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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 45 49
Rank change year-on-year +12 +4 -15
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,829 1,275 1,598
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.84% 4.39% 4.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.45% 32.97% 34.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,333 806 1,089
10th Percentile £322 £313 £363
25th Percentile £402 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% -0.14%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £685 £757
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £533
% change year-on-year - -6.19% -1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 27 42
10th Percentile £15.74 £46.20 £42.08
25th Percentile £42.81 £54.98 £50.31
Median hourly rate £63.45 £62.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £72.19 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £70.50 £74.88
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £62.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year +1.60% +2.04% -2.00%

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 4,757 3,867 4,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.18% 13.32% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,308 2,429 3,323
10th Percentile £333 £341 £375
25th Percentile £410 £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 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 85 207
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £45.88
25th Percentile £54.88 £54.36 £49.24
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.40 £75.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +9 848 £525 +4.43% 136
North of England +6 321 £469 -2.29% 141
Midlands +20 216 £450 -10.00% 120
South East 0 200 £475 - 200
West Midlands +20 171 £475 -5.00% 70
Yorkshire -1 171 £485 -1.07% 53
South West +9 146 £580 +4.98% 75
North West +2 135 £456 -6.46% 74
East of England -12 55 £425 +3.03% 71
East Midlands +7 44 £393 -15.14% 46
North East -4 15 £475 +5.56% 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
1 821 (44.89%) Confluence
2 112 (6.12%) SharePoint
3 37 (2.02%) nginx
4 35 (1.91%) SAS
5 31 (1.69%) CMS
6 13 (0.71%) Apache
7 12 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.38%) WordPress
10 6 (0.33%) Drupal
10 6 (0.33%) Mule
11 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.22%) CICS
11 4 (0.22%) OpenStack
11 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.22%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.16%) IIS
12 3 (0.16%) JBoss
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.16%) Traefik
Applications
1 181 (9.90%) Microsoft Project
2 136 (7.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 122 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
4 81 (4.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 72 (3.94%) MS Visio
6 36 (1.97%) Trello
7 11 (0.60%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 8 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
8 8 (0.44%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.33%) Notion
9 6 (0.33%) Sketch
9 6 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.27%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
11 4 (0.22%) InVision
11 4 (0.22%) Simulink
11 4 (0.22%) Windchill
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.11%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.11%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 19 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.98%) Remedy ITSM
3 15 (0.82%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 9 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.44%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.44%) SAP PM
7 7 (0.38%) SAP HR
8 6 (0.33%) Maximo
8 6 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
9 5 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
9 5 (0.27%) Loan IQ
9 5 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.27%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.22%) Endur
10 4 (0.22%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.22%) SAP ERP
10 4 (0.22%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 355 (19.41%) Azure
2 295 (16.13%) AWS
3 177 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
4 167 (9.13%) GitHub
5 116 (6.34%) Power Platform
6 90 (4.92%) GCP
7 64 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
8 61 (3.34%) Serverless
9 54 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
10 48 (2.62%) Amazon S3
11 45 (2.46%) SaaS
12 43 (2.35%) Amazon EC2
13 42 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
14 35 (1.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 35 (1.91%) Power Automate
14 35 (1.91%) Slack
15 33 (1.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 32 (1.75%) Figma
17 31 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
17 31 (1.69%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.28%) Firewall
2 48 (2.62%) DNS
3 37 (2.02%) SSH
4 35 (1.91%) HTTP
5 23 (1.26%) VPN
6 21 (1.15%) FTP
6 21 (1.15%) SMTP
6 21 (1.15%) SSL
7 20 (1.09%) TCP/IP
8 16 (0.87%) OpenLDAP
9 11 (0.60%) IMAP
10 8 (0.44%) DHCP
10 8 (0.44%) WAN
11 7 (0.38%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.33%) Network Security
13 5 (0.27%) Internet
13 5 (0.27%) Kerberos
13 5 (0.27%) LAN
13 5 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (5.63%) Power BI
2 71 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (3.01%) Tableau
4 42 (2.30%) SQL Server
5 36 (1.97%) Relational Database
6 33 (1.80%) Pentaho
7 32 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
8 30 (1.64%) NoSQL
9 28 (1.53%) Big Data
10 22 (1.20%) Oracle Database
11 20 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
11 20 (1.09%) MySQL
12 19 (1.04%) Metadata
12 19 (1.04%) MongoDB
13 18 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
14 17 (0.93%) Hadoop
15 12 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
16 11 (0.60%) BigQuery
16 11 (0.60%) Data Vault
16 11 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 244 (13.34%) Git
2 243 (13.29%) Jenkins
3 119 (6.51%) GitLab
4 77 (4.21%) Selenium
5 72 (3.94%) Bitbucket
6 70 (3.83%) Postman
7 55 (3.01%) Cucumber
8 35 (1.91%) TestRail
9 34 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
10 33 (1.80%) SonarQube
11 29 (1.59%) REST Assured
12 27 (1.48%) Zephyr
13 26 (1.42%) JUnit
13 26 (1.42%) SoapUI
14 22 (1.20%) Vagrant
15 21 (1.15%) SpecFlow
16 19 (1.04%) Maven
17 17 (0.93%) Rational DOORS
18 16 (0.87%) Artifactory
19 15 (0.82%) TeamCity
General
1 782 (42.76%) Social Skills
2 456 (24.93%) Finance
3 310 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
4 207 (11.32%) Banking
5 198 (10.83%) Public Sector
6 70 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
7 51 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
7 51 (2.79%) Retail
8 49 (2.68%) Military
9 41 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
10 40 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
11 38 (2.08%) Legal
12 32 (1.75%) Investment Banking
13 29 (1.59%) Manufacturing
14 28 (1.53%) Front Office
15 27 (1.48%) Marketing
16 22 (1.20%) Telecoms
17 18 (0.98%) Law
18 15 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 14 (0.77%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 318 (17.39%) Analyst
2 194 (10.61%) Business Analyst
3 181 (9.90%) Developer
4 169 (9.24%) Project Manager
5 143 (7.82%) Senior
6 134 (7.33%) Lead
7 115 (6.29%) Architect
8 73 (3.99%) Tester
9 58 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
9 58 (3.17%) Test Analyst
10 52 (2.84%) Consultant
11 49 (2.68%) Delivery Manager
11 49 (2.68%) Product Owner
12 47 (2.57%) Administrator
12 47 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
13 42 (2.30%) Software Engineer
13 42 (2.30%) Technical Analyst
14 39 (2.13%) Data Engineer
14 39 (2.13%) Technical Business Analyst
14 39 (2.13%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (9.13%) REST
2 79 (4.32%) .NET
2 79 (4.32%) SOAP
3 72 (3.94%) HTML
4 66 (3.61%) React
5 64 (3.50%) AngularJS
6 55 (3.01%) Kafka
7 53 (2.90%) CSS
8 52 (2.84%) JSON
9 51 (2.79%) XML
10 50 (2.73%) RESTful
11 45 (2.46%) LDAP
12 41 (2.24%) Node.js
13 38 (2.08%) Spring
14 37 (2.02%) Playwright
14 37 (2.02%) Spring Boot
15 36 (1.97%) RabbitMQ
16 31 (1.69%) Web Services
17 30 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
18 28 (1.53%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 215 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 80 (4.37%) Onboarding
3 57 (3.12%) Cloud Native
4 45 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
5 40 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
6 38 (2.08%) Management Information System
7 34 (1.86%) Data Structures
8 30 (1.64%) PMI
9 27 (1.48%) Mobile App
10 26 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
10 26 (1.42%) Replication
11 25 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
11 25 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
12 24 (1.31%) CMDB
13 22 (1.20%) Virtual Team
14 20 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
15 17 (0.93%) Data Centre
15 17 (0.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 16 (0.87%) Algorithms
16 16 (0.87%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 135 (7.38%) Windows
2 122 (6.67%) Linux
3 47 (2.57%) Unix
4 27 (1.48%) VMS
5 20 (1.09%) Amazon Linux
6 19 (1.04%) Android
7 15 (0.82%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.82%) Mac OS
8 14 (0.77%) Ubuntu
9 11 (0.60%) Windows Server
10 10 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 10 (0.55%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.22%) CentOS
12 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.16%) zOS
13 2 (0.11%) Debian
13 2 (0.11%) FreeRTOS
13 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.11%) Solaris
14 1 (0.055%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,124 (61.45%) Agile
2 544 (29.74%) DevOps
3 442 (24.17%) Problem-Solving
4 436 (23.84%) Scrum
5 401 (21.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 372 (20.34%) CI/CD
7 280 (15.31%) Project Management
8 274 (14.98%) Continuous Improvement
9 270 (14.76%) Test Automation
10 249 (13.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 196 (10.72%) Migration
12 192 (10.50%) Change Management
13 187 (10.22%) User Stories
14 178 (9.73%) User Acceptance Testing
15 162 (8.86%) Project Delivery
16 155 (8.47%) Microservices
17 154 (8.42%) Roadmaps
18 153 (8.37%) Analytics
19 151 (8.26%) ITIL
20 144 (7.87%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 307 (16.79%) SQL
2 273 (14.93%) Python
3 166 (9.08%) Java
4 143 (7.82%) JavaScript
5 87 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 78 (4.26%) C#
7 50 (2.73%) TypeScript
8 48 (2.62%) Bash
9 42 (2.30%) Go
10 31 (1.69%) C++
11 29 (1.59%) Groovy
12 24 (1.31%) Perl
13 18 (0.98%) Shell Script
14 17 (0.93%) Apex Code
14 17 (0.93%) PHP
15 16 (0.87%) PL/SQL
16 14 (0.77%) Ruby
17 12 (0.66%) Embedded C++
18 9 (0.49%) C
19 8 (0.44%) Korn
Qualifications
1 468 (25.59%) Security Cleared
2 404 (22.09%) SC Cleared
3 280 (15.31%) Degree
4 85 (4.65%) PMI Certification
5 70 (3.83%) PMP
6 62 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 56 (3.06%) CISSP
8 52 (2.84%) ISTQB
9 48 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
10 43 (2.35%) CISM
11 41 (2.24%) TOGAF Certification
12 39 (2.13%) DV Cleared
13 30 (1.64%) AWS Certification
14 21 (1.15%) CBAP
15 20 (1.09%) Azure Certification
15 20 (1.09%) Master's Degree
15 20 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
16 15 (0.82%) CSPO
17 14 (0.77%) APMP
17 14 (0.77%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 236 (12.90%) QA
2 93 (5.08%) PMO
3 65 (3.55%) Data Quality
3 65 (3.55%) GDPR
4 53 (2.90%) Accessibility
5 42 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (2.02%) NIST
7 20 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 18 (0.98%) PSD2
9 17 (0.93%) ISO 20022
9 17 (0.93%) PCI DSS
10 16 (0.87%) SEPA
10 16 (0.87%) WCAG
11 14 (0.77%) NIST 800
12 11 (0.60%) COBIT
13 9 (0.49%) GRC
13 9 (0.49%) SLA
14 8 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 7 (0.38%) NCSC
15 7 (0.38%) P3O
System Software
1 206 (11.26%) Docker
2 60 (3.28%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (1.04%) DFS Replication
5 17 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (0.66%) Firmware
7 11 (0.60%) Dovecot
7 11 (0.60%) Postfix
7 11 (0.60%) Squid
8 7 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.22%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
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%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.055%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.055%) etcd
Systems Management
1 183 (10.01%) Kubernetes
2 107 (5.85%) Terraform
3 90 (4.92%) Ansible
4 53 (2.90%) Grafana
5 42 (2.30%) Prometheus
6 32 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.64%) OPNET
8 29 (1.59%) HP ALM
9 23 (1.26%) Nessus
10 19 (1.04%) Puppet
11 15 (0.82%) Control-M
11 15 (0.82%) Packer
12 14 (0.77%) NetBackup
13 13 (0.71%) Consul
14 12 (0.66%) RSA Archer
14 12 (0.66%) SCCM
15 11 (0.60%) IBM Guardium
15 11 (0.60%) Progress Chef
16 10 (0.55%) Proxmox
17 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 246 (13.45%) Microsoft
2 231 (12.63%) ServiceNow
3 158 (8.64%) Oracle
4 122 (6.67%) Atlassian
5 96 (5.25%) Salesforce
6 68 (3.72%) SAP
7 57 (3.12%) Google
8 54 (2.95%) Remedy
9 45 (2.46%) HP
10 37 (2.02%) IBM
11 36 (1.97%) Talend
12 32 (1.75%) Denodo
13 31 (1.69%) Splunk
14 30 (1.64%) CyberArk
15 20 (1.09%) Red Hat
15 20 (1.09%) VMware
16 18 (0.98%) BiZZdesign
16 18 (0.98%) Tenable
17 17 (0.93%) BMC
17 17 (0.93%) Cisco