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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 44 53
Rank change year-on-year +10 +9 -10
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,040 1,185 1,363
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.45% 4.84% 3.62%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.10% 35.67% 32.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,447 764 937
10th Percentile £313 £313 £343
25th Percentile £400 £405 £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 £693 £675 £750
UK median daily rate £492 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -1.60% -3.85% -3.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 21 54
10th Percentile £17.85 £48.00 £22.90
25th Percentile £25.00 £55.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £63.27 £62.50 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.23% +16.28% -14.00%
75th Percentile £72.81 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £62.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year +1.60% +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 5,087 3,322 4,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.59% 13.56% 11.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,448 2,196 2,942
10th Percentile £338 £340 £360
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -7.24%
75th Percentile £588 £627 £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 184 63 180
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.08 £37.50
25th Percentile £58.01 £51.72 £48.23
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.37 £83.13
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +6.40% +0.81% +0.81%

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 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 21 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 21 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 +6 890 £518 +3.50% 193
North of England +8 373 £450 - 107
Midlands +5 301 £425 -10.90% 76
West Midlands 0 236 £450 -5.66% 47
South East -9 209 £475 -5.00% 159
Yorkshire -7 193 £475 -5.00% 37
North West +17 169 £447 - 56
South West +18 168 £560 -0.67% 46
East of England +1 66 £425 - 46
East Midlands 0 63 £358 -27.68% 28
North East -16 11 £450 -0.88% 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
1 966 (47.35%) Confluence
2 115 (5.64%) SharePoint
3 38 (1.86%) SAS
4 31 (1.52%) nginx
5 22 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 20 (0.98%) CMS
7 18 (0.88%) Apache
8 8 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.39%) WebLogic
8 8 (0.39%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.29%) Ethereum
9 6 (0.29%) Hyperledger
9 6 (0.29%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.25%) JBoss
10 5 (0.25%) Mattermost
10 5 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
11 4 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
12 3 (0.15%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
12 3 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 226 (11.08%) Microsoft Project
2 190 (9.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 110 (5.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 106 (5.20%) Microsoft Office
5 91 (4.46%) MS Visio
6 23 (1.13%) Trello
7 8 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.34%) 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 (0.098%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.098%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.098%) CATIA
12 2 (0.098%) InDesign
13 1 (0.049%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 22 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.83%) NetSuite
3 14 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
4 13 (0.64%) Loan IQ
5 12 (0.59%) Workday HCM
6 11 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
7 10 (0.49%) Aladdin
7 10 (0.49%) Fidessa
8 7 (0.34%) Maximo
9 6 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.29%) SAP MDG
10 5 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
11 4 (0.20%) Findur
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 4 (0.20%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.20%) SAP Retail
11 4 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 3 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 413 (20.25%) Azure
2 297 (14.56%) AWS
3 243 (11.91%) Azure DevOps
4 184 (9.02%) GitHub
5 143 (7.01%) Power Platform
6 77 (3.77%) GCP
7 69 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
8 63 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
9 62 (3.04%) SaaS
10 58 (2.84%) Entra ID
11 51 (2.50%) Serverless
12 39 (1.91%) Amazon S3
13 37 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
14 33 (1.62%) Amazon EC2
15 32 (1.57%) AWS CloudFormation
16 31 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 30 (1.47%) Figma
18 28 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
19 27 (1.32%) Miro
20 25 (1.23%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 57 (2.79%) Firewall
2 36 (1.76%) DNS
3 35 (1.72%) TCP/IP
4 30 (1.47%) VPN
5 26 (1.27%) WAN
6 25 (1.23%) LAN
7 22 (1.08%) Network Security
8 18 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
9 15 (0.74%) HTTP
10 14 (0.69%) SD-WAN
11 11 (0.54%) DHCP
12 10 (0.49%) NAS
12 10 (0.49%) SAN
12 10 (0.49%) SSL
13 9 (0.44%) Ethernet
13 9 (0.44%) FTP
13 9 (0.44%) Internet
13 9 (0.44%) SSH
13 9 (0.44%) Unified Communications
14 8 (0.39%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (5.93%) Power BI
2 75 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
3 66 (3.24%) Tableau
4 57 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
5 48 (2.35%) SQL Server
6 39 (1.91%) MongoDB
7 37 (1.81%) NoSQL
8 24 (1.18%) Pentaho
9 23 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
10 22 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (0.98%) Relational Database
12 18 (0.88%) Big Data
12 18 (0.88%) DynamoDB
13 17 (0.83%) Metadata
13 17 (0.83%) MySQL
14 16 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
15 15 (0.74%) Oracle Database
16 12 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
16 12 (0.59%) Hadoop
16 12 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 253 (12.40%) Git
2 230 (11.27%) Jenkins
3 120 (5.88%) GitLab
4 94 (4.61%) Selenium
5 69 (3.38%) Postman
6 66 (3.24%) Cucumber
7 64 (3.14%) Bitbucket
8 53 (2.60%) JUnit
9 47 (2.30%) Zephyr
10 44 (2.16%) Sonatype Nexus
11 37 (1.81%) JMeter
12 34 (1.67%) REST Assured
13 32 (1.57%) TestRail
14 27 (1.32%) SonarQube
15 21 (1.03%) Maven
16 19 (0.93%) WebDriver
17 17 (0.83%) Cypress.io
18 15 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 15 (0.74%) Rational DOORS
18 15 (0.74%) SpecFlow
General
1 842 (41.27%) Social Skills
2 597 (29.26%) Finance
3 398 (19.51%) Analytical Skills
4 255 (12.50%) Banking
5 215 (10.54%) Public Sector
6 77 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
7 76 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
8 68 (3.33%) Retail
9 53 (2.60%) Military
10 49 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
11 46 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
12 35 (1.72%) Legal
13 28 (1.37%) Investment Banking
14 27 (1.32%) Manufacturing
15 25 (1.23%) Front Office
16 20 (0.98%) Marketing
16 20 (0.98%) Retail Banking
17 19 (0.93%) Telecoms
18 17 (0.83%) Financial Institution
18 17 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 414 (20.29%) Analyst
2 267 (13.09%) Business Analyst
3 184 (9.02%) Developer
4 162 (7.94%) Lead
5 156 (7.65%) Project Manager
6 146 (7.16%) Senior
7 128 (6.27%) Architect
8 95 (4.66%) Tester
9 69 (3.38%) Delivery Manager
10 64 (3.14%) Consultant
11 57 (2.79%) Data Engineer
12 54 (2.65%) Scrum Master
13 53 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
14 52 (2.55%) Test Engineer
15 50 (2.45%) Technical Analyst
16 48 (2.35%) Technical Business Analyst
17 47 (2.30%) Test Analyst
18 45 (2.21%) IT Support
18 45 (2.21%) Technical Manager
19 44 (2.16%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (6.96%) REST
2 65 (3.19%) Spring
3 58 (2.84%) .NET
4 53 (2.60%) Kafka
5 46 (2.25%) React
5 46 (2.25%) XML
6 45 (2.21%) JSON
7 44 (2.16%) RESTful
8 42 (2.06%) Spring Boot
9 41 (2.01%) SOAP
10 40 (1.96%) HTML
11 38 (1.86%) Playwright
12 37 (1.81%) CSS
13 30 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
14 28 (1.37%) ADO
15 26 (1.27%) OpenID
16 25 (1.23%) Node.js
17 23 (1.13%) LDAP
17 23 (1.13%) Web Services
18 22 (1.08%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 237 (11.62%) Product Ownership
2 92 (4.51%) Onboarding
3 71 (3.48%) Cloud Native
4 52 (2.55%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
6 44 (2.16%) Virtual Team
7 39 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
8 33 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
9 31 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
10 27 (1.32%) Data Centre
11 26 (1.27%) Data Structures
11 26 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
12 25 (1.23%) Mobile App
13 24 (1.18%) PMI
14 21 (1.03%) Public Cloud
15 20 (0.98%) CMDB
16 19 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
17 16 (0.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
18 15 (0.74%) Tandem
19 13 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 163 (7.99%) Windows
2 141 (6.91%) Linux
3 39 (1.91%) Unix
4 21 (1.03%) Android
5 19 (0.93%) Windows 10
6 13 (0.64%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.54%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.44%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.34%) FreeRTOS
11 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.049%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.049%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.049%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.049%) Windows Embedded Compact
12 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.049%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,200 (58.82%) Agile
2 568 (27.84%) DevOps
3 530 (25.98%) Stakeholder Management
4 470 (23.04%) Problem-Solving
5 441 (21.62%) Scrum
6 400 (19.61%) CI/CD
7 366 (17.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 318 (15.59%) Test Automation
9 310 (15.20%) Project Management
10 260 (12.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 210 (10.29%) Migration
11 210 (10.29%) User Stories
12 206 (10.10%) Project Delivery
13 205 (10.05%) User Acceptance Testing
14 198 (9.71%) Change Management
15 186 (9.12%) Decision-Making
16 179 (8.77%) ITIL
17 175 (8.58%) Validation
18 173 (8.48%) Roadmaps
19 172 (8.43%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 308 (15.10%) SQL
2 257 (12.60%) Python
3 186 (9.12%) Java
4 101 (4.95%) JavaScript
5 90 (4.41%) C#
6 85 (4.17%) PowerShell
7 51 (2.50%) TypeScript
8 43 (2.11%) Bash
9 33 (1.62%) C++
10 24 (1.18%) Shell Script
11 20 (0.98%) Embedded C++
12 19 (0.93%) Go
13 17 (0.83%) PL/SQL
14 14 (0.69%) C
14 14 (0.69%) Perl
15 11 (0.54%) Apex Code
15 11 (0.54%) Ruby
16 10 (0.49%) Embedded C
16 10 (0.49%) PHP
17 9 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 561 (27.50%) Security Cleared
2 445 (21.81%) SC Cleared
3 270 (13.24%) Degree
4 90 (4.41%) PMI Certification
5 83 (4.07%) PMP
6 69 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 67 (3.28%) ISTQB
8 54 (2.65%) DV Cleared
9 52 (2.55%) CISSP
10 49 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
11 44 (2.16%) TOGAF Certification
12 39 (1.91%) CISM
13 35 (1.72%) Master's Degree
14 24 (1.18%) AWS Certification
15 22 (1.08%) CBAP
16 21 (1.03%) Cisco Certification
17 20 (0.98%) ISEB
18 19 (0.93%) IIBA
19 18 (0.88%) Azure Certification
19 18 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 255 (12.50%) QA
2 120 (5.88%) PMO
3 92 (4.51%) Data Quality
4 46 (2.25%) GDPR
5 45 (2.21%) Accessibility
6 34 (1.67%) NIST
7 27 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 25 (1.23%) SLA
9 19 (0.93%) WCAG
10 15 (0.74%) GRC
11 13 (0.64%) PSD2
12 12 (0.59%) ISO 20022
12 12 (0.59%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.54%) Basel III
13 11 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.44%) SEPA
15 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.29%) NCSC
16 6 (0.29%) NIST 800
System Software
1 184 (9.02%) Docker
2 78 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.54%) Firmware
6 8 (0.39%) Squid
6 8 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.15%) HDFS
11 2 (0.098%) Postfix
11 2 (0.098%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.049%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.049%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.049%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 1 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.049%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 188 (9.22%) Kubernetes
2 108 (5.29%) Terraform
3 93 (4.56%) Ansible
4 62 (3.04%) Grafana
5 47 (2.30%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.47%) OPNET
7 28 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
8 25 (1.23%) HP ALM
9 24 (1.18%) Control-M
9 24 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
10 21 (1.03%) Consul
10 21 (1.03%) Puppet
11 17 (0.83%) IBM Guardium
11 17 (0.83%) Nessus
12 16 (0.78%) Packer
13 13 (0.64%) NetBackup
14 12 (0.59%) SCCM
15 11 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
16 8 (0.39%) HP Quality Center
17 7 (0.34%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 245 (12.01%) Microsoft
2 224 (10.98%) ServiceNow
3 163 (7.99%) Oracle
4 154 (7.55%) Atlassian
5 102 (5.00%) Salesforce
6 66 (3.24%) SAP
7 52 (2.55%) Remedy
8 46 (2.25%) Google
9 39 (1.91%) IBM
10 35 (1.72%) Workday
11 33 (1.62%) Red Hat
12 30 (1.47%) Splunk
12 30 (1.47%) Talend
13 27 (1.32%) HP
14 25 (1.23%) Databricks
15 24 (1.18%) Tenable
16 23 (1.13%) BiZZdesign
16 23 (1.13%) Denodo
16 23 (1.13%) VMware
17 21 (1.03%) CyberArk