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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 39 58
Rank change year-on-year -3 +19 -6
Contract jobs citing JIRA 948 681 689
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.98% 5.45% 3.88%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.32% 35.32% 28.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 635 459 482
10th Percentile £350 £335 £322
25th Percentile £421 £413 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £520 £528
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% -1.42% -7.46%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £636
90th Percentile £737 £751 £774
England median daily rate £481 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.90% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 19
10th Percentile - £30.50 £22.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £35.00 £25.62
Median hourly rate £27.50 £45.00 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% +41.91% -41.28%
75th Percentile £68.13 £68.13 £61.25
90th Percentile £90.00 £80.50 £71.25
England median hourly rate £53.00 £56.25 £63.75
% change year-on-year -5.78% -11.76% +6.25%

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 2,411 1,928 2,411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.67% 15.42% 13.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,580 1,300 1,720
10th Percentile £360 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £421 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £669
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 27
10th Percentile - £24.49 £23.80
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.14 £25.99
Median hourly rate £37.50 £38.75 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -50.00%
75th Percentile £73.00 £52.50 £69.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £73.88 £71.50
England median hourly rate £67.50 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% -7.69% +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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -11 119 £550 +4.76% 22
South London +13 32 £513 +7.89% 6
West London -19 25 £400 +1.27% 4
East London -1 5 £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
1 387 (40.82%) Confluence
2 50 (5.27%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (1.16%) Apache
5 10 (1.05%) nginx
6 7 (0.74%) CMS
6 7 (0.74%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.63%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.63%) Hyperledger
7 6 (0.63%) SAS
8 4 (0.42%) JBoss
8 4 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.32%) WordPress
10 2 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.21%) Kentico
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.11%) Drupal
11 1 (0.11%) IIS
11 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 66 (6.96%) Microsoft Project
2 63 (6.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (4.11%) MS Visio
4 33 (3.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
6 9 (0.95%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.84%) Revit
8 6 (0.63%) Trello
9 5 (0.53%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.42%) Notion
11 3 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.11%) Mingle
12 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 14 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.16%) Loan IQ
3 9 (0.95%) Aladdin
3 9 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.84%) Findur
5 7 (0.74%) Fidessa
6 6 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
7 5 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.42%) Actimize
8 4 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.42%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.42%) SAP Retail
8 4 (0.42%) Summit
9 3 (0.32%) IntelliMatch
9 3 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 3 (0.32%) SAP FI-AR
9 3 (0.32%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 247 (26.05%) Azure
2 151 (15.93%) Azure DevOps
3 149 (15.72%) AWS
4 68 (7.17%) Power Platform
5 60 (6.33%) GitHub
6 51 (5.38%) Entra ID
6 51 (5.38%) SaaS
7 50 (5.27%) Amazon S3
8 45 (4.75%) Serverless
9 43 (4.54%) Microsoft 365
10 37 (3.90%) AWS Lambda
11 33 (3.48%) Amazon EC2
12 30 (3.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 29 (3.06%) GCP
14 22 (2.32%) GitHub Actions
15 21 (2.22%) Slack
15 21 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 18 (1.90%) Google Workspace
17 17 (1.79%) Figma
18 16 (1.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.85%) Firewall
2 19 (2.00%) DNS
3 16 (1.69%) TCP/IP
4 15 (1.58%) VPN
5 10 (1.05%) HTTP
6 8 (0.84%) WAN
7 7 (0.74%) Network Security
7 7 (0.74%) OpenVPN
8 6 (0.63%) Ethernet
9 5 (0.53%) DKIM
9 5 (0.53%) DMARC
9 5 (0.53%) LAN
9 5 (0.53%) Modbus
9 5 (0.53%) RS-232
9 5 (0.53%) RS-485
9 5 (0.53%) SSL
9 5 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.42%) FTP
10 4 (0.42%) PSTN
10 4 (0.42%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (5.80%) Power BI
2 34 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (2.95%) SQL Server
4 23 (2.43%) Tableau
5 21 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
7 18 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (1.69%) Relational Database
9 15 (1.58%) DynamoDB
10 14 (1.48%) NoSQL
11 13 (1.37%) MongoDB
12 10 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (1.05%) Delta Lake
12 10 (1.05%) Metadata
12 10 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
13 9 (0.95%) Crystal Reports
13 9 (0.95%) Data Lake
13 9 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (0.95%) Oracle Database
14 7 (0.74%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 111 (11.71%) Git
2 65 (6.86%) Jenkins
3 39 (4.11%) GitLab
4 31 (3.27%) Selenium
5 26 (2.74%) Zephyr
6 24 (2.53%) JUnit
7 18 (1.90%) Bitbucket
8 16 (1.69%) Cucumber
9 15 (1.58%) Sonatype Nexus
10 13 (1.37%) Cypress.io
11 10 (1.05%) REST Assured
11 10 (1.05%) SonarQube
12 9 (0.95%) Appium
12 9 (0.95%) JMeter
12 9 (0.95%) TestRail
13 8 (0.84%) Postman
14 7 (0.74%) Maven
14 7 (0.74%) Mockito
15 6 (0.63%) ScriptRunner
16 4 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 360 (37.97%) Finance
1 360 (37.97%) Social Skills
2 161 (16.98%) Analytical Skills
3 160 (16.88%) Banking
4 104 (10.97%) Public Sector
5 42 (4.43%) Documentation Skills
6 40 (4.22%) Retail
7 38 (4.01%) Organisational Skills
8 30 (3.16%) Investment Banking
8 30 (3.16%) Legal
9 29 (3.06%) Front Office
10 26 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
11 18 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (1.58%) Financial Institution
13 14 (1.48%) Back Office
13 14 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (1.48%) Marketing
14 12 (1.27%) Corporate Banking
15 10 (1.05%) Retail Banking
16 9 (0.95%) Billing
Job Titles
1 202 (21.31%) Analyst
2 125 (13.19%) Business Analyst
3 104 (10.97%) Developer
4 97 (10.23%) Lead
5 87 (9.18%) Senior
6 50 (5.27%) Project Manager
7 49 (5.17%) Delivery Manager
8 42 (4.43%) IT Support
9 37 (3.90%) Architect
10 33 (3.48%) Data Engineer
11 31 (3.27%) Consultant
12 30 (3.16%) Scrum Master
13 28 (2.95%) Tester
14 26 (2.74%) Banking Analyst
14 26 (2.74%) Support Engineer
14 26 (2.74%) Technical Manager
15 24 (2.53%) Product Owner
15 24 (2.53%) Salesforce Analyst
15 24 (2.53%) Test Leader
15 24 (2.53%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (4.43%) REST
2 28 (2.95%) React
3 27 (2.85%) .NET
4 24 (2.53%) Kafka
5 22 (2.32%) SOAP
6 21 (2.22%) AngularJS
6 21 (2.22%) Spring
7 19 (2.00%) HTML
8 18 (1.90%) Lightning Web Components
8 18 (1.90%) PySpark
8 18 (1.90%) RESTful
9 17 (1.79%) CSS
9 17 (1.79%) JSON
10 16 (1.69%) Spring Boot
11 14 (1.48%) OpenID
12 12 (1.27%) Node.js
12 12 (1.27%) Playwright
13 11 (1.16%) LDAP
13 11 (1.16%) OAuth
14 10 (1.05%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 93 (9.81%) Product Ownership
2 59 (6.22%) Onboarding
3 25 (2.64%) Data Protection Act
4 23 (2.43%) Management Information System
5 21 (2.22%) Cloud Native
5 21 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.00%) Data Centre
6 19 (2.00%) Virtual Team
7 18 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
8 17 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 16 (1.69%) Data Structures
10 15 (1.58%) Derivative
11 13 (1.37%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.27%) Credit Risk
12 12 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
13 11 (1.16%) Reinsurance
14 10 (1.05%) Mobile App
15 9 (0.95%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 51 (5.38%) Windows
2 38 (4.01%) Linux
3 9 (0.95%) Apple iOS
3 9 (0.95%) Mac OS
3 9 (0.95%) Unix
4 6 (0.63%) Android
5 5 (0.53%) FreeRTOS
6 4 (0.42%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.42%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.32%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.11%) SUSE
9 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 530 (55.91%) Agile
2 273 (28.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 246 (25.95%) DevOps
4 196 (20.68%) Problem-Solving
5 177 (18.67%) Scrum
6 173 (18.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 156 (16.46%) CI/CD
8 133 (14.03%) Test Automation
9 131 (13.82%) Migration
10 128 (13.50%) User Acceptance Testing
11 115 (12.13%) User Stories
12 105 (11.08%) SDLC
13 101 (10.65%) AI
13 101 (10.65%) Change Management
14 100 (10.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 97 (10.23%) Project Management
15 97 (10.23%) Validation
16 96 (10.13%) Roadmaps
17 94 (9.92%) Acceptance Criteria
17 94 (9.92%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 171 (18.04%) SQL
2 110 (11.60%) Python
3 81 (8.54%) Java
4 59 (6.22%) C#
5 36 (3.80%) JavaScript
5 36 (3.80%) TypeScript
6 21 (2.22%) PowerShell
7 15 (1.58%) Apex Code
8 14 (1.48%) Bash
9 9 (0.95%) C++
10 8 (0.84%) Groovy
10 8 (0.84%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.74%) Perl
12 5 (0.53%) Embedded C++
12 5 (0.53%) VBA
13 4 (0.42%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.32%) Bicep
14 3 (0.32%) C
15 2 (0.21%) PHP
15 2 (0.21%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 204 (21.52%) Security Cleared
2 180 (18.99%) SC Cleared
3 68 (7.17%) Degree
4 28 (2.95%) PMI Certification
5 25 (2.64%) ISTQB
6 23 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
6 23 (2.43%) PMP
7 17 (1.79%) DV Cleared
8 14 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (1.16%) AWS Certification
10 10 (1.05%) Azure Certification
10 10 (1.05%) CISSP
10 10 (1.05%) Master's Degree
11 9 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (0.84%) CBAP
12 8 (0.84%) CISM
13 7 (0.74%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 7 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 7 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (0.74%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (12.34%) QA
2 72 (7.59%) Data Quality
3 37 (3.90%) PMO
4 27 (2.85%) Accessibility
5 25 (2.64%) GDPR
5 25 (2.64%) SLA
6 20 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.27%) NIST
8 11 (1.16%) WCAG
9 8 (0.84%) GRC
10 7 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.74%) MiFID
11 6 (0.63%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.53%) COBIT
13 4 (0.42%) EMIR
13 4 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 4 (0.42%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.42%) NCSC
14 3 (0.32%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 42 (4.43%) Active Directory
2 40 (4.22%) Docker
3 7 (0.74%) Firmware
3 7 (0.74%) Squid
3 7 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 66 (6.96%) Terraform
2 59 (6.22%) Kubernetes
3 24 (2.53%) Ansible
4 22 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
5 20 (2.11%) Prometheus
6 19 (2.00%) Grafana
7 12 (1.27%) Consul
8 9 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
9 8 (0.84%) HP ALM
10 7 (0.74%) FortiGate
10 7 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.53%) Control-M
12 4 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.42%) CA Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.42%) Packer
12 4 (0.42%) PingFederate
13 3 (0.32%) Puppet
14 2 (0.21%) Podman
14 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
14 2 (0.21%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 126 (13.29%) ServiceNow
2 119 (12.55%) Microsoft
3 82 (8.65%) Salesforce
4 62 (6.54%) Oracle
5 37 (3.90%) SAP
6 34 (3.59%) Atlassian
7 31 (3.27%) Google
8 19 (2.00%) Informatica
9 17 (1.79%) Databricks
10 16 (1.69%) Adobe
10 16 (1.69%) MuleSoft
11 14 (1.48%) Workday
12 12 (1.27%) Murex
12 12 (1.27%) Okta
12 12 (1.27%) Red Hat
13 11 (1.16%) Bloomberg
13 11 (1.16%) CA Agile Central
13 11 (1.16%) IBM
13 11 (1.16%) Remedy
14 10 (1.05%) ForgeRock