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 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 48 48
Rank change year-on-year +6 0 -3
Contract jobs citing JIRA 820 602 753
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.52% 4.44% 4.05%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.44% 31.39% 31.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 607 381 542
10th Percentile £331 £288 £351
25th Percentile £425 £388 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £674
90th Percentile £716 £725 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £51.40 £20.75 £28.13
25th Percentile £64.00 £21.88 £32.66
Median hourly rate £90.00 £25.00 £39.38
Median % change year-on-year +260.00% -36.51% +32.35%
75th Percentile £95.00 £29.38 £53.28
90th Percentile - £31.25 £57.50
England median hourly rate £63.27 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +1.23% +13.64% -15.38%

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 2,250 1,918 2,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.14% 14.15% 12.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,538 1,238 1,752
10th Percentile £356 £344 £375
25th Percentile £420 £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £568
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% -6.17% -5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £732 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £508 £535
% change year-on-year -1.48% -5.14% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 18
10th Percentile £55.60 £22.25 £25.64
25th Percentile £74.50 £25.63 £32.50
Median hourly rate £90.00 £48.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% +14.71% -26.09%
75th Percentile £98.75 £77.19 £58.44
90th Percentile £105.50 £87.88 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 9 February 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 9 February 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 9 February 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 -3 111 £525 +3.02% 32
South London +1 28 £519 +15.23% 7
West London -25 6 £500 +30.72% 10
East London 0 5 £450 -18.18% 7
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
1 367 (44.76%) Confluence
2 44 (5.37%) SharePoint
3 30 (3.66%) nginx
4 12 (1.46%) Apache
5 9 (1.10%) CMS
6 8 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.98%) Palantir Foundry
7 6 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.73%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.73%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.49%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.37%) Traefik
10 2 (0.24%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.24%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) CICS
11 1 (0.12%) IIS
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.12%) SugarCRM
11 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 70 (8.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (8.17%) Microsoft Project
3 43 (5.24%) MS Visio
4 42 (5.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
6 19 (2.32%) Trello
7 6 (0.73%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 5 (0.61%) Notion
9 4 (0.49%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.49%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.37%) InVision
10 3 (0.37%) Sketch
11 2 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.24%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.24%) InDesign
11 2 (0.24%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.12%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (1.71%) NetSuite
2 10 (1.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 9 (1.10%) Fidessa
3 9 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.98%) Loan IQ
5 7 (0.85%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
7 5 (0.61%) Oracle EBS R12
7 5 (0.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.49%) Endur
8 4 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.49%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.49%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.37%) Algo Collateral
9 3 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.37%) SAP Retail
9 3 (0.37%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 197 (24.02%) Azure
2 143 (17.44%) AWS
3 112 (13.66%) Azure DevOps
4 82 (10.00%) GitHub
5 66 (8.05%) Power Platform
6 40 (4.88%) GCP
7 33 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
8 30 (3.66%) SaaS
9 29 (3.54%) Serverless
10 24 (2.93%) Amazon S3
11 22 (2.68%) Figma
12 21 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
13 19 (2.32%) Power Automate
13 19 (2.32%) PowerApps
13 19 (2.32%) Slack
14 18 (2.20%) AWS Lambda
14 18 (2.20%) Snowflake
14 18 (2.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 17 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
15 17 (2.07%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.05%) Firewall
2 20 (2.44%) DNS
3 15 (1.83%) HTTP
4 11 (1.34%) TCP/IP
4 11 (1.34%) VPN
4 11 (1.34%) WAN
5 9 (1.10%) FTP
5 9 (1.10%) SSH
6 7 (0.85%) Ethernet
6 7 (0.85%) Modbus
6 7 (0.85%) RS-232
6 7 (0.85%) RS-485
6 7 (0.85%) SD-WAN
6 7 (0.85%) SMTP
7 6 (0.73%) IMAP
7 6 (0.73%) OpenLDAP
7 6 (0.73%) SSL
8 5 (0.61%) Network Security
8 5 (0.61%) OpenVPN
8 5 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.22%) Power BI
2 32 (3.90%) SQL Server
3 31 (3.78%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (3.66%) Tableau
5 19 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (2.32%) NoSQL
6 16 (1.95%) Data Vault
6 16 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (1.71%) MongoDB
8 13 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (1.59%) Oracle Database
9 12 (1.46%) Big Data
9 12 (1.46%) Relational Database
10 10 (1.22%) Metadata
11 9 (1.10%) Hadoop
11 9 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
12 7 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (0.85%) Star Schema
12 7 (0.85%) Tick Data
13 6 (0.73%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 97 (11.83%) Git
2 76 (9.27%) Jenkins
3 47 (5.73%) GitLab
4 40 (4.88%) Selenium
5 29 (3.54%) Bitbucket
6 25 (3.05%) Postman
7 23 (2.80%) Cucumber
8 22 (2.68%) JUnit
8 22 (2.68%) SonarQube
9 19 (2.32%) TestRail
10 17 (2.07%) Zephyr
11 15 (1.83%) Maven
12 14 (1.71%) SpecFlow
13 13 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
14 11 (1.34%) REST Assured
15 10 (1.22%) JMeter
16 9 (1.10%) Cypress.io
16 9 (1.10%) ER Studio
16 9 (1.10%) ERwin
16 9 (1.10%) PowerDesigner
General
1 328 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 282 (34.39%) Finance
3 152 (18.54%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (13.66%) Banking
5 80 (9.76%) Public Sector
6 31 (3.78%) Documentation Skills
6 31 (3.78%) Investment Banking
6 31 (3.78%) Retail
7 29 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
8 28 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
9 25 (3.05%) Front Office
10 23 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
11 22 (2.68%) Legal
12 14 (1.71%) Marketing
13 12 (1.46%) Financial Institution
14 11 (1.34%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.22%) Back Office
15 10 (1.22%) Billing
15 10 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (1.10%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 179 (21.83%) Analyst
2 129 (15.73%) Business Analyst
3 104 (12.68%) Developer
4 80 (9.76%) Senior
5 68 (8.29%) Lead
6 63 (7.68%) Project Manager
7 32 (3.90%) Technical Analyst
7 32 (3.90%) Tester
8 28 (3.41%) Technical Business Analyst
9 25 (3.05%) Architect
9 25 (3.05%) Consultant
10 23 (2.80%) Delivery Manager
10 23 (2.80%) Senior Analyst
10 23 (2.80%) Test Engineer
11 22 (2.68%) Scrum Master
11 22 (2.68%) Senior Business Analyst
12 19 (2.32%) DevOps Engineer
12 19 (2.32%) Product Owner
13 18 (2.20%) Test Analyst
14 17 (2.07%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (7.07%) REST
2 33 (4.02%) .NET
3 31 (3.78%) SOAP
4 27 (3.29%) HTML
5 25 (3.05%) Kafka
5 25 (3.05%) React
5 25 (3.05%) RESTful
5 25 (3.05%) Spring
6 23 (2.80%) AngularJS
6 23 (2.80%) CSS
7 22 (2.68%) XML
8 19 (2.32%) Oracle Fusion
8 19 (2.32%) Playwright
9 18 (2.20%) Node.js
10 16 (1.95%) JSON
11 15 (1.83%) Spring Boot
12 13 (1.59%) LDAP
12 13 (1.59%) Web Services
13 12 (1.46%) Lightning Web Components
14 10 (1.22%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 84 (10.24%) Product Ownership
2 32 (3.90%) Onboarding
3 26 (3.17%) Management Information System
4 24 (2.93%) Analytical Mindset
5 23 (2.80%) Data Structures
6 20 (2.44%) CMDB
7 18 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
8 15 (1.83%) PMI
9 14 (1.71%) Cloud Native
10 13 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.59%) Public Cloud
10 13 (1.59%) Reinsurance
10 13 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (1.59%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (1.34%) Fixed Income
11 11 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
12 10 (1.22%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.10%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 54 (6.59%) Linux
2 41 (5.00%) Windows
3 17 (2.07%) Unix
4 10 (1.22%) Android
5 9 (1.10%) VMS
6 7 (0.85%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.85%) FreeRTOS
7 6 (0.73%) Amazon Linux
7 6 (0.73%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.49%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.49%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 519 (63.29%) Agile
2 226 (27.56%) Scrum
3 223 (27.20%) Stakeholder Management
4 211 (25.73%) DevOps
5 176 (21.46%) Problem-Solving
6 138 (16.83%) CI/CD
7 137 (16.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 124 (15.12%) Test Automation
9 120 (14.63%) Project Management
10 115 (14.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 114 (13.90%) User Stories
12 92 (11.22%) Analytics
12 92 (11.22%) User Acceptance Testing
13 91 (11.10%) Migration
14 88 (10.73%) Project Delivery
15 84 (10.24%) Requirements Gathering
16 83 (10.12%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 82 (10.00%) Roadmaps
18 78 (9.51%) Waterfall
19 77 (9.39%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 156 (19.02%) SQL
2 109 (13.29%) Python
3 83 (10.12%) Java
4 65 (7.93%) JavaScript
5 38 (4.63%) C#
6 34 (4.15%) TypeScript
7 25 (3.05%) PowerShell
8 18 (2.20%) Bash
9 13 (1.59%) C++
10 10 (1.22%) Apex Code
10 10 (1.22%) Groovy
11 9 (1.10%) Go
11 9 (1.10%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.85%) Embedded C++
12 7 (0.85%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.73%) Korn
13 6 (0.73%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.61%) Ruby
14 5 (0.61%) XPath
15 4 (0.49%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 174 (21.22%) Security Cleared
2 159 (19.39%) SC Cleared
3 95 (11.59%) Degree
4 38 (4.63%) PMI Certification
5 34 (4.15%) ISTQB
6 25 (3.05%) PMP
7 23 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 22 (2.68%) CBAP
9 17 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (1.95%) AWS Certification
11 15 (1.83%) DV Cleared
12 13 (1.59%) ISEB
13 10 (1.22%) Azure Certification
14 9 (1.10%) CISSP
15 8 (0.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 7 (0.85%) CFA
16 7 (0.85%) CSPO
16 7 (0.85%) IIBA
16 7 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
17 6 (0.73%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (12.32%) QA
2 41 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 33 (4.02%) PMO
4 32 (3.90%) Accessibility
5 17 (2.07%) GDPR
6 12 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.46%) NIST
7 10 (1.22%) WCAG
8 9 (1.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 9 (1.10%) SLA
9 7 (0.85%) GRC
10 6 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.73%) ISO 20022
11 5 (0.61%) NCSC
11 5 (0.61%) NIST 800
11 5 (0.61%) SEPA
12 3 (0.37%) Basel III
12 3 (0.37%) MiFID
12 3 (0.37%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.37%) PSD2
System Software
1 69 (8.41%) Docker
2 19 (2.32%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.46%) Squid
4 7 (0.85%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (0.85%) Firmware
5 6 (0.73%) DFS Replication
5 6 (0.73%) Dovecot
5 6 (0.73%) Postfix
6 3 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.12%) etcd
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 54 (6.59%) Kubernetes
2 47 (5.73%) Terraform
3 22 (2.68%) Grafana
4 19 (2.32%) Ansible
4 19 (2.32%) Prometheus
5 17 (2.07%) Consul
6 13 (1.59%) Packer
7 11 (1.34%) HP ALM
8 10 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.85%) Nessus
11 6 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (0.73%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.61%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.49%) Control-M
14 3 (0.37%) Istio
14 3 (0.37%) Puppet
14 3 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (0.37%) RSA Archer
14 3 (0.37%) SCCM
Vendors
1 99 (12.07%) Microsoft
2 85 (10.37%) ServiceNow
3 70 (8.54%) Oracle
4 61 (7.44%) Salesforce
5 38 (4.63%) Atlassian
6 36 (4.39%) SAP
7 24 (2.93%) Google
8 19 (2.32%) Databricks
9 14 (1.71%) Adobe
10 11 (1.34%) Dynatrace
10 11 (1.34%) HP
10 11 (1.34%) Murex
11 10 (1.22%) MuleSoft
11 10 (1.22%) Sparx
12 9 (1.10%) Citrix
12 9 (1.10%) Cloudera
12 9 (1.10%) Informatica
12 9 (1.10%) Planview
12 9 (1.10%) Splunk
13 8 (0.98%) Red Hat