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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 34 61
Rank change year-on-year -1 +27 -3
Contract jobs citing JIRA 49 17 10
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 5.72% 3.28% 1.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.52% 30.91% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 10 7
10th Percentile £295 £298 £368
25th Percentile £350 £389 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +17.65% -13.92%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £518
90th Percentile £570 £576 £525
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -5.66% -4.60% -7.06%
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 124 55 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 14.47% 10.60% 8.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 33 47
10th Percentile £350 £376 £259
25th Percentile £425 £425 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -28.89%
75th Percentile £539 £588 £450
90th Percentile £592 £681 £504
West Midlands median daily rate £477 £484 £450
% change year-on-year -1.55% +7.56% -16.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £25.13 - £55.25
25th Percentile £25.33 - £55.63
Median hourly rate £25.80 - £56.25
75th Percentile £26.43 - -
90th Percentile £26.72 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.50 £57.50 £56.25
% change year-on-year +10.43% +2.22% -

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 13 March 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 26 (53.06%) Confluence
2 3 (6.12%) OpenStack
2 3 (6.12%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.04%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.04%) CANalyzer
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) SAP FI
2 1 (2.04%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.04%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 20 (40.82%) Azure
2 19 (38.78%) AWS
3 15 (30.61%) GitHub
4 14 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (24.49%) GCP
6 5 (10.20%) Amazon S3
7 4 (8.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (8.16%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (8.16%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (6.12%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (6.12%) AWS KMS
8 3 (6.12%) Tricentis Tosca
9 2 (4.08%) Amazon ELB
9 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (4.08%) Route 53
9 2 (4.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (2.04%) Amazon Glacier
10 1 (2.04%) IaaS
10 1 (2.04%) OpenShift
10 1 (2.04%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) DNS
1 2 (4.08%) TCP/IP
1 2 (4.08%) VPN
2 1 (2.04%) Firewall
2 1 (2.04%) LAN
2 1 (2.04%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.04%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (36.73%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (8.16%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.12%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.08%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (4.08%) Tableau
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.04%) EDMS
5 1 (2.04%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.04%) Power BI
5 1 (2.04%) Power Query
5 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (34.69%) Git
2 15 (30.61%) Jenkins
2 15 (30.61%) JUnit
2 15 (30.61%) Selenium
3 14 (28.57%) Cucumber
4 13 (26.53%) JMeter
5 12 (24.49%) WebDriver
6 10 (20.41%) GitLab
7 3 (6.12%) Postman
8 2 (4.08%) CircleCI
8 2 (4.08%) DbUnit
8 2 (4.08%) jMock
8 2 (4.08%) Maven
8 2 (4.08%) Mockito
8 2 (4.08%) SonarQube
8 2 (4.08%) Toad
9 1 (2.04%) Cypress.io
9 1 (2.04%) LoadRunner
9 1 (2.04%) TestNG
9 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (59.18%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.45%) Finance
3 9 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (18.37%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 4 (8.16%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.08%) Automotive
6 2 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Legal
6 2 (4.08%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.04%) Banking
7 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Local Government
7 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (22.45%) Tester
2 10 (20.41%) Senior
3 8 (16.33%) Automation Tester
4 6 (12.24%) Analyst
4 6 (12.24%) Developer
4 6 (12.24%) Senior Automation Tester
4 6 (12.24%) Senior Tester
5 5 (10.20%) Lead
6 4 (8.16%) Test Leader
7 3 (6.12%) Automation Test Lead
7 3 (6.12%) Python Developer
7 3 (6.12%) Support Engineer
7 3 (6.12%) Systems Tester
7 3 (6.12%) Test Analyst
8 2 (4.08%) 1st Line Support
8 2 (4.08%) Business Analyst
8 2 (4.08%) Java Developer
8 2 (4.08%) Project Manager
8 2 (4.08%) SAP Test Analyst
8 2 (4.08%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (28.57%) Spring
2 12 (24.49%) WireMock
3 3 (6.12%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (6.12%) FastAPI
3 3 (6.12%) Kafka
3 3 (6.12%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (6.12%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (4.08%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (4.08%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.08%) Hibernate
4 2 (4.08%) JPA
4 2 (4.08%) Node.js
4 2 (4.08%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (4.08%) PowerMock
4 2 (4.08%) REST
4 2 (4.08%) SOAP
4 2 (4.08%) Spring Batch
4 2 (4.08%) Spring Boot
4 2 (4.08%) Spring Integration
4 2 (4.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.45%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (18.37%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (8.16%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.12%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.04%) Driving Licence
6 1 (2.04%) e-Learning
6 1 (2.04%) Learning Management System
6 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.33%) Windows
2 5 (10.20%) Linux
3 1 (2.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (65.31%) Agile
2 23 (46.94%) CI/CD
3 19 (38.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 18 (36.73%) Test Automation
5 16 (32.65%) BDD
5 16 (32.65%) Microservices
5 16 (32.65%) Validation
6 15 (30.61%) Observability
6 15 (30.61%) TDD
7 13 (26.53%) Containerisation
7 13 (26.53%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 13 (26.53%) End-to-End Testing
7 13 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (26.53%) Test Strategy
8 12 (24.49%) Load Testing
8 12 (24.49%) Workshop Facilitation
9 11 (22.45%) DevOps
10 9 (18.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (18.37%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (16.33%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.37%) Python
2 5 (10.20%) Java
2 5 (10.20%) JavaScript
2 5 (10.20%) SQL
3 4 (8.16%) Go
4 2 (4.08%) Bicep
4 2 (4.08%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.04%) Bash
5 1 (2.04%) MATLAB
5 1 (2.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (34.69%) Security Cleared
2 16 (32.65%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.12%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.08%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.08%) Degree
5 1 (2.04%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.04%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) PMO
1 3 (6.12%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.04%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (44.90%) Docker
2 2 (4.08%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 21 (42.86%) Grafana
1 21 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 15 (30.61%) Prometheus
3 5 (10.20%) Terraform
4 3 (6.12%) Ansible
4 3 (6.12%) Argo
4 3 (6.12%) Control-M
4 3 (6.12%) IBM Guardium
4 3 (6.12%) Nessus
5 1 (2.04%) HP ALM
5 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (16.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.24%) ServiceNow
3 5 (10.20%) SAP
4 4 (8.16%) Oracle
5 3 (6.12%) Atlassian
5 3 (6.12%) Tenable
6 2 (4.08%) Ariba
6 2 (4.08%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (2.04%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (2.04%) Google
7 1 (2.04%) HP
7 1 (2.04%) Informatica
7 1 (2.04%) Proofpoint
7 1 (2.04%) Splunk
7 1 (2.04%) Workday