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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 47 49
Rank change year-on-year +8 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing JIRA 834 611 746
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.44% 4.49% 4.03%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.26% 31.54% 31.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 608 387 534
10th Percentile £350 £288 £350
25th Percentile £425 £395 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £675
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 3 2 8
10th Percentile £51.40 £20.75 £29.38
25th Percentile £64.00 £21.88 £31.60
Median hourly rate £90.00 £25.00 £35.23
Median % change year-on-year +260.00% -29.04% +18.42%
75th Percentile £95.00 £29.38 £44.84
90th Percentile - £31.25 £57.50
England median hourly rate £63.40 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +1.44% +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 2,300 1,937 2,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.00% 14.24% 12.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,566 1,263 1,737
10th Percentile £356 £342 £375
25th Percentile £420 £413 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £536 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.99% -4.71% -6.25%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £507 £535
% change year-on-year -1.40% -5.22% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 20
10th Percentile £55.60 £22.25 £25.71
25th Percentile £74.50 £25.63 £31.60
Median hourly rate £90.00 £48.75 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% +18.18% -28.26%
75th Percentile £98.75 £77.19 £57.81
90th Percentile £105.50 £87.88 £72.17
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 14 February 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 14 February 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 14 February 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 -7 111 £523 +2.53% 23
South London +3 38 £519 +15.23% 5
West London -30 7 £500 +28.21% 12
East London +1 5 £450 -18.18% 9
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
1 382 (45.80%) Confluence
2 45 (5.40%) SharePoint
3 31 (3.72%) nginx
4 12 (1.44%) Apache
5 9 (1.08%) CMS
6 8 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.96%) Palantir Foundry
7 6 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.72%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.72%) Hyperledger
7 6 (0.72%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.48%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.36%) Traefik
10 2 (0.24%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.24%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.12%) CICS
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.12%) SugarCRM
11 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 69 (8.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (7.91%) Microsoft Project
3 42 (5.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 42 (5.04%) MS Visio
4 22 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
5 19 (2.28%) Trello
6 6 (0.72%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.60%) Notion
8 4 (0.48%) Adobe After Effects
8 4 (0.48%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.36%) InVision
9 3 (0.36%) Sketch
10 2 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.24%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.24%) InDesign
10 2 (0.24%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.12%) EPLAN
11 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (1.68%) NetSuite
2 10 (1.20%) Fidessa
2 10 (1.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 9 (1.08%) Loan IQ
3 9 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.84%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.60%) Oracle EBS R12
6 5 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.48%) Endur
7 4 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.48%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 4 (0.48%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.36%) Algo Collateral
8 3 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.36%) SAP Retail
8 3 (0.36%) SimCorp Dimension
8 3 (0.36%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 198 (23.74%) Azure
2 152 (18.23%) AWS
3 110 (13.19%) Azure DevOps
4 86 (10.31%) GitHub
5 64 (7.67%) Power Platform
6 39 (4.68%) GCP
7 33 (3.96%) Microsoft 365
8 30 (3.60%) Serverless
9 29 (3.48%) Amazon S3
9 29 (3.48%) SaaS
10 26 (3.12%) Amazon EC2
11 23 (2.76%) Figma
11 23 (2.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 19 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (2.28%) Slack
13 18 (2.16%) Amazon EKS
13 18 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (2.16%) Snowflake
14 17 (2.04%) Miro
14 17 (2.04%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.12%) Firewall
2 21 (2.52%) DNS
3 15 (1.80%) HTTP
4 12 (1.44%) TCP/IP
4 12 (1.44%) VPN
5 11 (1.32%) WAN
6 9 (1.08%) FTP
7 8 (0.96%) SSH
8 7 (0.84%) Ethernet
8 7 (0.84%) Modbus
8 7 (0.84%) RS-232
8 7 (0.84%) RS-485
8 7 (0.84%) SD-WAN
8 7 (0.84%) SMTP
9 6 (0.72%) IMAP
9 6 (0.72%) OpenLDAP
9 6 (0.72%) OpenVPN
10 5 (0.60%) Network Security
10 5 (0.60%) SSL
10 5 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (5.88%) Power BI
2 33 (3.96%) SQL Server
3 30 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (3.48%) Tableau
5 20 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (2.28%) NoSQL
7 17 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (1.92%) Data Vault
9 14 (1.68%) MongoDB
9 14 (1.68%) Oracle Database
10 13 (1.56%) Relational Database
11 12 (1.44%) Big Data
12 10 (1.20%) Metadata
13 9 (1.08%) Delta Lake
13 9 (1.08%) Hadoop
13 9 (1.08%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
14 7 (0.84%) Star Schema
14 7 (0.84%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 105 (12.59%) Git
2 81 (9.71%) Jenkins
3 52 (6.24%) GitLab
4 41 (4.92%) Selenium
5 29 (3.48%) Bitbucket
6 24 (2.88%) Postman
7 22 (2.64%) Cucumber
7 22 (2.64%) JUnit
8 21 (2.52%) SonarQube
9 19 (2.28%) TestRail
9 19 (2.28%) Zephyr
10 15 (1.80%) Maven
11 14 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
11 14 (1.68%) SpecFlow
12 13 (1.56%) REST Assured
13 12 (1.44%) JMeter
14 11 (1.32%) Cypress.io
15 9 (1.08%) ER Studio
15 9 (1.08%) ERwin
15 9 (1.08%) PowerDesigner
General
1 328 (39.33%) Social Skills
2 282 (33.81%) Finance
3 152 (18.23%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (13.19%) Banking
5 86 (10.31%) Public Sector
6 34 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
7 32 (3.84%) Documentation Skills
7 32 (3.84%) Retail
8 31 (3.72%) Investment Banking
9 30 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
10 24 (2.88%) Front Office
10 24 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (2.76%) Legal
12 13 (1.56%) Financial Institution
12 13 (1.56%) Marketing
13 12 (1.44%) Back Office
13 12 (1.44%) Telecoms
14 10 (1.20%) Billing
14 10 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 9 (1.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 179 (21.46%) Analyst
2 132 (15.83%) Business Analyst
3 95 (11.39%) Developer
4 84 (10.07%) Senior
5 69 (8.27%) Lead
6 64 (7.67%) Project Manager
7 33 (3.96%) Tester
8 32 (3.84%) Technical Analyst
9 28 (3.36%) Delivery Manager
9 28 (3.36%) Technical Business Analyst
10 26 (3.12%) Architect
10 26 (3.12%) Consultant
10 26 (3.12%) Test Engineer
11 23 (2.76%) Scrum Master
11 23 (2.76%) Senior Analyst
12 22 (2.64%) Senior Business Analyst
13 21 (2.52%) DevOps Engineer
14 19 (2.28%) Data Engineer
14 19 (2.28%) Product Owner
14 19 (2.28%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (6.24%) REST
2 35 (4.20%) .NET
3 26 (3.12%) HTML
4 25 (3.00%) Kafka
4 25 (3.00%) React
4 25 (3.00%) Spring
5 24 (2.88%) RESTful
6 23 (2.76%) AngularJS
6 23 (2.76%) SOAP
7 22 (2.64%) CSS
7 22 (2.64%) Playwright
7 22 (2.64%) XML
8 19 (2.28%) Oracle Fusion
9 16 (1.92%) JSON
9 16 (1.92%) Node.js
10 15 (1.80%) Spring Boot
11 14 (1.68%) LDAP
11 14 (1.68%) Web Services
12 12 (1.44%) Lightning Web Components
13 11 (1.32%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 82 (9.83%) Product Ownership
2 34 (4.08%) Onboarding
3 24 (2.88%) Analytical Mindset
3 24 (2.88%) Management Information System
4 23 (2.76%) Data Structures
5 19 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
6 16 (1.92%) Cloud Native
6 16 (1.92%) Public Cloud
7 14 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (1.68%) Virtual Team
8 13 (1.56%) Reinsurance
9 12 (1.44%) Fixed Income
9 12 (1.44%) PMI
9 12 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.32%) CMDB
10 11 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 11 (1.32%) Mobile App
11 9 (1.08%) Equities
11 9 (1.08%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 55 (6.59%) Linux
2 43 (5.16%) Windows
3 17 (2.04%) Unix
4 10 (1.20%) Android
5 9 (1.08%) VMS
6 7 (0.84%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.84%) FreeRTOS
7 6 (0.72%) Amazon Linux
7 6 (0.72%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.48%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.48%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 522 (62.59%) Agile
2 221 (26.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 220 (26.38%) Scrum
4 214 (25.66%) DevOps
5 176 (21.10%) Problem-Solving
6 148 (17.75%) CI/CD
7 146 (17.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 130 (15.59%) Test Automation
9 122 (14.63%) Project Management
10 116 (13.91%) User Stories
11 106 (12.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 93 (11.15%) Migration
13 90 (10.79%) Project Delivery
13 90 (10.79%) User Acceptance Testing
14 89 (10.67%) Analytics
15 87 (10.43%) Roadmaps
16 84 (10.07%) SDLC
17 83 (9.95%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 77 (9.23%) Waterfall
19 76 (9.11%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 160 (19.18%) SQL
2 117 (14.03%) Python
3 84 (10.07%) Java
4 56 (6.71%) JavaScript
5 49 (5.88%) C#
6 37 (4.44%) TypeScript
7 25 (3.00%) PowerShell
8 19 (2.28%) Bash
9 14 (1.68%) C++
10 10 (1.20%) Apex Code
10 10 (1.20%) Groovy
10 10 (1.20%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.08%) Go
12 7 (0.84%) Embedded C++
12 7 (0.84%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.72%) Korn
13 6 (0.72%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.60%) Ruby
14 5 (0.60%) XPath
15 4 (0.48%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 184 (22.06%) Security Cleared
2 169 (20.26%) SC Cleared
3 94 (11.27%) Degree
4 34 (4.08%) PMI Certification
5 33 (3.96%) ISTQB
6 26 (3.12%) BPSS Clearance
7 24 (2.88%) PMP
8 20 (2.40%) CBAP
9 16 (1.92%) AWS Certification
10 15 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
10 15 (1.80%) DV Cleared
11 13 (1.56%) ISEB
12 11 (1.32%) Azure Certification
13 10 (1.20%) CISSP
14 8 (0.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 7 (0.84%) CFA
15 7 (0.84%) CSPO
15 7 (0.84%) IIBA
15 7 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
16 6 (0.72%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (12.47%) QA
2 44 (5.28%) Data Quality
3 33 (3.96%) Accessibility
4 31 (3.72%) PMO
5 20 (2.40%) GDPR
6 14 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.44%) NIST
8 11 (1.32%) WCAG
9 9 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (1.08%) SLA
10 7 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.84%) GRC
11 5 (0.60%) NCSC
11 5 (0.60%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.48%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.48%) MiFID
13 3 (0.36%) Basel III
13 3 (0.36%) SEPA
14 2 (0.24%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.24%) IFRS
System Software
1 71 (8.51%) Docker
2 21 (2.52%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.56%) Squid
4 7 (0.84%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (0.84%) Firmware
5 6 (0.72%) DFS Replication
5 6 (0.72%) Dovecot
5 6 (0.72%) Postfix
6 3 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.12%) etcd
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 55 (6.59%) Kubernetes
2 53 (6.35%) Terraform
3 23 (2.76%) Grafana
4 21 (2.52%) Ansible
5 20 (2.40%) Prometheus
6 18 (2.16%) Consul
7 13 (1.56%) Packer
8 11 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (1.20%) HP ALM
10 8 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (0.84%) Nessus
12 6 (0.72%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (0.72%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.48%) Control-M
14 3 (0.36%) Istio
14 3 (0.36%) Puppet
14 3 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (0.36%) RSA Archer
14 3 (0.36%) SCCM
Vendors
1 101 (12.11%) Microsoft
2 84 (10.07%) ServiceNow
3 72 (8.63%) Oracle
4 61 (7.31%) Salesforce
5 38 (4.56%) Atlassian
6 36 (4.32%) SAP
7 24 (2.88%) Google
8 19 (2.28%) Databricks
9 16 (1.92%) Adobe
10 12 (1.44%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.44%) Murex
11 10 (1.20%) HP
11 10 (1.20%) IBM
11 10 (1.20%) MuleSoft
11 10 (1.20%) Sparx
12 9 (1.08%) Bloomberg
12 9 (1.08%) Citrix
12 9 (1.08%) Cloudera
12 9 (1.08%) Informatica
12 9 (1.08%) Red Hat