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 19 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 39 59
Rank change year-on-year -3 +20 -7
Contract jobs citing JIRA 940 675 688
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.95% 5.41% 3.87%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.13% 35.27% 28.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 630 453 481
10th Percentile £350 £333 £321
25th Percentile £416 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £520 £530
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% -1.89% -7.63%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £638
90th Percentile £737 £750 £775
England median daily rate £480 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 20
10th Percentile - £30.50 £22.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £35.00 £25.80
Median hourly rate £27.50 £45.00 £32.11
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% +40.17% -40.55%
75th Percentile £68.13 £68.13 £59.38
90th Percentile £90.00 £80.50 £71.25
England median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +2.04%

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 2,402 1,914 2,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.66% 15.34% 13.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,574 1,290 1,720
10th Percentile £360 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £671
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 28
10th Percentile - £24.49 £24.10
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.14 £25.99
Median hourly rate £37.50 £38.75 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% - -48.33%
75th Percentile £73.00 £52.50 £68.06
90th Percentile £95.00 £73.88 £71.44
England median hourly rate £67.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +5.69%

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 19 June 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 19 June 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 19 June 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 -11 116 £550 +4.76% 21
South London +12 32 £513 +7.89% 6
West London -15 25 £400 +9.22% 5
East London -2 5 £450 +12.50% 5
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
1 388 (41.28%) Confluence
2 49 (5.21%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (1.17%) Apache
5 10 (1.06%) nginx
6 7 (0.74%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.64%) CMS
7 6 (0.64%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.64%) Hyperledger
7 6 (0.64%) SAS
8 4 (0.43%) JBoss
8 4 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.21%) Kentico
10 2 (0.21%) WordPress
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.11%) CICS
11 1 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 65 (6.91%) Microsoft Project
2 61 (6.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (4.15%) MS Visio
4 32 (3.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
6 9 (0.96%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.85%) Revit
8 6 (0.64%) Trello
9 5 (0.53%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.43%) Notion
11 3 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.11%) Mingle
12 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 14 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.17%) Loan IQ
3 9 (0.96%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.96%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.85%) Findur
5 7 (0.74%) Fidessa
6 6 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
7 5 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.43%) Actimize
8 4 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.43%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.43%) SAP Retail
8 4 (0.43%) Summit
9 3 (0.32%) IntelliMatch
9 3 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 3 (0.32%) SAP FI-AR
9 3 (0.32%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 243 (25.85%) Azure
2 147 (15.64%) AWS
2 147 (15.64%) Azure DevOps
3 66 (7.02%) Power Platform
4 59 (6.28%) GitHub
5 51 (5.43%) Entra ID
6 50 (5.32%) SaaS
7 49 (5.21%) Amazon S3
8 44 (4.68%) Serverless
9 43 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
10 36 (3.83%) AWS Lambda
11 32 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
12 31 (3.30%) GCP
13 29 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 22 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (2.34%) Slack
15 21 (2.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 19 (2.02%) Google Workspace
17 17 (1.81%) Figma
18 16 (1.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.87%) Firewall
2 19 (2.02%) DNS
3 16 (1.70%) TCP/IP
4 15 (1.60%) VPN
5 10 (1.06%) HTTP
6 8 (0.85%) WAN
7 7 (0.74%) Network Security
7 7 (0.74%) OpenVPN
8 6 (0.64%) Ethernet
9 5 (0.53%) DKIM
9 5 (0.53%) DMARC
9 5 (0.53%) FTP
9 5 (0.53%) LAN
9 5 (0.53%) Modbus
9 5 (0.53%) RS-232
9 5 (0.53%) RS-485
9 5 (0.53%) SSL
9 5 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.43%) PSTN
10 4 (0.43%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (5.64%) Power BI
2 33 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (3.09%) SQL Server
4 23 (2.45%) Tableau
5 21 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (1.91%) Amazon Athena
7 17 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (1.70%) Relational Database
9 14 (1.49%) DynamoDB
9 14 (1.49%) NoSQL
10 13 (1.38%) MongoDB
11 10 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (1.06%) Delta Lake
11 10 (1.06%) Metadata
11 10 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
12 9 (0.96%) Crystal Reports
12 9 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (0.96%) Oracle Database
13 8 (0.85%) Data Lake
14 7 (0.74%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 110 (11.70%) Git
2 64 (6.81%) Jenkins
3 38 (4.04%) GitLab
4 31 (3.30%) Selenium
5 27 (2.87%) Zephyr
6 23 (2.45%) JUnit
7 18 (1.91%) Bitbucket
8 15 (1.60%) Cucumber
8 15 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (1.38%) Cypress.io
10 10 (1.06%) REST Assured
10 10 (1.06%) SonarQube
11 9 (0.96%) Appium
11 9 (0.96%) JMeter
11 9 (0.96%) TestRail
12 7 (0.74%) Maven
12 7 (0.74%) Postman
13 6 (0.64%) Mockito
13 6 (0.64%) ScriptRunner
14 4 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 356 (37.87%) Finance
2 355 (37.77%) Social Skills
3 159 (16.91%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (16.49%) Banking
5 103 (10.96%) Public Sector
6 42 (4.47%) Documentation Skills
7 40 (4.26%) Retail
8 39 (4.15%) Organisational Skills
9 31 (3.30%) Legal
10 30 (3.19%) Investment Banking
11 29 (3.09%) Front Office
12 27 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (1.60%) Financial Institution
15 15 (1.60%) Marketing
16 13 (1.38%) Back Office
17 12 (1.28%) Corporate Banking
18 10 (1.06%) Retail Banking
19 9 (0.96%) Billing
Job Titles
1 199 (21.17%) Analyst
2 123 (13.09%) Business Analyst
3 104 (11.06%) Developer
4 97 (10.32%) Lead
5 88 (9.36%) Senior
6 50 (5.32%) Project Manager
7 49 (5.21%) Delivery Manager
8 42 (4.47%) IT Support
9 36 (3.83%) Architect
10 33 (3.51%) Data Engineer
11 31 (3.30%) Scrum Master
12 30 (3.19%) Consultant
13 27 (2.87%) Tester
14 26 (2.77%) Support Engineer
14 26 (2.77%) Technical Manager
15 25 (2.66%) Banking Analyst
15 25 (2.66%) Salesforce Analyst
16 24 (2.55%) IT Engineer
16 24 (2.55%) Test Leader
16 24 (2.55%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (4.47%) REST
2 28 (2.98%) React
3 27 (2.87%) .NET
4 24 (2.55%) Kafka
5 21 (2.23%) AngularJS
5 21 (2.23%) SOAP
6 20 (2.13%) Spring
7 19 (2.02%) HTML
8 18 (1.91%) PySpark
8 18 (1.91%) RESTful
9 17 (1.81%) CSS
9 17 (1.81%) Lightning Web Components
10 16 (1.70%) JSON
11 15 (1.60%) Spring Boot
12 13 (1.38%) OpenID
13 12 (1.28%) Node.js
13 12 (1.28%) Playwright
14 11 (1.17%) LDAP
14 11 (1.17%) OAuth
15 10 (1.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 91 (9.68%) Product Ownership
2 58 (6.17%) Onboarding
3 24 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
4 23 (2.45%) Management Information System
5 22 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
6 21 (2.23%) Cloud Native
7 19 (2.02%) Data Centre
8 18 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (1.91%) Virtual Team
9 17 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 15 (1.60%) Data Structures
10 15 (1.60%) Derivative
11 13 (1.38%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.28%) Credit Risk
13 11 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.17%) Reinsurance
14 10 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (1.06%) Mobile App
15 9 (0.96%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 52 (5.53%) Windows
2 38 (4.04%) Linux
3 9 (0.96%) Apple iOS
3 9 (0.96%) Mac OS
3 9 (0.96%) Unix
4 6 (0.64%) Android
5 5 (0.53%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (0.43%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.43%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.32%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.11%) SUSE
9 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 526 (55.96%) Agile
2 270 (28.72%) Stakeholder Management
3 241 (25.64%) DevOps
4 193 (20.53%) Problem-Solving
5 175 (18.62%) Scrum
6 172 (18.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 154 (16.38%) CI/CD
8 133 (14.15%) Test Automation
9 131 (13.94%) Migration
10 125 (13.30%) User Acceptance Testing
11 113 (12.02%) User Stories
12 104 (11.06%) SDLC
13 101 (10.74%) AI
13 101 (10.74%) Change Management
14 99 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 97 (10.32%) Project Management
16 96 (10.21%) Roadmaps
17 92 (9.79%) Acceptance Criteria
17 92 (9.79%) Data Modelling
17 92 (9.79%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 168 (17.87%) SQL
2 109 (11.60%) Python
3 81 (8.62%) Java
4 58 (6.17%) C#
5 36 (3.83%) JavaScript
5 36 (3.83%) TypeScript
6 21 (2.23%) PowerShell
7 15 (1.60%) Apex Code
8 14 (1.49%) Bash
9 9 (0.96%) C++
10 8 (0.85%) Groovy
10 8 (0.85%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.74%) Perl
12 5 (0.53%) Embedded C++
12 5 (0.53%) VBA
13 4 (0.43%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.32%) Bicep
14 3 (0.32%) C
15 2 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 204 (21.70%) Security Cleared
2 180 (19.15%) SC Cleared
3 67 (7.13%) Degree
4 28 (2.98%) PMI Certification
5 24 (2.55%) ISTQB
6 23 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 23 (2.45%) PMP
7 17 (1.81%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (1.17%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.06%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.06%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.96%) CISSP
11 9 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (0.85%) CBAP
13 7 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (0.74%) CISM
13 7 (0.74%) ISEB
14 6 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (12.34%) QA
2 72 (7.66%) Data Quality
3 37 (3.94%) PMO
4 27 (2.87%) Accessibility
5 25 (2.66%) GDPR
6 24 (2.55%) SLA
7 19 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.17%) NIST
8 11 (1.17%) WCAG
9 8 (0.85%) GRC
10 7 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.74%) MiFID
11 6 (0.64%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.53%) COBIT
13 4 (0.43%) EMIR
13 4 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.43%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.43%) NCSC
14 3 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 42 (4.47%) Active Directory
2 39 (4.15%) Docker
3 7 (0.74%) Firmware
3 7 (0.74%) Squid
3 7 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 66 (7.02%) Terraform
2 58 (6.17%) Kubernetes
3 24 (2.55%) Ansible
4 22 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (2.13%) Prometheus
6 19 (2.02%) Grafana
7 12 (1.28%) Consul
8 9 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.74%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.74%) HP ALM
9 7 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (0.53%) Control-M
11 4 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.43%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.43%) Packer
11 4 (0.43%) PingFederate
12 3 (0.32%) Puppet
13 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.21%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.21%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 125 (13.30%) ServiceNow
2 117 (12.45%) Microsoft
3 81 (8.62%) Salesforce
4 62 (6.60%) Oracle
5 37 (3.94%) SAP
6 35 (3.72%) Atlassian
7 32 (3.40%) Google
8 19 (2.02%) Informatica
9 17 (1.81%) Databricks
10 16 (1.70%) MuleSoft
11 15 (1.60%) Adobe
12 14 (1.49%) Workday
13 12 (1.28%) Murex
13 12 (1.28%) Okta
13 12 (1.28%) Red Hat
14 11 (1.17%) Bloomberg
14 11 (1.17%) CA Agile Central
14 11 (1.17%) IBM
14 11 (1.17%) Remedy
15 10 (1.06%) ForgeRock