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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 40 57
Rank change year-on-year -1 +17 -5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 937 671 690
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.95% 5.40% 3.89%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.21% 35.33% 28.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 449 483
10th Percentile £350 £343 £322
25th Percentile £422 £415 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £533
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -2.44% -7.10%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £751 £788
England median daily rate £481 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -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 2,390 1,899 2,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.62% 15.29% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,567 1,277 1,708
10th Percentile £360 £352 £363
25th Percentile £425 £424 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £672
90th Percentile £740 £775 £779
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 18 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 18 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 18 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% 18
South London +13 33 £513 +7.89% 6
West London -15 24 £400 +1.27% 6
East London -2 5 £450 +12.50% 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
1 390 (41.62%) Confluence
2 48 (5.12%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (1.17%) Apache
5 10 (1.07%) nginx
6 7 (0.75%) 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%) Drupal
11 1 (0.11%) IIS
11 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 64 (6.83%) Microsoft Project
2 61 (6.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 40 (4.27%) MS Visio
4 32 (3.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
6 8 (0.85%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.85%) Revit
7 6 (0.64%) Trello
8 5 (0.53%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.43%) Notion
10 3 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.11%) Mingle
11 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 13 (1.39%) 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 (0.75%) 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
1 241 (25.72%) Azure
2 147 (15.69%) Azure DevOps
3 144 (15.37%) AWS
4 66 (7.04%) Power Platform
5 59 (6.30%) GitHub
6 50 (5.34%) Entra ID
6 50 (5.34%) SaaS
7 47 (5.02%) Amazon S3
8 42 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
8 42 (4.48%) Serverless
9 34 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
10 31 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
10 31 (3.31%) GCP
11 28 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 22 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (2.35%) Slack
13 21 (2.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 19 (2.03%) Google Workspace
15 17 (1.81%) Figma
16 16 (1.71%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.67%) Firewall
2 18 (1.92%) DNS
3 15 (1.60%) TCP/IP
4 14 (1.49%) VPN
5 10 (1.07%) HTTP
6 7 (0.75%) Network Security
6 7 (0.75%) OpenVPN
6 7 (0.75%) WAN
7 6 (0.64%) Ethernet
7 6 (0.64%) SSL
8 5 (0.53%) FTP
8 5 (0.53%) LAN
8 5 (0.53%) Modbus
8 5 (0.53%) RS-232
8 5 (0.53%) RS-485
8 5 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.43%) DKIM
9 4 (0.43%) DMARC
9 4 (0.43%) PSTN
9 4 (0.43%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (5.55%) Power BI
2 33 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (3.09%) SQL Server
4 23 (2.45%) Tableau
5 21 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
7 17 (1.81%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (1.71%) Relational Database
9 14 (1.49%) DynamoDB
9 14 (1.49%) NoSQL
10 13 (1.39%) MongoDB
11 10 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (1.07%) Delta Lake
11 10 (1.07%) Metadata
11 10 (1.07%) 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 (0.75%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 111 (11.85%) Git
2 63 (6.72%) Jenkins
3 39 (4.16%) GitLab
4 32 (3.42%) Selenium
5 27 (2.88%) Zephyr
6 24 (2.56%) JUnit
7 18 (1.92%) Bitbucket
8 15 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
9 14 (1.49%) Cucumber
10 13 (1.39%) Cypress.io
11 10 (1.07%) REST Assured
11 10 (1.07%) SonarQube
12 9 (0.96%) Appium
12 9 (0.96%) TestRail
13 8 (0.85%) JMeter
14 7 (0.75%) Maven
14 7 (0.75%) Postman
15 6 (0.64%) Mockito
15 6 (0.64%) ScriptRunner
16 4 (0.43%) Liquibase
General
1 357 (38.10%) Finance
2 353 (37.67%) Social Skills
3 159 (16.97%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (16.65%) Banking
5 103 (10.99%) Public Sector
6 42 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
7 39 (4.16%) Organisational Skills
7 39 (4.16%) Retail
8 31 (3.31%) Legal
9 30 (3.20%) Investment Banking
10 29 (3.09%) Front Office
11 27 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
12 18 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (1.60%) Financial Institution
14 15 (1.60%) Marketing
15 13 (1.39%) Back Office
16 12 (1.28%) Corporate Banking
17 10 (1.07%) Retail Banking
18 9 (0.96%) Billing
Job Titles
1 197 (21.02%) Analyst
2 124 (13.23%) Business Analyst
3 105 (11.21%) Developer
4 97 (10.35%) Lead
5 88 (9.39%) Senior
6 50 (5.34%) Delivery Manager
6 50 (5.34%) Project Manager
7 42 (4.48%) IT Support
8 36 (3.84%) Architect
9 32 (3.42%) Data Engineer
10 31 (3.31%) Scrum Master
11 30 (3.20%) Consultant
12 27 (2.88%) Tester
13 26 (2.77%) Support Engineer
13 26 (2.77%) Technical Manager
14 25 (2.67%) Banking Analyst
14 25 (2.67%) Salesforce Analyst
15 24 (2.56%) Test Leader
15 24 (2.56%) Test Manager
16 23 (2.45%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (4.38%) REST
2 28 (2.99%) React
3 27 (2.88%) .NET
4 24 (2.56%) Kafka
5 21 (2.24%) AngularJS
5 21 (2.24%) SOAP
6 20 (2.13%) Spring
7 19 (2.03%) HTML
8 18 (1.92%) Lightning Web Components
8 18 (1.92%) RESTful
9 17 (1.81%) CSS
9 17 (1.81%) PySpark
10 16 (1.71%) JSON
11 15 (1.60%) Spring Boot
12 14 (1.49%) OpenID
13 12 (1.28%) Node.js
13 12 (1.28%) OAuth
13 12 (1.28%) Playwright
14 11 (1.17%) ADO
14 11 (1.17%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 91 (9.71%) Product Ownership
2 58 (6.19%) Onboarding
3 24 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
3 24 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 22 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (2.24%) Cloud Native
6 19 (2.03%) Data Centre
7 18 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
7 18 (1.92%) Virtual Team
8 17 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 15 (1.60%) Data Structures
9 15 (1.60%) Derivative
10 13 (1.39%) Public Cloud
10 13 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.28%) Credit Risk
12 11 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (1.17%) Reinsurance
13 10 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (1.07%) Mobile App
14 9 (0.96%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 50 (5.34%) Windows
2 38 (4.06%) 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%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.32%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.11%) SUSE
8 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 525 (56.03%) Agile
2 268 (28.60%) Stakeholder Management
3 241 (25.72%) DevOps
4 193 (20.60%) Problem-Solving
5 175 (18.68%) Scrum
6 171 (18.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 154 (16.44%) CI/CD
8 134 (14.30%) Test Automation
9 129 (13.77%) Migration
10 124 (13.23%) User Acceptance Testing
11 113 (12.06%) User Stories
12 104 (11.10%) SDLC
13 101 (10.78%) AI
14 99 (10.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 98 (10.46%) Change Management
16 97 (10.35%) Project Management
17 96 (10.25%) Roadmaps
18 92 (9.82%) Acceptance Criteria
18 92 (9.82%) Data Modelling
18 92 (9.82%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 168 (17.93%) SQL
2 107 (11.42%) Python
3 80 (8.54%) Java
4 58 (6.19%) C#
5 36 (3.84%) JavaScript
5 36 (3.84%) TypeScript
6 21 (2.24%) PowerShell
7 16 (1.71%) Apex Code
8 15 (1.60%) Bash
9 9 (0.96%) C++
10 8 (0.85%) Groovy
10 8 (0.85%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.75%) 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%) PHP
15 2 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 203 (21.66%) Security Cleared
2 179 (19.10%) SC Cleared
3 67 (7.15%) Degree
4 29 (3.09%) PMI Certification
5 24 (2.56%) 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 (1.07%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.07%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.96%) CBAP
11 9 (0.96%) CISSP
11 9 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (0.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 7 (0.75%) CISM
12 7 (0.75%) ISEB
13 6 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (12.27%) QA
2 71 (7.58%) Data Quality
3 37 (3.95%) PMO
4 27 (2.88%) Accessibility
5 26 (2.77%) GDPR
6 24 (2.56%) SLA
7 19 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.17%) NIST
8 11 (1.17%) WCAG
9 9 (0.96%) GRC
10 7 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.75%) 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 (4.48%) Active Directory
2 40 (4.27%) Docker
3 8 (0.85%) Squid
4 7 (0.75%) Firmware
4 7 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 66 (7.04%) Terraform
2 59 (6.30%) Kubernetes
3 23 (2.45%) Ansible
4 22 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
5 21 (2.24%) Prometheus
6 20 (2.13%) Grafana
7 12 (1.28%) Consul
8 8 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.75%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.75%) HP ALM
9 7 (0.75%) 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%) PingFederate
12 3 (0.32%) Packer
13 2 (0.21%) Podman
13 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.21%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.21%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 124 (13.23%) ServiceNow
2 117 (12.49%) Microsoft
3 81 (8.64%) Salesforce
4 62 (6.62%) Oracle
5 37 (3.95%) SAP
6 35 (3.74%) Atlassian
7 32 (3.42%) Google
8 18 (1.92%) Informatica
9 17 (1.81%) Databricks
10 16 (1.71%) MuleSoft
11 15 (1.60%) Adobe
12 13 (1.39%) Workday
13 12 (1.28%) Murex
13 12 (1.28%) Okta
14 11 (1.17%) Bloomberg
14 11 (1.17%) CA Agile Central
14 11 (1.17%) IBM
14 11 (1.17%) Red Hat
14 11 (1.17%) Remedy
15 10 (1.07%) ForgeRock