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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 33 56
Rank change year-on-year -12 +23 -5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 965 805 660
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.77% 5.98% 4.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.02% 37.55% 28.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 562 452
10th Percentile £358 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £638
90th Percentile £750 £745 £743
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 14
10th Percentile - £34.20 £22.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £39.38 £25.99
Median hourly rate £31.50 £44.75 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -29.61% +36.64% -39.35%
75th Percentile £68.75 £57.81 £69.69
90th Percentile £87.83 £76.38 £71.25
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £68.00
% change year-on-year - -8.09% +8.80%

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 2,538 2,144 2,334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.55% 15.92% 14.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,639 1,469 1,600
10th Percentile £364 £350 £363
25th Percentile £439 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £648 £650
90th Percentile £746 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 13 19
10th Percentile £18.75 £31.85 £24.60
25th Percentile £22.75 £40.00 £25.99
Median hourly rate £45.00 £45.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -45.45%
75th Percentile £73.38 £67.50 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.57 £105.75 £71.38
England median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -16 119 £550 +16.96% 29
West London -4 28 £400 -1.23% 19
South London -10 20 £550 -5.40% 6
North London +2 3 - - 2
East London -1 2 £425 +4.29% 6
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
1 404 (41.87%) Confluence
2 57 (5.91%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (1.35%) CMS
5 7 (0.73%) SAS
6 5 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.41%) Apache
7 4 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.41%) Camunda
7 4 (0.41%) Headless CMS
7 4 (0.41%) MTS
8 3 (0.31%) JBoss
8 3 (0.31%) WordPress
9 2 (0.21%) Kentico
9 2 (0.21%) nginx
10 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.10%) Appian
10 1 (0.10%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 69 (7.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (5.39%) Microsoft Project
3 40 (4.15%) MS Visio
4 37 (3.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
6 13 (1.35%) Trello
7 10 (1.04%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.83%) Revit
9 6 (0.62%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.52%) Notion
11 4 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.10%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.10%) Mingle
12 1 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
12 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.10%) Sketch
12 1 (0.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 18 (1.87%) Remedy ITSM
2 11 (1.14%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.52%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.52%) Findur
5 5 (0.52%) Loan IQ
6 4 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.41%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.31%) SAP FI-AR
8 2 (0.21%) Actimize
8 2 (0.21%) CA PPM
8 2 (0.21%) Eloqua
8 2 (0.21%) IntelliMatch
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.21%) Shopify
8 2 (0.21%) Summit
8 2 (0.21%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 266 (27.56%) Azure
2 151 (15.65%) AWS
2 151 (15.65%) Azure DevOps
3 89 (9.22%) Power Platform
4 71 (7.36%) GitHub
5 51 (5.28%) SaaS
6 47 (4.87%) Entra ID
7 44 (4.56%) Microsoft 365
8 43 (4.46%) Amazon S3
8 43 (4.46%) Serverless
9 41 (4.25%) GCP
10 35 (3.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 34 (3.52%) AWS Lambda
12 28 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
13 26 (2.69%) Amazon EC2
14 24 (2.49%) Microsoft Copilot
15 20 (2.07%) Figma
15 20 (2.07%) Snowflake
16 19 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
17 17 (1.76%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.49%) DNS
1 24 (2.49%) Firewall
2 17 (1.76%) VPN
3 16 (1.66%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.93%) DHCP
5 7 (0.73%) HTTP
5 7 (0.73%) Network Security
6 6 (0.62%) SSL
6 6 (0.62%) WAN
7 5 (0.52%) DKIM
7 5 (0.52%) DMARC
8 4 (0.41%) Internet
8 4 (0.41%) IPv4
8 4 (0.41%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.41%) SSH
9 3 (0.31%) FTP
9 3 (0.31%) IPv6
9 3 (0.31%) NGFW
10 2 (0.21%) 5G
10 2 (0.21%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (8.29%) Power BI
2 36 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (3.11%) SQL Server
4 28 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
5 18 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (1.87%) Relational Database
6 16 (1.66%) Metadata
7 15 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (1.55%) Tableau
8 14 (1.45%) DynamoDB
9 12 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (1.14%) Data Lake
11 10 (1.04%) MongoDB
11 10 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 10 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (0.93%) Redis
13 8 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
14 7 (0.73%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 124 (12.85%) Git
2 77 (7.98%) Jenkins
3 42 (4.35%) GitLab
4 37 (3.83%) Selenium
5 27 (2.80%) Zephyr
6 20 (2.07%) Bitbucket
7 17 (1.76%) Cypress.io
8 16 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
9 14 (1.45%) Postman
10 12 (1.24%) REST Assured
11 11 (1.14%) JUnit
12 10 (1.04%) TestRail
13 9 (0.93%) Cucumber
13 9 (0.93%) Maven
14 8 (0.83%) JMeter
14 8 (0.83%) Mockito
15 7 (0.73%) Gradle
16 6 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 6 (0.62%) ScriptRunner
17 5 (0.52%) Artifactory
General
1 393 (40.73%) Finance
2 390 (40.41%) Social Skills
3 202 (20.93%) Banking
4 187 (19.38%) Analytical Skills
5 104 (10.78%) Public Sector
6 44 (4.56%) Investment Banking
7 43 (4.46%) Retail
8 39 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
9 35 (3.63%) Front Office
10 33 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
11 23 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (2.18%) Legal
13 19 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 19 (1.97%) Marketing
14 16 (1.66%) Retail Banking
15 15 (1.55%) Financial Institution
16 14 (1.45%) Back Office
16 14 (1.45%) Corporate Banking
17 12 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
18 11 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 196 (20.31%) Analyst
2 124 (12.85%) Business Analyst
3 109 (11.30%) Lead
4 104 (10.78%) Developer
5 91 (9.43%) Senior
6 56 (5.80%) Project Manager
7 37 (3.83%) Delivery Manager
8 35 (3.63%) Architect
8 35 (3.63%) Consultant
9 32 (3.32%) Product Owner
10 29 (3.01%) Scrum Master
11 28 (2.90%) Test Manager
12 26 (2.69%) Applications Support
12 26 (2.69%) Support Engineer
12 26 (2.69%) Test Leader
13 24 (2.49%) Banking Analyst
13 24 (2.49%) IT Support
14 23 (2.38%) Data Engineer
14 23 (2.38%) Tester
15 21 (2.18%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (7.67%) Terraform
2 60 (6.22%) REST
3 42 (4.35%) .NET
4 28 (2.90%) React
5 26 (2.69%) AngularJS
6 25 (2.59%) JSON
7 22 (2.28%) HTML
8 20 (2.07%) Kafka
9 19 (1.97%) Playwright
10 18 (1.87%) SOAP
11 16 (1.66%) CSS
11 16 (1.66%) Middleware
11 16 (1.66%) RESTful
12 15 (1.55%) PySpark
12 15 (1.55%) XML
13 14 (1.45%) Lightning Web Components
13 14 (1.45%) Node.js
14 13 (1.35%) Spring
15 12 (1.24%) OAuth
16 10 (1.04%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 119 (12.33%) Product Ownership
2 70 (7.25%) Onboarding
3 25 (2.59%) Cloud Native
3 25 (2.59%) Data Structures
4 23 (2.38%) Data Centre
5 22 (2.28%) Management Information System
6 21 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (2.07%) Virtual Team
8 19 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
9 18 (1.87%) Credit Risk
9 18 (1.87%) Derivative
10 17 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.55%) Replication
11 15 (1.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 14 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 14 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.35%) Mobile App
14 12 (1.24%) Fixed Income
15 10 (1.04%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 55 (5.70%) Windows
2 44 (4.56%) Linux
3 13 (1.35%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.14%) Android
4 11 (1.14%) Unix
5 9 (0.93%) Amazon Linux
5 9 (0.93%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.73%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.52%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.21%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.21%) VMS
8 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.10%) SUSE
9 1 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 581 (60.21%) Agile
2 346 (35.85%) Stakeholder Management
3 272 (28.19%) DevOps
4 227 (23.52%) Problem-Solving
5 189 (19.59%) CI/CD
6 185 (19.17%) Scrum
7 155 (16.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 154 (15.96%) Migration
9 150 (15.54%) User Acceptance Testing
10 134 (13.89%) AI
11 133 (13.78%) User Stories
12 129 (13.37%) Test Automation
13 112 (11.61%) Validation
14 110 (11.40%) Acceptance Criteria
15 108 (11.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 106 (10.98%) Project Management
17 103 (10.67%) SDLC
18 97 (10.05%) Sprint Planning
19 96 (9.95%) Analytics
20 94 (9.74%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 184 (19.07%) SQL
2 112 (11.61%) Python
3 62 (6.42%) Java
4 44 (4.56%) JavaScript
5 41 (4.25%) PowerShell
6 40 (4.15%) C#
7 27 (2.80%) TypeScript
8 20 (2.07%) Bash
9 16 (1.66%) Apex Code
10 15 (1.55%) Groovy
11 11 (1.14%) Perl
12 10 (1.04%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.52%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.52%) VBA
14 4 (0.41%) Korn
14 4 (0.41%) Swift
14 4 (0.41%) Tcl
14 4 (0.41%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.31%) Bicep
15 3 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 215 (22.28%) Security Cleared
2 189 (19.59%) SC Cleared
3 77 (7.98%) Degree
4 32 (3.32%) PMI Certification
5 24 (2.49%) DV Cleared
5 24 (2.49%) PMP
6 21 (2.18%) ISTQB
7 19 (1.97%) AWS Certification
8 16 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (1.24%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.24%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (0.93%) IIBA
13 8 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 7 (0.73%) CBAP
15 6 (0.62%) CISSP
15 6 (0.62%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.52%) MBA
17 4 (0.41%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (13.47%) QA
2 71 (7.36%) Data Quality
3 49 (5.08%) PMO
4 28 (2.90%) SLA
5 23 (2.38%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.76%) GDPR
6 17 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.14%) ISO 20022
8 10 (1.04%) NIST
9 9 (0.93%) WCAG
10 8 (0.83%) GRC
11 7 (0.73%) SEPA
12 6 (0.62%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.52%) COBIT
13 5 (0.52%) MiFID
14 4 (0.41%) EMIR
14 4 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 4 (0.41%) P3O
14 4 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
15 3 (0.31%) NCSC
System Software
1 54 (5.60%) Active Directory
2 40 (4.15%) Docker
3 7 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.21%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.21%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.21%) Firmware
6 2 (0.21%) Postfix
6 2 (0.21%) Squid
7 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 46 (4.77%) Kubernetes
2 26 (2.69%) Ansible
3 25 (2.59%) Grafana
4 23 (2.38%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.18%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (1.24%) HP ALM
7 9 (0.93%) Control-M
8 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.62%) Microsoft Clustering
9 6 (0.62%) SCOM
10 4 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.41%) Argo
10 4 (0.41%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.41%) Istio
10 4 (0.41%) PingFederate
10 4 (0.41%) Podman
11 3 (0.31%) Consul
11 3 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.21%) Kibana
Vendors
1 150 (15.54%) Microsoft
2 114 (11.81%) ServiceNow
3 64 (6.63%) Salesforce
4 43 (4.46%) Oracle
5 33 (3.42%) Google
5 33 (3.42%) SAP
6 29 (3.01%) Atlassian
7 24 (2.49%) Splunk
8 18 (1.87%) Adobe
8 18 (1.87%) IBM
8 18 (1.87%) Remedy
9 15 (1.55%) MuleSoft
10 13 (1.35%) HP
10 13 (1.35%) Okta
11 12 (1.24%) Databricks
11 12 (1.24%) Informatica
11 12 (1.24%) Workday
12 11 (1.14%) Bloomberg
12 11 (1.14%) BMC
12 11 (1.14%) ION Trading