JIRA Contracts in the UK excluding London

Atlassian JIRA
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring JIRA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JIRA over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 40 40
Rank change year-on-year +11 0 -6
Contract jobs citing JIRA 703 872 1,180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.52% 4.19% 4.90%
As % of the Development Applications category 41.26% 38.74% 34.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 544 827
10th Percentile £323 £350 £302
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £507 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% +4.05% +1.56%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £692 £654
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 54 41
10th Percentile £48.60 £29.23 £41.80
25th Percentile £54.38 £40.94 £52.50
Median hourly rate £59.13 £53.75 £66.69
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -19.40% +24.64%
75th Percentile £69.38 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £78.18 £70.00 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £57.75 £45.44 £65.00
% change year-on-year +27.09% -30.09% +46.07%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,704 2,251 3,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.38% 10.83% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,131 1,458 2,399
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £402 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 166 184
10th Percentile £46.00 £40.00 £45.38
25th Percentile £52.34 £53.13 £52.47
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.43 £85.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the UK excluding London

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for JIRA in the UK excluding London

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the UK excluding London

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in the UK excluding London

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in the UK excluding London

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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
North of England +33 192 £450 -10.89% 165
South East +12 157 £500 - 168
Midlands +55 121 £495 +10.00% 114
Scotland -13 117 £425 -15.00% 19
West Midlands +52 96 £500 -0.70% 89
North West +15 95 £425 -16.67% 109
Yorkshire +36 91 £500 +11.11% 43
South West -13 80 £555 +0.91% 82
East of England +11 31 £456 +11.28% 90
East Midlands +17 24 £490 +38.03% 25
North East +6 12 £525 -1.41% 13
Wales -3 7 £475 -7.77% 19
Northern Ireland - 7 £550 - 24
JIRA
UK

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 320 (45.52%) Confluence
2 37 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.42%) JBoss
5 5 (0.71%) Apache
5 5 (0.71%) Camunda
5 5 (0.71%) CMS
5 5 (0.71%) WebLogic
6 4 (0.57%) Drupal
6 4 (0.57%) SharePoint Server
6 4 (0.57%) WordPress
7 3 (0.43%) SAS
7 3 (0.43%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.28%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.28%) nginx
8 2 (0.28%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.14%) Liferay
9 1 (0.14%) Traefik
Applications
1 58 (8.25%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (5.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (4.69%) MS Visio
4 21 (2.99%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (1.28%) Trello
7 2 (0.28%) InVision
7 2 (0.28%) Open Workbench
7 2 (0.28%) UserZoom
8 1 (0.14%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.14%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 7 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.28%) Finacle
3 2 (0.28%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.28%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.28%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.14%) Actimize
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.14%) Remedy AR System
4 1 (0.14%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 118 (16.79%) AWS
2 99 (14.08%) Azure
3 41 (5.83%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (4.98%) GitHub
5 33 (4.69%) Power Platform
6 28 (3.98%) SaaS
7 27 (3.84%) GCP
8 22 (3.13%) Serverless
9 16 (2.28%) IaaS
9 16 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (1.71%) PaaS
11 11 (1.56%) Asana
11 11 (1.56%) OpenShift
11 11 (1.56%) PowerApps
11 11 (1.56%) Slack
12 10 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (1.28%) Figma
14 7 (1.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (1.00%) Amazon S3
14 7 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.28%) DNS
2 14 (1.99%) HTTP
3 12 (1.71%) Firewall
3 12 (1.71%) Software-Defined Radio
4 11 (1.56%) DHCP
5 9 (1.28%) SNMP
6 5 (0.71%) SAN
6 5 (0.71%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.57%) Internet
7 4 (0.57%) iSCSI
7 4 (0.57%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.57%) NAS
7 4 (0.57%) Skype
7 4 (0.57%) SNA
8 3 (0.43%) LTE
8 3 (0.43%) SSL
8 3 (0.43%) Unified Communications
9 2 (0.28%) SMS
9 2 (0.28%) VPN
9 2 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (3.70%) Power BI
3 25 (3.56%) MySQL
4 20 (2.84%) Relational Database
5 19 (2.70%) MongoDB
6 18 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (2.42%) NoSQL
8 15 (2.13%) Oracle Database
8 15 (2.13%) SQL Server
9 12 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (1.71%) Tableau
10 11 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
11 9 (1.28%) RDBMS
12 6 (0.85%) Big Data
13 5 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.43%) DB2
14 3 (0.43%) IBM InfoSphere
15 2 (0.28%) Data Mining
15 2 (0.28%) IDMS
15 2 (0.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 118 (16.79%) Git
2 100 (14.22%) Jenkins
3 68 (9.67%) Bitbucket
4 50 (7.11%) Selenium
5 47 (6.69%) GitLab
6 45 (6.40%) Cucumber
7 26 (3.70%) Visual Studio
8 23 (3.27%) SonarQube
9 22 (3.13%) GoogleTest
9 22 (3.13%) JUnit
10 20 (2.84%) Postman
11 18 (2.56%) Maven
11 18 (2.56%) TestRail
12 17 (2.42%) REST Assured
12 17 (2.42%) Subversion
13 16 (2.28%) Sonatype Nexus
14 15 (2.13%) Bitbucket Server
14 15 (2.13%) Robot Framework
15 13 (1.85%) CA Release Automation
15 13 (1.85%) TeamCity
General
1 249 (35.42%) Social Skills
2 179 (25.46%) Finance
3 120 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (10.10%) Public Sector
5 49 (6.97%) Banking
6 24 (3.41%) Manufacturing
7 18 (2.56%) Automotive
8 14 (1.99%) Investment Banking
8 14 (1.99%) Telecoms
9 11 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (1.42%) Marketing
11 9 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.28%) Financial Institution
11 9 (1.28%) Law
12 8 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.00%) Electronics
13 7 (1.00%) Legal
13 7 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 124 (17.64%) Analyst
2 89 (12.66%) Developer
3 74 (10.53%) Senior
4 68 (9.67%) Business Analyst
5 50 (7.11%) Lead
5 50 (7.11%) Project Manager
6 45 (6.40%) Tester
7 44 (6.26%) Software Engineer
8 24 (3.41%) Java Developer
9 22 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
10 20 (2.84%) Senior Developer
10 20 (2.84%) Test Engineer
11 18 (2.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 18 (2.56%) Scrum Master
11 18 (2.56%) Technical Manager
11 18 (2.56%) Test Analyst
12 16 (2.28%) Delphi Developer
12 16 (2.28%) IT Manager
12 16 (2.28%) Technical Analyst
13 15 (2.13%) IT Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (6.69%) REST
2 35 (4.98%) Spring Boot
3 30 (4.27%) RESTful
4 28 (3.98%) CSS
4 28 (3.98%) HTML
5 25 (3.56%) SOAP
6 23 (3.27%) Java EE
7 20 (2.84%) Kafka
7 20 (2.84%) Spring
8 18 (2.56%) React
9 15 (2.13%) .NET
9 15 (2.13%) Node.js
9 15 (2.13%) XML
10 14 (1.99%) AngularJS
10 14 (1.99%) Swagger
11 12 (1.71%) Flash
11 12 (1.71%) Middleware
11 12 (1.71%) OpenAPI
11 12 (1.71%) Web Services
12 11 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 60 (8.53%) Product Ownership
2 19 (2.70%) SCADA
3 16 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
4 15 (2.13%) Virtual Team
5 14 (1.99%) Data Centre
5 14 (1.99%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (1.71%) Clustering
8 11 (1.56%) Management Information System
9 10 (1.42%) Mainframe
10 9 (1.28%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 8 (1.14%) PKI
12 7 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
13 6 (0.85%) Life Science
13 6 (0.85%) Mobile App
13 6 (0.85%) PMI
13 6 (0.85%) Public Cloud
14 4 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
14 4 (0.57%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 94 (13.37%) Linux
2 71 (10.10%) Windows
3 25 (3.56%) Unix
4 22 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (2.42%) Windows Server
6 8 (1.14%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (1.00%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.85%) Mac OS
9 5 (0.71%) Android
9 5 (0.71%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.71%) zOS
10 4 (0.57%) CentOS
10 4 (0.57%) VMS
11 2 (0.28%) Debian
11 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.14%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 393 (55.90%) Agile
2 179 (25.46%) Problem-Solving
3 150 (21.34%) DevOps
4 129 (18.35%) Scrum
5 123 (17.50%) Test Automation
6 113 (16.07%) Project Management
7 111 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 103 (14.65%) CI/CD
9 83 (11.81%) Waterfall
10 79 (11.24%) Migration
11 72 (10.24%) Software Engineering
12 67 (9.53%) Validation
13 65 (9.25%) Continuous Integration
14 63 (8.96%) Continuous Improvement
15 61 (8.68%) Microservices
16 59 (8.39%) Decision-Making
17 57 (8.11%) Test Strategy
18 53 (7.54%) Computer Science
18 53 (7.54%) User Stories
19 51 (7.25%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 126 (17.92%) SQL
2 101 (14.37%) Java
2 101 (14.37%) Python
3 44 (6.26%) JavaScript
4 42 (5.97%) PL/SQL
5 37 (5.26%) C#
6 35 (4.98%) Bash
7 31 (4.41%) PowerShell
8 30 (4.27%) C++
9 22 (3.13%) TypeScript
10 18 (2.56%) Shell Script
11 16 (2.28%) Delphi
11 16 (2.28%) Perl
12 10 (1.42%) C
13 9 (1.28%) Groovy
13 9 (1.28%) ProC
14 8 (1.14%) Go
15 6 (0.85%) JCL
15 6 (0.85%) PHP
15 6 (0.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 138 (19.63%) Security Cleared
2 120 (17.07%) SC Cleared
3 87 (12.38%) Degree
4 23 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (3.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 21 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
6 21 (2.99%) ISTQB
6 21 (2.99%) PMI Certification
7 20 (2.84%) Master's Degree
8 19 (2.70%) AWS Certification
8 19 (2.70%) PMP
9 15 (2.13%) ISEB
10 12 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (1.71%) CCNA
11 11 (1.56%) CCNP
11 11 (1.56%) DV Cleared
12 10 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (1.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 10 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (1.42%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (9.67%) QA
2 23 (3.27%) PMO
3 18 (2.56%) Data Quality
4 11 (1.56%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.14%) SLA
6 7 (1.00%) GDPR
7 5 (0.71%) NCSC
8 3 (0.43%) GxP
8 3 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.28%) NIST
9 2 (0.28%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.14%) AUTOSAR
10 1 (0.14%) Basel III
10 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.14%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.14%) PMBOK
10 1 (0.14%) PSD2
10 1 (0.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 51 (7.25%) Docker
2 31 (4.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (3.84%) Active Directory
4 15 (2.13%) VMware NSX
5 14 (1.99%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (1.28%) Firmware
6 9 (1.28%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.57%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.57%) VirtualBox
9 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.28%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.28%) NFS
11 1 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.14%) LXC
11 1 (0.14%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 64 (9.10%) Kubernetes
2 42 (5.97%) Terraform
3 41 (5.83%) Ansible
4 25 (3.56%) Progress Chef
5 20 (2.84%) vCenter Server
6 18 (2.56%) Puppet
7 12 (1.71%) Kibana
8 9 (1.28%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (1.28%) Podman
9 8 (1.14%) HP ALM
9 8 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.71%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.57%) Grafana
12 4 (0.57%) Prometheus
12 4 (0.57%) Tivoli NetView
13 3 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 3 (0.43%) NetBackup
13 3 (0.43%) vRealize
13 3 (0.43%) WSUS
Vendors
1 91 (12.94%) Microsoft
2 88 (12.52%) Atlassian
3 74 (10.53%) Oracle
4 35 (4.98%) ServiceNow
5 34 (4.84%) Google
5 34 (4.84%) VMware
6 30 (4.27%) Cisco
7 27 (3.84%) SAP
8 19 (2.70%) IBM
9 17 (2.42%) Splunk
10 15 (2.13%) Red Hat
11 10 (1.42%) AppDynamics
11 10 (1.42%) MuleSoft
12 9 (1.28%) Salesforce
13 8 (1.14%) CA Agile Central
13 8 (1.14%) HP
14 7 (1.00%) Intel
15 5 (0.71%) Adobe
15 5 (0.71%) CheckPoint
15 5 (0.71%) Dell