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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 40 51
Rank change year-on-year +3 +11 -6
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,060 1,227 1,334
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.23% 5.01% 3.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 41.02% 36.82% 31.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,434 801 917
10th Percentile £313 £315 £325
25th Percentile £395 £405 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £580 £585 £630
90th Percentile £695 £685 £752
UK median daily rate £485 £489 £525
% change year-on-year -0.77% -6.90% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 22 54
10th Percentile £18.75 £48.31 £20.95
25th Percentile £27.41 £55.28 £32.03
Median hourly rate £63.32 £61.50 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year +2.96% +34.05% -26.59%
75th Percentile £71.88 £70.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £77.50 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £40.94
% change year-on-year +5.69% +50.22% -36.40%

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 5,022 3,332 4,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.74% 13.60% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,362 2,238 2,903
10th Percentile £340 £340 £356
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.19% -4.48%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 60 166
10th Percentile £39.53 £27.35 £29.86
25th Percentile £60.00 £52.14 £46.38
Median hourly rate £67.50 £63.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +2.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £76.75 £75.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £83.90 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% - +1.63%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 18 April 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 +7 908 £500 - 181
North of England -1 381 £450 - 90
Midlands +2 310 £425 -10.53% 61
West Midlands +3 246 £450 -5.26% 45
South East -17 191 £475 -5.00% 120
Yorkshire -8 183 £450 -7.69% 37
North West +3 181 £447 +2.52% 43
South West +14 166 £575 +3.60% 45
East of England -1 65 £425 -6.85% 38
East Midlands 0 61 £368 -22.47% 16
North East -1 20 £463 -9.76% 11
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
1 927 (45.00%) Confluence
2 107 (5.19%) SharePoint
3 42 (2.04%) SAS
4 32 (1.55%) nginx
5 28 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 19 (0.92%) Apache
7 15 (0.73%) CMS
8 9 (0.44%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.39%) WebLogic
10 6 (0.29%) Ethereum
10 6 (0.29%) Hyperledger
10 6 (0.29%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
11 5 (0.24%) JBoss
11 5 (0.24%) Mattermost
12 4 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.15%) Anypoint
13 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
13 3 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 221 (10.73%) Microsoft Project
2 185 (8.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 105 (5.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 103 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
5 93 (4.51%) MS Visio
6 21 (1.02%) Trello
7 9 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.34%) Chatbot
9 5 (0.24%) Sketch
10 4 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
10 4 (0.19%) Notion
10 4 (0.19%) Photoshop
11 3 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.15%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.15%) InVision
12 2 (0.097%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.097%) Autodesk Smoke
12 2 (0.097%) CATIA
12 2 (0.097%) Revit
13 1 (0.049%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 25 (1.21%) Remedy ITSM
2 24 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 16 (0.78%) NetSuite
4 15 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
5 13 (0.63%) Loan IQ
6 11 (0.53%) Aladdin
7 10 (0.49%) Workday HCM
8 8 (0.39%) Fidessa
9 6 (0.29%) Maximo
9 6 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
9 6 (0.29%) SAP MDG
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
11 4 (0.19%) Findur
11 4 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
11 4 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
11 4 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 4 (0.19%) SAP EWM
11 4 (0.19%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.19%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 423 (20.53%) Azure
2 310 (15.05%) AWS
3 240 (11.65%) Azure DevOps
4 164 (7.96%) GitHub
5 143 (6.94%) Power Platform
6 77 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
7 76 (3.69%) GCP
7 76 (3.69%) SaaS
8 69 (3.35%) Entra ID
9 59 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
10 48 (2.33%) Serverless
11 43 (2.09%) Amazon S3
12 37 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
13 36 (1.75%) Figma
14 33 (1.60%) Miro
15 31 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
16 30 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
17 27 (1.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 26 (1.26%) Amazon EKS
19 25 (1.21%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 57 (2.77%) Firewall
2 43 (2.09%) DNS
3 40 (1.94%) TCP/IP
4 28 (1.36%) LAN
5 25 (1.21%) Network Security
5 25 (1.21%) VPN
5 25 (1.21%) WAN
6 19 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
7 18 (0.87%) SSL
8 16 (0.78%) HTTP
9 15 (0.73%) DHCP
10 13 (0.63%) SAN
11 12 (0.58%) Internet
12 11 (0.53%) BIG-IP
12 11 (0.53%) SD-WAN
13 10 (0.49%) Ethernet
13 10 (0.49%) FTP
13 10 (0.49%) NAS
13 10 (0.49%) Unified Communications
14 7 (0.34%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (5.92%) Power BI
2 74 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
3 72 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
4 58 (2.82%) Tableau
5 53 (2.57%) SQL Server
6 40 (1.94%) MongoDB
7 36 (1.75%) NoSQL
7 36 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
8 26 (1.26%) Pentaho
9 23 (1.12%) Relational Database
10 20 (0.97%) Metadata
11 19 (0.92%) DynamoDB
12 18 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
13 17 (0.83%) MySQL
14 16 (0.78%) Big Data
15 15 (0.73%) Oracle Database
16 14 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
17 13 (0.63%) Amazon Athena
17 13 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 10 (0.49%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 265 (12.86%) Git
2 198 (9.61%) Jenkins
3 107 (5.19%) GitLab
4 104 (5.05%) Selenium
5 80 (3.88%) Postman
6 63 (3.06%) Cucumber
7 62 (3.01%) Zephyr
8 57 (2.77%) Bitbucket
9 51 (2.48%) JUnit
10 38 (1.84%) JMeter
11 37 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
12 34 (1.65%) REST Assured
12 34 (1.65%) TestRail
13 25 (1.21%) SonarQube
14 20 (0.97%) WebDriver
15 19 (0.92%) Cypress.io
16 17 (0.83%) Maven
17 15 (0.73%) Appium
18 14 (0.68%) SpecFlow
19 13 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 828 (40.19%) Social Skills
2 584 (28.35%) Finance
3 405 (19.66%) Analytical Skills
4 256 (12.43%) Banking
5 231 (11.21%) Public Sector
6 75 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
7 72 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
8 68 (3.30%) Retail
9 56 (2.72%) Military
10 43 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
11 37 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
12 36 (1.75%) Manufacturing
13 33 (1.60%) Legal
14 31 (1.50%) Investment Banking
15 26 (1.26%) Front Office
16 24 (1.17%) Retail Banking
17 21 (1.02%) Marketing
18 20 (0.97%) Law
18 20 (0.97%) Telecoms
19 17 (0.83%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 404 (19.61%) Analyst
2 254 (12.33%) Business Analyst
3 181 (8.79%) Developer
4 165 (8.01%) Lead
5 153 (7.43%) Senior
6 145 (7.04%) Project Manager
7 115 (5.58%) Architect
8 101 (4.90%) Tester
9 87 (4.22%) Delivery Manager
10 62 (3.01%) Scrum Master
11 60 (2.91%) Consultant
11 60 (2.91%) Data Engineer
12 56 (2.72%) Test Analyst
13 55 (2.67%) Test Engineer
14 49 (2.38%) IT Support
14 49 (2.38%) Support Engineer
15 44 (2.14%) Technical Manager
16 42 (2.04%) Software Engineer
16 42 (2.04%) Test Leader
17 41 (1.99%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 126 (6.12%) REST
2 63 (3.06%) Spring
3 59 (2.86%) .NET
4 56 (2.72%) React
5 47 (2.28%) Kafka
6 43 (2.09%) HTML
7 42 (2.04%) JSON
8 41 (1.99%) RESTful
8 41 (1.99%) Spring Boot
9 38 (1.84%) XML
10 37 (1.80%) CSS
11 36 (1.75%) Playwright
12 31 (1.50%) SOAP
13 29 (1.41%) ADO
13 29 (1.41%) OpenID
13 29 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
14 27 (1.31%) LDAP
15 26 (1.26%) AngularJS
15 26 (1.26%) Middleware
15 26 (1.26%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 248 (12.04%) Product Ownership
2 91 (4.42%) Onboarding
3 74 (3.59%) Cloud Native
4 48 (2.33%) Management Information System
5 44 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
6 42 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
6 42 (2.04%) Virtual Team
7 36 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
8 33 (1.60%) Data Centre
9 27 (1.31%) Analytical Mindset
10 26 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
11 24 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
12 22 (1.07%) Data Structures
13 21 (1.02%) Mobile App
13 21 (1.02%) PMI
14 16 (0.78%) Public Cloud
15 14 (0.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 13 (0.63%) Distributed Architecture
16 13 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 12 (0.58%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 162 (7.86%) Windows
2 136 (6.60%) Linux
3 30 (1.46%) Unix
4 19 (0.92%) Android
4 19 (0.92%) Windows 10
5 11 (0.53%) Mac OS
5 11 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.49%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.39%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (0.097%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (0.097%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.049%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.049%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,198 (58.16%) Agile
2 550 (26.70%) DevOps
3 499 (24.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 468 (22.72%) Problem-Solving
5 425 (20.63%) Scrum
6 397 (19.27%) CI/CD
7 372 (18.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 332 (16.12%) Test Automation
9 294 (14.27%) Project Management
10 261 (12.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 231 (11.21%) Migration
12 223 (10.83%) User Acceptance Testing
13 210 (10.19%) Change Management
14 207 (10.05%) User Stories
15 195 (9.47%) Project Delivery
16 192 (9.32%) ITIL
17 183 (8.88%) Validation
18 179 (8.69%) Acceptance Criteria
19 174 (8.45%) Analytics
20 171 (8.30%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 327 (15.87%) SQL
2 240 (11.65%) Python
3 189 (9.17%) Java
4 104 (5.05%) JavaScript
5 88 (4.27%) C#
6 74 (3.59%) PowerShell
7 61 (2.96%) TypeScript
8 41 (1.99%) Bash
9 30 (1.46%) C++
10 24 (1.17%) Shell Script
11 19 (0.92%) PL/SQL
12 17 (0.83%) C
13 14 (0.68%) Embedded C++
14 13 (0.63%) Apex Code
14 13 (0.63%) Perl
15 12 (0.58%) Go
15 12 (0.58%) VBA
16 10 (0.49%) Embedded C
17 7 (0.34%) PHP
17 7 (0.34%) XPath
Qualifications
1 578 (28.06%) Security Cleared
2 455 (22.09%) SC Cleared
3 244 (11.84%) Degree
4 79 (3.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 73 (3.54%) ISTQB
5 73 (3.54%) PMI Certification
6 68 (3.30%) PMP
7 61 (2.96%) DV Cleared
8 37 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 36 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
10 31 (1.50%) CISSP
11 27 (1.31%) Master's Degree
12 24 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (1.02%) CISM
14 20 (0.97%) IIBA
15 19 (0.92%) Azure Certification
16 18 (0.87%) AWS Certification
16 18 (0.87%) CBAP
16 18 (0.87%) ISEB
17 17 (0.83%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 267 (12.96%) QA
2 120 (5.83%) PMO
3 103 (5.00%) Data Quality
4 51 (2.48%) GDPR
5 46 (2.23%) Accessibility
6 30 (1.46%) NIST
7 28 (1.36%) SLA
8 20 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 18 (0.87%) GRC
9 18 (0.87%) WCAG
10 12 (0.58%) ISO 20022
10 12 (0.58%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.58%) PSD2
11 11 (0.53%) Basel III
12 9 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.34%) SEPA
14 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.29%) NCSC
14 6 (0.29%) NIST 800
System Software
1 171 (8.30%) Docker
2 97 (4.71%) Active Directory
3 20 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.68%) Firmware
5 9 (0.44%) Squid
5 9 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
7 5 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 5 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.15%) HDFS
9 2 (0.097%) Postfix
9 2 (0.097%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.097%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.049%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.049%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.049%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 186 (9.03%) Kubernetes
2 114 (5.53%) Terraform
3 84 (4.08%) Ansible
4 60 (2.91%) Grafana
5 44 (2.14%) Prometheus
6 34 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
7 30 (1.46%) OPNET
8 26 (1.26%) HP ALM
9 24 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
10 23 (1.12%) Control-M
11 22 (1.07%) Consul
12 17 (0.83%) Nessus
13 16 (0.78%) IBM Guardium
13 16 (0.78%) Puppet
14 15 (0.73%) Packer
15 11 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
16 10 (0.49%) SCCM
17 8 (0.39%) FortiGate
17 8 (0.39%) HP Quality Center
18 7 (0.34%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 254 (12.33%) ServiceNow
2 245 (11.89%) Microsoft
3 180 (8.74%) Oracle
4 151 (7.33%) Atlassian
5 102 (4.95%) Salesforce
6 75 (3.64%) SAP
7 63 (3.06%) Remedy
8 50 (2.43%) Google
9 36 (1.75%) Talend
10 34 (1.65%) Splunk
10 34 (1.65%) Workday
11 28 (1.36%) Denodo
11 28 (1.36%) HP
11 28 (1.36%) IBM
12 27 (1.31%) Red Hat
13 26 (1.26%) Databricks
14 23 (1.12%) VMware
15 20 (0.97%) Adobe
15 20 (0.97%) MuleSoft
15 20 (0.97%) Tenable