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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 45 59
Rank change year-on-year +9 +14 -6
Contract jobs citing JIRA 46 16 13
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 5.41% 2.78% 1.71%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.80% 23.53% 20.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 12 10
10th Percentile £248 £308 £401
25th Percentile £343 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £513 £463
Median % change year-on-year -15.37% +10.81% -1.33%
75th Percentile £505 £550 £525
90th Percentile £541 £573 £601
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £477 £504
% change year-on-year -0.42% -5.26% -6.41%
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 £25.00 £57.50 £10.50
% change year-on-year -56.52% +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 125 68 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 14.71% 11.83% 8.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 44 49
10th Percentile £335 £366 £259
25th Percentile £442 £412 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% +23.13% -27.27%
75th Percentile £548 £578 £469
90th Percentile £658 £650 £526
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £490 £450
% change year-on-year +2.04% +8.89% -16.36%
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 £47.30 £57.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -17.73% - -

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 20 February 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 25 (54.35%) Confluence
2 4 (8.70%) SharePoint
3 3 (6.52%) nginx
3 3 (6.52%) OpenStack
4 1 (2.17%) IIS
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.52%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (4.35%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.17%) CANalyzer
4 1 (2.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (4.35%) SAP FI
2 1 (2.17%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 18 (39.13%) Azure
2 17 (36.96%) AWS
3 9 (19.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 9 (19.57%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (19.57%) Amazon S3
3 9 (19.57%) GitHub
3 9 (19.57%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (17.39%) AWS KMS
4 8 (17.39%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (15.22%) Amazon ELB
5 7 (15.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (13.04%) GCP
7 5 (10.87%) Route 53
8 3 (6.52%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (6.52%) Amazon Glacier
8 3 (6.52%) Tricentis Tosca
9 2 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (4.35%) SaaS
10 1 (2.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.22%) DNS
2 6 (13.04%) Firewall
3 5 (10.87%) FTP
3 5 (10.87%) HTTP
3 5 (10.87%) SMTP
3 5 (10.87%) SSH
4 3 (6.52%) IMAP
4 3 (6.52%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.35%) VPN
6 1 (2.17%) LAN
6 1 (2.17%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (2.17%) SD-WAN
6 1 (2.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (32.61%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (19.57%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (10.87%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (4.35%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.17%) EDMS
5 1 (2.17%) Power Query
5 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (32.61%) Git
1 15 (32.61%) Jenkins
2 9 (19.57%) JUnit
2 9 (19.57%) Selenium
3 8 (17.39%) Cucumber
4 7 (15.22%) JMeter
5 6 (13.04%) GitLab
5 6 (13.04%) WebDriver
6 5 (10.87%) Vagrant
7 3 (6.52%) Postman
8 2 (4.35%) CircleCI
8 2 (4.35%) DbUnit
8 2 (4.35%) jMock
8 2 (4.35%) Maven
8 2 (4.35%) Mockito
8 2 (4.35%) SonarQube
8 2 (4.35%) Toad
9 1 (2.17%) LoadRunner
9 1 (2.17%) TestNG
9 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (54.35%) Social Skills
2 12 (26.09%) Public Sector
3 10 (21.74%) Finance
4 8 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (15.22%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (8.70%) Telecoms
7 2 (4.35%) Automotive
7 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.35%) Legal
7 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.17%) Banking
8 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (15.22%) Analyst
1 7 (15.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (10.87%) AWS DevOps
2 5 (10.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 5 (10.87%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (10.87%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 5 (10.87%) Developer
2 5 (10.87%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (10.87%) Senior
2 5 (10.87%) Tester
3 4 (8.70%) Automation Tester
3 4 (8.70%) Lead
4 3 (6.52%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Business Analyst
4 3 (6.52%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Python Developer
4 3 (6.52%) Test Analyst
4 3 (6.52%) Test Leader
5 2 (4.35%) SAP Test Analyst
5 2 (4.35%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.39%) Spring
2 6 (13.04%) WireMock
3 3 (6.52%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (6.52%) FastAPI
3 3 (6.52%) Kafka
3 3 (6.52%) LDAP
3 3 (6.52%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (6.52%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (4.35%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.35%) JPA
4 2 (4.35%) Node.js
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 Integration
4 2 (4.35%) Web Services
4 2 (4.35%) XML
4 2 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (10.87%) Replication
3 4 (8.70%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (8.70%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.52%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.35%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.17%) Driving Licence
6 1 (2.17%) e-Learning
6 1 (2.17%) Learning Management System
6 1 (2.17%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 13 (28.26%) Windows
2 10 (21.74%) Linux
3 5 (10.87%) Amazon Linux
3 5 (10.87%) VMS
4 3 (6.52%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (56.52%) Agile
2 20 (43.48%) CI/CD
3 16 (34.78%) DevOps
4 13 (28.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (26.09%) Containerisation
5 12 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (21.74%) BDD
6 10 (21.74%) Microservices
6 10 (21.74%) Test Automation
7 9 (19.57%) Observability
7 9 (19.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (19.57%) TDD
8 8 (17.39%) Change Management
8 8 (17.39%) Validation
9 7 (15.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 7 (15.22%) End-to-End Testing
9 7 (15.22%) Test Strategy
9 7 (15.22%) Workshop Facilitation
10 6 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (13.04%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 13 (28.26%) Python
2 7 (15.22%) Java
2 7 (15.22%) PowerShell
2 7 (15.22%) SQL
3 5 (10.87%) Groovy
4 4 (8.70%) Go
4 4 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.35%) Bicep
5 2 (4.35%) Perl
6 1 (2.17%) Bash
6 1 (2.17%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 17 (36.96%) Security Cleared
2 16 (34.78%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.04%) Azure Certification
3 6 (13.04%) Degree
4 5 (10.87%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.17%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) QA
2 2 (4.35%) PMO
3 1 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (45.65%) Docker
2 5 (10.87%) DFS Replication
2 5 (10.87%) Postfix
3 3 (6.52%) Active Directory
3 3 (6.52%) Dovecot
3 3 (6.52%) Squid
4 1 (2.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (43.48%) Grafana
2 15 (32.61%) Kubernetes
3 14 (30.43%) Prometheus
4 9 (19.57%) Terraform
5 6 (13.04%) Nessus
6 3 (6.52%) Ansible
6 3 (6.52%) Argo
6 3 (6.52%) Control-M
6 3 (6.52%) IBM Guardium
6 3 (6.52%) Proxmox
7 1 (2.17%) HP ALM
7 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (21.74%) ServiceNow
2 9 (19.57%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.87%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (8.70%) SAP
5 3 (6.52%) Atlassian
5 3 (6.52%) Tenable
6 2 (4.35%) Ariba
6 2 (4.35%) Oracle
7 1 (2.17%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (2.17%) Google
7 1 (2.17%) HP
7 1 (2.17%) Proofpoint
7 1 (2.17%) Workday