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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 39 56
Rank change year-on-year -3 +17 -5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 960 690 678
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.01% 5.42% 3.86%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.26% 35.10% 28.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 648 467 478
10th Percentile £350 £347 £319
25th Percentile £425 £423 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £523 £534
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -1.97% -7.22%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £749 £758 £766
England median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 18
10th Percentile - £30.50 £22.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £35.00 £25.99
Median hourly rate £27.50 £45.00 £32.11
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% +40.17% -40.55%
75th Percentile £68.13 £68.13 £63.13
90th Percentile £90.00 £80.50 £71.25
England median hourly rate £51.50 £56.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -8.44% -13.46% +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 2,445 1,966 2,418
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.76% 15.44% 13.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,604 1,323 1,724
10th Percentile £363 £351 £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 £627 £650 £671
90th Percentile £749 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 9 26
10th Percentile - £25.00 £23.63
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.50 £27.30
Median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -6.98% -40.69%
75th Percentile £73.00 £47.50 £70.19
90th Percentile £95.00 £71.75 £71.56
England median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.20% -5.77% +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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -9 120 £550 +4.76% 19
South London +10 32 £516 +8.53% 1
West London -15 25 £400 -1.23% 2
East London -2 3 £450 +12.50% 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 52 (5.42%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (1.15%) Apache
5 10 (1.04%) nginx
6 7 (0.73%) CMS
7 6 (0.63%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.63%) Hyperledger
7 6 (0.63%) SAS
7 6 (0.63%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.42%) JBoss
9 3 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.31%) WordPress
10 2 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.21%) Kentico
11 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.10%) CICS
11 1 (0.10%) Drupal
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 66 (6.88%) Microsoft Project
2 65 (6.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 41 (4.27%) MS Visio
4 35 (3.65%) 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 14 (1.46%) 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 5 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.42%) Actimize
7 4 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 4 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.42%) Summit
8 3 (0.31%) IntelliMatch
8 3 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
8 3 (0.31%) SAP FI-AR
8 3 (0.31%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.31%) SAP Retail
8 3 (0.31%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.21%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 252 (26.25%) Azure
2 151 (15.73%) Azure DevOps
3 148 (15.42%) AWS
4 70 (7.29%) Power Platform
5 58 (6.04%) GitHub
6 52 (5.42%) Entra ID
7 50 (5.21%) Amazon S3
7 50 (5.21%) SaaS
8 47 (4.90%) Serverless
9 42 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
10 37 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
11 33 (3.44%) Amazon EC2
12 30 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 28 (2.92%) GCP
14 22 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
15 21 (2.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 19 (1.98%) Slack
17 18 (1.88%) Snowflake
18 17 (1.77%) Figma
18 17 (1.77%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.81%) 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%) Modbus
10 3 (0.31%) RS-232
10 3 (0.31%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (5.94%) Power BI
2 36 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (2.71%) SQL Server
4 21 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (2.08%) Tableau
6 19 (1.98%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (1.88%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (1.67%) Relational Database
9 15 (1.56%) DynamoDB
10 13 (1.35%) NoSQL
11 12 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
11 12 (1.25%) MongoDB
12 10 (1.04%) Delta Lake
12 10 (1.04%) Metadata
12 10 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
13 9 (0.94%) Data Lake
13 9 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (0.94%) Oracle Database
14 8 (0.83%) Crystal Reports
15 7 (0.73%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 112 (11.67%) Git
2 66 (6.88%) Jenkins
3 39 (4.06%) GitLab
4 33 (3.44%) Selenium
5 25 (2.60%) Zephyr
6 24 (2.50%) JUnit
7 19 (1.98%) Bitbucket
8 17 (1.77%) Cucumber
9 15 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
10 14 (1.46%) Cypress.io
11 11 (1.15%) REST Assured
12 10 (1.04%) Postman
12 10 (1.04%) SonarQube
13 9 (0.94%) Appium
13 9 (0.94%) TestRail
14 8 (0.83%) JMeter
15 7 (0.73%) Maven
15 7 (0.73%) Mockito
16 6 (0.63%) ScriptRunner
17 4 (0.42%) TeamCity
General
1 369 (38.44%) Finance
2 368 (38.33%) Social Skills
3 170 (17.71%) Banking
4 159 (16.56%) Analytical Skills
5 104 (10.83%) Public Sector
6 43 (4.48%) Retail
7 40 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
7 40 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
8 32 (3.33%) Investment Banking
9 31 (3.23%) Front Office
10 30 (3.13%) Legal
11 24 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
13 15 (1.56%) Financial Institution
14 14 (1.46%) Back Office
14 14 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (1.35%) Marketing
16 12 (1.25%) Corporate Banking
17 10 (1.04%) Retail Banking
18 9 (0.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 208 (21.67%) Analyst
2 129 (13.44%) Business Analyst
3 107 (11.15%) Developer
4 95 (9.90%) Lead
5 89 (9.27%) Senior
6 50 (5.21%) Delivery Manager
6 50 (5.21%) Project Manager
7 42 (4.38%) IT Support
8 38 (3.96%) Architect
9 32 (3.33%) Consultant
9 32 (3.33%) Data Engineer
10 30 (3.13%) Scrum Master
10 30 (3.13%) Tester
11 27 (2.81%) Banking Analyst
12 26 (2.71%) Support Engineer
12 26 (2.71%) Technical Manager
13 25 (2.60%) Product Owner
13 25 (2.60%) Test Leader
14 24 (2.50%) IT Engineer
14 24 (2.50%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (4.69%) REST
2 30 (3.13%) .NET
3 28 (2.92%) React
4 24 (2.50%) Kafka
5 23 (2.40%) SOAP
6 21 (2.19%) AngularJS
6 21 (2.19%) Spring
7 19 (1.98%) HTML
8 18 (1.88%) 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
12 13 (1.35%) Playwright
13 12 (1.25%) Middleware
13 12 (1.25%) Node.js
13 12 (1.25%) OAuth
14 11 (1.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 95 (9.90%) Product Ownership
2 63 (6.56%) Onboarding
3 24 (2.50%) Management Information System
4 23 (2.40%) Data Protection Act
5 21 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (2.08%) Cloud Native
7 19 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
7 19 (1.98%) Data Centre
8 18 (1.88%) Virtual Team
9 16 (1.67%) Data Structures
9 16 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 14 (1.46%) Derivative
10 14 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.35%) Public Cloud
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 49 (5.10%) 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
1 545 (56.77%) Agile
2 279 (29.06%) Stakeholder Management
3 249 (25.94%) DevOps
4 196 (20.42%) Problem-Solving
5 179 (18.65%) Scrum
6 168 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 163 (16.98%) CI/CD
8 136 (14.17%) Test Automation
9 133 (13.85%) Migration
10 132 (13.75%) User Acceptance Testing
11 117 (12.19%) User Stories
12 108 (11.25%) AI
13 106 (11.04%) SDLC
14 102 (10.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 101 (10.52%) Change Management
16 98 (10.21%) Project Management
16 98 (10.21%) Validation
17 97 (10.10%) Acceptance Criteria
18 94 (9.79%) Roadmaps
19 93 (9.69%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 178 (18.54%) SQL
2 112 (11.67%) Python
3 82 (8.54%) Java
4 60 (6.25%) C#
5 37 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 36 (3.75%) TypeScript
7 22 (2.29%) 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%) Korn
14 2 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 207 (21.56%) Security Cleared
2 182 (18.96%) SC Cleared
3 70 (7.29%) Degree
4 28 (2.92%) PMI Certification
5 23 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
5 23 (2.40%) ISTQB
5 23 (2.40%) PMP
6 19 (1.98%) DV Cleared
7 14 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
8 11 (1.15%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.04%) Azure Certification
9 10 (1.04%) CISSP
10 9 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (0.94%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.83%) CBAP
11 8 (0.83%) CISM
12 7 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 7 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 7 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (0.73%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (12.29%) QA
2 74 (7.71%) Data Quality
3 40 (4.17%) 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%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.52%) COBIT
13 5 (0.52%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
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 66 (6.88%) 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 10 (1.04%) HP ALM
9 9 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (0.73%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.42%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.42%) Control-M
11 4 (0.42%) Packer
11 4 (0.42%) PingFederate
12 3 (0.31%) Puppet
13 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.21%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.21%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 129 (13.44%) ServiceNow
2 124 (12.92%) Microsoft
3 79 (8.23%) Salesforce
4 61 (6.35%) Oracle
5 38 (3.96%) SAP
6 34 (3.54%) Atlassian
7 30 (3.13%) Google
8 19 (1.98%) Databricks
9 18 (1.88%) Informatica
10 16 (1.67%) Adobe
10 16 (1.67%) MuleSoft
11 15 (1.56%) Okta
12 13 (1.35%) Workday
13 12 (1.25%) Murex
13 12 (1.25%) Red Hat
14 11 (1.15%) Bloomberg
14 11 (1.15%) HP
15 10 (1.04%) ForgeRock
15 10 (1.04%) IBM
15 10 (1.04%) Remedy