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 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 47 52
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 -5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 882 586 694
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.35% 4.59% 3.82%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.86% 32.36% 30.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 634 384 485
10th Percentile £343 £301 £325
25th Percentile £415 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.92% -9.09% -6.78%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £675
90th Percentile £711 £734 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -0.05% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 10
10th Percentile - - £21.85
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.50 £26.68
Median hourly rate £19.50 £30.00 £32.36
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% -7.28% -40.08%
75th Percentile £76.75 £32.50 £40.47
90th Percentile £95.00 - £57.50
England median hourly rate £62.57 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +0.11% +19.05% -17.65%

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 2,393 1,811 2,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.51% 14.19% 12.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,621 1,232 1,649
10th Percentile £350 £343 £375
25th Percentile £420 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £535 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% -5.31% -5.83%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £778
England median daily rate £500 £503 £525
% change year-on-year -0.50% -4.29% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 19
10th Percentile - £22.93 £24.40
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £28.98
Median hourly rate £19.50 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% -25.00% -30.43%
75th Percentile £76.75 £71.25 £58.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £85.50 £70.75
England median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -4 121 £550 +4.76% 40
South London +3 35 £519 +9.17% 3
West London -26 8 £500 +28.21% 8
East London +1 6 £450 -10.00% 16
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
1 394 (44.67%) Confluence
2 46 (5.22%) SharePoint
3 27 (3.06%) nginx
4 15 (1.70%) Apache
5 9 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.79%) CMS
6 7 (0.79%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.68%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.68%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.57%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.45%) JBoss
10 3 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.23%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.23%) SAS
11 2 (0.23%) WordPress
12 1 (0.11%) CICS
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 82 (9.30%) Microsoft Project
2 73 (8.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 51 (5.78%) MS Visio
4 45 (5.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
6 17 (1.93%) Trello
7 5 (0.57%) Notion
8 4 (0.45%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.34%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.34%) InVision
9 3 (0.34%) Sketch
10 2 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.23%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.23%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.23%) InDesign
10 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.11%) EPLAN
11 1 (0.11%) Mingle
11 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (1.59%) NetSuite
2 13 (1.47%) Loan IQ
3 12 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (1.13%) Aladdin
4 10 (1.13%) Fidessa
5 8 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
6 7 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
7 5 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.45%) Findur
8 4 (0.45%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.45%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.45%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.34%) Algo Collateral
9 3 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.34%) SAP Retail
9 3 (0.34%) SimCorp Dimension
9 3 (0.34%) Summit
10 2 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 209 (23.70%) Azure
2 142 (16.10%) Azure DevOps
3 132 (14.97%) AWS
4 81 (9.18%) GitHub
5 61 (6.92%) Power Platform
6 31 (3.51%) GCP
6 31 (3.51%) Serverless
7 30 (3.40%) Entra ID
8 25 (2.83%) Microsoft 365
8 25 (2.83%) SaaS
9 24 (2.72%) Amazon S3
10 22 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (2.38%) Figma
12 19 (2.15%) Amazon EC2
13 18 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (2.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 17 (1.93%) AWS CloudFormation
14 17 (1.93%) Slack
15 15 (1.70%) Amazon EKS
15 15 (1.70%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.83%) Firewall
2 17 (1.93%) DNS
3 13 (1.47%) TCP/IP
3 13 (1.47%) VPN
4 11 (1.25%) WAN
5 9 (1.02%) HTTP
6 7 (0.79%) Ethernet
6 7 (0.79%) FTP
6 7 (0.79%) Modbus
6 7 (0.79%) OpenVPN
6 7 (0.79%) RS-232
6 7 (0.79%) RS-485
6 7 (0.79%) SD-WAN
7 6 (0.68%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.57%) LAN
8 5 (0.57%) Network Security
9 4 (0.45%) NAS
9 4 (0.45%) PSTN
9 4 (0.45%) SSL
9 4 (0.45%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (5.10%) Power BI
2 31 (3.51%) Tableau
3 29 (3.29%) SQL Server
4 25 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
5 19 (2.15%) NoSQL
6 17 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (1.81%) Relational Database
8 15 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (1.36%) MongoDB
10 11 (1.25%) Big Data
11 10 (1.13%) Delta Lake
11 10 (1.13%) Oracle Database
12 9 (1.02%) Metadata
13 8 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (0.91%) Data Vault
13 8 (0.91%) Tick Data
14 7 (0.79%) BigQuery
14 7 (0.79%) DynamoDB
15 6 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 111 (12.59%) Git
2 74 (8.39%) Jenkins
3 43 (4.88%) Selenium
4 42 (4.76%) GitLab
5 30 (3.40%) Bitbucket
6 29 (3.29%) JUnit
7 28 (3.17%) Cucumber
8 23 (2.61%) Zephyr
9 18 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
10 17 (1.93%) Postman
11 16 (1.81%) TestRail
12 14 (1.59%) SonarQube
13 13 (1.47%) Maven
14 12 (1.36%) JMeter
14 12 (1.36%) REST Assured
14 12 (1.36%) SpecFlow
15 9 (1.02%) Appium
15 9 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
16 8 (0.91%) Cypress.io
17 6 (0.68%) TeamCity
General
1 338 (38.32%) Social Skills
2 325 (36.85%) Finance
3 161 (18.25%) Analytical Skills
4 132 (14.97%) Banking
5 86 (9.75%) Public Sector
6 40 (4.54%) Documentation Skills
7 36 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
8 33 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
8 33 (3.74%) Retail
9 29 (3.29%) Legal
10 26 (2.95%) Investment Banking
11 24 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
12 23 (2.61%) Front Office
13 15 (1.70%) Financial Institution
13 15 (1.70%) Marketing
14 11 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 10 (1.13%) Publishing
16 9 (1.02%) Billing
16 9 (1.02%) Telecoms
17 8 (0.91%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 200 (22.68%) Analyst
2 147 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 104 (11.79%) Developer
4 83 (9.41%) Senior
5 74 (8.39%) Lead
6 65 (7.37%) Project Manager
7 36 (4.08%) Delivery Manager
8 33 (3.74%) Technical Analyst
9 31 (3.51%) Technical Business Analyst
10 30 (3.40%) Test Engineer
10 30 (3.40%) Tester
11 28 (3.17%) Architect
11 28 (3.17%) Consultant
11 28 (3.17%) IT Support
12 25 (2.83%) Senior Analyst
12 25 (2.83%) Technical Manager
13 23 (2.61%) Data Engineer
13 23 (2.61%) Scrum Master
14 20 (2.27%) Banking Analyst
14 20 (2.27%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (5.56%) REST
2 33 (3.74%) .NET
3 28 (3.17%) Kafka
4 27 (3.06%) Spring
5 25 (2.83%) React
6 24 (2.72%) SOAP
7 23 (2.61%) XML
8 21 (2.38%) HTML
9 20 (2.27%) CSS
9 20 (2.27%) Playwright
9 20 (2.27%) RESTful
10 18 (2.04%) JSON
11 16 (1.81%) Oracle Fusion
11 16 (1.81%) Spring Boot
12 15 (1.70%) AngularJS
12 15 (1.70%) Lightning Web Components
13 14 (1.59%) Node.js
14 13 (1.47%) Web Services
15 12 (1.36%) ADO
16 11 (1.25%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 83 (9.41%) Product Ownership
2 41 (4.65%) Onboarding
3 29 (3.29%) Management Information System
4 23 (2.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 22 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
7 17 (1.93%) Cloud Native
7 17 (1.93%) Public Cloud
7 17 (1.93%) Virtual Team
8 15 (1.70%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.47%) Mobile App
10 12 (1.36%) CMDB
11 11 (1.25%) Data Centre
11 11 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.13%) Equities
12 10 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.02%) Fixed Income
13 9 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
13 9 (1.02%) PMI
13 9 (1.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 49 (5.56%) Linux
2 47 (5.33%) Windows
3 17 (1.93%) Unix
4 9 (1.02%) Android
5 7 (0.79%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.79%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (0.57%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.45%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.34%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 533 (60.43%) Agile
2 240 (27.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 228 (25.85%) DevOps
4 216 (24.49%) Scrum
5 176 (19.95%) Problem-Solving
6 165 (18.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 147 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 142 (16.10%) Test Automation
9 124 (14.06%) Project Management
10 122 (13.83%) User Stories
11 114 (12.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 103 (11.68%) Migration
12 103 (11.68%) User Acceptance Testing
13 98 (11.11%) Project Delivery
14 94 (10.66%) SDLC
15 93 (10.54%) Roadmaps
16 89 (10.09%) Analytics
17 87 (9.86%) Decision-Making
17 87 (9.86%) Waterfall
18 82 (9.30%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 161 (18.25%) SQL
2 108 (12.24%) Python
3 92 (10.43%) Java
4 61 (6.92%) C#
5 50 (5.67%) JavaScript
6 33 (3.74%) TypeScript
7 21 (2.38%) PowerShell
8 17 (1.93%) Bash
9 12 (1.36%) C++
10 11 (1.25%) Apex Code
11 9 (1.02%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.79%) Embedded C++
13 6 (0.68%) Korn
13 6 (0.68%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.57%) Perl
14 5 (0.57%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.57%) Ruby
14 5 (0.57%) XPath
15 4 (0.45%) Delphi
16 3 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 192 (21.77%) Security Cleared
2 175 (19.84%) SC Cleared
3 79 (8.96%) Degree
4 33 (3.74%) PMI Certification
5 31 (3.51%) ISTQB
6 27 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 26 (2.95%) PMP
8 20 (2.27%) CBAP
9 13 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.47%) ISEB
10 12 (1.36%) DV Cleared
11 11 (1.25%) CISSP
12 10 (1.13%) IIBA
13 9 (1.02%) AWS Certification
14 8 (0.91%) Azure Certification
14 8 (0.91%) CSPO
14 8 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
15 7 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 7 (0.79%) Master's Degree
16 6 (0.68%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (13.38%) QA
2 46 (5.22%) Data Quality
3 34 (3.85%) PMO
4 32 (3.63%) Accessibility
5 23 (2.61%) GDPR
6 14 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.36%) NIST
8 11 (1.25%) SLA
8 11 (1.25%) WCAG
9 9 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.91%) GRC
11 7 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.57%) MiFID
12 5 (0.57%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.45%) ISO 20022
14 3 (0.34%) Basel III
14 3 (0.34%) NCSC
14 3 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
15 2 (0.23%) EMIR
15 2 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 57 (6.46%) Docker
2 28 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.91%) Squid
4 7 (0.79%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (0.79%) Firmware
5 6 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 59 (6.69%) Kubernetes
2 56 (6.35%) Terraform
3 26 (2.95%) Ansible
4 19 (2.15%) Consul
5 15 (1.70%) Grafana
5 15 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (1.59%) Prometheus
7 13 (1.47%) Packer
8 11 (1.25%) HP ALM
9 9 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.79%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.45%) Control-M
12 4 (0.45%) RSA Archer
13 3 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
13 3 (0.34%) SCCM
14 2 (0.23%) CASB
14 2 (0.23%) Puppet
15 1 (0.11%) Network Intrusion Detection System
15 1 (0.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 104 (11.79%) Microsoft
2 96 (10.88%) ServiceNow
3 73 (8.28%) Oracle
4 65 (7.37%) Salesforce
5 42 (4.76%) Atlassian
6 37 (4.20%) SAP
7 27 (3.06%) Google
8 21 (2.38%) Databricks
9 15 (1.70%) Adobe
10 14 (1.59%) Citrix
11 13 (1.47%) IBM
11 13 (1.47%) Murex
12 12 (1.36%) Dynatrace
13 11 (1.25%) HP
13 11 (1.25%) MuleSoft
13 11 (1.25%) Remedy
13 11 (1.25%) Workday
14 10 (1.13%) Informatica
14 10 (1.13%) Planview
14 10 (1.13%) Red Hat