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 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 45 50
Rank change year-on-year +10 +5 -13
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,765 1,196 1,451
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.57% 4.49% 3.96%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.03% 33.43% 33.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,297 742 1,029
10th Percentile £313 £308 £356
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £533
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -8.54% -3.09%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £638
90th Percentile £700 £675 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 23 38
10th Percentile £15.74 £45.40 £39.06
25th Percentile £39.00 £54.66 £50.31
Median hourly rate £63.27 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.23% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.51 £69.39
90th Percentile £94.00 £70.75 £73.29
UK median hourly rate £63.40 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +1.44% +4.17% -5.88%

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 4,641 3,578 4,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.65% 13.42% 11.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,225 2,220 3,122
10th Percentile £335 £337 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £543
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.53% -5.65%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% -4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 66 203
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £45.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.16 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.75 £90.00
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 19 January 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 19 January 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 19 January 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 +7 799 £525 +5.00% 127
North of England +9 322 £455 -4.21% 136
Midlands +15 229 £450 -6.93% 134
South East +1 190 £475 +5.56% 230
West Midlands +11 170 £485 -1.02% 61
Yorkshire -3 164 £500 - 62
South West +15 145 £584 +7.11% 99
North West +5 138 £445 -1.11% 57
East Midlands +11 58 £358 -24.83% 70
East of England -10 46 £463 +12.12% 109
North East -2 19 £475 +5.56% 17
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
1 826 (46.80%) Confluence
2 103 (5.84%) SharePoint
3 44 (2.49%) SAS
4 34 (1.93%) nginx
5 22 (1.25%) CMS
6 13 (0.74%) Apache
6 13 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.57%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.40%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.34%) Mule
10 4 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.23%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.23%) WordPress
11 3 (0.17%) Drupal
11 3 (0.17%) IIS
11 3 (0.17%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.17%) SugarCRM
11 3 (0.17%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.17%) Traefik
12 2 (0.11%) Magnolia
Applications
1 181 (10.25%) Microsoft Project
2 157 (8.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 112 (6.35%) Microsoft Office
4 98 (5.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 73 (4.14%) MS Visio
6 31 (1.76%) Trello
7 9 (0.51%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 6 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
8 6 (0.34%) Photoshop
9 5 (0.28%) Notion
9 5 (0.28%) Sketch
10 4 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
10 4 (0.23%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.17%) InVision
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.11%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.11%) InDesign
13 1 (0.057%) CATIA
13 1 (0.057%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 18 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.96%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.45%) Fidessa
5 7 (0.40%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
5 7 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.40%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.34%) Loan IQ
6 6 (0.34%) Maximo
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.23%) Endur
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.23%) SAP HR
8 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.23%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 348 (19.72%) Azure
2 273 (15.47%) AWS
3 181 (10.25%) Azure DevOps
4 165 (9.35%) GitHub
5 122 (6.91%) Power Platform
6 88 (4.99%) GCP
7 68 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
8 47 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
8 47 (2.66%) Serverless
9 45 (2.55%) SaaS
10 35 (1.98%) Slack
11 32 (1.81%) Figma
12 31 (1.76%) Amazon S3
13 30 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
14 29 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
14 29 (1.64%) Power Automate
15 28 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
16 27 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
16 27 (1.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 26 (1.47%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 51 (2.89%) Firewall
2 33 (1.87%) DNS
3 30 (1.70%) SSH
4 23 (1.30%) HTTP
4 23 (1.30%) TCP/IP
5 19 (1.08%) VPN
6 17 (0.96%) FTP
7 15 (0.85%) SMTP
8 13 (0.74%) SSL
9 12 (0.68%) WAN
10 9 (0.51%) IMAP
10 9 (0.51%) OpenLDAP
10 9 (0.51%) SD-WAN
11 8 (0.45%) Network Security
12 7 (0.40%) Ethernet
13 6 (0.34%) Modbus
13 6 (0.34%) RS-232
13 6 (0.34%) RS-485
14 5 (0.28%) Kerberos
14 5 (0.28%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (6.23%) Power BI
2 64 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
3 63 (3.57%) Tableau
4 45 (2.55%) SQL Server
5 34 (1.93%) NoSQL
5 34 (1.93%) Pentaho
6 28 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
7 27 (1.53%) Relational Database
8 25 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
9 21 (1.19%) MongoDB
10 20 (1.13%) Big Data
11 19 (1.08%) Metadata
12 17 (0.96%) MySQL
13 16 (0.91%) Data Vault
13 16 (0.91%) Oracle Database
14 13 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
15 12 (0.68%) Hadoop
16 11 (0.62%) BigQuery
16 11 (0.62%) Star Schema
17 10 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 230 (13.03%) Jenkins
2 215 (12.18%) Git
3 104 (5.89%) GitLab
4 76 (4.31%) Selenium
5 63 (3.57%) Postman
6 59 (3.34%) Bitbucket
7 51 (2.89%) Cucumber
8 35 (1.98%) Sonatype Nexus
8 35 (1.98%) TestRail
9 31 (1.76%) REST Assured
10 25 (1.42%) Zephyr
11 24 (1.36%) SonarQube
12 20 (1.13%) SpecFlow
13 18 (1.02%) JUnit
13 18 (1.02%) Maven
14 17 (0.96%) JMeter
15 14 (0.79%) Rational DOORS
15 14 (0.79%) Vagrant
16 13 (0.74%) Cypress.io
16 13 (0.74%) SoapUI
General
1 738 (41.81%) Social Skills
2 481 (27.25%) Finance
3 332 (18.81%) Analytical Skills
4 229 (12.97%) Banking
5 197 (11.16%) Public Sector
6 66 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
7 64 (3.63%) Retail
8 57 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
9 53 (3.00%) Military
10 42 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
11 39 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (2.04%) Investment Banking
13 32 (1.81%) Legal
14 25 (1.42%) Front Office
14 25 (1.42%) Marketing
15 24 (1.36%) Manufacturing
16 23 (1.30%) Telecoms
17 19 (1.08%) Retail Banking
18 14 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 13 (0.74%) Law
Job Titles
1 342 (19.38%) Analyst
2 227 (12.86%) Business Analyst
3 164 (9.29%) Developer
4 147 (8.33%) Project Manager
5 143 (8.10%) Lead
6 124 (7.03%) Senior
7 114 (6.46%) Architect
8 75 (4.25%) Tester
9 54 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
10 51 (2.89%) Consultant
11 49 (2.78%) Technical Analyst
12 45 (2.55%) Delivery Manager
13 44 (2.49%) Software Engineer
13 44 (2.49%) Technical Business Analyst
14 42 (2.38%) Data Engineer
14 42 (2.38%) Test Engineer
15 40 (2.27%) DevOps Engineer
16 38 (2.15%) Product Owner
16 38 (2.15%) Test Analyst
17 37 (2.10%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (8.61%) REST
2 63 (3.57%) .NET
3 60 (3.40%) SOAP
4 52 (2.95%) HTML
5 47 (2.66%) React
5 47 (2.66%) XML
6 43 (2.44%) Kafka
7 42 (2.38%) RESTful
8 41 (2.32%) JSON
9 39 (2.21%) CSS
9 39 (2.21%) Playwright
10 37 (2.10%) Spring
11 33 (1.87%) Oracle Fusion
12 32 (1.81%) Node.js
13 31 (1.76%) AngularJS
13 31 (1.76%) LDAP
14 27 (1.53%) Spring Boot
15 26 (1.47%) OAuth
16 21 (1.19%) RabbitMQ
17 20 (1.13%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 223 (12.63%) Product Ownership
2 82 (4.65%) Onboarding
3 66 (3.74%) Cloud Native
4 44 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
5 40 (2.27%) Management Information System
6 36 (2.04%) PMI
7 35 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
8 29 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
8 29 (1.64%) Data Structures
9 24 (1.36%) CMDB
10 23 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (1.30%) Virtual Team
11 21 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
11 21 (1.19%) Mobile App
11 21 (1.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 19 (1.08%) Replication
13 17 (0.96%) Public Cloud
14 15 (0.85%) Tandem
15 13 (0.74%) PKI
15 13 (0.74%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 130 (7.37%) Windows
2 109 (6.18%) Linux
3 35 (1.98%) Unix
4 19 (1.08%) Android
5 18 (1.02%) VMS
6 14 (0.79%) Amazon Linux
7 13 (0.74%) Windows Server
8 12 (0.68%) Windows 10
9 11 (0.62%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.51%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.40%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
13 4 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.11%) Solaris
15 2 (0.11%) zOS
16 1 (0.057%) MVS
16 1 (0.057%) Windows Embedded Compact
16 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,074 (60.85%) Agile
2 526 (29.80%) DevOps
3 445 (25.21%) Stakeholder Management
4 418 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
5 409 (23.17%) Scrum
6 344 (19.49%) CI/CD
7 291 (16.49%) Project Management
8 272 (15.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 272 (15.41%) Test Automation
9 242 (13.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 201 (11.39%) User Stories
11 187 (10.59%) Project Delivery
12 182 (10.31%) User Acceptance Testing
13 178 (10.08%) Analytics
14 174 (9.86%) Change Management
15 170 (9.63%) Migration
16 159 (9.01%) Acceptance Criteria
17 157 (8.90%) Business Intelligence
18 147 (8.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
19 146 (8.27%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 305 (17.28%) SQL
2 240 (13.60%) Python
3 156 (8.84%) Java
4 118 (6.69%) JavaScript
5 80 (4.53%) PowerShell
6 62 (3.51%) C#
7 47 (2.66%) TypeScript
8 41 (2.32%) Bash
9 30 (1.70%) C++
9 30 (1.70%) Go
10 20 (1.13%) Groovy
11 19 (1.08%) Embedded C++
12 16 (0.91%) PL/SQL
13 15 (0.85%) Apex Code
14 14 (0.79%) PHP
14 14 (0.79%) Shell Script
15 13 (0.74%) Perl
16 12 (0.68%) C
17 11 (0.62%) Ruby
18 10 (0.57%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 462 (26.18%) Security Cleared
2 391 (22.15%) SC Cleared
3 265 (15.01%) Degree
4 91 (5.16%) PMI Certification
5 75 (4.25%) PMP
6 55 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 51 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 50 (2.83%) ISTQB
9 42 (2.38%) CISSP
9 42 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
10 38 (2.15%) DV Cleared
11 32 (1.81%) CISM
11 32 (1.81%) Master's Degree
12 29 (1.64%) AWS Certification
13 26 (1.47%) CBAP
14 20 (1.13%) Azure Certification
14 20 (1.13%) ISEB
15 18 (1.02%) Oracle Certification
16 17 (0.96%) IIBA
17 15 (0.85%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (12.07%) QA
2 104 (5.89%) PMO
3 79 (4.48%) Data Quality
4 54 (3.06%) Accessibility
5 45 (2.55%) GDPR
6 26 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (1.47%) NIST
7 22 (1.25%) PSD2
8 21 (1.19%) ISO 20022
9 18 (1.02%) SEPA
10 17 (0.96%) WCAG
11 13 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 13 (0.74%) SLA
12 12 (0.68%) GRC
13 10 (0.57%) Basel III
14 9 (0.51%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.45%) NCSC
15 8 (0.45%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.45%) P3O
16 7 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 191 (10.82%) Docker
2 49 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.79%) DFS Replication
6 11 (0.62%) Firmware
7 10 (0.57%) Squid
8 9 (0.51%) Dovecot
8 9 (0.51%) Postfix
9 7 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
11 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 4 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
14 2 (0.11%) KVM
14 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
14 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
15 1 (0.057%) etcd
15 1 (0.057%) SRDF
15 1 (0.057%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 163 (9.24%) Kubernetes
2 96 (5.44%) Terraform
3 76 (4.31%) Ansible
4 45 (2.55%) Grafana
5 34 (1.93%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.70%) OPNET
7 23 (1.30%) HP ALM
8 20 (1.13%) Nessus
9 17 (0.96%) Control-M
10 16 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
11 14 (0.79%) NetBackup
11 14 (0.79%) Packer
12 13 (0.74%) Puppet
13 12 (0.68%) Consul
14 11 (0.62%) IBM Guardium
14 11 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
15 10 (0.57%) SCCM
16 9 (0.51%) Proxmox
17 7 (0.40%) Argo
18 6 (0.34%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 210 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 197 (11.16%) ServiceNow
3 160 (9.07%) Oracle
4 116 (6.57%) Atlassian
5 92 (5.21%) Salesforce
6 65 (3.68%) SAP
7 48 (2.72%) Google
8 47 (2.66%) Remedy
9 38 (2.15%) IBM
10 37 (2.10%) Talend
11 33 (1.87%) Denodo
12 29 (1.64%) HP
13 21 (1.19%) Databricks
13 21 (1.19%) Splunk
14 20 (1.13%) BiZZdesign
14 20 (1.13%) VMware
15 18 (1.02%) Adobe
15 18 (1.02%) Red Hat
15 18 (1.02%) Workday
16 16 (0.91%) Cisco