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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 44 50
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 -8
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,960 1,181 1,443
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.53% 4.59% 3.85%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.47% 34.35% 32.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,404 740 1,008
10th Percentile £313 £313 £340
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 £746
UK median daily rate £494 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -1.25% -3.85% -3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 21 55
10th Percentile £15.74 £47.00 £23.20
25th Percentile £25.00 £55.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.57 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £71.25 £75.92
UK median hourly rate £63.40 £62.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year +1.44% +36.22% -28.03%

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 4,966 3,438 4,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.01% 13.37% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,401 2,192 3,076
10th Percentile £342 £331 £363
25th Percentile £409 £410 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -5.14% -6.96%
75th Percentile £588 £636 £638
90th Percentile £695 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 59 202
10th Percentile £36.46 £27.25 £37.50
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.62 £47.19
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 £83.00 £80.00 £88.31
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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +8 872 £520 +4.00% 131
North of England +14 353 £450 -5.26% 79
Midlands +8 279 £426 -13.06% 65
West Midlands +5 214 £450 -6.93% 50
South East -4 194 £478 -4.50% 141
Yorkshire -6 191 £480 -4.95% 39
South West +18 164 £575 +0.88% 59
North West +22 148 £431 -4.33% 34
East Midlands +7 63 £358 -26.94% 15
East of England -13 61 £425 - 33
North East -11 14 £363 -19.80% 8
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
1 934 (47.65%) Confluence
2 118 (6.02%) SharePoint
3 42 (2.14%) SAS
4 34 (1.73%) nginx
5 24 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
6 22 (1.12%) CMS
7 13 (0.66%) Apache
8 11 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
9 8 (0.41%) WebLogic
10 7 (0.36%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.31%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.31%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.31%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.26%) Mattermost
13 4 (0.20%) IIS
13 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.15%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.15%) Drupal
14 3 (0.15%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 208 (10.61%) Microsoft Project
2 179 (9.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 105 (5.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 104 (5.31%) Microsoft Office
5 77 (3.93%) MS Visio
6 25 (1.28%) Trello
7 6 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.26%) Notion
8 5 (0.26%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.26%) Sketch
9 4 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.15%) InVision
10 3 (0.15%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.10%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.10%) CATIA
11 2 (0.10%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 17 (0.87%) NetSuite
1 17 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 11 (0.56%) Workday HCM
3 10 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.51%) Fidessa
3 10 (0.51%) Loan IQ
4 8 (0.41%) Maximo
4 8 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 7 (0.36%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
7 5 (0.26%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.20%) Endur
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
8 4 (0.20%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 386 (19.69%) Azure
2 304 (15.51%) AWS
3 203 (10.36%) Azure DevOps
4 178 (9.08%) GitHub
5 136 (6.94%) Power Platform
6 86 (4.39%) GCP
7 80 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
8 59 (3.01%) SaaS
9 54 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
10 48 (2.45%) Entra ID
11 44 (2.24%) Serverless
12 35 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
12 35 (1.79%) Amazon S3
13 32 (1.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 31 (1.58%) Figma
15 29 (1.48%) Amazon EKS
15 29 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
16 27 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
16 27 (1.38%) Slack
17 25 (1.28%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 48 (2.45%) Firewall
2 36 (1.84%) DNS
3 33 (1.68%) TCP/IP
4 29 (1.48%) VPN
5 21 (1.07%) WAN
6 19 (0.97%) HTTP
6 19 (0.97%) LAN
7 15 (0.77%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (0.71%) SSH
9 13 (0.66%) Network Security
10 11 (0.56%) FTP
11 10 (0.51%) SD-WAN
12 9 (0.46%) DHCP
12 9 (0.46%) Ethernet
13 8 (0.41%) SSL
13 8 (0.41%) Unified Communications
14 7 (0.36%) BIG-IP
14 7 (0.36%) Modbus
14 7 (0.36%) OpenVPN
14 7 (0.36%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (5.82%) Power BI
2 82 (4.18%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (3.06%) Tableau
4 54 (2.76%) SQL Server
5 50 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
6 38 (1.94%) MongoDB
7 37 (1.89%) NoSQL
8 29 (1.48%) Pentaho
9 25 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
10 23 (1.17%) Oracle Reports
11 21 (1.07%) Oracle Database
12 20 (1.02%) MySQL
12 20 (1.02%) Relational Database
13 19 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
13 19 (0.97%) Metadata
14 18 (0.92%) Big Data
15 13 (0.66%) Data Vault
15 13 (0.66%) Hadoop
16 11 (0.56%) DynamoDB
16 11 (0.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 244 (12.45%) Git
2 233 (11.89%) Jenkins
3 117 (5.97%) GitLab
4 86 (4.39%) Selenium
5 79 (4.03%) Postman
6 65 (3.32%) Cucumber
7 57 (2.91%) Bitbucket
8 49 (2.50%) JUnit
9 41 (2.09%) Zephyr
10 38 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
11 34 (1.73%) JMeter
12 33 (1.68%) REST Assured
13 32 (1.63%) TestRail
14 31 (1.58%) SonarQube
15 20 (1.02%) Maven
16 17 (0.87%) Cypress.io
16 17 (0.87%) SpecFlow
17 15 (0.77%) WebDriver
18 14 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
19 12 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 813 (41.48%) Social Skills
2 547 (27.91%) Finance
3 376 (19.18%) Analytical Skills
4 236 (12.04%) Banking
5 202 (10.31%) Public Sector
6 77 (3.93%) Organisational Skills
7 72 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
8 67 (3.42%) Retail
9 54 (2.76%) Military
10 48 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
11 47 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
12 32 (1.63%) Legal
13 30 (1.53%) Investment Banking
13 30 (1.53%) Manufacturing
14 25 (1.28%) Telecoms
15 22 (1.12%) Front Office
15 22 (1.12%) Marketing
16 20 (1.02%) Retail Banking
17 16 (0.82%) Law
18 15 (0.77%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 404 (20.61%) Analyst
2 255 (13.01%) Business Analyst
3 184 (9.39%) Developer
4 153 (7.81%) Project Manager
5 150 (7.65%) Lead
6 134 (6.84%) Senior
7 125 (6.38%) Architect
8 96 (4.90%) Tester
9 58 (2.96%) Consultant
10 57 (2.91%) Delivery Manager
11 52 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
12 51 (2.60%) Data Engineer
12 51 (2.60%) Test Analyst
13 50 (2.55%) Test Engineer
14 47 (2.40%) Technical Analyst
15 45 (2.30%) Scrum Master
16 44 (2.24%) Software Engineer
16 44 (2.24%) Technical Business Analyst
17 41 (2.09%) Technical Manager
18 39 (1.99%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (7.24%) REST
2 61 (3.11%) .NET
3 60 (3.06%) Spring
4 50 (2.55%) Kafka
5 49 (2.50%) XML
6 47 (2.40%) JSON
7 45 (2.30%) HTML
7 45 (2.30%) React
7 45 (2.30%) RESTful
8 44 (2.24%) Playwright
8 44 (2.24%) SOAP
9 40 (2.04%) CSS
9 40 (2.04%) Spring Boot
10 32 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
11 28 (1.43%) OpenID
12 27 (1.38%) LDAP
12 27 (1.38%) Node.js
13 25 (1.28%) FastAPI
14 24 (1.22%) ADO
14 24 (1.22%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 223 (11.38%) Product Ownership
2 83 (4.23%) Onboarding
3 73 (3.72%) Cloud Native
4 49 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
6 39 (1.99%) Virtual Team
7 35 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
8 33 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
9 29 (1.48%) PMI
10 28 (1.43%) Data Structures
11 25 (1.28%) Mobile App
12 23 (1.17%) Public Cloud
13 22 (1.12%) Data Centre
13 22 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
14 20 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
15 19 (0.97%) CMDB
16 15 (0.77%) Tandem
17 14 (0.71%) Security Posture
17 14 (0.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 150 (7.65%) Windows
2 133 (6.79%) Linux
3 35 (1.79%) Unix
4 21 (1.07%) Android
4 21 (1.07%) Windows 10
5 13 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.41%) VMS
10 7 (0.36%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.15%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.051%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.051%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.051%) Windows Embedded Compact
13 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.051%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,164 (59.39%) Agile
2 532 (27.14%) DevOps
3 493 (25.15%) Stakeholder Management
4 461 (23.52%) Problem-Solving
5 419 (21.38%) Scrum
6 401 (20.46%) CI/CD
7 340 (17.35%) Continuous Improvement
8 310 (15.82%) Test Automation
9 294 (15.00%) Project Management
10 249 (12.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 204 (10.41%) Migration
12 200 (10.20%) User Stories
13 192 (9.80%) Project Delivery
14 188 (9.59%) User Acceptance Testing
15 186 (9.49%) Change Management
16 169 (8.62%) Decision-Making
17 165 (8.42%) Roadmaps
18 164 (8.37%) Acceptance Criteria
18 164 (8.37%) Analytics
19 160 (8.16%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 302 (15.41%) SQL
2 263 (13.42%) Python
3 184 (9.39%) Java
4 102 (5.20%) JavaScript
5 83 (4.23%) C#
5 83 (4.23%) PowerShell
6 54 (2.76%) TypeScript
7 41 (2.09%) Bash
8 33 (1.68%) C++
9 24 (1.22%) Go
9 24 (1.22%) Shell Script
10 20 (1.02%) Embedded C++
11 18 (0.92%) PL/SQL
12 14 (0.71%) C
13 13 (0.66%) PHP
14 11 (0.56%) Perl
14 11 (0.56%) Ruby
15 10 (0.51%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.51%) Embedded C
16 8 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 524 (26.73%) Security Cleared
2 426 (21.73%) SC Cleared
3 265 (13.52%) Degree
4 91 (4.64%) PMI Certification
5 80 (4.08%) PMP
6 65 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 64 (3.27%) ISTQB
8 52 (2.65%) DV Cleared
9 50 (2.55%) CISSP
10 49 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
11 44 (2.24%) TOGAF Certification
12 41 (2.09%) CISM
13 36 (1.84%) Master's Degree
14 30 (1.53%) AWS Certification
15 23 (1.17%) CBAP
15 23 (1.17%) ISEB
16 19 (0.97%) Azure Certification
17 18 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
17 18 (0.92%) IIBA
17 18 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (12.19%) QA
2 116 (5.92%) PMO
3 86 (4.39%) Data Quality
4 51 (2.60%) Accessibility
5 45 (2.30%) GDPR
6 31 (1.58%) NIST
7 25 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 21 (1.07%) WCAG
9 19 (0.97%) SLA
10 15 (0.77%) PSD2
11 13 (0.66%) ISO 20022
12 12 (0.61%) GRC
13 11 (0.56%) Basel III
13 11 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.56%) SEPA
14 9 (0.46%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.41%) NIST 800
16 7 (0.36%) NCSC
17 6 (0.31%) HIPAA
System Software
1 197 (10.05%) Docker
2 72 (3.67%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.56%) Squid
6 9 (0.46%) Firmware
7 8 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
9 5 (0.26%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.26%) Postfix
10 4 (0.20%) DFS Replication
10 4 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.15%) Dovecot
11 3 (0.15%) HDFS
12 2 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.051%) etcd
13 1 (0.051%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
13 1 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.051%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 198 (10.10%) Kubernetes
2 92 (4.69%) Terraform
3 87 (4.44%) Ansible
4 72 (3.67%) Grafana
5 54 (2.76%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.53%) OPNET
7 29 (1.48%) Control-M
8 26 (1.33%) Nessus
9 24 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
10 23 (1.17%) HP ALM
10 23 (1.17%) IBM Guardium
10 23 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
11 21 (1.07%) Consul
12 17 (0.87%) Puppet
13 16 (0.82%) Packer
14 13 (0.66%) SCCM
15 11 (0.56%) NetBackup
16 10 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
17 7 (0.36%) Argo
17 7 (0.36%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 239 (12.19%) Microsoft
2 211 (10.77%) ServiceNow
3 172 (8.78%) Oracle
4 136 (6.94%) Atlassian
5 105 (5.36%) Salesforce
6 66 (3.37%) SAP
7 52 (2.65%) Remedy
8 45 (2.30%) Google
9 38 (1.94%) IBM
10 35 (1.79%) Talend
11 30 (1.53%) Red Hat
12 29 (1.48%) Workday
13 28 (1.43%) Denodo
13 28 (1.43%) Tenable
14 27 (1.38%) Databricks
14 27 (1.38%) Splunk
15 24 (1.22%) HP
16 23 (1.17%) BiZZdesign
17 21 (1.07%) Adobe
18 20 (1.02%) VMware