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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 37 56
Rank change year-on-year -7 +19 -5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 971 781 650
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.83% 5.80% 4.02%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.41% 37.40% 28.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 634 543 449
10th Percentile £363 £318 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.19% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £649 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 4 15
10th Percentile - £34.20 £22.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £39.38 £25.62
Median hourly rate £42.25 £44.75 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +37.69% -39.81%
75th Percentile £73.44 £57.81 £68.13
90th Percentile £87.83 £76.38 £71.25
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year -12.00% -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 2,528 2,088 2,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.58% 15.51% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,625 1,428 1,588
10th Percentile £375 £340 £363
25th Percentile £447 £417 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.71% -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 26 13 20
10th Percentile £18.75 £26.98 £22.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £36.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £49.00 £45.00 £35.29
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% +27.53% -49.59%
75th Percentile £73.56 £63.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.29 £84.50 £71.31
England median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.62% - -

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -15 117 £550 +10.00% 50
West London -8 27 £400 -3.61% 7
South London -2 20 £531 -8.56% 6
North London -1 2 - - 2
East London -5 2 £425 +4.29% 5
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
1 396 (40.78%) Confluence
2 50 (5.15%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.24%) CMS
5 7 (0.72%) SAS
6 6 (0.62%) Apache
7 5 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.31%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.31%) JBoss
8 3 (0.31%) MTS
8 3 (0.31%) WordPress
9 2 (0.21%) Camunda
9 2 (0.21%) Kentico
10 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.10%) Drupal
10 1 (0.10%) nginx
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 67 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (6.08%) Microsoft Project
3 39 (4.02%) MS Visio
4 34 (3.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 25 (2.57%) Microsoft Office
6 14 (1.44%) Trello
7 10 (1.03%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.82%) Revit
9 6 (0.62%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.51%) Notion
11 4 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.10%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.10%) Mingle
12 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 19 (1.96%) Remedy ITSM
2 12 (1.24%) Aladdin
3 11 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.72%) Findur
5 6 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.62%) Loan IQ
6 5 (0.51%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.41%) Actimize
7 4 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.41%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.31%) SAP FI-AR
9 2 (0.21%) CA PPM
9 2 (0.21%) Eloqua
9 2 (0.21%) IntelliMatch
9 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
9 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.21%) Shopify
9 2 (0.21%) Summit
9 2 (0.21%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 270 (27.81%) Azure
2 151 (15.55%) Azure DevOps
3 147 (15.14%) AWS
4 85 (8.75%) Power Platform
5 68 (7.00%) GitHub
6 53 (5.46%) Entra ID
7 50 (5.15%) SaaS
8 44 (4.53%) GCP
9 43 (4.43%) Serverless
10 41 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
11 38 (3.91%) Amazon S3
12 33 (3.40%) AWS Lambda
13 32 (3.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 27 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
15 24 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
16 21 (2.16%) Microsoft Copilot
17 20 (2.06%) Snowflake
18 19 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
19 18 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
19 18 (1.85%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.37%) Firewall
2 22 (2.27%) DNS
3 17 (1.75%) VPN
4 16 (1.65%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.82%) DHCP
6 7 (0.72%) Network Security
7 6 (0.62%) SSL
7 6 (0.62%) WAN
8 5 (0.51%) DKIM
8 5 (0.51%) DMARC
9 4 (0.41%) FTP
9 4 (0.41%) HTTP
9 4 (0.41%) Internet
9 4 (0.41%) IPv4
9 4 (0.41%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.31%) IPv6
10 3 (0.31%) NGFW
11 2 (0.21%) 5G
11 2 (0.21%) Broadband
11 2 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (7.83%) Power BI
2 34 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (2.88%) SQL Server
4 26 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
5 18 (1.85%) Relational Database
6 16 (1.65%) Metadata
6 16 (1.65%) Tableau
7 15 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (1.44%) DynamoDB
9 13 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 11 (1.13%) Data Lake
12 10 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 10 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (0.93%) MongoDB
14 8 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
14 8 (0.82%) Redis
15 6 (0.62%) Crystal Reports
15 6 (0.62%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 119 (12.26%) Git
2 72 (7.42%) Jenkins
3 37 (3.81%) GitLab
4 32 (3.30%) Selenium
5 28 (2.88%) Zephyr
6 19 (1.96%) Bitbucket
7 17 (1.75%) JUnit
8 16 (1.65%) Cucumber
9 15 (1.54%) Cypress.io
9 15 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
10 13 (1.34%) Postman
11 11 (1.13%) REST Assured
12 10 (1.03%) TestRail
13 7 (0.72%) JMeter
13 7 (0.72%) Maven
13 7 (0.72%) Mockito
14 6 (0.62%) Appium
14 6 (0.62%) ScriptRunner
15 5 (0.51%) Artifactory
15 5 (0.51%) Gradle
General
1 393 (40.47%) Finance
2 387 (39.86%) Social Skills
3 198 (20.39%) Banking
4 190 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
5 99 (10.20%) Public Sector
6 42 (4.33%) Retail
7 41 (4.22%) Investment Banking
8 39 (4.02%) Organisational Skills
9 37 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
10 34 (3.50%) Front Office
11 24 (2.47%) Legal
12 19 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (1.96%) Marketing
13 18 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (1.65%) Retail Banking
15 15 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (1.44%) Back Office
16 14 (1.44%) Corporate Banking
16 14 (1.44%) Financial Institution
17 12 (1.24%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 196 (20.19%) Analyst
2 123 (12.67%) Business Analyst
3 106 (10.92%) Lead
4 104 (10.71%) Developer
5 92 (9.47%) Senior
6 56 (5.77%) Project Manager
7 37 (3.81%) Consultant
7 37 (3.81%) Delivery Manager
8 36 (3.71%) Architect
9 32 (3.30%) Product Owner
10 31 (3.19%) IT Support
11 30 (3.09%) Support Engineer
12 27 (2.78%) Scrum Master
12 27 (2.78%) Test Leader
12 27 (2.78%) Test Manager
13 26 (2.68%) Tester
14 25 (2.57%) Applications Support
15 23 (2.37%) Banking Analyst
16 22 (2.27%) Senior Manager
17 21 (2.16%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (6.08%) REST
2 42 (4.33%) .NET
3 26 (2.68%) React
4 25 (2.57%) AngularJS
5 22 (2.27%) Kafka
6 21 (2.16%) JSON
7 20 (2.06%) SOAP
8 17 (1.75%) HTML
8 17 (1.75%) Lightning Web Components
8 17 (1.75%) Playwright
9 15 (1.54%) CSS
9 15 (1.54%) XML
10 14 (1.44%) Middleware
10 14 (1.44%) PySpark
10 14 (1.44%) Spring
11 13 (1.34%) Node.js
11 13 (1.34%) RESTful
12 12 (1.24%) OAuth
13 10 (1.03%) SailPoint
13 10 (1.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 111 (11.43%) Product Ownership
2 66 (6.80%) Onboarding
3 27 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 25 (2.57%) Cloud Native
5 22 (2.27%) Management Information System
6 21 (2.16%) Data Structures
6 21 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
6 21 (2.16%) Virtual Team
7 19 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (1.85%) Derivative
9 17 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.65%) Credit Risk
10 16 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 14 (1.44%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 12 (1.24%) Fixed Income
12 12 (1.24%) Replication
13 11 (1.13%) Mobile App
14 10 (1.03%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 57 (5.87%) Windows
2 41 (4.22%) Linux
3 11 (1.13%) Apple iOS
4 10 (1.03%) Mac OS
4 10 (1.03%) Unix
5 9 (0.93%) Android
6 7 (0.72%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.62%) Amazon Linux
8 5 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.41%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.10%) SUSE
11 1 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.10%) VMS
11 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 570 (58.70%) Agile
2 332 (34.19%) Stakeholder Management
3 267 (27.50%) DevOps
4 224 (23.07%) Problem-Solving
5 184 (18.95%) CI/CD
6 175 (18.02%) Scrum
7 159 (16.37%) Migration
8 158 (16.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 142 (14.62%) User Acceptance Testing
10 131 (13.49%) User Stories
11 129 (13.29%) AI
12 127 (13.08%) Test Automation
13 108 (11.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 107 (11.02%) Acceptance Criteria
15 106 (10.92%) Validation
16 104 (10.71%) Project Management
17 103 (10.61%) SDLC
18 100 (10.30%) Sprint Planning
19 95 (9.78%) Analytics
19 95 (9.78%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 180 (18.54%) SQL
2 106 (10.92%) Python
3 69 (7.11%) Java
4 48 (4.94%) C#
5 39 (4.02%) JavaScript
5 39 (4.02%) PowerShell
6 27 (2.78%) TypeScript
7 19 (1.96%) Bash
8 16 (1.65%) Apex Code
9 12 (1.24%) Groovy
10 11 (1.13%) Perl
11 9 (0.93%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.51%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.51%) VBA
13 4 (0.41%) Swift
13 4 (0.41%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.31%) Bicep
14 3 (0.31%) Korn
14 3 (0.31%) Tcl
15 2 (0.21%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 210 (21.63%) Security Cleared
2 185 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 73 (7.52%) Degree
4 31 (3.19%) PMI Certification
5 25 (2.57%) PMP
6 24 (2.47%) DV Cleared
7 22 (2.27%) ISTQB
8 15 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
9 14 (1.44%) AWS Certification
10 11 (1.13%) IIBA
10 11 (1.13%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.03%) Azure Certification
12 9 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
13 8 (0.82%) CBAP
14 7 (0.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 7 (0.72%) CISSP
15 6 (0.62%) ISEB
16 5 (0.51%) CISM
16 5 (0.51%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (13.08%) QA
2 66 (6.80%) Data Quality
3 47 (4.84%) PMO
4 29 (2.99%) SLA
5 26 (2.68%) Accessibility
6 19 (1.96%) GDPR
7 17 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.13%) WCAG
9 10 (1.03%) ISO 20022
10 9 (0.93%) NIST
11 7 (0.72%) GRC
11 7 (0.72%) SEPA
12 6 (0.62%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.51%) COBIT
13 5 (0.51%) MiFID
14 4 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 4 (0.41%) NCSC
14 4 (0.41%) P3O
14 4 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 55 (5.66%) Active Directory
2 37 (3.81%) Docker
3 8 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.21%) Firmware
7 1 (0.10%) Squid
7 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 69 (7.11%) Terraform
2 58 (5.97%) Kubernetes
3 28 (2.88%) Ansible
4 23 (2.37%) Grafana
5 22 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
6 21 (2.16%) Prometheus
7 11 (1.13%) HP ALM
8 9 (0.93%) Control-M
8 9 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.62%) Microsoft Clustering
9 6 (0.62%) SCOM
10 4 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.41%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.41%) Consul
10 4 (0.41%) Istio
10 4 (0.41%) PingFederate
10 4 (0.41%) Podman
11 3 (0.31%) Argo
11 3 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 141 (14.52%) Microsoft
2 124 (12.77%) ServiceNow
3 69 (7.11%) Salesforce
4 42 (4.33%) Oracle
5 37 (3.81%) SAP
6 35 (3.60%) Google
7 28 (2.88%) Atlassian
8 21 (2.16%) Splunk
9 19 (1.96%) Adobe
9 19 (1.96%) Remedy
10 18 (1.85%) Okta
11 15 (1.54%) Databricks
11 15 (1.54%) MuleSoft
12 14 (1.44%) IBM
13 12 (1.24%) HP
13 12 (1.24%) Informatica
13 12 (1.24%) Workday
14 11 (1.13%) BMC
14 11 (1.13%) ForgeRock
15 10 (1.03%) ION Trading