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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 50 46
Rank change year-on-year +16 -4 -9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 804 700 1,002
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 5.97% 4.29% 4.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.78% 29.29% 30.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 480 679
10th Percentile £327 £300 £380
25th Percentile £413 £419 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £626 £675
90th Percentile £745 £738 £800
England median daily rate £500 £520 £534
% change year-on-year -3.85% -2.62% +0.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 12
10th Percentile £35.35 £22.65 £31.63
25th Percentile £42.25 £25.99 £43.44
Median hourly rate £44.50 £32.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.92% -39.81% +213.04%
75th Percentile £47.50 £71.25 £70.31
90th Percentile £72.25 - £75.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -10.71% +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 2,128 2,390 3,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.80% 14.66% 14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,434 1,612 2,370
10th Percentile £350 £363 £400
25th Percentile £420 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £700
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 18 34
10th Percentile £37.00 £24.28 £32.38
25th Percentile £42.25 £25.99 £52.13
Median hourly rate £45.00 £46.25 £68.30
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -32.28% +54.84%
75th Percentile £67.50 £71.25 £79.38
90th Percentile £105.75 £71.44 £90.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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
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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 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 +13 124 £500 -4.76% 97
South London -8 20 £581 +21.36% 3
West London -3 16 £395 -24.04% 4
East London +8 6 £408 -25.91% 2
North London -5 1 £440 -45.00%
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
1 360 (44.78%) Confluence
2 33 (4.10%) SharePoint
3 26 (3.23%) nginx
4 24 (2.99%) Apache
5 17 (2.11%) CMS
6 10 (1.24%) Apache Spark
7 6 (0.75%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.75%) WordPress
8 5 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.50%) Drupal
9 4 (0.50%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.37%) Camunda
10 3 (0.37%) CICS
10 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.37%) Traefik
11 2 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.25%) JBoss
11 2 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.25%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 52 (6.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (6.34%) Microsoft Project
3 36 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
4 35 (4.35%) MS Visio
5 31 (3.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 23 (2.86%) Trello
7 10 (1.24%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 2 (0.25%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.12%) InVision
9 1 (0.12%) Notion
9 1 (0.12%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 16 (1.99%) Remedy ITSM
2 14 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.75%) Oracle EBS R12
5 6 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 5 (0.62%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.50%) Endur
7 4 (0.50%) Magento
7 4 (0.50%) Oracle BPM
7 4 (0.50%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.25%) Eagle PACE
9 2 (0.25%) Markit EDM
9 2 (0.25%) MultiFonds
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 2 (0.25%) Shopify
9 2 (0.25%) Workfront
10 1 (0.12%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 178 (22.14%) Azure
2 146 (18.16%) AWS
3 82 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
4 67 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 53 (6.59%) GitHub
6 47 (5.85%) GCP
7 37 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
8 30 (3.73%) Serverless
9 28 (3.48%) Amazon S3
10 27 (3.36%) SaaS
11 26 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
12 23 (2.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 22 (2.74%) Miro
13 22 (2.74%) Power Automate
14 20 (2.49%) Slack
15 19 (2.36%) IaaS
15 19 (2.36%) PowerApps
16 18 (2.24%) AWS CloudFormation
16 18 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
16 18 (2.24%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.61%) Firewall
2 23 (2.86%) SSH
3 21 (2.61%) DNS
4 16 (1.99%) SSL
5 15 (1.87%) OpenLDAP
6 14 (1.74%) HTTP
7 13 (1.62%) VPN
8 11 (1.37%) SMTP
9 10 (1.24%) FTP
9 10 (1.24%) IMAP
10 7 (0.87%) Network Security
10 7 (0.87%) TCP/IP
11 3 (0.37%) LAN
11 3 (0.37%) WAN
12 2 (0.25%) Cisco ISE
12 2 (0.25%) DHCP
12 2 (0.25%) Internet
12 2 (0.25%) SNMP
12 2 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
12 2 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (6.72%) Power BI
2 36 (4.48%) SQL Server
3 33 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (2.61%) Big Data
5 19 (2.36%) Oracle Database
6 18 (2.24%) Tableau
7 16 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (1.99%) Hadoop
8 14 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (1.62%) Data Lake
10 12 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (1.49%) BigQuery
11 11 (1.37%) Metadata
12 10 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (1.24%) Delta Lake
13 8 (1.00%) Apache Hive
13 8 (1.00%) Data Vault
13 8 (1.00%) DB2
13 8 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
14 7 (0.87%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 100 (12.44%) Git
2 67 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 35 (4.35%) GitLab
4 31 (3.86%) Selenium
5 28 (3.48%) Bitbucket
6 27 (3.36%) Postman
7 22 (2.74%) Zephyr
8 17 (2.11%) SonarQube
9 16 (1.99%) JUnit
10 15 (1.87%) REST Assured
10 15 (1.87%) ScriptRunner
10 15 (1.87%) TestRail
11 12 (1.49%) SoapUI
11 12 (1.49%) SpecFlow
12 11 (1.37%) Vagrant
13 10 (1.24%) Cucumber
13 10 (1.24%) Cypress.io
13 10 (1.24%) ER Studio
13 10 (1.24%) ERwin
14 9 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 354 (44.03%) Social Skills
2 233 (28.98%) Finance
3 128 (15.92%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (15.55%) Banking
5 67 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 32 (3.98%) Front Office
7 31 (3.86%) Retail
8 27 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
9 26 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
10 23 (2.86%) Investment Banking
11 22 (2.74%) Marketing
12 20 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
13 19 (2.36%) Back Office
14 14 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 14 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (1.74%) Legal
14 14 (1.74%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.24%) Military
16 8 (1.00%) Financial Institution
17 6 (0.75%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 134 (16.67%) Analyst
2 103 (12.81%) Developer
3 88 (10.95%) Senior
4 82 (10.20%) Business Analyst
5 79 (9.83%) Project Manager
6 58 (7.21%) Lead
7 44 (5.47%) Architect
8 31 (3.86%) Consultant
9 28 (3.48%) Product Owner
10 27 (3.36%) Data Engineer
10 27 (3.36%) Tester
11 23 (2.86%) Administrator
12 20 (2.49%) Delivery Manager
12 20 (2.49%) Scrum Master
13 19 (2.36%) DevOps Engineer
13 19 (2.36%) Solutions Architect
14 18 (2.24%) Test Analyst
15 17 (2.11%) Senior Developer
16 16 (1.99%) Technical Analyst
16 16 (1.99%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (9.08%) REST
2 58 (7.21%) AngularJS
3 45 (5.60%) SOAP
4 44 (5.47%) .NET
5 41 (5.10%) HTML
6 36 (4.48%) JSON
6 36 (4.48%) Kafka
7 34 (4.23%) Web Services
8 31 (3.86%) LDAP
9 27 (3.36%) React
10 25 (3.11%) CSS
10 25 (3.11%) RESTful
11 22 (2.74%) RabbitMQ
12 21 (2.61%) HTML5
13 18 (2.24%) Playwright
14 15 (1.87%) jQuery
14 15 (1.87%) Spring
14 15 (1.87%) XML
15 13 (1.62%) Apache NiFi
15 13 (1.62%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 82 (10.20%) Product Ownership
2 21 (2.61%) Management Information System
3 20 (2.49%) Data Structures
4 17 (2.11%) Cloud Native
4 17 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (1.87%) Onboarding
5 15 (1.87%) Replication
6 14 (1.74%) PMI
6 14 (1.74%) Reinsurance
7 13 (1.62%) CMDB
7 13 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 12 (1.49%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.24%) Algorithms
10 10 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
10 10 (1.24%) Fixed Income
11 9 (1.12%) Equities
11 9 (1.12%) NHS
11 9 (1.12%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 57 (7.09%) Linux
2 51 (6.34%) Windows
3 25 (3.11%) Unix
4 13 (1.62%) VMS
5 12 (1.49%) Ubuntu
6 10 (1.24%) Amazon Linux
6 10 (1.24%) Android
7 8 (1.00%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.75%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.37%) CentOS
10 3 (0.37%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.37%) Windows Server
11 2 (0.25%) zOS
12 1 (0.12%) Debian
12 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.12%) tvOS
12 1 (0.12%) watchOS
12 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 518 (64.43%) Agile
2 208 (25.87%) Scrum
3 192 (23.88%) DevOps
4 181 (22.51%) Problem-Solving
5 153 (19.03%) Stakeholder Management
6 139 (17.29%) Project Management
7 111 (13.81%) CI/CD
8 104 (12.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 96 (11.94%) Migration
10 94 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 89 (11.07%) Test Automation
12 79 (9.83%) Analytics
12 79 (9.83%) User Stories
13 77 (9.58%) Roadmaps
14 75 (9.33%) Microservices
15 74 (9.20%) User Acceptance Testing
16 71 (8.83%) SDLC
17 59 (7.34%) Change Management
17 59 (7.34%) Kanban
18 58 (7.21%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 156 (19.40%) SQL
2 107 (13.31%) Python
3 91 (11.32%) Java
4 82 (10.20%) JavaScript
5 39 (4.85%) C#
6 33 (4.10%) Groovy
7 29 (3.61%) TypeScript
8 24 (2.99%) PowerShell
9 21 (2.61%) Bash
10 16 (1.99%) Go
11 11 (1.37%) Scala
12 10 (1.24%) Kotlin
13 7 (0.87%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.75%) C++
14 6 (0.75%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.50%) Bicep
15 4 (0.50%) PHP
16 3 (0.37%) R
16 3 (0.37%) Swift
16 3 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 148 (18.41%) Security Cleared
2 143 (17.79%) SC Cleared
3 110 (13.68%) Degree
4 37 (4.60%) PMI Certification
5 29 (3.61%) PMP
6 22 (2.74%) ISTQB
7 19 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (2.11%) Azure Certification
9 15 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (1.74%) DV Cleared
11 12 (1.49%) AWS Certification
12 9 (1.12%) CISSP
13 5 (0.62%) CBAP
13 5 (0.62%) CSPO
13 5 (0.62%) Master's Degree
14 4 (0.50%) OCA
14 4 (0.50%) Oracle Certification
14 4 (0.50%) SAP Certification
15 3 (0.37%) CFA
15 3 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (11.07%) QA
2 32 (3.98%) Data Quality
3 30 (3.73%) PMO
4 22 (2.74%) Accessibility
5 18 (2.24%) GDPR
6 14 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.00%) SEPA
8 7 (0.87%) ISO 20022
8 7 (0.87%) NIST
9 6 (0.75%) WCAG
10 5 (0.62%) MiFID
10 5 (0.62%) SLA
11 4 (0.50%) EMIR
11 4 (0.50%) NCSC
11 4 (0.50%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.37%) ITGC
12 3 (0.37%) PSD2
12 3 (0.37%) Solvency II
13 2 (0.25%) FIPS 140-2
13 2 (0.25%) GAAP
System Software
1 63 (7.84%) Docker
2 15 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.24%) DFS Replication
3 10 (1.24%) Dovecot
3 10 (1.24%) Postfix
3 10 (1.24%) Squid
4 5 (0.62%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 5 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.12%) etcd
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.12%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 61 (7.59%) Kubernetes
2 43 (5.35%) Terraform
3 21 (2.61%) Grafana
4 18 (2.24%) Prometheus
5 17 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
6 16 (1.99%) Ansible
6 16 (1.99%) HP ALM
7 14 (1.74%) Consul
7 14 (1.74%) Packer
8 12 (1.49%) Nessus
9 10 (1.24%) Proxmox
10 5 (0.62%) Puppet
10 5 (0.62%) Tivoli
11 4 (0.50%) Control-M
11 4 (0.50%) SCCM
12 3 (0.37%) Ambari
12 3 (0.37%) Istio
12 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.37%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 98 (12.19%) Microsoft
2 91 (11.32%) ServiceNow
3 64 (7.96%) Oracle
4 43 (5.35%) Salesforce
5 34 (4.23%) Atlassian
6 28 (3.48%) HP
7 27 (3.36%) SAP
8 25 (3.11%) Google
9 17 (2.11%) Remedy
10 16 (1.99%) Databricks
11 15 (1.87%) Splunk
12 14 (1.74%) Cloudera
13 13 (1.62%) BMC
13 13 (1.62%) Foundry
13 13 (1.62%) Palantir
14 12 (1.49%) Ivanti
15 11 (1.37%) CA Agile Central
15 11 (1.37%) IBM
16 10 (1.24%) Duck Creek
16 10 (1.24%) Jaspersoft