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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 33 54
Rank change year-on-year -13 +21 -5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 970 809 693
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.77% 6.00% 4.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.71% 37.82% 29.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 626 567 469
10th Percentile £358 £325 £312
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £646 £630
90th Percentile £750 £745 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 14
10th Percentile £18.75 £35.35 £22.98
25th Percentile £18.88 £42.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £42.25 £44.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% +35.88% -39.35%
75th Percentile £71.25 £47.50 £69.69
90th Percentile £87.83 £72.25 £71.25
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £69.00
% change year-on-year - -9.42% +12.65%

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 2,572 2,139 2,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.65% 15.86% 14.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,660 1,444 1,613
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £437 £420 £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 22 13 19
10th Percentile £18.75 £37.00 £24.60
25th Percentile £27.38 £42.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £49.00 £45.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% +20.00% -44.24%
75th Percentile £73.56 £67.50 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.66 £105.75 £71.38
England median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - -

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -12 123 £547 +9.40% 63
West London -10 29 £400 +1.27% 16
South London -8 19 £550 -5.34% 5
North London +1 4 £525 +19.32% 1
East London -1 3 £550 +34.97% 4
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
1 405 (41.75%) Confluence
2 58 (5.98%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (1.34%) CMS
5 7 (0.72%) SAS
6 5 (0.52%) Apache
6 5 (0.52%) Camunda
6 5 (0.52%) MTS
7 4 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.41%) Headless CMS
8 3 (0.31%) WordPress
9 2 (0.21%) IIS
9 2 (0.21%) Kentico
9 2 (0.21%) nginx
10 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.10%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.10%) JBoss
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 69 (7.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (4.74%) Microsoft Project
3 36 (3.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 36 (3.71%) MS Visio
4 28 (2.89%) Microsoft Office
5 13 (1.34%) Trello
6 10 (1.03%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.82%) Revit
8 5 (0.52%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.52%) Notion
8 5 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.21%) Mingle
9 2 (0.21%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.10%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.10%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 19 (1.96%) Remedy ITSM
2 10 (1.03%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.52%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.52%) Findur
5 4 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.41%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.31%) SAP FI-AR
7 2 (0.21%) Actimize
7 2 (0.21%) CA PPM
7 2 (0.21%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.21%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.21%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.21%) Maximo
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.21%) Shopify
7 2 (0.21%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 267 (27.53%) Azure
2 154 (15.88%) AWS
3 150 (15.46%) Azure DevOps
4 90 (9.28%) Power Platform
5 72 (7.42%) GitHub
6 52 (5.36%) SaaS
7 49 (5.05%) Microsoft 365
8 44 (4.54%) GCP
9 42 (4.33%) Entra ID
10 41 (4.23%) Serverless
11 40 (4.12%) Amazon S3
12 36 (3.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 32 (3.30%) AWS Lambda
14 27 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
15 26 (2.68%) Amazon EC2
15 26 (2.68%) Microsoft Copilot
16 20 (2.06%) Figma
17 19 (1.96%) Miro
17 19 (1.96%) Snowflake
18 18 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.58%) DNS
2 22 (2.27%) Firewall
3 18 (1.86%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.75%) VPN
5 12 (1.24%) DHCP
6 8 (0.82%) HTTP
7 7 (0.72%) SSL
7 7 (0.72%) WAN
8 6 (0.62%) Network Security
9 5 (0.52%) DKIM
9 5 (0.52%) DMARC
9 5 (0.52%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.41%) IPv4
10 4 (0.41%) SSH
11 3 (0.31%) FTP
11 3 (0.31%) Internet
11 3 (0.31%) IPv6
12 2 (0.21%) DSL
12 2 (0.21%) MPLS
12 2 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (8.25%) Power BI
2 37 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
3 35 (3.61%) SQL Server
4 31 (3.20%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (1.96%) Relational Database
6 18 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
8 15 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
8 15 (1.55%) Metadata
9 12 (1.24%) Data Lake
9 12 (1.24%) DynamoDB
9 12 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 12 (1.24%) Tableau
10 10 (1.03%) MongoDB
10 10 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 10 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (0.93%) Oracle Database
11 9 (0.93%) Redis
12 8 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 124 (12.78%) Git
2 78 (8.04%) Jenkins
3 44 (4.54%) GitLab
4 35 (3.61%) Selenium
5 25 (2.58%) Zephyr
6 20 (2.06%) Bitbucket
7 17 (1.75%) Cypress.io
8 14 (1.44%) Postman
8 14 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (1.34%) REST Assured
10 12 (1.24%) JUnit
10 12 (1.24%) Maven
11 11 (1.13%) Mockito
12 10 (1.03%) Cucumber
12 10 (1.03%) JMeter
12 10 (1.03%) TestRail
13 8 (0.82%) Gradle
14 7 (0.72%) SonarQube
15 6 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 5 (0.52%) Artifactory
General
1 398 (41.03%) Finance
2 393 (40.52%) Social Skills
3 207 (21.34%) Banking
4 193 (19.90%) Analytical Skills
5 105 (10.82%) Public Sector
6 45 (4.64%) Investment Banking
7 42 (4.33%) Organisational Skills
7 42 (4.33%) Retail
8 38 (3.92%) Front Office
9 31 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
10 25 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (2.16%) Marketing
12 20 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 19 (1.96%) Legal
14 17 (1.75%) Retail Banking
15 14 (1.44%) Back Office
15 14 (1.44%) Financial Institution
15 14 (1.44%) Telecoms
16 12 (1.24%) Corporate Banking
16 12 (1.24%) Law
Job Titles
1 191 (19.69%) Analyst
2 117 (12.06%) Business Analyst
3 112 (11.55%) Lead
4 103 (10.62%) Developer
5 93 (9.59%) Senior
6 55 (5.67%) Project Manager
7 37 (3.81%) Architect
7 37 (3.81%) Delivery Manager
8 34 (3.51%) Consultant
9 31 (3.20%) Product Owner
10 30 (3.09%) Scrum Master
11 27 (2.78%) Applications Support
12 26 (2.68%) Test Manager
13 25 (2.58%) Support Engineer
13 25 (2.58%) Tester
14 24 (2.47%) Test Leader
15 22 (2.27%) IT Support
15 22 (2.27%) Senior Analyst
16 21 (2.16%) Data Engineer
17 20 (2.06%) Banking Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (7.22%) Terraform
2 64 (6.60%) REST
3 43 (4.43%) .NET
4 28 (2.89%) AngularJS
5 27 (2.78%) React
6 25 (2.58%) JSON
7 24 (2.47%) Kafka
8 23 (2.37%) HTML
9 20 (2.06%) Playwright
9 20 (2.06%) SOAP
10 18 (1.86%) RESTful
11 17 (1.75%) CSS
12 16 (1.65%) Middleware
13 15 (1.55%) Spring
13 15 (1.55%) XML
14 14 (1.44%) Node.js
14 14 (1.44%) PySpark
15 13 (1.34%) Lightning Web Components
15 13 (1.34%) Spring Boot
16 12 (1.24%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 124 (12.78%) Product Ownership
2 73 (7.53%) Onboarding
3 29 (2.99%) Cloud Native
4 26 (2.68%) Data Structures
5 23 (2.37%) Data Centre
5 23 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
6 22 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (2.27%) Virtual Team
7 21 (2.16%) Management Information System
8 19 (1.96%) Credit Risk
9 18 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (1.75%) Derivative
11 15 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
11 15 (1.55%) Replication
12 13 (1.34%) Fixed Income
12 13 (1.34%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 12 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 12 (1.24%) Mobile App
14 10 (1.03%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 55 (5.67%) Windows
2 47 (4.85%) Linux
3 13 (1.34%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.13%) Android
5 10 (1.03%) Mac OS
6 9 (0.93%) Amazon Linux
6 9 (0.93%) Unix
7 8 (0.82%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.72%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.21%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.21%) VMS
10 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.10%) CentOS
11 1 (0.10%) SUSE
11 1 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.10%) VxWorks
11 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 582 (60.00%) Agile
2 358 (36.91%) Stakeholder Management
3 278 (28.66%) DevOps
4 232 (23.92%) Problem-Solving
5 193 (19.90%) Scrum
6 191 (19.69%) CI/CD
7 154 (15.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 154 (15.88%) Migration
8 145 (14.95%) AI
8 145 (14.95%) User Acceptance Testing
9 134 (13.81%) Test Automation
10 133 (13.71%) User Stories
11 118 (12.16%) Validation
12 113 (11.65%) Project Management
13 105 (10.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 104 (10.72%) SDLC
15 102 (10.52%) Acceptance Criteria
16 98 (10.10%) Sprint Planning
17 94 (9.69%) Analytics
18 90 (9.28%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 187 (19.28%) SQL
2 113 (11.65%) Python
3 63 (6.49%) Java
4 42 (4.33%) JavaScript
5 40 (4.12%) C#
6 38 (3.92%) PowerShell
7 27 (2.78%) TypeScript
8 21 (2.16%) Bash
9 15 (1.55%) Apex Code
9 15 (1.55%) Groovy
10 10 (1.03%) Perl
10 10 (1.03%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.52%) Tcl
11 5 (0.52%) VBA
12 4 (0.41%) C
12 4 (0.41%) Korn
12 4 (0.41%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.41%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.31%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.31%) Swift
Qualifications
1 219 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 193 (19.90%) SC Cleared
3 77 (7.94%) Degree
4 34 (3.51%) PMI Certification
5 27 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 26 (2.68%) PMP
7 20 (2.06%) ISTQB
8 19 (1.96%) AWS Certification
9 18 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
11 13 (1.34%) Master's Degree
12 11 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
13 10 (1.03%) Azure Certification
14 9 (0.93%) IIBA
15 8 (0.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 7 (0.72%) CBAP
17 6 (0.62%) CISSP
17 6 (0.62%) DBS Check
18 5 (0.52%) MBA
18 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (14.43%) QA
2 71 (7.32%) Data Quality
3 52 (5.36%) PMO
4 31 (3.20%) SLA
5 23 (2.37%) Accessibility
6 17 (1.75%) GDPR
7 16 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.24%) ISO 20022
9 9 (0.93%) NIST
9 9 (0.93%) WCAG
10 8 (0.82%) SEPA
11 7 (0.72%) GRC
12 5 (0.52%) COBIT
12 5 (0.52%) MiFID
12 5 (0.52%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.41%) EMIR
13 4 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.41%) P3O
13 4 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.31%) NCSC
System Software
1 52 (5.36%) Active Directory
2 42 (4.33%) Docker
3 7 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.41%) 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 (4.74%) Kubernetes
2 29 (2.99%) Grafana
3 25 (2.58%) Ansible
3 25 (2.58%) Prometheus
4 23 (2.37%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (1.13%) HP ALM
6 9 (0.93%) Control-M
7 8 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.62%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (0.62%) SCOM
9 4 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.41%) Argo
9 4 (0.41%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.41%) Istio
9 4 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.41%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.41%) Podman
9 4 (0.41%) SCCM
10 3 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.31%) Kibana
Vendors
1 154 (15.88%) Microsoft
2 114 (11.75%) ServiceNow
3 63 (6.49%) Salesforce
4 43 (4.43%) Oracle
5 33 (3.40%) Google
6 28 (2.89%) Atlassian
6 28 (2.89%) SAP
7 23 (2.37%) Splunk
8 21 (2.16%) Remedy
9 20 (2.06%) IBM
10 18 (1.86%) Adobe
11 13 (1.34%) Bloomberg
11 13 (1.34%) MuleSoft
11 13 (1.34%) Okta
12 12 (1.24%) BMC
12 12 (1.24%) Databricks
12 12 (1.24%) HP
12 12 (1.24%) Informatica
12 12 (1.24%) ION Trading
13 10 (1.03%) Tradeweb