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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 46 49
Rank change year-on-year +13 +3 -13
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,836 1,327 1,632
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.89% 4.34% 4.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.90% 32.74% 34.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,341 843 1,104
10th Percentile £316 £313 £363
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -6.45% -1.02%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £694 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 39 44
10th Percentile £15.74 £36.65 £42.64
25th Percentile £44.85 £54.66 £50.94
Median hourly rate £63.40 £67.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -6.07% +10.20% -2.00%
75th Percentile £72.19 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £70.25 £74.63
UK median hourly rate £63.40 £67.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -6.07% +12.50% -2.04%

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 4,720 4,053 4,786
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.15% 13.26% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,299 2,527 3,392
10th Percentile £330 £345 £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 £645
90th Percentile £700 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 108 209
10th Percentile £39.00 £44.85 £45.88
25th Percentile £54.75 £53.31 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £83.80 £75.00 £89.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +5.69%

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 4 December 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 4 December 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 4 December 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 +11 858 £525 - 110
North of England +5 322 £470 -4.13% 92
Midlands +22 215 £450 -8.63% 62
South East -3 191 £475 +4.40% 144
West Midlands +23 172 £475 -5.00% 36
Yorkshire 0 162 £500 - 22
South West +13 149 £575 +4.07% 57
North West +6 143 £447 -10.55% 64
East of England -2 57 £425 +4.68% 46
East Midlands +2 43 £359 -20.66% 26
North East -4 17 £500 +10.62% 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
1 838 (45.64%) Confluence
2 105 (5.72%) SharePoint
3 48 (2.61%) nginx
4 35 (1.91%) SAS
5 31 (1.69%) CMS
6 16 (0.87%) Apache
7 12 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
8 11 (0.60%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.49%) JBoss
10 7 (0.38%) WordPress
11 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.33%) Drupal
11 6 (0.33%) Mule
12 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
12 4 (0.22%) CICS
12 4 (0.22%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.22%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.16%) SugarCRM
13 3 (0.16%) Traefik
Applications
1 173 (9.42%) Microsoft Project
2 140 (7.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 117 (6.37%) Microsoft Office
4 83 (4.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 70 (3.81%) MS Visio
6 34 (1.85%) Trello
7 12 (0.65%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 7 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.38%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.27%) Notion
10 5 (0.27%) Sketch
11 4 (0.22%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.22%) Simulink
11 4 (0.22%) Windchill
12 3 (0.16%) Adobe After Effects
12 3 (0.16%) InVision
13 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.11%) InDesign
14 1 (0.054%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 18 (0.98%) Remedy ITSM
1 18 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.65%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.44%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.44%) Oracle EBS R12
5 8 (0.44%) SAP PM
6 6 (0.33%) Maximo
6 6 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.33%) SAP HR
7 5 (0.27%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.27%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.22%) Endur
8 4 (0.22%) Fidessa
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.22%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.22%) SAP PLM
9 3 (0.16%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 342 (18.63%) Azure
2 315 (17.16%) AWS
3 176 (9.59%) Azure DevOps
4 172 (9.37%) GitHub
5 112 (6.10%) Power Platform
6 79 (4.30%) GCP
7 68 (3.70%) Serverless
8 60 (3.27%) Microsoft 365
9 52 (2.83%) Amazon S3
10 51 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
12 42 (2.29%) SaaS
13 41 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
14 38 (2.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 36 (1.96%) Slack
15 36 (1.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 35 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
16 35 (1.91%) Power Automate
17 32 (1.74%) Miro
18 31 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (3.16%) Firewall
2 49 (2.67%) DNS
3 39 (2.12%) SSH
4 37 (2.02%) HTTP
5 26 (1.42%) SMTP
6 23 (1.25%) FTP
7 22 (1.20%) VPN
8 20 (1.09%) SSL
9 17 (0.93%) OpenLDAP
10 16 (0.87%) TCP/IP
11 12 (0.65%) IMAP
12 8 (0.44%) DHCP
12 8 (0.44%) WAN
13 7 (0.38%) Network Security
14 6 (0.33%) LAN
14 6 (0.33%) SD-WAN
15 5 (0.27%) Kerberos
15 5 (0.27%) Wireless
16 4 (0.22%) VoIP
16 4 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (5.39%) Power BI
2 74 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
3 54 (2.94%) Tableau
4 41 (2.23%) SQL Server
5 35 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
6 34 (1.85%) NoSQL
6 34 (1.85%) Relational Database
7 33 (1.80%) Pentaho
8 25 (1.36%) Big Data
9 23 (1.25%) Oracle Database
10 20 (1.09%) MongoDB
11 19 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
12 17 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (0.93%) Hadoop
12 17 (0.93%) Metadata
13 16 (0.87%) MySQL
14 13 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
15 11 (0.60%) BigQuery
15 11 (0.60%) Redis
16 10 (0.54%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 265 (14.43%) Git
2 246 (13.40%) Jenkins
3 111 (6.05%) GitLab
4 76 (4.14%) Bitbucket
5 74 (4.03%) Selenium
6 64 (3.49%) Postman
7 50 (2.72%) Cucumber
8 43 (2.34%) Sonatype Nexus
9 35 (1.91%) SonarQube
10 33 (1.80%) JUnit
11 32 (1.74%) TestRail
12 28 (1.53%) Zephyr
13 27 (1.47%) Maven
14 25 (1.36%) SoapUI
14 25 (1.36%) Vagrant
15 21 (1.14%) REST Assured
15 21 (1.14%) SpecFlow
16 20 (1.09%) Cypress.io
17 19 (1.03%) Artifactory
18 16 (0.87%) Rational DOORS
General
1 776 (42.27%) Social Skills
2 449 (24.46%) Finance
3 317 (17.27%) Analytical Skills
4 213 (11.60%) Banking
5 202 (11.00%) Public Sector
6 68 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
7 54 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
8 48 (2.61%) Military
8 48 (2.61%) Retail
9 40 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
10 37 (2.02%) Legal
11 34 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
12 33 (1.80%) Investment Banking
13 28 (1.53%) Front Office
14 27 (1.47%) Manufacturing
15 26 (1.42%) Marketing
16 21 (1.14%) Telecoms
17 15 (0.82%) Law
17 15 (0.82%) Publishing
18 14 (0.76%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 322 (17.54%) Analyst
2 205 (11.17%) Developer
3 192 (10.46%) Business Analyst
4 167 (9.10%) Project Manager
5 142 (7.73%) Senior
6 131 (7.14%) Lead
7 122 (6.64%) Architect
8 74 (4.03%) Tester
9 63 (3.43%) Test Analyst
10 61 (3.32%) DevOps Engineer
11 52 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
12 51 (2.78%) Consultant
12 51 (2.78%) Delivery Manager
13 50 (2.72%) Administrator
14 45 (2.45%) Product Owner
15 40 (2.18%) Software Engineer
15 40 (2.18%) Technical Analyst
16 38 (2.07%) Data Engineer
16 38 (2.07%) Scrum Master
16 38 (2.07%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (9.53%) REST
2 89 (4.85%) SOAP
3 81 (4.41%) .NET
4 79 (4.30%) React
5 78 (4.25%) HTML
6 77 (4.19%) AngularJS
7 59 (3.21%) CSS
8 53 (2.89%) Kafka
8 53 (2.89%) RESTful
9 52 (2.83%) JSON
10 51 (2.78%) XML
11 50 (2.72%) Spring Boot
12 47 (2.56%) Spring
13 44 (2.40%) Node.js
14 38 (2.07%) LDAP
15 37 (2.02%) Playwright
16 35 (1.91%) RabbitMQ
16 35 (1.91%) Web Services
17 28 (1.53%) OAuth
18 27 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 211 (11.49%) Product Ownership
2 77 (4.19%) Onboarding
3 58 (3.16%) Cloud Native
4 45 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
5 42 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
6 38 (2.07%) Management Information System
7 33 (1.80%) Mobile App
8 32 (1.74%) Data Structures
9 28 (1.53%) PMI
9 28 (1.53%) Replication
10 26 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
11 25 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
11 25 (1.36%) Virtual Team
12 24 (1.31%) CMDB
13 21 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
14 19 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
15 18 (0.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 17 (0.93%) Algorithms
16 17 (0.93%) Data Centre
17 16 (0.87%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 138 (7.52%) Linux
2 136 (7.41%) Windows
3 52 (2.83%) Unix
4 31 (1.69%) VMS
5 23 (1.25%) Amazon Linux
6 19 (1.03%) Android
7 14 (0.76%) Apple iOS
7 14 (0.76%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.71%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.49%) Windows 10
10 9 (0.49%) Windows Server
11 6 (0.33%) CentOS
12 3 (0.16%) zOS
13 2 (0.11%) Debian
13 2 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
13 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.11%) Solaris
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.054%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,140 (62.09%) Agile
2 542 (29.52%) DevOps
3 448 (24.40%) Problem-Solving
4 437 (23.80%) Scrum
5 390 (21.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 370 (20.15%) CI/CD
7 279 (15.20%) Project Management
8 276 (15.03%) Test Automation
9 264 (14.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 236 (12.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 200 (10.89%) Migration
12 189 (10.29%) User Stories
13 186 (10.13%) Change Management
14 182 (9.91%) User Acceptance Testing
15 164 (8.93%) Microservices
16 158 (8.61%) Project Delivery
17 153 (8.33%) ITIL
18 152 (8.28%) Roadmaps
19 150 (8.17%) SDLC
20 144 (7.84%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 297 (16.18%) SQL
2 274 (14.92%) Python
3 180 (9.80%) Java
4 154 (8.39%) JavaScript
5 91 (4.96%) PowerShell
6 80 (4.36%) C#
7 61 (3.32%) TypeScript
8 46 (2.51%) Bash
9 39 (2.12%) Go
10 33 (1.80%) Groovy
11 30 (1.63%) C++
12 26 (1.42%) Perl
13 20 (1.09%) Shell Script
14 15 (0.82%) Apex Code
14 15 (0.82%) PL/SQL
15 14 (0.76%) Ruby
16 12 (0.65%) PHP
17 11 (0.60%) Embedded C++
18 8 (0.44%) C
18 8 (0.44%) Korn
Qualifications
1 479 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 420 (22.88%) SC Cleared
3 276 (15.03%) Degree
4 85 (4.63%) PMI Certification
5 70 (3.81%) PMP
6 59 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 58 (3.16%) CISSP
8 53 (2.89%) ISTQB
9 50 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 44 (2.40%) CISM
11 40 (2.18%) TOGAF Certification
12 38 (2.07%) DV Cleared
13 30 (1.63%) AWS Certification
14 20 (1.09%) Azure Certification
14 20 (1.09%) CBAP
15 19 (1.03%) Master's Degree
15 19 (1.03%) Oracle Certification
16 16 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
17 14 (0.76%) APMP
17 14 (0.76%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 223 (12.15%) QA
2 83 (4.52%) PMO
3 70 (3.81%) GDPR
4 60 (3.27%) Data Quality
5 53 (2.89%) Accessibility
6 47 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 40 (2.18%) NIST
8 23 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 18 (0.98%) ISO 20022
10 17 (0.93%) PSD2
10 17 (0.93%) SEPA
11 16 (0.87%) PCI DSS
12 15 (0.82%) WCAG
13 14 (0.76%) COBIT
13 14 (0.76%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.44%) GRC
14 8 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 8 (0.44%) NCSC
15 7 (0.38%) P3O
16 6 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 213 (11.60%) Docker
2 60 (3.27%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.14%) DFS Replication
4 19 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.65%) Dovecot
6 12 (0.65%) Firmware
6 12 (0.65%) Postfix
6 12 (0.65%) Squid
7 8 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.22%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.16%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.11%) KVM
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.11%) vSphere
11 1 (0.054%) Xen
Systems Management
1 189 (10.29%) Kubernetes
2 120 (6.54%) Terraform
3 87 (4.74%) Ansible
4 53 (2.89%) Grafana
5 44 (2.40%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
7 29 (1.58%) HP ALM
7 29 (1.58%) OPNET
8 24 (1.31%) Nessus
9 22 (1.20%) Packer
10 20 (1.09%) Consul
11 17 (0.93%) Puppet
12 15 (0.82%) Control-M
13 14 (0.76%) NetBackup
14 12 (0.65%) RSA Archer
14 12 (0.65%) SCCM
15 11 (0.60%) IBM Guardium
16 10 (0.54%) Progress Chef
16 10 (0.54%) Proxmox
17 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 256 (13.94%) Microsoft
2 234 (12.75%) ServiceNow
3 156 (8.50%) Oracle
4 121 (6.59%) Atlassian
5 97 (5.28%) Salesforce
6 65 (3.54%) SAP
7 56 (3.05%) Google
8 53 (2.89%) Remedy
9 46 (2.51%) HP
10 36 (1.96%) IBM
10 36 (1.96%) Talend
11 32 (1.74%) Denodo
12 30 (1.63%) CyberArk
13 28 (1.53%) Splunk
14 20 (1.09%) Red Hat
15 19 (1.03%) BiZZdesign
15 19 (1.03%) VMware
16 18 (0.98%) Cisco
16 18 (0.98%) Tenable
17 17 (0.93%) BMC