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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 45 48
Rank change year-on-year +12 +3 -14
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,756 1,323 1,708
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.81% 4.24% 4.33%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.89% 32.02% 34.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,295 845 1,151
10th Percentile £319 £314 £358
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -5.66% -1.85%
75th Percentile £607 £600 £632
90th Percentile £688 £685 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 47 57
10th Percentile £15.74 £35.76 £45.59
25th Percentile £44.23 £54.66 £51.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -2.04%
75th Percentile £70.08 - £70.00
90th Percentile £86.50 - £74.25
UK median hourly rate £57.00 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -18.57% +16.67% -

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 4,635 4,132 5,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.33% 13.23% 12.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,240 2,593 3,558
10th Percentile £325 £350 £375
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.70% -2.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 123 229
10th Percentile £39.00 £37.55 £46.12
25th Percentile £54.88 £51.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.89 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +8.33%

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 14 November 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 14 November 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 14 November 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 +14 840 £525 - 527
North of England +5 322 £471 -5.08% 168
Midlands +22 196 £450 -4.46% 117
South East +6 188 £478 +4.95% 355
West Midlands +33 160 £475 -11.63% 58
Yorkshire +2 156 £500 - 52
North West +5 145 £447 -10.60% 98
South West +4 111 £559 -5.25% 131
East of England -2 57 £425 +1.49% 99
East Midlands -12 36 £358 -19.55% 59
North East -1 21 £510 +12.33% 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
1 789 (44.93%) Confluence
2 101 (5.75%) SharePoint
3 54 (3.08%) nginx
4 31 (1.77%) CMS
5 30 (1.71%) SAS
6 20 (1.14%) Apache
7 13 (0.74%) JBoss
8 12 (0.68%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
10 8 (0.46%) WebSphere
10 8 (0.46%) WordPress
11 7 (0.40%) Drupal
12 6 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
12 6 (0.34%) Mule
13 5 (0.28%) Apache Spark
13 5 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 4 (0.23%) CICS
14 4 (0.23%) WebLogic
15 3 (0.17%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 128 (7.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 122 (6.95%) Microsoft Project
3 89 (5.07%) Microsoft Office
4 68 (3.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 61 (3.47%) MS Visio
6 33 (1.88%) Trello
7 12 (0.68%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 6 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
8 6 (0.34%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.28%) Sketch
10 4 (0.23%) Adobe XD
10 4 (0.23%) Simulink
10 4 (0.23%) Windchill
11 3 (0.17%) InVision
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.11%) Notion
13 1 (0.057%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.057%) InDesign
13 1 (0.057%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 19 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
3 11 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 8 (0.46%) SAP PM
6 7 (0.40%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.40%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
7 6 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
7 6 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.34%) SAP HR
8 5 (0.28%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.23%) Endur
9 4 (0.23%) Fidessa
9 4 (0.23%) Magento
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.23%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.23%) SAP PLM
10 3 (0.17%) Algo Collateral
Cloud Services
1 345 (19.65%) Azure
2 321 (18.28%) AWS
3 177 (10.08%) Azure DevOps
4 163 (9.28%) GitHub
5 111 (6.32%) Power Platform
6 84 (4.78%) GCP
7 71 (4.04%) Serverless
8 56 (3.19%) Amazon S3
8 56 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
9 50 (2.85%) Amazon EC2
10 44 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
11 42 (2.39%) AWS CloudFormation
11 42 (2.39%) AWS Lambda
12 40 (2.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 35 (1.99%) SaaS
13 35 (1.99%) Slack
13 35 (1.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 33 (1.88%) Power Automate
15 32 (1.82%) Miro
16 31 (1.77%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 69 (3.93%) Firewall
2 66 (3.76%) DNS
3 40 (2.28%) SSH
4 39 (2.22%) HTTP
5 33 (1.88%) VPN
6 28 (1.59%) SMTP
7 23 (1.31%) FTP
8 21 (1.20%) SSL
9 18 (1.03%) TCP/IP
10 17 (0.97%) OpenLDAP
11 12 (0.68%) DHCP
11 12 (0.68%) IMAP
12 11 (0.63%) Network Security
12 11 (0.63%) WAN
13 10 (0.57%) BGP
14 9 (0.51%) MPLS
15 8 (0.46%) LAN
15 8 (0.46%) Unified Communications
16 7 (0.40%) IPsec
16 7 (0.40%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (5.64%) Power BI
2 79 (4.50%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (2.96%) Tableau
4 46 (2.62%) SQL Server
5 36 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
5 36 (2.05%) Relational Database
6 34 (1.94%) NoSQL
7 28 (1.59%) Pentaho
8 27 (1.54%) Oracle Database
9 21 (1.20%) Big Data
9 21 (1.20%) Metadata
10 20 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
10 20 (1.14%) MongoDB
11 19 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
12 18 (1.03%) MySQL
13 16 (0.91%) Hadoop
14 14 (0.80%) BigQuery
15 13 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
16 10 (0.57%) RDBMS
16 10 (0.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 273 (15.55%) Git
2 241 (13.72%) Jenkins
3 104 (5.92%) GitLab
4 77 (4.38%) Bitbucket
5 74 (4.21%) Selenium
6 60 (3.42%) Postman
7 46 (2.62%) Cucumber
8 44 (2.51%) Sonatype Nexus
9 37 (2.11%) JUnit
10 34 (1.94%) SonarQube
11 32 (1.82%) TestRail
12 30 (1.71%) Maven
13 28 (1.59%) Zephyr
14 26 (1.48%) SoapUI
14 26 (1.48%) Vagrant
15 23 (1.31%) SpecFlow
16 22 (1.25%) Cypress.io
16 22 (1.25%) REST Assured
17 19 (1.08%) Artifactory
17 19 (1.08%) TeamCity
General
1 714 (40.66%) Social Skills
2 424 (24.15%) Finance
3 281 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 218 (12.41%) Banking
5 189 (10.76%) Public Sector
6 57 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
7 56 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
8 51 (2.90%) Retail
9 38 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
10 32 (1.82%) Investment Banking
10 32 (1.82%) Legal
11 31 (1.77%) Front Office
12 30 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (1.37%) Manufacturing
13 24 (1.37%) Marketing
14 18 (1.03%) Telecoms
15 16 (0.91%) Military
16 15 (0.85%) Law
17 13 (0.74%) Back Office
17 13 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 307 (17.48%) Analyst
2 213 (12.13%) Developer
3 178 (10.14%) Business Analyst
4 148 (8.43%) Project Manager
5 132 (7.52%) Senior
6 122 (6.95%) Lead
7 98 (5.58%) Architect
8 73 (4.16%) Tester
9 62 (3.53%) DevOps Engineer
10 60 (3.42%) Test Analyst
11 53 (3.02%) Administrator
12 52 (2.96%) Consultant
13 49 (2.79%) Solutions Architect
14 44 (2.51%) Delivery Manager
15 42 (2.39%) Product Owner
16 39 (2.22%) Technical Analyst
17 38 (2.16%) AWS Engineer
18 36 (2.05%) Software Engineer
19 35 (1.99%) Scrum Master
20 34 (1.94%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 175 (9.97%) REST
2 94 (5.35%) SOAP
3 86 (4.90%) .NET
4 85 (4.84%) AngularJS
5 79 (4.50%) React
6 77 (4.38%) HTML
7 60 (3.42%) CSS
8 58 (3.30%) RESTful
9 52 (2.96%) Kafka
10 51 (2.90%) XML
11 50 (2.85%) Spring Boot
12 49 (2.79%) JSON
13 48 (2.73%) Spring
14 43 (2.45%) Web Services
15 40 (2.28%) Node.js
16 39 (2.22%) Playwright
17 38 (2.16%) LDAP
18 33 (1.88%) RabbitMQ
19 28 (1.59%) .NET Framework
19 28 (1.59%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 168 (9.57%) Product Ownership
2 68 (3.87%) Onboarding
3 48 (2.73%) Cloud Native
4 45 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
5 42 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
6 36 (2.05%) Management Information System
7 32 (1.82%) Data Structures
8 29 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
8 29 (1.65%) Mobile App
8 29 (1.65%) Replication
9 25 (1.42%) PMI
10 23 (1.31%) CMDB
10 23 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
10 23 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
11 21 (1.20%) Virtual Team
12 19 (1.08%) Algorithms
12 19 (1.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 18 (1.03%) Data Centre
14 17 (0.97%) PKI
15 16 (0.91%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 145 (8.26%) Linux
2 139 (7.92%) Windows
3 55 (3.13%) Unix
4 32 (1.82%) VMS
5 24 (1.37%) Amazon Linux
6 16 (0.91%) Android
6 16 (0.91%) Ubuntu
7 14 (0.80%) Mac OS
8 13 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (0.63%) Apple iOS
9 11 (0.63%) Windows Server
10 9 (0.51%) Windows 10
11 8 (0.46%) CentOS
12 4 (0.23%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (0.17%) zOS
14 2 (0.11%) Debian
14 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
14 2 (0.11%) Solaris
14 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.057%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,069 (60.88%) Agile
2 522 (29.73%) DevOps
3 430 (24.49%) Scrum
4 421 (23.97%) Problem-Solving
5 356 (20.27%) CI/CD
6 352 (20.05%) Stakeholder Management
7 260 (14.81%) Project Management
7 260 (14.81%) Test Automation
8 240 (13.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 227 (12.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 198 (11.28%) Migration
11 184 (10.48%) Change Management
12 179 (10.19%) User Stories
13 170 (9.68%) User Acceptance Testing
14 164 (9.34%) Microservices
15 145 (8.26%) Project Delivery
16 141 (8.03%) Kanban
17 140 (7.97%) Roadmaps
17 140 (7.97%) SDLC
18 130 (7.40%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 288 (16.40%) SQL
2 285 (16.23%) Python
3 183 (10.42%) Java
4 146 (8.31%) JavaScript
5 98 (5.58%) PowerShell
6 85 (4.84%) C#
7 61 (3.47%) TypeScript
8 52 (2.96%) Bash
9 37 (2.11%) Groovy
10 36 (2.05%) Go
11 29 (1.65%) Perl
12 25 (1.42%) C++
13 24 (1.37%) Shell Script
14 15 (0.85%) Apex Code
15 13 (0.74%) PHP
16 12 (0.68%) Ruby
17 11 (0.63%) PL/SQL
18 10 (0.57%) Kotlin
19 8 (0.46%) Korn
20 7 (0.40%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 434 (24.72%) Security Cleared
2 388 (22.10%) SC Cleared
3 239 (13.61%) Degree
4 79 (4.50%) PMI Certification
5 66 (3.76%) PMP
6 57 (3.25%) CISSP
7 56 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
8 50 (2.85%) ISTQB
9 48 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
10 42 (2.39%) CISM
11 36 (2.05%) DV Cleared
12 30 (1.71%) AWS Certification
13 19 (1.08%) Azure Certification
14 17 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
15 16 (0.91%) Master's Degree
15 16 (0.91%) Oracle Certification
16 14 (0.80%) CBAP
17 13 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 12 (0.68%) ISEB
18 12 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 199 (11.33%) QA
2 69 (3.93%) PMO
3 63 (3.59%) GDPR
4 55 (3.13%) Data Quality
5 49 (2.79%) Accessibility
6 47 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 39 (2.22%) NIST
8 23 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 18 (1.03%) PCI DSS
9 18 (1.03%) SEPA
10 17 (0.97%) ISO 20022
11 14 (0.80%) COBIT
11 14 (0.80%) NIST 800
11 14 (0.80%) PSD2
11 14 (0.80%) WCAG
12 8 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 7 (0.40%) GRC
13 7 (0.40%) NCSC
14 6 (0.34%) SLA
15 5 (0.28%) P3O
System Software
1 206 (11.73%) Docker
2 60 (3.42%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.25%) DFS Replication
3 22 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.68%) Dovecot
5 12 (0.68%) Postfix
5 12 (0.68%) Squid
6 11 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.57%) Firmware
7 10 (0.57%) Hyper-V
8 9 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.34%) vSphere
10 4 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.17%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.11%) KVM
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.057%) etcd
Systems Management
1 180 (10.25%) Kubernetes
2 128 (7.29%) Terraform
3 95 (5.41%) Ansible
4 51 (2.90%) Grafana
5 46 (2.62%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
7 28 (1.59%) Packer
8 26 (1.48%) Consul
8 26 (1.48%) HP ALM
9 24 (1.37%) Nessus
10 17 (0.97%) Control-M
11 16 (0.91%) Puppet
12 14 (0.80%) NetBackup
13 13 (0.74%) SCCM
14 12 (0.68%) RSA Archer
15 11 (0.63%) IBM Guardium
15 11 (0.63%) Progress Chef
16 10 (0.57%) Proxmox
17 8 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
18 7 (0.40%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 246 (14.01%) Microsoft
2 216 (12.30%) ServiceNow
3 140 (7.97%) Oracle
4 93 (5.30%) Atlassian
5 91 (5.18%) Salesforce
6 66 (3.76%) SAP
7 53 (3.02%) Google
8 43 (2.45%) HP
9 35 (1.99%) IBM
10 31 (1.77%) Cisco
11 30 (1.71%) Splunk
11 30 (1.71%) VMware
12 29 (1.65%) Talend
13 28 (1.59%) CyberArk
14 27 (1.54%) Denodo
14 27 (1.54%) Remedy
15 22 (1.25%) Red Hat
16 18 (1.03%) CheckPoint
16 18 (1.03%) Tenable
17 17 (0.97%) Cloudera