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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 46 48
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing JIRA 851 610 736
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.46% 4.50% 4.04%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.37% 31.85% 31.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 390 526
10th Percentile £350 £289 £345
25th Percentile £421 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -9.09% -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £675
90th Percentile £713 £725 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 8
10th Percentile - £20.75 £29.38
25th Percentile £18.75 £21.88 £31.60
Median hourly rate £43.00 £25.00 £35.23
Median % change year-on-year +72.00% -29.04% -34.76%
75th Percentile £95.00 £29.38 £44.84
90th Percentile - £31.25 £57.50
England median hourly rate £62.57 £62.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +0.11% +14.68% -16.15%

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 2,340 1,915 2,306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.01% 14.14% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,584 1,255 1,696
10th Percentile £350 £341 £375
25th Percentile £417 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £535 £568
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -5.73% -5.42%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £800 £786
England median daily rate £500 £503 £533
% change year-on-year -0.50% -5.68% -7.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 22
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.25 £25.80
25th Percentile £24.81 £25.63 £31.71
Median hourly rate £66.50 £48.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.41% +14.71% -26.09%
75th Percentile £95.00 £77.19 £64.94
90th Percentile £102.50 £87.88 £73.49
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -5 113 £525 +2.44% 32
South London +3 38 £519 +15.23% 5
West London -32 7 £500 +28.21% 11
East London -1 5 £450 -18.18% 12
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
1 393 (46.18%) Confluence
2 47 (5.52%) SharePoint
3 30 (3.53%) nginx
4 13 (1.53%) Apache
5 9 (1.06%) CMS
6 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.94%) Palantir Foundry
7 6 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.71%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.71%) Hyperledger
7 6 (0.71%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.47%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.35%) Traefik
10 2 (0.24%) Magnolia
10 2 (0.24%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) CICS
11 1 (0.12%) IIS
11 1 (0.12%) JBoss
11 1 (0.12%) SugarCRM
11 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 71 (8.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (7.99%) Microsoft Project
3 42 (4.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 41 (4.82%) MS Visio
5 20 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
6 18 (2.12%) Trello
7 5 (0.59%) Notion
8 4 (0.47%) Adobe After Effects
8 4 (0.47%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.47%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 3 (0.35%) InVision
9 3 (0.35%) Sketch
10 2 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.24%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.24%) InDesign
10 2 (0.24%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.12%) EPLAN
11 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (1.65%) NetSuite
2 10 (1.18%) Fidessa
3 9 (1.06%) Loan IQ
3 9 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (1.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 7 (0.82%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.47%) Endur
7 4 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
7 4 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.47%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 4 (0.47%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.35%) Findur
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.35%) SAP Retail
8 3 (0.35%) SimCorp Dimension
8 3 (0.35%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 202 (23.74%) Azure
2 151 (17.74%) AWS
3 116 (13.63%) Azure DevOps
4 85 (9.99%) GitHub
5 67 (7.87%) Power Platform
6 39 (4.58%) GCP
7 32 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
8 30 (3.53%) Serverless
9 29 (3.41%) SaaS
10 28 (3.29%) Amazon S3
11 24 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
12 23 (2.70%) Figma
13 21 (2.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 19 (2.23%) Amazon EKS
14 19 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (2.23%) PowerApps
14 19 (2.23%) Slack
15 18 (2.12%) GitHub Actions
15 18 (2.12%) Power Automate
15 18 (2.12%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.82%) Firewall
2 20 (2.35%) DNS
3 13 (1.53%) HTTP
4 12 (1.41%) TCP/IP
4 12 (1.41%) VPN
5 11 (1.29%) WAN
6 8 (0.94%) FTP
7 7 (0.82%) Ethernet
7 7 (0.82%) Modbus
7 7 (0.82%) RS-232
7 7 (0.82%) RS-485
7 7 (0.82%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.71%) OpenVPN
9 5 (0.59%) Network Security
9 5 (0.59%) SMTP
9 5 (0.59%) SSH
9 5 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.47%) IMAP
10 4 (0.47%) LAN
10 4 (0.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (5.88%) Power BI
2 34 (4.00%) SQL Server
3 29 (3.41%) Tableau
4 28 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (2.59%) Data Warehouse
6 19 (2.23%) NoSQL
7 17 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
8 16 (1.88%) Relational Database
9 15 (1.76%) Data Vault
10 14 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (1.65%) MongoDB
11 13 (1.53%) Oracle Database
12 12 (1.41%) Big Data
13 10 (1.18%) Metadata
14 9 (1.06%) Delta Lake
14 9 (1.06%) Hadoop
15 8 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
16 7 (0.82%) Star Schema
16 7 (0.82%) Tick Data
17 6 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 107 (12.57%) Git
2 79 (9.28%) Jenkins
3 51 (5.99%) GitLab
4 41 (4.82%) Selenium
5 29 (3.41%) Bitbucket
6 25 (2.94%) Cucumber
6 25 (2.94%) JUnit
7 23 (2.70%) Postman
8 20 (2.35%) SonarQube
9 19 (2.23%) TestRail
9 19 (2.23%) Zephyr
10 14 (1.65%) Maven
10 14 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
10 14 (1.65%) SpecFlow
11 13 (1.53%) JMeter
12 12 (1.41%) REST Assured
13 11 (1.29%) Cypress.io
14 8 (0.94%) ERwin
14 8 (0.94%) PowerDesigner
14 8 (0.94%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 338 (39.72%) Social Skills
2 294 (34.55%) Finance
3 157 (18.45%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (13.16%) Banking
5 86 (10.11%) Public Sector
6 34 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
7 33 (3.88%) Retail
8 32 (3.76%) Investment Banking
8 32 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
8 32 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
9 25 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (2.82%) Front Office
11 22 (2.59%) Legal
12 13 (1.53%) Financial Institution
12 13 (1.53%) Marketing
13 12 (1.41%) Back Office
14 11 (1.29%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.18%) Billing
16 9 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (1.06%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 184 (21.62%) Analyst
2 135 (15.86%) Business Analyst
3 101 (11.87%) Developer
4 86 (10.11%) Senior
5 71 (8.34%) Lead
6 64 (7.52%) Project Manager
7 34 (4.00%) Tester
8 31 (3.64%) Technical Analyst
9 30 (3.53%) Architect
10 28 (3.29%) Delivery Manager
11 27 (3.17%) Technical Business Analyst
11 27 (3.17%) Test Engineer
12 26 (3.06%) Consultant
13 24 (2.82%) Senior Analyst
14 23 (2.70%) Scrum Master
15 22 (2.59%) Senior Business Analyst
16 20 (2.35%) Data Engineer
16 20 (2.35%) Technical Manager
17 19 (2.23%) Product Owner
17 19 (2.23%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (6.11%) REST
2 39 (4.58%) .NET
3 26 (3.06%) HTML
3 26 (3.06%) React
3 26 (3.06%) Spring
4 25 (2.94%) Kafka
5 24 (2.82%) RESTful
6 23 (2.70%) XML
7 22 (2.59%) AngularJS
7 22 (2.59%) CSS
7 22 (2.59%) Playwright
7 22 (2.59%) SOAP
8 18 (2.12%) JSON
8 18 (2.12%) Oracle Fusion
9 16 (1.88%) Node.js
10 14 (1.65%) Spring Boot
10 14 (1.65%) Web Services
11 13 (1.53%) .NET Framework
12 12 (1.41%) LDAP
12 12 (1.41%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 83 (9.75%) Product Ownership
2 34 (4.00%) Onboarding
3 25 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
3 25 (2.94%) Management Information System
4 22 (2.59%) Data Structures
5 19 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
6 17 (2.00%) Public Cloud
7 16 (1.88%) Cloud Native
8 15 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (1.76%) Virtual Team
9 12 (1.41%) Fixed Income
9 12 (1.41%) Mobile App
9 12 (1.41%) PMI
9 12 (1.41%) Reinsurance
9 12 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.29%) CMDB
10 11 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (1.06%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 54 (6.35%) Linux
2 41 (4.82%) Windows
3 16 (1.88%) Unix
4 11 (1.29%) Android
5 8 (0.94%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.82%) FreeRTOS
6 7 (0.82%) VMS
7 4 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.47%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.47%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.47%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 533 (62.63%) Agile
2 226 (26.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 221 (25.97%) Scrum
4 215 (25.26%) DevOps
5 177 (20.80%) Problem-Solving
6 150 (17.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 147 (17.27%) CI/CD
8 134 (15.75%) Test Automation
9 120 (14.10%) Project Management
10 117 (13.75%) User Stories
11 107 (12.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 96 (11.28%) Migration
13 90 (10.58%) Project Delivery
14 89 (10.46%) User Acceptance Testing
15 88 (10.34%) Roadmaps
16 87 (10.22%) Analytics
16 87 (10.22%) SDLC
17 82 (9.64%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 79 (9.28%) Data Modelling
19 78 (9.17%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 157 (18.45%) SQL
2 117 (13.75%) Python
3 87 (10.22%) Java
4 55 (6.46%) JavaScript
5 53 (6.23%) C#
6 38 (4.47%) TypeScript
7 23 (2.70%) PowerShell
8 19 (2.23%) Bash
9 14 (1.65%) C++
10 10 (1.18%) Apex Code
11 9 (1.06%) Go
11 9 (1.06%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.82%) Embedded C++
12 7 (0.82%) Groovy
13 6 (0.71%) Kotlin
13 6 (0.71%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.59%) Korn
14 5 (0.59%) Ruby
14 5 (0.59%) XPath
15 4 (0.47%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 187 (21.97%) Security Cleared
2 171 (20.09%) SC Cleared
3 93 (10.93%) Degree
4 33 (3.88%) ISTQB
4 33 (3.88%) PMI Certification
5 26 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 23 (2.70%) PMP
7 21 (2.47%) CBAP
8 15 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 15 (1.76%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.65%) AWS Certification
9 14 (1.65%) ISEB
10 10 (1.18%) CISSP
11 9 (1.06%) Azure Certification
12 8 (0.94%) IIBA
12 8 (0.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 7 (0.82%) CFA
13 7 (0.82%) CSPO
13 7 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (0.82%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (12.22%) QA
2 42 (4.94%) Data Quality
3 34 (4.00%) PMO
4 33 (3.88%) Accessibility
5 23 (2.70%) GDPR
6 14 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.41%) NIST
8 11 (1.29%) WCAG
9 9 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 9 (1.06%) SLA
10 7 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.82%) GRC
11 5 (0.59%) NCSC
11 5 (0.59%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.47%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.47%) MiFID
13 3 (0.35%) Basel III
13 3 (0.35%) SEPA
14 2 (0.24%) IFRS
14 2 (0.24%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 69 (8.11%) Docker
2 21 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.29%) Squid
4 7 (0.82%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (0.82%) Firmware
5 4 (0.47%) DFS Replication
5 4 (0.47%) Dovecot
5 4 (0.47%) Postfix
6 3 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.12%) etcd
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 59 (6.93%) Kubernetes
2 51 (5.99%) Terraform
3 23 (2.70%) Ansible
4 22 (2.59%) Grafana
5 19 (2.23%) Prometheus
6 18 (2.12%) Consul
7 13 (1.53%) Packer
8 12 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
9 10 (1.18%) HP ALM
10 8 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (0.71%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.59%) Nessus
13 4 (0.47%) Control-M
13 4 (0.47%) Proxmox
14 3 (0.35%) Istio
14 3 (0.35%) Puppet
14 3 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
14 3 (0.35%) RSA Archer
14 3 (0.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 102 (11.99%) Microsoft
2 85 (9.99%) ServiceNow
3 75 (8.81%) Oracle
4 63 (7.40%) Salesforce
5 38 (4.47%) Atlassian
6 35 (4.11%) SAP
7 24 (2.82%) Google
8 21 (2.47%) Databricks
9 16 (1.88%) Adobe
10 12 (1.41%) Murex
11 11 (1.29%) Dynatrace
11 11 (1.29%) IBM
12 10 (1.18%) Citrix
12 10 (1.18%) HP
12 10 (1.18%) MuleSoft
13 9 (1.06%) Cloudera
13 9 (1.06%) Informatica
13 9 (1.06%) Planview
13 9 (1.06%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.06%) Remedy