JIRA Engineer Contracts in London

JIRA Engineer
England > London

The median JIRA Engineer daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 383 490
Rank change year-on-year +42 +107 +104
Contract jobs requiring a JIRA Engineer 12 8 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.096% 0.045% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.048% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 3
10th Percentile £395 £518 £390
25th Percentile £513 £619 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £713 £500
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +42.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £738 £588
90th Percentile - - £640
England median daily rate £625 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

JIRA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA Engineer in London

JIRA Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for JIRA Engineer in London

JIRA Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA Engineer in London

JIRA Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
West London - 2 £388 -
Central London - 1 £600 - 1
JIRA Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 across the London region featuring JIRA Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) JIRA
2 9 (75.00%) Atlassian
3 8 (66.67%) Confluence
4 6 (50.00%) Groovy
4 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 6 (50.00%) ScriptRunner
5 5 (41.67%) Incident Management
5 5 (41.67%) AWS
5 5 (41.67%) Migration
5 5 (41.67%) Agile
6 4 (33.33%) IaaS
6 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (16.67%) DevOps
8 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
8 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
8 2 (16.67%) Military
8 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
8 2 (16.67%) Unix
8 2 (16.67%) Java
8 2 (16.67%) Internet
8 2 (16.67%) Service Management
8 2 (16.67%) Opsgenie
9 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
9 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
9 1 (8.33%) Test Assurance
9 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 1 (8.33%) Public Sector

JIRA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 8 (66.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) IaaS
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Internet
2 1 (8.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (100.00%) JIRA
2 6 (50.00%) ScriptRunner
3 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (8.33%) Git
4 1 (8.33%) Gradle
4 1 (8.33%) JMeter
4 1 (8.33%) Selenium
General
1 2 (16.67%) Military
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
1 1 (8.33%) OAuth
1 1 (8.33%) REST
1 1 (8.33%) RESTful
1 1 (8.33%) SOAP
1 1 (8.33%) Spring
1 1 (8.33%) Web Services
1 1 (8.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Unix
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Agile
1 5 (41.67%) Incident Management
1 5 (41.67%) Migration
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 3 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Service Management
5 1 (8.33%) API Development
5 1 (8.33%) API Integration
5 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
5 1 (8.33%) Data Centre Operations
5 1 (8.33%) Electronic Trading
5 1 (8.33%) High Availability
5 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (8.33%) Test Assurance
5 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
5 1 (8.33%) Translating Business Requirements
5 1 (8.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Groovy
2 2 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) OCP
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Opsgenie
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (8.33%) Arista
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco
2 1 (8.33%) Dell
2 1 (8.33%) HP
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow