JIRA Contracts in London

Atlassian JIRA
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring JIRA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JIRA over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 58 49
Rank change year-on-year +22 -9 -12
Contract jobs citing JIRA 716 690 1,143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 5.46% 3.92% 4.52%
As % of the Development Applications category 35.57% 28.08% 28.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 482 798
10th Percentile £334 £321 £379
25th Percentile £413 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £532 £560
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% -5.05% +1.77%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £753 £762 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 17 13
10th Percentile £33.10 £22.00 £47.30
25th Percentile £36.63 £25.99 -
Median hourly rate £45.00 £31.71 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.91% -41.28% +21.35%
75th Percentile £68.13 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.50 £71.25 £81.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £61.25
% change year-on-year -15.38% +6.12% +22.50%

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 2,013 2,457 3,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.36% 13.94% 15.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,359 1,755 2,907
10th Percentile £350 £363 £406
25th Percentile £420 £450 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £667 £713
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 25 36
10th Percentile £25.00 £23.30 £51.38
25th Percentile £30.75 £25.99 £54.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -50.00% +68.54%
75th Percentile £47.50 £71.25 £82.50
90th Percentile £71.75 £71.63 £90.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.84% +18.10%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in London

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA in London.

Daily rate trend for JIRA in London

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in London

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JIRA in London.

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in London

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

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 3 July 2025. 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 +19 119 £525 - 193
West London +10 17 £405 -20.59% 24
South London -13 12 £475 -9.52% 14
East London +14 5 £400 -17.53% 5
North London -4 1 £440 -45.00% 1
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 302 (42.18%) Confluence
2 27 (3.77%) SharePoint
3 20 (2.79%) Apache
4 17 (2.37%) CMS
5 16 (2.23%) nginx
6 12 (1.68%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.98%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.84%) JBoss
9 5 (0.70%) Drupal
10 4 (0.56%) Camunda
10 4 (0.56%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.56%) WordPress
11 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
11 3 (0.42%) Oracle Coherence
11 3 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.42%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.28%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.28%) IIS
12 2 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 44 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 44 (6.15%) Microsoft Project
2 35 (4.89%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (3.77%) MS Visio
4 24 (3.35%) Trello
5 21 (2.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.56%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (0.42%) Shopify
5 3 (0.42%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.28%) Magento
6 2 (0.28%) MultiFonds
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.28%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.14%) Endur
7 1 (0.14%) OpenText MBPM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP PP
7 1 (0.14%) SAP SCM
7 1 (0.14%) Summit
7 1 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 129 (18.02%) Azure
2 127 (17.74%) AWS
3 60 (8.38%) Azure DevOps
4 54 (7.54%) Power Platform
5 48 (6.70%) GitHub
6 38 (5.31%) GCP
7 23 (3.21%) SaaS
8 22 (3.07%) IaaS
8 22 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
8 22 (3.07%) Miro
9 21 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
10 17 (2.37%) Slack
11 15 (2.09%) PowerApps
12 14 (1.96%) Serverless
13 13 (1.82%) Asana
14 12 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
14 12 (1.68%) PaaS
14 12 (1.68%) Power Automate
15 11 (1.54%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 23 (3.21%) Firewall
2 17 (2.37%) VPN
3 13 (1.82%) DNS
4 10 (1.40%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.12%) SSL
6 7 (0.98%) Network Security
6 7 (0.98%) SSH
7 6 (0.84%) SAN
8 5 (0.70%) DHCP
8 5 (0.70%) HTTP
9 4 (0.56%) NAS
9 4 (0.56%) WAN
10 3 (0.42%) LAN
10 3 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.42%) Wireless
11 2 (0.28%) BGP
11 2 (0.28%) Internet
11 2 (0.28%) Kerberos
11 2 (0.28%) SMTP
11 2 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (5.87%) Power BI
2 28 (3.91%) SQL Server
3 20 (2.79%) Data Lake
4 19 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (2.23%) Big Data
5 16 (2.23%) Tableau
6 13 (1.82%) BigQuery
6 13 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (1.68%) Oracle Database
7 12 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (1.40%) Delta Lake
9 9 (1.26%) Hadoop
9 9 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (1.12%) Apache Hive
10 8 (1.12%) MySQL
10 8 (1.12%) NoSQL
11 7 (0.98%) Relational Database
12 6 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.70%) Metadata
13 5 (0.70%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 91 (12.71%) Git
2 58 (8.10%) Jenkins
3 31 (4.33%) Selenium
4 26 (3.63%) Postman
5 24 (3.35%) Bitbucket
6 20 (2.79%) REST Assured
7 19 (2.65%) Zephyr
8 17 (2.37%) GitLab
9 16 (2.23%) ScriptRunner
10 14 (1.96%) JUnit
11 11 (1.54%) Cypress.io
11 11 (1.54%) JMeter
12 10 (1.40%) Gradle
12 10 (1.40%) SoapUI
12 10 (1.40%) Subversion
13 9 (1.26%) TeamCity
13 9 (1.26%) TestRail
13 9 (1.26%) Visual Studio
14 8 (1.12%) SonarQube
15 7 (0.98%) Cucumber
General
1 321 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 213 (29.75%) Finance
3 127 (17.74%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (17.32%) Banking
5 43 (6.01%) Public Sector
6 39 (5.45%) Front Office
7 29 (4.05%) Retail
8 26 (3.63%) Marketing
9 25 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
10 21 (2.93%) Investment Banking
11 18 (2.51%) Back Office
12 17 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
13 15 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (1.82%) Legal
16 12 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
17 10 (1.40%) Military
17 10 (1.40%) Telecoms
18 8 (1.12%) Financial Institution
18 8 (1.12%) Law
Job Titles
1 129 (18.02%) Analyst
2 95 (13.27%) Developer
3 87 (12.15%) Business Analyst
4 77 (10.75%) Project Manager
5 71 (9.92%) Senior
6 51 (7.12%) Lead
7 35 (4.89%) Architect
8 32 (4.47%) Consultant
9 25 (3.49%) Delivery Manager
10 24 (3.35%) C# Developer
11 21 (2.93%) Administrator
12 20 (2.79%) Data Engineer
13 19 (2.65%) .NET Developer
14 18 (2.51%) Electronic Trading Developer
14 18 (2.51%) Product Owner
14 18 (2.51%) Tester
15 17 (2.37%) C# .NET Developer
15 17 (2.37%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
15 17 (2.37%) Scrum Master
15 17 (2.37%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (8.80%) REST
2 52 (7.26%) AngularJS
3 48 (6.70%) .NET
4 28 (3.91%) SOAP
5 25 (3.49%) HTML
5 25 (3.49%) Kafka
5 25 (3.49%) Web Services
6 21 (2.93%) React
7 20 (2.79%) JSON
8 18 (2.51%) CSS
9 17 (2.37%) Reactive Extensions
10 15 (2.09%) RESTful
11 13 (1.82%) Spring
11 13 (1.82%) XML
12 12 (1.68%) Middleware
12 12 (1.68%) Playwright
12 12 (1.68%) Spring Boot
13 11 (1.54%) HTML5
14 10 (1.40%) .NET Framework
14 10 (1.40%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 67 (9.36%) Product Ownership
2 23 (3.21%) Onboarding
3 19 (2.65%) Management Information System
4 17 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (2.37%) Virtual Team
5 15 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (2.09%) Data Structures
5 15 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 13 (1.82%) Data Centre
7 11 (1.54%) Derivative
7 11 (1.54%) Fixed Income
7 11 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (1.54%) Mobile App
8 10 (1.40%) Cloud Native
8 10 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
9 9 (1.26%) Equities
9 9 (1.26%) Reinsurance
10 8 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
10 8 (1.12%) Reference Data
10 8 (1.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 53 (7.40%) Windows
2 49 (6.84%) Linux
3 17 (2.37%) Unix
4 13 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.68%) Android
6 11 (1.54%) Windows Server
7 9 (1.26%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.56%) CentOS
8 4 (0.56%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.56%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.28%) Solaris
9 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.14%) Debian
10 1 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 459 (64.11%) Agile
2 173 (24.16%) Scrum
3 156 (21.79%) Problem-Solving
4 139 (19.41%) Project Management
5 137 (19.13%) DevOps
6 133 (18.58%) Stakeholder Management
7 84 (11.73%) CI/CD
8 82 (11.45%) Migration
9 80 (11.17%) Continuous Improvement
10 76 (10.61%) Test Automation
11 70 (9.78%) Roadmaps
11 70 (9.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 65 (9.08%) Risk Management
13 63 (8.80%) User Stories
14 61 (8.52%) Analytics
14 61 (8.52%) SDLC
15 60 (8.38%) User Acceptance Testing
16 54 (7.54%) Project Delivery
17 52 (7.26%) Data Analysis
18 50 (6.98%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 133 (18.58%) SQL
2 105 (14.66%) Java
3 88 (12.29%) Python
4 65 (9.08%) JavaScript
5 53 (7.40%) C#
6 32 (4.47%) TypeScript
7 24 (3.35%) Groovy
8 19 (2.65%) Bash
9 17 (2.37%) PowerShell
10 12 (1.68%) Scala
11 8 (1.12%) Kotlin
11 8 (1.12%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.84%) Bicep
12 6 (0.84%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.56%) C++
13 4 (0.56%) Go
14 3 (0.42%) Perl
14 3 (0.42%) Ruby
14 3 (0.42%) VB
15 2 (0.28%) VB6
Qualifications
1 112 (15.64%) Security Cleared
2 103 (14.39%) SC Cleared
3 89 (12.43%) Degree
4 31 (4.33%) PMI Certification
5 29 (4.05%) PMP
6 17 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (1.82%) ISTQB
8 10 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.26%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.12%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.12%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.84%) CBAP
12 4 (0.56%) IIBA
12 4 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.42%) CISSP
13 3 (0.42%) CSPO
13 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
13 3 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 3 (0.42%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (11.59%) QA
2 20 (2.79%) Data Quality
2 20 (2.79%) PMO
3 19 (2.65%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.40%) GDPR
5 9 (1.26%) MiFID
6 7 (0.98%) EMIR
7 6 (0.84%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.84%) SLA
8 5 (0.70%) SEPA
9 4 (0.56%) WCAG
10 3 (0.42%) NIST
10 3 (0.42%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.28%) GAAP
11 2 (0.28%) ITGC
11 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.14%) COBIT
12 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (6.15%) Docker
2 16 (2.23%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.70%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 4 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.42%) Lustre
6 3 (0.42%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 2 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.14%) Firmware
8 1 (0.14%) NFS
8 1 (0.14%) Veritas File System
8 1 (0.14%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 1 (0.14%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (7.54%) Kubernetes
2 43 (6.01%) Terraform
3 23 (3.21%) Ansible
4 17 (2.37%) HP ALM
5 15 (2.09%) Packer
6 14 (1.96%) Consul
7 12 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (1.12%) Grafana
9 7 (0.98%) Podman
9 7 (0.98%) Tivoli
10 5 (0.70%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.70%) Puppet
11 4 (0.56%) Control-M
11 4 (0.56%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.56%) SCCM
12 3 (0.42%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.42%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.42%) QRadar
13 2 (0.28%) Opsgenie
13 2 (0.28%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 86 (12.01%) Microsoft
2 68 (9.50%) Oracle
3 65 (9.08%) ServiceNow
4 33 (4.61%) Atlassian
5 32 (4.47%) Salesforce
6 25 (3.49%) Google
6 25 (3.49%) HP
7 17 (2.37%) Splunk
8 15 (2.09%) Cisco
8 15 (2.09%) SAP
9 13 (1.82%) Databricks
9 13 (1.82%) Red Hat
10 12 (1.68%) VMware
11 11 (1.54%) IBM
12 10 (1.40%) Duck Creek
12 10 (1.40%) Murex
13 9 (1.26%) Dell
14 8 (1.12%) Adobe
14 8 (1.12%) Citrix
14 8 (1.12%) Planview