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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 33 50
Rank change year-on-year -16 +17 -2
Contract jobs citing JIRA 943 807 682
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.63% 6.07% 4.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 35.79% 37.87% 29.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 588 468
10th Percentile £351 £331 £302
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £621
90th Percentile £750 £738 £725
England median daily rate £500 £500 £503
% change year-on-year - -0.50% -6.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 5
10th Percentile £18.75 £35.35 £22.39
25th Percentile £19.25 £42.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £62.50 £44.50 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +40.45% +65.00% -50.06%
75th Percentile £87.83 £47.50 £33.07
90th Percentile £88.01 £72.25 £33.48
England median hourly rate £59.37 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +7.94% -21.43% +12.00%

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 2,635 2,131 2,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.93% 16.03% 14.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,724 1,454 1,544
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £437 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £641 £652
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 11
10th Percentile £19.25 £36.63 £25.99
25th Percentile £41.25 £41.69 £28.62
Median hourly rate £57.00 £45.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% +20.00% -34.78%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £66.34
90th Percentile £88.75 £107.88 £71.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -13 129 £550 +10.00% 76
West London -13 23 £400 +1.27% 7
South London -18 15 £526 -9.42% 8
East London +2 4 £550 +34.97% 3
North London - 4 £525 -
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
1 405 (42.95%) Confluence
2 54 (5.73%) SharePoint
3 19 (2.01%) CMS
4 17 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.74%) SAS
6 5 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.53%) Camunda
6 5 (0.53%) Headless CMS
6 5 (0.53%) MTS
7 4 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.42%) Kentico
8 3 (0.32%) Traefik
8 3 (0.32%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.32%) WordPress
9 2 (0.21%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.21%) IIS
9 2 (0.21%) nginx
9 2 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.11%) Apache
10 1 (0.11%) EPiServer
Applications
1 64 (6.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (4.56%) Microsoft Project
3 40 (4.24%) MS Visio
4 33 (3.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 32 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
6 14 (1.48%) Trello
7 8 (0.85%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.64%) Revit
9 5 (0.53%) Notion
9 5 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.42%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.32%) Mingle
12 2 (0.21%) Gliffy
12 2 (0.21%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
13 1 (0.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
13 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 18 (1.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (0.95%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.53%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.53%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.42%) Findur
5 4 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.32%) Maximo
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.32%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.21%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.21%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.21%) SAP FI-AR
7 2 (0.21%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 267 (28.31%) Azure
2 153 (16.22%) AWS
3 148 (15.69%) Azure DevOps
4 91 (9.65%) Power Platform
5 76 (8.06%) GitHub
6 53 (5.62%) Microsoft 365
7 46 (4.88%) GCP
7 46 (4.88%) SaaS
8 44 (4.67%) Serverless
9 42 (4.45%) Amazon S3
10 36 (3.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 31 (3.29%) Entra ID
12 30 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
13 28 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
14 26 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (2.76%) Miro
14 26 (2.76%) Snowflake
15 25 (2.65%) Microsoft Copilot
16 19 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
17 18 (1.91%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.97%) DNS
2 20 (2.12%) VPN
3 19 (2.01%) Firewall
4 17 (1.80%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.27%) DHCP
6 7 (0.74%) Network Security
6 7 (0.74%) WAN
7 6 (0.64%) HTTP
8 5 (0.53%) DKIM
8 5 (0.53%) DMARC
8 5 (0.53%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.42%) IPv4
9 4 (0.42%) SSH
10 3 (0.32%) Internet
10 3 (0.32%) IPv6
10 3 (0.32%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (0.32%) SSL
10 3 (0.32%) VLAN
11 2 (0.21%) IMAP
11 2 (0.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (8.59%) Power BI
2 47 (4.98%) Data Warehouse
2 47 (4.98%) SQL Server
3 29 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
4 19 (2.01%) Relational Database
5 18 (1.91%) MongoDB
6 16 (1.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (1.38%) Amazon Athena
7 13 (1.38%) Metadata
8 12 (1.27%) Data Lake
8 12 (1.27%) Oracle Database
8 12 (1.27%) Redis
8 12 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 12 (1.27%) Tableau
9 11 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (1.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 8 (0.85%) DynamoDB
11 8 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 118 (12.51%) Git
2 82 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 51 (5.41%) GitLab
4 36 (3.82%) Selenium
5 25 (2.65%) Bitbucket
5 25 (2.65%) Zephyr
6 19 (2.01%) Postman
7 18 (1.91%) Cypress.io
8 17 (1.80%) REST Assured
9 15 (1.59%) Cucumber
10 14 (1.48%) JUnit
10 14 (1.48%) TestRail
11 13 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
12 12 (1.27%) JMeter
12 12 (1.27%) Maven
13 10 (1.06%) Mockito
14 9 (0.95%) Gradle
15 8 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 7 (0.74%) SonarQube
17 6 (0.64%) Appium
General
1 399 (42.31%) Finance
2 392 (41.57%) Social Skills
3 210 (22.27%) Banking
4 197 (20.89%) Analytical Skills
5 106 (11.24%) Public Sector
6 49 (5.20%) Investment Banking
6 49 (5.20%) Organisational Skills
7 39 (4.14%) Front Office
7 39 (4.14%) Retail
8 34 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
9 30 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
10 22 (2.33%) Marketing
11 21 (2.23%) Legal
12 20 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (2.12%) Telecoms
13 16 (1.70%) Retail Banking
14 14 (1.48%) Financial Institution
15 13 (1.38%) Back Office
16 12 (1.27%) Law
17 11 (1.17%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 193 (20.47%) Analyst
2 122 (12.94%) Business Analyst
3 112 (11.88%) Lead
4 99 (10.50%) Developer
5 96 (10.18%) Senior
6 58 (6.15%) Project Manager
7 39 (4.14%) Architect
8 33 (3.50%) Consultant
9 31 (3.29%) Delivery Manager
9 31 (3.29%) Product Owner
10 28 (2.97%) Test Leader
11 27 (2.86%) Scrum Master
12 25 (2.65%) Tester
13 23 (2.44%) Senior Manager
13 23 (2.44%) Technical Analyst
14 22 (2.33%) Applications Support
14 22 (2.33%) Senior Analyst
14 22 (2.33%) Support Engineer
15 20 (2.12%) IT Manager
16 19 (2.01%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (7.53%) REST
2 66 (7.00%) Terraform
3 45 (4.77%) .NET
4 25 (2.65%) Kafka
5 24 (2.55%) JSON
5 24 (2.55%) React
6 23 (2.44%) AngularJS
6 23 (2.44%) Playwright
7 22 (2.33%) SOAP
8 20 (2.12%) HTML
8 20 (2.12%) RESTful
9 19 (2.01%) pytest
10 18 (1.91%) Web Services
11 15 (1.59%) CSS
11 15 (1.59%) Lightning Web Components
11 15 (1.59%) Middleware
11 15 (1.59%) Spring
12 14 (1.48%) XML
13 13 (1.38%) Spring Boot
14 10 (1.06%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 138 (14.63%) Product Ownership
2 68 (7.21%) Onboarding
3 31 (3.29%) Cloud Native
4 25 (2.65%) Data Structures
5 23 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (2.33%) Management Information System
6 22 (2.33%) Virtual Team
7 21 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
7 21 (2.23%) Data Centre
7 21 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (1.91%) Credit Risk
9 18 (1.91%) Derivative
10 15 (1.59%) Replication
11 14 (1.48%) Fixed Income
11 14 (1.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 12 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.27%) Mobile App
13 11 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 10 (1.06%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 53 (5.62%) Windows
2 48 (5.09%) Linux
3 13 (1.38%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.17%) macOS
5 10 (1.06%) Android
5 10 (1.06%) Unix
6 9 (0.95%) Amazon Linux
6 9 (0.95%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.85%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.42%) VMS
9 2 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.11%) CentOS
10 1 (0.11%) SUSE
10 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.11%) VxWorks
10 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 579 (61.40%) Agile
2 377 (39.98%) Stakeholder Management
3 275 (29.16%) DevOps
4 230 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
5 209 (22.16%) Scrum
6 196 (20.78%) CI/CD
7 161 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 156 (16.54%) Migration
9 153 (16.22%) AI
10 151 (16.01%) User Acceptance Testing
10 151 (16.01%) User Stories
11 133 (14.10%) Test Automation
12 127 (13.47%) Validation
13 120 (12.73%) Acceptance Criteria
14 109 (11.56%) Project Management
15 105 (11.13%) SDLC
16 104 (11.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 101 (10.71%) Sprint Planning
18 96 (10.18%) Analytics
19 93 (9.86%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 200 (21.21%) SQL
2 118 (12.51%) Python
3 63 (6.68%) Java
4 42 (4.45%) C#
5 41 (4.35%) PowerShell
6 36 (3.82%) JavaScript
7 26 (2.76%) Bash
8 24 (2.55%) TypeScript
9 14 (1.48%) Groovy
10 13 (1.38%) Apex Code
11 10 (1.06%) Perl
12 9 (0.95%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.64%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.53%) Go
14 5 (0.53%) Tcl
14 5 (0.53%) VBA
15 4 (0.42%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.32%) Korn
16 3 (0.32%) Swift
16 3 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 204 (21.63%) Security Cleared
2 179 (18.98%) SC Cleared
3 81 (8.59%) Degree
4 42 (4.45%) PMI Certification
5 34 (3.61%) PMP
6 25 (2.65%) AWS Certification
6 25 (2.65%) DV Cleared
7 20 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 17 (1.80%) ISTQB
9 14 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
10 13 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
10 13 (1.38%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.06%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.06%) CBAP
11 10 (1.06%) IIBA
12 8 (0.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (0.53%) DBS Check
13 5 (0.53%) MBA
13 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 5 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (15.06%) QA
2 73 (7.74%) Data Quality
3 42 (4.45%) PMO
4 28 (2.97%) SLA
5 27 (2.86%) Accessibility
6 15 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.38%) WCAG
8 11 (1.17%) ISO 20022
9 8 (0.85%) SEPA
10 7 (0.74%) GDPR
10 7 (0.74%) GRC
10 7 (0.74%) NIST
11 6 (0.64%) COBIT
12 4 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.42%) MiFID
12 4 (0.42%) P3O
12 4 (0.42%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.32%) IFRS
13 3 (0.32%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 51 (5.41%) Docker
2 42 (4.45%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.21%) DFS Replication
5 2 (0.21%) Dovecot
5 2 (0.21%) Firmware
5 2 (0.21%) Postfix
5 2 (0.21%) Squid
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 53 (5.62%) Kubernetes
2 33 (3.50%) Grafana
3 26 (2.76%) Prometheus
4 24 (2.55%) Ansible
5 17 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.85%) Control-M
6 8 (0.85%) HP ALM
7 7 (0.74%) Istio
8 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.64%) SCOM
9 5 (0.53%) Argo
9 5 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (0.53%) SCCM
10 4 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (0.42%) Podman
11 3 (0.32%) Kibana
12 2 (0.21%) HP Quality Center
12 2 (0.21%) Nessus
12 2 (0.21%) Puppet
Vendors
1 164 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 98 (10.39%) ServiceNow
3 54 (5.73%) Salesforce
4 49 (5.20%) Oracle
5 29 (3.08%) Google
6 27 (2.86%) Splunk
7 26 (2.76%) Atlassian
8 25 (2.65%) SAP
9 23 (2.44%) IBM
10 21 (2.23%) Remedy
11 18 (1.91%) Databricks
12 16 (1.70%) Adobe
13 15 (1.59%) MuleSoft
14 14 (1.48%) Bloomberg
15 13 (1.38%) ION Trading
15 13 (1.38%) UiPath
16 12 (1.27%) BMC
16 12 (1.27%) Dynatrace
16 12 (1.27%) Informatica
16 12 (1.27%) Planview