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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 43 50
Rank change year-on-year +10 +7 -10
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,854 1,181 1,441
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.45% 4.58% 3.79%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.07% 34.01% 32.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,331 721 1,008
10th Percentile £313 £313 £329
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £592 £588 £621
90th Percentile £700 £675 £738
UK median daily rate £495 £485 £510
% change year-on-year +2.06% -4.90% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 23 50
10th Percentile £15.74 £45.40 £31.66
25th Percentile £25.00 £52.98 £40.00
Median hourly rate £63.14 £62.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.02% +16.82% -17.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.50 £65.94
90th Percentile £95.00 £70.75 £75.15
UK median hourly rate £63.40 £62.50 £52.35
% change year-on-year +1.44% +19.38% -19.46%

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 4,745 3,472 4,386
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.95% 13.46% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,267 2,175 3,082
10th Percentile £339 £338 £363
25th Percentile £409 £410 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £533
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -5.21% -7.35%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 60 206
10th Percentile £28.84 £27.38 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.11 £48.35
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £75.19
90th Percentile £80.70 £80.00 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 16 February 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 16 February 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 16 February 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 +4 831 £525 +5.00% 129
North of England +13 346 £447 -1.49% 77
Midlands +10 241 £444 -6.97% 102
South East -7 191 £480 +1.05% 152
Yorkshire -4 184 £480 -4.00% 36
West Midlands +6 178 £473 -0.94% 74
South West +15 152 £575 +2.22% 56
North West +20 146 £428 -5.00% 38
East Midlands +13 61 £356 -28.08% 28
East of England -11 59 £425 +3.03% 35
North East -4 16 £400 -11.11% 4
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
1 874 (47.14%) Confluence
2 112 (6.04%) SharePoint
3 34 (1.83%) nginx
4 31 (1.67%) SAS
5 24 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
6 22 (1.19%) CMS
7 12 (0.65%) Apache
8 11 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
10 7 (0.38%) WebLogic
10 7 (0.38%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.32%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.32%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.32%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.16%) Drupal
13 3 (0.16%) IIS
13 3 (0.16%) SugarCRM
13 3 (0.16%) Traefik
14 2 (0.11%) JBoss
Applications
1 196 (10.57%) Microsoft Project
2 173 (9.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 109 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
4 103 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 77 (4.15%) MS Visio
6 24 (1.29%) Trello
7 6 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.27%) Notion
8 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.27%) Sketch
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.22%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.22%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 3 (0.16%) InVision
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.11%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.11%) CATIA
11 2 (0.11%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 17 (0.92%) NetSuite
2 16 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.59%) Workday HCM
4 10 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.54%) Fidessa
4 10 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 9 (0.49%) Loan IQ
6 8 (0.43%) Maximo
7 7 (0.38%) Aladdin
7 7 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
8 6 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.27%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.22%) Endur
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.22%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.22%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 357 (19.26%) Azure
2 279 (15.05%) AWS
3 189 (10.19%) Azure DevOps
4 167 (9.01%) GitHub
5 130 (7.01%) Power Platform
6 78 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
7 75 (4.05%) GCP
8 57 (3.07%) SaaS
9 47 (2.54%) GitHub Actions
10 43 (2.32%) Serverless
11 40 (2.16%) Entra ID
12 37 (2.00%) Amazon S3
13 36 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
14 33 (1.78%) Figma
15 32 (1.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 29 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
17 28 (1.51%) Amazon EKS
17 28 (1.51%) Slack
18 27 (1.46%) Miro
19 26 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 48 (2.59%) Firewall
2 39 (2.10%) DNS
3 32 (1.73%) TCP/IP
4 28 (1.51%) VPN
5 21 (1.13%) WAN
6 20 (1.08%) HTTP
6 20 (1.08%) LAN
7 17 (0.92%) SSH
8 16 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (0.70%) Network Security
10 11 (0.59%) FTP
11 10 (0.54%) SD-WAN
12 9 (0.49%) DHCP
12 9 (0.49%) Ethernet
12 9 (0.49%) SSL
12 9 (0.49%) Unified Communications
13 7 (0.38%) Modbus
13 7 (0.38%) RS-232
13 7 (0.38%) RS-485
13 7 (0.38%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (5.93%) Power BI
2 68 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
3 63 (3.40%) Tableau
4 47 (2.54%) SQL Server
5 37 (2.00%) NoSQL
6 35 (1.89%) MongoDB
7 31 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
8 26 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
9 21 (1.13%) Oracle Database
9 21 (1.13%) Pentaho
10 18 (0.97%) Big Data
10 18 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (0.97%) Metadata
10 18 (0.97%) Relational Database
11 17 (0.92%) MySQL
12 16 (0.86%) Data Vault
13 11 (0.59%) Star Schema
14 10 (0.54%) DynamoDB
14 10 (0.54%) Hadoop
15 9 (0.49%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 216 (11.65%) Git
1 216 (11.65%) Jenkins
2 114 (6.15%) GitLab
3 78 (4.21%) Selenium
4 69 (3.72%) Postman
5 54 (2.91%) Bitbucket
6 49 (2.64%) Cucumber
7 37 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
8 35 (1.89%) TestRail
9 34 (1.83%) REST Assured
10 32 (1.73%) SonarQube
11 30 (1.62%) JUnit
11 30 (1.62%) Zephyr
12 22 (1.19%) JMeter
13 21 (1.13%) Maven
14 17 (0.92%) Cypress.io
14 17 (0.92%) SpecFlow
15 14 (0.76%) Rational DOORS
16 12 (0.65%) SoapUI
17 11 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 763 (41.15%) Social Skills
2 518 (27.94%) Finance
3 363 (19.58%) Analytical Skills
4 233 (12.57%) Banking
5 197 (10.63%) Public Sector
6 68 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
7 67 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
8 66 (3.56%) Retail
9 54 (2.91%) Military
10 44 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
11 43 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
12 33 (1.78%) Investment Banking
13 30 (1.62%) Legal
14 26 (1.40%) Front Office
15 25 (1.35%) Telecoms
16 24 (1.29%) Manufacturing
17 22 (1.19%) Marketing
18 21 (1.13%) Retail Banking
19 16 (0.86%) Law
20 15 (0.81%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 380 (20.50%) Analyst
2 248 (13.38%) Business Analyst
3 174 (9.39%) Developer
4 151 (8.14%) Project Manager
5 140 (7.55%) Lead
6 125 (6.74%) Architect
6 125 (6.74%) Senior
7 79 (4.26%) Tester
8 55 (2.97%) Consultant
8 55 (2.97%) Delivery Manager
9 54 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
10 48 (2.59%) Test Engineer
11 47 (2.54%) Technical Analyst
12 46 (2.48%) Test Analyst
13 43 (2.32%) Technical Business Analyst
14 42 (2.27%) Scrum Master
15 40 (2.16%) Software Engineer
16 37 (2.00%) Data Engineer
16 37 (2.00%) Technical Manager
17 36 (1.94%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (7.71%) REST
2 60 (3.24%) .NET
3 51 (2.75%) Spring
4 48 (2.59%) RESTful
5 46 (2.48%) HTML
5 46 (2.48%) XML
6 45 (2.43%) Kafka
7 44 (2.37%) SOAP
8 43 (2.32%) React
9 41 (2.21%) JSON
9 41 (2.21%) Spring Boot
10 40 (2.16%) CSS
10 40 (2.16%) Playwright
11 31 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
12 28 (1.51%) LDAP
13 27 (1.46%) AngularJS
13 27 (1.46%) Node.js
14 26 (1.40%) OpenID
15 25 (1.35%) FastAPI
16 23 (1.24%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 223 (12.03%) Product Ownership
2 84 (4.53%) Onboarding
3 64 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 45 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
5 42 (2.27%) Management Information System
6 35 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (1.83%) Virtual Team
8 31 (1.67%) Data Structures
9 30 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
10 29 (1.56%) PMI
11 28 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.29%) Mobile App
13 22 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
14 19 (1.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 18 (0.97%) CMDB
15 18 (0.97%) Public Cloud
16 16 (0.86%) Data Centre
17 14 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
17 14 (0.76%) Tandem
18 13 (0.70%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 144 (7.77%) Windows
2 123 (6.63%) Linux
3 31 (1.67%) Unix
4 22 (1.19%) Android
5 20 (1.08%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.65%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.65%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.54%) VMS
9 9 (0.49%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.38%) FreeRTOS
11 6 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.22%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.054%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.054%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.054%) Windows Embedded Compact
14 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.054%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,106 (59.65%) Agile
2 502 (27.08%) DevOps
3 472 (25.46%) Stakeholder Management
4 449 (24.22%) Problem-Solving
5 408 (22.01%) Scrum
6 360 (19.42%) CI/CD
7 305 (16.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 290 (15.64%) Project Management
9 272 (14.67%) Test Automation
10 241 (13.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 199 (10.73%) User Stories
12 192 (10.36%) User Acceptance Testing
13 185 (9.98%) Project Delivery
14 182 (9.82%) Migration
15 173 (9.33%) Change Management
16 163 (8.79%) Acceptance Criteria
17 159 (8.58%) Roadmaps
18 156 (8.41%) Decision-Making
19 155 (8.36%) Analytics
20 149 (8.04%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 281 (15.16%) SQL
2 252 (13.59%) Python
3 174 (9.39%) Java
4 105 (5.66%) JavaScript
5 79 (4.26%) PowerShell
6 75 (4.05%) C#
7 55 (2.97%) TypeScript
8 36 (1.94%) Bash
9 32 (1.73%) C++
10 26 (1.40%) Go
11 20 (1.08%) Embedded C++
11 20 (1.08%) Shell Script
12 16 (0.86%) PL/SQL
13 13 (0.70%) C
13 13 (0.70%) PHP
14 11 (0.59%) Groovy
14 11 (0.59%) Perl
14 11 (0.59%) Ruby
15 10 (0.54%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.54%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 476 (25.67%) Security Cleared
2 388 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 264 (14.24%) Degree
4 88 (4.75%) PMI Certification
5 76 (4.10%) PMP
6 66 (3.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 59 (3.18%) ISTQB
8 47 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
8 47 (2.54%) DV Cleared
9 46 (2.48%) CISSP
10 44 (2.37%) TOGAF Certification
11 38 (2.05%) CISM
12 35 (1.89%) Master's Degree
13 29 (1.56%) AWS Certification
14 24 (1.29%) CBAP
15 21 (1.13%) ISEB
16 18 (0.97%) Azure Certification
17 17 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 16 (0.86%) IIBA
19 15 (0.81%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 231 (12.46%) QA
2 105 (5.66%) PMO
3 78 (4.21%) Data Quality
4 55 (2.97%) Accessibility
5 41 (2.21%) GDPR
6 29 (1.56%) NIST
7 25 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (1.08%) PSD2
9 19 (1.02%) ISO 20022
9 19 (1.02%) WCAG
10 17 (0.92%) SLA
11 16 (0.86%) SEPA
12 12 (0.65%) GRC
12 12 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.59%) Basel III
13 11 (0.59%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (0.43%) NCSC
14 8 (0.43%) NIST 800
15 5 (0.27%) P3O
System Software
1 181 (9.76%) Docker
2 62 (3.34%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.59%) Squid
6 9 (0.49%) Firmware
7 7 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.32%) DFS Replication
8 6 (0.32%) Postfix
9 5 (0.27%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 4 (0.22%) Dovecot
10 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.054%) etcd
12 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.054%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.054%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 1 (0.054%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 168 (9.06%) Kubernetes
2 94 (5.07%) Terraform
3 78 (4.21%) Ansible
4 60 (3.24%) Grafana
5 45 (2.43%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.62%) OPNET
7 28 (1.51%) Control-M
8 26 (1.40%) Nessus
9 25 (1.35%) HP ALM
10 22 (1.19%) IBM Guardium
10 22 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
11 21 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
12 20 (1.08%) Consul
13 16 (0.86%) Packer
14 14 (0.76%) Puppet
15 12 (0.65%) SCCM
16 10 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
17 9 (0.49%) NetBackup
18 7 (0.38%) Argo
19 6 (0.32%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 233 (12.57%) Microsoft
2 200 (10.79%) ServiceNow
3 150 (8.09%) Oracle
4 132 (7.12%) Atlassian
5 97 (5.23%) Salesforce
6 62 (3.34%) SAP
7 46 (2.48%) Remedy
8 45 (2.43%) Google
9 40 (2.16%) IBM
10 27 (1.46%) HP
10 27 (1.46%) Tenable
10 27 (1.46%) Workday
11 26 (1.40%) Red Hat
12 25 (1.35%) Splunk
13 24 (1.29%) Talend
14 23 (1.24%) BiZZdesign
15 21 (1.13%) Adobe
15 21 (1.13%) Databricks
16 20 (1.08%) Denodo
17 18 (0.97%) VMware