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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 30 51
Rank change year-on-year -3 +21 +4
Contract jobs citing JIRA 44 20 8
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 4.82% 3.99% 1.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.07% 40.82% 16.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 9 8
10th Percentile £325 £400 £379
25th Percentile £404 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +12.82% -7.14%
75th Percentile £514 £575 £542
90th Percentile £576 £603 £648
West Midlands median daily rate £459 £484 £500
% change year-on-year -5.07% -3.30% -
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 £25.80 - £10.50

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 122 49 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.36% 9.78% 6.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 31 42
10th Percentile £350 £425 £259
25th Percentile £425 £459 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £388
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +29.03% -32.61%
75th Percentile £542 £581 £475
90th Percentile £577 £689 £525
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £489 £450
% change year-on-year -3.99% +8.56% -15.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £25.26 - £55.25
25th Percentile £25.65 - £55.63
Median hourly rate £26.61 - £56.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +68.49%
75th Percentile £50.95 - -
90th Percentile £65.38 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £65.75 - £56.88
% change year-on-year - - +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 26 May 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 (61.36%) Confluence
2 3 (6.82%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.27%) CANalyzer
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.27%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.27%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 23 (52.27%) Azure
2 22 (50.00%) AWS
3 13 (29.55%) GCP
4 12 (27.27%) GitHub
5 11 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (11.36%) Amazon S3
7 4 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (6.82%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (6.82%) AWS KMS
8 3 (6.82%) Power Platform
9 2 (4.55%) Amazon ELB
9 2 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (4.55%) Power Automate
9 2 (4.55%) Route 53
9 2 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (2.27%) Amazon Glacier
10 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) DHCP
1 2 (4.55%) DNS
1 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.27%) BIG-IP
2 1 (2.27%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (43.18%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (11.36%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (6.82%) DynamoDB
4 3 (6.82%) Power BI
4 3 (6.82%) Power Query
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (4.55%) Tableau
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (47.73%) Git
2 16 (36.36%) JUnit
3 15 (34.09%) Cucumber
3 15 (34.09%) Selenium
4 14 (31.82%) JMeter
5 13 (29.55%) Jenkins
5 13 (29.55%) WebDriver
6 7 (15.91%) GitLab
7 2 (4.55%) DbUnit
7 2 (4.55%) jMock
7 2 (4.55%) Maven
7 2 (4.55%) Mockito
7 2 (4.55%) Postman
7 2 (4.55%) SonarQube
8 1 (2.27%) LoadRunner
8 1 (2.27%) REST Assured
8 1 (2.27%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (2.27%) TeamCity
8 1 (2.27%) TestNG
8 1 (2.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 22 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (22.73%) Finance
3 8 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 4 (9.09%) Banking
6 2 (4.55%) Automotive
6 2 (4.55%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Local Government
7 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (27.27%) Senior
1 12 (27.27%) Tester
2 9 (20.45%) Automation Tester
3 8 (18.18%) Developer
4 7 (15.91%) Senior Automation Tester
4 7 (15.91%) Senior Tester
5 5 (11.36%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (9.09%) Lead
6 4 (9.09%) Test Leader
7 3 (6.82%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 3 (6.82%) Analyst
7 3 (6.82%) Automation Test Lead
7 3 (6.82%) Project Manager
7 3 (6.82%) Python Developer
7 3 (6.82%) Systems Tester
8 2 (4.55%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Java Developer
8 2 (4.55%) Senior Manager
8 2 (4.55%) Support Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (34.09%) Spring
2 13 (29.55%) WireMock
3 3 (6.82%) FastAPI
3 3 (6.82%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (4.55%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (4.55%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.55%) Hibernate
4 2 (4.55%) JPA
4 2 (4.55%) Node.js
4 2 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (4.55%) PowerMock
4 2 (4.55%) REST
4 2 (4.55%) SOAP
4 2 (4.55%) Spring Batch
4 2 (4.55%) Spring Boot
4 2 (4.55%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (4.55%) Spring Integration
4 2 (4.55%) Web Services
5 1 (2.27%) ADO
5 1 (2.27%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (22.73%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (6.82%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.82%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.27%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.27%) e-Learning
5 1 (2.27%) Learning Management System
5 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.82%) Linux
2 2 (4.55%) Windows
3 1 (2.27%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (68.18%) Agile
2 25 (56.82%) CI/CD
3 19 (43.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 19 (43.18%) Test Automation
4 17 (38.64%) BDD
4 17 (38.64%) Validation
5 16 (36.36%) Observability
5 16 (36.36%) TDD
6 15 (34.09%) Microservices
7 14 (31.82%) End-to-End Testing
7 14 (31.82%) Test Strategy
8 13 (29.55%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 13 (29.55%) Load Testing
8 13 (29.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 13 (29.55%) Workshop Facilitation
9 10 (22.73%) Containerisation
9 10 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (20.45%) DevOps
11 8 (18.18%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.64%) Python
2 5 (11.36%) SQL
3 3 (6.82%) Java
4 2 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.27%) Bash
5 1 (2.27%) Bicep
5 1 (2.27%) MATLAB
5 1 (2.27%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 15 (34.09%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.55%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.55%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.55%) Degree
4 1 (2.27%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.55%) GRC
1 2 (4.55%) PMO
1 2 (4.55%) SLA
2 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 19 (43.18%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) Postfix
3 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (40.91%) Grafana
1 18 (40.91%) Kubernetes
2 16 (36.36%) Prometheus
3 5 (11.36%) Terraform
4 3 (6.82%) Control-M
4 3 (6.82%) IBM Guardium
4 3 (6.82%) Nessus
5 1 (2.27%) Ansible
5 1 (2.27%) HP ALM
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (22.73%) ServiceNow
2 7 (15.91%) Microsoft
3 5 (11.36%) Atlassian
4 3 (6.82%) SAP
4 3 (6.82%) Tenable
5 2 (4.55%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (4.55%) Oracle
6 1 (2.27%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (2.27%) F5
6 1 (2.27%) Google
6 1 (2.27%) HP
6 1 (2.27%) Infoblox
6 1 (2.27%) Informatica
6 1 (2.27%) Splunk
6 1 (2.27%) Workday