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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 57 54
Rank change year-on-year +26 -3 -7
Contract jobs citing JIRA 40 15 15
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 6.20% 2.15% 1.89%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.19% 18.99% 26.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 12 11
10th Percentile £277 £191 £388
25th Percentile £414 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +26.47% -17.48%
75th Percentile £488 £756 £550
90th Percentile £578 - £600
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -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 117 79 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 18.14% 11.32% 7.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 51 39
10th Percentile £362 £375 £325
25th Percentile £463 £419 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +29.41% -15.00%
75th Percentile £540 £669 £544
90th Percentile £675 £756 £600
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -7.06% +7.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £46.25 £70.00 £78.19
% change year-on-year -33.93% -10.47% -

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 27 October 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 & 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 30 (75.00%) Confluence
2 10 (25.00%) nginx
3 5 (12.50%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.50%) CMS
4 1 (2.50%) IIS
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (2.50%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 9 (22.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (5.00%) MS Visio
3 2 (5.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) CA PPM
1 1 (2.50%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (57.50%) AWS
2 22 (55.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 21 (52.50%) Amazon EC2
3 21 (52.50%) Amazon ELB
3 21 (52.50%) Amazon S3
3 21 (52.50%) AWS KMS
3 21 (52.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 13 (32.50%) Azure
5 12 (30.00%) Amazon Glacier
5 12 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (22.50%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (22.50%) Route 53
7 2 (5.00%) GitHub
7 2 (5.00%) SaaS
8 1 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
8 1 (2.50%) IaaS
8 1 (2.50%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.50%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (57.50%) Firewall
2 22 (55.00%) DNS
3 21 (52.50%) FTP
3 21 (52.50%) HTTP
3 21 (52.50%) SMTP
3 21 (52.50%) SSH
4 9 (22.50%) IMAP
4 9 (22.50%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (2.50%) LAN
5 1 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (2.50%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (52.50%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (22.50%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.50%) EDMS
4 1 (2.50%) Power BI
4 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (52.50%) Git
1 21 (52.50%) Jenkins
1 21 (52.50%) Vagrant
2 2 (5.00%) Postman
3 1 (2.50%) Selenium
General
1 24 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 19 (47.50%) Social Skills
3 9 (22.50%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (15.00%) Finance
5 4 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.00%) Legal
6 2 (5.00%) Retail
7 1 (2.50%) Banking
7 1 (2.50%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.50%) Marketing
7 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (52.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
2 16 (40.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 16 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
3 15 (37.50%) AWS DevOps
3 15 (37.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 9 (22.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 8 (20.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 6 (15.00%) Analyst
6 6 (15.00%) Business Analyst
7 3 (7.50%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (7.50%) Technical Business Analyst
8 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (2.50%) Integration Engineer
9 1 (2.50%) Junior Business Analyst
9 1 (2.50%) Migration Engineer
9 1 (2.50%) Service Manager
9 1 (2.50%) Systems Integration Engineer
9 1 (2.50%) Systems Test Engineer
9 1 (2.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (22.50%) LDAP
2 2 (5.00%) YAML
3 1 (2.50%) .NET
3 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.50%) HTML
3 1 (2.50%) JSON
3 1 (2.50%) OAuth
3 1 (2.50%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.50%) REST
3 1 (2.50%) RESTful
3 1 (2.50%) SOAP
3 1 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (52.50%) Replication
2 3 (7.50%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.50%) CMDB
3 1 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (60.00%) Windows
2 23 (57.50%) Linux
3 21 (52.50%) Amazon Linux
3 21 (52.50%) VMS
4 9 (22.50%) Ubuntu
5 2 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (72.50%) DevOps
2 22 (55.00%) Cloud Security
3 21 (52.50%) Change Management
3 21 (52.50%) Configuration Management
3 21 (52.50%) Patch Management
3 21 (52.50%) Platform Engineering
4 12 (30.00%) Agile
5 10 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 9 (22.50%) Performance Tuning
7 7 (17.50%) Project Management
8 6 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (12.50%) Project Delivery
10 4 (10.00%) Data Management
10 4 (10.00%) Waterfall
10 4 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
11 3 (7.50%) Logistics
11 3 (7.50%) Migration
11 3 (7.50%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 23 (57.50%) Python
3 21 (52.50%) Groovy
4 13 (32.50%) Java
5 12 (30.00%) Perl
6 11 (27.50%) SQL
7 2 (5.00%) Bash
7 2 (5.00%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 24 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 24 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (32.50%) Degree
3 10 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 10 (25.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.00%) PMI Certification
4 2 (5.00%) PMP
5 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.50%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.50%) PMO
1 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 23 (57.50%) Docker
2 21 (52.50%) DFS Replication
3 13 (32.50%) Active Directory
4 9 (22.50%) Dovecot
4 9 (22.50%) Postfix
4 9 (22.50%) Squid
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (55.00%) Grafana
1 22 (55.00%) Prometheus
1 22 (55.00%) Terraform
2 9 (22.50%) Nessus
2 9 (22.50%) Proxmox
3 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 23 (57.50%) ServiceNow
2 9 (22.50%) Jaspersoft
3 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.50%) Commvault
4 1 (2.50%) Pega
4 1 (2.50%) Planview
4 1 (2.50%) Proofpoint
4 1 (2.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.50%) SAP
4 1 (2.50%) Sitecore
4 1 (2.50%) Veeam