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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 54 53
Rank change year-on-year +22 -1 -13
Contract jobs citing JIRA 21 8 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.21% 1.08% 2.69%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.18% 16.33% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 17
10th Percentile £413 £379 £320
25th Percentile £463 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -7.14% +9.38%
75th Percentile £575 £542 £550
90th Percentile £595 £648 £743
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -1.04%

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 55 49 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 11.02% 6.60% 9.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 42 60
10th Percentile £425 £259 £374
25th Percentile £463 £260 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £388 £575
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% -32.61% +19.79%
75th Percentile £575 £475 £700
90th Percentile £681 £525 -
West Midlands median daily rate £489 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +8.56% -14.29% +6.82%
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 30 May 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 10 (47.62%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
1 1 (4.76%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) AWS
2 3 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (14.29%) Amazon S3
2 3 (14.29%) Azure
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (9.52%) IaaS
3 2 (9.52%) SaaS
3 2 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.76%) AWS KMS
4 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Storage
4 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.76%) OneDrive
4 1 (4.76%) ShareGate
4 1 (4.76%) SonarCloud
4 1 (4.76%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) DNS
1 3 (14.29%) Firewall
2 2 (9.52%) HTTP
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (4.76%) DHCP
3 1 (4.76%) FTP
3 1 (4.76%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (4.76%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (4.76%) SAN
3 1 (4.76%) SMTP
3 1 (4.76%) SSH
3 1 (4.76%) SSL
3 1 (4.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.76%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Git
1 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
2 3 (14.29%) GitLab
2 3 (14.29%) ScriptRunner
3 2 (9.52%) JMeter
3 2 (9.52%) Postman
3 2 (9.52%) REST Assured
3 2 (9.52%) Selenium
3 2 (9.52%) TestNG
3 2 (9.52%) Travis CI
4 1 (4.76%) LoadRunner
4 1 (4.76%) Maven
4 1 (4.76%) Snyk
4 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (4.76%) Vagrant
4 1 (4.76%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Local Government
4 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (14.29%) JIRA Engineer
1 3 (14.29%) Senior
2 2 (9.52%) Analyst
2 2 (9.52%) Business Analyst
2 2 (9.52%) Consultant
2 2 (9.52%) JIRA Consultant
2 2 (9.52%) Lead
2 2 (9.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) Tester
3 1 (4.76%) Architect
3 1 (4.76%) Developer
3 1 (4.76%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Project Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Senior Developer
3 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (4.76%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) YAML
2 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.76%) Kafka
2 1 (4.76%) LDAP
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (4.76%) IoT
1 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
1 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
1 1 (4.76%) Replication
1 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Windows
2 3 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (4.76%) CentOS
3 1 (4.76%) Debian
3 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
3 1 (4.76%) VMS
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Agile
2 6 (28.57%) DevOps
2 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (23.81%) Migration
4 4 (19.05%) Asset Management
4 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
4 4 (19.05%) Test Automation
4 4 (19.05%) Test Management
5 3 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (14.29%) Functional Testing
5 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (14.29%) Performance Testing
5 3 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (14.29%) Project Management
5 3 (14.29%) Regression Testing
5 3 (14.29%) Service Management
5 3 (14.29%) System Integration Testing
5 3 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (9.52%) Change Management
6 2 (9.52%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) Groovy
3 3 (14.29%) Bash
4 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.76%) Java
5 1 (4.76%) Perl
5 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) Degree
4 2 (9.52%) CEH
4 2 (9.52%) CISSP
4 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (9.52%) ISTQB
5 1 (4.76%) ACCA
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (4.76%) CBAP
5 1 (4.76%) CIMA
5 1 (4.76%) CIPFA
5 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.76%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) QA
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) DFS Replication
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 3 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 2 (9.52%) Grafana
3 2 (9.52%) Kibana
3 2 (9.52%) Terraform
4 1 (4.76%) Ansible
4 1 (4.76%) Argo
4 1 (4.76%) FortiGate
4 1 (4.76%) logstash
4 1 (4.76%) Nessus
4 1 (4.76%) Puppet
4 1 (4.76%) QRadar
4 1 (4.76%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Atlassian
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle
3 2 (9.52%) Red Hat
3 2 (9.52%) SAP
4 1 (4.76%) Adobe
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco
4 1 (4.76%) Civica
4 1 (4.76%) Commvault
4 1 (4.76%) IFS
4 1 (4.76%) Infor
4 1 (4.76%) Micro Focus
4 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.76%) Sophos
4 1 (4.76%) Veeam
4 1 (4.76%) VMware