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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 36 50
Rank change year-on-year -14 +14 0
Contract jobs citing JIRA 946 800 689
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.61% 5.98% 4.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 35.60% 37.63% 29.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 591 476
10th Percentile £358 £350 £301
25th Percentile £430 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £619
90th Percentile £750 £738 £725
England median daily rate £500 £500 £505
% change year-on-year - -0.99% -5.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 5
10th Percentile £18.75 £35.35 £22.39
25th Percentile £19.25 £42.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £62.50 £44.50 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +40.45% +65.00% -50.06%
75th Percentile £87.83 £47.50 £33.07
90th Percentile £88.01 £72.25 £33.48
England median hourly rate £58.74 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +6.79% -21.43% +12.00%

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 2,657 2,126 2,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.96% 15.88% 14.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,744 1,457 1,563
10th Percentile £363 £356 £363
25th Percentile £432 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 11
10th Percentile £19.20 £36.63 £25.99
25th Percentile £40.00 £41.69 £28.62
Median hourly rate £57.00 £45.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% +20.00% -34.78%
75th Percentile £77.27 £70.00 £66.34
90th Percentile £89.63 £107.88 £71.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -14 127 £550 +10.00% 16
West London -15 23 £400 +1.27% 2
South London -14 15 £501 -13.28% 3
East London +3 5 £506 +24.23% 3
North London - 4 £525 -
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
1 408 (43.13%) Confluence
2 49 (5.18%) SharePoint
3 19 (2.01%) CMS
4 14 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.74%) SAS
6 5 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.53%) Camunda
6 5 (0.53%) Headless CMS
6 5 (0.53%) MTS
6 5 (0.53%) Traefik
7 4 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.42%) Kentico
8 3 (0.32%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.32%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.32%) WordPress
9 2 (0.21%) IIS
9 2 (0.21%) nginx
9 2 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.11%) Apache
10 1 (0.11%) EPiServer
Applications
1 64 (6.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
3 40 (4.23%) MS Visio
4 33 (3.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 32 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
6 13 (1.37%) Trello
7 8 (0.85%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.63%) Revit
9 5 (0.53%) Notion
9 5 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.42%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.32%) Mingle
12 2 (0.21%) Gliffy
12 2 (0.21%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
13 1 (0.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
13 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 18 (1.90%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (0.95%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.53%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (0.53%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.42%) Findur
5 4 (0.42%) Oracle Assets
5 4 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
5 4 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.32%) Maximo
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.32%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.21%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.21%) Summit
7 2 (0.21%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 268 (28.33%) Azure
2 154 (16.28%) AWS
3 147 (15.54%) Azure DevOps
4 94 (9.94%) Power Platform
5 75 (7.93%) GitHub
6 50 (5.29%) Microsoft 365
7 45 (4.76%) GCP
8 44 (4.65%) SaaS
9 43 (4.55%) Amazon S3
9 43 (4.55%) Serverless
10 36 (3.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 29 (3.07%) Entra ID
12 28 (2.96%) Amazon EC2
12 28 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
13 26 (2.75%) Snowflake
14 25 (2.64%) Microsoft Copilot
14 25 (2.64%) Miro
15 24 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
16 18 (1.90%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.64%) DNS
2 20 (2.11%) VPN
3 19 (2.01%) Firewall
4 17 (1.80%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.27%) DHCP
6 7 (0.74%) Network Security
6 7 (0.74%) WAN
7 6 (0.63%) HTTP
8 5 (0.53%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.42%) IPv4
9 4 (0.42%) SSH
10 3 (0.32%) Internet
10 3 (0.32%) IPv6
10 3 (0.32%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (0.32%) SSL
10 3 (0.32%) VLAN
11 2 (0.21%) DSL
11 2 (0.21%) IMAP
11 2 (0.21%) MPLS
11 2 (0.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (8.99%) Power BI
2 52 (5.50%) SQL Server
3 48 (5.07%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (2.11%) Relational Database
6 19 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
7 18 (1.90%) MongoDB
8 16 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
9 14 (1.48%) Metadata
10 13 (1.37%) Tableau
11 12 (1.27%) Data Lake
11 12 (1.27%) Oracle Database
11 12 (1.27%) Redis
11 12 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 11 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
12 11 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
12 11 (1.16%) MySQL
13 10 (1.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 8 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 115 (12.16%) Git
2 83 (8.77%) Jenkins
3 53 (5.60%) GitLab
4 36 (3.81%) Selenium
5 26 (2.75%) Bitbucket
6 25 (2.64%) Zephyr
7 19 (2.01%) Postman
8 17 (1.80%) Cypress.io
8 17 (1.80%) REST Assured
9 15 (1.59%) Cucumber
10 14 (1.48%) JUnit
10 14 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
10 14 (1.48%) TestRail
11 12 (1.27%) JMeter
11 12 (1.27%) Maven
12 10 (1.06%) Mockito
13 9 (0.95%) Gradle
14 8 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 7 (0.74%) SonarQube
16 6 (0.63%) Appium
General
1 406 (42.92%) Finance
2 392 (41.44%) Social Skills
3 212 (22.41%) Banking
4 200 (21.14%) Analytical Skills
5 101 (10.68%) Public Sector
6 49 (5.18%) Investment Banking
6 49 (5.18%) Organisational Skills
7 40 (4.23%) Retail
8 38 (4.02%) Front Office
9 33 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
10 32 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (2.43%) Marketing
12 21 (2.22%) Legal
13 20 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (2.11%) Telecoms
14 15 (1.59%) Financial Institution
14 15 (1.59%) Retail Banking
15 12 (1.27%) Back Office
15 12 (1.27%) Law
16 11 (1.16%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 195 (20.61%) Analyst
2 123 (13.00%) Business Analyst
3 111 (11.73%) Lead
4 96 (10.15%) Senior
5 95 (10.04%) Developer
6 60 (6.34%) Project Manager
7 41 (4.33%) Architect
8 33 (3.49%) Consultant
8 33 (3.49%) Delivery Manager
9 31 (3.28%) Product Owner
10 27 (2.85%) Scrum Master
10 27 (2.85%) Test Leader
11 24 (2.54%) Senior Manager
11 24 (2.54%) Tester
12 23 (2.43%) Technical Analyst
13 22 (2.33%) Applications Support
13 22 (2.33%) Senior Analyst
14 21 (2.22%) Support Engineer
15 20 (2.11%) Technical Manager
16 19 (2.01%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (7.72%) REST
2 65 (6.87%) Terraform
3 45 (4.76%) .NET
4 25 (2.64%) Kafka
4 25 (2.64%) SOAP
5 24 (2.54%) JSON
5 24 (2.54%) Playwright
6 23 (2.43%) AngularJS
6 23 (2.43%) React
7 21 (2.22%) RESTful
8 20 (2.11%) HTML
9 19 (2.01%) pytest
10 18 (1.90%) Web Services
11 16 (1.69%) Middleware
12 15 (1.59%) CSS
12 15 (1.59%) Lightning Web Components
12 15 (1.59%) Spring
13 14 (1.48%) XML
14 13 (1.37%) Spring Boot
15 12 (1.27%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 142 (15.01%) Product Ownership
2 68 (7.19%) Onboarding
3 31 (3.28%) Cloud Native
4 26 (2.75%) Data Structures
5 24 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (2.54%) Virtual Team
6 22 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 22 (2.33%) Data Centre
7 21 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
8 20 (2.11%) Management Information System
9 19 (2.01%) Derivative
9 19 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
10 18 (1.90%) Credit Risk
11 15 (1.59%) Replication
12 14 (1.48%) Fixed Income
12 14 (1.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 13 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (1.27%) Mobile App
15 11 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 10 (1.06%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 52 (5.50%) Windows
2 49 (5.18%) Linux
3 13 (1.37%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.16%) macOS
5 10 (1.06%) Android
5 10 (1.06%) Unix
6 9 (0.95%) Amazon Linux
6 9 (0.95%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.85%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.42%) VMS
9 2 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.11%) CentOS
10 1 (0.11%) SUSE
10 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.11%) VxWorks
10 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 582 (61.52%) Agile
2 384 (40.59%) Stakeholder Management
3 275 (29.07%) DevOps
4 231 (24.42%) Problem-Solving
5 210 (22.20%) Scrum
6 195 (20.61%) CI/CD
7 162 (17.12%) Continuous Improvement
8 156 (16.49%) AI
9 153 (16.17%) Migration
9 153 (16.17%) User Stories
10 152 (16.07%) User Acceptance Testing
11 131 (13.85%) Test Automation
12 129 (13.64%) Validation
13 122 (12.90%) Acceptance Criteria
14 111 (11.73%) Project Management
15 105 (11.10%) SDLC
16 104 (10.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 103 (10.89%) Sprint Planning
18 97 (10.25%) Analytics
19 96 (10.15%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 203 (21.46%) SQL
2 119 (12.58%) Python
3 63 (6.66%) Java
4 41 (4.33%) C#
4 41 (4.33%) PowerShell
5 35 (3.70%) JavaScript
6 26 (2.75%) Bash
7 23 (2.43%) TypeScript
8 14 (1.48%) Groovy
9 12 (1.27%) Apex Code
10 11 (1.16%) Perl
11 9 (0.95%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.63%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.53%) Go
13 5 (0.53%) Tcl
13 5 (0.53%) VBA
14 4 (0.42%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.32%) Swift
15 3 (0.32%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.21%) C
Qualifications
1 201 (21.25%) Security Cleared
2 178 (18.82%) SC Cleared
3 83 (8.77%) Degree
4 45 (4.76%) PMI Certification
5 37 (3.91%) PMP
6 25 (2.64%) AWS Certification
7 22 (2.33%) DV Cleared
8 20 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (1.80%) ISTQB
10 14 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
11 13 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (1.37%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.16%) IIBA
13 10 (1.06%) Azure Certification
13 10 (1.06%) CBAP
14 8 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 5 (0.53%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 5 (0.53%) PgMP
15 5 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (15.33%) QA
2 76 (8.03%) Data Quality
3 44 (4.65%) PMO
4 28 (2.96%) Accessibility
4 28 (2.96%) SLA
5 14 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.27%) WCAG
7 11 (1.16%) ISO 20022
8 8 (0.85%) SEPA
9 7 (0.74%) GDPR
10 6 (0.63%) COBIT
10 6 (0.63%) GRC
10 6 (0.63%) NIST
11 5 (0.53%) P3O
12 4 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.42%) MiFID
12 4 (0.42%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.32%) IFRS
13 3 (0.32%) IFRS 9
13 3 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 55 (5.81%) Docker
2 38 (4.02%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.21%) DFS Replication
5 2 (0.21%) Dovecot
5 2 (0.21%) Firmware
5 2 (0.21%) Postfix
5 2 (0.21%) Squid
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 59 (6.24%) Kubernetes
2 36 (3.81%) Grafana
3 27 (2.85%) Prometheus
4 25 (2.64%) Ansible
5 15 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.95%) Istio
7 8 (0.85%) Control-M
7 8 (0.85%) HP ALM
8 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.63%) SCOM
9 5 (0.53%) Argo
9 5 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (0.53%) SCCM
10 4 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (0.42%) Podman
11 3 (0.32%) Kibana
12 2 (0.21%) HP Quality Center
12 2 (0.21%) Nessus
12 2 (0.21%) Puppet
Vendors
1 164 (17.34%) Microsoft
2 100 (10.57%) ServiceNow
3 56 (5.92%) Salesforce
4 52 (5.50%) Oracle
5 26 (2.75%) Atlassian
5 26 (2.75%) Google
6 25 (2.64%) Splunk
7 23 (2.43%) IBM
7 23 (2.43%) SAP
8 21 (2.22%) Remedy
9 18 (1.90%) Databricks
10 16 (1.69%) Adobe
11 14 (1.48%) Bloomberg
11 14 (1.48%) MuleSoft
12 13 (1.37%) Dynatrace
12 13 (1.37%) ION Trading
12 13 (1.37%) UiPath
13 12 (1.27%) BMC
13 12 (1.27%) Informatica
13 12 (1.27%) Planview