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 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 28 50
Rank change year-on-year -11 +22 +6
Contract jobs citing JIRA 44 25 9
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 4.69% 4.80% 1.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.65% 42.37% 18.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 14 9
10th Percentile £325 £425 £274
25th Percentile £403 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £514 £575 £594
90th Percentile £576 £609 £760
West Midlands median daily rate £459 £475 £523
% change year-on-year -3.37% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £25.13 - -
25th Percentile £25.33 - -
Median hourly rate £25.80 - -
75th Percentile £26.43 - -
90th Percentile £26.72 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.80 - £10.50

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 127 59 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.54% 11.32% 6.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 43 43
10th Percentile £350 £425 £259
25th Percentile £425 £463 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +25.00% -27.27%
75th Percentile £547 £563 £475
90th Percentile £600 £673 £570
West Midlands median daily rate £465 £496 £450
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.22% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £25.65 - £55.25
25th Percentile £35.98 - £55.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £56.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +68.49%
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £66.75 - £56.88
% change year-on-year - - +70.36%

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 June 2026.

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 27 (61.36%) Confluence
2 3 (6.82%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.27%) CANalyzer
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.27%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 24 (54.55%) Azure
2 23 (52.27%) AWS
3 14 (31.82%) GCP
4 13 (29.55%) GitHub
5 12 (27.27%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (11.36%) Amazon S3
7 4 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (6.82%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (6.82%) AWS KMS
8 3 (6.82%) Power Platform
9 2 (4.55%) Amazon ELB
9 2 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (4.55%) Power Automate
9 2 (4.55%) Route 53
9 2 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (2.27%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (2.27%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) DHCP
1 2 (4.55%) DNS
1 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.27%) BIG-IP
2 1 (2.27%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (45.45%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (11.36%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (6.82%) DynamoDB
4 3 (6.82%) Power BI
4 3 (6.82%) Power Query
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (4.55%) Tableau
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (50.00%) Git
2 17 (38.64%) JUnit
3 16 (36.36%) Cucumber
3 16 (36.36%) Selenium
4 15 (34.09%) JMeter
5 14 (31.82%) Jenkins
5 14 (31.82%) WebDriver
6 8 (18.18%) GitLab
7 2 (4.55%) DbUnit
7 2 (4.55%) jMock
7 2 (4.55%) Maven
7 2 (4.55%) Mockito
7 2 (4.55%) Postman
7 2 (4.55%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.27%) Artifactory
8 1 (2.27%) Cypress.io
8 1 (2.27%) REST Assured
8 1 (2.27%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (2.27%) TeamCity
8 1 (2.27%) TestNG
General
1 23 (52.27%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (22.73%) Finance
3 8 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 4 (9.09%) Banking
6 2 (4.55%) Automotive
6 2 (4.55%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Local Government
7 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (27.27%) Senior
1 12 (27.27%) Tester
2 9 (20.45%) Automation Tester
3 8 (18.18%) Developer
4 7 (15.91%) Senior Automation Tester
4 7 (15.91%) Senior Tester
5 5 (11.36%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (9.09%) Lead
6 4 (9.09%) Test Leader
7 3 (6.82%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 3 (6.82%) Analyst
7 3 (6.82%) Automation Test Lead
7 3 (6.82%) Python Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Systems Tester
8 2 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Java Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Project Manager
8 2 (4.55%) Senior Manager
8 2 (4.55%) Support Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (36.36%) Spring
2 14 (31.82%) WireMock
3 3 (6.82%) FastAPI
3 3 (6.82%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (4.55%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (4.55%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.55%) Hibernate
4 2 (4.55%) JPA
4 2 (4.55%) Node.js
4 2 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (4.55%) PowerMock
4 2 (4.55%) REST
4 2 (4.55%) SOAP
4 2 (4.55%) Spring Batch
4 2 (4.55%) Spring Boot
4 2 (4.55%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (4.55%) Spring Integration
4 2 (4.55%) Web Services
5 1 (2.27%) .NET
5 1 (2.27%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (25.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (6.82%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.27%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.27%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.27%) Learning Management System
5 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.82%) Linux
2 2 (4.55%) Windows
3 1 (2.27%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (68.18%) Agile
2 26 (59.09%) CI/CD
3 19 (43.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 19 (43.18%) Test Automation
4 18 (40.91%) BDD
5 17 (38.64%) Observability
5 17 (38.64%) TDD
5 17 (38.64%) Validation
6 16 (36.36%) Microservices
7 15 (34.09%) Test Strategy
8 14 (31.82%) End-to-End Testing
9 13 (29.55%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 13 (29.55%) Load Testing
9 13 (29.55%) Workshop Facilitation
10 12 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 11 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (22.73%) Containerisation
12 10 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (18.18%) Data Validation
13 8 (18.18%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.64%) Python
2 5 (11.36%) SQL
3 3 (6.82%) Java
4 2 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.27%) Bash
5 1 (2.27%) Bicep
5 1 (2.27%) MATLAB
5 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (38.64%) Security Cleared
2 16 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.55%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) GRC
1 2 (4.55%) PMO
1 2 (4.55%) QA
1 2 (4.55%) SLA
2 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (45.45%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) Postfix
3 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (43.18%) Grafana
2 18 (40.91%) Kubernetes
3 17 (38.64%) Prometheus
4 5 (11.36%) Terraform
5 3 (6.82%) Control-M
5 3 (6.82%) IBM Guardium
5 3 (6.82%) Nessus
6 1 (2.27%) Ansible
6 1 (2.27%) HP ALM
6 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (22.73%) ServiceNow
2 7 (15.91%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.36%) Atlassian
4 3 (6.82%) SAP
4 3 (6.82%) Tenable
5 2 (4.55%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (4.55%) Oracle
6 1 (2.27%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (2.27%) F5
6 1 (2.27%) Google
6 1 (2.27%) HP
6 1 (2.27%) Infoblox
6 1 (2.27%) Informatica
6 1 (2.27%) Splunk
6 1 (2.27%) Workday