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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 44 53
Rank change year-on-year +10 +9 -10
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,015 1,181 1,373
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.45% 4.83% 3.63%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.02% 35.50% 32.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,433 757 948
10th Percentile £313 £313 £325
25th Percentile £400 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £630
90th Percentile £692 £679 £750
UK median daily rate £490 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -2.00% -2.44% -4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 21 53
10th Percentile £15.74 £48.00 £22.60
25th Percentile £19.13 £55.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.57 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +19.05% -17.65%
75th Percentile £70.63 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.00 £70.00
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 5,035 3,327 4,256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.61% 13.60% 11.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,417 2,190 2,969
10th Percentile £337 £340 £358
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -3.57% -7.89%
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 183 62 180
10th Percentile £35.80 £26.06 £37.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.48 £48.23
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £78.75 £73.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.66 £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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +8 876 £513 +2.50% 184
North of England +5 366 £450 - 101
Midlands +6 300 £425 -10.90% 79
West Midlands +3 234 £450 -5.46% 52
South East -7 206 £475 -5.00% 154
Yorkshire -1 192 £478 -4.50% 38
South West +15 168 £560 -0.67% 49
North West +14 163 £447 -0.67% 48
East of England +2 65 £425 - 48
East Midlands -1 64 £375 -23.42% 26
North East -9 11 £450 -0.88% 16
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
1 955 (47.39%) Confluence
2 115 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 37 (1.84%) SAS
4 31 (1.54%) nginx
5 21 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
6 20 (0.99%) CMS
7 18 (0.89%) Apache
8 8 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.40%) WebLogic
8 8 (0.40%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.30%) Ethereum
9 6 (0.30%) Hyperledger
9 6 (0.30%) 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
1 222 (11.02%) Microsoft Project
2 189 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 111 (5.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 105 (5.21%) Microsoft Office
5 88 (4.37%) MS Visio
6 23 (1.14%) Trello
7 8 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.35%) 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 (0.099%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.099%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.099%) CATIA
12 2 (0.099%) InDesign
13 1 (0.050%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 21 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.84%) NetSuite
3 14 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
4 13 (0.65%) Loan IQ
5 12 (0.60%) Workday HCM
6 11 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
7 10 (0.50%) Aladdin
7 10 (0.50%) Fidessa
8 7 (0.35%) Maximo
9 6 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
10 5 (0.25%) SAP MDG
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
1 398 (19.75%) Azure
2 293 (14.54%) AWS
3 231 (11.46%) Azure DevOps
4 178 (8.83%) GitHub
5 141 (7.00%) Power Platform
6 76 (3.77%) GCP
7 67 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
8 61 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
9 59 (2.93%) SaaS
10 54 (2.68%) Entra ID
11 48 (2.38%) Serverless
12 36 (1.79%) Amazon S3
13 34 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
14 33 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
15 32 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
16 31 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 29 (1.44%) Figma
18 28 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
19 25 (1.24%) OpenShift
20 23 (1.14%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 57 (2.83%) Firewall
2 37 (1.84%) DNS
3 36 (1.79%) TCP/IP
4 31 (1.54%) VPN
5 25 (1.24%) WAN
6 24 (1.19%) LAN
7 22 (1.09%) Network Security
8 17 (0.84%) Wi-Fi
9 15 (0.74%) HTTP
10 14 (0.69%) SD-WAN
11 12 (0.60%) DHCP
12 10 (0.50%) SSL
13 9 (0.45%) Ethernet
13 9 (0.45%) FTP
13 9 (0.45%) Internet
13 9 (0.45%) NAS
13 9 (0.45%) SAN
13 9 (0.45%) SSH
14 8 (0.40%) BIG-IP
14 8 (0.40%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (5.96%) Power BI
2 73 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
3 67 (3.33%) Tableau
4 56 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
5 47 (2.33%) SQL Server
6 39 (1.94%) MongoDB
7 36 (1.79%) NoSQL
8 24 (1.19%) Pentaho
9 23 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
10 21 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (0.99%) Relational Database
12 17 (0.84%) Big Data
12 17 (0.84%) Metadata
13 16 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
13 16 (0.79%) MySQL
14 15 (0.74%) DynamoDB
14 15 (0.74%) Oracle Database
15 12 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 11 (0.55%) Hadoop
17 10 (0.50%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 246 (12.21%) Git
2 229 (11.36%) Jenkins
3 120 (5.96%) GitLab
4 94 (4.67%) Selenium
5 70 (3.47%) Postman
6 67 (3.33%) Cucumber
7 62 (3.08%) Bitbucket
8 53 (2.63%) JUnit
9 46 (2.28%) Zephyr
10 41 (2.03%) Sonatype Nexus
11 37 (1.84%) JMeter
12 34 (1.69%) REST Assured
13 31 (1.54%) TestRail
14 25 (1.24%) SonarQube
15 21 (1.04%) Maven
16 19 (0.94%) WebDriver
17 15 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 15 (0.74%) Cypress.io
17 15 (0.74%) Rational DOORS
17 15 (0.74%) SpecFlow
General
1 833 (41.34%) Social Skills
2 586 (29.08%) Finance
3 392 (19.45%) Analytical Skills
4 251 (12.46%) Banking
5 214 (10.62%) Public Sector
6 77 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
7 76 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
8 68 (3.37%) Retail
9 53 (2.63%) Military
10 46 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
10 46 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
11 36 (1.79%) Legal
12 29 (1.44%) Investment Banking
13 27 (1.34%) Manufacturing
14 25 (1.24%) Front Office
15 20 (0.99%) Marketing
15 20 (0.99%) Retail Banking
16 19 (0.94%) Telecoms
17 17 (0.84%) Financial Institution
17 17 (0.84%) Law
Job Titles
1 409 (20.30%) Analyst
2 263 (13.05%) Business Analyst
3 179 (8.88%) Developer
4 158 (7.84%) Lead
5 155 (7.69%) Project Manager
6 141 (7.00%) Senior
7 126 (6.25%) Architect
8 95 (4.71%) Tester
9 68 (3.37%) Delivery Manager
10 63 (3.13%) Consultant
11 55 (2.73%) Data Engineer
12 54 (2.68%) Scrum Master
13 53 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
14 52 (2.58%) Test Engineer
15 50 (2.48%) Technical Analyst
16 48 (2.38%) Technical Business Analyst
17 46 (2.28%) Test Analyst
18 44 (2.18%) IT Support
18 44 (2.18%) Software Engineer
18 44 (2.18%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (7.10%) REST
2 65 (3.23%) Spring
3 56 (2.78%) .NET
4 53 (2.63%) Kafka
5 46 (2.28%) XML
6 45 (2.23%) JSON
7 43 (2.13%) React
7 43 (2.13%) RESTful
8 42 (2.08%) SOAP
9 41 (2.03%) Spring Boot
10 39 (1.94%) HTML
10 39 (1.94%) Playwright
11 36 (1.79%) CSS
12 30 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
13 26 (1.29%) ADO
13 26 (1.29%) OpenID
14 24 (1.19%) Node.js
14 24 (1.19%) Web Services
15 23 (1.14%) LDAP
16 22 (1.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 234 (11.61%) Product Ownership
2 92 (4.57%) Onboarding
3 69 (3.42%) Cloud Native
4 53 (2.63%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
6 43 (2.13%) Virtual Team
7 38 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
8 33 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
9 30 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
10 27 (1.34%) Data Centre
11 26 (1.29%) Data Structures
11 26 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
12 24 (1.19%) Mobile App
12 24 (1.19%) PMI
13 21 (1.04%) Public Cloud
14 20 (0.99%) CMDB
15 17 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
16 16 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
17 15 (0.74%) Tandem
18 13 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 159 (7.89%) Windows
2 137 (6.80%) Linux
3 37 (1.84%) Unix
4 20 (0.99%) Android
4 20 (0.99%) Windows 10
5 13 (0.65%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.50%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.50%) Mac OS
6 10 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.35%) FreeRTOS
8 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.050%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.050%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.050%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.050%) Windows Embedded Compact
9 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.050%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.050%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,183 (58.71%) Agile
2 553 (27.44%) DevOps
3 522 (25.91%) Stakeholder Management
4 463 (22.98%) Problem-Solving
5 434 (21.54%) Scrum
6 394 (19.55%) CI/CD
7 361 (17.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 317 (15.73%) Test Automation
9 307 (15.24%) Project Management
10 259 (12.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 208 (10.32%) Migration
12 205 (10.17%) User Stories
13 204 (10.12%) Project Delivery
14 201 (9.98%) User Acceptance Testing
15 193 (9.58%) Change Management
16 183 (9.08%) Decision-Making
17 177 (8.78%) ITIL
18 172 (8.54%) Acceptance Criteria
19 171 (8.49%) Validation
20 169 (8.39%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 301 (14.94%) SQL
2 251 (12.46%) Python
3 182 (9.03%) Java
4 98 (4.86%) JavaScript
5 89 (4.42%) C#
6 83 (4.12%) PowerShell
7 49 (2.43%) TypeScript
8 43 (2.13%) Bash
9 33 (1.64%) C++
10 24 (1.19%) Shell Script
11 20 (0.99%) Embedded C++
12 19 (0.94%) Go
13 17 (0.84%) PL/SQL
14 14 (0.69%) C
14 14 (0.69%) Perl
15 11 (0.55%) Apex Code
15 11 (0.55%) Ruby
16 10 (0.50%) Embedded C
16 10 (0.50%) PHP
17 9 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 555 (27.54%) Security Cleared
2 439 (21.79%) SC Cleared
3 268 (13.30%) Degree
4 90 (4.47%) PMI Certification
5 83 (4.12%) PMP
6 68 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 65 (3.23%) ISTQB
8 54 (2.68%) DV Cleared
9 53 (2.63%) CISSP
10 49 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
11 44 (2.18%) TOGAF Certification
12 41 (2.03%) CISM
13 35 (1.74%) Master's Degree
14 24 (1.19%) AWS Certification
15 22 (1.09%) CBAP
16 20 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
16 20 (0.99%) ISEB
17 19 (0.94%) IIBA
18 17 (0.84%) Azure Certification
18 17 (0.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 249 (12.36%) QA
2 120 (5.96%) PMO
3 89 (4.42%) Data Quality
4 44 (2.18%) Accessibility
4 44 (2.18%) GDPR
5 35 (1.74%) NIST
6 29 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 25 (1.24%) SLA
8 18 (0.89%) WCAG
9 15 (0.74%) GRC
10 13 (0.65%) PSD2
11 12 (0.60%) ISO 20022
11 12 (0.60%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.55%) Basel III
12 11 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.45%) SEPA
14 8 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (0.40%) NIST 800
15 6 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 182 (9.03%) Docker
2 77 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (0.55%) Firmware
6 8 (0.40%) Squid
7 7 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.15%) HDFS
11 2 (0.099%) Postfix
11 2 (0.099%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.050%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.050%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.050%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 1 (0.050%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.050%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 186 (9.23%) Kubernetes
2 101 (5.01%) Terraform
3 89 (4.42%) Ansible
4 62 (3.08%) Grafana
5 47 (2.33%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.49%) OPNET
7 26 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
8 24 (1.19%) HP ALM
9 23 (1.14%) Control-M
9 23 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
10 21 (1.04%) Consul
11 19 (0.94%) Puppet
12 17 (0.84%) IBM Guardium
12 17 (0.84%) Nessus
13 16 (0.79%) Packer
14 13 (0.65%) NetBackup
14 13 (0.65%) SCCM
15 10 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
16 8 (0.40%) HP Quality Center
17 7 (0.35%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 239 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 223 (11.07%) ServiceNow
3 162 (8.04%) Oracle
4 154 (7.64%) Atlassian
5 102 (5.06%) Salesforce
6 66 (3.28%) SAP
7 52 (2.58%) Remedy
8 45 (2.23%) Google
9 39 (1.94%) IBM
10 35 (1.74%) Workday
11 33 (1.64%) Red Hat
12 30 (1.49%) Talend
13 28 (1.39%) Splunk
14 26 (1.29%) HP
15 25 (1.24%) Databricks
16 24 (1.19%) Tenable
17 23 (1.14%) BiZZdesign
17 23 (1.14%) Denodo
17 23 (1.14%) VMware
18 20 (0.99%) CyberArk