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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 36 59
Rank change year-on-year -6 +23 -10
Contract jobs citing JIRA 980 752 684
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.96% 5.56% 3.93%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.44% 36.36% 27.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 660 510 475
10th Percentile £350 £332 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £630
90th Percentile £750 £751 £750
England median daily rate £492 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 17
10th Percentile - £33.10 £22.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £36.63 £25.99
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 £65.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £80.50 £71.25
England median hourly rate £53.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -11.67% -7.69% +4.00%

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 2,485 2,068 2,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.58% 15.29% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,618 1,395 1,745
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £431 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £772 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 25
10th Percentile - £25.52 £23.30
25th Percentile £18.75 £32.13 £25.99
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +13.33% -48.28%
75th Percentile £72.88 £59.69 £71.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £69.63 £71.63
England median hourly rate £68.00 £63.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +7.94% -3.08% +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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -13 116 £550 +10.00% 25
South London +8 32 £519 -3.53% 1
West London -5 24 £400 -3.61% 2
East London -2 1 £300 -26.38% 6
North London -2 1 - - 2
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
1 402 (41.02%) Confluence
2 50 (5.10%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.02%) nginx
5 9 (0.92%) CMS
6 7 (0.71%) Apache
7 6 (0.61%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.61%) Hyperledger
7 6 (0.61%) SAS
8 4 (0.41%) JBoss
8 4 (0.41%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.31%) WordPress
10 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.20%) Kentico
11 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.10%) CICS
11 1 (0.10%) Drupal
11 1 (0.10%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 66 (6.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (6.53%) Microsoft Project
3 42 (4.29%) MS Visio
4 35 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 24 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (1.02%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.82%) Revit
8 7 (0.71%) Trello
9 5 (0.51%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.41%) Notion
10 4 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.10%) Mingle
11 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 14 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.12%) Loan IQ
2 11 (1.12%) Remedy ITSM
3 10 (1.02%) Aladdin
4 8 (0.82%) Findur
5 7 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.51%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.41%) Actimize
8 3 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.31%) SAP FI-AR
8 3 (0.31%) Summit
8 3 (0.31%) Workday HCM
9 2 (0.20%) IntelliMatch
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.20%) SAP MM
9 2 (0.20%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 272 (27.76%) Azure
2 158 (16.12%) Azure DevOps
3 155 (15.82%) AWS
4 79 (8.06%) Power Platform
5 69 (7.04%) GitHub
6 55 (5.61%) Entra ID
7 51 (5.20%) Amazon S3
8 49 (5.00%) SaaS
9 47 (4.80%) Serverless
10 40 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
11 37 (3.78%) AWS Lambda
12 34 (3.47%) Amazon EC2
13 32 (3.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 31 (3.16%) GCP
15 27 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
16 22 (2.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 20 (2.04%) Figma
18 19 (1.94%) Snowflake
19 17 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
19 17 (1.73%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.76%) Firewall
2 21 (2.14%) DNS
3 18 (1.84%) TCP/IP
4 15 (1.53%) VPN
5 10 (1.02%) HTTP
6 8 (0.82%) Network Security
7 7 (0.71%) OpenVPN
7 7 (0.71%) WAN
8 5 (0.51%) DHCP
8 5 (0.51%) DKIM
8 5 (0.51%) DMARC
8 5 (0.51%) LAN
8 5 (0.51%) SSL
8 5 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.41%) FTP
9 4 (0.41%) PSTN
9 4 (0.41%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.31%) Internet
10 3 (0.31%) NGFW
11 2 (0.20%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (6.73%) Power BI
2 36 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (2.45%) SQL Server
4 23 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
5 19 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (1.73%) Tableau
7 15 (1.53%) DynamoDB
7 15 (1.53%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 12 (1.22%) MongoDB
8 12 (1.22%) NoSQL
9 11 (1.12%) Metadata
10 10 (1.02%) Data Lake
10 10 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (0.92%) Oracle Database
11 9 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
12 8 (0.82%) Delta Lake
13 7 (0.71%) Crystal Reports
14 6 (0.61%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 116 (11.84%) Git
2 70 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 40 (4.08%) GitLab
4 37 (3.78%) Selenium
5 26 (2.65%) Zephyr
6 25 (2.55%) JUnit
7 19 (1.94%) Bitbucket
7 19 (1.94%) Cucumber
8 16 (1.63%) Cypress.io
9 13 (1.33%) REST Assured
10 12 (1.22%) Postman
10 12 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (1.02%) SonarQube
12 9 (0.92%) Appium
13 8 (0.82%) JMeter
13 8 (0.82%) TestRail
14 7 (0.71%) Mockito
15 6 (0.61%) ScriptRunner
16 5 (0.51%) Maven
16 5 (0.51%) TeamCity
General
1 385 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 378 (38.57%) Finance
3 173 (17.65%) Banking
4 169 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
5 109 (11.12%) Public Sector
6 43 (4.39%) Documentation Skills
7 41 (4.18%) Organisational Skills
8 39 (3.98%) Retail
9 33 (3.37%) Investment Banking
10 29 (2.96%) Front Office
11 27 (2.76%) Legal
12 24 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (1.63%) Financial Institution
15 15 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (1.53%) Marketing
16 13 (1.33%) Back Office
17 12 (1.22%) Corporate Banking
18 11 (1.12%) Retail Banking
19 10 (1.02%) Military
Job Titles
1 204 (20.82%) Analyst
2 130 (13.27%) Business Analyst
3 111 (11.33%) Developer
4 99 (10.10%) Lead
5 93 (9.49%) Senior
6 57 (5.82%) Project Manager
7 48 (4.90%) Delivery Manager
8 43 (4.39%) IT Support
9 42 (4.29%) Architect
10 32 (3.27%) Consultant
11 31 (3.16%) Tester
12 29 (2.96%) Data Engineer
12 29 (2.96%) Scrum Master
12 29 (2.96%) Support Engineer
13 26 (2.65%) Test Leader
14 25 (2.55%) IT Engineer
14 25 (2.55%) Product Owner
15 24 (2.45%) Banking Analyst
15 24 (2.45%) IT Support Engineer
15 24 (2.45%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (5.31%) REST
2 37 (3.78%) .NET
3 30 (3.06%) React
4 24 (2.45%) Kafka
5 23 (2.35%) JSON
6 22 (2.24%) AngularJS
6 22 (2.24%) SOAP
7 19 (1.94%) HTML
7 19 (1.94%) RESTful
7 19 (1.94%) Spring
8 18 (1.84%) PySpark
9 17 (1.73%) CSS
9 17 (1.73%) Lightning Web Components
9 17 (1.73%) Playwright
10 16 (1.63%) Spring Boot
11 15 (1.53%) Node.js
12 14 (1.43%) OpenID
12 14 (1.43%) XML
13 12 (1.22%) OAuth
13 12 (1.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 100 (10.20%) Product Ownership
2 64 (6.53%) Onboarding
3 22 (2.24%) Management Information System
4 21 (2.14%) Cloud Native
4 21 (2.14%) Data Centre
5 20 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
5 20 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (1.84%) Data Structures
6 18 (1.84%) Virtual Team
7 17 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
7 17 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
8 16 (1.63%) Derivative
8 16 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 12 (1.22%) Credit Risk
10 12 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 11 (1.12%) Mobile App
12 10 (1.02%) Fixed Income
12 10 (1.02%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (4.90%) Windows
2 38 (3.88%) Linux
3 10 (1.02%) Apple iOS
4 9 (0.92%) Mac OS
4 9 (0.92%) Unix
5 8 (0.82%) Android
6 5 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.41%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.10%) SUSE
9 1 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.10%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 567 (57.86%) Agile
2 297 (30.31%) Stakeholder Management
3 269 (27.45%) DevOps
4 215 (21.94%) Problem-Solving
5 178 (18.16%) CI/CD
6 174 (17.76%) Scrum
7 164 (16.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 144 (14.69%) Migration
9 143 (14.59%) User Acceptance Testing
10 135 (13.78%) Test Automation
11 126 (12.86%) User Stories
12 119 (12.14%) AI
13 107 (10.92%) SDLC
13 107 (10.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 101 (10.31%) Change Management
14 101 (10.31%) Validation
15 100 (10.20%) Acceptance Criteria
16 97 (9.90%) Roadmaps
17 95 (9.69%) Project Management
18 92 (9.39%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 173 (17.65%) SQL
2 110 (11.22%) Python
3 78 (7.96%) Java
4 62 (6.33%) C#
5 39 (3.98%) TypeScript
6 38 (3.88%) JavaScript
7 29 (2.96%) PowerShell
8 15 (1.53%) Apex Code
8 15 (1.53%) Bash
9 9 (0.92%) Groovy
10 8 (0.82%) Perl
10 8 (0.82%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.61%) VBA
12 5 (0.51%) C++
13 3 (0.31%) Bicep
13 3 (0.31%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.31%) Swift
13 3 (0.31%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.20%) Cypher
14 2 (0.20%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 221 (22.55%) Security Cleared
2 195 (19.90%) SC Cleared
3 70 (7.14%) Degree
4 25 (2.55%) PMI Certification
5 23 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 22 (2.24%) PMP
7 20 (2.04%) DV Cleared
7 20 (2.04%) ISTQB
8 14 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
9 12 (1.22%) AWS Certification
10 11 (1.12%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.02%) CISSP
12 8 (0.82%) CISM
12 8 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (0.82%) Master's Degree
13 7 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 7 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (0.71%) IIBA
14 6 (0.61%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (12.24%) QA
2 74 (7.55%) Data Quality
3 41 (4.18%) PMO
4 31 (3.16%) Accessibility
5 26 (2.65%) GDPR
6 25 (2.55%) SLA
7 20 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (1.33%) WCAG
9 9 (0.92%) NIST
10 8 (0.82%) GRC
10 8 (0.82%) ISO 20022
11 7 (0.71%) MiFID
12 6 (0.61%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.61%) SEPA
13 5 (0.51%) COBIT
14 4 (0.41%) EMIR
14 4 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 4 (0.41%) NCSC
14 4 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 44 (4.49%) Active Directory
2 41 (4.18%) Docker
3 8 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.71%) Squid
5 4 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.31%) Firmware
7 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.10%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 73 (7.45%) Terraform
2 61 (6.22%) Kubernetes
3 27 (2.76%) Ansible
4 26 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
5 23 (2.35%) Prometheus
6 22 (2.24%) Grafana
7 12 (1.22%) Consul
8 11 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.92%) HP ALM
10 7 (0.71%) Control-M
10 7 (0.71%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.41%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.41%) Packer
11 4 (0.41%) PingFederate
12 3 (0.31%) Podman
13 2 (0.20%) Argo
13 2 (0.20%) HP Quality Center
13 2 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 132 (13.47%) Microsoft
2 127 (12.96%) ServiceNow
3 79 (8.06%) Salesforce
4 54 (5.51%) Oracle
5 37 (3.78%) Atlassian
6 35 (3.57%) SAP
7 30 (3.06%) Google
8 19 (1.94%) Databricks
9 17 (1.73%) Adobe
10 16 (1.63%) MuleSoft
10 16 (1.63%) Okta
11 14 (1.43%) Informatica
12 13 (1.33%) IBM
12 13 (1.33%) Splunk
12 13 (1.33%) Workday
13 12 (1.22%) Red Hat
14 11 (1.12%) Murex
14 11 (1.12%) Remedy
15 10 (1.02%) ForgeRock
15 10 (1.02%) HP