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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 44 51
Rank change year-on-year +10 +7 -11
Contract jobs citing JIRA 1,859 1,192 1,428
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.49% 4.60% 3.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.91% 34.09% 32.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,344 725 1,012
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 £620
90th Percentile £700 £675 £732
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £513
% change year-on-year +3.09% -5.37% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 23 45
10th Percentile £15.71 £45.40 £31.43
25th Percentile £32.65 £52.98 £45.00
Median hourly rate £63.40 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% +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 4,778 3,497 4,371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.10% 13.49% 11.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,301 2,181 3,103
10th Percentile £340 £340 £363
25th Percentile £409 £413 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -5.14% -6.96%
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 132 57 199
10th Percentile £39.00 £27.00 £40.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.70 £49.24
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £75.89
90th Percentile £81.10 £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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +5 836 £525 +5.00% 135
North of England +11 346 £450 -0.88% 79
Midlands +7 232 £428 -10.22% 98
South East -4 202 £478 +0.53% 155
Yorkshire -6 187 £480 -2.64% 34
West Midlands +3 168 £473 -0.94% 73
South West +17 150 £575 +4.55% 54
North West +11 143 £430 -4.44% 40
East Midlands +13 63 £356 -28.80% 25
East of England -15 56 £425 +3.85% 35
North East -5 16 £438 -2.78% 7
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
1 873 (46.96%) Confluence
2 112 (6.02%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.88%) nginx
4 31 (1.67%) SAS
5 24 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
6 23 (1.24%) CMS
7 12 (0.65%) Apache
8 11 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
10 6 (0.32%) Ethereum
10 6 (0.32%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.32%) 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
1 196 (10.54%) Microsoft Project
2 177 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 113 (6.08%) Microsoft Office
4 106 (5.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 78 (4.20%) MS Visio
6 26 (1.40%) Trello
7 6 (0.32%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 5 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.27%) Notion
8 5 (0.27%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.27%) Sketch
8 5 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
9 4 (0.22%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.22%) Chatbot
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 (0.91%) NetSuite
2 15 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (0.59%) Workday HCM
4 10 (0.54%) Fidessa
4 10 (0.54%) Loan IQ
4 10 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 9 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
6 8 (0.43%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.43%) Maximo
7 7 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
8 6 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.27%) SAP MDG
10 4 (0.22%) Endur
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 4 (0.22%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.22%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 373 (20.06%) Azure
2 274 (14.74%) AWS
3 198 (10.65%) Azure DevOps
4 167 (8.98%) GitHub
5 134 (7.21%) Power Platform
6 78 (4.20%) GCP
7 77 (4.14%) Microsoft 365
8 56 (3.01%) SaaS
9 46 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
10 44 (2.37%) Serverless
11 39 (2.10%) Entra ID
12 37 (1.99%) Figma
13 32 (1.72%) Amazon S3
14 31 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
14 31 (1.67%) Slack
15 30 (1.61%) AWS CloudFormation
16 28 (1.51%) Miro
17 27 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
17 27 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
17 27 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.64%) Firewall
2 39 (2.10%) DNS
3 32 (1.72%) TCP/IP
4 28 (1.51%) VPN
5 22 (1.18%) HTTP
6 20 (1.08%) SSH
6 20 (1.08%) WAN
7 19 (1.02%) LAN
8 15 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (0.70%) FTP
9 13 (0.70%) Network Security
10 10 (0.54%) SSL
11 9 (0.48%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.48%) SMTP
11 9 (0.48%) Unified Communications
12 8 (0.43%) DHCP
12 8 (0.43%) Ethernet
13 7 (0.38%) Modbus
13 7 (0.38%) RS-232
13 7 (0.38%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (6.13%) Power BI
2 72 (3.87%) PostgreSQL
3 66 (3.55%) Tableau
4 49 (2.64%) SQL Server
5 38 (2.04%) NoSQL
6 32 (1.72%) MongoDB
7 30 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
8 22 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
9 21 (1.13%) Oracle Database
9 21 (1.13%) Pentaho
10 18 (0.97%) Big Data
10 18 (0.97%) Elasticsearch
10 18 (0.97%) Metadata
10 18 (0.97%) Relational Database
11 17 (0.91%) MySQL
12 16 (0.86%) Data Vault
13 11 (0.59%) DynamoDB
13 11 (0.59%) Star Schema
14 10 (0.54%) BigQuery
14 10 (0.54%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 219 (11.78%) Jenkins
2 205 (11.03%) Git
3 115 (6.19%) GitLab
4 83 (4.46%) Selenium
5 71 (3.82%) Postman
6 59 (3.17%) Bitbucket
7 54 (2.90%) Cucumber
8 37 (1.99%) REST Assured
9 36 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
9 36 (1.94%) TestRail
10 35 (1.88%) SonarQube
11 30 (1.61%) JUnit
12 29 (1.56%) Zephyr
13 22 (1.18%) Maven
14 21 (1.13%) JMeter
15 17 (0.91%) SpecFlow
16 16 (0.86%) Cypress.io
17 13 (0.70%) Rational DOORS
17 13 (0.70%) SoapUI
18 11 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 768 (41.31%) Social Skills
2 531 (28.56%) Finance
3 365 (19.63%) Analytical Skills
4 239 (12.86%) Banking
5 193 (10.38%) Public Sector
6 67 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
7 66 (3.55%) Retail
8 64 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
9 55 (2.96%) Military
10 44 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
11 41 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
12 34 (1.83%) Investment Banking
13 30 (1.61%) Legal
14 28 (1.51%) Front Office
15 26 (1.40%) Telecoms
16 24 (1.29%) Marketing
17 22 (1.18%) Manufacturing
18 21 (1.13%) Retail Banking
19 16 (0.86%) Automotive
19 16 (0.86%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 384 (20.66%) Analyst
2 249 (13.39%) Business Analyst
3 186 (10.01%) Developer
4 149 (8.02%) Project Manager
5 143 (7.69%) Lead
6 125 (6.72%) Architect
6 125 (6.72%) Senior
7 80 (4.30%) Tester
8 55 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
9 54 (2.90%) Consultant
10 48 (2.58%) Delivery Manager
11 47 (2.53%) Test Analyst
11 47 (2.53%) Test Engineer
12 45 (2.42%) Technical Analyst
13 42 (2.26%) Scrum Master
13 42 (2.26%) Technical Business Analyst
14 40 (2.15%) Software Engineer
15 36 (1.94%) DevOps Engineer
16 35 (1.88%) Senior Analyst
17 34 (1.83%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (8.50%) REST
2 65 (3.50%) .NET
3 56 (3.01%) SOAP
4 55 (2.96%) RESTful
5 48 (2.58%) HTML
5 48 (2.58%) Spring
6 47 (2.53%) Kafka
7 46 (2.47%) XML
8 45 (2.42%) React
9 42 (2.26%) CSS
10 41 (2.21%) JSON
11 39 (2.10%) Playwright
11 39 (2.10%) Spring Boot
12 32 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
13 31 (1.67%) AngularJS
13 31 (1.67%) Node.js
14 30 (1.61%) LDAP
15 26 (1.40%) OpenID
16 24 (1.29%) FastAPI
17 22 (1.18%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 230 (12.37%) Product Ownership
2 87 (4.68%) Onboarding
3 64 (3.44%) Cloud Native
4 45 (2.42%) Data Protection Act
5 44 (2.37%) Management Information System
6 38 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
7 32 (1.72%) PMI
7 32 (1.72%) Virtual Team
8 29 (1.56%) Data Structures
9 28 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
9 28 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
10 27 (1.45%) CMDB
11 25 (1.34%) Mobile App
12 22 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
13 21 (1.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 15 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
14 15 (0.81%) Public Cloud
15 14 (0.75%) Tandem
16 13 (0.70%) Fixed Income
16 13 (0.70%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 145 (7.80%) Windows
2 122 (6.56%) Linux
3 32 (1.72%) Unix
4 21 (1.13%) Android
5 19 (1.02%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.65%) VMS
6 12 (0.65%) Windows Server
7 11 (0.59%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.48%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.43%) Amazon Linux
9 8 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.38%) FreeRTOS
11 6 (0.32%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.054%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.054%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.054%) Windows Embedded Compact
13 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.054%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,122 (60.36%) Agile
2 515 (27.70%) DevOps
3 479 (25.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 450 (24.21%) Problem-Solving
5 419 (22.54%) Scrum
6 360 (19.37%) CI/CD
7 295 (15.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 286 (15.38%) Project Management
9 275 (14.79%) Test Automation
10 251 (13.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 205 (11.03%) User Stories
12 196 (10.54%) User Acceptance Testing
13 183 (9.84%) Project Delivery
14 182 (9.79%) Migration
15 170 (9.14%) Change Management
16 168 (9.04%) Acceptance Criteria
17 166 (8.93%) Analytics
18 160 (8.61%) Roadmaps
19 154 (8.28%) Decision-Making
20 152 (8.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 292 (15.71%) SQL
2 256 (13.77%) Python
3 172 (9.25%) Java
4 116 (6.24%) JavaScript
5 80 (4.30%) PowerShell
6 74 (3.98%) C#
7 55 (2.96%) TypeScript
8 36 (1.94%) Bash
9 32 (1.72%) C++
10 26 (1.40%) Go
11 20 (1.08%) Embedded C++
12 18 (0.97%) Shell Script
13 17 (0.91%) PL/SQL
14 14 (0.75%) Groovy
14 14 (0.75%) PHP
15 13 (0.70%) C
16 11 (0.59%) Ruby
17 10 (0.54%) Apex Code
17 10 (0.54%) Embedded C
18 9 (0.48%) Perl
Qualifications
1 469 (25.23%) Security Cleared
2 380 (20.44%) SC Cleared
3 271 (14.58%) Degree
4 91 (4.90%) PMI Certification
5 76 (4.09%) PMP
6 62 (3.34%) BPSS Clearance
7 60 (3.23%) ISTQB
8 50 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
9 46 (2.47%) DV Cleared
10 45 (2.42%) CISSP
11 44 (2.37%) TOGAF Certification
12 35 (1.88%) CISM
12 35 (1.88%) Master's Degree
13 32 (1.72%) AWS Certification
14 26 (1.40%) CBAP
15 22 (1.18%) ISEB
16 18 (0.97%) Azure Certification
17 17 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 17 (0.91%) Oracle Certification
18 16 (0.86%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 234 (12.59%) QA
2 105 (5.65%) PMO
3 74 (3.98%) Data Quality
4 56 (3.01%) Accessibility
5 44 (2.37%) GDPR
6 28 (1.51%) NIST
7 24 (1.29%) PSD2
8 23 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 21 (1.13%) ISO 20022
10 20 (1.08%) WCAG
11 18 (0.97%) SEPA
12 17 (0.91%) SLA
13 13 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 12 (0.65%) GRC
14 12 (0.65%) PCI DSS
15 11 (0.59%) Basel III
16 8 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
16 8 (0.43%) NCSC
16 8 (0.43%) NIST 800
17 5 (0.27%) P3O
System Software
1 183 (9.84%) Docker
2 58 (3.12%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.70%) Squid
6 9 (0.48%) Firmware
7 8 (0.43%) DFS Replication
7 8 (0.43%) Postfix
8 7 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
8 7 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (0.32%) 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 (0.054%) etcd
13 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
13 1 (0.054%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.054%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
13 1 (0.054%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 166 (8.93%) Kubernetes
2 93 (5.00%) Terraform
3 75 (4.03%) Ansible
4 61 (3.28%) Grafana
5 46 (2.47%) Prometheus
6 30 (1.61%) OPNET
7 27 (1.45%) Control-M
7 27 (1.45%) Nessus
8 25 (1.34%) HP ALM
9 21 (1.13%) IBM Guardium
9 21 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
10 20 (1.08%) Consul
10 20 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
11 16 (0.86%) Packer
12 12 (0.65%) Puppet
13 11 (0.59%) SCCM
14 10 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
14 10 (0.54%) NetBackup
15 7 (0.38%) Argo
16 6 (0.32%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 232 (12.48%) Microsoft
2 200 (10.76%) ServiceNow
3 152 (8.18%) Oracle
4 131 (7.05%) Atlassian
5 97 (5.22%) Salesforce
6 61 (3.28%) SAP
7 46 (2.47%) Google
8 45 (2.42%) Remedy
9 36 (1.94%) IBM
10 27 (1.45%) HP
10 27 (1.45%) Splunk
10 27 (1.45%) Workday
11 26 (1.40%) Tenable
12 25 (1.34%) Red Hat
13 24 (1.29%) Talend
14 23 (1.24%) BiZZdesign
15 21 (1.13%) Databricks
16 20 (1.08%) Adobe
16 20 (1.08%) Denodo
17 18 (0.97%) VMware