JIRA Contracts in London

Atlassian JIRA
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring JIRA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JIRA over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 54 48
Rank change year-on-year +8 -6 -9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 622 692 1,301
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 4.95% 3.88% 4.81%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.23% 29.61% 29.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 470 920
10th Percentile £311 £348 £368
25th Percentile £410 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £738 £850 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +4.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 18 7
10th Percentile - £22.00 £46.40
25th Percentile £27.50 £25.43 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £31.71 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% -41.28% +21.35%
75th Percentile £32.50 £63.13 £82.50
90th Percentile - £71.25 £90.50
England median hourly rate £57.75 £55.00 £65.84
% change year-on-year +5.00% -16.47% +47.96%

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 1,817 2,337 4,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.47% 13.10% 16.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,229 1,663 3,172
10th Percentile £350 £363 £413
25th Percentile £419 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £725
90th Percentile £800 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 25 39
10th Percentile £22.93 £23.20 £48.20
25th Percentile £26.04 £25.99 £56.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -30.43% +29.21%
75th Percentile £67.50 £71.25 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £71.63 £86.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in London

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA in London.

Daily rate trend for JIRA in London

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in London

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JIRA in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 30 April 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 +21 107 £533 +3.40% 34
West London +11 15 £395 -25.30% 15
South London -4 14 £475 -23.39% 5
East London +11 1 £360 -50.14% 2
North London -3 1 £440 - 1
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 263 (42.28%) Confluence
2 34 (5.47%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.41%) Apache
4 13 (2.09%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.45%) Jupyter
6 8 (1.29%) CMS
7 5 (0.80%) nginx
8 4 (0.64%) JBoss
9 3 (0.48%) Drupal
9 3 (0.48%) IIS
9 3 (0.48%) Oracle Coherence
9 3 (0.48%) SAS
9 3 (0.48%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.32%) govService
10 2 (0.32%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.32%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.16%) Camunda
Applications
1 49 (7.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (7.07%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (6.27%) Microsoft Project
4 28 (4.50%) MS Visio
5 26 (4.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 23 (3.70%) Trello
7 9 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.48%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.16%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.16%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.48%) Shopify
3 3 (0.48%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.32%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.32%) Kondor
4 2 (0.32%) MultiFonds
4 2 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.32%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.16%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.16%) Endur
5 1 (0.16%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.16%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.16%) SAP SCM
5 1 (0.16%) SessionCam
5 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.16%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 116 (18.65%) AWS
2 107 (17.20%) Azure
3 57 (9.16%) Power Platform
4 45 (7.23%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (6.59%) GitHub
6 29 (4.66%) GCP
7 28 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
8 21 (3.38%) Slack
9 20 (3.22%) IaaS
10 19 (3.05%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (2.73%) Cloud Computing
12 16 (2.57%) Miro
12 16 (2.57%) SaaS
13 14 (2.25%) PowerApps
14 12 (1.93%) Power Automate
15 11 (1.77%) Amazon S3
15 11 (1.77%) Asana
15 11 (1.77%) Serverless
16 10 (1.61%) PaaS
17 9 (1.45%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.89%) Firewall
2 17 (2.73%) VPN
3 11 (1.77%) Network Security
4 10 (1.61%) DNS
5 9 (1.45%) SSH
5 9 (1.45%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.13%) HTTP
7 6 (0.96%) SAN
8 5 (0.80%) DHCP
9 4 (0.64%) NAS
9 4 (0.64%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (0.48%) BGP
10 3 (0.48%) Kerberos
10 3 (0.48%) SSL
10 3 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
11 2 (0.32%) FCoE
11 2 (0.32%) Internet
11 2 (0.32%) MPLS
11 2 (0.32%) SMTP
11 2 (0.32%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (7.56%) Power BI
2 27 (4.34%) SQL Server
3 25 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (3.05%) MongoDB
5 17 (2.73%) MySQL
6 16 (2.57%) Tableau
7 15 (2.41%) Data Lake
7 15 (2.41%) NoSQL
8 12 (1.93%) Apache Cassandra
8 12 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (1.61%) Apache Hive
10 9 (1.45%) BigQuery
10 9 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.45%) Relational Database
11 8 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (1.29%) Big Data
11 8 (1.29%) Delta Lake
11 8 (1.29%) Hadoop
11 8 (1.29%) Oracle Database
12 7 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 89 (14.31%) Git
2 61 (9.81%) Jenkins
3 36 (5.79%) Postman
4 30 (4.82%) Selenium
5 24 (3.86%) REST Assured
6 18 (2.89%) Cucumber
6 18 (2.89%) GitLab
6 18 (2.89%) JUnit
7 17 (2.73%) Bitbucket
8 16 (2.57%) Cypress.io
9 15 (2.41%) ScriptRunner
10 14 (2.25%) JMeter
11 11 (1.77%) TeamCity
12 10 (1.61%) Subversion
12 10 (1.61%) Zephyr
13 9 (1.45%) Jasmine
13 9 (1.45%) SoapUI
13 9 (1.45%) SonarQube
14 8 (1.29%) Visual Studio
15 7 (1.13%) Artifactory
General
1 243 (39.07%) Social Skills
2 170 (27.33%) Finance
3 113 (18.17%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (16.40%) Banking
5 37 (5.95%) Public Sector
6 29 (4.66%) Front Office
6 29 (4.66%) Marketing
7 20 (3.22%) Investment Banking
8 17 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
9 16 (2.57%) Retail
10 15 (2.41%) Legal
11 12 (1.93%) Back Office
11 12 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (1.61%) Law
12 10 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (1.29%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.29%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 117 (18.81%) Analyst
2 83 (13.34%) Developer
3 69 (11.09%) Business Analyst
3 69 (11.09%) Senior
4 65 (10.45%) Project Manager
5 47 (7.56%) Lead
6 30 (4.82%) Consultant
7 24 (3.86%) Architect
8 22 (3.54%) Delivery Manager
9 21 (3.38%) Test Engineer
10 20 (3.22%) C# Developer
11 19 (3.05%) Data Engineer
12 16 (2.57%) Electronic Trading Developer
12 16 (2.57%) Java Developer
12 16 (2.57%) Scrum Master
12 16 (2.57%) Tester
13 15 (2.41%) .NET Developer
13 15 (2.41%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
13 15 (2.41%) Real Time Developer
14 14 (2.25%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (8.84%) REST
2 29 (4.66%) .NET
3 26 (4.18%) AngularJS
4 24 (3.86%) Spring
5 21 (3.38%) SOAP
5 21 (3.38%) Spring Boot
6 20 (3.22%) Kafka
6 20 (3.22%) Swagger
7 18 (2.89%) JSON
8 16 (2.57%) OpenAPI
8 16 (2.57%) RESTful
9 15 (2.41%) pytest
9 15 (2.41%) Reactive Extensions
10 14 (2.25%) HTML
10 14 (2.25%) Web Services
11 11 (1.77%) CSS
11 11 (1.77%) XML
11 11 (1.77%) YAML
12 10 (1.61%) React
13 9 (1.45%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 48 (7.72%) Product Ownership
2 26 (4.18%) Onboarding
3 20 (3.22%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (2.41%) Virtual Team
5 13 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
5 13 (2.09%) Data Structures
5 13 (2.09%) Reference Data
6 12 (1.93%) Mobile App
7 10 (1.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 10 (1.61%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.45%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.45%) Fixed Income
8 9 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (1.29%) Derivative
9 8 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.13%) Cloud Native
10 7 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (1.13%) Public Cloud
11 6 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 52 (8.36%) Windows
2 46 (7.40%) Linux
3 20 (3.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (2.25%) Unix
5 11 (1.77%) Android
5 11 (1.77%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.45%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.96%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.80%) CentOS
9 3 (0.48%) Solaris
9 3 (0.48%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.16%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.16%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.16%) SUSE
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (57.07%) Agile
2 147 (23.63%) Problem-Solving
3 125 (20.10%) Project Management
4 118 (18.97%) Scrum
5 117 (18.81%) DevOps
6 111 (17.85%) Stakeholder Management
7 90 (14.47%) CI/CD
8 87 (13.99%) Test Automation
9 65 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 52 (8.36%) Risk Management
11 51 (8.20%) Migration
12 50 (8.04%) Roadmaps
12 50 (8.04%) Waterfall
13 49 (7.88%) Analytics
13 49 (7.88%) User Stories
14 47 (7.56%) Business Intelligence
14 47 (7.56%) Project Delivery
15 42 (6.75%) User Acceptance Testing
16 41 (6.59%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 40 (6.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 126 (20.26%) SQL
2 94 (15.11%) Java
3 89 (14.31%) Python
4 48 (7.72%) JavaScript
5 41 (6.59%) C#
6 24 (3.86%) Bash
7 20 (3.22%) Groovy
7 20 (3.22%) TypeScript
8 15 (2.41%) PowerShell
9 14 (2.25%) Scala
10 12 (1.93%) Kotlin
11 7 (1.13%) PL/SQL
11 7 (1.13%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.96%) Bicep
13 5 (0.80%) Go
14 4 (0.64%) VB
14 4 (0.64%) VB6
15 3 (0.48%) Apex Code
15 3 (0.48%) Perl
15 3 (0.48%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 105 (16.88%) Security Cleared
2 93 (14.95%) SC Cleared
3 75 (12.06%) Degree
4 28 (4.50%) PMI Certification
5 25 (4.02%) PMP
6 13 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.45%) Azure Certification
7 9 (1.45%) CBAP
8 7 (1.13%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.13%) DV Cleared
9 6 (0.96%) FFIEC
9 6 (0.96%) ISTQB
9 6 (0.96%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.80%) CISSP
10 5 (0.80%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.64%) CISA
11 4 (0.64%) CSPO
11 4 (0.64%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (10.29%) QA
2 26 (4.18%) GDPR
3 23 (3.70%) PMO
4 20 (3.22%) Accessibility
5 16 (2.57%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.80%) MiFID
7 5 (0.80%) SOC 2
7 5 (0.80%) WCAG
8 4 (0.64%) EMIR
8 4 (0.64%) NIST
8 4 (0.64%) SLA
9 3 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.32%) P3O
11 1 (0.16%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.16%) HL7
11 1 (0.16%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.16%) UCITS
System Software
1 44 (7.07%) Docker
2 23 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.48%) Lustre
5 3 (0.48%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 3 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.16%) Firmware
6 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.16%) NFS
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.16%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.16%) Veritas File System
6 1 (0.16%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 1 (0.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 47 (7.56%) Kubernetes
2 26 (4.18%) Terraform
3 24 (3.86%) Ansible
4 8 (1.29%) HP ALM
5 7 (1.13%) Grafana
5 7 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.80%) Opsgenie
6 5 (0.80%) Podman
6 5 (0.80%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.80%) SCCM
7 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.64%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.64%) Puppet
7 4 (0.64%) QRadar
7 4 (0.64%) Tivoli
8 3 (0.48%) Control-M
8 3 (0.48%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.48%) Karpenter
8 3 (0.48%) Packer
9 2 (0.32%) logstash
Vendors
1 95 (15.27%) Microsoft
2 62 (9.97%) Oracle
3 43 (6.91%) ServiceNow
4 35 (5.63%) Atlassian
5 25 (4.02%) Salesforce
6 23 (3.70%) Google
7 18 (2.89%) Databricks
8 16 (2.57%) Red Hat
9 15 (2.41%) Cisco
9 15 (2.41%) SAP
9 15 (2.41%) Splunk
10 12 (1.93%) HP
11 11 (1.77%) VMware
12 10 (1.61%) Adobe
12 10 (1.61%) IBM
13 9 (1.45%) Planview
14 8 (1.29%) Bloomberg
14 8 (1.29%) Dell
14 8 (1.29%) Murex
14 8 (1.29%) Workday