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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 48 53
Rank change year-on-year +7 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing JIRA 911 615 692
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.22% 4.84% 3.90%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.33% 33.62% 30.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 400 469
10th Percentile £335 £303 £325
25th Percentile £415 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £650
90th Percentile £714 £738 £850
England median daily rate £484 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.20% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 1 18
10th Percentile - - £22.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.50 £25.43
Median hourly rate £29.50 £30.00 £32.36
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -7.28% -40.08%
75th Percentile £70.31 £32.50 £63.13
90th Percentile £89.53 - £71.25
England median hourly rate £63.32 £59.13 £45.88
% change year-on-year +7.09% +28.87% -31.20%

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 2,377 1,829 2,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.63% 14.39% 12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,583 1,237 1,647
10th Percentile £350 £341 £363
25th Percentile £415 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £531
% change year-on-year - -5.84% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 24
10th Percentile - £22.93 £22.90
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £25.99
Median hourly rate £31.50 £30.00 £39.38
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -23.81% -31.52%
75th Percentile £72.75 £67.50 £70.31
90th Percentile £87.70 £84.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +6.25%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -4 114 £525 - 43
South London +7 41 £519 +9.17% 4
West London -23 17 £400 +1.27% 7
East London +2 6 £450 +25.00% 7
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
1 394 (43.25%) Confluence
2 48 (5.27%) SharePoint
3 27 (2.96%) nginx
4 14 (1.54%) Apache
5 12 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.77%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.66%) CMS
7 6 (0.66%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.66%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.44%) JBoss
9 4 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.33%) SAS
11 2 (0.22%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
11 2 (0.22%) WordPress
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 82 (9.00%) Microsoft Project
2 75 (8.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 46 (5.05%) MS Visio
4 45 (4.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
6 15 (1.65%) Trello
7 4 (0.44%) Notion
8 3 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.33%) InVision
8 3 (0.33%) Sketch
9 2 (0.22%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.22%) Autodesk Smoke
9 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.22%) Revit
9 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.11%) Mingle
10 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 14 (1.54%) NetSuite
2 13 (1.43%) Loan IQ
3 12 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (1.10%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.88%) Fidessa
5 8 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.44%) Findur
7 4 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 4 (0.44%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.33%) Actimize
8 3 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.33%) SAP FI-AR
8 3 (0.33%) SAP Retail
8 3 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
8 3 (0.33%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 214 (23.49%) Azure
2 142 (15.59%) AWS
3 137 (15.04%) Azure DevOps
4 74 (8.12%) GitHub
5 59 (6.48%) Power Platform
6 43 (4.72%) Entra ID
7 35 (3.84%) SaaS
8 33 (3.62%) Serverless
9 32 (3.51%) Amazon S3
10 30 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
11 29 (3.18%) GCP
12 27 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
13 25 (2.74%) Figma
14 21 (2.31%) Amazon EC2
14 21 (2.31%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (2.09%) Miro
15 19 (2.09%) Slack
15 19 (2.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 18 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
17 16 (1.76%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.41%) Firewall
2 15 (1.65%) DNS
3 12 (1.32%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.10%) HTTP
5 8 (0.88%) SSL
5 8 (0.88%) VPN
6 7 (0.77%) Ethernet
6 7 (0.77%) FTP
6 7 (0.77%) Modbus
6 7 (0.77%) OpenVPN
6 7 (0.77%) RS-232
6 7 (0.77%) RS-485
7 6 (0.66%) WAN
8 5 (0.55%) LAN
8 5 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.44%) NAS
9 4 (0.44%) PSTN
9 4 (0.44%) Unified Communications
10 3 (0.33%) DKIM
10 3 (0.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (4.83%) Power BI
2 29 (3.18%) SQL Server
2 29 (3.18%) Tableau
3 27 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (2.31%) NoSQL
6 17 (1.87%) Relational Database
7 14 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (1.32%) Metadata
8 12 (1.32%) MongoDB
9 11 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (1.21%) DynamoDB
10 10 (1.10%) Delta Lake
10 10 (1.10%) Oracle Database
11 9 (0.99%) Big Data
12 7 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (0.66%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.66%) Crystal Reports
13 6 (0.66%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 122 (13.39%) Git
2 66 (7.24%) Jenkins
3 42 (4.61%) Selenium
4 37 (4.06%) GitLab
5 28 (3.07%) Bitbucket
5 28 (3.07%) Zephyr
6 25 (2.74%) JUnit
7 24 (2.63%) Cucumber
8 16 (1.76%) Postman
8 16 (1.76%) TestRail
9 15 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
10 13 (1.43%) SonarQube
11 12 (1.32%) Cypress.io
11 12 (1.32%) JMeter
12 11 (1.21%) Appium
12 11 (1.21%) REST Assured
13 10 (1.10%) Maven
14 9 (0.99%) SpecFlow
15 7 (0.77%) ScriptRunner
15 7 (0.77%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 336 (36.88%) Finance
2 332 (36.44%) Social Skills
3 169 (18.55%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (14.93%) Banking
5 101 (11.09%) Public Sector
6 39 (4.28%) Documentation Skills
7 35 (3.84%) Organisational Skills
8 33 (3.62%) Retail
9 30 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
10 29 (3.18%) Legal
11 27 (2.96%) Investment Banking
12 24 (2.63%) Front Office
13 20 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (1.76%) Financial Institution
14 16 (1.76%) Marketing
15 11 (1.21%) Publishing
16 10 (1.10%) Back Office
16 10 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 9 (0.99%) Billing
17 9 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 196 (21.51%) Analyst
2 136 (14.93%) Business Analyst
3 104 (11.42%) Developer
4 88 (9.66%) Senior
5 77 (8.45%) Lead
6 62 (6.81%) Project Manager
7 39 (4.28%) Delivery Manager
8 35 (3.84%) Tester
9 32 (3.51%) IT Support
10 30 (3.29%) Architect
11 29 (3.18%) Test Engineer
12 28 (3.07%) Senior Analyst
13 27 (2.96%) Technical Manager
14 26 (2.85%) Scrum Master
15 25 (2.74%) Consultant
15 25 (2.74%) Support Engineer
16 23 (2.52%) Data Engineer
16 23 (2.52%) IT Engineer
17 22 (2.41%) Technical Analyst
17 22 (2.41%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (4.83%) REST
2 34 (3.73%) .NET
3 31 (3.40%) React
4 25 (2.74%) Kafka
5 23 (2.52%) HTML
5 23 (2.52%) Spring
6 20 (2.20%) AngularJS
6 20 (2.20%) CSS
7 19 (2.09%) Node.js
7 19 (2.09%) RESTful
8 18 (1.98%) XML
9 16 (1.76%) JSON
9 16 (1.76%) Lightning Web Components
9 16 (1.76%) Oracle Fusion
9 16 (1.76%) Playwright
10 15 (1.65%) SOAP
10 15 (1.65%) Spring Boot
11 12 (1.32%) ADO
11 12 (1.32%) OAuth
11 12 (1.32%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 84 (9.22%) Product Ownership
2 48 (5.27%) Onboarding
3 27 (2.96%) Management Information System
4 23 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
5 22 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
6 21 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (2.09%) Cloud Native
7 19 (2.09%) Virtual Team
8 14 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.43%) Data Centre
10 12 (1.32%) Mobile App
10 12 (1.32%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.21%) Data Structures
11 11 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.10%) Derivative
12 10 (1.10%) Reinsurance
13 9 (0.99%) Equities
13 9 (0.99%) Fixed Income
13 9 (0.99%) Market Risk
14 8 (0.88%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 52 (5.71%) Linux
2 50 (5.49%) Windows
3 13 (1.43%) Unix
4 9 (0.99%) Android
5 7 (0.77%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.77%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (0.55%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.44%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
8 3 (0.33%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (58.18%) Agile
2 240 (26.34%) Stakeholder Management
3 230 (25.25%) DevOps
4 194 (21.30%) Scrum
5 181 (19.87%) Problem-Solving
6 166 (18.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 149 (16.36%) Test Automation
8 143 (15.70%) CI/CD
9 129 (14.16%) Project Management
10 116 (12.73%) User Stories
11 113 (12.40%) User Acceptance Testing
12 112 (12.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 111 (12.18%) Migration
14 101 (11.09%) SDLC
15 97 (10.65%) Change Management
16 89 (9.77%) Decision-Making
16 89 (9.77%) Project Delivery
17 88 (9.66%) Roadmaps
18 85 (9.33%) Analytics
18 85 (9.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 164 (18.00%) SQL
2 112 (12.29%) Python
3 97 (10.65%) Java
4 63 (6.92%) C#
5 51 (5.60%) JavaScript
6 40 (4.39%) TypeScript
7 19 (2.09%) PowerShell
8 17 (1.87%) Bash
9 14 (1.54%) C++
10 13 (1.43%) Apex Code
11 8 (0.88%) Perl
11 8 (0.88%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.77%) Embedded C++
12 7 (0.77%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.66%) Groovy
14 5 (0.55%) C
14 5 (0.55%) Ruby
14 5 (0.55%) XPath
15 4 (0.44%) Delphi
15 4 (0.44%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 201 (22.06%) Security Cleared
2 179 (19.65%) SC Cleared
3 71 (7.79%) Degree
4 31 (3.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 30 (3.29%) ISTQB
6 27 (2.96%) PMI Certification
7 21 (2.31%) PMP
8 16 (1.76%) CBAP
9 13 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.43%) DV Cleared
10 11 (1.21%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.21%) IIBA
10 11 (1.21%) ISEB
11 10 (1.10%) CISSP
12 9 (0.99%) AWS Certification
13 7 (0.77%) CISM
13 7 (0.77%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.66%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (13.83%) QA
2 53 (5.82%) Data Quality
3 38 (4.17%) PMO
4 31 (3.40%) Accessibility
5 28 (3.07%) GDPR
6 15 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.65%) NIST
7 14 (1.54%) SLA
8 12 (1.32%) WCAG
9 8 (0.88%) GRC
9 8 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.66%) MiFID
12 5 (0.55%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.44%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.44%) NCSC
14 3 (0.33%) Basel III
14 3 (0.33%) GxP
14 3 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 59 (6.48%) Docker
2 39 (4.28%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.88%) Squid
4 7 (0.77%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (0.77%) Firmware
5 4 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 67 (7.35%) Kubernetes
2 62 (6.81%) Terraform
3 21 (2.31%) Consul
3 21 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
4 20 (2.20%) Ansible
5 17 (1.87%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.76%) Grafana
7 14 (1.54%) HP ALM
8 13 (1.43%) Packer
9 9 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.77%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.55%) Control-M
11 5 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.44%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.44%) PingFederate
13 3 (0.33%) RSA Archer
14 2 (0.22%) CASB
14 2 (0.22%) Puppet
14 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 109 (11.96%) ServiceNow
2 106 (11.64%) Microsoft
3 76 (8.34%) Oracle
4 72 (7.90%) Salesforce
5 41 (4.50%) Atlassian
6 40 (4.39%) SAP
7 32 (3.51%) Google
8 19 (2.09%) Databricks
9 17 (1.87%) Adobe
10 14 (1.54%) Citrix
10 14 (1.54%) HP
11 13 (1.43%) IBM
11 13 (1.43%) MuleSoft
12 12 (1.32%) Murex
12 12 (1.32%) Workday
13 11 (1.21%) Dynatrace
13 11 (1.21%) Okta
13 11 (1.21%) Remedy
14 10 (1.10%) Informatica
14 10 (1.10%) Splunk