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

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 43 52
Rank change year-on-year +8 +9 -9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,037 1,175 1,368
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.34% 4.85% 3.63%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.26% 35.54% 32.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,436 765 942
10th Percentile £313 £313 £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 £691 £687 £756
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -2.50% -3.85% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 24 53
10th Percentile £18.75 £48.92 £22.00
25th Percentile £26.28 £55.34 £36.88
Median hourly rate £63.14 £62.50 £52.21
Median % change year-on-year +1.02% +19.72% -16.47%
75th Percentile £73.13 £72.19 £63.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £64.25 £62.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +2.80% +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 5,059 3,306 4,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.25% 13.64% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,410 2,204 2,944
10th Percentile £340 £340 £358
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -6.19%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £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 66 165
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.15 £34.50
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.48 £46.75
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 £86.25
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +0.81% +0.81%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +7 897 £511 +2.10% 202
North of England +1 383 £450 - 115
Midlands +6 302 £427 -10.11% 70
West Midlands 0 238 £450 -5.26% 42
Yorkshire -6 195 £468 -6.40% 37
South East -11 194 £475 -5.00% 145
North West +7 176 £447 +2.52% 60
South West +14 164 £560 -0.44% 42
East of England 0 63 £425 -2.86% 47
East Midlands +1 62 £358 -24.63% 28
North East -10 13 £475 +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
1 950 (46.64%) Confluence
2 107 (5.25%) SharePoint
3 42 (2.06%) SAS
4 31 (1.52%) nginx
5 21 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
6 19 (0.93%) Apache
7 16 (0.79%) 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%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
13 3 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 223 (10.95%) Microsoft Project
2 192 (9.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 111 (5.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 105 (5.15%) Microsoft Office
5 93 (4.57%) 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%) Revit
Business Applications
1 26 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
3 17 (0.83%) NetSuite
4 13 (0.64%) Loan IQ
5 11 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
5 11 (0.54%) Workday HCM
6 10 (0.49%) Aladdin
7 8 (0.39%) Fidessa
8 7 (0.34%) Maximo
9 6 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.29%) SAP MDG
10 5 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
11 4 (0.20%) Findur
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 4 (0.20%) SAP EWM
11 4 (0.20%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.20%) SAP Retail
11 4 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 416 (20.42%) Azure
2 302 (14.83%) AWS
3 240 (11.78%) Azure DevOps
4 173 (8.49%) GitHub
5 143 (7.02%) Power Platform
6 79 (3.88%) GCP
7 68 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
8 64 (3.14%) SaaS
9 63 (3.09%) Entra ID
10 58 (2.85%) GitHub Actions
11 50 (2.45%) Serverless
12 39 (1.91%) Amazon S3
13 37 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
14 35 (1.72%) Figma
15 31 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
16 30 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
17 29 (1.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 27 (1.33%) Miro
19 25 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
20 24 (1.18%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 61 (2.99%) Firewall
2 40 (1.96%) TCP/IP
3 39 (1.91%) DNS
4 30 (1.47%) VPN
5 27 (1.33%) WAN
6 26 (1.28%) LAN
7 24 (1.18%) Network Security
8 17 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (0.79%) HTTP
9 16 (0.79%) SSL
10 14 (0.69%) SD-WAN
11 13 (0.64%) DHCP
12 11 (0.54%) BIG-IP
12 11 (0.54%) SAN
13 10 (0.49%) NAS
14 9 (0.44%) Ethernet
14 9 (0.44%) FTP
14 9 (0.44%) Internet
14 9 (0.44%) Unified Communications
15 7 (0.34%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (5.99%) Power BI
2 69 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (3.19%) Tableau
4 61 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
5 50 (2.45%) SQL Server
6 39 (1.91%) MongoDB
7 33 (1.62%) NoSQL
8 28 (1.37%) Pentaho
9 24 (1.18%) Oracle Reports
10 21 (1.03%) Relational Database
11 20 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (0.98%) Metadata
12 18 (0.88%) DynamoDB
12 18 (0.88%) MySQL
13 17 (0.83%) Big Data
14 16 (0.79%) 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
1 254 (12.47%) Git
2 215 (10.55%) Jenkins
3 113 (5.55%) GitLab
4 96 (4.71%) Selenium
5 69 (3.39%) Postman
6 65 (3.19%) Cucumber
7 58 (2.85%) Bitbucket
8 52 (2.55%) JUnit
9 48 (2.36%) Zephyr
10 38 (1.87%) JMeter
11 36 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
12 33 (1.62%) REST Assured
13 32 (1.57%) TestRail
14 25 (1.23%) SonarQube
15 20 (0.98%) WebDriver
16 17 (0.83%) Cypress.io
16 17 (0.83%) Maven
17 15 (0.74%) SpecFlow
18 14 (0.69%) Appium
19 13 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 830 (40.75%) Social Skills
2 587 (28.82%) Finance
3 395 (19.39%) Analytical Skills
4 263 (12.91%) Banking
5 212 (10.41%) Public Sector
6 76 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
7 75 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
8 68 (3.34%) Retail
9 49 (2.41%) Military
10 48 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
11 43 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
12 33 (1.62%) Legal
13 29 (1.42%) Investment Banking
13 29 (1.42%) Manufacturing
14 25 (1.23%) Front Office
15 22 (1.08%) Retail Banking
16 21 (1.03%) Marketing
16 21 (1.03%) Telecoms
17 18 (0.88%) Law
18 17 (0.83%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 403 (19.78%) Analyst
2 256 (12.57%) Business Analyst
3 177 (8.69%) Developer
4 156 (7.66%) Lead
5 152 (7.46%) Project Manager
6 147 (7.22%) Senior
7 132 (6.48%) Architect
8 97 (4.76%) Tester
9 71 (3.49%) Delivery Manager
10 63 (3.09%) Consultant
10 63 (3.09%) Data Engineer
11 55 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
12 54 (2.65%) Scrum Master
13 53 (2.60%) Test Engineer
14 48 (2.36%) Test Analyst
15 46 (2.26%) IT Support
15 46 (2.26%) Support Engineer
15 46 (2.26%) Technical Manager
16 43 (2.11%) Technical Analyst
17 42 (2.06%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (6.63%) REST
2 64 (3.14%) Spring
3 59 (2.90%) .NET
4 51 (2.50%) React
5 49 (2.41%) Kafka
6 48 (2.36%) JSON
7 45 (2.21%) RESTful
8 44 (2.16%) XML
9 43 (2.11%) HTML
9 43 (2.11%) Spring Boot
10 37 (1.82%) CSS
10 37 (1.82%) Playwright
10 37 (1.82%) SOAP
11 29 (1.42%) OpenID
11 29 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
12 28 (1.37%) ADO
12 28 (1.37%) AngularJS
12 28 (1.37%) Middleware
12 28 (1.37%) Node.js
13 27 (1.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 248 (12.17%) Product Ownership
2 87 (4.27%) Onboarding
3 74 (3.63%) Cloud Native
4 49 (2.41%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.26%) Virtual Team
6 42 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
7 41 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
8 35 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
9 31 (1.52%) Data Centre
10 29 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
11 25 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
12 24 (1.18%) Mobile App
13 23 (1.13%) PMI
14 22 (1.08%) Data Structures
15 21 (1.03%) Public Cloud
16 20 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
17 17 (0.83%) CMDB
18 15 (0.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
19 13 (0.64%) Distributed Architecture
19 13 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 159 (7.81%) Windows
2 137 (6.73%) Linux
3 35 (1.72%) Unix
4 19 (0.93%) Android
4 19 (0.93%) Windows 10
5 11 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (0.54%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.49%) Apple iOS
7 9 (0.44%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
9 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.098%) Oracle Linux
10 2 (0.098%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.049%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.049%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,191 (58.47%) Agile
2 562 (27.59%) DevOps
3 519 (25.48%) Stakeholder Management
4 470 (23.07%) Problem-Solving
5 437 (21.45%) Scrum
6 402 (19.73%) CI/CD
7 369 (18.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 322 (15.81%) Test Automation
9 299 (14.68%) Project Management
10 257 (12.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 212 (10.41%) Change Management
12 207 (10.16%) Migration
13 206 (10.11%) User Acceptance Testing
13 206 (10.11%) User Stories
14 201 (9.87%) Project Delivery
15 189 (9.28%) ITIL
16 182 (8.93%) Decision-Making
17 176 (8.64%) Validation
18 174 (8.54%) Acceptance Criteria
19 171 (8.39%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 315 (15.46%) SQL
2 251 (12.32%) Python
3 189 (9.28%) Java
4 103 (5.06%) JavaScript
5 85 (4.17%) C#
6 83 (4.07%) PowerShell
7 57 (2.80%) TypeScript
8 43 (2.11%) Bash
9 31 (1.52%) C++
10 23 (1.13%) Shell Script
11 17 (0.83%) PL/SQL
12 16 (0.79%) C
12 16 (0.79%) Embedded C++
13 13 (0.64%) Apex Code
13 13 (0.64%) Go
13 13 (0.64%) Perl
14 12 (0.59%) VBA
15 10 (0.49%) Embedded C
16 9 (0.44%) PHP
17 7 (0.34%) XPath
Qualifications
1 558 (27.39%) Security Cleared
2 440 (21.60%) SC Cleared
3 258 (12.67%) Degree
4 79 (3.88%) PMI Certification
5 74 (3.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 73 (3.58%) PMP
7 68 (3.34%) ISTQB
8 58 (2.85%) DV Cleared
9 49 (2.41%) CISSP
10 41 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
10 41 (2.01%) TOGAF Certification
11 35 (1.72%) CISM
12 33 (1.62%) Master's Degree
13 24 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
14 20 (0.98%) AWS Certification
14 20 (0.98%) CBAP
14 20 (0.98%) IIBA
15 19 (0.93%) ISEB
16 18 (0.88%) Azure Certification
16 18 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 258 (12.67%) QA
2 123 (6.04%) PMO
3 100 (4.91%) Data Quality
4 49 (2.41%) GDPR
5 44 (2.16%) Accessibility
6 31 (1.52%) NIST
7 25 (1.23%) SLA
8 24 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 18 (0.88%) GRC
9 18 (0.88%) WCAG
10 13 (0.64%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.64%) PSD2
11 12 (0.59%) ISO 20022
12 11 (0.54%) Basel III
13 10 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (0.39%) SEPA
15 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.34%) NIST 800
16 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 172 (8.44%) Docker
2 86 (4.22%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.59%) Firmware
6 9 (0.44%) 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
1 180 (8.84%) Kubernetes
2 112 (5.50%) Terraform
3 94 (4.61%) Ansible
4 60 (2.95%) Grafana
5 43 (2.11%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.47%) OPNET
7 29 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
8 25 (1.23%) HP ALM
9 24 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
10 21 (1.03%) Consul
10 21 (1.03%) Control-M
11 20 (0.98%) Puppet
12 16 (0.79%) Packer
13 15 (0.74%) Nessus
14 14 (0.69%) IBM Guardium
15 13 (0.64%) NetBackup
16 10 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
16 10 (0.49%) SCCM
17 9 (0.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 8 (0.39%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 249 (12.22%) Microsoft
2 244 (11.98%) ServiceNow
3 165 (8.10%) Oracle
4 152 (7.46%) Atlassian
5 105 (5.15%) Salesforce
6 69 (3.39%) SAP
7 57 (2.80%) Remedy
8 45 (2.21%) Google
9 35 (1.72%) Red Hat
10 34 (1.67%) Talend
10 34 (1.67%) Workday
11 32 (1.57%) IBM
11 32 (1.57%) Splunk
12 27 (1.33%) Denodo
12 27 (1.33%) HP
13 25 (1.23%) Databricks
14 23 (1.13%) CyberArk
15 22 (1.08%) VMware
16 21 (1.03%) BiZZdesign
16 21 (1.03%) MuleSoft