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 20 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 33 43
Rank change year-on-year -15 +10 +4
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,026 1,611 1,432
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.37% 5.80% 4.35%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.33% 38.98% 32.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,301 1,140 933
10th Percentile £350 £313 £325
25th Percentile £411 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -2.62%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £606
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £492 £508
% change year-on-year +1.63% -3.15% -3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 41 71
10th Percentile £19.25 £46.25 £25.99
25th Percentile £26.25 £50.00 £52.31
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 -
90th Percentile £80.00 £83.00 -
UK median hourly rate £56.25 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -2.17% -17.86% +12.00%

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 5,286 4,133 4,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.41% 14.88% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,332 2,858 2,820
10th Percentile £355 £325 £350
25th Percentile £417 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £630
90th Percentile £700 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 94 170
10th Percentile £24.87 £43.98 £37.47
25th Percentile £51.25 £54.81 £54.43
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.15 £78.38 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -12 953 £534 +1.71% 836
North of England -17 362 £475 +1.28% 224
Midlands -8 252 £459 -3.37% 113
West Midlands -11 215 £469 -1.26% 73
Yorkshire -6 211 £493 +3.68% 75
South East -34 202 £475 - 257
South West +3 139 £525 -4.55% 122
North West -39 130 £450 +0.90% 116
East of England -1 77 £472 +18.00% 129
East Midlands -13 36 £402 +11.98% 40
North East -36 28 £515 -0.96% 34
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
1 902 (44.52%) Confluence
2 101 (4.99%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (1.23%) SAS
5 22 (1.09%) CMS
6 10 (0.49%) Apache
6 10 (0.49%) Camunda
7 9 (0.44%) nginx
8 5 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.25%) IIS
8 5 (0.25%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.25%) MTS
9 4 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.20%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.20%) Headless CMS
9 4 (0.20%) WordPress
10 3 (0.15%) Kentico
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.15%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 141 (6.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 117 (5.77%) Microsoft Project
3 76 (3.75%) MS Visio
4 65 (3.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 60 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
6 21 (1.04%) Trello
7 16 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
8 10 (0.49%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.39%) Revit
10 5 (0.25%) Chatbot
10 5 (0.25%) Notion
11 3 (0.15%) Windchill
12 2 (0.099%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.099%) Mingle
12 2 (0.099%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.049%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.049%) CATIA
13 1 (0.049%) Gliffy
13 1 (0.049%) Mozilla Thunderbird
13 1 (0.049%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 35 (1.73%) Remedy ITSM
2 25 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
5 9 (0.44%) Aladdin
5 9 (0.44%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
6 6 (0.30%) SAP MDG
6 6 (0.30%) Teamcenter
7 5 (0.25%) Fidessa
7 5 (0.25%) ResourceLink
7 5 (0.25%) SAP EWM
7 5 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.20%) Findur
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.20%) SAP FI-AR
9 3 (0.15%) Maximo
9 3 (0.15%) SAP CRM
9 3 (0.15%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 474 (23.40%) Azure
2 310 (15.30%) AWS
3 263 (12.98%) Azure DevOps
4 165 (8.14%) Power Platform
5 156 (7.70%) GitHub
6 96 (4.74%) GCP
7 94 (4.64%) Microsoft 365
8 71 (3.50%) SaaS
9 61 (3.01%) Serverless
10 60 (2.96%) Entra ID
11 54 (2.67%) Amazon S3
12 50 (2.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 46 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
13 46 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
14 43 (2.12%) Miro
15 37 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
15 37 (1.83%) Microsoft Copilot
16 34 (1.68%) Smartsheet
17 26 (1.28%) Figma
17 26 (1.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 81 (4.00%) Firewall
2 73 (3.60%) DNS
3 48 (2.37%) TCP/IP
4 35 (1.73%) DHCP
5 32 (1.58%) VPN
6 27 (1.33%) Network Security
7 23 (1.14%) WAN
8 21 (1.04%) BIG-IP
9 18 (0.89%) SSL
10 16 (0.79%) SAN
11 14 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
12 13 (0.64%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 13 (0.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 13 (0.64%) IPv4
12 13 (0.64%) IPv6
12 13 (0.64%) VLAN
13 12 (0.59%) Broadband
13 12 (0.59%) SD-WAN
14 11 (0.54%) LAN
15 10 (0.49%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (7.21%) Power BI
2 92 (4.54%) Data Warehouse
3 66 (3.26%) SQL Server
4 60 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (1.92%) Oracle Reports
6 38 (1.88%) Relational Database
7 27 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
8 26 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
9 21 (1.04%) Metadata
10 20 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
10 20 (0.99%) Data Lake
10 20 (0.99%) MongoDB
10 20 (0.99%) Oracle Database
11 19 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 17 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
12 17 (0.84%) Tableau
13 15 (0.74%) DynamoDB
13 15 (0.74%) Power Query
13 15 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 14 (0.69%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 255 (12.59%) Git
2 171 (8.44%) Jenkins
3 115 (5.68%) GitLab
4 75 (3.70%) Zephyr
5 71 (3.50%) Selenium
6 63 (3.11%) Bitbucket
7 61 (3.01%) Postman
8 34 (1.68%) JUnit
9 31 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
10 27 (1.33%) Cucumber
11 25 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 25 (1.23%) JMeter
11 25 (1.23%) Maven
12 24 (1.18%) Cypress.io
13 23 (1.14%) REST Assured
14 22 (1.09%) SonarQube
15 21 (1.04%) Mockito
16 19 (0.94%) Artifactory
16 19 (0.94%) TestRail
17 18 (0.89%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 803 (39.63%) Social Skills
2 579 (28.58%) Finance
3 402 (19.84%) Analytical Skills
4 277 (13.67%) Banking
5 232 (11.45%) Public Sector
6 90 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
7 77 (3.80%) Retail
8 64 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
9 51 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
10 49 (2.42%) Investment Banking
11 45 (2.22%) Manufacturing
12 40 (1.97%) Legal
12 40 (1.97%) Telecoms
13 36 (1.78%) Front Office
13 36 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 34 (1.68%) Marketing
15 26 (1.28%) Retail Banking
16 21 (1.04%) Law
16 21 (1.04%) Military
17 19 (0.94%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 347 (17.13%) Analyst
2 216 (10.66%) Lead
3 208 (10.27%) Business Analyst
4 198 (9.77%) Developer
5 179 (8.84%) Senior
6 103 (5.08%) Project Manager
7 79 (3.90%) Delivery Manager
8 76 (3.75%) Consultant
9 75 (3.70%) Scrum Master
10 74 (3.65%) Architect
11 65 (3.21%) Tester
12 52 (2.57%) Administrator
13 50 (2.47%) Data Engineer
13 50 (2.47%) Product Owner
14 47 (2.32%) Support Engineer
14 47 (2.32%) Test Analyst
15 44 (2.17%) Test Leader
16 39 (1.92%) Product Manager
16 39 (1.92%) Senior Manager
17 37 (1.83%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (7.16%) REST
2 132 (6.52%) Terraform
3 73 (3.60%) .NET
4 63 (3.11%) HTML
5 57 (2.81%) RESTful
6 55 (2.71%) AngularJS
7 53 (2.62%) React
8 48 (2.37%) SOAP
9 44 (2.17%) JSON
10 43 (2.12%) CSS
11 42 (2.07%) Spring
12 41 (2.02%) Kafka
13 40 (1.97%) Spring Boot
13 40 (1.97%) Web Services
14 38 (1.88%) Playwright
15 33 (1.63%) XML
16 32 (1.58%) Node.js
17 31 (1.53%) Middleware
18 25 (1.23%) Hibernate
19 23 (1.14%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 271 (13.38%) Product Ownership
2 137 (6.76%) Onboarding
3 92 (4.54%) Cloud Native
4 70 (3.46%) Data Centre
5 61 (3.01%) Enterprise Software
6 59 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
7 53 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
8 45 (2.22%) Virtual Team
9 40 (1.97%) Data Structures
10 39 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
11 34 (1.68%) Management Information System
12 29 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
13 24 (1.18%) Credit Risk
14 23 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
15 21 (1.04%) SCADA
16 20 (0.99%) Mobile App
17 18 (0.89%) Derivative
17 18 (0.89%) Replication
18 17 (0.84%) AI Agents
19 16 (0.79%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 143 (7.06%) Windows
2 132 (6.52%) Linux
3 44 (2.17%) Unix
4 29 (1.43%) Windows 10
5 21 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.89%) Android
7 17 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (0.74%) Mac OS
8 15 (0.74%) Windows Server
9 9 (0.44%) Amazon Linux
10 8 (0.39%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.35%) CentOS
11 7 (0.35%) VMS
12 4 (0.20%) AIX
12 4 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
13 3 (0.15%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.15%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 2 (0.099%) MVS
14 2 (0.099%) Solaris
14 2 (0.099%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,203 (59.38%) Agile
2 655 (32.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 535 (26.41%) DevOps
4 454 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
5 430 (21.22%) CI/CD
6 429 (21.17%) Scrum
7 384 (18.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 340 (16.78%) Test Automation
9 299 (14.76%) Migration
10 250 (12.34%) User Acceptance Testing
11 241 (11.90%) User Stories
12 233 (11.50%) Validation
13 230 (11.35%) AI
14 227 (11.20%) Sprint Planning
15 223 (11.01%) Project Management
16 218 (10.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 204 (10.07%) Project Delivery
18 203 (10.02%) SDLC
19 189 (9.33%) Acceptance Criteria
20 180 (8.88%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 352 (17.37%) SQL
2 262 (12.93%) Python
3 139 (6.86%) Java
4 102 (5.03%) JavaScript
5 76 (3.75%) TypeScript
6 70 (3.46%) PowerShell
7 65 (3.21%) C#
8 39 (1.92%) Bash
9 34 (1.68%) PL/SQL
10 24 (1.18%) C++
11 23 (1.14%) Groovy
12 17 (0.84%) C
13 16 (0.79%) Kotlin
14 15 (0.74%) Bicep
15 14 (0.69%) Apex Code
16 13 (0.64%) ActionScript
16 13 (0.64%) Perl
17 12 (0.59%) VBA
18 8 (0.39%) T-SQL
19 7 (0.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 539 (26.60%) Security Cleared
2 412 (20.34%) SC Cleared
3 165 (8.14%) Degree
4 96 (4.74%) DV Cleared
5 90 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
6 67 (3.31%) ISTQB
7 57 (2.81%) PMI Certification
8 45 (2.22%) PMP
9 29 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (1.23%) AWS Certification
11 21 (1.04%) Azure Certification
11 21 (1.04%) Master's Degree
12 19 (0.94%) CISSP
13 17 (0.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 16 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
15 15 (0.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 12 (0.59%) IIBA
16 12 (0.59%) SAFe Agilist
17 11 (0.54%) CISM
17 11 (0.54%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 269 (13.28%) QA
2 127 (6.27%) Data Quality
2 127 (6.27%) PMO
3 62 (3.06%) Accessibility
4 37 (1.83%) SLA
5 24 (1.18%) WCAG
6 20 (0.99%) NCSC
7 19 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (0.89%) GDPR
8 18 (0.89%) GRC
9 16 (0.79%) NIST
10 14 (0.69%) ISO 20022
11 9 (0.44%) SEPA
12 8 (0.39%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.35%) JSP 440
14 5 (0.25%) COBIT
14 5 (0.25%) MiFID
14 5 (0.25%) P3O
14 5 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
15 4 (0.20%) EMIR
System Software
1 122 (6.02%) Docker
2 108 (5.33%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (0.49%) Firmware
6 7 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.20%) Squid
8 4 (0.20%) vSphere
9 2 (0.099%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.099%) Dovecot
9 2 (0.099%) OpenAM
9 2 (0.099%) Postfix
9 2 (0.099%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.049%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.049%) NFS
10 1 (0.049%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.049%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (0.049%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 1 (0.049%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 112 (5.53%) Kubernetes
2 75 (3.70%) Ansible
3 53 (2.62%) Grafana
4 43 (2.12%) Prometheus
5 34 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
6 25 (1.23%) HP ALM
7 16 (0.79%) Control-M
8 13 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
9 9 (0.44%) Packer
10 8 (0.39%) Dell DRAC
10 8 (0.39%) Istio
10 8 (0.39%) Nessus
11 7 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 7 (0.35%) Puppet
11 7 (0.35%) SCOM
12 6 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
12 6 (0.30%) SCCM
13 5 (0.25%) HP Quality Center
13 5 (0.25%) IBM Guardium
13 5 (0.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 306 (15.10%) Microsoft
2 236 (11.65%) ServiceNow
3 144 (7.11%) Oracle
4 97 (4.79%) SAP
5 85 (4.20%) Salesforce
6 76 (3.75%) Atlassian
7 64 (3.16%) Google
8 53 (2.62%) IBM
9 46 (2.27%) VMware
10 42 (2.07%) Splunk
11 38 (1.88%) Remedy
12 32 (1.58%) Denodo
13 26 (1.28%) HP
13 26 (1.28%) Talend
14 24 (1.18%) Databricks
14 24 (1.18%) F5
15 22 (1.09%) Adobe
15 22 (1.09%) Informatica
15 22 (1.09%) MuleSoft
16 19 (0.94%) Workday