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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 33 56
Rank change year-on-year -12 +23 -5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 961 793 667
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.79% 5.93% 4.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.33% 37.44% 28.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 552 453
10th Percentile £358 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £524 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.62% -0.19% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 4 14
10th Percentile - £34.20 £22.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £39.38 £25.99
Median hourly rate £53.00 £44.75 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year +18.44% +36.64% -39.35%
75th Percentile £73.75 £57.81 £69.69
90th Percentile £87.83 £76.38 £71.25
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +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 2,507 2,118 2,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.50% 15.84% 14.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,612 1,452 1,588
10th Percentile £375 £350 £363
25th Percentile £447 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 13 19
10th Percentile £18.75 £26.98 £24.60
25th Percentile £26.25 £36.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £53.00 £45.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% +20.00% -46.43%
75th Percentile £73.75 £63.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.38 £84.50 £71.38
England median hourly rate £68.11 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.78% - -

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -18 116 £550 +10.00% 52
West London -7 27 £400 -1.23% 18
South London -6 21 £550 -5.34% 6
East London 0 2 £425 +4.29% 4
North London -1 2 - - 3
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
1 397 (41.31%) Confluence
2 55 (5.72%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (1.35%) CMS
5 7 (0.73%) SAS
6 5 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.52%) Apache
7 4 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.42%) Headless CMS
7 4 (0.42%) MTS
8 3 (0.31%) JBoss
8 3 (0.31%) WordPress
9 2 (0.21%) Camunda
9 2 (0.21%) Kentico
9 2 (0.21%) nginx
10 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.10%) Appian
10 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 67 (6.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (5.52%) Microsoft Project
3 40 (4.16%) MS Visio
4 35 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 27 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
6 14 (1.46%) Trello
7 10 (1.04%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.83%) Revit
9 6 (0.62%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.52%) Notion
11 4 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.10%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.10%) Mingle
12 1 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
12 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.10%) Sketch
12 1 (0.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 18 (1.87%) Remedy ITSM
2 11 (1.14%) Aladdin
3 10 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.52%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.52%) Findur
5 5 (0.52%) Loan IQ
6 4 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.42%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.31%) SAP FI-AR
8 2 (0.21%) Actimize
8 2 (0.21%) CA PPM
8 2 (0.21%) Eloqua
8 2 (0.21%) IntelliMatch
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.21%) Shopify
8 2 (0.21%) Summit
8 2 (0.21%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 274 (28.51%) Azure
2 154 (16.02%) Azure DevOps
3 150 (15.61%) AWS
4 89 (9.26%) Power Platform
5 70 (7.28%) GitHub
6 52 (5.41%) Entra ID
7 51 (5.31%) SaaS
8 44 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
9 43 (4.47%) Serverless
10 42 (4.37%) Amazon S3
10 42 (4.37%) GCP
11 35 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 34 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
13 28 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
14 25 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
15 24 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
16 20 (2.08%) Figma
17 19 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
17 19 (1.98%) Snowflake
18 18 (1.87%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.60%) Firewall
2 24 (2.50%) DNS
3 17 (1.77%) VPN
4 16 (1.66%) TCP/IP
5 9 (0.94%) DHCP
6 7 (0.73%) Network Security
7 6 (0.62%) HTTP
7 6 (0.62%) SSL
7 6 (0.62%) WAN
8 5 (0.52%) DKIM
8 5 (0.52%) DMARC
9 4 (0.42%) FTP
9 4 (0.42%) Internet
9 4 (0.42%) IPv4
9 4 (0.42%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.42%) SSH
10 3 (0.31%) IPv6
10 3 (0.31%) NGFW
11 2 (0.21%) 5G
11 2 (0.21%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (8.32%) Power BI
2 35 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (2.91%) SQL Server
4 18 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
4 18 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (1.66%) Metadata
5 16 (1.66%) Relational Database
6 15 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
6 15 (1.56%) Tableau
7 14 (1.46%) DynamoDB
8 12 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (1.14%) Data Lake
10 10 (1.04%) MongoDB
10 10 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 10 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (0.94%) Redis
12 8 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
13 7 (0.73%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 124 (12.90%) Git
2 78 (8.12%) Jenkins
3 38 (3.95%) GitLab
4 36 (3.75%) Selenium
5 28 (2.91%) Zephyr
6 20 (2.08%) Bitbucket
7 17 (1.77%) Cypress.io
8 15 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
9 14 (1.46%) Postman
10 11 (1.14%) REST Assured
11 10 (1.04%) JUnit
12 9 (0.94%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.83%) TestRail
14 7 (0.73%) JMeter
14 7 (0.73%) Maven
15 6 (0.62%) Appium
15 6 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 6 (0.62%) Mockito
15 6 (0.62%) ScriptRunner
16 5 (0.52%) Gradle
General
1 393 (40.89%) Social Skills
2 392 (40.79%) Finance
3 199 (20.71%) Banking
4 189 (19.67%) Analytical Skills
5 104 (10.82%) Public Sector
6 44 (4.58%) Investment Banking
7 43 (4.47%) Retail
8 38 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
9 36 (3.75%) Front Office
10 35 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
11 22 (2.29%) Legal
12 20 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 19 (1.98%) Marketing
14 16 (1.66%) Retail Banking
15 15 (1.56%) Financial Institution
16 14 (1.46%) Back Office
16 14 (1.46%) Corporate Banking
16 14 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
17 12 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 192 (19.98%) Analyst
2 121 (12.59%) Business Analyst
3 107 (11.13%) Developer
4 106 (11.03%) Lead
5 90 (9.37%) Senior
6 56 (5.83%) Project Manager
7 36 (3.75%) Delivery Manager
8 35 (3.64%) Consultant
9 34 (3.54%) Architect
10 32 (3.33%) Product Owner
11 29 (3.02%) Support Engineer
12 28 (2.91%) Scrum Master
13 27 (2.81%) Applications Support
13 27 (2.81%) IT Support
13 27 (2.81%) Test Manager
14 25 (2.60%) Test Leader
15 24 (2.50%) Tester
16 23 (2.39%) Banking Analyst
17 22 (2.29%) Data Engineer
17 22 (2.29%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (7.60%) Terraform
2 60 (6.24%) REST
3 42 (4.37%) .NET
4 26 (2.71%) AngularJS
4 26 (2.71%) React
5 23 (2.39%) JSON
6 20 (2.08%) HTML
7 18 (1.87%) Kafka
7 18 (1.87%) SOAP
8 17 (1.77%) Playwright
9 16 (1.66%) Middleware
10 15 (1.56%) PySpark
10 15 (1.56%) RESTful
11 14 (1.46%) CSS
11 14 (1.46%) Lightning Web Components
11 14 (1.46%) Node.js
11 14 (1.46%) XML
12 12 (1.25%) OAuth
12 12 (1.25%) Spring
13 10 (1.04%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 115 (11.97%) Product Ownership
2 70 (7.28%) Onboarding
3 26 (2.71%) Cloud Native
4 23 (2.39%) Data Centre
5 22 (2.29%) Management Information System
6 21 (2.19%) Data Structures
6 21 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
7 20 (2.08%) Virtual Team
8 18 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (1.87%) Derivative
8 18 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (1.77%) Credit Risk
9 17 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.56%) Replication
10 15 (1.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 14 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 14 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (1.35%) Mobile App
13 12 (1.25%) Fixed Income
14 10 (1.04%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 57 (5.93%) Windows
2 46 (4.79%) Linux
3 13 (1.35%) Apple iOS
4 12 (1.25%) Unix
5 11 (1.14%) Android
6 9 (0.94%) Amazon Linux
6 9 (0.94%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.73%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.52%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.21%) VMS
9 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.10%) SUSE
10 1 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (59.73%) Agile
2 337 (35.07%) Stakeholder Management
3 277 (28.82%) DevOps
4 227 (23.62%) Problem-Solving
5 190 (19.77%) CI/CD
6 176 (18.31%) Scrum
7 162 (16.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 155 (16.13%) Migration
9 145 (15.09%) User Acceptance Testing
10 131 (13.63%) AI
11 127 (13.22%) Test Automation
11 127 (13.22%) User Stories
12 110 (11.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 107 (11.13%) Validation
14 105 (10.93%) Acceptance Criteria
15 103 (10.72%) Project Management
16 102 (10.61%) SDLC
17 101 (10.51%) Sprint Planning
18 95 (9.89%) Analytics
19 93 (9.68%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 185 (19.25%) SQL
2 109 (11.34%) Python
3 64 (6.66%) Java
4 43 (4.47%) C#
5 42 (4.37%) JavaScript
6 41 (4.27%) PowerShell
7 27 (2.81%) TypeScript
8 20 (2.08%) Bash
9 16 (1.66%) Apex Code
10 15 (1.56%) Groovy
11 12 (1.25%) Perl
12 10 (1.04%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.52%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.52%) VBA
14 4 (0.42%) Korn
14 4 (0.42%) Swift
14 4 (0.42%) Tcl
14 4 (0.42%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.31%) Bicep
15 3 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 218 (22.68%) Security Cleared
2 192 (19.98%) SC Cleared
3 75 (7.80%) Degree
4 31 (3.23%) PMI Certification
5 25 (2.60%) PMP
6 24 (2.50%) DV Cleared
7 20 (2.08%) ISTQB
8 18 (1.87%) AWS Certification
9 15 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
10 12 (1.25%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.25%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (0.94%) IIBA
12 8 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (0.73%) CBAP
13 7 (0.73%) CISSP
14 6 (0.62%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.52%) CISM
15 5 (0.52%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (13.32%) QA
2 69 (7.18%) Data Quality
3 46 (4.79%) PMO
4 29 (3.02%) SLA
5 24 (2.50%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.87%) GDPR
7 17 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.14%) ISO 20022
9 9 (0.94%) NIST
9 9 (0.94%) WCAG
10 8 (0.83%) GRC
11 7 (0.73%) SEPA
12 6 (0.62%) MiFID
12 6 (0.62%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.52%) COBIT
14 4 (0.42%) EMIR
14 4 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 4 (0.42%) NCSC
14 4 (0.42%) P3O
14 4 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 55 (5.72%) Active Directory
2 40 (4.16%) Docker
3 7 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.21%) DFS Replication
5 2 (0.21%) Dovecot
5 2 (0.21%) Firmware
5 2 (0.21%) Postfix
5 2 (0.21%) Squid
6 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 49 (5.10%) Kubernetes
2 28 (2.91%) Ansible
3 25 (2.60%) Grafana
4 22 (2.29%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (1.14%) HP ALM
7 9 (0.94%) Control-M
8 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.62%) Microsoft Clustering
9 6 (0.62%) SCOM
10 4 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.42%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.42%) Istio
10 4 (0.42%) PingFederate
10 4 (0.42%) Podman
11 3 (0.31%) Argo
11 3 (0.31%) Consul
11 3 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.21%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 146 (15.19%) Microsoft
2 120 (12.49%) ServiceNow
3 64 (6.66%) Salesforce
4 42 (4.37%) Oracle
5 35 (3.64%) SAP
6 34 (3.54%) Google
7 27 (2.81%) Atlassian
8 23 (2.39%) Splunk
9 18 (1.87%) Adobe
9 18 (1.87%) Okta
9 18 (1.87%) Remedy
10 15 (1.56%) IBM
10 15 (1.56%) MuleSoft
11 12 (1.25%) Databricks
11 12 (1.25%) HP
11 12 (1.25%) Informatica
11 12 (1.25%) Workday
12 11 (1.14%) Bloomberg
12 11 (1.14%) BMC
12 11 (1.14%) ION Trading