JIRA Contracts in Birmingham

Atlassian JIRA
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring JIRA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JIRA over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 57 51
Rank change year-on-year +29 -6 -15
Contract jobs citing JIRA 26 9 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.92% 1.16% 2.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 41.94% 18.00% 30.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 17
10th Percentile £425 £274 £335
25th Percentile £463 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% +6.80%
75th Percentile £563 £594 -
90th Percentile £645 £760 £743
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -4.04%

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 62 50 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.74% 6.44% 8.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 43 52
10th Percentile £425 £259 £364
25th Percentile £463 £260 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +23.13% -27.27% +14.58%
75th Percentile £509 £475 £700
90th Percentile £682 £570 -
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +7.78% -14.29% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £55.25 -
25th Percentile - £55.63 £31.69
Median hourly rate - £56.25 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year - +68.49% -
75th Percentile - - £35.08
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £56.88 £33.39
% change year-on-year - +70.36% -

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in Birmingham

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for JIRA in Birmingham

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Birmingham over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in Birmingham

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (57.69%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) CMS
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.85%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (7.69%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (50.00%) AWS
2 8 (30.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 8 (30.77%) Amazon S3
3 7 (26.92%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (26.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 6 (23.08%) Amazon ELB
4 6 (23.08%) Amazon Glacier
4 6 (23.08%) AWS KMS
5 4 (15.38%) Azure
6 3 (11.54%) IaaS
7 2 (7.69%) GitHub
7 2 (7.69%) SaaS
8 1 (3.85%) Asana
8 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
8 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (3.85%) OneDrive
8 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
8 1 (3.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (30.77%) DNS
1 8 (30.77%) Firewall
2 7 (26.92%) HTTP
3 6 (23.08%) FTP
3 6 (23.08%) SMTP
3 6 (23.08%) SSH
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (3.85%) DHCP
4 1 (3.85%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (3.85%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (3.85%) SAN
4 1 (3.85%) SSL
4 1 (3.85%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.85%) MySQL
3 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) Git
1 9 (34.62%) Jenkins
2 6 (23.08%) Vagrant
3 3 (11.54%) GitLab
3 3 (11.54%) Postman
3 3 (11.54%) ScriptRunner
4 2 (7.69%) JMeter
4 2 (7.69%) REST Assured
4 2 (7.69%) Selenium
4 2 (7.69%) TestNG
4 2 (7.69%) Travis CI
5 1 (3.85%) LoadRunner
5 1 (3.85%) Maven
5 1 (3.85%) Snyk
5 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (3.85%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (30.77%) Public Sector
2 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) JIRA Engineer
2 3 (11.54%) Senior
2 3 (11.54%) Tester
3 2 (7.69%) Project Manager
3 2 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Delivery Project Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Developer
4 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (3.85%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) QA Leader
4 1 (3.85%) Senior Developer
4 1 (3.85%) Service Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Software Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Technical Developer
4 1 (3.85%) Technical Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Technical Project Manager
4 1 (3.85%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) YAML
2 1 (3.85%) .NET
2 1 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.85%) Kafka
2 1 (3.85%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Replication
2 1 (3.85%) CMDB
2 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (38.46%) Windows
2 9 (34.62%) Linux
3 6 (23.08%) Amazon Linux
3 6 (23.08%) VMS
4 1 (3.85%) CentOS
4 1 (3.85%) Debian
4 1 (3.85%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Agile
2 13 (50.00%) DevOps
3 7 (26.92%) Change Management
3 7 (26.92%) Cloud Security
3 7 (26.92%) Migration
3 7 (26.92%) Patch Management
4 6 (23.08%) Configuration Management
4 6 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
4 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (19.23%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (15.38%) Asset Management
6 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
6 4 (15.38%) Project Management
6 4 (15.38%) Service Management
6 4 (15.38%) System Integration Testing
7 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 3 (11.54%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (11.54%) Regression Testing
7 3 (11.54%) Sprint Planning
7 3 (11.54%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) Python
2 9 (34.62%) Groovy
3 8 (30.77%) PowerShell
4 6 (23.08%) Java
4 6 (23.08%) Perl
5 4 (15.38%) Bash
6 2 (7.69%) SQL
7 1 (3.85%) Bicep
7 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 12 (46.15%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) Degree
4 2 (7.69%) CEH
4 2 (7.69%) CISSP
4 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (7.69%) ISTQB
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.85%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) QA
System Software
1 11 (42.31%) Docker
2 6 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 6 (23.08%) DFS Replication
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Prometheus
1 8 (30.77%) Terraform
2 7 (26.92%) Grafana
3 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
4 2 (7.69%) Kibana
5 1 (3.85%) Ansible
5 1 (3.85%) Argo
5 1 (3.85%) FortiGate
5 1 (3.85%) logstash
5 1 (3.85%) Nessus
5 1 (3.85%) Puppet
5 1 (3.85%) QRadar
5 1 (3.85%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) ServiceNow
2 5 (19.23%) Atlassian
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco
4 1 (3.85%) Commvault
4 1 (3.85%) IFS
4 1 (3.85%) Infor
4 1 (3.85%) Micro Focus
4 1 (3.85%) Oracle
4 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.85%) SAP
4 1 (3.85%) Sitecore
4 1 (3.85%) Sophos
4 1 (3.85%) Veeam
4 1 (3.85%) VMware