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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 44 50
Rank change year-on-year +9 +6 -12
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,770 1,202 1,433
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.57% 4.46% 4.00%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.90% 33.30% 33.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,288 752 1,011
10th Percentile £313 £308 £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 £590 £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 36 23 36
10th Percentile £15.74 £45.40 £38.44
25th Percentile £41.44 £54.66 £50.94
Median hourly rate £65.20 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.32% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £71.07 £67.51 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.32 £70.75 £74.21
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +7.20% +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 4,670 3,610 4,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.70% 13.39% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,229 2,254 3,037
10th Percentile £333 £336 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £516 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.01% -6.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £501 £538
% change year-on-year -0.15% -6.84% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 65 193
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £44.85
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.00 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £81.65 £75.85 £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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +9 796 £525 +5.00% 132
North of England +9 317 £458 -3.68% 154
Midlands +18 233 £450 -8.16% 123
South East -2 192 £475 +5.56% 225
West Midlands +15 175 £485 -2.51% 62
Yorkshire -4 162 £496 +0.61% 68
South West +8 146 £580 +5.94% 88
North West +9 136 £447 -0.67% 67
East Midlands +10 57 £358 -24.83% 61
East of England -12 50 £463 +13.92% 106
North East 0 18 £475 +5.56% 20
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
1 827 (46.72%) Confluence
2 108 (6.10%) SharePoint
3 44 (2.49%) SAS
4 34 (1.92%) nginx
5 22 (1.24%) CMS
6 13 (0.73%) Apache
6 13 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.40%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.34%) Mule
10 4 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.23%) WebLogic
10 4 (0.23%) WordPress
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
1 179 (10.11%) Microsoft Project
2 153 (8.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 113 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
4 94 (5.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 75 (4.24%) MS Visio
6 32 (1.81%) Trello
7 9 (0.51%) 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 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
10 4 (0.23%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.23%) 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 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.96%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.45%) Fidessa
4 8 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.40%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.40%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.34%) Maximo
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
7 5 (0.28%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.23%) Endur
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.23%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 343 (19.38%) Azure
2 274 (15.48%) AWS
3 179 (10.11%) Azure DevOps
4 172 (9.72%) GitHub
5 126 (7.12%) Power Platform
6 87 (4.92%) GCP
7 70 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
8 55 (3.11%) GitHub Actions
9 53 (2.99%) Serverless
10 46 (2.60%) SaaS
11 37 (2.09%) Amazon EC2
11 37 (2.09%) Amazon S3
12 35 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
12 35 (1.98%) Slack
13 32 (1.81%) Figma
14 29 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 29 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
14 29 (1.64%) Power Automate
15 28 (1.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 27 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 54 (3.05%) Firewall
2 37 (2.09%) DNS
3 33 (1.86%) SSH
4 25 (1.41%) TCP/IP
5 24 (1.36%) HTTP
6 21 (1.19%) VPN
7 18 (1.02%) FTP
8 16 (0.90%) SMTP
9 14 (0.79%) OpenLDAP
10 13 (0.73%) SSL
11 11 (0.62%) WAN
12 9 (0.51%) IMAP
12 9 (0.51%) SD-WAN
13 7 (0.40%) Ethernet
14 6 (0.34%) DHCP
14 6 (0.34%) LAN
14 6 (0.34%) Modbus
14 6 (0.34%) RS-232
14 6 (0.34%) RS-485
15 5 (0.28%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (6.38%) Power BI
2 64 (3.62%) Tableau
3 62 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
4 41 (2.32%) SQL Server
5 34 (1.92%) Pentaho
6 31 (1.75%) NoSQL
7 28 (1.58%) Relational Database
8 26 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
9 20 (1.13%) Big Data
9 20 (1.13%) Metadata
9 20 (1.13%) MongoDB
10 17 (0.96%) MySQL
11 16 (0.90%) Oracle Database
12 13 (0.73%) Data Vault
13 12 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (0.68%) Hadoop
14 11 (0.62%) BigQuery
14 11 (0.62%) Star Schema
15 10 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 230 (12.99%) Jenkins
2 220 (12.43%) Git
3 110 (6.21%) GitLab
4 75 (4.24%) Selenium
5 64 (3.62%) Postman
6 61 (3.45%) Bitbucket
7 49 (2.77%) Cucumber
8 35 (1.98%) TestRail
9 33 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
10 29 (1.64%) REST Assured
11 25 (1.41%) Zephyr
12 24 (1.36%) SonarQube
13 19 (1.07%) SpecFlow
14 18 (1.02%) JUnit
15 17 (0.96%) JMeter
15 17 (0.96%) Maven
15 17 (0.96%) Rational DOORS
16 15 (0.85%) Vagrant
17 13 (0.73%) Cypress.io
18 12 (0.68%) SoapUI
General
1 739 (41.75%) Social Skills
2 470 (26.55%) Finance
3 336 (18.98%) Analytical Skills
4 225 (12.71%) Banking
5 198 (11.19%) Public Sector
6 70 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
7 64 (3.62%) Retail
8 55 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
9 53 (2.99%) Military
10 41 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
11 38 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
12 34 (1.92%) Investment Banking
13 32 (1.81%) Legal
14 26 (1.47%) Manufacturing
15 25 (1.41%) Front Office
16 24 (1.36%) Marketing
17 23 (1.30%) Telecoms
18 18 (1.02%) Retail Banking
19 14 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 14 (0.79%) Law
Job Titles
1 339 (19.15%) Analyst
2 221 (12.49%) Business Analyst
3 161 (9.10%) Developer
4 144 (8.14%) Project Manager
5 142 (8.02%) Lead
6 121 (6.84%) Senior
7 110 (6.21%) Architect
8 74 (4.18%) Tester
9 51 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
10 50 (2.82%) Consultant
11 48 (2.71%) Software Engineer
12 47 (2.66%) Technical Analyst
13 46 (2.60%) Delivery Manager
13 46 (2.60%) DevOps Engineer
14 42 (2.37%) Technical Business Analyst
14 42 (2.37%) Test Engineer
15 38 (2.15%) Data Engineer
15 38 (2.15%) Scrum Master
15 38 (2.15%) Test Analyst
16 36 (2.03%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 154 (8.70%) REST
2 65 (3.67%) .NET
3 61 (3.45%) SOAP
4 53 (2.99%) HTML
5 50 (2.82%) React
6 46 (2.60%) XML
7 43 (2.43%) Kafka
8 42 (2.37%) JSON
8 42 (2.37%) RESTful
9 41 (2.32%) CSS
10 38 (2.15%) Playwright
11 37 (2.09%) LDAP
12 35 (1.98%) Spring
13 34 (1.92%) AngularJS
14 33 (1.86%) Node.js
14 33 (1.86%) Oracle Fusion
15 28 (1.58%) OAuth
16 25 (1.41%) Spring Boot
17 22 (1.24%) RabbitMQ
18 20 (1.13%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 218 (12.32%) Product Ownership
2 82 (4.63%) Onboarding
3 61 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 44 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
5 41 (2.32%) Management Information System
6 35 (1.98%) PMI
6 35 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
7 30 (1.69%) Data Structures
8 27 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
9 24 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
10 23 (1.30%) Virtual Team
11 22 (1.24%) CMDB
11 22 (1.24%) Replication
12 21 (1.19%) Mobile App
13 19 (1.07%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 15 (0.85%) Public Cloud
14 15 (0.85%) Tandem
15 13 (0.73%) PKI
16 11 (0.62%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 137 (7.74%) Windows
2 112 (6.33%) Linux
3 38 (2.15%) Unix
4 19 (1.07%) Android
4 19 (1.07%) VMS
5 15 (0.85%) Amazon Linux
6 13 (0.73%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.68%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.62%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.56%) Mac OS
10 9 (0.51%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
12 4 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.17%) zOS
14 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.11%) Solaris
15 1 (0.056%) MVS
15 1 (0.056%) Windows Embedded Compact
15 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,073 (60.62%) Agile
2 535 (30.23%) DevOps
3 438 (24.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 421 (23.79%) Problem-Solving
5 405 (22.88%) Scrum
6 352 (19.89%) CI/CD
7 287 (16.21%) Project Management
8 277 (15.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 265 (14.97%) Test Automation
10 239 (13.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 191 (10.79%) User Stories
12 179 (10.11%) Project Delivery
13 178 (10.06%) Analytics
14 176 (9.94%) Change Management
15 174 (9.83%) User Acceptance Testing
16 169 (9.55%) Migration
17 161 (9.10%) Business Intelligence
18 154 (8.70%) ITIL
19 153 (8.64%) Acceptance Criteria
20 144 (8.14%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 295 (16.67%) SQL
2 244 (13.79%) Python
3 157 (8.87%) Java
4 119 (6.72%) JavaScript
5 83 (4.69%) PowerShell
6 64 (3.62%) C#
7 49 (2.77%) TypeScript
8 42 (2.37%) Bash
9 36 (2.03%) Go
10 33 (1.86%) C++
11 21 (1.19%) Groovy
12 19 (1.07%) Embedded C++
13 16 (0.90%) Apex Code
13 16 (0.90%) PL/SQL
14 15 (0.85%) Perl
15 14 (0.79%) PHP
16 13 (0.73%) Shell Script
17 12 (0.68%) C
18 11 (0.62%) Ruby
19 10 (0.56%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 470 (26.55%) Security Cleared
2 399 (22.54%) SC Cleared
3 266 (15.03%) Degree
4 88 (4.97%) PMI Certification
5 73 (4.12%) PMP
6 54 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
7 49 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 48 (2.71%) ISTQB
9 41 (2.32%) TOGAF Certification
10 40 (2.26%) CISSP
11 36 (2.03%) DV Cleared
12 33 (1.86%) Master's Degree
13 30 (1.69%) CISM
14 27 (1.53%) AWS Certification
15 25 (1.41%) CBAP
16 20 (1.13%) Azure Certification
17 18 (1.02%) Oracle Certification
18 17 (0.96%) ISEB
19 16 (0.90%) IIBA
20 14 (0.79%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (12.09%) QA
2 105 (5.93%) PMO
3 73 (4.12%) Data Quality
4 52 (2.94%) Accessibility
5 50 (2.82%) GDPR
6 26 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 24 (1.36%) NIST
8 19 (1.07%) ISO 20022
8 19 (1.07%) PSD2
8 19 (1.07%) WCAG
9 16 (0.90%) SEPA
10 13 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 13 (0.73%) SLA
11 11 (0.62%) GRC
12 10 (0.56%) Basel III
13 8 (0.45%) NCSC
13 8 (0.45%) NIST 800
13 8 (0.45%) P3O
13 8 (0.45%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 191 (10.79%) Docker
2 56 (3.16%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (0.85%) DFS Replication
6 13 (0.73%) Firmware
7 10 (0.56%) Squid
8 9 (0.51%) Dovecot
8 9 (0.51%) Postfix
9 7 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
11 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 4 (0.23%) 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%) Veritas Cluster Server
15 1 (0.056%) Xen
Systems Management
1 169 (9.55%) Kubernetes
2 98 (5.54%) Terraform
3 78 (4.41%) Ansible
4 47 (2.66%) Grafana
5 35 (1.98%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.69%) OPNET
7 23 (1.30%) HP ALM
8 20 (1.13%) Nessus
9 18 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
10 17 (0.96%) Control-M
11 14 (0.79%) NetBackup
11 14 (0.79%) Packer
12 13 (0.73%) Puppet
13 12 (0.68%) Consul
14 11 (0.62%) IBM Guardium
14 11 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
14 11 (0.62%) SCCM
15 9 (0.51%) Proxmox
16 7 (0.40%) Argo
17 6 (0.34%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 218 (12.32%) Microsoft
2 203 (11.47%) ServiceNow
3 153 (8.64%) Oracle
4 122 (6.89%) Atlassian
5 93 (5.25%) Salesforce
6 67 (3.79%) SAP
7 49 (2.77%) Google
8 48 (2.71%) Remedy
9 39 (2.20%) IBM
10 37 (2.09%) Talend
11 33 (1.86%) Denodo
12 30 (1.69%) HP
13 21 (1.19%) Splunk
14 20 (1.13%) VMware
15 19 (1.07%) BiZZdesign
15 19 (1.07%) Cisco
16 18 (1.02%) Databricks
16 18 (1.02%) Workday
17 17 (0.96%) Adobe
17 17 (0.96%) Red Hat