JIRA Consultant Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

JIRA Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median JIRA Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 385 363 417
Rank change year-on-year -22 +54 +89
Contract jobs requiring a JIRA Consultant 5 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.030% 0.012% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.013% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £508 - -
25th Percentile £519 - £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +19.44% +12.50% -16.41%
75th Percentile £556 - £413
90th Percentile £568 - -
UK median daily rate £506 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +12.50% -14.29% +15.77%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 14,829 15,505 19,534
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.61% 92.09% 93.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,165 8,878 12,985
10th Percentile £208 £217 £215
25th Percentile £363 £373 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £671 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,404 1,090 1,270
10th Percentile £13.62 £14.73 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £19.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% -10.11% +89.36%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £39.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -35.92% -12.78% +62.28%

JIRA Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

JIRA Consultant job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

JIRA Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for JIRA Consultant job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for JIRA Consultant job vacancies in the UK excluding London

JIRA Consultant
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 October 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
Midlands - 2 £500 -
West Midlands - 2 £500 -
South East +1 1 - - 1
South West - 1 £575 - 1
Scotland - 1 - -
JIRA Consultant
UK

JIRA Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 29 October 2025, 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 UK excluding London region featuring JIRA Consultant in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Confluence
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Service Management
4 1 (20.00%) Ab Initio
4 1 (20.00%) Business Case
4 1 (20.00%) Business Process Mapping
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Docker
4 1 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (20.00%) GitLab
4 1 (20.00%) Google
4 1 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (20.00%) HTTP
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) ITSM
4 1 (20.00%) Kanban
4 1 (20.00%) Korn

JIRA Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (60.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Business Process Mapping
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Kanban
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Presales
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Korn
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (20.00%) Ab Initio
2 1 (20.00%) Google