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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 46 52
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 890 580 691
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.35% 4.55% 3.81%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.87% 32.22% 30.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 637 380 482
10th Percentile £346 £300 £326
25th Percentile £416 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -9.09% -6.69%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £674
90th Percentile £712 £726 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 11
10th Percentile - - £22.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.50 £28.36
Median hourly rate £19.50 £30.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% -9.09% -38.89%
75th Percentile £76.75 £32.50 £49.06
90th Percentile £95.00 - £57.50
England median hourly rate £63.27 £62.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year +1.23% +16.28% -14.00%

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 2,414 1,800 2,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.51% 14.13% 12.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,633 1,225 1,646
10th Percentile £350 £343 £375
25th Percentile £421 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £535 £568
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% -5.73% -5.42%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -7.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 20
10th Percentile - £23.45 £24.70
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.41 £30.34
Median hourly rate £19.50 £47.50 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year -58.95% +15.15% -28.26%
75th Percentile £76.75 £70.31 £60.31
90th Percentile £95.00 £83.13 £70.38
England median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -1 121 £550 +4.76% 42
South London +5 35 £519 +9.17% 3
West London -27 8 £500 +28.21% 9
East London +2 6 £450 - 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
1 397 (44.61%) Confluence
2 47 (5.28%) SharePoint
3 27 (3.03%) nginx
4 15 (1.69%) Apache
5 9 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.79%) CMS
6 7 (0.79%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.67%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.67%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.45%) JBoss
10 3 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.34%) SAS
11 2 (0.22%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.22%) WordPress
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.11%) CICS
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 82 (9.21%) Microsoft Project
2 73 (8.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 51 (5.73%) MS Visio
4 45 (5.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
6 17 (1.91%) Trello
7 5 (0.56%) Notion
8 4 (0.45%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.34%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.34%) InVision
9 3 (0.34%) Sketch
10 2 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.22%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.22%) InDesign
10 2 (0.22%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.11%) EPLAN
11 1 (0.11%) Mingle
11 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (1.57%) NetSuite
2 13 (1.46%) Loan IQ
3 12 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (1.12%) Aladdin
4 10 (1.12%) Fidessa
5 8 (0.90%) Remedy ITSM
6 7 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
7 5 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.45%) Findur
8 4 (0.45%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.45%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.45%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.34%) Algo Collateral
9 3 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.34%) SAP Retail
9 3 (0.34%) SimCorp Dimension
9 3 (0.34%) Summit
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 211 (23.71%) Azure
2 143 (16.07%) Azure DevOps
3 134 (15.06%) AWS
4 84 (9.44%) GitHub
5 61 (6.85%) Power Platform
6 33 (3.71%) Serverless
7 32 (3.60%) Entra ID
8 31 (3.48%) GCP
9 26 (2.92%) Amazon S3
9 26 (2.92%) Microsoft 365
9 26 (2.92%) SaaS
10 24 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (2.36%) Figma
12 20 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
14 18 (2.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 17 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
15 17 (1.91%) Miro
15 17 (1.91%) Slack
16 15 (1.69%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.81%) Firewall
2 17 (1.91%) DNS
3 13 (1.46%) TCP/IP
3 13 (1.46%) VPN
4 11 (1.24%) WAN
5 9 (1.01%) HTTP
6 7 (0.79%) Ethernet
6 7 (0.79%) FTP
6 7 (0.79%) Modbus
6 7 (0.79%) OpenVPN
6 7 (0.79%) RS-232
6 7 (0.79%) RS-485
6 7 (0.79%) SD-WAN
7 6 (0.67%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.56%) LAN
8 5 (0.56%) Network Security
9 4 (0.45%) NAS
9 4 (0.45%) PSTN
9 4 (0.45%) SSL
9 4 (0.45%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (5.06%) Power BI
2 31 (3.48%) Tableau
3 29 (3.26%) SQL Server
4 26 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (2.13%) NoSQL
6 17 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (1.80%) Relational Database
8 15 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (1.35%) Big Data
9 12 (1.35%) MongoDB
10 10 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (1.12%) Delta Lake
10 10 (1.12%) Oracle Database
11 9 (1.01%) DynamoDB
11 9 (1.01%) Metadata
12 8 (0.90%) Data Vault
12 8 (0.90%) Tick Data
13 7 (0.79%) BigQuery
14 6 (0.67%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 113 (12.70%) Git
2 74 (8.31%) Jenkins
3 43 (4.83%) Selenium
4 42 (4.72%) GitLab
5 30 (3.37%) Bitbucket
6 29 (3.26%) JUnit
7 28 (3.15%) Cucumber
8 24 (2.70%) Zephyr
9 19 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 17 (1.91%) Postman
11 16 (1.80%) TestRail
12 14 (1.57%) SonarQube
13 13 (1.46%) Maven
14 12 (1.35%) JMeter
14 12 (1.35%) REST Assured
14 12 (1.35%) SpecFlow
15 10 (1.12%) Appium
15 10 (1.12%) Cypress.io
16 9 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
17 6 (0.67%) TeamCity
General
1 342 (38.43%) Social Skills
2 329 (36.97%) Finance
3 164 (18.43%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (15.06%) Banking
5 86 (9.66%) Public Sector
6 41 (4.61%) Documentation Skills
7 36 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
8 33 (3.71%) Presentation Skills
8 33 (3.71%) Retail
9 30 (3.37%) Legal
10 26 (2.92%) Investment Banking
11 24 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
12 23 (2.58%) Front Office
13 15 (1.69%) Financial Institution
13 15 (1.69%) Marketing
14 11 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 10 (1.12%) Publishing
16 9 (1.01%) Billing
16 9 (1.01%) Telecoms
17 8 (0.90%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 201 (22.58%) Analyst
2 147 (16.52%) Business Analyst
3 107 (12.02%) Developer
4 85 (9.55%) Senior
5 74 (8.31%) Lead
6 65 (7.30%) Project Manager
7 36 (4.04%) Delivery Manager
8 33 (3.71%) Technical Analyst
9 31 (3.48%) Technical Business Analyst
9 31 (3.48%) Tester
10 30 (3.37%) Test Engineer
11 29 (3.26%) Architect
11 29 (3.26%) Consultant
12 28 (3.15%) IT Support
13 25 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
13 25 (2.81%) Technical Manager
14 23 (2.58%) Data Engineer
14 23 (2.58%) Scrum Master
15 20 (2.25%) Banking Analyst
15 20 (2.25%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (5.51%) REST
2 33 (3.71%) .NET
3 28 (3.15%) Kafka
4 27 (3.03%) React
4 27 (3.03%) Spring
5 24 (2.70%) SOAP
6 23 (2.58%) XML
7 21 (2.36%) HTML
8 20 (2.25%) CSS
8 20 (2.25%) Playwright
8 20 (2.25%) RESTful
9 18 (2.02%) JSON
10 16 (1.80%) Oracle Fusion
10 16 (1.80%) Spring Boot
11 15 (1.69%) AngularJS
11 15 (1.69%) Lightning Web Components
12 14 (1.57%) Node.js
13 13 (1.46%) Web Services
14 12 (1.35%) ADO
15 11 (1.24%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 83 (9.33%) Product Ownership
2 43 (4.83%) Onboarding
3 29 (3.26%) Management Information System
4 23 (2.58%) Analytical Mindset
5 22 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (1.91%) Cloud Native
7 17 (1.91%) Public Cloud
7 17 (1.91%) Virtual Team
8 15 (1.69%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.57%) Mobile App
10 12 (1.35%) CMDB
11 11 (1.24%) Data Centre
11 11 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.12%) Equities
12 10 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.01%) Fixed Income
13 9 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.01%) PMI
13 9 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 50 (5.62%) Linux
2 47 (5.28%) Windows
3 17 (1.91%) Unix
4 10 (1.12%) Android
5 8 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.79%) FreeRTOS
7 5 (0.56%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.45%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.34%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 538 (60.45%) Agile
2 241 (27.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 230 (25.84%) DevOps
4 216 (24.27%) Scrum
5 178 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 167 (18.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 147 (16.52%) CI/CD
8 145 (16.29%) Test Automation
9 124 (13.93%) Project Management
10 122 (13.71%) User Stories
11 115 (12.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 105 (11.80%) User Acceptance Testing
13 104 (11.69%) Migration
14 98 (11.01%) Project Delivery
15 95 (10.67%) SDLC
16 93 (10.45%) Roadmaps
17 89 (10.00%) Analytics
18 88 (9.89%) Decision-Making
19 87 (9.78%) Waterfall
20 82 (9.21%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 162 (18.20%) SQL
2 110 (12.36%) Python
3 93 (10.45%) Java
4 61 (6.85%) C#
5 52 (5.84%) JavaScript
6 35 (3.93%) TypeScript
7 21 (2.36%) PowerShell
8 17 (1.91%) Bash
9 12 (1.35%) C++
10 11 (1.24%) Apex Code
11 9 (1.01%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.79%) Embedded C++
13 6 (0.67%) Korn
13 6 (0.67%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.56%) Perl
14 5 (0.56%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.56%) Ruby
14 5 (0.56%) XPath
15 4 (0.45%) Delphi
16 3 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 192 (21.57%) Security Cleared
2 175 (19.66%) SC Cleared
3 80 (8.99%) Degree
4 33 (3.71%) PMI Certification
5 32 (3.60%) ISTQB
6 27 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 26 (2.92%) PMP
8 20 (2.25%) CBAP
9 14 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (1.46%) ISEB
11 12 (1.35%) CISSP
11 12 (1.35%) DV Cleared
12 10 (1.12%) IIBA
13 9 (1.01%) AWS Certification
14 8 (0.90%) Azure Certification
14 8 (0.90%) CSPO
14 8 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 7 (0.79%) Master's Degree
16 6 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (13.37%) QA
2 47 (5.28%) Data Quality
3 35 (3.93%) PMO
4 32 (3.60%) Accessibility
5 24 (2.70%) GDPR
6 14 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.46%) NIST
8 11 (1.24%) SLA
8 11 (1.24%) WCAG
9 10 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.90%) GRC
11 7 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.56%) MiFID
12 5 (0.56%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.45%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.34%) Basel III
14 3 (0.34%) NCSC
14 3 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
15 2 (0.22%) P3O
15 2 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 57 (6.40%) Docker
2 28 (3.15%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.90%) Squid
4 7 (0.79%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (0.79%) Firmware
5 6 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 59 (6.63%) Kubernetes
2 58 (6.52%) Terraform
3 26 (2.92%) Ansible
4 19 (2.13%) Consul
5 17 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
6 15 (1.69%) Grafana
7 14 (1.57%) Prometheus
8 13 (1.46%) Packer
9 12 (1.35%) HP ALM
10 9 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (0.79%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.56%) Control-M
14 4 (0.45%) RSA Archer
15 3 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
15 3 (0.34%) SCCM
16 2 (0.22%) CASB
16 2 (0.22%) Puppet
17 1 (0.11%) Network Intrusion Detection System
17 1 (0.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 104 (11.69%) Microsoft
2 96 (10.79%) ServiceNow
3 73 (8.20%) Oracle
4 65 (7.30%) Salesforce
5 42 (4.72%) Atlassian
6 37 (4.16%) SAP
7 27 (3.03%) Google
8 21 (2.36%) Databricks
9 16 (1.80%) Adobe
10 14 (1.57%) Citrix
11 13 (1.46%) IBM
11 13 (1.46%) Murex
12 12 (1.35%) Dynatrace
12 12 (1.35%) HP
13 11 (1.24%) MuleSoft
13 11 (1.24%) Remedy
13 11 (1.24%) Workday
14 10 (1.12%) Informatica
14 10 (1.12%) Planview
14 10 (1.12%) Red Hat