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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 43 58
Rank change year-on-year +1 +15 -10
Contract jobs citing JIRA 892 641 670
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.87% 5.27% 3.83%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.23% 34.69% 28.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 600 430 461
10th Percentile £347 £331 £325
25th Percentile £421 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -4.19% -6.52%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £638
90th Percentile £736 £750 £800
England median daily rate £480 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 19
10th Percentile - £29.00 £22.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £31.25 £25.62
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +18.26% -41.28%
75th Percentile £68.13 £43.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £87.70 £46.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +2.13%

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 2,333 1,848 2,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 12.75% 15.20% 13.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 1,251 1,668
10th Percentile £358 £356 £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 £626 £656 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £526
% change year-on-year - -4.85% -4.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 7 27
10th Percentile - £23.97 £23.80
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.77 £25.99
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -42.86%
75th Percentile £73.00 £43.75 £69.13
90th Percentile £95.00 £55.50 £71.50
England median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -12 109 £550 +4.76% 60
South London +10 33 £513 +7.89% 6
West London -19 21 £400 - 9
East London -3 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
1 368 (41.26%) Confluence
2 49 (5.49%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.35%) Apache
5 10 (1.12%) nginx
6 7 (0.78%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.67%) Ethereum
7 6 (0.67%) Hyperledger
8 5 (0.56%) CMS
9 4 (0.45%) JBoss
9 4 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.45%) SAS
10 3 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.22%) Kentico
11 2 (0.22%) WordPress
12 1 (0.11%) Appian
12 1 (0.11%) Camunda
12 1 (0.11%) Drupal
12 1 (0.11%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 72 (8.07%) Microsoft Project
2 65 (7.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 42 (4.71%) MS Visio
4 35 (3.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
6 8 (0.90%) Trello
7 5 (0.56%) Notion
8 4 (0.45%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.45%) Revit
9 3 (0.34%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.11%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.11%) InVision
11 1 (0.11%) Mingle
11 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.23%) Loan IQ
3 9 (1.01%) Aladdin
4 8 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.78%) Fidessa
5 7 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.67%) Findur
7 5 (0.56%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.45%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.45%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.45%) SAP Retail
9 3 (0.34%) Actimize
9 3 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.34%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 3 (0.34%) SAP FI-AR
9 3 (0.34%) SimCorp Dimension
9 3 (0.34%) Summit
10 2 (0.22%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 212 (23.77%) Azure
2 131 (14.69%) Azure DevOps
3 125 (14.01%) AWS
4 61 (6.84%) Power Platform
5 58 (6.50%) GitHub
6 49 (5.49%) Entra ID
7 44 (4.93%) SaaS
8 41 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
9 39 (4.37%) Amazon S3
10 32 (3.59%) Serverless
11 31 (3.48%) GCP
12 27 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
13 25 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
14 21 (2.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 21 (2.35%) Figma
15 20 (2.24%) Slack
15 20 (2.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 19 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
16 19 (2.13%) Google Workspace
17 15 (1.68%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.80%) Firewall
2 19 (2.13%) DNS
3 15 (1.68%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.46%) VPN
5 8 (0.90%) HTTP
6 7 (0.78%) Network Security
6 7 (0.78%) OpenVPN
6 7 (0.78%) SSL
7 6 (0.67%) Ethernet
7 6 (0.67%) WAN
8 5 (0.56%) FTP
8 5 (0.56%) LAN
8 5 (0.56%) Modbus
8 5 (0.56%) RS-232
8 5 (0.56%) RS-485
8 5 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.45%) DKIM
9 4 (0.45%) DMARC
9 4 (0.45%) PSTN
9 4 (0.45%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (5.38%) Power BI
2 29 (3.25%) SQL Server
3 26 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (2.80%) Tableau
5 17 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
7 14 (1.57%) NoSQL
8 13 (1.46%) DynamoDB
8 13 (1.46%) Relational Database
9 12 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (1.35%) Metadata
10 11 (1.23%) MongoDB
11 10 (1.12%) Delta Lake
11 10 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
12 9 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
13 8 (0.90%) Data Vault
13 8 (0.90%) Oracle Database
14 7 (0.78%) Crystal Reports
14 7 (0.78%) Data Lake
15 6 (0.67%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 100 (11.21%) Git
2 55 (6.17%) Jenkins
3 34 (3.81%) Selenium
4 31 (3.48%) GitLab
5 28 (3.14%) Zephyr
6 24 (2.69%) JUnit
7 16 (1.79%) Bitbucket
7 16 (1.79%) Cucumber
8 15 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
9 13 (1.46%) Cypress.io
10 11 (1.23%) SonarQube
11 10 (1.12%) TestRail
12 9 (1.01%) Appium
12 9 (1.01%) Postman
12 9 (1.01%) REST Assured
13 8 (0.90%) JMeter
14 7 (0.78%) Maven
15 6 (0.67%) ScriptRunner
16 5 (0.56%) Mockito
17 4 (0.45%) TestNG
General
1 345 (38.68%) Finance
2 334 (37.44%) Social Skills
3 158 (17.71%) Analytical Skills
4 151 (16.93%) Banking
5 96 (10.76%) Public Sector
6 39 (4.37%) Retail
7 37 (4.15%) Documentation Skills
8 33 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
9 30 (3.36%) Investment Banking
10 28 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (3.03%) Legal
12 25 (2.80%) Front Office
13 17 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
14 14 (1.57%) Financial Institution
14 14 (1.57%) Marketing
15 13 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 12 (1.35%) Corporate Banking
17 11 (1.23%) Back Office
18 9 (1.01%) Billing
18 9 (1.01%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 188 (21.08%) Analyst
2 125 (14.01%) Business Analyst
3 95 (10.65%) Lead
4 93 (10.43%) Developer
5 86 (9.64%) Senior
6 50 (5.61%) Project Manager
7 46 (5.16%) Delivery Manager
8 37 (4.15%) IT Support
9 30 (3.36%) Consultant
10 28 (3.14%) Data Engineer
10 28 (3.14%) Scrum Master
10 28 (3.14%) Technical Manager
11 26 (2.91%) Tester
12 25 (2.80%) Architect
12 25 (2.80%) Banking Analyst
12 25 (2.80%) Support Engineer
13 24 (2.69%) Test Leader
14 22 (2.47%) IT Engineer
14 22 (2.47%) IT Support Engineer
14 22 (2.47%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (4.26%) REST
2 27 (3.03%) .NET
2 27 (3.03%) React
3 25 (2.80%) Kafka
4 20 (2.24%) Spring
5 19 (2.13%) AngularJS
5 19 (2.13%) HTML
6 18 (2.02%) RESTful
7 17 (1.91%) SOAP
8 16 (1.79%) CSS
8 16 (1.79%) Lightning Web Components
9 15 (1.68%) Oracle Fusion
9 15 (1.68%) Spring Boot
10 14 (1.57%) OpenID
11 13 (1.46%) Node.js
12 12 (1.35%) ADO
12 12 (1.35%) JSON
12 12 (1.35%) OAuth
12 12 (1.35%) Playwright
12 12 (1.35%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 87 (9.75%) Product Ownership
2 52 (5.83%) Onboarding
3 24 (2.69%) Management Information System
4 22 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
5 21 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
5 21 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (2.02%) Cloud Native
6 18 (2.02%) Data Centre
7 16 (1.79%) Virtual Team
8 15 (1.68%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (1.57%) Public Cloud
10 13 (1.46%) Derivative
11 12 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.23%) Reinsurance
13 10 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
13 10 (1.12%) Market Risk
14 9 (1.01%) Credit Risk
14 9 (1.01%) Mobile App
15 8 (0.90%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 52 (5.83%) Windows
2 35 (3.92%) Linux
3 9 (1.01%) Mac OS
3 9 (1.01%) Unix
4 8 (0.90%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.67%) Android
6 5 (0.56%) FreeRTOS
6 5 (0.56%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.11%) SUSE
9 1 (0.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 496 (55.61%) Agile
2 252 (28.25%) Stakeholder Management
3 217 (24.33%) DevOps
4 180 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
5 174 (19.51%) Scrum
6 167 (18.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 135 (15.13%) CI/CD
8 128 (14.35%) Test Automation
9 126 (14.13%) Migration
10 112 (12.56%) User Stories
11 109 (12.22%) Project Management
12 107 (12.00%) User Acceptance Testing
13 99 (11.10%) Change Management
13 99 (11.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 97 (10.87%) SDLC
15 93 (10.43%) Roadmaps
16 92 (10.31%) Analytics
17 89 (9.98%) Data Modelling
18 86 (9.64%) Acceptance Criteria
18 86 (9.64%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 153 (17.15%) SQL
2 98 (10.99%) Python
3 81 (9.08%) Java
4 54 (6.05%) C#
5 35 (3.92%) TypeScript
6 34 (3.81%) JavaScript
7 20 (2.24%) PowerShell
8 15 (1.68%) Bash
9 14 (1.57%) Apex Code
10 10 (1.12%) C++
11 8 (0.90%) Groovy
12 7 (0.78%) Perl
13 6 (0.67%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.56%) Embedded C++
14 5 (0.56%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.34%) Bicep
15 3 (0.34%) C
16 2 (0.22%) PHP
16 2 (0.22%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 191 (21.41%) Security Cleared
2 167 (18.72%) SC Cleared
3 68 (7.62%) Degree
4 27 (3.03%) PMI Certification
5 23 (2.58%) ISTQB
6 22 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 22 (2.47%) PMP
7 18 (2.02%) DV Cleared
8 13 (1.46%) CBAP
9 12 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
10 11 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (1.12%) Azure Certification
12 9 (1.01%) CISSP
12 9 (1.01%) IIBA
12 9 (1.01%) ISEB
12 9 (1.01%) Master's Degree
13 7 (0.78%) CISM
14 6 (0.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 6 (0.67%) AWS Certification
14 6 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (12.56%) QA
2 63 (7.06%) Data Quality
3 39 (4.37%) PMO
4 26 (2.91%) GDPR
5 25 (2.80%) Accessibility
6 23 (2.58%) SLA
7 14 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 12 (1.35%) WCAG
9 10 (1.12%) NIST
10 7 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.78%) MiFID
11 6 (0.67%) GRC
11 6 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.45%) EMIR
12 4 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 4 (0.45%) ISO 20022
12 4 (0.45%) NCSC
12 4 (0.45%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.34%) Basel III
13 3 (0.34%) COBIT
System Software
1 43 (4.82%) Active Directory
2 42 (4.71%) Docker
3 8 (0.90%) Squid
4 7 (0.78%) Firmware
4 7 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.22%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 55 (6.17%) Kubernetes
1 55 (6.17%) Terraform
2 22 (2.47%) Ansible
3 21 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
4 20 (2.24%) Prometheus
5 18 (2.02%) Grafana
6 12 (1.35%) Consul
7 9 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (0.78%) FortiGate
8 7 (0.78%) HP ALM
8 7 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (0.56%) Control-M
10 4 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.45%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.45%) PingFederate
11 2 (0.22%) Packer
11 2 (0.22%) Podman
11 2 (0.22%) Puppet
11 2 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 115 (12.89%) Microsoft
2 111 (12.44%) ServiceNow
3 71 (7.96%) Salesforce
4 66 (7.40%) Oracle
5 38 (4.26%) SAP
6 34 (3.81%) Atlassian
7 30 (3.36%) Google
8 18 (2.02%) Databricks
9 15 (1.68%) MuleSoft
10 14 (1.57%) Adobe
11 12 (1.35%) Informatica
11 12 (1.35%) Murex
11 12 (1.35%) Workday
12 11 (1.23%) IBM
12 11 (1.23%) Okta
13 10 (1.12%) Bloomberg
13 10 (1.12%) ForgeRock
13 10 (1.12%) Red Hat
14 9 (1.01%) Citrix
14 9 (1.01%) Remedy