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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 44 51
Rank change year-on-year +10 +7 -10
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,794 1,188 1,446
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.51% 4.52% 3.83%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.12% 33.55% 32.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,315 730 1,027
10th Percentile £313 £308 £350
25th Percentile £400 £399 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £489 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.30% -6.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £589 £630
90th Percentile £700 £675 £734
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 24 40
10th Percentile £15.66 £45.60 £36.79
25th Percentile £39.00 £54.68 £47.70
Median hourly rate £63.40 £62.50 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% +6.38% -9.62%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.27 £70.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £70.50 £75.15
UK median hourly rate £64.20 £62.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +2.72% +8.70% -11.54%

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 4,706 3,541 4,416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.46% 13.47% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,266 2,193 3,140
10th Percentile £343 £338 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -4.65% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 64 205
10th Percentile £39.53 £45.35 £45.35
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.68 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +1.96%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £81.65 £75.95 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 27 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 27 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 27 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 +8 815 £525 +5.00% 130
North of England +5 325 £455 - 122
Midlands +10 230 £450 -8.16% 140
South East -3 192 £475 +5.56% 205
West Midlands +10 169 £492 +3.14% 82
Yorkshire -3 167 £500 +1.99% 59
South West +17 145 £578 +5.48% 89
North West +6 139 £434 -3.50% 50
East Midlands +10 60 £356 -28.80% 57
East of England -9 50 £463 +12.12% 91
North East -4 19 £475 +5.09% 14
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
1 845 (47.10%) Confluence
2 101 (5.63%) SharePoint
3 44 (2.45%) SAS
4 40 (2.23%) nginx
5 23 (1.28%) CMS
6 14 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.67%) Apache
8 10 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.39%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.33%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.28%) Ethereum
11 5 (0.28%) Hyperledger
12 4 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.17%) Drupal
13 3 (0.17%) IIS
13 3 (0.17%) Mule
13 3 (0.17%) SugarCRM
13 3 (0.17%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 184 (10.26%) Microsoft Project
2 156 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 111 (6.19%) Microsoft Office
4 93 (5.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 69 (3.85%) MS Visio
6 26 (1.45%) Trello
7 8 (0.45%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 5 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.28%) Notion
8 5 (0.28%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.28%) Sketch
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.22%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.17%) InVision
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.11%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.11%) InDesign
12 1 (0.056%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 17 (0.95%) NetSuite
2 15 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 9 (0.50%) Loan IQ
5 8 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.45%) Fidessa
5 8 (0.45%) Maximo
6 7 (0.39%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
6 7 (0.39%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.22%) Endur
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 4 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.22%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 352 (19.62%) Azure
2 276 (15.38%) AWS
3 190 (10.59%) Azure DevOps
4 164 (9.14%) GitHub
5 122 (6.80%) Power Platform
6 81 (4.52%) GCP
7 65 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
8 50 (2.79%) Serverless
9 47 (2.62%) SaaS
10 45 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
11 35 (1.95%) Amazon S3
12 34 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
12 34 (1.90%) Figma
13 33 (1.84%) AWS Lambda
14 32 (1.78%) Slack
15 30 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 29 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
16 29 (1.62%) Power Automate
17 28 (1.56%) Entra ID
18 27 (1.51%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 53 (2.95%) Firewall
2 38 (2.12%) DNS
3 29 (1.62%) SSH
3 29 (1.62%) TCP/IP
4 26 (1.45%) HTTP
5 25 (1.39%) VPN
6 15 (0.84%) FTP
7 13 (0.72%) SMTP
7 13 (0.72%) WAN
8 10 (0.56%) SSL
9 9 (0.50%) Network Security
9 9 (0.50%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.45%) Ethernet
10 8 (0.45%) IMAP
10 8 (0.45%) OpenLDAP
11 7 (0.39%) Modbus
11 7 (0.39%) RS-232
11 7 (0.39%) RS-485
12 6 (0.33%) LAN
13 5 (0.28%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (6.08%) Power BI
2 66 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
3 63 (3.51%) Tableau
4 44 (2.45%) SQL Server
5 38 (2.12%) NoSQL
6 34 (1.90%) Pentaho
7 29 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
8 26 (1.45%) MongoDB
8 26 (1.45%) Relational Database
9 24 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
10 19 (1.06%) Metadata
11 18 (1.00%) Big Data
12 17 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (0.95%) MySQL
13 16 (0.89%) Data Vault
13 16 (0.89%) Oracle Database
14 11 (0.61%) BigQuery
14 11 (0.61%) Star Schema
15 10 (0.56%) Hadoop
16 9 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 224 (12.49%) Jenkins
2 223 (12.43%) Git
3 114 (6.35%) GitLab
4 76 (4.24%) Selenium
5 68 (3.79%) Postman
6 61 (3.40%) Bitbucket
7 50 (2.79%) Cucumber
8 34 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
8 34 (1.90%) TestRail
9 33 (1.84%) REST Assured
9 33 (1.84%) SonarQube
10 27 (1.51%) Zephyr
11 25 (1.39%) JUnit
12 19 (1.06%) Maven
13 18 (1.00%) SpecFlow
14 17 (0.95%) JMeter
15 13 (0.72%) Cypress.io
15 13 (0.72%) Rational DOORS
15 13 (0.72%) SoapUI
16 12 (0.67%) Vagrant
General
1 745 (41.53%) Social Skills
2 496 (27.65%) Finance
3 338 (18.84%) Analytical Skills
4 234 (13.04%) Banking
5 193 (10.76%) Public Sector
6 65 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
7 63 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
7 63 (3.51%) Retail
8 54 (3.01%) Military
9 44 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
10 41 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
11 35 (1.95%) Investment Banking
12 29 (1.62%) Legal
13 24 (1.34%) Front Office
13 24 (1.34%) Marketing
13 24 (1.34%) Telecoms
14 20 (1.11%) Manufacturing
14 20 (1.11%) Retail Banking
15 14 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 13 (0.72%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 356 (19.84%) Analyst
2 234 (13.04%) Business Analyst
3 176 (9.81%) Developer
4 142 (7.92%) Lead
5 140 (7.80%) Project Manager
6 122 (6.80%) Senior
7 120 (6.69%) Architect
8 76 (4.24%) Tester
9 58 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
10 50 (2.79%) Consultant
11 47 (2.62%) Technical Analyst
12 46 (2.56%) Delivery Manager
13 44 (2.45%) Test Engineer
14 43 (2.40%) Technical Business Analyst
15 41 (2.29%) Data Engineer
15 41 (2.29%) DevOps Engineer
15 41 (2.29%) Scrum Master
16 40 (2.23%) Software Engineer
17 39 (2.17%) Test Analyst
18 36 (2.01%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (8.75%) REST
2 62 (3.46%) .NET
3 59 (3.29%) SOAP
4 53 (2.95%) RESTful
5 49 (2.73%) HTML
5 49 (2.73%) XML
6 47 (2.62%) Kafka
7 46 (2.56%) React
8 43 (2.40%) Spring
9 40 (2.23%) JSON
10 39 (2.17%) Playwright
11 38 (2.12%) CSS
12 35 (1.95%) Oracle Fusion
13 34 (1.90%) Spring Boot
14 32 (1.78%) AngularJS
14 32 (1.78%) LDAP
15 30 (1.67%) Node.js
16 26 (1.45%) OAuth
17 25 (1.39%) OpenID
18 19 (1.06%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 234 (13.04%) Product Ownership
2 83 (4.63%) Onboarding
3 68 (3.79%) Cloud Native
4 45 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
5 42 (2.34%) Management Information System
6 35 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (1.90%) PMI
8 29 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
9 28 (1.56%) Data Structures
10 25 (1.39%) Virtual Team
11 24 (1.34%) CMDB
12 23 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
12 23 (1.28%) Mobile App
13 21 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
13 21 (1.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 17 (0.95%) Replication
15 16 (0.89%) Tandem
16 15 (0.84%) Public Cloud
17 14 (0.78%) Reinsurance
18 12 (0.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 134 (7.47%) Windows
2 117 (6.52%) Linux
3 35 (1.95%) Unix
4 19 (1.06%) Android
5 16 (0.89%) VMS
6 13 (0.72%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.72%) Windows Server
7 12 (0.67%) Amazon Linux
8 11 (0.61%) Apple iOS
9 8 (0.45%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.39%) FreeRTOS
11 6 (0.33%) Mac OS
12 5 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.11%) Solaris
14 2 (0.11%) zOS
15 1 (0.056%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.056%) MVS
15 1 (0.056%) Windows Embedded Compact
15 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,100 (61.32%) Agile
2 529 (29.49%) DevOps
3 447 (24.92%) Stakeholder Management
4 428 (23.86%) Problem-Solving
5 417 (23.24%) Scrum
6 360 (20.07%) CI/CD
7 287 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 286 (15.94%) Project Management
9 278 (15.50%) Test Automation
10 250 (13.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 207 (11.54%) User Stories
12 190 (10.59%) User Acceptance Testing
13 185 (10.31%) Project Delivery
14 181 (10.09%) Analytics
15 176 (9.81%) Migration
16 167 (9.31%) Change Management
17 163 (9.09%) Acceptance Criteria
18 156 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
19 151 (8.42%) Roadmaps
20 149 (8.31%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 301 (16.78%) SQL
2 237 (13.21%) Python
3 165 (9.20%) Java
4 112 (6.24%) JavaScript
5 78 (4.35%) PowerShell
6 64 (3.57%) C#
7 51 (2.84%) TypeScript
8 40 (2.23%) Bash
9 30 (1.67%) C++
10 28 (1.56%) Go
11 20 (1.11%) Embedded C++
12 18 (1.00%) Groovy
13 16 (0.89%) PL/SQL
14 15 (0.84%) Shell Script
15 14 (0.78%) Apex Code
15 14 (0.78%) PHP
16 12 (0.67%) C
16 12 (0.67%) Perl
17 11 (0.61%) Ruby
18 10 (0.56%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 463 (25.81%) Security Cleared
2 388 (21.63%) SC Cleared
3 267 (14.88%) Degree
4 90 (5.02%) PMI Certification
5 74 (4.12%) PMP
6 57 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 56 (3.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 55 (3.07%) ISTQB
9 44 (2.45%) CISSP
10 43 (2.40%) TOGAF Certification
11 39 (2.17%) DV Cleared
12 34 (1.90%) CISM
13 33 (1.84%) Master's Degree
14 29 (1.62%) AWS Certification
15 26 (1.45%) CBAP
16 21 (1.17%) ISEB
17 18 (1.00%) Azure Certification
18 17 (0.95%) Oracle Certification
19 16 (0.89%) IIBA
20 15 (0.84%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 223 (12.43%) QA
2 100 (5.57%) PMO
3 84 (4.68%) Data Quality
4 56 (3.12%) Accessibility
5 46 (2.56%) GDPR
6 27 (1.51%) NIST
7 24 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 24 (1.34%) PSD2
8 21 (1.17%) ISO 20022
9 19 (1.06%) WCAG
10 18 (1.00%) SEPA
11 16 (0.89%) SLA
12 13 (0.72%) GRC
12 13 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.61%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.56%) Basel III
15 8 (0.45%) NCSC
15 8 (0.45%) NIST 800
16 7 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
17 6 (0.33%) P3O
System Software
1 196 (10.93%) Docker
2 51 (2.84%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.78%) Squid
6 12 (0.67%) DFS Replication
6 12 (0.67%) Firmware
7 8 (0.45%) Dovecot
7 8 (0.45%) Postfix
8 7 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
8 7 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.11%) KVM
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.056%) etcd
13 1 (0.056%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 1 (0.056%) Xen
Systems Management
1 170 (9.48%) Kubernetes
2 100 (5.57%) Terraform
3 75 (4.18%) Ansible
4 53 (2.95%) Grafana
5 43 (2.40%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.67%) OPNET
7 23 (1.28%) Nessus
8 21 (1.17%) Control-M
8 21 (1.17%) HP ALM
9 20 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (1.06%) Consul
11 16 (0.89%) Packer
12 15 (0.84%) IBM Guardium
13 14 (0.78%) NetBackup
14 13 (0.72%) Puppet
15 11 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
16 9 (0.50%) SCCM
17 8 (0.45%) Proxmox
18 7 (0.39%) Argo
19 6 (0.33%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 215 (11.98%) Microsoft
2 193 (10.76%) ServiceNow
3 164 (9.14%) Oracle
4 121 (6.74%) Atlassian
5 101 (5.63%) Salesforce
6 60 (3.34%) SAP
7 46 (2.56%) Google
8 43 (2.40%) Remedy
9 38 (2.12%) IBM
10 37 (2.06%) Talend
11 33 (1.84%) Denodo
12 25 (1.39%) Red Hat
13 24 (1.34%) HP
13 24 (1.34%) Splunk
14 22 (1.23%) BiZZdesign
15 21 (1.17%) Databricks
15 21 (1.17%) Workday
16 20 (1.11%) Tenable
16 20 (1.11%) VMware
17 18 (1.00%) Adobe