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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 43 51
Rank change year-on-year +9 +8 -8
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,967 1,183 1,395
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.42% 4.79% 3.66%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.55% 35.43% 32.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,398 754 966
10th Percentile £313 £313 £325
25th Percentile £400 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £630
90th Percentile £700 £675 £748
UK median daily rate £492 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -1.60% -1.96% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 21 55
10th Percentile £15.74 £48.00 £23.20
25th Percentile £20.69 £55.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.57 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.00 £75.92
UK median hourly rate £63.40 £62.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year +1.44% +36.22% -26.59%

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 4,974 3,339 4,318
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.70% 13.53% 11.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,364 2,179 3,010
10th Percentile £338 £333 £358
25th Percentile £409 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -4.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 64 191
10th Percentile £36.20 £26.10 £37.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.95 £49.24
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £71.88 £73.75
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +1.63%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 11 March 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 +6 856 £520 +4.00% 136
North of England +12 355 £450 -1.10% 85
Midlands +5 297 £425 -10.90% 76
West Midlands -1 230 £450 -5.66% 55
South East -11 197 £475 -5.00% 143
Yorkshire -3 196 £475 -5.94% 36
South West +16 163 £575 +1.77% 47
North West +15 150 £442 -1.72% 38
East Midlands -2 65 £358 -26.94% 20
East of England -3 63 £425 - 43
North East -15 9 £413 -9.14% 12
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
1 932 (47.38%) Confluence
2 114 (5.80%) SharePoint
3 42 (2.14%) SAS
4 31 (1.58%) nginx
5 21 (1.07%) Microsoft Exchange
6 20 (1.02%) CMS
7 13 (0.66%) Apache
8 9 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.41%) WebLogic
9 8 (0.41%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.31%) Ethereum
10 6 (0.31%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.31%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.31%) Palantir Foundry
11 5 (0.25%) Mattermost
12 4 (0.20%) IIS
12 4 (0.20%) JBoss
12 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.15%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.15%) Drupal
Applications
1 214 (10.88%) Microsoft Project
2 184 (9.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 108 (5.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 105 (5.34%) Microsoft Office
5 81 (4.12%) MS Visio
6 22 (1.12%) Trello
7 8 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.31%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
9 5 (0.25%) Notion
9 5 (0.25%) Photoshop
9 5 (0.25%) Sketch
10 4 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.15%) InVision
12 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.10%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.10%) CATIA
12 2 (0.10%) InDesign
13 1 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 21 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.86%) NetSuite
3 13 (0.66%) Loan IQ
3 13 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
4 11 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.56%) Workday HCM
5 10 (0.51%) Fidessa
6 8 (0.41%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.41%) Maximo
7 6 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 5 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.25%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 4 (0.20%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.20%) SAP Retail
10 3 (0.15%) Algo Collateral
10 3 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 380 (19.32%) Azure
2 286 (14.54%) AWS
3 213 (10.83%) Azure DevOps
4 169 (8.59%) GitHub
5 134 (6.81%) Power Platform
6 77 (3.91%) GCP
7 67 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
8 59 (3.00%) SaaS
9 51 (2.59%) Entra ID
9 51 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
10 42 (2.14%) Serverless
11 30 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
12 29 (1.47%) Amazon S3
12 29 (1.47%) Figma
13 28 (1.42%) AWS CloudFormation
13 28 (1.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 27 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
15 24 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
15 24 (1.22%) Miro
15 24 (1.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 51 (2.59%) Firewall
2 36 (1.83%) TCP/IP
3 35 (1.78%) DNS
4 31 (1.58%) VPN
5 24 (1.22%) WAN
6 23 (1.17%) LAN
7 20 (1.02%) Network Security
8 17 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (0.81%) HTTP
10 13 (0.66%) SD-WAN
11 11 (0.56%) DHCP
12 10 (0.51%) SSL
13 9 (0.46%) Ethernet
13 9 (0.46%) SSH
14 8 (0.41%) FTP
14 8 (0.41%) Internet
14 8 (0.41%) Unified Communications
15 7 (0.36%) Modbus
15 7 (0.36%) OpenVPN
15 7 (0.36%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (5.69%) Power BI
2 79 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (3.30%) Tableau
4 54 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
5 50 (2.54%) SQL Server
6 38 (1.93%) MongoDB
7 34 (1.73%) NoSQL
8 29 (1.47%) Pentaho
9 23 (1.17%) Oracle Reports
10 20 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
10 20 (1.02%) Oracle Database
10 20 (1.02%) Relational Database
11 18 (0.92%) MySQL
12 17 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
13 16 (0.81%) Big Data
13 16 (0.81%) Metadata
14 13 (0.66%) DynamoDB
15 12 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 11 (0.56%) Hadoop
17 10 (0.51%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 241 (12.25%) Git
2 234 (11.90%) Jenkins
3 116 (5.90%) GitLab
4 93 (4.73%) Selenium
5 74 (3.76%) Postman
6 68 (3.46%) Cucumber
7 61 (3.10%) Bitbucket
8 53 (2.69%) JUnit
9 44 (2.24%) Zephyr
10 40 (2.03%) Sonatype Nexus
11 36 (1.83%) JMeter
12 33 (1.68%) REST Assured
13 31 (1.58%) TestRail
14 28 (1.42%) SonarQube
15 20 (1.02%) Maven
16 17 (0.86%) Cypress.io
16 17 (0.86%) WebDriver
17 15 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 15 (0.76%) Rational DOORS
17 15 (0.76%) SpecFlow
General
1 815 (41.43%) Social Skills
2 567 (28.83%) Finance
3 383 (19.47%) Analytical Skills
4 242 (12.30%) Banking
5 207 (10.52%) Public Sector
6 78 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
7 72 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
8 67 (3.41%) Retail
9 52 (2.64%) Military
10 48 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
11 46 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
12 33 (1.68%) Legal
13 29 (1.47%) Investment Banking
13 29 (1.47%) Manufacturing
14 23 (1.17%) Front Office
15 20 (1.02%) Telecoms
16 19 (0.97%) Retail Banking
17 18 (0.92%) Financial Institution
17 18 (0.92%) Marketing
18 17 (0.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 398 (20.23%) Analyst
2 254 (12.91%) Business Analyst
3 181 (9.20%) Developer
4 151 (7.68%) Lead
4 151 (7.68%) Project Manager
5 139 (7.07%) Senior
6 124 (6.30%) Architect
7 95 (4.83%) Tester
8 61 (3.10%) Delivery Manager
9 59 (3.00%) Consultant
10 53 (2.69%) Data Engineer
10 53 (2.69%) Test Engineer
11 52 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
12 48 (2.44%) Technical Analyst
13 46 (2.34%) Technical Business Analyst
14 45 (2.29%) Scrum Master
14 45 (2.29%) Test Analyst
15 44 (2.24%) Software Engineer
16 43 (2.19%) Technical Manager
17 42 (2.14%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (7.27%) REST
2 63 (3.20%) Spring
3 55 (2.80%) .NET
4 50 (2.54%) Kafka
5 49 (2.49%) XML
6 47 (2.39%) JSON
7 45 (2.29%) RESTful
8 44 (2.24%) React
9 42 (2.14%) SOAP
10 41 (2.08%) HTML
10 41 (2.08%) Spring Boot
11 40 (2.03%) Playwright
12 36 (1.83%) CSS
13 32 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
14 27 (1.37%) OpenID
15 26 (1.32%) FastAPI
16 25 (1.27%) ADO
16 25 (1.27%) Node.js
16 25 (1.27%) OpenTelemetry
17 24 (1.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 223 (11.34%) Product Ownership
2 88 (4.47%) Onboarding
3 71 (3.61%) Cloud Native
4 50 (2.54%) Management Information System
5 43 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
6 41 (2.08%) Virtual Team
7 37 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
10 25 (1.27%) Data Centre
10 25 (1.27%) Mobile App
10 25 (1.27%) PMI
11 24 (1.22%) Data Structures
11 24 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
12 22 (1.12%) Public Cloud
13 19 (0.97%) CMDB
13 19 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
14 15 (0.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 15 (0.76%) Tandem
15 12 (0.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 154 (7.83%) Windows
2 135 (6.86%) Linux
3 38 (1.93%) Unix
4 21 (1.07%) Android
5 20 (1.02%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.66%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.51%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.36%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.051%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.051%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.051%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.051%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.051%) Windows Embedded Compact
11 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.051%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,158 (58.87%) Agile
2 539 (27.40%) DevOps
3 503 (25.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 461 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
5 424 (21.56%) Scrum
6 398 (20.23%) CI/CD
7 352 (17.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 313 (15.91%) Test Automation
9 293 (14.90%) Project Management
10 250 (12.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 201 (10.22%) Migration
11 201 (10.22%) Project Delivery
12 194 (9.86%) User Stories
13 190 (9.66%) User Acceptance Testing
14 185 (9.41%) Change Management
15 175 (8.90%) Decision-Making
16 169 (8.59%) ITIL
17 166 (8.44%) Acceptance Criteria
18 162 (8.24%) Roadmaps
19 161 (8.19%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 304 (15.46%) SQL
2 255 (12.96%) Python
3 182 (9.25%) Java
4 98 (4.98%) JavaScript
5 86 (4.37%) C#
6 82 (4.17%) PowerShell
7 51 (2.59%) TypeScript
8 39 (1.98%) Bash
9 34 (1.73%) C++
10 24 (1.22%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.02%) Embedded C++
12 19 (0.97%) Go
13 18 (0.92%) PL/SQL
14 14 (0.71%) C
15 13 (0.66%) Perl
16 11 (0.56%) PHP
16 11 (0.56%) Ruby
17 10 (0.51%) Embedded C
18 9 (0.46%) Apex Code
19 8 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 538 (27.35%) Security Cleared
2 430 (21.86%) SC Cleared
3 261 (13.27%) Degree
4 87 (4.42%) PMI Certification
5 79 (4.02%) PMP
6 67 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 64 (3.25%) ISTQB
8 54 (2.75%) DV Cleared
9 52 (2.64%) CISSP
10 50 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
11 44 (2.24%) TOGAF Certification
12 41 (2.08%) CISM
13 34 (1.73%) Master's Degree
14 25 (1.27%) AWS Certification
15 21 (1.07%) CBAP
15 21 (1.07%) ISEB
16 19 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
17 18 (0.92%) IIBA
17 18 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 17 (0.86%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (12.05%) QA
2 118 (6.00%) PMO
3 90 (4.58%) Data Quality
4 44 (2.24%) Accessibility
5 41 (2.08%) GDPR
6 33 (1.68%) NIST
7 26 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 23 (1.17%) SLA
9 19 (0.97%) WCAG
10 15 (0.76%) PSD2
11 13 (0.66%) GRC
11 13 (0.66%) ISO 20022
12 11 (0.56%) Basel III
12 11 (0.56%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (0.56%) SEPA
13 8 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.41%) NIST 800
14 6 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.31%) NCSC
System Software
1 190 (9.66%) Docker
2 73 (3.71%) Active Directory
3 18 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.56%) Firmware
6 8 (0.41%) Squid
6 8 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.15%) HDFS
11 2 (0.10%) Postfix
11 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.051%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.051%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.051%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 1 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.051%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 196 (9.96%) Kubernetes
2 89 (4.52%) Terraform
3 87 (4.42%) Ansible
4 67 (3.41%) Grafana
5 52 (2.64%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.53%) Control-M
6 30 (1.53%) OPNET
7 25 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
8 24 (1.22%) IBM Guardium
8 24 (1.22%) Nessus
9 23 (1.17%) HP ALM
10 22 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
11 21 (1.07%) Consul
12 19 (0.97%) Puppet
13 16 (0.81%) Packer
14 12 (0.61%) NetBackup
14 12 (0.61%) SCCM
15 10 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
16 7 (0.36%) FortiGate
16 7 (0.36%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 232 (11.79%) Microsoft
2 213 (10.83%) ServiceNow
3 168 (8.54%) Oracle
4 150 (7.63%) Atlassian
5 100 (5.08%) Salesforce
6 67 (3.41%) SAP
7 51 (2.59%) Remedy
8 44 (2.24%) Google
9 38 (1.93%) IBM
10 35 (1.78%) Talend
11 33 (1.68%) Workday
12 32 (1.63%) Red Hat
13 29 (1.47%) Splunk
14 28 (1.42%) Denodo
14 28 (1.42%) Tenable
15 25 (1.27%) Databricks
16 24 (1.22%) HP
17 23 (1.17%) BiZZdesign
18 20 (1.02%) VMware
19 19 (0.97%) Adobe