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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 44 56
Rank change year-on-year +7 +12 +1
Contract jobs citing JIRA 48 16 12
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 5.55% 2.90% 1.60%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.21% 25.81% 18.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 12 9
10th Percentile £266 £308 £390
25th Percentile £350 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £513 £425
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% +20.59% -12.82%
75th Percentile £509 £550 £525
90th Percentile £550 £573 £540
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £484 £504
% change year-on-year -6.93% -3.97% -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 129 62 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 14.91% 11.25% 8.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 40 52
10th Percentile £342 £362 £259
25th Percentile £427 £409 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -27.27%
75th Percentile £545 £578 £454
90th Percentile £635 £654 £524
West Midlands median daily rate £490 £490 £450
% change year-on-year - +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 27 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 26 (54.17%) Confluence
2 4 (8.33%) SharePoint
3 3 (6.25%) OpenStack
4 2 (4.17%) nginx
5 1 (2.08%) IIS
5 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (4.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (4.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.08%) CANalyzer
3 1 (2.08%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) SAP FI
2 1 (2.08%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.08%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 20 (41.67%) Azure
2 18 (37.50%) AWS
3 11 (22.92%) GitHub
4 10 (20.83%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (18.75%) GCP
6 8 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (14.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (14.58%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (14.58%) Amazon S3
8 6 (12.50%) AWS KMS
9 5 (10.42%) Amazon ELB
9 5 (10.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (8.33%) Route 53
11 3 (6.25%) Tricentis Tosca
12 2 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
12 2 (4.17%) Amazon Glacier
12 2 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (4.17%) SaaS
13 1 (2.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.42%) DNS
2 4 (8.33%) Firewall
3 3 (6.25%) FTP
3 3 (6.25%) HTTP
3 3 (6.25%) SMTP
3 3 (6.25%) SSH
4 2 (4.17%) IMAP
4 2 (4.17%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (4.17%) TCP/IP
4 2 (4.17%) VPN
5 1 (2.08%) LAN
5 1 (2.08%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (2.08%) SD-WAN
5 1 (2.08%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (35.42%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (14.58%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (4.17%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.08%) EDMS
5 1 (2.08%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.08%) Power Query
5 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (33.33%) Git
2 15 (31.25%) Jenkins
3 12 (25.00%) JUnit
3 12 (25.00%) Selenium
4 11 (22.92%) Cucumber
5 10 (20.83%) JMeter
6 9 (18.75%) WebDriver
7 7 (14.58%) GitLab
8 3 (6.25%) Postman
8 3 (6.25%) Vagrant
9 2 (4.17%) CircleCI
9 2 (4.17%) DbUnit
9 2 (4.17%) jMock
9 2 (4.17%) Maven
9 2 (4.17%) Mockito
9 2 (4.17%) SonarQube
9 2 (4.17%) Toad
10 1 (2.08%) LoadRunner
10 1 (2.08%) TestNG
10 1 (2.08%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.92%) Finance
3 10 (20.83%) Public Sector
4 9 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (8.33%) Telecoms
6 3 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (4.17%) Automotive
7 2 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.17%) Legal
7 2 (4.17%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.08%) Banking
8 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.08%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 7 (14.58%) Analyst
1 7 (14.58%) Tester
2 6 (12.50%) Senior
3 5 (10.42%) Automation Tester
3 5 (10.42%) Developer
3 5 (10.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) Lead
4 4 (8.33%) Test Leader
5 3 (6.25%) Automation Test Lead
5 3 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Business Analyst
5 3 (6.25%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Python Developer
5 3 (6.25%) Senior Automation Tester
5 3 (6.25%) Senior Tester
5 3 (6.25%) Systems Tester
5 3 (6.25%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.92%) Spring
2 9 (18.75%) WireMock
3 3 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (6.25%) FastAPI
3 3 (6.25%) Kafka
3 3 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (4.17%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (4.17%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.17%) Hibernate
4 2 (4.17%) JPA
4 2 (4.17%) LDAP
4 2 (4.17%) Node.js
4 2 (4.17%) PowerMock
4 2 (4.17%) REST
4 2 (4.17%) SOAP
4 2 (4.17%) Spring Batch
4 2 (4.17%) Spring Boot
4 2 (4.17%) Spring Integration
4 2 (4.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (12.50%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.25%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 3 (6.25%) Replication
5 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.08%) Driving Licence
6 1 (2.08%) e-Learning
6 1 (2.08%) Learning Management System
6 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 11 (22.92%) Windows
2 8 (16.67%) Linux
3 3 (6.25%) Amazon Linux
3 3 (6.25%) VMS
4 2 (4.17%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (58.33%) Agile
2 22 (45.83%) CI/CD
3 16 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 14 (29.17%) DevOps
5 13 (27.08%) BDD
5 13 (27.08%) Containerisation
5 13 (27.08%) Microservices
5 13 (27.08%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (27.08%) Test Automation
6 12 (25.00%) Observability
6 12 (25.00%) TDD
6 12 (25.00%) Validation
7 10 (20.83%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 10 (20.83%) End-to-End Testing
7 10 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (20.83%) Test Strategy
7 10 (20.83%) Workshop Facilitation
8 9 (18.75%) Load Testing
9 8 (16.67%) Coaching
9 8 (16.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 11 (22.92%) Python
2 6 (12.50%) Java
2 6 (12.50%) SQL
3 5 (10.42%) PowerShell
4 4 (8.33%) Go
4 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.25%) Groovy
6 2 (4.17%) Bicep
7 1 (2.08%) Bash
7 1 (2.08%) MATLAB
7 1 (2.08%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (35.42%) Security Cleared
2 16 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.42%) Azure Certification
3 5 (10.42%) Degree
4 4 (8.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.08%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) PMO
1 3 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (45.83%) Docker
2 4 (8.33%) Postfix
3 3 (6.25%) DFS Replication
4 2 (4.17%) Active Directory
4 2 (4.17%) Dovecot
4 2 (4.17%) Squid
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (43.75%) Grafana
2 18 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 15 (31.25%) Prometheus
4 7 (14.58%) Terraform
5 5 (10.42%) Nessus
6 3 (6.25%) Ansible
6 3 (6.25%) Argo
6 3 (6.25%) Control-M
6 3 (6.25%) IBM Guardium
7 2 (4.17%) Proxmox
8 1 (2.08%) HP ALM
8 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 4 (8.33%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (8.33%) SAP
4 3 (6.25%) Atlassian
4 3 (6.25%) Oracle
4 3 (6.25%) Tenable
5 2 (4.17%) Ariba
6 1 (2.08%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (2.08%) Google
6 1 (2.08%) HP
6 1 (2.08%) Proofpoint
6 1 (2.08%) Workday