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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 36 55
Rank change year-on-year -4 +19 -7
Contract jobs citing JIRA 978 750 689
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.95% 5.53% 3.97%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.44% 36.21% 28.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 656 508 482
10th Percentile £350 £331 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £629
90th Percentile £750 £757 £750
England median daily rate £492 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 17
10th Percentile - £33.10 £22.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £36.63 £25.99
Median hourly rate £27.50 £45.00 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% +41.91% -41.28%
75th Percentile £68.13 £68.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £80.50 £71.25
England median hourly rate £53.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -15.20% -3.85% +4.00%

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 2,480 2,071 2,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.55% 15.27% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,609 1,396 1,745
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £431 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £771 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 25
10th Percentile - £25.52 £23.30
25th Percentile £18.75 £32.13 £25.99
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +13.33% -48.28%
75th Percentile £72.88 £59.69 £71.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £69.63 £71.63
England median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - +4.00%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -15 117 £550 +8.37% 22
South London +7 32 £519 -3.53% 1
West London -6 24 £400 -3.61% 3
North London -1 2 - - 1
East London -3 1 £300 -26.38% 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
1 402 (41.10%) Confluence
2 51 (5.21%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.02%) nginx
5 9 (0.92%) CMS
6 7 (0.72%) SAS
7 6 (0.61%) Apache
7 6 (0.61%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.61%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.41%) JBoss
8 4 (0.41%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.31%) WordPress
10 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.20%) Camunda
10 2 (0.20%) Kentico
11 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.10%) Appian
11 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 64 (6.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (6.34%) Microsoft Project
3 43 (4.40%) MS Visio
4 33 (3.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (1.02%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.82%) Revit
8 7 (0.72%) Trello
9 5 (0.51%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.41%) Notion
10 4 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.10%) Mingle
11 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 14 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.23%) Aladdin
2 12 (1.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 10 (1.02%) Loan IQ
4 8 (0.82%) Findur
5 7 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.61%) Fidessa
7 5 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.41%) Actimize
9 3 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.31%) SAP FI-AR
9 3 (0.31%) Summit
9 3 (0.31%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.20%) Eloqua
10 2 (0.20%) IntelliMatch
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.20%) SAP BPC
10 2 (0.20%) SAP SD
10 2 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 271 (27.71%) Azure
2 156 (15.95%) Azure DevOps
3 154 (15.75%) AWS
4 79 (8.08%) Power Platform
5 68 (6.95%) GitHub
6 56 (5.73%) Entra ID
7 51 (5.21%) Amazon S3
8 50 (5.11%) SaaS
9 48 (4.91%) Serverless
10 41 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
11 38 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
12 35 (3.58%) Amazon EC2
13 33 (3.37%) GCP
14 32 (3.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 27 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
16 22 (2.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 20 (2.04%) Figma
18 19 (1.94%) Snowflake
19 17 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
19 17 (1.74%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.76%) Firewall
2 24 (2.45%) DNS
3 19 (1.94%) TCP/IP
4 18 (1.84%) VPN
5 10 (1.02%) HTTP
6 7 (0.72%) Network Security
6 7 (0.72%) OpenVPN
6 7 (0.72%) WAN
7 6 (0.61%) DHCP
8 5 (0.51%) DKIM
8 5 (0.51%) DMARC
8 5 (0.51%) LAN
8 5 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.41%) FTP
9 4 (0.41%) PSTN
9 4 (0.41%) SSL
9 4 (0.41%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.31%) Internet
10 3 (0.31%) NGFW
11 2 (0.20%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (6.75%) Power BI
2 36 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (2.35%) SQL Server
5 19 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
5 19 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (1.74%) Tableau
7 16 (1.64%) Relational Database
8 15 (1.53%) DynamoDB
9 12 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
10 11 (1.12%) Metadata
10 11 (1.12%) MongoDB
10 11 (1.12%) NoSQL
11 10 (1.02%) Data Lake
11 10 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (0.92%) Oracle Database
12 9 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
13 7 (0.72%) Crystal Reports
14 6 (0.61%) BigQuery
14 6 (0.61%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 116 (11.86%) Git
2 70 (7.16%) Jenkins
3 43 (4.40%) GitLab
4 36 (3.68%) Selenium
5 26 (2.66%) JUnit
5 26 (2.66%) Zephyr
6 19 (1.94%) Cucumber
7 18 (1.84%) Bitbucket
8 16 (1.64%) Cypress.io
9 13 (1.33%) REST Assured
9 13 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
10 12 (1.23%) Postman
11 11 (1.12%) SonarQube
12 9 (0.92%) Appium
13 8 (0.82%) JMeter
13 8 (0.82%) Mockito
13 8 (0.82%) TestRail
14 6 (0.61%) ScriptRunner
15 5 (0.51%) Maven
15 5 (0.51%) TeamCity
General
1 381 (38.96%) Social Skills
2 378 (38.65%) Finance
3 173 (17.69%) Banking
4 169 (17.28%) Analytical Skills
5 110 (11.25%) Public Sector
6 44 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
7 40 (4.09%) Organisational Skills
7 40 (4.09%) Retail
8 31 (3.17%) Investment Banking
9 30 (3.07%) Front Office
10 27 (2.76%) Legal
11 23 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.64%) Financial Institution
13 16 (1.64%) Marketing
14 15 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (1.33%) Back Office
15 13 (1.33%) Corporate Banking
16 11 (1.12%) Retail Banking
17 10 (1.02%) Military
Job Titles
1 204 (20.86%) Analyst
2 129 (13.19%) Business Analyst
3 112 (11.45%) Developer
4 99 (10.12%) Lead
5 95 (9.71%) Senior
6 56 (5.73%) Project Manager
7 48 (4.91%) Delivery Manager
8 43 (4.40%) IT Support
9 42 (4.29%) Architect
10 32 (3.27%) Consultant
11 30 (3.07%) Tester
12 29 (2.97%) Scrum Master
12 29 (2.97%) Support Engineer
13 27 (2.76%) Data Engineer
14 26 (2.66%) Test Leader
15 25 (2.56%) IT Engineer
15 25 (2.56%) Product Owner
16 24 (2.45%) Banking Analyst
16 24 (2.45%) IT Support Engineer
16 24 (2.45%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (5.42%) REST
2 38 (3.89%) .NET
3 32 (3.27%) React
4 24 (2.45%) Kafka
5 22 (2.25%) AngularJS
5 22 (2.25%) JSON
5 22 (2.25%) SOAP
6 20 (2.04%) RESTful
7 19 (1.94%) HTML
8 18 (1.84%) CSS
8 18 (1.84%) PySpark
8 18 (1.84%) Spring
9 17 (1.74%) Lightning Web Components
9 17 (1.74%) Playwright
10 16 (1.64%) Spring Boot
11 14 (1.43%) Node.js
11 14 (1.43%) OpenID
11 14 (1.43%) XML
12 12 (1.23%) OAuth
12 12 (1.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 101 (10.33%) Product Ownership
2 66 (6.75%) Onboarding
3 22 (2.25%) Cloud Native
4 21 (2.15%) Data Centre
4 21 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
4 21 (2.15%) Management Information System
5 20 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (1.84%) Data Structures
6 18 (1.84%) Virtual Team
7 17 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
7 17 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (1.64%) Derivative
9 15 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 12 (1.23%) Credit Risk
10 12 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 11 (1.12%) Fixed Income
11 11 (1.12%) Mobile App
12 9 (0.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.01%) Windows
2 38 (3.89%) Linux
3 10 (1.02%) Apple iOS
3 10 (1.02%) Unix
4 9 (0.92%) Mac OS
5 8 (0.82%) Android
6 5 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.51%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.10%) SUSE
9 1 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 564 (57.67%) Agile
2 296 (30.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 268 (27.40%) DevOps
4 213 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
5 179 (18.30%) CI/CD
6 173 (17.69%) Scrum
7 164 (16.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 143 (14.62%) Migration
9 142 (14.52%) User Acceptance Testing
10 133 (13.60%) Test Automation
11 126 (12.88%) User Stories
12 121 (12.37%) AI
13 109 (11.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 104 (10.63%) SDLC
15 101 (10.33%) Change Management
16 98 (10.02%) Acceptance Criteria
16 98 (10.02%) Validation
17 96 (9.82%) Roadmaps
18 93 (9.51%) Project Management
19 90 (9.20%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 172 (17.59%) SQL
2 109 (11.15%) Python
3 77 (7.87%) Java
4 63 (6.44%) C#
5 39 (3.99%) TypeScript
6 38 (3.89%) JavaScript
7 29 (2.97%) PowerShell
8 15 (1.53%) Apex Code
8 15 (1.53%) Bash
9 9 (0.92%) Groovy
10 8 (0.82%) Perl
10 8 (0.82%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.61%) VBA
12 5 (0.51%) C++
13 4 (0.41%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.31%) Bicep
14 3 (0.31%) Swift
14 3 (0.31%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.20%) Cypher
15 2 (0.20%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 219 (22.39%) Security Cleared
2 194 (19.84%) SC Cleared
3 70 (7.16%) Degree
4 25 (2.56%) PMI Certification
5 22 (2.25%) PMP
6 21 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 19 (1.94%) DV Cleared
7 19 (1.94%) ISTQB
8 14 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
9 12 (1.23%) AWS Certification
10 11 (1.12%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.02%) CISSP
12 9 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
13 8 (0.82%) CISM
13 8 (0.82%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 7 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 7 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.61%) IIBA
15 6 (0.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (12.07%) QA
2 71 (7.26%) Data Quality
3 41 (4.19%) PMO
4 31 (3.17%) Accessibility
5 26 (2.66%) GDPR
5 26 (2.66%) SLA
6 20 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.33%) WCAG
8 8 (0.82%) ISO 20022
8 8 (0.82%) NIST
9 7 (0.72%) GRC
10 6 (0.61%) MiFID
10 6 (0.61%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.61%) SEPA
11 5 (0.51%) COBIT
12 4 (0.41%) EMIR
12 4 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.41%) NCSC
12 4 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 45 (4.60%) Active Directory
2 40 (4.09%) Docker
3 8 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.72%) Squid
5 4 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.31%) Firmware
7 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.10%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 74 (7.57%) Terraform
2 62 (6.34%) Kubernetes
3 27 (2.76%) Ansible
4 26 (2.66%) Single Sign-On
5 23 (2.35%) Prometheus
6 22 (2.25%) Grafana
7 12 (1.23%) Consul
7 12 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (1.02%) HP ALM
9 7 (0.72%) Control-M
9 7 (0.72%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.41%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.41%) Packer
10 4 (0.41%) PingFederate
11 3 (0.31%) Istio
11 3 (0.31%) Podman
12 2 (0.20%) Argo
12 2 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 132 (13.50%) Microsoft
2 128 (13.09%) ServiceNow
3 79 (8.08%) Salesforce
4 52 (5.32%) Oracle
5 37 (3.78%) Atlassian
6 35 (3.58%) SAP
7 32 (3.27%) Google
8 17 (1.74%) Adobe
8 17 (1.74%) Databricks
9 16 (1.64%) MuleSoft
9 16 (1.64%) Okta
10 14 (1.43%) IBM
11 13 (1.33%) Informatica
11 13 (1.33%) Splunk
11 13 (1.33%) Workday
12 12 (1.23%) Red Hat
12 12 (1.23%) Remedy
13 11 (1.12%) HP
14 10 (1.02%) ForgeRock
14 10 (1.02%) Murex