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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 43 49
Rank change year-on-year +9 +6 -15
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,717 1,366 1,735
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.89% 4.38% 4.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.12% 32.93% 33.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,250 878 1,165
10th Percentile £317 £318 £361
25th Percentile £400 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.19% -1.30%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £675 £733
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 56 56
10th Percentile £15.74 £37.55 £45.42
25th Percentile £43.00 £58.68 £51.44
Median hourly rate £56.50 £70.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -19.29% +14.29% -5.77%
75th Percentile £70.00 - £70.00
90th Percentile £85.75 - £75.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% -7.69%

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 4,504 4,148 5,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.46% 13.30% 12.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,127 2,613 3,685
10th Percentile £325 £350 £375
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £545
% change year-on-year -3.85% -4.59% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 138 227
10th Percentile £36.23 £37.55 £45.88
25th Percentile £50.00 £52.88 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £77.75 £74.13 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

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 31 October 2025.

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 31 October 2025.

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 31 October 2025. 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 +12 810 £525 - 370
North of England +8 329 £469 -6.20% 110
Midlands +19 192 £450 -5.66% 87
South East +5 192 £480 +6.67% 370
West Midlands +36 157 £475 -13.64% 47
Yorkshire +4 156 £492 -1.55% 29
North West +6 152 £439 -12.25% 63
South West -3 99 £550 - 95
East of England -6 56 £425 - 40
East Midlands -13 35 £360 -20.88% 39
North East -1 21 £510 +12.33% 19
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
1 769 (44.79%) Confluence
2 96 (5.59%) SharePoint
3 47 (2.74%) nginx
4 31 (1.81%) CMS
5 29 (1.69%) SAS
6 21 (1.22%) Apache
7 14 (0.82%) JBoss
8 13 (0.76%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
9 9 (0.52%) WebSphere
9 9 (0.52%) WordPress
10 7 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
10 7 (0.41%) Drupal
11 6 (0.35%) Mule
12 5 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 5 (0.29%) Apache Spark
12 5 (0.29%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 4 (0.23%) CICS
14 3 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 123 (7.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 111 (6.46%) Microsoft Project
3 80 (4.66%) Microsoft Office
4 67 (3.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 63 (3.67%) MS Visio
6 32 (1.86%) Trello
7 12 (0.70%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 6 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
8 6 (0.35%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.23%) Simulink
9 4 (0.23%) Sketch
9 4 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.23%) Windchill
10 3 (0.17%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.12%) InVision
11 2 (0.12%) Notion
12 1 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.058%) Chatbot
12 1 (0.058%) EPLAN
12 1 (0.058%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 18 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
3 11 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 8 (0.47%) SAP PM
6 7 (0.41%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.41%) Oracle EBS R12
7 6 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
7 6 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.35%) SAP HR
8 4 (0.23%) Endur
8 4 (0.23%) Magento
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.23%) SAP PLM
9 3 (0.17%) NetSuite
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.17%) Primavera
9 3 (0.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 350 (20.38%) Azure
2 317 (18.46%) AWS
3 173 (10.08%) Azure DevOps
4 154 (8.97%) GitHub
5 113 (6.58%) Power Platform
6 88 (5.13%) GCP
7 69 (4.02%) Serverless
8 58 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
9 56 (3.26%) Amazon S3
10 49 (2.85%) Amazon EC2
11 40 (2.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 40 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
12 39 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
13 37 (2.15%) AWS CloudFormation
14 35 (2.04%) Slack
15 34 (1.98%) Power Automate
15 34 (1.98%) SaaS
16 33 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 30 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
18 29 (1.69%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 70 (4.08%) DNS
2 68 (3.96%) Firewall
3 40 (2.33%) HTTP
3 40 (2.33%) SSH
4 33 (1.92%) VPN
5 28 (1.63%) SMTP
6 22 (1.28%) FTP
6 22 (1.28%) SSL
7 18 (1.05%) TCP/IP
8 17 (0.99%) OpenLDAP
9 13 (0.76%) DHCP
10 12 (0.70%) IMAP
11 11 (0.64%) Network Security
11 11 (0.64%) WAN
12 10 (0.58%) BGP
13 9 (0.52%) MPLS
14 8 (0.47%) LAN
14 8 (0.47%) Unified Communications
15 7 (0.41%) IPsec
15 7 (0.41%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (5.77%) Power BI
2 79 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (2.97%) Tableau
4 44 (2.56%) SQL Server
5 35 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
5 35 (2.04%) Relational Database
6 34 (1.98%) NoSQL
7 28 (1.63%) Pentaho
8 26 (1.51%) Oracle Database
9 23 (1.34%) Big Data
10 20 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (1.16%) Metadata
10 20 (1.16%) MongoDB
11 19 (1.11%) MySQL
12 17 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
12 17 (0.99%) Hadoop
13 14 (0.82%) BigQuery
14 13 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
15 10 (0.58%) Data Vault
15 10 (0.58%) Redis
Development Applications
1 263 (15.32%) Git
2 236 (13.74%) Jenkins
3 105 (6.12%) GitLab
4 71 (4.14%) Bitbucket
5 70 (4.08%) Selenium
6 56 (3.26%) Postman
7 42 (2.45%) Cucumber
7 42 (2.45%) Sonatype Nexus
8 36 (2.10%) JUnit
9 33 (1.92%) SonarQube
10 28 (1.63%) Maven
10 28 (1.63%) TestRail
11 27 (1.57%) SoapUI
11 27 (1.57%) Zephyr
12 26 (1.51%) Vagrant
13 21 (1.22%) Cypress.io
13 21 (1.22%) SpecFlow
13 21 (1.22%) TeamCity
14 19 (1.11%) Artifactory
15 18 (1.05%) Subversion
General
1 703 (40.94%) Social Skills
2 406 (23.65%) Finance
3 265 (15.43%) Analytical Skills
4 210 (12.23%) Banking
5 174 (10.13%) Public Sector
6 56 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
7 53 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
8 48 (2.80%) Retail
9 40 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
10 31 (1.81%) Front Office
10 31 (1.81%) Legal
11 30 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
12 29 (1.69%) Investment Banking
13 25 (1.46%) Manufacturing
14 24 (1.40%) Marketing
15 19 (1.11%) Telecoms
16 15 (0.87%) Back Office
17 13 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 13 (0.76%) Military
18 12 (0.70%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 303 (17.65%) Analyst
2 217 (12.64%) Developer
3 177 (10.31%) Business Analyst
4 147 (8.56%) Project Manager
5 131 (7.63%) Senior
6 116 (6.76%) Lead
7 90 (5.24%) Architect
8 65 (3.79%) Tester
9 61 (3.55%) DevOps Engineer
10 57 (3.32%) Test Analyst
11 54 (3.15%) Administrator
12 49 (2.85%) Consultant
13 48 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
14 43 (2.50%) Product Owner
15 41 (2.39%) Delivery Manager
16 39 (2.27%) AWS Engineer
17 37 (2.15%) Technical Analyst
18 35 (2.04%) AWS DevOps
19 34 (1.98%) Data Engineer
19 34 (1.98%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (10.19%) REST
2 96 (5.59%) SOAP
3 87 (5.07%) AngularJS
4 80 (4.66%) .NET
4 80 (4.66%) React
5 78 (4.54%) HTML
6 61 (3.55%) RESTful
7 60 (3.49%) CSS
8 56 (3.26%) Kafka
9 52 (3.03%) Spring Boot
10 50 (2.91%) XML
11 49 (2.85%) JSON
12 48 (2.80%) Spring
13 44 (2.56%) Web Services
14 40 (2.33%) Node.js
15 38 (2.21%) LDAP
15 38 (2.21%) Playwright
16 36 (2.10%) RabbitMQ
17 29 (1.69%) HTML5
18 28 (1.63%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 160 (9.32%) Product Ownership
2 66 (3.84%) Onboarding
3 48 (2.80%) Cloud Native
4 45 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
5 43 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
6 38 (2.21%) Management Information System
7 33 (1.92%) Data Structures
8 29 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
8 29 (1.69%) Replication
9 26 (1.51%) Mobile App
10 24 (1.40%) CMDB
11 23 (1.34%) Data Centre
11 23 (1.34%) PMI
12 22 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
12 22 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
13 20 (1.16%) Algorithms
13 20 (1.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 18 (1.05%) SCADA
14 18 (1.05%) Virtual Team
15 17 (0.99%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 138 (8.04%) Linux
2 137 (7.98%) Windows
3 56 (3.26%) Unix
4 32 (1.86%) VMS
5 24 (1.40%) Amazon Linux
6 18 (1.05%) Ubuntu
7 16 (0.93%) Android
8 14 (0.82%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 11 (0.64%) Apple iOS
11 10 (0.58%) CentOS
12 8 (0.47%) Windows 10
12 8 (0.47%) Windows Server
13 5 (0.29%) Windows Server 2003
14 3 (0.17%) zOS
15 2 (0.12%) Debian
15 2 (0.12%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.12%) Solaris
15 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
16 1 (0.058%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,036 (60.34%) Agile
2 514 (29.94%) DevOps
3 428 (24.93%) Scrum
4 412 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
5 355 (20.68%) CI/CD
6 327 (19.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 264 (15.38%) Project Management
7 264 (15.38%) Test Automation
8 225 (13.10%) Continuous Improvement
9 218 (12.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 197 (11.47%) Migration
11 177 (10.31%) Change Management
11 177 (10.31%) Microservices
12 176 (10.25%) User Stories
13 160 (9.32%) User Acceptance Testing
14 138 (8.04%) Kanban
14 138 (8.04%) Roadmaps
14 138 (8.04%) SDLC
15 137 (7.98%) Project Delivery
16 130 (7.57%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 282 (16.42%) SQL
2 279 (16.25%) Python
3 185 (10.77%) Java
4 147 (8.56%) JavaScript
5 90 (5.24%) PowerShell
6 79 (4.60%) C#
7 62 (3.61%) TypeScript
8 52 (3.03%) Bash
9 38 (2.21%) Go
10 37 (2.15%) Groovy
11 27 (1.57%) Perl
11 27 (1.57%) Shell Script
12 23 (1.34%) C++
13 16 (0.93%) Apex Code
14 13 (0.76%) PHP
15 11 (0.64%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.64%) Ruby
16 10 (0.58%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.47%) Korn
18 6 (0.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 397 (23.12%) Security Cleared
2 357 (20.79%) SC Cleared
3 236 (13.74%) Degree
4 77 (4.48%) PMI Certification
5 65 (3.79%) PMP
6 57 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 56 (3.26%) CISSP
8 45 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
9 42 (2.45%) ISTQB
10 41 (2.39%) CISM
11 35 (2.04%) DV Cleared
12 28 (1.63%) AWS Certification
13 18 (1.05%) Azure Certification
14 15 (0.87%) CBAP
14 15 (0.87%) Master's Degree
15 14 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
15 14 (0.82%) Oracle Certification
16 11 (0.64%) CISA
16 11 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
16 11 (0.64%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (11.12%) QA
2 63 (3.67%) GDPR
3 62 (3.61%) PMO
4 58 (3.38%) Data Quality
5 47 (2.74%) Accessibility
6 45 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 37 (2.15%) NIST
8 22 (1.28%) PCI DSS
8 22 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 19 (1.11%) SEPA
10 18 (1.05%) ISO 20022
11 14 (0.82%) COBIT
11 14 (0.82%) PSD2
12 13 (0.76%) WCAG
13 12 (0.70%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 7 (0.41%) SLA
16 6 (0.35%) GRC
16 6 (0.35%) MiFID
16 6 (0.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 200 (11.65%) Docker
2 61 (3.55%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.28%) DFS Replication
5 16 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
7 13 (0.76%) Hyper-V
8 12 (0.70%) Dovecot
8 12 (0.70%) Postfix
8 12 (0.70%) Squid
8 12 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (0.58%) Firmware
10 7 (0.41%) vSphere
11 4 (0.23%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 3 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
13 2 (0.12%) KVM
13 2 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.12%) VirtualBox
14 1 (0.058%) Xen
Systems Management
1 172 (10.02%) Kubernetes
2 123 (7.16%) Terraform
3 95 (5.53%) Ansible
4 52 (3.03%) Grafana
5 47 (2.74%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (1.51%) HP ALM
8 24 (1.40%) Nessus
9 23 (1.34%) Packer
10 21 (1.22%) Consul
11 18 (1.05%) Puppet
12 17 (0.99%) Control-M
13 14 (0.82%) NetBackup
14 13 (0.76%) Progress Chef
14 13 (0.76%) SCCM
15 11 (0.64%) IBM Guardium
15 11 (0.64%) RSA Archer
16 10 (0.58%) Proxmox
17 9 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
17 9 (0.52%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 246 (14.33%) Microsoft
2 206 (12.00%) ServiceNow
3 135 (7.86%) Oracle
4 83 (4.83%) Atlassian
5 82 (4.78%) Salesforce
6 64 (3.73%) SAP
7 51 (2.97%) Google
8 44 (2.56%) HP
9 34 (1.98%) IBM
9 34 (1.98%) VMware
10 32 (1.86%) Cisco
11 30 (1.75%) Splunk
12 28 (1.63%) Talend
13 27 (1.57%) CyberArk
13 27 (1.57%) Denodo
14 21 (1.22%) Red Hat
15 20 (1.16%) Remedy
16 18 (1.05%) CheckPoint
16 18 (1.05%) Cloudera
16 18 (1.05%) Tenable