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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 45 52
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 -5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 914 627 704
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.22% 4.92% 3.94%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.32% 34.19% 30.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 407 478
10th Percentile £346 £309 £329
25th Percentile £415 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £619 £634 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £850
England median daily rate £483 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.45% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 18
10th Percentile - - £22.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.50 £25.43
Median hourly rate £29.50 £30.00 £32.36
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -7.28% -40.08%
75th Percentile £70.31 £32.50 £63.13
90th Percentile £89.53 - £71.25
England median hourly rate £63.32 £59.13 £45.88
% change year-on-year +7.09% +28.87% -31.20%

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 2,385 1,834 2,331
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.63% 14.41% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,589 1,237 1,672
10th Percentile £350 £343 £363
25th Percentile £415 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.10% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 24
10th Percentile - £22.93 £22.90
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £25.99
Median hourly rate £31.50 £30.00 £39.38
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -23.81% -31.52%
75th Percentile £72.75 £67.50 £70.31
90th Percentile £87.70 £84.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +6.25%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -7 112 £525 - 18
South London +7 39 £516 +8.53% 2
West London -24 17 £400 +1.27% 6
East London +3 6 £450 +25.00% 6
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
1 396 (43.33%) Confluence
2 46 (5.03%) SharePoint
3 27 (2.95%) nginx
4 14 (1.53%) Apache
5 12 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.77%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.66%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.66%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.44%) JBoss
9 4 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.33%) CMS
10 3 (0.33%) SAS
11 2 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.11%) CICS
12 1 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 83 (9.08%) Microsoft Project
2 74 (8.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 46 (5.03%) MS Visio
4 44 (4.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
6 15 (1.64%) Trello
7 4 (0.44%) Notion
8 3 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.33%) InVision
8 3 (0.33%) Sketch
9 2 (0.22%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.22%) Autodesk Smoke
9 2 (0.22%) Revit
9 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.11%) Mingle
10 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 14 (1.53%) NetSuite
2 13 (1.42%) Loan IQ
2 13 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.98%) Aladdin
4 8 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.88%) Fidessa
4 8 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.44%) Findur
6 4 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 4 (0.44%) SAP MDG
6 4 (0.44%) SAP Retail
7 3 (0.33%) Actimize
7 3 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.33%) SAP FI-AR
7 3 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
7 3 (0.33%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 210 (22.98%) Azure
2 139 (15.21%) AWS
3 135 (14.77%) Azure DevOps
4 71 (7.77%) GitHub
5 61 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 42 (4.60%) Entra ID
7 35 (3.83%) SaaS
8 32 (3.50%) Serverless
9 31 (3.39%) Amazon S3
10 29 (3.17%) GCP
11 28 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
12 26 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (2.52%) Figma
14 20 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
15 19 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (2.08%) Miro
15 19 (2.08%) Slack
15 19 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 18 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
17 15 (1.64%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.41%) Firewall
2 15 (1.64%) DNS
3 12 (1.31%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.09%) HTTP
5 8 (0.88%) SSL
5 8 (0.88%) VPN
6 7 (0.77%) Ethernet
6 7 (0.77%) FTP
6 7 (0.77%) Modbus
6 7 (0.77%) OpenVPN
6 7 (0.77%) RS-232
6 7 (0.77%) RS-485
7 6 (0.66%) WAN
8 5 (0.55%) LAN
8 5 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.44%) NAS
9 4 (0.44%) PSTN
9 4 (0.44%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.33%) DKIM
10 3 (0.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (5.14%) Power BI
2 29 (3.17%) SQL Server
2 29 (3.17%) Tableau
3 27 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (2.30%) NoSQL
4 21 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (1.75%) Relational Database
6 13 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (1.31%) MongoDB
8 11 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (1.20%) DynamoDB
8 11 (1.20%) Metadata
9 10 (1.09%) Delta Lake
9 10 (1.09%) Oracle Database
10 9 (0.98%) Big Data
11 7 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (0.66%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.66%) Crystal Reports
12 6 (0.66%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 121 (13.24%) Git
2 65 (7.11%) Jenkins
3 41 (4.49%) Selenium
4 36 (3.94%) GitLab
5 28 (3.06%) Bitbucket
6 27 (2.95%) Zephyr
7 25 (2.74%) JUnit
8 24 (2.63%) Cucumber
9 17 (1.86%) TestRail
10 16 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
11 15 (1.64%) Postman
12 13 (1.42%) SonarQube
13 12 (1.31%) JMeter
14 11 (1.20%) Appium
14 11 (1.20%) Cypress.io
15 10 (1.09%) Maven
15 10 (1.09%) REST Assured
16 8 (0.88%) SpecFlow
17 7 (0.77%) ScriptRunner
17 7 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 341 (37.31%) Finance
2 333 (36.43%) Social Skills
3 173 (18.93%) Analytical Skills
4 137 (14.99%) Banking
5 99 (10.83%) Public Sector
6 38 (4.16%) Documentation Skills
7 34 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
7 34 (3.72%) Retail
8 30 (3.28%) Legal
8 30 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
9 27 (2.95%) Investment Banking
10 24 (2.63%) Front Office
11 19 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (1.75%) Financial Institution
12 16 (1.75%) Marketing
13 11 (1.20%) Publishing
14 10 (1.09%) Back Office
14 10 (1.09%) Telecoms
15 9 (0.98%) Billing
15 9 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 198 (21.66%) Analyst
2 136 (14.88%) Business Analyst
3 101 (11.05%) Developer
4 90 (9.85%) Senior
5 80 (8.75%) Lead
6 62 (6.78%) Project Manager
7 39 (4.27%) Delivery Manager
8 33 (3.61%) Tester
9 32 (3.50%) IT Support
10 30 (3.28%) Architect
11 29 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
12 28 (3.06%) Scrum Master
12 28 (3.06%) Test Engineer
13 27 (2.95%) Consultant
13 27 (2.95%) Technical Manager
14 25 (2.74%) Support Engineer
15 24 (2.63%) Data Engineer
15 24 (2.63%) Test Manager
16 22 (2.41%) IT Engineer
16 22 (2.41%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (4.81%) REST
2 34 (3.72%) .NET
3 28 (3.06%) React
4 25 (2.74%) Kafka
5 23 (2.52%) Spring
6 22 (2.41%) HTML
7 20 (2.19%) AngularJS
8 19 (2.08%) CSS
8 19 (2.08%) Node.js
9 18 (1.97%) RESTful
9 18 (1.97%) XML
10 16 (1.75%) JSON
10 16 (1.75%) Lightning Web Components
10 16 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
11 15 (1.64%) SOAP
11 15 (1.64%) Spring Boot
12 14 (1.53%) Playwright
13 12 (1.31%) ADO
13 12 (1.31%) OpenID
14 11 (1.20%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 86 (9.41%) Product Ownership
2 46 (5.03%) Onboarding
3 27 (2.95%) Management Information System
4 22 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
4 22 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
5 21 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.08%) Cloud Native
6 19 (2.08%) Virtual Team
7 14 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.42%) Data Centre
8 13 (1.42%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.31%) Mobile App
9 12 (1.31%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.09%) Derivative
11 10 (1.09%) Reinsurance
12 9 (0.98%) Market Risk
13 8 (0.88%) Equities
13 8 (0.88%) Fixed Income
13 8 (0.88%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 52 (5.69%) Linux
2 49 (5.36%) Windows
3 13 (1.42%) Unix
4 9 (0.98%) Android
5 7 (0.77%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.77%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (0.55%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.44%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 531 (58.10%) Agile
2 246 (26.91%) Stakeholder Management
3 230 (25.16%) DevOps
4 195 (21.33%) Scrum
5 183 (20.02%) Problem-Solving
6 167 (18.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 146 (15.97%) Test Automation
8 138 (15.10%) CI/CD
9 130 (14.22%) Project Management
10 116 (12.69%) Migration
10 116 (12.69%) User Stories
11 113 (12.36%) User Acceptance Testing
12 112 (12.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 102 (11.16%) SDLC
14 100 (10.94%) Change Management
15 91 (9.96%) Decision-Making
16 89 (9.74%) Project Delivery
16 89 (9.74%) Roadmaps
17 87 (9.52%) Analytics
17 87 (9.52%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 164 (17.94%) SQL
2 109 (11.93%) Python
3 96 (10.50%) Java
4 62 (6.78%) C#
5 45 (4.92%) JavaScript
6 36 (3.94%) TypeScript
7 18 (1.97%) PowerShell
8 17 (1.86%) Bash
9 14 (1.53%) C++
10 13 (1.42%) Apex Code
11 8 (0.88%) Perl
11 8 (0.88%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.77%) Embedded C++
12 7 (0.77%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.66%) Groovy
14 5 (0.55%) C
14 5 (0.55%) Ruby
14 5 (0.55%) XPath
15 4 (0.44%) Delphi
15 4 (0.44%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 199 (21.77%) Security Cleared
2 177 (19.37%) SC Cleared
3 70 (7.66%) Degree
4 31 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
4 31 (3.39%) ISTQB
5 27 (2.95%) PMI Certification
6 21 (2.30%) PMP
7 16 (1.75%) CBAP
8 13 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.42%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.20%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.20%) IIBA
9 11 (1.20%) ISEB
10 10 (1.09%) CISSP
11 9 (0.98%) AWS Certification
12 7 (0.77%) CISM
12 7 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.77%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.66%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (14.00%) QA
2 54 (5.91%) Data Quality
3 38 (4.16%) PMO
4 28 (3.06%) Accessibility
4 28 (3.06%) GDPR
5 14 (1.53%) SLA
6 13 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.42%) NIST
7 10 (1.09%) WCAG
8 8 (0.88%) GRC
8 8 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.66%) MiFID
11 4 (0.44%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.33%) Basel III
12 3 (0.33%) EMIR
12 3 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.33%) NCSC
12 3 (0.33%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 58 (6.35%) Docker
2 36 (3.94%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.88%) Squid
4 7 (0.77%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (0.77%) Firmware
5 4 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 66 (7.22%) Kubernetes
2 62 (6.78%) Terraform
3 21 (2.30%) Ansible
3 21 (2.30%) Consul
4 20 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (1.86%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.64%) Grafana
7 14 (1.53%) HP ALM
8 13 (1.42%) Packer
9 9 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.77%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.55%) Control-M
11 5 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.44%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.44%) PingFederate
13 3 (0.33%) RSA Archer
14 2 (0.22%) CASB
14 2 (0.22%) Puppet
14 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 108 (11.82%) ServiceNow
2 104 (11.38%) Microsoft
3 76 (8.32%) Oracle
4 71 (7.77%) Salesforce
5 41 (4.49%) SAP
6 40 (4.38%) Atlassian
7 31 (3.39%) Google
8 20 (2.19%) Databricks
9 17 (1.86%) Adobe
10 14 (1.53%) Citrix
10 14 (1.53%) HP
11 13 (1.42%) IBM
11 13 (1.42%) MuleSoft
11 13 (1.42%) Workday
12 12 (1.31%) Murex
13 11 (1.20%) Dynatrace
13 11 (1.20%) Remedy
14 10 (1.09%) Informatica
14 10 (1.09%) Okta
14 10 (1.09%) Splunk