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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 31 43
Rank change year-on-year -15 +12 +7
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,057 1,624 1,432
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.43% 5.84% 4.34%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.95% 39.20% 32.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,342 1,144 933
10th Percentile £350 £313 £331
25th Percentile £413 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.55%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £614
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £496 £513
% change year-on-year +0.76% -3.17% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 41 74
10th Percentile £23.34 £46.25 £25.99
25th Percentile £44.86 £50.00 £50.63
Median hourly rate £62.75 £62.50 £69.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.40% -9.42% +10.40%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.83 £83.00 -
UK median hourly rate £60.81 £57.50 £69.00
% change year-on-year +5.76% -16.67% +11.29%

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 5,281 4,143 4,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.38% 14.89% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,353 2,870 2,828
10th Percentile £358 £325 £355
25th Percentile £416 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £635
90th Percentile £694 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 95 171
10th Percentile £36.25 £44.30 £36.25
25th Percentile £53.34 £54.88 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £82.98 £71.88
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -13 973 £525 - 334
North of England -15 370 £475 +2.10% 113
Midlands -7 261 £461 -3.00% 57
West Midlands -10 224 £469 -1.26% 37
South East -32 212 £475 - 140
Yorkshire -8 210 £493 +3.68% 46
North West -36 138 £470 +6.82% 51
South West -4 137 £525 -4.55% 79
East of England -11 66 £510 +27.50% 62
East Midlands -4 36 £405 +12.50% 20
North East -40 29 £550 +5.77% 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
1 915 (44.48%) Confluence
2 105 (5.10%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (1.22%) SAS
5 19 (0.92%) CMS
6 15 (0.73%) Apache
7 10 (0.49%) Camunda
8 9 (0.44%) nginx
9 8 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
10 6 (0.29%) Apache Spark
11 5 (0.24%) IIS
11 5 (0.24%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.24%) MTS
12 4 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.19%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.19%) WordPress
13 3 (0.15%) Kentico
13 3 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
13 3 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 142 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 127 (6.17%) Microsoft Project
3 81 (3.94%) MS Visio
4 68 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 61 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
6 22 (1.07%) Trello
7 14 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.49%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.39%) Revit
10 6 (0.29%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.24%) Notion
12 3 (0.15%) Windchill
13 2 (0.097%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.097%) Mingle
13 2 (0.097%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.049%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 1 (0.049%) Adobe Illustrator
14 1 (0.049%) Gliffy
14 1 (0.049%) Mozilla Thunderbird
14 1 (0.049%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 35 (1.70%) Remedy ITSM
2 24 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.49%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
3 10 (0.49%) Workday HCM
4 6 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
4 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
5 5 (0.24%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.24%) Findur
5 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
5 5 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.19%) ResourceLink
6 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
6 4 (0.19%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.15%) Magento
7 3 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
7 3 (0.15%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 497 (24.16%) Azure
2 319 (15.51%) AWS
3 279 (13.56%) Azure DevOps
4 166 (8.07%) Power Platform
5 163 (7.92%) GitHub
6 93 (4.52%) GCP
6 93 (4.52%) Microsoft 365
7 75 (3.65%) SaaS
8 67 (3.26%) Serverless
9 65 (3.16%) Entra ID
10 61 (2.97%) Amazon S3
11 56 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
12 55 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 54 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
14 40 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
15 39 (1.90%) Microsoft Copilot
15 39 (1.90%) Miro
16 34 (1.65%) Smartsheet
17 28 (1.36%) Figma
17 28 (1.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 83 (4.04%) Firewall
2 71 (3.45%) DNS
3 46 (2.24%) TCP/IP
4 35 (1.70%) DHCP
5 31 (1.51%) VPN
6 28 (1.36%) Network Security
7 21 (1.02%) WAN
8 20 (0.97%) BIG-IP
8 20 (0.97%) SAN
9 18 (0.88%) SSL
10 13 (0.63%) SD-WAN
11 12 (0.58%) LAN
12 11 (0.53%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 11 (0.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 11 (0.53%) Internet
12 11 (0.53%) VLAN
13 10 (0.49%) SSH
13 10 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (0.44%) Broadband
14 9 (0.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (7.10%) Power BI
2 89 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
3 64 (3.11%) SQL Server
4 62 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
5 40 (1.94%) Oracle Reports
6 37 (1.80%) Relational Database
7 26 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
7 26 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
8 23 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
9 20 (0.97%) Data Lake
9 20 (0.97%) Metadata
10 19 (0.92%) Oracle Database
10 19 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 18 (0.88%) DynamoDB
11 18 (0.88%) MongoDB
12 17 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (0.83%) Tableau
13 16 (0.78%) NoSQL
14 15 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 14 (0.68%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 259 (12.59%) Git
2 173 (8.41%) Jenkins
3 117 (5.69%) GitLab
4 75 (3.65%) Selenium
5 74 (3.60%) Zephyr
6 65 (3.16%) Bitbucket
7 58 (2.82%) Postman
8 37 (1.80%) JUnit
9 31 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
10 27 (1.31%) Cucumber
11 25 (1.22%) Maven
12 24 (1.17%) Cypress.io
13 23 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 23 (1.12%) JMeter
13 23 (1.12%) REST Assured
14 22 (1.07%) Mockito
15 21 (1.02%) SonarQube
16 20 (0.97%) Artifactory
17 19 (0.92%) TestRail
18 16 (0.78%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 807 (39.23%) Social Skills
2 598 (29.07%) Finance
3 398 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
4 287 (13.95%) Banking
5 238 (11.57%) Public Sector
6 84 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
7 76 (3.69%) Retail
8 67 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
9 50 (2.43%) Investment Banking
10 47 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
11 39 (1.90%) Legal
12 38 (1.85%) Front Office
12 38 (1.85%) Manufacturing
13 37 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 35 (1.70%) Telecoms
15 33 (1.60%) Marketing
16 27 (1.31%) Retail Banking
17 21 (1.02%) Law
17 21 (1.02%) Military
18 19 (0.92%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 357 (17.36%) Analyst
2 218 (10.60%) Business Analyst
3 216 (10.50%) Lead
4 205 (9.97%) Developer
5 180 (8.75%) Senior
6 108 (5.25%) Project Manager
7 87 (4.23%) Delivery Manager
8 83 (4.04%) Scrum Master
9 80 (3.89%) Consultant
10 73 (3.55%) Architect
11 65 (3.16%) Tester
12 55 (2.67%) Data Engineer
13 52 (2.53%) Product Owner
14 49 (2.38%) Support Engineer
15 48 (2.33%) Test Analyst
16 44 (2.14%) Test Leader
17 42 (2.04%) Administrator
17 42 (2.04%) Senior Manager
18 36 (1.75%) Java Developer
18 36 (1.75%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (7.10%) Terraform
2 139 (6.76%) REST
3 77 (3.74%) .NET
4 62 (3.01%) HTML
5 56 (2.72%) RESTful
6 54 (2.63%) React
7 53 (2.58%) AngularJS
8 45 (2.19%) Kafka
9 44 (2.14%) CSS
9 44 (2.14%) JSON
9 44 (2.14%) SOAP
10 43 (2.09%) Spring
11 39 (1.90%) Spring Boot
12 37 (1.80%) Playwright
13 36 (1.75%) Web Services
14 34 (1.65%) XML
15 33 (1.60%) Node.js
16 30 (1.46%) Middleware
17 23 (1.12%) .NET Core
17 23 (1.12%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 273 (13.27%) Product Ownership
2 140 (6.81%) Onboarding
3 89 (4.33%) Cloud Native
4 69 (3.35%) Data Centre
5 61 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
6 57 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
7 51 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
8 45 (2.19%) Virtual Team
9 43 (2.09%) Data Structures
10 42 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
11 36 (1.75%) Management Information System
12 31 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
13 24 (1.17%) Credit Risk
14 22 (1.07%) Distributed Systems
14 22 (1.07%) SCADA
15 21 (1.02%) Mobile App
16 20 (0.97%) Replication
17 17 (0.83%) AI Agents
17 17 (0.83%) Derivative
18 15 (0.73%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 150 (7.29%) Windows
2 131 (6.37%) Linux
3 45 (2.19%) Unix
4 28 (1.36%) Windows 10
5 22 (1.07%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.88%) Android
7 15 (0.73%) Mac OS
7 15 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.73%) Windows Server
8 9 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
9 7 (0.34%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.29%) CentOS
11 5 (0.24%) VMS
12 4 (0.19%) AIX
12 4 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
13 3 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.097%) MVS
14 2 (0.097%) Solaris
14 2 (0.097%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,233 (59.94%) Agile
2 653 (31.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 561 (27.27%) DevOps
4 458 (22.27%) Problem-Solving
5 444 (21.58%) Scrum
6 437 (21.24%) CI/CD
7 390 (18.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 348 (16.92%) Test Automation
9 298 (14.49%) Migration
10 259 (12.59%) User Acceptance Testing
11 254 (12.35%) User Stories
12 238 (11.57%) Sprint Planning
13 237 (11.52%) AI
14 236 (11.47%) Project Management
15 234 (11.38%) Validation
16 224 (10.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 211 (10.26%) SDLC
18 204 (9.92%) Project Delivery
19 191 (9.29%) Acceptance Criteria
20 181 (8.80%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 353 (17.16%) SQL
2 256 (12.45%) Python
3 136 (6.61%) Java
4 105 (5.10%) JavaScript
5 75 (3.65%) TypeScript
6 71 (3.45%) PowerShell
7 67 (3.26%) C#
8 41 (1.99%) Bash
9 33 (1.60%) PL/SQL
10 21 (1.02%) C++
10 21 (1.02%) Groovy
11 16 (0.78%) Apex Code
11 16 (0.78%) Bicep
11 16 (0.78%) Kotlin
12 14 (0.68%) C
13 13 (0.63%) Perl
13 13 (0.63%) VBA
14 11 (0.53%) ActionScript
15 8 (0.39%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 545 (26.49%) Security Cleared
2 421 (20.47%) SC Cleared
3 170 (8.26%) Degree
4 92 (4.47%) DV Cleared
5 86 (4.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 67 (3.26%) ISTQB
7 57 (2.77%) PMI Certification
8 45 (2.19%) PMP
9 28 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
10 22 (1.07%) AWS Certification
11 21 (1.02%) Azure Certification
11 21 (1.02%) Master's Degree
12 19 (0.92%) CISSP
13 18 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 17 (0.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 17 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
14 17 (0.83%) SAFe Agilist
15 13 (0.63%) IIBA
16 11 (0.53%) CISM
16 11 (0.53%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 277 (13.47%) QA
2 127 (6.17%) Data Quality
3 126 (6.13%) PMO
4 62 (3.01%) Accessibility
5 38 (1.85%) SLA
6 24 (1.17%) WCAG
7 23 (1.12%) GDPR
8 22 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 20 (0.97%) GRC
9 20 (0.97%) NCSC
10 18 (0.88%) NIST
11 13 (0.63%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.44%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.39%) SEPA
14 7 (0.34%) JSP 440
15 5 (0.24%) COBIT
15 5 (0.24%) GxP
15 5 (0.24%) MiFID
15 5 (0.24%) P3O
15 5 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 125 (6.08%) Docker
2 114 (5.54%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (0.44%) Firmware
6 7 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.19%) Squid
9 2 (0.097%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.097%) Dovecot
9 2 (0.097%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.097%) Postfix
9 2 (0.097%) vSphere
10 1 (0.049%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.049%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.049%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.049%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 1 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.049%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 111 (5.40%) Kubernetes
2 78 (3.79%) Ansible
3 53 (2.58%) Grafana
4 43 (2.09%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (1.17%) HP ALM
7 16 (0.78%) Control-M
8 14 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.44%) Packer
10 8 (0.39%) Dell DRAC
10 8 (0.39%) Nessus
10 8 (0.39%) Puppet
11 7 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.34%) Istio
11 7 (0.34%) SCOM
12 6 (0.29%) HP Quality Center
12 6 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
12 6 (0.29%) SCCM
13 5 (0.24%) IBM Guardium
Vendors
1 313 (15.22%) Microsoft
2 250 (12.15%) ServiceNow
3 144 (7.00%) Oracle
4 89 (4.33%) Salesforce
5 87 (4.23%) SAP
6 80 (3.89%) Atlassian
7 65 (3.16%) Google
8 53 (2.58%) IBM
9 47 (2.28%) VMware
10 37 (1.80%) Remedy
11 36 (1.75%) Splunk
12 32 (1.56%) Denodo
13 26 (1.26%) HP
13 26 (1.26%) Talend
14 24 (1.17%) F5
15 22 (1.07%) Adobe
15 22 (1.07%) Databricks
15 22 (1.07%) Informatica
15 22 (1.07%) MuleSoft
16 20 (0.97%) Workday