JIRA Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Atlassian JIRA
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring JIRA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 39 38
Rank change year-on-year +8 -1 -6
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,022 715 961
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 5.63% 4.81% 4.92%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.99% 36.97% 38.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 722 442 639
10th Percentile £311 £326 £350
25th Percentile £385 £391 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £477 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% -9.14% -
75th Percentile £551 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £653 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £529
% change year-on-year - -5.44% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 25 36
10th Percentile £15.74 £52.60 £48.39
25th Percentile £50.00 £56.25 £54.37
Median hourly rate £67.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £78.63 £70.00 £70.47
90th Percentile £89.63 £73.50 £75.77
UK median hourly rate £64.75 £62.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year +3.60% +2.04% -2.00%

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 2,621 1,934 2,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.45% 13.02% 12.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,807 1,176 1,682
10th Percentile £320 £325 £360
25th Percentile £400 £399 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -5.41% -2.33%
75th Percentile £552 £575 £600
90th Percentile £643 £656 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -2.44% -4.74% -3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 75 183
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £46.18
25th Percentile £55.88 £54.18 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.38 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.80 £75.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.84%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JIRA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JIRA

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 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the UK excluding London

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JIRA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing JIRA

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 21 December 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 21 December 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 +7 318 £466 -2.72% 65
Midlands +21 213 £450 -8.63% 55
South East -5 193 £475 - 131
Yorkshire +1 172 £480 -2.64% 24
West Midlands +15 169 £475 -5.00% 35
South West +14 144 £588 +6.58% 36
North West +2 130 £447 -5.89% 36
Scotland -6 94 £463 +14.48% 6
East of England -10 52 £425 +3.03% 30
East Midlands +5 43 £396 -14.32% 20
North East +1 16 £488 +8.33% 5
Wales +10 14 £341 -17.27% 9
Northern Ireland -10 4 £406 +35.42% 1
Channel Islands - 1 - -
JIRA
UK

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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
1 436 (42.66%) Confluence
2 68 (6.65%) SharePoint
3 34 (3.33%) SAS
4 16 (1.57%) nginx
5 14 (1.37%) CMS
6 10 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.59%) Mule
8 5 (0.49%) Tomcat
9 4 (0.39%) Drupal
9 4 (0.39%) JBoss
9 4 (0.39%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.29%) CICS
10 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.29%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.20%) Apache
11 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.20%) IIS
12 1 (0.098%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.098%) Camunda
Applications
1 108 (10.57%) Microsoft Project
2 93 (9.10%) Microsoft Office
3 72 (7.05%) Microsoft Excel
4 45 (4.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (2.54%) MS Visio
6 11 (1.08%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 10 (0.98%) Trello
8 6 (0.59%) Adobe Illustrator
8 6 (0.59%) Photoshop
9 5 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.39%) Simulink
10 4 (0.39%) Windchill
11 2 (0.20%) Sketch
12 1 (0.098%) CATIA
12 1 (0.098%) Chatbot
12 1 (0.098%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (0.78%) SAP PM
2 7 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.59%) Maximo
3 6 (0.59%) SAP HR
4 5 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.39%) SAP PLM
5 4 (0.39%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.20%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.20%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.098%) assyst
8 1 (0.098%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.098%) Primavera
8 1 (0.098%) SAP PP
8 1 (0.098%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 192 (18.79%) Azure
2 161 (15.75%) AWS
3 90 (8.81%) Azure DevOps
4 84 (8.22%) GitHub
5 50 (4.89%) GCP
5 50 (4.89%) Power Platform
6 41 (4.01%) Microsoft 365
7 36 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
8 32 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
9 29 (2.84%) Amazon S3
9 29 (2.84%) Serverless
10 28 (2.74%) Amazon ECS
10 28 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
10 28 (2.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 26 (2.54%) SaaS
12 22 (2.15%) AWS KMS
13 21 (2.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 20 (1.96%) Amazon ELB
15 19 (1.86%) OpenShift
16 16 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 56 (5.48%) Firewall
2 34 (3.33%) DNS
3 31 (3.03%) SSH
4 29 (2.84%) HTTP
5 19 (1.86%) SMTP
6 18 (1.76%) FTP
7 17 (1.66%) TCP/IP
8 14 (1.37%) VPN
9 11 (1.08%) IMAP
9 11 (1.08%) OpenLDAP
10 8 (0.78%) LAN
11 6 (0.59%) DHCP
12 5 (0.49%) WAN
13 4 (0.39%) Kerberos
13 4 (0.39%) VoIP
13 4 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.39%) Wireless
14 3 (0.29%) Internet
14 3 (0.29%) SMS
14 3 (0.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (4.50%) Power BI
2 40 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (3.23%) Pentaho
4 31 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
5 26 (2.54%) Tableau
6 20 (1.96%) Relational Database
7 17 (1.66%) NoSQL
8 12 (1.17%) MongoDB
9 11 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (1.08%) Metadata
10 10 (0.98%) MySQL
10 10 (0.98%) SQL Server
11 8 (0.78%) Big Data
11 8 (0.78%) Oracle Database
12 7 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
13 6 (0.59%) SAS Enterprise Guide
14 5 (0.49%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (0.49%) Couchbase
14 5 (0.49%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 182 (17.81%) Jenkins
2 162 (15.85%) Git
3 69 (6.75%) GitLab
4 53 (5.19%) Bitbucket
5 37 (3.62%) Postman
5 37 (3.62%) Selenium
6 32 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
7 30 (2.94%) Cucumber
8 19 (1.86%) Vagrant
8 19 (1.86%) Visual Studio
9 18 (1.76%) Rational DOORS
9 18 (1.76%) SoapUI
10 16 (1.57%) TestRail
11 15 (1.47%) REST Assured
12 13 (1.27%) Artifactory
13 12 (1.17%) SonarQube
13 12 (1.17%) Zephyr
14 11 (1.08%) Visual Studio Code
15 10 (0.98%) IntelliJ
16 9 (0.88%) PyCharm
General
1 432 (42.27%) Social Skills
2 244 (23.87%) Finance
3 173 (16.93%) Analytical Skills
4 126 (12.33%) Public Sector
5 115 (11.25%) Banking
6 40 (3.91%) Organisational Skills
7 39 (3.82%) Military
8 37 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
9 30 (2.94%) Retail
10 26 (2.54%) Legal
11 21 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (2.05%) Manufacturing
11 21 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (1.47%) Law
13 12 (1.17%) Retail Banking
13 12 (1.17%) Telecoms
14 11 (1.08%) Automotive
15 10 (0.98%) Marketing
16 8 (0.78%) Investment Banking
17 7 (0.68%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 167 (16.34%) Analyst
2 99 (9.69%) Project Manager
3 89 (8.71%) Business Analyst
4 78 (7.63%) Developer
5 77 (7.53%) Lead
6 76 (7.44%) Architect
7 52 (5.09%) Senior
8 47 (4.60%) DevOps Engineer
9 38 (3.72%) Delivery Manager
9 38 (3.72%) Test Analyst
10 36 (3.52%) Tester
11 34 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
12 33 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
13 31 (3.03%) Software Engineer
14 30 (2.94%) Service Architect
15 28 (2.74%) Consultant
16 26 (2.54%) AWS DevOps
17 25 (2.45%) Administrator
17 25 (2.45%) Data Engineer
18 24 (2.35%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (8.32%) REST
2 34 (3.33%) .NET
2 34 (3.33%) SOAP
3 31 (3.03%) React
4 30 (2.94%) Node.js
4 30 (2.94%) XML
5 29 (2.84%) HTML
6 26 (2.54%) LDAP
7 24 (2.35%) Spring Boot
8 23 (2.25%) CSS
9 22 (2.15%) AngularJS
9 22 (2.15%) RESTful
10 21 (2.05%) Kafka
11 19 (1.86%) OAuth
12 18 (1.76%) JSON
12 18 (1.76%) SailPoint
12 18 (1.76%) Spring
13 17 (1.66%) JMS
14 14 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
14 14 (1.37%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 122 (11.94%) Product Ownership
2 47 (4.60%) Onboarding
3 38 (3.72%) Cloud Native
4 32 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
5 28 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
6 20 (1.96%) Management Information System
6 20 (1.96%) Replication
7 15 (1.47%) Data Structures
7 15 (1.47%) Virtual Team
8 14 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
8 14 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.37%) Mobile App
8 14 (1.37%) Public Cloud
8 14 (1.37%) SCADA
9 13 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
10 12 (1.17%) PMI
10 12 (1.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 11 (1.08%) Algorithms
11 11 (1.08%) Synthetic Data
11 11 (1.08%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 119 (11.64%) Windows
2 94 (9.20%) Linux
3 22 (2.15%) VMS
4 19 (1.86%) Amazon Linux
5 18 (1.76%) Unix
6 10 (0.98%) Mac OS
6 10 (0.98%) Ubuntu
6 10 (0.98%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.88%) Android
8 7 (0.68%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.59%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.20%) Solaris
10 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.20%) zOS
11 1 (0.098%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.098%) MVS
11 1 (0.098%) Windows Embedded Compact
11 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 605 (59.20%) Agile
2 345 (33.76%) DevOps
3 245 (23.97%) CI/CD
4 243 (23.78%) Problem-Solving
5 222 (21.72%) Stakeholder Management
6 198 (19.37%) Scrum
7 156 (15.26%) Project Management
8 154 (15.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 150 (14.68%) Test Automation
10 132 (12.92%) Change Management
11 123 (12.04%) ITIL
12 114 (11.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 98 (9.59%) Migration
14 96 (9.39%) Service Management
15 94 (9.20%) Project Delivery
16 84 (8.22%) Acceptance Criteria
17 82 (8.02%) User Acceptance Testing
18 81 (7.93%) Decision-Making
19 80 (7.83%) Microservices
20 77 (7.53%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 175 (17.12%) Python
2 149 (14.58%) SQL
3 111 (10.86%) Java
4 75 (7.34%) PowerShell
5 59 (5.77%) JavaScript
6 45 (4.40%) C#
7 29 (2.84%) TypeScript
8 27 (2.64%) Bash
9 26 (2.54%) C++
9 26 (2.54%) Perl
10 24 (2.35%) Go
11 21 (2.05%) Groovy
12 12 (1.17%) PL/SQL
12 12 (1.17%) Ruby
13 11 (1.08%) Embedded C++
14 9 (0.88%) Apex Code
14 9 (0.88%) C
15 8 (0.78%) PHP
16 6 (0.59%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.49%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 284 (27.79%) Security Cleared
2 229 (22.41%) SC Cleared
3 170 (16.63%) Degree
4 45 (4.40%) PMI Certification
5 43 (4.21%) PMP
6 42 (4.11%) CISSP
7 41 (4.01%) TOGAF Certification
8 40 (3.91%) CISM
8 40 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
9 26 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
10 25 (2.45%) AWS Certification
11 23 (2.25%) ISTQB
12 21 (2.05%) DV Cleared
13 19 (1.86%) Master's Degree
14 18 (1.76%) Azure Certification
15 16 (1.57%) Oracle Certification
16 14 (1.37%) APMP
17 10 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
17 10 (0.98%) OCA
17 10 (0.98%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (10.76%) QA
2 55 (5.38%) PMO
3 42 (4.11%) Data Quality
4 41 (4.01%) GDPR
5 24 (2.35%) NIST
6 23 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.96%) Accessibility
8 15 (1.47%) PSD2
9 14 (1.37%) ISO 20022
10 12 (1.17%) COBIT
10 12 (1.17%) SEPA
11 10 (0.98%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 6 (0.59%) NIST 800
14 5 (0.49%) P3O
15 4 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
15 4 (0.39%) SLA
15 4 (0.39%) WCAG
16 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 143 (13.99%) Docker
2 35 (3.42%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.76%) DFS Replication
5 13 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (1.08%) Dovecot
6 11 (1.08%) Postfix
6 11 (1.08%) Squid
7 10 (0.98%) Firmware
8 6 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
9 5 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.29%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.20%) KVM
13 1 (0.098%) NFS
13 1 (0.098%) SRDF
13 1 (0.098%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 1 (0.098%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.098%) vSphere
13 1 (0.098%) Xen
Systems Management
1 147 (14.38%) Kubernetes
2 77 (7.53%) Ansible
3 75 (7.34%) Terraform
4 40 (3.91%) Grafana
5 33 (3.23%) Prometheus
6 30 (2.94%) OPNET
7 23 (2.25%) Nessus
8 15 (1.47%) HP ALM
9 14 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
10 13 (1.27%) Control-M
10 13 (1.27%) NetBackup
11 10 (0.98%) IBM Guardium
11 10 (0.98%) Proxmox
11 10 (0.98%) Puppet
11 10 (0.98%) SCCM
12 8 (0.78%) Argo
13 6 (0.59%) RSA Archer
14 5 (0.49%) Istio
14 5 (0.49%) Kibana
14 5 (0.49%) SCOM
Vendors
1 142 (13.89%) ServiceNow
2 132 (12.92%) Microsoft
3 113 (11.06%) Oracle
4 86 (8.41%) Atlassian
5 41 (4.01%) Salesforce
6 37 (3.62%) Remedy
7 36 (3.52%) SAP
7 36 (3.52%) Talend
8 35 (3.42%) IBM
9 32 (3.13%) Denodo
10 26 (2.54%) CyberArk
10 26 (2.54%) Google
11 23 (2.25%) HP
12 20 (1.96%) Red Hat
13 19 (1.86%) Splunk
14 18 (1.76%) BiZZdesign
15 17 (1.66%) VMware
16 14 (1.37%) Thycotic
17 13 (1.27%) Commvault
17 13 (1.27%) Tenable