JIRA Engineer Contracts

JIRA Engineer
UK

The median JIRA Engineer daily rate in the UK is £725 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 713 844
Rank change year-on-year +154 +131 -154
Contract jobs requiring a JIRA Engineer 23 5 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.053% 0.008% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.057% 0.009% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 3 11
10th Percentile £450 £390 £381
25th Percentile £619 £431 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £750 £588 £538
90th Percentile - £640 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £738 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,410 56,464 84,709
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,305 39,470 59,485
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.70% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,664 1,570 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.07% +91.49% +3.14%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -6.94% +117.95% +2.63%

JIRA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured JIRA Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA Engineer in the UK

JIRA Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA Engineer in the UK

JIRA Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA Engineer over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA Engineer in the UK

JIRA Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for JIRA Engineer in the UK

JIRA Engineer
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2024. 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
UK excluding London +72 14 £738 - 1
England +117 11 £500 -
Scotland - 11 £750 - 1
London +108 8 £713 +42.50%
Work from Home +136 6 £700 +36.59% 1
South East - 3 £500 -

JIRA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, JIRA Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring JIRA Engineer in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) JIRA
2 22 (95.65%) Confluence
3 21 (91.30%) Atlassian
3 21 (91.30%) Data Centre
4 17 (73.91%) Security Cleared
4 17 (73.91%) Service Management
4 17 (73.91%) Workflow
4 17 (73.91%) Migration
5 15 (65.22%) Linux
5 15 (65.22%) SC Cleared
5 15 (65.22%) Kalman Filter
6 14 (60.87%) Analytics
6 14 (60.87%) Data Migration
7 11 (47.83%) REST
7 11 (47.83%) Web Services
7 11 (47.83%) Performance Metrics
8 10 (43.48%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (34.78%) Public Sector
10 3 (13.04%) DV Cleared
10 3 (13.04%) Bitbucket
10 3 (13.04%) ITIL
10 3 (13.04%) Windows
10 3 (13.04%) Service Delivery
10 3 (13.04%) Change Management
10 3 (13.04%) Military
11 2 (8.70%) Agile
11 2 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (4.35%) End-to-End Testing
12 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
12 1 (4.35%) Collaborative Working

JIRA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 22 (95.65%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.35%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 23 (100.00%) JIRA
2 3 (13.04%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.35%) TestRail
General
1 8 (34.78%) Public Sector
2 3 (13.04%) Military
3 2 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (47.83%) REST
1 11 (47.83%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (91.30%) Data Centre
2 10 (43.48%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 15 (65.22%) Linux
2 3 (13.04%) Windows
3 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) Migration
1 17 (73.91%) Service Management
1 17 (73.91%) Workflow
2 15 (65.22%) Kalman Filter
3 14 (60.87%) Analytics
3 14 (60.87%) Data Migration
4 11 (47.83%) Performance Metrics
5 3 (13.04%) Change Management
5 3 (13.04%) ITIL
5 3 (13.04%) Service Delivery
6 2 (8.70%) Agile
7 1 (4.35%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (4.35%) End-to-End Testing
7 1 (4.35%) Exploratory Testing
7 1 (4.35%) Information Security
7 1 (4.35%) Project Planning
7 1 (4.35%) Scrum
7 1 (4.35%) SDLC
7 1 (4.35%) Software Engineering
7 1 (4.35%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
1 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (73.91%) Security Cleared
2 15 (65.22%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.04%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) Degree
4 1 (4.35%) HNC
4 1 (4.35%) ISTQB
4 1 (4.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (4.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) QA
Vendors
1 21 (91.30%) Atlassian