinsurance
11 9 (1.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.45%) Linux
2 48 (5.34%) Windows
3 15 (1.67%) Unix
4 10 (1.11%) Android
5 8 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.78%) FreeRTOS
7 5 (0.56%) 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
1 543 (60.40%) Agile
2 243 (27.03%) Stakeholder Management
3 228 (25.36%) DevOps
4 209 (23.25%) Scrum
5 180 (20.02%) Problem-Solving
6 167 (18.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 150 (16.69%) Test Automation
8 148 (16.46%) CI/CD
9 129 (14.35%) Project Management
10 121 (13.46%) User Stories
11 115 (12.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 108 (12.01%) User Acceptance Testing
13 103 (11.46%) Migration
14 98 (10.90%) SDLC
15 97 (10.79%) Project Delivery
16 93 (10.34%) Roadmaps
17 92 (10.23%) Decision-Making
18 90 (10.01%) Analytics
19 89 (9.90%) Change Management
20 88 (9.79%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 163 (18.13%) SQL
2 116 (12.90%) Python
3 92 (10.23%) Java
4 62 (6.90%) C#
5 52 (5.78%) JavaScript
6 37 (4.12%) TypeScript
7 19 (2.11%) PowerShell
8 16 (1.78%) Bash
9 14 (1.56%) C++
10 13 (1.45%) Apex Code
11 8 (0.89%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.78%) Embedded C++
13 6 (0.67%) Korn
13 6 (0.67%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.56%) C
14 5 (0.56%) Perl
14 5 (0.56%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.56%) Ruby
14 5 (0.56%) XPath
15 4 (0.44%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 195 (21.69%) Security Cleared
2 179 (19.91%) SC Cleared
3 81 (9.01%) Degree
4 33 (3.67%) PMI Certification
5 31 (3.45%) ISTQB
6 27 (3.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 26 (2.89%) PMP
8 19 (2.11%) CBAP
9 15 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (1.45%) DV Cleared
10 13 (1.45%) ISEB
11 12 (1.33%) CISSP
12 11 (1.22%) IIBA
13 9 (1.00%) AWS Certification
14 8 (0.89%) Azure Certification
15 7 (0.78%) CSPO
15 7 (0.78%) Master's Degree
16 6 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.67%) CESG Certified Professional
16 6 (0.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (13.46%) QA
2 49 (5.45%) Data Quality
3 37 (4.12%) PMO
4 32 (3.56%) Accessibility
5 25 (2.78%) GDPR
6 14 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.33%) NIST
8 11 (1.22%) WCAG
9 10 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (1.11%) SLA
10 8 (0.89%) GRC
11 7 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.56%) MiFID
12 5 (0.56%) 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 (6.34%) Docker
2 29 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.89%) Squid
4 7 (0.78%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (0.78%) Firmware
5 5 (0.56%) 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 (6.90%) Terraform
2 59 (6.56%) Kubernetes
3 22 (2.45%) Ansible
4 19 (2.11%) Consul
5 17 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (1.67%) Grafana
7 14 (1.56%) Prometheus
8 13 (1.45%) Packer
9 12 (1.33%) HP ALM
10 9 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (0.78%) FortiGate
12 5 (0.56%) Control-M
12 5 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.44%) RSA Archer
14 3 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
15 2 (0.22%) CASB
15 2 (0.22%) Puppet
16 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
16 1 (0.11%) Network Intrusion Detection System
16 1 (0.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 101 (11.23%) Microsoft
2 97 (10.79%) ServiceNow
3 72 (8.01%) Oracle
4 68 (7.56%) Salesforce
5 45 (5.01%) Atlassian
6 35 (3.89%) SAP
7 30 (3.34%) Google
8 21 (2.34%) Databricks
9 16 (1.78%) Adobe
10 14 (1.56%) Citrix
11 13 (1.45%) IBM
11 13 (1.45%) 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