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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 44 52
Rank change year-on-year +10 +8 -10
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,003 1,180 1,375
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.44% 4.80% 3.63%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.88% 35.47% 32.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,423 753 952
10th Percentile £313 £313 £330
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £630
90th Percentile £693 £675 £750
UK median daily rate £491 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.80% -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% -19.23%
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% -28.03%

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 5,023 3,327 4,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.64% 13.54% 11.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,394 2,192 2,970
10th Percentile £338 £336 £358
25th Percentile £409 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.40% -4.38% -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 62 183
10th Percentile £35.80 £26.06 £37.50
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.48 £48.39
Median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.40% - +1.63%
75th Percentile £78.75 £71.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.00 £87.50
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +6.40% - +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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +7 869 £518 +3.50% 185
North of England +8 366 £450 -0.44% 101
Midlands +7 298 £425 -10.90% 80
West Midlands 0 231 £450 -5.46% 56
South East -8 204 £475 -5.00% 155
Yorkshire 0 196 £475 -5.00% 38
South West +13 166 £568 +0.44% 50
North West +17 162 £447 -0.67% 48
East of England -6 66 £425 - 46
East Midlands -1 65 £358 -26.94% 24
North East -15 8 £413 -9.14% 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
1 952 (47.53%) Confluence
2 115 (5.74%) SharePoint
3 37 (1.85%) SAS
4 31 (1.55%) nginx
5 21 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
6 20 (1.00%) CMS
7 19 (0.95%) 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
9 6 (0.30%) Palantir Foundry
10 5 (0.25%) JBoss
10 5 (0.25%) Mattermost
11 4 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.20%) IIS
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 222 (11.08%) Microsoft Project
2 187 (9.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 110 (5.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 107 (5.34%) Microsoft Office
5 86 (4.29%) MS Visio
6 22 (1.10%) 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 (0.100%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.100%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.100%) CATIA
12 2 (0.100%) InDesign
13 1 (0.050%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 22 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.85%) NetSuite
3 14 (0.70%) 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 8 (0.40%) Maximo
9 6 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
10 5 (0.25%) SAP MDG
10 5 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
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
12 3 (0.15%) Algo Collateral
12 3 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 391 (19.52%) Azure
2 294 (14.68%) AWS
3 226 (11.28%) Azure DevOps
4 175 (8.74%) GitHub
5 140 (6.99%) Power Platform
6 73 (3.64%) GCP
7 66 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
8 61 (3.05%) SaaS
9 59 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
10 53 (2.65%) Entra ID
11 49 (2.45%) Serverless
12 36 (1.80%) Amazon S3
13 34 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
14 33 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
15 31 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
16 30 (1.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 29 (1.45%) Figma
18 27 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
19 25 (1.25%) OpenShift
20 23 (1.15%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 56 (2.80%) Firewall
2 37 (1.85%) DNS
3 36 (1.80%) TCP/IP
4 31 (1.55%) VPN
5 25 (1.25%) WAN
6 24 (1.20%) LAN
7 21 (1.05%) Network Security
8 17 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (0.80%) HTTP
10 14 (0.70%) 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%) Unified Communications
15 7 (0.35%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (5.94%) Power BI
2 79 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
3 67 (3.34%) Tableau
4 56 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
5 48 (2.40%) SQL Server
6 39 (1.95%) MongoDB
7 36 (1.80%) NoSQL
8 24 (1.20%) Pentaho
9 22 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
10 21 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
11 20 (1.00%) Relational Database
12 17 (0.85%) Big Data
12 17 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
13 16 (0.80%) Metadata
13 16 (0.80%) MySQL
13 16 (0.80%) Oracle Database
14 15 (0.75%) DynamoDB
15 13 (0.65%) Hadoop
16 12 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 10 (0.50%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 244 (12.18%) Git
2 228 (11.38%) Jenkins
3 117 (5.84%) GitLab
4 92 (4.59%) Selenium
5 69 (3.44%) Postman
6 67 (3.34%) Cucumber
7 62 (3.10%) Bitbucket
8 53 (2.65%) JUnit
9 44 (2.20%) Zephyr
10 40 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
11 36 (1.80%) JMeter
12 33 (1.65%) REST Assured
13 30 (1.50%) TestRail
14 25 (1.25%) SonarQube
15 20 (1.00%) Maven
16 18 (0.90%) WebDriver
17 15 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 15 (0.75%) Cypress.io
17 15 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
17 15 (0.75%) SpecFlow
General
1 827 (41.29%) Social Skills
2 582 (29.06%) Finance
3 397 (19.82%) Analytical Skills
4 251 (12.53%) Banking
5 211 (10.53%) Public Sector
6 79 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
7 76 (3.79%) Documentation Skills
8 69 (3.44%) Retail
9 53 (2.65%) Military
10 47 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
11 46 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (1.80%) Legal
13 28 (1.40%) Investment Banking
13 28 (1.40%) Manufacturing
14 25 (1.25%) Front Office
15 20 (1.00%) Retail Banking
16 19 (0.95%) Marketing
16 19 (0.95%) Telecoms
17 17 (0.85%) Financial Institution
17 17 (0.85%) Law
Job Titles
1 408 (20.37%) Analyst
2 261 (13.03%) Business Analyst
3 183 (9.14%) Developer
4 154 (7.69%) Lead
4 154 (7.69%) Project Manager
5 138 (6.89%) Senior
6 126 (6.29%) Architect
7 95 (4.74%) Tester
8 63 (3.15%) Consultant
8 63 (3.15%) Delivery Manager
9 57 (2.85%) Data Engineer
10 53 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
11 51 (2.55%) Test Engineer
12 49 (2.45%) Scrum Master
13 48 (2.40%) Technical Analyst
14 46 (2.30%) Technical Business Analyst
14 46 (2.30%) Test Analyst
15 44 (2.20%) IT Support
15 44 (2.20%) Software Engineer
15 44 (2.20%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (7.14%) REST
2 65 (3.25%) Spring
3 55 (2.75%) .NET
4 54 (2.70%) Kafka
5 47 (2.35%) XML
6 45 (2.25%) JSON
7 44 (2.20%) React
8 43 (2.15%) SOAP
9 42 (2.10%) RESTful
9 42 (2.10%) Spring Boot
10 39 (1.95%) HTML
11 38 (1.90%) Playwright
12 35 (1.75%) CSS
13 31 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
14 26 (1.30%) ADO
14 26 (1.30%) OpenID
15 25 (1.25%) FastAPI
16 24 (1.20%) Node.js
16 24 (1.20%) OpenTelemetry
16 24 (1.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 227 (11.33%) Product Ownership
2 91 (4.54%) Onboarding
3 70 (3.49%) Cloud Native
4 53 (2.65%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
6 41 (2.05%) Virtual Team
7 38 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
8 33 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
9 31 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
10 27 (1.35%) Data Centre
11 26 (1.30%) Data Structures
12 25 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
12 25 (1.25%) PMI
13 24 (1.20%) Mobile App
14 22 (1.10%) Public Cloud
15 20 (1.00%) CMDB
16 17 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
16 17 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
17 15 (0.75%) Tandem
18 13 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 157 (7.84%) Windows
2 137 (6.84%) Linux
3 39 (1.95%) Unix
4 20 (1.00%) Android
4 20 (1.00%) 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 1,171 (58.46%) Agile
2 549 (27.41%) DevOps
3 522 (26.06%) Stakeholder Management
4 464 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
5 423 (21.12%) Scrum
6 397 (19.82%) CI/CD
7 356 (17.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 309 (15.43%) Test Automation
9 307 (15.33%) Project Management
10 258 (12.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 208 (10.38%) Migration
12 203 (10.13%) Project Delivery
13 201 (10.03%) User Stories
14 199 (9.94%) User Acceptance Testing
15 194 (9.69%) Change Management
16 183 (9.14%) Decision-Making
17 177 (8.84%) ITIL
18 170 (8.49%) Acceptance Criteria
19 168 (8.39%) Roadmaps
20 167 (8.34%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 304 (15.18%) SQL
2 258 (12.88%) Python
3 181 (9.04%) Java
4 95 (4.74%) JavaScript
5 88 (4.39%) C#
6 81 (4.04%) PowerShell
7 49 (2.45%) TypeScript
8 42 (2.10%) Bash
9 33 (1.65%) C++
10 24 (1.20%) Shell Script
11 20 (1.00%) Embedded C++
12 19 (0.95%) Go
13 17 (0.85%) PL/SQL
14 14 (0.70%) C
14 14 (0.70%) Perl
15 11 (0.55%) Ruby
16 10 (0.50%) Apex Code
16 10 (0.50%) Embedded C
16 10 (0.50%) PHP
17 9 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 545 (27.21%) Security Cleared
2 432 (21.57%) SC Cleared
3 266 (13.28%) Degree
4 91 (4.54%) PMI Certification
5 83 (4.14%) PMP
6 67 (3.34%) BPSS Clearance
7 66 (3.30%) ISTQB
8 55 (2.75%) DV Cleared
9 53 (2.65%) CISSP
10 49 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
11 44 (2.20%) TOGAF Certification
12 41 (2.05%) CISM
13 34 (1.70%) Master's Degree
14 25 (1.25%) AWS Certification
15 22 (1.10%) CBAP
16 20 (1.00%) ISEB
17 19 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
18 18 (0.90%) Azure Certification
18 18 (0.90%) IIBA
18 18 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 245 (12.23%) QA
2 121 (6.04%) PMO
3 91 (4.54%) Data Quality
4 43 (2.15%) Accessibility
5 42 (2.10%) GDPR
6 35 (1.75%) NIST
7 28 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 25 (1.25%) SLA
9 17 (0.85%) WCAG
10 15 (0.75%) GRC
11 14 (0.70%) PSD2
12 13 (0.65%) ISO 20022
13 12 (0.60%) PCI DSS
14 11 (0.55%) Basel III
14 11 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (0.50%) SEPA
16 8 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.40%) NIST 800
17 6 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 6 (0.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 188 (9.39%) Docker
2 75 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (0.90%) 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 (0.100%) Postfix
11 2 (0.100%) 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
1 193 (9.64%) Kubernetes
2 99 (4.94%) Terraform
3 88 (4.39%) Ansible
4 67 (3.34%) Grafana
5 52 (2.60%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.50%) OPNET
7 29 (1.45%) Control-M
8 25 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
9 24 (1.20%) HP ALM
10 23 (1.15%) IBM Guardium
10 23 (1.15%) Nessus
11 22 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
12 21 (1.05%) Consul
13 19 (0.95%) Puppet
14 16 (0.80%) Packer
15 12 (0.60%) NetBackup
15 12 (0.60%) SCCM
16 10 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
17 8 (0.40%) HP Quality Center
18 7 (0.35%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 237 (11.83%) Microsoft
2 221 (11.03%) ServiceNow
3 162 (8.09%) Oracle
4 154 (7.69%) Atlassian
5 101 (5.04%) Salesforce
6 68 (3.39%) SAP
7 52 (2.60%) Remedy
8 42 (2.10%) Google
9 40 (2.00%) IBM
10 35 (1.75%) Workday
11 32 (1.60%) Red Hat
12 30 (1.50%) Talend
13 28 (1.40%) Splunk
13 28 (1.40%) Tenable
14 26 (1.30%) HP
15 25 (1.25%) Databricks
16 23 (1.15%) BiZZdesign
16 23 (1.15%) Denodo
17 22 (1.10%) VMware
18 19 (0.95%) Sonatype