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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 39 53
Rank change year-on-year +2 +14 -9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,057 1,234 1,335
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.20% 5.03% 3.61%
As % of the Development Applications category 41.21% 36.98% 31.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,434 805 907
10th Percentile £313 £317 £346
25th Percentile £395 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £630
90th Percentile £695 £688 £756
UK median daily rate £485 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -1.02% -6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 24 57
10th Percentile £18.75 £48.60 £21.40
25th Percentile £27.41 £54.38 £33.00
Median hourly rate £63.32 £59.13 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +7.09% +28.87% -31.20%
75th Percentile £71.88 £69.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.50 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £59.13 £42.97
% change year-on-year +9.94% +37.60% -35.56%

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 4,992 3,337 4,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.62% 13.61% 11.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,339 2,244 2,884
10th Percentile £340 £340 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £531
Median % change year-on-year - -5.84% -3.45%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 62 168
10th Percentile £39.53 £27.54 £31.71
25th Percentile £60.00 £52.05 £50.44
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +6.25%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.19 £70.31
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.67 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +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 21 April 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 21 April 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 21 April 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 +7 911 £500 - 184
North of England +1 380 £450 - 102
Midlands +3 306 £425 -10.53% 60
West Midlands 0 241 £450 -5.26% 44
South East -25 193 £475 -5.00% 116
Yorkshire -10 183 £450 -10.00% 44
North West +7 180 £447 +5.18% 48
South West +10 161 £575 +3.60% 41
East of England +3 66 £425 -6.85% 36
East Midlands -1 62 £379 -20.32% 16
North East -2 20 £463 -9.76% 11
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
1 926 (45.02%) Confluence
2 107 (5.20%) SharePoint
3 36 (1.75%) SAS
4 32 (1.56%) nginx
5 28 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 18 (0.88%) Apache
7 15 (0.73%) CMS
8 9 (0.44%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.39%) WebLogic
10 6 (0.29%) Ethereum
10 6 (0.29%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.29%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.24%) JBoss
11 5 (0.24%) Mattermost
12 4 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.15%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 221 (10.74%) Microsoft Project
2 186 (9.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 105 (5.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 102 (4.96%) Microsoft Office
5 92 (4.47%) MS Visio
6 22 (1.07%) Trello
7 9 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.34%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.24%) Sketch
10 4 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.19%) Notion
10 4 (0.19%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.15%) InVision
12 2 (0.097%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.097%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.097%) CATIA
12 2 (0.097%) Revit
13 1 (0.049%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 25 (1.22%) Remedy ITSM
2 24 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.78%) NetSuite
4 15 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
5 13 (0.63%) Loan IQ
6 10 (0.49%) Aladdin
6 10 (0.49%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.39%) Fidessa
8 6 (0.29%) Maximo
8 6 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
8 6 (0.29%) SAP MDG
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.19%) Findur
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 4 (0.19%) SAP EWM
10 4 (0.19%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.19%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 425 (20.66%) Azure
2 314 (15.26%) AWS
3 240 (11.67%) Azure DevOps
4 163 (7.92%) GitHub
5 141 (6.85%) Power Platform
6 77 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
7 75 (3.65%) GCP
7 75 (3.65%) SaaS
8 69 (3.35%) Entra ID
9 59 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
10 47 (2.28%) Serverless
11 46 (2.24%) Amazon S3
12 37 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
13 36 (1.75%) Figma
14 35 (1.70%) Miro
15 33 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
16 31 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
17 30 (1.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 26 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 26 (1.26%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (2.97%) Firewall
2 43 (2.09%) DNS
3 40 (1.94%) TCP/IP
4 28 (1.36%) LAN
5 25 (1.22%) Network Security
5 25 (1.22%) VPN
5 25 (1.22%) WAN
6 19 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
7 18 (0.88%) SSL
8 16 (0.78%) HTTP
9 15 (0.73%) DHCP
10 13 (0.63%) SAN
11 12 (0.58%) Internet
12 11 (0.53%) BIG-IP
12 11 (0.53%) SD-WAN
13 10 (0.49%) Ethernet
13 10 (0.49%) FTP
13 10 (0.49%) NAS
13 10 (0.49%) Unified Communications
14 7 (0.34%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (5.83%) Power BI
2 75 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
3 73 (3.55%) Data Warehouse
4 58 (2.82%) Tableau
5 53 (2.58%) SQL Server
6 40 (1.94%) MongoDB
7 36 (1.75%) NoSQL
7 36 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
8 23 (1.12%) Relational Database
9 21 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
10 20 (0.97%) Pentaho
11 19 (0.92%) DynamoDB
12 17 (0.83%) Metadata
12 17 (0.83%) MySQL
13 15 (0.73%) Big Data
14 13 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
14 13 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
14 13 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 12 (0.58%) Oracle Database
16 10 (0.49%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 263 (12.79%) Git
2 197 (9.58%) Jenkins
3 107 (5.20%) GitLab
4 104 (5.06%) Selenium
5 80 (3.89%) Postman
6 63 (3.06%) Cucumber
7 62 (3.01%) Zephyr
8 57 (2.77%) Bitbucket
9 51 (2.48%) JUnit
10 38 (1.85%) JMeter
11 37 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
12 34 (1.65%) REST Assured
12 34 (1.65%) TestRail
13 25 (1.22%) SonarQube
14 20 (0.97%) WebDriver
15 19 (0.92%) Cypress.io
16 17 (0.83%) Maven
17 15 (0.73%) Appium
18 13 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 13 (0.63%) SpecFlow
General
1 828 (40.25%) Social Skills
2 584 (28.39%) Finance
3 407 (19.79%) Analytical Skills
4 255 (12.40%) Banking
5 231 (11.23%) Public Sector
6 75 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
7 72 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
8 68 (3.31%) Retail
9 57 (2.77%) Military
10 43 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
11 37 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (1.75%) Manufacturing
13 33 (1.60%) Legal
14 31 (1.51%) Investment Banking
15 26 (1.26%) Front Office
16 24 (1.17%) Retail Banking
17 21 (1.02%) Marketing
18 20 (0.97%) Telecoms
19 19 (0.92%) Law
20 17 (0.83%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 404 (19.64%) Analyst
2 255 (12.40%) Business Analyst
3 181 (8.80%) Developer
4 162 (7.88%) Lead
5 153 (7.44%) Senior
6 145 (7.05%) Project Manager
7 115 (5.59%) Architect
8 102 (4.96%) Tester
9 87 (4.23%) Delivery Manager
10 64 (3.11%) Scrum Master
11 57 (2.77%) Consultant
11 57 (2.77%) Data Engineer
12 56 (2.72%) Test Analyst
13 54 (2.63%) Test Engineer
14 49 (2.38%) IT Support
14 49 (2.38%) Support Engineer
15 44 (2.14%) Technical Manager
16 43 (2.09%) Software Engineer
17 42 (2.04%) Test Leader
18 41 (1.99%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (5.83%) REST
2 63 (3.06%) Spring
3 60 (2.92%) .NET
4 57 (2.77%) React
5 46 (2.24%) Kafka
6 43 (2.09%) HTML
7 42 (2.04%) JSON
8 41 (1.99%) RESTful
8 41 (1.99%) Spring Boot
9 38 (1.85%) XML
10 37 (1.80%) CSS
11 35 (1.70%) Playwright
12 31 (1.51%) SOAP
13 29 (1.41%) ADO
13 29 (1.41%) OpenID
13 29 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
14 27 (1.31%) LDAP
15 26 (1.26%) AngularJS
15 26 (1.26%) Middleware
15 26 (1.26%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 250 (12.15%) Product Ownership
2 91 (4.42%) Onboarding
3 74 (3.60%) Cloud Native
4 47 (2.28%) Management Information System
5 43 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
5 43 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
6 42 (2.04%) Virtual Team
7 38 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
8 33 (1.60%) Data Centre
9 30 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
10 27 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
11 24 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
12 22 (1.07%) Data Structures
13 21 (1.02%) Mobile App
13 21 (1.02%) PMI
14 16 (0.78%) Public Cloud
15 13 (0.63%) Distributed Architecture
15 13 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 13 (0.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 12 (0.58%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 162 (7.88%) Windows
2 138 (6.71%) Linux
3 30 (1.46%) Unix
4 19 (0.92%) Android
4 19 (0.92%) Windows 10
5 11 (0.53%) Mac OS
5 11 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.49%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.39%) FreeRTOS
8 3 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
9 2 (0.097%) Oracle Linux
9 2 (0.097%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.049%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,193 (58.00%) Agile
2 544 (26.45%) DevOps
3 503 (24.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 464 (22.56%) Problem-Solving
5 422 (20.52%) Scrum
6 392 (19.06%) CI/CD
7 372 (18.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 327 (15.90%) Test Automation
9 298 (14.49%) Project Management
10 260 (12.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 234 (11.38%) Migration
12 225 (10.94%) User Acceptance Testing
13 208 (10.11%) User Stories
14 206 (10.01%) Change Management
15 197 (9.58%) Project Delivery
16 186 (9.04%) ITIL
16 186 (9.04%) Validation
17 180 (8.75%) Acceptance Criteria
18 171 (8.31%) Sprint Planning
19 170 (8.26%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 320 (15.56%) SQL
2 237 (11.52%) Python
3 192 (9.33%) Java
4 103 (5.01%) JavaScript
5 87 (4.23%) C#
6 71 (3.45%) PowerShell
7 61 (2.97%) TypeScript
8 42 (2.04%) Bash
9 30 (1.46%) C++
10 24 (1.17%) Shell Script
11 19 (0.92%) PL/SQL
12 17 (0.83%) C
13 16 (0.78%) Perl
14 14 (0.68%) Embedded C++
15 13 (0.63%) Apex Code
16 12 (0.58%) Go
16 12 (0.58%) VBA
17 10 (0.49%) Embedded C
18 7 (0.34%) Groovy
18 7 (0.34%) PHP
Qualifications
1 573 (27.86%) Security Cleared
2 449 (21.83%) SC Cleared
3 243 (11.81%) Degree
4 77 (3.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 73 (3.55%) ISTQB
5 73 (3.55%) PMI Certification
6 68 (3.31%) PMP
7 58 (2.82%) DV Cleared
8 37 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 36 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
10 30 (1.46%) CISSP
11 27 (1.31%) Master's Degree
12 24 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (1.02%) Azure Certification
13 21 (1.02%) CISM
14 20 (0.97%) AWS Certification
14 20 (0.97%) IIBA
15 18 (0.88%) CBAP
15 18 (0.88%) ISEB
16 17 (0.83%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 267 (12.98%) QA
2 120 (5.83%) PMO
3 100 (4.86%) Data Quality
4 51 (2.48%) GDPR
5 46 (2.24%) Accessibility
6 29 (1.41%) NIST
7 28 (1.36%) SLA
8 20 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 18 (0.88%) GRC
9 18 (0.88%) WCAG
10 12 (0.58%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.58%) PSD2
11 11 (0.53%) Basel III
11 11 (0.53%) ISO 20022
12 9 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.34%) SEPA
14 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.29%) NCSC
14 6 (0.29%) NIST 800
System Software
1 169 (8.22%) Docker
2 96 (4.67%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.68%) Firmware
5 9 (0.44%) Squid
5 9 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
7 5 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.15%) HDFS
9 2 (0.097%) Postfix
9 2 (0.097%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.097%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.049%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.049%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.049%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 182 (8.85%) Kubernetes
2 118 (5.74%) Terraform
3 86 (4.18%) Ansible
4 63 (3.06%) Grafana
5 48 (2.33%) Prometheus
6 34 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.46%) OPNET
8 26 (1.26%) HP ALM
9 24 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
10 23 (1.12%) Consul
10 23 (1.12%) Control-M
11 17 (0.83%) Nessus
12 16 (0.78%) IBM Guardium
12 16 (0.78%) Puppet
13 15 (0.73%) Packer
14 11 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
15 10 (0.49%) SCCM
16 8 (0.39%) FortiGate
16 8 (0.39%) HP Quality Center
17 7 (0.34%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 255 (12.40%) ServiceNow
2 246 (11.96%) Microsoft
3 175 (8.51%) Oracle
4 145 (7.05%) Atlassian
5 102 (4.96%) Salesforce
6 77 (3.74%) SAP
7 63 (3.06%) Remedy
8 49 (2.38%) Google
9 34 (1.65%) Workday
10 33 (1.60%) Splunk
11 30 (1.46%) Talend
12 28 (1.36%) HP
12 28 (1.36%) IBM
13 27 (1.31%) Red Hat
14 25 (1.22%) Databricks
15 23 (1.12%) Denodo
15 23 (1.12%) VMware
16 20 (0.97%) Adobe
16 20 (0.97%) MuleSoft
16 20 (0.97%) Tenable