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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 32 55
Rank change year-on-year -13 +23 -9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 966 804 687
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.75% 5.99% 4.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.35% 37.80% 29.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 624 566 468
10th Percentile £358 £325 £308
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £523
% change year-on-year - -4.31% -2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 13
10th Percentile £18.75 £35.35 £22.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £42.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £53.00 £44.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% +36.92% -39.81%
75th Percentile £73.75 £47.50 £71.25
90th Percentile £87.83 £72.25 -
England median hourly rate £61.66 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -1.35% -10.71% +12.00%

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 2,586 2,127 2,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.71% 15.84% 14.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,681 1,430 1,592
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £438 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £748 £750 £774
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 13 18
10th Percentile £18.75 £37.00 £24.28
25th Percentile £30.75 £42.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £53.00 £45.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% -2.70% -32.28%
75th Percentile £73.75 £67.50 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.75 £105.75 £71.44
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -15 124 £550 +10.00% 98
West London -9 28 £400 +1.27% 18
South London -9 18 £550 -5.34% 7
North London +3 4 £525 +19.32%
East London 0 4 £550 +34.97% 3
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
1 406 (42.03%) Confluence
2 55 (5.69%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (1.35%) CMS
5 7 (0.72%) SAS
6 5 (0.52%) Camunda
6 5 (0.52%) MTS
7 4 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.41%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.31%) WordPress
9 2 (0.21%) Apache
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%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 69 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 45 (4.66%) Microsoft Project
3 36 (3.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 36 (3.73%) MS Visio
4 29 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (1.35%) Trello
6 10 (1.04%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.83%) Revit
8 5 (0.52%) Notion
8 5 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.41%) Chatbot
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 18 (1.86%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (0.93%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.52%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.52%) Findur
4 5 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.41%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.31%) Maximo
6 3 (0.31%) SAP FI-AR
7 2 (0.21%) Actimize
7 2 (0.21%) CA PPM
7 2 (0.21%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.21%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.21%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.21%) Shopify
7 2 (0.21%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 266 (27.54%) Azure
2 151 (15.63%) AWS
3 147 (15.22%) Azure DevOps
4 93 (9.63%) Power Platform
5 72 (7.45%) GitHub
6 52 (5.38%) SaaS
7 50 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
8 46 (4.76%) GCP
9 41 (4.24%) Entra ID
10 39 (4.04%) Amazon S3
10 39 (4.04%) Serverless
11 34 (3.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 30 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
13 26 (2.69%) GitHub Actions
14 25 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
14 25 (2.59%) Microsoft Copilot
15 21 (2.17%) Miro
16 20 (2.07%) Figma
16 20 (2.07%) Snowflake
17 19 (1.97%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.59%) DNS
2 20 (2.07%) Firewall
3 18 (1.86%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.76%) VPN
5 12 (1.24%) 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%) IPv4
10 4 (0.41%) SSH
11 3 (0.31%) Internet
11 3 (0.31%) IPv6
12 2 (0.21%) DSL
12 2 (0.21%) MPLS
12 2 (0.21%) SMTP
12 2 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (8.59%) Power BI
2 42 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
3 38 (3.93%) SQL Server
4 31 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (2.07%) Relational Database
6 18 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (1.66%) Metadata
8 15 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (1.24%) Data Lake
9 12 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (1.14%) DynamoDB
11 10 (1.04%) MongoDB
11 10 (1.04%) Oracle Database
11 10 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 10 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (1.04%) Tableau
12 9 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (0.93%) Redis
13 8 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 121 (12.53%) Git
2 77 (7.97%) Jenkins
3 45 (4.66%) GitLab
4 35 (3.62%) Selenium
5 26 (2.69%) Zephyr
6 19 (1.97%) Bitbucket
7 18 (1.86%) Cypress.io
8 15 (1.55%) Postman
9 14 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
10 13 (1.35%) REST Assured
11 12 (1.24%) Maven
12 11 (1.14%) JUnit
13 10 (1.04%) Cucumber
13 10 (1.04%) JMeter
13 10 (1.04%) Mockito
13 10 (1.04%) TestRail
14 8 (0.83%) Gradle
15 7 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 7 (0.72%) SonarQube
16 5 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 396 (40.99%) Finance
2 392 (40.58%) Social Skills
3 204 (21.12%) Banking
4 194 (20.08%) Analytical Skills
5 105 (10.87%) Public Sector
6 45 (4.66%) Investment Banking
7 44 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
8 41 (4.24%) Retail
9 36 (3.73%) Front Office
10 30 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
11 28 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
12 20 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (2.07%) Marketing
13 19 (1.97%) Legal
14 17 (1.76%) Retail Banking
15 15 (1.55%) Telecoms
16 14 (1.45%) Financial Institution
17 13 (1.35%) Back Office
18 12 (1.24%) Law
19 11 (1.14%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 187 (19.36%) Analyst
2 115 (11.90%) Business Analyst
3 114 (11.80%) Lead
4 101 (10.46%) Developer
5 93 (9.63%) Senior
6 55 (5.69%) Project Manager
7 38 (3.93%) Architect
8 37 (3.83%) Delivery Manager
9 34 (3.52%) Consultant
10 31 (3.21%) Product Owner
11 30 (3.11%) Scrum Master
12 27 (2.80%) Tester
13 26 (2.69%) Applications Support
14 25 (2.59%) Test Leader
15 24 (2.48%) Support Engineer
16 23 (2.38%) Test Manager
17 21 (2.17%) Data Engineer
17 21 (2.17%) Senior Analyst
18 20 (2.07%) IT Support
19 19 (1.97%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (6.94%) Terraform
2 65 (6.73%) REST
3 43 (4.45%) .NET
4 28 (2.90%) AngularJS
5 27 (2.80%) React
6 25 (2.59%) JSON
7 23 (2.38%) HTML
7 23 (2.38%) SOAP
8 21 (2.17%) Kafka
8 21 (2.17%) Playwright
9 18 (1.86%) RESTful
10 17 (1.76%) CSS
10 17 (1.76%) Middleware
11 15 (1.55%) XML
12 14 (1.45%) Node.js
12 14 (1.45%) PySpark
12 14 (1.45%) Spring
12 14 (1.45%) Web Services
13 13 (1.35%) Lightning Web Components
13 13 (1.35%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 128 (13.25%) Product Ownership
2 73 (7.56%) Onboarding
3 29 (3.00%) Cloud Native
4 25 (2.59%) Data Structures
5 23 (2.38%) Data Centre
5 23 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
5 23 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (2.28%) Virtual Team
7 19 (1.97%) Credit Risk
7 19 (1.97%) Management Information System
8 18 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (1.86%) Derivative
9 16 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.55%) Replication
11 14 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.45%) Fixed Income
12 12 (1.24%) Mobile App
13 11 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 11 (1.14%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 10 (1.04%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 54 (5.59%) Windows
2 46 (4.76%) Linux
3 13 (1.35%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.14%) Android
5 10 (1.04%) Mac OS
6 9 (0.93%) Amazon Linux
7 8 (0.83%) Unix
7 8 (0.83%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.72%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.21%) VMS
9 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.10%) CentOS
10 1 (0.10%) SUSE
10 1 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.10%) VxWorks
10 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 582 (60.25%) Agile
2 359 (37.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 274 (28.36%) DevOps
4 231 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
5 196 (20.29%) Scrum
6 193 (19.98%) CI/CD
7 155 (16.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 154 (15.94%) Migration
9 146 (15.11%) AI
10 141 (14.60%) User Acceptance Testing
11 136 (14.08%) User Stories
12 133 (13.77%) Test Automation
13 120 (12.42%) Validation
14 111 (11.49%) Project Management
15 105 (10.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 104 (10.77%) Acceptance Criteria
16 104 (10.77%) SDLC
17 98 (10.14%) Sprint Planning
18 97 (10.04%) Analytics
19 93 (9.63%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 191 (19.77%) SQL
2 112 (11.59%) Python
3 65 (6.73%) Java
4 42 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 40 (4.14%) C#
6 38 (3.93%) PowerShell
7 27 (2.80%) TypeScript
8 20 (2.07%) Bash
9 16 (1.66%) Groovy
10 15 (1.55%) Apex Code
11 10 (1.04%) PL/SQL
12 9 (0.93%) Perl
13 5 (0.52%) Tcl
13 5 (0.52%) VBA
14 4 (0.41%) C
14 4 (0.41%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.41%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.31%) Go
15 3 (0.31%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.31%) Swift
Qualifications
1 219 (22.67%) Security Cleared
2 194 (20.08%) SC Cleared
3 78 (8.07%) Degree
4 37 (3.83%) PMI Certification
5 29 (3.00%) PMP
6 27 (2.80%) DV Cleared
7 19 (1.97%) AWS Certification
7 19 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (1.86%) ISTQB
9 14 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
10 13 (1.35%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
12 10 (1.04%) Azure Certification
13 9 (0.93%) IIBA
14 8 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 7 (0.72%) CBAP
16 6 (0.62%) CISSP
16 6 (0.62%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.52%) MBA
17 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (14.49%) QA
2 72 (7.45%) Data Quality
3 50 (5.18%) PMO
4 31 (3.21%) SLA
5 23 (2.38%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.86%) GDPR
7 16 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.24%) ISO 20022
9 9 (0.93%) NIST
9 9 (0.93%) WCAG
10 8 (0.83%) SEPA
11 7 (0.72%) GRC
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%) NCSC
System Software
1 51 (5.28%) Active Directory
2 40 (4.14%) 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 45 (4.66%) Kubernetes
2 30 (3.11%) Grafana
3 26 (2.69%) Prometheus
4 24 (2.48%) Ansible
5 23 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (1.14%) HP ALM
7 9 (0.93%) Control-M
8 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.62%) Microsoft Clustering
9 6 (0.62%) SCOM
10 5 (0.52%) Istio
11 4 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.41%) Argo
11 4 (0.41%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.41%) PingFederate
11 4 (0.41%) Podman
11 4 (0.41%) SCCM
12 3 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.31%) Kibana
Vendors
1 156 (16.15%) Microsoft
2 112 (11.59%) ServiceNow
3 64 (6.63%) Salesforce
4 45 (4.66%) Oracle
5 35 (3.62%) Google
6 27 (2.80%) SAP
7 26 (2.69%) Atlassian
8 25 (2.59%) Splunk
9 21 (2.17%) Remedy
10 19 (1.97%) IBM
11 18 (1.86%) Adobe
12 14 (1.45%) Bloomberg
12 14 (1.45%) MuleSoft
13 13 (1.35%) Okta
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 11 (1.14%) Planview