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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 32 43
Rank change year-on-year -15 +11 +8
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,044 1,617 1,428
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.40% 5.82% 4.37%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.46% 39.11% 32.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,324 1,142 930
10th Percentile £350 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year - -4.31% -2.15%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £492 £511
% change year-on-year +1.63% -3.72% -2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 41 71
10th Percentile £22.68 £46.25 £25.99
25th Percentile £35.94 £50.00 £52.31
Median hourly rate £61.66 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% -10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 -
90th Percentile £83.50 £83.00 -
UK median hourly rate £58.74 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +2.15% -17.86% +12.00%

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 5,314 4,134 4,364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.45% 14.89% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,371 2,857 2,803
10th Percentile £355 £325 £353
25th Percentile £417 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £634
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 96 168
10th Percentile £35.00 £44.63 £37.31
25th Percentile £52.29 £54.94 £54.27
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £81.50 £73.83
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -13 966 £535 +1.81% 1,020
North of England -14 365 £475 +2.10% 276
Midlands -9 256 £459 -3.37% 133
West Midlands -10 220 £469 -1.26% 86
Yorkshire -10 210 £500 +5.26% 94
South East -36 204 £475 - 301
South West +5 141 £525 -4.55% 158
North West -35 131 £447 +1.59% 146
East of England -9 71 £491 +22.75% 148
East Midlands -1 35 £404 +12.40% 47
North East -33 31 £480 -7.69% 38
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
1 905 (44.28%) Confluence
2 102 (4.99%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (1.22%) SAS
5 19 (0.93%) CMS
6 10 (0.49%) Apache
6 10 (0.49%) Camunda
7 9 (0.44%) nginx
8 5 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.24%) IIS
8 5 (0.24%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.24%) MTS
9 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.20%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.20%) WordPress
10 3 (0.15%) Kentico
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
10 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 144 (7.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 120 (5.87%) Microsoft Project
3 81 (3.96%) MS Visio
4 66 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 62 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
6 22 (1.08%) Trello
7 15 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.49%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.39%) Revit
10 5 (0.24%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.24%) Notion
11 3 (0.15%) Windchill
12 2 (0.098%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.098%) Mingle
12 2 (0.098%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.049%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.049%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.049%) Gliffy
13 1 (0.049%) Mozilla Thunderbird
13 1 (0.049%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 35 (1.71%) Remedy ITSM
2 24 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
5 9 (0.44%) Aladdin
5 9 (0.44%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.29%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.24%) Fidessa
7 5 (0.24%) Findur
7 5 (0.24%) ResourceLink
7 5 (0.24%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.24%) SAP MDG
7 5 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.20%) SAP FI-AR
9 3 (0.15%) Maximo
9 3 (0.15%) SAP CRM
9 3 (0.15%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 488 (23.87%) Azure
2 311 (15.22%) AWS
3 273 (13.36%) Azure DevOps
4 165 (8.07%) Power Platform
5 158 (7.73%) GitHub
6 95 (4.65%) GCP
7 94 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
8 73 (3.57%) SaaS
9 62 (3.03%) Entra ID
10 61 (2.98%) Serverless
11 56 (2.74%) Amazon S3
12 52 (2.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 48 (2.35%) AWS Lambda
13 48 (2.35%) GitHub Actions
14 43 (2.10%) Miro
15 38 (1.86%) Amazon EC2
16 37 (1.81%) Microsoft Copilot
17 33 (1.61%) Smartsheet
18 27 (1.32%) Figma
18 27 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 82 (4.01%) Firewall
2 73 (3.57%) DNS
3 47 (2.30%) TCP/IP
4 35 (1.71%) DHCP
5 32 (1.57%) VPN
6 27 (1.32%) Network Security
7 24 (1.17%) WAN
8 22 (1.08%) BIG-IP
9 18 (0.88%) SSL
10 17 (0.83%) SAN
11 13 (0.64%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 13 (0.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 13 (0.64%) VLAN
11 13 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (0.59%) LAN
12 12 (0.59%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.54%) IPv4
13 11 (0.54%) IPv6
14 10 (0.49%) Internet
14 10 (0.49%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (7.09%) Power BI
2 92 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
3 67 (3.28%) SQL Server
4 61 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
5 40 (1.96%) Oracle Reports
6 38 (1.86%) Relational Database
7 28 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 21 (1.03%) Metadata
10 20 (0.98%) Amazon Athena
10 20 (0.98%) Data Lake
10 20 (0.98%) Oracle Database
11 19 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 17 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (0.83%) MongoDB
13 16 (0.78%) DynamoDB
13 16 (0.78%) Tableau
14 15 (0.73%) Power Query
14 15 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 14 (0.68%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 256 (12.52%) Git
2 173 (8.46%) Jenkins
3 115 (5.63%) GitLab
4 76 (3.72%) Zephyr
5 74 (3.62%) Selenium
6 62 (3.03%) Bitbucket
7 60 (2.94%) Postman
8 35 (1.71%) JUnit
9 31 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
10 26 (1.27%) Cucumber
10 26 (1.27%) Maven
11 24 (1.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 24 (1.17%) Cypress.io
12 23 (1.13%) JMeter
12 23 (1.13%) REST Assured
13 22 (1.08%) SonarQube
14 21 (1.03%) Mockito
15 20 (0.98%) Artifactory
15 20 (0.98%) TestRail
16 17 (0.83%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 803 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 590 (28.86%) Finance
3 396 (19.37%) Analytical Skills
4 281 (13.75%) Banking
5 236 (11.55%) Public Sector
6 88 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
7 75 (3.67%) Retail
8 64 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
9 52 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
10 50 (2.45%) Investment Banking
11 42 (2.05%) Manufacturing
12 38 (1.86%) Legal
13 37 (1.81%) Telecoms
14 36 (1.76%) Front Office
14 36 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 32 (1.57%) Marketing
16 26 (1.27%) Retail Banking
17 21 (1.03%) Law
17 21 (1.03%) Military
18 20 (0.98%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 350 (17.12%) Analyst
2 220 (10.76%) Lead
3 212 (10.37%) Business Analyst
4 200 (9.78%) Developer
5 181 (8.86%) Senior
6 106 (5.19%) Project Manager
7 86 (4.21%) Delivery Manager
8 78 (3.82%) Scrum Master
9 77 (3.77%) Consultant
10 72 (3.52%) Architect
11 65 (3.18%) Tester
12 52 (2.54%) Data Engineer
12 52 (2.54%) Product Owner
13 48 (2.35%) Administrator
13 48 (2.35%) Support Engineer
14 47 (2.30%) Test Analyst
15 45 (2.20%) Test Leader
16 41 (2.01%) Senior Manager
17 38 (1.86%) Product Manager
18 37 (1.81%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (7.05%) REST
2 136 (6.65%) Terraform
3 76 (3.72%) .NET
4 62 (3.03%) HTML
5 58 (2.84%) RESTful
6 54 (2.64%) AngularJS
7 53 (2.59%) React
8 49 (2.40%) SOAP
9 44 (2.15%) CSS
9 44 (2.15%) JSON
10 43 (2.10%) Spring
11 41 (2.01%) Kafka
12 40 (1.96%) Spring Boot
12 40 (1.96%) Web Services
13 38 (1.86%) Playwright
14 34 (1.66%) XML
15 33 (1.61%) Node.js
16 31 (1.52%) Middleware
17 25 (1.22%) Hibernate
18 23 (1.13%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 272 (13.31%) Product Ownership
2 139 (6.80%) Onboarding
3 90 (4.40%) Cloud Native
4 70 (3.42%) Data Centre
5 62 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
6 58 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
7 52 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
8 47 (2.30%) Virtual Team
9 40 (1.96%) Data Structures
10 39 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
11 33 (1.61%) Management Information System
12 29 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
13 24 (1.17%) Credit Risk
13 24 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
14 22 (1.08%) SCADA
15 20 (0.98%) Mobile App
16 18 (0.88%) Derivative
16 18 (0.88%) Replication
17 16 (0.78%) AI Agents
17 16 (0.78%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 147 (7.19%) Windows
2 130 (6.36%) Linux
3 44 (2.15%) Unix
4 28 (1.37%) Windows 10
5 21 (1.03%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.88%) Android
7 16 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (0.73%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.73%) Windows Server
9 9 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
10 7 (0.34%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.29%) CentOS
11 6 (0.29%) VMS
12 4 (0.20%) AIX
12 4 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
13 3 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.098%) Solaris
14 2 (0.098%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.098%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,225 (59.93%) Agile
2 653 (31.95%) Stakeholder Management
3 548 (26.81%) DevOps
4 455 (22.26%) Problem-Solving
5 443 (21.67%) Scrum
6 433 (21.18%) CI/CD
7 388 (18.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 345 (16.88%) Test Automation
9 300 (14.68%) Migration
10 254 (12.43%) User Acceptance Testing
11 250 (12.23%) User Stories
12 236 (11.55%) AI
12 236 (11.55%) Validation
13 235 (11.50%) Sprint Planning
14 227 (11.11%) Project Management
15 222 (10.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 207 (10.13%) SDLC
17 206 (10.08%) Project Delivery
18 189 (9.25%) Acceptance Criteria
19 184 (9.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 356 (17.42%) SQL
2 256 (12.52%) Python
3 139 (6.80%) Java
4 103 (5.04%) JavaScript
5 75 (3.67%) TypeScript
6 72 (3.52%) PowerShell
7 66 (3.23%) C#
8 39 (1.91%) Bash
9 34 (1.66%) PL/SQL
10 23 (1.13%) C++
11 22 (1.08%) Groovy
12 16 (0.78%) C
13 15 (0.73%) Apex Code
13 15 (0.73%) Bicep
13 15 (0.73%) Kotlin
14 13 (0.64%) ActionScript
15 12 (0.59%) Perl
15 12 (0.59%) VBA
16 8 (0.39%) T-SQL
17 7 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 546 (26.71%) Security Cleared
2 420 (20.55%) SC Cleared
3 168 (8.22%) Degree
4 93 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 90 (4.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 66 (3.23%) ISTQB
7 57 (2.79%) PMI Certification
8 45 (2.20%) PMP
9 29 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
10 24 (1.17%) AWS Certification
11 22 (1.08%) Master's Degree
12 21 (1.03%) Azure Certification
13 18 (0.88%) CISSP
14 17 (0.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 17 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
15 16 (0.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 13 (0.64%) IIBA
16 13 (0.64%) SAFe Agilist
17 11 (0.54%) CISM
17 11 (0.54%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 273 (13.36%) QA
2 126 (6.16%) Data Quality
3 125 (6.12%) PMO
4 61 (2.98%) Accessibility
5 37 (1.81%) SLA
6 24 (1.17%) WCAG
7 22 (1.08%) GDPR
8 20 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 20 (0.98%) NCSC
9 18 (0.88%) GRC
10 16 (0.78%) NIST
11 13 (0.64%) ISO 20022
12 8 (0.39%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.39%) SEPA
13 7 (0.34%) JSP 440
14 6 (0.29%) Software Quality Assurance
15 5 (0.24%) COBIT
15 5 (0.24%) MiFID
15 5 (0.24%) P3O
16 4 (0.20%) GxP
System Software
1 119 (5.82%) Docker
2 110 (5.38%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (0.44%) Firmware
6 7 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.20%) Squid
8 4 (0.20%) vSphere
9 2 (0.098%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.098%) Dovecot
9 2 (0.098%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.098%) Postfix
9 2 (0.098%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.049%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.049%) NFS
10 1 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.049%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.049%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 1 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 109 (5.33%) Kubernetes
2 77 (3.77%) Ansible
3 53 (2.59%) Grafana
4 42 (2.05%) Prometheus
5 35 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
6 25 (1.22%) HP ALM
7 15 (0.73%) Control-M
7 15 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (0.44%) Packer
9 8 (0.39%) Dell DRAC
9 8 (0.39%) Istio
9 8 (0.39%) Puppet
10 7 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 7 (0.34%) Nessus
10 7 (0.34%) SCCM
10 7 (0.34%) SCOM
11 6 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
11 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
12 5 (0.24%) HP Quality Center
12 5 (0.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 314 (15.36%) Microsoft
2 242 (11.84%) ServiceNow
3 148 (7.24%) Oracle
4 91 (4.45%) SAP
5 88 (4.31%) Salesforce
6 76 (3.72%) Atlassian
7 67 (3.28%) Google
8 53 (2.59%) IBM
9 47 (2.30%) VMware
10 40 (1.96%) Splunk
11 38 (1.86%) Remedy
12 32 (1.57%) Denodo
13 26 (1.27%) F5
13 26 (1.27%) HP
13 26 (1.27%) Talend
14 22 (1.08%) Adobe
14 22 (1.08%) Informatica
14 22 (1.08%) MuleSoft
15 21 (1.03%) Databricks
16 19 (0.93%) Cisco