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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 42 59
Rank change year-on-year -1 +17 -12
Contract jobs citing JIRA 890 637 663
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.85% 5.27% 3.80%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.99% 35.15% 28.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 599 429 459
10th Percentile £350 £324 £325
25th Percentile £421 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.29% -4.65% -6.52%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £727 £751 £825
England median daily rate £480 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 19
10th Percentile - £29.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £31.25 £25.62
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +18.26% -47.80%
75th Percentile £68.13 £43.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £87.70 £46.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -5.88%

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 2,343 1,812 2,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.77% 15.00% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,545 1,236 1,656
10th Percentile £358 £356 £363
25th Percentile £425 £422 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £626 £664 £673
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 7 26
10th Percentile - £23.97 £23.50
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.77 £25.99
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year - +2.74% -47.86%
75th Percentile £72.63 £43.75 £70.19
90th Percentile £95.00 £55.50 £71.56
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -4 113 £544 +3.62% 54
South London +6 33 £513 +7.89% 3
West London -21 21 £400 +0.63% 8
East London -4 5 £450 +12.50% 4
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
1 369 (41.46%) Confluence
2 48 (5.39%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.35%) Apache
5 10 (1.12%) nginx
6 7 (0.79%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.67%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.67%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.56%) CMS
9 4 (0.45%) JBoss
9 4 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.45%) SAS
10 3 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.22%) Kentico
11 2 (0.22%) WordPress
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.11%) CICS
12 1 (0.11%) Drupal
12 1 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 74 (8.31%) Microsoft Project
2 68 (7.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (4.94%) MS Visio
4 35 (3.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (1.12%) Trello
7 7 (0.79%) Notion
8 4 (0.45%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.45%) Revit
9 3 (0.34%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.11%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.11%) InVision
11 1 (0.11%) Mingle
11 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.24%) Loan IQ
3 9 (1.01%) Aladdin
4 8 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.90%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.79%) Fidessa
5 7 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.56%) Findur
6 5 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.56%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.45%) SAP Retail
8 3 (0.34%) Actimize
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (0.34%) SAP FI-AR
8 3 (0.34%) SimCorp Dimension
8 3 (0.34%) Summit
9 2 (0.22%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 211 (23.71%) Azure
2 131 (14.72%) Azure DevOps
3 121 (13.60%) AWS
4 61 (6.85%) Power Platform
5 56 (6.29%) GitHub
6 48 (5.39%) Entra ID
7 43 (4.83%) SaaS
8 39 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
9 37 (4.16%) Amazon S3
10 31 (3.48%) GCP
11 28 (3.15%) Serverless
12 25 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
13 24 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
14 22 (2.47%) Figma
15 19 (2.13%) Google Workspace
15 19 (2.13%) Slack
16 18 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 18 (2.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 17 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
18 15 (1.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.81%) Firewall
2 19 (2.13%) DNS
3 15 (1.69%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.46%) VPN
5 9 (1.01%) HTTP
6 7 (0.79%) OpenVPN
6 7 (0.79%) SSL
7 6 (0.67%) Ethernet
7 6 (0.67%) WAN
8 5 (0.56%) FTP
8 5 (0.56%) LAN
8 5 (0.56%) Modbus
8 5 (0.56%) Network Security
8 5 (0.56%) RS-232
8 5 (0.56%) RS-485
8 5 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.45%) DKIM
9 4 (0.45%) DMARC
9 4 (0.45%) PSTN
9 4 (0.45%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (5.39%) Power BI
2 29 (3.26%) SQL Server
3 26 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (2.92%) Tableau
4 16 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (1.57%) NoSQL
7 13 (1.46%) DynamoDB
8 12 (1.35%) Metadata
8 12 (1.35%) Relational Database
9 11 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (1.24%) MongoDB
10 10 (1.12%) Delta Lake
10 10 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (0.90%) Data Vault
11 8 (0.90%) Oracle Database
11 8 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
12 7 (0.79%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.67%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.67%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 100 (11.24%) Git
2 59 (6.63%) Jenkins
3 35 (3.93%) Selenium
4 29 (3.26%) GitLab
5 27 (3.03%) Zephyr
6 24 (2.70%) JUnit
7 19 (2.13%) Cucumber
8 16 (1.80%) Bitbucket
9 15 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
10 12 (1.35%) Cypress.io
11 11 (1.24%) Postman
11 11 (1.24%) SonarQube
12 10 (1.12%) REST Assured
12 10 (1.12%) TestRail
13 9 (1.01%) Appium
14 8 (0.90%) JMeter
15 7 (0.79%) Maven
16 6 (0.67%) ScriptRunner
16 6 (0.67%) Subversion
17 5 (0.56%) Mockito
General
1 347 (38.99%) Finance
2 333 (37.42%) Social Skills
3 162 (18.20%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (16.52%) Banking
5 97 (10.90%) Public Sector
6 39 (4.38%) Retail
7 36 (4.04%) Documentation Skills
8 32 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
9 30 (3.37%) Investment Banking
10 28 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (3.03%) Legal
12 26 (2.92%) Front Office
13 17 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (1.80%) Financial Institution
15 15 (1.69%) Marketing
16 12 (1.35%) Corporate Banking
16 12 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 10 (1.12%) Back Office
18 9 (1.01%) Billing
18 9 (1.01%) Military
Job Titles
1 190 (21.35%) Analyst
2 127 (14.27%) Business Analyst
3 96 (10.79%) Lead
4 91 (10.22%) Developer
5 87 (9.78%) Senior
6 56 (6.29%) Project Manager
7 45 (5.06%) Delivery Manager
8 37 (4.16%) IT Support
9 30 (3.37%) Consultant
10 29 (3.26%) Technical Manager
11 26 (2.92%) Data Engineer
11 26 (2.92%) Scrum Master
11 26 (2.92%) Tester
12 25 (2.81%) Banking Analyst
13 24 (2.70%) Test Leader
14 23 (2.58%) Architect
14 23 (2.58%) Support Engineer
15 22 (2.47%) IT Support Engineer
15 22 (2.47%) Product Owner
15 22 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (4.38%) REST
2 30 (3.37%) React
3 26 (2.92%) .NET
4 25 (2.81%) Kafka
5 20 (2.25%) AngularJS
5 20 (2.25%) HTML
5 20 (2.25%) Spring
6 17 (1.91%) CSS
6 17 (1.91%) RESTful
6 17 (1.91%) SOAP
7 16 (1.80%) Lightning Web Components
8 15 (1.69%) Node.js
8 15 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
8 15 (1.69%) Spring Boot
9 13 (1.46%) JSON
9 13 (1.46%) Playwright
10 12 (1.35%) OpenID
11 11 (1.24%) Gherkin
11 11 (1.24%) LDAP
11 11 (1.24%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 90 (10.11%) Product Ownership
2 52 (5.84%) Onboarding
3 24 (2.70%) Management Information System
4 23 (2.58%) Analytical Mindset
5 21 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
5 21 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (2.02%) Data Centre
7 17 (1.91%) Virtual Team
8 16 (1.80%) Cloud Native
9 14 (1.57%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 13 (1.46%) Derivative
11 12 (1.35%) Public Cloud
11 12 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.24%) Reinsurance
13 10 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (1.12%) Market Risk
14 9 (1.01%) Mobile App
15 8 (0.90%) CMDB
15 8 (0.90%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 52 (5.84%) Windows
2 35 (3.93%) Linux
3 9 (1.01%) Mac OS
3 9 (1.01%) Unix
4 8 (0.90%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.67%) Android
6 5 (0.56%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (0.56%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.11%) SUSE
9 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 502 (56.40%) Agile
2 251 (28.20%) Stakeholder Management
3 212 (23.82%) DevOps
4 179 (20.11%) Problem-Solving
5 175 (19.66%) Scrum
6 164 (18.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 127 (14.27%) CI/CD
7 127 (14.27%) Test Automation
8 121 (13.60%) Migration
9 115 (12.92%) User Stories
10 112 (12.58%) Project Management
11 101 (11.35%) User Acceptance Testing
12 99 (11.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 98 (11.01%) SDLC
14 97 (10.90%) Change Management
15 94 (10.56%) Analytics
16 93 (10.45%) Roadmaps
17 89 (10.00%) Validation
18 87 (9.78%) Data Modelling
19 86 (9.66%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 150 (16.85%) SQL
2 95 (10.67%) Python
3 84 (9.44%) Java
4 53 (5.96%) C#
5 34 (3.82%) JavaScript
5 34 (3.82%) TypeScript
6 18 (2.02%) PowerShell
7 14 (1.57%) Apex Code
8 13 (1.46%) Bash
9 10 (1.12%) C++
10 8 (0.90%) Groovy
11 7 (0.79%) Perl
12 6 (0.67%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.56%) Embedded C++
14 4 (0.45%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.34%) Bicep
15 3 (0.34%) C
15 3 (0.34%) Korn
15 3 (0.34%) XPath
16 2 (0.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 189 (21.24%) Security Cleared
2 164 (18.43%) SC Cleared
3 66 (7.42%) Degree
4 27 (3.03%) PMI Certification
5 22 (2.47%) PMP
6 21 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
6 21 (2.36%) ISTQB
7 18 (2.02%) DV Cleared
8 16 (1.80%) CBAP
9 11 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (1.12%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.12%) IIBA
10 10 (1.12%) ITIL Certification
11 9 (1.01%) CISSP
11 9 (1.01%) ISEB
12 8 (0.90%) Master's Degree
13 7 (0.79%) CISM
14 6 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.56%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (12.47%) QA
2 60 (6.74%) Data Quality
3 40 (4.49%) PMO
4 27 (3.03%) GDPR
5 25 (2.81%) Accessibility
6 22 (2.47%) SLA
7 14 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.35%) WCAG
9 10 (1.12%) NIST
10 8 (0.90%) MiFID
11 7 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.67%) GRC
12 6 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.45%) EMIR
13 4 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.45%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.45%) NCSC
13 4 (0.45%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.34%) Basel III
14 3 (0.34%) COBIT
System Software
1 43 (4.83%) Active Directory
2 42 (4.72%) Docker
3 8 (0.90%) Squid
4 7 (0.79%) Firmware
4 7 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 54 (6.07%) Kubernetes
2 51 (5.73%) Terraform
3 22 (2.47%) Ansible
4 21 (2.36%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (2.25%) Prometheus
6 18 (2.02%) Grafana
7 12 (1.35%) Consul
8 9 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (0.90%) HP ALM
10 7 (0.79%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.79%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.56%) Control-M
12 4 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.45%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.45%) PingFederate
13 2 (0.22%) Packer
13 2 (0.22%) Podman
13 2 (0.22%) Puppet
13 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 110 (12.36%) Microsoft
1 110 (12.36%) ServiceNow
2 73 (8.20%) Salesforce
3 64 (7.19%) Oracle
4 39 (4.38%) SAP
5 34 (3.82%) Atlassian
6 31 (3.48%) Google
7 18 (2.02%) Databricks
8 15 (1.69%) MuleSoft
9 14 (1.57%) Adobe
10 12 (1.35%) Murex
10 12 (1.35%) Workday
11 11 (1.24%) IBM
11 11 (1.24%) Informatica
11 11 (1.24%) Okta
12 10 (1.12%) Bloomberg
12 10 (1.12%) ForgeRock
12 10 (1.12%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.01%) Dynatrace
13 9 (1.01%) Remedy