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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 45 48
Rank change year-on-year +13 +3 -14
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,799 1,320 1,696
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.90% 4.27% 4.34%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.51% 32.53% 34.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,321 835 1,145
10th Percentile £318 £313 £358
25th Percentile £401 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.19% -1.30%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £678 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 40 52
10th Percentile £15.74 £37.10 £44.76
25th Percentile £45.46 £54.68 £51.25
Median hourly rate £63.40 £69.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £71.50 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £70.13 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £63.27 £69.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -8.31% +15.00% -

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 4,671 4,058 4,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.33% 13.14% 12.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,259 2,509 3,521
10th Percentile £330 £347 £375
25th Percentile £407 £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 £645
90th Percentile £699 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £540
% change year-on-year -3.85% -3.79% -1.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 116 220
10th Percentile £39.00 £43.50 £45.88
25th Percentile £55.00 £51.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.08 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.20 £75.00 £86.78
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £64.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% +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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +10 842 £525 +0.24% 201
North of England +5 320 £470 -4.67% 70
Midlands +20 209 £450 -9.09% 77
South East +5 192 £492 +9.33% 207
West Midlands +33 170 £475 -9.52% 46
Yorkshire -4 157 £500 - 21
North West +2 145 £447 -10.60% 43
South West +10 134 £575 -2.54% 82
East of England -3 58 £425 +3.85% 52
East Midlands -5 39 £358 -19.55% 29
North East -2 18 £500 +10.13% 6
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
1 815 (45.30%) Confluence
2 106 (5.89%) SharePoint
3 51 (2.83%) nginx
4 35 (1.95%) SAS
5 31 (1.72%) CMS
6 20 (1.11%) Apache
7 12 (0.67%) JBoss
7 12 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.67%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 7 (0.39%) WordPress
9 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.33%) Drupal
9 6 (0.33%) Mule
10 4 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.22%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.22%) CICS
10 4 (0.22%) OpenStack
10 4 (0.22%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.17%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 146 (8.12%) Microsoft Project
2 131 (7.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 108 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
4 77 (4.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 66 (3.67%) MS Visio
6 30 (1.67%) Trello
7 12 (0.67%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 7 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
8 7 (0.39%) Photoshop
9 6 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
10 5 (0.28%) Sketch
11 4 (0.22%) Adobe XD
11 4 (0.22%) Simulink
11 4 (0.22%) Windchill
12 3 (0.17%) Adobe After Effects
12 3 (0.17%) InVision
13 2 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.11%) InDesign
13 2 (0.11%) Notion
14 1 (0.056%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 18 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
1 18 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 9 (0.50%) NetSuite
3 9 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.44%) Aladdin
4 8 (0.44%) SAP PM
5 7 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
6 6 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.33%) SAP HR
7 5 (0.28%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.28%) Maximo
7 5 (0.28%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
8 4 (0.22%) Endur
8 4 (0.22%) Fidessa
8 4 (0.22%) Magento
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
8 4 (0.22%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.22%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 342 (19.01%) Azure
2 319 (17.73%) AWS
3 176 (9.78%) Azure DevOps
4 165 (9.17%) GitHub
5 111 (6.17%) Power Platform
6 81 (4.50%) GCP
7 72 (4.00%) Serverless
8 60 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
9 55 (3.06%) Amazon S3
10 49 (2.72%) Amazon EC2
10 49 (2.72%) GitHub Actions
11 42 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
12 40 (2.22%) SaaS
13 39 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 38 (2.11%) AWS CloudFormation
15 36 (2.00%) Slack
16 35 (1.95%) Power Automate
17 34 (1.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 32 (1.78%) Miro
19 31 (1.72%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (3.56%) Firewall
2 59 (3.28%) DNS
3 40 (2.22%) SSH
4 38 (2.11%) HTTP
5 28 (1.56%) SMTP
5 28 (1.56%) VPN
6 24 (1.33%) FTP
7 18 (1.00%) SSL
8 17 (0.94%) OpenLDAP
9 16 (0.89%) TCP/IP
10 12 (0.67%) IMAP
11 11 (0.61%) Network Security
12 10 (0.56%) BGP
13 9 (0.50%) DHCP
13 9 (0.50%) MPLS
14 8 (0.44%) Unified Communications
14 8 (0.44%) WAN
15 7 (0.39%) IPsec
16 6 (0.33%) LAN
16 6 (0.33%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (5.39%) Power BI
2 75 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 51 (2.83%) Tableau
4 42 (2.33%) SQL Server
5 36 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
6 35 (1.95%) Relational Database
7 33 (1.83%) NoSQL
7 33 (1.83%) Pentaho
8 25 (1.39%) Oracle Database
9 24 (1.33%) Big Data
10 21 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
10 21 (1.17%) Metadata
11 18 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
11 18 (1.00%) MongoDB
12 17 (0.94%) Hadoop
12 17 (0.94%) MySQL
13 13 (0.72%) Amazon Aurora
14 12 (0.67%) BigQuery
15 10 (0.56%) Data Vault
16 9 (0.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 270 (15.01%) Git
2 244 (13.56%) Jenkins
3 109 (6.06%) GitLab
4 77 (4.28%) Bitbucket
5 72 (4.00%) Selenium
6 61 (3.39%) Postman
7 47 (2.61%) Cucumber
8 44 (2.45%) Sonatype Nexus
9 35 (1.95%) JUnit
9 35 (1.95%) SonarQube
10 30 (1.67%) Maven
10 30 (1.67%) TestRail
11 26 (1.45%) Vagrant
11 26 (1.45%) Zephyr
12 25 (1.39%) SoapUI
13 21 (1.17%) Cypress.io
13 21 (1.17%) SpecFlow
14 20 (1.11%) Artifactory
14 20 (1.11%) REST Assured
15 17 (0.94%) TeamCity
General
1 753 (41.86%) Social Skills
2 432 (24.01%) Finance
3 303 (16.84%) Analytical Skills
4 211 (11.73%) Banking
5 194 (10.78%) Public Sector
6 63 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
7 56 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
8 48 (2.67%) Retail
9 41 (2.28%) Presentation Skills
10 37 (2.06%) Legal
11 36 (2.00%) Military
12 34 (1.89%) Investment Banking
13 30 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (1.56%) Front Office
15 27 (1.50%) Manufacturing
16 26 (1.45%) Marketing
17 22 (1.22%) Telecoms
18 17 (0.94%) Law
19 16 (0.89%) Publishing
20 14 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 318 (17.68%) Analyst
2 209 (11.62%) Developer
3 188 (10.45%) Business Analyst
4 155 (8.62%) Project Manager
5 134 (7.45%) Senior
6 129 (7.17%) Lead
7 113 (6.28%) Architect
8 70 (3.89%) Tester
9 62 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
10 61 (3.39%) Test Analyst
11 52 (2.89%) Administrator
12 51 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
13 49 (2.72%) Consultant
14 45 (2.50%) Delivery Manager
15 42 (2.33%) Technical Analyst
16 39 (2.17%) Software Engineer
17 38 (2.11%) Data Engineer
17 38 (2.11%) Product Owner
17 38 (2.11%) Technical Business Analyst
18 37 (2.06%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (9.62%) REST
2 90 (5.00%) SOAP
3 83 (4.61%) .NET
4 80 (4.45%) AngularJS
5 79 (4.39%) React
6 77 (4.28%) HTML
7 61 (3.39%) CSS
8 53 (2.95%) RESTful
9 51 (2.83%) JSON
9 51 (2.83%) Kafka
10 50 (2.78%) XML
11 49 (2.72%) Spring Boot
12 47 (2.61%) Spring
13 41 (2.28%) Node.js
14 38 (2.11%) LDAP
15 37 (2.06%) Playwright
15 37 (2.06%) Web Services
16 35 (1.95%) RabbitMQ
17 28 (1.56%) OAuth
18 27 (1.50%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 186 (10.34%) Product Ownership
2 75 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 52 (2.89%) Cloud Native
4 44 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
5 43 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
6 39 (2.17%) Management Information System
7 34 (1.89%) Data Structures
8 31 (1.72%) Mobile App
9 29 (1.61%) Replication
10 27 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
11 26 (1.45%) PMI
12 25 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
13 24 (1.33%) CMDB
13 24 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
13 24 (1.33%) Virtual Team
14 20 (1.11%) PKI
15 19 (1.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 17 (0.94%) Algorithms
16 17 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
17 16 (0.89%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 141 (7.84%) Linux
2 140 (7.78%) Windows
3 52 (2.89%) Unix
4 32 (1.78%) VMS
5 24 (1.33%) Amazon Linux
6 16 (0.89%) Android
7 14 (0.78%) Ubuntu
8 13 (0.72%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.67%) Apple iOS
9 12 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.50%) Windows 10
10 9 (0.50%) Windows Server
11 6 (0.33%) CentOS
12 3 (0.17%) zOS
13 2 (0.11%) Debian
13 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.11%) Solaris
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.056%) tvOS
14 1 (0.056%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,104 (61.37%) Agile
2 539 (29.96%) DevOps
3 441 (24.51%) Problem-Solving
4 427 (23.74%) Scrum
5 368 (20.46%) Stakeholder Management
6 363 (20.18%) CI/CD
7 271 (15.06%) Test Automation
8 270 (15.01%) Project Management
9 257 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 230 (12.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 203 (11.28%) Migration
12 185 (10.28%) Change Management
13 181 (10.06%) User Stories
14 180 (10.01%) User Acceptance Testing
15 161 (8.95%) Microservices
16 155 (8.62%) Project Delivery
17 149 (8.28%) ITIL
18 145 (8.06%) Roadmaps
18 145 (8.06%) SDLC
19 142 (7.89%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 296 (16.45%) SQL
2 280 (15.56%) Python
3 177 (9.84%) Java
4 150 (8.34%) JavaScript
5 98 (5.45%) PowerShell
6 84 (4.67%) C#
7 63 (3.50%) TypeScript
8 48 (2.67%) Bash
9 39 (2.17%) Go
10 35 (1.95%) Groovy
11 29 (1.61%) C++
12 28 (1.56%) Perl
13 20 (1.11%) Shell Script
14 15 (0.83%) Apex Code
14 15 (0.83%) PL/SQL
15 13 (0.72%) PHP
16 12 (0.67%) Ruby
17 9 (0.50%) Embedded C++
18 7 (0.39%) Korn
18 7 (0.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 464 (25.79%) Security Cleared
2 412 (22.90%) SC Cleared
3 258 (14.34%) Degree
4 81 (4.50%) PMI Certification
5 67 (3.72%) PMP
6 59 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 58 (3.22%) CISSP
8 51 (2.83%) ISTQB
9 50 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
10 43 (2.39%) CISM
11 38 (2.11%) DV Cleared
12 29 (1.61%) TOGAF Certification
13 28 (1.56%) AWS Certification
14 19 (1.06%) Azure Certification
14 19 (1.06%) Oracle Certification
15 17 (0.94%) Master's Degree
15 17 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
16 15 (0.83%) CBAP
17 13 (0.72%) ISEB
17 13 (0.72%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 212 (11.78%) QA
2 73 (4.06%) PMO
3 69 (3.84%) GDPR
4 62 (3.45%) Data Quality
5 51 (2.83%) Accessibility
6 48 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 39 (2.17%) NIST
8 23 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 19 (1.06%) ISO 20022
10 18 (1.00%) SEPA
11 17 (0.94%) PCI DSS
12 16 (0.89%) PSD2
13 15 (0.83%) WCAG
14 14 (0.78%) COBIT
14 14 (0.78%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.44%) GRC
15 8 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 7 (0.39%) NCSC
17 6 (0.33%) P3O
17 6 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 211 (11.73%) Docker
2 61 (3.39%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.22%) DFS Replication
5 19 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.67%) Dovecot
6 12 (0.67%) Postfix
6 12 (0.67%) Squid
7 11 (0.61%) Firmware
7 11 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.28%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.17%) vSphere
12 2 (0.11%) KVM
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 2 (0.11%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.056%) etcd
Systems Management
1 183 (10.17%) Kubernetes
2 125 (6.95%) Terraform
3 96 (5.34%) Ansible
4 54 (3.00%) Grafana
5 45 (2.50%) Prometheus
6 31 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
7 27 (1.50%) HP ALM
8 25 (1.39%) Packer
9 24 (1.33%) Nessus
10 23 (1.28%) Consul
11 19 (1.06%) OPNET
12 16 (0.89%) Puppet
13 15 (0.83%) Control-M
14 14 (0.78%) NetBackup
15 12 (0.67%) RSA Archer
15 12 (0.67%) SCCM
16 11 (0.61%) IBM Guardium
16 11 (0.61%) Progress Chef
17 10 (0.56%) Proxmox
18 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 254 (14.12%) Microsoft
2 230 (12.78%) ServiceNow
3 149 (8.28%) Oracle
4 115 (6.39%) Atlassian
5 94 (5.23%) Salesforce
6 66 (3.67%) SAP
7 54 (3.00%) Google
8 44 (2.45%) HP
9 43 (2.39%) Remedy
10 36 (2.00%) Talend
11 35 (1.95%) IBM
12 32 (1.78%) Denodo
13 31 (1.72%) Cisco
14 29 (1.61%) CyberArk
14 29 (1.61%) Splunk
15 26 (1.45%) VMware
16 21 (1.17%) Red Hat
17 18 (1.00%) BiZZdesign
17 18 (1.00%) Tenable
18 17 (0.94%) Cloudera