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 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 23 50
Rank change year-on-year -8 +27 0
Contract jobs citing JIRA 46 31 11
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 4.94% 5.67% 1.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.85% 46.97% 22.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 19 11
10th Percentile £319 £424 £413
25th Percentile £363 £456 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £514 £519 £756
90th Percentile £575 £627 -
West Midlands median daily rate £459 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -3.37% -13.64% +14.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £25.13 - -
25th Percentile £25.33 - -
Median hourly rate £25.80 - -
75th Percentile £26.43 - -
90th Percentile £26.72 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £26.61 £56.50 £10.50
% change year-on-year -52.91% +438.10% -

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 132 66 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 14.18% 12.07% 6.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 49 38
10th Percentile £350 £394 £259
25th Percentile £416 £450 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +11.76% -22.73%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £537
90th Percentile £600 £622 £686
West Midlands median daily rate £460 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -3.16% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £25.65 - £55.25
25th Percentile £35.98 - £55.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £56.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +68.49%
75th Percentile £75.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £61.50 £56.50 £56.88
% change year-on-year +8.85% -0.66% +70.36%

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 25 July 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 27 (58.70%) Confluence
2 3 (6.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (8.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (52.17%) Azure
2 23 (50.00%) AWS
3 14 (30.43%) GCP
4 12 (26.09%) GitHub
4 12 (26.09%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (10.87%) Amazon S3
6 4 (8.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (6.52%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (6.52%) AWS KMS
7 3 (6.52%) Power Platform
8 2 (4.35%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (4.35%) Power Automate
8 2 (4.35%) Route 53
8 2 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (2.17%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) DHCP
1 2 (4.35%) DNS
1 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.17%) BIG-IP
2 1 (2.17%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (41.30%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (10.87%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (6.52%) DynamoDB
4 3 (6.52%) Power BI
4 3 (6.52%) Power Query
5 2 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (4.35%) Tableau
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.17%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (47.83%) Git
2 17 (36.96%) JUnit
3 15 (32.61%) Cucumber
3 15 (32.61%) JMeter
3 15 (32.61%) Selenium
4 14 (30.43%) Jenkins
4 14 (30.43%) WebDriver
5 8 (17.39%) GitLab
6 2 (4.35%) DbUnit
6 2 (4.35%) jMock
6 2 (4.35%) Maven
6 2 (4.35%) Mockito
6 2 (4.35%) Postman
6 2 (4.35%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (2.17%) LoadRunner
7 1 (2.17%) REST Assured
7 1 (2.17%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (2.17%) TeamCity
7 1 (2.17%) TestNG
General
1 24 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 14 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (26.09%) Finance
4 8 (17.39%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (10.87%) Banking
5 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.35%) Automotive
6 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Local Government
7 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (26.09%) Senior
1 12 (26.09%) Tester
2 9 (19.57%) Automation Tester
3 8 (17.39%) Developer
4 7 (15.22%) Senior Automation Tester
4 7 (15.22%) Senior Tester
5 6 (13.04%) Analyst
6 5 (10.87%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (6.52%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 3 (6.52%) Automation Test Lead
7 3 (6.52%) Business Analyst
7 3 (6.52%) Lead
7 3 (6.52%) Python Developer
7 3 (6.52%) Systems Tester
7 3 (6.52%) Test Leader
8 2 (4.35%) Data Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Power BI Developer
8 2 (4.35%) Power BI Specialist
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
8 2 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (34.78%) Spring
2 14 (30.43%) WireMock
3 3 (6.52%) FastAPI
3 3 (6.52%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (4.35%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (4.35%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.35%) Hibernate
4 2 (4.35%) JPA
4 2 (4.35%) Node.js
4 2 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (4.35%) PowerMock
4 2 (4.35%) REST
4 2 (4.35%) SOAP
4 2 (4.35%) Spring Batch
4 2 (4.35%) Spring Boot
4 2 (4.35%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (4.35%) Spring Integration
4 2 (4.35%) Web Services
5 1 (2.17%) JDBC
5 1 (2.17%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 12 (26.09%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (23.91%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (6.52%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (6.52%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.35%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.17%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.17%) Learning Management System
5 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Windows
2 1 (2.17%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (67.39%) Agile
2 27 (58.70%) CI/CD
3 19 (41.30%) Continuous Improvement
3 19 (41.30%) Test Automation
4 17 (36.96%) BDD
4 17 (36.96%) Observability
4 17 (36.96%) TDD
5 16 (34.78%) Microservices
5 16 (34.78%) Validation
6 15 (32.61%) Workshop Facilitation
7 14 (30.43%) Test Strategy
8 13 (28.26%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 13 (28.26%) End-to-End Testing
8 13 (28.26%) Load Testing
8 13 (28.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 12 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (23.91%) DevOps
10 11 (23.91%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (19.57%) Containerisation
12 8 (17.39%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.04%) Python
2 5 (10.87%) SQL
3 3 (6.52%) Java
4 2 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.17%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.17%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (36.96%) Security Cleared
2 16 (34.78%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.52%) Degree
4 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) QA
2 2 (4.35%) GRC
2 2 (4.35%) PMO
2 2 (4.35%) SLA
3 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 19 (41.30%) Docker
2 2 (4.35%) Postfix
3 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (41.30%) Grafana
2 17 (36.96%) Kubernetes
2 17 (36.96%) Prometheus
3 4 (8.70%) Terraform
4 3 (6.52%) Control-M
4 3 (6.52%) IBM Guardium
4 3 (6.52%) Nessus
5 1 (2.17%) Ansible
5 1 (2.17%) HP ALM
5 1 (2.17%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (21.74%) ServiceNow
2 7 (15.22%) Atlassian
2 7 (15.22%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.52%) Tenable
4 2 (4.35%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (4.35%) Oracle
4 2 (4.35%) SAP
5 1 (2.17%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.17%) F5
5 1 (2.17%) Google
5 1 (2.17%) HP
5 1 (2.17%) Infoblox
5 1 (2.17%) Informatica
5 1 (2.17%) Splunk