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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 45 54
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 -6
Contract jobs citing JIRA 35 20 15
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 4.37% 3.11% 2.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 32.71% 21.28% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 13 12
10th Percentile £217 £285 £390
25th Percentile £348 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% +17.65% -12.82%
75th Percentile £494 £550 £525
90th Percentile £538 £585 £593
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £477 £500
% change year-on-year +1.68% -4.60% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
West Midlands median hourly rate - £57.50 £32.75
% change year-on-year - +75.57% -

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 107 94 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.36% 14.60% 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 62 43
10th Percentile £336 £376 £259
25th Percentile £463 £425 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £519 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% +22.00% -15.84%
75th Percentile £546 £650 £484
90th Percentile £719 £713 £530
West Midlands median daily rate £506 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +1.20% +5.26% -12.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £55.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £68.00 £57.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +18.26% - -

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 29 January 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 17 (48.57%) Confluence
2 8 (22.86%) nginx
3 3 (8.57%) OpenStack
4 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.86%) IIS
5 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (20.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (2.86%) CANalyzer
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.86%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) SAP FI
2 1 (2.86%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.86%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 13 (37.14%) AWS
2 12 (34.29%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (31.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 11 (31.43%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (31.43%) Amazon ELB
3 11 (31.43%) Amazon S3
3 11 (31.43%) AWS KMS
3 11 (31.43%) Azure
3 11 (31.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 7 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
4 7 (20.00%) Route 53
5 6 (17.14%) GitHub
6 4 (11.43%) Amazon Glacier
6 4 (11.43%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (8.57%) Tricentis Tosca
8 2 (5.71%) SaaS
9 1 (2.86%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (2.86%) IaaS
9 1 (2.86%) OpenShift
9 1 (2.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (37.14%) DNS
2 12 (34.29%) Firewall
3 11 (31.43%) FTP
3 11 (31.43%) HTTP
3 11 (31.43%) SMTP
3 11 (31.43%) SSH
4 7 (20.00%) IMAP
4 7 (20.00%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (5.71%) TCP/IP
5 2 (5.71%) VPN
6 1 (2.86%) LAN
6 1 (2.86%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (2.86%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (31.43%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.86%) EDMS
4 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 11 (31.43%) Git
2 11 (31.43%) Vagrant
3 4 (11.43%) GitLab
4 2 (5.71%) CircleCI
4 2 (5.71%) Postman
4 2 (5.71%) Selenium
4 2 (5.71%) Toad
5 1 (2.86%) Cucumber
General
1 18 (51.43%) Social Skills
2 15 (42.86%) Public Sector
3 7 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (17.14%) Finance
5 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (11.43%) Telecoms
6 2 (5.71%) Legal
7 1 (2.86%) Banking
7 1 (2.86%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (31.43%) AWS Engineer
2 11 (31.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 11 (31.43%) Platform Engineer
3 10 (28.57%) AWS DevOps
3 10 (28.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 7 (20.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 6 (17.14%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) Analyst
7 3 (8.57%) Developer
8 2 (5.71%) 1st Line Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) 1st Line Support
8 2 (5.71%) 1st Line Support Engineer
8 2 (5.71%) Engineering Specialist
8 2 (5.71%) Lead
8 2 (5.71%) Python Developer
8 2 (5.71%) SAP Analyst
8 2 (5.71%) SAP Test Analyst
8 2 (5.71%) Scrum Master
8 2 (5.71%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.00%) LDAP
2 3 (8.57%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (8.57%) Kafka
2 3 (8.57%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (8.57%) XML
3 2 (5.71%) FastAPI
3 2 (5.71%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (5.71%) YAML
4 1 (2.86%) .NET
4 1 (2.86%) ADO
4 1 (2.86%) HTML
4 1 (2.86%) JSON
4 1 (2.86%) Middleware
4 1 (2.86%) OAuth
4 1 (2.86%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.86%) REST
4 1 (2.86%) RESTful
4 1 (2.86%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (31.43%) Replication
2 4 (11.43%) Product Ownership
3 3 (8.57%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.71%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.86%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (54.29%) Windows
2 14 (40.00%) Linux
3 11 (31.43%) Amazon Linux
3 11 (31.43%) VMS
4 7 (20.00%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (54.29%) DevOps
2 15 (42.86%) Agile
3 14 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 12 (34.29%) Change Management
5 11 (31.43%) Cloud Security
5 11 (31.43%) Configuration Management
5 11 (31.43%) Patch Management
5 11 (31.43%) Platform Engineering
6 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (22.86%) Containerisation
8 7 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (11.43%) Coaching
9 4 (11.43%) Scrum
9 4 (11.43%) SIEM
9 4 (11.43%) Sprint Planning
10 3 (8.57%) API Development
10 3 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (8.57%) Microservices
10 3 (8.57%) Software Delivery
10 3 (8.57%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (51.43%) Python
2 13 (37.14%) PowerShell
3 11 (31.43%) Groovy
4 10 (28.57%) SQL
5 7 (20.00%) Java
6 4 (11.43%) Go
6 4 (11.43%) JavaScript
6 4 (11.43%) Perl
7 2 (5.71%) Bicep
8 1 (2.86%) Bash
8 1 (2.86%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 14 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (28.57%) Degree
3 8 (22.86%) Azure Certification
4 7 (20.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.86%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.86%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.86%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (54.29%) Docker
2 11 (31.43%) DFS Replication
3 7 (20.00%) Dovecot
3 7 (20.00%) Postfix
3 7 (20.00%) Squid
4 5 (14.29%) Active Directory
5 1 (2.86%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 17 (48.57%) Grafana
2 15 (42.86%) Terraform
3 13 (37.14%) Prometheus
4 9 (25.71%) Nessus
5 8 (22.86%) Kubernetes
6 7 (20.00%) Proxmox
7 3 (8.57%) Ansible
7 3 (8.57%) Argo
8 2 (5.71%) Control-M
8 2 (5.71%) IBM Guardium
9 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (37.14%) ServiceNow
2 7 (20.00%) Jaspersoft
3 6 (17.14%) Microsoft
4 3 (8.57%) SAP
5 2 (5.71%) Ariba
5 2 (5.71%) Oracle
5 2 (5.71%) Tenable
6 1 (2.86%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (2.86%) Pega
6 1 (2.86%) Proofpoint
6 1 (2.86%) Workday