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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 48 53
Rank change year-on-year +7 +5 -6
Contract jobs citing JIRA 901 605 680
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.21% 4.78% 3.82%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.86% 33.15% 30.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 388 463
10th Percentile £342 £303 £325
25th Percentile £415 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £615 £630 £650
90th Percentile £709 £738 £850
England median daily rate £485 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 17
10th Percentile - - £22.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.50 £25.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -9.09% -38.89%
75th Percentile £72.50 £32.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £91.35 - £71.25
England median hourly rate £63.14 £62.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year +1.02% +36.22% -26.59%

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 2,380 1,825 2,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.77% 14.41% 12.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,589 1,229 1,626
10th Percentile £350 £341 £363
25th Percentile £415 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £558
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% -5.83% -7.08%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £737 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 24
10th Percentile - £22.93 £22.90
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.04 £25.83
Median hourly rate £29.50 £30.00 £39.38
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -23.81% -31.52%
75th Percentile £72.88 £67.50 £70.31
90th Percentile £89.53 £84.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £67.50 £63.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.72% +1.20% +1.63%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -3 115 £550 +4.76% 66
South London +7 39 £519 +9.17% 3
West London -21 17 £400 +3.23% 8
East London - 6 £450 - 7
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 (43.40%) Confluence
2 45 (4.99%) SharePoint
3 27 (3.00%) nginx
4 15 (1.66%) Apache
5 9 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.78%) CMS
6 7 (0.78%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.67%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.67%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.44%) JBoss
9 4 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.33%) SAS
11 2 (0.22%) Magnolia
11 2 (0.22%) WordPress
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.11%) CICS
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
Applications
1 84 (9.32%) Microsoft Project
2 76 (8.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 47 (5.22%) MS Visio
4 46 (5.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
6 16 (1.78%) Trello
7 5 (0.55%) Notion
8 3 (0.33%) Adobe After Effects
8 3 (0.33%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.33%) InVision
8 3 (0.33%) Sketch
9 2 (0.22%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.22%) Autodesk Smoke
9 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.22%) Revit
9 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.11%) Mingle
10 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 14 (1.55%) NetSuite
2 13 (1.44%) Loan IQ
3 12 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (1.11%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.89%) Fidessa
5 8 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.44%) Findur
7 4 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 4 (0.44%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.33%) Actimize
8 3 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.33%) SAP Retail
8 3 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
8 3 (0.33%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 208 (23.09%) Azure
2 137 (15.21%) AWS
3 135 (14.98%) Azure DevOps
4 73 (8.10%) GitHub
5 60 (6.66%) Power Platform
6 40 (4.44%) Entra ID
7 33 (3.66%) SaaS
7 33 (3.66%) Serverless
8 28 (3.11%) Amazon S3
9 27 (3.00%) GCP
9 27 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
10 26 (2.89%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (2.77%) Figma
12 20 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (2.11%) Miro
13 19 (2.11%) Slack
14 18 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
14 18 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
15 16 (1.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 14 (1.55%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.11%) Firewall
2 12 (1.33%) DNS
2 12 (1.33%) TCP/IP
3 10 (1.11%) HTTP
4 8 (0.89%) SSL
4 8 (0.89%) VPN
5 7 (0.78%) Ethernet
5 7 (0.78%) FTP
5 7 (0.78%) Modbus
5 7 (0.78%) OpenVPN
5 7 (0.78%) RS-232
5 7 (0.78%) RS-485
6 6 (0.67%) WAN
7 5 (0.55%) LAN
7 5 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (0.44%) NAS
8 4 (0.44%) PSTN
8 4 (0.44%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.33%) Network Security
10 2 (0.22%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (4.99%) Power BI
2 29 (3.22%) SQL Server
2 29 (3.22%) Tableau
3 27 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (2.33%) NoSQL
5 19 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (1.89%) Relational Database
7 13 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (1.33%) Metadata
8 12 (1.33%) MongoDB
9 11 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (1.11%) Big Data
10 10 (1.11%) Delta Lake
10 10 (1.11%) DynamoDB
10 10 (1.11%) Oracle Database
11 7 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (0.67%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.67%) Crystal Reports
12 6 (0.67%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 119 (13.21%) Git
2 63 (6.99%) Jenkins
3 44 (4.88%) Selenium
4 37 (4.11%) GitLab
5 28 (3.11%) Bitbucket
6 26 (2.89%) Cucumber
6 26 (2.89%) JUnit
6 26 (2.89%) Zephyr
7 17 (1.89%) Postman
8 16 (1.78%) TestRail
9 15 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
10 13 (1.44%) SonarQube
11 12 (1.33%) JMeter
12 11 (1.22%) Cypress.io
12 11 (1.22%) REST Assured
13 10 (1.11%) Appium
13 10 (1.11%) Maven
13 10 (1.11%) SpecFlow
14 7 (0.78%) ScriptRunner
14 7 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 333 (36.96%) Social Skills
2 332 (36.85%) Finance
3 170 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
4 135 (14.98%) Banking
5 92 (10.21%) Public Sector
6 39 (4.33%) Documentation Skills
7 35 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
8 33 (3.66%) Retail
9 30 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
10 29 (3.22%) Legal
11 27 (3.00%) Investment Banking
12 23 (2.55%) Front Office
13 20 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (1.78%) Financial Institution
14 16 (1.78%) Marketing
15 11 (1.22%) Publishing
16 10 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 9 (1.00%) Back Office
17 9 (1.00%) Billing
17 9 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 197 (21.86%) Analyst
2 136 (15.09%) Business Analyst
3 102 (11.32%) Developer
4 91 (10.10%) Senior
5 77 (8.55%) Lead
6 63 (6.99%) Project Manager
7 39 (4.33%) Delivery Manager
8 34 (3.77%) Tester
9 32 (3.55%) Architect
10 31 (3.44%) IT Support
11 30 (3.33%) Test Engineer
12 28 (3.11%) Senior Analyst
13 27 (3.00%) Technical Manager
14 26 (2.89%) Consultant
15 25 (2.77%) Scrum Master
16 24 (2.66%) Data Engineer
16 24 (2.66%) Support Engineer
17 23 (2.55%) Technical Analyst
18 22 (2.44%) Banking Analyst
18 22 (2.44%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.11%) REST
2 34 (3.77%) .NET
3 30 (3.33%) React
4 26 (2.89%) Kafka
5 24 (2.66%) Spring
6 23 (2.55%) HTML
7 20 (2.22%) AngularJS
7 20 (2.22%) CSS
8 19 (2.11%) Node.js
8 19 (2.11%) RESTful
8 19 (2.11%) XML
9 18 (2.00%) Playwright
10 17 (1.89%) JSON
10 17 (1.89%) SOAP
11 16 (1.78%) Lightning Web Components
11 16 (1.78%) Oracle Fusion
12 15 (1.66%) Spring Boot
13 12 (1.33%) ADO
13 12 (1.33%) OpenID
14 11 (1.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 84 (9.32%) Product Ownership
2 44 (4.88%) Onboarding
3 26 (2.89%) Management Information System
4 23 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
5 22 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
6 19 (2.11%) Cloud Native
6 19 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.11%) Virtual Team
7 15 (1.66%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.44%) Data Centre
9 12 (1.33%) Data Structures
9 12 (1.33%) Mobile App
9 12 (1.33%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.11%) Derivative
11 10 (1.11%) Reinsurance
12 9 (1.00%) Equities
12 9 (1.00%) Fixed Income
12 9 (1.00%) Market Risk
13 8 (0.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 50 (5.55%) Linux
2 49 (5.44%) Windows
3 14 (1.55%) Unix
4 8 (0.89%) Android
5 7 (0.78%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.78%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (0.55%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.44%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.33%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 528 (58.60%) Agile
2 239 (26.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 225 (24.97%) DevOps
4 198 (21.98%) Scrum
5 184 (20.42%) Problem-Solving
6 162 (17.98%) Continuous Improvement
7 150 (16.65%) Test Automation
8 144 (15.98%) CI/CD
9 128 (14.21%) Project Management
10 117 (12.99%) User Stories
11 111 (12.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 111 (12.32%) User Acceptance Testing
12 106 (11.76%) Migration
13 100 (11.10%) SDLC
14 93 (10.32%) Change Management
15 90 (9.99%) Project Delivery
15 90 (9.99%) Roadmaps
16 88 (9.77%) Decision-Making
17 87 (9.66%) Waterfall
18 86 (9.54%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 164 (18.20%) SQL
2 108 (11.99%) Python
3 93 (10.32%) Java
4 63 (6.99%) C#
5 51 (5.66%) JavaScript
6 40 (4.44%) TypeScript
7 16 (1.78%) Bash
7 16 (1.78%) PowerShell
8 14 (1.55%) C++
9 13 (1.44%) Apex Code
10 8 (0.89%) Shell Script
11 7 (0.78%) Embedded C++
11 7 (0.78%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.55%) C
12 5 (0.55%) Perl
12 5 (0.55%) Ruby
12 5 (0.55%) XPath
13 4 (0.44%) Delphi
13 4 (0.44%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 191 (21.20%) Security Cleared
2 173 (19.20%) SC Cleared
3 73 (8.10%) Degree
4 31 (3.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 31 (3.44%) ISTQB
5 28 (3.11%) PMI Certification
6 22 (2.44%) PMP
7 16 (1.78%) CBAP
8 13 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (1.22%) CISSP
9 11 (1.22%) DV Cleared
9 11 (1.22%) IIBA
9 11 (1.22%) ISEB
10 8 (0.89%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.78%) AWS Certification
11 7 (0.78%) CISM
11 7 (0.78%) CSPO
11 7 (0.78%) Master's Degree
12 6 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (14.10%) QA
2 53 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 39 (4.33%) PMO
4 31 (3.44%) Accessibility
5 28 (3.11%) GDPR
6 15 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.66%) NIST
7 14 (1.55%) SLA
8 12 (1.33%) WCAG
9 9 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 7 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.78%) GRC
11 6 (0.67%) MiFID
12 5 (0.55%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.55%) NIST 800
13 4 (0.44%) NCSC
14 3 (0.33%) Basel III
14 3 (0.33%) GxP
14 3 (0.33%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 55 (6.10%) Docker
2 35 (3.88%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.89%) Squid
4 7 (0.78%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (0.78%) Firmware
5 4 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 64 (7.10%) Kubernetes
2 57 (6.33%) Terraform
3 20 (2.22%) Consul
3 20 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
4 17 (1.89%) Ansible
5 14 (1.55%) HP ALM
6 13 (1.44%) Grafana
6 13 (1.44%) Packer
6 13 (1.44%) Prometheus
7 9 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.78%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.55%) Control-M
9 5 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.44%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.44%) PingFederate
11 3 (0.33%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.22%) CASB
12 2 (0.22%) Puppet
12 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 106 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 106 (11.76%) ServiceNow
2 76 (8.44%) Oracle
3 73 (8.10%) Salesforce
4 41 (4.55%) Atlassian
5 38 (4.22%) SAP
6 30 (3.33%) Google
7 20 (2.22%) Databricks
8 17 (1.89%) Adobe
9 14 (1.55%) Citrix
9 14 (1.55%) HP
10 13 (1.44%) IBM
10 13 (1.44%) MuleSoft
11 12 (1.33%) Murex
11 12 (1.33%) Workday
12 11 (1.22%) Dynatrace
12 11 (1.22%) Remedy
13 10 (1.11%) Informatica
14 9 (1.00%) Red Hat
14 9 (1.00%) Splunk