JIRA Specialist Contracts

JIRA Specialist
UK

The median JIRA Specialist daily rate in the UK is £275 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 592 710 846
Rank change year-on-year +118 +136 -169
Contract jobs requiring a JIRA Specialist 6 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.003% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.004% 0.008%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile - £466 £486
25th Percentile £263 £491 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -48.84% +2.38% +13.51%
75th Percentile £344 £591 £538
90th Percentile £378 £619 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £275 - -

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 40,362 56,304 84,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,261 39,350 59,476
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 -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,668 1,565 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.40 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.95% +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 £39.50 £42.43 £19.50
% change year-on-year -6.91% +117.60% +2.63%

JIRA Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA Specialist in the UK

JIRA Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA Specialist in the UK

JIRA Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA Specialist over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA Specialist in the UK

JIRA Specialist
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA Specialist within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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
England +137 6 £275 -56.00% 1
Work from Home +126 3 £275 -48.84% 1
London +102 3 - -
UK excluding London - 3 £275 - 1
North of England - 2 £275 - 1
North West - 2 £275 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £400 -
Midlands - 1 £400 -

JIRA Specialist Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, JIRA Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) JIRA
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Atlassian
4 3 (50.00%) Agile Project Management
4 3 (50.00%) Project Management
4 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
5 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
5 1 (16.67%) Finance
5 1 (16.67%) Migration
5 1 (16.67%) SQL
5 1 (16.67%) Python
5 1 (16.67%) LDAP
5 1 (16.67%) SSL
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
5 1 (16.67%) SAML
5 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) Analytics
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Serverless
5 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 1 (16.67%) Azure
5 1 (16.67%) Bash
5 1 (16.67%) Hedge funds

JIRA Specialist 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
1 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SSL
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) LDAP
1 1 (16.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Agile Project Management
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Atlassian
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft