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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 45 48
Rank change year-on-year +13 +3 -14
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,784 1,325 1,663
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.86% 4.33% 4.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.77% 32.83% 33.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,306 840 1,127
10th Percentile £313 £313 £362
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -6.37% -1.11%
75th Percentile £608 £603 £638
90th Percentile £700 £700 £749
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 40 46
10th Percentile £15.74 £37.10 £43.20
25th Percentile £44.23 £54.68 £51.25
Median hourly rate £63.40 £67.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -6.07% +10.20% -2.00%
75th Percentile £72.88 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £70.13 £74.38
UK median hourly rate £63.27 £67.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +12.50% -

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 4,601 4,036 4,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.11% 13.19% 12.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,223 2,510 3,479
10th Percentile £325 £349 £375
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £645
90th Percentile £700 £730 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 109 214
10th Percentile £39.00 £44.90 £45.88
25th Percentile £54.94 £54.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.04 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.80 £75.00 £89.63
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +0.78% -0.77% +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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 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 1 December 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 +9 839 £525 - 211
North of England +1 315 £471 -3.87% 69
Midlands +21 207 £450 -9.09% 74
South East -2 186 £483 +6.04% 327
West Midlands +28 166 £475 -6.40% 36
Yorkshire -4 156 £500 - 25
North West +5 142 £447 -10.55% 37
South West +11 137 £575 +0.66% 87
East of England -4 56 £425 +3.85% 83
East Midlands +2 41 £360 -20.44% 35
North East -3 17 £500 +10.62% 7
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
1 819 (45.91%) Confluence
2 103 (5.77%) SharePoint
3 48 (2.69%) nginx
4 35 (1.96%) SAS
5 31 (1.74%) CMS
6 16 (0.90%) Apache
7 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
8 11 (0.62%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.50%) JBoss
10 7 (0.39%) WordPress
11 6 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.34%) Drupal
11 6 (0.34%) Mule
12 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
12 4 (0.22%) CICS
12 4 (0.22%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.22%) WebSphere
13 3 (0.17%) SugarCRM
13 3 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 156 (8.74%) Microsoft Project
2 132 (7.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 108 (6.05%) Microsoft Office
4 77 (4.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 68 (3.81%) MS Visio
6 34 (1.91%) Trello
7 12 (0.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 7 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.39%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.28%) Sketch
11 4 (0.22%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.22%) Simulink
11 4 (0.22%) Windchill
12 3 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
12 3 (0.17%) InVision
13 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.11%) InDesign
13 2 (0.11%) Notion
14 1 (0.056%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 18 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
1 18 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.67%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.45%) Aladdin
5 8 (0.45%) Oracle EBS R12
5 8 (0.45%) SAP PM
6 6 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.34%) SAP HR
7 5 (0.28%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.28%) Maximo
7 5 (0.28%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.22%) Endur
8 4 (0.22%) Fidessa
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
8 4 (0.22%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.22%) SAP PLM
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.17%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 338 (18.95%) Azure
2 310 (17.38%) AWS
3 174 (9.75%) Azure DevOps
4 170 (9.53%) GitHub
5 109 (6.11%) Power Platform
6 77 (4.32%) GCP
7 68 (3.81%) Serverless
8 60 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
9 52 (2.91%) Amazon S3
10 50 (2.80%) GitHub Actions
11 47 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
12 41 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
13 40 (2.24%) SaaS
14 38 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 36 (2.02%) Slack
16 35 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
16 35 (1.96%) Power Automate
16 35 (1.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 32 (1.79%) Miro
18 31 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (3.20%) Firewall
2 49 (2.75%) DNS
3 39 (2.19%) SSH
4 37 (2.07%) HTTP
5 26 (1.46%) SMTP
6 23 (1.29%) FTP
7 21 (1.18%) VPN
8 19 (1.07%) SSL
9 17 (0.95%) OpenLDAP
10 16 (0.90%) TCP/IP
11 12 (0.67%) IMAP
12 8 (0.45%) DHCP
12 8 (0.45%) WAN
13 7 (0.39%) Network Security
14 6 (0.34%) LAN
14 6 (0.34%) SD-WAN
15 5 (0.28%) Kerberos
15 5 (0.28%) Wireless
16 4 (0.22%) VoIP
16 4 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (5.38%) Power BI
2 74 (4.15%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (2.91%) Tableau
4 41 (2.30%) SQL Server
5 35 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
6 34 (1.91%) Relational Database
7 33 (1.85%) NoSQL
7 33 (1.85%) Pentaho
8 25 (1.40%) Big Data
9 23 (1.29%) Oracle Database
10 19 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
10 19 (1.07%) MongoDB
11 17 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (0.95%) Hadoop
11 17 (0.95%) Metadata
12 16 (0.90%) MySQL
13 13 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
14 10 (0.56%) BigQuery
14 10 (0.56%) Data Vault
14 10 (0.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 260 (14.57%) Git
2 243 (13.62%) Jenkins
3 111 (6.22%) GitLab
4 75 (4.20%) Bitbucket
5 73 (4.09%) Selenium
6 63 (3.53%) Postman
7 48 (2.69%) Cucumber
8 43 (2.41%) Sonatype Nexus
9 35 (1.96%) SonarQube
10 33 (1.85%) JUnit
11 32 (1.79%) TestRail
12 27 (1.51%) Maven
12 27 (1.51%) Zephyr
13 25 (1.40%) SoapUI
13 25 (1.40%) Vagrant
14 21 (1.18%) SpecFlow
15 20 (1.12%) Cypress.io
15 20 (1.12%) REST Assured
16 19 (1.07%) Artifactory
17 15 (0.84%) TeamCity
General
1 749 (41.98%) Social Skills
2 437 (24.50%) Finance
3 309 (17.32%) Analytical Skills
4 208 (11.66%) Banking
5 196 (10.99%) Public Sector
6 63 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
7 54 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
8 48 (2.69%) Retail
9 44 (2.47%) Military
10 40 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
11 37 (2.07%) Legal
12 33 (1.85%) Investment Banking
13 31 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
14 27 (1.51%) Front Office
14 27 (1.51%) Manufacturing
15 25 (1.40%) Marketing
16 21 (1.18%) Telecoms
17 15 (0.84%) Law
17 15 (0.84%) Publishing
18 14 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 315 (17.66%) Analyst
2 203 (11.38%) Developer
3 188 (10.54%) Business Analyst
4 159 (8.91%) Project Manager
5 138 (7.74%) Senior
6 126 (7.06%) Lead
7 118 (6.61%) Architect
8 73 (4.09%) Tester
9 61 (3.42%) Test Analyst
10 60 (3.36%) DevOps Engineer
11 51 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
12 50 (2.80%) Administrator
12 50 (2.80%) Consultant
13 44 (2.47%) Delivery Manager
14 41 (2.30%) Product Owner
15 40 (2.24%) Technical Analyst
16 39 (2.19%) Software Engineer
17 38 (2.13%) Data Engineer
17 38 (2.13%) Technical Business Analyst
18 37 (2.07%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (9.75%) REST
2 89 (4.99%) SOAP
3 80 (4.48%) .NET
4 78 (4.37%) AngularJS
4 78 (4.37%) HTML
4 78 (4.37%) React
5 60 (3.36%) CSS
6 52 (2.91%) JSON
6 52 (2.91%) Kafka
6 52 (2.91%) RESTful
7 51 (2.86%) XML
8 49 (2.75%) Spring Boot
9 46 (2.58%) Spring
10 41 (2.30%) Node.js
11 38 (2.13%) LDAP
12 36 (2.02%) Playwright
13 35 (1.96%) RabbitMQ
13 35 (1.96%) Web Services
14 28 (1.57%) OAuth
15 25 (1.40%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 200 (11.21%) Product Ownership
2 76 (4.26%) Onboarding
3 54 (3.03%) Cloud Native
4 44 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
5 42 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
6 38 (2.13%) Management Information System
7 33 (1.85%) Mobile App
8 32 (1.79%) Data Structures
9 28 (1.57%) Replication
10 27 (1.51%) PMI
11 26 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
12 25 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
12 25 (1.40%) Virtual Team
13 24 (1.35%) CMDB
14 21 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
15 19 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
16 18 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
17 17 (0.95%) Algorithms
18 16 (0.90%) Data Centre
18 16 (0.90%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 136 (7.62%) Linux
2 134 (7.51%) Windows
3 52 (2.91%) Unix
4 31 (1.74%) VMS
5 23 (1.29%) Amazon Linux
6 19 (1.07%) Android
7 14 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 14 (0.78%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.73%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.50%) Windows 10
10 9 (0.50%) Windows Server
11 6 (0.34%) CentOS
12 3 (0.17%) zOS
13 2 (0.11%) Debian
13 2 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
13 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.11%) Solaris
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.056%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,103 (61.83%) Agile
2 532 (29.82%) DevOps
3 440 (24.66%) Problem-Solving
4 429 (24.05%) Scrum
5 378 (21.19%) Stakeholder Management
6 365 (20.46%) CI/CD
7 272 (15.25%) Test Automation
8 268 (15.02%) Project Management
9 255 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 229 (12.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 194 (10.87%) Migration
12 183 (10.26%) User Stories
13 181 (10.15%) Change Management
14 178 (9.98%) User Acceptance Testing
15 162 (9.08%) Microservices
16 158 (8.86%) Project Delivery
17 150 (8.41%) ITIL
18 149 (8.35%) SDLC
19 146 (8.18%) Roadmaps
20 142 (7.96%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 293 (16.42%) SQL
2 272 (15.25%) Python
3 175 (9.81%) Java
4 153 (8.58%) JavaScript
5 91 (5.10%) PowerShell
6 80 (4.48%) C#
7 62 (3.48%) TypeScript
8 46 (2.58%) Bash
9 39 (2.19%) Go
10 33 (1.85%) Groovy
11 29 (1.63%) C++
12 26 (1.46%) Perl
13 20 (1.12%) Shell Script
14 15 (0.84%) Apex Code
14 15 (0.84%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.67%) PHP
15 12 (0.67%) Ruby
16 10 (0.56%) Embedded C++
17 8 (0.45%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.39%) C
Qualifications
1 462 (25.90%) Security Cleared
2 408 (22.87%) SC Cleared
3 256 (14.35%) Degree
4 81 (4.54%) PMI Certification
5 66 (3.70%) PMP
6 59 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 57 (3.20%) CISSP
8 53 (2.97%) ISTQB
9 50 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 43 (2.41%) CISM
11 37 (2.07%) DV Cleared
12 36 (2.02%) TOGAF Certification
13 30 (1.68%) AWS Certification
14 20 (1.12%) Azure Certification
15 19 (1.07%) Oracle Certification
16 17 (0.95%) CBAP
16 17 (0.95%) Master's Degree
17 16 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
18 14 (0.78%) ISEB
19 13 (0.73%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (12.28%) QA
2 76 (4.26%) PMO
3 69 (3.87%) GDPR
4 59 (3.31%) Data Quality
5 52 (2.91%) Accessibility
6 47 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 40 (2.24%) NIST
8 23 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 18 (1.01%) ISO 20022
10 17 (0.95%) PSD2
10 17 (0.95%) SEPA
11 16 (0.90%) PCI DSS
12 15 (0.84%) WCAG
13 14 (0.78%) COBIT
13 14 (0.78%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.45%) GRC
14 8 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 8 (0.45%) NCSC
15 7 (0.39%) P3O
16 6 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 211 (11.83%) Docker
2 59 (3.31%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.18%) DFS Replication
4 18 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.67%) Dovecot
6 12 (0.67%) Firmware
6 12 (0.67%) Postfix
6 12 (0.67%) Squid
7 8 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.22%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.11%) KVM
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.11%) vSphere
11 1 (0.056%) Xen
Systems Management
1 183 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 120 (6.73%) Terraform
3 87 (4.88%) Ansible
4 53 (2.97%) Grafana
5 44 (2.47%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
7 29 (1.63%) HP ALM
8 26 (1.46%) OPNET
9 24 (1.35%) Nessus
10 22 (1.23%) Packer
11 20 (1.12%) Consul
12 17 (0.95%) Puppet
13 15 (0.84%) Control-M
14 14 (0.78%) NetBackup
15 12 (0.67%) RSA Archer
15 12 (0.67%) SCCM
16 11 (0.62%) IBM Guardium
17 10 (0.56%) Progress Chef
17 10 (0.56%) Proxmox
18 8 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 251 (14.07%) Microsoft
2 230 (12.89%) ServiceNow
3 147 (8.24%) Oracle
4 117 (6.56%) Atlassian
5 96 (5.38%) Salesforce
6 64 (3.59%) SAP
7 55 (3.08%) Google
8 50 (2.80%) Remedy
9 46 (2.58%) HP
10 36 (2.02%) Talend
11 34 (1.91%) IBM
12 32 (1.79%) Denodo
13 29 (1.63%) CyberArk
14 28 (1.57%) Splunk
15 20 (1.12%) Red Hat
16 18 (1.01%) BiZZdesign
16 18 (1.01%) Cisco
16 18 (1.01%) Tenable
16 18 (1.01%) VMware
17 17 (0.95%) BMC