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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 35 57
Rank change year-on-year -9 +22 -7
Contract jobs citing JIRA 980 780 658
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.86% 5.72% 4.03%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.03% 36.91% 28.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 645 538 457
10th Percentile £353 £325 £318
25th Percentile £425 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 4 17
10th Percentile - £34.20 £22.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £39.38 £25.99
Median hourly rate £27.50 £44.75 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -38.55% +41.12% -41.28%
75th Percentile £68.13 £57.81 £65.00
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 2,511 2,113 2,315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.46% 15.50% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,617 1,447 1,621
10th Percentile £363 £347 £363
25th Percentile £438 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -5.17%
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 12 24
10th Percentile - £26.51 £22.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £34.88 £25.99
Median hourly rate £42.50 £44.75 £35.29
Median % change year-on-year -5.03% +26.82% -49.59%
75th Percentile £72.75 £64.69 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.20 £86.63 £71.69
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -14 118 £550 +10.00% 71
South London +4 29 £513 -11.85% 5
West London -10 24 £400 -3.61% 12
North London -1 2 - - 2
East London -2 2 £425 +4.29% 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
1 402 (41.02%) Confluence
2 50 (5.10%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.12%) CMS
3 11 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.71%) SAS
5 6 (0.61%) Apache
6 4 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.41%) JBoss
6 4 (0.41%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.31%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.31%) nginx
7 3 (0.31%) WordPress
8 2 (0.20%) Camunda
8 2 (0.20%) Kentico
9 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.10%) Drupal
9 1 (0.10%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 62 (6.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (5.82%) Microsoft Project
3 41 (4.18%) MS Visio
4 32 (3.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 24 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
6 13 (1.33%) Trello
7 10 (1.02%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.82%) Revit
9 5 (0.51%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.51%) Notion
10 4 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.10%) Mingle
11 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (2.04%) Remedy ITSM
2 12 (1.22%) Aladdin
2 12 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.82%) Findur
4 7 (0.71%) Loan IQ
5 6 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.61%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.41%) Actimize
7 4 (0.41%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
8 3 (0.31%) SAP FI-AR
9 2 (0.20%) CA PPM
9 2 (0.20%) Eloqua
9 2 (0.20%) IntelliMatch
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.20%) SAP Retail
9 2 (0.20%) Shopify
9 2 (0.20%) Summit
9 2 (0.20%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 281 (28.67%) Azure
2 153 (15.61%) Azure DevOps
3 152 (15.51%) AWS
4 81 (8.27%) Power Platform
5 72 (7.35%) GitHub
6 54 (5.51%) Entra ID
7 48 (4.90%) SaaS
8 43 (4.39%) Amazon S3
8 43 (4.39%) Serverless
9 40 (4.08%) GCP
9 40 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
10 35 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 33 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
12 31 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
13 29 (2.96%) Amazon EC2
14 21 (2.14%) Snowflake
15 19 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
15 19 (1.94%) Figma
16 18 (1.84%) Azure Logic Apps
16 18 (1.84%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.24%) DNS
1 22 (2.24%) Firewall
2 16 (1.63%) TCP/IP
2 16 (1.63%) VPN
3 8 (0.82%) DHCP
4 7 (0.71%) Network Security
5 6 (0.61%) WAN
6 5 (0.51%) DKIM
6 5 (0.51%) DMARC
6 5 (0.51%) SSL
7 4 (0.41%) FTP
7 4 (0.41%) HTTP
7 4 (0.41%) Internet
7 4 (0.41%) SD-WAN
8 3 (0.31%) NGFW
9 2 (0.20%) 5G
9 2 (0.20%) DSL
9 2 (0.20%) MPLS
9 2 (0.20%) OpenVPN
9 2 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (7.14%) Power BI
2 38 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (2.76%) SQL Server
4 18 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
4 18 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (1.84%) Relational Database
5 16 (1.63%) Tableau
6 14 (1.43%) DynamoDB
7 13 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
7 13 (1.33%) Metadata
8 12 (1.22%) Data Lake
9 11 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
10 9 (0.92%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 9 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (0.82%) MongoDB
12 7 (0.71%) Crystal Reports
12 7 (0.71%) Oracle Database
12 7 (0.71%) Redis
Development Applications
1 115 (11.73%) Git
2 75 (7.65%) Jenkins
3 42 (4.29%) GitLab
4 32 (3.27%) Selenium
5 30 (3.06%) Zephyr
6 20 (2.04%) Bitbucket
7 18 (1.84%) Cucumber
7 18 (1.84%) JUnit
8 16 (1.63%) Sonatype Nexus
9 15 (1.53%) Cypress.io
10 12 (1.22%) REST Assured
11 11 (1.12%) TestRail
12 10 (1.02%) Postman
13 9 (0.92%) Appium
13 9 (0.92%) JMeter
14 7 (0.71%) Mockito
15 6 (0.61%) ScriptRunner
16 5 (0.51%) Artifactory
16 5 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 5 (0.51%) TeamCity
General
1 388 (39.59%) Finance
2 381 (38.88%) Social Skills
3 185 (18.88%) Banking
4 180 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
5 104 (10.61%) Public Sector
6 43 (4.39%) Organisational Skills
7 39 (3.98%) Retail
8 36 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
9 35 (3.57%) Investment Banking
10 33 (3.37%) Front Office
11 24 (2.45%) Legal
12 19 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.73%) Financial Institution
13 17 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 17 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (1.73%) Marketing
14 16 (1.63%) Retail Banking
15 15 (1.53%) Corporate Banking
16 13 (1.33%) Back Office
17 9 (0.92%) Law
Job Titles
1 194 (19.80%) Analyst
2 127 (12.96%) Business Analyst
3 109 (11.12%) Lead
4 108 (11.02%) Developer
5 94 (9.59%) Senior
6 55 (5.61%) Project Manager
7 47 (4.80%) Delivery Manager
8 38 (3.88%) IT Support
9 36 (3.67%) Architect
10 30 (3.06%) Consultant
10 30 (3.06%) Product Owner
10 30 (3.06%) Support Engineer
11 29 (2.96%) Scrum Master
11 29 (2.96%) Test Leader
12 26 (2.65%) Test Manager
13 25 (2.55%) Data Engineer
13 25 (2.55%) Tester
14 23 (2.35%) Banking Analyst
14 23 (2.35%) IT Engineer
14 23 (2.35%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (5.71%) REST
2 42 (4.29%) .NET
3 28 (2.86%) React
4 25 (2.55%) JSON
5 21 (2.14%) SOAP
6 20 (2.04%) AngularJS
7 19 (1.94%) Kafka
8 18 (1.84%) PySpark
9 16 (1.63%) HTML
9 16 (1.63%) Playwright
9 16 (1.63%) XML
10 15 (1.53%) CSS
10 15 (1.53%) Lightning Web Components
10 15 (1.53%) Spring
11 14 (1.43%) Node.js
12 13 (1.33%) RESTful
12 13 (1.33%) Web Services
13 12 (1.22%) Middleware
13 12 (1.22%) OAuth
14 10 (1.02%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 105 (10.71%) Product Ownership
2 67 (6.84%) Onboarding
3 28 (2.86%) Data Centre
4 24 (2.45%) Cloud Native
5 21 (2.14%) Data Structures
6 19 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (1.94%) Virtual Team
7 18 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (1.84%) Management Information System
8 17 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
8 17 (1.73%) Derivative
8 17 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.53%) Credit Risk
10 15 (1.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 13 (1.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 12 (1.22%) Fixed Income
13 11 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
14 10 (1.02%) Mobile App
14 10 (1.02%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 58 (5.92%) Windows
2 35 (3.57%) Linux
3 11 (1.12%) Apple iOS
4 10 (1.02%) Android
4 10 (1.02%) Mac OS
5 9 (0.92%) Unix
6 7 (0.71%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.20%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.20%) zOS
10 1 (0.10%) SUSE
10 1 (0.10%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (58.57%) Agile
2 315 (32.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 267 (27.24%) DevOps
4 220 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
5 185 (18.88%) CI/CD
6 179 (18.27%) Scrum
7 165 (16.84%) Continuous Improvement
8 158 (16.12%) Migration
9 140 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
10 130 (13.27%) Test Automation
11 128 (13.06%) AI
12 126 (12.86%) User Stories
13 108 (11.02%) SDLC
14 103 (10.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 102 (10.41%) Change Management
16 100 (10.20%) Acceptance Criteria
17 98 (10.00%) Project Management
18 96 (9.80%) Analytics
19 95 (9.69%) Sprint Planning
19 95 (9.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 178 (18.16%) SQL
2 105 (10.71%) Python
3 75 (7.65%) Java
4 60 (6.12%) C#
5 40 (4.08%) JavaScript
6 34 (3.47%) PowerShell
7 30 (3.06%) TypeScript
8 16 (1.63%) Bash
9 14 (1.43%) Apex Code
10 11 (1.12%) Groovy
11 10 (1.02%) Perl
12 9 (0.92%) PL/SQL
13 6 (0.61%) VBA
14 5 (0.51%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.41%) C++
16 3 (0.31%) Bicep
16 3 (0.31%) Korn
16 3 (0.31%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.31%) Swift
16 3 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 215 (21.94%) Security Cleared
2 192 (19.59%) SC Cleared
3 72 (7.35%) Degree
4 27 (2.76%) PMI Certification
5 21 (2.14%) PMP
6 19 (1.94%) DV Cleared
7 18 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (1.84%) ISTQB
8 14 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
9 12 (1.22%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.02%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.02%) CISSP
11 9 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (0.92%) IIBA
11 9 (0.92%) Master's Degree
12 8 (0.82%) CISM
13 7 (0.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 7 (0.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (0.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (12.35%) QA
2 67 (6.84%) Data Quality
3 43 (4.39%) PMO
4 26 (2.65%) Accessibility
4 26 (2.65%) GDPR
4 26 (2.65%) SLA
5 20 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (1.22%) WCAG
7 9 (0.92%) ISO 20022
8 8 (0.82%) NIST
9 7 (0.71%) GRC
10 6 (0.61%) MiFID
10 6 (0.61%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.61%) SEPA
11 5 (0.51%) COBIT
12 4 (0.41%) EMIR
12 4 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.41%) NCSC
12 4 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 54 (5.51%) Active Directory
2 38 (3.88%) Docker
3 8 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.20%) Firmware
6 2 (0.20%) Squid
7 1 (0.10%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 72 (7.35%) Terraform
2 60 (6.12%) Kubernetes
3 29 (2.96%) Ansible
4 21 (2.14%) Grafana
4 21 (2.14%) Prometheus
5 20 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (1.02%) HP ALM
7 9 (0.92%) Control-M
7 9 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.51%) Consul
8 5 (0.51%) Microsoft Clustering
8 5 (0.51%) SCOM
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 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.20%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.20%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 134 (13.67%) Microsoft
2 125 (12.76%) ServiceNow
3 69 (7.04%) Salesforce
4 46 (4.69%) Oracle
5 37 (3.78%) SAP
6 32 (3.27%) Atlassian
7 31 (3.16%) Google
8 20 (2.04%) Remedy
9 19 (1.94%) Splunk
10 18 (1.84%) Adobe
10 18 (1.84%) IBM
11 17 (1.73%) Databricks
11 17 (1.73%) Okta
12 15 (1.53%) MuleSoft
13 12 (1.22%) Informatica
13 12 (1.22%) Workday
14 11 (1.12%) HP
15 10 (1.02%) BMC
15 10 (1.02%) DocuSign
15 10 (1.02%) ForgeRock