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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 42 50
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 -14
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,804 1,255 1,500
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.72% 4.44% 4.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.31% 33.44% 33.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,307 787 1,042
10th Percentile £314 £309 £363
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -1.19%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £685 £747
UK median daily rate £500 £491 £525
% change year-on-year +1.83% -6.48% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 23 36
10th Percentile £15.74 £45.40 £36.44
25th Percentile £42.44 £54.66 £49.62
Median hourly rate £64.75 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £71.00 £74.21
UK median hourly rate £66.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +5.60% +4.17% -4.00%

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 4,709 3,753 4,427
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.93% 13.29% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,265 2,348 3,158
10th Percentile £331 £335 £375
25th Percentile £409 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £644
90th Percentile £700 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £538
% change year-on-year -1.48% -5.67% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 71 195
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £42.59
25th Percentile £53.75 £54.18 £48.32
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.20 £75.25 £89.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.84%

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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 2025. 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 +9 821 £525 +5.00% 409
North of England +9 324 £464 -2.78% 412
Midlands +14 219 £450 -9.09% 359
South East -1 201 £475 +2.15% 495
West Midlands +18 171 £475 -5.00% 186
Yorkshire -4 167 £489 -0.91% 176
South West +15 147 £578 +5.00% 222
North West +11 140 £445 -6.32% 209
East of England -8 54 £431 +5.38% 250
East Midlands +4 47 £358 -22.59% 154
North East +3 17 £475 +5.56% 27
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
1 819 (45.40%) Confluence
2 113 (6.26%) SharePoint
3 39 (2.16%) SAS
4 35 (1.94%) nginx
5 32 (1.77%) CMS
6 11 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.55%) Apache
8 9 (0.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.39%) WordPress
10 6 (0.33%) Drupal
10 6 (0.33%) Mule
11 5 (0.28%) WebSphere
12 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
12 4 (0.22%) CICS
12 4 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
13 3 (0.17%) IIS
13 3 (0.17%) JBoss
13 3 (0.17%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 180 (9.98%) Microsoft Project
2 138 (7.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 115 (6.37%) Microsoft Office
4 85 (4.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 71 (3.94%) MS Visio
6 35 (1.94%) Trello
7 10 (0.55%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 8 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
8 8 (0.44%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.33%) Notion
9 6 (0.33%) Sketch
9 6 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.28%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
11 4 (0.22%) InVision
12 3 (0.17%) Simulink
12 3 (0.17%) Windchill
13 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.11%) Autodesk Smoke
13 2 (0.11%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 18 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.89%) NetSuite
3 14 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
4 10 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 9 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.44%) SAP PM
7 7 (0.39%) Aladdin
7 7 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
7 7 (0.39%) SAP HR
8 6 (0.33%) Maximo
8 6 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
9 5 (0.28%) Loan IQ
9 5 (0.28%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.22%) Endur
10 4 (0.22%) Fidessa
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 4 (0.22%) SAP ERP
11 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
11 3 (0.17%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 359 (19.90%) Azure
2 283 (15.69%) AWS
3 181 (10.03%) Azure DevOps
4 163 (9.04%) GitHub
5 125 (6.93%) Power Platform
6 88 (4.88%) GCP
7 65 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
8 59 (3.27%) Serverless
9 55 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
10 45 (2.49%) SaaS
11 44 (2.44%) Amazon S3
12 40 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
12 40 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
13 36 (2.00%) Power Automate
13 36 (2.00%) Slack
14 34 (1.88%) Figma
15 32 (1.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 31 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 30 (1.66%) Amazon ECS
17 30 (1.66%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 56 (3.10%) Firewall
2 42 (2.33%) DNS
3 36 (2.00%) SSH
4 33 (1.83%) HTTP
5 23 (1.27%) TCP/IP
5 23 (1.27%) VPN
6 20 (1.11%) FTP
7 19 (1.05%) SSL
8 18 (1.00%) SMTP
9 15 (0.83%) OpenLDAP
10 10 (0.55%) IMAP
11 8 (0.44%) DHCP
11 8 (0.44%) WAN
12 7 (0.39%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.33%) Network Security
13 6 (0.33%) Wireless
14 5 (0.28%) Ethernet
14 5 (0.28%) Internet
14 5 (0.28%) Kerberos
14 5 (0.28%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (6.15%) Power BI
2 68 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
3 58 (3.22%) Tableau
4 42 (2.33%) SQL Server
5 34 (1.88%) Relational Database
6 33 (1.83%) Pentaho
7 31 (1.72%) NoSQL
8 29 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
9 26 (1.44%) Big Data
10 22 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
11 21 (1.16%) MongoDB
11 21 (1.16%) Oracle Database
12 20 (1.11%) Metadata
13 18 (1.00%) MySQL
14 16 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
14 16 (0.89%) Hadoop
15 11 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
15 11 (0.61%) Data Vault
15 11 (0.61%) Redis
16 10 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 236 (13.08%) Git
2 231 (12.80%) Jenkins
3 113 (6.26%) GitLab
4 76 (4.21%) Selenium
5 70 (3.88%) Postman
6 68 (3.77%) Bitbucket
7 50 (2.77%) Cucumber
8 33 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
8 33 (1.83%) TestRail
9 31 (1.72%) SonarQube
10 29 (1.61%) REST Assured
11 27 (1.50%) Zephyr
12 24 (1.33%) SoapUI
13 23 (1.27%) JUnit
14 19 (1.05%) Maven
14 19 (1.05%) SpecFlow
15 18 (1.00%) Rational DOORS
16 17 (0.94%) Vagrant
17 16 (0.89%) Artifactory
18 14 (0.78%) Cypress.io
General
1 760 (42.13%) Social Skills
2 469 (26.00%) Finance
3 317 (17.57%) Analytical Skills
4 215 (11.92%) Banking
5 205 (11.36%) Public Sector
6 69 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
7 58 (3.22%) Retail
8 53 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
9 49 (2.72%) Military
10 41 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
11 40 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
12 38 (2.11%) Legal
13 32 (1.77%) Investment Banking
14 27 (1.50%) Manufacturing
14 27 (1.50%) Marketing
15 25 (1.39%) Front Office
16 22 (1.22%) Telecoms
17 18 (1.00%) Law
18 15 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 15 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 330 (18.29%) Analyst
2 205 (11.36%) Business Analyst
3 174 (9.65%) Developer
4 160 (8.87%) Project Manager
5 138 (7.65%) Lead
6 131 (7.26%) Senior
7 110 (6.10%) Architect
8 75 (4.16%) Tester
9 54 (2.99%) Consultant
10 51 (2.83%) DevOps Engineer
10 51 (2.83%) Test Analyst
11 47 (2.61%) Delivery Manager
11 47 (2.61%) Product Owner
12 46 (2.55%) Solutions Architect
13 45 (2.49%) Software Engineer
14 44 (2.44%) Technical Analyst
15 41 (2.27%) Test Engineer
16 40 (2.22%) Technical Business Analyst
17 37 (2.05%) Data Engineer
18 36 (2.00%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (8.65%) REST
2 74 (4.10%) SOAP
3 72 (3.99%) .NET
4 70 (3.88%) HTML
5 60 (3.33%) React
6 55 (3.05%) AngularJS
7 54 (2.99%) CSS
8 52 (2.88%) XML
9 50 (2.77%) JSON
9 50 (2.77%) Kafka
10 47 (2.61%) RESTful
11 41 (2.27%) Node.js
12 38 (2.11%) LDAP
13 35 (1.94%) Spring
14 34 (1.88%) Playwright
15 32 (1.77%) Spring Boot
16 31 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
17 29 (1.61%) OAuth
17 29 (1.61%) RabbitMQ
18 28 (1.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 219 (12.14%) Product Ownership
2 80 (4.43%) Onboarding
3 57 (3.16%) Cloud Native
4 45 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
5 37 (2.05%) Management Information System
6 35 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (1.88%) Data Structures
8 33 (1.83%) PMI
9 27 (1.50%) Mobile App
10 26 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
11 25 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
12 24 (1.33%) Replication
13 22 (1.22%) CMDB
13 22 (1.22%) Virtual Team
14 21 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
15 19 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
16 18 (1.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
17 17 (0.94%) Algorithms
18 16 (0.89%) Tandem
19 14 (0.78%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 133 (7.37%) Windows
2 118 (6.54%) Linux
3 46 (2.55%) Unix
4 24 (1.33%) VMS
5 20 (1.11%) Android
6 17 (0.94%) Amazon Linux
7 16 (0.89%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.83%) Apple iOS
9 12 (0.67%) Windows Server
10 11 (0.61%) Ubuntu
11 10 (0.55%) Windows 10
12 7 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 4 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
14 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.17%) zOS
15 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.11%) Solaris
16 1 (0.055%) CentOS
16 1 (0.055%) MVS
16 1 (0.055%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,096 (60.75%) Agile
2 544 (30.16%) DevOps
3 438 (24.28%) Problem-Solving
4 424 (23.50%) Scrum
5 413 (22.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 364 (20.18%) CI/CD
7 284 (15.74%) Project Management
8 272 (15.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 262 (14.52%) Test Automation
10 240 (13.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 194 (10.75%) User Stories
12 184 (10.20%) Change Management
13 179 (9.92%) Migration
14 175 (9.70%) Project Delivery
15 170 (9.42%) User Acceptance Testing
16 164 (9.09%) Analytics
17 158 (8.76%) Business Intelligence
18 150 (8.31%) ITIL
19 148 (8.20%) Roadmaps
20 145 (8.04%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 300 (16.63%) SQL
2 251 (13.91%) Python
3 153 (8.48%) Java
4 135 (7.48%) JavaScript
5 88 (4.88%) PowerShell
6 74 (4.10%) C#
7 48 (2.66%) Bash
7 48 (2.66%) TypeScript
8 39 (2.16%) Go
9 33 (1.83%) C++
10 26 (1.44%) Groovy
11 19 (1.05%) Apex Code
11 19 (1.05%) Perl
12 17 (0.94%) PL/SQL
12 17 (0.94%) Shell Script
13 16 (0.89%) Embedded C++
14 15 (0.83%) PHP
15 14 (0.78%) Ruby
16 12 (0.67%) C
17 9 (0.50%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 476 (26.39%) Security Cleared
2 408 (22.62%) SC Cleared
3 276 (15.30%) Degree
4 89 (4.93%) PMI Certification
5 73 (4.05%) PMP
6 57 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
7 53 (2.94%) ISTQB
8 52 (2.88%) CISSP
9 47 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
10 41 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
11 39 (2.16%) CISM
12 38 (2.11%) DV Cleared
13 29 (1.61%) AWS Certification
14 27 (1.50%) Master's Degree
15 25 (1.39%) CBAP
16 20 (1.11%) Azure Certification
17 18 (1.00%) Oracle Certification
18 16 (0.89%) CSPO
19 15 (0.83%) ISEB
20 14 (0.78%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (12.08%) QA
2 101 (5.60%) PMO
3 68 (3.77%) Data Quality
4 62 (3.44%) GDPR
5 57 (3.16%) Accessibility
6 37 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 34 (1.88%) NIST
8 18 (1.00%) ISO 20022
8 18 (1.00%) PSD2
8 18 (1.00%) WCAG
9 16 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 16 (0.89%) SEPA
10 14 (0.78%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.55%) GRC
11 10 (0.55%) SLA
12 8 (0.44%) NIST 800
13 7 (0.39%) Basel III
13 7 (0.39%) NCSC
13 7 (0.39%) P3O
14 5 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 203 (11.25%) Docker
2 55 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.94%) DFS Replication
4 17 (0.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.72%) Firmware
6 11 (0.61%) Squid
7 10 (0.55%) Dovecot
7 10 (0.55%) Postfix
8 7 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.11%) KVM
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.055%) SRDF
12 1 (0.055%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (0.055%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 182 (10.09%) Kubernetes
2 99 (5.49%) Terraform
3 84 (4.66%) Ansible
4 50 (2.77%) Grafana
5 38 (2.11%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.66%) OPNET
7 26 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
8 25 (1.39%) HP ALM
9 22 (1.22%) Nessus
10 16 (0.89%) Control-M
11 15 (0.83%) Puppet
12 14 (0.78%) NetBackup
12 14 (0.78%) Packer
13 12 (0.67%) Consul
13 12 (0.67%) SCCM
14 11 (0.61%) IBM Guardium
15 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
15 10 (0.55%) Proxmox
16 7 (0.39%) Argo
17 6 (0.33%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 243 (13.47%) Microsoft
2 210 (11.64%) ServiceNow
3 158 (8.76%) Oracle
4 125 (6.93%) Atlassian
5 94 (5.21%) Salesforce
6 68 (3.77%) SAP
7 53 (2.94%) Google
8 52 (2.88%) Remedy
9 40 (2.22%) IBM
10 37 (2.05%) HP
11 36 (2.00%) Talend
12 32 (1.77%) Denodo
13 29 (1.61%) Splunk
14 28 (1.55%) CyberArk
15 19 (1.05%) BiZZdesign
15 19 (1.05%) Red Hat
15 19 (1.05%) VMware
16 18 (1.00%) Tenable
17 17 (0.94%) Adobe
17 17 (0.94%) Cisco