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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 45 50
Rank change year-on-year +10 +5 -12
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,785 1,203 1,449
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.59% 4.47% 3.94%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.00% 33.49% 33.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,309 748 1,021
10th Percentile £313 £309 £358
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £489 £534
Median % change year-on-year +2.30% -8.47% -2.91%
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 4,697 3,592 4,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.70% 13.35% 11.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,262 2,235 3,095
10th Percentile £334 £340 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £639
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 67 203
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £45.88
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.63 £50.63
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 £75.65 £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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +6 808 £525 +5.00% 124
North of England +6 324 £455 -4.21% 140
Midlands +17 234 £450 -8.16% 128
South East 0 191 £475 +5.56% 222
West Midlands +11 175 £485 -2.02% 61
Yorkshire -4 163 £500 - 59
South West +12 146 £580 +8.41% 100
North West +8 141 £447 -0.67% 63
East Midlands +8 58 £358 -24.83% 65
East of England -15 46 £463 +13.01% 109
North East +1 19 £475 +5.56% 18
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
1 836 (46.83%) Confluence
2 105 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 44 (2.46%) SAS
4 34 (1.90%) nginx
5 22 (1.23%) CMS
6 13 (0.73%) Apache
6 13 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.39%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.34%) Mule
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.22%) WordPress
11 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.17%) CICS
11 3 (0.17%) Drupal
11 3 (0.17%) IIS
11 3 (0.17%) OpenStack
11 3 (0.17%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 182 (10.20%) Microsoft Project
2 156 (8.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 112 (6.27%) Microsoft Office
4 97 (5.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 74 (4.15%) MS Visio
6 32 (1.79%) Trello
7 9 (0.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 8 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
8 8 (0.45%) Photoshop
9 5 (0.28%) Notion
9 5 (0.28%) Sketch
10 4 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
10 4 (0.22%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.22%) 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 (0.056%) CATIA
13 1 (0.056%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 18 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.95%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.45%) Fidessa
5 7 (0.39%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
5 7 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.39%) 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 (0.22%) Endur
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.22%) SAP HR
8 4 (0.22%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.22%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 351 (19.66%) Azure
2 281 (15.74%) AWS
3 184 (10.31%) Azure DevOps
4 173 (9.69%) GitHub
5 126 (7.06%) Power Platform
6 88 (4.93%) GCP
7 68 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
8 53 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
8 53 (2.97%) Serverless
9 46 (2.58%) SaaS
10 37 (2.07%) Amazon S3
11 36 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
12 35 (1.96%) Slack
13 34 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
14 32 (1.79%) Figma
15 29 (1.62%) Amazon ECS
15 29 (1.62%) Power Automate
16 28 (1.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 27 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
17 27 (1.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 51 (2.86%) Firewall
2 33 (1.85%) DNS
3 30 (1.68%) SSH
4 23 (1.29%) HTTP
4 23 (1.29%) TCP/IP
5 19 (1.06%) VPN
6 17 (0.95%) FTP
7 15 (0.84%) SMTP
8 14 (0.78%) OpenLDAP
9 13 (0.73%) SSL
10 12 (0.67%) WAN
11 9 (0.50%) IMAP
11 9 (0.50%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.39%) Ethernet
12 7 (0.39%) Network Security
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
1 113 (6.33%) Power BI
2 65 (3.64%) Tableau
3 64 (3.59%) PostgreSQL
4 45 (2.52%) SQL Server
5 34 (1.90%) NoSQL
5 34 (1.90%) Pentaho
6 28 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
6 28 (1.57%) Relational Database
7 25 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
8 21 (1.18%) MongoDB
9 20 (1.12%) Big Data
10 19 (1.06%) Metadata
11 17 (0.95%) MySQL
12 16 (0.90%) Data Vault
12 16 (0.90%) Oracle Database
13 13 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (0.67%) Hadoop
15 11 (0.62%) BigQuery
15 11 (0.62%) Star Schema
16 10 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 235 (13.17%) Jenkins
2 223 (12.49%) Git
3 111 (6.22%) GitLab
4 77 (4.31%) Selenium
5 64 (3.59%) Postman
6 60 (3.36%) Bitbucket
7 51 (2.86%) Cucumber
8 35 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
8 35 (1.96%) TestRail
9 32 (1.79%) REST Assured
10 26 (1.46%) Zephyr
11 24 (1.34%) SonarQube
12 20 (1.12%) SpecFlow
13 18 (1.01%) JUnit
13 18 (1.01%) Maven
14 17 (0.95%) JMeter
14 17 (0.95%) Rational DOORS
15 14 (0.78%) Vagrant
16 13 (0.73%) Cypress.io
16 13 (0.73%) SoapUI
General
1 746 (41.79%) Social Skills
2 483 (27.06%) Finance
3 334 (18.71%) Analytical Skills
4 229 (12.83%) Banking
5 199 (11.15%) Public Sector
6 67 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
7 64 (3.59%) Retail
8 57 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
9 53 (2.97%) Military
10 42 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
11 39 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (2.02%) Investment Banking
13 32 (1.79%) Legal
14 27 (1.51%) Manufacturing
15 25 (1.40%) Front Office
15 25 (1.40%) Marketing
16 23 (1.29%) Telecoms
17 19 (1.06%) Retail Banking
18 14 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 14 (0.78%) Law
Job Titles
1 343 (19.22%) Analyst
2 226 (12.66%) Business Analyst
3 164 (9.19%) Developer
4 147 (8.24%) Project Manager
5 146 (8.18%) Lead
6 124 (6.95%) Senior
7 115 (6.44%) Architect
8 75 (4.20%) Tester
9 54 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
10 51 (2.86%) Consultant
11 49 (2.75%) Technical Analyst
12 47 (2.63%) Software Engineer
13 46 (2.58%) Delivery Manager
14 45 (2.52%) DevOps Engineer
15 44 (2.46%) Technical Business Analyst
16 42 (2.35%) Data Engineer
16 42 (2.35%) Test Engineer
17 38 (2.13%) Product Owner
17 38 (2.13%) Test Analyst
18 37 (2.07%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (8.85%) REST
2 65 (3.64%) .NET
3 61 (3.42%) SOAP
4 52 (2.91%) HTML
5 47 (2.63%) React
5 47 (2.63%) XML
6 44 (2.46%) Kafka
7 43 (2.41%) RESTful
8 42 (2.35%) JSON
9 40 (2.24%) Playwright
10 39 (2.18%) CSS
11 38 (2.13%) Spring
12 37 (2.07%) LDAP
13 33 (1.85%) Oracle Fusion
14 32 (1.79%) Node.js
15 31 (1.74%) AngularJS
16 28 (1.57%) Spring Boot
17 27 (1.51%) OAuth
18 21 (1.18%) RabbitMQ
19 20 (1.12%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 224 (12.55%) Product Ownership
2 84 (4.71%) Onboarding
3 66 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 44 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
5 40 (2.24%) Management Information System
6 35 (1.96%) PMI
6 35 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
7 29 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
7 29 (1.62%) Data Structures
8 23 (1.29%) CMDB
8 23 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (1.29%) Virtual Team
9 22 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
10 21 (1.18%) Mobile App
10 21 (1.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 20 (1.12%) Replication
12 17 (0.95%) Public Cloud
13 15 (0.84%) Tandem
14 13 (0.73%) PKI
14 13 (0.73%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 130 (7.28%) Windows
2 112 (6.27%) Linux
3 36 (2.02%) Unix
4 19 (1.06%) Android
5 18 (1.01%) VMS
6 14 (0.78%) Amazon Linux
7 13 (0.73%) Windows Server
8 12 (0.67%) Windows 10
9 11 (0.62%) Apple iOS
10 9 (0.50%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.39%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
13 4 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.17%) zOS
15 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.11%) Solaris
16 1 (0.056%) MVS
16 1 (0.056%) Windows Embedded Compact
16 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,089 (61.01%) Agile
2 538 (30.14%) DevOps
3 445 (24.93%) Stakeholder Management
4 420 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 413 (23.14%) Scrum
6 355 (19.89%) CI/CD
7 290 (16.25%) Project Management
8 275 (15.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 273 (15.29%) Test Automation
10 241 (13.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 200 (11.20%) User Stories
12 187 (10.48%) Project Delivery
13 181 (10.14%) User Acceptance Testing
14 178 (9.97%) Analytics
15 174 (9.75%) Migration
16 173 (9.69%) Change Management
17 160 (8.96%) Acceptance Criteria
17 160 (8.96%) Business Intelligence
18 150 (8.40%) Scaled Agile Framework
19 147 (8.24%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 306 (17.14%) SQL
2 248 (13.89%) Python
3 160 (8.96%) Java
4 118 (6.61%) JavaScript
5 81 (4.54%) PowerShell
6 62 (3.47%) C#
7 47 (2.63%) TypeScript
8 43 (2.41%) Bash
9 36 (2.02%) Go
10 32 (1.79%) C++
11 20 (1.12%) Groovy
12 19 (1.06%) Embedded C++
13 16 (0.90%) Apex Code
13 16 (0.90%) PL/SQL
14 14 (0.78%) PHP
14 14 (0.78%) Shell Script
15 13 (0.73%) Perl
16 12 (0.67%) C
17 11 (0.62%) Ruby
18 10 (0.56%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 471 (26.39%) Security Cleared
2 398 (22.30%) SC Cleared
3 264 (14.79%) Degree
4 90 (5.04%) PMI Certification
5 75 (4.20%) PMP
6 55 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 53 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 50 (2.80%) ISTQB
9 41 (2.30%) CISSP
9 41 (2.30%) TOGAF Certification
10 38 (2.13%) DV Cleared
11 32 (1.79%) Master's Degree
12 31 (1.74%) CISM
13 29 (1.62%) AWS Certification
14 26 (1.46%) CBAP
15 21 (1.18%) Azure Certification
16 20 (1.12%) ISEB
17 18 (1.01%) Oracle Certification
18 17 (0.95%) IIBA
19 15 (0.84%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 220 (12.32%) QA
2 104 (5.83%) PMO
3 79 (4.43%) Data Quality
4 53 (2.97%) Accessibility
5 45 (2.52%) GDPR
6 26 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 25 (1.40%) NIST
8 22 (1.23%) PSD2
9 21 (1.18%) ISO 20022
10 18 (1.01%) SEPA
11 17 (0.95%) WCAG
12 13 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 13 (0.73%) SLA
13 12 (0.67%) GRC
14 10 (0.56%) Basel III
15 9 (0.50%) PCI DSS
16 8 (0.45%) NCSC
16 8 (0.45%) NIST 800
16 8 (0.45%) P3O
17 7 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 193 (10.81%) Docker
2 55 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.78%) DFS Replication
6 12 (0.67%) Firmware
7 10 (0.56%) Squid
8 9 (0.50%) Dovecot
8 9 (0.50%) Postfix
9 7 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
11 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 4 (0.22%) 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 (0.056%) etcd
15 1 (0.056%) SRDF
15 1 (0.056%) Xen
Systems Management
1 171 (9.58%) Kubernetes
2 99 (5.55%) Terraform
3 81 (4.54%) Ansible
4 45 (2.52%) Grafana
5 34 (1.90%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.68%) OPNET
7 23 (1.29%) HP ALM
8 20 (1.12%) Nessus
9 17 (0.95%) Control-M
10 16 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
11 14 (0.78%) NetBackup
11 14 (0.78%) Packer
12 13 (0.73%) Puppet
13 12 (0.67%) Consul
14 11 (0.62%) IBM Guardium
14 11 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
15 10 (0.56%) SCCM
16 9 (0.50%) Proxmox
17 7 (0.39%) Argo
18 6 (0.34%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 212 (11.88%) Microsoft
2 197 (11.04%) ServiceNow
3 160 (8.96%) Oracle
4 121 (6.78%) Atlassian
5 94 (5.27%) Salesforce
6 67 (3.75%) SAP
7 49 (2.75%) Google
8 47 (2.63%) Remedy
9 39 (2.18%) IBM
10 37 (2.07%) Talend
11 33 (1.85%) Denodo
12 29 (1.62%) HP
13 21 (1.18%) Databricks
13 21 (1.18%) Splunk
14 20 (1.12%) VMware
15 19 (1.06%) BiZZdesign
16 18 (1.01%) Adobe
16 18 (1.01%) Red Hat
16 18 (1.01%) Workday
17 16 (0.90%) Cisco