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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 45 53
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 -6
Contract jobs citing JIRA 910 603 692
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.25% 4.76% 3.85%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.09% 33.17% 30.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 626 390 469
10th Percentile £336 £300 £325
25th Percentile £415 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £621 £630 £650
90th Percentile £714 £738 £850
England median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 18
10th Percentile - - £22.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.50 £25.43
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £32.36
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.28% -40.08%
75th Percentile £72.50 £32.50 £63.13
90th Percentile £91.35 - £71.25
England median hourly rate £63.14 £62.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year +1.02% +36.22% -26.59%

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 2,389 1,818 2,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.78% 14.35% 12.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,591 1,227 1,646
10th Percentile £350 £341 £363
25th Percentile £415 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £551
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% -4.68% -8.21%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £737 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -5.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 25
10th Percentile - £22.93 £23.20
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £25.99
Median hourly rate £29.50 £30.00 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -22.58% -32.61%
75th Percentile £72.88 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.53 £84.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.50 £63.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.88% +2.00% +3.16%

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 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 17 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 17 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 -2 117 £550 +4.76% 44
South London +9 39 £519 +9.17% 5
West London -21 17 £400 +3.23% 8
East London - 6 £450 - 8
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
1 393 (43.19%) Confluence
2 49 (5.38%) SharePoint
3 27 (2.97%) nginx
4 15 (1.65%) Apache
5 12 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.77%) CMS
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%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.33%) SAS
11 2 (0.22%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.22%) WordPress
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 84 (9.23%) Microsoft Project
2 76 (8.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 48 (5.27%) MS Visio
4 46 (5.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
6 15 (1.65%) Trello
7 4 (0.44%) Notion
8 3 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
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%) Chatbot
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%) InDesign
10 1 (0.11%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 14 (1.54%) NetSuite
2 13 (1.43%) Loan IQ
3 12 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (1.21%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.88%) Fidessa
5 8 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.44%) Findur
7 4 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 4 (0.44%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.33%) Algo Collateral
8 3 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.33%) SAP FI-AR
8 3 (0.33%) SAP Retail
8 3 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
8 3 (0.33%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 212 (23.30%) Azure
2 140 (15.38%) AWS
3 137 (15.05%) Azure DevOps
4 75 (8.24%) GitHub
5 61 (6.70%) Power Platform
6 43 (4.73%) Entra ID
7 35 (3.85%) SaaS
8 34 (3.74%) Serverless
9 30 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
10 29 (3.19%) Amazon S3
10 29 (3.19%) GCP
11 27 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
12 25 (2.75%) Figma
13 21 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (2.09%) Slack
15 18 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
16 17 (1.87%) Miro
17 16 (1.76%) Google Workspace
17 16 (1.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.09%) Firewall
2 15 (1.65%) DNS
3 12 (1.32%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.10%) 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%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (5.05%) Power BI
2 29 (3.19%) SQL Server
2 29 (3.19%) Tableau
3 27 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (2.31%) NoSQL
5 19 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (1.87%) Relational Database
7 13 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (1.32%) Metadata
8 12 (1.32%) MongoDB
9 11 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (1.21%) DynamoDB
10 10 (1.10%) Big Data
10 10 (1.10%) Delta Lake
10 10 (1.10%) Oracle Database
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 (13.30%) Git
2 64 (7.03%) Jenkins
3 43 (4.73%) Selenium
4 37 (4.07%) GitLab
5 28 (3.08%) Bitbucket
5 28 (3.08%) Zephyr
6 26 (2.86%) JUnit
7 25 (2.75%) Cucumber
8 16 (1.76%) Postman
8 16 (1.76%) TestRail
9 15 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
10 13 (1.43%) SonarQube
11 12 (1.32%) Cypress.io
11 12 (1.32%) JMeter
12 11 (1.21%) Appium
12 11 (1.21%) REST Assured
13 10 (1.10%) Maven
13 10 (1.10%) SpecFlow
14 7 (0.77%) ScriptRunner
14 7 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 335 (36.81%) Finance
2 332 (36.48%) Social Skills
3 167 (18.35%) Analytical Skills
4 137 (15.05%) Banking
5 99 (10.88%) Public Sector
6 39 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
7 35 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
8 33 (3.63%) Retail
9 30 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
10 29 (3.19%) Legal
11 27 (2.97%) Investment Banking
12 24 (2.64%) Front Office
13 20 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (1.76%) Financial Institution
14 16 (1.76%) Marketing
15 11 (1.21%) Publishing
16 10 (1.10%) Back Office
16 10 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 9 (0.99%) Billing
17 9 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 195 (21.43%) Analyst
2 135 (14.84%) Business Analyst
3 105 (11.54%) Developer
4 91 (10.00%) Senior
5 78 (8.57%) Lead
6 63 (6.92%) Project Manager
7 39 (4.29%) Delivery Manager
8 34 (3.74%) Tester
9 32 (3.52%) IT Support
10 31 (3.41%) Architect
11 30 (3.30%) Test Engineer
12 28 (3.08%) Senior Analyst
13 27 (2.97%) Technical Manager
14 26 (2.86%) Scrum Master
15 25 (2.75%) Consultant
15 25 (2.75%) Support Engineer
16 24 (2.64%) Data Engineer
17 23 (2.53%) IT Engineer
18 22 (2.42%) Technical Analyst
18 22 (2.42%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (4.95%) REST
2 33 (3.63%) .NET
3 31 (3.41%) React
4 26 (2.86%) Kafka
5 23 (2.53%) HTML
5 23 (2.53%) Spring
6 20 (2.20%) AngularJS
6 20 (2.20%) CSS
7 19 (2.09%) Node.js
7 19 (2.09%) RESTful
7 19 (2.09%) XML
8 17 (1.87%) JSON
8 17 (1.87%) Playwright
9 16 (1.76%) Lightning Web Components
9 16 (1.76%) Oracle Fusion
9 16 (1.76%) SOAP
10 15 (1.65%) Spring Boot
11 12 (1.32%) ADO
11 12 (1.32%) OAuth
11 12 (1.32%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 84 (9.23%) Product Ownership
2 47 (5.16%) Onboarding
3 27 (2.97%) Management Information System
4 23 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
5 20 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
6 19 (2.09%) Cloud Native
6 19 (2.09%) Virtual Team
7 13 (1.43%) Data Centre
7 13 (1.43%) Mobile App
7 13 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (1.32%) Data Structures
8 12 (1.32%) Public Cloud
9 11 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.10%) Derivative
10 10 (1.10%) Reinsurance
11 9 (0.99%) Equities
11 9 (0.99%) Fixed Income
11 9 (0.99%) Market Risk
12 8 (0.88%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 50 (5.49%) Linux
1 50 (5.49%) Windows
2 14 (1.54%) Unix
3 9 (0.99%) Android
4 8 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.77%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (0.55%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.44%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.33%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (58.24%) Agile
2 239 (26.26%) Stakeholder Management
3 227 (24.95%) DevOps
4 195 (21.43%) Scrum
5 184 (20.22%) Problem-Solving
6 166 (18.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 150 (16.48%) Test Automation
8 145 (15.93%) CI/CD
9 129 (14.18%) Project Management
10 115 (12.64%) User Stories
11 113 (12.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 112 (12.31%) User Acceptance Testing
13 110 (12.09%) Migration
14 101 (11.10%) SDLC
15 97 (10.66%) Change Management
16 91 (10.00%) Project Delivery
17 89 (9.78%) Decision-Making
18 88 (9.67%) Roadmaps
19 86 (9.45%) Analytics
19 86 (9.45%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 166 (18.24%) SQL
2 109 (11.98%) Python
3 95 (10.44%) Java
4 64 (7.03%) C#
5 52 (5.71%) JavaScript
6 41 (4.51%) TypeScript
7 16 (1.76%) Bash
7 16 (1.76%) PowerShell
8 14 (1.54%) C++
9 13 (1.43%) Apex Code
10 8 (0.88%) Shell Script
11 7 (0.77%) Embedded C++
11 7 (0.77%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.55%) C
12 5 (0.55%) Perl
12 5 (0.55%) Ruby
12 5 (0.55%) XPath
13 4 (0.44%) Delphi
13 4 (0.44%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 198 (21.76%) Security Cleared
2 177 (19.45%) SC Cleared
3 72 (7.91%) Degree
4 31 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 31 (3.41%) ISTQB
5 27 (2.97%) PMI Certification
6 21 (2.31%) PMP
7 16 (1.76%) CBAP
8 13 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 13 (1.43%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.21%) IIBA
9 11 (1.21%) ISEB
10 10 (1.10%) CISSP
11 8 (0.88%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.77%) AWS Certification
12 7 (0.77%) CISM
12 7 (0.77%) Master's Degree
13 6 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 6 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (0.66%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (13.96%) QA
2 53 (5.82%) Data Quality
3 39 (4.29%) PMO
4 32 (3.52%) Accessibility
5 28 (3.08%) GDPR
6 15 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.65%) NIST
7 14 (1.54%) SLA
8 12 (1.32%) WCAG
9 8 (0.88%) GRC
9 8 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.66%) MiFID
12 5 (0.55%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.55%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.44%) NCSC
14 3 (0.33%) EMIR
14 3 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.33%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 56 (6.15%) Docker
2 39 (4.29%) 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 (7.25%) Kubernetes
2 58 (6.37%) Terraform
3 22 (2.42%) Single Sign-On
4 20 (2.20%) Consul
5 18 (1.98%) Ansible
6 14 (1.54%) HP ALM
7 13 (1.43%) Grafana
7 13 (1.43%) Packer
7 13 (1.43%) Prometheus
8 9 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.77%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.55%) Control-M
10 5 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.44%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.44%) PingFederate
12 3 (0.33%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.22%) CASB
13 2 (0.22%) Puppet
13 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 108 (11.87%) Microsoft
2 107 (11.76%) ServiceNow
3 76 (8.35%) Oracle
4 72 (7.91%) Salesforce
5 41 (4.51%) Atlassian
6 39 (4.29%) SAP
7 33 (3.63%) Google
8 20 (2.20%) Databricks
9 17 (1.87%) Adobe
10 14 (1.54%) Citrix
10 14 (1.54%) HP
11 13 (1.43%) IBM
11 13 (1.43%) MuleSoft
12 12 (1.32%) Murex
12 12 (1.32%) Workday
13 11 (1.21%) Dynatrace
13 11 (1.21%) Okta
13 11 (1.21%) Remedy
14 10 (1.10%) Informatica
14 10 (1.10%) Splunk