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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 34 47
Rank change year-on-year -16 +13 +3
Contract jobs citing JIRA 949 802 689
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.63% 5.99% 4.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 35.76% 37.72% 29.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 589 475
10th Percentile £358 £332 £301
25th Percentile £430 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £639 £650 £622
90th Percentile £750 £738 £725
England median daily rate £500 £500 £505
% change year-on-year - -0.99% -5.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 5
10th Percentile £18.75 £35.35 £22.39
25th Percentile £19.25 £42.25 £25.99
Median hourly rate £62.50 £44.50 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +40.45% +65.00% -50.06%
75th Percentile £87.83 £47.50 £33.07
90th Percentile £88.01 £72.25 £33.48
England median hourly rate £58.74 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +6.79% -21.43% +12.00%

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 2,654 2,126 2,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.94% 15.89% 14.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,737 1,454 1,560
10th Percentile £363 £352 £363
25th Percentile £437 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £640 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 12 11
10th Percentile £19.20 £36.63 £25.99
25th Percentile £40.00 £41.69 £28.62
Median hourly rate £57.00 £45.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% +20.00% -34.78%
75th Percentile £77.27 £70.00 £66.34
90th Percentile £89.63 £107.88 £71.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -16 128 £550 +10.00% 17
West London -12 23 £400 +1.27% 3
South London -16 15 £501 -13.28% 3
East London +3 5 £506 +24.23% 2
North London - 4 £525 -
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 (43.10%) Confluence
2 53 (5.58%) SharePoint
3 19 (2.00%) CMS
4 17 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.74%) SAS
6 5 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 5 (0.53%) Camunda
6 5 (0.53%) Headless CMS
6 5 (0.53%) MTS
6 5 (0.53%) Traefik
7 4 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.42%) Kentico
8 3 (0.32%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.32%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.32%) WordPress
9 2 (0.21%) IIS
9 2 (0.21%) nginx
9 2 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.11%) Appian
10 1 (0.11%) Jupyter
Applications
1 64 (6.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (4.85%) Microsoft Project
3 40 (4.21%) MS Visio
4 33 (3.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 32 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
6 13 (1.37%) Trello
7 8 (0.84%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.63%) Revit
9 5 (0.53%) Notion
9 5 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.42%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.32%) Mingle
12 2 (0.21%) Gliffy
12 2 (0.21%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
13 1 (0.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
13 1 (0.11%) Sketch
13 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 18 (1.90%) Remedy ITSM
2 10 (1.05%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.53%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.53%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.42%) Findur
5 4 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.32%) Maximo
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.32%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.21%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
7 2 (0.21%) Shopify
7 2 (0.21%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 271 (28.56%) Azure
2 154 (16.23%) AWS
3 150 (15.81%) Azure DevOps
4 91 (9.59%) Power Platform
5 76 (8.01%) GitHub
6 53 (5.58%) Microsoft 365
7 47 (4.95%) GCP
8 46 (4.85%) SaaS
9 44 (4.64%) Serverless
10 43 (4.53%) Amazon S3
11 36 (3.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 31 (3.27%) Entra ID
13 29 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
14 28 (2.95%) Amazon EC2
15 26 (2.74%) Snowflake
16 25 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
16 25 (2.63%) Microsoft Copilot
16 25 (2.63%) Miro
17 18 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
17 18 (1.90%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.95%) DNS
2 20 (2.11%) VPN
3 19 (2.00%) Firewall
4 17 (1.79%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.26%) DHCP
6 7 (0.74%) Network Security
6 7 (0.74%) WAN
7 6 (0.63%) HTTP
8 5 (0.53%) DKIM
8 5 (0.53%) DMARC
8 5 (0.53%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.42%) IPv4
9 4 (0.42%) SSH
10 3 (0.32%) Internet
10 3 (0.32%) IPv6
10 3 (0.32%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (0.32%) SSL
10 3 (0.32%) VLAN
11 2 (0.21%) NGFW
11 2 (0.21%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (8.64%) Power BI
2 51 (5.37%) SQL Server
3 48 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (2.11%) Relational Database
6 19 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
7 18 (1.90%) MongoDB
8 16 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (1.37%) Metadata
9 13 (1.37%) Tableau
10 12 (1.26%) Amazon Athena
10 12 (1.26%) Data Lake
10 12 (1.26%) Oracle Database
10 12 (1.26%) Redis
10 12 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 11 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 10 (1.05%) MySQL
12 10 (1.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 8 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 117 (12.33%) Git
2 84 (8.85%) Jenkins
3 52 (5.48%) GitLab
4 36 (3.79%) Selenium
5 26 (2.74%) Bitbucket
6 25 (2.63%) Zephyr
7 19 (2.00%) Postman
8 18 (1.90%) Cypress.io
9 17 (1.79%) REST Assured
10 15 (1.58%) Cucumber
11 14 (1.48%) JUnit
11 14 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
11 14 (1.48%) TestRail
12 12 (1.26%) JMeter
12 12 (1.26%) Maven
13 10 (1.05%) Mockito
14 9 (0.95%) Gradle
15 8 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 7 (0.74%) SonarQube
17 6 (0.63%) Appium
General
1 405 (42.68%) Finance
2 391 (41.20%) Social Skills
3 212 (22.34%) Banking
4 199 (20.97%) Analytical Skills
5 104 (10.96%) Public Sector
6 49 (5.16%) Investment Banking
6 49 (5.16%) Organisational Skills
7 39 (4.11%) Front Office
7 39 (4.11%) Retail
8 34 (3.58%) Documentation Skills
9 31 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
10 22 (2.32%) Marketing
11 21 (2.21%) Legal
12 20 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (2.11%) Telecoms
13 16 (1.69%) Retail Banking
14 15 (1.58%) Financial Institution
15 13 (1.37%) Back Office
16 12 (1.26%) Law
17 11 (1.16%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 194 (20.44%) Analyst
2 123 (12.96%) Business Analyst
3 110 (11.59%) Lead
4 97 (10.22%) Developer
5 96 (10.12%) Senior
6 61 (6.43%) Project Manager
7 40 (4.21%) Architect
8 33 (3.48%) Consultant
9 32 (3.37%) Delivery Manager
10 31 (3.27%) Product Owner
11 28 (2.95%) Scrum Master
12 27 (2.85%) Test Leader
13 24 (2.53%) Tester
14 23 (2.42%) Senior Manager
14 23 (2.42%) Technical Analyst
15 22 (2.32%) Applications Support
15 22 (2.32%) Senior Analyst
15 22 (2.32%) Support Engineer
16 20 (2.11%) IT Manager
17 19 (2.00%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (7.48%) REST
2 66 (6.95%) Terraform
3 45 (4.74%) .NET
4 25 (2.63%) Kafka
5 24 (2.53%) JSON
5 24 (2.53%) Playwright
5 24 (2.53%) React
5 24 (2.53%) SOAP
6 23 (2.42%) AngularJS
7 21 (2.21%) RESTful
8 20 (2.11%) HTML
9 19 (2.00%) pytest
10 18 (1.90%) Web Services
11 16 (1.69%) Middleware
12 15 (1.58%) CSS
12 15 (1.58%) Lightning Web Components
12 15 (1.58%) Spring
13 14 (1.48%) XML
14 13 (1.37%) Spring Boot
15 11 (1.16%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 142 (14.96%) Product Ownership
2 70 (7.38%) Onboarding
3 31 (3.27%) Cloud Native
4 25 (2.63%) Data Structures
5 24 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
5 24 (2.53%) Virtual Team
6 22 (2.32%) Analytical Mindset
6 22 (2.32%) Management Information System
7 21 (2.21%) Data Centre
7 21 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (2.00%) Derivative
8 19 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (1.90%) Credit Risk
10 15 (1.58%) Replication
11 14 (1.48%) Fixed Income
11 14 (1.48%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 12 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.26%) Mobile App
13 11 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 10 (1.05%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 53 (5.58%) Windows
2 49 (5.16%) Linux
3 13 (1.37%) Apple iOS
4 11 (1.16%) macOS
5 10 (1.05%) Android
5 10 (1.05%) Unix
6 9 (0.95%) Amazon Linux
6 9 (0.95%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.84%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.42%) VMS
9 2 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.11%) CentOS
10 1 (0.11%) SUSE
10 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.11%) VxWorks
10 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 582 (61.33%) Agile
2 382 (40.25%) Stakeholder Management
3 278 (29.29%) DevOps
4 230 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
5 211 (22.23%) Scrum
6 196 (20.65%) CI/CD
7 163 (17.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 156 (16.44%) Migration
9 154 (16.23%) AI
10 153 (16.12%) User Acceptance Testing
10 153 (16.12%) User Stories
11 132 (13.91%) Test Automation
12 129 (13.59%) Validation
13 121 (12.75%) Acceptance Criteria
14 113 (11.91%) Project Management
15 106 (11.17%) SDLC
16 105 (11.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 104 (10.96%) Sprint Planning
18 96 (10.12%) Analytics
18 96 (10.12%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 203 (21.39%) SQL
2 120 (12.64%) Python
3 64 (6.74%) Java
4 42 (4.43%) C#
5 41 (4.32%) PowerShell
6 36 (3.79%) JavaScript
7 26 (2.74%) Bash
8 24 (2.53%) TypeScript
9 14 (1.48%) Groovy
10 12 (1.26%) Apex Code
11 11 (1.16%) Perl
12 9 (0.95%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.63%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.53%) Go
14 5 (0.53%) Tcl
14 5 (0.53%) VBA
15 4 (0.42%) Kotlin
16 3 (0.32%) Korn
16 3 (0.32%) Swift
16 3 (0.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 203 (21.39%) Security Cleared
2 179 (18.86%) SC Cleared
3 82 (8.64%) Degree
4 45 (4.74%) PMI Certification
5 37 (3.90%) PMP
6 25 (2.63%) AWS Certification
7 24 (2.53%) DV Cleared
8 18 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (1.79%) ISTQB
10 14 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
11 13 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
11 13 (1.37%) Master's Degree
12 10 (1.05%) Azure Certification
12 10 (1.05%) CBAP
12 10 (1.05%) IIBA
13 8 (0.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 5 (0.53%) DBS Check
14 5 (0.53%) MBA
14 5 (0.53%) PgMP
14 5 (0.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (15.28%) QA
2 74 (7.80%) Data Quality
3 42 (4.43%) PMO
4 28 (2.95%) SLA
5 26 (2.74%) Accessibility
6 14 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.26%) WCAG
8 11 (1.16%) ISO 20022
9 8 (0.84%) SEPA
10 7 (0.74%) GDPR
10 7 (0.74%) GRC
11 6 (0.63%) COBIT
11 6 (0.63%) NIST
12 5 (0.53%) P3O
13 4 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.42%) MiFID
13 4 (0.42%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.32%) IFRS
14 3 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 54 (5.69%) Docker
2 42 (4.43%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.21%) DFS Replication
5 2 (0.21%) Dovecot
5 2 (0.21%) Firmware
5 2 (0.21%) Postfix
5 2 (0.21%) Squid
6 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 58 (6.11%) Kubernetes
2 36 (3.79%) Grafana
3 27 (2.85%) Prometheus
4 25 (2.63%) Ansible
5 17 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.95%) Istio
7 8 (0.84%) Control-M
7 8 (0.84%) HP ALM
8 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.63%) SCOM
9 5 (0.53%) Argo
9 5 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (0.53%) SCCM
10 4 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (0.42%) Podman
11 3 (0.32%) Kibana
12 2 (0.21%) HP Quality Center
12 2 (0.21%) Packer
12 2 (0.21%) Puppet
Vendors
1 165 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 98 (10.33%) ServiceNow
3 55 (5.80%) Salesforce
4 50 (5.27%) Oracle
5 29 (3.06%) Google
6 26 (2.74%) Atlassian
6 26 (2.74%) Splunk
7 24 (2.53%) SAP
8 23 (2.42%) IBM
9 21 (2.21%) Remedy
10 18 (1.90%) Databricks
11 16 (1.69%) Adobe
12 14 (1.48%) Bloomberg
12 14 (1.48%) MuleSoft
13 13 (1.37%) Dynatrace
13 13 (1.37%) ION Trading
13 13 (1.37%) UiPath
14 12 (1.26%) BMC
14 12 (1.26%) Informatica
14 12 (1.26%) Planview