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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 45 54
Rank change year-on-year +4 +9 -7
Contract jobs citing JIRA 917 627 698
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.23% 4.92% 3.91%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.45% 34.19% 30.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 629 408 476
10th Percentile £350 £309 £328
25th Percentile £415 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £716 £738 £850
England median daily rate £484 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.20% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 1 18
10th Percentile - - £22.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.50 £25.43
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £32.36
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.28% -40.08%
75th Percentile £68.13 £32.50 £63.13
90th Percentile £87.70 - £71.25
England median hourly rate £62.75 £57.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year +8.66% +10.00% -21.27%

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 2,385 1,834 2,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.61% 14.40% 13.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,587 1,241 1,666
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £417 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.19% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 24
10th Percentile - £22.93 £22.90
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £25.99
Median hourly rate £29.50 £30.00 £39.38
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -23.81% -31.52%
75th Percentile £72.63 £67.50 £70.31
90th Percentile £85.88 £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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -1 114 £550 +4.76% 15
South London +9 39 £516 +8.53% 1
West London -21 17 £400 +1.27% 6
East London +3 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
1 396 (43.18%) Confluence
2 46 (5.02%) SharePoint
3 27 (2.94%) nginx
4 14 (1.53%) Apache
5 12 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.76%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.65%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.65%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.44%) JBoss
9 4 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.33%) CMS
10 3 (0.33%) SAS
11 2 (0.22%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Airflow
12 1 (0.11%) CICS
12 1 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.11%) IIS
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 84 (9.16%) Microsoft Project
2 75 (8.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 46 (5.02%) MS Visio
4 44 (4.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
6 15 (1.64%) Trello
7 4 (0.44%) Notion
8 3 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
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%) 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 13 (1.42%) Loan IQ
1 13 (1.42%) NetSuite
1 13 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.98%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.87%) Fidessa
3 8 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 5 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.44%) Findur
5 4 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 4 (0.44%) SAP MDG
5 4 (0.44%) SAP Retail
6 3 (0.33%) Actimize
6 3 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.33%) SAP FI-AR
6 3 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
6 3 (0.33%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 210 (22.90%) Azure
2 139 (15.16%) AWS
3 135 (14.72%) Azure DevOps
4 71 (7.74%) GitHub
5 61 (6.65%) Power Platform
6 42 (4.58%) Entra ID
7 37 (4.03%) SaaS
8 31 (3.38%) Amazon S3
8 31 (3.38%) Serverless
9 29 (3.16%) GCP
9 29 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
10 26 (2.84%) AWS Lambda
11 23 (2.51%) Figma
12 20 (2.18%) Amazon EC2
13 19 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (2.07%) Miro
13 19 (2.07%) Slack
13 19 (2.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 18 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
15 15 (1.64%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.40%) Firewall
2 15 (1.64%) DNS
3 12 (1.31%) TCP/IP
4 10 (1.09%) HTTP
5 8 (0.87%) SSL
5 8 (0.87%) VPN
6 7 (0.76%) Ethernet
6 7 (0.76%) FTP
6 7 (0.76%) Modbus
6 7 (0.76%) OpenVPN
6 7 (0.76%) RS-232
6 7 (0.76%) RS-485
7 6 (0.65%) 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 47 (5.13%) Power BI
2 30 (3.27%) SQL Server
3 29 (3.16%) Tableau
4 27 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (2.29%) NoSQL
7 17 (1.85%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (1.31%) MongoDB
10 11 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (1.20%) DynamoDB
10 11 (1.20%) Metadata
11 10 (1.09%) Delta Lake
11 10 (1.09%) Oracle Database
12 9 (0.98%) Big Data
13 7 (0.76%) Data Vault
13 7 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
14 6 (0.65%) BigQuery
14 6 (0.65%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 122 (13.30%) Git
2 65 (7.09%) Jenkins
3 41 (4.47%) Selenium
4 36 (3.93%) GitLab
5 28 (3.05%) Bitbucket
6 27 (2.94%) Zephyr
7 25 (2.73%) JUnit
8 24 (2.62%) Cucumber
9 16 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
9 16 (1.74%) TestRail
10 15 (1.64%) Postman
11 13 (1.42%) SonarQube
12 12 (1.31%) JMeter
13 11 (1.20%) Appium
13 11 (1.20%) Cypress.io
14 10 (1.09%) Maven
14 10 (1.09%) REST Assured
15 8 (0.87%) SpecFlow
16 7 (0.76%) ScriptRunner
16 7 (0.76%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 340 (37.08%) Finance
2 334 (36.42%) Social Skills
3 173 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (14.83%) Banking
5 100 (10.91%) Public Sector
6 40 (4.36%) Documentation Skills
7 34 (3.71%) Organisational Skills
7 34 (3.71%) Retail
8 31 (3.38%) Legal
9 30 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
10 26 (2.84%) Investment Banking
11 23 (2.51%) Front Office
12 19 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (1.85%) Marketing
14 16 (1.74%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.20%) Publishing
16 10 (1.09%) Telecoms
17 9 (0.98%) Billing
17 9 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 8 (0.87%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 198 (21.59%) Analyst
2 136 (14.83%) Business Analyst
3 103 (11.23%) Developer
4 89 (9.71%) Senior
5 82 (8.94%) Lead
6 62 (6.76%) Project Manager
7 39 (4.25%) Delivery Manager
8 32 (3.49%) IT Support
8 32 (3.49%) Tester
9 29 (3.16%) Architect
10 28 (3.05%) Scrum Master
10 28 (3.05%) Test Engineer
11 27 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
11 27 (2.94%) Technical Manager
12 26 (2.84%) Consultant
13 25 (2.73%) Support Engineer
13 25 (2.73%) Test Manager
14 24 (2.62%) Data Engineer
15 23 (2.51%) Test Leader
16 22 (2.40%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (4.80%) REST
2 34 (3.71%) .NET
3 29 (3.16%) React
4 25 (2.73%) Kafka
5 23 (2.51%) Spring
6 22 (2.40%) HTML
7 20 (2.18%) AngularJS
8 19 (2.07%) CSS
8 19 (2.07%) Node.js
9 18 (1.96%) RESTful
9 18 (1.96%) XML
10 17 (1.85%) Lightning Web Components
11 16 (1.74%) JSON
11 16 (1.74%) Oracle Fusion
12 15 (1.64%) SOAP
12 15 (1.64%) Spring Boot
13 14 (1.53%) Playwright
14 12 (1.31%) ADO
14 12 (1.31%) OpenID
15 11 (1.20%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 87 (9.49%) Product Ownership
2 46 (5.02%) Onboarding
3 26 (2.84%) Management Information System
4 24 (2.62%) Analytical Mindset
5 22 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
6 21 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (2.07%) Cloud Native
7 19 (2.07%) Virtual Team
8 13 (1.42%) Data Centre
8 13 (1.42%) Data Structures
8 13 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 12 (1.31%) Mobile App
9 12 (1.31%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.20%) Derivative
11 10 (1.09%) Reinsurance
12 9 (0.98%) Market Risk
13 8 (0.87%) Equities
13 8 (0.87%) Fixed Income
13 8 (0.87%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 52 (5.67%) Linux
1 52 (5.67%) Windows
2 13 (1.42%) Unix
3 9 (0.98%) Android
4 7 (0.76%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.76%) FreeRTOS
5 5 (0.55%) Windows 10
5 5 (0.55%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.33%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.22%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 532 (58.02%) Agile
2 246 (26.83%) Stakeholder Management
3 230 (25.08%) DevOps
4 194 (21.16%) Scrum
5 181 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
6 168 (18.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 145 (15.81%) Test Automation
8 139 (15.16%) CI/CD
9 130 (14.18%) Project Management
10 116 (12.65%) Migration
11 114 (12.43%) User Stories
12 112 (12.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 111 (12.10%) User Acceptance Testing
14 100 (10.91%) SDLC
15 99 (10.80%) Change Management
16 93 (10.14%) Decision-Making
17 91 (9.92%) Project Delivery
18 90 (9.81%) Roadmaps
19 89 (9.71%) Analytics
20 87 (9.49%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 162 (17.67%) SQL
2 109 (11.89%) Python
3 96 (10.47%) Java
4 63 (6.87%) C#
5 45 (4.91%) JavaScript
6 37 (4.03%) TypeScript
7 19 (2.07%) PowerShell
8 17 (1.85%) Bash
9 14 (1.53%) Apex Code
9 14 (1.53%) C++
10 8 (0.87%) Perl
10 8 (0.87%) Shell Script
11 7 (0.76%) Embedded C++
11 7 (0.76%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.65%) Groovy
13 5 (0.55%) C
13 5 (0.55%) Ruby
13 5 (0.55%) XPath
14 4 (0.44%) Delphi
14 4 (0.44%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 199 (21.70%) Security Cleared
2 177 (19.30%) SC Cleared
3 70 (7.63%) Degree
4 31 (3.38%) ISTQB
5 30 (3.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 27 (2.94%) PMI Certification
7 21 (2.29%) PMP
8 16 (1.74%) CBAP
9 13 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (1.31%) DV Cleared
11 11 (1.20%) Azure Certification
11 11 (1.20%) IIBA
11 11 (1.20%) ISEB
12 9 (0.98%) AWS Certification
12 9 (0.98%) CISSP
13 7 (0.76%) CISM
13 7 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (0.76%) Master's Degree
14 6 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.65%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (13.63%) QA
2 55 (6.00%) Data Quality
3 41 (4.47%) PMO
4 28 (3.05%) Accessibility
4 28 (3.05%) GDPR
5 14 (1.53%) SLA
6 13 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.42%) NIST
7 10 (1.09%) WCAG
8 8 (0.87%) GRC
8 8 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 7 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.65%) MiFID
11 4 (0.44%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.33%) Basel III
12 3 (0.33%) EMIR
12 3 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 3 (0.33%) NCSC
12 3 (0.33%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 58 (6.32%) Docker
2 37 (4.03%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.87%) Squid
4 7 (0.76%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (0.76%) Firmware
5 4 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 66 (7.20%) Kubernetes
2 61 (6.65%) Terraform
3 21 (2.29%) Ansible
3 21 (2.29%) Consul
4 20 (2.18%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (1.85%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.64%) Grafana
7 14 (1.53%) HP ALM
8 13 (1.42%) Packer
9 9 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.76%) 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
1 108 (11.78%) ServiceNow
2 104 (11.34%) Microsoft
3 77 (8.40%) Oracle
4 72 (7.85%) Salesforce
5 43 (4.69%) SAP
6 40 (4.36%) Atlassian
7 31 (3.38%) Google
8 19 (2.07%) Databricks
9 17 (1.85%) Adobe
10 14 (1.53%) Citrix
10 14 (1.53%) HP
10 14 (1.53%) MuleSoft
11 13 (1.42%) IBM
11 13 (1.42%) Workday
12 12 (1.31%) Murex
13 11 (1.20%) Dynatrace
13 11 (1.20%) Remedy
14 10 (1.09%) Informatica
14 10 (1.09%) Okta
14 10 (1.09%) Splunk