JIRA Contracts in England

Atlassian JIRA
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring JIRA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JIRA over the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 52 43
Rank change year-on-year +10 -9 -2
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,190 1,355 2,655
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 4.91% 3.61% 5.04%
As % of the Development Applications category 35.95% 32.33% 32.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 773 930 1,840
10th Percentile £315 £331 £344
25th Percentile £405 £413 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £650
90th Percentile £688 £757 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -2.44% -4.65% +4.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 52 47
10th Percentile £48.61 £22.00 £42.33
25th Percentile £55.31 £36.84 £52.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £49.19 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.06% -21.30% +40.45%
75th Percentile £73.13 £64.06 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.00 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £45.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +38.89% -28.00% +40.45%

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 3,310 4,191 8,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.65% 11.15% 15.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,204 2,915 5,717
10th Percentile £340 £358 £391
25th Percentile £413 £425 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -7.08% +2.73%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £688
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 162 245
10th Percentile £26.12 £33.38 £44.62
25th Percentile £51.25 £46.38 £52.75
Median hourly rate £64.00 £62.50 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +1.63% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £83.43 £88.13 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +0.81% +0.81% +22.39%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in England

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA in England.

Daily rate trend for JIRA in England

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in England over the 6 months to 3 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in England

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JIRA in England.

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in England

JIRA
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing JIRA in England over the 6 months to 3 April 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 3 April 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 +6 581 £500 -9.09% 1,003
North of England +23 197 £450 -10.00% 261
South East +12 156 £500 - 294
Midlands +53 109 £475 +5.56% 153
North West +5 101 £450 -11.76% 153
West Midlands +49 87 £475 -6.31% 105
Yorkshire +38 85 £500 +11.11% 79
South West -4 79 £563 +2.27% 115
East of England +8 30 £456 +11.28% 102
East Midlands +19 21 £475 +33.43% 46
North East +3 11 £463 -13.15% 30
JIRA
UK

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 561 (47.14%) Confluence
2 62 (5.21%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.60%) CMS
4 15 (1.26%) SAS
5 14 (1.18%) Apache
5 14 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (1.09%) Drupal
6 13 (1.09%) JBoss
7 9 (0.76%) Apache Spark
7 9 (0.76%) nginx
7 9 (0.76%) WordPress
8 7 (0.59%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.50%) Skype for Business
10 4 (0.34%) Mendix
10 4 (0.34%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.25%) Camunda
11 3 (0.25%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.25%) IIS
11 3 (0.25%) Oracle Coherence
11 3 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 98 (8.24%) Microsoft Office
2 81 (6.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 70 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
4 50 (4.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 41 (3.45%) MS Visio
6 39 (3.28%) Trello
7 9 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.17%) InVision
9 2 (0.17%) Open Workbench
9 2 (0.17%) UserZoom
10 1 (0.084%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.084%) CATIA
10 1 (0.084%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.42%) Shopify
4 3 (0.25%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (0.25%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.17%) Kondor
5 2 (0.17%) MultiFonds
5 2 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.17%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.084%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.084%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.084%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.084%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.084%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.084%) SessionCam
6 1 (0.084%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 213 (17.90%) AWS
2 196 (16.47%) Azure
3 79 (6.64%) Power Platform
4 75 (6.30%) Azure DevOps
4 75 (6.30%) GitHub
5 60 (5.04%) GCP
6 39 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
7 35 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
7 35 (2.94%) Slack
8 30 (2.52%) SaaS
9 23 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (1.76%) Asana
10 21 (1.76%) Serverless
11 20 (1.68%) Miro
12 19 (1.60%) Power Automate
13 18 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
13 18 (1.51%) PowerApps
14 17 (1.43%) Amazon S3
14 17 (1.43%) OpenShift
14 17 (1.43%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.02%) Firewall
2 20 (1.68%) HTTP
3 19 (1.60%) DNS
4 15 (1.26%) VPN
5 12 (1.01%) SAN
5 12 (1.01%) Software-Defined Radio
6 11 (0.92%) Network Security
7 10 (0.84%) DHCP
7 10 (0.84%) TCP/IP
8 9 (0.76%) Kerberos
8 9 (0.76%) Skype
8 9 (0.76%) SNMP
9 8 (0.67%) Internet
9 8 (0.67%) NAS
10 7 (0.59%) MPLS
11 6 (0.50%) iSCSI
12 5 (0.42%) GPON
12 5 (0.42%) IPv4
12 5 (0.42%) IPv6
12 5 (0.42%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (5.71%) Power BI
2 65 (5.46%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (4.37%) MySQL
4 43 (3.61%) MongoDB
5 41 (3.45%) Relational Database
6 40 (3.36%) SQL Server
7 36 (3.03%) NoSQL
8 30 (2.52%) Tableau
9 28 (2.35%) Apache Cassandra
10 20 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
10 20 (1.68%) Elasticsearch
11 16 (1.34%) Oracle Database
12 14 (1.18%) RDBMS
13 13 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
13 13 (1.09%) Data Lake
14 10 (0.84%) Big Data
14 10 (0.84%) Hadoop
15 9 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
16 8 (0.67%) Apache Hive
17 7 (0.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 200 (16.81%) Git
2 148 (12.44%) Jenkins
3 83 (6.97%) Bitbucket
4 74 (6.22%) GitLab
5 64 (5.38%) Selenium
6 57 (4.79%) Cucumber
7 56 (4.71%) Postman
8 45 (3.78%) JUnit
9 34 (2.86%) Visual Studio
10 33 (2.77%) SonarQube
11 31 (2.61%) REST Assured
12 30 (2.52%) Cypress.io
13 24 (2.02%) GoogleTest
13 24 (2.02%) TestRail
14 23 (1.93%) Jasmine
14 23 (1.93%) TeamCity
15 21 (1.76%) Maven
16 18 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
17 17 (1.43%) JMeter
17 17 (1.43%) Subversion
General
1 443 (37.23%) Social Skills
2 298 (25.04%) Finance
3 210 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (11.01%) Banking
5 99 (8.32%) Public Sector
6 37 (3.11%) Marketing
7 26 (2.18%) Front Office
7 26 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
8 25 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
8 25 (2.10%) Manufacturing
9 23 (1.93%) Legal
9 23 (1.93%) Retail
9 23 (1.93%) Telecoms
10 22 (1.85%) Automotive
11 20 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (1.68%) Investment Banking
12 18 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
13 16 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (1.26%) Military
15 14 (1.18%) Law
Job Titles
1 204 (17.14%) Analyst
2 155 (13.03%) Developer
3 137 (11.51%) Senior
4 118 (9.92%) Business Analyst
5 113 (9.50%) Project Manager
6 91 (7.65%) Lead
7 55 (4.62%) Software Engineer
8 50 (4.20%) Tester
9 41 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
10 38 (3.19%) DevOps Engineer
11 36 (3.03%) Consultant
12 35 (2.94%) Test Engineer
13 34 (2.86%) Architect
14 33 (2.77%) Java Developer
15 29 (2.44%) Senior Developer
16 27 (2.27%) Data Engineer
17 26 (2.18%) Scrum Master
17 26 (2.18%) Technical Manager
18 24 (2.02%) Technical Analyst
18 24 (2.02%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (7.39%) REST
2 59 (4.96%) Spring Boot
3 52 (4.37%) Spring
4 51 (4.29%) HTML
5 46 (3.87%) AngularJS
5 46 (3.87%) CSS
5 46 (3.87%) RESTful
6 42 (3.53%) SOAP
6 42 (3.53%) Swagger
7 37 (3.11%) .NET
8 33 (2.77%) Kafka
9 32 (2.69%) OpenAPI
10 29 (2.44%) Web Services
11 25 (2.10%) React
12 23 (1.93%) JSON
13 22 (1.85%) Spring Security
14 21 (1.76%) Spring Batch
15 20 (1.68%) XML
16 18 (1.51%) pytest
17 17 (1.43%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 110 (9.24%) Product Ownership
2 39 (3.28%) Onboarding
3 25 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (1.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 22 (1.85%) Virtual Team
5 21 (1.76%) Data Centre
6 19 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (1.51%) Public Cloud
8 17 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
8 17 (1.43%) Clustering
8 17 (1.43%) Mobile App
9 16 (1.34%) Data Structures
9 16 (1.34%) Management Information System
10 13 (1.09%) SCADA
11 12 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (0.84%) PKI
14 9 (0.76%) Derivative
14 9 (0.76%) Mainframe
14 9 (0.76%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 149 (12.52%) Linux
2 112 (9.41%) Windows
3 51 (4.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 44 (3.70%) Unix
5 28 (2.35%) Windows Server
6 16 (1.34%) Android
7 14 (1.18%) Apple iOS
8 12 (1.01%) Embedded Linux
9 11 (0.92%) Mac OS
10 9 (0.76%) Windows 10
11 8 (0.67%) CentOS
11 8 (0.67%) VMS
12 7 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (0.50%) Solaris
14 5 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
16 2 (0.17%) Debian
16 2 (0.17%) Ubuntu
16 2 (0.17%) zOS
17 1 (0.084%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 672 (56.47%) Agile
2 292 (24.54%) Problem-Solving
3 247 (20.76%) DevOps
4 241 (20.25%) Project Management
5 240 (20.17%) Scrum
6 193 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 184 (15.46%) CI/CD
8 181 (15.21%) Test Automation
9 116 (9.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 111 (9.33%) Waterfall
11 109 (9.16%) Software Engineering
12 100 (8.40%) Migration
13 97 (8.15%) User Stories
14 91 (7.65%) Project Delivery
15 90 (7.56%) Decision-Making
16 86 (7.23%) Risk Management
17 84 (7.06%) Business Intelligence
17 84 (7.06%) Continuous Integration
18 83 (6.97%) Analytics
18 83 (6.97%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 237 (19.92%) SQL
2 175 (14.71%) Python
3 168 (14.12%) Java
4 89 (7.48%) JavaScript
5 74 (6.22%) C#
6 61 (5.13%) Bash
7 42 (3.53%) PL/SQL
8 40 (3.36%) PowerShell
9 38 (3.19%) C++
9 38 (3.19%) TypeScript
10 22 (1.85%) Perl
10 22 (1.85%) Shell Script
11 18 (1.51%) Kotlin
12 16 (1.34%) Delphi
13 15 (1.26%) Go
14 12 (1.01%) PHP
15 10 (0.84%) Groovy
16 7 (0.59%) R
16 7 (0.59%) Scala
17 6 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 222 (18.66%) Security Cleared
2 199 (16.72%) SC Cleared
3 172 (14.45%) Degree
4 55 (4.62%) PMI Certification
5 51 (4.29%) PMP
6 39 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (1.93%) Master's Degree
8 22 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (1.85%) ISTQB
9 21 (1.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 18 (1.51%) AWS Certification
11 13 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
11 13 (1.09%) CBAP
11 13 (1.09%) CCNA
11 13 (1.09%) ISEB
12 12 (1.01%) DV Cleared
13 11 (0.92%) CCNP
13 11 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.84%) Azure Certification
14 10 (0.84%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (10.08%) QA
2 40 (3.36%) PMO
3 38 (3.19%) Accessibility
4 31 (2.61%) Data Quality
5 27 (2.27%) GDPR
6 14 (1.18%) SLA
7 9 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.67%) NCSC
9 6 (0.50%) MiFID
10 5 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.42%) EMIR
10 5 (0.42%) NIST
10 5 (0.42%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.34%) WCAG
12 3 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.25%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.25%) PMBOK
13 2 (0.17%) IFRS
13 2 (0.17%) P3O
System Software
1 109 (9.16%) Docker
2 57 (4.79%) Active Directory
3 45 (3.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.93%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (1.26%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.76%) Firmware
7 6 (0.50%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.50%) VirtualBox
8 5 (0.42%) NFS
8 5 (0.42%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 4 (0.34%) HDFS
9 4 (0.34%) Lustre
9 4 (0.34%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 4 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.25%) Veritas File System
10 3 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 100 (8.40%) Kubernetes
2 68 (5.71%) Ansible
3 63 (5.29%) Terraform
4 24 (2.02%) Progress Chef
4 24 (2.02%) Puppet
5 22 (1.85%) vCenter Server
6 17 (1.43%) HP ALM
7 16 (1.34%) Grafana
8 15 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (1.01%) Kibana
10 11 (0.92%) Podman
11 9 (0.76%) Consul
11 9 (0.76%) Packer
12 7 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
12 7 (0.59%) Prometheus
12 7 (0.59%) SCCM
13 6 (0.50%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.50%) Opsgenie
14 5 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
14 5 (0.42%) QRadar
Vendors
1 182 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 123 (10.34%) Oracle
3 115 (9.66%) Atlassian
4 66 (5.55%) ServiceNow
5 62 (5.21%) Google
6 52 (4.37%) VMware
7 44 (3.70%) Splunk
8 42 (3.53%) Cisco
9 41 (3.45%) SAP
10 35 (2.94%) Red Hat
10 35 (2.94%) Salesforce
11 22 (1.85%) HP
12 20 (1.68%) IBM
13 17 (1.43%) Databricks
14 13 (1.09%) Adobe
14 13 (1.09%) AppDynamics
15 12 (1.01%) Dell
15 12 (1.01%) Informatica
16 11 (0.92%) CA Agile Central
16 11 (0.92%) Workday