Hybrid/Remote JIRA Engineer Contract Job Trends

JIRA Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median JIRA Engineer daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £525, 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 323 304 372
Rank change year-on-year -19 +68 +147
Contract jobs requiring a JIRA Engineer 2 4 1
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.019% 0.037% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.040% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £383 -
25th Percentile - £394 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £300
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +79.17% -53.85%
75th Percentile - £681 £325
90th Percentile - £693 -
UK median daily rate £569 £430 £500
% change year-on-year +32.42% -14.10% -23.08%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,910 9,960 15,688
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.21% 93.30% 94.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,393 6,348 10,612
10th Percentile £330 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £628
90th Percentile £720 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 371 177 499
10th Percentile £15.74 £19.18 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.51 £25.25 £21.04
Median hourly rate £51.21 £38.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.76% -20.00% -17.39%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.10 £66.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £78.17
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -5.71% -

JIRA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'JIRA Engineer' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

JIRA Engineer job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

JIRA Engineer
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid JIRA Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid JIRA Engineer job vacancies

JIRA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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 jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring JIRA Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Cohesity
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Commvault
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Information Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (50.00%) Objectives and Key Results
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering

JIRA Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 2 (100.00%) Confluence
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (50.00%) Cohesity
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) ScriptRunner
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Information Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Information Security
2 1 (50.00%) Objectives and Key Results
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (50.00%) Commvault
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat