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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 42 59
Rank change year-on-year 0 +17 -11
Contract jobs citing JIRA 904 642 664
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.89% 5.28% 3.80%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.31% 34.70% 28.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 610 431 458
10th Percentile £350 £331 £325
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £515 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% -4.19% -6.52%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £726 £750 £808
England median daily rate £480 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 19
10th Percentile - £29.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £31.25 £25.62
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +18.26% -41.28%
75th Percentile £68.13 £43.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £87.70 £46.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -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 2,360 1,850 2,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.77% 15.21% 13.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,556 1,257 1,660
10th Percentile £359 £356 £363
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £626 £660 £673
90th Percentile £738 £788 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 27
10th Percentile - £23.97 £23.80
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.77 £25.99
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -42.86%
75th Percentile £73.00 £43.75 £69.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £55.50 £71.50
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -10 112 £547 +4.19% 22
South London +8 33 £513 +7.89% 5
West London -23 21 £400 +0.63% 6
East London -5 5 £450 +12.50% 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
1 374 (41.37%) Confluence
2 50 (5.53%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.33%) Apache
5 10 (1.11%) nginx
6 7 (0.77%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.66%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.66%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.55%) CMS
9 4 (0.44%) JBoss
9 4 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.44%) SAS
10 3 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.22%) Kentico
11 2 (0.22%) WordPress
12 1 (0.11%) Appian
12 1 (0.11%) Camunda
12 1 (0.11%) Drupal
12 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 73 (8.08%) Microsoft Project
2 67 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 43 (4.76%) MS Visio
4 35 (3.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
6 8 (0.88%) Trello
7 7 (0.77%) Notion
8 4 (0.44%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.44%) Revit
9 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.11%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.11%) InVision
11 1 (0.11%) Mingle
11 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.22%) Loan IQ
3 9 (1.00%) Aladdin
4 8 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.77%) Fidessa
5 7 (0.77%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.66%) Findur
7 5 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.55%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.44%) SAP Retail
9 3 (0.33%) Actimize
9 3 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 3 (0.33%) SAP FI-AR
9 3 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
9 3 (0.33%) Summit
10 2 (0.22%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 212 (23.45%) Azure
2 132 (14.60%) Azure DevOps
3 125 (13.83%) AWS
4 61 (6.75%) Power Platform
5 59 (6.53%) GitHub
6 49 (5.42%) Entra ID
7 45 (4.98%) SaaS
8 41 (4.54%) Microsoft 365
9 38 (4.20%) Amazon S3
10 31 (3.43%) GCP
10 31 (3.43%) Serverless
11 26 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
12 24 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
13 21 (2.32%) Figma
14 20 (2.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 20 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
14 20 (2.21%) Slack
14 20 (2.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 19 (2.10%) Google Workspace
16 15 (1.66%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.77%) Firewall
2 19 (2.10%) DNS
3 15 (1.66%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.44%) VPN
5 9 (1.00%) HTTP
6 7 (0.77%) Network Security
6 7 (0.77%) OpenVPN
6 7 (0.77%) SSL
7 6 (0.66%) Ethernet
7 6 (0.66%) WAN
8 5 (0.55%) FTP
8 5 (0.55%) LAN
8 5 (0.55%) Modbus
8 5 (0.55%) RS-232
8 5 (0.55%) RS-485
8 5 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.44%) DKIM
9 4 (0.44%) DMARC
9 4 (0.44%) PSTN
9 4 (0.44%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (5.31%) Power BI
2 29 (3.21%) SQL Server
3 26 (2.88%) Tableau
4 25 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (1.55%) NoSQL
8 13 (1.44%) DynamoDB
8 13 (1.44%) Relational Database
9 12 (1.33%) Metadata
10 11 (1.22%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (1.22%) MongoDB
11 10 (1.11%) Delta Lake
11 10 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
13 8 (0.88%) Data Vault
13 8 (0.88%) Oracle Database
14 7 (0.77%) BigQuery
14 7 (0.77%) Crystal Reports
14 7 (0.77%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 103 (11.39%) Git
2 59 (6.53%) Jenkins
3 36 (3.98%) Selenium
4 30 (3.32%) GitLab
5 29 (3.21%) Zephyr
6 24 (2.65%) JUnit
7 19 (2.10%) Cucumber
8 17 (1.88%) Bitbucket
9 15 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
10 13 (1.44%) Cypress.io
11 11 (1.22%) Postman
11 11 (1.22%) SonarQube
11 11 (1.22%) TestRail
12 10 (1.11%) REST Assured
13 9 (1.00%) Appium
14 8 (0.88%) JMeter
15 7 (0.77%) Maven
16 6 (0.66%) ScriptRunner
16 6 (0.66%) Subversion
17 5 (0.55%) SpecFlow
General
1 351 (38.83%) Finance
2 338 (37.39%) Social Skills
3 161 (17.81%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (16.92%) Banking
5 97 (10.73%) Public Sector
6 39 (4.31%) Retail
7 37 (4.09%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
9 30 (3.32%) Investment Banking
10 28 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (2.99%) Legal
12 25 (2.77%) Front Office
13 17 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (1.66%) Financial Institution
14 15 (1.66%) Marketing
15 13 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 12 (1.33%) Corporate Banking
17 11 (1.22%) Back Office
18 9 (1.00%) Billing
18 9 (1.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 189 (20.91%) Analyst
2 127 (14.05%) Business Analyst
3 97 (10.73%) Lead
4 94 (10.40%) Developer
5 86 (9.51%) Senior
6 54 (5.97%) Project Manager
7 46 (5.09%) Delivery Manager
8 37 (4.09%) IT Support
9 30 (3.32%) Consultant
10 29 (3.21%) Technical Manager
11 28 (3.10%) Scrum Master
12 27 (2.99%) Data Engineer
12 27 (2.99%) Tester
13 25 (2.77%) Architect
13 25 (2.77%) Banking Analyst
13 25 (2.77%) Support Engineer
13 25 (2.77%) Test Leader
14 22 (2.43%) IT Engineer
14 22 (2.43%) IT Support Engineer
14 22 (2.43%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (4.31%) REST
2 29 (3.21%) React
3 27 (2.99%) .NET
4 25 (2.77%) Kafka
5 20 (2.21%) Spring
6 19 (2.10%) AngularJS
6 19 (2.10%) HTML
7 18 (1.99%) RESTful
8 17 (1.88%) SOAP
9 16 (1.77%) CSS
9 16 (1.77%) Lightning Web Components
10 15 (1.66%) Node.js
10 15 (1.66%) Oracle Fusion
10 15 (1.66%) Spring Boot
11 14 (1.55%) OpenID
11 14 (1.55%) Playwright
12 13 (1.44%) JSON
13 12 (1.33%) ADO
13 12 (1.33%) OAuth
14 11 (1.22%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 91 (10.07%) Product Ownership
2 52 (5.75%) Onboarding
3 24 (2.65%) Management Information System
4 22 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
5 21 (2.32%) Data Protection Act
5 21 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (1.99%) Cloud Native
6 18 (1.99%) Data Centre
7 17 (1.88%) Virtual Team
8 15 (1.66%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (1.55%) Public Cloud
10 13 (1.44%) Derivative
11 12 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.22%) Reinsurance
13 10 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (1.11%) Market Risk
14 9 (1.00%) Credit Risk
14 9 (1.00%) Mobile App
15 8 (0.88%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 52 (5.75%) Windows
2 35 (3.87%) Linux
3 9 (1.00%) Mac OS
3 9 (1.00%) Unix
4 8 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.66%) Android
6 5 (0.55%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (0.55%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.55%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.11%) SUSE
9 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 506 (55.97%) Agile
2 254 (28.10%) Stakeholder Management
3 217 (24.00%) DevOps
4 183 (20.24%) Problem-Solving
5 177 (19.58%) Scrum
6 169 (18.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 136 (15.04%) CI/CD
8 131 (14.49%) Test Automation
9 126 (13.94%) Migration
10 116 (12.83%) User Stories
11 111 (12.28%) Project Management
12 108 (11.95%) User Acceptance Testing
13 101 (11.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 99 (10.95%) Change Management
14 99 (10.95%) SDLC
15 94 (10.40%) Roadmaps
16 93 (10.29%) Analytics
17 90 (9.96%) Validation
18 89 (9.85%) Data Modelling
19 87 (9.62%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 155 (17.15%) SQL
2 100 (11.06%) Python
3 85 (9.40%) Java
4 55 (6.08%) C#
5 35 (3.87%) TypeScript
6 34 (3.76%) JavaScript
7 20 (2.21%) PowerShell
8 15 (1.66%) Bash
9 14 (1.55%) Apex Code
10 10 (1.11%) C++
11 8 (0.88%) Groovy
12 7 (0.77%) Perl
13 6 (0.66%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.55%) Embedded C++
14 5 (0.55%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.33%) Bicep
15 3 (0.33%) C
15 3 (0.33%) Korn
15 3 (0.33%) XPath
16 2 (0.22%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 192 (21.24%) Security Cleared
2 167 (18.47%) SC Cleared
3 68 (7.52%) Degree
4 27 (2.99%) PMI Certification
5 23 (2.54%) ISTQB
6 22 (2.43%) PMP
7 21 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (1.99%) DV Cleared
9 15 (1.66%) CBAP
10 12 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
11 11 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
12 10 (1.11%) Azure Certification
12 10 (1.11%) IIBA
13 9 (1.00%) CISSP
13 9 (1.00%) ISEB
13 9 (1.00%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.77%) CISM
15 6 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
16 5 (0.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (12.72%) QA
2 62 (6.86%) Data Quality
3 40 (4.42%) PMO
4 27 (2.99%) GDPR
5 25 (2.77%) Accessibility
6 22 (2.43%) SLA
7 14 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.33%) WCAG
9 10 (1.11%) NIST
10 8 (0.88%) MiFID
11 7 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.66%) GRC
12 6 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.44%) EMIR
13 4 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.44%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.44%) NCSC
13 4 (0.44%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.33%) COBIT
14 3 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 43 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 42 (4.65%) Docker
3 8 (0.88%) Squid
4 7 (0.77%) Firmware
4 7 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 55 (6.08%) Kubernetes
2 54 (5.97%) Terraform
3 22 (2.43%) Ansible
4 21 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (2.21%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.99%) Grafana
7 12 (1.33%) Consul
8 9 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.77%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.77%) HP ALM
9 7 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (0.55%) Control-M
11 4 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.44%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.44%) PingFederate
12 2 (0.22%) Packer
12 2 (0.22%) Podman
12 2 (0.22%) Puppet
12 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 115 (12.72%) Microsoft
2 112 (12.39%) ServiceNow
3 72 (7.96%) Salesforce
4 66 (7.30%) Oracle
5 39 (4.31%) SAP
6 34 (3.76%) Atlassian
7 31 (3.43%) Google
8 18 (1.99%) Databricks
9 15 (1.66%) MuleSoft
10 14 (1.55%) Adobe
11 12 (1.33%) Murex
11 12 (1.33%) Workday
12 11 (1.22%) IBM
12 11 (1.22%) Informatica
12 11 (1.22%) Okta
13 10 (1.11%) Bloomberg
13 10 (1.11%) ForgeRock
13 10 (1.11%) Red Hat
14 9 (1.00%) Citrix
14 9 (1.00%) Remedy