JIRA Contract Job Trends in England

Atlassian JIRA
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring JIRA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 40 52
Rank change year-on-year +3 +12 -6
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,058 1,254 1,353
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.16% 5.10% 3.63%
As % of the Development Applications category 41.06% 37.48% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,442 816 915
10th Percentile £315 £319 £350
25th Percentile £395 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.63% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £630
90th Percentile £695 £688 £753
UK median daily rate £485 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 23 60
10th Percentile £18.75 £48.40 £21.85
25th Percentile £25.31 £53.75 £32.68
Median hourly rate £62.75 £57.75 £49.19
Median % change year-on-year +8.66% +17.40% -26.24%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.00 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £63.07 £57.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year +9.21% +28.33% -31.66%

All Development Application Skills
England

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 in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,012 3,346 4,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.57% 13.61% 11.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,358 2,246 2,903
10th Percentile £338 £342 £355
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% -2.73%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 61 174
10th Percentile £37.71 £27.50 £31.71
25th Percentile £59.00 £52.00 £50.88
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.97%
75th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.75 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £66.75 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.80% - +1.63%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JIRA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

JIRA job vacancy trend in England

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing JIRA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing JIRA

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in England

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing JIRA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing JIRA

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for JIRA in England

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the England region over the 6 months to 25 April 2026. 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
London +7 918 £500 - 116
North of England +2 382 £450 - 66
Midlands +4 303 £425 -14.14% 56
West Midlands -1 238 £450 -10.00% 40
South East -24 191 £475 -5.00% 106
Yorkshire -8 189 £450 -10.00% 31
North West +2 177 £447 +5.18% 31
South West +3 161 £556 +0.23% 35
East of England -10 63 £425 -8.11% 25
East Midlands -4 62 £379 -22.76% 16
North East -11 19 £475 -9.52% 5
JIRA
UK

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 922 (44.80%) Confluence
2 102 (4.96%) SharePoint
3 36 (1.75%) SAS
4 32 (1.55%) nginx
5 28 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 18 (0.87%) Apache
7 13 (0.63%) CMS
8 9 (0.44%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.39%) WebLogic
10 6 (0.29%) Ethereum
10 6 (0.29%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.29%) Mattermost
10 6 (0.29%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.24%) JBoss
12 4 (0.19%) IIS
12 4 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 224 (10.88%) Microsoft Project
2 185 (8.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 103 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 102 (4.96%) Microsoft Office
5 89 (4.32%) MS Visio
6 22 (1.07%) Trello
7 9 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.39%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.24%) Sketch
10 4 (0.19%) Notion
11 3 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.15%) InVision
12 2 (0.097%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.097%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.097%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.097%) CATIA
12 2 (0.097%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.097%) Revit
13 1 (0.049%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 26 (1.26%) Remedy ITSM
2 25 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.73%) NetSuite
4 13 (0.63%) Loan IQ
5 10 (0.49%) Workday HCM
6 9 (0.44%) Aladdin
7 8 (0.39%) Fidessa
8 6 (0.29%) Maximo
8 6 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
8 6 (0.29%) SAP MDG
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.24%) SAP Retail
10 4 (0.19%) Findur
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 4 (0.19%) SAP EWM
10 4 (0.19%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 424 (20.60%) Azure
2 313 (15.21%) AWS
3 240 (11.66%) Azure DevOps
4 162 (7.87%) GitHub
5 144 (7.00%) Power Platform
6 80 (3.89%) GCP
7 78 (3.79%) SaaS
8 76 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
9 68 (3.30%) Entra ID
10 56 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (2.28%) Amazon S3
12 46 (2.24%) Serverless
13 37 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
14 35 (1.70%) Figma
14 35 (1.70%) Miro
15 32 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
16 30 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
16 30 (1.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 28 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 26 (1.26%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 64 (3.11%) Firewall
2 44 (2.14%) DNS
3 41 (1.99%) TCP/IP
4 28 (1.36%) LAN
5 25 (1.21%) Network Security
5 25 (1.21%) VPN
5 25 (1.21%) WAN
6 19 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
7 18 (0.87%) SSL
8 16 (0.78%) DHCP
8 16 (0.78%) HTTP
9 14 (0.68%) SAN
10 12 (0.58%) BIG-IP
10 12 (0.58%) Internet
11 11 (0.53%) SD-WAN
12 10 (0.49%) Ethernet
12 10 (0.49%) FTP
12 10 (0.49%) NAS
12 10 (0.49%) Unified Communications
13 7 (0.34%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (6.03%) Power BI
2 76 (3.69%) Data Warehouse
3 74 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
4 57 (2.77%) Tableau
5 56 (2.72%) SQL Server
6 40 (1.94%) MongoDB
7 36 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
8 34 (1.65%) NoSQL
9 23 (1.12%) Relational Database
10 22 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
11 21 (1.02%) DynamoDB
12 20 (0.97%) Pentaho
13 16 (0.78%) MySQL
14 15 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
14 15 (0.73%) Big Data
14 15 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 13 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
15 13 (0.63%) Metadata
16 11 (0.53%) BigQuery
16 11 (0.53%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 259 (12.59%) Git
2 191 (9.28%) Jenkins
3 106 (5.15%) GitLab
4 105 (5.10%) Selenium
5 79 (3.84%) Postman
6 64 (3.11%) Cucumber
7 61 (2.96%) Zephyr
8 59 (2.87%) Bitbucket
9 52 (2.53%) JUnit
10 39 (1.90%) JMeter
11 38 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
12 34 (1.65%) TestRail
13 33 (1.60%) REST Assured
14 25 (1.21%) SonarQube
15 21 (1.02%) WebDriver
16 19 (0.92%) Cypress.io
17 17 (0.83%) Maven
18 15 (0.73%) Appium
19 13 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
19 13 (0.63%) SpecFlow
General
1 830 (40.33%) Social Skills
2 592 (28.77%) Finance
3 412 (20.02%) Analytical Skills
4 260 (12.63%) Banking
5 225 (10.93%) Public Sector
6 73 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
7 72 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
8 69 (3.35%) Retail
9 58 (2.82%) Military
10 41 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
11 37 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
12 35 (1.70%) Legal
12 35 (1.70%) Manufacturing
13 32 (1.55%) Investment Banking
14 24 (1.17%) Front Office
14 24 (1.17%) Retail Banking
15 22 (1.07%) Marketing
16 21 (1.02%) Telecoms
17 19 (0.92%) Law
18 18 (0.87%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 408 (19.83%) Analyst
2 256 (12.44%) Business Analyst
3 183 (8.89%) Developer
4 168 (8.16%) Lead
5 156 (7.58%) Senior
6 143 (6.95%) Project Manager
7 113 (5.49%) Architect
8 94 (4.57%) Tester
9 85 (4.13%) Delivery Manager
10 65 (3.16%) Scrum Master
11 62 (3.01%) Data Engineer
12 56 (2.72%) Consultant
12 56 (2.72%) Test Analyst
13 53 (2.58%) Test Engineer
14 49 (2.38%) IT Support
14 49 (2.38%) Support Engineer
15 44 (2.14%) Technical Manager
15 44 (2.14%) Test Leader
16 42 (2.04%) Software Engineer
17 41 (1.99%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (5.69%) REST
2 64 (3.11%) Spring
3 63 (3.06%) .NET
4 56 (2.72%) React
5 47 (2.28%) HTML
6 46 (2.24%) Kafka
7 42 (2.04%) JSON
7 42 (2.04%) Spring Boot
8 39 (1.90%) RESTful
9 37 (1.80%) CSS
9 37 (1.80%) XML
10 34 (1.65%) Playwright
11 32 (1.55%) SOAP
12 30 (1.46%) ADO
13 29 (1.41%) OpenID
13 29 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
14 27 (1.31%) LDAP
15 26 (1.26%) AngularJS
15 26 (1.26%) Middleware
15 26 (1.26%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 253 (12.29%) Product Ownership
2 89 (4.32%) Onboarding
3 74 (3.60%) Cloud Native
4 47 (2.28%) Management Information System
5 45 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
6 43 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
7 42 (2.04%) Virtual Team
8 35 (1.70%) Data Centre
8 35 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
9 31 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
10 28 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
11 25 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
12 23 (1.12%) Data Structures
13 21 (1.02%) PMI
14 20 (0.97%) Mobile App
15 16 (0.78%) Public Cloud
16 14 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 14 (0.68%) SCADA
17 13 (0.63%) Distributed Architecture
17 13 (0.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 168 (8.16%) Windows
2 143 (6.95%) Linux
3 30 (1.46%) Unix
4 19 (0.92%) Android
4 19 (0.92%) Windows 10
5 12 (0.58%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.53%) Mac OS
6 11 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.49%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.39%) FreeRTOS
9 3 (0.15%) AIX
9 3 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.097%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.097%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.049%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,202 (58.41%) Agile
2 540 (26.24%) DevOps
3 511 (24.83%) Stakeholder Management
4 457 (22.21%) Problem-Solving
5 421 (20.46%) Scrum
6 391 (19.00%) CI/CD
7 367 (17.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 327 (15.89%) Test Automation
9 299 (14.53%) Project Management
10 262 (12.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 240 (11.66%) Migration
12 223 (10.84%) User Acceptance Testing
13 209 (10.16%) User Stories
14 206 (10.01%) Change Management
15 197 (9.57%) Project Delivery
16 188 (9.14%) ITIL
17 187 (9.09%) Validation
18 183 (8.89%) Acceptance Criteria
19 174 (8.45%) Analytics
20 169 (8.21%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 319 (15.50%) SQL
2 228 (11.08%) Python
3 196 (9.52%) Java
4 95 (4.62%) JavaScript
5 87 (4.23%) C#
6 70 (3.40%) PowerShell
7 58 (2.82%) TypeScript
8 42 (2.04%) Bash
9 30 (1.46%) C++
10 24 (1.17%) Shell Script
11 19 (0.92%) PL/SQL
12 17 (0.83%) C
13 16 (0.78%) Perl
14 14 (0.68%) Apex Code
14 14 (0.68%) Embedded C++
15 13 (0.63%) VBA
16 11 (0.53%) Go
17 10 (0.49%) Embedded C
18 9 (0.44%) Kotlin
19 7 (0.34%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 562 (27.31%) Security Cleared
2 440 (21.38%) SC Cleared
3 242 (11.76%) Degree
4 75 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 74 (3.60%) PMI Certification
6 72 (3.50%) ISTQB
7 69 (3.35%) PMP
8 58 (2.82%) DV Cleared
9 36 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 36 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
10 30 (1.46%) CISSP
11 28 (1.36%) Master's Degree
12 25 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
13 22 (1.07%) CISM
14 21 (1.02%) Azure Certification
15 20 (0.97%) AWS Certification
15 20 (0.97%) IIBA
16 18 (0.87%) CBAP
17 17 (0.83%) ISEB
17 17 (0.83%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 263 (12.78%) QA
2 123 (5.98%) PMO
3 102 (4.96%) Data Quality
4 52 (2.53%) GDPR
5 45 (2.19%) Accessibility
6 28 (1.36%) NIST
6 28 (1.36%) SLA
7 18 (0.87%) GRC
7 18 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 17 (0.83%) WCAG
9 12 (0.58%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.58%) PSD2
10 11 (0.53%) Basel III
10 11 (0.53%) ISO 20022
11 9 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.34%) SEPA
13 6 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 164 (7.97%) Docker
2 96 (4.66%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.73%) Firmware
5 9 (0.44%) Squid
5 9 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
7 5 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.15%) HDFS
9 2 (0.097%) Postfix
9 2 (0.097%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.097%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.049%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.049%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.049%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 178 (8.65%) Kubernetes
2 120 (5.83%) Terraform
3 90 (4.37%) Ansible
4 64 (3.11%) Grafana
5 48 (2.33%) Prometheus
6 33 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.46%) OPNET
8 25 (1.21%) HP ALM
9 24 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
10 23 (1.12%) Consul
10 23 (1.12%) Control-M
11 17 (0.83%) Nessus
12 16 (0.78%) IBM Guardium
12 16 (0.78%) Puppet
13 15 (0.73%) Packer
14 11 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
15 9 (0.44%) SCCM
16 8 (0.39%) FortiGate
16 8 (0.39%) HP Quality Center
17 7 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 253 (12.29%) ServiceNow
2 248 (12.05%) Microsoft
3 174 (8.45%) Oracle
4 141 (6.85%) Atlassian
5 100 (4.86%) Salesforce
6 80 (3.89%) SAP
7 64 (3.11%) Remedy
8 49 (2.38%) Google
9 36 (1.75%) Workday
10 28 (1.36%) IBM
10 28 (1.36%) Splunk
10 28 (1.36%) Talend
11 27 (1.31%) HP
11 27 (1.31%) Red Hat
12 26 (1.26%) VMware
13 25 (1.21%) Databricks
14 24 (1.17%) Denodo
15 21 (1.02%) Informatica
15 21 (1.02%) MuleSoft
16 20 (0.97%) Adobe