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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 33 55
Rank change year-on-year -14 +22 -6
Contract jobs citing JIRA 968 815 685
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.76% 6.04% 4.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.84% 38.00% 28.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 624 572 465
10th Percentile £358 £325 £310
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £741
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 14
10th Percentile £18.75 £35.35 £22.98
25th Percentile £18.88 £42.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £42.25 £44.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% +35.88% -39.35%
75th Percentile £71.25 £47.50 £69.69
90th Percentile £87.83 £72.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £69.00
% change year-on-year +0.40% -9.42% +10.40%

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 2,558 2,145 2,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.59% 15.89% 14.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,650 1,455 1,599
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £438 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 13 19
10th Percentile £18.75 £37.00 £24.60
25th Percentile £27.38 £42.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £49.00 £45.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% +20.00% -44.44%
75th Percentile £73.56 £67.50 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.66 £105.75 £71.38
England median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.23% - -

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -18 120 £550 +10.00% 48
West London -5 28 £400 +1.27% 15
South London -8 20 £550 -5.40% 4
North London +1 4 £525 +19.32% 1
East London -1 3 £550 +34.97% 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
1 404 (41.74%) Confluence
2 56 (5.79%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (1.34%) CMS
5 7 (0.72%) SAS
6 5 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.52%) Apache
6 5 (0.52%) Camunda
6 5 (0.52%) MTS
7 4 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.41%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.31%) WordPress
9 2 (0.21%) IIS
9 2 (0.21%) Kentico
9 2 (0.21%) nginx
10 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.10%) Appian
10 1 (0.10%) JBoss
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 68 (7.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (5.06%) Microsoft Project
3 35 (3.62%) MS Visio
4 34 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
6 13 (1.34%) Trello
7 10 (1.03%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.83%) Revit
9 5 (0.52%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.52%) Notion
9 5 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.21%) Mingle
10 2 (0.21%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.10%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.10%) Sketch
11 1 (0.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 19 (1.96%) Remedy ITSM
2 10 (1.03%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.52%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.52%) Findur
5 4 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.41%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.31%) SAP FI-AR
7 2 (0.21%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.21%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.21%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.21%) Maximo
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.21%) Shopify
7 2 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.21%) Summit
7 2 (0.21%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 266 (27.48%) Azure
2 153 (15.81%) AWS
3 149 (15.39%) Azure DevOps
4 87 (8.99%) Power Platform
5 72 (7.44%) GitHub
6 52 (5.37%) SaaS
7 46 (4.75%) Microsoft 365
8 43 (4.44%) Entra ID
8 43 (4.44%) GCP
9 42 (4.34%) Serverless
10 41 (4.24%) Amazon S3
11 35 (3.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 33 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
13 28 (2.89%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (2.69%) Amazon EC2
15 25 (2.58%) Microsoft Copilot
16 20 (2.07%) Figma
17 19 (1.96%) Snowflake
18 18 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
18 18 (1.86%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.58%) DNS
2 23 (2.38%) Firewall
3 17 (1.76%) TCP/IP
4 16 (1.65%) VPN
5 11 (1.14%) DHCP
6 8 (0.83%) HTTP
7 7 (0.72%) SSL
7 7 (0.72%) WAN
8 6 (0.62%) Network Security
9 5 (0.52%) DKIM
9 5 (0.52%) DMARC
9 5 (0.52%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.41%) Internet
10 4 (0.41%) IPv4
10 4 (0.41%) SSH
11 3 (0.31%) FTP
11 3 (0.31%) IPv6
12 2 (0.21%) 5G
12 2 (0.21%) NGFW
12 2 (0.21%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (7.95%) Power BI
2 37 (3.82%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (3.62%) SQL Server
4 31 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (1.96%) Relational Database
6 18 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
8 15 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (1.55%) Metadata
9 13 (1.34%) DynamoDB
10 12 (1.24%) Data Lake
10 12 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 12 (1.24%) Tableau
11 10 (1.03%) MongoDB
11 10 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 10 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (0.93%) Oracle Database
12 9 (0.93%) Redis
13 8 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 126 (13.02%) Git
2 77 (7.95%) Jenkins
3 44 (4.55%) GitLab
4 36 (3.72%) Selenium
5 26 (2.69%) Zephyr
6 20 (2.07%) Bitbucket
7 17 (1.76%) Cypress.io
8 14 (1.45%) Postman
8 14 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (1.34%) REST Assured
10 12 (1.24%) JUnit
10 12 (1.24%) Maven
11 11 (1.14%) Mockito
12 10 (1.03%) Cucumber
12 10 (1.03%) TestRail
13 9 (0.93%) JMeter
14 8 (0.83%) Gradle
15 7 (0.72%) SonarQube
16 6 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 5 (0.52%) ScriptRunner
General
1 394 (40.70%) Finance
2 392 (40.50%) Social Skills
3 207 (21.38%) Banking
4 192 (19.83%) Analytical Skills
5 105 (10.85%) Public Sector
6 44 (4.55%) Investment Banking
7 43 (4.44%) Retail
8 40 (4.13%) Organisational Skills
9 36 (3.72%) Front Office
10 33 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
11 23 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (2.17%) Legal
12 21 (2.17%) Marketing
13 20 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (1.65%) Retail Banking
15 14 (1.45%) Back Office
16 13 (1.34%) Telecoms
17 12 (1.24%) Corporate Banking
17 12 (1.24%) Financial Institution
17 12 (1.24%) Law
Job Titles
1 189 (19.52%) Analyst
2 118 (12.19%) Business Analyst
3 111 (11.47%) Lead
4 106 (10.95%) Developer
5 91 (9.40%) Senior
6 54 (5.58%) Project Manager
7 37 (3.82%) Delivery Manager
8 36 (3.72%) Architect
9 34 (3.51%) Consultant
10 31 (3.20%) Product Owner
11 30 (3.10%) Scrum Master
12 27 (2.79%) Applications Support
12 27 (2.79%) Test Manager
13 25 (2.58%) Support Engineer
13 25 (2.58%) Tester
14 24 (2.48%) Test Leader
15 21 (2.17%) Banking Analyst
15 21 (2.17%) Data Engineer
15 21 (2.17%) IT Support
16 20 (2.07%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (7.44%) Terraform
2 64 (6.61%) REST
3 43 (4.44%) .NET
4 28 (2.89%) AngularJS
4 28 (2.89%) React
5 25 (2.58%) JSON
6 24 (2.48%) Kafka
7 23 (2.38%) HTML
8 20 (2.07%) Playwright
8 20 (2.07%) SOAP
9 18 (1.86%) RESTful
10 17 (1.76%) CSS
11 16 (1.65%) Middleware
12 15 (1.55%) Spring
12 15 (1.55%) XML
13 14 (1.45%) Lightning Web Components
13 14 (1.45%) Node.js
13 14 (1.45%) PySpark
14 13 (1.34%) Spring Boot
15 12 (1.24%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 121 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 71 (7.33%) Onboarding
3 30 (3.10%) Cloud Native
4 26 (2.69%) Data Structures
5 23 (2.38%) Data Centre
5 23 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (2.27%) Virtual Team
7 21 (2.17%) Management Information System
8 19 (1.96%) Credit Risk
9 18 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (1.76%) Derivative
11 15 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (1.55%) Replication
12 14 (1.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 13 (1.34%) Fixed Income
13 13 (1.34%) Mobile App
14 12 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 10 (1.03%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 53 (5.48%) Windows
2 47 (4.86%) Linux
3 13 (1.34%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.14%) Android
5 9 (0.93%) Amazon Linux
5 9 (0.93%) Mac OS
5 9 (0.93%) Unix
6 7 (0.72%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.72%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.21%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.21%) VMS
8 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.10%) CentOS
9 1 (0.10%) SUSE
9 1 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.10%) VxWorks
9 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 583 (60.23%) Agile
2 352 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
3 277 (28.62%) DevOps
4 232 (23.97%) Problem-Solving
5 194 (20.04%) Scrum
6 191 (19.73%) CI/CD
7 154 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 153 (15.81%) Migration
9 146 (15.08%) User Acceptance Testing
10 144 (14.88%) AI
11 135 (13.95%) Test Automation
12 132 (13.64%) User Stories
13 117 (12.09%) Validation
14 113 (11.67%) Project Management
15 108 (11.16%) SDLC
16 104 (10.74%) Acceptance Criteria
16 104 (10.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 100 (10.33%) Sprint Planning
18 95 (9.81%) Analytics
19 89 (9.19%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 187 (19.32%) SQL
2 114 (11.78%) Python
3 64 (6.61%) Java
4 44 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 40 (4.13%) C#
6 38 (3.93%) PowerShell
7 28 (2.89%) TypeScript
8 21 (2.17%) Bash
9 16 (1.65%) Apex Code
10 15 (1.55%) Groovy
11 10 (1.03%) Perl
11 10 (1.03%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.52%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.52%) Tcl
12 5 (0.52%) VBA
13 4 (0.41%) C
13 4 (0.41%) Korn
13 4 (0.41%) Swift
13 4 (0.41%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 220 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 194 (20.04%) SC Cleared
3 76 (7.85%) Degree
4 33 (3.41%) PMI Certification
5 25 (2.58%) DV Cleared
5 25 (2.58%) PMP
6 21 (2.17%) ISTQB
7 19 (1.96%) AWS Certification
8 18 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (1.24%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.14%) Azure Certification
11 11 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (0.93%) IIBA
13 8 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 7 (0.72%) CBAP
15 6 (0.62%) CISSP
15 6 (0.62%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.52%) MBA
16 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (14.46%) QA
2 70 (7.23%) Data Quality
3 50 (5.17%) PMO
4 30 (3.10%) SLA
5 24 (2.48%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.76%) GDPR
7 16 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.14%) ISO 20022
9 9 (0.93%) NIST
9 9 (0.93%) WCAG
10 8 (0.83%) GRC
11 7 (0.72%) SEPA
12 5 (0.52%) COBIT
12 5 (0.52%) MiFID
12 5 (0.52%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.41%) EMIR
13 4 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.41%) P3O
13 4 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 51 (5.27%) Active Directory
2 42 (4.34%) Docker
3 7 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.21%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.21%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.21%) Firmware
6 2 (0.21%) Postfix
6 2 (0.21%) Squid
7 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 46 (4.75%) Kubernetes
2 28 (2.89%) Grafana
3 25 (2.58%) Ansible
3 25 (2.58%) Prometheus
4 22 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (1.14%) HP ALM
6 9 (0.93%) Control-M
7 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.62%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (0.62%) SCOM
9 4 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.41%) Argo
9 4 (0.41%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.41%) Istio
9 4 (0.41%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.41%) Podman
10 3 (0.31%) Consul
10 3 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.31%) Kibana
Vendors
1 151 (15.60%) Microsoft
2 113 (11.67%) ServiceNow
3 64 (6.61%) Salesforce
4 43 (4.44%) Oracle
5 33 (3.41%) Google
6 30 (3.10%) SAP
7 27 (2.79%) Atlassian
8 22 (2.27%) Splunk
9 21 (2.17%) Remedy
10 20 (2.07%) IBM
11 19 (1.96%) Adobe
12 14 (1.45%) MuleSoft
13 13 (1.34%) Okta
14 12 (1.24%) Bloomberg
14 12 (1.24%) BMC
14 12 (1.24%) Databricks
14 12 (1.24%) HP
14 12 (1.24%) Informatica
14 12 (1.24%) ION Trading
15 10 (1.03%) Tradeweb