JIRA Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Atlassian JIRA
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 35 41 46
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 -15
Contract jobs citing JIRA 539 684 1,247
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 5.44% 4.45% 4.82%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.37% 36.75% 31.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 446 865
10th Percentile £313 £345 £325
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £690 £681 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 16 35
10th Percentile £25.17 £10.50 £36.20
25th Percentile £46.25 £36.25 £51.63
Median hourly rate £58.88 £40.00 £66.69
Median % change year-on-year +47.19% -40.02% +49.87%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.70 - £84.99
UK median hourly rate £57.75 £45.44 £65.00
% change year-on-year +27.09% -30.09% +46.07%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

JIRA falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,482 1,861 3,952
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.95% 12.10% 15.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,332 2,835
10th Percentile £340 £360 £395
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
75th Percentile £617 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 42 114
10th Percentile £27.28 £27.62 £45.00
25th Percentile £58.81 £47.06 £54.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £80.38 £90.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.25 - £81.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

JIRA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

JIRA trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing JIRA.

JIRA daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

JIRA daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing JIRA.

JIRA hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing JIRA over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

JIRA hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 218 (40.45%) Confluence
2 34 (6.31%) SharePoint
3 11 (2.04%) CMS
4 6 (1.11%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.11%) JBoss
5 5 (0.93%) Apache
5 5 (0.93%) Drupal
5 5 (0.93%) SAS
6 4 (0.74%) IIS
6 4 (0.74%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.74%) WordPress
7 3 (0.56%) Camunda
7 3 (0.56%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.56%) Oracle Coherence
8 2 (0.37%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.37%) Mendix
8 2 (0.37%) nginx
9 1 (0.19%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 49 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (5.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (5.19%) Trello
3 27 (5.01%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (4.45%) MS Visio
5 9 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.19%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.19%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.19%) CATIA
6 1 (0.19%) InVision
6 1 (0.19%) Notion
6 1 (0.19%) Sketch
6 1 (0.19%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 8 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.37%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.37%) SAP CX
3 2 (0.37%) SAP Hybris
3 2 (0.37%) SimCorp Dimension
3 2 (0.37%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.19%) Actimize
4 1 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.19%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.19%) MultiFonds
4 1 (0.19%) Primavera
4 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.19%) SAP MDM
4 1 (0.19%) SessionCam
4 1 (0.19%) Shopify
4 1 (0.19%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 110 (20.41%) Azure
2 87 (16.14%) AWS
3 54 (10.02%) Power Platform
4 53 (9.83%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (5.75%) GitHub
6 27 (5.01%) PowerApps
7 25 (4.64%) Dynamics 365
8 22 (4.08%) Power Automate
9 17 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (3.15%) SaaS
10 16 (2.97%) Azure Logic Apps
11 15 (2.78%) GCP
12 13 (2.41%) Slack
13 11 (2.04%) Asana
13 11 (2.04%) Miro
14 9 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (1.67%) IaaS
14 9 (1.67%) npm
15 8 (1.48%) Amazon S3
15 8 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.97%) HTTP
2 7 (1.30%) VPN
3 6 (1.11%) Internet
3 6 (1.11%) TCP/IP
4 5 (0.93%) DNS
4 5 (0.93%) SNMP
5 4 (0.74%) DHCP
5 4 (0.74%) Remote Desktop
5 4 (0.74%) SMTP
6 3 (0.56%) Firewall
6 3 (0.56%) Software-Defined Radio
7 2 (0.37%) BGP
7 2 (0.37%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (0.37%) Kerberos
7 2 (0.37%) OSPF
7 2 (0.37%) POP3
7 2 (0.37%) SNA
7 2 (0.37%) SSH
7 2 (0.37%) SSL
7 2 (0.37%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (7.98%) Power BI
2 33 (6.12%) Relational Database
3 26 (4.82%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (4.27%) MySQL
5 20 (3.71%) SQL Server
6 19 (3.53%) MongoDB
7 17 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (1.86%) Big Data
9 9 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
9 9 (1.67%) NoSQL
10 8 (1.48%) Oracle Database
11 7 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (1.11%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.74%) Redis
14 4 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.74%) Tableau
15 3 (0.56%) IBM InfoSphere
15 3 (0.56%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 97 (18.00%) Git
2 53 (9.83%) Jenkins
3 35 (6.49%) GitLab
4 26 (4.82%) Selenium
5 24 (4.45%) Bitbucket
5 24 (4.45%) Visual Studio
6 21 (3.90%) Cucumber
7 19 (3.53%) Postman
7 19 (3.53%) REST Assured
8 18 (3.34%) Cypress.io
8 18 (3.34%) SonarQube
9 17 (3.15%) JUnit
10 14 (2.60%) Subversion
11 10 (1.86%) TeamCity
12 9 (1.67%) JMeter
13 8 (1.48%) Maven
14 7 (1.30%) Bitbucket Server
14 7 (1.30%) ScriptRunner
14 7 (1.30%) webpack
15 6 (1.11%) CA Release Automation
General
1 218 (40.45%) Social Skills
2 113 (20.96%) Finance
3 97 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (12.62%) Public Sector
5 41 (7.61%) Banking
6 19 (3.53%) Front Office
7 18 (3.34%) Marketing
8 17 (3.15%) Manufacturing
9 11 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.04%) Law
10 10 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (1.67%) Legal
11 9 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.48%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.11%) Automotive
13 6 (1.11%) Back Office
13 6 (1.11%) Military
13 6 (1.11%) Retail
13 6 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 108 (20.04%) Developer
2 91 (16.88%) Analyst
3 57 (10.58%) Business Analyst
4 41 (7.61%) Project Manager
5 40 (7.42%) Senior
6 39 (7.24%) Lead
7 23 (4.27%) Tester
8 21 (3.90%) C# Developer
9 20 (3.71%) Software Engineer
10 18 (3.34%) Scrum Master
11 17 (3.15%) Delivery Manager
12 16 (2.97%) Java Developer
13 15 (2.78%) .NET Developer
13 15 (2.78%) C# Developer - Electronic Trading
13 15 (2.78%) Data Analyst
13 15 (2.78%) Electronic Trading Developer
13 15 (2.78%) Real Time Developer
14 14 (2.60%) Delphi Developer
15 13 (2.41%) C# .NET Developer
15 13 (2.41%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (11.32%) REST
2 43 (7.98%) AngularJS
3 34 (6.31%) SOAP
4 32 (5.94%) .NET
5 28 (5.19%) HTML
6 27 (5.01%) CSS
7 22 (4.08%) Spring Boot
8 21 (3.90%) Web Services
9 19 (3.53%) Kafka
10 17 (3.15%) RESTful
11 15 (2.78%) React
11 15 (2.78%) Reactive Extensions
11 15 (2.78%) Spring
11 15 (2.78%) Swagger
12 12 (2.23%) OpenAPI
13 10 (1.86%) Flash
13 10 (1.86%) Java EE
13 10 (1.86%) Node.js
13 10 (1.86%) Playwright
14 8 (1.48%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 53 (9.83%) Product Ownership
2 20 (3.71%) Onboarding
3 16 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (2.04%) Clustering
5 11 (2.04%) Virtual Team
6 9 (1.67%) Data Structures
6 9 (1.67%) SCADA
7 8 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (1.11%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.11%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 6 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.11%) Mainframe
8 6 (1.11%) Public Cloud
9 5 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (0.93%) Fixed Income
9 5 (0.93%) Management Information System
9 5 (0.93%) Mobile App
9 5 (0.93%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 48 (8.91%) Windows
2 45 (8.35%) Linux
3 17 (3.15%) Unix
4 15 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (1.86%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.56%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.56%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.37%) Android
7 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.37%) zOS
8 1 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.19%) Solaris
8 1 (0.19%) VMS
8 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (58.07%) Agile
2 125 (23.19%) DevOps
3 108 (20.04%) Problem-Solving
4 103 (19.11%) Scrum
5 95 (17.63%) Stakeholder Management
6 84 (15.58%) Project Management
7 81 (15.03%) CI/CD
8 64 (11.87%) Test Automation
9 61 (11.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 50 (9.28%) User Stories
11 47 (8.72%) Kanban
12 46 (8.53%) Sprint Planning
13 44 (8.16%) Microservices
14 43 (7.98%) Business Intelligence
15 41 (7.61%) Waterfall
16 40 (7.42%) Software Engineering
17 39 (7.24%) Acceptance Criteria
17 39 (7.24%) SDLC
17 39 (7.24%) Service Management
18 38 (7.05%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 127 (23.56%) SQL
2 89 (16.51%) Java
3 72 (13.36%) C#
4 64 (11.87%) Python
5 61 (11.32%) JavaScript
6 34 (6.31%) TypeScript
7 29 (5.38%) PL/SQL
8 19 (3.53%) Bash
9 18 (3.34%) PowerShell
10 14 (2.60%) Delphi
10 14 (2.60%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.67%) Groovy
12 8 (1.48%) C++
13 6 (1.11%) C
14 5 (0.93%) PHP
15 4 (0.74%) Perl
15 4 (0.74%) ProC
15 4 (0.74%) Ruby
15 4 (0.74%) VBScript
16 3 (0.56%) JCL
Qualifications
1 122 (22.63%) Security Cleared
2 115 (21.34%) SC Cleared
3 55 (10.20%) Degree
4 18 (3.34%) PMI Certification
5 15 (2.78%) PMP
6 13 (2.41%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.04%) CCNA
7 11 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (2.04%) ISTQB
7 11 (2.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 8 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.11%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.74%) CSPO
10 4 (0.74%) ISEB
10 4 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.56%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (9.46%) QA
2 27 (5.01%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.60%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.41%) PMO
5 8 (1.48%) GDPR
6 5 (0.93%) MiFID
7 4 (0.74%) EMIR
7 4 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.56%) SLA
9 2 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.37%) GxP
9 2 (0.37%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.37%) NCSC
9 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.37%) WCAG
10 1 (0.19%) AUTOSAR
10 1 (0.19%) Basel III
10 1 (0.19%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 46 (8.53%) Docker
2 23 (4.27%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.23%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (1.86%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.37%) vSphere
8 1 (0.19%) Firmware
8 1 (0.19%) HDFS
8 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.19%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 55 (10.20%) Kubernetes
2 33 (6.12%) Terraform
3 22 (4.08%) Ansible
4 11 (2.04%) vCenter Server
5 8 (1.48%) HP ALM
5 8 (1.48%) Progress Chef
6 7 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.11%) Opsgenie
8 5 (0.93%) Docker Swarm
8 5 (0.93%) Packer
8 5 (0.93%) Podman
9 4 (0.74%) Kibana
9 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.74%) Puppet
9 4 (0.74%) SCCM
10 3 (0.56%) Consul
10 3 (0.56%) Grafana
10 3 (0.56%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.37%) QRadar
11 2 (0.37%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 88 (16.33%) Microsoft
2 65 (12.06%) Oracle
3 53 (9.83%) Atlassian
4 26 (4.82%) ServiceNow
5 18 (3.34%) VMware
6 17 (3.15%) Cisco
7 15 (2.78%) SAP
8 14 (2.60%) Salesforce
9 13 (2.41%) Google
10 12 (2.23%) Databricks
11 10 (1.86%) IBM
12 9 (1.67%) Splunk
13 8 (1.48%) HP
13 8 (1.48%) Red Hat
14 7 (1.30%) CA Agile Central
14 7 (1.30%) Palo Alto
15 6 (1.11%) Dynatrace
15 6 (1.11%) MuleSoft
15 6 (1.11%) Planview
16 5 (0.93%) Informatica