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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 40 52
Rank change year-on-year +3 +12 -5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,075 1,237 1,349
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.16% 5.09% 3.65%
As % of the Development Applications category 41.28% 37.44% 32.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,456 805 905
10th Percentile £318 £319 £350
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £630
90th Percentile £700 £688 £750
UK median daily rate £486 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.80% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 23 61
10th Percentile £18.75 £48.40 £22.00
25th Percentile £25.00 £53.75 £33.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £57.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% +5.00% -16.47%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.00 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £63.00 £57.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% +28.33% -30.77%

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 5,027 3,304 4,207
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.49% 13.59% 11.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,358 2,215 2,876
10th Percentile £340 £350 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% -2.73%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £692 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 61 175
10th Percentile £38.16 £27.50 £31.71
25th Percentile £60.00 £52.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.97%
75th Percentile £74.38 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.75 £84.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +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 29 April 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 29 April 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 29 April 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 +2 934 £505 +0.91% 131
North of England 0 377 £450 -1.10% 66
Midlands +1 313 £449 -9.39% 60
West Midlands -2 246 £456 -8.80% 45
South East -24 189 £475 -5.00% 108
Yorkshire -8 188 £450 -10.00% 32
North West +7 174 £447 +5.18% 30
South West +9 160 £556 -0.67% 33
East Midlands -5 64 £393 -19.90% 15
East of England -7 62 £425 -8.11% 23
North East -9 18 £475 -9.52% 6
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
1 941 (45.35%) Confluence
2 105 (5.06%) SharePoint
3 39 (1.88%) SAS
4 32 (1.54%) nginx
5 28 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
6 18 (0.87%) Apache
7 14 (0.67%) CMS
8 9 (0.43%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.29%) Ethereum
10 6 (0.29%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.29%) Mattermost
10 6 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.29%) WebLogic
11 5 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.24%) JBoss
12 4 (0.19%) IIS
12 4 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.14%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 226 (10.89%) Microsoft Project
2 187 (9.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 102 (4.92%) Microsoft Office
3 102 (4.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 89 (4.29%) MS Visio
5 21 (1.01%) Trello
6 9 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.39%) Chatbot
8 6 (0.29%) Notion
9 3 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
9 3 (0.14%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.14%) InVision
9 3 (0.14%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.14%) Sketch
10 2 (0.096%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.096%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.096%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.096%) CATIA
10 2 (0.096%) Revit
11 1 (0.048%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 26 (1.25%) Remedy ITSM
1 26 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.72%) NetSuite
3 13 (0.63%) Loan IQ
4 10 (0.48%) Workday HCM
5 9 (0.43%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.39%) Fidessa
7 6 (0.29%) Maximo
7 6 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
7 6 (0.29%) SAP MDG
8 5 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.24%) SAP Retail
9 4 (0.19%) Findur
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
Cloud Services
1 425 (20.48%) Azure
2 318 (15.33%) AWS
3 240 (11.57%) Azure DevOps
4 161 (7.76%) GitHub
5 152 (7.33%) Power Platform
6 80 (3.86%) GCP
7 78 (3.76%) SaaS
8 75 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
9 69 (3.33%) Entra ID
10 55 (2.65%) GitHub Actions
11 52 (2.51%) Amazon S3
12 51 (2.46%) Serverless
13 42 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
14 36 (1.73%) Figma
15 34 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 34 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
16 33 (1.59%) Miro
17 32 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
17 32 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 29 (1.40%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 65 (3.13%) Firewall
2 44 (2.12%) DNS
3 40 (1.93%) TCP/IP
4 28 (1.35%) LAN
5 25 (1.20%) Network Security
5 25 (1.20%) WAN
6 24 (1.16%) VPN
7 19 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (0.87%) SSL
9 16 (0.77%) DHCP
10 15 (0.72%) HTTP
11 14 (0.67%) SAN
12 12 (0.58%) BIG-IP
12 12 (0.58%) Internet
13 11 (0.53%) SD-WAN
14 10 (0.48%) Ethernet
14 10 (0.48%) FTP
14 10 (0.48%) NAS
14 10 (0.48%) Unified Communications
15 7 (0.34%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 132 (6.36%) Power BI
2 82 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
4 57 (2.75%) Tableau
5 56 (2.70%) SQL Server
6 39 (1.88%) MongoDB
7 36 (1.73%) Oracle Reports
8 33 (1.59%) NoSQL
9 25 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (1.16%) DynamoDB
11 23 (1.11%) Pentaho
12 22 (1.06%) Relational Database
13 18 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
14 15 (0.72%) Big Data
14 15 (0.72%) BusinessObjects
14 15 (0.72%) MySQL
14 15 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 14 (0.67%) Metadata
16 13 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
17 12 (0.58%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 258 (12.43%) Git
2 191 (9.20%) Jenkins
3 108 (5.20%) GitLab
4 101 (4.87%) Selenium
5 77 (3.71%) Postman
6 61 (2.94%) Bitbucket
6 61 (2.94%) Cucumber
7 60 (2.89%) Zephyr
8 52 (2.51%) JUnit
9 39 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
10 38 (1.83%) JMeter
11 33 (1.59%) REST Assured
12 30 (1.45%) TestRail
13 25 (1.20%) SonarQube
14 21 (1.01%) Cypress.io
14 21 (1.01%) WebDriver
15 17 (0.82%) Maven
16 15 (0.72%) Appium
17 14 (0.67%) ScriptRunner
18 13 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 849 (40.92%) Social Skills
2 601 (28.96%) Finance
3 418 (20.14%) Analytical Skills
4 263 (12.67%) Banking
5 226 (10.89%) Public Sector
6 75 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
7 72 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
8 70 (3.37%) Retail
9 59 (2.84%) Military
10 41 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
11 37 (1.78%) Legal
11 37 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (1.73%) Manufacturing
13 33 (1.59%) Investment Banking
14 23 (1.11%) Front Office
14 23 (1.11%) Retail Banking
15 22 (1.06%) Marketing
16 21 (1.01%) Telecoms
17 19 (0.92%) Law
18 18 (0.87%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 406 (19.57%) Analyst
2 255 (12.29%) Business Analyst
3 181 (8.72%) Developer
4 167 (8.05%) Lead
5 158 (7.61%) Senior
6 145 (6.99%) Project Manager
7 112 (5.40%) Architect
8 92 (4.43%) Tester
9 88 (4.24%) Delivery Manager
10 71 (3.42%) Data Engineer
11 69 (3.33%) Scrum Master
12 62 (2.99%) Consultant
13 52 (2.51%) Test Analyst
13 52 (2.51%) Test Engineer
14 49 (2.36%) IT Support
15 48 (2.31%) Support Engineer
16 45 (2.17%) Technical Manager
17 43 (2.07%) Software Engineer
17 43 (2.07%) Test Leader
18 40 (1.93%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (5.35%) REST
2 63 (3.04%) .NET
2 63 (3.04%) Spring
3 60 (2.89%) React
4 48 (2.31%) HTML
5 46 (2.22%) Kafka
6 41 (1.98%) Spring Boot
7 40 (1.93%) JSON
8 39 (1.88%) RESTful
9 38 (1.83%) CSS
10 32 (1.54%) Playwright
10 32 (1.54%) SOAP
11 31 (1.49%) XML
12 30 (1.45%) ADO
13 29 (1.40%) OpenID
14 27 (1.30%) LDAP
14 27 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
15 26 (1.25%) AngularJS
15 26 (1.25%) Middleware
15 26 (1.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 259 (12.48%) Product Ownership
2 94 (4.53%) Onboarding
3 77 (3.71%) Cloud Native
4 48 (2.31%) Management Information System
5 45 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
6 42 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
6 42 (2.02%) Virtual Team
7 38 (1.83%) Data Centre
8 35 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
9 33 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
10 29 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
11 24 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
12 23 (1.11%) Data Structures
13 22 (1.06%) PMI
14 19 (0.92%) Mobile App
15 16 (0.77%) Public Cloud
16 15 (0.72%) SCADA
17 14 (0.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 13 (0.63%) Operational Technology
18 13 (0.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 162 (7.81%) Windows
2 142 (6.84%) Linux
3 33 (1.59%) Unix
4 20 (0.96%) Android
5 18 (0.87%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.58%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 11 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.39%) FreeRTOS
9 3 (0.14%) AIX
9 3 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.096%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.096%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.048%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,210 (58.31%) Agile
2 538 (25.93%) DevOps
3 518 (24.96%) Stakeholder Management
4 458 (22.07%) Problem-Solving
5 424 (20.43%) Scrum
6 389 (18.75%) CI/CD
7 368 (17.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 320 (15.42%) Test Automation
9 301 (14.51%) Project Management
10 263 (12.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 245 (11.81%) Migration
12 223 (10.75%) User Acceptance Testing
13 210 (10.12%) User Stories
14 202 (9.73%) Change Management
15 196 (9.45%) Project Delivery
16 187 (9.01%) ITIL
17 184 (8.87%) Validation
18 181 (8.72%) Acceptance Criteria
19 176 (8.48%) Analytics
20 168 (8.10%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 323 (15.57%) SQL
2 229 (11.04%) Python
3 190 (9.16%) Java
4 94 (4.53%) JavaScript
5 85 (4.10%) C#
6 66 (3.18%) PowerShell
7 62 (2.99%) TypeScript
8 42 (2.02%) Bash
9 30 (1.45%) C++
10 24 (1.16%) Shell Script
11 20 (0.96%) PL/SQL
12 17 (0.82%) C
13 16 (0.77%) Perl
14 14 (0.67%) Embedded C++
15 13 (0.63%) Apex Code
15 13 (0.63%) VBA
16 10 (0.48%) Embedded C
16 10 (0.48%) Go
17 9 (0.43%) Kotlin
18 8 (0.39%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 575 (27.71%) Security Cleared
2 448 (21.59%) SC Cleared
3 244 (11.76%) Degree
4 75 (3.61%) PMI Certification
5 72 (3.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 69 (3.33%) ISTQB
6 69 (3.33%) PMP
7 64 (3.08%) DV Cleared
8 36 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 36 (1.73%) TOGAF Certification
9 30 (1.45%) CISSP
10 29 (1.40%) Master's Degree
11 25 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (1.06%) CISM
13 21 (1.01%) Azure Certification
14 20 (0.96%) AWS Certification
14 20 (0.96%) IIBA
15 19 (0.92%) CBAP
15 19 (0.92%) SAFe Agilist
16 15 (0.72%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 262 (12.63%) QA
2 126 (6.07%) PMO
3 105 (5.06%) Data Quality
4 50 (2.41%) GDPR
5 49 (2.36%) Accessibility
6 28 (1.35%) NIST
6 28 (1.35%) SLA
7 20 (0.96%) WCAG
8 18 (0.87%) GRC
8 18 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 12 (0.58%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.58%) PSD2
10 11 (0.53%) Basel III
10 11 (0.53%) ISO 20022
11 9 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.39%) NCSC
13 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.34%) SEPA
14 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 165 (7.95%) Docker
2 95 (4.58%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.72%) Firmware
5 9 (0.43%) Squid
5 9 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
7 5 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.14%) HDFS
9 2 (0.096%) Postfix
9 2 (0.096%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.096%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.048%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.048%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.048%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 178 (8.58%) Kubernetes
2 126 (6.07%) Terraform
3 90 (4.34%) Ansible
4 67 (3.23%) Grafana
5 48 (2.31%) Prometheus
6 33 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.45%) OPNET
8 26 (1.25%) HP ALM
9 23 (1.11%) Consul
9 23 (1.11%) Control-M
9 23 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
10 17 (0.82%) Nessus
11 16 (0.77%) IBM Guardium
11 16 (0.77%) Puppet
12 15 (0.72%) Packer
13 11 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
14 9 (0.43%) SCCM
15 8 (0.39%) FortiGate
15 8 (0.39%) HP Quality Center
16 7 (0.34%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 255 (12.29%) ServiceNow
2 244 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 174 (8.39%) Oracle
4 142 (6.84%) Atlassian
5 96 (4.63%) Salesforce
6 78 (3.76%) SAP
7 64 (3.08%) Remedy
8 49 (2.36%) Google
9 36 (1.73%) Workday
10 29 (1.40%) Denodo
11 28 (1.35%) HP
11 28 (1.35%) IBM
11 28 (1.35%) Splunk
11 28 (1.35%) Talend
12 27 (1.30%) Red Hat
12 27 (1.30%) VMware
13 26 (1.25%) Databricks
13 26 (1.25%) Informatica
14 21 (1.01%) Adobe
15 20 (0.96%) MuleSoft