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 9 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 46 47
Rank change year-on-year +11 +1 -13
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,584 1,743 2,551
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 5.40% 4.03% 4.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.09% 33.40% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,069 1,109 1,725
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £406 £425 £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 £713 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £489
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.30% -1.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 100 61
10th Percentile £16.84 £25.91 £39.60
25th Percentile £38.75 £40.00 £54.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -7.26% +39.33%
75th Percentile £69.06 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.25 - £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% +2.77%

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 4,271 5,219 7,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.56% 12.05% 14.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,850 3,482 5,606
10th Percentile £338 £353 £375
25th Percentile £410 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £596 £625 £660
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 229 222
10th Percentile £20.41 £30.60 £45.12
25th Percentile £46.92 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £59.00 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.23% +5.69% +18.27%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £83.28 £75.70 £82.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +5.69% +11.82%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +12 1,300 £500 -4.76% 2,078
UK excluding London +8 741 £475 -5.00% 1,526
London +15 647 £516 -3.46% 889
Work from Home +6 547 £485 -3.00% 1,164
North of England +25 213 £446 -10.80% 308
South East +17 160 £480 +6.67% 588
Midlands +35 127 £475 +4.68% 185
North West +17 118 £420 -16.83% 174
Scotland -13 112 £450 -10.00% 104
West Midlands +65 104 £475 -5.00% 124
South West -11 89 £575 +6.98% 156
Yorkshire +25 86 £500 +11.11% 93
East of England +14 34 £463 -8.64% 135
East Midlands -9 22 £463 +3.93% 49
North East +7 15 £550 +0.69% 44
Wales +2 9 £475 -7.54% 29
Northern Ireland - 6 £588 - 34

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
1 691 (43.62%) Confluence
2 69 (4.36%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.77%) Apache
4 26 (1.64%) JBoss
5 18 (1.14%) Apache Spark
5 18 (1.14%) CMS
5 18 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
6 17 (1.07%) nginx
7 16 (1.01%) Tomcat
8 9 (0.57%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.51%) Camunda
10 7 (0.44%) Drupal
11 6 (0.38%) Jupyter
11 6 (0.38%) WebLogic
11 6 (0.38%) WordPress
12 5 (0.32%) Mendix
13 4 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
13 4 (0.25%) Headless CMS
13 4 (0.25%) IIS
13 4 (0.25%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 97 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
2 94 (5.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 69 (4.36%) Trello
4 68 (4.29%) Microsoft Project
5 67 (4.23%) MS Visio
6 46 (2.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 5 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.13%) InVision
9 2 (0.13%) Notion
9 2 (0.13%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.063%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.063%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.063%) CATIA
10 1 (0.063%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.063%) Open Workbench
10 1 (0.063%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 21 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.25%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.25%) Primavera
3 4 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.25%) Shopify
4 3 (0.19%) Magento
4 3 (0.19%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.19%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.13%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.13%) MultiFonds
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.13%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.13%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.13%) SAP IBP
5 2 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 305 (19.26%) AWS
2 291 (18.37%) Azure
3 145 (9.15%) Azure DevOps
4 111 (7.01%) Power Platform
5 104 (6.57%) GitHub
6 74 (4.67%) GCP
7 50 (3.16%) SaaS
8 42 (2.65%) IaaS
8 42 (2.65%) PowerApps
9 39 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
9 39 (2.46%) Serverless
10 37 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
11 35 (2.21%) Power Automate
12 33 (2.08%) Miro
13 30 (1.89%) Amazon S3
14 29 (1.83%) OpenShift
15 25 (1.58%) AWS CloudFormation
16 24 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
17 23 (1.45%) Asana
17 23 (1.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 54 (3.41%) DNS
2 44 (2.78%) Firewall
3 29 (1.83%) HTTP
3 29 (1.83%) VPN
4 22 (1.39%) DHCP
5 21 (1.33%) TCP/IP
6 15 (0.95%) SAN
7 14 (0.88%) Network Security
8 12 (0.76%) SMTP
8 12 (0.76%) Unified Communications
9 11 (0.69%) SSH
9 11 (0.69%) SSL
10 10 (0.63%) BGP
10 10 (0.63%) VLAN
11 9 (0.57%) Kerberos
12 8 (0.51%) Cisco ISE
12 8 (0.51%) iSCSI
12 8 (0.51%) MPLS
12 8 (0.51%) SNMP
12 8 (0.51%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (5.18%) Power BI
2 57 (3.60%) Relational Database
3 47 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
4 46 (2.90%) SQL Server
5 37 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
6 34 (2.15%) NoSQL
7 33 (2.08%) Oracle Database
8 27 (1.70%) MySQL
9 26 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
10 23 (1.45%) Tableau
11 22 (1.39%) MongoDB
12 21 (1.33%) Big Data
12 21 (1.33%) Data Lake
13 16 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
13 16 (1.01%) BigQuery
14 15 (0.95%) RDBMS
15 14 (0.88%) Delta Lake
16 11 (0.69%) Apache Hive
16 11 (0.69%) Hadoop
17 10 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 262 (16.54%) Git
2 176 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 88 (5.56%) Bitbucket
4 86 (5.43%) Selenium
5 80 (5.05%) GitLab
6 54 (3.41%) Postman
7 44 (2.78%) REST Assured
8 39 (2.46%) Cucumber
8 39 (2.46%) Subversion
9 36 (2.27%) JUnit
10 34 (2.15%) Cypress.io
10 34 (2.15%) SonarQube
11 32 (2.02%) Maven
12 30 (1.89%) ScriptRunner
12 30 (1.89%) TeamCity
13 29 (1.83%) Visual Studio
14 27 (1.70%) Sonatype Nexus
15 26 (1.64%) Gradle
16 25 (1.58%) TestRail
17 24 (1.52%) JMeter
General
1 616 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 389 (24.56%) Finance
3 293 (18.50%) Analytical Skills
4 174 (10.98%) Banking
5 139 (8.78%) Public Sector
6 35 (2.21%) Front Office
7 34 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
8 32 (2.02%) Retail
9 31 (1.96%) Marketing
10 30 (1.89%) Investment Banking
11 26 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (1.39%) Automotive
12 22 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 22 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
12 22 (1.39%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
13 20 (1.26%) Telecoms
14 19 (1.20%) Back Office
14 19 (1.20%) Law
14 19 (1.20%) Legal
Job Titles
1 292 (18.43%) Analyst
2 223 (14.08%) Developer
3 183 (11.55%) Business Analyst
4 138 (8.71%) Senior
5 127 (8.02%) Project Manager
6 104 (6.57%) Lead
7 73 (4.61%) Tester
8 53 (3.35%) Delivery Manager
9 50 (3.16%) Architect
10 47 (2.97%) Consultant
10 47 (2.97%) Software Engineer
11 39 (2.46%) Scrum Master
12 38 (2.40%) DevOps Engineer
13 37 (2.34%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 36 (2.27%) Test Analyst
14 36 (2.27%) Test Engineer
15 34 (2.15%) Technical Analyst
16 33 (2.08%) Administrator
17 31 (1.96%) Java Developer
18 30 (1.89%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (9.47%) REST
2 74 (4.67%) SOAP
3 70 (4.42%) AngularJS
4 57 (3.60%) .NET
5 54 (3.41%) HTML
5 54 (3.41%) Spring Boot
6 52 (3.28%) CSS
7 48 (3.03%) Kafka
8 44 (2.78%) Spring
9 43 (2.71%) React
9 43 (2.71%) Web Services
10 42 (2.65%) RESTful
11 29 (1.83%) XML
12 27 (1.70%) Node.js
13 25 (1.58%) Java EE
13 25 (1.58%) JSON
14 24 (1.52%) Playwright
15 19 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
16 18 (1.14%) Middleware
17 17 (1.07%) Reactive Extensions
Miscellaneous
1 138 (8.71%) Product Ownership
2 43 (2.71%) Onboarding
3 37 (2.34%) Virtual Team
4 31 (1.96%) Data Centre
5 30 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
5 30 (1.89%) Data Structures
5 30 (1.89%) Management Information System
6 26 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
6 26 (1.64%) SCADA
7 23 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (1.14%) Cloud Native
9 18 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 18 (1.14%) Mobile App
10 17 (1.07%) PKI
10 17 (1.07%) Public Cloud
11 16 (1.01%) Clustering
11 16 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
12 15 (0.95%) Derivative
13 13 (0.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 142 (8.96%) Linux
2 132 (8.33%) Windows
3 45 (2.84%) Unix
4 33 (2.08%) Windows Server
5 27 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (1.14%) Android
7 16 (1.01%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.63%) Windows 10
9 9 (0.57%) Mac OS
10 8 (0.51%) CentOS
10 8 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (0.44%) VMS
12 6 (0.38%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.38%) zOS
13 5 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
13 5 (0.32%) Windows Server 2003
14 4 (0.25%) Solaris
14 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
15 3 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 927 (58.52%) Agile
2 361 (22.79%) DevOps
3 359 (22.66%) Problem-Solving
4 327 (20.64%) Scrum
5 279 (17.61%) Project Management
6 265 (16.73%) Stakeholder Management
7 221 (13.95%) CI/CD
8 210 (13.26%) Test Automation
9 174 (10.98%) Migration
10 153 (9.66%) Continuous Improvement
11 140 (8.84%) User Stories
12 137 (8.65%) Waterfall
13 121 (7.64%) Roadmaps
14 120 (7.58%) Validation
15 117 (7.39%) Decision-Making
16 116 (7.32%) Microservices
17 112 (7.07%) Service Management
18 110 (6.94%) Kanban
19 106 (6.69%) Project Delivery
20 105 (6.63%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 283 (17.87%) SQL
2 234 (14.77%) Java
3 218 (13.76%) Python
4 119 (7.51%) JavaScript
5 101 (6.38%) C#
6 62 (3.91%) PowerShell
6 62 (3.91%) TypeScript
7 58 (3.66%) Bash
8 45 (2.84%) PL/SQL
9 43 (2.71%) Groovy
10 38 (2.40%) Shell Script
11 26 (1.64%) Perl
12 25 (1.58%) C++
13 16 (1.01%) Scala
14 14 (0.88%) C
15 13 (0.82%) Go
15 13 (0.82%) Kotlin
16 11 (0.69%) Delphi
16 11 (0.69%) ProC
17 8 (0.51%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 305 (19.26%) Security Cleared
2 271 (17.11%) SC Cleared
3 195 (12.31%) Degree
4 56 (3.54%) PMI Certification
5 51 (3.22%) PMP
6 44 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
7 29 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
7 29 (1.83%) ISTQB
8 28 (1.77%) Master's Degree
9 23 (1.45%) DV Cleared
9 23 (1.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 20 (1.26%) AWS Certification
11 18 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
11 18 (1.14%) CCNP
12 16 (1.01%) ISEB
13 14 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
14 13 (0.82%) CBAP
14 13 (0.82%) CCNA
15 11 (0.69%) CISSP
15 11 (0.69%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (8.71%) QA
2 47 (2.97%) PMO
3 46 (2.90%) Accessibility
4 33 (2.08%) Data Quality
5 27 (1.70%) GDPR
6 14 (0.88%) SLA
7 11 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.51%) MiFID
9 8 (0.51%) SEPA
10 7 (0.44%) GxP
10 7 (0.44%) ISO 20022
10 7 (0.44%) NIST
10 7 (0.44%) SOC 2
11 6 (0.38%) EMIR
12 5 (0.32%) WCAG
13 4 (0.25%) NCSC
14 3 (0.19%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 116 (7.32%) Docker
2 58 (3.66%) Active Directory
3 49 (3.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (0.82%) Hyper-V
5 13 (0.82%) VMware NSX
6 12 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
7 10 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
9 7 (0.44%) vSphere
10 6 (0.38%) Firmware
11 5 (0.32%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 4 (0.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 3 (0.19%) Lustre
13 3 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.19%) VirtualBox
14 2 (0.13%) BitLocker
14 2 (0.13%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.13%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 127 (8.02%) Kubernetes
2 97 (6.12%) Terraform
3 90 (5.68%) Ansible
4 32 (2.02%) Progress Chef
5 26 (1.64%) HP ALM
6 23 (1.45%) Puppet
7 21 (1.33%) vCenter Server
8 19 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (1.01%) Podman
10 14 (0.88%) Grafana
10 14 (0.88%) Kibana
10 14 (0.88%) Tivoli
11 13 (0.82%) Packer
12 11 (0.69%) Consul
12 11 (0.69%) Prometheus
13 9 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
13 9 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
14 8 (0.51%) Control-M
14 8 (0.51%) FortiGate
15 6 (0.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 197 (12.44%) Microsoft
2 159 (10.04%) Oracle
3 141 (8.90%) Atlassian
4 123 (7.77%) ServiceNow
5 65 (4.10%) VMware
6 58 (3.66%) Cisco
6 58 (3.66%) SAP
7 55 (3.47%) Google
8 38 (2.40%) Salesforce
9 34 (2.15%) IBM
10 33 (2.08%) Red Hat
11 32 (2.02%) Splunk
12 31 (1.96%) HP
13 21 (1.33%) CA Agile Central
14 18 (1.14%) Citrix
15 17 (1.07%) Databricks
16 16 (1.01%) AppDynamics
17 15 (0.95%) Adobe
17 15 (0.95%) CheckPoint
17 15 (0.95%) Dell