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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 45 49
Rank change year-on-year +10 +4 -11
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,751 1,177 1,459
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.59% 4.43% 4.01%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.08% 33.16% 33.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,275 738 1,027
10th Percentile £313 £308 £358
25th Percentile £402 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £489 £533
Median % change year-on-year +2.30% -8.22% -3.18%
75th Percentile £600 £595 £638
90th Percentile £700 £675 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 22 36
10th Percentile £15.74 £45.20 £38.44
25th Percentile £40.63 £54.64 £50.94
Median hourly rate £63.40 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% +4.17% -5.88%
75th Percentile £72.13 £67.76 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.85 £71.00 £74.21
UK median hourly rate £65.20 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.32% +4.17% -4.00%

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 4,598 3,549 4,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.68% 13.35% 11.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,175 2,212 3,096
10th Percentile £333 £333 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £517 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% -6.05% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £640
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £501 £538
% change year-on-year -0.25% -6.74% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 64 193
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £44.85
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.31 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £81.85 £75.95 £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 13 January 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 13 January 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 13 January 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 +8 794 £525 +5.00% 111
North of England +3 310 £459 -3.42% 132
Midlands +16 226 £455 -7.14% 112
South East +1 192 £475 +5.56% 190
West Midlands +15 171 £485 -2.02% 59
Yorkshire -4 157 £496 +0.61% 59
South West +14 145 £584 +6.14% 74
North West +11 134 £447 -0.67% 57
East Midlands +13 54 £358 -24.83% 53
East of England -10 47 £463 +14.84% 91
North East +2 18 £475 +5.56% 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
1 823 (47.00%) Confluence
2 109 (6.23%) SharePoint
3 44 (2.51%) SAS
4 34 (1.94%) nginx
5 23 (1.31%) CMS
6 14 (0.80%) Apache
7 13 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.40%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.34%) Mule
11 5 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
12 4 (0.23%) CICS
12 4 (0.23%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.23%) WordPress
13 3 (0.17%) Drupal
13 3 (0.17%) IIS
13 3 (0.17%) SugarCRM
13 3 (0.17%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 179 (10.22%) Microsoft Project
2 148 (8.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 113 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
4 90 (5.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 70 (4.00%) MS Visio
6 32 (1.83%) Trello
7 9 (0.51%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 8 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
8 8 (0.46%) Photoshop
9 5 (0.29%) Notion
9 5 (0.29%) Sketch
10 4 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
10 4 (0.23%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.17%) InVision
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.11%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.11%) InDesign
13 1 (0.057%) CATIA
13 1 (0.057%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 18 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.97%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.34%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.34%) Maximo
5 6 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
6 5 (0.29%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.29%) Loan IQ
6 5 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
6 5 (0.29%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.23%) Endur
7 4 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 4 (0.23%) SAP HR
7 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.23%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 338 (19.30%) Azure
2 273 (15.59%) AWS
3 178 (10.17%) Azure DevOps
4 171 (9.77%) GitHub
5 126 (7.20%) Power Platform
6 81 (4.63%) GCP
7 66 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
8 56 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
9 55 (3.14%) Serverless
10 46 (2.63%) SaaS
11 38 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
11 38 (2.17%) Amazon S3
12 36 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
12 36 (2.06%) Slack
13 31 (1.77%) Figma
14 30 (1.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 30 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
14 30 (1.71%) Power Automate
15 29 (1.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 28 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 55 (3.14%) Firewall
2 37 (2.11%) DNS
3 33 (1.88%) SSH
4 25 (1.43%) TCP/IP
5 24 (1.37%) HTTP
6 21 (1.20%) VPN
7 18 (1.03%) FTP
8 16 (0.91%) SMTP
9 14 (0.80%) OpenLDAP
10 13 (0.74%) SSL
11 11 (0.63%) WAN
12 9 (0.51%) IMAP
12 9 (0.51%) SD-WAN
13 7 (0.40%) Ethernet
14 6 (0.34%) DHCP
14 6 (0.34%) Modbus
14 6 (0.34%) RS-232
14 6 (0.34%) RS-485
15 5 (0.29%) Kerberos
15 5 (0.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (6.40%) Power BI
2 64 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
3 61 (3.48%) Tableau
4 40 (2.28%) SQL Server
5 34 (1.94%) Pentaho
6 31 (1.77%) NoSQL
7 30 (1.71%) Relational Database
8 27 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
9 26 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
10 22 (1.26%) Big Data
11 21 (1.20%) MongoDB
12 20 (1.14%) Metadata
13 18 (1.03%) Oracle Database
14 17 (0.97%) MySQL
15 15 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
15 15 (0.86%) Hadoop
16 11 (0.63%) Data Vault
16 11 (0.63%) Star Schema
17 10 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
18 9 (0.51%) Redis
Development Applications
1 230 (13.14%) Jenkins
2 225 (12.85%) Git
3 107 (6.11%) GitLab
4 72 (4.11%) Selenium
5 65 (3.71%) Bitbucket
6 60 (3.43%) Postman
7 47 (2.68%) Cucumber
8 35 (2.00%) TestRail
9 32 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
10 30 (1.71%) REST Assured
11 26 (1.48%) SonarQube
12 24 (1.37%) Zephyr
13 19 (1.09%) JUnit
13 19 (1.09%) SpecFlow
14 17 (0.97%) Rational DOORS
15 16 (0.91%) Maven
16 15 (0.86%) Vagrant
17 14 (0.80%) SoapUI
18 13 (0.74%) Cypress.io
19 12 (0.69%) JMeter
General
1 735 (41.98%) Social Skills
2 464 (26.50%) Finance
3 328 (18.73%) Analytical Skills
4 222 (12.68%) Banking
5 198 (11.31%) Public Sector
6 70 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
7 62 (3.54%) Retail
8 54 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
9 53 (3.03%) Military
10 41 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
11 39 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
12 33 (1.88%) Investment Banking
13 32 (1.83%) Legal
14 25 (1.43%) Manufacturing
15 24 (1.37%) Marketing
16 23 (1.31%) Front Office
17 22 (1.26%) Telecoms
18 18 (1.03%) Retail Banking
19 14 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 14 (0.80%) Law
Job Titles
1 335 (19.13%) Analyst
2 215 (12.28%) Business Analyst
3 162 (9.25%) Developer
4 148 (8.45%) Project Manager
5 140 (8.00%) Lead
6 121 (6.91%) Senior
7 106 (6.05%) Architect
8 72 (4.11%) Tester
9 50 (2.86%) Consultant
10 49 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
11 48 (2.74%) DevOps Engineer
12 46 (2.63%) Delivery Manager
12 46 (2.63%) Technical Analyst
13 45 (2.57%) Software Engineer
14 41 (2.34%) Technical Business Analyst
15 40 (2.28%) Test Engineer
16 39 (2.23%) Test Analyst
17 38 (2.17%) Data Engineer
17 38 (2.17%) Scrum Master
18 35 (2.00%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (8.62%) REST
2 65 (3.71%) .NET
3 62 (3.54%) SOAP
4 54 (3.08%) HTML
5 50 (2.86%) React
6 46 (2.63%) Kafka
6 46 (2.63%) XML
7 42 (2.40%) CSS
7 42 (2.40%) JSON
7 42 (2.40%) RESTful
8 35 (2.00%) AngularJS
9 34 (1.94%) Playwright
9 34 (1.94%) Spring
10 33 (1.88%) LDAP
10 33 (1.88%) Node.js
10 33 (1.88%) Oracle Fusion
11 28 (1.60%) OAuth
12 27 (1.54%) Spring Boot
13 23 (1.31%) RabbitMQ
14 20 (1.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 212 (12.11%) Product Ownership
2 80 (4.57%) Onboarding
3 59 (3.37%) Cloud Native
4 43 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
5 38 (2.17%) Management Information System
6 35 (2.00%) PMI
7 34 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
8 28 (1.60%) Data Structures
9 26 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
10 24 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
11 22 (1.26%) CMDB
11 22 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
11 22 (1.26%) Mobile App
11 22 (1.26%) Replication
12 21 (1.20%) Virtual Team
13 18 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 15 (0.86%) Tandem
15 13 (0.74%) PKI
15 13 (0.74%) Public Cloud
16 12 (0.69%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 132 (7.54%) Windows
2 111 (6.34%) Linux
3 41 (2.34%) Unix
4 20 (1.14%) VMS
5 19 (1.09%) Android
6 15 (0.86%) Amazon Linux
7 13 (0.74%) Windows Server
8 11 (0.63%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.57%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.57%) Windows 10
10 9 (0.51%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
12 5 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.17%) zOS
14 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.11%) Solaris
15 1 (0.057%) MVS
15 1 (0.057%) Windows Embedded Compact
15 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,062 (60.65%) Agile
2 531 (30.33%) DevOps
3 432 (24.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 420 (23.99%) Problem-Solving
5 399 (22.79%) Scrum
6 349 (19.93%) CI/CD
7 285 (16.28%) Project Management
8 277 (15.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 259 (14.79%) Test Automation
10 233 (13.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 186 (10.62%) User Stories
12 177 (10.11%) Change Management
13 174 (9.94%) Project Delivery
14 173 (9.88%) Analytics
14 173 (9.88%) Migration
15 168 (9.59%) User Acceptance Testing
16 160 (9.14%) Business Intelligence
17 152 (8.68%) ITIL
18 149 (8.51%) Acceptance Criteria
19 142 (8.11%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 292 (16.68%) SQL
2 240 (13.71%) Python
3 150 (8.57%) Java
4 121 (6.91%) JavaScript
5 83 (4.74%) PowerShell
6 64 (3.66%) C#
7 45 (2.57%) TypeScript
8 44 (2.51%) Bash
9 36 (2.06%) Go
10 30 (1.71%) C++
11 22 (1.26%) Groovy
12 19 (1.09%) Embedded C++
13 16 (0.91%) Apex Code
13 16 (0.91%) Perl
13 16 (0.91%) PL/SQL
13 16 (0.91%) Shell Script
14 15 (0.86%) PHP
15 12 (0.69%) C
16 11 (0.63%) Ruby
17 10 (0.57%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 468 (26.73%) Security Cleared
2 398 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 264 (15.08%) Degree
4 90 (5.14%) PMI Certification
5 75 (4.28%) PMP
6 53 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 48 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 47 (2.68%) ISTQB
9 41 (2.34%) TOGAF Certification
10 40 (2.28%) CISSP
11 38 (2.17%) DV Cleared
12 33 (1.88%) Master's Degree
13 30 (1.71%) CISM
14 28 (1.60%) AWS Certification
15 25 (1.43%) CBAP
16 20 (1.14%) Azure Certification
17 18 (1.03%) Oracle Certification
18 17 (0.97%) ISEB
19 16 (0.91%) IIBA
20 14 (0.80%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (12.05%) QA
2 106 (6.05%) PMO
3 71 (4.05%) Data Quality
4 52 (2.97%) Accessibility
5 50 (2.86%) GDPR
6 26 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 24 (1.37%) NIST
8 19 (1.09%) WCAG
9 18 (1.03%) ISO 20022
9 18 (1.03%) PSD2
10 16 (0.91%) SEPA
11 13 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.74%) SLA
12 11 (0.63%) GRC
13 10 (0.57%) Basel III
14 8 (0.46%) NCSC
14 8 (0.46%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.46%) P3O
15 7 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 194 (11.08%) Docker
2 53 (3.03%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.86%) DFS Replication
6 13 (0.74%) Firmware
7 10 (0.57%) Squid
8 9 (0.51%) Dovecot
8 9 (0.51%) Postfix
9 7 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
13 2 (0.11%) KVM
13 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.057%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
14 1 (0.057%) etcd
14 1 (0.057%) SRDF
14 1 (0.057%) Xen
Systems Management
1 173 (9.88%) Kubernetes
2 99 (5.65%) Terraform
3 80 (4.57%) Ansible
4 48 (2.74%) Grafana
5 36 (2.06%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.71%) OPNET
7 21 (1.20%) HP ALM
8 20 (1.14%) Nessus
9 18 (1.03%) Control-M
9 18 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (0.86%) Puppet
11 14 (0.80%) NetBackup
11 14 (0.80%) Packer
12 12 (0.69%) Consul
13 11 (0.63%) IBM Guardium
13 11 (0.63%) SCCM
14 9 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
14 9 (0.51%) Proxmox
15 7 (0.40%) Argo
16 6 (0.34%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 217 (12.39%) Microsoft
2 198 (11.31%) ServiceNow
3 153 (8.74%) Oracle
4 122 (6.97%) Atlassian
5 93 (5.31%) Salesforce
6 65 (3.71%) SAP
7 48 (2.74%) Remedy
8 45 (2.57%) Google
9 39 (2.23%) IBM
10 37 (2.11%) Talend
11 33 (1.88%) Denodo
12 28 (1.60%) HP
13 23 (1.31%) Splunk
14 20 (1.14%) VMware
15 19 (1.09%) BiZZdesign
15 19 (1.09%) Cisco
16 18 (1.03%) Red Hat
17 17 (0.97%) Adobe
18 16 (0.91%) CyberArk
18 16 (0.91%) Databricks