JIRA Contracts in England

Atlassian JIRA
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring JIRA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JIRA over the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 51 43
Rank change year-on-year +9 -8 -3
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,188 1,364 2,680
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.90% 3.63% 5.04%
As % of the Development Applications category 35.79% 32.46% 32.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 771 941 1,860
10th Percentile £314 £350 £344
25th Percentile £405 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £650
90th Percentile £688 £756 £766
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £538
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.26% +4.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 52 48
10th Percentile £48.92 £22.00 £42.42
25th Percentile £55.34 £36.84 £52.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £49.19 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.06% -21.30% +40.45%
75th Percentile £72.19 £64.06 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.00 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £45.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +38.89% -28.00% +40.45%

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 3,319 4,202 8,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.68% 11.17% 15.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,207 2,930 5,778
10th Percentile £340 £358 £390
25th Percentile £413 £425 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £529 £565
Median % change year-on-year -5.44% -6.42% +2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £688
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 162 246
10th Percentile £26.15 £33.38 £44.62
25th Percentile £51.48 £46.38 £53.00
Median hourly rate £63.25 £62.50 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% +1.63% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £68.66
90th Percentile £83.36 £88.13 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +0.81% +0.81% +22.39%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in England

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA in England.

Daily rate trend for JIRA in England

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in England over the 6 months to 2 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in England

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JIRA in England.

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in England

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in England over the 6 months to 2 April 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 2 April 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 +5 581 £500 -9.09% 968
North of England +24 194 £450 -10.00% 262
South East +9 157 £500 - 297
Midlands +54 109 £475 +5.56% 145
North West 0 99 £449 -12.06% 158
West Midlands +46 87 £475 -6.31% 101
Yorkshire +36 84 £500 +11.11% 78
South West -7 77 £563 +2.27% 106
East of England +5 33 £444 +8.23% 97
East Midlands +19 21 £475 +33.43% 43
North East +1 11 £463 -13.15% 27
JIRA
UK

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 563 (47.39%) Confluence
2 62 (5.22%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.60%) CMS
4 15 (1.26%) SAS
5 14 (1.18%) Apache
6 13 (1.09%) Drupal
6 13 (1.09%) JBoss
6 13 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.76%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.76%) nginx
7 9 (0.76%) WordPress
8 7 (0.59%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.51%) Skype for Business
10 4 (0.34%) Mendix
10 4 (0.34%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.25%) Camunda
11 3 (0.25%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.25%) IIS
11 3 (0.25%) Oracle Coherence
11 3 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 97 (8.16%) Microsoft Office
2 80 (6.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 70 (5.89%) Microsoft Project
4 50 (4.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 40 (3.37%) MS Visio
6 39 (3.28%) Trello
7 9 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.17%) InVision
9 2 (0.17%) Open Workbench
9 2 (0.17%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.084%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.084%) CATIA
10 1 (0.084%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 11 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.42%) Shopify
4 3 (0.25%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.25%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.17%) Kondor
5 2 (0.17%) MultiFonds
5 2 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.17%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.084%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.084%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.084%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.084%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.084%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.084%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.084%) SessionCam
6 1 (0.084%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 215 (18.10%) AWS
2 197 (16.58%) Azure
3 80 (6.73%) Power Platform
4 75 (6.31%) Azure DevOps
5 74 (6.23%) GitHub
6 59 (4.97%) GCP
7 39 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
8 35 (2.95%) Cloud Computing
8 35 (2.95%) Slack
9 30 (2.53%) SaaS
10 23 (1.94%) Dynamics 365
11 21 (1.77%) Asana
11 21 (1.77%) Serverless
12 20 (1.68%) Miro
13 19 (1.60%) Power Automate
14 18 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (1.52%) PowerApps
15 17 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
15 17 (1.43%) OpenShift
15 17 (1.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.10%) Firewall
2 20 (1.68%) HTTP
3 19 (1.60%) DNS
4 16 (1.35%) VPN
5 13 (1.09%) Software-Defined Radio
6 12 (1.01%) SAN
7 11 (0.93%) DHCP
7 11 (0.93%) Network Security
8 10 (0.84%) SNMP
8 10 (0.84%) TCP/IP
9 9 (0.76%) Kerberos
9 9 (0.76%) Skype
10 8 (0.67%) Internet
10 8 (0.67%) NAS
11 7 (0.59%) MPLS
12 6 (0.51%) IPv6
12 6 (0.51%) iSCSI
13 5 (0.42%) GPON
13 5 (0.42%) IPv4
13 5 (0.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (5.81%) Power BI
2 65 (5.47%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (4.38%) MySQL
4 42 (3.54%) MongoDB
5 41 (3.45%) Relational Database
6 40 (3.37%) SQL Server
7 35 (2.95%) NoSQL
8 31 (2.61%) Tableau
9 28 (2.36%) Apache Cassandra
10 22 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
11 20 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
12 16 (1.35%) Oracle Database
13 14 (1.18%) RDBMS
14 13 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
14 13 (1.09%) Data Lake
15 10 (0.84%) Big Data
15 10 (0.84%) Hadoop
16 9 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
17 8 (0.67%) Apache Hive
18 7 (0.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 203 (17.09%) Git
2 147 (12.37%) Jenkins
3 84 (7.07%) Bitbucket
4 75 (6.31%) GitLab
5 64 (5.39%) Selenium
6 57 (4.80%) Cucumber
6 57 (4.80%) Postman
7 45 (3.79%) JUnit
8 34 (2.86%) Visual Studio
9 33 (2.78%) SonarQube
10 31 (2.61%) REST Assured
11 30 (2.53%) Cypress.io
12 24 (2.02%) GoogleTest
12 24 (2.02%) TestRail
13 23 (1.94%) Jasmine
13 23 (1.94%) TeamCity
14 21 (1.77%) Maven
15 18 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
16 17 (1.43%) JMeter
16 17 (1.43%) Subversion
General
1 435 (36.62%) Social Skills
2 295 (24.83%) Finance
3 207 (17.42%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (10.77%) Banking
5 99 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 39 (3.28%) Marketing
7 26 (2.19%) Front Office
8 25 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (2.10%) Manufacturing
8 25 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
9 23 (1.94%) Automotive
9 23 (1.94%) Legal
9 23 (1.94%) Retail
10 21 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
10 21 (1.77%) Telecoms
11 19 (1.60%) Investment Banking
12 18 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
13 16 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (1.26%) Military
15 13 (1.09%) Law
Job Titles
1 200 (16.84%) Analyst
2 157 (13.22%) Developer
3 135 (11.36%) Senior
4 116 (9.76%) Business Analyst
5 114 (9.60%) Project Manager
6 91 (7.66%) Lead
7 55 (4.63%) Software Engineer
8 50 (4.21%) Tester
9 41 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
10 38 (3.20%) DevOps Engineer
11 36 (3.03%) Test Engineer
12 35 (2.95%) Consultant
13 34 (2.86%) Architect
13 34 (2.86%) Java Developer
14 30 (2.53%) Senior Developer
15 28 (2.36%) Data Engineer
16 26 (2.19%) Scrum Master
16 26 (2.19%) Technical Manager
17 23 (1.94%) IT Manager
17 23 (1.94%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (7.49%) REST
2 60 (5.05%) Spring Boot
3 52 (4.38%) HTML
3 52 (4.38%) Spring
4 47 (3.96%) CSS
5 46 (3.87%) AngularJS
6 45 (3.79%) RESTful
7 43 (3.62%) SOAP
8 41 (3.45%) Swagger
9 37 (3.11%) .NET
10 32 (2.69%) Kafka
11 31 (2.61%) OpenAPI
12 30 (2.53%) Web Services
13 25 (2.10%) React
14 24 (2.02%) JSON
15 22 (1.85%) Spring Security
16 21 (1.77%) Spring Batch
16 21 (1.77%) XML
17 18 (1.52%) pytest
18 17 (1.43%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 110 (9.26%) Product Ownership
2 40 (3.37%) Onboarding
3 25 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
4 23 (1.94%) Virtual Team
5 22 (1.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 21 (1.77%) Data Centre
7 19 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
8 18 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
9 17 (1.43%) Clustering
9 17 (1.43%) Mobile App
9 17 (1.43%) Public Cloud
10 16 (1.35%) Data Structures
10 16 (1.35%) Management Information System
11 13 (1.09%) SCADA
12 12 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (0.84%) PKI
15 9 (0.76%) Derivative
15 9 (0.76%) Mainframe
15 9 (0.76%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 152 (12.79%) Linux
2 111 (9.34%) Windows
3 51 (4.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 44 (3.70%) Unix
5 28 (2.36%) Windows Server
6 16 (1.35%) Android
7 13 (1.09%) Apple iOS
8 12 (1.01%) Embedded Linux
9 11 (0.93%) Mac OS
10 9 (0.76%) Windows 10
11 8 (0.67%) CentOS
11 8 (0.67%) VMS
12 7 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (0.51%) Solaris
14 5 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
16 2 (0.17%) Debian
16 2 (0.17%) Ubuntu
16 2 (0.17%) zOS
17 1 (0.084%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 672 (56.57%) Agile
2 288 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
3 245 (20.62%) DevOps
4 242 (20.37%) Project Management
5 238 (20.03%) Scrum
6 193 (16.25%) Stakeholder Management
7 184 (15.49%) CI/CD
8 180 (15.15%) Test Automation
9 115 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 110 (9.26%) Waterfall
11 109 (9.18%) Software Engineering
12 102 (8.59%) Migration
13 96 (8.08%) User Stories
14 91 (7.66%) Decision-Making
15 90 (7.58%) Project Delivery
16 86 (7.24%) Risk Management
17 85 (7.15%) Business Intelligence
18 83 (6.99%) Analytics
18 83 (6.99%) Continuous Integration
18 83 (6.99%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 236 (19.87%) SQL
2 177 (14.90%) Python
3 169 (14.23%) Java
4 88 (7.41%) JavaScript
5 74 (6.23%) C#
6 61 (5.13%) Bash
7 42 (3.54%) PL/SQL
8 41 (3.45%) C++
9 40 (3.37%) PowerShell
10 37 (3.11%) TypeScript
11 22 (1.85%) Perl
11 22 (1.85%) Shell Script
12 18 (1.52%) Kotlin
13 16 (1.35%) Delphi
14 15 (1.26%) Go
15 12 (1.01%) PHP
16 10 (0.84%) Groovy
17 9 (0.76%) R
18 7 (0.59%) Scala
19 6 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 224 (18.86%) Security Cleared
2 201 (16.92%) SC Cleared
3 172 (14.48%) Degree
4 54 (4.55%) PMI Certification
5 50 (4.21%) PMP
6 39 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (2.02%) Master's Degree
8 22 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
9 21 (1.77%) ISTQB
9 21 (1.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 18 (1.52%) AWS Certification
11 13 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
11 13 (1.09%) CBAP
11 13 (1.09%) CCNA
11 13 (1.09%) ISEB
12 12 (1.01%) DV Cleared
13 11 (0.93%) CCNP
13 11 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.84%) Azure Certification
14 10 (0.84%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (10.19%) QA
2 41 (3.45%) PMO
3 38 (3.20%) Accessibility
4 30 (2.53%) Data Quality
5 27 (2.27%) GDPR
6 14 (1.18%) SLA
7 9 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.67%) NCSC
9 6 (0.51%) MiFID
10 5 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.42%) EMIR
10 5 (0.42%) NIST
10 5 (0.42%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.34%) WCAG
12 3 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.25%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.25%) PMBOK
13 2 (0.17%) IFRS
13 2 (0.17%) P3O
System Software
1 109 (9.18%) Docker
2 56 (4.71%) Active Directory
3 45 (3.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.94%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (1.26%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.76%) Firmware
7 6 (0.51%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.51%) VirtualBox
8 5 (0.42%) NFS
8 5 (0.42%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 4 (0.34%) HDFS
9 4 (0.34%) Lustre
9 4 (0.34%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 4 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.25%) Veritas File System
10 3 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 99 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 68 (5.72%) Ansible
3 63 (5.30%) Terraform
4 24 (2.02%) Progress Chef
4 24 (2.02%) Puppet
5 22 (1.85%) vCenter Server
6 17 (1.43%) HP ALM
7 16 (1.35%) Grafana
8 15 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (1.01%) Kibana
10 11 (0.93%) Podman
11 9 (0.76%) Consul
11 9 (0.76%) Packer
12 7 (0.59%) Prometheus
12 7 (0.59%) SCCM
13 6 (0.51%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
13 6 (0.51%) Opsgenie
14 5 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 5 (0.42%) QRadar
Vendors
1 180 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 123 (10.35%) Oracle
3 116 (9.76%) Atlassian
4 65 (5.47%) ServiceNow
5 63 (5.30%) Google
6 52 (4.38%) VMware
7 44 (3.70%) Splunk
8 42 (3.54%) Cisco
9 40 (3.37%) SAP
10 35 (2.95%) Red Hat
11 33 (2.78%) Salesforce
12 22 (1.85%) HP
13 20 (1.68%) IBM
14 19 (1.60%) Databricks
15 15 (1.26%) Adobe
16 13 (1.09%) AppDynamics
17 12 (1.01%) Dell
17 12 (1.01%) Informatica
18 11 (0.93%) CA Agile Central
18 11 (0.93%) Workday