JIRA Engineer Contract Job Trends

JIRA Engineer
UK

The median JIRA Engineer daily rate in the UK is £569, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 584 519 598
Rank change year-on-year -65 +79 +162
Contract jobs requiring a JIRA Engineer 12 6 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.031% 0.019% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.021% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 5
10th Percentile £478 £388 £301
25th Percentile £525 £406 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year +32.42% -14.10% -23.08%
75th Percentile £598 £615 £550
90th Percentile £600 £688 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £556 £567 £500
% change year-on-year -1.90% +13.40% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 35,739 28,752 41,680
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.51% 92.94% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,524 17,628 27,555
10th Percentile £300 £293 £275
25th Percentile £405 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £476 £493
% change year-on-year -0.21% -3.45% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,144 847 2,284
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.92 £13.15
25th Percentile £18.55 £21.25 £16.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -5.71% -
75th Percentile £61.52 £62.50 £61.55
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.00 £72.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £31.76 £36.00
% change year-on-year -11.84% -11.78% +11.63%

JIRA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

JIRA Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

JIRA Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for JIRA Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for JIRA Engineer job vacancies in the UK

JIRA Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA Engineer over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA Engineer in the UK

JIRA Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for JIRA Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for JIRA Engineer job vacancies in the UK

JIRA Engineer
Top 8 Contract Job 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 4 February 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
England -73 10 £569 +42.19% 4
London -30 7 £575 +48.39% 4
UK excluding London -54 4 £556 -1.90%
Work from Home -19 2 £525 -2.33% 5
North of England - 2 £525 -
Yorkshire - 2 £525 -
Scotland +11 1 - -
South West - 1 £588 -

JIRA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 February 2026, JIRA Engineer 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 featuring JIRA Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) JIRA
2 6 (50.00%) DevOps
2 6 (50.00%) GitHub
3 5 (41.67%) Confluence
4 4 (33.33%) Atlassian
4 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 4 (33.33%) Python
4 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 3 (25.00%) Citrix
5 3 (25.00%) Manual Testing
5 3 (25.00%) QA
5 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
5 3 (25.00%) Workflow
6 2 (16.67%) Bash
6 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
6 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
6 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Power BI
6 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
6 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
6 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
6 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
6 2 (16.67%) Software Delivery
6 2 (16.67%) WebEx
7 1 (8.33%) .NET
7 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
7 1 (8.33%) ADO

JIRA Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 5 (41.67%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure
3 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (8.33%) Cohesity
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) WebEx
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) Metadata
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) ScriptRunner
General
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
1 1 (8.33%) ADO
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Blueprints
1 1 (8.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Hedge funds
1 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 3 (25.00%) Manual Testing
3 3 (25.00%) Workflow
4 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 2 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 2 (16.67%) Software Delivery
5 1 (8.33%) Backlog Refinement
5 1 (8.33%) Information Architecture
5 1 (8.33%) Objectives and Key Results
5 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
5 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
5 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (8.33%) Sprint Retrospective
5 1 (8.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Bash
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) C#
3 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) NetBackup
1 1 (8.33%) Puppet
1 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 3 (25.00%) Citrix
2 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) Commvault
3 1 (8.33%) F5
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat