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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 37 56
Rank change year-on-year -5 +19 -6
Contract jobs citing JIRA 960 687 689
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.02% 5.44% 3.91%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.49% 35.18% 28.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 645 463 484
10th Percentile £350 £343 £321
25th Percentile £423 £415 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £520 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.15% -2.71% -7.04%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £741 £759 £775
England median daily rate £485 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 19
10th Percentile - £30.50 £22.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £35.00 £25.62
Median hourly rate £27.50 £45.00 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% +41.91% -41.28%
75th Percentile £68.13 £68.13 £61.25
90th Percentile £90.00 £80.50 £71.25
England median hourly rate £53.00 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -5.78% -13.46% +1.96%

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 2,431 1,953 2,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.71% 15.47% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,597 1,314 1,731
10th Percentile £362 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £423 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £673
90th Percentile £748 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 9 27
10th Percentile - £25.00 £23.80
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.50 £25.99
Median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -50.00%
75th Percentile £73.00 £47.50 £69.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £71.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.20% -5.77% +4.00%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -7 123 £550 +4.76% 17
South London +3 32 £516 +8.53% 2
West London -21 25 £400 -1.23% 2
East London 0 5 £450 +12.50% 6
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
1 391 (40.73%) Confluence
2 51 (5.31%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (1.15%) Apache
5 10 (1.04%) nginx
6 7 (0.73%) CMS
6 7 (0.73%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.63%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.63%) Hyperledger
7 6 (0.63%) SAS
8 4 (0.42%) JBoss
8 4 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.31%) WordPress
10 2 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.21%) Kentico
11 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.10%) Appian
11 1 (0.10%) Camunda
11 1 (0.10%) Drupal
Applications
1 66 (6.88%) Microsoft Project
2 64 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (4.06%) MS Visio
4 34 (3.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
6 9 (0.94%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.83%) Revit
8 6 (0.63%) Trello
9 5 (0.52%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.42%) Notion
11 3 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.10%) Mingle
12 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 14 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.15%) Aladdin
2 11 (1.15%) Loan IQ
3 9 (0.94%) Fidessa
3 9 (0.94%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.83%) Findur
5 6 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.42%) Actimize
7 4 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.42%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.42%) SAP Retail
7 4 (0.42%) Summit
8 3 (0.31%) IntelliMatch
8 3 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
8 3 (0.31%) SAP FI-AR
8 3 (0.31%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 253 (26.35%) Azure
2 153 (15.94%) Azure DevOps
3 147 (15.31%) AWS
4 70 (7.29%) Power Platform
5 59 (6.15%) GitHub
6 51 (5.31%) Entra ID
6 51 (5.31%) SaaS
7 50 (5.21%) Amazon S3
8 45 (4.69%) Serverless
9 43 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
10 37 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
11 33 (3.44%) Amazon EC2
12 30 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 29 (3.02%) GCP
14 22 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
15 21 (2.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 20 (2.08%) Slack
17 18 (1.88%) Google Workspace
17 18 (1.88%) Snowflake
18 17 (1.77%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.81%) Firewall
2 19 (1.98%) DNS
3 16 (1.67%) TCP/IP
4 15 (1.56%) VPN
5 10 (1.04%) HTTP
6 8 (0.83%) WAN
7 7 (0.73%) Network Security
7 7 (0.73%) OpenVPN
8 5 (0.52%) DKIM
8 5 (0.52%) DMARC
8 5 (0.52%) Ethernet
8 5 (0.52%) LAN
8 5 (0.52%) SSL
8 5 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.42%) FTP
9 4 (0.42%) Modbus
9 4 (0.42%) PSTN
9 4 (0.42%) RS-232
9 4 (0.42%) RS-485
9 4 (0.42%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (5.94%) Power BI
2 36 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (2.81%) SQL Server
4 21 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (2.19%) Tableau
5 19 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
6 18 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.67%) Relational Database
8 15 (1.56%) DynamoDB
9 13 (1.35%) NoSQL
10 12 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (1.25%) MongoDB
11 11 (1.15%) Data Lake
12 10 (1.04%) Delta Lake
12 10 (1.04%) Metadata
12 10 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
13 9 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (0.94%) Oracle Database
14 8 (0.83%) Crystal Reports
15 7 (0.73%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 111 (11.56%) Git
2 66 (6.88%) Jenkins
3 39 (4.06%) GitLab
4 32 (3.33%) Selenium
5 24 (2.50%) JUnit
5 24 (2.50%) Zephyr
6 19 (1.98%) Bitbucket
7 17 (1.77%) Cucumber
8 15 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
9 14 (1.46%) Cypress.io
10 11 (1.15%) REST Assured
11 10 (1.04%) JMeter
11 10 (1.04%) SonarQube
12 9 (0.94%) Appium
12 9 (0.94%) Postman
12 9 (0.94%) TestRail
13 7 (0.73%) Maven
13 7 (0.73%) Mockito
14 6 (0.63%) ScriptRunner
15 4 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 368 (38.33%) Social Skills
2 364 (37.92%) Finance
3 167 (17.40%) Banking
4 161 (16.77%) Analytical Skills
5 105 (10.94%) Public Sector
6 44 (4.58%) Retail
7 41 (4.27%) Documentation Skills
7 41 (4.27%) Organisational Skills
8 32 (3.33%) Investment Banking
9 31 (3.23%) Front Office
9 31 (3.23%) Legal
10 26 (2.71%) Presentation Skills
11 17 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (1.56%) Financial Institution
13 14 (1.46%) Back Office
13 14 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (1.46%) Marketing
14 12 (1.25%) Corporate Banking
15 10 (1.04%) Retail Banking
16 9 (0.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 210 (21.88%) Analyst
2 129 (13.44%) Business Analyst
3 105 (10.94%) Developer
4 98 (10.21%) Lead
5 87 (9.06%) Senior
6 50 (5.21%) Project Manager
7 49 (5.10%) Delivery Manager
8 42 (4.38%) IT Support
9 37 (3.85%) Architect
10 33 (3.44%) Consultant
11 32 (3.33%) Data Engineer
12 29 (3.02%) Scrum Master
12 29 (3.02%) Tester
13 27 (2.81%) Banking Analyst
14 26 (2.71%) Support Engineer
15 25 (2.60%) Product Owner
15 25 (2.60%) Technical Manager
16 24 (2.50%) IT Engineer
16 24 (2.50%) Test Leader
16 24 (2.50%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (4.58%) REST
2 28 (2.92%) .NET
2 28 (2.92%) React
3 24 (2.50%) Kafka
4 22 (2.29%) SOAP
5 21 (2.19%) AngularJS
5 21 (2.19%) Spring
6 19 (1.98%) HTML
7 18 (1.88%) PySpark
7 18 (1.88%) RESTful
8 17 (1.77%) CSS
8 17 (1.77%) JSON
8 17 (1.77%) Lightning Web Components
9 16 (1.67%) Spring Boot
10 14 (1.46%) OpenID
11 12 (1.25%) Node.js
11 12 (1.25%) Playwright
12 11 (1.15%) LDAP
12 11 (1.15%) OAuth
12 11 (1.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 93 (9.69%) Product Ownership
2 61 (6.35%) Onboarding
3 24 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
3 24 (2.50%) Management Information System
4 21 (2.19%) Cloud Native
4 21 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
5 20 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 19 (1.98%) Data Centre
7 18 (1.88%) Virtual Team
8 17 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 16 (1.67%) Data Structures
10 15 (1.56%) Derivative
11 13 (1.35%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.25%) Credit Risk
12 12 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.15%) Fixed Income
13 11 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (1.15%) Mobile App
13 11 (1.15%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 51 (5.31%) Windows
2 38 (3.96%) Linux
3 10 (1.04%) Apple iOS
4 9 (0.94%) Mac OS
4 9 (0.94%) Unix
5 6 (0.63%) Android
6 4 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.42%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.42%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.31%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.10%) SUSE
9 1 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (56.46%) Agile
2 279 (29.06%) Stakeholder Management
3 249 (25.94%) DevOps
4 196 (20.42%) Problem-Solving
5 178 (18.54%) Scrum
6 172 (17.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 160 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 134 (13.96%) Test Automation
9 133 (13.85%) Migration
10 132 (13.75%) User Acceptance Testing
11 118 (12.29%) User Stories
12 107 (11.15%) AI
12 107 (11.15%) SDLC
13 102 (10.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 101 (10.52%) Change Management
15 100 (10.42%) Validation
16 98 (10.21%) Project Management
17 97 (10.10%) Acceptance Criteria
18 96 (10.00%) Data Modelling
18 96 (10.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 179 (18.65%) SQL
2 111 (11.56%) Python
3 82 (8.54%) Java
4 60 (6.25%) C#
5 37 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 36 (3.75%) TypeScript
7 22 (2.29%) PowerShell
8 14 (1.46%) Apex Code
8 14 (1.46%) Bash
9 8 (0.83%) C++
9 8 (0.83%) Groovy
9 8 (0.83%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.73%) Perl
11 6 (0.63%) VBA
12 4 (0.42%) Embedded C++
12 4 (0.42%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.31%) Bicep
13 3 (0.31%) Swift
14 2 (0.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 206 (21.46%) Security Cleared
2 181 (18.85%) SC Cleared
3 69 (7.19%) Degree
4 27 (2.81%) PMI Certification
5 25 (2.60%) ISTQB
6 23 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 22 (2.29%) PMP
8 19 (1.98%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
10 11 (1.15%) AWS Certification
11 10 (1.04%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.04%) CISSP
11 10 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (1.04%) Master's Degree
12 8 (0.83%) CBAP
12 8 (0.83%) CISM
13 7 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 7 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (0.73%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (12.40%) QA
2 73 (7.60%) Data Quality
3 40 (4.17%) PMO
4 28 (2.92%) Accessibility
5 25 (2.60%) GDPR
5 25 (2.60%) SLA
6 20 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.25%) NIST
8 11 (1.15%) WCAG
9 8 (0.83%) GRC
10 7 (0.73%) MiFID
11 6 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.63%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.52%) COBIT
12 5 (0.52%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.42%) EMIR
13 4 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.42%) NCSC
14 3 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 42 (4.38%) Active Directory
2 38 (3.96%) Docker
3 7 (0.73%) Squid
3 7 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.63%) Firmware
5 4 (0.42%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.10%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 66 (6.88%) Terraform
2 59 (6.15%) Kubernetes
3 25 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
4 24 (2.50%) Ansible
5 20 (2.08%) Prometheus
6 19 (1.98%) Grafana
7 12 (1.25%) Consul
8 9 (0.94%) HP ALM
8 9 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.73%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (0.52%) Control-M
11 4 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.42%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.42%) Packer
11 4 (0.42%) PingFederate
12 3 (0.31%) Puppet
13 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.21%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.21%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 129 (13.44%) ServiceNow
2 123 (12.81%) Microsoft
3 80 (8.33%) Salesforce
4 63 (6.56%) Oracle
5 40 (4.17%) SAP
6 34 (3.54%) Atlassian
7 31 (3.23%) Google
8 19 (1.98%) Databricks
8 19 (1.98%) Informatica
9 16 (1.67%) Adobe
10 15 (1.56%) MuleSoft
10 15 (1.56%) Okta
11 14 (1.46%) Workday
12 12 (1.25%) Murex
12 12 (1.25%) Red Hat
13 11 (1.15%) Bloomberg
13 11 (1.15%) IBM
14 10 (1.04%) CA Agile Central
14 10 (1.04%) ForgeRock
14 10 (1.04%) Remedy