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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 40 53
Rank change year-on-year +4 +13 -6
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,066 1,245 1,347
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.14% 5.09% 3.64%
As % of the Development Applications category 41.18% 37.42% 32.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,448 811 905
10th Percentile £316 £319 £350
25th Percentile £400 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.78% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £630
90th Percentile £696 £688 £750
UK median daily rate £485 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 23 61
10th Percentile £18.75 £48.40 £22.00
25th Percentile £25.00 £53.75 £33.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £57.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% +5.00% -16.47%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.00 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £63.00 £57.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year +9.09% +28.33% -30.77%

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 5,017 3,327 4,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.49% 13.60% 11.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,350 2,236 2,876
10th Percentile £340 £342 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -6.54% -2.73%
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 213 61 175
10th Percentile £37.71 £27.50 £31.71
25th Percentile £59.25 £52.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -3.85% +6.25%
75th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.75 £84.00
UK median hourly rate £67.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.20% - +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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +6 923 £500 - 212
North of England +1 383 £450 - 85
Midlands 0 310 £440 -11.11% 60
West Midlands 0 244 £455 -9.00% 44
South East -23 192 £475 -5.00% 144
Yorkshire -8 191 £450 -10.00% 32
North West +10 177 £447 +5.18% 42
South West +8 159 £560 +0.90% 48
East Midlands -4 63 £386 -21.33% 16
East of England -3 61 £425 -8.11% 25
North East -13 18 £475 -9.52% 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
1 931 (45.06%) Confluence
2 104 (5.03%) SharePoint
3 38 (1.84%) SAS
4 32 (1.55%) nginx
5 28 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 18 (0.87%) Apache
7 13 (0.63%) CMS
8 9 (0.44%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.34%) WebLogic
11 6 (0.29%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.29%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.29%) Mattermost
11 6 (0.29%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
12 5 (0.24%) JBoss
13 4 (0.19%) IIS
13 4 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.15%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 225 (10.89%) Microsoft Project
2 186 (9.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 103 (4.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 102 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
5 89 (4.31%) MS Visio
6 22 (1.06%) Trello
7 9 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.39%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.19%) Notion
10 3 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.15%) InVision
10 3 (0.15%) Sketch
11 2 (0.097%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.097%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.097%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.097%) CATIA
11 2 (0.097%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.097%) Revit
12 1 (0.048%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 26 (1.26%) Remedy ITSM
2 25 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.73%) NetSuite
4 13 (0.63%) Loan IQ
5 10 (0.48%) Workday HCM
6 9 (0.44%) Aladdin
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
9 5 (0.24%) SAP Retail
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 FI
10 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
Cloud Services
1 428 (20.72%) Azure
2 318 (15.39%) AWS
3 242 (11.71%) Azure DevOps
4 164 (7.94%) GitHub
5 146 (7.07%) Power Platform
6 80 (3.87%) GCP
7 78 (3.78%) SaaS
8 76 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
9 69 (3.34%) Entra ID
10 58 (2.81%) GitHub Actions
11 51 (2.47%) Amazon S3
12 50 (2.42%) Serverless
13 41 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
14 34 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
14 34 (1.65%) Figma
15 33 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 33 (1.60%) Miro
16 32 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
16 32 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 28 (1.36%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (3.15%) Firewall
2 44 (2.13%) DNS
3 40 (1.94%) TCP/IP
4 28 (1.36%) LAN
5 25 (1.21%) Network Security
5 25 (1.21%) VPN
5 25 (1.21%) WAN
6 19 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
7 18 (0.87%) SSL
8 16 (0.77%) DHCP
8 16 (0.77%) HTTP
9 14 (0.68%) SAN
10 12 (0.58%) BIG-IP
10 12 (0.58%) Internet
11 11 (0.53%) SD-WAN
12 10 (0.48%) Ethernet
12 10 (0.48%) FTP
12 10 (0.48%) NAS
12 10 (0.48%) Unified Communications
13 7 (0.34%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (6.10%) Power BI
2 81 (3.92%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
4 56 (2.71%) SQL Server
4 56 (2.71%) Tableau
5 40 (1.94%) MongoDB
6 36 (1.74%) Oracle Reports
7 34 (1.65%) NoSQL
8 24 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
8 24 (1.16%) DynamoDB
9 22 (1.06%) Pentaho
9 22 (1.06%) Relational Database
10 17 (0.82%) Amazon Athena
11 15 (0.73%) Big Data
11 15 (0.73%) MySQL
11 15 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 14 (0.68%) Metadata
13 13 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
14 12 (0.58%) BusinessObjects
15 11 (0.53%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 257 (12.44%) Git
2 194 (9.39%) Jenkins
3 108 (5.23%) GitLab
4 103 (4.99%) Selenium
5 79 (3.82%) Postman
6 63 (3.05%) Cucumber
7 61 (2.95%) Bitbucket
7 61 (2.95%) Zephyr
8 52 (2.52%) JUnit
9 38 (1.84%) JMeter
9 38 (1.84%) Sonatype Nexus
10 33 (1.60%) REST Assured
10 33 (1.60%) TestRail
11 25 (1.21%) SonarQube
12 21 (1.02%) WebDriver
13 20 (0.97%) Cypress.io
14 17 (0.82%) Maven
15 15 (0.73%) Appium
16 13 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 13 (0.63%) SpecFlow
General
1 836 (40.46%) Social Skills
2 593 (28.70%) Finance
3 414 (20.04%) Analytical Skills
4 260 (12.58%) Banking
5 227 (10.99%) Public Sector
6 74 (3.58%) Organisational Skills
7 73 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
8 70 (3.39%) Retail
9 57 (2.76%) Military
10 41 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
11 37 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (1.74%) Manufacturing
13 35 (1.69%) Legal
14 32 (1.55%) Investment Banking
15 24 (1.16%) Front Office
16 23 (1.11%) Retail Banking
17 22 (1.06%) Marketing
18 21 (1.02%) Telecoms
19 19 (0.92%) Law
20 18 (0.87%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 407 (19.70%) Analyst
2 255 (12.34%) Business Analyst
3 181 (8.76%) Developer
4 167 (8.08%) Lead
5 157 (7.60%) Senior
6 144 (6.97%) Project Manager
7 113 (5.47%) Architect
8 94 (4.55%) Tester
9 86 (4.16%) Delivery Manager
10 68 (3.29%) Data Engineer
10 68 (3.29%) Scrum Master
11 59 (2.86%) Consultant
12 55 (2.66%) Test Analyst
13 52 (2.52%) Test Engineer
14 49 (2.37%) IT Support
14 49 (2.37%) Support Engineer
15 44 (2.13%) Technical Manager
15 44 (2.13%) Test Leader
16 43 (2.08%) Software Engineer
17 41 (1.98%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (5.57%) REST
2 64 (3.10%) Spring
3 63 (3.05%) .NET
4 59 (2.86%) React
5 47 (2.27%) HTML
6 46 (2.23%) Kafka
7 42 (2.03%) JSON
7 42 (2.03%) Spring Boot
8 39 (1.89%) RESTful
9 37 (1.79%) CSS
10 36 (1.74%) XML
11 34 (1.65%) Playwright
12 32 (1.55%) SOAP
13 30 (1.45%) ADO
14 29 (1.40%) OpenID
15 27 (1.31%) LDAP
15 27 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
16 26 (1.26%) AngularJS
16 26 (1.26%) Middleware
16 26 (1.26%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 258 (12.49%) Product Ownership
2 91 (4.40%) Onboarding
3 76 (3.68%) Cloud Native
4 48 (2.32%) Management Information System
5 45 (2.18%) Legacy Systems
6 43 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 42 (2.03%) Virtual Team
8 36 (1.74%) Data Centre
9 35 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
10 31 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
11 29 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
12 25 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
13 23 (1.11%) Data Structures
14 22 (1.06%) PMI
15 20 (0.97%) Mobile App
16 16 (0.77%) Public Cloud
17 15 (0.73%) SCADA
18 14 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 13 (0.63%) Distributed Architecture
19 13 (0.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 166 (8.03%) Windows
2 142 (6.87%) Linux
3 31 (1.50%) Unix
4 19 (0.92%) Windows 10
5 18 (0.87%) Android
6 12 (0.58%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.53%) Mac OS
7 11 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.48%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.39%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (0.15%) AIX
10 3 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.097%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.097%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.048%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,202 (58.18%) Agile
2 543 (26.28%) DevOps
3 514 (24.88%) Stakeholder Management
4 456 (22.07%) Problem-Solving
5 424 (20.52%) Scrum
6 391 (18.93%) CI/CD
7 369 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 326 (15.78%) Test Automation
9 299 (14.47%) Project Management
10 263 (12.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 244 (11.81%) Migration
12 224 (10.84%) User Acceptance Testing
13 210 (10.16%) User Stories
14 208 (10.07%) Change Management
15 196 (9.49%) Project Delivery
16 189 (9.15%) ITIL
17 187 (9.05%) Validation
18 181 (8.76%) Acceptance Criteria
19 176 (8.52%) Analytics
20 168 (8.13%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 319 (15.44%) SQL
2 229 (11.08%) Python
3 195 (9.44%) Java
4 93 (4.50%) JavaScript
5 87 (4.21%) C#
6 68 (3.29%) PowerShell
7 61 (2.95%) TypeScript
8 42 (2.03%) Bash
9 30 (1.45%) C++
10 24 (1.16%) Shell Script
11 18 (0.87%) PL/SQL
12 17 (0.82%) C
13 16 (0.77%) Perl
14 14 (0.68%) Embedded C++
15 13 (0.63%) Apex Code
15 13 (0.63%) VBA
16 10 (0.48%) Embedded C
16 10 (0.48%) Go
17 9 (0.44%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 570 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 445 (21.54%) SC Cleared
3 243 (11.76%) Degree
4 75 (3.63%) PMI Certification
5 73 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 70 (3.39%) ISTQB
7 69 (3.34%) PMP
8 62 (3.00%) DV Cleared
9 36 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 36 (1.74%) TOGAF Certification
10 30 (1.45%) CISSP
11 28 (1.36%) Master's Degree
12 25 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
13 22 (1.06%) CISM
14 21 (1.02%) Azure Certification
15 20 (0.97%) AWS Certification
15 20 (0.97%) IIBA
16 19 (0.92%) CBAP
16 19 (0.92%) SAFe Agilist
17 16 (0.77%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 262 (12.68%) QA
2 124 (6.00%) PMO
3 103 (4.99%) Data Quality
4 50 (2.42%) GDPR
5 46 (2.23%) Accessibility
6 28 (1.36%) NIST
6 28 (1.36%) SLA
7 19 (0.92%) WCAG
8 18 (0.87%) GRC
8 18 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 12 (0.58%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.58%) PSD2
10 11 (0.53%) Basel III
10 11 (0.53%) ISO 20022
11 9 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
12 7 (0.34%) SEPA
13 6 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 166 (8.03%) Docker
2 96 (4.65%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.73%) 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 (0.048%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.048%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.048%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 179 (8.66%) Kubernetes
2 125 (6.05%) Terraform
3 90 (4.36%) Ansible
4 66 (3.19%) Grafana
5 48 (2.32%) Prometheus
6 33 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.45%) OPNET
8 26 (1.26%) HP ALM
9 24 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
10 23 (1.11%) Consul
10 23 (1.11%) Control-M
11 17 (0.82%) Nessus
12 16 (0.77%) IBM Guardium
12 16 (0.77%) Puppet
13 15 (0.73%) Packer
14 11 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
15 9 (0.44%) SCCM
16 8 (0.39%) FortiGate
16 8 (0.39%) HP Quality Center
17 7 (0.34%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 253 (12.25%) ServiceNow
2 248 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 173 (8.37%) Oracle
4 141 (6.82%) Atlassian
5 98 (4.74%) Salesforce
6 80 (3.87%) SAP
7 64 (3.10%) Remedy
8 49 (2.37%) Google
9 36 (1.74%) Workday
10 28 (1.36%) Denodo
10 28 (1.36%) HP
10 28 (1.36%) IBM
10 28 (1.36%) Splunk
10 28 (1.36%) Talend
11 27 (1.31%) Red Hat
11 27 (1.31%) VMware
12 26 (1.26%) Databricks
13 23 (1.11%) Informatica
14 20 (0.97%) Adobe
14 20 (0.97%) MuleSoft