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

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 44 51
Rank change year-on-year +10 +7 -10
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,980 1,164 1,424
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.51% 4.62% 3.78%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.62% 34.63% 32.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,414 738 991
10th Percentile £313 £313 £325
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 £587 £630
90th Percentile £700 £675 £750
UK median daily rate £495 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -1.00% -1.96% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 20 55
10th Percentile £15.74 £47.70 £23.20
25th Percentile £22.13 £55.34 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £62.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% +19.05% -19.23%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.25 £75.92
UK median hourly rate £63.27 £62.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year +1.23% +36.22% -29.42%

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 4,997 3,361 4,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.90% 13.35% 11.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,412 2,150 3,026
10th Percentile £340 £331 £363
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% -8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 59 198
10th Percentile £31.38 £27.25 £39.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.62 £48.31
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £74.86
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.75 £85.68
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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +8 871 £525 +5.00% 160
North of England +13 358 £450 -5.26% 136
Midlands +7 289 £425 -12.10% 111
West Midlands +3 223 £450 -5.66% 69
Yorkshire -5 195 £480 -5.88% 58
South East -8 195 £475 -5.00% 218
South West +17 166 £571 +0.22% 89
North West +18 150 £434 -3.50% 62
East Midlands +1 64 £358 -26.94% 41
East of England -7 62 £425 - 90
North East -10 13 £375 -16.67% 18
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
1 935 (47.22%) Confluence
2 120 (6.06%) SharePoint
3 42 (2.12%) SAS
4 32 (1.62%) nginx
5 25 (1.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 21 (1.06%) CMS
7 13 (0.66%) Apache
8 10 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.40%) WebLogic
10 7 (0.35%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.30%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.30%) Hyperledger
11 6 (0.30%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
12 5 (0.25%) Mattermost
13 4 (0.20%) IIS
13 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.15%) Drupal
14 3 (0.15%) JBoss
14 3 (0.15%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 213 (10.76%) Microsoft Project
2 182 (9.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 107 (5.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 105 (5.30%) Microsoft Office
5 77 (3.89%) MS Visio
6 23 (1.16%) Trello
7 7 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.25%) Notion
8 5 (0.25%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.25%) Sketch
9 4 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.15%) InVision
11 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.10%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.10%) CATIA
11 2 (0.10%) InDesign
12 1 (0.051%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 19 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.86%) NetSuite
3 13 (0.66%) Loan IQ
3 13 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
4 11 (0.56%) Workday HCM
5 10 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
5 10 (0.51%) Fidessa
6 8 (0.40%) Maximo
6 8 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 7 (0.35%) Aladdin
8 6 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.25%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.20%) Endur
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 4 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.20%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 391 (19.75%) Azure
2 305 (15.40%) AWS
3 211 (10.66%) Azure DevOps
4 176 (8.89%) GitHub
5 133 (6.72%) Power Platform
6 84 (4.24%) GCP
7 75 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
8 59 (2.98%) SaaS
9 54 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
10 49 (2.47%) Entra ID
11 43 (2.17%) Serverless
12 33 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
13 32 (1.62%) Amazon S3
14 30 (1.52%) Figma
14 30 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 29 (1.46%) Amazon EKS
15 29 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
16 27 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
16 27 (1.36%) Slack
17 25 (1.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 51 (2.58%) Firewall
2 34 (1.72%) DNS
3 33 (1.67%) TCP/IP
4 29 (1.46%) VPN
5 21 (1.06%) WAN
6 19 (0.96%) LAN
7 17 (0.86%) HTTP
7 17 (0.86%) Network Security
8 15 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (0.61%) SSH
10 10 (0.51%) FTP
10 10 (0.51%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.45%) DHCP
11 9 (0.45%) Ethernet
12 8 (0.40%) SSL
12 8 (0.40%) Unified Communications
13 7 (0.35%) BIG-IP
13 7 (0.35%) OpenVPN
13 7 (0.35%) RS-232
13 7 (0.35%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (5.61%) Power BI
2 80 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
3 60 (3.03%) Tableau
4 53 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (2.68%) SQL Server
5 38 (1.92%) MongoDB
6 37 (1.87%) NoSQL
7 29 (1.46%) Pentaho
8 23 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
8 23 (1.16%) Oracle Reports
9 21 (1.06%) MySQL
9 21 (1.06%) Oracle Database
10 20 (1.01%) Relational Database
11 17 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
12 16 (0.81%) Big Data
12 16 (0.81%) Metadata
13 13 (0.66%) Data Vault
14 11 (0.56%) DynamoDB
14 11 (0.56%) Hadoop
14 11 (0.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 245 (12.37%) Git
2 233 (11.77%) Jenkins
3 118 (5.96%) GitLab
4 88 (4.44%) Selenium
5 78 (3.94%) Postman
6 65 (3.28%) Cucumber
7 61 (3.08%) Bitbucket
8 50 (2.53%) JUnit
9 43 (2.17%) Zephyr
10 37 (1.87%) Sonatype Nexus
11 34 (1.72%) JMeter
11 34 (1.72%) REST Assured
12 32 (1.62%) TestRail
13 31 (1.57%) SonarQube
14 20 (1.01%) Maven
15 17 (0.86%) Cypress.io
15 17 (0.86%) SpecFlow
16 15 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 15 (0.76%) Rational DOORS
16 15 (0.76%) WebDriver
General
1 815 (41.16%) Social Skills
2 555 (28.03%) Finance
3 379 (19.14%) Analytical Skills
4 239 (12.07%) Banking
5 207 (10.45%) Public Sector
6 79 (3.99%) Organisational Skills
7 73 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
8 66 (3.33%) Retail
9 54 (2.73%) Military
10 48 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
10 48 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
11 32 (1.62%) Investment Banking
11 32 (1.62%) Legal
12 29 (1.46%) Manufacturing
13 23 (1.16%) Front Office
14 22 (1.11%) Telecoms
15 21 (1.06%) Marketing
16 20 (1.01%) Retail Banking
17 16 (0.81%) Law
18 15 (0.76%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 403 (20.35%) Analyst
2 253 (12.78%) Business Analyst
3 184 (9.29%) Developer
4 153 (7.73%) Lead
5 150 (7.58%) Project Manager
6 135 (6.82%) Senior
7 125 (6.31%) Architect
8 97 (4.90%) Tester
9 58 (2.93%) Consultant
9 58 (2.93%) Delivery Manager
10 52 (2.63%) Data Engineer
10 52 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
11 51 (2.58%) Test Analyst
11 51 (2.58%) Test Engineer
12 46 (2.32%) Technical Analyst
13 45 (2.27%) Software Engineer
14 44 (2.22%) Technical Business Analyst
15 43 (2.17%) Scrum Master
16 42 (2.12%) Technical Manager
17 41 (2.07%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (7.27%) REST
2 61 (3.08%) .NET
2 61 (3.08%) Spring
3 49 (2.47%) XML
4 48 (2.42%) Kafka
5 47 (2.37%) JSON
6 45 (2.27%) HTML
6 45 (2.27%) RESTful
6 45 (2.27%) SOAP
7 44 (2.22%) React
8 43 (2.17%) Playwright
9 40 (2.02%) CSS
9 40 (2.02%) Spring Boot
10 33 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
11 27 (1.36%) Node.js
11 27 (1.36%) OpenID
12 25 (1.26%) FastAPI
12 25 (1.26%) LDAP
13 24 (1.21%) ADO
13 24 (1.21%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 225 (11.36%) Product Ownership
2 87 (4.39%) Onboarding
3 73 (3.69%) Cloud Native
4 51 (2.58%) Management Information System
5 47 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
6 40 (2.02%) Virtual Team
7 37 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
9 29 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
10 28 (1.41%) Data Structures
11 26 (1.31%) PMI
12 25 (1.26%) Data Centre
12 25 (1.26%) Mobile App
13 23 (1.16%) Public Cloud
14 22 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
15 19 (0.96%) CMDB
15 19 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
16 16 (0.81%) Tandem
17 15 (0.76%) Security Posture
18 14 (0.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 151 (7.63%) Windows
2 134 (6.77%) Linux
3 36 (1.82%) Unix
4 21 (1.06%) Android
4 21 (1.06%) Windows 10
5 13 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.45%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.35%) FreeRTOS
10 6 (0.30%) VMS
11 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.051%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.051%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.051%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.051%) Windows Embedded Compact
13 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.051%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,168 (58.99%) Agile
2 539 (27.22%) DevOps
3 496 (25.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 466 (23.54%) Problem-Solving
5 422 (21.31%) Scrum
6 406 (20.51%) CI/CD
7 348 (17.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 316 (15.96%) Test Automation
9 294 (14.85%) Project Management
10 250 (12.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 210 (10.61%) Migration
12 201 (10.15%) User Stories
13 195 (9.85%) Project Delivery
13 195 (9.85%) User Acceptance Testing
14 186 (9.39%) Change Management
15 170 (8.59%) Decision-Making
16 165 (8.33%) Acceptance Criteria
16 165 (8.33%) Roadmaps
17 164 (8.28%) ITIL
18 163 (8.23%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 305 (15.40%) SQL
2 260 (13.13%) Python
3 185 (9.34%) Java
4 102 (5.15%) JavaScript
5 87 (4.39%) C#
6 82 (4.14%) PowerShell
7 53 (2.68%) TypeScript
8 42 (2.12%) Bash
9 34 (1.72%) C++
10 24 (1.21%) Go
10 24 (1.21%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.01%) Embedded C++
12 18 (0.91%) PL/SQL
13 14 (0.71%) C
13 14 (0.71%) PHP
14 12 (0.61%) Perl
15 11 (0.56%) Ruby
16 10 (0.51%) Apex Code
16 10 (0.51%) Embedded C
17 8 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 532 (26.87%) Security Cleared
2 425 (21.46%) SC Cleared
3 265 (13.38%) Degree
4 89 (4.49%) PMI Certification
5 80 (4.04%) PMP
6 66 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 66 (3.33%) ISTQB
7 53 (2.68%) DV Cleared
8 50 (2.53%) CISSP
8 50 (2.53%) Computer Science Degree
9 44 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
10 41 (2.07%) CISM
11 35 (1.77%) Master's Degree
12 29 (1.46%) AWS Certification
13 23 (1.16%) ISEB
14 21 (1.06%) CBAP
15 19 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
16 18 (0.91%) IIBA
16 18 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 16 (0.81%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 241 (12.17%) QA
2 117 (5.91%) PMO
3 91 (4.60%) Data Quality
4 49 (2.47%) Accessibility
5 43 (2.17%) GDPR
6 33 (1.67%) NIST
7 27 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 22 (1.11%) SLA
9 21 (1.06%) 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 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.40%) NIST 800
14 7 (0.35%) NCSC
15 6 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 197 (9.95%) Docker
2 73 (3.69%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (0.51%) Firmware
6 9 (0.45%) Squid
7 8 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
9 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 4 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.15%) HDFS
11 3 (0.15%) Postfix
12 2 (0.10%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.051%) Dovecot
13 1 (0.051%) etcd
13 1 (0.051%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
13 1 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.051%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 199 (10.05%) Kubernetes
2 92 (4.65%) Terraform
3 90 (4.55%) Ansible
4 70 (3.54%) Grafana
5 52 (2.63%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.52%) OPNET
7 29 (1.46%) Control-M
8 24 (1.21%) HP ALM
8 24 (1.21%) Nessus
8 24 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
9 23 (1.16%) IBM Guardium
9 23 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
10 21 (1.06%) Consul
11 18 (0.91%) Puppet
12 16 (0.81%) Packer
13 13 (0.66%) SCCM
14 12 (0.61%) NetBackup
15 10 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
16 7 (0.35%) Argo
16 7 (0.35%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 237 (11.97%) Microsoft
2 216 (10.91%) ServiceNow
3 172 (8.69%) Oracle
4 143 (7.22%) Atlassian
5 102 (5.15%) Salesforce
6 65 (3.28%) SAP
7 51 (2.58%) Remedy
8 44 (2.22%) Google
9 38 (1.92%) IBM
10 35 (1.77%) Talend
11 31 (1.57%) Red Hat
12 30 (1.52%) Workday
13 28 (1.41%) Denodo
13 28 (1.41%) Splunk
13 28 (1.41%) Tenable
14 26 (1.31%) Databricks
15 25 (1.26%) HP
16 23 (1.16%) BiZZdesign
17 22 (1.11%) VMware
18 20 (1.01%) Adobe