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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 44 49
Rank change year-on-year +12 +5 -15
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,804 1,313 1,691
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.91% 4.23% 4.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.43% 32.26% 34.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,328 837 1,141
10th Percentile £320 £313 £358
25th Percentile £402 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £634
90th Percentile £696 £675 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 43 54
10th Percentile £15.74 £37.55 £45.09
25th Percentile £45.46 £54.66 £51.31
Median hourly rate £63.14 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.81% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £71.50 - £70.00
90th Percentile £89.63 - £74.63
UK median hourly rate £60.50 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -13.57% +16.67% -

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 4,694 4,070 4,964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.37% 13.10% 12.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,275 2,534 3,518
10th Percentile £329 £347 £375
25th Percentile £407 £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 £647
90th Percentile £694 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 120 226
10th Percentile £39.00 £37.55 £46.03
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 £50.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.08 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.20 £75.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +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 21 November 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 21 November 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 21 November 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 +11 850 £525 +0.48% 460
North of England +5 324 £471 -4.40% 128
Midlands +26 210 £450 -8.16% 105
South East +4 195 £480 +6.67% 267
West Midlands +39 171 £475 -9.52% 60
Yorkshire 0 159 £500 - 41
North West +5 145 £447 -10.60% 78
South West +8 127 £566 -4.03% 103
East of England 0 55 £425 +4.68% 62
East Midlands -2 39 £358 -19.55% 44
North East -2 20 £510 +12.33% 9
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
1 818 (45.34%) Confluence
2 104 (5.76%) SharePoint
3 54 (2.99%) nginx
4 35 (1.94%) SAS
5 31 (1.72%) CMS
6 21 (1.16%) Apache
7 12 (0.67%) JBoss
7 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.67%) Tomcat
8 8 (0.44%) WordPress
9 7 (0.39%) Drupal
9 7 (0.39%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.33%) Mule
11 5 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
12 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
12 4 (0.22%) CICS
12 4 (0.22%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
Applications
1 136 (7.54%) Microsoft Project
2 131 (7.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 103 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
4 76 (4.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 65 (3.60%) MS Visio
6 30 (1.66%) Trello
7 12 (0.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 7 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.39%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.28%) Sketch
11 4 (0.22%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.22%) Simulink
11 4 (0.22%) Windchill
12 3 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
12 3 (0.17%) InVision
13 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.11%) InDesign
13 2 (0.11%) Notion
14 1 (0.055%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 18 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 17 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.44%) Aladdin
4 8 (0.44%) NetSuite
4 8 (0.44%) SAP PM
5 7 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
6 6 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.33%) SAP HR
7 5 (0.28%) Maximo
7 5 (0.28%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
8 4 (0.22%) Endur
8 4 (0.22%) Fidessa
8 4 (0.22%) Magento
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
8 4 (0.22%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.22%) SAP PLM
9 3 (0.17%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 349 (19.35%) Azure
2 327 (18.13%) AWS
3 178 (9.87%) Azure DevOps
4 168 (9.31%) GitHub
5 111 (6.15%) Power Platform
6 84 (4.66%) GCP
7 73 (4.05%) Serverless
8 60 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
9 55 (3.05%) Amazon S3
10 49 (2.72%) Amazon EC2
10 49 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
11 42 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
12 41 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
12 41 (2.27%) SaaS
13 40 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 36 (2.00%) Slack
15 35 (1.94%) Power Automate
16 34 (1.88%) Miro
16 34 (1.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 31 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 67 (3.71%) Firewall
2 62 (3.44%) DNS
3 40 (2.22%) SSH
4 39 (2.16%) HTTP
5 30 (1.66%) VPN
6 28 (1.55%) SMTP
7 24 (1.33%) FTP
8 20 (1.11%) SSL
9 18 (1.00%) TCP/IP
10 17 (0.94%) OpenLDAP
11 12 (0.67%) IMAP
12 11 (0.61%) DHCP
12 11 (0.61%) Network Security
13 10 (0.55%) BGP
14 9 (0.50%) MPLS
14 9 (0.50%) WAN
15 8 (0.44%) Unified Communications
16 7 (0.39%) IPsec
17 6 (0.33%) LAN
17 6 (0.33%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (5.38%) Power BI
2 77 (4.27%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (2.83%) Tableau
4 44 (2.44%) SQL Server
5 37 (2.05%) Relational Database
6 36 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
7 34 (1.88%) NoSQL
8 33 (1.83%) Pentaho
9 25 (1.39%) Oracle Database
10 23 (1.27%) Big Data
11 21 (1.16%) Metadata
12 20 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
12 20 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
13 19 (1.05%) MongoDB
14 18 (1.00%) MySQL
15 17 (0.94%) Hadoop
16 14 (0.78%) BigQuery
17 13 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
18 10 (0.55%) Data Vault
18 10 (0.55%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 279 (15.47%) Git
2 250 (13.86%) Jenkins
3 110 (6.10%) GitLab
4 78 (4.32%) Bitbucket
5 75 (4.16%) Selenium
6 61 (3.38%) Postman
7 47 (2.61%) Cucumber
8 44 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
9 37 (2.05%) JUnit
10 35 (1.94%) SonarQube
11 31 (1.72%) TestRail
12 30 (1.66%) Maven
13 28 (1.55%) Zephyr
14 27 (1.50%) SoapUI
15 26 (1.44%) Vagrant
16 22 (1.22%) Cypress.io
16 22 (1.22%) SpecFlow
17 21 (1.16%) REST Assured
18 20 (1.11%) Artifactory
19 17 (0.94%) TeamCity
General
1 748 (41.46%) Social Skills
2 433 (24.00%) Finance
3 297 (16.46%) Analytical Skills
4 219 (12.14%) Banking
5 196 (10.86%) Public Sector
6 62 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
7 58 (3.22%) Documentation Skills
8 50 (2.77%) Retail
9 39 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
10 34 (1.88%) Investment Banking
10 34 (1.88%) Legal
11 30 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
12 29 (1.61%) Front Office
12 29 (1.61%) Military
13 27 (1.50%) Manufacturing
13 27 (1.50%) Marketing
14 22 (1.22%) Telecoms
15 15 (0.83%) Law
16 14 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 13 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 316 (17.52%) Analyst
2 211 (11.70%) Developer
3 189 (10.48%) Business Analyst
4 151 (8.37%) Project Manager
5 133 (7.37%) Senior
6 131 (7.26%) Lead
7 108 (5.99%) Architect
8 74 (4.10%) Tester
9 63 (3.49%) DevOps Engineer
10 60 (3.33%) Test Analyst
11 52 (2.88%) Administrator
12 51 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
13 49 (2.72%) Consultant
14 46 (2.55%) Delivery Manager
15 42 (2.33%) Product Owner
16 41 (2.27%) Technical Analyst
17 39 (2.16%) Data Engineer
18 38 (2.11%) AWS Engineer
18 38 (2.11%) Software Engineer
19 37 (2.05%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (9.81%) REST
2 93 (5.16%) SOAP
3 84 (4.66%) .NET
4 81 (4.49%) AngularJS
5 79 (4.38%) React
6 76 (4.21%) HTML
7 60 (3.33%) CSS
8 55 (3.05%) RESTful
9 54 (2.99%) Kafka
10 51 (2.83%) JSON
10 51 (2.83%) Spring Boot
10 51 (2.83%) XML
11 49 (2.72%) Spring
12 42 (2.33%) Node.js
12 42 (2.33%) Web Services
13 39 (2.16%) Playwright
14 38 (2.11%) LDAP
15 37 (2.05%) RabbitMQ
16 28 (1.55%) OAuth
17 27 (1.50%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 186 (10.31%) Product Ownership
2 75 (4.16%) Onboarding
3 52 (2.88%) Cloud Native
4 45 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
5 43 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
6 37 (2.05%) Management Information System
7 33 (1.83%) Data Structures
8 30 (1.66%) Mobile App
9 29 (1.61%) Replication
10 28 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
11 26 (1.44%) PMI
12 25 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
13 24 (1.33%) CMDB
13 24 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
13 24 (1.33%) Virtual Team
14 20 (1.11%) PKI
15 19 (1.05%) Algorithms
15 19 (1.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 17 (0.94%) Data Centre
17 16 (0.89%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 147 (8.15%) Linux
2 144 (7.98%) Windows
3 53 (2.94%) Unix
4 32 (1.77%) VMS
5 24 (1.33%) Amazon Linux
6 18 (1.00%) Android
7 14 (0.78%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.72%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.67%) Apple iOS
9 12 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 11 (0.61%) Windows Server
11 9 (0.50%) Windows 10
12 6 (0.33%) CentOS
13 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.17%) zOS
14 2 (0.11%) Debian
14 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.11%) Solaris
14 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.055%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,106 (61.31%) Agile
2 541 (29.99%) DevOps
3 439 (24.33%) Problem-Solving
4 436 (24.17%) Scrum
5 370 (20.51%) CI/CD
6 366 (20.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 275 (15.24%) Test Automation
8 263 (14.58%) Project Management
9 253 (14.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 229 (12.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 197 (10.92%) Migration
12 184 (10.20%) Change Management
12 184 (10.20%) User Stories
13 176 (9.76%) User Acceptance Testing
14 165 (9.15%) Microservices
15 149 (8.26%) Project Delivery
16 146 (8.09%) Roadmaps
16 146 (8.09%) SDLC
17 145 (8.04%) ITIL
18 144 (7.98%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 298 (16.52%) SQL
2 287 (15.91%) Python
3 184 (10.20%) Java
4 152 (8.43%) JavaScript
5 100 (5.54%) PowerShell
6 85 (4.71%) C#
7 64 (3.55%) TypeScript
8 51 (2.83%) Bash
9 41 (2.27%) Go
10 35 (1.94%) Groovy
11 29 (1.61%) Perl
12 27 (1.50%) C++
13 20 (1.11%) Shell Script
14 15 (0.83%) Apex Code
15 13 (0.72%) PHP
15 13 (0.72%) PL/SQL
16 12 (0.67%) Ruby
17 9 (0.50%) Kotlin
18 8 (0.44%) Embedded C++
18 8 (0.44%) Korn
Qualifications
1 462 (25.61%) Security Cleared
2 410 (22.73%) SC Cleared
3 253 (14.02%) Degree
4 81 (4.49%) PMI Certification
5 66 (3.66%) PMP
6 59 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 58 (3.22%) CISSP
8 51 (2.83%) ISTQB
9 50 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
10 43 (2.38%) CISM
11 40 (2.22%) DV Cleared
12 30 (1.66%) AWS Certification
13 23 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
14 19 (1.05%) Azure Certification
15 18 (1.00%) Oracle Certification
16 17 (0.94%) Master's Degree
16 17 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
17 15 (0.83%) CBAP
18 13 (0.72%) ISEB
18 13 (0.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 217 (12.03%) QA
2 73 (4.05%) PMO
3 67 (3.71%) GDPR
4 61 (3.38%) Data Quality
5 52 (2.88%) Accessibility
6 48 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 39 (2.16%) NIST
8 23 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 19 (1.05%) ISO 20022
10 18 (1.00%) SEPA
11 17 (0.94%) PCI DSS
12 16 (0.89%) PSD2
12 16 (0.89%) WCAG
13 14 (0.78%) COBIT
13 14 (0.78%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.44%) GRC
14 8 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 7 (0.39%) NCSC
16 6 (0.33%) SLA
17 5 (0.28%) P3O
System Software
1 218 (12.08%) Docker
2 61 (3.38%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.22%) DFS Replication
3 22 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.67%) Dovecot
5 12 (0.67%) Postfix
5 12 (0.67%) Squid
6 11 (0.61%) Firmware
6 11 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
7 9 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.39%) Hyper-V
9 5 (0.28%) vSphere
10 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.11%) KVM
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.055%) NFS
Systems Management
1 190 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 130 (7.21%) Terraform
3 97 (5.38%) Ansible
4 55 (3.05%) Grafana
5 46 (2.55%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (1.55%) Packer
8 26 (1.44%) Consul
8 26 (1.44%) HP ALM
9 24 (1.33%) Nessus
10 16 (0.89%) Puppet
11 15 (0.83%) Control-M
12 14 (0.78%) NetBackup
13 13 (0.72%) OPNET
14 12 (0.67%) RSA Archer
14 12 (0.67%) SCCM
15 11 (0.61%) IBM Guardium
15 11 (0.61%) Progress Chef
16 10 (0.55%) Proxmox
17 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 253 (14.02%) Microsoft
2 226 (12.53%) ServiceNow
3 147 (8.15%) Oracle
4 108 (5.99%) Atlassian
5 93 (5.16%) Salesforce
6 65 (3.60%) SAP
7 53 (2.94%) Google
8 43 (2.38%) HP
9 37 (2.05%) Remedy
10 34 (1.88%) IBM
10 34 (1.88%) Talend
11 32 (1.77%) Denodo
12 31 (1.72%) Cisco
13 29 (1.61%) CyberArk
13 29 (1.61%) Splunk
14 27 (1.50%) VMware
15 22 (1.22%) Red Hat
16 18 (1.00%) BiZZdesign
16 18 (1.00%) CheckPoint
16 18 (1.00%) Cloudera