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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 45 48
Rank change year-on-year +12 +3 -14
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,798 1,288 1,599
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.75% 4.45% 4.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.13% 33.41% 34.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,303 818 1,092
10th Percentile £325 £313 £363
25th Percentile £405 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £539
Median % change year-on-year - -7.19% -0.37%
75th Percentile £608 £610 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.10% -1.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 26 42
10th Percentile £15.74 £46.00 £42.08
25th Percentile £43.00 £54.84 £50.31
Median hourly rate £63.50 £62.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £71.50 £69.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £70.63 £74.88
UK median hourly rate £64.75 £62.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year +3.60% +2.04% -2.00%

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 4,715 3,855 4,674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.09% 13.31% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,265 2,426 3,312
10th Percentile £338 £340 £375
25th Percentile £411 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £644
90th Percentile £700 £733 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -2.44% -4.74% -3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 82 207
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £45.88
25th Percentile £55.00 £54.64 £49.24
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.69 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.20 £75.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 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
London +8 824 £525 +3.96% 140
North of England +6 320 £469 -1.78% 180
Midlands +19 213 £450 -10.00% 151
South East 0 198 £478 +1.60% 236
Yorkshire -1 172 £485 -1.07% 71
West Midlands +16 169 £475 -5.70% 79
South West +8 144 £588 +4.21% 110
North West +3 132 £447 -5.89% 92
East of England -15 52 £425 +1.49% 124
East Midlands +6 43 £396 -13.62% 67
North East 0 16 £488 +8.33% 17
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
1 810 (45.05%) Confluence
2 112 (6.23%) SharePoint
3 37 (2.06%) nginx
4 35 (1.95%) SAS
5 31 (1.72%) CMS
6 13 (0.72%) Apache
7 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.39%) WordPress
10 6 (0.33%) Drupal
10 6 (0.33%) Mule
11 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.22%) CICS
11 4 (0.22%) JBoss
11 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.22%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.17%) IIS
12 3 (0.17%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 177 (9.84%) Microsoft Project
2 132 (7.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 118 (6.56%) Microsoft Office
4 80 (4.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 69 (3.84%) MS Visio
6 36 (2.00%) Trello
7 11 (0.61%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 8 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
8 8 (0.44%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.33%) Notion
9 6 (0.33%) Sketch
9 6 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.28%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
11 4 (0.22%) InVision
11 4 (0.22%) Simulink
11 4 (0.22%) Windchill
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.11%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.11%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 19 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.83%) NetSuite
3 14 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
4 10 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 9 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.44%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.44%) SAP PM
7 7 (0.39%) SAP HR
8 6 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
8 6 (0.33%) Maximo
8 6 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
9 5 (0.28%) Loan IQ
9 5 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.28%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.22%) Endur
10 4 (0.22%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.22%) SAP ERP
10 4 (0.22%) SAP PLM
11 3 (0.17%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 355 (19.74%) Azure
2 287 (15.96%) AWS
3 175 (9.73%) Azure DevOps
4 165 (9.18%) GitHub
5 118 (6.56%) Power Platform
6 88 (4.89%) GCP
7 64 (3.56%) Microsoft 365
8 60 (3.34%) Serverless
9 55 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
10 47 (2.61%) Amazon S3
11 44 (2.45%) SaaS
12 42 (2.34%) Amazon EC2
13 41 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
14 35 (1.95%) Power Automate
14 35 (1.95%) Slack
15 34 (1.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 34 (1.89%) Figma
16 32 (1.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 31 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
17 31 (1.72%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.34%) Firewall
2 45 (2.50%) DNS
3 37 (2.06%) SSH
4 34 (1.89%) HTTP
5 23 (1.28%) VPN
6 21 (1.17%) TCP/IP
7 20 (1.11%) FTP
7 20 (1.11%) SMTP
8 18 (1.00%) SSL
9 16 (0.89%) OpenLDAP
10 11 (0.61%) IMAP
11 8 (0.44%) DHCP
11 8 (0.44%) WAN
12 7 (0.39%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.33%) Network Security
13 6 (0.33%) Wireless
14 5 (0.28%) Internet
14 5 (0.28%) Kerberos
14 5 (0.28%) LAN
14 5 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (5.84%) Power BI
2 71 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
3 56 (3.11%) Tableau
4 40 (2.22%) SQL Server
5 35 (1.95%) Relational Database
6 33 (1.84%) Pentaho
7 31 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
7 31 (1.72%) NoSQL
8 25 (1.39%) Big Data
9 22 (1.22%) Oracle Database
10 21 (1.17%) MongoDB
11 20 (1.11%) Metadata
11 20 (1.11%) MySQL
12 18 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
12 18 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
13 17 (0.95%) Hadoop
14 12 (0.67%) Amazon Aurora
15 11 (0.61%) Data Vault
15 11 (0.61%) Redis
16 10 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 241 (13.40%) Git
2 239 (13.29%) Jenkins
3 113 (6.28%) GitLab
4 75 (4.17%) Selenium
5 71 (3.95%) Bitbucket
5 71 (3.95%) Postman
6 51 (2.84%) Cucumber
7 34 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
8 33 (1.84%) TestRail
9 32 (1.78%) SonarQube
10 29 (1.61%) REST Assured
11 26 (1.45%) SoapUI
12 24 (1.33%) Zephyr
13 23 (1.28%) JUnit
14 21 (1.17%) SpecFlow
14 21 (1.17%) Vagrant
15 19 (1.06%) Maven
16 18 (1.00%) Rational DOORS
17 16 (0.89%) Artifactory
18 14 (0.78%) Cypress.io
General
1 764 (42.49%) Social Skills
2 454 (25.25%) Finance
3 308 (17.13%) Analytical Skills
4 202 (11.23%) Banking
4 202 (11.23%) Public Sector
5 66 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
6 52 (2.89%) Documentation Skills
7 50 (2.78%) Retail
8 49 (2.73%) Military
9 39 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
10 38 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
11 36 (2.00%) Legal
12 32 (1.78%) Investment Banking
13 28 (1.56%) Manufacturing
14 26 (1.45%) Front Office
14 26 (1.45%) Marketing
15 22 (1.22%) Telecoms
16 19 (1.06%) Law
17 14 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 14 (0.78%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 311 (17.30%) Analyst
2 191 (10.62%) Business Analyst
3 174 (9.68%) Developer
4 166 (9.23%) Project Manager
5 137 (7.62%) Senior
6 134 (7.45%) Lead
7 109 (6.06%) Architect
8 73 (4.06%) Tester
9 57 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
10 55 (3.06%) Test Analyst
11 53 (2.95%) Consultant
12 50 (2.78%) Product Owner
13 49 (2.73%) Delivery Manager
14 45 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
15 43 (2.39%) Software Engineer
16 42 (2.34%) Technical Analyst
17 41 (2.28%) Administrator
18 39 (2.17%) Technical Business Analyst
19 38 (2.11%) Data Engineer
19 38 (2.11%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (8.90%) REST
2 77 (4.28%) .NET
2 77 (4.28%) SOAP
3 68 (3.78%) HTML
4 59 (3.28%) AngularJS
4 59 (3.28%) React
5 52 (2.89%) CSS
5 52 (2.89%) Kafka
5 52 (2.89%) XML
6 49 (2.73%) JSON
6 49 (2.73%) RESTful
7 41 (2.28%) LDAP
7 41 (2.28%) Node.js
8 36 (2.00%) Playwright
8 36 (2.00%) Spring
9 34 (1.89%) Spring Boot
10 31 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
11 30 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
12 29 (1.61%) OAuth
13 27 (1.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 213 (11.85%) Product Ownership
2 80 (4.45%) Onboarding
3 56 (3.11%) Cloud Native
4 45 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
5 39 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
6 38 (2.11%) Management Information System
7 34 (1.89%) Data Structures
8 31 (1.72%) PMI
9 27 (1.50%) Mobile App
10 26 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
11 25 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
11 25 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
11 25 (1.39%) Replication
12 23 (1.28%) CMDB
13 21 (1.17%) Virtual Team
14 19 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
15 18 (1.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 16 (0.89%) Algorithms
16 16 (0.89%) Data Centre
16 16 (0.89%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 133 (7.40%) Windows
2 122 (6.79%) Linux
3 49 (2.73%) Unix
4 26 (1.45%) VMS
5 19 (1.06%) Amazon Linux
5 19 (1.06%) Android
6 16 (0.89%) Mac OS
7 15 (0.83%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.72%) Ubuntu
9 11 (0.61%) Windows Server
10 10 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 10 (0.56%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.17%) CentOS
11 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.17%) zOS
12 2 (0.11%) Debian
12 2 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.11%) Solaris
13 1 (0.056%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,099 (61.12%) Agile
2 536 (29.81%) DevOps
3 441 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
4 432 (24.03%) Scrum
5 401 (22.30%) Stakeholder Management
6 366 (20.36%) CI/CD
7 279 (15.52%) Project Management
8 272 (15.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 265 (14.74%) Test Automation
10 240 (13.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 191 (10.62%) Change Management
12 190 (10.57%) Migration
13 186 (10.34%) User Stories
14 168 (9.34%) User Acceptance Testing
15 163 (9.07%) Project Delivery
16 156 (8.68%) Analytics
16 156 (8.68%) Roadmaps
17 149 (8.29%) ITIL
18 146 (8.12%) Business Intelligence
19 145 (8.06%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 295 (16.41%) SQL
2 262 (14.57%) Python
3 157 (8.73%) Java
4 135 (7.51%) JavaScript
5 87 (4.84%) PowerShell
6 76 (4.23%) C#
7 49 (2.73%) Bash
8 47 (2.61%) TypeScript
9 42 (2.34%) Go
10 32 (1.78%) C++
11 28 (1.56%) Groovy
12 23 (1.28%) Perl
13 17 (0.95%) Apex Code
13 17 (0.95%) PHP
13 17 (0.95%) Shell Script
14 16 (0.89%) PL/SQL
15 14 (0.78%) Ruby
16 13 (0.72%) Embedded C++
17 10 (0.56%) C
18 7 (0.39%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 469 (26.08%) Security Cleared
2 404 (22.47%) SC Cleared
3 274 (15.24%) Degree
4 85 (4.73%) PMI Certification
5 69 (3.84%) PMP
6 59 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 57 (3.17%) CISSP
8 51 (2.84%) ISTQB
9 45 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 44 (2.45%) CISM
11 41 (2.28%) TOGAF Certification
12 39 (2.17%) DV Cleared
13 30 (1.67%) AWS Certification
14 24 (1.33%) CBAP
15 21 (1.17%) Master's Degree
16 20 (1.11%) Azure Certification
16 20 (1.11%) Oracle Certification
17 16 (0.89%) CSPO
18 15 (0.83%) ISEB
19 14 (0.78%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (12.79%) QA
2 91 (5.06%) PMO
3 64 (3.56%) Data Quality
3 64 (3.56%) GDPR
4 57 (3.17%) Accessibility
5 42 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (2.06%) NIST
7 20 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 18 (1.00%) ISO 20022
8 18 (1.00%) PSD2
8 18 (1.00%) WCAG
9 16 (0.89%) SEPA
10 14 (0.78%) NIST 800
10 14 (0.78%) PCI DSS
11 11 (0.61%) COBIT
12 10 (0.56%) SLA
13 9 (0.50%) GRC
14 8 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 7 (0.39%) NCSC
15 7 (0.39%) P3O
System Software
1 206 (11.46%) Docker
2 56 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.00%) DFS Replication
4 18 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.67%) Firmware
6 11 (0.61%) Dovecot
6 11 (0.61%) Postfix
6 11 (0.61%) Squid
7 7 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.11%) KVM
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.056%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.056%) etcd
Systems Management
1 185 (10.29%) Kubernetes
2 101 (5.62%) Terraform
3 88 (4.89%) Ansible
4 53 (2.95%) Grafana
5 41 (2.28%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.67%) OPNET
7 28 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
8 26 (1.45%) HP ALM
9 23 (1.28%) Nessus
10 17 (0.95%) Puppet
11 15 (0.83%) Control-M
11 15 (0.83%) Packer
12 14 (0.78%) NetBackup
13 13 (0.72%) Consul
14 12 (0.67%) RSA Archer
14 12 (0.67%) SCCM
15 11 (0.61%) IBM Guardium
16 10 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
16 10 (0.56%) Proxmox
17 9 (0.50%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 239 (13.29%) Microsoft
2 221 (12.29%) ServiceNow
3 159 (8.84%) Oracle
4 123 (6.84%) Atlassian
5 92 (5.12%) Salesforce
6 68 (3.78%) SAP
7 53 (2.95%) Google
8 50 (2.78%) Remedy
9 38 (2.11%) HP
9 38 (2.11%) IBM
10 36 (2.00%) Talend
11 32 (1.78%) Denodo
11 32 (1.78%) Splunk
12 30 (1.67%) CyberArk
13 20 (1.11%) Red Hat
13 20 (1.11%) VMware
14 19 (1.06%) BiZZdesign
15 18 (1.00%) Tenable
16 17 (0.95%) Cisco
17 16 (0.89%) Adobe