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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 36 57
Rank change year-on-year -7 +21 -7
Contract jobs citing JIRA 987 771 650
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.90% 5.64% 4.02%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.83% 36.57% 28.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 648 531 454
10th Percentile £359 £325 £322
25th Percentile £425 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 4 15
10th Percentile - £34.20 £22.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £39.38 £25.62
Median hourly rate £27.50 £44.75 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.55% +37.69% -39.81%
75th Percentile £68.13 £57.81 £68.13
90th Percentile £78.97 £76.38 £71.25
England median hourly rate £55.00 £63.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -12.70% -6.67% +8.00%

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 2,542 2,108 2,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.62% 15.42% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,629 1,440 1,601
10th Percentile £363 £343 £363
25th Percentile £438 £417 £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 £738 £750 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 13 22
10th Percentile - £26.98 £22.33
25th Percentile £18.75 £36.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -2.70% -33.93%
75th Percentile £72.75 £63.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.20 £84.50 £71.81
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - -

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -13 121 £550 +10.00% 59
South London +4 30 £513 -11.85% 7
West London -8 27 £400 -3.61% 3
North London -1 2 - - 1
East London -2 2 £425 +4.29% 5
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
1 409 (41.44%) Confluence
2 53 (5.37%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.22%) CMS
5 7 (0.71%) SAS
6 6 (0.61%) Apache
7 5 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.41%) JBoss
9 3 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.30%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.30%) nginx
9 3 (0.30%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.30%) WordPress
10 2 (0.20%) Camunda
10 2 (0.20%) Kentico
11 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.10%) Appian
11 1 (0.10%) Drupal
11 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 65 (6.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (6.28%) Microsoft Project
3 41 (4.15%) MS Visio
4 31 (3.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
6 14 (1.42%) Trello
7 10 (1.01%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.81%) Revit
9 6 (0.61%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.51%) Notion
11 4 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.10%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.10%) Mingle
12 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 21 (2.13%) Remedy ITSM
2 12 (1.22%) Aladdin
3 11 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.81%) Findur
5 7 (0.71%) Loan IQ
6 6 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.61%) Fidessa
7 5 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.41%) Actimize
8 4 (0.41%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.30%) SAP FI-AR
10 2 (0.20%) CA PPM
10 2 (0.20%) Eloqua
10 2 (0.20%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
10 2 (0.20%) IntelliMatch
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
10 2 (0.20%) Shopify
10 2 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 2 (0.20%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 280 (28.37%) Azure
2 155 (15.70%) Azure DevOps
3 152 (15.40%) AWS
4 84 (8.51%) Power Platform
5 70 (7.09%) GitHub
6 54 (5.47%) Entra ID
7 48 (4.86%) SaaS
8 43 (4.36%) Amazon S3
8 43 (4.36%) Serverless
9 42 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
10 41 (4.15%) GCP
11 35 (3.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 33 (3.34%) AWS Lambda
13 30 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
14 29 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
15 21 (2.13%) Snowflake
16 20 (2.03%) Microsoft Copilot
17 19 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
17 19 (1.93%) Figma
18 18 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.33%) DNS
2 22 (2.23%) Firewall
3 16 (1.62%) TCP/IP
3 16 (1.62%) VPN
4 8 (0.81%) DHCP
5 7 (0.71%) Network Security
6 6 (0.61%) SSL
6 6 (0.61%) WAN
7 5 (0.51%) DKIM
7 5 (0.51%) DMARC
8 4 (0.41%) FTP
8 4 (0.41%) HTTP
8 4 (0.41%) Internet
8 4 (0.41%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.30%) IPv4
9 3 (0.30%) NGFW
10 2 (0.20%) 5G
10 2 (0.20%) DSL
10 2 (0.20%) OpenVPN
10 2 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (7.50%) Power BI
2 38 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (2.84%) SQL Server
4 25 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (1.82%) Amazon Athena
5 18 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (1.82%) Relational Database
6 16 (1.62%) Metadata
6 16 (1.62%) Tableau
7 14 (1.42%) DynamoDB
8 13 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
9 12 (1.22%) Data Lake
9 12 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (1.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 10 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
12 8 (0.81%) MongoDB
13 7 (0.71%) Crystal Reports
13 7 (0.71%) Redis
14 6 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 119 (12.06%) Git
2 75 (7.60%) Jenkins
3 40 (4.05%) GitLab
4 31 (3.14%) Selenium
4 31 (3.14%) Zephyr
5 18 (1.82%) Bitbucket
5 18 (1.82%) JUnit
6 17 (1.72%) Cucumber
7 16 (1.62%) Sonatype Nexus
8 14 (1.42%) Cypress.io
9 11 (1.11%) Postman
9 11 (1.11%) REST Assured
9 11 (1.11%) TestRail
10 9 (0.91%) Appium
11 8 (0.81%) JMeter
12 7 (0.71%) Mockito
13 6 (0.61%) Maven
13 6 (0.61%) ScriptRunner
14 5 (0.51%) Artifactory
14 5 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 392 (39.72%) Finance
1 392 (39.72%) Social Skills
2 191 (19.35%) Banking
3 185 (18.74%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (10.64%) Public Sector
5 42 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
5 42 (4.26%) Retail
6 37 (3.75%) Investment Banking
7 36 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
8 31 (3.14%) Front Office
9 25 (2.53%) Legal
10 20 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 18 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (1.82%) Marketing
12 16 (1.62%) Retail Banking
13 15 (1.52%) Corporate Banking
14 14 (1.42%) Back Office
14 14 (1.42%) Financial Institution
15 12 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 192 (19.45%) Analyst
2 121 (12.26%) Business Analyst
3 110 (11.14%) Lead
4 104 (10.54%) Developer
5 96 (9.73%) Senior
6 60 (6.08%) Project Manager
7 42 (4.26%) Delivery Manager
8 38 (3.85%) Architect
9 36 (3.65%) IT Support
10 34 (3.44%) Consultant
11 32 (3.24%) Product Owner
12 30 (3.04%) Test Leader
13 28 (2.84%) Support Engineer
14 27 (2.74%) Scrum Master
14 27 (2.74%) Test Manager
15 26 (2.63%) Tester
16 25 (2.53%) Data Engineer
17 24 (2.43%) Senior Manager
17 24 (2.43%) Technical Manager
18 23 (2.33%) Banking Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (5.67%) REST
2 42 (4.26%) .NET
3 26 (2.63%) React
4 24 (2.43%) JSON
5 22 (2.23%) AngularJS
6 20 (2.03%) Kafka
6 20 (2.03%) SOAP
7 18 (1.82%) PySpark
8 16 (1.62%) HTML
8 16 (1.62%) Playwright
8 16 (1.62%) XML
9 15 (1.52%) Lightning Web Components
10 14 (1.42%) CSS
10 14 (1.42%) Spring
11 13 (1.32%) Middleware
11 13 (1.32%) Node.js
12 11 (1.11%) OAuth
12 11 (1.11%) RESTful
12 11 (1.11%) Web Services
13 10 (1.01%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 105 (10.64%) Product Ownership
2 66 (6.69%) Onboarding
3 28 (2.84%) Data Centre
4 24 (2.43%) Cloud Native
5 21 (2.13%) Data Structures
6 20 (2.03%) Management Information System
6 20 (2.03%) Virtual Team
7 19 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
7 19 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (1.82%) Derivative
9 17 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
10 16 (1.62%) Credit Risk
10 16 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 13 (1.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 11 (1.11%) Mobile App
14 10 (1.01%) Clustering
14 10 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (1.01%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 58 (5.88%) Windows
2 36 (3.65%) Linux
3 12 (1.22%) Apple iOS
4 10 (1.01%) Android
4 10 (1.01%) Mac OS
5 9 (0.91%) Unix
6 7 (0.71%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
9 3 (0.30%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.10%) SUSE
11 1 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.10%) VMS
11 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 578 (58.56%) Agile
2 324 (32.83%) Stakeholder Management
3 270 (27.36%) DevOps
4 220 (22.29%) Problem-Solving
5 185 (18.74%) CI/CD
6 176 (17.83%) Scrum
7 162 (16.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 159 (16.11%) Migration
9 137 (13.88%) User Acceptance Testing
10 131 (13.27%) AI
11 130 (13.17%) Test Automation
12 125 (12.66%) User Stories
13 107 (10.84%) Project Management
14 105 (10.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 103 (10.44%) SDLC
16 101 (10.23%) Change Management
17 100 (10.13%) Acceptance Criteria
17 100 (10.13%) Validation
18 98 (9.93%) Analytics
19 93 (9.42%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 179 (18.14%) SQL
2 106 (10.74%) Python
3 71 (7.19%) Java
4 55 (5.57%) C#
5 39 (3.95%) JavaScript
6 37 (3.75%) PowerShell
7 29 (2.94%) TypeScript
8 17 (1.72%) Bash
9 14 (1.42%) Apex Code
10 11 (1.11%) Groovy
11 10 (1.01%) Perl
12 9 (0.91%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.51%) Kotlin
13 5 (0.51%) VBA
14 4 (0.41%) Swift
15 3 (0.30%) Bicep
15 3 (0.30%) C++
15 3 (0.30%) Korn
15 3 (0.30%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.20%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 217 (21.99%) Security Cleared
2 190 (19.25%) SC Cleared
3 75 (7.60%) Degree
4 30 (3.04%) PMI Certification
5 24 (2.43%) PMP
6 22 (2.23%) DV Cleared
6 22 (2.23%) ISTQB
7 17 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.42%) ITIL Certification
9 12 (1.22%) AWS Certification
10 11 (1.11%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.01%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.01%) CISSP
12 9 (0.91%) IIBA
13 8 (0.81%) CISM
13 8 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 7 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 7 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (12.36%) QA
2 68 (6.89%) Data Quality
3 46 (4.66%) PMO
4 29 (2.94%) SLA
5 26 (2.63%) Accessibility
5 26 (2.63%) GDPR
6 20 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (1.11%) WCAG
8 10 (1.01%) ISO 20022
9 8 (0.81%) NIST
10 7 (0.71%) GRC
11 6 (0.61%) MiFID
11 6 (0.61%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.61%) SEPA
12 5 (0.51%) COBIT
13 4 (0.41%) EMIR
13 4 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.41%) NCSC
13 4 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 56 (5.67%) Active Directory
2 37 (3.75%) Docker
3 8 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.20%) Firmware
6 2 (0.20%) Squid
7 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 73 (7.40%) Terraform
2 59 (5.98%) Kubernetes
3 31 (3.14%) Ansible
4 22 (2.23%) Single Sign-On
5 21 (2.13%) Grafana
5 21 (2.13%) Prometheus
6 9 (0.91%) Control-M
6 9 (0.91%) HP ALM
6 9 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Clustering
7 6 (0.61%) SCOM
8 5 (0.51%) Consul
9 4 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.41%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.41%) Istio
9 4 (0.41%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.41%) Podman
10 3 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.20%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.20%) Packer
Vendors
1 140 (14.18%) Microsoft
2 129 (13.07%) ServiceNow
3 69 (6.99%) Salesforce
4 47 (4.76%) Oracle
5 36 (3.65%) SAP
6 33 (3.34%) Google
7 29 (2.94%) Atlassian
8 21 (2.13%) Remedy
9 19 (1.93%) Adobe
9 19 (1.93%) Splunk
10 18 (1.82%) Okta
11 17 (1.72%) Databricks
11 17 (1.72%) IBM
12 15 (1.52%) MuleSoft
13 12 (1.22%) Informatica
13 12 (1.22%) Workday
14 11 (1.11%) BMC
14 11 (1.11%) ForgeRock
15 10 (1.01%) DocuSign
15 10 (1.01%) HP