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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 46 61
Rank change year-on-year +11 +15 -12
Contract jobs citing JIRA 41 17 13
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 4.88% 2.84% 1.70%
As % of the Development Applications category 33.88% 22.67% 21.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 12 10
10th Percentile £235 £308 £401
25th Percentile £331 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £513 £463
Median % change year-on-year -12.93% +10.81% +8.82%
75th Percentile £514 £550 £525
90th Percentile £544 £573 £601
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £25.13 - -
25th Percentile £25.33 - -
Median hourly rate £25.80 - £55.00
75th Percentile £26.43 - -
90th Percentile £26.72 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £57.50 £10.50
% change year-on-year -56.52% +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 121 75 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 14.39% 12.52% 7.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 49 47
10th Percentile £332 £373 £259
25th Percentile £463 £425 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +25.00% -21.57%
75th Percentile £571 £588 £469
90th Percentile £719 £658 £528
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £490 £450
% change year-on-year +2.04% +8.89% -16.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £25.13 - -
25th Percentile £25.33 - -
Median hourly rate £25.80 - £55.00
75th Percentile £26.43 - -
90th Percentile £26.72 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £47.30 £57.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year -17.73% +2.22% -

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 13 February 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 20 (48.78%) Confluence
2 5 (12.20%) nginx
3 4 (9.76%) SharePoint
4 3 (7.32%) OpenStack
5 1 (2.44%) IIS
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (4.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (4.88%) MS Visio
5 1 (2.44%) CANalyzer
5 1 (2.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (4.88%) SAP FI
2 1 (2.44%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.44%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 14 (34.15%) Azure
2 13 (31.71%) AWS
3 11 (26.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 11 (26.83%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (26.83%) Amazon S3
3 11 (26.83%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (24.39%) AWS KMS
5 9 (21.95%) Amazon ELB
5 9 (21.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (17.07%) Route 53
7 5 (12.20%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (12.20%) GitHub
8 4 (9.76%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (7.32%) Amazon Glacier
9 3 (7.32%) Tricentis Tosca
10 2 (4.88%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (4.88%) SaaS
11 1 (2.44%) n8n
11 1 (2.44%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (21.95%) DNS
2 8 (19.51%) Firewall
3 7 (17.07%) FTP
3 7 (17.07%) HTTP
3 7 (17.07%) SMTP
3 7 (17.07%) SSH
4 5 (12.20%) IMAP
4 5 (12.20%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (4.88%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.88%) VPN
6 1 (2.44%) LAN
6 1 (2.44%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (2.44%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (26.83%) Amazon RDS
1 11 (26.83%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (17.07%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (4.88%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.44%) EDMS
4 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (31.71%) Jenkins
2 11 (26.83%) Git
3 7 (17.07%) Vagrant
4 4 (9.76%) GitLab
5 3 (7.32%) JUnit
5 3 (7.32%) Postman
5 3 (7.32%) Selenium
6 2 (4.88%) CircleCI
6 2 (4.88%) Cucumber
6 2 (4.88%) DbUnit
6 2 (4.88%) jMock
6 2 (4.88%) Maven
6 2 (4.88%) Mockito
6 2 (4.88%) SonarQube
6 2 (4.88%) Toad
7 1 (2.44%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.44%) JMeter
7 1 (2.44%) LoadRunner
7 1 (2.44%) REST Assured
7 1 (2.44%) Serenity BDD
General
1 21 (51.22%) Social Skills
2 14 (34.15%) Public Sector
3 9 (21.95%) Finance
4 6 (14.63%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (9.76%) Telecoms
7 2 (4.88%) Automotive
7 2 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.88%) Legal
7 2 (4.88%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.44%) Banking
8 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (19.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (17.07%) AWS Engineer
2 7 (17.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 7 (17.07%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (14.63%) Analyst
3 6 (14.63%) AWS DevOps
3 6 (14.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Developer
5 4 (9.76%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Business Analyst
6 3 (7.32%) Python Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Test Analyst
7 2 (4.88%) 1st Line Support
7 2 (4.88%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (4.88%) Java Developer
7 2 (4.88%) SAP Analyst
7 2 (4.88%) SAP Test Analyst
7 2 (4.88%) Scrum Master
7 2 (4.88%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.20%) LDAP
2 3 (7.32%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (7.32%) FastAPI
2 3 (7.32%) Kafka
2 3 (7.32%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (7.32%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (4.88%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (4.88%) Hibernate
3 2 (4.88%) JPA
3 2 (4.88%) Node.js
3 2 (4.88%) PowerMock
3 2 (4.88%) REST
3 2 (4.88%) SOAP
3 2 (4.88%) Spring
3 2 (4.88%) Spring Batch
3 2 (4.88%) Spring Cloud
3 2 (4.88%) Spring Integration
3 2 (4.88%) Web Services
3 2 (4.88%) XML
3 2 (4.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Replication
2 4 (9.76%) Product Ownership
3 3 (7.32%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.88%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.44%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.44%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.44%) Learning Management System
5 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 15 (36.59%) Windows
2 12 (29.27%) Linux
3 7 (17.07%) Amazon Linux
3 7 (17.07%) VMS
4 5 (12.20%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (53.66%) Agile
2 18 (43.90%) DevOps
3 16 (39.02%) CI/CD
4 10 (24.39%) Change Management
4 10 (24.39%) Containerisation
4 10 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (19.51%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (17.07%) Cloud Security
6 7 (17.07%) Configuration Management
6 7 (17.07%) Patch Management
6 7 (17.07%) Performance Tuning
6 7 (17.07%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (14.63%) Scrum
8 4 (9.76%) BDD
8 4 (9.76%) Coaching
8 4 (9.76%) Mentoring
8 4 (9.76%) Microservices
8 4 (9.76%) SIEM
8 4 (9.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (36.59%) Python
2 9 (21.95%) PowerShell
2 9 (21.95%) SQL
3 7 (17.07%) Groovy
3 7 (17.07%) Java
4 4 (9.76%) Go
4 4 (9.76%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.88%) Bicep
5 2 (4.88%) Perl
6 1 (2.44%) Bash
6 1 (2.44%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 15 (36.59%) Security Cleared
2 14 (34.15%) SC Cleared
3 8 (19.51%) Azure Certification
3 8 (19.51%) Degree
4 7 (17.07%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.44%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.44%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (41.46%) Docker
2 7 (17.07%) DFS Replication
2 7 (17.07%) Postfix
3 5 (12.20%) Dovecot
3 5 (12.20%) Squid
4 3 (7.32%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 16 (39.02%) Grafana
2 11 (26.83%) Terraform
3 10 (24.39%) Prometheus
4 9 (21.95%) Kubernetes
5 8 (19.51%) Nessus
6 5 (12.20%) Proxmox
7 3 (7.32%) Ansible
7 3 (7.32%) Argo
7 3 (7.32%) Control-M
7 3 (7.32%) IBM Guardium
8 1 (2.44%) HP ALM
8 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (29.27%) ServiceNow
2 9 (21.95%) Microsoft
3 7 (17.07%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (9.76%) SAP
5 3 (7.32%) Atlassian
5 3 (7.32%) Tenable
6 2 (4.88%) Ariba
6 2 (4.88%) Oracle
7 1 (2.44%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (2.44%) Google
7 1 (2.44%) HP
7 1 (2.44%) Proofpoint
7 1 (2.44%) Workday