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 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 36 51
Rank change year-on-year -2 +15 -3
Contract jobs citing JIRA 2,031 1,270 1,346
As % of all contract jobs in England 5.04% 5.27% 3.68%
As % of the Development Applications category 41.21% 38.43% 31.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,408 826 901
10th Percentile £317 £319 £340
25th Percentile £400 £411 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £630
90th Percentile £688 £695 £738
UK median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 25 70
10th Percentile £18.75 £46.20 £22.00
25th Percentile £25.00 £50.00 £38.16
Median hourly rate £62.00 £57.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.83% -4.17% -10.03%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £76.50 £70.13
UK median hourly rate £58.50 £57.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year +1.74% +25.33% -31.20%

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 4,928 3,305 4,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.22% 13.70% 11.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,248 2,221 2,873
10th Percentile £342 £341 £351
25th Percentile £408 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £533
Median % change year-on-year - -6.10% -3.18%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £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 219 64 189
10th Percentile £37.05 £27.63 £32.74
25th Percentile £59.63 £49.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £60.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.03% -7.31% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.07 £79.34
UK median hourly rate £66.75 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.25% -7.69% +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 13 May 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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +3 887 £510 +2.00% 193
North of England +2 382 £450 - 82
Midlands +3 323 £450 -10.00% 65
West Midlands -3 258 £459 -8.20% 50
South East -20 199 £472 -3.43% 117
Yorkshire -6 197 £450 -10.00% 34
North West +3 168 £447 +5.18% 37
South West +3 148 £551 -2.00% 43
East Midlands +2 62 £398 -18.88% 15
East of England -7 58 £525 +15.07% 43
North East -11 21 £475 -9.52% 12
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
1 916 (45.10%) Confluence
2 109 (5.37%) SharePoint
3 38 (1.87%) SAS
4 30 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (0.89%) Apache
6 13 (0.64%) CMS
7 12 (0.59%) nginx
8 9 (0.44%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.30%) Ethereum
9 6 (0.30%) Hyperledger
9 6 (0.30%) Mattermost
9 6 (0.30%) OpenStack
10 5 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
10 5 (0.25%) IIS
10 5 (0.25%) JBoss
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.20%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.15%) Anypoint
12 3 (0.15%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 214 (10.54%) Microsoft Project
2 176 (8.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 95 (4.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 92 (4.53%) Microsoft Office
5 88 (4.33%) MS Visio
6 18 (0.89%) Trello
7 8 (0.39%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
9 6 (0.30%) Notion
10 3 (0.15%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.15%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.15%) Revit
11 2 (0.098%) Adobe After Effects
11 2 (0.098%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.098%) CATIA
12 1 (0.049%) Autodesk Smoke
12 1 (0.049%) InDesign
12 1 (0.049%) InVision
12 1 (0.049%) Mingle
12 1 (0.049%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 27 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
1 27 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.69%) Loan IQ
4 11 (0.54%) NetSuite
5 9 (0.44%) Aladdin
6 8 (0.39%) SAP MDG
6 8 (0.39%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.30%) Fidessa
7 6 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.25%) Findur
8 5 (0.25%) Maximo
8 5 (0.25%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.25%) SAP Retail
8 5 (0.25%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.20%) SAP FI-AR
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 431 (21.22%) Azure
2 309 (15.21%) AWS
3 240 (11.82%) Azure DevOps
4 151 (7.43%) Power Platform
5 148 (7.29%) GitHub
6 83 (4.09%) SaaS
7 80 (3.94%) GCP
8 78 (3.84%) Microsoft 365
9 75 (3.69%) Entra ID
10 57 (2.81%) Amazon S3
11 52 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
12 49 (2.41%) Serverless
13 41 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
14 39 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 37 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
16 34 (1.67%) Figma
16 34 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 29 (1.43%) Amazon EKS
18 27 (1.33%) Slack
19 26 (1.28%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 66 (3.25%) Firewall
2 45 (2.22%) DNS
3 41 (2.02%) TCP/IP
4 28 (1.38%) LAN
5 26 (1.28%) Network Security
6 25 (1.23%) WAN
7 24 (1.18%) VPN
8 19 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
9 18 (0.89%) DHCP
9 18 (0.89%) SSL
10 14 (0.69%) HTTP
10 14 (0.69%) SAN
11 13 (0.64%) BIG-IP
12 12 (0.59%) Internet
13 11 (0.54%) Ethernet
13 11 (0.54%) SD-WAN
14 10 (0.49%) Unified Communications
15 9 (0.44%) FTP
15 9 (0.44%) NAS
16 7 (0.34%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (6.55%) Power BI
2 80 (3.94%) Data Warehouse
3 67 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
4 55 (2.71%) SQL Server
5 52 (2.56%) Tableau
6 38 (1.87%) MongoDB
7 37 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
8 27 (1.33%) NoSQL
9 25 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
10 24 (1.18%) DynamoDB
11 23 (1.13%) Pentaho
12 21 (1.03%) Relational Database
13 16 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
13 16 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (0.74%) Big Data
14 15 (0.74%) MySQL
15 14 (0.69%) BusinessObjects
16 13 (0.64%) Data Lake
16 13 (0.64%) Metadata
17 12 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 232 (11.42%) Git
2 179 (8.81%) Jenkins
3 108 (5.32%) GitLab
4 96 (4.73%) Selenium
5 73 (3.59%) Postman
6 60 (2.95%) Zephyr
7 56 (2.76%) Cucumber
8 50 (2.46%) JUnit
9 49 (2.41%) Bitbucket
10 38 (1.87%) JMeter
11 34 (1.67%) Sonatype Nexus
12 29 (1.43%) REST Assured
13 25 (1.23%) TestRail
14 24 (1.18%) SonarQube
15 21 (1.03%) WebDriver
16 20 (0.98%) Cypress.io
17 17 (0.84%) Appium
18 14 (0.69%) Artifactory
19 13 (0.64%) Maven
20 11 (0.54%) TestNG
General
1 829 (40.82%) Social Skills
2 593 (29.20%) Finance
3 407 (20.04%) Analytical Skills
4 251 (12.36%) Banking
5 215 (10.59%) Public Sector
6 72 (3.55%) Organisational Skills
7 71 (3.50%) Retail
8 69 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
9 57 (2.81%) Military
10 40 (1.97%) Manufacturing
11 38 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
11 38 (1.87%) Legal
11 38 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
12 32 (1.58%) Investment Banking
13 27 (1.33%) Retail Banking
14 25 (1.23%) Front Office
15 21 (1.03%) Marketing
16 20 (0.98%) Telecoms
17 19 (0.94%) Corporate Banking
18 18 (0.89%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 398 (19.60%) Analyst
2 251 (12.36%) Business Analyst
3 177 (8.71%) Developer
3 177 (8.71%) Lead
4 164 (8.07%) Senior
5 136 (6.70%) Project Manager
6 109 (5.37%) Architect
7 88 (4.33%) Delivery Manager
8 86 (4.23%) Tester
9 73 (3.59%) Data Engineer
10 66 (3.25%) Scrum Master
11 62 (3.05%) Consultant
12 51 (2.51%) IT Support
12 51 (2.51%) Test Engineer
13 49 (2.41%) Support Engineer
14 47 (2.31%) Test Analyst
15 44 (2.17%) Technical Manager
16 42 (2.07%) Test Leader
17 39 (1.92%) Software Engineer
18 38 (1.87%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (5.02%) REST
2 61 (3.00%) Spring
3 57 (2.81%) .NET
4 56 (2.76%) React
5 46 (2.26%) Kafka
6 45 (2.22%) HTML
7 41 (2.02%) JSON
7 41 (2.02%) Spring Boot
8 40 (1.97%) RESTful
9 34 (1.67%) CSS
10 32 (1.58%) SOAP
11 30 (1.48%) ADO
11 30 (1.48%) Playwright
12 29 (1.43%) OpenID
13 27 (1.33%) LDAP
13 27 (1.33%) Middleware
13 27 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
14 26 (1.28%) AngularJS
14 26 (1.28%) XML
15 24 (1.18%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 257 (12.65%) Product Ownership
2 95 (4.68%) Onboarding
3 72 (3.55%) Cloud Native
4 50 (2.46%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
6 43 (2.12%) Virtual Team
7 42 (2.07%) Data Centre
7 42 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
8 33 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
8 33 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
9 30 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
10 26 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
11 24 (1.18%) Data Structures
12 21 (1.03%) PMI
13 19 (0.94%) Mobile App
14 16 (0.79%) Public Cloud
14 16 (0.79%) SCADA
15 15 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 14 (0.69%) Operational Technology
17 13 (0.64%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 162 (7.98%) Windows
2 120 (5.91%) Linux
3 34 (1.67%) Unix
4 20 (0.98%) Android
5 18 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 18 (0.89%) Windows 10
6 14 (0.69%) Mac OS
7 11 (0.54%) Windows Server
8 10 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.39%) FreeRTOS
10 4 (0.20%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.15%) AIX
12 2 (0.098%) Oracle Linux
12 2 (0.098%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.049%) MVS
13 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.049%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,175 (57.85%) Agile
2 514 (25.31%) DevOps
3 507 (24.96%) Stakeholder Management
4 451 (22.21%) Problem-Solving
5 407 (20.04%) Scrum
6 385 (18.96%) CI/CD
7 363 (17.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 327 (16.10%) Test Automation
9 282 (13.88%) Project Management
10 256 (12.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 249 (12.26%) Migration
12 227 (11.18%) User Acceptance Testing
13 213 (10.49%) User Stories
14 197 (9.70%) Change Management
15 189 (9.31%) Validation
16 187 (9.21%) Project Delivery
17 185 (9.11%) ITIL
18 184 (9.06%) Acceptance Criteria
19 175 (8.62%) Analytics
20 172 (8.47%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 315 (15.51%) SQL
2 206 (10.14%) Python
3 179 (8.81%) Java
4 91 (4.48%) JavaScript
5 78 (3.84%) C#
6 61 (3.00%) TypeScript
7 56 (2.76%) PowerShell
8 36 (1.77%) Bash
9 28 (1.38%) C++
10 26 (1.28%) PL/SQL
11 22 (1.08%) Shell Script
12 15 (0.74%) C
13 14 (0.69%) Apex Code
13 14 (0.69%) Perl
13 14 (0.69%) VBA
14 13 (0.64%) Embedded C++
15 10 (0.49%) Go
15 10 (0.49%) Groovy
16 9 (0.44%) Embedded C
17 8 (0.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 552 (27.18%) Security Cleared
2 426 (20.97%) SC Cleared
3 234 (11.52%) Degree
4 73 (3.59%) PMI Certification
5 68 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 66 (3.25%) PMP
7 65 (3.20%) DV Cleared
8 61 (3.00%) ISTQB
9 36 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
10 32 (1.58%) TOGAF Certification
11 29 (1.43%) CISSP
12 27 (1.33%) Master's Degree
13 25 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
14 21 (1.03%) Azure Certification
14 21 (1.03%) CISM
14 21 (1.03%) SAFe Agilist
15 20 (0.98%) CBAP
15 20 (0.98%) IIBA
16 16 (0.79%) AWS Certification
17 14 (0.69%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 252 (12.41%) QA
2 121 (5.96%) PMO
3 111 (5.47%) Data Quality
4 52 (2.56%) Accessibility
5 50 (2.46%) GDPR
6 33 (1.62%) SLA
7 26 (1.28%) NIST
8 19 (0.94%) WCAG
9 16 (0.79%) GRC
9 16 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 12 (0.59%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.59%) PSD2
11 11 (0.54%) ISO 20022
12 10 (0.49%) Basel III
13 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.34%) MiFID
13 7 (0.34%) NCSC
13 7 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.34%) SEPA
14 6 (0.30%) HIPAA
System Software
1 147 (7.24%) Docker
2 103 (5.07%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.74%) Firmware
5 9 (0.44%) Squid
6 8 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.15%) HDFS
10 2 (0.098%) Postfix
10 2 (0.098%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.049%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.049%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.049%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 156 (7.68%) Kubernetes
2 114 (5.61%) Terraform
3 85 (4.19%) Ansible
4 69 (3.40%) Grafana
5 50 (2.46%) Prometheus
6 34 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
7 27 (1.33%) OPNET
8 25 (1.23%) HP ALM
9 24 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
10 23 (1.13%) Control-M
11 17 (0.84%) Nessus
12 16 (0.79%) IBM Guardium
12 16 (0.79%) Puppet
13 11 (0.54%) Consul
13 11 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
14 10 (0.49%) HP Quality Center
15 9 (0.44%) SCCM
16 8 (0.39%) FortiGate
17 7 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 7 (0.34%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 248 (12.21%) ServiceNow
2 241 (11.87%) Microsoft
3 172 (8.47%) Oracle
4 122 (6.01%) Atlassian
5 94 (4.63%) Salesforce
6 78 (3.84%) SAP
7 61 (3.00%) Remedy
8 47 (2.31%) Google
9 35 (1.72%) Denodo
9 35 (1.72%) Workday
10 34 (1.67%) Talend
11 29 (1.43%) IBM
11 29 (1.43%) Splunk
12 27 (1.33%) HP
13 26 (1.28%) Databricks
13 26 (1.28%) Informatica
13 26 (1.28%) Red Hat
14 24 (1.18%) VMware
15 23 (1.13%) MuleSoft
16 21 (1.03%) Tenable