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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 49 49
Rank change year-on-year +8 0 -4
Contract jobs citing JIRA 873 595 745
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.49% 4.43% 4.06%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.84% 31.84% 31.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 636 385 531
10th Percentile £350 £300 £340
25th Percentile £421 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% -6.38%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £672
90th Percentile £720 £700 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 10
10th Percentile - - £21.85
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.50 £26.56
Median hourly rate £56.50 £30.00 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year +88.33% -5.39% -41.28%
75th Percentile £81.31 £32.50 £40.47
90th Percentile £95.00 - £57.50
England median hourly rate £62.57 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +0.11% +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 2,370 1,869 2,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.91% 13.93% 12.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,610 1,234 1,723
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £420 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £533 £568
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% -6.17% -5.42%
75th Percentile £631 £675 £675
90th Percentile £732 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £508 £535
% change year-on-year -1.48% -5.14% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 23
10th Percentile - £26.48 £25.08
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.14 £28.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £48.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.59% +14.71% -26.09%
75th Percentile £95.00 £77.19 £62.88
90th Percentile £98.00 £87.88 £73.32
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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +2 119 £525 +2.44% 20
South London -1 37 £513 +13.89% 6
West London -30 8 £415 +4.94% 6
East London +2 5 £450 -18.18% 14
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
1 399 (45.70%) Confluence
2 48 (5.50%) SharePoint
3 29 (3.32%) nginx
4 13 (1.49%) Apache
5 8 (0.92%) CMS
5 8 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.92%) Palantir Foundry
6 6 (0.69%) Ethereum
6 6 (0.69%) Hyperledger
6 6 (0.69%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.34%) Traefik
10 2 (0.23%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.23%) SAS
10 2 (0.23%) WordPress
11 1 (0.11%) CICS
11 1 (0.11%) IIS
11 1 (0.11%) JBoss
11 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 76 (8.71%) Microsoft Project
2 71 (8.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (5.04%) MS Visio
4 43 (4.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (2.29%) 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%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.11%) EPLAN
11 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (1.60%) NetSuite
2 10 (1.15%) Fidessa
2 10 (1.15%) Loan IQ
2 10 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.92%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 7 (0.80%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.46%) Endur
7 4 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.46%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 4 (0.46%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.34%) Findur
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.34%) SAP Retail
8 3 (0.34%) SimCorp Dimension
8 3 (0.34%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 213 (24.40%) Azure
2 147 (16.84%) AWS
3 129 (14.78%) Azure DevOps
4 84 (9.62%) GitHub
5 64 (7.33%) Power Platform
6 41 (4.70%) GCP
7 31 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
7 31 (3.55%) Serverless
8 27 (3.09%) SaaS
9 25 (2.86%) Amazon S3
10 23 (2.63%) Entra ID
10 23 (2.63%) Figma
11 22 (2.52%) Amazon EC2
12 21 (2.41%) Slack
13 20 (2.29%) Amazon EKS
13 20 (2.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 19 (2.18%) AWS Lambda
15 18 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (1.95%) Miro
16 17 (1.95%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.63%) Firewall
2 18 (2.06%) DNS
3 13 (1.49%) TCP/IP
3 13 (1.49%) VPN
4 11 (1.26%) HTTP
4 11 (1.26%) WAN
5 7 (0.80%) Ethernet
5 7 (0.80%) FTP
5 7 (0.80%) Modbus
5 7 (0.80%) OpenVPN
5 7 (0.80%) RS-232
5 7 (0.80%) RS-485
5 7 (0.80%) SD-WAN
6 5 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.46%) LAN
7 4 (0.46%) NAS
7 4 (0.46%) Network Security
7 4 (0.46%) PSTN
7 4 (0.46%) SSL
7 4 (0.46%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (5.38%) Power BI
2 34 (3.89%) SQL Server
3 26 (2.98%) Tableau
4 25 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
6 18 (2.06%) NoSQL
7 14 (1.60%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (1.49%) Data Vault
8 13 (1.49%) Oracle Database
9 12 (1.37%) Big Data
9 12 (1.37%) MongoDB
10 11 (1.26%) Metadata
11 10 (1.15%) Delta Lake
12 9 (1.03%) 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
1 105 (12.03%) Git
2 80 (9.16%) Jenkins
3 48 (5.50%) GitLab
4 41 (4.70%) Selenium
5 30 (3.44%) Bitbucket
6 29 (3.32%) Cucumber
6 29 (3.32%) JUnit
7 21 (2.41%) Postman
8 20 (2.29%) SonarQube
9 19 (2.18%) Zephyr
10 17 (1.95%) TestRail
11 15 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
12 14 (1.60%) SpecFlow
13 13 (1.49%) JMeter
14 12 (1.37%) Maven
14 12 (1.37%) REST Assured
15 11 (1.26%) Cypress.io
16 8 (0.92%) Team Foundation Server
17 7 (0.80%) Appium
17 7 (0.80%) ERwin
General
1 337 (38.60%) Social Skills
2 307 (35.17%) Finance
3 157 (17.98%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (13.40%) Banking
5 86 (9.85%) Public Sector
6 38 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
7 34 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
8 33 (3.78%) Presentation Skills
9 32 (3.67%) Retail
10 28 (3.21%) Investment Banking
11 25 (2.86%) Legal
12 23 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
13 21 (2.41%) Front Office
14 14 (1.60%) Marketing
15 13 (1.49%) Financial Institution
16 12 (1.37%) 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
1 190 (21.76%) Analyst
2 139 (15.92%) Business Analyst
3 101 (11.57%) Developer
4 82 (9.39%) Senior
5 70 (8.02%) Lead
6 64 (7.33%) Project Manager
7 36 (4.12%) Tester
8 30 (3.44%) Architect
8 30 (3.44%) Technical Analyst
8 30 (3.44%) Test Engineer
9 29 (3.32%) Delivery Manager
10 28 (3.21%) Technical Business Analyst
11 27 (3.09%) Consultant
12 26 (2.98%) Senior Analyst
13 24 (2.75%) Scrum Master
14 22 (2.52%) IT Support
14 22 (2.52%) Technical Manager
15 21 (2.41%) Data Engineer
16 20 (2.29%) Test Analyst
17 19 (2.18%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (5.73%) REST
2 37 (4.24%) .NET
3 28 (3.21%) Kafka
4 26 (2.98%) React
5 25 (2.86%) Playwright
5 25 (2.86%) Spring
6 24 (2.75%) HTML
6 24 (2.75%) SOAP
6 24 (2.75%) XML
7 22 (2.52%) RESTful
8 21 (2.41%) CSS
9 19 (2.18%) AngularJS
10 18 (2.06%) JSON
10 18 (2.06%) Oracle Fusion
11 16 (1.83%) Node.js
12 15 (1.72%) Lightning Web Components
12 15 (1.72%) Spring Boot
13 12 (1.37%) .NET Framework
13 12 (1.37%) Web Services
14 10 (1.15%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 85 (9.74%) Product Ownership
2 35 (4.01%) Onboarding
3 26 (2.98%) Management Information System
4 25 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
5 20 (2.29%) Data Structures
6 19 (2.18%) Cloud Native
6 19 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (2.06%) Public Cloud
8 17 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (1.72%) Virtual Team
10 13 (1.49%) Mobile App
11 12 (1.37%) CMDB
12 11 (1.26%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.26%) Fixed Income
12 11 (1.26%) PMI
12 11 (1.26%) Reinsurance
12 11 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.15%) Equities
13 10 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 51 (5.84%) Linux
2 43 (4.93%) Windows
3 16 (1.83%) Unix
4 10 (1.15%) Android
5 7 (0.80%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.80%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (0.57%) VMS
6 5 (0.57%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.46%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.34%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.23%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 536 (61.40%) Agile
2 231 (26.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 229 (26.23%) DevOps
4 219 (25.09%) Scrum
5 175 (20.05%) Problem-Solving
6 160 (18.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 151 (17.30%) CI/CD
8 137 (15.69%) Test Automation
9 122 (13.97%) Project Management
10 120 (13.75%) User Stories
11 109 (12.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 100 (11.45%) Migration
13 94 (10.77%) Project Delivery
14 92 (10.54%) Roadmaps
15 90 (10.31%) User Acceptance Testing
16 87 (9.97%) Analytics
17 83 (9.51%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 83 (9.51%) SDLC
18 82 (9.39%) Waterfall
19 78 (8.93%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 155 (17.75%) SQL
2 113 (12.94%) Python
3 92 (10.54%) Java
4 58 (6.64%) C#
5 53 (6.07%) JavaScript
6 36 (4.12%) TypeScript
7 22 (2.52%) 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%) C
Qualifications
1 194 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 178 (20.39%) SC Cleared
3 82 (9.39%) Degree
4 34 (3.89%) PMI Certification
5 32 (3.67%) ISTQB
6 26 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 25 (2.86%) PMP
8 20 (2.29%) CBAP
9 15 (1.72%) DV Cleared
9 15 (1.72%) ISEB
10 13 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (1.37%) AWS Certification
12 11 (1.26%) CISSP
13 9 (1.03%) IIBA
13 9 (1.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 8 (0.92%) Azure Certification
15 7 (0.80%) CSPO
16 6 (0.69%) CESG Certified Professional
16 6 (0.69%) Master's Degree
16 6 (0.69%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (12.37%) QA
2 45 (5.15%) Data Quality
3 36 (4.12%) Accessibility
3 36 (4.12%) PMO
4 22 (2.52%) GDPR
5 13 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.49%) WCAG
6 11 (1.26%) NIST
6 11 (1.26%) SLA
7 10 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
8 7 (0.80%) GRC
9 5 (0.57%) MiFID
9 5 (0.57%) NIST 800
10 4 (0.46%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.46%) NCSC
11 3 (0.34%) Basel III
11 3 (0.34%) SEPA
12 2 (0.23%) EMIR
12 2 (0.23%) P3O
System Software
1 66 (7.56%) Docker
2 23 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.15%) 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%) DFS Replication
7 2 (0.23%) Dovecot
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.23%) Postfix
7 2 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.11%) etcd
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 65 (7.45%) Kubernetes
2 50 (5.73%) Terraform
3 26 (2.98%) Ansible
4 21 (2.41%) Grafana
5 19 (2.18%) Consul
6 18 (2.06%) Prometheus
7 13 (1.49%) Packer
7 13 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (1.03%) HP ALM
8 9 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.80%) FortiGate
10 6 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.46%) Control-M
12 3 (0.34%) Istio
12 3 (0.34%) Nessus
12 3 (0.34%) Puppet
12 3 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (0.34%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.34%) SCCM
13 2 (0.23%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 103 (11.80%) Microsoft
2 94 (10.77%) ServiceNow
3 75 (8.59%) Oracle
4 69 (7.90%) Salesforce
5 39 (4.47%) Atlassian
6 38 (4.35%) SAP
7 26 (2.98%) Google
8 23 (2.63%) Databricks
9 15 (1.72%) Adobe
10 13 (1.49%) Citrix
11 12 (1.37%) Dynatrace
11 12 (1.37%) Murex
12 11 (1.26%) IBM
12 11 (1.26%) Planview
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%) Cloudera
14 9 (1.03%) HP