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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 49 46
Rank change year-on-year +11 -3 -8
Contract jobs citing JIRA 858 655 853
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.97% 4.17% 4.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.58% 30.31% 32.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 640 435 575
10th Percentile £331 £284 £375
25th Percentile £413 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £646 £630 £675
90th Percentile £725 £735 £825
England median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.45% -1.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile £34.20 £21.31 £25.10
25th Percentile £39.38 £23.27 £31.25
Median hourly rate £43.75 £26.54 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year +64.88% -31.52% +61.46%
75th Percentile £57.25 £29.80 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.15 £31.76 £54.00
England median hourly rate £63.40 £67.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year -6.07% +10.20% -2.00%

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 2,283 2,161 2,625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.89% 13.74% 13.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,567 1,423 1,923
10th Percentile £350 £356 £400
25th Percentile £419 £438 £475
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 £781 £798
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 24
10th Percentile £39.95 £25.23 £27.03
25th Percentile £42.50 £33.07 £36.72
Median hourly rate £56.50 £37.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.67% -31.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £88.75 £71.25 £72.41
90th Percentile £110.00 £85.50 £76.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 4 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in London over the 6 months to 4 December 2025.

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 4 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 +15 134 £510 -4.67% 20
South London -1 29 £553 +22.89%
West London -18 9 £300 -34.07% 6
East London -1 4 £439 -9.54% 4
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
1 419 (48.83%) Confluence
2 45 (5.24%) SharePoint
3 36 (4.20%) nginx
4 16 (1.86%) CMS
5 12 (1.40%) Apache
6 6 (0.70%) WordPress
7 4 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.35%) Camunda
8 3 (0.35%) Drupal
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.35%) Traefik
9 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.23%) Appian
9 2 (0.23%) CICS
9 2 (0.23%) Magnolia
9 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.12%) IIS
10 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.12%) SAS
10 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 74 (8.62%) Microsoft Project
2 69 (8.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 46 (5.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (5.24%) MS Visio
5 28 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
6 25 (2.91%) Trello
7 10 (1.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 5 (0.58%) Notion
9 4 (0.47%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.35%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.35%) InVision
10 3 (0.35%) Sketch
11 2 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.23%) InDesign
11 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.12%) Autodesk Smoke
12 1 (0.12%) EPLAN
Business Applications
1 17 (1.98%) Remedy ITSM
2 12 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (1.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (1.05%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.93%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.70%) Oracle EBS R12
7 4 (0.47%) Endur
7 4 (0.47%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.47%) Oracle BPM
7 4 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.47%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.35%) Algo Collateral
8 3 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
8 3 (0.35%) Loan IQ
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.23%) Eagle PACE
9 2 (0.23%) Magento
9 2 (0.23%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 186 (21.68%) Azure
2 163 (19.00%) AWS
3 96 (11.19%) Azure DevOps
4 79 (9.21%) GitHub
5 63 (7.34%) Power Platform
6 44 (5.13%) GCP
7 35 (4.08%) Serverless
8 30 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
9 28 (3.26%) Amazon EC2
10 27 (3.15%) Amazon S3
11 26 (3.03%) SaaS
12 23 (2.68%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (2.68%) Miro
13 22 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 21 (2.45%) Power Automate
14 21 (2.45%) Slack
15 19 (2.21%) Figma
16 18 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
16 18 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
17 17 (1.98%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 26 (3.03%) Firewall
2 21 (2.45%) DNS
3 17 (1.98%) SSL
4 16 (1.86%) SSH
5 15 (1.75%) OpenLDAP
6 14 (1.63%) HTTP
7 12 (1.40%) FTP
8 11 (1.28%) SMTP
9 10 (1.17%) IMAP
10 9 (1.05%) VPN
11 6 (0.70%) Network Security
12 5 (0.58%) SD-WAN
12 5 (0.58%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.58%) WAN
13 2 (0.23%) Calico
13 2 (0.23%) DHCP
13 2 (0.23%) DKIM
13 2 (0.23%) Ethernet
13 2 (0.23%) RS-232
13 2 (0.23%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (6.41%) Power BI
2 41 (4.78%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (3.15%) SQL Server
3 27 (3.15%) Tableau
4 19 (2.21%) Big Data
5 17 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (1.86%) Hadoop
7 15 (1.75%) Oracle Database
8 14 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
8 14 (1.63%) Relational Database
9 12 (1.40%) NoSQL
10 11 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (1.17%) Data Vault
12 9 (1.05%) Metadata
12 9 (1.05%) Snowflake Schema
13 8 (0.93%) BigQuery
14 7 (0.82%) DB2
15 6 (0.70%) Redis
16 5 (0.58%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 110 (12.82%) Git
2 85 (9.91%) Jenkins
3 50 (5.83%) GitLab
4 37 (4.31%) Selenium
5 35 (4.08%) Bitbucket
6 29 (3.38%) Postman
7 23 (2.68%) Cucumber
8 20 (2.33%) TestRail
9 19 (2.21%) SonarQube
9 19 (2.21%) Zephyr
10 16 (1.86%) JUnit
10 16 (1.86%) SpecFlow
11 13 (1.52%) Maven
12 12 (1.40%) REST Assured
13 11 (1.28%) Vagrant
14 10 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
15 9 (1.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 9 (1.05%) Cypress.io
15 9 (1.05%) ER Studio
15 9 (1.05%) PowerDesigner
General
1 374 (43.59%) Social Skills
2 256 (29.84%) Finance
3 140 (16.32%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (13.52%) Banking
5 83 (9.67%) Public Sector
6 29 (3.38%) Investment Banking
7 28 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
7 28 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
8 26 (3.03%) Front Office
9 25 (2.91%) Retail
10 19 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (2.10%) Legal
12 14 (1.63%) Marketing
13 13 (1.52%) Publishing
14 11 (1.28%) Back Office
14 11 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (1.28%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.17%) Financial Institution
16 9 (1.05%) Military
Job Titles
1 151 (17.60%) Analyst
2 111 (12.94%) Business Analyst
3 100 (11.66%) Developer
4 91 (10.61%) Senior
5 86 (10.02%) Project Manager
6 66 (7.69%) Lead
7 43 (5.01%) Architect
8 34 (3.96%) Tester
9 31 (3.61%) Product Owner
10 29 (3.38%) Consultant
11 28 (3.26%) DevOps Engineer
11 28 (3.26%) Technical Analyst
12 26 (3.03%) Technical Business Analyst
13 23 (2.68%) Scrum Master
14 21 (2.45%) Administrator
14 21 (2.45%) Delivery Manager
15 20 (2.33%) Senior Analyst
16 19 (2.21%) QA Engineer
16 19 (2.21%) Test Analyst
16 19 (2.21%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (9.21%) REST
2 50 (5.83%) SOAP
3 47 (5.48%) .NET
4 46 (5.36%) AngularJS
5 41 (4.78%) HTML
6 34 (3.96%) React
7 32 (3.73%) JSON
8 30 (3.50%) LDAP
9 29 (3.38%) Kafka
9 29 (3.38%) Web Services
10 27 (3.15%) CSS
11 24 (2.80%) RESTful
12 21 (2.45%) Playwright
12 21 (2.45%) RabbitMQ
12 21 (2.45%) XML
13 19 (2.21%) HTML5
14 18 (2.10%) Spring
15 15 (1.75%) jQuery
15 15 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
16 14 (1.63%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 95 (11.07%) Product Ownership
2 30 (3.50%) Onboarding
3 22 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 19 (2.21%) CMDB
5 18 (2.10%) Cloud Native
5 18 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
5 18 (2.10%) PMI
6 17 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
6 17 (1.98%) Data Structures
7 15 (1.75%) Reinsurance
7 15 (1.75%) Replication
7 15 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
8 14 (1.63%) Mobile App
9 12 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
9 12 (1.40%) Fixed Income
9 12 (1.40%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.28%) Derivative
10 11 (1.28%) Equities
11 10 (1.17%) Data Centre
11 10 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 66 (7.69%) Linux
2 40 (4.66%) Windows
3 30 (3.50%) Unix
4 13 (1.52%) VMS
5 12 (1.40%) Ubuntu
6 11 (1.28%) Android
7 10 (1.17%) Amazon Linux
8 9 (1.05%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.47%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.35%) CentOS
12 2 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.23%) Windows 10
13 1 (0.12%) Debian
13 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.12%) tvOS
13 1 (0.12%) watchOS
13 1 (0.12%) Windows Server
13 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 560 (65.27%) Agile
2 236 (27.51%) Scrum
3 231 (26.92%) DevOps
4 193 (22.49%) Problem-Solving
4 193 (22.49%) Stakeholder Management
5 147 (17.13%) CI/CD
6 137 (15.97%) Project Management
7 125 (14.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 123 (14.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 110 (12.82%) User Stories
10 108 (12.59%) Test Automation
11 99 (11.54%) Migration
12 96 (11.19%) User Acceptance Testing
13 84 (9.79%) SDLC
14 83 (9.67%) Roadmaps
15 78 (9.09%) Microservices
16 76 (8.86%) Kanban
17 75 (8.74%) Project Delivery
18 74 (8.62%) Requirements Gathering
19 70 (8.16%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 159 (18.53%) SQL
2 126 (14.69%) Python
3 90 (10.49%) Java
4 87 (10.14%) JavaScript
5 38 (4.43%) C#
6 34 (3.96%) TypeScript
7 28 (3.26%) PowerShell
8 19 (2.21%) Bash
9 18 (2.10%) Groovy
10 17 (1.98%) Go
11 9 (1.05%) C++
12 8 (0.93%) Kotlin
12 8 (0.93%) Ruby
12 8 (0.93%) Shell Script
13 7 (0.82%) Korn
13 7 (0.82%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.70%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.47%) Delphi
15 4 (0.47%) Objective-C
15 4 (0.47%) PHP
Qualifications
1 187 (21.79%) Security Cleared
2 176 (20.51%) SC Cleared
3 119 (13.87%) Degree
4 45 (5.24%) PMI Certification
5 33 (3.85%) PMP
6 32 (3.73%) ISTQB
7 24 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 20 (2.33%) AWS Certification
8 20 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (2.10%) DV Cleared
10 14 (1.63%) Azure Certification
10 14 (1.63%) CBAP
11 13 (1.52%) CISSP
12 9 (1.05%) CSPO
13 8 (0.93%) ISEB
13 8 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 8 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
14 6 (0.70%) CEH
14 6 (0.70%) CFA
14 6 (0.70%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (12.24%) QA
2 37 (4.31%) PMO
3 31 (3.61%) Accessibility
4 29 (3.38%) Data Quality
5 22 (2.56%) GDPR
6 20 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.52%) NIST
8 8 (0.93%) WCAG
9 7 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.70%) GRC
10 6 (0.70%) NCSC
11 5 (0.58%) NIST 800
11 5 (0.58%) SEPA
11 5 (0.58%) SLA
12 4 (0.47%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.47%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.35%) ITGC
13 3 (0.35%) MiFID
13 3 (0.35%) PSD2
14 2 (0.23%) P3O
System Software
1 73 (8.51%) Docker
2 21 (2.45%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.17%) DFS Replication
3 10 (1.17%) Dovecot
3 10 (1.17%) Postfix
3 10 (1.17%) Squid
4 3 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.23%) Firmware
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.12%) etcd
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 62 (7.23%) Kubernetes
2 54 (6.29%) Terraform
3 24 (2.80%) Ansible
4 22 (2.56%) Grafana
5 19 (2.21%) Packer
6 18 (2.10%) Consul
7 17 (1.98%) HP ALM
7 17 (1.98%) Prometheus
8 16 (1.86%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (1.40%) Nessus
10 10 (1.17%) Proxmox
11 5 (0.58%) SCCM
12 4 (0.47%) Puppet
13 3 (0.35%) Ambari
13 3 (0.35%) Istio
13 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.35%) RSA Archer
13 3 (0.35%) ZABBIX
14 2 (0.23%) Argo
14 2 (0.23%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 103 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 97 (11.31%) ServiceNow
3 59 (6.88%) Oracle
4 57 (6.64%) Salesforce
5 37 (4.31%) Atlassian
6 31 (3.61%) SAP
7 29 (3.38%) HP
8 26 (3.03%) Google
9 19 (2.21%) Remedy
10 15 (1.75%) Splunk
11 14 (1.63%) Cloudera
12 13 (1.52%) BMC
12 13 (1.52%) Foundry
12 13 (1.52%) Palantir
13 12 (1.40%) Databricks
13 12 (1.40%) Ivanti
14 11 (1.28%) Adobe
15 10 (1.17%) Citrix
15 10 (1.17%) Jaspersoft
15 10 (1.17%) Sparx