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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 43 52
Rank change year-on-year +9 +9 -12
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,829 1,204 1,443
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.48% 4.60% 3.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.84% 34.07% 32.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,333 735 1,027
10th Percentile £313 £313 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £728
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £513
% change year-on-year +3.09% -5.37% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 23 45
10th Percentile £15.70 £45.40 £33.50
25th Percentile £29.48 £52.98 £45.88
Median hourly rate £63.27 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.23% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £70.75 £75.92
UK median hourly rate £63.40 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +1.44% +13.64% -15.38%

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 3,534 4,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.11% 13.49% 11.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,261 2,196 3,158
10th Percentile £340 £340 £363
25th Percentile £409 £410 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £536
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -5.39% -6.78%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £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 130 57 203
10th Percentile £39.00 £38.00 £41.92
25th Percentile £52.50 £55.25 £50.63
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 £75.89
90th Percentile £81.55 £76.75 £88.75
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 8 February 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 8 February 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 8 February 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 +5 821 £525 +5.00% 203
North of England +8 341 £449 -1.37% 92
Midlands +13 229 £435 -8.81% 119
South East -2 199 £475 - 172
Yorkshire -7 182 £480 -2.64% 43
West Midlands +3 166 £475 -0.42% 86
South West +19 147 £580 +5.45% 57
North West +13 143 £430 -4.44% 42
East Midlands +12 62 £358 -28.40% 33
East of England -12 55 £425 +3.85% 47
North East -6 16 £438 -2.78% 9
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
1 862 (47.13%) Confluence
2 112 (6.12%) SharePoint
3 33 (1.80%) nginx
4 32 (1.75%) SAS
5 24 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 23 (1.26%) CMS
7 12 (0.66%) Apache
8 11 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.33%) Ethereum
10 6 (0.33%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.33%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.33%) WebSphere
11 5 (0.27%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.16%) Drupal
13 3 (0.16%) IIS
13 3 (0.16%) SugarCRM
13 3 (0.16%) Traefik
13 3 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 192 (10.50%) Microsoft Project
2 168 (9.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 112 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
4 101 (5.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 72 (3.94%) MS Visio
6 26 (1.42%) Trello
7 6 (0.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 5 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.27%) Notion
8 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.27%) Sketch
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.22%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.16%) InVision
11 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.11%) Autodesk Smoke
11 2 (0.11%) CATIA
11 2 (0.11%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 17 (0.93%) NetSuite
2 16 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 10 (0.55%) Workday HCM
4 9 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.49%) Fidessa
4 9 (0.49%) Loan IQ
5 8 (0.44%) Maximo
6 7 (0.38%) Aladdin
6 7 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
7 6 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 5 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.27%) SAP MDG
9 4 (0.22%) Endur
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 4 (0.22%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 364 (19.90%) Azure
2 269 (14.71%) AWS
3 194 (10.61%) Azure DevOps
4 162 (8.86%) GitHub
5 131 (7.16%) Power Platform
6 77 (4.21%) GCP
7 76 (4.16%) Microsoft 365
8 56 (3.06%) SaaS
9 44 (2.41%) GitHub Actions
10 43 (2.35%) Serverless
11 37 (2.02%) Entra ID
12 35 (1.91%) Figma
13 31 (1.69%) Amazon S3
13 31 (1.69%) Slack
14 30 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
14 30 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
15 28 (1.53%) Miro
16 27 (1.48%) Power Automate
17 26 (1.42%) Amazon EKS
17 26 (1.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 47 (2.57%) Firewall
2 38 (2.08%) DNS
3 31 (1.69%) TCP/IP
4 27 (1.48%) VPN
5 22 (1.20%) HTTP
6 20 (1.09%) SSH
6 20 (1.09%) WAN
7 18 (0.98%) LAN
8 15 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (0.71%) FTP
10 12 (0.66%) Network Security
11 10 (0.55%) SSL
12 9 (0.49%) SD-WAN
12 9 (0.49%) SMTP
12 9 (0.49%) Unified Communications
13 8 (0.44%) DHCP
13 8 (0.44%) Ethernet
14 7 (0.38%) Modbus
14 7 (0.38%) RS-232
14 7 (0.38%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (6.07%) Power BI
2 66 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (3.55%) Tableau
4 47 (2.57%) SQL Server
5 38 (2.08%) NoSQL
6 30 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
7 29 (1.59%) MongoDB
8 22 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
8 22 (1.20%) Pentaho
9 21 (1.15%) Oracle Database
10 18 (0.98%) Big Data
10 18 (0.98%) Metadata
11 17 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
11 17 (0.93%) MySQL
11 17 (0.93%) Relational Database
12 16 (0.87%) Data Vault
13 11 (0.60%) DynamoDB
13 11 (0.60%) Star Schema
14 10 (0.55%) BigQuery
14 10 (0.55%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 217 (11.86%) Jenkins
2 206 (11.26%) Git
3 115 (6.29%) GitLab
4 82 (4.48%) Selenium
5 71 (3.88%) Postman
6 57 (3.12%) Bitbucket
7 54 (2.95%) Cucumber
8 36 (1.97%) REST Assured
8 36 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
9 35 (1.91%) TestRail
10 34 (1.86%) SonarQube
11 30 (1.64%) JUnit
12 28 (1.53%) Zephyr
13 22 (1.20%) Maven
14 20 (1.09%) JMeter
15 17 (0.93%) SpecFlow
16 15 (0.82%) Cypress.io
17 13 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
17 13 (0.71%) SoapUI
18 11 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 755 (41.28%) Social Skills
2 516 (28.21%) Finance
3 352 (19.25%) Analytical Skills
4 234 (12.79%) Banking
5 194 (10.61%) Public Sector
6 66 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
7 65 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
7 65 (3.55%) Retail
8 55 (3.01%) Military
9 43 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
10 40 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
11 33 (1.80%) Investment Banking
12 30 (1.64%) Legal
13 27 (1.48%) Front Office
14 25 (1.37%) Telecoms
15 24 (1.31%) Marketing
16 23 (1.26%) Manufacturing
17 20 (1.09%) Retail Banking
18 16 (0.87%) Automotive
19 15 (0.82%) Law
Job Titles
1 374 (20.45%) Analyst
2 242 (13.23%) Business Analyst
3 180 (9.84%) Developer
4 149 (8.15%) Project Manager
5 140 (7.65%) Lead
6 124 (6.78%) Senior
7 122 (6.67%) Architect
8 78 (4.26%) Tester
9 55 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
10 52 (2.84%) Consultant
11 48 (2.62%) Delivery Manager
12 47 (2.57%) Test Analyst
13 46 (2.52%) Test Engineer
14 45 (2.46%) Technical Analyst
15 42 (2.30%) Technical Business Analyst
16 41 (2.24%) Scrum Master
17 40 (2.19%) Software Engineer
18 37 (2.02%) DevOps Engineer
19 35 (1.91%) Data Engineer
19 35 (1.91%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (8.53%) REST
2 64 (3.50%) .NET
3 56 (3.06%) SOAP
4 54 (2.95%) RESTful
5 48 (2.62%) HTML
5 48 (2.62%) Spring
6 47 (2.57%) Kafka
7 46 (2.52%) XML
8 44 (2.41%) React
9 42 (2.30%) CSS
10 41 (2.24%) JSON
11 39 (2.13%) Spring Boot
12 37 (2.02%) Playwright
13 33 (1.80%) Oracle Fusion
14 31 (1.69%) AngularJS
14 31 (1.69%) Node.js
15 29 (1.59%) LDAP
16 25 (1.37%) OpenID
17 21 (1.15%) Web Services
18 20 (1.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 230 (12.58%) Product Ownership
2 85 (4.65%) Onboarding
3 63 (3.44%) Cloud Native
4 44 (2.41%) Management Information System
5 43 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
6 37 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
7 32 (1.75%) PMI
8 29 (1.59%) Data Structures
8 29 (1.59%) Virtual Team
9 28 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
10 27 (1.48%) CMDB
10 27 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
11 24 (1.31%) Mobile App
12 22 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
13 21 (1.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 15 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
14 15 (0.82%) Public Cloud
15 14 (0.77%) Tandem
16 13 (0.71%) Data Centre
16 13 (0.71%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 143 (7.82%) Windows
2 120 (6.56%) Linux
3 32 (1.75%) Unix
4 21 (1.15%) Android
5 19 (1.04%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.66%) VMS
6 12 (0.66%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.60%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.49%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
10 7 (0.38%) FreeRTOS
10 7 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.055%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.055%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.055%) Windows Embedded Compact
13 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.055%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,106 (60.47%) Agile
2 511 (27.94%) DevOps
3 473 (25.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 436 (23.84%) Problem-Solving
5 416 (22.74%) Scrum
6 355 (19.41%) CI/CD
7 292 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 282 (15.42%) Project Management
9 274 (14.98%) Test Automation
10 247 (13.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 204 (11.15%) User Stories
12 196 (10.72%) User Acceptance Testing
13 181 (9.90%) Migration
14 180 (9.84%) Project Delivery
15 169 (9.24%) Change Management
16 168 (9.19%) Acceptance Criteria
17 163 (8.91%) Analytics
18 155 (8.47%) Roadmaps
19 151 (8.26%) Decision-Making
19 151 (8.26%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 289 (15.80%) SQL
2 247 (13.50%) Python
3 171 (9.35%) Java
4 114 (6.23%) JavaScript
5 80 (4.37%) PowerShell
6 70 (3.83%) C#
7 53 (2.90%) TypeScript
8 37 (2.02%) Bash
9 31 (1.69%) C++
10 26 (1.42%) Go
11 20 (1.09%) Embedded C++
12 18 (0.98%) Shell Script
13 17 (0.93%) PL/SQL
14 14 (0.77%) Groovy
14 14 (0.77%) PHP
15 13 (0.71%) C
16 11 (0.60%) Ruby
17 10 (0.55%) Apex Code
17 10 (0.55%) Embedded C
18 9 (0.49%) Perl
Qualifications
1 465 (25.42%) Security Cleared
2 379 (20.72%) SC Cleared
3 265 (14.49%) Degree
4 91 (4.98%) PMI Certification
5 76 (4.16%) PMP
6 62 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 59 (3.23%) ISTQB
8 49 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 44 (2.41%) CISSP
10 43 (2.35%) DV Cleared
10 43 (2.35%) TOGAF Certification
11 35 (1.91%) Master's Degree
12 34 (1.86%) CISM
13 32 (1.75%) AWS Certification
14 26 (1.42%) CBAP
15 22 (1.20%) ISEB
16 18 (0.98%) Azure Certification
17 17 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 17 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
18 16 (0.87%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 231 (12.63%) QA
2 101 (5.52%) PMO
3 74 (4.05%) Data Quality
4 55 (3.01%) Accessibility
5 45 (2.46%) GDPR
6 27 (1.48%) NIST
7 24 (1.31%) PSD2
8 23 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 21 (1.15%) ISO 20022
10 19 (1.04%) WCAG
11 18 (0.98%) SEPA
12 17 (0.93%) SLA
13 13 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 12 (0.66%) GRC
14 12 (0.66%) PCI DSS
15 11 (0.60%) Basel III
16 8 (0.44%) NCSC
16 8 (0.44%) NIST 800
17 7 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
18 5 (0.27%) P3O
System Software
1 179 (9.79%) Docker
2 56 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.66%) Squid
6 9 (0.49%) Firmware
7 8 (0.44%) DFS Replication
7 8 (0.44%) Postfix
8 7 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
8 7 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.33%) Dovecot
10 5 (0.27%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.055%) etcd
13 1 (0.055%) Hyper-V
13 1 (0.055%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.055%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
13 1 (0.055%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 161 (8.80%) Kubernetes
2 92 (5.03%) Terraform
3 76 (4.16%) Ansible
4 56 (3.06%) Grafana
5 41 (2.24%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.64%) OPNET
7 25 (1.37%) HP ALM
8 23 (1.26%) Control-M
8 23 (1.26%) Nessus
9 20 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
9 20 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
10 19 (1.04%) Consul
11 17 (0.93%) IBM Guardium
12 16 (0.87%) Packer
13 12 (0.66%) Puppet
14 11 (0.60%) NetBackup
14 11 (0.60%) SCCM
15 10 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
16 7 (0.38%) Argo
17 6 (0.33%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 227 (12.41%) Microsoft
2 197 (10.77%) ServiceNow
3 153 (8.37%) Oracle
4 129 (7.05%) Atlassian
5 97 (5.30%) Salesforce
6 62 (3.39%) SAP
7 46 (2.52%) Google
8 45 (2.46%) Remedy
9 36 (1.97%) IBM
10 27 (1.48%) HP
10 27 (1.48%) Splunk
11 25 (1.37%) Talend
11 25 (1.37%) Workday
12 24 (1.31%) Red Hat
13 22 (1.20%) Tenable
14 21 (1.15%) BiZZdesign
14 21 (1.15%) Denodo
15 20 (1.09%) Databricks
16 19 (1.04%) Adobe
17 18 (0.98%) VMware