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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 43 47
Rank change year-on-year +9 +4 -14
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,765 1,794 2,564
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 5.54% 4.14% 4.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.07% 33.27% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,208 1,151 1,689
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £588 £613 £625
90th Percentile £675 £706 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £493
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.52% -1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 108 67
10th Percentile £16.84 £25.78 £40.92
25th Percentile £46.88 £40.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £70.08 £70.00 £73.13
90th Percentile £77.75 - £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £64.69
% change year-on-year -15.38% +0.48% +2.88%

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 4,636 5,392 7,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.56% 12.45% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,105 3,569 5,592
10th Percentile £330 £350 £363
25th Percentile £408 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £650
90th Percentile £692 £725 £758
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 251 237
10th Percentile £21.22 £31.25 £45.71
25th Percentile £47.50 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +15.74%
75th Percentile £73.44 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.44 £85.62
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +10.81%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 6 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 +13 1,471 £500 -4.76% 3,727
UK excluding London +8 838 £475 -5.00% 2,089
London +18 726 £520 -2.16% 1,886
Work from Home +5 572 £475 -5.00% 1,762
North of England +17 256 £465 -7.00% 514
South East +17 184 £489 +8.61% 540
Midlands +37 135 £475 +4.97% 313
North West +13 132 £425 -15.42% 280
Scotland -4 126 £450 -8.81% 142
Yorkshire +25 113 £493 +2.60% 206
West Midlands +54 105 £475 -9.31% 194
South West -13 89 £570 +6.05% 272
East of England +12 40 £413 -21.43% 242
East Midlands -10 29 £449 +0.79% 118
North East +5 17 £544 -0.46% 30
Wales 0 7 £475 -7.32% 44
Northern Ireland - 7 £588 - 50

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
1 754 (42.72%) Confluence
2 66 (3.74%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.64%) Apache
3 29 (1.64%) JBoss
4 26 (1.47%) CMS
5 22 (1.25%) nginx
6 17 (0.96%) Tomcat
7 16 (0.91%) Apache Spark
8 14 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.51%) Drupal
9 9 (0.51%) WebSphere
10 8 (0.45%) Camunda
10 8 (0.45%) WordPress
11 6 (0.34%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.28%) Mendix
12 5 (0.28%) OpenStack
13 4 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
13 4 (0.23%) IIS
13 4 (0.23%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.23%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 109 (6.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 95 (5.38%) Microsoft Office
3 87 (4.93%) Microsoft Project
4 74 (4.19%) MS Visio
5 69 (3.91%) Trello
6 51 (2.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.17%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.11%) InVision
8 2 (0.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 2 (0.11%) Notion
8 2 (0.11%) Simulink
8 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.11%) UserZoom
8 2 (0.11%) Windchill
9 1 (0.057%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.057%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.057%) CATIA
9 1 (0.057%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 22 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
4 7 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.23%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.23%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.23%) Primavera
5 4 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.23%) SAP PM
5 4 (0.23%) Shopify
6 3 (0.17%) Magento
6 3 (0.17%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.17%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.17%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.11%) MultiFonds
7 2 (0.11%) SAP PLM
7 2 (0.11%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.11%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 359 (20.34%) AWS
2 316 (17.90%) Azure
3 153 (8.67%) Azure DevOps
4 124 (7.03%) GitHub
5 102 (5.78%) Power Platform
6 87 (4.93%) GCP
7 58 (3.29%) SaaS
8 54 (3.06%) Serverless
9 42 (2.38%) IaaS
10 39 (2.21%) Amazon S3
11 38 (2.15%) Microsoft 365
11 38 (2.15%) Miro
12 34 (1.93%) OpenShift
13 31 (1.76%) AWS CloudFormation
14 29 (1.64%) Asana
15 28 (1.59%) Power Automate
15 28 (1.59%) PowerApps
16 26 (1.47%) Slack
17 25 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
18 24 (1.36%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 66 (3.74%) DNS
2 50 (2.83%) Firewall
3 36 (2.04%) HTTP
4 33 (1.87%) VPN
5 24 (1.36%) DHCP
6 22 (1.25%) TCP/IP
7 16 (0.91%) SSL
8 15 (0.85%) SMTP
9 14 (0.79%) SAN
9 14 (0.79%) SSH
10 13 (0.74%) Network Security
11 12 (0.68%) BGP
11 12 (0.68%) Unified Communications
12 10 (0.57%) MPLS
12 10 (0.57%) VLAN
13 8 (0.45%) Cisco ISE
13 8 (0.45%) IPsec
13 8 (0.45%) Kerberos
13 8 (0.45%) SNMP
13 8 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (4.53%) Power BI
2 55 (3.12%) SQL Server
3 51 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
4 50 (2.83%) Relational Database
5 40 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
6 36 (2.04%) NoSQL
7 32 (1.81%) Oracle Database
8 31 (1.76%) Tableau
9 30 (1.70%) Big Data
10 29 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
10 29 (1.64%) MySQL
11 24 (1.36%) MongoDB
12 21 (1.19%) Data Lake
13 19 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
14 18 (1.02%) BigQuery
15 17 (0.96%) RDBMS
16 12 (0.68%) Delta Lake
17 10 (0.57%) Hadoop
17 10 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 10 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 287 (16.26%) Git
2 198 (11.22%) Jenkins
3 101 (5.72%) Bitbucket
4 93 (5.27%) Selenium
5 92 (5.21%) GitLab
6 61 (3.46%) Postman
7 51 (2.89%) Cucumber
8 46 (2.61%) JUnit
9 42 (2.38%) REST Assured
10 41 (2.32%) SonarQube
11 40 (2.27%) Subversion
12 39 (2.21%) Maven
13 36 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
14 35 (1.98%) Cypress.io
15 34 (1.93%) TeamCity
16 33 (1.87%) Visual Studio
17 31 (1.76%) SoapUI
18 30 (1.70%) ScriptRunner
19 29 (1.64%) Zephyr
20 27 (1.53%) Gradle
General
1 705 (39.94%) Social Skills
2 449 (25.44%) Finance
3 315 (17.85%) Analytical Skills
4 193 (10.93%) Banking
5 155 (8.78%) Public Sector
6 42 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
7 41 (2.32%) Front Office
8 38 (2.15%) Retail
9 35 (1.98%) Marketing
10 32 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
10 32 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
11 30 (1.70%) Investment Banking
12 27 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 27 (1.53%) Legal
13 25 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
14 22 (1.25%) Manufacturing
15 20 (1.13%) Automotive
15 20 (1.13%) Back Office
16 19 (1.08%) Law
17 18 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 327 (18.53%) Analyst
2 243 (13.77%) Developer
3 199 (11.27%) Business Analyst
4 153 (8.67%) Senior
5 147 (8.33%) Project Manager
6 114 (6.46%) Lead
7 79 (4.48%) Tester
8 63 (3.57%) Architect
9 59 (3.34%) Delivery Manager
10 52 (2.95%) DevOps Engineer
11 48 (2.72%) Administrator
11 48 (2.72%) Test Analyst
12 46 (2.61%) Consultant
13 44 (2.49%) Software Engineer
14 42 (2.38%) Java Developer
15 39 (2.21%) Scrum Master
16 36 (2.04%) Technical Analyst
16 36 (2.04%) Test Engineer
16 36 (2.04%) Test Manager
17 33 (1.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (8.90%) REST
2 89 (5.04%) AngularJS
3 78 (4.42%) SOAP
4 67 (3.80%) .NET
5 66 (3.74%) HTML
5 66 (3.74%) Spring Boot
6 61 (3.46%) React
7 60 (3.40%) CSS
8 58 (3.29%) Kafka
9 52 (2.95%) RESTful
10 49 (2.78%) Web Services
11 48 (2.72%) Spring
12 40 (2.27%) XML
13 35 (1.98%) Node.js
14 30 (1.70%) JSON
15 28 (1.59%) Playwright
16 25 (1.42%) Java EE
17 24 (1.36%) Middleware
18 23 (1.30%) LDAP
19 20 (1.13%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 168 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 51 (2.89%) Onboarding
3 44 (2.49%) Virtual Team
4 38 (2.15%) Data Centre
5 36 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
6 33 (1.87%) Management Information System
7 32 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
8 31 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
9 29 (1.64%) SCADA
10 25 (1.42%) Data Structures
10 25 (1.42%) Public Cloud
11 24 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
11 24 (1.36%) Mobile App
12 22 (1.25%) Cloud Native
13 19 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
13 19 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 18 (1.02%) PKI
15 17 (0.96%) Life Science
16 16 (0.91%) Derivative
17 15 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 168 (9.52%) Linux
2 151 (8.56%) Windows
3 53 (3.00%) Unix
4 30 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 29 (1.64%) Windows Server
6 17 (0.96%) Android
7 14 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 14 (0.79%) CentOS
8 11 (0.62%) VMS
8 11 (0.62%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.57%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
11 7 (0.40%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.34%) zOS
13 5 (0.28%) Windows Server 2003
14 4 (0.23%) Debian
14 4 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
15 3 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,060 (60.06%) Agile
2 402 (22.78%) DevOps
3 397 (22.49%) Problem-Solving
4 389 (22.04%) Scrum
5 297 (16.83%) Project Management
6 287 (16.26%) Stakeholder Management
7 259 (14.67%) CI/CD
8 242 (13.71%) Test Automation
9 219 (12.41%) Migration
10 181 (10.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 170 (9.63%) User Stories
12 144 (8.16%) Microservices
13 142 (8.05%) Roadmaps
13 142 (8.05%) Waterfall
14 140 (7.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 139 (7.88%) SDLC
16 136 (7.71%) Validation
17 134 (7.59%) Kanban
18 129 (7.31%) User Acceptance Testing
19 123 (6.97%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 302 (17.11%) SQL
2 264 (14.96%) Java
3 257 (14.56%) Python
4 143 (8.10%) JavaScript
5 99 (5.61%) C#
6 79 (4.48%) TypeScript
7 70 (3.97%) PowerShell
8 60 (3.40%) Bash
9 48 (2.72%) Groovy
10 40 (2.27%) PL/SQL
10 40 (2.27%) Shell Script
11 33 (1.87%) Perl
12 24 (1.36%) C++
13 18 (1.02%) Go
14 15 (0.85%) C
15 14 (0.79%) Scala
16 11 (0.62%) ProC
17 10 (0.57%) Apex Code
18 9 (0.51%) Kotlin
18 9 (0.51%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 319 (18.07%) Security Cleared
2 284 (16.09%) SC Cleared
3 221 (12.52%) Degree
4 63 (3.57%) PMI Certification
5 57 (3.23%) PMP
6 52 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
7 37 (2.10%) ISTQB
8 28 (1.59%) Master's Degree
9 27 (1.53%) DV Cleared
10 25 (1.42%) CISSP
11 24 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
13 22 (1.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 18 (1.02%) AWS Certification
15 16 (0.91%) ISEB
16 15 (0.85%) CBAP
16 15 (0.85%) CCNP
16 15 (0.85%) CISM
17 13 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
17 13 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (10.54%) QA
2 52 (2.95%) PMO
3 45 (2.55%) GDPR
4 43 (2.44%) Accessibility
5 40 (2.27%) Data Quality
6 24 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.13%) NIST
7 20 (1.13%) PCI DSS
8 18 (1.02%) SLA
9 17 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.62%) MiFID
11 9 (0.51%) COBIT
12 8 (0.45%) EMIR
12 8 (0.45%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.45%) SEPA
13 7 (0.40%) GxP
13 7 (0.40%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.34%) NIST 800
14 6 (0.34%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.34%) WCAG
System Software
1 129 (7.31%) Docker
2 65 (3.68%) Active Directory
3 46 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 24 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (0.74%) Hyper-V
6 12 (0.68%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
8 9 (0.51%) vSphere
9 8 (0.45%) Firmware
10 6 (0.34%) DFS Replication
11 5 (0.28%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 5 (0.28%) VirtualBox
12 4 (0.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 3 (0.17%) Lustre
13 3 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.11%) Dovecot
14 2 (0.11%) Postfix
14 2 (0.11%) Squid
Systems Management
1 144 (8.16%) Kubernetes
2 127 (7.20%) Terraform
3 103 (5.84%) Ansible
4 39 (2.21%) Progress Chef
5 33 (1.87%) HP ALM
6 27 (1.53%) Puppet
7 25 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (1.19%) Grafana
9 20 (1.13%) vCenter Server
10 18 (1.02%) Prometheus
11 17 (0.96%) Packer
12 16 (0.91%) Kibana
12 16 (0.91%) Podman
13 15 (0.85%) Consul
14 13 (0.74%) Tivoli
15 9 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
16 8 (0.45%) FortiGate
17 7 (0.40%) Control-M
17 7 (0.40%) SCCM
18 6 (0.34%) WSUS
Vendors
1 223 (12.63%) Microsoft
2 164 (9.29%) ServiceNow
3 163 (9.24%) Oracle
4 129 (7.31%) Atlassian
5 70 (3.97%) Google
6 64 (3.63%) SAP
7 63 (3.57%) VMware
8 59 (3.34%) Salesforce
9 55 (3.12%) Cisco
10 43 (2.44%) HP
11 39 (2.21%) Splunk
12 36 (2.04%) IBM
13 34 (1.93%) Red Hat
14 23 (1.30%) CA Agile Central
15 19 (1.08%) Citrix
16 18 (1.02%) AppDynamics
17 17 (0.96%) CheckPoint
17 17 (0.96%) CyberArk
18 15 (0.85%) Dell
18 15 (0.85%) MuleSoft