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

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 43 52
Rank change year-on-year +9 +9 -9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,040 1,172 1,364
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.42% 4.84% 3.62%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.31% 35.63% 32.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,439 765 939
10th Percentile £313 £314 £350
25th Percentile £400 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £630
90th Percentile £692 £687 £751
UK median daily rate £490 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -2.00% -2.44% -4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 24 54
10th Percentile £18.15 £48.92 £22.00
25th Percentile £25.00 £55.34 £40.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £62.50 £52.35
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% +19.38% -17.88%
75th Percentile £72.50 £72.19 £64.69
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £63.32 £62.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +1.31% +38.89% -28.00%

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 5,061 3,289 4,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.44% 13.57% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,400 2,197 2,918
10th Percentile £340 £340 £360
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £529
Median % change year-on-year - -5.44% -6.42%
75th Percentile £588 £626 £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 201 66 167
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.15 £36.83
25th Percentile £60.00 £52.26 £47.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £63.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.72% +1.20% +1.63%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.36 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.25
% change year-on-year +8.00% +0.40% +1.22%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +9 899 £513 +2.50% 202
North of England +3 378 £450 - 115
Midlands +6 303 £425 -10.53% 70
West Midlands +1 238 £450 -5.26% 42
South East -9 199 £500 -0.05% 145
Yorkshire -4 192 £468 -4.20% 37
North West +12 175 £447 -0.33% 60
South West +19 167 £560 -0.44% 42
East Midlands +1 63 £358 -24.63% 28
East of England -4 62 £425 -2.86% 47
North East -12 11 £450 -2.70% 18
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
1 959 (47.01%) Confluence
2 113 (5.54%) SharePoint
3 39 (1.91%) SAS
4 31 (1.52%) nginx
5 21 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
6 19 (0.93%) Apache
7 18 (0.88%) CMS
8 9 (0.44%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.39%) WebLogic
10 6 (0.29%) Ethereum
10 6 (0.29%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.29%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.25%) JBoss
11 5 (0.25%) Mattermost
11 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
12 4 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
13 3 (0.15%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 226 (11.08%) Microsoft Project
2 194 (9.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 113 (5.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 105 (5.15%) Microsoft Office
5 95 (4.66%) MS Visio
6 23 (1.13%) Trello
7 9 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.34%) 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 (0.098%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.098%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.098%) CATIA
12 2 (0.098%) InDesign
13 1 (0.049%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 25 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.83%) NetSuite
3 15 (0.74%) Remedy ITSM
4 13 (0.64%) Loan IQ
5 12 (0.59%) Workday HCM
6 11 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
7 10 (0.49%) Aladdin
8 9 (0.44%) Fidessa
9 7 (0.34%) Maximo
10 6 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 6 (0.29%) SAP MDG
11 5 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
12 4 (0.20%) Findur
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 4 (0.20%) SAP FI
12 4 (0.20%) SAP Retail
12 4 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
13 3 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 415 (20.34%) Azure
2 292 (14.31%) AWS
3 243 (11.91%) Azure DevOps
4 179 (8.77%) GitHub
5 144 (7.06%) Power Platform
6 76 (3.73%) GCP
7 68 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
8 62 (3.04%) SaaS
9 61 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
10 59 (2.89%) Entra ID
11 48 (2.35%) Serverless
12 38 (1.86%) Amazon S3
13 35 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
14 34 (1.67%) Figma
15 30 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
15 30 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (1.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 26 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
17 26 (1.27%) Miro
18 23 (1.13%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 60 (2.94%) Firewall
2 37 (1.81%) TCP/IP
3 36 (1.76%) DNS
4 30 (1.47%) VPN
5 27 (1.32%) WAN
6 26 (1.27%) LAN
7 24 (1.18%) Network Security
8 18 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
9 15 (0.74%) HTTP
10 14 (0.69%) SD-WAN
11 11 (0.54%) SAN
11 11 (0.54%) SSL
12 10 (0.49%) DHCP
12 10 (0.49%) Internet
12 10 (0.49%) NAS
13 9 (0.44%) Ethernet
13 9 (0.44%) FTP
13 9 (0.44%) Unified Communications
14 8 (0.39%) BIG-IP
15 7 (0.34%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (6.03%) Power BI
2 70 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (3.19%) Tableau
4 61 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
5 49 (2.40%) SQL Server
6 39 (1.91%) MongoDB
7 35 (1.72%) NoSQL
8 25 (1.23%) Pentaho
9 23 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
10 21 (1.03%) Relational Database
11 20 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
12 18 (0.88%) DynamoDB
12 18 (0.88%) MySQL
13 17 (0.83%) Big Data
13 17 (0.83%) Metadata
14 16 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
15 14 (0.69%) Oracle Database
16 12 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
16 12 (0.59%) Hadoop
16 12 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 255 (12.50%) Git
2 223 (10.93%) Jenkins
3 117 (5.74%) GitLab
4 94 (4.61%) Selenium
5 69 (3.38%) Postman
6 65 (3.19%) Cucumber
7 62 (3.04%) Bitbucket
8 52 (2.55%) JUnit
9 47 (2.30%) Zephyr
10 38 (1.86%) JMeter
10 38 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
11 33 (1.62%) REST Assured
12 32 (1.57%) TestRail
13 26 (1.27%) SonarQube
14 20 (0.98%) WebDriver
15 19 (0.93%) Maven
16 17 (0.83%) Cypress.io
17 16 (0.78%) SpecFlow
18 15 (0.74%) Rational DOORS
19 14 (0.69%) Appium
General
1 830 (40.69%) Social Skills
2 592 (29.02%) Finance
3 396 (19.41%) Analytical Skills
4 258 (12.65%) Banking
5 214 (10.49%) Public Sector
6 79 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
7 77 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
8 67 (3.28%) Retail
9 50 (2.45%) Military
10 49 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
11 43 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
12 34 (1.67%) Legal
13 29 (1.42%) Investment Banking
14 28 (1.37%) Manufacturing
15 25 (1.23%) Front Office
16 21 (1.03%) Retail Banking
16 21 (1.03%) Telecoms
17 20 (0.98%) Marketing
18 17 (0.83%) Financial Institution
18 17 (0.83%) Law
Job Titles
1 407 (19.95%) Analyst
2 260 (12.75%) Business Analyst
3 183 (8.97%) Developer
4 155 (7.60%) Lead
5 153 (7.50%) Project Manager
6 149 (7.30%) Senior
7 129 (6.32%) Architect
8 94 (4.61%) Tester
9 69 (3.38%) Delivery Manager
10 61 (2.99%) Consultant
11 60 (2.94%) Data Engineer
12 55 (2.70%) Scrum Master
13 54 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
14 53 (2.60%) Test Engineer
15 47 (2.30%) Test Analyst
16 46 (2.25%) IT Support
16 46 (2.25%) Support Engineer
16 46 (2.25%) Technical Analyst
16 46 (2.25%) Technical Manager
17 44 (2.16%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (6.86%) REST
2 65 (3.19%) Spring
3 60 (2.94%) .NET
4 52 (2.55%) Kafka
5 49 (2.40%) React
6 46 (2.25%) RESTful
7 44 (2.16%) JSON
7 44 (2.16%) XML
8 43 (2.11%) Spring Boot
9 42 (2.06%) HTML
10 38 (1.86%) Playwright
11 36 (1.76%) CSS
11 36 (1.76%) SOAP
12 30 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
13 28 (1.37%) ADO
14 27 (1.32%) AngularJS
14 27 (1.32%) Node.js
15 26 (1.27%) Middleware
15 26 (1.27%) OpenID
16 23 (1.13%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 249 (12.21%) Product Ownership
2 92 (4.51%) Onboarding
3 73 (3.58%) Cloud Native
4 51 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.25%) Virtual Team
6 44 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
7 39 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
8 35 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
9 29 (1.42%) Data Centre
10 25 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
11 24 (1.18%) Data Structures
11 24 (1.18%) Mobile App
11 24 (1.18%) PMI
12 21 (1.03%) Public Cloud
13 20 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
14 18 (0.88%) CMDB
15 16 (0.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 13 (0.64%) Distributed Architecture
16 13 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 160 (7.84%) Windows
2 138 (6.76%) Linux
3 35 (1.72%) Unix
4 21 (1.03%) Android
5 19 (0.93%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.59%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.54%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.44%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.098%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.098%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.049%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.049%) Windows Embedded Compact
12 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.049%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,200 (58.82%) Agile
2 561 (27.50%) DevOps
3 520 (25.49%) Stakeholder Management
4 473 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
5 436 (21.37%) Scrum
6 402 (19.71%) CI/CD
7 369 (18.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 322 (15.78%) Test Automation
9 302 (14.80%) Project Management
10 257 (12.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 209 (10.25%) User Acceptance Testing
11 209 (10.25%) User Stories
12 206 (10.10%) Change Management
13 205 (10.05%) Migration
14 202 (9.90%) Project Delivery
15 188 (9.22%) Decision-Making
16 183 (8.97%) ITIL
17 179 (8.77%) Validation
18 176 (8.63%) Acceptance Criteria
19 170 (8.33%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 311 (15.25%) SQL
2 253 (12.40%) Python
3 187 (9.17%) Java
4 100 (4.90%) JavaScript
5 89 (4.36%) C#
6 82 (4.02%) PowerShell
7 54 (2.65%) TypeScript
8 43 (2.11%) Bash
9 33 (1.62%) C++
10 23 (1.13%) Shell Script
11 17 (0.83%) C
11 17 (0.83%) Embedded C++
11 17 (0.83%) PL/SQL
12 16 (0.78%) Go
13 13 (0.64%) Apex Code
13 13 (0.64%) Perl
14 10 (0.49%) Embedded C
14 10 (0.49%) PHP
15 9 (0.44%) VBA
16 8 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 554 (27.16%) Security Cleared
2 441 (21.62%) SC Cleared
3 265 (12.99%) Degree
4 82 (4.02%) PMI Certification
5 75 (3.68%) PMP
6 70 (3.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 67 (3.28%) ISTQB
8 55 (2.70%) DV Cleared
9 48 (2.35%) CISSP
10 45 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
11 44 (2.16%) TOGAF Certification
12 35 (1.72%) CISM
12 35 (1.72%) Master's Degree
13 24 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
14 21 (1.03%) CBAP
15 20 (0.98%) AWS Certification
15 20 (0.98%) IIBA
15 20 (0.98%) ISEB
16 18 (0.88%) Azure Certification
16 18 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 256 (12.55%) QA
2 123 (6.03%) PMO
3 98 (4.80%) Data Quality
4 47 (2.30%) GDPR
5 45 (2.21%) Accessibility
6 29 (1.42%) NIST
7 24 (1.18%) SLA
8 23 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 19 (0.93%) WCAG
10 17 (0.83%) GRC
11 13 (0.64%) PSD2
12 12 (0.59%) ISO 20022
12 12 (0.59%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.54%) Basel III
13 11 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.44%) SEPA
15 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.29%) NCSC
16 6 (0.29%) NIST 800
System Software
1 175 (8.58%) Docker
2 79 (3.87%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.59%) Firmware
6 8 (0.39%) Squid
7 7 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.15%) HDFS
10 2 (0.098%) Postfix
10 2 (0.098%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.098%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.049%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.049%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.049%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 181 (8.87%) Kubernetes
2 112 (5.49%) Terraform
3 93 (4.56%) Ansible
4 60 (2.94%) Grafana
5 45 (2.21%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.47%) OPNET
7 28 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
8 25 (1.23%) HP ALM
9 24 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
10 22 (1.08%) Control-M
11 21 (1.03%) Consul
11 21 (1.03%) Puppet
12 16 (0.78%) Packer
13 15 (0.74%) IBM Guardium
13 15 (0.74%) Nessus
14 13 (0.64%) NetBackup
15 10 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
15 10 (0.49%) SCCM
16 8 (0.39%) FortiGate
16 8 (0.39%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 244 (11.96%) Microsoft
2 232 (11.37%) ServiceNow
3 162 (7.94%) Oracle
4 156 (7.65%) Atlassian
5 103 (5.05%) Salesforce
6 68 (3.33%) SAP
7 53 (2.60%) Remedy
8 46 (2.25%) Google
9 37 (1.81%) IBM
10 35 (1.72%) Workday
11 34 (1.67%) Red Hat
12 33 (1.62%) Splunk
13 31 (1.52%) Talend
14 27 (1.32%) HP
15 26 (1.27%) Databricks
16 24 (1.18%) CyberArk
16 24 (1.18%) Denodo
17 23 (1.13%) BiZZdesign
18 22 (1.08%) VMware
19 21 (1.03%) Cisco