JIRA Engineer Contracts

JIRA Engineer
UK

The median JIRA Engineer daily rate in the UK is £625, 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 496 559 713
Rank change year-on-year +63 +154 +131
Contract jobs requiring a JIRA Engineer 24 23 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.053% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.057% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 3
10th Percentile £410 £450 £390
25th Percentile £519 £619 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £725 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +45.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £588
90th Percentile £665 - £640
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £738 -
% change year-on-year -11.86% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

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 1 May 2025.

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 11 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 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
England +65 19 £625 +25.00% 2
London +42 12 £600 -15.79% 1
UK excluding London +57 8 £650 -11.86% 1
Work from Home +43 8 £525 -25.00%
North of England - 5 £650 - 1
Yorkshire - 4 £650 - 1
Midlands - 3 - -
North East - 3 £650 -
West Midlands - 3 - -
North West - 2 - -
Scotland +3 1 £700 -6.67%

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

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 featuring JIRA Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) JIRA
2 18 (75.00%) Atlassian
3 17 (70.83%) Confluence
4 13 (54.17%) SC Cleared
4 13 (54.17%) Security Cleared
4 13 (54.17%) Agile
5 12 (50.00%) Groovy
5 12 (50.00%) ScriptRunner
6 11 (45.83%) AWS
6 11 (45.83%) Migration
7 9 (37.50%) Incident Management
7 9 (37.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 8 (33.33%) IaaS
9 7 (29.17%) Performance Tuning
10 6 (25.00%) Service Management
11 4 (16.67%) ServiceNow
12 3 (12.50%) DevOps
12 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
12 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
12 3 (12.50%) Git
12 3 (12.50%) Workflow
13 2 (8.33%) Finance
13 2 (8.33%) Service Delivery
13 2 (8.33%) Unix
13 2 (8.33%) Military
13 2 (8.33%) Linux
13 2 (8.33%) Python
13 2 (8.33%) Java
13 2 (8.33%) Internet

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 17 (70.83%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (45.83%) AWS
2 8 (33.33%) IaaS
3 1 (4.17%) GitHub
3 1 (4.17%) Google Play
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) Internet
2 1 (4.17%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) MySQL
1 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (100.00%) JIRA
2 12 (50.00%) ScriptRunner
3 3 (12.50%) Git
4 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
5 1 (4.17%) Gradle
5 1 (4.17%) JMeter
5 1 (4.17%) JUnit
5 1 (4.17%) Mockito
5 1 (4.17%) Selenium
General
1 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Finance
2 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (8.33%) Military
3 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) Kafka
1 1 (4.17%) OAuth
1 1 (4.17%) REST
1 1 (4.17%) RESTful
1 1 (4.17%) RxJava
1 1 (4.17%) SOAP
1 1 (4.17%) Spring
1 1 (4.17%) Web Services
1 1 (4.17%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
1 2 (8.33%) Unix
2 1 (4.17%) Android
2 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Agile
2 11 (45.83%) Migration
3 9 (37.50%) Incident Management
3 9 (37.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (29.17%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (25.00%) Service Management
7 3 (12.50%) DevOps
7 3 (12.50%) Workflow
8 2 (8.33%) Architectural Design
8 2 (8.33%) Asset Management
8 2 (8.33%) CI/CD
8 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
8 2 (8.33%) Service Delivery
8 2 (8.33%) Software Asset Management
8 2 (8.33%) Software Engineering
8 2 (8.33%) Test Automation
9 1 (4.17%) Data Migration
9 1 (4.17%) Electronic Trading
9 1 (4.17%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) Groovy
2 2 (8.33%) Java
2 2 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) Bash
3 1 (4.17%) Kotlin
3 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (54.17%) SC Cleared
1 13 (54.17%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) OCP
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Opsgenie
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (75.00%) Atlassian
2 4 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.17%) Arista
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco
3 1 (4.17%) Dell
3 1 (4.17%) Google
3 1 (4.17%) HP