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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 36 54
Rank change year-on-year -7 +18 -4
Contract jobs citing JIRA 979 769 671
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.90% 5.66% 4.03%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.46% 36.83% 28.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 650 519 470
10th Percentile £350 £331 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £627
90th Percentile £750 £750 £744
England median daily rate £495 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -1.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 17
10th Percentile - £33.10 £22.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £36.63 £25.99
Median hourly rate £19.50 £45.00 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -56.67% +41.91% -41.28%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.20 £80.50 £71.25
England median hourly rate £53.00 £63.00 £66.25
% change year-on-year -15.87% -4.91% +6.00%

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 2,481 2,088 2,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.43% 15.38% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,602 1,415 1,663
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £433 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £760 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 24
10th Percentile - £26.04 £22.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £33.50 £25.99
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £35.29
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +27.53% -49.59%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.63 £71.25
90th Percentile £83.95 £88.75 £71.69
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -17 116 £550 +6.80% 36
South London +3 29 £513 -11.85% 3
West London -10 24 £400 -3.61% 5
North London -1 2 - - 1
East London -1 1 £300 -26.38% 4
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 (41.06%) Confluence
2 56 (5.72%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.92%) CMS
5 7 (0.72%) SAS
6 6 (0.61%) Apache
7 4 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.41%) JBoss
7 4 (0.41%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.31%) nginx
8 3 (0.31%) WordPress
9 2 (0.20%) Camunda
9 2 (0.20%) Kentico
10 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.10%) Drupal
10 1 (0.10%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.10%) IIS
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 65 (6.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (6.03%) Microsoft Project
3 42 (4.29%) MS Visio
4 33 (3.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 24 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (1.02%) AutoCAD
7 9 (0.92%) Trello
8 8 (0.82%) Revit
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 18 (1.84%) Remedy ITSM
2 14 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (1.33%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.92%) Loan IQ
5 8 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.82%) Findur
6 7 (0.72%) Fidessa
7 5 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.41%) Actimize
9 3 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.31%) SAP FI-AR
9 3 (0.31%) Summit
9 3 (0.31%) Workday HCM
10 2 (0.20%) CA PPM
10 2 (0.20%) Eloqua
10 2 (0.20%) IntelliMatch
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.20%) Shopify
10 2 (0.20%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 282 (28.80%) Azure
2 155 (15.83%) Azure DevOps
3 147 (15.02%) AWS
4 82 (8.38%) Power Platform
5 68 (6.95%) GitHub
6 59 (6.03%) Entra ID
7 53 (5.41%) SaaS
8 45 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
9 43 (4.39%) Amazon S3
9 43 (4.39%) Serverless
10 36 (3.68%) GCP
11 33 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
12 32 (3.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 29 (2.96%) Amazon EC2
13 29 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
14 21 (2.15%) Snowflake
15 19 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
16 18 (1.84%) Figma
16 18 (1.84%) PowerApps
17 17 (1.74%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.25%) DNS
1 22 (2.25%) Firewall
2 16 (1.63%) VPN
3 15 (1.53%) TCP/IP
4 9 (0.92%) WAN
5 8 (0.82%) DHCP
6 7 (0.72%) Network Security
7 5 (0.51%) DKIM
7 5 (0.51%) DMARC
7 5 (0.51%) HTTP
7 5 (0.51%) LAN
7 5 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.41%) FTP
8 4 (0.41%) PSTN
8 4 (0.41%) SSL
8 4 (0.41%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.31%) Internet
9 3 (0.31%) NGFW
9 3 (0.31%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.20%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (6.84%) Power BI
2 35 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (2.55%) SQL Server
4 18 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
4 18 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (1.84%) Tableau
5 16 (1.63%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.43%) DynamoDB
7 13 (1.33%) Metadata
8 12 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (1.12%) Data Lake
10 10 (1.02%) Oracle Database
11 9 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
12 8 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (0.72%) Crystal Reports
14 6 (0.61%) BigQuery
14 6 (0.61%) MongoDB
14 6 (0.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 6 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 108 (11.03%) Git
2 71 (7.25%) Jenkins
3 41 (4.19%) GitLab
4 33 (3.37%) Selenium
5 29 (2.96%) Zephyr
6 19 (1.94%) JUnit
7 18 (1.84%) Cucumber
8 16 (1.63%) Bitbucket
9 15 (1.53%) Cypress.io
10 14 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
11 12 (1.23%) REST Assured
12 11 (1.12%) TestRail
13 10 (1.02%) Postman
14 9 (0.92%) Appium
15 8 (0.82%) JMeter
16 7 (0.72%) Mockito
17 6 (0.61%) ScriptRunner
17 6 (0.61%) SonarQube
18 5 (0.51%) Artifactory
18 5 (0.51%) TeamCity
General
1 388 (39.63%) Finance
2 383 (39.12%) Social Skills
3 185 (18.90%) Banking
4 176 (17.98%) Analytical Skills
5 109 (11.13%) Public Sector
6 42 (4.29%) Organisational Skills
7 38 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
7 38 (3.88%) Retail
8 32 (3.27%) Front Office
9 31 (3.17%) Investment Banking
10 26 (2.66%) Legal
11 22 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (1.74%) Financial Institution
12 17 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (1.74%) Marketing
13 16 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 16 (1.63%) Retail Banking
14 14 (1.43%) Corporate Banking
15 13 (1.33%) Back Office
16 10 (1.02%) Law
Job Titles
1 199 (20.33%) Analyst
2 128 (13.07%) Business Analyst
3 109 (11.13%) Developer
4 103 (10.52%) Lead
5 92 (9.40%) Senior
6 58 (5.92%) Project Manager
7 48 (4.90%) Delivery Manager
8 44 (4.49%) IT Support
9 37 (3.78%) Architect
10 33 (3.37%) Support Engineer
11 31 (3.17%) Consultant
12 29 (2.96%) Scrum Master
12 29 (2.96%) Tester
13 28 (2.86%) Test Leader
14 26 (2.66%) IT Engineer
14 26 (2.66%) Product Owner
15 25 (2.55%) Banking Analyst
15 25 (2.55%) Data Engineer
15 25 (2.55%) IT Support Engineer
15 25 (2.55%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (5.31%) REST
2 41 (4.19%) .NET
3 31 (3.17%) React
4 23 (2.35%) JSON
5 21 (2.15%) SOAP
6 18 (1.84%) AngularJS
6 18 (1.84%) CSS
6 18 (1.84%) HTML
6 18 (1.84%) Kafka
6 18 (1.84%) PySpark
7 16 (1.63%) Playwright
7 16 (1.63%) RESTful
8 15 (1.53%) Lightning Web Components
9 14 (1.43%) Node.js
9 14 (1.43%) Spring
9 14 (1.43%) XML
10 13 (1.33%) Web Services
11 12 (1.23%) Middleware
11 12 (1.23%) OAuth
12 11 (1.12%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 103 (10.52%) Product Ownership
2 67 (6.84%) Onboarding
3 24 (2.45%) Data Centre
4 23 (2.35%) Cloud Native
5 21 (2.15%) Data Structures
6 20 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (1.94%) Management Information System
8 18 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (1.84%) Virtual Team
9 17 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.63%) Derivative
11 15 (1.53%) Credit Risk
11 15 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 13 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
13 12 (1.23%) Fixed Income
13 12 (1.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 10 (1.02%) Mobile App
14 10 (1.02%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 57 (5.82%) Windows
2 33 (3.37%) Linux
3 11 (1.12%) Apple iOS
4 10 (1.02%) Android
4 10 (1.02%) Mac OS
4 10 (1.02%) Unix
5 7 (0.72%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
6 5 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.20%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.10%) SUSE
8 1 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 566 (57.81%) Agile
2 315 (32.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 266 (27.17%) DevOps
4 214 (21.86%) Problem-Solving
5 177 (18.08%) CI/CD
6 174 (17.77%) Scrum
7 166 (16.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 155 (15.83%) Migration
9 141 (14.40%) User Acceptance Testing
10 132 (13.48%) Test Automation
11 127 (12.97%) User Stories
12 124 (12.67%) AI
13 106 (10.83%) SDLC
14 104 (10.62%) Acceptance Criteria
14 104 (10.62%) Change Management
14 104 (10.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 99 (10.11%) Validation
16 97 (9.91%) Project Management
17 91 (9.30%) Analytics
18 90 (9.19%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 176 (17.98%) SQL
2 107 (10.93%) Python
3 76 (7.76%) Java
4 62 (6.33%) C#
5 38 (3.88%) JavaScript
6 35 (3.58%) PowerShell
7 34 (3.47%) TypeScript
8 14 (1.43%) Apex Code
8 14 (1.43%) Bash
9 10 (1.02%) Groovy
10 9 (0.92%) Perl
10 9 (0.92%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.61%) VBA
12 4 (0.41%) C++
13 3 (0.31%) Bicep
13 3 (0.31%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.31%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.31%) Swift
13 3 (0.31%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.20%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 214 (21.86%) Security Cleared
2 187 (19.10%) SC Cleared
3 73 (7.46%) Degree
4 26 (2.66%) PMI Certification
5 21 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 20 (2.04%) PMP
7 19 (1.94%) DV Cleared
8 18 (1.84%) ISTQB
9 14 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (1.23%) AWS Certification
11 10 (1.02%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.02%) CISSP
12 9 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (0.92%) Master's Degree
13 8 (0.82%) CISM
14 7 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 7 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 7 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
14 7 (0.72%) IIBA
15 6 (0.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (11.85%) QA
2 68 (6.95%) Data Quality
3 42 (4.29%) PMO
4 26 (2.66%) Accessibility
4 26 (2.66%) GDPR
4 26 (2.66%) SLA
5 20 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.23%) WCAG
7 8 (0.82%) ISO 20022
7 8 (0.82%) NIST
8 7 (0.72%) GRC
9 6 (0.61%) MiFID
9 6 (0.61%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.61%) SEPA
10 5 (0.51%) COBIT
11 4 (0.41%) EMIR
11 4 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 4 (0.41%) NCSC
11 4 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 53 (5.41%) Active Directory
2 35 (3.58%) Docker
3 8 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.20%) Firmware
6 2 (0.20%) Squid
7 1 (0.10%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 70 (7.15%) Terraform
2 56 (5.72%) Kubernetes
3 28 (2.86%) Ansible
4 21 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
5 19 (1.94%) Grafana
6 18 (1.84%) Prometheus
7 13 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
8 10 (1.02%) HP ALM
9 8 (0.82%) Control-M
10 7 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.51%) Consul
12 4 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.41%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.41%) PingFederate
12 4 (0.41%) Podman
13 3 (0.31%) Istio
13 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Clustering
13 3 (0.31%) SCOM
14 2 (0.20%) Packer
14 2 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 138 (14.10%) Microsoft
2 128 (13.07%) ServiceNow
3 72 (7.35%) Salesforce
4 49 (5.01%) Oracle
5 37 (3.78%) SAP
6 33 (3.37%) Google
7 32 (3.27%) Atlassian
8 18 (1.84%) Adobe
8 18 (1.84%) Remedy
9 17 (1.74%) Okta
10 16 (1.63%) Databricks
10 16 (1.63%) IBM
11 15 (1.53%) MuleSoft
11 15 (1.53%) Splunk
12 12 (1.23%) Informatica
12 12 (1.23%) Workday
13 11 (1.12%) HP
14 10 (1.02%) DocuSign
14 10 (1.02%) ForgeRock
15 9 (0.92%) PagerDuty