JIRA Contracts in Birmingham

Atlassian JIRA
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring JIRA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JIRA over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 55 50
Rank change year-on-year +30 -5 -11
Contract jobs citing JIRA 25 12 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.79% 1.55% 2.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 51.02% 21.05% 27.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 19
10th Percentile £300 £401 £341
25th Percentile £444 £425 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £563 £525 £625
90th Percentile £588 £612 £743
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £504 £536
% change year-on-year -0.70% -6.06% +15.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £57.50 £10.50 -
% change year-on-year +447.62% - -

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 49 57 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.39% 7.37% 9.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 45 68
10th Percentile £425 £259 £371
25th Percentile £463 £260 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -27.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £648 £475 £700
90th Percentile £689 £525 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £450 £538
% change year-on-year +11.11% -16.36% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £55.00 £31.69
Median hourly rate - £55.63 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year - +66.62% -
75th Percentile - £56.25 £35.08
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £57.50 £56.25 £33.39
% change year-on-year +2.22% +68.49% -14.40%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in Birmingham

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for JIRA in Birmingham

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in Birmingham

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 9 (36.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) AWS
2 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
2 2 (8.00%) Azure
2 2 (8.00%) IaaS
2 2 (8.00%) SaaS
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.00%) GitHub
3 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.00%) OneDrive
3 1 (4.00%) ShareGate
3 1 (4.00%) SonarCloud
3 1 (4.00%) Tricentis Tosca
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (4.00%) DHCP
1 1 (4.00%) DNS
1 1 (4.00%) Firewall
1 1 (4.00%) HTTP
1 1 (4.00%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (4.00%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (4.00%) SAN
1 1 (4.00%) SSL
1 1 (4.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Git
1 3 (12.00%) GitLab
1 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (12.00%) ScriptRunner
2 2 (8.00%) JMeter
2 2 (8.00%) Postman
2 2 (8.00%) REST Assured
2 2 (8.00%) Selenium
2 2 (8.00%) TestNG
2 2 (8.00%) Travis CI
3 1 (4.00%) LoadRunner
3 1 (4.00%) Maven
3 1 (4.00%) Snyk
3 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (4.00%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Military
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.00%) Local Government
4 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (12.00%) Analyst
1 3 (12.00%) JIRA Engineer
1 3 (12.00%) Senior
2 2 (8.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (8.00%) Consultant
2 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (8.00%) JIRA Consultant
2 2 (8.00%) Lead
2 2 (8.00%) PMO Planner
2 2 (8.00%) Portfolio Manager
2 2 (8.00%) Programme Planner
2 2 (8.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (8.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (8.00%) Tester
3 1 (4.00%) IFS Developer
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (4.00%) Migration Architect
3 1 (4.00%) Pensions Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) YAML
2 1 (4.00%) Kafka
2 1 (4.00%) LDAP
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (4.00%) IoT
1 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) CentOS
2 1 (4.00%) Debian
2 1 (4.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) Agile
2 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (20.00%) DevOps
3 5 (20.00%) Migration
4 4 (16.00%) Asset Management
4 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (16.00%) Test Automation
4 4 (16.00%) Test Management
4 4 (16.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (12.00%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (12.00%) Functional Testing
5 3 (12.00%) Performance Testing
5 3 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (12.00%) Project Management
5 3 (12.00%) Regression Testing
5 3 (12.00%) System Integration Testing
6 2 (8.00%) ERP
6 2 (8.00%) Service Management
6 2 (8.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) Groovy
1 3 (12.00%) Python
2 2 (8.00%) Bash
3 1 (4.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) CEH
3 2 (8.00%) CISSP
3 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (8.00%) ISTQB
4 1 (4.00%) ACCA
4 1 (4.00%) CBAP
4 1 (4.00%) CIMA
4 1 (4.00%) CIPFA
4 1 (4.00%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) QA
2 2 (8.00%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Kibana
3 1 (4.00%) Ansible
3 1 (4.00%) Argo
3 1 (4.00%) FortiGate
3 1 (4.00%) logstash
3 1 (4.00%) Nessus
3 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.00%) Puppet
3 1 (4.00%) QRadar
3 1 (4.00%) Terraform
3 1 (4.00%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Atlassian
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle
3 2 (8.00%) SAP
4 1 (4.00%) Adobe
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco
4 1 (4.00%) Civica
4 1 (4.00%) IFS
4 1 (4.00%) Infor
4 1 (4.00%) Micro Focus
4 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.00%) Sophos
4 1 (4.00%) VMware