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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 37 55
Rank change year-on-year -7 +18 -5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 986 784 650
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.90% 5.78% 4.01%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.76% 37.37% 28.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 648 542 455
10th Percentile £358 £322 £323
25th Percentile £425 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £634
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 4 15
10th Percentile - £34.20 £22.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £39.38 £25.62
Median hourly rate £27.50 £44.75 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.55% +37.69% -39.81%
75th Percentile £68.13 £57.81 £68.13
90th Percentile £78.97 £76.38 £71.25
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% -7.41% +8.00%

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 2,544 2,098 2,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.64% 15.47% 14.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,634 1,433 1,599
10th Percentile £363 £338 £363
25th Percentile £440 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 13 22
10th Percentile - £26.98 £22.33
25th Percentile £18.75 £36.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -2.70% -33.93%
75th Percentile £72.75 £63.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.20 £84.50 £71.81
England median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.23% - -

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -14 120 £550 +10.00% 41
West London -5 27 £400 -3.61% 7
South London +4 24 £513 -11.85% 7
North London -1 2 - - 1
East London -3 2 £425 +4.29% 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
1 407 (41.28%) Confluence
2 53 (5.38%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.22%) CMS
5 7 (0.71%) SAS
6 6 (0.61%) Apache
7 5 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.41%) JBoss
9 3 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.30%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.30%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.30%) WordPress
10 2 (0.20%) Camunda
10 2 (0.20%) Kentico
10 2 (0.20%) MTS
10 2 (0.20%) nginx
11 1 (0.10%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.10%) IIS
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 69 (7.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (6.39%) Microsoft Project
3 40 (4.06%) MS Visio
4 33 (3.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (2.64%) Microsoft Office
6 14 (1.42%) Trello
7 10 (1.01%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.81%) Revit
9 6 (0.61%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.51%) Notion
11 4 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.10%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.10%) Mingle
12 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 21 (2.13%) Remedy ITSM
2 11 (1.12%) Aladdin
2 11 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.81%) Findur
4 6 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.61%) Loan IQ
5 5 (0.51%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.41%) Actimize
6 4 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.41%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.30%) SAP FI-AR
8 2 (0.20%) CA PPM
8 2 (0.20%) Eloqua
8 2 (0.20%) IntelliMatch
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.20%) Shopify
8 2 (0.20%) Summit
8 2 (0.20%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 277 (28.09%) Azure
2 155 (15.72%) Azure DevOps
3 149 (15.11%) AWS
4 85 (8.62%) Power Platform
5 70 (7.10%) GitHub
6 53 (5.38%) Entra ID
7 49 (4.97%) SaaS
8 43 (4.36%) Serverless
9 42 (4.26%) GCP
9 42 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
10 39 (3.96%) Amazon S3
11 33 (3.35%) AWS Lambda
12 32 (3.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 29 (2.94%) GitHub Actions
14 25 (2.54%) Amazon EC2
15 21 (2.13%) Snowflake
16 20 (2.03%) Microsoft Copilot
17 19 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
18 18 (1.83%) Azure Logic Apps
18 18 (1.83%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.33%) Firewall
2 22 (2.23%) DNS
3 16 (1.62%) VPN
4 15 (1.52%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.81%) DHCP
6 7 (0.71%) Network Security
7 6 (0.61%) SSL
7 6 (0.61%) WAN
8 5 (0.51%) DKIM
8 5 (0.51%) DMARC
9 4 (0.41%) FTP
9 4 (0.41%) HTTP
9 4 (0.41%) Internet
9 4 (0.41%) IPv4
9 4 (0.41%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.30%) IPv6
10 3 (0.30%) NGFW
11 2 (0.20%) 5G
11 2 (0.20%) Broadband
11 2 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (7.61%) Power BI
2 36 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (2.74%) SQL Server
4 26 (2.64%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (1.93%) Relational Database
6 18 (1.83%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (1.62%) Metadata
7 16 (1.62%) Tableau
8 15 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
9 14 (1.42%) DynamoDB
10 13 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (1.22%) Data Lake
11 12 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 10 (1.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 10 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
14 8 (0.81%) MongoDB
15 7 (0.71%) Crystal Reports
15 7 (0.71%) Redis
16 6 (0.61%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 116 (11.76%) Git
2 75 (7.61%) Jenkins
3 38 (3.85%) GitLab
4 32 (3.25%) Selenium
5 30 (3.04%) Zephyr
6 18 (1.83%) JUnit
7 17 (1.72%) Bitbucket
7 17 (1.72%) Cucumber
8 16 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
9 15 (1.52%) Cypress.io
10 12 (1.22%) Postman
10 12 (1.22%) REST Assured
11 10 (1.01%) TestRail
12 9 (0.91%) Appium
13 8 (0.81%) JMeter
14 7 (0.71%) Maven
14 7 (0.71%) Mockito
15 6 (0.61%) ScriptRunner
16 5 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 5 (0.51%) Gradle
General
1 395 (40.06%) Finance
2 391 (39.66%) Social Skills
3 193 (19.57%) Banking
4 190 (19.27%) Analytical Skills
5 102 (10.34%) Public Sector
6 42 (4.26%) Retail
7 41 (4.16%) Organisational Skills
8 39 (3.96%) Investment Banking
9 37 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
10 32 (3.25%) Front Office
11 25 (2.54%) Legal
12 18 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 18 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (1.83%) Marketing
13 16 (1.62%) Retail Banking
14 15 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (1.42%) Corporate Banking
15 14 (1.42%) Financial Institution
16 13 (1.32%) Back Office
17 12 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 194 (19.68%) Analyst
2 122 (12.37%) Business Analyst
3 110 (11.16%) Lead
4 105 (10.65%) Developer
5 94 (9.53%) Senior
6 60 (6.09%) Project Manager
7 38 (3.85%) Architect
8 37 (3.75%) Delivery Manager
9 36 (3.65%) Consultant
10 33 (3.35%) IT Support
11 32 (3.25%) Product Owner
12 29 (2.94%) Test Leader
13 28 (2.84%) Support Engineer
14 27 (2.74%) Scrum Master
14 27 (2.74%) Test Manager
15 26 (2.64%) Tester
16 24 (2.43%) Banking Analyst
17 23 (2.33%) Data Engineer
17 23 (2.33%) Senior Manager
18 22 (2.23%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (6.09%) REST
2 43 (4.36%) .NET
3 25 (2.54%) React
4 24 (2.43%) JSON
5 23 (2.33%) AngularJS
6 21 (2.13%) Kafka
6 21 (2.13%) SOAP
7 17 (1.72%) Lightning Web Components
8 16 (1.62%) Playwright
8 16 (1.62%) PySpark
8 16 (1.62%) XML
9 15 (1.52%) HTML
9 15 (1.52%) Spring
10 14 (1.42%) Middleware
11 13 (1.32%) CSS
11 13 (1.32%) Node.js
11 13 (1.32%) OAuth
12 12 (1.22%) RESTful
13 10 (1.01%) SailPoint
13 10 (1.01%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 108 (10.95%) Product Ownership
2 67 (6.80%) Onboarding
3 28 (2.84%) Data Centre
4 25 (2.54%) Cloud Native
5 21 (2.13%) Data Structures
5 21 (2.13%) Virtual Team
6 20 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
6 20 (2.03%) Management Information System
7 19 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (1.83%) Derivative
9 17 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
10 16 (1.62%) Credit Risk
10 16 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
11 15 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
12 14 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 14 (1.42%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 12 (1.22%) Replication
14 11 (1.12%) Fixed Income
14 11 (1.12%) Mobile App
15 10 (1.01%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 56 (5.68%) Windows
2 38 (3.85%) Linux
3 12 (1.22%) Apple iOS
4 10 (1.01%) Android
4 10 (1.01%) Mac OS
5 9 (0.91%) Unix
6 7 (0.71%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
7 6 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.30%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.10%) SUSE
10 1 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.10%) VMS
10 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 578 (58.62%) Agile
2 329 (33.37%) Stakeholder Management
3 271 (27.48%) DevOps
4 222 (22.52%) Problem-Solving
5 188 (19.07%) CI/CD
6 178 (18.05%) Scrum
7 160 (16.23%) Migration
8 159 (16.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 141 (14.30%) User Acceptance Testing
10 128 (12.98%) AI
10 128 (12.98%) Test Automation
11 127 (12.88%) User Stories
12 108 (10.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 107 (10.85%) Project Management
14 103 (10.45%) Acceptance Criteria
14 103 (10.45%) SDLC
14 103 (10.45%) Validation
15 96 (9.74%) Change Management
15 96 (9.74%) Sprint Planning
16 93 (9.43%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 178 (18.05%) SQL
2 105 (10.65%) Python
3 73 (7.40%) Java
4 52 (5.27%) C#
5 39 (3.96%) JavaScript
6 38 (3.85%) PowerShell
7 27 (2.74%) TypeScript
8 17 (1.72%) Bash
9 16 (1.62%) Apex Code
10 12 (1.22%) Groovy
11 11 (1.12%) Perl
12 9 (0.91%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.51%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.51%) VBA
14 4 (0.41%) Swift
14 4 (0.41%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.30%) Bicep
15 3 (0.30%) Korn
16 2 (0.20%) Cypher
16 2 (0.20%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 216 (21.91%) Security Cleared
2 189 (19.17%) SC Cleared
3 73 (7.40%) Degree
4 31 (3.14%) PMI Certification
5 25 (2.54%) PMP
6 24 (2.43%) DV Cleared
7 22 (2.23%) ISTQB
8 16 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.42%) AWS Certification
9 14 (1.42%) ITIL Certification
10 11 (1.12%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.01%) Azure Certification
12 9 (0.91%) CISSP
12 9 (0.91%) IIBA
13 8 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 7 (0.71%) CISM
15 5 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
15 5 (0.51%) ISEB
15 5 (0.51%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (12.58%) QA
2 66 (6.69%) Data Quality
3 49 (4.97%) PMO
4 29 (2.94%) SLA
5 26 (2.64%) Accessibility
6 25 (2.54%) GDPR
7 18 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.12%) WCAG
9 10 (1.01%) ISO 20022
10 8 (0.81%) NIST
11 7 (0.71%) GRC
11 7 (0.71%) SEPA
12 6 (0.61%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.51%) COBIT
13 5 (0.51%) MiFID
13 5 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 4 (0.41%) NCSC
14 4 (0.41%) P3O
14 4 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 55 (5.58%) Active Directory
2 38 (3.85%) Docker
3 8 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.20%) Firmware
7 1 (0.10%) Squid
7 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 72 (7.30%) Terraform
2 58 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 31 (3.14%) Ansible
4 23 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
5 21 (2.13%) Grafana
5 21 (2.13%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.01%) HP ALM
7 9 (0.91%) Control-M
7 9 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (0.61%) SCOM
9 4 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.41%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.41%) Consul
9 4 (0.41%) Istio
9 4 (0.41%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.41%) Podman
10 3 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.20%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 143 (14.50%) Microsoft
2 124 (12.58%) ServiceNow
3 71 (7.20%) Salesforce
4 46 (4.67%) Oracle
5 37 (3.75%) SAP
6 33 (3.35%) Google
7 29 (2.94%) Atlassian
8 21 (2.13%) Remedy
9 19 (1.93%) Splunk
10 18 (1.83%) Adobe
10 18 (1.83%) Okta
11 17 (1.72%) Databricks
11 17 (1.72%) IBM
12 15 (1.52%) MuleSoft
13 12 (1.22%) Informatica
13 12 (1.22%) Workday
14 11 (1.12%) BMC
14 11 (1.12%) ForgeRock
14 11 (1.12%) HP
15 10 (1.01%) Planview