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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 49 49
Rank change year-on-year +10 0 -10
Contract jobs citing JIRA 791 662 892
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.80% 4.20% 4.38%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.50% 29.61% 31.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 590 449 595
10th Percentile £350 £298 £375
25th Percentile £415 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £647 £625 £675
90th Percentile £738 £725 £806
England median daily rate £500 £500 £531
% change year-on-year - -5.88% -1.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 11
10th Percentile £35.35 £22.25 £31.25
25th Percentile £42.25 £25.63 £41.56
Median hourly rate £44.50 £32.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.92% -39.81% +210.79%
75th Percentile £47.50 £33.41 £63.13
90th Percentile £72.25 £33.61 £75.00
England median hourly rate £56.50 £70.00 £61.25
% change year-on-year -19.29% +14.29% -5.77%

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 2,167 2,236 2,841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.88% 14.19% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,486 1,498 2,090
10th Percentile £356 £360 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £688
90th Percentile £738 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 30
10th Percentile £36.63 £27.88 £29.58
25th Percentile £41.69 £32.62 £41.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £46.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -15.91% +24.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.89 £74.66
90th Percentile £107.88 £71.44 £86.90
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

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 29 October 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 29 October 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 29 October 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 +16 129 £500 -4.76% 167
South London -6 22 £550 +15.79% 4
West London -2 15 £358 -23.12% 17
East London -1 5 £415 -19.81% 11
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
1 385 (48.67%) Confluence
2 37 (4.68%) SharePoint
3 25 (3.16%) nginx
4 19 (2.40%) CMS
5 17 (2.15%) Apache
6 8 (1.01%) WordPress
7 5 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.63%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.51%) Drupal
9 3 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.38%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.38%) Camunda
9 3 (0.38%) Traefik
10 2 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.25%) Appian
10 2 (0.25%) CICS
10 2 (0.25%) JBoss
10 2 (0.25%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 58 (7.33%) Microsoft Project
2 56 (7.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 40 (5.06%) MS Visio
4 34 (4.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 31 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
6 21 (2.65%) Trello
7 10 (1.26%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 2 (0.25%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.25%) Notion
8 2 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.13%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.13%) InDesign
9 1 (0.13%) InVision
9 1 (0.13%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.13%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 14 (1.77%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (1.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.88%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.63%) Oracle EBS R12
7 4 (0.51%) Endur
7 4 (0.51%) Magento
7 4 (0.51%) Oracle BPM
7 4 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.51%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.25%) Eagle PACE
9 2 (0.25%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.25%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.25%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 2 (0.25%) Workfront
10 1 (0.13%) PORTIA
Cloud Services
1 188 (23.77%) Azure
2 146 (18.46%) AWS
3 96 (12.14%) Azure DevOps
4 67 (8.47%) GitHub
4 67 (8.47%) Power Platform
5 47 (5.94%) GCP
6 32 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
7 30 (3.79%) Serverless
8 28 (3.54%) Amazon EC2
8 28 (3.54%) Amazon S3
9 23 (2.91%) SaaS
10 22 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (2.65%) Power Automate
12 20 (2.53%) Miro
13 18 (2.28%) Slack
14 17 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
15 16 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
15 16 (2.02%) PowerApps
15 16 (2.02%) Snowflake
16 14 (1.77%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.54%) Firewall
2 22 (2.78%) DNS
3 16 (2.02%) SSH
3 16 (2.02%) SSL
4 15 (1.90%) OpenLDAP
5 13 (1.64%) HTTP
6 12 (1.52%) VPN
7 11 (1.39%) SMTP
8 10 (1.26%) FTP
8 10 (1.26%) IMAP
9 8 (1.01%) WAN
10 7 (0.88%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.76%) Network Security
11 6 (0.76%) SD-WAN
12 3 (0.38%) Internet
13 2 (0.25%) Calico
13 2 (0.25%) LAN
13 2 (0.25%) SNMP
13 2 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
13 2 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (7.21%) Power BI
2 35 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (3.67%) SQL Server
4 22 (2.78%) Tableau
5 18 (2.28%) Big Data
5 18 (2.28%) Oracle Database
6 17 (2.15%) Hadoop
7 16 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
9 14 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
10 13 (1.64%) Metadata
11 11 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (1.26%) Data Vault
13 9 (1.14%) BigQuery
13 9 (1.14%) Data Lake
13 9 (1.14%) Relational Database
13 9 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (0.88%) DB2
14 7 (0.88%) Redis
15 6 (0.76%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 97 (12.26%) Git
2 75 (9.48%) Jenkins
3 37 (4.68%) GitLab
4 33 (4.17%) Selenium
5 27 (3.41%) Bitbucket
6 22 (2.78%) Postman
7 17 (2.15%) SonarQube
8 16 (2.02%) JUnit
8 16 (2.02%) Zephyr
9 15 (1.90%) SpecFlow
9 15 (1.90%) TestRail
10 14 (1.77%) Cucumber
11 12 (1.52%) ER Studio
11 12 (1.52%) ERwin
12 11 (1.39%) Maven
12 11 (1.39%) Vagrant
13 10 (1.26%) REST Assured
13 10 (1.26%) Xcode
14 9 (1.14%) PowerDesigner
14 9 (1.14%) SoapUI
General
1 352 (44.50%) Social Skills
2 228 (28.82%) Finance
3 118 (14.92%) Analytical Skills
3 118 (14.92%) Banking
4 68 (8.60%) Public Sector
5 32 (4.05%) Front Office
6 29 (3.67%) Retail
7 28 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
9 24 (3.03%) Investment Banking
9 24 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (2.02%) Back Office
10 16 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (1.77%) Legal
12 11 (1.39%) Marketing
12 11 (1.39%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 9 (1.14%) Military
15 8 (1.01%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.88%) Billing
Job Titles
1 143 (18.08%) Analyst
2 104 (13.15%) Developer
3 98 (12.39%) Business Analyst
4 81 (10.24%) Project Manager
5 79 (9.99%) Senior
6 64 (8.09%) Lead
7 41 (5.18%) Architect
8 30 (3.79%) Consultant
8 30 (3.79%) Product Owner
9 27 (3.41%) Technical Analyst
9 27 (3.41%) Tester
10 22 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
11 21 (2.65%) Administrator
12 19 (2.40%) Delivery Manager
12 19 (2.40%) ServiceNow Developer
13 18 (2.28%) Technical Business Analyst
14 17 (2.15%) Angular Developer
14 17 (2.15%) Senior Developer
14 17 (2.15%) Solutions Architect
15 16 (2.02%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (9.73%) REST
2 53 (6.70%) AngularJS
2 53 (6.70%) SOAP
3 45 (5.69%) .NET
4 40 (5.06%) HTML
5 32 (4.05%) Web Services
6 30 (3.79%) JSON
6 30 (3.79%) Kafka
6 30 (3.79%) LDAP
7 29 (3.67%) React
8 27 (3.41%) RESTful
9 26 (3.29%) CSS
10 22 (2.78%) Playwright
10 22 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
11 21 (2.65%) HTML5
12 18 (2.28%) XML
13 16 (2.02%) Spring
14 15 (1.90%) jQuery
15 14 (1.77%) .NET Framework
15 14 (1.77%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 81 (10.24%) Product Ownership
2 24 (3.03%) Onboarding
3 22 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 21 (2.65%) Data Structures
5 19 (2.40%) CMDB
6 17 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (2.02%) Reinsurance
8 15 (1.90%) PMI
8 15 (1.90%) Replication
9 13 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.52%) Cloud Native
11 11 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
11 11 (1.39%) Equities
11 11 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.26%) Algorithms
12 10 (1.26%) Derivative
12 10 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
12 10 (1.26%) Fixed Income
12 10 (1.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 9 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 54 (6.83%) Linux
2 43 (5.44%) Windows
3 27 (3.41%) Unix
4 13 (1.64%) VMS
5 12 (1.52%) Ubuntu
6 10 (1.26%) Amazon Linux
6 10 (1.26%) Android
7 7 (0.88%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.76%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.38%) CentOS
10 2 (0.25%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.13%) Debian
11 1 (0.13%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.13%) tvOS
11 1 (0.13%) watchOS
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 517 (65.36%) Agile
2 213 (26.93%) DevOps
2 213 (26.93%) Scrum
3 180 (22.76%) Problem-Solving
4 167 (21.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 134 (16.94%) Project Management
6 130 (16.43%) CI/CD
7 119 (15.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 104 (13.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 94 (11.88%) Test Automation
9 94 (11.88%) User Stories
10 91 (11.50%) Migration
11 82 (10.37%) Microservices
12 80 (10.11%) User Acceptance Testing
13 75 (9.48%) Roadmaps
14 72 (9.10%) SDLC
15 71 (8.98%) Analytics
16 69 (8.72%) Kanban
17 67 (8.47%) Risk Management
18 63 (7.96%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 147 (18.58%) SQL
2 110 (13.91%) Python
3 85 (10.75%) JavaScript
4 84 (10.62%) Java
5 34 (4.30%) C#
6 30 (3.79%) TypeScript
7 27 (3.41%) PowerShell
8 21 (2.65%) Groovy
9 17 (2.15%) Bash
10 16 (2.02%) Go
11 10 (1.26%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.88%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.76%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.76%) C++
13 6 (0.76%) Korn
13 6 (0.76%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.63%) PHP
15 4 (0.51%) Objective-C
15 4 (0.51%) Swift
16 3 (0.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 154 (19.47%) Security Cleared
2 147 (18.58%) SC Cleared
3 119 (15.04%) Degree
4 43 (5.44%) PMI Certification
5 35 (4.42%) PMP
6 23 (2.91%) ISTQB
7 18 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 18 (2.28%) DV Cleared
8 17 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.77%) CISSP
10 13 (1.64%) AWS Certification
11 12 (1.52%) Azure Certification
12 9 (1.14%) CBAP
13 6 (0.76%) CESG Certified Professional
13 6 (0.76%) CFA
13 6 (0.76%) CSPO
13 6 (0.76%) ISEB
13 6 (0.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 6 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
14 5 (0.63%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (11.00%) QA
2 33 (4.17%) PMO
3 32 (4.05%) Data Quality
4 26 (3.29%) Accessibility
5 18 (2.28%) GDPR
6 17 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.39%) NIST
8 9 (1.14%) SEPA
9 8 (1.01%) ISO 20022
10 7 (0.88%) WCAG
11 5 (0.63%) MiFID
11 5 (0.63%) NCSC
11 5 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (0.63%) SLA
12 4 (0.51%) EMIR
12 4 (0.51%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.38%) GRC
13 3 (0.38%) ITGC
13 3 (0.38%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.38%) Solvency II
System Software
1 60 (7.59%) Docker
2 17 (2.15%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.26%) DFS Replication
3 10 (1.26%) Dovecot
3 10 (1.26%) Postfix
3 10 (1.26%) Squid
4 5 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.51%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 4 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.13%) etcd
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.13%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 53 (6.70%) Kubernetes
2 46 (5.82%) Terraform
3 24 (3.03%) Ansible
4 22 (2.78%) Grafana
5 17 (2.15%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (1.77%) Consul
7 14 (1.77%) Packer
8 13 (1.64%) HP ALM
9 12 (1.52%) Nessus
10 10 (1.26%) Proxmox
11 6 (0.76%) SCCM
12 5 (0.63%) Puppet
13 4 (0.51%) Control-M
13 4 (0.51%) Tivoli
14 3 (0.38%) Ambari
14 3 (0.38%) Istio
14 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (0.38%) ZABBIX
15 2 (0.25%) Argo
Vendors
1 96 (12.14%) Microsoft
2 93 (11.76%) ServiceNow
3 47 (5.94%) Oracle
3 47 (5.94%) Salesforce
4 28 (3.54%) Atlassian
4 28 (3.54%) SAP
5 25 (3.16%) HP
6 20 (2.53%) Google
7 15 (1.90%) Cloudera
7 15 (1.90%) Remedy
7 15 (1.90%) Splunk
8 14 (1.77%) Foundry
8 14 (1.77%) Palantir
9 12 (1.52%) BMC
9 12 (1.52%) Ivanti
10 11 (1.39%) Databricks
11 10 (1.26%) Duck Creek
11 10 (1.26%) Jaspersoft
11 10 (1.26%) Sparx
12 9 (1.14%) Apple