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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 44 53
Rank change year-on-year +10 +9 -10
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,973 1,182 1,391
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.42% 4.80% 3.66%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.60% 35.37% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,401 755 965
10th Percentile £313 £313 £325
25th Percentile £394 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £630
90th Percentile £700 £675 £750
UK median daily rate £492 £499 £510
% change year-on-year -1.35% -2.21% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 21 54
10th Percentile £15.74 £48.00 £22.90
25th Percentile £20.69 £55.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.57 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.00 £76.07
UK median hourly rate £63.40 £62.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year +1.44% +36.22% -26.59%

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 4,982 3,342 4,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.68% 13.56% 11.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,369 2,184 2,997
10th Percentile £337 £334 £358
25th Percentile £409 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% -4.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 63 187
10th Percentile £37.00 £26.08 £39.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.72 £49.24
Median hourly rate £65.75 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £76.94 £71.25 £73.70
90th Percentile £88.00 £79.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 12 March 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 +7 860 £520 +4.00% 186
North of England +9 355 £450 -1.10% 92
Midlands +6 294 £425 -10.90% 83
West Midlands -1 227 £450 -5.66% 61
South East -8 199 £475 -5.00% 155
Yorkshire -1 197 £475 -5.00% 38
South West +17 163 £575 +1.77% 48
North West +14 150 £442 -1.72% 42
East Midlands 0 65 £358 -26.94% 22
East of England -5 65 £425 - 43
North East -17 8 £413 -9.14% 13
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
1 937 (47.49%) Confluence
2 113 (5.73%) SharePoint
3 37 (1.88%) SAS
4 31 (1.57%) nginx
5 21 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
6 20 (1.01%) CMS
7 14 (0.71%) Apache
8 8 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.41%) WebLogic
8 8 (0.41%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.30%) Ethereum
9 6 (0.30%) Hyperledger
9 6 (0.30%) OpenStack
9 6 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.25%) Mattermost
11 4 (0.20%) IIS
11 4 (0.20%) JBoss
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.15%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.15%) Drupal
Applications
1 217 (11.00%) Microsoft Project
2 185 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 108 (5.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 105 (5.32%) Microsoft Office
5 81 (4.11%) MS Visio
6 22 (1.12%) Trello
7 8 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.30%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
9 5 (0.25%) Notion
9 5 (0.25%) Photoshop
9 5 (0.25%) Sketch
10 4 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.15%) InVision
12 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.10%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.10%) CATIA
12 2 (0.10%) InDesign
13 1 (0.051%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 21 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.86%) NetSuite
3 13 (0.66%) Loan IQ
3 13 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
4 11 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.56%) Workday HCM
5 10 (0.51%) Fidessa
6 8 (0.41%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.41%) Maximo
7 6 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 5 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.25%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 4 (0.20%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.20%) SAP Retail
10 3 (0.15%) Findur
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 383 (19.41%) Azure
2 290 (14.70%) AWS
3 214 (10.85%) Azure DevOps
4 172 (8.72%) GitHub
5 134 (6.79%) Power Platform
6 78 (3.95%) GCP
7 67 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
8 59 (2.99%) SaaS
9 54 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
10 52 (2.64%) Entra ID
11 44 (2.23%) Serverless
12 31 (1.57%) Amazon S3
13 30 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
13 30 (1.52%) Figma
14 29 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
15 28 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
15 28 (1.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 25 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
17 24 (1.22%) Miro
17 24 (1.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 52 (2.64%) Firewall
2 36 (1.82%) DNS
2 36 (1.82%) TCP/IP
3 31 (1.57%) VPN
4 24 (1.22%) WAN
5 23 (1.17%) LAN
6 20 (1.01%) Network Security
7 17 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
8 16 (0.81%) HTTP
9 13 (0.66%) SD-WAN
10 11 (0.56%) DHCP
11 10 (0.51%) SSL
12 9 (0.46%) Ethernet
12 9 (0.46%) Internet
12 9 (0.46%) SSH
13 8 (0.41%) FTP
13 8 (0.41%) Unified Communications
14 7 (0.35%) Modbus
14 7 (0.35%) NAS
14 7 (0.35%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (5.73%) Power BI
2 81 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (3.29%) Tableau
4 54 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
5 51 (2.58%) SQL Server
6 39 (1.98%) MongoDB
7 34 (1.72%) NoSQL
8 24 (1.22%) Pentaho
9 23 (1.17%) Oracle Reports
10 20 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
10 20 (1.01%) Relational Database
11 18 (0.91%) MySQL
12 17 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (0.86%) Oracle Database
13 16 (0.81%) Big Data
13 16 (0.81%) Metadata
14 13 (0.66%) DynamoDB
15 12 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 11 (0.56%) Hadoop
17 10 (0.51%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 237 (12.01%) Git
2 229 (11.61%) Jenkins
3 118 (5.98%) GitLab
4 94 (4.76%) Selenium
5 73 (3.70%) Postman
6 68 (3.45%) Cucumber
7 61 (3.09%) Bitbucket
8 54 (2.74%) JUnit
9 43 (2.18%) Zephyr
10 40 (2.03%) Sonatype Nexus
11 36 (1.82%) JMeter
12 33 (1.67%) REST Assured
13 31 (1.57%) TestRail
14 28 (1.42%) SonarQube
15 20 (1.01%) Maven
16 18 (0.91%) WebDriver
17 17 (0.86%) Cypress.io
18 15 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 15 (0.76%) Rational DOORS
18 15 (0.76%) SpecFlow
General
1 817 (41.41%) Social Skills
2 570 (28.89%) Finance
3 387 (19.61%) Analytical Skills
4 244 (12.37%) Banking
5 207 (10.49%) Public Sector
6 78 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
7 75 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
8 67 (3.40%) Retail
9 52 (2.64%) Military
10 48 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
11 45 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
12 35 (1.77%) Legal
13 29 (1.47%) Investment Banking
14 28 (1.42%) Manufacturing
15 23 (1.17%) Front Office
16 19 (0.96%) Retail Banking
16 19 (0.96%) Telecoms
17 18 (0.91%) Financial Institution
17 18 (0.91%) Marketing
18 17 (0.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 400 (20.27%) Analyst
2 256 (12.98%) Business Analyst
3 184 (9.33%) Developer
4 151 (7.65%) Lead
4 151 (7.65%) Project Manager
5 141 (7.15%) Senior
6 125 (6.34%) Architect
7 97 (4.92%) Tester
8 62 (3.14%) Delivery Manager
9 58 (2.94%) Consultant
10 54 (2.74%) Data Engineer
11 53 (2.69%) Solutions Architect
12 51 (2.58%) Test Engineer
13 49 (2.48%) Technical Analyst
14 47 (2.38%) Technical Business Analyst
15 45 (2.28%) Scrum Master
15 45 (2.28%) Test Analyst
16 44 (2.23%) Software Engineer
17 43 (2.18%) Technical Manager
18 42 (2.13%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (7.25%) REST
2 64 (3.24%) Spring
3 55 (2.79%) .NET
4 51 (2.58%) Kafka
5 49 (2.48%) XML
6 47 (2.38%) JSON
7 45 (2.28%) RESTful
8 44 (2.23%) React
9 42 (2.13%) SOAP
10 41 (2.08%) HTML
10 41 (2.08%) Spring Boot
11 38 (1.93%) Playwright
12 36 (1.82%) CSS
13 32 (1.62%) Oracle Fusion
14 27 (1.37%) FastAPI
14 27 (1.37%) OpenID
15 26 (1.32%) ADO
15 26 (1.32%) OpenTelemetry
16 25 (1.27%) Node.js
16 25 (1.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 225 (11.40%) Product Ownership
2 88 (4.46%) Onboarding
3 71 (3.60%) Cloud Native
4 50 (2.53%) Management Information System
5 43 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
6 41 (2.08%) Virtual Team
7 37 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
10 26 (1.32%) Mobile App
11 25 (1.27%) Data Centre
11 25 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
11 25 (1.27%) PMI
12 24 (1.22%) Data Structures
13 22 (1.12%) Public Cloud
14 19 (0.96%) CMDB
14 19 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (0.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 15 (0.76%) Tandem
16 12 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 154 (7.81%) Windows
2 136 (6.89%) Linux
3 38 (1.93%) Unix
4 21 (1.06%) Android
5 20 (1.01%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.66%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.56%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.51%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.35%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.051%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.051%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.051%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.051%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.051%) Windows Embedded Compact
11 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.051%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,161 (58.84%) Agile
2 537 (27.22%) DevOps
3 503 (25.49%) Stakeholder Management
4 459 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
5 419 (21.24%) Scrum
6 396 (20.07%) CI/CD
7 349 (17.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 309 (15.66%) Test Automation
9 294 (14.90%) Project Management
10 252 (12.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 202 (10.24%) Project Delivery
12 200 (10.14%) Migration
13 196 (9.93%) User Stories
14 190 (9.63%) User Acceptance Testing
15 185 (9.38%) Change Management
16 175 (8.87%) Decision-Making
17 172 (8.72%) ITIL
18 168 (8.51%) Acceptance Criteria
19 163 (8.26%) Roadmaps
19 163 (8.26%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 303 (15.36%) SQL
2 257 (13.03%) Python
3 182 (9.22%) Java
4 98 (4.97%) JavaScript
5 86 (4.36%) C#
6 82 (4.16%) PowerShell
7 50 (2.53%) TypeScript
8 40 (2.03%) Bash
9 34 (1.72%) C++
10 24 (1.22%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.01%) Embedded C++
12 19 (0.96%) Go
13 18 (0.91%) PL/SQL
14 14 (0.71%) C
15 13 (0.66%) Perl
16 11 (0.56%) PHP
16 11 (0.56%) Ruby
17 10 (0.51%) Apex Code
17 10 (0.51%) Embedded C
18 8 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 537 (27.22%) Security Cleared
2 429 (21.74%) SC Cleared
3 261 (13.23%) Degree
4 86 (4.36%) PMI Certification
5 78 (3.95%) PMP
6 67 (3.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 64 (3.24%) ISTQB
8 54 (2.74%) DV Cleared
9 52 (2.64%) CISSP
10 50 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
11 44 (2.23%) TOGAF Certification
12 41 (2.08%) CISM
13 34 (1.72%) Master's Degree
14 25 (1.27%) AWS Certification
15 21 (1.06%) CBAP
15 21 (1.06%) ISEB
16 19 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
17 18 (0.91%) Azure Certification
17 18 (0.91%) IIBA
17 18 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 240 (12.16%) QA
2 119 (6.03%) PMO
3 85 (4.31%) Data Quality
4 45 (2.28%) Accessibility
5 41 (2.08%) GDPR
6 33 (1.67%) NIST
7 26 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 23 (1.17%) SLA
9 18 (0.91%) WCAG
10 15 (0.76%) PSD2
11 14 (0.71%) GRC
12 13 (0.66%) ISO 20022
13 11 (0.56%) Basel III
13 11 (0.56%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.56%) SEPA
14 8 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (0.41%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 188 (9.53%) Docker
2 74 (3.75%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.56%) Firmware
6 8 (0.41%) Squid
7 7 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.15%) HDFS
11 2 (0.10%) Postfix
11 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.051%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.051%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.051%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 1 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.051%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 193 (9.78%) Kubernetes
2 92 (4.66%) Terraform
3 87 (4.41%) Ansible
4 69 (3.50%) Grafana
5 54 (2.74%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.57%) Control-M
7 30 (1.52%) OPNET
8 25 (1.27%) IBM Guardium
8 25 (1.27%) Nessus
8 25 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
9 23 (1.17%) HP ALM
10 22 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
11 21 (1.06%) Consul
12 19 (0.96%) Puppet
13 16 (0.81%) Packer
14 12 (0.61%) NetBackup
14 12 (0.61%) SCCM
15 10 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
16 8 (0.41%) HP Quality Center
17 7 (0.35%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 232 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 214 (10.85%) ServiceNow
3 164 (8.31%) Oracle
4 150 (7.60%) Atlassian
5 101 (5.12%) Salesforce
6 67 (3.40%) SAP
7 51 (2.58%) Remedy
8 43 (2.18%) Google
9 38 (1.93%) IBM
10 33 (1.67%) Workday
11 32 (1.62%) Red Hat
12 30 (1.52%) Talend
13 29 (1.47%) Splunk
13 29 (1.47%) Tenable
14 26 (1.32%) Databricks
15 25 (1.27%) HP
16 23 (1.17%) BiZZdesign
16 23 (1.17%) Denodo
17 20 (1.01%) VMware
18 19 (0.96%) Sonatype