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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 25 45
Rank change year-on-year -33 +20 +9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 16 43 19
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.75% 7.19% 2.69%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.98% 47.25% 24.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 29 16
10th Percentile £256 £277 £276
25th Percentile £408 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% -11.63% -
75th Percentile £519 £488 £756
90th Percentile £541 £604 -
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -1.26% -13.64% +4.76%

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 89 91 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.73% 15.22% 10.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 65 53
10th Percentile £356 £328 £376
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +25.71%
75th Percentile £543 £545 £675
90th Percentile £699 £675 £761
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -6.20% -7.06% +2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.00 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £36.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -34.55% -
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £70.00 £46.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +51.35% -19.57% -

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 23 September 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 7 (43.75%) Confluence
2 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (6.25%) IIS
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Power Automate
3 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.25%) GCP
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) n8n
4 1 (6.25%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) DHCP
1 2 (12.50%) DNS
1 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.25%) BIG-IP
2 1 (6.25%) Firewall
2 1 (6.25%) LAN
2 1 (6.25%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
2 1 (6.25%) VPN
2 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (12.50%) Power BI
1 2 (12.50%) Power Query
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
2 1 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
2 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) JMeter
2 1 (6.25%) JUnit
2 1 (6.25%) Postman
2 1 (6.25%) Selenium
2 1 (6.25%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Banking
3 4 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Analyst
1 3 (18.75%) Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Agile Delivery Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Specialist
2 2 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Power BI Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Power BI Specialist
2 2 (12.50%) Senior
2 2 (12.50%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Senior Delivery Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Senior Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 1 (6.25%) JIRA Administrator
3 1 (6.25%) Lead
3 1 (6.25%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) JSON
2 1 (6.25%) Spring
2 1 (6.25%) WireMock
2 1 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
1 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
2 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Agile
2 7 (43.75%) DevOps
3 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (31.25%) Migration
5 4 (25.00%) Software Testing
5 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (18.75%) Analytical Thinking
6 3 (18.75%) Data Modelling
6 3 (18.75%) ETL
6 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (18.75%) Scrum
6 3 (18.75%) Sprint Planning
6 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
7 2 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 2 (12.50%) Backlog Refinement
7 2 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (6.25%) Bicep
3 1 (6.25%) C#
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) GRC
1 2 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
1 1 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Grafana
2 1 (6.25%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) ServiceNow
2 4 (25.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) F5
4 1 (6.25%) Infoblox
4 1 (6.25%) Proofpoint