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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 36 58
Rank change year-on-year -8 +22 -9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 990 773 656
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.91% 5.69% 4.03%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.29% 36.58% 28.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 650 534 456
10th Percentile £358 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £626
90th Percentile £750 £750 £740
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 4 17
10th Percentile - £34.20 £22.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £39.38 £25.99
Median hourly rate £27.50 £44.75 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -38.55% +41.12% -41.28%
75th Percentile £68.13 £57.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.97 £76.38 £71.25
England median hourly rate £55.00 £63.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -12.70% -6.67% +8.00%

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 2,520 2,113 2,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.50% 15.54% 14.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,620 1,443 1,615
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £440 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 13 24
10th Percentile - £26.98 £22.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £36.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £35.29
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +27.53% -49.59%
75th Percentile £72.75 £63.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.20 £84.50 £71.69
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 6 August 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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -17 120 £550 +10.00% 49
South London +5 30 £513 -11.85% 7
West London -6 26 £400 -3.61% 8
East London -1 2 £425 +4.29% 5
North London -1 2 - - 1
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
1 413 (41.72%) Confluence
2 52 (5.25%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.21%) CMS
3 12 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.71%) SAS
5 6 (0.61%) Apache
6 5 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.40%) JBoss
7 4 (0.40%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.30%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.30%) nginx
8 3 (0.30%) WordPress
9 2 (0.20%) Camunda
9 2 (0.20%) Kentico
10 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.10%) Appian
10 1 (0.10%) Drupal
10 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 67 (6.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (6.36%) Microsoft Project
3 43 (4.34%) MS Visio
4 32 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
6 14 (1.41%) Trello
7 10 (1.01%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.81%) Revit
9 6 (0.61%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.51%) Notion
11 4 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.10%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.10%) Mingle
12 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 21 (2.12%) Remedy ITSM
2 12 (1.21%) Aladdin
3 11 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.81%) Findur
5 7 (0.71%) Loan IQ
6 6 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.61%) Fidessa
7 5 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.40%) Actimize
8 4 (0.40%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.30%) SAP FI-AR
10 2 (0.20%) CA PPM
10 2 (0.20%) Eloqua
10 2 (0.20%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
10 2 (0.20%) IntelliMatch
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.20%) Shopify
10 2 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 2 (0.20%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 280 (28.28%) Azure
2 155 (15.66%) Azure DevOps
3 153 (15.45%) AWS
4 81 (8.18%) Power Platform
5 73 (7.37%) GitHub
6 55 (5.56%) Entra ID
7 48 (4.85%) SaaS
8 43 (4.34%) Amazon S3
8 43 (4.34%) Serverless
9 41 (4.14%) GCP
9 41 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
10 35 (3.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 33 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
12 31 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
13 29 (2.93%) Amazon EC2
14 21 (2.12%) Snowflake
15 20 (2.02%) Figma
16 19 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
16 19 (1.92%) Microsoft Copilot
17 18 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.32%) DNS
2 22 (2.22%) Firewall
3 16 (1.62%) TCP/IP
3 16 (1.62%) VPN
4 8 (0.81%) DHCP
5 7 (0.71%) Network Security
6 6 (0.61%) SSL
6 6 (0.61%) WAN
7 5 (0.51%) DKIM
7 5 (0.51%) DMARC
8 4 (0.40%) FTP
8 4 (0.40%) HTTP
8 4 (0.40%) Internet
8 4 (0.40%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.30%) IPv4
9 3 (0.30%) NGFW
10 2 (0.20%) 5G
10 2 (0.20%) DSL
10 2 (0.20%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (7.27%) Power BI
2 38 (3.84%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (2.73%) SQL Server
4 26 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
5 18 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (1.82%) Relational Database
6 16 (1.62%) Metadata
6 16 (1.62%) Tableau
7 14 (1.41%) DynamoDB
8 13 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (1.21%) Data Lake
9 12 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (1.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 10 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
12 8 (0.81%) MongoDB
13 7 (0.71%) Crystal Reports
13 7 (0.71%) Oracle Database
13 7 (0.71%) Redis
Development Applications
1 117 (11.82%) Git
2 75 (7.58%) Jenkins
3 41 (4.14%) GitLab
4 31 (3.13%) Selenium
4 31 (3.13%) Zephyr
5 19 (1.92%) Bitbucket
6 18 (1.82%) JUnit
7 17 (1.72%) Cucumber
8 16 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
9 14 (1.41%) Cypress.io
10 12 (1.21%) REST Assured
11 10 (1.01%) Postman
11 10 (1.01%) TestRail
12 9 (0.91%) Appium
12 9 (0.91%) JMeter
13 7 (0.71%) Mockito
14 6 (0.61%) Maven
14 6 (0.61%) ScriptRunner
15 5 (0.51%) Artifactory
15 5 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 393 (39.70%) Social Skills
2 392 (39.60%) Finance
3 189 (19.09%) Analytical Skills
4 188 (18.99%) Banking
5 104 (10.51%) Public Sector
6 43 (4.34%) Organisational Skills
7 42 (4.24%) Retail
8 36 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (3.64%) Investment Banking
9 30 (3.03%) Front Office
10 25 (2.53%) Legal
11 20 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
12 18 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 18 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (1.82%) Marketing
13 17 (1.72%) Financial Institution
14 16 (1.62%) Retail Banking
15 15 (1.52%) Corporate Banking
16 13 (1.31%) Back Office
16 13 (1.31%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 192 (19.39%) Analyst
2 123 (12.42%) Business Analyst
3 111 (11.21%) Lead
4 105 (10.61%) Developer
5 94 (9.49%) Senior
6 60 (6.06%) Project Manager
7 44 (4.44%) Delivery Manager
8 38 (3.84%) Architect
9 36 (3.64%) IT Support
10 34 (3.43%) Consultant
11 32 (3.23%) Product Owner
12 30 (3.03%) Test Leader
13 28 (2.83%) Scrum Master
13 28 (2.83%) Support Engineer
14 27 (2.73%) Test Manager
15 25 (2.53%) Data Engineer
15 25 (2.53%) Tester
16 24 (2.42%) Senior Manager
16 24 (2.42%) Technical Manager
17 23 (2.32%) Banking Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (5.76%) REST
2 42 (4.24%) .NET
3 27 (2.73%) React
4 24 (2.42%) JSON
5 20 (2.02%) AngularJS
5 20 (2.02%) Kafka
5 20 (2.02%) SOAP
6 18 (1.82%) PySpark
7 16 (1.62%) Playwright
7 16 (1.62%) XML
8 15 (1.52%) HTML
8 15 (1.52%) Lightning Web Components
9 14 (1.41%) CSS
9 14 (1.41%) Spring
10 13 (1.31%) Middleware
10 13 (1.31%) Node.js
11 12 (1.21%) RESTful
12 11 (1.11%) OAuth
12 11 (1.11%) Web Services
13 10 (1.01%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 106 (10.71%) Product Ownership
2 68 (6.87%) Onboarding
3 28 (2.83%) Data Centre
4 25 (2.53%) Cloud Native
5 21 (2.12%) Data Structures
6 19 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
6 19 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
6 19 (1.92%) Management Information System
6 19 (1.92%) Virtual Team
7 18 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (1.82%) Derivative
8 17 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (1.62%) Credit Risk
9 16 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 14 (1.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 11 (1.11%) Mobile App
13 10 (1.01%) Fixed Income
13 10 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (1.01%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 58 (5.86%) Windows
2 35 (3.54%) Linux
3 12 (1.21%) Apple iOS
4 10 (1.01%) Android
4 10 (1.01%) Mac OS
5 9 (0.91%) Unix
6 7 (0.71%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.30%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.10%) SUSE
11 1 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.10%) VMS
11 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 581 (58.69%) Agile
2 325 (32.83%) Stakeholder Management
3 271 (27.37%) DevOps
4 219 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
5 187 (18.89%) CI/CD
6 177 (17.88%) Scrum
7 162 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 159 (16.06%) Migration
9 138 (13.94%) User Acceptance Testing
10 133 (13.43%) AI
11 132 (13.33%) Test Automation
12 126 (12.73%) User Stories
13 107 (10.81%) SDLC
14 105 (10.61%) Project Management
14 105 (10.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 101 (10.20%) Change Management
16 100 (10.10%) Acceptance Criteria
17 98 (9.90%) Analytics
17 98 (9.90%) Validation
18 92 (9.29%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 178 (17.98%) SQL
2 108 (10.91%) Python
3 74 (7.47%) Java
4 57 (5.76%) C#
5 39 (3.94%) JavaScript
6 36 (3.64%) PowerShell
7 30 (3.03%) TypeScript
8 16 (1.62%) Bash
9 14 (1.41%) Apex Code
10 11 (1.11%) Groovy
11 10 (1.01%) Perl
12 9 (0.91%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.51%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.51%) VBA
14 4 (0.40%) Swift
15 3 (0.30%) Bicep
15 3 (0.30%) C++
15 3 (0.30%) Korn
15 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 219 (22.12%) Security Cleared
2 193 (19.49%) SC Cleared
3 76 (7.68%) Degree
4 30 (3.03%) PMI Certification
5 24 (2.42%) PMP
6 22 (2.22%) ISTQB
7 21 (2.12%) DV Cleared
8 18 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (1.21%) AWS Certification
11 11 (1.11%) Master's Degree
12 10 (1.01%) Azure Certification
12 10 (1.01%) CISSP
13 9 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (0.91%) IIBA
14 8 (0.81%) CISM
15 7 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 7 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 7 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (12.63%) QA
2 68 (6.87%) Data Quality
3 46 (4.65%) PMO
4 29 (2.93%) SLA
5 27 (2.73%) Accessibility
6 26 (2.63%) GDPR
7 20 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.21%) WCAG
9 10 (1.01%) ISO 20022
10 8 (0.81%) NIST
11 7 (0.71%) GRC
12 6 (0.61%) MiFID
12 6 (0.61%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.61%) SEPA
13 5 (0.51%) COBIT
14 4 (0.40%) EMIR
14 4 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 4 (0.40%) NCSC
14 4 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 55 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 37 (3.74%) Docker
3 8 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.20%) Firmware
6 2 (0.20%) Squid
7 1 (0.10%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 73 (7.37%) Terraform
2 59 (5.96%) Kubernetes
3 31 (3.13%) Ansible
4 22 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
5 21 (2.12%) Grafana
5 21 (2.12%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.91%) Control-M
6 9 (0.91%) HP ALM
6 9 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Clustering
7 6 (0.61%) SCOM
8 5 (0.51%) Consul
9 4 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.40%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.40%) Istio
9 4 (0.40%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.40%) Podman
10 3 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.20%) Argo
11 2 (0.20%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 140 (14.14%) Microsoft
2 127 (12.83%) ServiceNow
3 69 (6.97%) Salesforce
4 48 (4.85%) Oracle
5 36 (3.64%) SAP
6 32 (3.23%) Google
7 29 (2.93%) Atlassian
8 21 (2.12%) Remedy
9 19 (1.92%) Adobe
9 19 (1.92%) Splunk
10 18 (1.82%) IBM
10 18 (1.82%) Okta
11 17 (1.72%) Databricks
12 15 (1.52%) MuleSoft
13 12 (1.21%) Informatica
13 12 (1.21%) Workday
14 11 (1.11%) BMC
14 11 (1.11%) ForgeRock
15 10 (1.01%) DocuSign
15 10 (1.01%) HP