JIRA Contracts in England

Atlassian JIRA
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring JIRA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JIRA over the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 46 47
Rank change year-on-year +14 +1 -13
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,503 1,482 2,108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 5.54% 4.01% 4.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.21% 32.37% 31.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,024 984 1,429
10th Percentile £325 £331 £325
25th Percentile £405 £423 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £638
90th Percentile £688 £701 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 97 59
10th Percentile £47.80 £25.28 £45.36
25th Percentile £50.00 £40.00 £53.25
Median hourly rate £57.75 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.15% +4.00% +17.70%
75th Percentile £70.16 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.25 - £75.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £61.00
% change year-on-year -8.33% -1.64% +19.02%

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 3,833 4,579 6,697
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.13% 12.40% 13.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,625 3,048 4,758
10th Percentile £328 £350 £363
25th Percentile £407 £425 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £631 £675
90th Percentile £700 £725 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 233 208
10th Percentile £30.05 £33.01 £46.18
25th Percentile £50.00 £52.50 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +15.21%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £74.89 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +15.47%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in England

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA in England.

Daily rate trend for JIRA in England

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in England over the 6 months to 11 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in England

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JIRA in England.

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in England

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in England over the 6 months to 11 July 2025.

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 11 July 2025. 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 +15 744 £520 -2.44% 578
North of England +17 261 £465 -7.00% 195
South East +18 187 £492 +9.33% 267
Midlands +36 138 £475 +5.56% 153
North West +12 135 £425 -15.63% 97
Yorkshire +30 115 £496 +3.39% 79
West Midlands +50 108 £475 -9.09% 105
South West -13 89 £564 +2.50% 120
East of England +13 48 £406 -22.62% 104
East Midlands -8 29 £449 +6.15% 47
North East +4 17 £544 -0.46% 20
JIRA
UK

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 621 (41.32%) Confluence
2 51 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.86%) Apache
4 27 (1.80%) CMS
5 26 (1.73%) JBoss
6 22 (1.46%) nginx
7 15 (1.00%) Apache Spark
7 15 (1.00%) Tomcat
8 14 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
9 10 (0.67%) Drupal
10 9 (0.60%) WordPress
11 7 (0.47%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.40%) Camunda
13 5 (0.33%) OpenStack
14 4 (0.27%) Headless CMS
14 4 (0.27%) Jupyter
14 4 (0.27%) Skype for Business
14 4 (0.27%) WebLogic
15 3 (0.20%) Oracle Coherence
15 3 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 92 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 85 (5.66%) Microsoft Office
3 80 (5.32%) Microsoft Project
4 51 (3.39%) MS Visio
5 39 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 39 (2.59%) Trello
6 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.20%) InVision
7 3 (0.20%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 2 (0.13%) Simulink
8 2 (0.13%) UserZoom
8 2 (0.13%) Windchill
9 1 (0.067%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.067%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.067%) CATIA
9 1 (0.067%) Notion
9 1 (0.067%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 16 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.27%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.27%) SAP PM
6 3 (0.20%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.20%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.20%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.20%) Shopify
6 3 (0.20%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.13%) Magento
7 2 (0.13%) MultiFonds
7 2 (0.13%) Primavera
7 2 (0.13%) SAP PLM
7 2 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 290 (19.29%) AWS
2 251 (16.70%) Azure
3 106 (7.05%) Azure DevOps
4 93 (6.19%) GitHub
5 84 (5.59%) Power Platform
6 78 (5.19%) GCP
7 42 (2.79%) Serverless
8 41 (2.73%) SaaS
9 36 (2.40%) Microsoft 365
10 35 (2.33%) Amazon S3
11 30 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 30 (2.00%) IaaS
11 30 (2.00%) OpenShift
12 29 (1.93%) Miro
13 22 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
13 22 (1.46%) Slack
14 21 (1.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 21 (1.40%) Asana
15 20 (1.33%) PaaS
16 19 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 57 (3.79%) DNS
2 52 (3.46%) Firewall
3 32 (2.13%) HTTP
3 32 (2.13%) VPN
4 19 (1.26%) DHCP
5 16 (1.06%) SSL
5 16 (1.06%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.00%) SMTP
6 15 (1.00%) SSH
7 14 (0.93%) Network Security
7 14 (0.93%) SAN
8 12 (0.80%) BGP
9 11 (0.73%) Unified Communications
10 10 (0.67%) MPLS
10 10 (0.67%) VLAN
11 8 (0.53%) Cisco ISE
11 8 (0.53%) IPsec
12 7 (0.47%) FTP
12 7 (0.47%) SNMP
12 7 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (4.66%) Power BI
2 55 (3.66%) SQL Server
3 51 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
4 41 (2.73%) Relational Database
5 36 (2.40%) NoSQL
6 32 (2.13%) Tableau
7 30 (2.00%) Big Data
8 29 (1.93%) MySQL
9 28 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
9 28 (1.86%) Elasticsearch
10 21 (1.40%) MongoDB
10 21 (1.40%) Oracle Database
11 20 (1.33%) Data Lake
12 17 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
13 16 (1.06%) BigQuery
13 16 (1.06%) RDBMS
14 11 (0.73%) Delta Lake
15 10 (0.67%) Hadoop
15 10 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 8 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 230 (15.30%) Git
2 181 (12.04%) Jenkins
3 90 (5.99%) GitLab
4 86 (5.72%) Selenium
5 71 (4.72%) Bitbucket
6 54 (3.59%) Postman
7 49 (3.26%) Cucumber
8 46 (3.06%) JUnit
9 41 (2.73%) SonarQube
10 40 (2.66%) Maven
11 39 (2.59%) REST Assured
12 34 (2.26%) Sonatype Nexus
13 32 (2.13%) SoapUI
14 29 (1.93%) Visual Studio
15 28 (1.86%) TeamCity
16 27 (1.80%) Gradle
16 27 (1.80%) Zephyr
17 26 (1.73%) Subversion
18 25 (1.66%) Cypress.io
19 24 (1.60%) ScriptRunner
General
1 613 (40.79%) Social Skills
2 361 (24.02%) Finance
3 260 (17.30%) Analytical Skills
4 160 (10.65%) Banking
5 110 (7.32%) Public Sector
6 45 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
7 39 (2.59%) Front Office
8 35 (2.33%) Retail
9 34 (2.26%) Marketing
10 28 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
11 26 (1.73%) Legal
11 26 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
12 23 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
13 22 (1.46%) Investment Banking
14 20 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 19 (1.26%) Law
16 18 (1.20%) Telecoms
17 17 (1.13%) Automotive
17 17 (1.13%) Back Office
17 17 (1.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 261 (17.37%) Analyst
2 201 (13.37%) Developer
3 154 (10.25%) Business Analyst
4 137 (9.12%) Senior
5 131 (8.72%) Project Manager
6 86 (5.72%) Lead
7 67 (4.46%) Tester
8 55 (3.66%) Architect
9 52 (3.46%) Delivery Manager
10 48 (3.19%) Consultant
10 48 (3.19%) Test Analyst
11 44 (2.93%) Software Engineer
12 41 (2.73%) Administrator
13 39 (2.59%) Java Developer
14 37 (2.46%) DevOps Engineer
15 36 (2.40%) Test Engineer
16 34 (2.26%) Test Manager
17 31 (2.06%) Product Owner
17 31 (2.06%) Technical Manager
18 28 (1.86%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (9.18%) REST
2 92 (6.12%) AngularJS
3 72 (4.79%) HTML
4 71 (4.72%) SOAP
5 70 (4.66%) .NET
6 64 (4.26%) React
7 63 (4.19%) CSS
8 60 (3.99%) Spring Boot
9 55 (3.66%) Kafka
10 51 (3.39%) RESTful
11 50 (3.33%) Web Services
12 42 (2.79%) Spring
13 38 (2.53%) Node.js
14 37 (2.46%) XML
15 29 (1.93%) JSON
16 21 (1.40%) Hibernate
17 20 (1.33%) HTML5
17 20 (1.33%) Middleware
17 20 (1.33%) Playwright
17 20 (1.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 134 (8.92%) Product Ownership
2 41 (2.73%) Onboarding
3 36 (2.40%) Data Centre
4 31 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
5 30 (2.00%) Management Information System
5 30 (2.00%) Virtual Team
6 29 (1.93%) SCADA
7 27 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
7 27 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
8 26 (1.73%) Data Structures
9 25 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
10 21 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
10 21 (1.40%) Mobile App
11 19 (1.26%) Cloud Native
12 18 (1.20%) PKI
13 17 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 15 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
15 14 (0.93%) Algorithms
16 13 (0.86%) Fixed Income
16 13 (0.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 145 (9.65%) Linux
2 136 (9.05%) Windows
3 50 (3.33%) Unix
4 29 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 27 (1.80%) Windows Server
6 17 (1.13%) Android
7 15 (1.00%) Apple iOS
8 14 (0.93%) CentOS
8 14 (0.93%) VMS
9 11 (0.73%) Mac OS
9 11 (0.73%) Ubuntu
9 11 (0.73%) Windows 10
10 9 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
11 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2003
11 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.27%) Debian
12 4 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
13 3 (0.20%) zOS
14 1 (0.067%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 900 (59.88%) Agile
2 344 (22.89%) Scrum
3 335 (22.29%) Problem-Solving
4 313 (20.83%) DevOps
5 257 (17.10%) Project Management
6 230 (15.30%) Stakeholder Management
7 218 (14.50%) CI/CD
8 216 (14.37%) Test Automation
9 191 (12.71%) Migration
10 148 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 143 (9.51%) Microservices
12 132 (8.78%) User Stories
13 129 (8.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 121 (8.05%) Validation
15 119 (7.92%) Waterfall
16 115 (7.65%) SDLC
17 111 (7.39%) Decision-Making
17 111 (7.39%) User Acceptance Testing
18 109 (7.25%) Service Management
19 107 (7.12%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 257 (17.10%) SQL
2 223 (14.84%) Java
3 206 (13.71%) Python
4 134 (8.92%) JavaScript
5 86 (5.72%) C#
6 66 (4.39%) TypeScript
7 65 (4.32%) PowerShell
8 51 (3.39%) Bash
9 42 (2.79%) Groovy
10 37 (2.46%) Shell Script
11 29 (1.93%) Perl
12 27 (1.80%) C++
13 25 (1.66%) PL/SQL
14 18 (1.20%) Go
15 14 (0.93%) Scala
16 9 (0.60%) Kotlin
17 8 (0.53%) Bicep
17 8 (0.53%) PHP
17 8 (0.53%) Ruby
17 8 (0.53%) VB
Qualifications
1 295 (19.63%) Security Cleared
2 261 (17.37%) SC Cleared
3 196 (13.04%) Degree
4 57 (3.79%) PMI Certification
5 53 (3.53%) PMP
6 43 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 32 (2.13%) ISTQB
8 27 (1.80%) CISSP
8 27 (1.80%) DV Cleared
9 25 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (1.53%) Master's Degree
11 22 (1.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 17 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
13 16 (1.06%) CISM
14 15 (1.00%) CCNP
15 13 (0.86%) CBAP
15 13 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
15 13 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
16 12 (0.80%) AWS Certification
17 10 (0.67%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (10.45%) QA
2 40 (2.66%) GDPR
2 40 (2.66%) PMO
3 31 (2.06%) Accessibility
4 27 (1.80%) Data Quality
4 27 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (1.40%) NIST
6 19 (1.26%) PCI DSS
7 16 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 10 (0.67%) SLA
9 9 (0.60%) COBIT
9 9 (0.60%) MiFID
10 7 (0.47%) EMIR
10 7 (0.47%) ISO 20022
10 7 (0.47%) SEPA
11 6 (0.40%) NIST 800
12 5 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 5 (0.33%) WCAG
13 4 (0.27%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 119 (7.92%) Docker
2 58 (3.86%) Active Directory
3 44 (2.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
5 13 (0.86%) Hyper-V
6 12 (0.80%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.53%) Firmware
8 8 (0.53%) vSphere
9 7 (0.47%) DFS Replication
10 6 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (0.33%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 5 (0.33%) VirtualBox
12 4 (0.27%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 3 (0.20%) Dovecot
13 3 (0.20%) Lustre
13 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.20%) Postfix
13 3 (0.20%) Squid
13 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 119 (7.92%) Kubernetes
2 97 (6.45%) Terraform
3 85 (5.66%) Ansible
4 37 (2.46%) Progress Chef
5 29 (1.93%) HP ALM
6 28 (1.86%) Puppet
7 23 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (1.40%) Grafana
8 21 (1.40%) vCenter Server
9 19 (1.26%) Prometheus
10 16 (1.06%) Packer
10 16 (1.06%) Podman
11 15 (1.00%) Consul
11 15 (1.00%) Kibana
12 11 (0.73%) Tivoli
13 9 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
14 8 (0.53%) FortiGate
15 6 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
15 6 (0.40%) RSA Archer
15 6 (0.40%) Salt
Vendors
1 206 (13.71%) Microsoft
2 155 (10.31%) ServiceNow
3 140 (9.31%) Oracle
4 112 (7.45%) Atlassian
5 66 (4.39%) Google
6 60 (3.99%) VMware
7 53 (3.53%) Cisco
8 49 (3.26%) Salesforce
9 42 (2.79%) SAP
10 40 (2.66%) HP
11 38 (2.53%) Splunk
12 30 (2.00%) Red Hat
13 23 (1.53%) IBM
14 21 (1.40%) CA Agile Central
15 17 (1.13%) AppDynamics
15 17 (1.13%) CheckPoint
15 17 (1.13%) Citrix
16 15 (1.00%) MuleSoft
17 14 (0.93%) Dell
18 13 (0.86%) SolarWinds