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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 32 41
Rank change year-on-year -16 +9 +7
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,016 1,627 1,426
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.33% 5.82% 4.35%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.07% 38.76% 32.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,297 1,149 916
10th Percentile £350 £313 £321
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £511
Median % change year-on-year - -2.06% -4.40%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £606
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £492 £500
% change year-on-year +1.63% -1.65% -4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 41 69
10th Percentile £19.25 £42.50 £25.99
25th Percentile £24.71 £50.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £60.41 £57.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.05% -17.86% +12.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.00 -
90th Percentile £80.50 £83.00 -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +4.55% -21.43% +12.00%

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 5,296 4,198 4,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.38% 15.03% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,350 2,905 2,797
10th Percentile £352 £325 £350
25th Percentile £416 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £631
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 94 169
10th Percentile £24.19 £42.33 £37.39
25th Percentile £51.25 £51.81 £54.36
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.17 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.23 £76.75 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -12 951 £538 +2.38% 824
North of England -15 347 £493 +5.01% 246
Midlands -9 248 £467 -1.68% 126
West Midlands -9 215 £470 -1.08% 88
Yorkshire -6 209 £500 +4.44% 83
South East -45 199 £460 -1.18% 289
South West +6 144 £525 -3.45% 128
North West -42 117 £475 +7.95% 134
East of England -6 83 £461 +13.48% 128
East Midlands -17 32 £405 +13.13% 38
North East -34 28 £515 -0.96% 30
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
1 900 (44.64%) Confluence
2 103 (5.11%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 24 (1.19%) SAS
5 22 (1.09%) CMS
6 10 (0.50%) Camunda
7 9 (0.45%) Apache
7 9 (0.45%) nginx
8 5 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 5 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.25%) CICS
8 5 (0.25%) IIS
8 5 (0.25%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.25%) MTS
9 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.20%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.20%) Traefik
9 4 (0.20%) WordPress
10 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 140 (6.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 111 (5.51%) Microsoft Project
3 74 (3.67%) MS Visio
4 61 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 59 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
6 20 (0.99%) Trello
7 15 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.50%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.40%) Revit
10 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.25%) Notion
11 4 (0.20%) Windchill
12 2 (0.099%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.099%) Gliffy
12 2 (0.099%) Mingle
12 2 (0.099%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.050%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.050%) CATIA
13 1 (0.050%) Mozilla Thunderbird
13 1 (0.050%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 35 (1.74%) Remedy ITSM
2 21 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
3 12 (0.60%) Workday HCM
4 11 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.45%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 6 (0.30%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.25%) Fidessa
7 5 (0.25%) ResourceLink
7 5 (0.25%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.20%) Findur
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.20%) SAP FI-AR
8 4 (0.20%) SAP HCM
9 3 (0.15%) Maximo
9 3 (0.15%) SAP CRM
9 3 (0.15%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 480 (23.81%) Azure
2 319 (15.82%) AWS
3 265 (13.14%) Azure DevOps
4 171 (8.48%) Power Platform
5 160 (7.94%) GitHub
6 103 (5.11%) GCP
7 95 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
8 70 (3.47%) SaaS
9 59 (2.93%) Serverless
10 57 (2.83%) Amazon S3
10 57 (2.83%) Entra ID
11 51 (2.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 46 (2.28%) GitHub Actions
13 43 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
13 43 (2.13%) Miro
14 37 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
15 35 (1.74%) Microsoft Copilot
16 33 (1.64%) Smartsheet
17 30 (1.49%) Snowflake
18 26 (1.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 77 (3.82%) Firewall
2 73 (3.62%) DNS
3 46 (2.28%) TCP/IP
4 35 (1.74%) DHCP
5 33 (1.64%) VPN
6 24 (1.19%) Network Security
7 22 (1.09%) WAN
8 21 (1.04%) BIG-IP
9 17 (0.84%) SSL
9 17 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (0.79%) IPv4
10 16 (0.79%) IPv6
11 15 (0.74%) Broadband
11 15 (0.74%) SAN
12 14 (0.69%) VLAN
13 13 (0.64%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 13 (0.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 12 (0.60%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.50%) LAN
15 10 (0.50%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (7.54%) Power BI
2 91 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
3 72 (3.57%) SQL Server
4 59 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (1.93%) Oracle Reports
6 38 (1.88%) Relational Database
7 27 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
9 21 (1.04%) Metadata
9 21 (1.04%) MongoDB
10 20 (0.99%) Data Lake
10 20 (0.99%) Oracle Database
11 19 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 18 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
13 17 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
14 16 (0.79%) Tableau
15 15 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 14 (0.69%) Power Query
17 13 (0.64%) MySQL
17 13 (0.64%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 251 (12.45%) Git
2 170 (8.43%) Jenkins
3 120 (5.95%) GitLab
4 76 (3.77%) Zephyr
5 72 (3.57%) Selenium
6 62 (3.08%) Bitbucket
7 61 (3.03%) Postman
8 35 (1.74%) JUnit
9 29 (1.44%) Sonatype Nexus
10 28 (1.39%) Cucumber
11 27 (1.34%) JMeter
12 26 (1.29%) Maven
13 25 (1.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 25 (1.24%) REST Assured
14 24 (1.19%) Cypress.io
15 22 (1.09%) Mockito
16 21 (1.04%) SonarQube
17 20 (0.99%) Rational Rhapsody
17 20 (0.99%) TestRail
18 17 (0.84%) Artifactory
General
1 799 (39.63%) Social Skills
2 575 (28.52%) Finance
3 393 (19.49%) Analytical Skills
4 276 (13.69%) Banking
5 234 (11.61%) Public Sector
6 88 (4.37%) Organisational Skills
7 77 (3.82%) Retail
8 64 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
9 54 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
10 50 (2.48%) Investment Banking
11 44 (2.18%) Manufacturing
12 43 (2.13%) Telecoms
13 39 (1.93%) Legal
14 38 (1.88%) Front Office
14 38 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 35 (1.74%) Marketing
16 26 (1.29%) Retail Banking
17 21 (1.04%) Military
18 20 (0.99%) Financial Institution
18 20 (0.99%) Law
Job Titles
1 345 (17.11%) Analyst
2 223 (11.06%) Lead
3 206 (10.22%) Business Analyst
4 194 (9.62%) Developer
5 172 (8.53%) Senior
6 103 (5.11%) Project Manager
7 77 (3.82%) Consultant
7 77 (3.82%) Delivery Manager
8 75 (3.72%) Scrum Master
9 72 (3.57%) Architect
10 66 (3.27%) Tester
11 51 (2.53%) Data Engineer
12 49 (2.43%) Administrator
12 49 (2.43%) Product Owner
13 48 (2.38%) Test Leader
14 47 (2.33%) Test Analyst
15 45 (2.23%) Support Engineer
16 40 (1.98%) Product Manager
16 40 (1.98%) Test Engineer
17 38 (1.88%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (7.19%) REST
2 131 (6.50%) Terraform
3 73 (3.62%) .NET
4 59 (2.93%) HTML
5 55 (2.73%) RESTful
6 52 (2.58%) SOAP
7 48 (2.38%) JSON
7 48 (2.38%) React
8 47 (2.33%) AngularJS
9 42 (2.08%) CSS
9 42 (2.08%) Web Services
10 40 (1.98%) Kafka
11 39 (1.93%) Spring
12 38 (1.88%) Playwright
12 38 (1.88%) Spring Boot
13 34 (1.69%) XML
14 31 (1.54%) Middleware
15 28 (1.39%) Node.js
16 26 (1.29%) Hibernate
16 26 (1.29%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 269 (13.34%) Product Ownership
2 139 (6.89%) Onboarding
3 89 (4.41%) Cloud Native
4 69 (3.42%) Data Centre
5 63 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
6 58 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
7 53 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
8 43 (2.13%) Virtual Team
9 40 (1.98%) Data Structures
10 38 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
11 35 (1.74%) Management Information System
12 28 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
13 25 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
14 23 (1.14%) Credit Risk
15 20 (0.99%) Derivative
15 20 (0.99%) Mobile App
15 20 (0.99%) SCADA
16 19 (0.94%) Replication
17 17 (0.84%) AI Agents
17 17 (0.84%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 143 (7.09%) Windows
2 131 (6.50%) Linux
3 41 (2.03%) Unix
4 29 (1.44%) Windows 10
5 22 (1.09%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.89%) Android
7 17 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 16 (0.79%) Mac OS
9 15 (0.74%) Windows Server
10 9 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
10 9 (0.45%) VMS
11 8 (0.40%) CentOS
11 8 (0.40%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.25%) zOS
13 4 (0.20%) AIX
13 4 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
14 3 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
15 2 (0.099%) MVS
15 2 (0.099%) Solaris
15 2 (0.099%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,186 (58.83%) Agile
2 659 (32.69%) Stakeholder Management
3 539 (26.74%) DevOps
4 440 (21.83%) Problem-Solving
5 433 (21.48%) Scrum
6 430 (21.33%) CI/CD
7 378 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 342 (16.96%) Test Automation
9 308 (15.28%) Migration
10 259 (12.85%) User Acceptance Testing
11 242 (12.00%) User Stories
12 237 (11.76%) Validation
13 236 (11.71%) AI
14 221 (10.96%) Sprint Planning
15 219 (10.86%) Project Management
15 219 (10.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 203 (10.07%) Project Delivery
17 202 (10.02%) SDLC
18 195 (9.67%) Acceptance Criteria
19 177 (8.78%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 361 (17.91%) SQL
2 263 (13.05%) Python
3 133 (6.60%) Java
4 96 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 72 (3.57%) TypeScript
6 71 (3.52%) PowerShell
7 67 (3.32%) C#
8 41 (2.03%) Bash
9 35 (1.74%) PL/SQL
10 23 (1.14%) C++
11 21 (1.04%) Groovy
12 16 (0.79%) Kotlin
13 15 (0.74%) Bicep
13 15 (0.74%) C
14 13 (0.64%) ActionScript
15 12 (0.60%) Apex Code
15 12 (0.60%) Perl
15 12 (0.60%) VBA
16 9 (0.45%) T-SQL
17 8 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 536 (26.59%) Security Cleared
2 410 (20.34%) SC Cleared
3 160 (7.94%) Degree
4 95 (4.71%) DV Cleared
5 91 (4.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 66 (3.27%) ISTQB
7 58 (2.88%) PMI Certification
8 46 (2.28%) PMP
9 28 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (1.29%) AWS Certification
11 22 (1.09%) CISSP
12 21 (1.04%) Azure Certification
12 21 (1.04%) Master's Degree
13 17 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
14 16 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 15 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 15 (0.74%) CISM
16 12 (0.60%) SAFe Agilist
17 11 (0.55%) IIBA
17 11 (0.55%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 271 (13.44%) QA
2 131 (6.50%) Data Quality
3 121 (6.00%) PMO
4 62 (3.08%) Accessibility
5 38 (1.88%) SLA
6 24 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (1.19%) WCAG
7 21 (1.04%) GRC
7 21 (1.04%) NIST
8 20 (0.99%) NCSC
9 19 (0.94%) GDPR
10 14 (0.69%) ISO 20022
11 9 (0.45%) COBIT
11 9 (0.45%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.45%) SEPA
12 6 (0.30%) JSP 440
13 5 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.25%) MiFID
13 5 (0.25%) P3O
13 5 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 127 (6.30%) Docker
2 106 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (0.50%) Firmware
6 8 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.25%) vSphere
9 4 (0.20%) Squid
10 2 (0.099%) DFS Replication
10 2 (0.099%) Dovecot
10 2 (0.099%) OpenAM
10 2 (0.099%) Postfix
10 2 (0.099%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.050%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.050%) NFS
11 1 (0.050%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.050%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.050%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 1 (0.050%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 115 (5.70%) Kubernetes
2 72 (3.57%) Ansible
3 53 (2.63%) Grafana
4 43 (2.13%) Prometheus
5 33 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (1.19%) HP ALM
7 17 (0.84%) Control-M
8 13 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.45%) Istio
9 9 (0.45%) Packer
10 8 (0.40%) Nessus
11 7 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.35%) Dell DRAC
11 7 (0.35%) SCCM
11 7 (0.35%) SCOM
12 6 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
12 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
13 5 (0.25%) Argo
13 5 (0.25%) IBM Guardium
13 5 (0.25%) Puppet
Vendors
1 305 (15.13%) Microsoft
2 231 (11.46%) ServiceNow
3 150 (7.44%) Oracle
4 94 (4.66%) SAP
5 83 (4.12%) Salesforce
6 72 (3.57%) Atlassian
7 64 (3.17%) Google
8 55 (2.73%) IBM
9 47 (2.33%) VMware
10 38 (1.88%) Remedy
11 36 (1.79%) Splunk
12 32 (1.59%) Denodo
13 26 (1.29%) Databricks
13 26 (1.29%) Talend
14 25 (1.24%) HP
15 24 (1.19%) F5
16 22 (1.09%) Adobe
16 22 (1.09%) Informatica
16 22 (1.09%) Workday
17 21 (1.04%) MuleSoft