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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 48 46
Rank change year-on-year +9 -2 -6
Contract jobs citing JIRA 847 647 834
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.94% 4.24% 4.37%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.15% 30.69% 32.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 634 422 567
10th Percentile £330 £271 £375
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -8.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £630 £688
90th Percentile £730 £725 £825
England median daily rate £500 £500 £543
% change year-on-year - -7.83% +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £33.05 - £25.10
25th Percentile £36.50 - £31.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 £20.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +115.00% -48.39% +61.46%
75th Percentile £44.88 - £48.75
90th Percentile £46.00 - £54.00
England median hourly rate £63.45 £62.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year +1.52% +2.04% -2.00%

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 2,280 2,108 2,568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.98% 13.80% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,568 1,381 1,884
10th Percentile £350 £356 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £798
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 22
10th Percentile £38.80 £24.88 £25.80
25th Percentile £42.44 £32.19 £32.50
Median hourly rate £50.75 £52.50 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +2.44% -10.87%
75th Percentile £75.31 £77.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £110.00 £87.88 £73.74
England median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +2.77% -2.69% +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 14 December 2025.

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
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 14 December 2025. 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 +10 128 £510 -5.99% 21
South London +1 28 £553 +33.25% 2
West London -18 9 £300 -34.07% 8
East London 0 3 £463 -10.63% 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
1 399 (47.11%) Confluence
2 44 (5.19%) SharePoint
3 31 (3.66%) nginx
4 15 (1.77%) CMS
5 12 (1.42%) Apache
6 6 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.71%) WordPress
7 3 (0.35%) Drupal
7 3 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.35%) Traefik
8 2 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.24%) Appian
8 2 (0.24%) CICS
8 2 (0.24%) Magnolia
8 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.12%) IIS
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) SugarCRM
9 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 74 (8.74%) Microsoft Project
2 69 (8.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 48 (5.67%) MS Visio
4 44 (5.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 31 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
6 27 (3.19%) Trello
7 10 (1.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 6 (0.71%) Notion
9 5 (0.59%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.47%) Adobe After Effects
10 4 (0.47%) InVision
10 4 (0.47%) 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
11 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.12%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 17 (2.01%) Remedy ITSM
2 12 (1.42%) NetSuite
2 12 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (1.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.94%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.47%) Endur
5 4 (0.47%) Fidessa
5 4 (0.47%) Oracle BPM
5 4 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (0.47%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.35%) Algo Collateral
6 3 (0.35%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.24%) Eagle PACE
7 2 (0.24%) Magento
7 2 (0.24%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.24%) PORTIA
Cloud Services
1 185 (21.84%) Azure
2 154 (18.18%) AWS
3 95 (11.22%) Azure DevOps
4 82 (9.68%) GitHub
5 61 (7.20%) Power Platform
6 46 (5.43%) GCP
7 36 (4.25%) Serverless
8 31 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
9 27 (3.19%) Amazon EC2
10 26 (3.07%) Amazon S3
11 23 (2.72%) SaaS
12 22 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 22 (2.60%) Figma
12 22 (2.60%) Miro
13 21 (2.48%) Power Automate
14 19 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (2.24%) Slack
15 18 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
16 17 (2.01%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.07%) Firewall
2 21 (2.48%) DNS
3 17 (2.01%) SSL
4 16 (1.89%) SSH
5 15 (1.77%) OpenLDAP
6 13 (1.53%) HTTP
7 12 (1.42%) FTP
8 11 (1.30%) SMTP
9 10 (1.18%) IMAP
10 8 (0.94%) VPN
11 6 (0.71%) Network Security
12 5 (0.59%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.59%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.59%) WAN
13 2 (0.24%) Calico
13 2 (0.24%) DHCP
13 2 (0.24%) DKIM
13 2 (0.24%) Ethernet
13 2 (0.24%) RS-232
13 2 (0.24%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (6.26%) Power BI
2 40 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (3.19%) SQL Server
3 27 (3.19%) Tableau
4 19 (2.24%) Big Data
5 16 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (1.89%) Hadoop
6 15 (1.77%) Oracle Database
6 15 (1.77%) Relational Database
7 14 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
8 11 (1.30%) Data Vault
8 11 (1.30%) Metadata
8 11 (1.30%) NoSQL
9 9 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (0.94%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.83%) DB2
12 6 (0.71%) Redis
13 5 (0.59%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 102 (12.04%) Git
2 84 (9.92%) Jenkins
3 50 (5.90%) GitLab
4 39 (4.60%) Selenium
5 33 (3.90%) Bitbucket
6 30 (3.54%) Postman
7 25 (2.95%) Cucumber
8 20 (2.36%) SonarQube
9 18 (2.13%) TestRail
10 17 (2.01%) SpecFlow
10 17 (2.01%) Zephyr
11 16 (1.89%) JUnit
12 13 (1.53%) Maven
13 12 (1.42%) REST Assured
14 11 (1.30%) Vagrant
15 10 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
16 9 (1.06%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 9 (1.06%) Cypress.io
16 9 (1.06%) ER Studio
16 9 (1.06%) Xcode
General
1 362 (42.74%) Social Skills
2 262 (30.93%) Finance
3 135 (15.94%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (13.34%) Banking
5 83 (9.80%) Public Sector
6 28 (3.31%) Investment Banking
6 28 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
7 27 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
8 26 (3.07%) Front Office
9 25 (2.95%) Retail
10 24 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
11 21 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (2.24%) Legal
13 15 (1.77%) Marketing
14 12 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 12 (1.42%) Publishing
14 12 (1.42%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.18%) Back Office
15 10 (1.18%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 147 (17.36%) Analyst
2 111 (13.11%) Business Analyst
3 98 (11.57%) Developer
4 93 (10.98%) Senior
5 85 (10.04%) Project Manager
6 60 (7.08%) Lead
7 36 (4.25%) Architect
8 33 (3.90%) Product Owner
8 33 (3.90%) Tester
9 30 (3.54%) Technical Analyst
10 28 (3.31%) DevOps Engineer
11 27 (3.19%) Consultant
11 27 (3.19%) Technical Business Analyst
12 22 (2.60%) Scrum Master
13 21 (2.48%) Test Engineer
14 20 (2.36%) Delivery Manager
14 20 (2.36%) QA Engineer
15 18 (2.13%) Administrator
15 18 (2.13%) Senior Analyst
15 18 (2.13%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (8.26%) REST
2 47 (5.55%) SOAP
3 41 (4.84%) .NET
3 41 (4.84%) HTML
4 40 (4.72%) AngularJS
5 31 (3.66%) JSON
6 30 (3.54%) LDAP
7 28 (3.31%) Kafka
8 27 (3.19%) CSS
8 27 (3.19%) React
8 27 (3.19%) Web Services
9 25 (2.95%) RESTful
10 22 (2.60%) Playwright
11 21 (2.48%) RabbitMQ
12 20 (2.36%) XML
13 19 (2.24%) HTML5
14 17 (2.01%) Spring
15 16 (1.89%) Oracle Fusion
16 15 (1.77%) jQuery
16 15 (1.77%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 93 (10.98%) Product Ownership
2 32 (3.78%) Onboarding
3 22 (2.60%) Management Information System
4 21 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
5 19 (2.24%) CMDB
5 19 (2.24%) PMI
6 18 (2.13%) Data Structures
7 17 (2.01%) Cloud Native
8 16 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (1.77%) Replication
10 14 (1.65%) Reinsurance
10 14 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.42%) Mobile App
11 12 (1.42%) Virtual Team
12 11 (1.30%) Equities
12 11 (1.30%) Fixed Income
13 10 (1.18%) Data Centre
13 10 (1.18%) Derivative
13 10 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 60 (7.08%) Linux
2 39 (4.60%) Windows
3 30 (3.54%) Unix
4 13 (1.53%) VMS
5 12 (1.42%) Ubuntu
6 10 (1.18%) Amazon Linux
6 10 (1.18%) Android
7 9 (1.06%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.47%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.24%) CentOS
10 2 (0.24%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.12%) Debian
11 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.12%) tvOS
11 1 (0.12%) watchOS
11 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 547 (64.58%) Agile
2 230 (27.15%) Scrum
3 229 (27.04%) DevOps
4 197 (23.26%) Stakeholder Management
5 188 (22.20%) Problem-Solving
6 146 (17.24%) CI/CD
7 134 (15.82%) Project Management
8 127 (14.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 125 (14.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 114 (13.46%) User Stories
11 112 (13.22%) Test Automation
12 95 (11.22%) Migration
13 91 (10.74%) User Acceptance Testing
14 81 (9.56%) Roadmaps
15 80 (9.45%) Analytics
16 78 (9.21%) Microservices
17 76 (8.97%) SDLC
18 75 (8.85%) Kanban
18 75 (8.85%) Project Delivery
18 75 (8.85%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 163 (19.24%) SQL
2 120 (14.17%) Python
3 84 (9.92%) JavaScript
4 81 (9.56%) Java
5 38 (4.49%) C#
6 30 (3.54%) TypeScript
7 27 (3.19%) PowerShell
8 19 (2.24%) Bash
9 18 (2.13%) Go
10 17 (2.01%) Groovy
11 10 (1.18%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.06%) C++
13 8 (0.94%) Apex Code
13 8 (0.94%) Ruby
14 7 (0.83%) Korn
14 7 (0.83%) Kotlin
14 7 (0.83%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.59%) XPath
16 4 (0.47%) Delphi
16 4 (0.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 179 (21.13%) Security Cleared
2 169 (19.95%) SC Cleared
3 117 (13.81%) Degree
4 43 (5.08%) PMI Certification
5 30 (3.54%) ISTQB
5 30 (3.54%) PMP
6 22 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 22 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (2.36%) AWS Certification
8 18 (2.13%) DV Cleared
9 17 (2.01%) CBAP
10 14 (1.65%) Azure Certification
11 12 (1.42%) CISSP
12 11 (1.30%) CSPO
13 8 (0.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 8 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.83%) ISEB
15 6 (0.71%) CEH
15 6 (0.71%) CFA
15 6 (0.71%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (12.99%) QA
2 40 (4.72%) PMO
3 32 (3.78%) Accessibility
4 30 (3.54%) Data Quality
5 21 (2.48%) GDPR
6 19 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.42%) NIST
8 9 (1.06%) WCAG
9 7 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.71%) GRC
10 6 (0.71%) SLA
11 5 (0.59%) NCSC
11 5 (0.59%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.47%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.47%) SEPA
13 3 (0.35%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.35%) ITGC
13 3 (0.35%) MiFID
13 3 (0.35%) PSD2
14 2 (0.24%) FIPS 140-2
System Software
1 70 (8.26%) Docker
2 21 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.18%) DFS Replication
3 10 (1.18%) Dovecot
3 10 (1.18%) Postfix
3 10 (1.18%) Squid
4 3 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.24%) Firmware
5 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.12%) etcd
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 57 (6.73%) Kubernetes
2 51 (6.02%) Terraform
3 24 (2.83%) Ansible
4 22 (2.60%) Grafana
5 17 (2.01%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (1.77%) HP ALM
8 14 (1.65%) Packer
9 13 (1.53%) Consul
10 12 (1.42%) Nessus
11 10 (1.18%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.59%) Puppet
13 4 (0.47%) SCCM
14 3 (0.35%) Ambari
14 3 (0.35%) Istio
14 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (0.35%) RSA Archer
14 3 (0.35%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.24%) Argo
15 2 (0.24%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 100 (11.81%) Microsoft
2 90 (10.63%) ServiceNow
3 60 (7.08%) Oracle
4 56 (6.61%) Salesforce
5 36 (4.25%) Atlassian
6 33 (3.90%) SAP
7 27 (3.19%) Google
7 27 (3.19%) HP
8 19 (2.24%) Remedy
9 14 (1.65%) Adobe
9 14 (1.65%) Cloudera
9 14 (1.65%) Splunk
10 13 (1.53%) BMC
10 13 (1.53%) Databricks
10 13 (1.53%) Foundry
10 13 (1.53%) Palantir
11 12 (1.42%) Ivanti
12 11 (1.30%) Citrix
13 10 (1.18%) Jaspersoft
13 10 (1.18%) Sparx