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 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 34 46
Rank change year-on-year -6 +12 +1
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,101 1,387 1,443
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.80% 5.44% 3.89%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.57% 38.36% 32.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,427 941 959
10th Percentile £325 £331 £324
25th Percentile £400 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £622
90th Percentile £675 £695 £705
UK median daily rate £495 £500 £511
% change year-on-year -1.00% -2.15% -2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 29 98
10th Percentile £18.75 £47.90 £25.29
25th Percentile £24.14 £50.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £51.50 £57.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% -11.54% +6.12%
75th Percentile £65.69 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.38 £79.00 -
UK median hourly rate £49.36 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -10.25% -8.33% -1.64%

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 5,179 3,616 4,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.83% 14.18% 12.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,342 2,458 3,012
10th Percentile £350 £338 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £713 £732
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 76 234
10th Percentile £27.64 £28.18 £33.02
25th Percentile £56.94 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +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 30 June 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 30 June 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 30 June 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 -3 960 £519 -1.04% 135
North of England -4 424 £450 -3.64% 80
Midlands +1 310 £450 -5.26% 36
West Midlands 0 256 £459 -3.37% 27
Yorkshire -2 232 £460 -8.00% 27
South East -30 198 £475 -2.81% 118
North West -5 176 £447 +5.18% 43
South West -5 117 £493 -14.35% 47
East of England -4 61 £450 +9.09% 28
East Midlands +5 52 £401 -10.59% 9
North East -30 21 £475 -12.64% 11
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
1 918 (43.69%) Confluence
2 112 (5.33%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 34 (1.62%) SAS
5 13 (0.62%) Apache
6 12 (0.57%) nginx
7 11 (0.52%) CMS
8 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.33%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.29%) Ethereum
9 6 (0.29%) Hyperledger
9 6 (0.29%) Mattermost
10 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
11 4 (0.19%) IIS
11 4 (0.19%) JBoss
11 4 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.19%) WordPress
12 3 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
12 3 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 3 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 158 (7.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 147 (7.00%) Microsoft Project
3 86 (4.09%) MS Visio
4 79 (3.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 65 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (0.57%) Trello
7 10 (0.48%) AutoCAD
7 10 (0.48%) Chatbot
8 9 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
9 8 (0.38%) Revit
10 4 (0.19%) Notion
11 2 (0.095%) CATIA
12 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.048%) CANalyzer
12 1 (0.048%) Mingle
12 1 (0.048%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.048%) SOLIDWORKS
12 1 (0.048%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 29 (1.38%) Remedy ITSM
1 29 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.52%) Aladdin
3 11 (0.52%) Loan IQ
4 10 (0.48%) Workday HCM
5 9 (0.43%) Fidessa
6 8 (0.38%) Findur
7 7 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.29%) SAP MDG
8 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
9 5 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
10 4 (0.19%) Actimize
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
10 4 (0.19%) Summit
11 3 (0.14%) Primavera
11 3 (0.14%) SAP Retail
11 3 (0.14%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 481 (22.89%) Azure
2 351 (16.71%) AWS
3 266 (12.66%) Azure DevOps
4 164 (7.81%) GitHub
5 156 (7.43%) Power Platform
6 88 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
7 82 (3.90%) Entra ID
8 78 (3.71%) GCP
8 78 (3.71%) SaaS
9 75 (3.57%) Amazon S3
9 75 (3.57%) Serverless
10 58 (2.76%) AWS Lambda
10 58 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
11 55 (2.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 52 (2.48%) Amazon EC2
13 37 (1.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 29 (1.38%) Slack
15 28 (1.33%) Miro
16 26 (1.24%) Amazon EKS
16 26 (1.24%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 88 (4.19%) Firewall
2 59 (2.81%) DNS
3 47 (2.24%) TCP/IP
4 37 (1.76%) Network Security
5 30 (1.43%) LAN
5 30 (1.43%) VPN
6 29 (1.38%) WAN
7 25 (1.19%) BIG-IP
7 25 (1.19%) DHCP
8 23 (1.09%) SAN
9 19 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
10 17 (0.81%) SSL
11 14 (0.67%) HTTP
12 12 (0.57%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.52%) Internet
14 10 (0.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 10 (0.48%) Unified Communications
15 9 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 8 (0.38%) DKIM
16 8 (0.38%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (6.57%) Power BI
2 97 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
4 53 (2.52%) SQL Server
5 43 (2.05%) Oracle Reports
6 37 (1.76%) Tableau
7 33 (1.57%) MongoDB
8 32 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
9 27 (1.29%) DynamoDB
9 27 (1.29%) Relational Database
10 25 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
10 25 (1.19%) NoSQL
11 24 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
12 18 (0.86%) Data Lake
12 18 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 17 (0.81%) Oracle Database
13 17 (0.81%) Pentaho
14 14 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
15 13 (0.62%) Neo4j
16 12 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 248 (11.80%) Git
2 201 (9.57%) Jenkins
3 121 (5.76%) GitLab
4 93 (4.43%) Selenium
5 74 (3.52%) Postman
6 72 (3.43%) Zephyr
7 55 (2.62%) Bitbucket
7 55 (2.62%) JUnit
8 52 (2.48%) Cucumber
9 40 (1.90%) JMeter
10 36 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
11 26 (1.24%) REST Assured
12 22 (1.05%) Cypress.io
12 22 (1.05%) WebDriver
13 21 (1.00%) TestRail
14 20 (0.95%) SonarQube
15 18 (0.86%) Artifactory
16 14 (0.67%) Appium
17 13 (0.62%) Maven
18 12 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 819 (38.98%) Social Skills
2 600 (28.56%) Finance
3 375 (17.85%) Analytical Skills
4 271 (12.90%) Banking
5 216 (10.28%) Public Sector
6 79 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
7 74 (3.52%) Retail
8 73 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
9 45 (2.14%) Manufacturing
10 42 (2.00%) Legal
11 38 (1.81%) Investment Banking
12 37 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
13 32 (1.52%) Front Office
14 29 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
15 26 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 26 (1.24%) Retail Banking
16 23 (1.09%) Military
17 21 (1.00%) Telecoms
18 20 (0.95%) Financial Institution
19 19 (0.90%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 395 (18.80%) Analyst
2 246 (11.71%) Business Analyst
3 201 (9.57%) Developer
4 173 (8.23%) Lead
5 170 (8.09%) Senior
6 118 (5.62%) Project Manager
7 96 (4.57%) Architect
8 90 (4.28%) Delivery Manager
9 88 (4.19%) Tester
10 79 (3.76%) Scrum Master
11 76 (3.62%) Consultant
11 76 (3.62%) Data Engineer
12 66 (3.14%) IT Support
13 57 (2.71%) Support Engineer
14 46 (2.19%) IT Engineer
14 46 (2.19%) Product Owner
15 45 (2.14%) Test Analyst
16 43 (2.05%) IT Support Engineer
17 42 (2.00%) Test Engineer
18 41 (1.95%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (5.43%) REST
2 63 (3.00%) .NET
2 63 (3.00%) Spring
3 52 (2.48%) React
4 49 (2.33%) JSON
5 47 (2.24%) RESTful
6 46 (2.19%) HTML
7 43 (2.05%) Kafka
8 41 (1.95%) Spring Boot
9 38 (1.81%) SOAP
10 35 (1.67%) AngularJS
10 35 (1.67%) CSS
10 35 (1.67%) Playwright
11 27 (1.29%) Middleware
11 27 (1.29%) OpenID
11 27 (1.29%) XML
12 25 (1.19%) Web Services
13 24 (1.14%) Node.js
13 24 (1.14%) WireMock
14 23 (1.09%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 231 (10.99%) Product Ownership
2 122 (5.81%) Onboarding
3 91 (4.33%) Cloud Native
4 64 (3.05%) Data Centre
5 49 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
5 49 (2.33%) Management Information System
6 48 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
6 48 (2.28%) Virtual Team
7 43 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
8 42 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
9 32 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
10 30 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
10 30 (1.43%) Data Structures
11 19 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 18 (0.86%) Enterprise Storage
12 18 (0.86%) Public Cloud
12 18 (0.86%) SCADA
12 18 (0.86%) Security Posture
13 17 (0.81%) Mobile App
14 15 (0.71%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 168 (8.00%) Windows
2 130 (6.19%) Linux
3 45 (2.14%) Unix
4 20 (0.95%) Windows 10
5 19 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.81%) Mac OS
7 16 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (0.71%) Android
9 9 (0.43%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.19%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
11 3 (0.14%) AIX
11 3 (0.14%) Check Point GAiA
11 3 (0.14%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 2 (0.095%) MVS
12 2 (0.095%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.048%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.048%) Solaris
13 1 (0.048%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,218 (57.97%) Agile
2 546 (25.99%) DevOps
3 545 (25.94%) Stakeholder Management
4 459 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
5 452 (21.51%) CI/CD
6 413 (19.66%) Scrum
7 387 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 357 (16.99%) Test Automation
9 267 (12.71%) Migration
10 249 (11.85%) User Acceptance Testing
11 234 (11.14%) Project Management
12 233 (11.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 227 (10.80%) Validation
14 218 (10.38%) User Stories
15 206 (9.80%) Change Management
16 195 (9.28%) AI
17 190 (9.04%) Project Delivery
17 190 (9.04%) Sprint Planning
18 188 (8.95%) SDLC
19 186 (8.85%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 344 (16.37%) SQL
2 259 (12.33%) Python
3 168 (8.00%) Java
4 87 (4.14%) C#
5 84 (4.00%) JavaScript
6 66 (3.14%) TypeScript
7 58 (2.76%) PowerShell
8 38 (1.81%) Bash
9 31 (1.48%) PL/SQL
10 19 (0.90%) VBA
11 17 (0.81%) C++
12 15 (0.71%) Perl
12 15 (0.71%) Shell Script
13 14 (0.67%) Apex Code
14 11 (0.52%) ActionScript
14 11 (0.52%) Groovy
15 10 (0.48%) Bicep
16 9 (0.43%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.38%) Scala
18 7 (0.33%) C
Qualifications
1 531 (25.27%) Security Cleared
2 416 (19.80%) SC Cleared
3 187 (8.90%) Degree
4 72 (3.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 66 (3.14%) DV Cleared
5 66 (3.14%) ISTQB
6 60 (2.86%) PMI Certification
7 54 (2.57%) PMP
8 33 (1.57%) CISSP
9 32 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (1.14%) AWS Certification
12 21 (1.00%) CISM
13 19 (0.90%) Azure Certification
13 19 (0.90%) Master's Degree
14 18 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
14 18 (0.86%) SAFe Agilist
15 16 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 13 (0.62%) CCNA
17 11 (0.52%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 255 (12.14%) QA
2 119 (5.66%) Data Quality
3 104 (4.95%) PMO
4 57 (2.71%) Accessibility
5 41 (1.95%) GDPR
6 39 (1.86%) SLA
7 26 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 24 (1.14%) NIST
9 20 (0.95%) WCAG
10 19 (0.90%) GRC
11 17 (0.81%) PCI DSS
12 14 (0.67%) NCSC
13 9 (0.43%) ISO 20022
14 8 (0.38%) PSD2
15 7 (0.33%) MiFID
16 6 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.29%) JSP 440
16 6 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.29%) SEPA
System Software
1 144 (6.85%) Docker
2 115 (5.47%) Active Directory
3 26 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.71%) Firmware
5 9 (0.43%) Squid
5 9 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.14%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.14%) HDFS
10 2 (0.095%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.095%) Postfix
10 2 (0.095%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.048%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.048%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 162 (7.71%) Kubernetes
2 140 (6.66%) Terraform
3 93 (4.43%) Ansible
4 65 (3.09%) Grafana
5 52 (2.48%) Prometheus
6 41 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 22 (1.05%) HP ALM
9 20 (0.95%) Control-M
10 17 (0.81%) Nessus
11 16 (0.76%) IBM Guardium
12 15 (0.71%) Puppet
13 13 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
14 12 (0.57%) Consul
15 11 (0.52%) HP Quality Center
16 10 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 8 (0.38%) Dell DRAC
17 8 (0.38%) FortiGate
17 8 (0.38%) SCCM
18 7 (0.33%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 293 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 262 (12.47%) ServiceNow
3 163 (7.76%) Oracle
4 101 (4.81%) Salesforce
5 90 (4.28%) Atlassian
6 79 (3.76%) SAP
7 53 (2.52%) Google
8 37 (1.76%) Denodo
9 34 (1.62%) Remedy
9 34 (1.62%) Workday
10 33 (1.57%) F5
11 32 (1.52%) Informatica
11 32 (1.52%) Talend
12 30 (1.43%) Databricks
12 30 (1.43%) Red Hat
12 30 (1.43%) VMware
13 28 (1.33%) IBM
14 25 (1.19%) HP
15 24 (1.14%) Splunk
16 23 (1.09%) MuleSoft