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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 47 51
Rank change year-on-year +7 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing JIRA 869 593 695
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.30% 4.61% 3.81%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.62% 32.49% 30.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 390 493
10th Percentile £350 £300 £350
25th Percentile £415 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -9.09% -6.38%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £711 £725 £850
England median daily rate £495 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 10
10th Percentile - - £21.85
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.50 £26.68
Median hourly rate £19.50 £30.00 £32.36
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% -7.28% -40.08%
75th Percentile £76.75 £32.50 £40.47
90th Percentile £95.00 - £57.50
England median hourly rate £62.57 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +0.11% +19.05% -19.23%

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 2,373 1,825 2,260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.48% 14.17% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,606 1,250 1,651
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £419 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £530 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% -5.78% -6.25%
75th Percentile £626 £675 £675
90th Percentile £729 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £502 £525
% change year-on-year -0.40% -4.38% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 19
10th Percentile - £22.93 £24.40
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £28.98
Median hourly rate £19.50 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% -25.00% -30.43%
75th Percentile £76.75 £71.25 £58.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £85.50 £70.75
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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -3 116 £550 +8.64% 46
South London +4 36 £519 +9.17% 3
West London -28 8 £500 +28.21% 7
East London +2 5 £450 -10.00% 21
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
1 392 (45.11%) Confluence
2 46 (5.29%) SharePoint
3 27 (3.11%) nginx
4 16 (1.84%) Apache
5 9 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.81%) CMS
6 7 (0.81%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.69%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.69%) Hyperledger
7 6 (0.69%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.58%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.46%) JBoss
9 4 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.23%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.23%) SAS
10 2 (0.23%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) CICS
11 1 (0.12%) IIS
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 82 (9.44%) Microsoft Project
2 72 (8.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 48 (5.52%) MS Visio
4 45 (5.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
6 18 (2.07%) Trello
7 5 (0.58%) Notion
8 4 (0.46%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.35%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.35%) InVision
9 3 (0.35%) Sketch
10 2 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.23%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.23%) InDesign
10 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.12%) EPLAN
11 1 (0.12%) Mingle
11 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (1.61%) NetSuite
2 13 (1.50%) Loan IQ
2 13 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (1.15%) Aladdin
3 10 (1.15%) Fidessa
4 8 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.46%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.46%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 4 (0.46%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.35%) Algo Collateral
8 3 (0.35%) Findur
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.35%) SAP Retail
8 3 (0.35%) SimCorp Dimension
8 3 (0.35%) Summit
9 2 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 203 (23.36%) Azure
2 136 (15.65%) Azure DevOps
3 134 (15.42%) AWS
4 79 (9.09%) GitHub
5 58 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 32 (3.68%) Serverless
7 29 (3.34%) GCP
8 28 (3.22%) Entra ID
9 27 (3.11%) SaaS
10 25 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
11 24 (2.76%) Amazon S3
12 22 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
13 20 (2.30%) Figma
14 18 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
14 18 (2.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 17 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
16 16 (1.84%) Slack
17 15 (1.73%) Amazon EKS
17 15 (1.73%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.88%) Firewall
2 17 (1.96%) DNS
3 13 (1.50%) TCP/IP
3 13 (1.50%) VPN
4 11 (1.27%) WAN
5 9 (1.04%) HTTP
6 7 (0.81%) Ethernet
6 7 (0.81%) FTP
6 7 (0.81%) Modbus
6 7 (0.81%) OpenVPN
6 7 (0.81%) RS-232
6 7 (0.81%) RS-485
6 7 (0.81%) SD-WAN
7 6 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.58%) LAN
8 5 (0.58%) Network Security
9 4 (0.46%) NAS
9 4 (0.46%) PSTN
9 4 (0.46%) SSL
9 4 (0.46%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (4.83%) Power BI
2 31 (3.57%) Tableau
3 30 (3.45%) SQL Server
4 25 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (2.19%) NoSQL
6 18 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
8 15 (1.73%) Relational Database
9 12 (1.38%) MongoDB
10 11 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.27%) Big Data
10 11 (1.27%) Oracle Database
11 10 (1.15%) Delta Lake
12 8 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (0.92%) Data Vault
12 8 (0.92%) Metadata
12 8 (0.92%) Tick Data
13 7 (0.81%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.81%) Hadoop
14 6 (0.69%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 108 (12.43%) Git
2 76 (8.75%) Jenkins
3 42 (4.83%) GitLab
3 42 (4.83%) Selenium
4 31 (3.57%) Bitbucket
5 30 (3.45%) JUnit
6 29 (3.34%) Cucumber
7 21 (2.42%) Zephyr
8 18 (2.07%) Sonatype Nexus
9 17 (1.96%) Postman
10 15 (1.73%) TestRail
11 14 (1.61%) SonarQube
12 12 (1.38%) JMeter
12 12 (1.38%) Maven
12 12 (1.38%) REST Assured
12 12 (1.38%) SpecFlow
13 9 (1.04%) Appium
14 8 (0.92%) Cypress.io
14 8 (0.92%) Team Foundation Server
15 6 (0.69%) TeamCity
General
1 335 (38.55%) Social Skills
2 317 (36.48%) Finance
3 163 (18.76%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (14.96%) Banking
5 86 (9.90%) Public Sector
6 40 (4.60%) Documentation Skills
7 36 (4.14%) Organisational Skills
8 34 (3.91%) Retail
9 33 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
10 30 (3.45%) Legal
11 26 (2.99%) Investment Banking
12 23 (2.65%) Front Office
12 23 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (1.73%) Financial Institution
14 14 (1.61%) Marketing
15 10 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 10 (1.15%) Publishing
16 9 (1.04%) Billing
16 9 (1.04%) Telecoms
17 8 (0.92%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 199 (22.90%) Analyst
2 145 (16.69%) Business Analyst
3 101 (11.62%) Developer
4 82 (9.44%) Senior
5 68 (7.83%) Lead
6 66 (7.59%) Project Manager
7 32 (3.68%) Delivery Manager
7 32 (3.68%) Technical Analyst
8 31 (3.57%) Tester
9 30 (3.45%) Technical Business Analyst
9 30 (3.45%) Test Engineer
10 28 (3.22%) Architect
11 27 (3.11%) Consultant
11 27 (3.11%) IT Support
12 25 (2.88%) Senior Analyst
12 25 (2.88%) Technical Manager
13 23 (2.65%) Data Engineer
14 21 (2.42%) Banking Analyst
14 21 (2.42%) Scrum Master
15 20 (2.30%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (5.52%) REST
2 31 (3.57%) .NET
3 29 (3.34%) Kafka
4 27 (3.11%) Spring
5 25 (2.88%) React
6 24 (2.76%) SOAP
7 23 (2.65%) XML
8 21 (2.42%) HTML
8 21 (2.42%) Playwright
9 19 (2.19%) CSS
9 19 (2.19%) RESTful
10 18 (2.07%) JSON
11 17 (1.96%) Oracle Fusion
12 16 (1.84%) Lightning Web Components
12 16 (1.84%) Spring Boot
13 15 (1.73%) AngularJS
14 13 (1.50%) Node.js
14 13 (1.50%) Web Services
15 12 (1.38%) ADO
16 10 (1.15%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 80 (9.21%) Product Ownership
2 40 (4.60%) Onboarding
3 29 (3.34%) Management Information System
4 24 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
5 22 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (2.07%) Public Cloud
8 16 (1.84%) Cloud Native
9 15 (1.73%) Data Structures
9 15 (1.73%) Virtual Team
10 13 (1.50%) Mobile App
11 12 (1.38%) CMDB
12 11 (1.27%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (1.15%) Equities
13 10 (1.15%) Fixed Income
13 10 (1.15%) PMI
13 10 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.04%) Derivative
14 9 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.64%) Linux
2 46 (5.29%) Windows
3 19 (2.19%) Unix
4 9 (1.04%) Android
5 7 (0.81%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.81%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (0.58%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.46%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.35%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (60.53%) Agile
2 242 (27.85%) Stakeholder Management
3 224 (25.78%) DevOps
4 214 (24.63%) Scrum
5 175 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
6 166 (19.10%) Continuous Improvement
7 146 (16.80%) CI/CD
8 138 (15.88%) Test Automation
9 123 (14.15%) Project Management
10 119 (13.69%) User Stories
11 112 (12.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 105 (12.08%) Migration
13 100 (11.51%) User Acceptance Testing
14 98 (11.28%) Project Delivery
15 91 (10.47%) Roadmaps
16 89 (10.24%) Waterfall
17 87 (10.01%) Decision-Making
17 87 (10.01%) SDLC
18 83 (9.55%) Analytics
19 79 (9.09%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 158 (18.18%) SQL
2 109 (12.54%) Python
3 91 (10.47%) Java
4 60 (6.90%) C#
5 48 (5.52%) JavaScript
6 33 (3.80%) TypeScript
7 20 (2.30%) PowerShell
8 17 (1.96%) Bash
9 12 (1.38%) C++
10 10 (1.15%) Apex Code
11 9 (1.04%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.81%) Embedded C++
13 6 (0.69%) Korn
13 6 (0.69%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.58%) Perl
14 5 (0.58%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.58%) Ruby
14 5 (0.58%) XPath
15 4 (0.46%) Delphi
16 3 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 186 (21.40%) Security Cleared
2 170 (19.56%) SC Cleared
3 79 (9.09%) Degree
4 34 (3.91%) PMI Certification
5 32 (3.68%) ISTQB
6 27 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 26 (2.99%) PMP
8 20 (2.30%) CBAP
9 13 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.50%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.50%) ISEB
10 11 (1.27%) CISSP
11 10 (1.15%) AWS Certification
12 9 (1.04%) IIBA
13 8 (0.92%) Azure Certification
13 8 (0.92%) CSPO
13 8 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 8 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.69%) CESG Certified Professional
14 6 (0.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (13.12%) QA
2 47 (5.41%) Data Quality
3 35 (4.03%) PMO
4 31 (3.57%) Accessibility
5 20 (2.30%) GDPR
6 13 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.38%) NIST
8 11 (1.27%) SLA
9 10 (1.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (1.15%) WCAG
10 8 (0.92%) GRC
11 7 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.58%) MiFID
12 5 (0.58%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.46%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.35%) Basel III
14 3 (0.35%) NCSC
15 2 (0.23%) IFRS
15 2 (0.23%) IFRS 9
15 2 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 59 (6.79%) Docker
2 25 (2.88%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.92%) Squid
4 7 (0.81%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (0.81%) Firmware
5 6 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 61 (7.02%) Kubernetes
2 54 (6.21%) Terraform
3 25 (2.88%) Ansible
4 19 (2.19%) Consul
5 16 (1.84%) Grafana
6 15 (1.73%) Prometheus
7 14 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (1.50%) Packer
9 11 (1.27%) HP ALM
10 9 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (0.81%) FortiGate
12 6 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.58%) Control-M
14 3 (0.35%) Puppet
14 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (0.35%) RSA Archer
14 3 (0.35%) SCCM
15 2 (0.23%) CASB
16 1 (0.12%) IBM Guardium
16 1 (0.12%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 101 (11.62%) Microsoft
2 94 (10.82%) ServiceNow
3 73 (8.40%) Oracle
4 64 (7.36%) Salesforce
5 42 (4.83%) Atlassian
6 38 (4.37%) SAP
7 24 (2.76%) Google
8 21 (2.42%) Databricks
9 15 (1.73%) Adobe
10 14 (1.61%) Citrix
11 13 (1.50%) IBM
11 13 (1.50%) Murex
12 12 (1.38%) Dynatrace
13 11 (1.27%) HP
13 11 (1.27%) MuleSoft
13 11 (1.27%) Remedy
13 11 (1.27%) Workday
14 10 (1.15%) Informatica
14 10 (1.15%) Planview
14 10 (1.15%) Red Hat