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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 35 56
Rank change year-on-year -10 +21 -5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 963 798 666
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.80% 5.92% 4.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.29% 37.46% 28.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 555 452
10th Percentile £358 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year - -0.47% -4.09%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £638
90th Percentile £750 £748 £743
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 4 14
10th Percentile - £34.20 £22.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £39.38 £25.99
Median hourly rate £53.00 £44.75 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.44% +36.64% -39.35%
75th Percentile £73.75 £57.81 £69.69
90th Percentile £87.83 £76.38 £71.25
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year - -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 2,515 2,130 2,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.54% 15.80% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,618 1,460 1,586
10th Percentile £375 £350 £363
25th Percentile £447 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £748 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 13 19
10th Percentile £18.75 £26.98 £24.60
25th Percentile £26.25 £36.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £53.00 £45.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% +20.00% -46.43%
75th Percentile £73.75 £63.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.38 £84.50 £71.38
England median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -15 116 £550 +10.00% 49
West London -4 27 £400 -1.23% 12
South London 0 20 £531 -8.56% 6
East London 0 2 £425 +4.29% 4
North London -1 2 - - 2
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
1 395 (41.02%) Confluence
2 55 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (1.35%) CMS
5 7 (0.73%) SAS
6 5 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.52%) Apache
7 4 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.42%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.31%) JBoss
8 3 (0.31%) MTS
8 3 (0.31%) WordPress
9 2 (0.21%) Camunda
9 2 (0.21%) Kentico
10 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.10%) Appian
10 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.10%) nginx
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 69 (7.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (5.71%) Microsoft Project
3 40 (4.15%) MS Visio
4 36 (3.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
6 14 (1.45%) Trello
7 10 (1.04%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.83%) Revit
9 6 (0.62%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.52%) Notion
11 4 (0.42%) 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
12 1 (0.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 18 (1.87%) Remedy ITSM
2 12 (1.25%) Aladdin
3 11 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.52%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.52%) Findur
5 5 (0.52%) Loan IQ
6 4 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.42%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.31%) SAP FI-AR
8 2 (0.21%) Actimize
8 2 (0.21%) CA PPM
8 2 (0.21%) Eloqua
8 2 (0.21%) IntelliMatch
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.21%) Shopify
8 2 (0.21%) Summit
8 2 (0.21%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 273 (28.35%) Azure
2 155 (16.10%) Azure DevOps
3 150 (15.58%) AWS
4 89 (9.24%) Power Platform
5 70 (7.27%) GitHub
6 54 (5.61%) Entra ID
7 50 (5.19%) SaaS
8 44 (4.57%) Serverless
9 42 (4.36%) GCP
10 41 (4.26%) Amazon S3
10 41 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
11 35 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
12 33 (3.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 28 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
14 25 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
15 23 (2.39%) Microsoft Copilot
16 21 (2.18%) Figma
17 20 (2.08%) Snowflake
18 19 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
19 18 (1.87%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.49%) Firewall
2 22 (2.28%) DNS
3 17 (1.77%) VPN
4 16 (1.66%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.83%) DHCP
6 7 (0.73%) Network Security
7 6 (0.62%) SSL
7 6 (0.62%) WAN
8 5 (0.52%) DKIM
8 5 (0.52%) DMARC
9 4 (0.42%) HTTP
9 4 (0.42%) Internet
9 4 (0.42%) IPv4
9 4 (0.42%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.31%) IPv6
10 3 (0.31%) NGFW
11 2 (0.21%) 5G
11 2 (0.21%) Broadband
11 2 (0.21%) FTP
11 2 (0.21%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (8.31%) Power BI
2 35 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (2.91%) SQL Server
4 26 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
6 17 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.66%) Metadata
7 16 (1.66%) Relational Database
8 15 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (1.56%) Tableau
9 14 (1.45%) DynamoDB
10 12 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 11 (1.14%) Data Lake
12 10 (1.04%) MongoDB
12 10 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 10 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (0.93%) Redis
14 8 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
15 7 (0.73%) NoSQL
15 7 (0.73%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 124 (12.88%) Git
2 77 (8.00%) Jenkins
3 39 (4.05%) GitLab
4 36 (3.74%) Selenium
5 28 (2.91%) Zephyr
6 21 (2.18%) Bitbucket
7 17 (1.77%) Cypress.io
8 15 (1.56%) Postman
8 15 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
9 11 (1.14%) JUnit
9 11 (1.14%) REST Assured
10 10 (1.04%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.83%) TestRail
12 7 (0.73%) JMeter
12 7 (0.73%) Maven
12 7 (0.73%) Mockito
13 6 (0.62%) Appium
13 6 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 6 (0.62%) ScriptRunner
14 5 (0.52%) Artifactory
General
1 395 (41.02%) Finance
2 389 (40.39%) Social Skills
3 200 (20.77%) Banking
4 188 (19.52%) Analytical Skills
5 105 (10.90%) Public Sector
6 43 (4.47%) Investment Banking
6 43 (4.47%) Retail
7 37 (3.84%) Organisational Skills
8 36 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
9 34 (3.53%) Front Office
10 22 (2.28%) Legal
11 20 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (1.97%) Marketing
13 18 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (1.66%) Retail Banking
15 15 (1.56%) Financial Institution
16 14 (1.45%) Back Office
16 14 (1.45%) Corporate Banking
17 13 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
18 12 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 190 (19.73%) Analyst
2 121 (12.56%) Business Analyst
3 106 (11.01%) Developer
3 106 (11.01%) Lead
4 90 (9.35%) Senior
5 56 (5.82%) Project Manager
6 36 (3.74%) Delivery Manager
7 35 (3.63%) Architect
7 35 (3.63%) Consultant
8 32 (3.32%) Product Owner
9 29 (3.01%) Support Engineer
10 28 (2.91%) IT Support
10 28 (2.91%) Scrum Master
11 27 (2.80%) Test Manager
12 25 (2.60%) Applications Support
12 25 (2.60%) Test Leader
12 25 (2.60%) Tester
13 23 (2.39%) Banking Analyst
14 22 (2.28%) Data Engineer
14 22 (2.28%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (7.48%) Terraform
2 60 (6.23%) REST
3 42 (4.36%) .NET
4 27 (2.80%) React
5 26 (2.70%) AngularJS
6 23 (2.39%) JSON
7 20 (2.08%) HTML
8 19 (1.97%) Kafka
8 19 (1.97%) SOAP
9 18 (1.87%) Playwright
10 16 (1.66%) Middleware
11 15 (1.56%) CSS
11 15 (1.56%) PySpark
11 15 (1.56%) RESTful
12 14 (1.45%) Lightning Web Components
12 14 (1.45%) XML
13 13 (1.35%) Node.js
13 13 (1.35%) Spring
14 12 (1.25%) OAuth
15 10 (1.04%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 114 (11.84%) Product Ownership
2 69 (7.17%) Onboarding
3 25 (2.60%) Cloud Native
4 23 (2.39%) Data Centre
5 21 (2.18%) Data Structures
5 21 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
5 21 (2.18%) Management Information System
6 20 (2.08%) Virtual Team
7 18 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
7 18 (1.87%) Derivative
7 18 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (1.77%) Credit Risk
8 17 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (1.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 14 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 14 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.35%) Replication
12 12 (1.25%) Fixed Income
12 12 (1.25%) Mobile App
13 10 (1.04%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 56 (5.82%) Windows
2 43 (4.47%) Linux
3 12 (1.25%) Apple iOS
3 12 (1.25%) Unix
4 10 (1.04%) Android
5 9 (0.93%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.73%) Amazon Linux
7 6 (0.62%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.42%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.10%) SUSE
11 1 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.10%) VMS
11 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 576 (59.81%) Agile
2 334 (34.68%) Stakeholder Management
3 276 (28.66%) DevOps
4 226 (23.47%) Problem-Solving
5 189 (19.63%) CI/CD
6 175 (18.17%) Scrum
7 160 (16.61%) Continuous Improvement
8 153 (15.89%) Migration
9 144 (14.95%) User Acceptance Testing
10 130 (13.50%) AI
11 129 (13.40%) Test Automation
12 128 (13.29%) User Stories
13 110 (11.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 105 (10.90%) Acceptance Criteria
14 105 (10.90%) Validation
15 103 (10.70%) SDLC
16 102 (10.59%) Project Management
17 101 (10.49%) Sprint Planning
18 95 (9.87%) Analytics
19 94 (9.76%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 184 (19.11%) SQL
2 109 (11.32%) Python
3 65 (6.75%) Java
4 47 (4.88%) C#
5 44 (4.57%) JavaScript
6 40 (4.15%) PowerShell
7 28 (2.91%) TypeScript
8 20 (2.08%) Bash
9 16 (1.66%) Apex Code
10 13 (1.35%) Groovy
11 12 (1.25%) Perl
12 10 (1.04%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.52%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.52%) VBA
14 4 (0.42%) Korn
14 4 (0.42%) Swift
14 4 (0.42%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.31%) Bicep
15 3 (0.31%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.31%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 218 (22.64%) Security Cleared
2 192 (19.94%) SC Cleared
3 74 (7.68%) Degree
4 31 (3.22%) PMI Certification
5 25 (2.60%) PMP
6 24 (2.49%) DV Cleared
7 20 (2.08%) ISTQB
8 16 (1.66%) AWS Certification
9 15 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (1.25%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.04%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.04%) IIBA
12 9 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
13 8 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 7 (0.73%) CBAP
14 7 (0.73%) CISSP
15 6 (0.62%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.52%) CISM
16 5 (0.52%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (13.40%) QA
2 68 (7.06%) Data Quality
3 48 (4.98%) PMO
4 29 (3.01%) SLA
5 25 (2.60%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.87%) GDPR
7 17 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.14%) ISO 20022
9 9 (0.93%) NIST
9 9 (0.93%) WCAG
10 8 (0.83%) GRC
11 7 (0.73%) SEPA
12 6 (0.62%) MiFID
12 6 (0.62%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.52%) COBIT
14 4 (0.42%) EMIR
14 4 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 4 (0.42%) NCSC
14 4 (0.42%) P3O
14 4 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 56 (5.82%) Active Directory
2 38 (3.95%) Docker
3 7 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.21%) Firmware
7 1 (0.10%) Squid
7 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 51 (5.30%) Kubernetes
2 28 (2.91%) Ansible
3 24 (2.49%) Grafana
4 22 (2.28%) Single Sign-On
5 21 (2.18%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.14%) HP ALM
7 9 (0.93%) Control-M
8 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.62%) Microsoft Clustering
9 6 (0.62%) SCOM
10 4 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.42%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.42%) Consul
10 4 (0.42%) Istio
10 4 (0.42%) PingFederate
10 4 (0.42%) Podman
11 3 (0.31%) Argo
11 3 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.21%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 144 (14.95%) Microsoft
2 118 (12.25%) ServiceNow
3 65 (6.75%) Salesforce
4 42 (4.36%) Oracle
5 36 (3.74%) SAP
6 34 (3.53%) Google
7 28 (2.91%) Atlassian
8 22 (2.28%) Splunk
9 18 (1.87%) Adobe
9 18 (1.87%) Okta
9 18 (1.87%) Remedy
10 15 (1.56%) IBM
10 15 (1.56%) MuleSoft
11 13 (1.35%) Databricks
12 12 (1.25%) HP
12 12 (1.25%) Informatica
12 12 (1.25%) Workday
13 11 (1.14%) BMC
13 11 (1.14%) ForgeRock
14 10 (1.04%) ION Trading