JIRA Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Atlassian JIRA
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring JIRA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 50 49
Rank change year-on-year +22 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 48 20 15
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 6.80% 2.75% 1.95%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.34% 23.26% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 15 11
10th Percentile £268 £215 £388
25th Percentile £391 £397 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +23.53% -15.00%
75th Percentile £488 £653 £530
90th Percentile £545 £756 £600
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £56.50 - £55.00

All Development Application Skills
Birmingham

JIRA falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 122 86 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 17.28% 11.83% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 56 39
10th Percentile £300 £369 £312
25th Percentile £450 £422 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +26.47% -15.00%
75th Percentile £538 £653 £518
90th Percentile £664 £756 £580
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £55.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £46.25 - £66.59

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JIRA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

JIRA job vacancy trend in Birmingham

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing JIRA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing JIRA

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Birmingham over the 6 months to 25 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in Birmingham

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing JIRA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing JIRA

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 30 (62.50%) Confluence
2 10 (20.83%) nginx
3 5 (10.42%) SharePoint
4 3 (6.25%) OpenStack
5 1 (2.08%) CMS
5 1 (2.08%) IIS
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (2.08%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 9 (18.75%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (4.17%) MS Visio
5 2 (4.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) SAP FI
2 1 (2.08%) CA PPM
2 1 (2.08%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (47.92%) AWS
2 21 (43.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 21 (43.75%) Amazon EC2
2 21 (43.75%) Amazon ELB
2 21 (43.75%) Amazon S3
2 21 (43.75%) AWS KMS
2 21 (43.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 14 (29.17%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (27.08%) Azure
5 12 (25.00%) Amazon Glacier
6 9 (18.75%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (18.75%) Route 53
7 6 (12.50%) GitHub
8 4 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (4.17%) SaaS
9 2 (4.17%) Tricentis Tosca
10 1 (2.08%) Asana
10 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (2.08%) Serverless
10 1 (2.08%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 23 (47.92%) DNS
2 22 (45.83%) Firewall
3 21 (43.75%) FTP
3 21 (43.75%) HTTP
3 21 (43.75%) SMTP
3 21 (43.75%) SSH
4 9 (18.75%) IMAP
4 9 (18.75%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (4.17%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.17%) VPN
6 1 (2.08%) LAN
6 1 (2.08%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (2.08%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.08%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (43.75%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (18.75%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.08%) EDMS
4 1 (2.08%) Power BI
4 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 21 (43.75%) Git
2 21 (43.75%) Vagrant
3 4 (8.33%) GitLab
4 2 (4.17%) CircleCI
4 2 (4.17%) Postman
4 2 (4.17%) Toad
5 1 (2.08%) Selenium
General
1 26 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 25 (52.08%) Public Sector
3 9 (18.75%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (12.50%) Finance
5 4 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (8.33%) Legal
5 4 (8.33%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.17%) Retail
7 1 (2.08%) Banking
7 1 (2.08%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.08%) Marketing
7 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (45.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 16 (33.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 16 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
3 15 (31.25%) AWS DevOps
3 15 (31.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 9 (18.75%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 8 (16.67%) Analyst
5 8 (16.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 6 (12.50%) Business Analyst
7 3 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (6.25%) Technical Business Analyst
8 2 (4.17%) 1st Line Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) 1st Line Support
8 2 (4.17%) 1st Line Support Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Engineering Specialist
8 2 (4.17%) SAP Analyst
8 2 (4.17%) SAP Test Analyst
8 2 (4.17%) Support Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.75%) LDAP
2 3 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (6.25%) Kafka
2 3 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (6.25%) XML
3 2 (4.17%) YAML
4 1 (2.08%) .NET
4 1 (2.08%) HTML
4 1 (2.08%) JSON
4 1 (2.08%) OAuth
4 1 (2.08%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.08%) REST
4 1 (2.08%) RESTful
4 1 (2.08%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (43.75%) Replication
2 4 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.08%) CMDB
4 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 29 (60.42%) Windows
2 24 (50.00%) Linux
3 21 (43.75%) Amazon Linux
3 21 (43.75%) VMS
4 9 (18.75%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (66.67%) DevOps
2 21 (43.75%) Change Management
2 21 (43.75%) Cloud Security
2 21 (43.75%) Configuration Management
2 21 (43.75%) Patch Management
2 21 (43.75%) Platform Engineering
3 17 (35.42%) Agile
4 14 (29.17%) CI/CD
5 11 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (14.58%) Project Management
8 6 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (10.42%) Containerisation
9 5 (10.42%) Project Delivery
9 5 (10.42%) Sprint Planning
10 4 (8.33%) Data Management
10 4 (8.33%) SIEM
10 4 (8.33%) Waterfall
10 4 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 26 (54.17%) Python
2 23 (47.92%) PowerShell
3 21 (43.75%) Groovy
4 15 (31.25%) Java
5 13 (27.08%) SQL
6 12 (25.00%) Perl
7 4 (8.33%) Go
7 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
8 2 (4.17%) Bicep
9 1 (2.08%) Bash
Qualifications
1 25 (52.08%) SC Cleared
1 25 (52.08%) Security Cleared
2 13 (27.08%) Degree
3 10 (20.83%) Azure Certification
4 9 (18.75%) AWS Certification
5 2 (4.17%) PMI Certification
5 2 (4.17%) PMP
6 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.08%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) QA
2 2 (4.17%) PMO
3 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (56.25%) Docker
2 21 (43.75%) DFS Replication
3 13 (27.08%) Active Directory
4 9 (18.75%) Dovecot
4 9 (18.75%) Postfix
4 9 (18.75%) Squid
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (52.08%) Grafana
1 25 (52.08%) Terraform
2 21 (43.75%) Prometheus
3 9 (18.75%) Nessus
3 9 (18.75%) Proxmox
4 5 (10.42%) Kubernetes
5 3 (6.25%) Ansible
5 3 (6.25%) Argo
6 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 24 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 9 (18.75%) Jaspersoft
3 6 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.25%) SAP
5 2 (4.17%) Ariba
5 2 (4.17%) Oracle
6 1 (2.08%) Pega
6 1 (2.08%) Planview
6 1 (2.08%) Proofpoint
6 1 (2.08%) Sitecore