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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 45 48
Rank change year-on-year +11 +3 -14
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,828 1,285 1,589
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.82% 4.40% 4.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.33% 33.02% 34.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,328 814 1,084
10th Percentile £322 £313 £363
25th Percentile £402 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% -0.41%
75th Percentile £609 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £685 £754
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £531
% change year-on-year - -5.88% -1.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 27 42
10th Percentile £15.74 £46.20 £42.08
25th Percentile £42.81 £54.98 £50.31
Median hourly rate £63.45 £62.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £72.19 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £70.50 £74.88
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £62.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year +1.60% +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 4,769 3,891 4,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.18% 13.33% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,310 2,446 3,299
10th Percentile £334 £341 £375
25th Percentile £410 £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 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -2.44% -4.74% -3.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 85 207
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £45.88
25th Percentile £55.00 £54.36 £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 £70.00 £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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +10 848 £525 +4.43% 116
North of England +7 322 £469 -1.68% 102
Midlands +19 216 £450 -10.00% 91
South East -3 198 £478 +1.60% 166
West Midlands +17 171 £475 -5.70% 46
Yorkshire -3 171 £485 -1.07% 43
South West +11 145 £584 +5.66% 54
North West +4 136 £450 -5.26% 49
East of England -6 53 £425 +3.03% 52
East Midlands -1 44 £396 -14.32% 41
North East -2 15 £475 +5.56% 10
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
1 821 (44.91%) Confluence
2 112 (6.13%) SharePoint
3 37 (2.02%) nginx
4 35 (1.91%) SAS
5 31 (1.70%) CMS
6 13 (0.71%) Apache
7 12 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.38%) 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 (0.16%) IIS
12 3 (0.16%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.16%) Traefik
Applications
1 178 (9.74%) Microsoft Project
2 137 (7.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 120 (6.56%) Microsoft Office
4 81 (4.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 72 (3.94%) MS Visio
6 36 (1.97%) Trello
7 11 (0.60%) 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 (0.27%) 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 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.98%) Remedy ITSM
3 15 (0.82%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 9 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.44%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.44%) SAP PM
7 7 (0.38%) SAP HR
8 6 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
8 6 (0.33%) Maximo
8 6 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
9 5 (0.27%) Loan IQ
9 5 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.27%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.22%) Endur
10 4 (0.22%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.22%) SAP ERP
10 4 (0.22%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 354 (19.37%) Azure
2 293 (16.03%) AWS
3 176 (9.63%) Azure DevOps
4 167 (9.14%) GitHub
5 117 (6.40%) Power Platform
6 90 (4.92%) GCP
7 65 (3.56%) Microsoft 365
8 60 (3.28%) Serverless
9 54 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
10 48 (2.63%) Amazon S3
11 45 (2.46%) SaaS
12 43 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
13 41 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
14 36 (1.97%) Slack
15 35 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 35 (1.91%) Power Automate
16 34 (1.86%) Figma
17 33 (1.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 31 (1.70%) Amazon ECS
18 31 (1.70%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.28%) Firewall
2 46 (2.52%) DNS
3 37 (2.02%) SSH
4 35 (1.91%) HTTP
5 23 (1.26%) VPN
6 22 (1.20%) SSL
7 21 (1.15%) FTP
7 21 (1.15%) SMTP
8 20 (1.09%) TCP/IP
9 16 (0.88%) OpenLDAP
10 11 (0.60%) IMAP
11 8 (0.44%) DHCP
11 8 (0.44%) WAN
12 7 (0.38%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.33%) Network Security
13 6 (0.33%) Wireless
14 5 (0.27%) Internet
14 5 (0.27%) Kerberos
14 5 (0.27%) LAN
14 5 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (5.69%) Power BI
2 70 (3.83%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (3.01%) Tableau
4 40 (2.19%) SQL Server
5 36 (1.97%) Relational Database
6 33 (1.81%) Pentaho
7 32 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
8 31 (1.70%) NoSQL
9 28 (1.53%) Big Data
10 22 (1.20%) Oracle Database
11 20 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
11 20 (1.09%) Metadata
11 20 (1.09%) MongoDB
11 20 (1.09%) MySQL
12 18 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
13 17 (0.93%) Hadoop
14 12 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
15 11 (0.60%) BigQuery
15 11 (0.60%) Data Vault
15 11 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 244 (13.35%) Git
2 243 (13.29%) Jenkins
3 116 (6.35%) GitLab
4 76 (4.16%) Selenium
5 71 (3.88%) Bitbucket
6 70 (3.83%) Postman
7 54 (2.95%) Cucumber
8 35 (1.91%) TestRail
9 34 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
10 32 (1.75%) SonarQube
11 29 (1.59%) REST Assured
12 27 (1.48%) Zephyr
13 26 (1.42%) JUnit
13 26 (1.42%) SoapUI
14 22 (1.20%) Vagrant
15 21 (1.15%) SpecFlow
16 19 (1.04%) Maven
17 17 (0.93%) Rational DOORS
18 16 (0.88%) Artifactory
19 14 (0.77%) Cypress.io
General
1 778 (42.56%) Social Skills
2 459 (25.11%) Finance
3 312 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
4 205 (11.21%) Banking
5 202 (11.05%) Public Sector
6 69 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
7 51 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
7 51 (2.79%) Retail
8 49 (2.68%) Military
9 42 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
10 39 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
11 38 (2.08%) Legal
12 32 (1.75%) Investment Banking
13 29 (1.59%) Manufacturing
14 27 (1.48%) Marketing
15 26 (1.42%) Front Office
16 22 (1.20%) Telecoms
17 18 (0.98%) Law
18 15 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 14 (0.77%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 319 (17.45%) Analyst
2 195 (10.67%) Business Analyst
3 179 (9.79%) Developer
4 167 (9.14%) Project Manager
5 143 (7.82%) Senior
6 134 (7.33%) Lead
7 115 (6.29%) Architect
8 73 (3.99%) Tester
9 58 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
10 57 (3.12%) Test Analyst
11 53 (2.90%) Consultant
12 50 (2.74%) Delivery Manager
13 49 (2.68%) Product Owner
14 47 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
15 45 (2.46%) Administrator
16 42 (2.30%) Software Engineer
16 42 (2.30%) Technical Analyst
17 39 (2.13%) Data Engineer
17 39 (2.13%) Technical Business Analyst
17 39 (2.13%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (9.19%) REST
2 80 (4.38%) SOAP
3 79 (4.32%) .NET
4 72 (3.94%) HTML
5 65 (3.56%) React
6 64 (3.50%) AngularJS
7 55 (3.01%) Kafka
8 52 (2.84%) CSS
8 52 (2.84%) JSON
9 51 (2.79%) RESTful
9 51 (2.79%) XML
10 45 (2.46%) LDAP
11 41 (2.24%) Node.js
12 40 (2.19%) Spring
13 38 (2.08%) Spring Boot
14 37 (2.02%) Playwright
15 35 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
16 31 (1.70%) Web Services
17 30 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
18 28 (1.53%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 217 (11.87%) Product Ownership
2 81 (4.43%) Onboarding
3 57 (3.12%) Cloud Native
4 46 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
5 40 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
6 38 (2.08%) Management Information System
7 34 (1.86%) Data Structures
8 31 (1.70%) PMI
9 27 (1.48%) Mobile App
10 26 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
10 26 (1.42%) Replication
11 25 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
11 25 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
12 24 (1.31%) CMDB
13 22 (1.20%) Virtual Team
14 20 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
15 17 (0.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 16 (0.88%) Algorithms
16 16 (0.88%) Data Centre
16 16 (0.88%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 135 (7.39%) Windows
2 122 (6.67%) Linux
3 48 (2.63%) Unix
4 27 (1.48%) VMS
5 20 (1.09%) Amazon Linux
6 19 (1.04%) Android
7 16 (0.88%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.82%) Apple iOS
9 13 (0.71%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.60%) Windows 10
10 11 (0.60%) Windows Server
11 10 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.16%) CentOS
12 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.16%) zOS
13 2 (0.11%) Debian
13 2 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
13 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.11%) Solaris
14 1 (0.055%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,121 (61.32%) Agile
2 542 (29.65%) DevOps
3 446 (24.40%) Problem-Solving
4 439 (24.02%) Scrum
5 406 (22.21%) Stakeholder Management
6 371 (20.30%) CI/CD
7 279 (15.26%) Project Management
8 274 (14.99%) Continuous Improvement
9 269 (14.72%) Test Automation
10 248 (13.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 197 (10.78%) Migration
12 191 (10.45%) Change Management
13 186 (10.18%) User Stories
14 178 (9.74%) User Acceptance Testing
15 162 (8.86%) Project Delivery
16 158 (8.64%) Roadmaps
17 155 (8.48%) Microservices
18 154 (8.42%) Analytics
19 151 (8.26%) ITIL
20 145 (7.93%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 306 (16.74%) SQL
2 271 (14.82%) Python
3 166 (9.08%) Java
4 142 (7.77%) JavaScript
5 87 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 77 (4.21%) C#
7 49 (2.68%) TypeScript
8 48 (2.63%) Bash
9 41 (2.24%) Go
10 31 (1.70%) C++
11 29 (1.59%) Groovy
12 24 (1.31%) Perl
13 17 (0.93%) Apex Code
13 17 (0.93%) PHP
13 17 (0.93%) Shell Script
14 16 (0.88%) PL/SQL
15 14 (0.77%) Ruby
16 12 (0.66%) Embedded C++
17 9 (0.49%) C
18 8 (0.44%) Korn
Qualifications
1 472 (25.82%) Security Cleared
2 406 (22.21%) SC Cleared
3 275 (15.04%) Degree
4 85 (4.65%) PMI Certification
5 69 (3.77%) PMP
6 59 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 56 (3.06%) CISSP
8 52 (2.84%) ISTQB
9 49 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
10 43 (2.35%) CISM
11 41 (2.24%) TOGAF Certification
12 39 (2.13%) DV Cleared
13 30 (1.64%) AWS Certification
14 23 (1.26%) CBAP
15 20 (1.09%) Azure Certification
15 20 (1.09%) Master's Degree
15 20 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
16 15 (0.82%) CSPO
16 15 (0.82%) ISEB
17 14 (0.77%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 240 (13.13%) QA
2 91 (4.98%) PMO
3 66 (3.61%) Data Quality
4 65 (3.56%) GDPR
5 56 (3.06%) Accessibility
6 42 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 37 (2.02%) NIST
8 20 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 18 (0.98%) PSD2
9 18 (0.98%) WCAG
10 17 (0.93%) ISO 20022
11 16 (0.88%) SEPA
12 15 (0.82%) PCI DSS
13 14 (0.77%) NIST 800
14 11 (0.60%) COBIT
15 9 (0.49%) GRC
15 9 (0.49%) SLA
16 8 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 7 (0.38%) NCSC
17 7 (0.38%) P3O
System Software
1 206 (11.27%) Docker
2 59 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (1.04%) DFS Replication
5 17 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.66%) Firmware
7 11 (0.60%) Dovecot
7 11 (0.60%) Postfix
7 11 (0.60%) Squid
8 7 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.16%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.11%) KVM
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.055%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 1 (0.055%) etcd
Systems Management
1 184 (10.07%) Kubernetes
2 106 (5.80%) Terraform
3 88 (4.81%) Ansible
4 53 (2.90%) Grafana
5 42 (2.30%) Prometheus
6 32 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.64%) OPNET
8 29 (1.59%) HP ALM
9 23 (1.26%) Nessus
10 18 (0.98%) Puppet
11 15 (0.82%) Control-M
11 15 (0.82%) Packer
12 14 (0.77%) NetBackup
13 13 (0.71%) Consul
14 12 (0.66%) RSA Archer
14 12 (0.66%) SCCM
15 11 (0.60%) IBM Guardium
16 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
16 10 (0.55%) Progress Chef
16 10 (0.55%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 243 (13.29%) Microsoft
2 230 (12.58%) ServiceNow
3 159 (8.70%) Oracle
4 122 (6.67%) Atlassian
5 95 (5.20%) Salesforce
6 68 (3.72%) SAP
7 57 (3.12%) Google
8 54 (2.95%) Remedy
9 45 (2.46%) HP
10 37 (2.02%) IBM
11 36 (1.97%) Talend
12 32 (1.75%) Denodo
13 31 (1.70%) Splunk
14 30 (1.64%) CyberArk
15 20 (1.09%) Red Hat
16 19 (1.04%) VMware
17 18 (0.98%) BiZZdesign
17 18 (0.98%) Tenable
18 17 (0.93%) BMC
18 17 (0.93%) Cisco