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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 33 41
Rank change year-on-year -15 +8 +9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,024 1,657 1,420
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.35% 5.92% 4.37%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.00% 39.20% 32.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,299 1,176 908
10th Percentile £350 £313 £321
25th Percentile £413 £400 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.48% -4.96%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £685
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 44 65
10th Percentile £19.00 £34.20 £28.09
25th Percentile £24.19 £50.00 £54.70
Median hourly rate £58.12 £57.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -18.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 -
90th Percentile £78.38 £82.10 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -21.43% +12.00%

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 5,326 4,227 4,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.44% 15.10% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,361 2,925 2,751
10th Percentile £353 £325 £350
25th Percentile £415 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 96 164
10th Percentile £23.87 £38.13 £39.03
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.56 £54.68
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £76.25 £74.00
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 2 October 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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -13 949 £538 +2.38% 847
North of England -19 347 £485 +3.19% 253
Midlands -13 246 £459 -2.34% 138
West Midlands -13 213 £469 -1.26% 86
Yorkshire -9 210 £485 -1.02% 92
South East -43 203 £468 -1.58% 291
South West +1 151 £525 -4.55% 123
North West -47 117 £475 +8.26% 133
East of England +5 86 £510 +21.57% 126
East Midlands -16 32 £405 +12.81% 52
North East -39 26 £463 -11.06% 29
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
1 908 (44.86%) Confluence
2 104 (5.14%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 22 (1.09%) CMS
5 21 (1.04%) SAS
6 11 (0.54%) Apache
7 10 (0.49%) Camunda
8 9 (0.44%) nginx
9 7 (0.35%) IIS
10 6 (0.30%) CICS
11 5 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.25%) Jupyter
11 5 (0.25%) MTS
12 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
12 4 (0.20%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.20%) Traefik
12 4 (0.20%) WordPress
13 3 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
13 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 140 (6.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 116 (5.73%) Microsoft Project
3 79 (3.90%) MS Visio
4 64 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
5 61 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 20 (0.99%) Trello
7 16 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.44%) AutoCAD
9 7 (0.35%) Revit
10 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.25%) Notion
11 4 (0.20%) Windchill
12 3 (0.15%) Mingle
13 2 (0.099%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.099%) Gliffy
13 2 (0.099%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.049%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.049%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 1 (0.049%) Mozilla Thunderbird
14 1 (0.049%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 35 (1.73%) Remedy ITSM
2 19 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.64%) Workday HCM
4 12 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
5 11 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
6 9 (0.44%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.30%) Teamcenter
8 5 (0.25%) Fidessa
8 5 (0.25%) ResourceLink
8 5 (0.25%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.20%) Findur
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.20%) SAP FI-AR
9 4 (0.20%) SAP HCM
10 3 (0.15%) Magento
10 3 (0.15%) Maximo
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 497 (24.56%) Azure
2 319 (15.76%) AWS
3 280 (13.83%) Azure DevOps
4 167 (8.25%) GitHub
4 167 (8.25%) Power Platform
5 106 (5.24%) GCP
6 98 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
7 69 (3.41%) SaaS
8 59 (2.92%) Serverless
9 57 (2.82%) Amazon S3
10 56 (2.77%) Entra ID
11 50 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 47 (2.32%) GitHub Actions
13 43 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
13 43 (2.12%) Miro
14 37 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
15 35 (1.73%) Smartsheet
16 33 (1.63%) Microsoft Copilot
17 29 (1.43%) Snowflake
18 26 (1.28%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 77 (3.80%) Firewall
2 72 (3.56%) DNS
3 44 (2.17%) TCP/IP
4 34 (1.68%) VPN
5 32 (1.58%) DHCP
6 25 (1.24%) Network Security
7 22 (1.09%) WAN
8 19 (0.94%) BIG-IP
9 17 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (0.79%) IPv4
10 16 (0.79%) IPv6
11 15 (0.74%) Broadband
11 15 (0.74%) SAN
11 15 (0.74%) VLAN
12 14 (0.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 14 (0.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 13 (0.64%) SSL
14 12 (0.59%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.49%) LAN
15 10 (0.49%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 148 (7.31%) Power BI
2 95 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
3 72 (3.56%) SQL Server
4 59 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
5 40 (1.98%) Oracle Reports
6 39 (1.93%) Relational Database
7 27 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
9 23 (1.14%) MongoDB
10 21 (1.04%) Oracle Database
11 20 (0.99%) Data Lake
12 19 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 18 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
13 18 (0.89%) Metadata
14 17 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
15 16 (0.79%) Tableau
16 15 (0.74%) NoSQL
16 15 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 13 (0.64%) BigQuery
17 13 (0.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 253 (12.50%) Git
2 170 (8.40%) Jenkins
3 122 (6.03%) GitLab
4 80 (3.95%) Zephyr
5 71 (3.51%) Selenium
6 66 (3.26%) Postman
7 65 (3.21%) Bitbucket
8 38 (1.88%) JUnit
9 32 (1.58%) Cucumber
10 29 (1.43%) REST Assured
10 29 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
11 28 (1.38%) JMeter
11 28 (1.38%) Maven
12 25 (1.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 24 (1.19%) Cypress.io
14 23 (1.14%) Mockito
14 23 (1.14%) TestRail
15 22 (1.09%) Rational Rhapsody
16 21 (1.04%) SonarQube
17 17 (0.84%) Artifactory
General
1 804 (39.72%) Social Skills
2 579 (28.61%) Finance
3 398 (19.66%) Analytical Skills
4 276 (13.64%) Banking
5 237 (11.71%) Public Sector
6 91 (4.50%) Organisational Skills
7 74 (3.66%) Retail
8 67 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
9 56 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
10 54 (2.67%) Investment Banking
11 48 (2.37%) Manufacturing
12 44 (2.17%) Telecoms
13 40 (1.98%) Legal
14 39 (1.93%) Front Office
15 38 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 34 (1.68%) Marketing
17 25 (1.24%) Financial Institution
17 25 (1.24%) Retail Banking
18 22 (1.09%) Military
19 20 (0.99%) Law
Job Titles
1 347 (17.14%) Analyst
2 224 (11.07%) Lead
3 208 (10.28%) Business Analyst
4 202 (9.98%) Developer
5 178 (8.79%) Senior
6 110 (5.43%) Project Manager
7 78 (3.85%) Consultant
7 78 (3.85%) Delivery Manager
8 73 (3.61%) Scrum Master
9 71 (3.51%) Architect
10 65 (3.21%) Tester
11 51 (2.52%) Product Owner
11 51 (2.52%) Test Leader
12 50 (2.47%) Administrator
13 46 (2.27%) Support Engineer
13 46 (2.27%) Test Analyst
14 45 (2.22%) Data Engineer
15 42 (2.08%) Test Engineer
16 40 (1.98%) Senior Manager
17 39 (1.93%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (7.51%) REST
2 133 (6.57%) Terraform
3 74 (3.66%) .NET
4 63 (3.11%) HTML
5 61 (3.01%) RESTful
6 51 (2.52%) SOAP
7 50 (2.47%) React
8 49 (2.42%) AngularJS
9 48 (2.37%) JSON
10 47 (2.32%) Web Services
11 43 (2.12%) CSS
11 43 (2.12%) Kafka
12 40 (1.98%) Spring
13 39 (1.93%) Playwright
13 39 (1.93%) Spring Boot
14 37 (1.83%) XML
15 33 (1.63%) Middleware
16 27 (1.33%) Hibernate
16 27 (1.33%) Node.js
16 27 (1.33%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 268 (13.24%) Product Ownership
2 141 (6.97%) Onboarding
3 91 (4.50%) Cloud Native
4 67 (3.31%) Data Centre
4 67 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
5 58 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
6 51 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
7 45 (2.22%) Virtual Team
8 39 (1.93%) Data Structures
9 38 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
10 37 (1.83%) Management Information System
11 28 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
12 25 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
13 23 (1.14%) Credit Risk
14 21 (1.04%) Derivative
15 20 (0.99%) Mobile App
15 20 (0.99%) SCADA
16 19 (0.94%) Replication
17 17 (0.84%) AI Agents
17 17 (0.84%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 145 (7.16%) Windows
2 135 (6.67%) Linux
3 42 (2.08%) Unix
4 29 (1.43%) Windows 10
5 22 (1.09%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.89%) Android
7 17 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 16 (0.79%) Mac OS
9 15 (0.74%) Windows Server
10 10 (0.49%) VMS
11 9 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
12 8 (0.40%) CentOS
12 8 (0.40%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
13 6 (0.30%) zOS
14 4 (0.20%) AIX
15 3 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
16 2 (0.099%) MVS
16 2 (0.099%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 2 (0.099%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,199 (59.24%) Agile
2 672 (33.20%) Stakeholder Management
3 550 (27.17%) DevOps
4 450 (22.23%) Problem-Solving
5 438 (21.64%) Scrum
6 434 (21.44%) CI/CD
7 376 (18.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 350 (17.29%) Test Automation
9 311 (15.37%) Migration
10 268 (13.24%) User Acceptance Testing
11 249 (12.30%) User Stories
12 241 (11.91%) AI
12 241 (11.91%) Validation
13 230 (11.36%) Project Management
14 219 (10.82%) Sprint Planning
14 219 (10.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 212 (10.47%) Project Delivery
16 208 (10.28%) SDLC
17 200 (9.88%) Acceptance Criteria
18 183 (9.04%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 367 (18.13%) SQL
2 264 (13.04%) Python
3 132 (6.52%) Java
4 99 (4.89%) JavaScript
5 74 (3.66%) PowerShell
6 71 (3.51%) C#
7 70 (3.46%) TypeScript
8 45 (2.22%) Bash
9 35 (1.73%) PL/SQL
10 25 (1.24%) C++
11 19 (0.94%) Groovy
12 18 (0.89%) Kotlin
13 17 (0.84%) Bicep
14 15 (0.74%) C
15 14 (0.69%) ActionScript
16 13 (0.64%) Apex Code
17 12 (0.59%) Perl
18 11 (0.54%) Shell Script
19 9 (0.44%) T-SQL
19 9 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 538 (26.58%) Security Cleared
2 414 (20.45%) SC Cleared
3 162 (8.00%) Degree
4 95 (4.69%) DV Cleared
5 87 (4.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 67 (3.31%) ISTQB
7 65 (3.21%) PMI Certification
8 53 (2.62%) PMP
9 31 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (1.28%) AWS Certification
11 23 (1.14%) Azure Certification
12 22 (1.09%) Master's Degree
13 18 (0.89%) CISSP
14 17 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
15 16 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 15 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 12 (0.59%) CISM
17 12 (0.59%) SAFe Agilist
18 11 (0.54%) IIBA
18 11 (0.54%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (13.64%) QA
2 129 (6.37%) Data Quality
3 119 (5.88%) PMO
4 64 (3.16%) Accessibility
5 37 (1.83%) SLA
6 24 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (1.19%) WCAG
7 20 (0.99%) NCSC
7 20 (0.99%) NIST
8 19 (0.94%) GRC
9 15 (0.74%) GDPR
10 14 (0.69%) ISO 20022
11 9 (0.44%) COBIT
11 9 (0.44%) SEPA
12 8 (0.40%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.30%) JSP 440
14 5 (0.25%) MiFID
14 5 (0.25%) P3O
14 5 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 128 (6.32%) Docker
2 105 (5.19%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (0.49%) Firmware
6 8 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.30%) vSphere
9 3 (0.15%) Squid
10 2 (0.099%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.099%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.099%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.099%) Postfix
10 2 (0.099%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.049%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.049%) NFS
11 1 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.049%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.049%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 1 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 116 (5.73%) Kubernetes
2 69 (3.41%) Ansible
3 54 (2.67%) Grafana
4 43 (2.12%) Prometheus
5 28 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
6 23 (1.14%) HP ALM
7 17 (0.84%) Control-M
8 11 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.44%) Istio
9 9 (0.44%) Packer
10 7 (0.35%) Dell DRAC
10 7 (0.35%) Nessus
10 7 (0.35%) SCCM
10 7 (0.35%) SCOM
11 6 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (0.25%) Argo
12 5 (0.25%) HP Quality Center
12 5 (0.25%) IBM Guardium
12 5 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 312 (15.42%) Microsoft
2 215 (10.62%) ServiceNow
3 148 (7.31%) Oracle
4 94 (4.64%) SAP
5 81 (4.00%) Salesforce
6 70 (3.46%) Atlassian
7 64 (3.16%) Google
8 55 (2.72%) IBM
9 47 (2.32%) VMware
10 39 (1.93%) Splunk
11 38 (1.88%) Remedy
12 28 (1.38%) Denodo
13 27 (1.33%) Databricks
14 24 (1.19%) HP
15 23 (1.14%) Workday
16 22 (1.09%) F5
16 22 (1.09%) Informatica
16 22 (1.09%) Talend
17 21 (1.04%) Adobe
18 20 (0.99%) MuleSoft