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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 39 59
Rank change year-on-year -3 +20 -8
Contract jobs citing JIRA 960 693 680
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.98% 5.40% 3.89%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.23% 35.04% 28.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 468 478
10th Percentile £350 £343 £319
25th Percentile £425 £424 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £524 £533
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -1.69% -6.90%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £750 £757 £775
England median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 2 18
10th Percentile - £46.88 £22.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £53.44 £25.99
Median hourly rate £27.50 £66.25 £32.11
Median % change year-on-year -58.49% +106.35% -40.55%
75th Percentile £68.13 £78.44 £63.13
90th Percentile £90.00 £84.63 £71.25
England median hourly rate £51.50 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -10.43% -11.54% +6.12%

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 2,447 1,978 2,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.70% 15.42% 13.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,603 1,333 1,723
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £671
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 26
10th Percentile - £24.49 £23.63
25th Percentile £18.75 £33.70 £27.30
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -1.16% -42.67%
75th Percentile £73.00 £52.50 £70.19
90th Percentile £95.00 £73.88 £71.56
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -5 121 £550 +4.76% 21
South London +12 32 £516 +8.53% 1
West London -8 25 £400 -1.23% 4
East London -3 2 £375 -6.25% 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
1 391 (40.73%) Confluence
2 51 (5.31%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.04%) nginx
5 9 (0.94%) Apache
6 7 (0.73%) CMS
7 6 (0.63%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.63%) Hyperledger
7 6 (0.63%) SAS
8 5 (0.52%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.42%) JBoss
10 3 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.31%) WordPress
11 2 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.21%) Kentico
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.10%) Drupal
12 1 (0.10%) IIS
12 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 65 (6.77%) Microsoft Project
2 64 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 41 (4.27%) MS Visio
4 34 (3.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (1.04%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.83%) Revit
8 6 (0.63%) Trello
9 5 (0.52%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.42%) Notion
11 3 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.10%) Mingle
12 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 13 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.15%) Aladdin
2 11 (1.15%) Loan IQ
3 9 (0.94%) Fidessa
3 9 (0.94%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.83%) Findur
5 6 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.42%) Actimize
6 4 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.42%) Summit
7 3 (0.31%) IntelliMatch
7 3 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 3 (0.31%) SAP FI-AR
7 3 (0.31%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.31%) SAP Retail
7 3 (0.31%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.21%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 254 (26.46%) Azure
2 151 (15.73%) Azure DevOps
3 148 (15.42%) AWS
4 72 (7.50%) Power Platform
5 59 (6.15%) GitHub
6 52 (5.42%) Entra ID
7 50 (5.21%) Amazon S3
8 49 (5.10%) SaaS
9 47 (4.90%) Serverless
10 41 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
11 37 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
12 33 (3.44%) Amazon EC2
13 30 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 28 (2.92%) GCP
15 23 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
16 21 (2.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 18 (1.88%) Slack
17 18 (1.88%) Snowflake
18 17 (1.77%) Figma
19 16 (1.67%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.92%) Firewall
2 19 (1.98%) DNS
3 16 (1.67%) TCP/IP
4 15 (1.56%) VPN
5 10 (1.04%) HTTP
6 8 (0.83%) WAN
7 7 (0.73%) Network Security
7 7 (0.73%) OpenVPN
8 5 (0.52%) DKIM
8 5 (0.52%) DMARC
8 5 (0.52%) LAN
8 5 (0.52%) SSL
8 5 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.42%) Ethernet
9 4 (0.42%) FTP
9 4 (0.42%) PSTN
9 4 (0.42%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.31%) DHCP
10 3 (0.31%) Internet
10 3 (0.31%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (6.15%) Power BI
2 36 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (2.71%) SQL Server
4 21 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
5 19 (1.98%) Tableau
6 18 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.67%) Relational Database
8 15 (1.56%) DynamoDB
9 13 (1.35%) NoSQL
10 12 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 12 (1.25%) MongoDB
11 10 (1.04%) Delta Lake
11 10 (1.04%) Metadata
12 9 (0.94%) Data Lake
12 9 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (0.94%) Oracle Database
12 9 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
13 8 (0.83%) Crystal Reports
14 7 (0.73%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 111 (11.56%) Git
2 67 (6.98%) Jenkins
3 39 (4.06%) GitLab
4 34 (3.54%) Selenium
5 26 (2.71%) Zephyr
6 25 (2.60%) JUnit
7 19 (1.98%) Bitbucket
8 18 (1.88%) Cucumber
9 15 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
10 14 (1.46%) Cypress.io
11 12 (1.25%) REST Assured
12 11 (1.15%) Postman
13 10 (1.04%) SonarQube
14 9 (0.94%) Appium
15 8 (0.83%) JMeter
15 8 (0.83%) Maven
15 8 (0.83%) TestRail
16 7 (0.73%) Mockito
17 6 (0.63%) ScriptRunner
18 5 (0.52%) TeamCity
General
1 369 (38.44%) Finance
2 367 (38.23%) Social Skills
3 170 (17.71%) Banking
4 159 (16.56%) Analytical Skills
5 105 (10.94%) Public Sector
6 43 (4.48%) Retail
7 41 (4.27%) Documentation Skills
8 39 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
9 32 (3.33%) Front Office
9 32 (3.33%) Investment Banking
10 30 (3.13%) Legal
11 23 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (1.67%) Financial Institution
12 16 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
13 14 (1.46%) Back Office
13 14 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (1.46%) Marketing
14 12 (1.25%) Corporate Banking
15 10 (1.04%) Retail Banking
16 9 (0.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 204 (21.25%) Analyst
2 128 (13.33%) Business Analyst
3 107 (11.15%) Developer
4 95 (9.90%) Lead
5 87 (9.06%) Senior
6 51 (5.31%) Project Manager
7 50 (5.21%) Delivery Manager
8 42 (4.38%) IT Support
9 38 (3.96%) Architect
10 32 (3.33%) Consultant
10 32 (3.33%) Data Engineer
11 31 (3.23%) Tester
12 30 (3.13%) Scrum Master
13 27 (2.81%) Support Engineer
14 26 (2.71%) Banking Analyst
14 26 (2.71%) Technical Manager
15 25 (2.60%) Product Owner
15 25 (2.60%) Test Leader
16 24 (2.50%) IT Engineer
16 24 (2.50%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (4.79%) REST
2 32 (3.33%) .NET
3 28 (2.92%) React
4 24 (2.50%) Kafka
5 22 (2.29%) SOAP
6 21 (2.19%) AngularJS
6 21 (2.19%) Spring
7 19 (1.98%) HTML
7 19 (1.98%) JSON
8 18 (1.88%) PySpark
8 18 (1.88%) RESTful
9 17 (1.77%) CSS
9 17 (1.77%) Lightning Web Components
10 16 (1.67%) Spring Boot
11 14 (1.46%) OpenID
11 14 (1.46%) Playwright
12 12 (1.25%) Middleware
12 12 (1.25%) Node.js
12 12 (1.25%) OAuth
13 11 (1.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 95 (9.90%) Product Ownership
2 63 (6.56%) Onboarding
3 23 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
4 22 (2.29%) Management Information System
5 21 (2.19%) Cloud Native
5 21 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (1.98%) Data Centre
7 18 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
8 17 (1.77%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.77%) Virtual Team
9 16 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 15 (1.56%) Derivative
11 13 (1.35%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.25%) Credit Risk
12 12 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.15%) Fixed Income
13 11 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (1.15%) Mobile App
13 11 (1.15%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 50 (5.21%) Windows
2 38 (3.96%) Linux
3 10 (1.04%) Apple iOS
3 10 (1.04%) Unix
4 9 (0.94%) Mac OS
5 6 (0.63%) Android
6 4 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.31%) FreeRTOS
7 3 (0.31%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.31%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.10%) SUSE
9 1 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 548 (57.08%) Agile
2 279 (29.06%) Stakeholder Management
3 252 (26.25%) DevOps
4 199 (20.73%) Problem-Solving
5 181 (18.85%) Scrum
6 166 (17.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 164 (17.08%) CI/CD
8 136 (14.17%) Migration
9 135 (14.06%) Test Automation
10 132 (13.75%) User Acceptance Testing
11 117 (12.19%) User Stories
12 110 (11.46%) AI
13 105 (10.94%) SDLC
14 102 (10.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 101 (10.52%) Change Management
16 98 (10.21%) Acceptance Criteria
16 98 (10.21%) Roadmaps
17 97 (10.10%) Validation
18 95 (9.90%) Project Management
19 93 (9.69%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 177 (18.44%) SQL
2 114 (11.88%) Python
3 81 (8.44%) Java
4 60 (6.25%) C#
5 37 (3.85%) TypeScript
6 36 (3.75%) JavaScript
7 23 (2.40%) PowerShell
8 14 (1.46%) Apex Code
8 14 (1.46%) Bash
9 8 (0.83%) Groovy
10 7 (0.73%) C++
10 7 (0.73%) Perl
10 7 (0.73%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.63%) VBA
12 4 (0.42%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.31%) Bicep
13 3 (0.31%) Embedded C++
13 3 (0.31%) Swift
14 2 (0.21%) C
14 2 (0.21%) PHP
Qualifications
1 210 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 185 (19.27%) SC Cleared
3 68 (7.08%) Degree
4 26 (2.71%) PMI Certification
5 23 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (2.40%) ISTQB
6 22 (2.29%) PMP
7 19 (1.98%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (1.15%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.04%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.04%) CISSP
11 9 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (0.83%) CISM
12 8 (0.83%) Master's Degree
13 7 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 7 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (0.73%) CBAP
13 7 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (0.73%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (12.29%) QA
2 74 (7.71%) Data Quality
3 39 (4.06%) PMO
4 28 (2.92%) Accessibility
5 25 (2.60%) GDPR
6 24 (2.50%) SLA
7 20 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 11 (1.15%) WCAG
9 10 (1.04%) NIST
10 8 (0.83%) GRC
11 7 (0.73%) MiFID
12 6 (0.63%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.52%) COBIT
13 5 (0.52%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.42%) EMIR
14 4 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 4 (0.42%) NCSC
15 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 42 (4.38%) Active Directory
2 39 (4.06%) Docker
3 7 (0.73%) Squid
3 7 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.52%) Firmware
5 3 (0.31%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.10%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 67 (6.98%) Terraform
2 60 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 26 (2.71%) Single Sign-On
4 24 (2.50%) Ansible
5 20 (2.08%) Prometheus
6 19 (1.98%) Grafana
7 12 (1.25%) Consul
8 9 (0.94%) HP ALM
8 9 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.73%) FortiGate
9 7 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.42%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.42%) Control-M
10 4 (0.42%) Packer
10 4 (0.42%) PingFederate
11 3 (0.31%) Puppet
12 2 (0.21%) HP Quality Center
12 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
12 2 (0.21%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 126 (13.13%) ServiceNow
2 125 (13.02%) Microsoft
3 78 (8.13%) Salesforce
4 60 (6.25%) Oracle
5 36 (3.75%) SAP
6 34 (3.54%) Atlassian
7 29 (3.02%) Google
8 19 (1.98%) Databricks
9 17 (1.77%) Informatica
10 16 (1.67%) Adobe
10 16 (1.67%) MuleSoft
11 15 (1.56%) Okta
12 12 (1.25%) Murex
12 12 (1.25%) Red Hat
12 12 (1.25%) Workday
13 11 (1.15%) Bloomberg
14 10 (1.04%) CA Agile Central
14 10 (1.04%) ForgeRock
14 10 (1.04%) HP
14 10 (1.04%) Remedy