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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 49 50
Rank change year-on-year +21 +1 0
Contract jobs citing JIRA 43 18 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 7.14% 2.51% 2.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 46.24% 24.66% 33.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 15 15
10th Percentile £277 £267 £299
25th Percentile £420 £469 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +3.45%
75th Percentile £488 £756 £550
90th Percentile £604 - £580
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +5.00%

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 93 73 59
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 15.45% 10.18% 7.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 52 40
10th Percentile £335 £375 £318
25th Percentile £425 £425 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +22.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £545 £675 £556
90th Percentile £675 £762 £614
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -7.06% +2.48% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -34.55% - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £46.25 £57.50 -
% change year-on-year -19.57% - -

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA 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 18 September 2025.

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 and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 31 (72.09%) Confluence
2 10 (23.26%) nginx
3 5 (11.63%) SharePoint
4 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (2.33%) CMS
5 1 (2.33%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 9 (20.93%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (9.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (6.98%) Trello
5 2 (4.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) CA PPM
1 1 (2.33%) SAP CRM
1 1 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (60.47%) AWS
2 22 (51.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 21 (48.84%) Amazon EC2
3 21 (48.84%) Amazon ELB
3 21 (48.84%) Amazon S3
3 21 (48.84%) AWS KMS
3 21 (48.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 14 (32.56%) Azure
5 12 (27.91%) Amazon Glacier
5 12 (27.91%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (20.93%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (20.93%) Route 53
7 3 (6.98%) IaaS
7 3 (6.98%) SaaS
8 2 (4.65%) Azure Storage
8 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
8 2 (4.65%) GitHub
8 2 (4.65%) OneDrive
8 2 (4.65%) ShareGate
9 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 22 (51.16%) DNS
1 22 (51.16%) Firewall
2 21 (48.84%) FTP
2 21 (48.84%) HTTP
2 21 (48.84%) SMTP
2 21 (48.84%) SSH
3 9 (20.93%) IMAP
3 9 (20.93%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (4.65%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (48.84%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (23.26%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (20.93%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.33%) Power BI
4 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (51.16%) Git
1 22 (51.16%) Jenkins
2 21 (48.84%) Vagrant
3 3 (6.98%) ScriptRunner
4 2 (4.65%) Postman
5 1 (2.33%) GitLab
5 1 (2.33%) JMeter
5 1 (2.33%) LoadRunner
5 1 (2.33%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.33%) Selenium
5 1 (2.33%) TestNG
5 1 (2.33%) Travis CI
5 1 (2.33%) Zephyr
General
1 24 (55.81%) Public Sector
2 19 (44.19%) Social Skills
3 9 (20.93%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (11.63%) Finance
5 4 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.65%) Legal
6 2 (4.65%) Retail
7 1 (2.33%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (46.51%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (37.21%) AWS Engineer
2 16 (37.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 16 (37.21%) Platform Engineer
3 15 (34.88%) AWS DevOps
3 15 (34.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 9 (20.93%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 8 (18.60%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 5 (11.63%) Analyst
6 5 (11.63%) Business Analyst
7 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (6.98%) Technical Business Analyst
8 2 (4.65%) Architect
8 2 (4.65%) JIRA Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Microsoft 365 Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Migration Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Project Manager
8 2 (4.65%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (20.93%) LDAP
2 1 (2.33%) .NET
2 1 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (2.33%) HTML
2 1 (2.33%) JSON
2 1 (2.33%) OAuth
2 1 (2.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.33%) REST
2 1 (2.33%) RESTful
2 1 (2.33%) SOAP
2 1 (2.33%) XML
2 1 (2.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (48.84%) Replication
2 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.33%) CMDB
2 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (53.49%) Linux
1 23 (53.49%) Windows
2 21 (48.84%) Amazon Linux
2 21 (48.84%) VMS
3 9 (20.93%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (67.44%) DevOps
2 22 (51.16%) Change Management
2 22 (51.16%) Cloud Security
3 21 (48.84%) Configuration Management
3 21 (48.84%) Patch Management
3 21 (48.84%) Platform Engineering
4 16 (37.21%) Agile
5 12 (27.91%) Performance Tuning
6 11 (25.58%) CI/CD
7 9 (20.93%) Project Management
8 8 (18.60%) Migration
9 7 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (16.28%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (13.95%) User Acceptance Testing
11 5 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (11.63%) Project Delivery
11 5 (11.63%) Waterfall
12 4 (9.30%) Data Management
12 4 (9.30%) System Integration Testing
12 4 (9.30%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 24 (55.81%) Groovy
1 24 (55.81%) Python
2 23 (53.49%) PowerShell
3 13 (30.23%) Java
4 12 (27.91%) Perl
5 11 (25.58%) SQL
6 3 (6.98%) Bash
7 1 (2.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 27 (62.79%) Security Cleared
2 26 (60.47%) SC Cleared
3 14 (32.56%) Degree
4 10 (23.26%) AWS Certification
5 9 (20.93%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.65%) PMI Certification
6 2 (4.65%) PMP
7 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (2.33%) CEH
7 1 (2.33%) CISSP
7 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.33%) IIBA
7 1 (2.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) QA
2 1 (2.33%) PMO
System Software
1 24 (55.81%) Docker
2 21 (48.84%) DFS Replication
3 13 (30.23%) Active Directory
4 9 (20.93%) Dovecot
4 9 (20.93%) Postfix
4 9 (20.93%) Squid
5 2 (4.65%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (51.16%) Grafana
1 22 (51.16%) Prometheus
1 22 (51.16%) Terraform
2 9 (20.93%) Nessus
2 9 (20.93%) Proxmox
3 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 24 (55.81%) ServiceNow
2 9 (20.93%) Jaspersoft
3 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.98%) Atlassian
5 2 (4.65%) SAP
6 1 (2.33%) Commvault
6 1 (2.33%) Infor
6 1 (2.33%) Micro Focus
6 1 (2.33%) Oracle
6 1 (2.33%) Pega
6 1 (2.33%) Planview
6 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.33%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.33%) Sitecore
6 1 (2.33%) Veeam