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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 44 49
Rank change year-on-year +10 +5 -7
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,992 1,188 1,427
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.47% 4.65% 3.78%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.51% 34.70% 32.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,421 749 992
10th Percentile £313 £313 £325
25th Percentile £400 £405 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £630
90th Percentile £700 £675 £750
UK median daily rate £495 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -1.00% -1.96% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 20 55
10th Percentile £15.74 £47.70 £23.20
25th Percentile £22.13 £55.34 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +19.05% -17.65%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.25 £75.92
UK median hourly rate £63.27 £62.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year +1.23% +36.22% -26.59%

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 5,042 3,424 4,342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.86% 13.40% 11.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,429 2,195 3,041
10th Percentile £340 £333 £358
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 59 198
10th Percentile £34.13 £27.25 £39.25
25th Percentile £52.81 £55.62 £48.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £71.13 £72.50 £74.86
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.75 £85.68
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +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 6 March 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 6 March 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 6 March 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 +5 874 £523 +4.50% 163
North of England +9 360 £450 -5.26% 83
Midlands +8 294 £425 -12.10% 84
West Midlands +6 228 £450 -5.66% 62
Yorkshire -6 197 £480 -5.88% 40
South East -13 196 £480 -4.00% 151
South West +16 166 £571 +0.22% 52
North West +24 150 £434 -3.50% 33
East Midlands +5 64 £358 -26.94% 22
East of England -9 62 £425 - 49
North East -12 13 £375 -17.04% 12
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
1 943 (47.34%) Confluence
2 119 (5.97%) SharePoint
3 42 (2.11%) SAS
4 32 (1.61%) nginx
5 25 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 21 (1.05%) CMS
7 13 (0.65%) Apache
8 10 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.40%) WebLogic
10 7 (0.35%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.30%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.30%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.30%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.25%) Mattermost
13 4 (0.20%) IIS
13 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.15%) Drupal
14 3 (0.15%) JBoss
14 3 (0.15%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 215 (10.79%) Microsoft Project
2 182 (9.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 107 (5.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 103 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
5 82 (4.12%) MS Visio
6 24 (1.20%) Trello
7 7 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.25%) Notion
8 5 (0.25%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.25%) Sketch
9 4 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.15%) InVision
11 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.10%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.10%) CATIA
11 2 (0.10%) InDesign
12 1 (0.050%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 20 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.85%) NetSuite
3 13 (0.65%) Loan IQ
3 13 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
4 11 (0.55%) Workday HCM
5 10 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
5 10 (0.50%) Fidessa
6 8 (0.40%) Maximo
7 7 (0.35%) Aladdin
7 7 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 6 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.25%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 4 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.20%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 395 (19.83%) Azure
2 301 (15.11%) AWS
3 216 (10.84%) Azure DevOps
4 177 (8.89%) GitHub
5 133 (6.68%) Power Platform
6 83 (4.17%) GCP
7 73 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
8 59 (2.96%) SaaS
9 54 (2.71%) GitHub Actions
10 51 (2.56%) Entra ID
11 41 (2.06%) Serverless
12 31 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
13 30 (1.51%) Amazon S3
13 30 (1.51%) Figma
14 29 (1.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 28 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
15 28 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
16 27 (1.36%) Slack
17 26 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
18 25 (1.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.51%) Firewall
2 34 (1.71%) DNS
3 33 (1.66%) TCP/IP
4 29 (1.46%) VPN
5 21 (1.05%) WAN
6 19 (0.95%) LAN
7 17 (0.85%) Network Security
8 16 (0.80%) HTTP
9 15 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (0.50%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.50%) SSH
11 9 (0.45%) DHCP
11 9 (0.45%) Ethernet
11 9 (0.45%) FTP
12 8 (0.40%) SSL
12 8 (0.40%) Unified Communications
13 7 (0.35%) BIG-IP
13 7 (0.35%) OpenVPN
13 7 (0.35%) RS-232
13 7 (0.35%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (5.57%) Power BI
2 81 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
3 62 (3.11%) Tableau
4 54 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
5 53 (2.66%) SQL Server
6 39 (1.96%) MongoDB
7 36 (1.81%) NoSQL
8 29 (1.46%) Pentaho
9 23 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
10 21 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
10 21 (1.05%) MySQL
10 21 (1.05%) Oracle Database
10 21 (1.05%) Relational Database
11 17 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
12 16 (0.80%) Big Data
12 16 (0.80%) Metadata
13 12 (0.60%) Data Vault
13 12 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 11 (0.55%) Hadoop
14 11 (0.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 246 (12.35%) Git
2 233 (11.70%) Jenkins
3 118 (5.92%) GitLab
4 89 (4.47%) Selenium
5 77 (3.87%) Postman
6 65 (3.26%) Cucumber
7 61 (3.06%) Bitbucket
8 51 (2.56%) JUnit
9 43 (2.16%) Zephyr
10 38 (1.91%) Sonatype Nexus
11 34 (1.71%) REST Assured
12 33 (1.66%) JMeter
13 31 (1.56%) SonarQube
13 31 (1.56%) TestRail
14 20 (1.00%) Maven
15 17 (0.85%) Cypress.io
15 17 (0.85%) SpecFlow
16 15 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 15 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
16 15 (0.75%) WebDriver
General
1 820 (41.16%) Social Skills
2 564 (28.31%) Finance
3 382 (19.18%) Analytical Skills
4 241 (12.10%) Banking
5 207 (10.39%) Public Sector
6 80 (4.02%) Organisational Skills
7 73 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
8 66 (3.31%) Retail
9 54 (2.71%) Military
10 48 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
10 48 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
11 34 (1.71%) Legal
12 32 (1.61%) Investment Banking
13 29 (1.46%) Manufacturing
14 23 (1.15%) Front Office
15 22 (1.10%) Telecoms
16 21 (1.05%) Marketing
17 20 (1.00%) Retail Banking
18 17 (0.85%) Financial Institution
18 17 (0.85%) Law
Job Titles
1 405 (20.33%) Analyst
2 257 (12.90%) Business Analyst
3 186 (9.34%) Developer
4 154 (7.73%) Lead
5 151 (7.58%) Project Manager
6 139 (6.98%) Senior
7 126 (6.33%) Architect
8 97 (4.87%) Tester
9 59 (2.96%) Consultant
10 58 (2.91%) Delivery Manager
11 53 (2.66%) Data Engineer
12 52 (2.61%) Solutions Architect
12 52 (2.61%) Test Engineer
13 50 (2.51%) Test Analyst
14 47 (2.36%) Technical Analyst
15 45 (2.26%) Scrum Master
15 45 (2.26%) Software Engineer
15 45 (2.26%) Technical Business Analyst
16 42 (2.11%) IT Support
16 42 (2.11%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (7.23%) REST
2 61 (3.06%) .NET
2 61 (3.06%) Spring
3 49 (2.46%) XML
4 48 (2.41%) Kafka
5 47 (2.36%) JSON
6 45 (2.26%) HTML
6 45 (2.26%) RESTful
6 45 (2.26%) SOAP
7 44 (2.21%) React
8 43 (2.16%) Playwright
9 40 (2.01%) CSS
9 40 (2.01%) Spring Boot
10 34 (1.71%) Oracle Fusion
11 27 (1.36%) Node.js
11 27 (1.36%) OpenID
12 26 (1.31%) FastAPI
13 25 (1.26%) LDAP
13 25 (1.26%) OpenTelemetry
14 24 (1.20%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 228 (11.45%) Product Ownership
2 87 (4.37%) Onboarding
3 73 (3.66%) Cloud Native
4 51 (2.56%) Management Information System
5 48 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
6 40 (2.01%) Virtual Team
7 37 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
10 26 (1.31%) Data Structures
10 26 (1.31%) PMI
11 25 (1.26%) Data Centre
11 25 (1.26%) Mobile App
12 23 (1.15%) Public Cloud
13 22 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
14 19 (0.95%) CMDB
14 19 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
15 15 (0.75%) Security Posture
15 15 (0.75%) Tandem
16 14 (0.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 151 (7.58%) Windows
2 133 (6.68%) Linux
3 35 (1.76%) Unix
4 21 (1.05%) Android
4 21 (1.05%) Windows 10
5 13 (0.65%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.50%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.45%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.35%) FreeRTOS
10 5 (0.25%) VMS
11 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.050%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.050%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.050%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.050%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.050%) Windows Embedded Compact
12 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.050%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,178 (59.14%) Agile
2 546 (27.41%) DevOps
3 501 (25.15%) Stakeholder Management
4 468 (23.49%) Problem-Solving
5 427 (21.44%) Scrum
6 410 (20.58%) CI/CD
7 353 (17.72%) Continuous Improvement
8 316 (15.86%) Test Automation
9 299 (15.01%) Project Management
10 252 (12.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 210 (10.54%) Migration
12 204 (10.24%) User Stories
13 199 (9.99%) Project Delivery
14 197 (9.89%) User Acceptance Testing
15 186 (9.34%) Change Management
16 171 (8.58%) Decision-Making
17 168 (8.43%) Acceptance Criteria
18 166 (8.33%) Roadmaps
19 165 (8.28%) ITIL
20 162 (8.13%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 307 (15.41%) SQL
2 261 (13.10%) Python
3 184 (9.24%) Java
4 102 (5.12%) JavaScript
5 88 (4.42%) C#
6 82 (4.12%) PowerShell
7 53 (2.66%) TypeScript
8 43 (2.16%) Bash
9 34 (1.71%) C++
10 24 (1.20%) Go
10 24 (1.20%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.00%) Embedded C++
12 18 (0.90%) PL/SQL
13 14 (0.70%) C
13 14 (0.70%) PHP
14 11 (0.55%) Apex Code
14 11 (0.55%) Perl
14 11 (0.55%) Ruby
15 10 (0.50%) Embedded C
16 8 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 536 (26.91%) Security Cleared
2 429 (21.54%) SC Cleared
3 266 (13.35%) Degree
4 90 (4.52%) PMI Certification
5 81 (4.07%) PMP
6 66 (3.31%) BPSS Clearance
7 65 (3.26%) ISTQB
8 53 (2.66%) DV Cleared
9 50 (2.51%) CISSP
9 50 (2.51%) Computer Science Degree
10 44 (2.21%) TOGAF Certification
11 41 (2.06%) CISM
12 35 (1.76%) Master's Degree
13 28 (1.41%) AWS Certification
14 23 (1.15%) ISEB
15 21 (1.05%) CBAP
16 19 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
17 18 (0.90%) IIBA
17 18 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 17 (0.85%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 242 (12.15%) QA
2 116 (5.82%) PMO
3 91 (4.57%) Data Quality
4 49 (2.46%) Accessibility
5 41 (2.06%) GDPR
6 33 (1.66%) NIST
7 26 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 23 (1.15%) SLA
9 21 (1.05%) WCAG
10 15 (0.75%) PSD2
11 13 (0.65%) GRC
11 13 (0.65%) ISO 20022
12 11 (0.55%) Basel III
12 11 (0.55%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (0.55%) SEPA
13 8 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.40%) NIST 800
14 6 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 197 (9.89%) Docker
2 73 (3.66%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.50%) Firmware
6 9 (0.45%) Squid
6 9 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.15%) HDFS
10 3 (0.15%) Postfix
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.050%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.050%) Dovecot
12 1 (0.050%) etcd
12 1 (0.050%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 1 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.050%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 200 (10.04%) Kubernetes
2 92 (4.62%) Terraform
3 91 (4.57%) Ansible
4 70 (3.51%) Grafana
5 52 (2.61%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.51%) Control-M
6 30 (1.51%) OPNET
7 25 (1.26%) Nessus
8 24 (1.20%) HP ALM
8 24 (1.20%) IBM Guardium
8 24 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
9 23 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
10 21 (1.05%) Consul
11 19 (0.95%) Puppet
12 16 (0.80%) Packer
13 13 (0.65%) NetBackup
13 13 (0.65%) SCCM
14 10 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
15 7 (0.35%) Argo
15 7 (0.35%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 238 (11.95%) Microsoft
2 217 (10.89%) ServiceNow
3 173 (8.68%) Oracle
4 146 (7.33%) Atlassian
5 102 (5.12%) Salesforce
6 66 (3.31%) SAP
7 51 (2.56%) Remedy
8 44 (2.21%) Google
9 37 (1.86%) IBM
10 35 (1.76%) Talend
11 32 (1.61%) Red Hat
12 31 (1.56%) Workday
13 28 (1.41%) Denodo
13 28 (1.41%) Splunk
13 28 (1.41%) Tenable
14 26 (1.31%) Databricks
15 25 (1.26%) HP
16 23 (1.15%) BiZZdesign
17 22 (1.10%) VMware
18 20 (1.00%) Adobe