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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 47 45
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing JIRA 804 604 746
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.61% 4.33% 4.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.38% 31.21% 32.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 397 529
10th Percentile £325 £277 £363
25th Percentile £421 £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 £713 £725 £825
England median daily rate £500 £489 £533
% change year-on-year +2.30% -8.22% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile £42.33 £20.75 £28.13
25th Percentile £42.44 £21.88 £32.66
Median hourly rate £43.75 £25.00 £39.38
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -36.51% +64.06%
75th Percentile £45.81 £29.38 £53.28
90th Percentile £46.38 £31.25 £57.50
England median hourly rate £65.20 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.32% +4.17% -5.88%

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 2,210 1,935 2,280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.43% 13.86% 12.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,503 1,264 1,680
10th Percentile £356 £345 £400
25th Percentile £425 £424 £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 £725 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £515 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 20
10th Percentile £42.55 £22.25 £25.71
25th Percentile £43.00 £25.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £56.50 £48.75 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +15.90% - -15.22%
75th Percentile £110.00 £77.19 £70.00
90th Percentile - £87.88 £73.66
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 January 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
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 January 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 +8 120 £525 +0.48% 18
South London 0 28 £519 +25.00% 8
West London -21 9 £400 +1.27% 7
East London -1 5 £450 -18.18% 5
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
1 371 (46.14%) Confluence
2 42 (5.22%) SharePoint
3 27 (3.36%) nginx
4 14 (1.74%) Apache
5 9 (1.12%) CMS
6 6 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.37%) Traefik
8 3 (0.37%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.37%) WordPress
9 2 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.25%) CICS
9 2 (0.25%) Magnolia
10 1 (0.12%) IIS
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.12%) SugarCRM
10 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 68 (8.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (7.96%) Microsoft Project
3 45 (5.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (5.35%) MS Visio
5 27 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
6 24 (2.99%) Trello
7 9 (1.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 5 (0.62%) Notion
9 4 (0.50%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.50%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.37%) InVision
10 3 (0.37%) Sketch
11 2 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.25%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.25%) InDesign
11 2 (0.25%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.12%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (1.74%) NetSuite
2 12 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (1.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 7 (0.87%) Aladdin
4 7 (0.87%) Fidessa
4 7 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.50%) Endur
6 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS R12
6 4 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 4 (0.50%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 3 (0.37%) Algo Collateral
7 3 (0.37%) Loan IQ
7 3 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.37%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.37%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.25%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 183 (22.76%) Azure
2 148 (18.41%) AWS
3 97 (12.06%) Azure DevOps
4 86 (10.70%) GitHub
5 61 (7.59%) Power Platform
6 42 (5.22%) GCP
7 35 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
8 34 (4.23%) Serverless
9 26 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
10 25 (3.11%) Amazon S3
10 25 (3.11%) SaaS
11 21 (2.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 20 (2.49%) Power Automate
12 20 (2.49%) Slack
13 19 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
13 19 (2.36%) Figma
13 19 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
14 18 (2.24%) Snowflake
15 16 (1.99%) Miro
15 16 (1.99%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.11%) Firewall
2 18 (2.24%) DNS
3 15 (1.87%) SSH
4 14 (1.74%) OpenLDAP
5 12 (1.49%) FTP
5 12 (1.49%) HTTP
6 10 (1.24%) SMTP
7 9 (1.12%) IMAP
7 9 (1.12%) SSL
8 7 (0.87%) SD-WAN
8 7 (0.87%) WAN
9 6 (0.75%) Ethernet
9 6 (0.75%) Modbus
9 6 (0.75%) RS-232
9 6 (0.75%) RS-485
9 6 (0.75%) VPN
10 5 (0.62%) Network Security
10 5 (0.62%) TCP/IP
11 2 (0.25%) NAS
11 2 (0.25%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (6.47%) Power BI
2 36 (4.48%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (3.73%) Tableau
4 27 (3.36%) SQL Server
5 18 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (1.99%) Big Data
6 16 (1.99%) Relational Database
7 15 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (1.74%) Hadoop
9 13 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (1.62%) NoSQL
10 12 (1.49%) Data Vault
11 11 (1.37%) Metadata
11 11 (1.37%) Oracle Database
12 10 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
13 9 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (0.87%) DB2
14 7 (0.87%) Star Schema
15 6 (0.75%) BigQuery
15 6 (0.75%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 98 (12.19%) Git
2 80 (9.95%) Jenkins
3 52 (6.47%) GitLab
4 37 (4.60%) Selenium
5 28 (3.48%) Bitbucket
6 26 (3.23%) Postman
7 22 (2.74%) Cucumber
8 18 (2.24%) SonarQube
8 18 (2.24%) TestRail
9 15 (1.87%) JUnit
9 15 (1.87%) SpecFlow
9 15 (1.87%) Zephyr
10 13 (1.62%) Maven
11 12 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (1.24%) REST Assured
13 9 (1.12%) ER Studio
13 9 (1.12%) ERwin
13 9 (1.12%) JMeter
13 9 (1.12%) PowerDesigner
13 9 (1.12%) Vagrant
General
1 328 (40.80%) Social Skills
2 259 (32.21%) Finance
3 145 (18.03%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (13.31%) Banking
5 78 (9.70%) Public Sector
6 30 (3.73%) Investment Banking
7 29 (3.61%) Retail
8 27 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
9 26 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
10 23 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
10 23 (2.86%) Front Office
11 22 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (2.36%) Legal
13 13 (1.62%) Marketing
14 12 (1.49%) Telecoms
15 11 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 11 (1.37%) Publishing
16 10 (1.24%) Back Office
17 9 (1.12%) Financial Institution
18 8 (1.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 157 (19.53%) Analyst
2 114 (14.18%) Business Analyst
3 95 (11.82%) Developer
4 77 (9.58%) Senior
5 72 (8.96%) Project Manager
6 67 (8.33%) Lead
7 34 (4.23%) Technical Analyst
8 30 (3.73%) Tester
9 29 (3.61%) Technical Business Analyst
10 26 (3.23%) Consultant
11 24 (2.99%) DevOps Engineer
12 23 (2.86%) Product Owner
12 23 (2.86%) Scrum Master
13 22 (2.74%) Senior Analyst
13 22 (2.74%) Test Engineer
14 21 (2.61%) Architect
14 21 (2.61%) Senior Business Analyst
15 20 (2.49%) QA Engineer
16 18 (2.24%) Delivery Manager
17 17 (2.11%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (7.59%) REST
2 35 (4.35%) SOAP
3 32 (3.98%) .NET
4 28 (3.48%) HTML
5 26 (3.23%) Kafka
6 23 (2.86%) AngularJS
7 22 (2.74%) CSS
7 22 (2.74%) React
7 22 (2.74%) XML
8 21 (2.61%) JSON
9 20 (2.49%) LDAP
9 20 (2.49%) Playwright
10 19 (2.36%) Oracle Fusion
10 19 (2.36%) RESTful
11 18 (2.24%) Spring
12 16 (1.99%) Node.js
12 16 (1.99%) Web Services
13 13 (1.62%) Apache NiFi
14 11 (1.37%) pytest
14 11 (1.37%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 80 (9.95%) Product Ownership
2 32 (3.98%) Onboarding
3 23 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 23 (2.86%) Management Information System
4 20 (2.49%) Data Structures
4 20 (2.49%) PMI
5 18 (2.24%) CMDB
6 16 (1.99%) Cloud Native
7 14 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (1.74%) Replication
8 13 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.62%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (1.37%) Equities
9 11 (1.37%) Fixed Income
10 10 (1.24%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.12%) Derivative
11 9 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (1.12%) Market Risk
11 9 (1.12%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 52 (6.47%) Linux
2 43 (5.35%) Windows
3 24 (2.99%) Unix
4 12 (1.49%) VMS
5 10 (1.24%) Android
6 9 (1.12%) Amazon Linux
6 9 (1.12%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.87%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.75%) FreeRTOS
9 4 (0.50%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.50%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.25%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 508 (63.18%) Agile
2 219 (27.24%) Scrum
3 211 (26.24%) DevOps
4 208 (25.87%) Stakeholder Management
5 172 (21.39%) Problem-Solving
6 143 (17.79%) CI/CD
7 132 (16.42%) Project Management
8 127 (15.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 116 (14.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 116 (14.43%) Test Automation
10 103 (12.81%) User Stories
11 89 (11.07%) Analytics
12 87 (10.82%) Migration
13 83 (10.32%) Project Delivery
14 82 (10.20%) User Acceptance Testing
15 78 (9.70%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 76 (9.45%) Requirements Gathering
17 74 (9.20%) SDLC
18 72 (8.96%) Waterfall
19 70 (8.71%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 160 (19.90%) SQL
2 111 (13.81%) Python
3 75 (9.33%) Java
4 70 (8.71%) JavaScript
5 32 (3.98%) C#
6 26 (3.23%) TypeScript
7 24 (2.99%) PowerShell
8 17 (2.11%) Bash
9 15 (1.87%) Go
10 14 (1.74%) Groovy
11 11 (1.37%) C++
12 10 (1.24%) Apex Code
13 9 (1.12%) Shell Script
14 7 (0.87%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.75%) Embedded C++
15 6 (0.75%) Korn
15 6 (0.75%) Kotlin
16 5 (0.62%) Ruby
16 5 (0.62%) XPath
17 4 (0.50%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 169 (21.02%) Security Cleared
2 160 (19.90%) SC Cleared
3 103 (12.81%) Degree
4 44 (5.47%) PMI Certification
5 31 (3.86%) ISTQB
6 29 (3.61%) PMP
7 21 (2.61%) CBAP
8 20 (2.49%) Computer Science Degree
9 19 (2.36%) AWS Certification
9 19 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (2.11%) DV Cleared
11 12 (1.49%) Azure Certification
12 11 (1.37%) ISEB
13 10 (1.24%) CISSP
14 9 (1.12%) CSPO
15 8 (1.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 7 (0.87%) CFA
16 7 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
17 6 (0.75%) CEH
17 6 (0.75%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (11.94%) QA
2 41 (5.10%) PMO
3 30 (3.73%) Data Quality
4 28 (3.48%) Accessibility
5 19 (2.36%) GDPR
6 15 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.37%) NIST
8 10 (1.24%) WCAG
9 9 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.87%) GRC
10 7 (0.87%) SLA
11 6 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
12 5 (0.62%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.62%) NCSC
12 5 (0.62%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.50%) SEPA
14 3 (0.37%) Basel III
14 3 (0.37%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.37%) PSD2
15 2 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 67 (8.33%) Docker
2 24 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.24%) Squid
4 9 (1.12%) DFS Replication
4 9 (1.12%) Dovecot
4 9 (1.12%) Postfix
5 6 (0.75%) Embedded Firmware
5 6 (0.75%) Firmware
6 3 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.12%) etcd
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 52 (6.47%) Kubernetes
2 45 (5.60%) Terraform
3 20 (2.49%) Grafana
4 19 (2.36%) Ansible
5 15 (1.87%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.37%) HP ALM
6 11 (1.37%) Packer
7 10 (1.24%) Consul
7 10 (1.24%) Nessus
8 9 (1.12%) Proxmox
9 7 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.62%) Control-M
10 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.50%) Puppet
12 3 (0.37%) Istio
12 3 (0.37%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.37%) SCCM
13 2 (0.25%) Ambari
13 2 (0.25%) Argo
13 2 (0.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 96 (11.94%) Microsoft
2 83 (10.32%) ServiceNow
3 60 (7.46%) Oracle
4 55 (6.84%) Salesforce
5 38 (4.73%) SAP
6 34 (4.23%) Atlassian
7 24 (2.99%) Google
8 15 (1.87%) Databricks
9 14 (1.74%) HP
10 13 (1.62%) Adobe
10 13 (1.62%) Cloudera
11 12 (1.49%) Foundry
11 12 (1.49%) Palantir
12 11 (1.37%) Remedy
13 10 (1.24%) Citrix
13 10 (1.24%) MuleSoft
13 10 (1.24%) Sparx
14 9 (1.12%) Jaspersoft
14 9 (1.12%) Splunk
15 8 (1.00%) Cisco