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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 45 54
Rank change year-on-year +5 +9 -6
Contract jobs citing JIRA 927 622 692
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.24% 4.96% 3.88%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.00% 34.25% 29.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 633 404 470
10th Percentile £350 £311 £348
25th Percentile £415 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £850
England median daily rate £482 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.63% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 18
10th Percentile - - £22.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.50 £25.43
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -5.39% -41.28%
75th Percentile £68.13 £32.50 £63.13
90th Percentile £87.70 - £71.25
England median hourly rate £62.50 £57.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year +8.23% +5.00% -16.47%

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 2,377 1,816 2,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.43% 14.47% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,583 1,228 1,663
10th Percentile £351 £350 £363
25th Percentile £419 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £626 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 25
10th Percentile - £22.93 £23.20
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £25.99
Median hourly rate £29.50 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -25.00% -30.43%
75th Percentile £72.63 £67.50 £71.25
90th Percentile £85.88 £84.00 £71.63
England median hourly rate £68.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.80% -3.85% +5.97%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -5 114 £550 +3.29% 18
South London +7 39 £516 +8.53% 3
West London -21 17 £400 +1.27% 6
East London +2 6 £450 +25.00% 7
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
1 406 (43.80%) Confluence
2 47 (5.07%) SharePoint
3 27 (2.91%) nginx
4 14 (1.51%) Apache
5 12 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.76%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.65%) CMS
7 6 (0.65%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.65%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.43%) JBoss
9 4 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.43%) SAS
10 2 (0.22%) Kentico
10 2 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.22%) WordPress
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.11%) Drupal
11 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 85 (9.17%) Microsoft Project
2 76 (8.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (4.85%) MS Visio
4 43 (4.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
6 14 (1.51%) Trello
7 6 (0.65%) Notion
8 3 (0.32%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.32%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.22%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.22%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.22%) Autodesk Smoke
9 2 (0.22%) InVision
9 2 (0.22%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.22%) Revit
9 2 (0.22%) Sketch
9 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.11%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 13 (1.40%) Loan IQ
1 13 (1.40%) NetSuite
1 13 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.97%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.86%) Fidessa
3 8 (0.86%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 5 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.43%) Findur
5 4 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 4 (0.43%) SAP MDG
5 4 (0.43%) SAP Retail
6 3 (0.32%) Actimize
6 3 (0.32%) Algo Collateral
6 3 (0.32%) SAP FI-AR
6 3 (0.32%) SimCorp Dimension
6 3 (0.32%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 209 (22.55%) Azure
2 136 (14.67%) AWS
3 135 (14.56%) Azure DevOps
4 69 (7.44%) GitHub
5 61 (6.58%) Power Platform
6 42 (4.53%) Entra ID
7 38 (4.10%) SaaS
8 32 (3.45%) Amazon S3
9 30 (3.24%) GCP
9 30 (3.24%) Serverless
10 27 (2.91%) Figma
10 27 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
11 26 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
12 21 (2.27%) Slack
13 20 (2.16%) Amazon EC2
14 19 (2.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 18 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
16 17 (1.83%) Miro
17 15 (1.62%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.37%) Firewall
2 14 (1.51%) DNS
3 11 (1.19%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.08%) HTTP
5 8 (0.86%) SSL
5 8 (0.86%) VPN
6 7 (0.76%) Ethernet
6 7 (0.76%) FTP
6 7 (0.76%) Modbus
6 7 (0.76%) OpenVPN
6 7 (0.76%) RS-232
6 7 (0.76%) RS-485
7 6 (0.65%) WAN
8 5 (0.54%) LAN
8 5 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.43%) NAS
9 4 (0.43%) PSTN
9 4 (0.43%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.32%) DKIM
10 3 (0.32%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (5.18%) Power BI
2 31 (3.34%) SQL Server
2 31 (3.34%) Tableau
3 29 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (2.16%) NoSQL
4 20 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (1.51%) Relational Database
6 12 (1.29%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (1.29%) DynamoDB
6 12 (1.29%) Metadata
6 12 (1.29%) MongoDB
7 11 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
8 10 (1.08%) Delta Lake
8 10 (1.08%) Oracle Database
9 9 (0.97%) Big Data
10 8 (0.86%) Data Vault
11 7 (0.76%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (0.65%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 120 (12.94%) Git
2 64 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 41 (4.42%) Selenium
4 35 (3.78%) GitLab
5 29 (3.13%) Zephyr
6 28 (3.02%) Bitbucket
7 24 (2.59%) JUnit
8 23 (2.48%) Cucumber
9 17 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
10 16 (1.73%) TestRail
11 14 (1.51%) Cypress.io
11 14 (1.51%) Postman
12 13 (1.40%) SonarQube
13 12 (1.29%) JMeter
14 11 (1.19%) Appium
15 9 (0.97%) Maven
15 9 (0.97%) REST Assured
16 8 (0.86%) ScriptRunner
16 8 (0.86%) SpecFlow
17 6 (0.65%) Subversion
General
1 349 (37.65%) Finance
2 342 (36.89%) Social Skills
3 176 (18.99%) Analytical Skills
4 143 (15.43%) Banking
5 103 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 41 (4.42%) Documentation Skills
7 36 (3.88%) Retail
8 34 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
9 32 (3.45%) Legal
10 30 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
11 29 (3.13%) Investment Banking
12 22 (2.37%) Front Office
13 19 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
14 17 (1.83%) Marketing
15 16 (1.73%) Financial Institution
16 11 (1.19%) Publishing
17 10 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 9 (0.97%) Billing
18 9 (0.97%) Telecoms
19 8 (0.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 199 (21.47%) Analyst
2 137 (14.78%) Business Analyst
3 101 (10.90%) Developer
4 89 (9.60%) Senior
5 85 (9.17%) Lead
6 63 (6.80%) Project Manager
7 41 (4.42%) Delivery Manager
8 32 (3.45%) IT Support
8 32 (3.45%) Tester
9 30 (3.24%) Consultant
10 29 (3.13%) Scrum Master
11 28 (3.02%) Senior Analyst
11 28 (3.02%) Test Engineer
12 27 (2.91%) Architect
12 27 (2.91%) Technical Manager
13 26 (2.80%) Data Engineer
14 25 (2.70%) Support Engineer
15 24 (2.59%) Banking Analyst
15 24 (2.59%) Technical Analyst
16 23 (2.48%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (4.53%) REST
2 34 (3.67%) .NET
3 30 (3.24%) React
4 25 (2.70%) Kafka
5 23 (2.48%) HTML
6 22 (2.37%) Spring
7 20 (2.16%) CSS
8 19 (2.05%) AngularJS
9 18 (1.94%) Node.js
9 18 (1.94%) RESTful
10 17 (1.83%) XML
11 16 (1.73%) JSON
11 16 (1.73%) Lightning Web Components
11 16 (1.73%) Oracle Fusion
11 16 (1.73%) SOAP
12 15 (1.62%) Playwright
13 14 (1.51%) Spring Boot
14 13 (1.40%) ADO
15 12 (1.29%) OpenID
16 11 (1.19%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 91 (9.82%) Product Ownership
2 48 (5.18%) Onboarding
3 27 (2.91%) Management Information System
4 25 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 22 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
5 22 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (2.16%) Cloud Native
7 19 (2.05%) Virtual Team
8 14 (1.51%) Data Centre
9 13 (1.40%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.40%) Mobile App
10 12 (1.29%) Derivative
10 12 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 12 (1.29%) Public Cloud
10 12 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.19%) Reinsurance
12 10 (1.08%) Market Risk
13 8 (0.86%) Equities
13 8 (0.86%) Fixed Income
13 8 (0.86%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 52 (5.61%) Linux
2 51 (5.50%) Windows
3 13 (1.40%) Unix
4 11 (1.19%) Android
5 9 (0.97%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.76%) FreeRTOS
7 5 (0.54%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.43%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 543 (58.58%) Agile
2 253 (27.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 227 (24.49%) DevOps
4 197 (21.25%) Scrum
5 179 (19.31%) Problem-Solving
6 167 (18.02%) Continuous Improvement
7 142 (15.32%) Test Automation
8 133 (14.35%) CI/CD
9 129 (13.92%) Project Management
10 121 (13.05%) Migration
11 118 (12.73%) User Stories
12 113 (12.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 111 (11.97%) User Acceptance Testing
14 101 (10.90%) SDLC
15 100 (10.79%) Change Management
16 92 (9.92%) Analytics
16 92 (9.92%) Decision-Making
16 92 (9.92%) Roadmaps
17 91 (9.82%) Project Delivery
18 87 (9.39%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 163 (17.58%) SQL
2 109 (11.76%) Python
3 94 (10.14%) Java
4 62 (6.69%) C#
5 44 (4.75%) JavaScript
6 40 (4.31%) TypeScript
7 18 (1.94%) PowerShell
8 17 (1.83%) Bash
9 14 (1.51%) C++
10 13 (1.40%) Apex Code
11 8 (0.86%) Perl
11 8 (0.86%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.76%) Embedded C++
13 6 (0.65%) Groovy
13 6 (0.65%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.54%) C
14 5 (0.54%) XPath
15 4 (0.43%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.43%) Ruby
16 3 (0.32%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 206 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 181 (19.53%) SC Cleared
3 71 (7.66%) Degree
4 30 (3.24%) ISTQB
5 29 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 27 (2.91%) PMI Certification
7 20 (2.16%) PMP
8 18 (1.94%) DV Cleared
9 17 (1.83%) CBAP
10 12 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (1.19%) Azure Certification
11 11 (1.19%) IIBA
12 10 (1.08%) ISEB
13 9 (0.97%) AWS Certification
13 9 (0.97%) CISSP
14 8 (0.86%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.76%) CISM
15 7 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
16 6 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.65%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (13.48%) QA
2 57 (6.15%) Data Quality
3 41 (4.42%) PMO
4 32 (3.45%) Accessibility
5 28 (3.02%) GDPR
6 15 (1.62%) SLA
7 14 (1.51%) WCAG
8 13 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.40%) NIST
9 8 (0.86%) GRC
10 7 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.65%) MiFID
12 4 (0.43%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.43%) NCSC
13 3 (0.32%) Basel III
13 3 (0.32%) EMIR
13 3 (0.32%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.32%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 57 (6.15%) Docker
2 35 (3.78%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.86%) Squid
4 7 (0.76%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (0.76%) Firmware
5 4 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 66 (7.12%) Kubernetes
2 61 (6.58%) Terraform
3 21 (2.27%) Ansible
3 21 (2.27%) Consul
4 20 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (1.83%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.73%) Grafana
7 14 (1.51%) HP ALM
8 13 (1.40%) Packer
9 9 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.76%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.54%) Control-M
11 5 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.43%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.43%) PingFederate
13 3 (0.32%) RSA Archer
14 2 (0.22%) CASB
14 2 (0.22%) Puppet
14 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 105 (11.33%) ServiceNow
2 103 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 74 (7.98%) Oracle
4 73 (7.87%) Salesforce
5 42 (4.53%) Atlassian
5 42 (4.53%) SAP
6 31 (3.34%) Google
7 20 (2.16%) Databricks
8 17 (1.83%) Adobe
9 14 (1.51%) Citrix
9 14 (1.51%) HP
10 13 (1.40%) IBM
10 13 (1.40%) MuleSoft
10 13 (1.40%) Workday
11 12 (1.29%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.29%) Murex
12 11 (1.19%) Informatica
12 11 (1.19%) Okta
12 11 (1.19%) Remedy
13 10 (1.08%) ForgeRock