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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 45 55
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 -7
Contract jobs citing JIRA 893 630 675
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.03% 5.05% 3.82%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.11% 34.81% 29.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 599 409 463
10th Percentile £350 £313 £325
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £850
England median daily rate £485 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 18
10th Percentile - £29.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £31.25 £25.43
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +18.26% -41.28%
75th Percentile £68.13 £43.75 £63.13
90th Percentile £87.70 £46.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £62.00 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +7.83% -4.17% -10.03%

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 2,343 1,810 2,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.20% 14.50% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,548 1,225 1,649
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £626 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £778
England median daily rate £500 £500 £532
% change year-on-year - -6.06% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 25
10th Percentile - £24.49 £23.20
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.14 £25.99
Median hourly rate £31.50 £38.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.71% -3.13% -40.30%
75th Percentile £73.00 £52.50 £71.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.75 £71.63
England median hourly rate £67.50 £60.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.03% -7.31% +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 12 May 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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -5 108 £550 +4.76% 47
South London +5 34 £513 +7.89% 1
West London -25 19 £400 - 7
East London -1 5 £450 +25.00% 6
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
1 382 (42.78%) Confluence
2 44 (4.93%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.57%) Apache
4 12 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (1.12%) nginx
6 7 (0.78%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.67%) CMS
7 6 (0.67%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.67%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.45%) JBoss
8 4 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.45%) SAS
9 3 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.22%) Kentico
10 2 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.22%) WordPress
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.11%) Drupal
11 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 82 (9.18%) Microsoft Project
2 75 (8.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 46 (5.15%) MS Visio
4 43 (4.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (1.34%) Trello
7 6 (0.67%) Notion
8 3 (0.34%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.34%) Revit
9 2 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.22%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.11%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.11%) InDesign
10 1 (0.11%) InVision
10 1 (0.11%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 14 (1.57%) Loan IQ
2 12 (1.34%) NetSuite
2 12 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (1.01%) Aladdin
4 8 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.90%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.67%) Fidessa
5 6 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.56%) Findur
7 4 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.45%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.45%) SAP Retail
8 3 (0.34%) Actimize
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 3 (0.34%) SAP FI-AR
8 3 (0.34%) SimCorp Dimension
8 3 (0.34%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 206 (23.07%) Azure
2 131 (14.67%) Azure DevOps
3 117 (13.10%) AWS
4 60 (6.72%) Power Platform
5 57 (6.38%) GitHub
6 45 (5.04%) Entra ID
7 42 (4.70%) SaaS
8 35 (3.92%) Amazon S3
9 29 (3.25%) GCP
10 28 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
11 27 (3.02%) Serverless
12 26 (2.91%) Figma
13 23 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
14 21 (2.35%) Slack
15 19 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 17 (1.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 16 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
17 16 (1.79%) Miro
18 15 (1.68%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.58%) Firewall
2 14 (1.57%) DNS
3 12 (1.34%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.01%) HTTP
5 8 (0.90%) Ethernet
5 8 (0.90%) SSL
5 8 (0.90%) VPN
6 7 (0.78%) Modbus
6 7 (0.78%) OpenVPN
6 7 (0.78%) RS-232
6 7 (0.78%) RS-485
7 6 (0.67%) FTP
7 6 (0.67%) WAN
8 5 (0.56%) LAN
8 5 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.45%) Network Security
9 4 (0.45%) PSTN
9 4 (0.45%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.34%) NAS
10 3 (0.34%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (5.38%) Power BI
2 31 (3.47%) SQL Server
3 29 (3.25%) Tableau
4 26 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (1.68%) NoSQL
7 13 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (1.46%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.34%) DynamoDB
8 12 (1.34%) Metadata
8 12 (1.34%) MongoDB
9 11 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (1.12%) Delta Lake
11 9 (1.01%) Big Data
12 8 (0.90%) Data Vault
12 8 (0.90%) Oracle Database
13 7 (0.78%) BigQuery
13 7 (0.78%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 100 (11.20%) Git
2 53 (5.94%) Jenkins
3 36 (4.03%) Selenium
4 28 (3.14%) GitLab
5 27 (3.02%) Zephyr
6 24 (2.69%) JUnit
7 20 (2.24%) Cucumber
8 17 (1.90%) Bitbucket
9 14 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
10 13 (1.46%) Cypress.io
10 13 (1.46%) Postman
10 13 (1.46%) SonarQube
11 12 (1.34%) Appium
11 12 (1.34%) TestRail
12 11 (1.23%) JMeter
13 9 (1.01%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.78%) Maven
15 6 (0.67%) ScriptRunner
15 6 (0.67%) SpecFlow
15 6 (0.67%) Subversion
General
1 345 (38.63%) Finance
2 330 (36.95%) Social Skills
3 165 (18.48%) Analytical Skills
4 139 (15.57%) Banking
5 96 (10.75%) Public Sector
6 38 (4.26%) Retail
7 37 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
8 32 (3.58%) Legal
8 32 (3.58%) Organisational Skills
9 31 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
10 28 (3.14%) Investment Banking
11 24 (2.69%) Front Office
12 17 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (1.90%) Marketing
13 16 (1.79%) Financial Institution
14 11 (1.23%) Corporate Banking
15 9 (1.01%) Back Office
15 9 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 9 (1.01%) Publishing
15 9 (1.01%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 195 (21.84%) Analyst
2 131 (14.67%) Business Analyst
3 98 (10.97%) Developer
4 94 (10.53%) Lead
5 89 (9.97%) Senior
6 58 (6.49%) Project Manager
7 41 (4.59%) Delivery Manager
8 32 (3.58%) IT Support
9 28 (3.14%) Consultant
9 28 (3.14%) Technical Manager
9 28 (3.14%) Tester
10 27 (3.02%) Test Engineer
11 26 (2.91%) Data Engineer
11 26 (2.91%) Senior Analyst
12 25 (2.80%) Scrum Master
13 24 (2.69%) Support Engineer
14 23 (2.58%) Architect
14 23 (2.58%) Banking Analyst
15 22 (2.46%) IT Support Engineer
15 22 (2.46%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (4.48%) REST
2 31 (3.47%) .NET
3 30 (3.36%) React
4 25 (2.80%) Kafka
5 22 (2.46%) HTML
6 20 (2.24%) Spring
7 19 (2.13%) AngularJS
7 19 (2.13%) RESTful
8 18 (2.02%) CSS
9 17 (1.90%) Lightning Web Components
10 16 (1.79%) Node.js
10 16 (1.79%) Oracle Fusion
10 16 (1.79%) SOAP
11 14 (1.57%) JSON
11 14 (1.57%) Playwright
11 14 (1.57%) Spring Boot
11 14 (1.57%) XML
12 12 (1.34%) ADO
12 12 (1.34%) OpenID
13 11 (1.23%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 93 (10.41%) Product Ownership
2 46 (5.15%) Onboarding
3 27 (3.02%) Management Information System
4 24 (2.69%) Analytical Mindset
5 22 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
6 20 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
7 18 (2.02%) Virtual Team
8 17 (1.90%) Data Centre
9 15 (1.68%) Cloud Native
10 14 (1.57%) Data Structures
11 13 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 12 (1.34%) Mobile App
12 12 (1.34%) Public Cloud
13 11 (1.23%) Derivative
13 11 (1.23%) Market Risk
13 11 (1.23%) Reinsurance
13 11 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
15 8 (0.90%) Fixed Income
15 8 (0.90%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 51 (5.71%) Windows
2 33 (3.70%) Linux
3 11 (1.23%) Apple iOS
4 10 (1.12%) Android
5 7 (0.78%) FreeRTOS
5 7 (0.78%) Unix
6 5 (0.56%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.34%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 514 (57.56%) Agile
2 245 (27.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 210 (23.52%) DevOps
4 181 (20.27%) Scrum
5 177 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
6 164 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
7 137 (15.34%) Test Automation
8 125 (14.00%) CI/CD
9 124 (13.89%) Migration
10 121 (13.55%) Project Management
11 116 (12.99%) User Stories
12 107 (11.98%) User Acceptance Testing
13 101 (11.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 96 (10.75%) Change Management
15 95 (10.64%) Roadmaps
15 95 (10.64%) SDLC
16 91 (10.19%) Analytics
17 90 (10.08%) Validation
18 87 (9.74%) Data Modelling
18 87 (9.74%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 155 (17.36%) SQL
2 94 (10.53%) Python
3 87 (9.74%) Java
4 59 (6.61%) C#
5 43 (4.82%) JavaScript
6 39 (4.37%) TypeScript
7 17 (1.90%) PowerShell
8 14 (1.57%) Apex Code
8 14 (1.57%) C++
9 11 (1.23%) Bash
10 7 (0.78%) Embedded C++
10 7 (0.78%) Groovy
10 7 (0.78%) Perl
10 7 (0.78%) Shell Script
11 5 (0.56%) C
11 5 (0.56%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.34%) Embedded C
12 3 (0.34%) Korn
12 3 (0.34%) VBA
12 3 (0.34%) XPath
Qualifications
1 188 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 162 (18.14%) SC Cleared
3 70 (7.84%) Degree
4 27 (3.02%) PMI Certification
5 24 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 23 (2.58%) ISTQB
7 20 (2.24%) PMP
8 19 (2.13%) DV Cleared
9 18 (2.02%) CBAP
10 13 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (1.23%) Azure Certification
11 11 (1.23%) IIBA
12 10 (1.12%) ISEB
13 9 (1.01%) CISSP
14 8 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
14 8 (0.90%) Master's Degree
15 7 (0.78%) CISM
16 6 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.67%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (13.33%) QA
2 60 (6.72%) Data Quality
3 42 (4.70%) PMO
4 30 (3.36%) Accessibility
5 28 (3.14%) GDPR
6 16 (1.79%) SLA
7 13 (1.46%) WCAG
8 11 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.23%) NIST
9 7 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.78%) GRC
9 7 (0.78%) MiFID
10 6 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.45%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.34%) Basel III
12 3 (0.34%) EMIR
12 3 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.34%) NCSC
12 3 (0.34%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.22%) P3O
System Software
1 40 (4.48%) Docker
2 38 (4.26%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.90%) Squid
4 7 (0.78%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (0.78%) Firmware
5 4 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 47 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 46 (5.15%) Terraform
3 20 (2.24%) Ansible
3 20 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
4 19 (2.13%) Prometheus
5 18 (2.02%) Grafana
6 11 (1.23%) Consul
6 11 (1.23%) HP ALM
7 9 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.78%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.56%) Control-M
9 5 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.45%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.45%) PingFederate
11 2 (0.22%) CASB
11 2 (0.22%) Packer
11 2 (0.22%) Puppet
11 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.22%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 106 (11.87%) Microsoft
2 103 (11.53%) ServiceNow
3 74 (8.29%) Salesforce
4 68 (7.61%) Oracle
5 40 (4.48%) SAP
6 36 (4.03%) Atlassian
7 29 (3.25%) Google
8 19 (2.13%) Databricks
9 14 (1.57%) Adobe
9 14 (1.57%) Citrix
9 14 (1.57%) MuleSoft
10 13 (1.46%) Murex
11 12 (1.34%) IBM
11 12 (1.34%) Workday
12 11 (1.23%) HP
12 11 (1.23%) Informatica
12 11 (1.23%) Okta
13 10 (1.12%) Dynatrace
13 10 (1.12%) ForgeRock
13 10 (1.12%) Remedy