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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 44 54
Rank change year-on-year +10 +10 -11
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,969 1,200 1,394
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.45% 4.76% 3.67%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.55% 35.30% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 759 966
10th Percentile £313 £313 £325
25th Percentile £400 £402 £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 £748
UK median daily rate £494 £498 £510
% change year-on-year -0.75% -2.45% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 21 55
10th Percentile £15.74 £48.00 £23.20
25th Percentile £22.13 £55.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.00 £75.92
UK median hourly rate £63.27 £62.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year +1.23% +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 4,978 3,399 4,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.77% 13.49% 11.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,387 2,187 3,015
10th Percentile £340 £333 £360
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £638
90th Percentile £695 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 64 192
10th Percentile £34.13 £26.10 £37.75
25th Percentile £52.81 £51.95 £49.62
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £73.44 £71.88 £73.92
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £88.13
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £63.75
% change year-on-year +4.00% -1.96% +3.66%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 +7 856 £520 +4.00% 154
North of England +8 358 £450 -3.23% 74
Midlands +1 294 £425 -10.90% 77
West Midlands +1 228 £450 -5.66% 57
Yorkshire -4 197 £478 -5.45% 33
South East -6 195 £475 -3.80% 159
South West +18 166 £571 +1.11% 53
North West +20 149 £438 -2.78% 32
East Midlands +3 64 £356 -27.35% 20
East of England -9 61 £425 - 46
North East -9 12 £413 -9.14% 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
1 932 (47.33%) Confluence
2 117 (5.94%) SharePoint
3 42 (2.13%) SAS
4 31 (1.57%) nginx
5 24 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 21 (1.07%) CMS
7 13 (0.66%) Apache
8 8 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.41%) WebLogic
9 7 (0.36%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.30%) Ethereum
10 6 (0.30%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.25%) Mattermost
12 4 (0.20%) IIS
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.15%) Drupal
13 3 (0.15%) JBoss
13 3 (0.15%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 212 (10.77%) Microsoft Project
2 184 (9.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 109 (5.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 103 (5.23%) Microsoft Office
5 83 (4.22%) MS Visio
6 23 (1.17%) Trello
7 7 (0.36%) 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%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 20 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.86%) NetSuite
3 13 (0.66%) Loan IQ
3 13 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
4 11 (0.56%) Workday HCM
5 10 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
5 10 (0.51%) Fidessa
6 8 (0.41%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.41%) Maximo
7 7 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 6 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.25%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 4 (0.20%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.20%) SAP Retail
11 3 (0.15%) Algo Collateral
11 3 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 382 (19.40%) Azure
2 300 (15.24%) AWS
3 207 (10.51%) Azure DevOps
4 171 (8.68%) GitHub
5 133 (6.75%) Power Platform
6 82 (4.16%) GCP
7 70 (3.56%) Microsoft 365
8 58 (2.95%) SaaS
9 52 (2.64%) GitHub Actions
10 50 (2.54%) Entra ID
11 41 (2.08%) Serverless
12 30 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
12 30 (1.52%) Figma
13 29 (1.47%) Amazon S3
14 28 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
14 28 (1.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 27 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
16 26 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
17 25 (1.27%) Miro
17 25 (1.27%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.49%) Firewall
2 34 (1.73%) DNS
2 34 (1.73%) TCP/IP
3 30 (1.52%) VPN
4 22 (1.12%) WAN
5 20 (1.02%) LAN
6 18 (0.91%) Network Security
7 16 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
8 15 (0.76%) HTTP
9 11 (0.56%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.51%) DHCP
11 9 (0.46%) Ethernet
11 9 (0.46%) SSH
12 8 (0.41%) FTP
12 8 (0.41%) SSL
12 8 (0.41%) Unified Communications
13 7 (0.36%) BIG-IP
13 7 (0.36%) Internet
13 7 (0.36%) OpenVPN
13 7 (0.36%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (5.64%) Power BI
2 80 (4.06%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (3.30%) Tableau
4 54 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
5 51 (2.59%) SQL Server
6 39 (1.98%) MongoDB
7 36 (1.83%) NoSQL
8 29 (1.47%) Pentaho
9 23 (1.17%) Oracle Reports
10 21 (1.07%) MySQL
10 21 (1.07%) Relational Database
11 20 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (1.02%) Oracle Database
12 17 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
13 16 (0.81%) Big Data
13 16 (0.81%) Metadata
14 12 (0.61%) Data Vault
14 12 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 11 (0.56%) Hadoop
15 11 (0.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 241 (12.24%) Git
2 232 (11.78%) Jenkins
3 116 (5.89%) GitLab
4 88 (4.47%) Selenium
5 74 (3.76%) Postman
6 65 (3.30%) Cucumber
7 61 (3.10%) Bitbucket
8 51 (2.59%) JUnit
9 43 (2.18%) Zephyr
10 39 (1.98%) Sonatype Nexus
11 34 (1.73%) REST Assured
12 33 (1.68%) JMeter
13 30 (1.52%) TestRail
14 28 (1.42%) SonarQube
15 20 (1.02%) Maven
16 15 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 15 (0.76%) Cypress.io
16 15 (0.76%) Rational DOORS
16 15 (0.76%) WebDriver
17 14 (0.71%) SpecFlow
General
1 813 (41.29%) Social Skills
2 562 (28.54%) Finance
3 382 (19.40%) Analytical Skills
4 240 (12.19%) Banking
5 205 (10.41%) Public Sector
6 79 (4.01%) Organisational Skills
7 71 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
8 64 (3.25%) Retail
9 54 (2.74%) Military
10 48 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
11 46 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
12 33 (1.68%) Legal
13 30 (1.52%) Investment Banking
14 29 (1.47%) Manufacturing
15 23 (1.17%) Front Office
16 21 (1.07%) Marketing
16 21 (1.07%) Telecoms
17 19 (0.96%) Retail Banking
18 17 (0.86%) Financial Institution
18 17 (0.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 400 (20.31%) Analyst
2 255 (12.95%) Business Analyst
3 183 (9.29%) Developer
4 150 (7.62%) Project Manager
5 149 (7.57%) Lead
6 134 (6.81%) Senior
7 125 (6.35%) Architect
8 94 (4.77%) Tester
9 60 (3.05%) Delivery Manager
10 59 (3.00%) Consultant
11 54 (2.74%) Data Engineer
12 53 (2.69%) Test Engineer
13 52 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
14 48 (2.44%) Technical Analyst
15 47 (2.39%) Test Analyst
16 46 (2.34%) Technical Business Analyst
17 45 (2.29%) Scrum Master
18 44 (2.23%) Software Engineer
19 42 (2.13%) IT Support
19 42 (2.13%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (7.21%) REST
2 61 (3.10%) Spring
3 55 (2.79%) .NET
4 49 (2.49%) XML
5 48 (2.44%) Kafka
6 47 (2.39%) JSON
7 45 (2.29%) HTML
7 45 (2.29%) RESTful
7 45 (2.29%) SOAP
8 44 (2.23%) React
9 40 (2.03%) CSS
9 40 (2.03%) Spring Boot
10 38 (1.93%) Playwright
11 32 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
12 27 (1.37%) Node.js
12 27 (1.37%) OpenID
13 26 (1.32%) FastAPI
14 25 (1.27%) ADO
14 25 (1.27%) OpenTelemetry
15 24 (1.22%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 227 (11.53%) Product Ownership
2 87 (4.42%) Onboarding
3 73 (3.71%) Cloud Native
4 51 (2.59%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.34%) Data Protection Act
6 40 (2.03%) Virtual Team
7 36 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
8 31 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
10 26 (1.32%) Data Centre
10 26 (1.32%) Data Structures
11 25 (1.27%) Mobile App
11 25 (1.27%) PMI
12 23 (1.17%) Public Cloud
13 22 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
14 19 (0.96%) CMDB
15 17 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
16 15 (0.76%) Security Posture
16 15 (0.76%) Tandem
17 14 (0.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 152 (7.72%) Windows
2 134 (6.81%) Linux
3 35 (1.78%) Unix
4 21 (1.07%) Android
4 21 (1.07%) Windows 10
5 13 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.36%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.20%) VMS
11 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.051%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.051%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.051%) Windows Embedded Compact
12 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.051%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,163 (59.07%) Agile
2 540 (27.43%) DevOps
3 501 (25.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 463 (23.51%) Problem-Solving
5 428 (21.74%) Scrum
6 403 (20.47%) CI/CD
7 347 (17.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 315 (16.00%) Test Automation
9 295 (14.98%) Project Management
10 250 (12.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 202 (10.26%) Migration
12 201 (10.21%) Project Delivery
13 199 (10.11%) User Stories
14 190 (9.65%) User Acceptance Testing
15 184 (9.34%) Change Management
16 172 (8.74%) Decision-Making
17 166 (8.43%) Acceptance Criteria
18 165 (8.38%) Analytics
18 165 (8.38%) ITIL
19 163 (8.28%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 304 (15.44%) SQL
2 261 (13.26%) Python
3 183 (9.29%) Java
4 100 (5.08%) JavaScript
5 85 (4.32%) C#
6 81 (4.11%) PowerShell
7 52 (2.64%) TypeScript
8 43 (2.18%) Bash
9 34 (1.73%) C++
10 24 (1.22%) Go
10 24 (1.22%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.02%) Embedded C++
12 18 (0.91%) PL/SQL
13 14 (0.71%) C
13 14 (0.71%) PHP
14 12 (0.61%) Perl
15 11 (0.56%) Ruby
16 10 (0.51%) Apex Code
16 10 (0.51%) Embedded C
17 8 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 536 (27.22%) Security Cleared
2 429 (21.79%) SC Cleared
3 262 (13.31%) Degree
4 88 (4.47%) PMI Certification
5 80 (4.06%) PMP
6 66 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 63 (3.20%) ISTQB
8 53 (2.69%) DV Cleared
9 51 (2.59%) CISSP
9 51 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
10 44 (2.23%) TOGAF Certification
11 41 (2.08%) CISM
12 35 (1.78%) Master's Degree
13 27 (1.37%) AWS Certification
14 21 (1.07%) CBAP
14 21 (1.07%) ISEB
15 19 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
16 18 (0.91%) IIBA
16 18 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 16 (0.81%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (12.14%) QA
2 116 (5.89%) PMO
3 91 (4.62%) Data Quality
4 44 (2.23%) Accessibility
5 41 (2.08%) GDPR
6 33 (1.68%) NIST
7 26 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 23 (1.17%) SLA
9 20 (1.02%) WCAG
10 15 (0.76%) PSD2
11 13 (0.66%) GRC
11 13 (0.66%) ISO 20022
12 11 (0.56%) Basel III
12 11 (0.56%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (0.56%) SEPA
13 8 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.41%) NIST 800
14 6 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 195 (9.90%) Docker
2 72 (3.66%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.56%) Firmware
6 8 (0.41%) Squid
6 8 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
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%) etcd
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
1 199 (10.11%) Kubernetes
2 90 (4.57%) Ansible
3 89 (4.52%) Terraform
4 68 (3.45%) Grafana
5 50 (2.54%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.52%) Control-M
6 30 (1.52%) OPNET
7 24 (1.22%) HP ALM
7 24 (1.22%) IBM Guardium
7 24 (1.22%) Nessus
7 24 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
8 23 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
9 21 (1.07%) Consul
10 19 (0.96%) Puppet
11 16 (0.81%) Packer
12 13 (0.66%) NetBackup
12 13 (0.66%) SCCM
13 10 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.36%) Argo
14 7 (0.36%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 234 (11.88%) Microsoft
2 215 (10.92%) ServiceNow
3 168 (8.53%) Oracle
4 149 (7.57%) Atlassian
5 101 (5.13%) Salesforce
6 65 (3.30%) SAP
7 51 (2.59%) Remedy
8 44 (2.23%) Google
9 36 (1.83%) IBM
10 35 (1.78%) Talend
11 32 (1.63%) Red Hat
12 31 (1.57%) Workday
13 28 (1.42%) Denodo
13 28 (1.42%) Splunk
13 28 (1.42%) Tenable
14 26 (1.32%) Databricks
15 25 (1.27%) HP
16 23 (1.17%) BiZZdesign
17 22 (1.12%) VMware
18 19 (0.96%) Sonatype