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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 44 50
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 -9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,952 1,185 1,429
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.52% 4.60% 3.83%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.50% 34.41% 32.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,398 743 1,001
10th Percentile £313 £313 £340
25th Percentile £395 £401 £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 £492 £496 £520
% change year-on-year -0.86% -4.57% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 21 54
10th Percentile £15.74 £47.00 £26.88
25th Percentile £23.56 £55.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £60.25 £62.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +16.82% -17.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £71.25 £76.07
UK median hourly rate £62.57 £62.50 £46.89
% change year-on-year +0.11% +33.30% -26.45%

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 4,942 3,444 4,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.97% 13.37% 11.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,387 2,192 3,054
10th Percentile £340 £331 £363
25th Percentile £409 £409 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £535
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -5.61% -6.96%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 58 199
10th Percentile £30.11 £39.75 £39.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.87 £48.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £80.00 £88.75
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 26 February 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 26 February 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 26 February 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 +8 871 £520 +4.00% 143
North of England +13 354 £450 -5.26% 82
Midlands +10 272 £426 -13.06% 81
West Midlands +5 208 £450 -5.66% 60
South East -11 194 £475 -5.00% 150
Yorkshire -6 191 £480 -4.95% 42
South West +19 164 £575 +0.88% 61
North West +22 149 £430 -4.44% 35
East Midlands +4 62 £356 -27.35% 21
East of England -7 60 £425 - 34
North East -8 14 £363 -19.80% 7
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
1 931 (47.69%) Confluence
2 117 (5.99%) SharePoint
3 42 (2.15%) SAS
4 34 (1.74%) nginx
5 24 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
6 22 (1.13%) CMS
7 13 (0.67%) Apache
8 11 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.41%) WebLogic
10 7 (0.36%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.31%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.31%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.31%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.26%) Mattermost
13 4 (0.20%) IIS
13 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.15%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.15%) Drupal
14 3 (0.15%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 209 (10.71%) Microsoft Project
2 179 (9.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 105 (5.38%) Microsoft Office
3 105 (5.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 77 (3.94%) MS Visio
5 25 (1.28%) Trello
6 6 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
7 5 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.26%) Notion
7 5 (0.26%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.26%) Sketch
8 4 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
8 4 (0.20%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.15%) InVision
9 3 (0.15%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.10%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.10%) CATIA
10 2 (0.10%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 18 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.87%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
3 11 (0.56%) Workday HCM
4 10 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.51%) Fidessa
4 10 (0.51%) Loan IQ
5 8 (0.41%) Maximo
5 8 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 7 (0.36%) Aladdin
7 6 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.26%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.20%) Endur
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 4 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.20%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 384 (19.67%) Azure
2 301 (15.42%) AWS
3 203 (10.40%) Azure DevOps
4 176 (9.02%) GitHub
5 134 (6.86%) Power Platform
6 81 (4.15%) GCP
7 78 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
8 59 (3.02%) SaaS
9 52 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
10 48 (2.46%) Entra ID
11 44 (2.25%) Serverless
12 35 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
12 35 (1.79%) Amazon S3
13 32 (1.64%) Figma
13 32 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 29 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
14 29 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
15 27 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
15 27 (1.38%) Slack
16 26 (1.33%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 48 (2.46%) Firewall
2 37 (1.90%) DNS
3 33 (1.69%) TCP/IP
4 29 (1.49%) VPN
5 21 (1.08%) WAN
6 19 (0.97%) HTTP
6 19 (0.97%) LAN
7 15 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (0.72%) Network Security
8 14 (0.72%) SSH
9 11 (0.56%) FTP
10 10 (0.51%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.46%) DHCP
11 9 (0.46%) Ethernet
12 8 (0.41%) SSL
12 8 (0.41%) Unified Communications
13 7 (0.36%) BIG-IP
13 7 (0.36%) Modbus
13 7 (0.36%) OpenVPN
13 7 (0.36%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (5.74%) Power BI
2 79 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
3 59 (3.02%) Tableau
4 54 (2.77%) SQL Server
5 49 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
6 37 (1.90%) NoSQL
7 36 (1.84%) MongoDB
8 29 (1.49%) Pentaho
9 25 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
10 22 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
11 21 (1.08%) Oracle Database
12 20 (1.02%) MySQL
12 20 (1.02%) Relational Database
13 19 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
13 19 (0.97%) Metadata
14 18 (0.92%) Big Data
15 13 (0.67%) Data Vault
15 13 (0.67%) Hadoop
16 11 (0.56%) DynamoDB
16 11 (0.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 238 (12.19%) Git
2 230 (11.78%) Jenkins
3 116 (5.94%) GitLab
4 82 (4.20%) Selenium
5 79 (4.05%) Postman
6 62 (3.18%) Cucumber
7 56 (2.87%) Bitbucket
8 45 (2.31%) JUnit
9 41 (2.10%) Zephyr
10 37 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
11 33 (1.69%) REST Assured
12 32 (1.64%) TestRail
13 31 (1.59%) JMeter
13 31 (1.59%) SonarQube
14 20 (1.02%) Maven
15 17 (0.87%) Cypress.io
15 17 (0.87%) SpecFlow
16 14 (0.72%) Rational DOORS
17 12 (0.61%) WebDriver
18 11 (0.56%) SoapUI
General
1 808 (41.39%) Social Skills
2 546 (27.97%) Finance
3 376 (19.26%) Analytical Skills
4 236 (12.09%) Banking
5 201 (10.30%) Public Sector
6 77 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
7 71 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
8 67 (3.43%) Retail
9 54 (2.77%) Military
10 50 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
11 45 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
12 31 (1.59%) Legal
13 30 (1.54%) Investment Banking
13 30 (1.54%) Manufacturing
14 24 (1.23%) Telecoms
15 23 (1.18%) Marketing
16 22 (1.13%) Front Office
17 20 (1.02%) Retail Banking
18 16 (0.82%) Law
19 15 (0.77%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 404 (20.70%) Analyst
2 255 (13.06%) Business Analyst
3 181 (9.27%) Developer
4 154 (7.89%) Project Manager
5 148 (7.58%) Lead
6 134 (6.86%) Senior
7 127 (6.51%) Architect
8 94 (4.82%) Tester
9 58 (2.97%) Delivery Manager
10 57 (2.92%) Consultant
11 53 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
12 51 (2.61%) Test Analyst
13 49 (2.51%) Data Engineer
13 49 (2.51%) Test Engineer
14 47 (2.41%) Technical Analyst
15 45 (2.31%) Scrum Master
16 44 (2.25%) Technical Business Analyst
17 43 (2.20%) Software Engineer
18 41 (2.10%) Technical Manager
19 40 (2.05%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (7.27%) REST
2 61 (3.13%) .NET
3 56 (2.87%) Spring
4 51 (2.61%) Kafka
5 49 (2.51%) XML
6 46 (2.36%) React
7 45 (2.31%) HTML
7 45 (2.31%) JSON
7 45 (2.31%) RESTful
8 44 (2.25%) Playwright
8 44 (2.25%) SOAP
9 40 (2.05%) CSS
10 39 (2.00%) Spring Boot
11 31 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
12 28 (1.43%) OpenID
13 27 (1.38%) LDAP
13 27 (1.38%) Node.js
14 25 (1.28%) FastAPI
15 24 (1.23%) AngularJS
15 24 (1.23%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 225 (11.53%) Product Ownership
2 84 (4.30%) Onboarding
3 72 (3.69%) Cloud Native
4 49 (2.51%) Management Information System
5 47 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
6 39 (2.00%) Virtual Team
7 35 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
8 33 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
9 30 (1.54%) PMI
10 29 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
11 28 (1.43%) Data Structures
12 25 (1.28%) Mobile App
13 22 (1.13%) Public Cloud
14 21 (1.08%) Data Centre
14 21 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
15 20 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
16 19 (0.97%) CMDB
17 15 (0.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
17 15 (0.77%) Tandem
18 13 (0.67%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 149 (7.63%) Windows
2 130 (6.66%) Linux
3 34 (1.74%) Unix
4 21 (1.08%) Android
4 21 (1.08%) Windows 10
5 13 (0.67%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.41%) VMS
10 7 (0.36%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.15%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.051%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.051%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.051%) Windows Embedded Compact
13 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.051%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,161 (59.48%) Agile
2 530 (27.15%) DevOps
3 491 (25.15%) Stakeholder Management
4 461 (23.62%) Problem-Solving
5 422 (21.62%) Scrum
6 393 (20.13%) CI/CD
7 338 (17.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 306 (15.68%) Test Automation
9 294 (15.06%) Project Management
10 248 (12.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 203 (10.40%) Migration
12 201 (10.30%) User Stories
13 192 (9.84%) Project Delivery
14 188 (9.63%) User Acceptance Testing
15 186 (9.53%) Change Management
16 170 (8.71%) Decision-Making
17 166 (8.50%) Acceptance Criteria
17 166 (8.50%) Roadmaps
18 163 (8.35%) Analytics
19 155 (7.94%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 299 (15.32%) SQL
2 259 (13.27%) Python
3 182 (9.32%) Java
4 102 (5.23%) JavaScript
5 83 (4.25%) C#
6 82 (4.20%) PowerShell
7 54 (2.77%) TypeScript
8 41 (2.10%) Bash
9 32 (1.64%) C++
10 24 (1.23%) Go
11 23 (1.18%) Shell Script
12 20 (1.02%) Embedded C++
13 18 (0.92%) PL/SQL
14 13 (0.67%) C
14 13 (0.67%) PHP
15 11 (0.56%) Perl
15 11 (0.56%) Ruby
16 10 (0.51%) Apex Code
16 10 (0.51%) Embedded C
17 8 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 518 (26.54%) Security Cleared
2 420 (21.52%) SC Cleared
3 266 (13.63%) Degree
4 92 (4.71%) PMI Certification
5 80 (4.10%) PMP
6 65 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 64 (3.28%) ISTQB
8 52 (2.66%) DV Cleared
9 49 (2.51%) CISSP
9 49 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 44 (2.25%) TOGAF Certification
11 40 (2.05%) CISM
12 36 (1.84%) Master's Degree
13 30 (1.54%) AWS Certification
14 24 (1.23%) CBAP
15 23 (1.18%) ISEB
16 19 (0.97%) Azure Certification
17 18 (0.92%) IIBA
17 18 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 17 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 238 (12.19%) QA
2 116 (5.94%) PMO
3 84 (4.30%) Data Quality
4 53 (2.72%) Accessibility
5 48 (2.46%) GDPR
6 32 (1.64%) NIST
7 26 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 21 (1.08%) WCAG
9 18 (0.92%) SLA
10 15 (0.77%) PSD2
11 14 (0.72%) ISO 20022
12 12 (0.61%) GRC
12 12 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 12 (0.61%) SEPA
13 11 (0.56%) Basel III
14 10 (0.51%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.41%) NCSC
15 8 (0.41%) NIST 800
16 6 (0.31%) HIPAA
System Software
1 194 (9.94%) Docker
2 73 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.56%) Squid
6 9 (0.46%) Firmware
7 7 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.26%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 5 (0.26%) Postfix
9 4 (0.20%) DFS Replication
9 4 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.15%) Dovecot
10 3 (0.15%) HDFS
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.051%) etcd
12 1 (0.051%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 1 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.051%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 195 (9.99%) Kubernetes
2 92 (4.71%) Terraform
3 86 (4.41%) Ansible
4 69 (3.53%) Grafana
5 51 (2.61%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.54%) OPNET
7 29 (1.49%) Control-M
8 26 (1.33%) Nessus
9 24 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
10 23 (1.18%) HP ALM
10 23 (1.18%) IBM Guardium
11 22 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
12 21 (1.08%) Consul
13 17 (0.87%) Puppet
14 16 (0.82%) Packer
15 13 (0.67%) SCCM
16 11 (0.56%) NetBackup
17 10 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
18 7 (0.36%) Argo
18 7 (0.36%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 242 (12.40%) Microsoft
2 208 (10.66%) ServiceNow
3 172 (8.81%) Oracle
4 135 (6.92%) Atlassian
5 105 (5.38%) Salesforce
6 65 (3.33%) SAP
7 52 (2.66%) Remedy
8 44 (2.25%) Google
9 39 (2.00%) IBM
10 35 (1.79%) Talend
11 30 (1.54%) Red Hat
12 29 (1.49%) Workday
13 28 (1.43%) Denodo
13 28 (1.43%) Tenable
14 26 (1.33%) Databricks
15 25 (1.28%) Splunk
16 24 (1.23%) HP
17 23 (1.18%) BiZZdesign
18 22 (1.13%) Adobe
19 20 (1.02%) VMware