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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 44 50
Rank change year-on-year +10 +6 -11
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,801 1,211 1,425
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.56% 4.51% 3.89%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.08% 33.59% 32.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,320 750 1,010
10th Percentile £313 £308 £356
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £630
90th Percentile £700 £675 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 24 38
10th Percentile £15.66 £45.60 £36.61
25th Percentile £39.00 £54.68 £48.85
Median hourly rate £63.40 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.27 £69.39
90th Percentile £95.00 £70.50 £73.29
UK median hourly rate £64.20 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +2.72% +4.17% -7.69%

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 4,730 3,605 4,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.61% 13.44% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,288 2,238 3,083
10th Percentile £340 £335 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -5.56% -6.09%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -5.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 68 200
10th Percentile £39.53 £45.83 £44.26
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.31 £51.25
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 £77.90 £75.55 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 22 January 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 +6 812 £525 +5.00% 124
North of England +8 332 £455 -4.21% 124
Midlands +14 234 £450 -6.93% 116
South East -6 192 £475 +5.56% 212
West Midlands +12 172 £480 -2.04% 59
Yorkshire -7 169 £500 - 52
South West +15 146 £580 +5.94% 88
North West +9 143 £446 -0.89% 56
East Midlands +14 61 £358 -24.83% 56
East of England -12 50 £463 +12.12% 93
North East -1 19 £475 +5.56% 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
1 846 (46.97%) Confluence
2 104 (5.77%) SharePoint
3 44 (2.44%) SAS
4 36 (2.00%) nginx
5 22 (1.22%) CMS
6 13 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.67%) Apache
8 10 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.39%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.33%) Mule
11 4 (0.22%) Ethereum
11 4 (0.22%) Hyperledger
11 4 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.22%) WordPress
12 3 (0.17%) Drupal
12 3 (0.17%) IIS
12 3 (0.17%) OpenStack
12 3 (0.17%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.17%) Traefik
Applications
1 185 (10.27%) Microsoft Project
2 159 (8.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 112 (6.22%) Microsoft Office
4 97 (5.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 70 (3.89%) MS Visio
6 29 (1.61%) Trello
7 9 (0.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 6 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
8 6 (0.33%) Photoshop
9 5 (0.28%) Notion
9 5 (0.28%) Sketch
10 4 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
10 4 (0.22%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.17%) InVision
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 2 (0.11%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.11%) InDesign
13 1 (0.056%) CATIA
13 1 (0.056%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 18 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.94%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 8 (0.44%) Fidessa
4 8 (0.44%) Loan IQ
4 8 (0.44%) Maximo
5 7 (0.39%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
5 7 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.39%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.22%) Endur
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
8 4 (0.22%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 357 (19.82%) Azure
2 279 (15.49%) AWS
3 189 (10.49%) Azure DevOps
4 169 (9.38%) GitHub
5 124 (6.89%) Power Platform
6 88 (4.89%) GCP
7 70 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
8 48 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
9 46 (2.55%) Serverless
10 45 (2.50%) SaaS
11 34 (1.89%) Slack
12 33 (1.83%) Figma
13 32 (1.78%) Amazon S3
14 31 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
15 29 (1.61%) Amazon ECS
15 29 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
15 29 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
15 29 (1.61%) Power Automate
16 27 (1.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 26 (1.44%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 51 (2.83%) Firewall
2 33 (1.83%) DNS
3 31 (1.72%) SSH
4 27 (1.50%) HTTP
5 23 (1.28%) TCP/IP
6 19 (1.05%) VPN
7 17 (0.94%) FTP
8 15 (0.83%) SMTP
9 13 (0.72%) SSL
10 12 (0.67%) WAN
11 9 (0.50%) IMAP
11 9 (0.50%) OpenLDAP
11 9 (0.50%) SD-WAN
12 8 (0.44%) Ethernet
12 8 (0.44%) Network Security
13 7 (0.39%) Modbus
13 7 (0.39%) RS-232
13 7 (0.39%) RS-485
14 6 (0.33%) LAN
15 5 (0.28%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (6.22%) Power BI
2 65 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
3 63 (3.50%) Tableau
4 45 (2.50%) SQL Server
5 38 (2.11%) NoSQL
6 34 (1.89%) Pentaho
7 29 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
8 27 (1.50%) MongoDB
8 27 (1.50%) Relational Database
9 26 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
10 19 (1.05%) Metadata
11 18 (1.00%) Big Data
12 17 (0.94%) MySQL
13 16 (0.89%) Data Vault
13 16 (0.89%) Oracle Database
14 11 (0.61%) BigQuery
14 11 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
14 11 (0.61%) Star Schema
15 10 (0.56%) DynamoDB
15 10 (0.56%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 233 (12.94%) Jenkins
2 225 (12.49%) Git
3 109 (6.05%) GitLab
4 79 (4.39%) Selenium
5 68 (3.78%) Postman
6 58 (3.22%) Bitbucket
7 52 (2.89%) Cucumber
8 36 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
9 34 (1.89%) TestRail
10 33 (1.83%) REST Assured
11 27 (1.50%) Zephyr
12 25 (1.39%) SonarQube
13 23 (1.28%) JUnit
14 20 (1.11%) SpecFlow
15 18 (1.00%) Maven
16 17 (0.94%) JMeter
17 14 (0.78%) Rational DOORS
17 14 (0.78%) Vagrant
18 13 (0.72%) Cypress.io
18 13 (0.72%) SoapUI
General
1 752 (41.75%) Social Skills
2 496 (27.54%) Finance
3 337 (18.71%) Analytical Skills
4 238 (13.21%) Banking
5 202 (11.22%) Public Sector
6 66 (3.66%) Organisational Skills
7 64 (3.55%) Retail
8 58 (3.22%) Documentation Skills
9 53 (2.94%) Military
10 43 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
11 41 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
12 37 (2.05%) Investment Banking
13 32 (1.78%) Legal
14 25 (1.39%) Front Office
15 24 (1.33%) Marketing
15 24 (1.33%) Telecoms
16 23 (1.28%) Manufacturing
17 19 (1.05%) Retail Banking
18 14 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 13 (0.72%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 351 (19.49%) Analyst
2 230 (12.77%) Business Analyst
3 176 (9.77%) Developer
4 146 (8.11%) Project Manager
5 144 (8.00%) Lead
6 127 (7.05%) Senior
7 113 (6.27%) Architect
8 75 (4.16%) Tester
9 54 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
10 51 (2.83%) Consultant
11 49 (2.72%) Technical Analyst
12 45 (2.50%) Delivery Manager
12 45 (2.50%) Technical Business Analyst
12 45 (2.50%) Test Engineer
13 44 (2.44%) Software Engineer
14 42 (2.33%) DevOps Engineer
15 41 (2.28%) Data Engineer
16 40 (2.22%) Test Analyst
17 38 (2.11%) Product Owner
17 38 (2.11%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (8.88%) REST
2 65 (3.61%) .NET
3 63 (3.50%) SOAP
4 54 (3.00%) HTML
5 49 (2.72%) RESTful
5 49 (2.72%) XML
6 48 (2.67%) React
7 46 (2.55%) Kafka
8 44 (2.44%) JSON
9 43 (2.39%) Spring
10 40 (2.22%) CSS
10 40 (2.22%) Playwright
11 35 (1.94%) AngularJS
12 33 (1.83%) Oracle Fusion
12 33 (1.83%) Spring Boot
13 32 (1.78%) Node.js
14 31 (1.72%) LDAP
15 26 (1.44%) OAuth
16 20 (1.11%) OpenID
16 20 (1.11%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 232 (12.88%) Product Ownership
2 83 (4.61%) Onboarding
3 66 (3.66%) Cloud Native
4 45 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
5 43 (2.39%) Management Information System
6 38 (2.11%) PMI
7 35 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
8 29 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
9 28 (1.55%) Data Structures
10 25 (1.39%) Virtual Team
11 24 (1.33%) CMDB
12 23 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
13 22 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
14 21 (1.17%) Mobile App
14 21 (1.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 19 (1.05%) Replication
16 17 (0.94%) Public Cloud
17 16 (0.89%) Tandem
18 13 (0.72%) PKI
18 13 (0.72%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 135 (7.50%) Windows
2 116 (6.44%) Linux
3 35 (1.94%) Unix
4 19 (1.05%) Android
5 18 (1.00%) VMS
6 14 (0.78%) Amazon Linux
7 13 (0.72%) Windows 10
7 13 (0.72%) Windows Server
8 11 (0.61%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.50%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.39%) FreeRTOS
10 7 (0.39%) Mac OS
11 5 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.11%) Solaris
13 2 (0.11%) zOS
14 1 (0.056%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.056%) MVS
14 1 (0.056%) Windows Embedded Compact
14 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,102 (61.19%) Agile
2 539 (29.93%) DevOps
3 453 (25.15%) Stakeholder Management
4 425 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
5 416 (23.10%) Scrum
6 361 (20.04%) CI/CD
7 294 (16.32%) Project Management
8 283 (15.71%) Test Automation
9 281 (15.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 245 (13.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 204 (11.33%) User Stories
12 192 (10.66%) User Acceptance Testing
13 190 (10.55%) Project Delivery
14 178 (9.88%) Analytics
15 174 (9.66%) Migration
16 171 (9.49%) Change Management
17 163 (9.05%) Acceptance Criteria
18 159 (8.83%) Business Intelligence
19 150 (8.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
20 147 (8.16%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 309 (17.16%) SQL
2 241 (13.38%) Python
3 165 (9.16%) Java
4 118 (6.55%) JavaScript
5 79 (4.39%) PowerShell
6 67 (3.72%) C#
7 51 (2.83%) TypeScript
8 42 (2.33%) Bash
9 31 (1.72%) C++
10 30 (1.67%) Go
11 20 (1.11%) Embedded C++
11 20 (1.11%) Groovy
12 16 (0.89%) PL/SQL
13 15 (0.83%) Apex Code
13 15 (0.83%) Shell Script
14 14 (0.78%) Perl
14 14 (0.78%) PHP
15 12 (0.67%) C
16 11 (0.61%) Ruby
17 10 (0.56%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 471 (26.15%) Security Cleared
2 395 (21.93%) SC Cleared
3 266 (14.77%) Degree
4 93 (5.16%) PMI Certification
5 77 (4.28%) PMP
6 57 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 55 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 53 (2.94%) ISTQB
9 43 (2.39%) CISSP
10 42 (2.33%) TOGAF Certification
11 39 (2.17%) DV Cleared
12 33 (1.83%) CISM
12 33 (1.83%) Master's Degree
13 30 (1.67%) AWS Certification
14 26 (1.44%) CBAP
15 20 (1.11%) Azure Certification
15 20 (1.11%) ISEB
16 18 (1.00%) Oracle Certification
17 17 (0.94%) IIBA
18 15 (0.83%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (12.49%) QA
2 103 (5.72%) PMO
3 82 (4.55%) Data Quality
4 54 (3.00%) Accessibility
5 46 (2.55%) GDPR
6 26 (1.44%) NIST
7 24 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 24 (1.33%) PSD2
8 21 (1.17%) ISO 20022
9 18 (1.00%) SEPA
9 18 (1.00%) WCAG
10 14 (0.78%) SLA
11 13 (0.72%) GRC
11 13 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (0.61%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.56%) Basel III
14 8 (0.44%) NCSC
14 8 (0.44%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.44%) P3O
15 7 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 200 (11.10%) Docker
2 50 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (0.78%) DFS Replication
6 12 (0.67%) Firmware
7 10 (0.56%) Squid
8 9 (0.50%) Dovecot
8 9 (0.50%) Postfix
9 7 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
9 7 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.28%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
13 2 (0.11%) KVM
13 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
13 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
14 1 (0.056%) etcd
14 1 (0.056%) SRDF
14 1 (0.056%) Xen
Systems Management
1 170 (9.44%) Kubernetes
2 101 (5.61%) Terraform
3 77 (4.28%) Ansible
4 47 (2.61%) Grafana
5 36 (2.00%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.67%) OPNET
7 23 (1.28%) HP ALM
8 21 (1.17%) Nessus
9 18 (1.00%) Control-M
10 16 (0.89%) Packer
10 16 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
11 14 (0.78%) Consul
11 14 (0.78%) NetBackup
12 13 (0.72%) Puppet
13 12 (0.67%) IBM Guardium
13 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
14 9 (0.50%) Proxmox
14 9 (0.50%) SCCM
15 7 (0.39%) Argo
16 6 (0.33%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 217 (12.05%) Microsoft
2 199 (11.05%) ServiceNow
3 162 (9.00%) Oracle
4 118 (6.55%) Atlassian
5 97 (5.39%) Salesforce
6 64 (3.55%) SAP
7 48 (2.67%) Google
8 47 (2.61%) Remedy
9 38 (2.11%) IBM
10 37 (2.05%) Talend
11 33 (1.83%) Denodo
12 29 (1.61%) HP
13 23 (1.28%) Splunk
14 21 (1.17%) BiZZdesign
14 21 (1.17%) Databricks
15 20 (1.11%) VMware
16 19 (1.05%) Red Hat
16 19 (1.05%) Workday
17 18 (1.00%) Adobe
18 17 (0.94%) Tenable