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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 43 52
Rank change year-on-year +9 +9 -9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,956 1,190 1,396
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.43% 4.78% 3.67%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.52% 35.42% 32.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,395 758 967
10th Percentile £313 £313 £325
25th Percentile £400 £402 £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 £747
UK median daily rate £492 £498 £511
% change year-on-year -1.11% -2.69% -5.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 21 55
10th Percentile £15.74 £48.00 £23.20
25th Percentile £20.69 £55.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.57 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.00 £75.92
UK median hourly rate £63.40 £62.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year +1.44% +36.22% -26.59%

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 4,950 3,360 4,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.75% 13.49% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,361 2,186 3,013
10th Percentile £340 £333 £358
25th Percentile £409 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -3.57% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £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 170 64 192
10th Percentile £34.13 £26.10 £37.75
25th Percentile £54.06 £51.95 £49.62
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £74.13 £71.88 £73.92
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £88.13
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 9 March 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 9 March 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 9 March 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 +5 847 £520 +4.00% 131
North of England +8 356 £450 -3.23% 87
Midlands +5 293 £425 -10.90% 80
West Midlands +1 227 £450 -5.66% 53
Yorkshire +2 196 £475 -5.94% 35
South East -11 194 £475 -3.80% 172
South West +14 167 £568 +0.44% 53
North West +20 148 £438 -2.78% 40
East Midlands -1 64 £356 -27.35% 26
East of England -15 61 £425 - 53
North East -11 12 £413 -9.14% 13
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
1 922 (47.14%) Confluence
2 117 (5.98%) SharePoint
3 42 (2.15%) SAS
4 31 (1.58%) nginx
5 24 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
6 20 (1.02%) CMS
7 13 (0.66%) Apache
8 8 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.41%) WebLogic
9 7 (0.36%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.31%) Ethereum
10 6 (0.31%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.26%) Mattermost
12 4 (0.20%) IIS
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.15%) Drupal
13 3 (0.15%) JBoss
13 3 (0.15%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 213 (10.89%) Microsoft Project
2 184 (9.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 109 (5.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 103 (5.27%) Microsoft Office
5 82 (4.19%) MS Visio
6 22 (1.12%) Trello
7 8 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.31%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
9 5 (0.26%) Notion
9 5 (0.26%) Photoshop
9 5 (0.26%) Sketch
10 4 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.15%) InVision
12 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.10%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.10%) CATIA
12 2 (0.10%) InDesign
13 1 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 20 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.87%) NetSuite
3 13 (0.66%) Loan IQ
3 13 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
4 11 (0.56%) Workday HCM
5 10 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
5 10 (0.51%) Fidessa
6 8 (0.41%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.41%) Maximo
7 7 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 6 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.26%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 4 (0.20%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.20%) SAP Retail
11 3 (0.15%) Algo Collateral
11 3 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 379 (19.38%) Azure
2 290 (14.83%) AWS
3 207 (10.58%) Azure DevOps
4 168 (8.59%) GitHub
5 133 (6.80%) Power Platform
6 79 (4.04%) GCP
7 70 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
8 58 (2.97%) SaaS
9 50 (2.56%) Entra ID
10 49 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
11 39 (1.99%) Serverless
12 30 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
13 28 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
13 28 (1.43%) Figma
13 28 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 26 (1.33%) Amazon S3
15 25 (1.28%) Miro
16 24 (1.23%) Amazon EKS
16 24 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
16 24 (1.23%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 48 (2.45%) Firewall
2 34 (1.74%) TCP/IP
3 33 (1.69%) DNS
4 29 (1.48%) VPN
5 22 (1.12%) WAN
6 20 (1.02%) LAN
7 18 (0.92%) Network Security
8 16 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
9 15 (0.77%) HTTP
10 11 (0.56%) SD-WAN
11 10 (0.51%) DHCP
12 9 (0.46%) Ethernet
12 9 (0.46%) SSH
13 8 (0.41%) FTP
13 8 (0.41%) SSL
13 8 (0.41%) Unified Communications
14 7 (0.36%) BIG-IP
14 7 (0.36%) Internet
14 7 (0.36%) Modbus
14 7 (0.36%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (5.67%) Power BI
2 78 (3.99%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (3.32%) Tableau
4 54 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
5 51 (2.61%) SQL Server
6 39 (1.99%) MongoDB
7 36 (1.84%) NoSQL
8 29 (1.48%) Pentaho
9 23 (1.18%) Oracle Reports
10 21 (1.07%) MySQL
10 21 (1.07%) Relational Database
11 20 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (1.02%) Oracle Database
12 17 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
13 16 (0.82%) Big Data
14 15 (0.77%) Metadata
15 12 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 11 (0.56%) Data Vault
16 11 (0.56%) DynamoDB
16 11 (0.56%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 240 (12.27%) Git
2 230 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 114 (5.83%) GitLab
4 88 (4.50%) Selenium
5 74 (3.78%) Postman
6 65 (3.32%) Cucumber
7 61 (3.12%) Bitbucket
8 51 (2.61%) JUnit
9 43 (2.20%) Zephyr
10 39 (1.99%) Sonatype Nexus
11 34 (1.74%) REST Assured
12 33 (1.69%) JMeter
13 30 (1.53%) TestRail
14 28 (1.43%) SonarQube
15 20 (1.02%) Maven
16 15 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 15 (0.77%) Rational DOORS
16 15 (0.77%) WebDriver
17 14 (0.72%) Cypress.io
17 14 (0.72%) SpecFlow
General
1 812 (41.51%) Social Skills
2 562 (28.73%) Finance
3 381 (19.48%) Analytical Skills
4 240 (12.27%) Banking
5 204 (10.43%) Public Sector
6 78 (3.99%) Organisational Skills
7 71 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
8 64 (3.27%) Retail
9 52 (2.66%) Military
10 48 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
11 46 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
12 33 (1.69%) Legal
13 30 (1.53%) Investment Banking
14 29 (1.48%) Manufacturing
15 23 (1.18%) Front Office
16 21 (1.07%) Marketing
17 20 (1.02%) Telecoms
18 19 (0.97%) Retail Banking
19 17 (0.87%) Financial Institution
19 17 (0.87%) Law
Job Titles
1 400 (20.45%) Analyst
2 254 (12.99%) Business Analyst
3 181 (9.25%) Developer
4 148 (7.57%) Lead
4 148 (7.57%) Project Manager
5 133 (6.80%) Senior
6 125 (6.39%) Architect
7 94 (4.81%) Tester
8 60 (3.07%) Delivery Manager
9 59 (3.02%) Consultant
10 53 (2.71%) Test Engineer
11 52 (2.66%) Data Engineer
11 52 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
12 48 (2.45%) Technical Analyst
13 47 (2.40%) Test Analyst
14 46 (2.35%) Technical Business Analyst
15 45 (2.30%) Scrum Master
16 44 (2.25%) Software Engineer
17 42 (2.15%) IT Support
17 42 (2.15%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (7.26%) REST
2 61 (3.12%) Spring
3 55 (2.81%) .NET
4 49 (2.51%) XML
5 48 (2.45%) Kafka
6 47 (2.40%) JSON
7 45 (2.30%) RESTful
7 45 (2.30%) SOAP
8 44 (2.25%) HTML
9 42 (2.15%) React
10 40 (2.04%) Spring Boot
11 39 (1.99%) CSS
12 38 (1.94%) Playwright
13 32 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
14 27 (1.38%) OpenID
15 26 (1.33%) FastAPI
16 25 (1.28%) ADO
16 25 (1.28%) Node.js
16 25 (1.28%) OpenTelemetry
17 24 (1.23%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 221 (11.30%) Product Ownership
2 87 (4.45%) Onboarding
3 72 (3.68%) Cloud Native
4 50 (2.56%) Management Information System
5 45 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
6 41 (2.10%) Virtual Team
7 36 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
8 31 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
10 26 (1.33%) Data Centre
11 25 (1.28%) Data Structures
11 25 (1.28%) Mobile App
11 25 (1.28%) PMI
12 23 (1.18%) Public Cloud
13 22 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
14 19 (0.97%) CMDB
15 17 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
16 15 (0.77%) Tandem
17 13 (0.66%) Security Posture
17 13 (0.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 152 (7.77%) Windows
2 133 (6.80%) Linux
3 35 (1.79%) Unix
4 21 (1.07%) Android
4 21 (1.07%) Windows 10
5 13 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.36%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.051%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.051%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.051%) Windows Embedded Compact
11 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.051%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,151 (58.84%) Agile
2 537 (27.45%) DevOps
3 500 (25.56%) Stakeholder Management
4 462 (23.62%) Problem-Solving
5 423 (21.63%) Scrum
6 398 (20.35%) CI/CD
7 346 (17.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 311 (15.90%) Test Automation
9 294 (15.03%) Project Management
10 248 (12.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 202 (10.33%) Migration
12 201 (10.28%) Project Delivery
13 191 (9.76%) User Stories
14 189 (9.66%) User Acceptance Testing
15 183 (9.36%) Change Management
16 172 (8.79%) Decision-Making
17 165 (8.44%) ITIL
18 163 (8.33%) Acceptance Criteria
19 162 (8.28%) Analytics
20 160 (8.18%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 301 (15.39%) SQL
2 255 (13.04%) Python
3 182 (9.30%) Java
4 98 (5.01%) JavaScript
5 85 (4.35%) C#
6 81 (4.14%) PowerShell
7 49 (2.51%) TypeScript
8 40 (2.04%) Bash
9 34 (1.74%) C++
10 24 (1.23%) Shell Script
11 21 (1.07%) Go
12 20 (1.02%) Embedded C++
13 18 (0.92%) PL/SQL
14 14 (0.72%) C
14 14 (0.72%) PHP
15 12 (0.61%) Perl
16 11 (0.56%) Ruby
17 10 (0.51%) Embedded C
18 9 (0.46%) Apex Code
19 8 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 531 (27.15%) Security Cleared
2 423 (21.63%) SC Cleared
3 260 (13.29%) Degree
4 87 (4.45%) PMI Certification
5 79 (4.04%) PMP
6 66 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 63 (3.22%) ISTQB
8 54 (2.76%) DV Cleared
9 51 (2.61%) CISSP
10 50 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
11 44 (2.25%) TOGAF Certification
12 41 (2.10%) CISM
13 34 (1.74%) Master's Degree
14 26 (1.33%) AWS Certification
15 21 (1.07%) CBAP
15 21 (1.07%) ISEB
16 19 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
17 18 (0.92%) IIBA
17 18 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 16 (0.82%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 238 (12.17%) QA
2 117 (5.98%) PMO
3 90 (4.60%) Data Quality
4 43 (2.20%) Accessibility
5 41 (2.10%) GDPR
6 33 (1.69%) NIST
7 26 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 23 (1.18%) SLA
9 19 (0.97%) WCAG
10 15 (0.77%) PSD2
11 13 (0.66%) GRC
11 13 (0.66%) ISO 20022
12 11 (0.56%) Basel III
12 11 (0.56%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (0.56%) SEPA
13 8 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.41%) NIST 800
14 6 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.31%) NCSC
System Software
1 191 (9.76%) Docker
2 72 (3.68%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
3 18 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.56%) Firmware
5 8 (0.41%) Squid
5 8 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
7 5 (0.26%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.15%) HDFS
10 2 (0.10%) Postfix
10 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.051%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.051%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.051%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.051%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 196 (10.02%) Kubernetes
2 88 (4.50%) Ansible
2 88 (4.50%) Terraform
3 66 (3.37%) Grafana
4 50 (2.56%) Prometheus
5 30 (1.53%) OPNET
6 29 (1.48%) Control-M
7 24 (1.23%) HP ALM
7 24 (1.23%) IBM Guardium
7 24 (1.23%) Nessus
7 24 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
8 23 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
9 21 (1.07%) Consul
10 19 (0.97%) Puppet
11 16 (0.82%) Packer
12 13 (0.66%) SCCM
13 12 (0.61%) NetBackup
14 10 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
15 7 (0.36%) FortiGate
15 7 (0.36%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 234 (11.96%) Microsoft
2 214 (10.94%) ServiceNow
3 167 (8.54%) Oracle
4 149 (7.62%) Atlassian
5 100 (5.11%) Salesforce
6 65 (3.32%) SAP
7 51 (2.61%) Remedy
8 44 (2.25%) Google
9 36 (1.84%) IBM
10 35 (1.79%) Talend
11 31 (1.58%) Red Hat
11 31 (1.58%) Workday
12 28 (1.43%) Denodo
12 28 (1.43%) Splunk
12 28 (1.43%) Tenable
13 25 (1.28%) Databricks
13 25 (1.28%) HP
14 23 (1.18%) BiZZdesign
15 21 (1.07%) VMware
16 19 (0.97%) Sonatype