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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 48 46
Rank change year-on-year +9 -2 -6
Contract jobs citing JIRA 821 641 785
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.73% 4.36% 4.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.82% 31.51% 33.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 415 546
10th Percentile £327 £275 £375
25th Percentile £413 £389 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £675
90th Percentile £715 £725 £825
England median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -1.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £33.05 £20.75 £23.00
25th Percentile £36.50 £21.88 £26.56
Median hourly rate £43.00 £25.00 £35.13
Median % change year-on-year +72.00% -28.83% +46.35%
75th Percentile £44.88 £29.38 £40.47
90th Percentile £46.00 £31.25 £49.06
England median hourly rate £64.75 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.60% +4.17% -7.69%

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 2,230 2,034 2,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.56% 13.83% 12.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,519 1,329 1,755
10th Percentile £355 £345 £400
25th Percentile £425 £420 £463
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 £788
England median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 21
10th Percentile £37.65 £22.25 £25.38
25th Percentile £42.63 £25.63 £30.00
Median hourly rate £56.50 £48.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.90% +14.71% -26.09%
75th Percentile £86.88 £77.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £110.00 £87.88 £73.65
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -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 29 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 29 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 +10 127 £500 -4.31% 124
South London -1 27 £525 +26.51% 25
West London -24 7 £300 -29.82% 10
East London -2 4 £456 -11.84% 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
1 379 (46.16%) Confluence
2 42 (5.12%) SharePoint
3 28 (3.41%) nginx
4 15 (1.83%) CMS
5 10 (1.22%) Apache
6 6 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (0.73%) WordPress
7 4 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.37%) Drupal
8 3 (0.37%) Traefik
9 2 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.24%) CICS
9 2 (0.24%) Magnolia
10 1 (0.12%) IIS
10 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
10 1 (0.12%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.12%) SugarCRM
10 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 67 (8.16%) Microsoft Project
2 66 (8.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (5.36%) MS Visio
4 43 (5.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
5 26 (3.17%) Trello
6 10 (1.22%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 6 (0.73%) Notion
8 5 (0.61%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.49%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.49%) InVision
9 4 (0.49%) Sketch
10 2 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.24%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.24%) InDesign
10 2 (0.24%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.12%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 13 (1.58%) NetSuite
1 13 (1.58%) Remedy ITSM
2 11 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (1.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 7 (0.85%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.49%) Endur
6 4 (0.49%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.49%) Oracle EBS R12
6 4 (0.49%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.37%) Algo Collateral
7 3 (0.37%) Loan IQ
7 3 (0.37%) Oracle BPM
7 3 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.24%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (0.24%) PORTIA
8 2 (0.24%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 188 (22.90%) Azure
2 152 (18.51%) AWS
3 97 (11.81%) Azure DevOps
4 82 (9.99%) GitHub
5 64 (7.80%) Power Platform
6 43 (5.24%) GCP
7 35 (4.26%) Serverless
8 32 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
9 27 (3.29%) Amazon EC2
10 26 (3.17%) Amazon S3
11 23 (2.80%) SaaS
12 22 (2.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 22 (2.68%) Figma
13 21 (2.56%) Power Automate
14 20 (2.44%) Miro
14 20 (2.44%) Slack
15 19 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (2.07%) Snowflake
16 17 (2.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.05%) Firewall
2 20 (2.44%) DNS
3 16 (1.95%) SSH
4 15 (1.83%) OpenLDAP
4 15 (1.83%) SSL
5 13 (1.58%) FTP
5 13 (1.58%) HTTP
6 11 (1.34%) SMTP
7 10 (1.22%) IMAP
8 8 (0.97%) VPN
9 6 (0.73%) Network Security
10 5 (0.61%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.61%) TCP/IP
10 5 (0.61%) WAN
11 4 (0.49%) Ethernet
11 4 (0.49%) Modbus
11 4 (0.49%) RS-232
11 4 (0.49%) RS-485
12 2 (0.24%) NAS
12 2 (0.24%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (6.70%) Power BI
2 40 (4.87%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (3.65%) Tableau
4 28 (3.41%) SQL Server
5 16 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (1.95%) Big Data
6 15 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (1.83%) Hadoop
6 15 (1.83%) Relational Database
7 14 (1.71%) Oracle Database
8 13 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
8 13 (1.58%) NoSQL
9 11 (1.34%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (1.34%) Data Vault
9 11 (1.34%) Metadata
10 9 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
11 7 (0.85%) DB2
12 6 (0.73%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.73%) Redis
12 6 (0.73%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 100 (12.18%) Git
2 82 (9.99%) Jenkins
3 51 (6.21%) GitLab
4 39 (4.75%) Selenium
5 30 (3.65%) Bitbucket
6 29 (3.53%) Postman
7 25 (3.05%) Cucumber
8 20 (2.44%) SonarQube
9 18 (2.19%) Zephyr
10 17 (2.07%) JUnit
10 17 (2.07%) TestRail
11 15 (1.83%) SpecFlow
12 13 (1.58%) Maven
13 12 (1.46%) REST Assured
14 10 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
14 10 (1.22%) Vagrant
15 9 (1.10%) Cypress.io
15 9 (1.10%) ER Studio
15 9 (1.10%) ERwin
15 9 (1.10%) PowerDesigner
General
1 336 (40.93%) Social Skills
2 262 (31.91%) Finance
3 137 (16.69%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (13.28%) Banking
5 84 (10.23%) Public Sector
6 28 (3.41%) Investment Banking
6 28 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
7 27 (3.29%) Retail
8 26 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
9 24 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
10 23 (2.80%) Front Office
11 21 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (2.31%) Legal
13 15 (1.83%) Marketing
14 12 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 12 (1.46%) Publishing
14 12 (1.46%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.10%) Back Office
15 9 (1.10%) Financial Institution
16 6 (0.73%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 146 (17.78%) Analyst
2 110 (13.40%) Business Analyst
3 95 (11.57%) Developer
4 83 (10.11%) Senior
5 77 (9.38%) Project Manager
6 62 (7.55%) Lead
7 33 (4.02%) Product Owner
7 33 (4.02%) Tester
8 32 (3.90%) Technical Analyst
9 29 (3.53%) Consultant
10 28 (3.41%) Technical Business Analyst
11 27 (3.29%) Architect
12 26 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
13 24 (2.92%) Test Engineer
14 22 (2.68%) Scrum Master
15 20 (2.44%) QA Engineer
16 19 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
16 19 (2.31%) Senior Business Analyst
17 17 (2.07%) Delivery Manager
17 17 (2.07%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (7.80%) REST
2 41 (4.99%) SOAP
3 38 (4.63%) HTML
4 34 (4.14%) .NET
5 31 (3.78%) AngularJS
6 29 (3.53%) Kafka
7 27 (3.29%) CSS
7 27 (3.29%) JSON
8 26 (3.17%) LDAP
9 24 (2.92%) RESTful
9 24 (2.92%) Web Services
10 23 (2.80%) React
11 21 (2.56%) XML
12 20 (2.44%) Playwright
13 18 (2.19%) Spring
14 17 (2.07%) Oracle Fusion
15 16 (1.95%) Node.js
15 16 (1.95%) RabbitMQ
16 15 (1.83%) HTML5
17 13 (1.58%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 89 (10.84%) Product Ownership
2 32 (3.90%) Onboarding
3 22 (2.68%) Analytical Mindset
3 22 (2.68%) Management Information System
4 19 (2.31%) PMI
5 18 (2.19%) CMDB
5 18 (2.19%) Data Structures
6 17 (2.07%) Cloud Native
7 16 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
8 15 (1.83%) Replication
9 13 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.46%) Equities
10 12 (1.46%) Mobile App
10 12 (1.46%) Virtual Team
11 11 (1.34%) Fixed Income
12 10 (1.22%) Reinsurance
13 9 (1.10%) Derivative
13 9 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 56 (6.82%) Linux
2 43 (5.24%) Windows
3 28 (3.41%) Unix
4 13 (1.58%) VMS
5 11 (1.34%) Ubuntu
6 10 (1.22%) Amazon Linux
6 10 (1.22%) Android
7 9 (1.10%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.61%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.49%) FreeRTOS
9 4 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.37%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.12%) CentOS
11 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.12%) tvOS
11 1 (0.12%) watchOS
11 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 517 (62.97%) Agile
2 225 (27.41%) Scrum
3 223 (27.16%) DevOps
4 197 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 182 (22.17%) Problem-Solving
6 145 (17.66%) CI/CD
7 129 (15.71%) Project Management
8 123 (14.98%) Continuous Improvement
9 121 (14.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 115 (14.01%) Test Automation
11 114 (13.89%) User Stories
12 91 (11.08%) Migration
13 86 (10.48%) Analytics
14 85 (10.35%) User Acceptance Testing
15 78 (9.50%) Roadmaps
16 77 (9.38%) Project Delivery
17 74 (9.01%) Kanban
17 74 (9.01%) Requirements Gathering
18 72 (8.77%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 72 (8.77%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 160 (19.49%) SQL
2 111 (13.52%) Python
3 77 (9.38%) JavaScript
4 75 (9.14%) Java
5 35 (4.26%) C#
6 28 (3.41%) PowerShell
7 26 (3.17%) TypeScript
8 19 (2.31%) Bash
9 17 (2.07%) Groovy
10 16 (1.95%) Go
11 10 (1.22%) Apex Code
11 10 (1.22%) Shell Script
12 9 (1.10%) C++
13 8 (0.97%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.97%) Ruby
14 7 (0.85%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.73%) Korn
16 5 (0.61%) XPath
17 4 (0.49%) Embedded C++
17 4 (0.49%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 174 (21.19%) Security Cleared
2 165 (20.10%) SC Cleared
3 109 (13.28%) Degree
4 42 (5.12%) PMI Certification
5 30 (3.65%) ISTQB
6 28 (3.41%) PMP
7 20 (2.44%) AWS Certification
7 20 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 20 (2.44%) CBAP
7 20 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (2.07%) DV Cleared
9 13 (1.58%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.46%) CISSP
11 11 (1.34%) CSPO
12 9 (1.10%) ISEB
13 8 (0.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 8 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.85%) CFA
15 6 (0.73%) CEH
15 6 (0.73%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (12.06%) QA
2 40 (4.87%) PMO
3 32 (3.90%) Accessibility
4 28 (3.41%) Data Quality
5 21 (2.56%) GDPR
6 19 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (1.71%) NIST
8 9 (1.10%) WCAG
9 8 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.85%) GRC
11 6 (0.73%) SLA
12 5 (0.61%) NCSC
12 5 (0.61%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.49%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.49%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.49%) SEPA
14 3 (0.37%) PSD2
15 2 (0.24%) ITGC
15 2 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 70 (8.53%) Docker
2 22 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.34%) Squid
4 10 (1.22%) DFS Replication
4 10 (1.22%) Dovecot
4 10 (1.22%) Postfix
5 4 (0.49%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.49%) Firmware
6 3 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.12%) etcd
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 54 (6.58%) Kubernetes
2 45 (5.48%) Terraform
3 21 (2.56%) Ansible
3 21 (2.56%) Grafana
4 16 (1.95%) Prometheus
5 12 (1.46%) Nessus
5 12 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (1.34%) HP ALM
6 11 (1.34%) Packer
7 10 (1.22%) Consul
7 10 (1.22%) Proxmox
8 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.49%) Puppet
8 4 (0.49%) SCCM
9 3 (0.37%) Ambari
9 3 (0.37%) Control-M
9 3 (0.37%) Istio
9 3 (0.37%) RSA Archer
9 3 (0.37%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.24%) Argo
Vendors
1 99 (12.06%) Microsoft
2 83 (10.11%) ServiceNow
3 60 (7.31%) Oracle
4 54 (6.58%) Salesforce
5 37 (4.51%) Atlassian
6 34 (4.14%) SAP
7 24 (2.92%) Google
8 19 (2.31%) HP
9 16 (1.95%) Remedy
10 14 (1.71%) Adobe
10 14 (1.71%) Databricks
11 13 (1.58%) Cloudera
12 12 (1.46%) Foundry
12 12 (1.46%) Palantir
12 12 (1.46%) Splunk
13 11 (1.34%) Citrix
13 11 (1.34%) MuleSoft
14 10 (1.22%) Jaspersoft
14 10 (1.22%) Sparx
15 9 (1.10%) Dynatrace