JIRA Contracts

Atlassian JIRA
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 37 44 45
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 -8
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,513 1,763 2,882
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 5.18% 4.04% 4.83%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.91% 34.06% 31.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,007 1,112 1,986
10th Percentile £318 £350 £333
25th Percentile £405 £425 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +0.96%
75th Percentile £587 £625 £633
90th Percentile £675 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £507 £488
% change year-on-year -4.39% +4.05% +1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 74 51
10th Percentile £46.20 £22.90 £39.60
25th Percentile £52.50 £40.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £57.75 £45.44 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.09% -30.09% +46.07%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £78.08 £70.00 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.13 £53.75 £66.69
% change year-on-year +10.00% -19.40% +24.64%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,099 5,176 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.87% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,476 6,340
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 195 246
10th Percentile £26.77 £32.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.30 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.38 £81.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the UK

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA in the UK

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the UK

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JIRA.

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in the UK

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in the UK

JIRA
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 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
England +13 1,231 £500 -4.76% 1,118
UK excluding London +11 703 £485 -4.39% 672
London +8 622 £500 -9.09% 496
Work from Home +6 539 £475 -5.00% 745
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% 110
Yorkshire +36 91 £500 +11.11% 42
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
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:

Application Platforms
1 671 (44.35%) Confluence
2 84 (5.55%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.32%) Apache
4 17 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (0.99%) Apache Spark
5 15 (0.99%) JBoss
6 14 (0.93%) CMS
7 10 (0.66%) nginx
8 9 (0.59%) Jupyter
8 9 (0.59%) SAS
9 7 (0.46%) Drupal
10 6 (0.40%) Camunda
10 6 (0.40%) Tomcat
11 5 (0.33%) IIS
11 5 (0.33%) Mendix
11 5 (0.33%) WebLogic
11 5 (0.33%) WordPress
12 4 (0.26%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.26%) SharePoint Server
12 4 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 109 (7.20%) Microsoft Office
2 97 (6.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 69 (4.56%) MS Visio
4 68 (4.49%) Microsoft Project
5 64 (4.23%) Trello
6 50 (3.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.26%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.13%) InVision
9 2 (0.13%) Notion
9 2 (0.13%) Open Workbench
9 2 (0.13%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.066%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.066%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.066%) CATIA
10 1 (0.066%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 21 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
4 4 (0.26%) Shopify
5 3 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.20%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.20%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
6 2 (0.13%) Finacle
6 2 (0.13%) Kondor
6 2 (0.13%) MultiFonds
6 2 (0.13%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.13%) SAP CX
6 2 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.13%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
7 1 (0.066%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 270 (17.85%) AWS
2 267 (17.65%) Azure
3 133 (8.79%) Azure DevOps
4 116 (7.67%) Power Platform
5 94 (6.21%) GitHub
6 65 (4.30%) GCP
7 48 (3.17%) SaaS
8 44 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
8 44 (2.91%) PowerApps
9 41 (2.71%) Dynamics 365
10 40 (2.64%) IaaS
11 35 (2.31%) Serverless
12 34 (2.25%) Power Automate
13 33 (2.18%) Slack
14 30 (1.98%) Cloud Computing
15 29 (1.92%) Miro
16 24 (1.59%) PaaS
17 23 (1.52%) Amazon S3
17 23 (1.52%) Asana
17 23 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.12%) HTTP
2 31 (2.05%) Firewall
3 29 (1.92%) DNS
4 19 (1.26%) VPN
5 17 (1.12%) DHCP
6 16 (1.06%) TCP/IP
7 13 (0.86%) Network Security
8 12 (0.79%) Software-Defined Radio
9 11 (0.73%) SAN
9 11 (0.73%) SNMP
10 10 (0.66%) SSH
11 9 (0.59%) Kerberos
12 8 (0.53%) NAS
12 8 (0.53%) SMTP
13 6 (0.40%) Internet
13 6 (0.40%) iSCSI
13 6 (0.40%) POP3
13 6 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
13 6 (0.40%) SSL
14 5 (0.33%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (5.95%) Power BI
2 66 (4.36%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (3.64%) Relational Database
4 48 (3.17%) MySQL
5 47 (3.11%) SQL Server
6 43 (2.84%) MongoDB
7 32 (2.12%) NoSQL
8 31 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
9 29 (1.92%) Tableau
10 28 (1.85%) Oracle Database
11 23 (1.52%) Apache Cassandra
12 22 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
13 18 (1.19%) Big Data
14 15 (0.99%) Data Lake
15 14 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
16 12 (0.79%) Apache Hive
17 10 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
17 10 (0.66%) BigQuery
17 10 (0.66%) Hadoop
17 10 (0.66%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 257 (16.99%) Git
2 172 (11.37%) Jenkins
3 96 (6.35%) Bitbucket
4 82 (5.42%) Selenium
5 76 (5.02%) GitLab
6 63 (4.16%) Cucumber
7 61 (4.03%) Postman
8 47 (3.11%) REST Assured
9 41 (2.71%) JUnit
10 36 (2.38%) Visual Studio
11 35 (2.31%) Cypress.io
12 34 (2.25%) SonarQube
13 32 (2.12%) Subversion
14 28 (1.85%) ScriptRunner
15 27 (1.78%) TeamCity
16 26 (1.72%) JMeter
17 24 (1.59%) Maven
17 24 (1.59%) TestRail
18 22 (1.45%) GoogleTest
19 19 (1.26%) SoapUI
General
1 553 (36.55%) Social Skills
2 376 (24.85%) Finance
3 262 (17.32%) Analytical Skills
4 158 (10.44%) Banking
5 146 (9.65%) Public Sector
6 42 (2.78%) Marketing
7 35 (2.31%) Investment Banking
8 31 (2.05%) Front Office
9 30 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
10 28 (1.85%) Manufacturing
11 27 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 26 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
13 24 (1.59%) Retail
14 23 (1.52%) Automotive
15 22 (1.45%) Legal
15 22 (1.45%) Telecoms
16 20 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
17 19 (1.26%) Law
18 18 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
18 18 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 281 (18.57%) Analyst
2 220 (14.54%) Developer
3 165 (10.91%) Business Analyst
4 157 (10.38%) Senior
5 122 (8.06%) Project Manager
6 112 (7.40%) Lead
7 67 (4.43%) Tester
8 57 (3.77%) Software Engineer
9 51 (3.37%) Delivery Manager
10 44 (2.91%) Scrum Master
11 43 (2.84%) Consultant
12 42 (2.78%) Architect
13 40 (2.64%) Java Developer
13 40 (2.64%) Test Engineer
14 36 (2.38%) DevOps Engineer
15 31 (2.05%) Senior Developer
15 31 (2.05%) Technical Manager
15 31 (2.05%) Test Analyst
16 30 (1.98%) Data Engineer
16 30 (1.98%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (8.99%) REST
2 70 (4.63%) SOAP
3 60 (3.97%) Spring Boot
4 54 (3.57%) AngularJS
5 52 (3.44%) HTML
6 49 (3.24%) RESTful
7 48 (3.17%) .NET
7 48 (3.17%) CSS
7 48 (3.17%) Spring
8 41 (2.71%) Kafka
9 35 (2.31%) Swagger
9 35 (2.31%) Web Services
10 30 (1.98%) React
11 29 (1.92%) JSON
12 28 (1.85%) OpenAPI
13 27 (1.78%) XML
14 25 (1.65%) Java EE
15 21 (1.39%) Node.js
16 19 (1.26%) LDAP
17 18 (1.19%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 138 (9.12%) Product Ownership
2 47 (3.11%) Onboarding
3 31 (2.05%) Virtual Team
4 29 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
5 26 (1.72%) Data Centre
5 26 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
6 24 (1.59%) Data Structures
7 23 (1.52%) Management Information System
8 20 (1.32%) Mobile App
9 19 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (1.26%) SCADA
10 18 (1.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 16 (1.06%) Clustering
12 15 (0.99%) Public Cloud
13 14 (0.93%) Cloud Native
14 13 (0.86%) Mainframe
14 13 (0.86%) Reference Data
14 13 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
16 11 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 151 (9.98%) Linux
2 129 (8.53%) Windows
3 46 (3.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 43 (2.84%) Unix
5 30 (1.98%) Windows Server
6 17 (1.12%) Android
7 15 (0.99%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.86%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.66%) Windows 10
10 9 (0.59%) Embedded Linux
11 8 (0.53%) CentOS
11 8 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
13 6 (0.40%) zOS
14 5 (0.33%) VMS
15 4 (0.26%) Solaris
15 4 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
16 2 (0.13%) Debian
16 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
17 1 (0.066%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 874 (57.77%) Agile
2 359 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
3 343 (22.67%) DevOps
4 296 (19.56%) Scrum
5 272 (17.98%) Project Management
6 259 (17.12%) Stakeholder Management
7 219 (14.47%) Test Automation
8 217 (14.34%) CI/CD
9 153 (10.11%) Continuous Improvement
10 145 (9.58%) Migration
11 142 (9.39%) Waterfall
12 136 (8.99%) User Stories
13 118 (7.80%) Kanban
14 111 (7.34%) Decision-Making
15 109 (7.20%) Project Delivery
15 109 (7.20%) Roadmaps
16 106 (7.01%) Software Engineering
17 102 (6.74%) Microservices
18 101 (6.68%) Continuous Integration
19 99 (6.54%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 291 (19.23%) SQL
2 218 (14.41%) Python
3 210 (13.88%) Java
4 111 (7.34%) JavaScript
5 101 (6.68%) C#
6 68 (4.49%) Bash
7 53 (3.50%) PL/SQL
8 51 (3.37%) PowerShell
9 49 (3.24%) TypeScript
10 35 (2.31%) Groovy
11 33 (2.18%) C++
12 26 (1.72%) Shell Script
13 22 (1.45%) Perl
14 16 (1.06%) Delphi
14 16 (1.06%) Scala
15 15 (0.99%) C
16 14 (0.93%) Go
16 14 (0.93%) Kotlin
17 11 (0.73%) ProC
18 8 (0.53%) VBA
Qualifications
1 297 (19.63%) Security Cleared
2 266 (17.58%) SC Cleared
3 183 (12.10%) Degree
4 54 (3.57%) PMI Certification
5 48 (3.17%) PMP
6 43 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (1.78%) ISTQB
8 26 (1.72%) AWS Certification
8 26 (1.72%) Master's Degree
9 22 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 18 (1.19%) DV Cleared
11 17 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
12 16 (1.06%) ISEB
13 15 (0.99%) CBAP
14 14 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 13 (0.86%) CCNA
16 12 (0.79%) Azure Certification
16 12 (0.79%) CISSP
16 12 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (9.72%) QA
2 48 (3.17%) Accessibility
2 48 (3.17%) PMO
3 40 (2.64%) Data Quality
4 35 (2.31%) GDPR
5 13 (0.86%) SLA
6 11 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 9 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.46%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.40%) GxP
9 6 (0.40%) MiFID
9 6 (0.40%) NCSC
9 6 (0.40%) NIST
10 5 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.33%) WCAG
11 4 (0.26%) EMIR
11 4 (0.26%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.20%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.13%) P3O
System Software
1 114 (7.53%) Docker
2 59 (3.90%) Active Directory
3 40 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (0.99%) VMware NSX
6 10 (0.66%) Firmware
7 9 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
8 5 (0.33%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.26%) NFS
9 4 (0.26%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 4 (0.26%) VirtualBox
10 3 (0.20%) Lustre
10 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.13%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.13%) Veritas File System
11 2 (0.13%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 2 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 130 (8.59%) Kubernetes
2 84 (5.55%) Terraform
3 74 (4.89%) Ansible
4 30 (1.98%) Progress Chef
5 22 (1.45%) Puppet
6 21 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (1.32%) vCenter Server
8 18 (1.19%) HP ALM
9 14 (0.93%) Podman
10 13 (0.86%) Kibana
11 12 (0.79%) Grafana
12 10 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
13 9 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
13 9 (0.59%) Packer
13 9 (0.59%) Prometheus
14 8 (0.53%) FortiGate
14 8 (0.53%) SCCM
15 7 (0.46%) Consul
16 6 (0.40%) Opsgenie
16 6 (0.40%) QRadar
Vendors
1 200 (13.22%) Microsoft
2 154 (10.18%) Oracle
3 143 (9.45%) Atlassian
4 92 (6.08%) ServiceNow
5 62 (4.10%) Google
6 59 (3.90%) SAP
7 47 (3.11%) VMware
8 45 (2.97%) Cisco
9 37 (2.45%) Salesforce
10 35 (2.31%) Red Hat
11 34 (2.25%) Splunk
12 30 (1.98%) IBM
13 24 (1.59%) Databricks
14 22 (1.45%) HP
15 18 (1.19%) CA Agile Central
16 16 (1.06%) Adobe
17 14 (0.93%) AppDynamics
18 13 (0.86%) Dell
18 13 (0.86%) Informatica
19 12 (0.79%) Planview