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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 33 52
Rank change year-on-year -12 +19 -4
Contract jobs citing JIRA 960 792 693
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.74% 5.98% 4.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.54% 37.73% 29.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 558 473
10th Percentile £358 £325 £308
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £747 £742
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 13
10th Percentile £18.75 £35.35 £22.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £42.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £53.00 £44.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% +36.92% -39.81%
75th Percentile £73.75 £47.50 £71.25
90th Percentile £87.83 £72.25 -
England median hourly rate £61.66 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -1.35% -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 2,557 2,099 2,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.63% 15.85% 14.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,655 1,414 1,595
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £437 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £741 £750 £768
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 13 18
10th Percentile £18.75 £37.00 £24.28
25th Percentile £30.75 £42.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £53.00 £45.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% -2.70% -32.28%
75th Percentile £73.75 £67.50 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.75 £105.75 £71.44
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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -15 121 £547 +9.40% 88
West London -5 28 £400 +1.27% 20
South London -10 19 £550 -5.34% 7
North London +3 4 £525 +19.32%
East London 0 4 £550 +34.97% 4
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
1 403 (41.98%) Confluence
2 56 (5.83%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (1.35%) CMS
5 7 (0.73%) SAS
6 5 (0.52%) Camunda
6 5 (0.52%) MTS
7 4 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.42%) Apache
7 4 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.42%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.31%) WordPress
9 2 (0.21%) IIS
9 2 (0.21%) Kentico
9 2 (0.21%) nginx
10 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.10%) Drupal
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 69 (7.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (4.79%) Microsoft Project
3 36 (3.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 36 (3.75%) MS Visio
4 29 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (1.35%) Trello
6 10 (1.04%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.83%) Revit
8 5 (0.52%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.52%) Notion
8 5 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.21%) Mingle
9 2 (0.21%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.10%) Sketch
10 1 (0.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 18 (1.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.83%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.52%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.52%) Findur
5 5 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.42%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.31%) SAP FI-AR
8 2 (0.21%) Actimize
8 2 (0.21%) CA PPM
8 2 (0.21%) Eloqua
8 2 (0.21%) IntelliMatch
8 2 (0.21%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.21%) Maximo
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.21%) Shopify
8 2 (0.21%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 265 (27.60%) Azure
2 153 (15.94%) AWS
3 147 (15.31%) Azure DevOps
4 90 (9.38%) Power Platform
5 72 (7.50%) GitHub
6 52 (5.42%) SaaS
7 49 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
8 44 (4.58%) GCP
9 41 (4.27%) Entra ID
10 40 (4.17%) Amazon S3
10 40 (4.17%) Serverless
11 35 (3.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 31 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (2.81%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (2.71%) Microsoft Copilot
15 25 (2.60%) Amazon EC2
16 20 (2.08%) Figma
16 20 (2.08%) Miro
17 19 (1.98%) Snowflake
18 18 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.60%) DNS
2 20 (2.08%) Firewall
3 18 (1.88%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.77%) VPN
5 12 (1.25%) DHCP
6 8 (0.83%) HTTP
7 7 (0.73%) SSL
7 7 (0.73%) WAN
8 6 (0.63%) Network Security
9 5 (0.52%) DKIM
9 5 (0.52%) DMARC
9 5 (0.52%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.42%) IPv4
10 4 (0.42%) SSH
11 3 (0.31%) Internet
11 3 (0.31%) IPv6
12 2 (0.21%) DSL
12 2 (0.21%) FTP
12 2 (0.21%) MPLS
12 2 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (8.33%) Power BI
2 39 (4.06%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (3.85%) SQL Server
4 31 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (2.08%) Relational Database
6 18 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
7 16 (1.67%) Metadata
8 15 (1.56%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (1.25%) Data Lake
9 12 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (1.15%) DynamoDB
10 11 (1.15%) Tableau
11 10 (1.04%) MongoDB
11 10 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 10 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (0.94%) Oracle Database
12 9 (0.94%) Redis
13 8 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 122 (12.71%) Git
2 76 (7.92%) Jenkins
3 43 (4.48%) GitLab
4 34 (3.54%) Selenium
5 24 (2.50%) Zephyr
6 19 (1.98%) Bitbucket
7 17 (1.77%) Cypress.io
8 14 (1.46%) Postman
9 13 (1.35%) REST Assured
9 13 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
10 12 (1.25%) Maven
11 11 (1.15%) JUnit
12 10 (1.04%) JMeter
12 10 (1.04%) Mockito
12 10 (1.04%) TestRail
13 9 (0.94%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.83%) Gradle
15 7 (0.73%) SonarQube
16 6 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 5 (0.52%) Artifactory
General
1 392 (40.83%) Finance
2 389 (40.52%) Social Skills
3 204 (21.25%) Banking
4 191 (19.90%) Analytical Skills
5 105 (10.94%) Public Sector
6 45 (4.69%) Investment Banking
7 43 (4.48%) Retail
8 42 (4.38%) Organisational Skills
9 36 (3.75%) Front Office
10 31 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
11 25 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (2.19%) Marketing
13 20 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 18 (1.88%) Legal
15 17 (1.77%) Retail Banking
16 15 (1.56%) Telecoms
17 14 (1.46%) Financial Institution
18 12 (1.25%) Back Office
18 12 (1.25%) Law
19 11 (1.15%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 188 (19.58%) Analyst
2 116 (12.08%) Business Analyst
3 112 (11.67%) Lead
4 101 (10.52%) Developer
5 93 (9.69%) Senior
6 55 (5.73%) Project Manager
7 37 (3.85%) Architect
7 37 (3.85%) Delivery Manager
8 33 (3.44%) Consultant
9 31 (3.23%) Product Owner
10 30 (3.13%) Scrum Master
11 26 (2.71%) Applications Support
12 25 (2.60%) Tester
13 24 (2.50%) Support Engineer
13 24 (2.50%) Test Leader
13 24 (2.50%) Test Manager
14 22 (2.29%) Senior Analyst
15 21 (2.19%) Data Engineer
16 20 (2.08%) IT Support
16 20 (2.08%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (7.08%) Terraform
2 64 (6.67%) REST
3 42 (4.38%) .NET
4 28 (2.92%) AngularJS
5 27 (2.81%) React
6 26 (2.71%) JSON
7 23 (2.40%) HTML
7 23 (2.40%) Kafka
8 20 (2.08%) Playwright
8 20 (2.08%) SOAP
9 18 (1.88%) RESTful
10 17 (1.77%) CSS
11 16 (1.67%) Middleware
12 15 (1.56%) XML
13 14 (1.46%) Node.js
13 14 (1.46%) PySpark
13 14 (1.46%) Spring
14 13 (1.35%) Lightning Web Components
15 12 (1.25%) OAuth
15 12 (1.25%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 125 (13.02%) Product Ownership
2 72 (7.50%) Onboarding
3 29 (3.02%) Cloud Native
4 26 (2.71%) Data Structures
5 23 (2.40%) Data Centre
5 23 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (2.29%) Virtual Team
7 21 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (1.98%) Credit Risk
8 19 (1.98%) Management Information System
9 18 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (1.77%) Derivative
11 16 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
12 15 (1.56%) Replication
13 13 (1.35%) Fixed Income
14 12 (1.25%) Mobile App
15 11 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 11 (1.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 10 (1.04%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 54 (5.63%) Windows
2 46 (4.79%) Linux
3 13 (1.35%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.15%) Android
5 10 (1.04%) Mac OS
6 9 (0.94%) Amazon Linux
7 8 (0.83%) Unix
7 8 (0.83%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.73%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.21%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.21%) VMS
10 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.10%) CentOS
11 1 (0.10%) SUSE
11 1 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.10%) VxWorks
11 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 578 (60.21%) Agile
2 355 (36.98%) Stakeholder Management
3 273 (28.44%) DevOps
4 230 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
5 191 (19.90%) Scrum
6 188 (19.58%) CI/CD
7 154 (16.04%) Migration
8 152 (15.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 145 (15.10%) AI
10 139 (14.48%) User Acceptance Testing
11 132 (13.75%) User Stories
12 129 (13.44%) Test Automation
13 117 (12.19%) Validation
14 113 (11.77%) Project Management
15 105 (10.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 102 (10.63%) Acceptance Criteria
16 102 (10.63%) SDLC
17 98 (10.21%) Sprint Planning
18 95 (9.90%) Analytics
19 90 (9.38%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 187 (19.48%) SQL
2 113 (11.77%) Python
3 62 (6.46%) Java
4 42 (4.38%) JavaScript
5 38 (3.96%) C#
5 38 (3.96%) PowerShell
6 27 (2.81%) TypeScript
7 20 (2.08%) Bash
8 15 (1.56%) Apex Code
8 15 (1.56%) Groovy
9 10 (1.04%) PL/SQL
10 9 (0.94%) Perl
11 5 (0.52%) Tcl
11 5 (0.52%) VBA
12 4 (0.42%) C
12 4 (0.42%) Korn
12 4 (0.42%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.42%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.31%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.31%) Swift
Qualifications
1 219 (22.81%) Security Cleared
2 193 (20.10%) SC Cleared
3 76 (7.92%) Degree
4 34 (3.54%) PMI Certification
5 27 (2.81%) DV Cleared
6 26 (2.71%) PMP
7 19 (1.98%) AWS Certification
8 18 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (1.88%) ISTQB
9 15 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
10 13 (1.35%) Master's Degree
11 11 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
12 10 (1.04%) Azure Certification
13 9 (0.94%) IIBA
14 8 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 7 (0.73%) CBAP
16 6 (0.63%) CISSP
16 6 (0.63%) DBS Check
17 5 (0.52%) MBA
17 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (14.38%) QA
2 70 (7.29%) Data Quality
3 52 (5.42%) PMO
4 30 (3.13%) SLA
5 23 (2.40%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.77%) GDPR
7 16 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.25%) ISO 20022
9 9 (0.94%) NIST
9 9 (0.94%) WCAG
10 8 (0.83%) SEPA
11 7 (0.73%) GRC
12 5 (0.52%) COBIT
12 5 (0.52%) MiFID
12 5 (0.52%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.42%) EMIR
13 4 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.42%) P3O
13 4 (0.42%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.31%) NCSC
System Software
1 51 (5.31%) Active Directory
2 41 (4.27%) Docker
3 7 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.21%) DFS Replication
6 2 (0.21%) Dovecot
6 2 (0.21%) Firmware
6 2 (0.21%) Postfix
6 2 (0.21%) Squid
7 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 46 (4.79%) Kubernetes
2 29 (3.02%) Grafana
3 25 (2.60%) Prometheus
4 23 (2.40%) Ansible
4 23 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
5 10 (1.04%) HP ALM
6 9 (0.94%) Control-M
7 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (0.63%) SCOM
9 5 (0.52%) Istio
10 4 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.42%) Argo
10 4 (0.42%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.42%) PingFederate
10 4 (0.42%) Podman
10 4 (0.42%) SCCM
11 3 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.31%) Kibana
Vendors
1 155 (16.15%) Microsoft
2 112 (11.67%) ServiceNow
3 64 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 44 (4.58%) Oracle
5 33 (3.44%) Google
6 27 (2.81%) Atlassian
6 27 (2.81%) SAP
7 23 (2.40%) Splunk
8 20 (2.08%) Remedy
9 18 (1.88%) Adobe
9 18 (1.88%) IBM
10 13 (1.35%) Bloomberg
10 13 (1.35%) MuleSoft
10 13 (1.35%) Okta
11 12 (1.25%) BMC
11 12 (1.25%) Databricks
11 12 (1.25%) Informatica
11 12 (1.25%) ION Trading
12 11 (1.15%) HP
13 10 (1.04%) Tradeweb