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

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 48 52
Rank change year-on-year +8 +4 -5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 906 594 693
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.22% 4.69% 3.85%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.89% 32.80% 30.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 387 473
10th Percentile £346 £306 £325
25th Percentile £415 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -9.09% -5.66%
75th Percentile £623 £630 £650
90th Percentile £714 £738 £850
England median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 16
10th Percentile - - £22.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.50 £25.19
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.88
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -16.38% -33.56%
75th Percentile £72.50 £32.50 £59.38
90th Percentile £91.35 - £71.25
England median hourly rate £63.14 £62.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year +1.02% +36.22% -28.03%

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 2,391 1,811 2,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.79% 14.31% 12.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,595 1,229 1,647
10th Percentile £350 £343 £363
25th Percentile £418 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £555
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -5.41% -7.50%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 23
10th Percentile - £22.93 £22.60
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £25.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -25.00% -30.43%
75th Percentile £72.50 £67.50 £68.50
90th Percentile £91.35 £84.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.50 £64.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.65% +3.20% +1.63%

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 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 10 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 10 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 +1 116 £550 +5.26% 52
South London +7 39 £519 +9.17% 3
West London -21 17 £400 +3.23% 9
East London - 6 £450 - 16
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 (43.82%) Confluence
2 46 (5.08%) SharePoint
3 27 (2.98%) nginx
4 15 (1.66%) Apache
5 9 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.77%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.66%) CMS
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 Airflow
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 87 (9.60%) Microsoft Project
2 76 (8.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 47 (5.19%) MS Visio
4 45 (4.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
6 16 (1.77%) Trello
7 5 (0.55%) Notion
8 4 (0.44%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.33%) InVision
9 3 (0.33%) Sketch
10 2 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.22%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.22%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.22%) InDesign
10 2 (0.22%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.22%) Revit
10 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (1.55%) NetSuite
2 13 (1.43%) Loan IQ
3 12 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (1.10%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.88%) Fidessa
5 8 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
6 7 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
7 5 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.44%) Findur
8 4 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
8 4 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.44%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.44%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.33%) Actimize
9 3 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.33%) SAP Retail
9 3 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
9 3 (0.33%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 210 (23.18%) Azure
2 139 (15.34%) AWS
3 134 (14.79%) Azure DevOps
4 73 (8.06%) GitHub
5 61 (6.73%) Power Platform
6 40 (4.42%) Entra ID
7 33 (3.64%) SaaS
8 32 (3.53%) Serverless
9 28 (3.09%) GCP
10 27 (2.98%) Amazon S3
10 27 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
11 25 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (2.76%) Figma
12 19 (2.10%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (2.10%) Slack
13 18 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
13 18 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
13 18 (1.99%) Miro
14 16 (1.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 14 (1.55%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (2.21%) Firewall
2 12 (1.32%) DNS
2 12 (1.32%) TCP/IP
3 10 (1.10%) HTTP
4 8 (0.88%) SSL
4 8 (0.88%) VPN
5 7 (0.77%) Ethernet
5 7 (0.77%) FTP
5 7 (0.77%) Modbus
5 7 (0.77%) OpenVPN
5 7 (0.77%) RS-232
5 7 (0.77%) RS-485
6 6 (0.66%) WAN
7 5 (0.55%) LAN
7 5 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.44%) NAS
8 4 (0.44%) Network Security
8 4 (0.44%) PSTN
8 4 (0.44%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.22%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (5.19%) Power BI
2 31 (3.42%) Tableau
3 30 (3.31%) SQL Server
4 27 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (2.32%) NoSQL
6 19 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (1.88%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (1.32%) Metadata
9 12 (1.32%) MongoDB
10 11 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (1.10%) Big Data
11 10 (1.10%) Delta Lake
11 10 (1.10%) Oracle Database
12 9 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
12 9 (0.99%) DynamoDB
13 7 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (0.66%) BigQuery
14 6 (0.66%) Data Vault
14 6 (0.66%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 119 (13.13%) Git
2 63 (6.95%) Jenkins
3 44 (4.86%) Selenium
4 37 (4.08%) GitLab
5 29 (3.20%) Bitbucket
6 26 (2.87%) Cucumber
6 26 (2.87%) JUnit
6 26 (2.87%) Zephyr
7 17 (1.88%) Postman
8 16 (1.77%) TestRail
9 15 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
10 13 (1.43%) SonarQube
11 12 (1.32%) JMeter
12 11 (1.21%) REST Assured
12 11 (1.21%) SpecFlow
13 10 (1.10%) Appium
13 10 (1.10%) Cypress.io
13 10 (1.10%) Maven
14 7 (0.77%) ScriptRunner
14 7 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 339 (37.42%) Social Skills
2 338 (37.31%) Finance
3 170 (18.76%) Analytical Skills
4 138 (15.23%) Banking
5 92 (10.15%) Public Sector
6 39 (4.30%) Documentation Skills
7 36 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
8 34 (3.75%) Retail
9 30 (3.31%) Legal
9 30 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
10 27 (2.98%) Investment Banking
11 23 (2.54%) Front Office
12 20 (2.21%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (1.88%) Financial Institution
13 17 (1.88%) Marketing
14 10 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (1.10%) Publishing
15 9 (0.99%) Back Office
15 9 (0.99%) Billing
15 9 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 196 (21.63%) Analyst
2 135 (14.90%) Business Analyst
3 104 (11.48%) Developer
4 93 (10.26%) Senior
5 77 (8.50%) Lead
6 66 (7.28%) Project Manager
7 39 (4.30%) Delivery Manager
8 33 (3.64%) Tester
9 32 (3.53%) Architect
10 31 (3.42%) IT Support
10 31 (3.42%) Test Engineer
11 27 (2.98%) Senior Analyst
11 27 (2.98%) Technical Manager
12 26 (2.87%) Consultant
13 25 (2.76%) Scrum Master
14 24 (2.65%) Data Engineer
14 24 (2.65%) Support Engineer
15 23 (2.54%) Technical Analyst
16 22 (2.43%) Banking Analyst
16 22 (2.43%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (5.19%) REST
2 36 (3.97%) .NET
3 29 (3.20%) React
4 26 (2.87%) Kafka
5 24 (2.65%) Spring
6 23 (2.54%) HTML
7 21 (2.32%) AngularJS
7 21 (2.32%) RESTful
8 20 (2.21%) CSS
8 20 (2.21%) XML
9 19 (2.10%) Node.js
9 19 (2.10%) Playwright
10 17 (1.88%) JSON
10 17 (1.88%) SOAP
11 16 (1.77%) Lightning Web Components
11 16 (1.77%) Oracle Fusion
12 15 (1.66%) Spring Boot
13 12 (1.32%) Middleware
13 12 (1.32%) OpenID
13 12 (1.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 85 (9.38%) Product Ownership
2 45 (4.97%) Onboarding
3 26 (2.87%) Management Information System
4 23 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
5 22 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
6 19 (2.10%) Cloud Native
6 19 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.10%) Virtual Team
7 14 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.43%) Data Centre
8 13 (1.43%) Mobile App
9 12 (1.32%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.32%) Derivative
9 12 (1.32%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.10%) Reinsurance
12 9 (0.99%) Equities
12 9 (0.99%) Fixed Income
12 9 (0.99%) Market Risk
13 8 (0.88%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 50 (5.52%) Linux
2 49 (5.41%) Windows
3 14 (1.55%) Unix
4 9 (0.99%) Android
5 7 (0.77%) 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
1 534 (58.94%) Agile
2 243 (26.82%) Stakeholder Management
3 225 (24.83%) DevOps
4 202 (22.30%) Scrum
5 187 (20.64%) Problem-Solving
6 162 (17.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 150 (16.56%) Test Automation
8 144 (15.89%) CI/CD
9 133 (14.68%) Project Management
10 115 (12.69%) User Stories
11 111 (12.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 111 (12.25%) User Acceptance Testing
12 105 (11.59%) Migration
13 101 (11.15%) SDLC
14 93 (10.26%) Change Management
15 92 (10.15%) Project Delivery
16 91 (10.04%) Roadmaps
17 90 (9.93%) Decision-Making
18 88 (9.71%) Analytics
18 88 (9.71%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 164 (18.10%) SQL
2 107 (11.81%) Python
3 94 (10.38%) Java
4 65 (7.17%) C#
5 51 (5.63%) JavaScript
6 39 (4.30%) TypeScript
7 16 (1.77%) Bash
7 16 (1.77%) PowerShell
8 14 (1.55%) 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%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.55%) Perl
12 5 (0.55%) Ruby
12 5 (0.55%) XPath
13 4 (0.44%) Delphi
14 3 (0.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 190 (20.97%) Security Cleared
2 173 (19.09%) SC Cleared
3 76 (8.39%) Degree
4 31 (3.42%) ISTQB
5 30 (3.31%) PMI Certification
6 29 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 24 (2.65%) PMP
8 16 (1.77%) CBAP
9 13 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (1.21%) CISSP
10 11 (1.21%) IIBA
10 11 (1.21%) ISEB
11 10 (1.10%) DV Cleared
12 8 (0.88%) Azure Certification
13 7 (0.77%) AWS Certification
13 7 (0.77%) CISM
13 7 (0.77%) CSPO
13 7 (0.77%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (14.02%) QA
2 53 (5.85%) Data Quality
3 40 (4.42%) PMO
4 32 (3.53%) Accessibility
5 29 (3.20%) GDPR
6 15 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.66%) NIST
7 14 (1.55%) SLA
8 11 (1.21%) WCAG
9 9 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.88%) GRC
11 7 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.66%) MiFID
13 5 (0.55%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.55%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.33%) Basel III
14 3 (0.33%) EMIR
14 3 (0.33%) GxP
14 3 (0.33%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 55 (6.07%) Docker
2 35 (3.86%) 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 64 (7.06%) Kubernetes
2 56 (6.18%) Terraform
3 20 (2.21%) Consul
3 20 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
4 17 (1.88%) Ansible
5 14 (1.55%) HP ALM
6 13 (1.43%) Grafana
6 13 (1.43%) Packer
6 13 (1.43%) Prometheus
7 9 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.77%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.55%) Control-M
9 5 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.44%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.44%) PingFederate
10 4 (0.44%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.22%) CASB
11 2 (0.22%) Puppet
11 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 107 (11.81%) ServiceNow
2 105 (11.59%) Microsoft
3 75 (8.28%) Oracle
4 73 (8.06%) Salesforce
5 42 (4.64%) Atlassian
6 37 (4.08%) SAP
7 29 (3.20%) Google
8 20 (2.21%) Databricks
9 18 (1.99%) Adobe
10 14 (1.55%) Citrix
10 14 (1.55%) 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%) Remedy
14 10 (1.10%) Informatica
15 9 (0.99%) CA Agile Central
15 9 (0.99%) Red Hat