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 8 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 32 44
Rank change year-on-year -13 +12 +3
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,115 1,585 1,405
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.62% 5.74% 4.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.37% 39.63% 32.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,410 1,097 932
10th Percentile £350 £317 £340
25th Percentile £406 £401 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.69%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £619
90th Percentile £671 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 40 87
10th Percentile £18.75 £47.38 £25.99
25th Percentile £26.25 £50.75 £40.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £63.00 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% -6.67% +8.00%
75th Percentile £67.47 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £85.60 -
UK median hourly rate £53.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.83% -11.54% +4.84%

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 5,372 4,000 4,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.74% 14.49% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,415 2,766 2,827
10th Percentile £353 £320 £351
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £631
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 96 199
10th Percentile £35.00 £41.13 £32.74
25th Percentile £57.25 £51.05 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £74.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.38 £73.80
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% - +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 8 August 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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -8 996 £525 +0.96% 343
North of England -14 383 £475 +2.15% 105
Midlands -2 301 £455 -4.21% 69
West Midlands -4 261 £459 -7.46% 47
South East -30 216 £494 +2.02% 153
Yorkshire -7 215 £475 -0.11% 41
North West -30 149 £470 +9.30% 45
South West -8 133 £493 -12.25% 61
East of England -10 54 £450 +12.50% 40
East Midlands -1 38 £402 -6.73% 22
North East -37 26 £550 +2.33% 21
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
1 940 (44.44%) Confluence
2 104 (4.92%) SharePoint
3 33 (1.56%) SAS
4 26 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (0.80%) CMS
6 15 (0.71%) Apache
7 10 (0.47%) nginx
8 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.28%) Mattermost
9 6 (0.28%) WebLogic
10 5 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
10 5 (0.24%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.19%) Camunda
11 4 (0.19%) IIS
11 4 (0.19%) JBoss
11 4 (0.19%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.19%) WordPress
12 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
12 3 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 149 (7.04%) Microsoft Project
2 143 (6.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 85 (4.02%) MS Visio
4 64 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 59 (2.79%) Microsoft Office
6 23 (1.09%) Trello
7 15 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.47%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.38%) Chatbot
9 8 (0.38%) Revit
10 5 (0.24%) Notion
11 2 (0.095%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.047%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.047%) CATIA
12 1 (0.047%) Gliffy
12 1 (0.047%) Mingle
12 1 (0.047%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.047%) Sketch
12 1 (0.047%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 41 (1.94%) Remedy ITSM
2 27 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.57%) Aladdin
3 12 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
5 9 (0.43%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.38%) Findur
7 7 (0.33%) Loan IQ
8 6 (0.28%) Fidessa
8 6 (0.28%) Teamcenter
9 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
9 5 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.19%) Actimize
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.19%) SAP FI-AR
10 4 (0.19%) SAP MDG
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
11 3 (0.14%) Oracle General Ledger
11 3 (0.14%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 530 (25.06%) Azure
2 337 (15.93%) AWS
3 294 (13.90%) Azure DevOps
4 179 (8.46%) GitHub
5 162 (7.66%) Power Platform
6 94 (4.44%) GCP
7 83 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
8 76 (3.59%) Entra ID
9 74 (3.50%) SaaS
10 67 (3.17%) Serverless
11 66 (3.12%) Amazon S3
11 66 (3.12%) GitHub Actions
12 58 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 54 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
14 46 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
15 33 (1.56%) Microsoft Copilot
15 33 (1.56%) Miro
15 33 (1.56%) Smartsheet
15 33 (1.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 30 (1.42%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 86 (4.07%) Firewall
2 66 (3.12%) DNS
3 44 (2.08%) TCP/IP
4 33 (1.56%) DHCP
5 32 (1.51%) Network Security
6 30 (1.42%) VPN
7 22 (1.04%) WAN
8 20 (0.95%) BIG-IP
9 19 (0.90%) SAN
10 18 (0.85%) SSL
11 16 (0.76%) LAN
12 15 (0.71%) SD-WAN
13 13 (0.61%) Internet
14 9 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 9 (0.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 9 (0.43%) VLAN
15 8 (0.38%) DKIM
15 8 (0.38%) DMARC
16 7 (0.33%) BGP
16 7 (0.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (6.76%) Power BI
2 100 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
3 75 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
4 54 (2.55%) SQL Server
5 48 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
6 30 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
7 28 (1.32%) Relational Database
8 27 (1.28%) MongoDB
9 26 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
10 24 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
10 24 (1.13%) Tableau
11 22 (1.04%) Data Lake
11 22 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 21 (0.99%) DynamoDB
13 20 (0.95%) Pentaho
14 18 (0.85%) Metadata
15 15 (0.71%) NoSQL
15 15 (0.71%) Oracle Database
15 15 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 13 (0.61%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 265 (12.53%) Git
2 191 (9.03%) Jenkins
3 106 (5.01%) GitLab
4 87 (4.11%) Selenium
5 82 (3.88%) Zephyr
6 71 (3.36%) Bitbucket
7 64 (3.03%) Postman
8 47 (2.22%) Cucumber
8 47 (2.22%) JUnit
9 35 (1.65%) JMeter
10 31 (1.47%) Sonatype Nexus
11 28 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 24 (1.13%) Cypress.io
12 24 (1.13%) WebDriver
13 22 (1.04%) TestRail
14 20 (0.95%) REST Assured
15 18 (0.85%) Artifactory
16 12 (0.57%) Appium
17 11 (0.52%) MSI
18 10 (0.47%) Maven
General
1 839 (39.67%) Social Skills
2 611 (28.89%) Finance
3 397 (18.77%) Analytical Skills
4 268 (12.67%) Banking
5 240 (11.35%) Public Sector
6 86 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
7 73 (3.45%) Retail
8 68 (3.22%) Documentation Skills
9 43 (2.03%) Manufacturing
10 42 (1.99%) Investment Banking
11 41 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
12 38 (1.80%) Legal
13 37 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 31 (1.47%) Front Office
15 29 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
15 29 (1.37%) Telecoms
16 27 (1.28%) Marketing
17 26 (1.23%) Retail Banking
18 22 (1.04%) Financial Institution
19 19 (0.90%) Military
Job Titles
1 367 (17.35%) Analyst
2 229 (10.83%) Business Analyst
3 212 (10.02%) Lead
4 201 (9.50%) Developer
5 191 (9.03%) Senior
6 115 (5.44%) Project Manager
7 93 (4.40%) Delivery Manager
8 86 (4.07%) Tester
9 83 (3.92%) Consultant
10 75 (3.55%) Scrum Master
11 73 (3.45%) Architect
12 70 (3.31%) Data Engineer
13 56 (2.65%) Support Engineer
14 53 (2.51%) IT Support
14 53 (2.51%) Product Owner
15 50 (2.36%) Test Leader
16 46 (2.17%) Test Analyst
17 44 (2.08%) Senior Manager
18 39 (1.84%) Administrator
18 39 (1.84%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (5.86%) REST
2 76 (3.59%) .NET
3 53 (2.51%) Spring
4 48 (2.27%) React
5 46 (2.17%) HTML
5 46 (2.17%) JSON
6 45 (2.13%) RESTful
7 40 (1.89%) Kafka
8 39 (1.84%) AngularJS
9 37 (1.75%) Playwright
10 36 (1.70%) SOAP
11 33 (1.56%) CSS
12 32 (1.51%) XML
13 31 (1.47%) Middleware
13 31 (1.47%) Spring Boot
14 30 (1.42%) Node.js
14 30 (1.42%) Web Services
15 26 (1.23%) WireMock
16 25 (1.18%) .NET Core
17 24 (1.13%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 240 (11.35%) Product Ownership
2 132 (6.24%) Onboarding
3 88 (4.16%) Cloud Native
4 73 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 57 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
6 51 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
6 51 (2.41%) Virtual Team
7 50 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
8 43 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
9 40 (1.89%) Management Information System
10 33 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
10 33 (1.56%) Data Structures
11 32 (1.51%) Distributed Systems
12 20 (0.95%) Mobile App
13 19 (0.90%) Derivative
13 19 (0.90%) SCADA
14 18 (0.85%) Credit Risk
14 18 (0.85%) Security Posture
15 16 (0.76%) Clustering
15 16 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 160 (7.57%) Windows
2 122 (5.77%) Linux
3 48 (2.27%) Unix
4 24 (1.13%) Windows 10
5 21 (0.99%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.76%) Android
6 16 (0.76%) Mac OS
6 16 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.47%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.24%) Amazon Linux
9 4 (0.19%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 3 (0.14%) AIX
10 3 (0.14%) Check Point GAiA
11 2 (0.095%) MVS
11 2 (0.095%) Oracle Linux
11 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.095%) zOS
12 1 (0.047%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.047%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,250 (59.10%) Agile
2 611 (28.89%) Stakeholder Management
3 579 (27.38%) DevOps
4 466 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
5 459 (21.70%) CI/CD
6 424 (20.05%) Scrum
7 402 (19.01%) Continuous Improvement
8 362 (17.12%) Test Automation
9 298 (14.09%) Migration
10 245 (11.58%) User Acceptance Testing
11 236 (11.16%) Project Management
12 229 (10.83%) User Stories
13 228 (10.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 226 (10.69%) Validation
15 223 (10.54%) AI
16 212 (10.02%) Sprint Planning
17 207 (9.79%) Project Delivery
18 202 (9.55%) Change Management
19 195 (9.22%) SDLC
20 191 (9.03%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 355 (16.78%) SQL
2 256 (12.10%) Python
3 146 (6.90%) Java
4 93 (4.40%) JavaScript
5 85 (4.02%) C#
6 73 (3.45%) PowerShell
7 66 (3.12%) TypeScript
8 44 (2.08%) Bash
9 32 (1.51%) PL/SQL
10 17 (0.80%) Bicep
11 16 (0.76%) Groovy
11 16 (0.76%) Kotlin
11 16 (0.76%) Perl
12 15 (0.71%) VBA
13 14 (0.66%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.47%) C++
14 10 (0.47%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.43%) ActionScript
16 6 (0.28%) C
16 6 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 569 (26.90%) Security Cleared
2 439 (20.76%) SC Cleared
3 178 (8.42%) Degree
4 90 (4.26%) DV Cleared
5 78 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 71 (3.36%) ISTQB
7 55 (2.60%) PMI Certification
8 45 (2.13%) PMP
9 29 (1.37%) CISSP
10 24 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
11 22 (1.04%) Azure Certification
12 20 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (0.85%) Master's Degree
14 17 (0.80%) AWS Certification
14 17 (0.80%) CISM
15 16 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
15 16 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
15 16 (0.76%) SAFe Agilist
16 14 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 12 (0.57%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 254 (12.01%) QA
2 129 (6.10%) PMO
3 124 (5.86%) Data Quality
4 66 (3.12%) Accessibility
5 41 (1.94%) SLA
6 37 (1.75%) GDPR
7 28 (1.32%) WCAG
8 26 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 21 (0.99%) NCSC
10 20 (0.95%) NIST
11 16 (0.76%) GRC
12 12 (0.57%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.52%) ISO 20022
14 7 (0.33%) JSP 440
15 6 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 6 (0.28%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.28%) MiFID
15 6 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.28%) SEPA
16 5 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 138 (6.52%) Docker
2 125 (5.91%) Active Directory
3 32 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (0.47%) Firmware
5 10 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.19%) Squid
8 3 (0.14%) HDFS
9 2 (0.095%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.095%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.047%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.047%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.047%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 159 (7.52%) Kubernetes
2 150 (7.09%) Terraform
3 87 (4.11%) Ansible
4 61 (2.88%) Grafana
5 51 (2.41%) Prometheus
6 36 (1.70%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (0.99%) Control-M
8 19 (0.90%) HP ALM
9 16 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (0.66%) Puppet
11 13 (0.61%) Nessus
12 12 (0.57%) IBM Guardium
13 9 (0.43%) Packer
14 8 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 8 (0.38%) Dell DRAC
15 7 (0.33%) HP Quality Center
15 7 (0.33%) NetBackup
16 6 (0.28%) Istio
16 6 (0.28%) SCOM
16 6 (0.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 304 (14.37%) Microsoft
2 272 (12.86%) ServiceNow
3 163 (7.71%) Oracle
4 93 (4.40%) Atlassian
5 91 (4.30%) Salesforce
6 90 (4.26%) SAP
7 55 (2.60%) Google
8 43 (2.03%) IBM
9 42 (1.99%) Remedy
10 41 (1.94%) VMware
11 40 (1.89%) Denodo
12 35 (1.65%) Talend
13 34 (1.61%) Splunk
14 30 (1.42%) Databricks
15 27 (1.28%) Informatica
16 26 (1.23%) Workday
17 24 (1.13%) Adobe
17 24 (1.13%) F5
17 24 (1.13%) MuleSoft
18 22 (1.04%) HP