JIRA Consultant Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

JIRA Consultant
North West > Cheshire

The median JIRA Consultant daily rate in Cheshire is £610, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a JIRA Consultant 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.15% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £580 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 - -
75th Percentile £640 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £555 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 620 407 473
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.18% 89.06% 94.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 285 321
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £384 £358 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £447 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.73% -5.89% -
75th Percentile £581 £550 £575
90th Percentile £652 £638 £630
North West median daily rate £463 £475 £493
% change year-on-year -2.50% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 23 36
10th Percentile £15.69 £16.60 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.00 £27.19 £16.47
Median hourly rate £32.23 £47.50 £20.11
Median % change year-on-year -32.16% +136.20% -34.15%
75th Percentile £78.81 £86.00 £38.00
90th Percentile £85.00 - £43.75
North West median hourly rate £50.00 £30.10 £27.00
% change year-on-year +66.11% +11.48% -17.88%

JIRA Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'JIRA Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

JIRA Consultant job vacancy trend in Cheshire

JIRA Consultant
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA Consultant within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 9 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
Alderley Edge - 1 £610 -
JIRA Consultant
North West

JIRA Consultant Skill Set
Top 14 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 9 May 2026, JIRA Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cheshire region featuring JIRA Consultant in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ADO
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Portfolio Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework

JIRA Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Portfolio Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian