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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 18 49
Rank change year-on-year -32 +31 +4
Contract jobs citing JIRA 27 43 16
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.01% 7.44% 2.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 25.96% 55.84% 23.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 27 13
10th Percentile £331 £288 £219
25th Percentile £419 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -13.64% +12.82%
75th Percentile £531 £488 £756
90th Percentile £575 £607 -
West Midlands median daily rate £458 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -3.63% -13.64% +2.33%

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 104 77 68
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.59% 13.32% 9.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 55 48
10th Percentile £359 £328 £375
25th Percentile £422 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.42% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £684
90th Percentile £615 £627 £763
West Midlands median daily rate £459 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -8.20% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile - - £55.25
25th Percentile £65.00 - £55.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £36.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -36.00% +68.49%
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £70.00 £46.25 £56.25
% change year-on-year +51.35% -17.78% +68.49%

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 24 August 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 15 (55.56%) Confluence
2 2 (7.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.70%) IIS
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (51.85%) Azure
2 12 (44.44%) AWS
3 8 (29.63%) GCP
3 8 (29.63%) GitHub
3 8 (29.63%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (11.11%) Power Automate
4 3 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
5 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.70%) n8n
6 1 (3.70%) OCI
6 1 (3.70%) Serverless
6 1 (3.70%) Slack
6 1 (3.70%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) DHCP
1 2 (7.41%) DNS
1 2 (7.41%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.70%) BIG-IP
2 1 (3.70%) Firewall
2 1 (3.70%) LAN
2 1 (3.70%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (3.70%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.70%) VPN
2 1 (3.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (11.11%) Power BI
3 2 (7.41%) Power Query
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (44.44%) Git
2 8 (29.63%) Cucumber
2 8 (29.63%) JMeter
2 8 (29.63%) JUnit
2 8 (29.63%) Selenium
2 8 (29.63%) WebDriver
3 7 (25.93%) Jenkins
4 6 (22.22%) GitLab
5 1 (3.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.70%) Postman
General
1 15 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 8 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (22.22%) Finance
4 5 (18.52%) Banking
5 2 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Local Government
6 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Senior
2 7 (25.93%) Tester
3 5 (18.52%) Automation Tester
3 5 (18.52%) Senior Automation Tester
3 5 (18.52%) Senior Tester
4 3 (11.11%) Agile Delivery Manager
4 3 (11.11%) Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
4 3 (11.11%) Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Business Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (7.41%) JIRA Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Lead
5 2 (7.41%) Power BI Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Power BI Specialist
5 2 (7.41%) Project Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Delivery Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (29.63%) Spring
1 8 (29.63%) WireMock
2 4 (14.81%) Terraform
3 2 (7.41%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (3.70%) JSON
4 1 (3.70%) React
4 1 (3.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Distributed Architecture
2 6 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.70%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Windows
1 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
2 1 (3.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) Agile
2 14 (51.85%) CI/CD
3 12 (44.44%) Test Automation
4 10 (37.04%) Validation
5 9 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 9 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
6 8 (29.63%) BDD
6 8 (29.63%) DevOps
6 8 (29.63%) Microservices
6 8 (29.63%) Observability
6 8 (29.63%) TDD
6 8 (29.63%) Test Strategy
7 7 (25.93%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 7 (25.93%) End-to-End Testing
7 7 (25.93%) Load Testing
7 7 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (22.22%) Data Validation
8 6 (22.22%) Stress Testing
9 5 (18.52%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.81%) SQL
2 2 (7.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
2 2 (7.41%) Python
3 1 (3.70%) Bicep
3 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
3 1 (3.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (29.63%) SC Cleared
1 8 (29.63%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.41%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) GRC
1 2 (7.41%) QA
1 2 (7.41%) SLA
2 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.70%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (29.63%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Grafana
1 8 (29.63%) Kubernetes
1 8 (29.63%) Prometheus
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.70%) Ansible
3 1 (3.70%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) ServiceNow
2 4 (14.81%) Atlassian
3 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.41%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) F5
4 1 (3.70%) Infoblox
4 1 (3.70%) Informatica
4 1 (3.70%) Proofpoint
4 1 (3.70%) SAP
4 1 (3.70%) Splunk