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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 33 52
Rank change year-on-year +5 +19 +5
Contract jobs citing JIRA 53 19 11
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 5.83% 3.63% 1.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 43.80% 42.22% 19.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 10 8
10th Percentile £303 £298 £379
25th Percentile £375 £434 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £542
90th Percentile £575 £576 £648
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £475 £515
% change year-on-year -5.26% -7.72% -4.23%
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 £25.80 £57.50 £10.50
% change year-on-year -55.13% +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 45 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.31% 8.60% 7.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 30 43
10th Percentile £349 £423 £259
25th Percentile £425 £457 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +33.33% -34.78%
75th Percentile £539 £584 £463
90th Percentile £575 £689 £525
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £484 £450
% change year-on-year -1.86% +7.56% -16.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £25.13 - -
25th Percentile £25.33 - £55.00
Median hourly rate £25.80 - £55.63
Median % change year-on-year - - +66.62%
75th Percentile £26.43 - £56.25
90th Percentile £26.72 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.50 £57.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year +10.43% +2.22% +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 17 April 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 28 (52.83%) Confluence
2 3 (5.66%) OpenStack
3 2 (3.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.89%) CANalyzer
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (3.77%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.89%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.89%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 23 (43.40%) AWS
1 23 (43.40%) Azure
2 16 (30.19%) GitHub
3 15 (28.30%) GitHub Actions
4 13 (24.53%) GCP
5 5 (9.43%) Amazon S3
6 4 (7.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (7.55%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (5.66%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (5.66%) AWS KMS
7 3 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.66%) Power Platform
7 3 (5.66%) Tricentis Tosca
8 2 (3.77%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (3.77%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.77%) Route 53
8 2 (3.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.89%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.89%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.66%) DNS
1 3 (5.66%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.77%) VPN
3 1 (1.89%) BIG-IP
3 1 (1.89%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (35.85%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (7.55%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (7.55%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.66%) DynamoDB
3 3 (5.66%) Power BI
3 3 (5.66%) Power Query
4 2 (3.77%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (3.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (3.77%) Tableau
5 1 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.89%) EDMS
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (39.62%) Git
2 16 (30.19%) Jenkins
2 16 (30.19%) JUnit
3 15 (28.30%) Cucumber
3 15 (28.30%) Selenium
4 14 (26.42%) JMeter
5 13 (24.53%) WebDriver
6 11 (20.75%) GitLab
7 2 (3.77%) CircleCI
7 2 (3.77%) DbUnit
7 2 (3.77%) jMock
7 2 (3.77%) Maven
7 2 (3.77%) Mockito
7 2 (3.77%) Postman
7 2 (3.77%) SonarQube
7 2 (3.77%) Toad
8 1 (1.89%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.89%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (1.89%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.89%) TestNG
General
1 30 (56.60%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (18.87%) Finance
3 9 (16.98%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (15.09%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.66%) Banking
5 3 (5.66%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.77%) Automotive
6 2 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.77%) Legal
6 2 (3.77%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Local Government
7 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (24.53%) Senior
2 12 (22.64%) Tester
3 9 (16.98%) Automation Tester
4 8 (15.09%) Developer
5 7 (13.21%) Senior Automation Tester
5 7 (13.21%) Senior Tester
6 6 (11.32%) Analyst
7 5 (9.43%) Delivery Manager
7 5 (9.43%) Lead
8 4 (7.55%) Test Leader
9 3 (5.66%) Agile Delivery Manager
9 3 (5.66%) Automation Test Lead
9 3 (5.66%) Python Developer
9 3 (5.66%) Support Engineer
9 3 (5.66%) Systems Tester
9 3 (5.66%) Test Analyst
10 2 (3.77%) Business Analyst
10 2 (3.77%) Java Developer
10 2 (3.77%) Project Manager
10 2 (3.77%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (28.30%) Spring
2 13 (24.53%) WireMock
3 3 (5.66%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (5.66%) FastAPI
3 3 (5.66%) Kafka
3 3 (5.66%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (5.66%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (3.77%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (3.77%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.77%) Hibernate
4 2 (3.77%) JPA
4 2 (3.77%) Node.js
4 2 (3.77%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (3.77%) PowerMock
4 2 (3.77%) REST
4 2 (3.77%) SOAP
4 2 (3.77%) Spring Batch
4 2 (3.77%) Spring Boot
4 2 (3.77%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (3.77%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.64%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (18.87%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (7.55%) Product Ownership
4 3 (5.66%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.66%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (3.77%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.89%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.89%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.89%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.21%) Windows
2 5 (9.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (67.92%) Agile
2 29 (54.72%) CI/CD
3 21 (39.62%) Test Automation
4 20 (37.74%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (32.08%) BDD
5 17 (32.08%) Microservices
5 17 (32.08%) Validation
6 16 (30.19%) Observability
6 16 (30.19%) TDD
7 14 (26.42%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 14 (26.42%) End-to-End Testing
7 14 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (26.42%) Test Strategy
8 13 (24.53%) Containerisation
8 13 (24.53%) Load Testing
8 13 (24.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 13 (24.53%) Workshop Facilitation
9 12 (22.64%) DevOps
10 10 (18.87%) Sprint Planning
10 10 (18.87%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.87%) Python
2 7 (13.21%) SQL
3 6 (11.32%) JavaScript
4 5 (9.43%) Java
5 4 (7.55%) Go
6 2 (3.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.89%) Bash
7 1 (1.89%) Bicep
7 1 (1.89%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.89%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.89%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (33.96%) Security Cleared
2 17 (32.08%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.77%) Degree
4 1 (1.89%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.89%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) PMO
1 3 (5.66%) QA
2 2 (3.77%) GRC
3 1 (1.89%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (43.40%) Docker
2 2 (3.77%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 22 (41.51%) Grafana
1 22 (41.51%) Kubernetes
2 16 (30.19%) Prometheus
3 8 (15.09%) Terraform
4 4 (7.55%) Ansible
5 3 (5.66%) Argo
5 3 (5.66%) Control-M
5 3 (5.66%) IBM Guardium
5 3 (5.66%) Nessus
6 1 (1.89%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 11 (20.75%) ServiceNow
2 9 (16.98%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.43%) Atlassian
3 5 (9.43%) SAP
4 4 (7.55%) Oracle
5 3 (5.66%) Tenable
6 2 (3.77%) Ariba
6 2 (3.77%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (1.89%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.89%) F5
7 1 (1.89%) Google
7 1 (1.89%) HP
7 1 (1.89%) Infoblox
7 1 (1.89%) Informatica
7 1 (1.89%) Splunk
7 1 (1.89%) Workday