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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 44 51
Rank change year-on-year +9 +7 -11
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,854 1,200 1,419
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.46% 4.60% 3.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.76% 34.05% 32.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,336 730 1,005
10th Percentile £313 £313 £344
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £620
90th Percentile £700 £675 £735
UK median daily rate £495 £485 £513
% change year-on-year +2.06% -5.37% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 23 45
10th Percentile £15.71 £45.40 £31.43
25th Percentile £32.65 £52.98 £45.00
Median hourly rate £63.40 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £70.75 £75.92
UK median hourly rate £63.40 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +1.44% +13.64% -15.38%

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 4,783 3,524 4,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.08% 13.51% 11.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,292 2,200 3,077
10th Percentile £340 £340 £363
25th Percentile £409 £412 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -4.67% -6.96%
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 132 60 198
10th Percentile £39.00 £27.38 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.11 £50.00
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 £76.21
90th Percentile £81.10 £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 12 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 12 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 12 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 +8 824 £525 +5.00% 140
North of England +9 349 £450 -0.88% 77
Midlands +8 235 £428 -10.22% 98
South East -8 202 £478 +0.53% 159
Yorkshire -4 186 £480 -2.64% 35
West Midlands +3 170 £473 -0.94% 72
South West +18 150 £575 +2.22% 59
North West +17 147 £430 -4.44% 38
East Midlands +12 63 £347 -30.60% 26
East of England -15 57 £425 +3.85% 36
North East -6 16 £438 -2.78% 6
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
1 871 (46.98%) Confluence
2 113 (6.09%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.89%) nginx
4 31 (1.67%) SAS
5 24 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
6 23 (1.24%) CMS
7 12 (0.65%) Apache
8 11 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.32%) Ethereum
10 6 (0.32%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.32%) WebSphere
11 5 (0.27%) WebLogic
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
13 3 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 197 (10.63%) Microsoft Project
2 173 (9.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 111 (5.99%) Microsoft Office
4 106 (5.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 75 (4.05%) MS Visio
6 26 (1.40%) Trello
7 6 (0.32%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 5 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.27%) Notion
8 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.27%) Sketch
8 5 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.22%) Chatbot
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%) Fidessa
4 10 (0.54%) Loan IQ
4 10 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 9 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
6 8 (0.43%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.43%) Maximo
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%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.22%) Endur
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 4 (0.22%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.22%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 365 (19.69%) Azure
2 273 (14.72%) AWS
3 193 (10.41%) Azure DevOps
4 167 (9.01%) GitHub
5 135 (7.28%) Power Platform
6 79 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
7 76 (4.10%) GCP
8 56 (3.02%) SaaS
9 46 (2.48%) GitHub Actions
10 44 (2.37%) Serverless
11 38 (2.05%) Entra ID
12 36 (1.94%) Figma
13 32 (1.73%) Amazon S3
14 31 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
14 31 (1.67%) Slack
15 30 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
16 28 (1.51%) Miro
17 27 (1.46%) Amazon EKS
17 27 (1.46%) Power Automate
17 27 (1.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.70%) Firewall
2 39 (2.10%) DNS
3 32 (1.73%) TCP/IP
4 28 (1.51%) VPN
5 22 (1.19%) HTTP
6 21 (1.13%) WAN
7 20 (1.08%) LAN
8 19 (1.02%) SSH
9 16 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (0.70%) FTP
10 13 (0.70%) Network Security
11 10 (0.54%) SD-WAN
12 9 (0.49%) Ethernet
12 9 (0.49%) SMTP
12 9 (0.49%) SSL
12 9 (0.49%) Unified Communications
13 8 (0.43%) DHCP
14 7 (0.38%) Modbus
14 7 (0.38%) RS-232
14 7 (0.38%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 115 (6.20%) Power BI
2 72 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
3 64 (3.45%) Tableau
4 50 (2.70%) SQL Server
5 38 (2.05%) NoSQL
6 32 (1.73%) MongoDB
7 29 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
8 22 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (1.19%) 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%) DynamoDB
13 11 (0.59%) Star Schema
14 10 (0.54%) BigQuery
14 10 (0.54%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 218 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 205 (11.06%) Git
3 115 (6.20%) GitLab
4 83 (4.48%) Selenium
5 70 (3.78%) Postman
6 59 (3.18%) Bitbucket
7 54 (2.91%) Cucumber
8 37 (2.00%) REST Assured
9 36 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
9 36 (1.94%) TestRail
10 35 (1.89%) SonarQube
11 30 (1.62%) JUnit
11 30 (1.62%) Zephyr
12 22 (1.19%) Maven
13 21 (1.13%) JMeter
14 17 (0.92%) SpecFlow
15 16 (0.86%) Cypress.io
16 13 (0.70%) Rational DOORS
16 13 (0.70%) SoapUI
17 11 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 766 (41.32%) Social Skills
2 526 (28.37%) Finance
3 361 (19.47%) Analytical Skills
4 237 (12.78%) Banking
5 196 (10.57%) Public Sector
6 67 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
7 66 (3.56%) Retail
8 65 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
9 54 (2.91%) Military
10 44 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
11 41 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
12 33 (1.78%) Investment Banking
13 30 (1.62%) Legal
14 28 (1.51%) Front Office
15 26 (1.40%) Telecoms
16 24 (1.29%) Manufacturing
17 23 (1.24%) Marketing
18 22 (1.19%) Retail Banking
19 17 (0.92%) Automotive
20 15 (0.81%) Law
Job Titles
1 382 (20.60%) Analyst
2 248 (13.38%) Business Analyst
3 180 (9.71%) Developer
4 150 (8.09%) Project Manager
5 142 (7.66%) Lead
6 128 (6.90%) Senior
7 126 (6.80%) Architect
8 81 (4.37%) Tester
9 56 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
10 54 (2.91%) Consultant
11 48 (2.59%) Delivery Manager
12 47 (2.54%) Test Analyst
12 47 (2.54%) Test Engineer
13 45 (2.43%) Technical Analyst
14 43 (2.32%) Scrum Master
15 42 (2.27%) Technical Business Analyst
16 40 (2.16%) Software Engineer
17 37 (2.00%) Senior Analyst
18 36 (1.94%) DevOps Engineer
19 35 (1.89%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (8.14%) REST
2 66 (3.56%) .NET
3 55 (2.97%) RESTful
4 50 (2.70%) SOAP
5 49 (2.64%) HTML
6 48 (2.59%) Spring
7 47 (2.54%) Kafka
8 46 (2.48%) React
9 45 (2.43%) XML
10 43 (2.32%) CSS
11 41 (2.21%) JSON
12 39 (2.10%) Playwright
12 39 (2.10%) Spring Boot
13 32 (1.73%) Oracle Fusion
14 31 (1.67%) AngularJS
14 31 (1.67%) Node.js
15 30 (1.62%) LDAP
16 26 (1.40%) OpenID
17 24 (1.29%) FastAPI
18 23 (1.24%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 228 (12.30%) Product Ownership
2 87 (4.69%) Onboarding
3 64 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 45 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
5 42 (2.27%) Management Information System
6 38 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
7 33 (1.78%) Virtual Team
8 29 (1.56%) Data Structures
8 29 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
8 29 (1.56%) PMI
9 28 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
10 25 (1.35%) Mobile App
11 22 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
12 21 (1.13%) CMDB
13 19 (1.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 15 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
14 15 (0.81%) Public Cloud
15 14 (0.76%) Tandem
16 13 (0.70%) Data Centre
16 13 (0.70%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 147 (7.93%) Windows
2 122 (6.58%) Linux
3 32 (1.73%) Unix
4 22 (1.19%) Android
5 20 (1.08%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.65%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.65%) VMS
6 12 (0.65%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.49%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.43%) Amazon Linux
8 8 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.38%) FreeRTOS
10 6 (0.32%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.054%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.054%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.054%) Windows Embedded Compact
12 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.054%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,113 (60.03%) Agile
2 509 (27.45%) DevOps
3 473 (25.51%) Stakeholder Management
4 448 (24.16%) Problem-Solving
5 413 (22.28%) Scrum
6 360 (19.42%) CI/CD
7 295 (15.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 286 (15.43%) Project Management
9 277 (14.94%) Test Automation
10 245 (13.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 204 (11.00%) User Stories
12 194 (10.46%) User Acceptance Testing
13 181 (9.76%) Migration
14 180 (9.71%) Project Delivery
15 172 (9.28%) Change Management
16 169 (9.12%) Acceptance Criteria
17 162 (8.74%) Roadmaps
18 161 (8.68%) Analytics
19 153 (8.25%) Decision-Making
20 151 (8.14%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 292 (15.75%) SQL
2 254 (13.70%) Python
3 172 (9.28%) Java
4 110 (5.93%) JavaScript
5 80 (4.31%) PowerShell
6 76 (4.10%) C#
7 56 (3.02%) TypeScript
8 35 (1.89%) Bash
9 32 (1.73%) C++
10 26 (1.40%) Go
11 20 (1.08%) Embedded C++
12 18 (0.97%) Shell Script
13 17 (0.92%) PL/SQL
14 14 (0.76%) Groovy
14 14 (0.76%) PHP
15 13 (0.70%) C
16 11 (0.59%) Ruby
17 10 (0.54%) Apex Code
17 10 (0.54%) Embedded C
18 9 (0.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 466 (25.13%) Security Cleared
2 377 (20.33%) SC Cleared
3 267 (14.40%) Degree
4 89 (4.80%) PMI Certification
5 77 (4.15%) PMP
6 65 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 61 (3.29%) ISTQB
8 47 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 46 (2.48%) DV Cleared
10 44 (2.37%) CISSP
10 44 (2.37%) TOGAF Certification
11 35 (1.89%) CISM
11 35 (1.89%) Master's Degree
12 32 (1.73%) AWS Certification
13 24 (1.29%) CBAP
14 22 (1.19%) ISEB
15 18 (0.97%) Azure Certification
16 17 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 17 (0.92%) Oracle Certification
17 16 (0.86%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (12.57%) QA
2 106 (5.72%) PMO
3 75 (4.05%) Data Quality
4 56 (3.02%) Accessibility
5 43 (2.32%) GDPR
6 28 (1.51%) NIST
7 22 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 22 (1.19%) PSD2
8 20 (1.08%) WCAG
9 19 (1.02%) ISO 20022
10 17 (0.92%) SLA
11 16 (0.86%) SEPA
12 13 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.65%) GRC
14 11 (0.59%) Basel III
14 11 (0.59%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.43%) NCSC
15 8 (0.43%) NIST 800
16 5 (0.27%) P3O
System Software
1 183 (9.87%) Docker
2 60 (3.24%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.70%) Squid
6 9 (0.49%) Firmware
7 8 (0.43%) DFS Replication
7 8 (0.43%) Postfix
8 7 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
8 7 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.32%) Dovecot
10 5 (0.27%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.054%) etcd
13 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
13 1 (0.054%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.054%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
13 1 (0.054%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 166 (8.95%) Kubernetes
2 94 (5.07%) Terraform
3 74 (3.99%) Ansible
4 61 (3.29%) Grafana
5 46 (2.48%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.62%) OPNET
7 27 (1.46%) Control-M
7 27 (1.46%) Nessus
8 26 (1.40%) HP ALM
9 21 (1.13%) IBM Guardium
9 21 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
9 21 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
10 20 (1.08%) Consul
11 16 (0.86%) Packer
12 12 (0.65%) Puppet
13 11 (0.59%) SCCM
14 10 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
15 9 (0.49%) NetBackup
16 7 (0.38%) Argo
17 6 (0.32%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 231 (12.46%) Microsoft
2 196 (10.57%) ServiceNow
3 153 (8.25%) Oracle
4 131 (7.07%) Atlassian
5 96 (5.18%) Salesforce
6 62 (3.34%) SAP
7 46 (2.48%) Google
8 45 (2.43%) Remedy
9 36 (1.94%) IBM
10 28 (1.51%) HP
11 27 (1.46%) Workday
12 26 (1.40%) Splunk
12 26 (1.40%) Tenable
13 24 (1.29%) Red Hat
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