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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 49 51
Rank change year-on-year +8 +2 -6
Contract jobs citing JIRA 871 581 727
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.42% 4.42% 4.00%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.67% 31.84% 31.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 380 519
10th Percentile £350 £299 £338
25th Percentile £425 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -5.58%
75th Percentile £632 £620 £675
90th Percentile £725 £701 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 10
10th Percentile - - £21.85
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.50 £26.56
Median hourly rate £43.00 £30.00 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year +43.33% -5.39% -41.28%
75th Percentile £76.75 £32.50 £40.47
90th Percentile £95.00 - £57.50
England median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -0.80% +19.05% -19.23%

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 2,375 1,825 2,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.78% 13.87% 12.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,612 1,210 1,678
10th Percentile £350 £337 £375
25th Percentile £420 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £564
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -5.10% -6.04%
75th Percentile £636 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £779
England median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 21
10th Percentile - £26.48 £25.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.14 £31.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £48.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.79% +14.71% -26.09%
75th Percentile £76.75 £77.19 £58.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £87.88 £73.65
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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +1 119 £550 +5.26% 50
South London +1 36 £513 +13.89% 7
West London -31 9 £415 +4.94% 6
East London +1 5 £450 -18.18% 16
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
1 395 (45.35%) Confluence
2 47 (5.40%) SharePoint
3 28 (3.21%) nginx
4 13 (1.49%) Apache
5 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.92%) CMS
7 6 (0.69%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.69%) Hyperledger
7 6 (0.69%) Palantir Foundry
7 6 (0.69%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.34%) Traefik
11 2 (0.23%) JBoss
11 2 (0.23%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.23%) SAS
11 2 (0.23%) WordPress
12 1 (0.11%) CICS
12 1 (0.11%) IIS
12 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 79 (9.07%) Microsoft Project
2 73 (8.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (5.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (5.05%) MS Visio
5 20 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
6 17 (1.95%) Trello
7 5 (0.57%) Notion
8 4 (0.46%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.34%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.34%) InVision
9 3 (0.34%) Sketch
10 2 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.23%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.23%) InDesign
10 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.11%) EPLAN
11 1 (0.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (1.61%) NetSuite
2 13 (1.49%) Loan IQ
3 10 (1.15%) Fidessa
3 10 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.92%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 7 (0.80%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
7 5 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.46%) Endur
8 4 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.46%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.46%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.34%) Findur
9 3 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.34%) SAP Retail
9 3 (0.34%) SimCorp Dimension
9 3 (0.34%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 214 (24.57%) Azure
2 147 (16.88%) AWS
3 131 (15.04%) Azure DevOps
4 84 (9.64%) GitHub
5 61 (7.00%) Power Platform
6 41 (4.71%) GCP
7 30 (3.44%) Serverless
8 29 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
9 27 (3.10%) SaaS
10 24 (2.76%) Amazon S3
10 24 (2.76%) Entra ID
11 22 (2.53%) Figma
12 21 (2.41%) Amazon EC2
12 21 (2.41%) Slack
13 20 (2.30%) Amazon EKS
14 19 (2.18%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (2.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 18 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
16 17 (1.95%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.76%) Firewall
2 17 (1.95%) DNS
3 13 (1.49%) TCP/IP
3 13 (1.49%) VPN
4 11 (1.26%) WAN
5 10 (1.15%) HTTP
6 7 (0.80%) Ethernet
6 7 (0.80%) FTP
6 7 (0.80%) Modbus
6 7 (0.80%) OpenVPN
6 7 (0.80%) RS-232
6 7 (0.80%) RS-485
6 7 (0.80%) SD-WAN
7 5 (0.57%) Network Security
7 5 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.46%) LAN
8 4 (0.46%) NAS
8 4 (0.46%) PSTN
8 4 (0.46%) SSL
8 4 (0.46%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (5.05%) Power BI
2 34 (3.90%) SQL Server
3 26 (2.99%) Tableau
4 25 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (2.07%) NoSQL
7 16 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
8 14 (1.61%) Relational Database
9 13 (1.49%) Data Vault
9 13 (1.49%) Oracle Database
10 12 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (1.38%) MongoDB
11 10 (1.15%) Big Data
11 10 (1.15%) Delta Lake
12 8 (0.92%) Metadata
13 7 (0.80%) Hadoop
13 7 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
13 7 (0.80%) Star Schema
13 7 (0.80%) Tick Data
14 6 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 106 (12.17%) Git
2 80 (9.18%) Jenkins
3 48 (5.51%) GitLab
4 42 (4.82%) Selenium
5 30 (3.44%) Bitbucket
5 30 (3.44%) JUnit
6 29 (3.33%) Cucumber
7 21 (2.41%) Postman
8 20 (2.30%) SonarQube
8 20 (2.30%) Zephyr
9 17 (1.95%) TestRail
10 15 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
11 14 (1.61%) SpecFlow
12 13 (1.49%) JMeter
13 12 (1.38%) Maven
13 12 (1.38%) REST Assured
14 11 (1.26%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.92%) Team Foundation Server
16 7 (0.80%) Appium
16 7 (0.80%) ERwin
General
1 333 (38.23%) Social Skills
2 308 (35.36%) Finance
3 157 (18.03%) Analytical Skills
4 119 (13.66%) Banking
5 84 (9.64%) Public Sector
6 38 (4.36%) Documentation Skills
7 36 (4.13%) Organisational Skills
8 35 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
9 31 (3.56%) Retail
10 30 (3.44%) Investment Banking
11 25 (2.87%) Legal
12 23 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
13 21 (2.41%) Front Office
14 14 (1.61%) Marketing
15 13 (1.49%) Financial Institution
16 12 (1.38%) Telecoms
17 10 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 10 (1.15%) Publishing
18 9 (1.03%) Back Office
18 9 (1.03%) Billing
Job Titles
1 194 (22.27%) Analyst
2 139 (15.96%) Business Analyst
3 102 (11.71%) Developer
4 83 (9.53%) Senior
5 70 (8.04%) Lead
6 65 (7.46%) Project Manager
7 36 (4.13%) Tester
8 30 (3.44%) Technical Analyst
8 30 (3.44%) Test Engineer
9 29 (3.33%) Architect
9 29 (3.33%) Delivery Manager
10 28 (3.21%) Technical Business Analyst
11 27 (3.10%) Consultant
12 26 (2.99%) Senior Analyst
13 24 (2.76%) IT Support
14 23 (2.64%) Technical Manager
15 21 (2.41%) Scrum Master
16 20 (2.30%) Java Developer
16 20 (2.30%) Product Owner
16 20 (2.30%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (5.74%) REST
2 37 (4.25%) .NET
3 26 (2.99%) Kafka
3 26 (2.99%) React
3 26 (2.99%) Spring
4 25 (2.87%) Playwright
5 24 (2.76%) HTML
5 24 (2.76%) SOAP
5 24 (2.76%) XML
6 22 (2.53%) RESTful
7 21 (2.41%) CSS
8 19 (2.18%) AngularJS
9 18 (2.07%) JSON
9 18 (2.07%) Oracle Fusion
10 16 (1.84%) Node.js
11 15 (1.72%) Lightning Web Components
11 15 (1.72%) Spring Boot
12 13 (1.49%) Web Services
13 12 (1.38%) .NET Framework
14 10 (1.15%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 85 (9.76%) Product Ownership
2 39 (4.48%) Onboarding
3 28 (3.21%) Management Information System
4 25 (2.87%) Analytical Mindset
5 20 (2.30%) Data Structures
6 19 (2.18%) Cloud Native
6 19 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (2.07%) Public Cloud
8 15 (1.72%) Virtual Team
9 13 (1.49%) Mobile App
10 12 (1.38%) CMDB
10 12 (1.38%) Data Centre
11 11 (1.26%) PMI
11 11 (1.26%) Reinsurance
11 11 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.15%) Equities
12 10 (1.15%) Fixed Income
12 10 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.03%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 51 (5.86%) Linux
2 43 (4.94%) Windows
3 17 (1.95%) Unix
4 10 (1.15%) Android
5 7 (0.80%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.80%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (0.57%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.46%) VMS
7 4 (0.46%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.34%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.11%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 536 (61.54%) Agile
2 230 (26.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 228 (26.18%) DevOps
4 216 (24.80%) Scrum
5 177 (20.32%) Problem-Solving
6 162 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
7 152 (17.45%) CI/CD
8 139 (15.96%) Test Automation
9 121 (13.89%) Project Management
9 121 (13.89%) User Stories
10 108 (12.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 103 (11.83%) Migration
12 98 (11.25%) Project Delivery
13 95 (10.91%) User Acceptance Testing
14 90 (10.33%) Roadmaps
15 86 (9.87%) Analytics
15 86 (9.87%) Waterfall
16 84 (9.64%) SDLC
17 80 (9.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 78 (8.96%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 156 (17.91%) SQL
2 111 (12.74%) Python
3 93 (10.68%) Java
4 59 (6.77%) C#
5 53 (6.08%) JavaScript
6 36 (4.13%) TypeScript
7 21 (2.41%) PowerShell
8 19 (2.18%) Bash
9 13 (1.49%) C++
10 10 (1.15%) Apex Code
11 9 (1.03%) Shell Script
12 8 (0.92%) Go
13 7 (0.80%) Embedded C++
14 6 (0.69%) Kotlin
15 5 (0.57%) Korn
15 5 (0.57%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.57%) Ruby
15 5 (0.57%) XPath
16 4 (0.46%) Delphi
17 3 (0.34%) Perl
Qualifications
1 189 (21.70%) Security Cleared
2 173 (19.86%) SC Cleared
3 81 (9.30%) Degree
4 34 (3.90%) PMI Certification
5 33 (3.79%) ISTQB
6 26 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 25 (2.87%) PMP
8 20 (2.30%) CBAP
9 15 (1.72%) ISEB
10 13 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (1.49%) DV Cleared
11 11 (1.26%) AWS Certification
11 11 (1.26%) CISSP
12 9 (1.03%) IIBA
12 9 (1.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 8 (0.92%) CSPO
14 7 (0.80%) Azure Certification
15 6 (0.69%) CESG Certified Professional
15 6 (0.69%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.69%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (12.51%) QA
2 47 (5.40%) Data Quality
3 35 (4.02%) Accessibility
4 34 (3.90%) PMO
5 22 (2.53%) GDPR
6 14 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.49%) WCAG
8 12 (1.38%) NIST
9 10 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (1.15%) SLA
10 7 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.80%) GRC
11 5 (0.57%) MiFID
11 5 (0.57%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.46%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.46%) NCSC
13 3 (0.34%) Basel III
13 3 (0.34%) SEPA
14 2 (0.23%) P3O
14 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 65 (7.46%) Docker
2 24 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.03%) Squid
4 7 (0.80%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (0.80%) Firmware
5 5 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.11%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.11%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.11%) etcd
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.11%) Postfix
8 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 65 (7.46%) Kubernetes
2 49 (5.63%) Terraform
3 27 (3.10%) Ansible
4 20 (2.30%) Grafana
5 19 (2.18%) Consul
6 17 (1.95%) Prometheus
7 13 (1.49%) Packer
7 13 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (1.15%) HP ALM
9 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.80%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.46%) Control-M
13 3 (0.34%) Istio
13 3 (0.34%) Puppet
13 3 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.34%) RSA Archer
13 3 (0.34%) SCCM
14 2 (0.23%) Argo
14 2 (0.23%) CASB
Vendors
1 103 (11.83%) Microsoft
2 95 (10.91%) ServiceNow
3 76 (8.73%) Oracle
4 67 (7.69%) Salesforce
5 40 (4.59%) Atlassian
6 36 (4.13%) SAP
7 26 (2.99%) Google
8 23 (2.64%) Databricks
9 15 (1.72%) Adobe
10 13 (1.49%) Citrix
11 12 (1.38%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.38%) Murex
12 11 (1.26%) IBM
12 11 (1.26%) Planview
13 10 (1.15%) HP
13 10 (1.15%) Informatica
13 10 (1.15%) Red Hat
13 10 (1.15%) Remedy
14 9 (1.03%) Bloomberg
14 9 (1.03%) Cisco