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

6 months to
28 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 32 55
Rank change year-on-year -13 +23 -4
Contract jobs citing JIRA 959 795 665
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.76% 5.95% 4.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.07% 37.43% 28.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 554 456
10th Percentile £358 £325 £317
25th Percentile £425 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £647 £638
90th Percentile £750 £749 £747
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 14
10th Percentile - £34.20 £22.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £39.38 £25.99
Median hourly rate £31.50 £44.75 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -29.61% +36.64% -39.35%
75th Percentile £68.75 £57.81 £69.69
90th Percentile £87.83 £76.38 £71.25
England median hourly rate £61.66 £62.50 £68.75
% change year-on-year -1.35% -9.09% +10.00%

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 2,519 2,124 2,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.50% 15.89% 14.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,624 1,455 1,594
10th Percentile £375 £350 £363
25th Percentile £444 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £749 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 12 19
10th Percentile £18.75 £31.30 £24.60
25th Percentile £22.75 £39.06 £25.99
Median hourly rate £45.00 £45.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -46.43%
75th Percentile £73.38 £64.69 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.57 £86.63 £71.38
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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -17 117 £550 +10.00% 55
West London -6 28 £400 -1.23% 20
South London -7 20 £550 -5.40% 4
North London +2 3 - - 2
East London -1 2 £425 +4.29% 6
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
1 401 (41.81%) Confluence
2 56 (5.84%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (1.36%) CMS
5 7 (0.73%) SAS
6 5 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.52%) Apache
7 4 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.42%) Camunda
7 4 (0.42%) Headless CMS
7 4 (0.42%) MTS
8 3 (0.31%) JBoss
8 3 (0.31%) WordPress
9 2 (0.21%) Kentico
9 2 (0.21%) nginx
10 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.10%) Drupal
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 68 (7.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (5.42%) Microsoft Project
3 40 (4.17%) MS Visio
4 36 (3.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
6 13 (1.36%) Trello
7 10 (1.04%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.83%) Revit
9 6 (0.63%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.52%) Notion
11 4 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.10%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.10%) Mingle
12 1 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
12 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.10%) Sketch
12 1 (0.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 18 (1.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 11 (1.15%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.52%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.52%) Findur
5 5 (0.52%) Loan IQ
6 4 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
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%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.21%) Shopify
8 2 (0.21%) Summit
8 2 (0.21%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 266 (27.74%) Azure
2 151 (15.75%) AWS
2 151 (15.75%) Azure DevOps
3 88 (9.18%) Power Platform
4 71 (7.40%) GitHub
5 50 (5.21%) SaaS
6 47 (4.90%) Entra ID
7 43 (4.48%) Amazon S3
7 43 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
7 43 (4.48%) Serverless
8 41 (4.28%) GCP
9 35 (3.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 34 (3.55%) AWS Lambda
11 28 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
12 26 (2.71%) Amazon EC2
13 24 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
14 20 (2.09%) Figma
15 19 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
15 19 (1.98%) Snowflake
16 17 (1.77%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.61%) Firewall
2 24 (2.50%) DNS
3 17 (1.77%) VPN
4 16 (1.67%) TCP/IP
5 9 (0.94%) DHCP
6 7 (0.73%) HTTP
6 7 (0.73%) Network Security
7 6 (0.63%) SSL
7 6 (0.63%) WAN
8 5 (0.52%) DKIM
8 5 (0.52%) DMARC
9 4 (0.42%) FTP
9 4 (0.42%) Internet
9 4 (0.42%) IPv4
9 4 (0.42%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.42%) SSH
10 3 (0.31%) IPv6
10 3 (0.31%) NGFW
11 2 (0.21%) 5G
11 2 (0.21%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (8.24%) Power BI
2 35 (3.65%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 28 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
5 18 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (1.77%) Relational Database
7 16 (1.67%) Metadata
8 15 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (1.56%) Tableau
9 14 (1.46%) DynamoDB
10 12 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 11 (1.15%) Data Lake
12 10 (1.04%) MongoDB
12 10 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 10 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (0.94%) Amazon Aurora
13 9 (0.94%) Redis
14 8 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
15 7 (0.73%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 124 (12.93%) Git
2 77 (8.03%) Jenkins
3 42 (4.38%) GitLab
4 37 (3.86%) Selenium
5 27 (2.82%) Zephyr
6 20 (2.09%) Bitbucket
7 17 (1.77%) Cypress.io
8 16 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
9 14 (1.46%) Postman
10 12 (1.25%) REST Assured
11 11 (1.15%) JUnit
12 10 (1.04%) TestRail
13 9 (0.94%) Cucumber
13 9 (0.94%) Maven
14 8 (0.83%) JMeter
14 8 (0.83%) Mockito
15 7 (0.73%) Gradle
16 6 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 6 (0.63%) ScriptRunner
17 5 (0.52%) Artifactory
General
1 392 (40.88%) Finance
2 387 (40.35%) Social Skills
3 200 (20.86%) Banking
4 186 (19.40%) Analytical Skills
5 102 (10.64%) Public Sector
6 44 (4.59%) Investment Banking
7 43 (4.48%) Retail
8 38 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
9 35 (3.65%) Front Office
10 33 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
11 21 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (2.19%) Legal
12 19 (1.98%) Marketing
13 18 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (1.67%) Retail Banking
15 15 (1.56%) Financial Institution
16 14 (1.46%) Back Office
16 14 (1.46%) Corporate Banking
17 12 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
18 11 (1.15%) Law
Job Titles
1 196 (20.44%) Analyst
2 123 (12.83%) Business Analyst
3 107 (11.16%) Lead
4 104 (10.84%) Developer
5 89 (9.28%) Senior
6 56 (5.84%) Project Manager
7 35 (3.65%) Architect
7 35 (3.65%) Consultant
8 34 (3.55%) Delivery Manager
9 32 (3.34%) Product Owner
10 29 (3.02%) Scrum Master
11 28 (2.92%) Test Manager
12 27 (2.82%) Applications Support
13 26 (2.71%) Support Engineer
13 26 (2.71%) Test Leader
14 24 (2.50%) IT Support
15 23 (2.40%) Banking Analyst
15 23 (2.40%) Tester
16 22 (2.29%) Data Engineer
17 21 (2.19%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (7.72%) Terraform
2 60 (6.26%) REST
3 42 (4.38%) .NET
4 28 (2.92%) React
5 26 (2.71%) AngularJS
6 25 (2.61%) JSON
7 22 (2.29%) HTML
8 20 (2.09%) Kafka
9 19 (1.98%) Playwright
10 18 (1.88%) SOAP
11 16 (1.67%) CSS
11 16 (1.67%) Middleware
11 16 (1.67%) RESTful
12 15 (1.56%) PySpark
12 15 (1.56%) XML
13 14 (1.46%) Lightning Web Components
13 14 (1.46%) Node.js
14 13 (1.36%) Spring
15 12 (1.25%) OAuth
16 10 (1.04%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 119 (12.41%) Product Ownership
2 71 (7.40%) Onboarding
3 25 (2.61%) Cloud Native
4 24 (2.50%) Data Structures
5 23 (2.40%) Data Centre
6 22 (2.29%) Management Information System
7 21 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (2.09%) Virtual Team
9 18 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
9 18 (1.88%) Credit Risk
9 18 (1.88%) Derivative
9 18 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.56%) Replication
11 15 (1.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 14 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 14 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.36%) Mobile App
14 12 (1.25%) Fixed Income
15 10 (1.04%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 55 (5.74%) Windows
2 45 (4.69%) Linux
3 13 (1.36%) Apple iOS
4 12 (1.25%) Unix
5 11 (1.15%) Android
6 9 (0.94%) Amazon Linux
6 9 (0.94%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.73%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.52%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.21%) VMS
9 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.10%) SUSE
10 1 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (59.85%) Agile
2 341 (35.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 272 (28.36%) DevOps
4 226 (23.57%) Problem-Solving
5 189 (19.71%) CI/CD
6 181 (18.87%) Scrum
7 154 (16.06%) Migration
8 153 (15.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 151 (15.75%) User Acceptance Testing
10 132 (13.76%) User Stories
11 131 (13.66%) AI
12 129 (13.45%) Test Automation
13 111 (11.57%) Validation
14 109 (11.37%) Acceptance Criteria
15 107 (11.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 105 (10.95%) Project Management
17 102 (10.64%) SDLC
18 97 (10.11%) Sprint Planning
19 95 (9.91%) Analytics
20 91 (9.49%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 184 (19.19%) SQL
2 111 (11.57%) Python
3 62 (6.47%) Java
4 44 (4.59%) JavaScript
5 40 (4.17%) C#
5 40 (4.17%) PowerShell
6 27 (2.82%) TypeScript
7 20 (2.09%) Bash
8 16 (1.67%) Apex Code
9 15 (1.56%) Groovy
10 12 (1.25%) Perl
11 10 (1.04%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.52%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.52%) VBA
13 4 (0.42%) Korn
13 4 (0.42%) Swift
13 4 (0.42%) Tcl
13 4 (0.42%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.31%) Bicep
14 3 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 213 (22.21%) Security Cleared
2 187 (19.50%) SC Cleared
3 77 (8.03%) Degree
4 32 (3.34%) PMI Certification
5 24 (2.50%) DV Cleared
5 24 (2.50%) PMP
6 21 (2.19%) ISTQB
7 19 (1.98%) AWS Certification
8 15 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
9 12 (1.25%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.25%) Master's Degree
10 11 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (0.94%) IIBA
12 8 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (0.73%) CBAP
14 6 (0.63%) CISSP
14 6 (0.63%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.52%) MBA
16 4 (0.42%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (13.56%) QA
2 69 (7.19%) Data Quality
3 47 (4.90%) PMO
4 28 (2.92%) SLA
5 23 (2.40%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.77%) GDPR
6 17 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.15%) ISO 20022
8 10 (1.04%) NIST
9 9 (0.94%) WCAG
10 8 (0.83%) GRC
11 7 (0.73%) SEPA
12 6 (0.63%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.52%) COBIT
13 5 (0.52%) MiFID
14 4 (0.42%) EMIR
14 4 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 4 (0.42%) P3O
14 4 (0.42%) Software Quality Assurance
15 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 54 (5.63%) Active Directory
2 40 (4.17%) Docker
3 7 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.52%) 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 (4.80%) Kubernetes
2 26 (2.71%) Ansible
3 25 (2.61%) Grafana
4 23 (2.40%) Prometheus
5 21 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (1.25%) HP ALM
7 9 (0.94%) Control-M
8 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
9 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Clustering
9 6 (0.63%) SCOM
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%) Istio
10 4 (0.42%) PingFederate
10 4 (0.42%) Podman
11 3 (0.31%) Consul
11 3 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.21%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 148 (15.43%) Microsoft
2 114 (11.89%) ServiceNow
3 64 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 43 (4.48%) Oracle
5 33 (3.44%) Google
5 33 (3.44%) SAP
6 29 (3.02%) Atlassian
7 24 (2.50%) Splunk
8 18 (1.88%) Adobe
8 18 (1.88%) IBM
8 18 (1.88%) Remedy
9 15 (1.56%) MuleSoft
10 13 (1.36%) HP
10 13 (1.36%) Okta
11 12 (1.25%) Databricks
11 12 (1.25%) Informatica
11 12 (1.25%) Workday
12 11 (1.15%) Bloomberg
12 11 (1.15%) BMC
12 11 (1.15%) ION Trading