JIRA Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Atlassian JIRA
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring JIRA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 16 21
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 +13
Contract jobs citing JIRA 8 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 4.32% 2.17% 3.43%
As % of the Development Applications category 66.67% 40.00% 38.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £450 £484 £453
25th Percentile £491 £497 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £468
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +12.30% -18.70%
75th Percentile £528 £559 £482
90th Percentile £550 £576 £488
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £57.00
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £74.25 £62.50 £68.63
% change year-on-year +18.80% -8.94% +5.59%

All Development Application Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 12 5 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 6.49% 5.43% 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 7
10th Percentile £293 £466 £400
25th Percentile £413 £472 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £522 £496
90th Percentile £565 £561 £635
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £57.00
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% -1.60% +11.14%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JIRA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

JIRA job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing JIRA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing JIRA

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing JIRA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing JIRA

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 25 February 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
Oxford +2 4 £513 -2.38% 2
Thame - 1 £425 -
Banbury - 1 £525 -
JIRA
South East

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 4 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (37.50%) GitHub
3 2 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (25.00%) ScriptRunner
2 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (25.00%) Service Desk Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Digital Project Manager
2 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce Manager
2 1 (12.50%) E-Commerce Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Educational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Mac OS
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Customer Experience
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) Kanban
3 3 (37.50%) Scrum
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Asset Management
4 2 (25.00%) Budget Management
4 2 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (25.00%) Service Management
5 1 (12.50%) Business Strategy
5 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (12.50%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
1 1 (12.50%) PMP
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Atlassian
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce