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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 32 54
Rank change year-on-year -14 +22 -2
Contract jobs citing JIRA 966 803 675
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.81% 6.08% 4.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.26% 38.07% 28.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 624 562 456
10th Percentile £352 £325 £315
25th Percentile £425 £413 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 14
10th Percentile £18.75 £34.20 £22.98
25th Percentile £18.88 £39.38 £25.99
Median hourly rate £42.25 £44.75 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +36.64% -39.35%
75th Percentile £71.25 £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 2,525 2,109 2,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.58% 15.96% 14.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,636 1,435 1,596
10th Percentile £363 £350 £367
25th Percentile £438 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £772
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 19
10th Percentile £18.75 £36.63 £24.60
25th Percentile £27.38 £41.69 £25.99
Median hourly rate £49.00 £50.75 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +35.33% -45.45%
75th Percentile £73.56 £72.81 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.66 £107.88 £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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -15 120 £550 +15.79% 53
West London -6 27 £400 -1.23% 19
South London -7 20 £550 -5.40% 4
North London +3 3 - - 1
East London 0 3 £550 +34.97% 2
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
1 403 (41.72%) Confluence
2 54 (5.59%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (1.35%) CMS
5 7 (0.72%) SAS
6 5 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.52%) Apache
6 5 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.52%) Camunda
6 5 (0.52%) MTS
7 4 (0.41%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.31%) WordPress
9 2 (0.21%) IIS
9 2 (0.21%) JBoss
9 2 (0.21%) Kentico
9 2 (0.21%) nginx
10 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.10%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 67 (6.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (5.07%) Microsoft Project
3 36 (3.73%) MS Visio
4 35 (3.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
6 13 (1.35%) Trello
7 10 (1.04%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.83%) Revit
9 5 (0.52%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.52%) Notion
10 4 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.21%) Mingle
12 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.10%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
12 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.10%) Sketch
12 1 (0.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 19 (1.97%) Remedy ITSM
2 10 (1.04%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.52%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.52%) Findur
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%) Loan IQ
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
1 264 (27.33%) Azure
2 155 (16.05%) AWS
3 148 (15.32%) Azure DevOps
4 86 (8.90%) Power Platform
5 72 (7.45%) GitHub
6 52 (5.38%) SaaS
7 45 (4.66%) Microsoft 365
8 44 (4.55%) Entra ID
8 44 (4.55%) Serverless
9 43 (4.45%) Amazon S3
9 43 (4.45%) GCP
10 35 (3.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 35 (3.62%) AWS Lambda
11 28 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
12 26 (2.69%) Amazon EC2
13 24 (2.48%) Microsoft Copilot
14 20 (2.07%) Figma
14 20 (2.07%) Snowflake
15 19 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
16 17 (1.76%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.59%) DNS
2 22 (2.28%) Firewall
3 17 (1.76%) TCP/IP
3 17 (1.76%) VPN
4 11 (1.14%) DHCP
5 8 (0.83%) HTTP
6 7 (0.72%) SSL
7 6 (0.62%) Network Security
7 6 (0.62%) WAN
8 5 (0.52%) DKIM
8 5 (0.52%) DMARC
9 4 (0.41%) IPv4
9 4 (0.41%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.41%) SSH
10 3 (0.31%) FTP
10 3 (0.31%) Internet
10 3 (0.31%) IPv6
11 2 (0.21%) Broadband
11 2 (0.21%) DSL
11 2 (0.21%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (7.97%) Power BI
2 37 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
3 34 (3.52%) SQL Server
4 31 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (1.97%) Relational Database
6 18 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
6 18 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.66%) Metadata
8 15 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
9 14 (1.45%) DynamoDB
10 12 (1.24%) Data Lake
10 12 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 12 (1.24%) Tableau
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%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (0.83%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 125 (12.94%) Git
2 79 (8.18%) Jenkins
3 45 (4.66%) GitLab
4 35 (3.62%) Selenium
5 26 (2.69%) Zephyr
6 20 (2.07%) Bitbucket
7 18 (1.86%) Cypress.io
8 15 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
9 14 (1.45%) Postman
10 13 (1.35%) REST Assured
11 12 (1.24%) JUnit
11 12 (1.24%) Maven
12 11 (1.14%) Mockito
13 10 (1.04%) Cucumber
13 10 (1.04%) TestRail
14 9 (0.93%) JMeter
15 8 (0.83%) Gradle
16 7 (0.72%) SonarQube
17 6 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 6 (0.62%) ScriptRunner
General
1 393 (40.68%) Finance
2 392 (40.58%) Social Skills
3 204 (21.12%) Banking
4 191 (19.77%) Analytical Skills
5 106 (10.97%) Public Sector
6 44 (4.55%) Investment Banking
6 44 (4.55%) Retail
7 38 (3.93%) Organisational Skills
8 36 (3.73%) Front Office
9 34 (3.52%) Documentation Skills
10 22 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (2.17%) Legal
12 20 (2.07%) Marketing
13 19 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (1.66%) Retail Banking
15 14 (1.45%) Back Office
16 13 (1.35%) Financial Institution
17 12 (1.24%) Corporate Banking
17 12 (1.24%) Law
18 11 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 189 (19.57%) Analyst
2 119 (12.32%) Business Analyst
3 112 (11.59%) Lead
4 106 (10.97%) Developer
5 92 (9.52%) Senior
6 55 (5.69%) Project Manager
7 37 (3.83%) Delivery Manager
8 36 (3.73%) Architect
9 34 (3.52%) Consultant
10 31 (3.21%) Product Owner
11 29 (3.00%) Scrum Master
12 27 (2.80%) Applications Support
12 27 (2.80%) Test Manager
13 26 (2.69%) Test Leader
14 25 (2.59%) Support Engineer
15 24 (2.48%) Tester
16 22 (2.28%) Banking Analyst
16 22 (2.28%) Data Engineer
17 21 (2.17%) IT Support
17 21 (2.17%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (7.56%) Terraform
2 64 (6.63%) REST
3 43 (4.45%) .NET
4 29 (3.00%) React
5 28 (2.90%) AngularJS
6 25 (2.59%) JSON
7 23 (2.38%) HTML
7 23 (2.38%) Kafka
8 20 (2.07%) Playwright
8 20 (2.07%) SOAP
9 18 (1.86%) RESTful
10 17 (1.76%) CSS
10 17 (1.76%) Middleware
11 15 (1.55%) PySpark
11 15 (1.55%) Spring
11 15 (1.55%) XML
12 14 (1.45%) Lightning Web Components
12 14 (1.45%) Node.js
13 13 (1.35%) Spring Boot
14 12 (1.24%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 118 (12.22%) Product Ownership
2 72 (7.45%) Onboarding
3 29 (3.00%) Cloud Native
4 26 (2.69%) Data Structures
5 22 (2.28%) Data Centre
5 22 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (2.17%) Management Information System
6 21 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
6 21 (2.17%) Virtual Team
7 18 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 18 (1.86%) Credit Risk
8 17 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (1.76%) Derivative
9 15 (1.55%) Replication
9 15 (1.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 14 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 13 (1.35%) Fixed Income
11 13 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.35%) Mobile App
12 10 (1.04%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 54 (5.59%) Windows
2 48 (4.97%) 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 (0.72%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.72%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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%) CentOS
9 1 (0.10%) SUSE
9 1 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.10%) VxWorks
9 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 581 (60.14%) Agile
2 346 (35.82%) Stakeholder Management
3 275 (28.47%) DevOps
4 229 (23.71%) Problem-Solving
5 190 (19.67%) Scrum
6 189 (19.57%) CI/CD
7 152 (15.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 152 (15.73%) Migration
8 146 (15.11%) User Acceptance Testing
9 140 (14.49%) AI
10 134 (13.87%) User Stories
11 131 (13.56%) Test Automation
12 116 (12.01%) Validation
13 112 (11.59%) Project Management
14 106 (10.97%) Acceptance Criteria
14 106 (10.97%) SDLC
15 105 (10.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 100 (10.35%) Sprint Planning
17 96 (9.94%) Analytics
18 88 (9.11%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 188 (19.46%) SQL
2 113 (11.70%) Python
3 64 (6.63%) Java
4 45 (4.66%) JavaScript
5 40 (4.14%) C#
6 39 (4.04%) PowerShell
7 29 (3.00%) TypeScript
8 21 (2.17%) Bash
9 16 (1.66%) Apex Code
10 15 (1.55%) Groovy
11 10 (1.04%) Perl
11 10 (1.04%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.52%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.52%) Tcl
12 5 (0.52%) VBA
13 4 (0.41%) Korn
13 4 (0.41%) Swift
13 4 (0.41%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.31%) C
14 3 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 219 (22.67%) Security Cleared
2 193 (19.98%) SC Cleared
3 76 (7.87%) Degree
4 32 (3.31%) PMI Certification
5 25 (2.59%) DV Cleared
6 24 (2.48%) PMP
7 20 (2.07%) ISTQB
8 19 (1.97%) AWS Certification
8 19 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (1.24%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.14%) Azure Certification
11 11 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (0.93%) IIBA
13 8 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 7 (0.72%) CBAP
15 6 (0.62%) CISSP
15 6 (0.62%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.52%) MBA
17 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (13.98%) QA
2 72 (7.45%) Data Quality
3 49 (5.07%) PMO
4 30 (3.11%) SLA
5 24 (2.48%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.76%) GDPR
7 16 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.14%) ISO 20022
9 9 (0.93%) NIST
9 9 (0.93%) WCAG
10 8 (0.83%) GRC
11 7 (0.72%) SEPA
12 5 (0.52%) COBIT
12 5 (0.52%) MiFID
12 5 (0.52%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.41%) EMIR
13 4 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.41%) P3O
13 4 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.31%) NCSC
System Software
1 52 (5.38%) Active Directory
2 42 (4.35%) Docker
3 7 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.41%) 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 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 28 (2.90%) Grafana
3 25 (2.59%) Ansible
3 25 (2.59%) Prometheus
4 22 (2.28%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (1.14%) HP ALM
6 9 (0.93%) Control-M
7 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.62%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (0.62%) SCOM
9 4 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.41%) Argo
9 4 (0.41%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.41%) Istio
9 4 (0.41%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.41%) Podman
10 3 (0.31%) Consul
10 3 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.31%) Kibana
Vendors
1 149 (15.42%) Microsoft
2 113 (11.70%) ServiceNow
3 63 (6.52%) Salesforce
4 42 (4.35%) Oracle
5 34 (3.52%) Google
6 32 (3.31%) SAP
7 28 (2.90%) Atlassian
8 23 (2.38%) Splunk
9 20 (2.07%) IBM
9 20 (2.07%) Remedy
10 18 (1.86%) Adobe
11 14 (1.45%) MuleSoft
12 13 (1.35%) Okta
13 12 (1.24%) Bloomberg
13 12 (1.24%) BMC
13 12 (1.24%) Databricks
13 12 (1.24%) HP
13 12 (1.24%) Informatica
13 12 (1.24%) ION Trading
14 11 (1.14%) Workday