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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 32 51
Rank change year-on-year -17 +19 -4
Contract jobs citing JIRA 931 814 686
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.60% 6.07% 4.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 35.70% 37.77% 29.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 590 472
10th Percentile £350 £331 £303
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £647 £619
90th Percentile £750 £738 £725
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - -0.05% -6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 7
10th Percentile £18.75 £35.35 £23.59
25th Percentile £19.25 £42.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £62.50 £44.50 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +40.45% +65.00% -50.06%
75th Percentile £87.83 £47.50 £33.41
90th Percentile £88.01 £72.25 £48.75
England median hourly rate £59.37 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +7.94% -21.43% +12.00%

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 2,608 2,155 2,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.89% 16.08% 14.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,707 1,467 1,561
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £435 £422 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £639 £656
90th Percentile £740 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 13
10th Percentile £19.20 £36.63 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £41.69 £25.99
Median hourly rate £58.25 £45.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.44% +20.00% -34.78%
75th Percentile £77.27 £70.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £89.63 £107.88 £71.75
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -18 125 £550 +10.00% 85
West London -11 22 £400 +1.27% 8
South London -20 15 £526 -9.42% 12
East London +3 4 £550 +34.97% 4
North London - 4 £525 -
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
1 401 (43.07%) Confluence
2 54 (5.80%) SharePoint
3 19 (2.04%) CMS
4 17 (1.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.64%) SAS
6 5 (0.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.54%) Camunda
6 5 (0.54%) Headless CMS
6 5 (0.54%) MTS
7 4 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.43%) Kentico
8 3 (0.32%) Traefik
8 3 (0.32%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.32%) WordPress
9 2 (0.21%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.21%) IIS
9 2 (0.21%) nginx
9 2 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.11%) Apache
10 1 (0.11%) EPiServer
Applications
1 65 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (4.30%) Microsoft Project
3 39 (4.19%) MS Visio
4 34 (3.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 32 (3.44%) Microsoft Office
6 14 (1.50%) Trello
7 8 (0.86%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.64%) Revit
9 5 (0.54%) Notion
9 5 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.43%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.32%) Mingle
12 2 (0.21%) Gliffy
12 2 (0.21%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
13 1 (0.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
13 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 18 (1.93%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (0.97%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.54%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.54%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.43%) Findur
5 4 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.32%) Maximo
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.32%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.21%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
7 2 (0.21%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.21%) SAP FI-AR
7 2 (0.21%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 261 (28.03%) Azure
2 149 (16.00%) AWS
3 143 (15.36%) Azure DevOps
4 91 (9.77%) Power Platform
5 73 (7.84%) GitHub
6 52 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
7 46 (4.94%) GCP
7 46 (4.94%) SaaS
8 40 (4.30%) Amazon S3
8 40 (4.30%) Serverless
9 34 (3.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 31 (3.33%) Entra ID
11 28 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
12 26 (2.79%) Amazon EC2
12 26 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
13 25 (2.69%) Microsoft Copilot
14 24 (2.58%) Miro
15 22 (2.36%) Snowflake
16 19 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
17 17 (1.83%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 28 (3.01%) DNS
2 20 (2.15%) VPN
3 19 (2.04%) Firewall
4 17 (1.83%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.29%) DHCP
6 7 (0.75%) WAN
7 6 (0.64%) HTTP
7 6 (0.64%) Network Security
8 5 (0.54%) DKIM
8 5 (0.54%) DMARC
8 5 (0.54%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.43%) IPv4
9 4 (0.43%) SSH
10 3 (0.32%) Internet
10 3 (0.32%) IPv6
10 3 (0.32%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (0.32%) SSL
10 3 (0.32%) VLAN
11 2 (0.21%) IMAP
11 2 (0.21%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (8.70%) Power BI
2 46 (4.94%) Data Warehouse
2 46 (4.94%) SQL Server
3 29 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (2.04%) Relational Database
5 18 (1.93%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
6 16 (1.72%) MongoDB
7 13 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
8 12 (1.29%) Data Lake
8 12 (1.29%) Metadata
8 12 (1.29%) Redis
8 12 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 11 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (1.18%) Oracle Database
9 11 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (1.18%) Tableau
10 10 (1.07%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 8 (0.86%) DynamoDB
11 8 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 117 (12.57%) Git
2 81 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 50 (5.37%) GitLab
4 35 (3.76%) Selenium
5 25 (2.69%) Bitbucket
5 25 (2.69%) Zephyr
6 18 (1.93%) Cypress.io
6 18 (1.93%) Postman
7 16 (1.72%) REST Assured
8 15 (1.61%) Cucumber
9 14 (1.50%) JUnit
9 14 (1.50%) TestRail
10 13 (1.40%) Sonatype Nexus
11 12 (1.29%) JMeter
11 12 (1.29%) Maven
12 10 (1.07%) Mockito
13 9 (0.97%) Gradle
14 8 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 7 (0.75%) SonarQube
16 6 (0.64%) Appium
General
1 392 (42.11%) Finance
2 384 (41.25%) Social Skills
3 208 (22.34%) Banking
4 194 (20.84%) Analytical Skills
5 106 (11.39%) Public Sector
6 49 (5.26%) Investment Banking
7 48 (5.16%) Organisational Skills
8 39 (4.19%) Front Office
9 38 (4.08%) Retail
10 34 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
11 30 (3.22%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (2.26%) Legal
12 21 (2.26%) Marketing
13 20 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 18 (1.93%) Telecoms
15 16 (1.72%) Retail Banking
16 14 (1.50%) Financial Institution
17 13 (1.40%) Back Office
18 12 (1.29%) Law
19 11 (1.18%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 191 (20.52%) Analyst
2 121 (13.00%) Business Analyst
3 111 (11.92%) Lead
4 98 (10.53%) Developer
5 94 (10.10%) Senior
6 56 (6.02%) Project Manager
7 38 (4.08%) Architect
8 33 (3.54%) Consultant
9 31 (3.33%) Product Owner
10 30 (3.22%) Delivery Manager
11 28 (3.01%) Test Leader
12 26 (2.79%) Scrum Master
13 25 (2.69%) Tester
14 23 (2.47%) Senior Manager
14 23 (2.47%) Technical Analyst
15 22 (2.36%) Applications Support
15 22 (2.36%) Support Engineer
16 21 (2.26%) Senior Analyst
17 20 (2.15%) IT Manager
18 19 (2.04%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (7.52%) REST
2 64 (6.87%) Terraform
3 44 (4.73%) .NET
4 25 (2.69%) Kafka
5 24 (2.58%) JSON
5 24 (2.58%) React
6 23 (2.47%) AngularJS
6 23 (2.47%) Playwright
7 22 (2.36%) SOAP
8 20 (2.15%) HTML
8 20 (2.15%) RESTful
9 18 (1.93%) Web Services
10 17 (1.83%) pytest
11 15 (1.61%) CSS
11 15 (1.61%) Middleware
11 15 (1.61%) Spring
12 14 (1.50%) XML
13 13 (1.40%) Lightning Web Components
13 13 (1.40%) Spring Boot
14 10 (1.07%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 134 (14.39%) Product Ownership
2 67 (7.20%) Onboarding
3 29 (3.11%) Cloud Native
4 25 (2.69%) Data Structures
5 23 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (2.36%) Virtual Team
7 21 (2.26%) Data Centre
7 21 (2.26%) Management Information System
8 20 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
9 18 (1.93%) Credit Risk
9 18 (1.93%) Derivative
9 18 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.61%) Replication
11 14 (1.50%) Fixed Income
11 14 (1.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 12 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 11 (1.18%) Mobile App
14 10 (1.07%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 53 (5.69%) Windows
2 48 (5.16%) Linux
3 13 (1.40%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.18%) Mac OS
5 10 (1.07%) Android
5 10 (1.07%) Unix
6 9 (0.97%) Amazon Linux
6 9 (0.97%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.86%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.43%) VMS
9 2 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.11%) CentOS
10 1 (0.11%) SUSE
10 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.11%) VxWorks
10 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 568 (61.01%) Agile
2 371 (39.85%) Stakeholder Management
3 266 (28.57%) DevOps
4 225 (24.17%) Problem-Solving
5 204 (21.91%) Scrum
6 193 (20.73%) CI/CD
7 154 (16.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 153 (16.43%) Migration
9 152 (16.33%) AI
10 150 (16.11%) User Acceptance Testing
11 149 (16.00%) User Stories
12 132 (14.18%) Test Automation
13 126 (13.53%) Validation
14 118 (12.67%) Acceptance Criteria
15 107 (11.49%) Project Management
16 102 (10.96%) SDLC
17 101 (10.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 96 (10.31%) Sprint Planning
19 95 (10.20%) Analytics
20 92 (9.88%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 198 (21.27%) SQL
2 115 (12.35%) Python
3 63 (6.77%) Java
4 41 (4.40%) C#
4 41 (4.40%) PowerShell
5 36 (3.87%) JavaScript
6 26 (2.79%) Bash
7 24 (2.58%) TypeScript
8 14 (1.50%) Groovy
9 13 (1.40%) Apex Code
10 10 (1.07%) Perl
11 9 (0.97%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.64%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.54%) Go
13 5 (0.54%) Tcl
13 5 (0.54%) VBA
14 4 (0.43%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.32%) Korn
15 3 (0.32%) Swift
15 3 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 203 (21.80%) Security Cleared
2 178 (19.12%) SC Cleared
3 80 (8.59%) Degree
4 41 (4.40%) PMI Certification
5 33 (3.54%) PMP
6 25 (2.69%) DV Cleared
7 22 (2.36%) AWS Certification
8 20 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (1.83%) ISTQB
10 14 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
11 13 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (1.40%) Master's Degree
12 10 (1.07%) Azure Certification
12 10 (1.07%) CBAP
12 10 (1.07%) IIBA
13 8 (0.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 5 (0.54%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.54%) MBA
14 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 5 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (15.15%) QA
2 73 (7.84%) Data Quality
3 42 (4.51%) PMO
4 28 (3.01%) SLA
5 26 (2.79%) Accessibility
6 15 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.40%) WCAG
8 11 (1.18%) ISO 20022
9 8 (0.86%) SEPA
10 7 (0.75%) GDPR
10 7 (0.75%) GRC
10 7 (0.75%) NIST
11 6 (0.64%) COBIT
12 4 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.43%) MiFID
12 4 (0.43%) P3O
12 4 (0.43%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.32%) IFRS
13 3 (0.32%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 49 (5.26%) Docker
2 42 (4.51%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.64%) 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 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 51 (5.48%) Kubernetes
2 33 (3.54%) Grafana
3 26 (2.79%) Prometheus
4 24 (2.58%) Ansible
5 17 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.86%) Control-M
6 8 (0.86%) HP ALM
7 7 (0.75%) Istio
8 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.64%) SCOM
9 5 (0.54%) Argo
9 5 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (0.54%) SCCM
10 4 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (0.43%) Podman
11 3 (0.32%) Kibana
12 2 (0.21%) HP Quality Center
12 2 (0.21%) Nessus
12 2 (0.21%) Puppet
Vendors
1 161 (17.29%) Microsoft
2 98 (10.53%) ServiceNow
3 52 (5.59%) Salesforce
4 48 (5.16%) Oracle
5 30 (3.22%) Google
6 27 (2.90%) Splunk
7 26 (2.79%) Atlassian
8 25 (2.69%) SAP
9 23 (2.47%) IBM
10 21 (2.26%) Remedy
11 16 (1.72%) Adobe
11 16 (1.72%) Databricks
12 15 (1.61%) MuleSoft
13 14 (1.50%) Bloomberg
14 13 (1.40%) ION Trading
15 12 (1.29%) BMC
15 12 (1.29%) Dynatrace
15 12 (1.29%) Informatica
15 12 (1.29%) Planview
15 12 (1.29%) UiPath