JIRA Agile Contracts

Atlassian JIRA Agile (formerly GreenHopper)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring JIRA Agile skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JIRA Agile over the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 549 583 668
Rank change year-on-year +34 +85 +204
Contract jobs citing JIRA Agile 3 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.005% 0.005%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.062% 0.039% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £365 £374 £388
25th Percentile £373 £391 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £393 £438 £431
Median % change year-on-year -10.29% +1.45% -13.75%
75th Percentile £418 £491 £448
90th Percentile £430 £511 £449
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 - £431
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £54.00
Median hourly rate - - £57.99
75th Percentile - - £61.99
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £57.99

All Development Application Skills
UK

JIRA Agile 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,809 5,146 7,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.69% 12.60% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,238 3,406 5,334
10th Percentile £325 £351 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £595 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 229 233
10th Percentile £23.25 £27.60 £45.18
25th Percentile £50.00 £46.18 £53.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £84.80 £73.80 £87.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year - +5.69% +6.54%

JIRA Agile
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JIRA Agile as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA Agile in the UK

JIRA Agile
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA Agile.

Daily rate trend for JIRA Agile in the UK

JIRA Agile
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA Agile within the UK over the 6 months to 24 July 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
England +36 3 £393 -10.29% 1
UK excluding London - 2 £425 - 1
London +30 1 £360 -17.71%
Work from Home +27 1 £425 -2.86%
North West - 1 - - 1
South East - 1 £425 -
North of England - 1 - - 1

JIRA Agile
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) eggPlant
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Avionics
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) ADO
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) SAP