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

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 48 49
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing JIRA 855 584 711
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.31% 4.50% 3.88%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.40% 32.09% 31.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 382 505
10th Percentile £350 £300 £339
25th Percentile £420 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% -6.38%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £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 8 1 10
10th Percentile - - £21.85
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.50 £26.56
Median hourly rate £44.75 £30.00 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year +49.17% -5.39% -41.28%
75th Percentile £81.31 £32.50 £40.47
90th Percentile £95.00 - £57.50
England median hourly rate £62.57 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +0.11% +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 2,349 1,820 2,292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.58% 14.03% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,596 1,231 1,678
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £418 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £535 £566
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% -5.52% -5.63%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £507 £525
% change year-on-year -1.47% -3.34% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 20
10th Percentile - £22.93 £24.70
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £30.00
Median hourly rate £44.75 £30.00 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +49.17% -27.27% -28.26%
75th Percentile £81.31 £71.25 £60.81
90th Percentile £95.00 £85.50 £73.66
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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -4 114 £550 +8.64% 17
South London +5 35 £513 +7.89% 4
West London -29 7 £500 +28.21% 5
East London +1 5 £450 -18.18% 17
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
1 385 (45.03%) Confluence
2 46 (5.38%) SharePoint
3 27 (3.16%) nginx
4 13 (1.52%) Apache
5 9 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.82%) CMS
7 6 (0.70%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.70%) Hyperledger
7 6 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
7 6 (0.70%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.35%) JBoss
11 2 (0.23%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.23%) SAS
11 2 (0.23%) WordPress
12 1 (0.12%) CICS
12 1 (0.12%) IIS
12 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 80 (9.36%) Microsoft Project
2 72 (8.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 48 (5.61%) MS Visio
4 46 (5.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
5 18 (2.11%) Trello
6 5 (0.58%) Notion
7 4 (0.47%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.35%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.35%) InVision
8 3 (0.35%) Sketch
9 2 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.23%) Autodesk Smoke
9 2 (0.23%) InDesign
9 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.12%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.12%) Mingle
10 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (1.64%) NetSuite
2 13 (1.52%) Loan IQ
3 12 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (1.17%) Fidessa
5 8 (0.94%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 5 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.47%) Oracle Financials
9 4 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.47%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 4 (0.47%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.35%) Algo Collateral
10 3 (0.35%) Findur
10 3 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.35%) SAP Retail
10 3 (0.35%) SimCorp Dimension
10 3 (0.35%) Summit
11 2 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 204 (23.86%) Azure
2 136 (15.91%) AWS
3 130 (15.20%) Azure DevOps
4 79 (9.24%) GitHub
5 59 (6.90%) Power Platform
6 35 (4.09%) GCP
7 29 (3.39%) Serverless
8 27 (3.16%) Entra ID
8 27 (3.16%) SaaS
9 26 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
10 21 (2.46%) Amazon S3
10 21 (2.46%) Figma
11 19 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
11 19 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (2.11%) Slack
12 18 (2.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 17 (1.99%) Miro
14 16 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.57%) Firewall
2 16 (1.87%) DNS
3 13 (1.52%) TCP/IP
3 13 (1.52%) VPN
4 11 (1.29%) WAN
5 9 (1.05%) HTTP
6 7 (0.82%) Ethernet
6 7 (0.82%) Modbus
6 7 (0.82%) OpenVPN
6 7 (0.82%) RS-232
6 7 (0.82%) RS-485
6 7 (0.82%) SD-WAN
7 6 (0.70%) FTP
7 6 (0.70%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.58%) LAN
8 5 (0.58%) Network Security
9 4 (0.47%) NAS
9 4 (0.47%) PSTN
9 4 (0.47%) SSL
9 4 (0.47%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (4.91%) Power BI
2 32 (3.74%) SQL Server
3 29 (3.39%) Tableau
4 25 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (2.11%) NoSQL
7 16 (1.87%) Elasticsearch
8 15 (1.75%) Relational Database
9 12 (1.40%) MongoDB
9 12 (1.40%) Oracle Database
10 10 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.17%) Big Data
10 10 (1.17%) Data Vault
10 10 (1.17%) Delta Lake
11 8 (0.94%) Metadata
11 8 (0.94%) Tick Data
12 7 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (0.82%) Hadoop
13 6 (0.70%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 103 (12.05%) Git
2 79 (9.24%) Jenkins
3 45 (5.26%) GitLab
4 43 (5.03%) Selenium
5 31 (3.63%) JUnit
6 30 (3.51%) Bitbucket
6 30 (3.51%) Cucumber
7 20 (2.34%) Zephyr
8 18 (2.11%) Postman
8 18 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
9 17 (1.99%) SonarQube
10 16 (1.87%) TestRail
11 12 (1.40%) JMeter
11 12 (1.40%) Maven
11 12 (1.40%) REST Assured
11 12 (1.40%) SpecFlow
12 11 (1.29%) Cypress.io
13 9 (1.05%) Appium
13 9 (1.05%) Team Foundation Server
14 6 (0.70%) TeamCity
General
1 331 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 310 (36.26%) Finance
3 160 (18.71%) Analytical Skills
4 123 (14.39%) Banking
5 84 (9.82%) Public Sector
6 38 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
7 36 (4.21%) Organisational Skills
8 33 (3.86%) Presentation Skills
9 32 (3.74%) Retail
10 28 (3.27%) Investment Banking
11 27 (3.16%) Legal
12 24 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
13 21 (2.46%) Front Office
14 16 (1.87%) Financial Institution
15 13 (1.52%) Marketing
16 10 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (1.17%) Publishing
16 10 (1.17%) Telecoms
17 9 (1.05%) Billing
18 6 (0.70%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 195 (22.81%) Analyst
2 142 (16.61%) Business Analyst
3 100 (11.70%) Developer
4 82 (9.59%) Senior
5 67 (7.84%) Lead
6 65 (7.60%) Project Manager
7 33 (3.86%) Tester
8 32 (3.74%) Technical Analyst
9 31 (3.63%) Delivery Manager
9 31 (3.63%) Test Engineer
10 30 (3.51%) Technical Business Analyst
11 28 (3.27%) Architect
12 27 (3.16%) Consultant
13 25 (2.92%) IT Support
13 25 (2.92%) Senior Analyst
14 24 (2.81%) Technical Manager
15 22 (2.57%) Data Engineer
15 22 (2.57%) Scrum Master
16 20 (2.34%) Java Developer
17 19 (2.22%) Banking Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (5.50%) REST
2 32 (3.74%) .NET
3 26 (3.04%) Kafka
3 26 (3.04%) React
3 26 (3.04%) Spring
4 24 (2.81%) XML
5 23 (2.69%) SOAP
6 22 (2.57%) HTML
6 22 (2.57%) Playwright
6 22 (2.57%) RESTful
7 19 (2.22%) CSS
8 18 (2.11%) JSON
9 17 (1.99%) Oracle Fusion
10 16 (1.87%) AngularJS
11 15 (1.75%) Lightning Web Components
11 15 (1.75%) Spring Boot
12 14 (1.64%) Node.js
13 13 (1.52%) Web Services
14 11 (1.29%) ADO
15 10 (1.17%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 82 (9.59%) Product Ownership
2 40 (4.68%) Onboarding
3 27 (3.16%) Management Information System
4 24 (2.81%) Analytical Mindset
5 19 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (2.11%) Public Cloud
7 16 (1.87%) Cloud Native
7 16 (1.87%) Data Structures
8 15 (1.75%) Virtual Team
9 13 (1.52%) Mobile App
10 12 (1.40%) CMDB
10 12 (1.40%) Data Centre
11 10 (1.17%) Equities
11 10 (1.17%) Fixed Income
11 10 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
11 10 (1.17%) PMI
11 10 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
12 9 (1.05%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 50 (5.85%) Linux
2 44 (5.15%) Windows
3 18 (2.11%) Unix
4 10 (1.17%) Android
5 7 (0.82%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.82%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (0.58%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.47%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.35%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 520 (60.82%) Agile
2 231 (27.02%) Stakeholder Management
3 222 (25.96%) DevOps
4 213 (24.91%) Scrum
5 172 (20.12%) Problem-Solving
6 161 (18.83%) Continuous Improvement
7 146 (17.08%) CI/CD
8 137 (16.02%) Test Automation
9 118 (13.80%) Project Management
10 117 (13.68%) User Stories
11 109 (12.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 101 (11.81%) Migration
13 98 (11.46%) Project Delivery
14 93 (10.88%) User Acceptance Testing
15 89 (10.41%) Waterfall
16 87 (10.18%) Roadmaps
17 86 (10.06%) Analytics
18 82 (9.59%) SDLC
19 81 (9.47%) Decision-Making
20 77 (9.01%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 154 (18.01%) SQL
2 107 (12.51%) Python
3 91 (10.64%) Java
4 59 (6.90%) C#
5 50 (5.85%) JavaScript
6 35 (4.09%) TypeScript
7 22 (2.57%) PowerShell
8 15 (1.75%) Bash
9 13 (1.52%) C++
10 9 (1.05%) Apex Code
10 9 (1.05%) Shell Script
11 7 (0.82%) Embedded C++
12 6 (0.70%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.58%) Korn
13 5 (0.58%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.58%) Ruby
13 5 (0.58%) XPath
14 4 (0.47%) Delphi
14 4 (0.47%) Perl
15 3 (0.35%) C
Qualifications
1 184 (21.52%) Security Cleared
2 169 (19.77%) SC Cleared
3 78 (9.12%) Degree
4 33 (3.86%) PMI Certification
5 29 (3.39%) ISTQB
6 27 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 25 (2.92%) PMP
8 20 (2.34%) CBAP
9 13 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.52%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.52%) ISEB
10 11 (1.29%) CISSP
11 10 (1.17%) AWS Certification
12 9 (1.05%) IIBA
13 8 (0.94%) CSPO
13 8 (0.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 7 (0.82%) Azure Certification
14 7 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.70%) CESG Certified Professional
15 6 (0.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (12.87%) QA
2 46 (5.38%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.86%) Accessibility
3 33 (3.86%) PMO
4 20 (2.34%) GDPR
5 13 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.40%) NIST
6 12 (1.40%) WCAG
7 10 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (1.17%) SLA
8 7 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (0.82%) GRC
9 5 (0.58%) MiFID
9 5 (0.58%) NIST 800
10 4 (0.47%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.35%) Basel III
11 3 (0.35%) NCSC
11 3 (0.35%) SEPA
12 2 (0.23%) EMIR
12 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 58 (6.78%) Docker
2 26 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.94%) Squid
4 7 (0.82%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (0.82%) Firmware
5 6 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 59 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 49 (5.73%) Terraform
3 24 (2.81%) Ansible
4 19 (2.22%) Consul
5 16 (1.87%) Grafana
6 15 (1.75%) Prometheus
7 14 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (1.52%) Packer
9 10 (1.17%) HP ALM
10 9 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (0.82%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.58%) Control-M
14 3 (0.35%) Puppet
14 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (0.35%) RSA Archer
14 3 (0.35%) SCCM
15 2 (0.23%) CASB
16 1 (0.12%) IBM Guardium
16 1 (0.12%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 101 (11.81%) Microsoft
2 93 (10.88%) ServiceNow
3 74 (8.65%) Oracle
4 64 (7.49%) Salesforce
5 41 (4.80%) Atlassian
6 37 (4.33%) SAP
7 27 (3.16%) Google
8 22 (2.57%) Databricks
9 15 (1.75%) Adobe
10 14 (1.64%) Citrix
11 13 (1.52%) Murex
12 12 (1.40%) Dynatrace
13 11 (1.29%) IBM
14 10 (1.17%) HP
14 10 (1.17%) Informatica
14 10 (1.17%) MuleSoft
14 10 (1.17%) Planview
14 10 (1.17%) Red Hat
14 10 (1.17%) Remedy
14 10 (1.17%) Workday