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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 32 43
Rank change year-on-year -13 +11 +4
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,092 1,580 1,412
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.59% 5.72% 4.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.26% 39.52% 33.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,401 1,096 942
10th Percentile £350 £313 £340
25th Percentile £406 £400 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.69%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £619
90th Percentile £670 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 40 85
10th Percentile £18.75 £47.38 £25.99
25th Percentile £26.25 £50.75 £40.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £63.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% -6.67% +8.00%
75th Percentile £67.12 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £85.60 -
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.83% -11.54% +6.56%

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 5,329 3,998 4,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.69% 14.47% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,393 2,764 2,835
10th Percentile £353 £319 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £631
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 97 198
10th Percentile £35.38 £41.35 £35.30
25th Percentile £56.25 £51.06 £52.88
Median hourly rate £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.30 £73.83
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - +4.00%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -7 986 £525 +0.96% 329
North of England -15 378 £474 +1.94% 108
Midlands -4 302 £455 -4.21% 71
West Midlands -5 262 £459 -8.20% 46
South East -33 211 £488 +1.56% 155
Yorkshire -7 210 £463 -2.63% 36
North West -29 149 £470 +9.30% 54
South West -5 130 £493 -12.25% 73
East of England -13 53 £480 +20.00% 39
East Midlands -1 38 £407 -5.51% 25
North East -36 26 £550 +2.33% 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
1 933 (44.60%) Confluence
2 105 (5.02%) SharePoint
3 33 (1.58%) SAS
4 26 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (0.81%) CMS
6 15 (0.72%) Apache
7 8 (0.38%) nginx
8 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.29%) Mattermost
9 6 (0.29%) WebLogic
10 5 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.24%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.19%) Camunda
11 4 (0.19%) IIS
11 4 (0.19%) JBoss
11 4 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.19%) WordPress
12 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 145 (6.93%) Microsoft Project
2 135 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 80 (3.82%) MS Visio
4 59 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 58 (2.77%) Microsoft Office
6 23 (1.10%) Trello
7 14 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.48%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.38%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.38%) Revit
10 5 (0.24%) Notion
11 2 (0.096%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.048%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.048%) CATIA
12 1 (0.048%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.048%) Mingle
12 1 (0.048%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.048%) Sketch
12 1 (0.048%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 41 (1.96%) Remedy ITSM
2 27 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.53%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
6 8 (0.38%) Findur
6 8 (0.38%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.29%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
8 5 (0.24%) Fidessa
8 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.19%) Actimize
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
9 4 (0.19%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
10 3 (0.14%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 523 (25.00%) Azure
2 340 (16.25%) AWS
3 290 (13.86%) Azure DevOps
4 175 (8.37%) GitHub
5 159 (7.60%) Power Platform
6 94 (4.49%) GCP
7 82 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
8 75 (3.59%) Entra ID
9 74 (3.54%) SaaS
10 67 (3.20%) Serverless
11 66 (3.15%) Amazon S3
12 64 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
13 59 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 54 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
15 46 (2.20%) Amazon EC2
16 33 (1.58%) Microsoft Copilot
16 33 (1.58%) Miro
16 33 (1.58%) Smartsheet
16 33 (1.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 30 (1.43%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 86 (4.11%) Firewall
2 65 (3.11%) DNS
3 43 (2.06%) TCP/IP
4 33 (1.58%) DHCP
5 31 (1.48%) Network Security
6 30 (1.43%) VPN
7 22 (1.05%) WAN
8 19 (0.91%) BIG-IP
8 19 (0.91%) SAN
9 18 (0.86%) SSL
10 15 (0.72%) LAN
10 15 (0.72%) SD-WAN
11 13 (0.62%) Internet
12 9 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 9 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 9 (0.43%) VLAN
13 8 (0.38%) DKIM
13 8 (0.38%) DMARC
13 8 (0.38%) SSH
14 7 (0.33%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (6.69%) Power BI
2 103 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
3 70 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
4 53 (2.53%) SQL Server
5 48 (2.29%) Oracle Reports
6 31 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
7 28 (1.34%) Relational Database
8 26 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 24 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
9 24 (1.15%) MongoDB
10 23 (1.10%) Tableau
11 22 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 21 (1.00%) Data Lake
12 21 (1.00%) DynamoDB
13 20 (0.96%) Pentaho
14 18 (0.86%) Metadata
15 15 (0.72%) NoSQL
15 15 (0.72%) Oracle Database
15 15 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 13 (0.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 270 (12.91%) Git
2 188 (8.99%) Jenkins
3 105 (5.02%) GitLab
4 87 (4.16%) Selenium
5 85 (4.06%) Zephyr
6 69 (3.30%) Bitbucket
6 69 (3.30%) Postman
7 47 (2.25%) Cucumber
7 47 (2.25%) JUnit
8 35 (1.67%) JMeter
9 31 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
10 28 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 24 (1.15%) Cypress.io
11 24 (1.15%) WebDriver
12 21 (1.00%) TestRail
13 20 (0.96%) REST Assured
14 18 (0.86%) Artifactory
15 12 (0.57%) Appium
16 11 (0.53%) MSI
17 10 (0.48%) Maven
General
1 833 (39.82%) Social Skills
2 599 (28.63%) Finance
3 388 (18.55%) Analytical Skills
4 268 (12.81%) Banking
5 243 (11.62%) Public Sector
6 86 (4.11%) Organisational Skills
7 72 (3.44%) Retail
8 67 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
9 43 (2.06%) Investment Banking
9 43 (2.06%) Manufacturing
10 40 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
11 38 (1.82%) Legal
12 37 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 32 (1.53%) Front Office
14 28 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (1.34%) Telecoms
15 27 (1.29%) Marketing
16 25 (1.20%) Retail Banking
17 20 (0.96%) Financial Institution
18 19 (0.91%) Military
Job Titles
1 360 (17.21%) Analyst
2 224 (10.71%) Business Analyst
3 209 (9.99%) Lead
4 195 (9.32%) Developer
5 189 (9.03%) Senior
6 115 (5.50%) Project Manager
7 93 (4.45%) Delivery Manager
8 88 (4.21%) Tester
9 81 (3.87%) Consultant
10 75 (3.59%) Scrum Master
11 70 (3.35%) Architect
11 70 (3.35%) Data Engineer
12 57 (2.72%) Support Engineer
13 53 (2.53%) Product Owner
14 52 (2.49%) IT Support
15 48 (2.29%) Test Leader
16 47 (2.25%) Test Analyst
17 43 (2.06%) Senior Manager
18 40 (1.91%) Administrator
19 38 (1.82%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 123 (5.88%) REST
2 76 (3.63%) .NET
3 53 (2.53%) Spring
4 47 (2.25%) React
5 46 (2.20%) HTML
5 46 (2.20%) JSON
6 44 (2.10%) RESTful
7 41 (1.96%) Kafka
8 39 (1.86%) AngularJS
9 36 (1.72%) Playwright
9 36 (1.72%) SOAP
10 33 (1.58%) CSS
11 32 (1.53%) XML
12 31 (1.48%) Middleware
12 31 (1.48%) Spring Boot
13 30 (1.43%) Node.js
14 29 (1.39%) Web Services
15 26 (1.24%) WireMock
16 25 (1.20%) .NET Core
17 24 (1.15%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 242 (11.57%) Product Ownership
2 132 (6.31%) Onboarding
3 88 (4.21%) Cloud Native
4 74 (3.54%) Data Centre
5 57 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
6 50 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
7 49 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
8 48 (2.29%) Virtual Team
9 41 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
10 40 (1.91%) Management Information System
11 33 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
11 33 (1.58%) Data Structures
12 32 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
13 19 (0.91%) Mobile App
13 19 (0.91%) SCADA
14 18 (0.86%) Credit Risk
14 18 (0.86%) Derivative
14 18 (0.86%) Security Posture
15 16 (0.76%) Clustering
15 16 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 158 (7.55%) Windows
2 123 (5.88%) Linux
3 48 (2.29%) Unix
4 24 (1.15%) Windows 10
5 21 (1.00%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.76%) Android
6 16 (0.76%) Mac OS
7 15 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.48%) Windows Server
9 6 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
10 4 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 3 (0.14%) AIX
11 3 (0.14%) Check Point GAiA
12 2 (0.096%) MVS
12 2 (0.096%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.096%) zOS
13 1 (0.048%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.048%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,239 (59.23%) Agile
2 609 (29.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 574 (27.44%) DevOps
4 454 (21.70%) CI/CD
5 451 (21.56%) Problem-Solving
6 420 (20.08%) Scrum
7 401 (19.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 362 (17.30%) Test Automation
9 301 (14.39%) Migration
10 243 (11.62%) User Acceptance Testing
11 232 (11.09%) Project Management
12 228 (10.90%) User Stories
13 226 (10.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 226 (10.80%) Validation
14 219 (10.47%) AI
15 212 (10.13%) Sprint Planning
16 205 (9.80%) Project Delivery
17 203 (9.70%) Change Management
18 189 (9.03%) SDLC
19 186 (8.89%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 357 (17.07%) SQL
2 249 (11.90%) Python
3 146 (6.98%) Java
4 91 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 82 (3.92%) C#
6 74 (3.54%) PowerShell
7 64 (3.06%) TypeScript
8 44 (2.10%) Bash
9 32 (1.53%) PL/SQL
10 17 (0.81%) Bicep
10 17 (0.81%) Groovy
10 17 (0.81%) Perl
11 16 (0.76%) Kotlin
12 15 (0.72%) VBA
13 14 (0.67%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.48%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.43%) ActionScript
15 9 (0.43%) C++
16 6 (0.29%) C
16 6 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 570 (27.25%) Security Cleared
2 443 (21.18%) SC Cleared
3 172 (8.22%) Degree
4 89 (4.25%) DV Cleared
5 79 (3.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 75 (3.59%) ISTQB
7 55 (2.63%) PMI Certification
8 45 (2.15%) PMP
9 28 (1.34%) CISSP
10 23 (1.10%) Azure Certification
10 23 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
11 19 (0.91%) AWS Certification
11 19 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (0.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 18 (0.86%) Master's Degree
13 16 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 16 (0.76%) CISM
13 16 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
13 16 (0.76%) SAFe Agilist
14 12 (0.57%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 255 (12.19%) QA
2 125 (5.98%) PMO
3 123 (5.88%) Data Quality
4 65 (3.11%) Accessibility
5 41 (1.96%) SLA
6 37 (1.77%) GDPR
7 27 (1.29%) WCAG
8 26 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 21 (1.00%) NCSC
10 19 (0.91%) NIST
11 16 (0.76%) GRC
12 12 (0.57%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.53%) ISO 20022
14 7 (0.33%) JSP 440
14 7 (0.33%) SEPA
15 6 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.24%) GxP
16 5 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 134 (6.41%) Docker
2 124 (5.93%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.62%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (0.48%) Firmware
5 10 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.14%) HDFS
7 3 (0.14%) Squid
8 2 (0.096%) OpenAM
8 2 (0.096%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.048%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.048%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 153 (7.31%) Kubernetes
2 151 (7.22%) Terraform
3 87 (4.16%) Ansible
4 57 (2.72%) Grafana
5 47 (2.25%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (0.91%) HP ALM
8 17 (0.81%) Control-M
9 16 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (0.67%) Puppet
11 9 (0.43%) Nessus
11 9 (0.43%) Packer
12 8 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 8 (0.38%) Dell DRAC
12 8 (0.38%) IBM Guardium
13 7 (0.33%) HP Quality Center
13 7 (0.33%) NetBackup
14 6 (0.29%) Istio
14 6 (0.29%) SCOM
14 6 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 300 (14.34%) Microsoft
2 271 (12.95%) ServiceNow
3 165 (7.89%) Oracle
4 93 (4.45%) Atlassian
5 91 (4.35%) Salesforce
6 90 (4.30%) SAP
7 55 (2.63%) Google
8 43 (2.06%) IBM
9 42 (2.01%) Remedy
10 41 (1.96%) VMware
11 40 (1.91%) Denodo
12 35 (1.67%) Talend
13 34 (1.63%) Splunk
14 29 (1.39%) Databricks
15 27 (1.29%) Informatica
16 24 (1.15%) MuleSoft
16 24 (1.15%) Workday
17 23 (1.10%) Adobe
17 23 (1.10%) F5
18 22 (1.05%) HP