JIRA Contracts in the West Midlands

Atlassian JIRA
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 78 30
Rank change year-on-year +55 -48 -9
Contract jobs citing JIRA 99 35 133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.66% 1.71% 5.99%
As % of the Development Applications category 50.00% 16.75% 51.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 25 95
10th Percentile £400 £263 £275
25th Percentile £425 £350 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £512 £575 £544
90th Percentile £568 £650 £600
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £10.50 -
England median hourly rate £56.25 £65.00 £61.25
% change year-on-year -13.46% +6.12% +22.50%

All Development Application Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 198 209 259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.32% 10.19% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 155 182
10th Percentile £400 £260 £313
25th Percentile £425 £358 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -14.29% +6.06%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £600
90th Percentile £624 £582 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 1
10th Percentile - £10.50 -
25th Percentile - £43.88 £31.69
Median hourly rate - £56.88 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year - +70.36% -
75th Percentile - £58.75 £35.08
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.84% +18.10%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the West Midlands

JIRA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for JIRA in the West Midlands

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the West Midlands

JIRA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for JIRA in the West Midlands

JIRA
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Warwickshire +26 36 £475 -26.92% 55
Birmingham +24 24 £475 - 69
Shropshire +18 21 £500 -4.31% 35
Coventry +3 5 £310 -42.33% 38
Solihull +10 3 £450 - 3
Worcestershire +2 3 £700 +47.37% 18
Staffordshire +1 3 £500 +11.11% 44
Herefordshire - 2 £700 - 4
Walsall - 1 £425 -
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 36 (36.36%) Confluence
2 2 (2.02%) nginx
2 2 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.01%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (8.08%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (2.02%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 2 (2.02%) MS Visio
4 2 (2.02%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.02%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (25.25%) AWS
2 11 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 11 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 10 (10.10%) Amazon EC2
4 8 (8.08%) Azure
4 8 (8.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 7 (7.07%) Amazon ELB
5 7 (7.07%) AWS KMS
6 5 (5.05%) Amazon Glacier
7 4 (4.04%) SaaS
8 3 (3.03%) GitHub
8 3 (3.03%) IaaS
8 3 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.03%) PaaS
8 3 (3.03%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.02%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.02%) AWS CodeCommit
9 2 (2.02%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 2 (2.02%) Figma
9 2 (2.02%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.12%) Firewall
2 8 (8.08%) DNS
3 7 (7.07%) HTTP
3 7 (7.07%) SMTP
4 5 (5.05%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (5.05%) FTP
4 5 (5.05%) SSH
5 4 (4.04%) BIG-IP
5 4 (4.04%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (4.04%) OpenLDAP
6 3 (3.03%) Network Security
7 2 (2.02%) DHCP
7 2 (2.02%) IMAP
7 2 (2.02%) SAN
7 2 (2.02%) SSL
7 2 (2.02%) VLAN
8 1 (1.01%) Converged Networks
8 1 (1.01%) Modbus
8 1 (1.01%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.01%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (7.07%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (6.06%) Big Data
4 4 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (3.03%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.02%) MySQL
6 2 (2.02%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.02%) Power BI
7 1 (1.01%) Data Mart
7 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (16.16%) Git
2 12 (12.12%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.07%) GitLab
3 7 (7.07%) Vagrant
4 4 (4.04%) Bitbucket
4 4 (4.04%) Postman
5 3 (3.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (3.03%) JMeter
5 3 (3.03%) REST Assured
5 3 (3.03%) ScriptRunner
5 3 (3.03%) Selenium
5 3 (3.03%) TestNG
5 3 (3.03%) Travis CI
6 2 (2.02%) Maven
6 2 (2.02%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.02%) TestPartner
6 2 (2.02%) Zephyr
7 1 (1.01%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.01%) Toad
7 1 (1.01%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.08%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (8.08%) Finance
4 6 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.03%) Automotive
6 1 (1.01%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.01%) Humanities
6 1 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.01%) Marketing
6 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (17.17%) Analyst
2 16 (16.16%) Tester
3 10 (10.10%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (9.09%) Developer
4 9 (9.09%) Engagement Manager
4 9 (9.09%) OAT Analyst
4 9 (9.09%) Senior
5 8 (8.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (6.06%) Senior Developer
7 5 (5.05%) Test Analyst
8 4 (4.04%) Data Manager
8 4 (4.04%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.04%) Network Engineer
8 4 (4.04%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.04%) Project Manager
9 3 (3.03%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.03%) JIRA Engineer
9 3 (3.03%) QA Analyst
9 3 (3.03%) QA Test Analyst
9 3 (3.03%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.07%) Middleware
2 4 (4.04%) LDAP
2 4 (4.04%) YAML
3 3 (3.03%) RESTful
4 2 (2.02%) .NET
4 2 (2.02%) ADO
4 2 (2.02%) Django
4 2 (2.02%) MACH
4 2 (2.02%) Node.js
4 2 (2.02%) React
4 2 (2.02%) REST
5 1 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.01%) HTML
5 1 (1.01%) Kafka
5 1 (1.01%) Laravel
5 1 (1.01%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (1.01%) Vue
5 1 (1.01%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (25.25%) SCADA
2 12 (12.12%) Product Ownership
3 8 (8.08%) Data Centre
4 7 (7.07%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (5.05%) Replication
6 1 (1.01%) CMDB
6 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.01%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (14.14%) Linux
2 11 (11.11%) Windows
3 7 (7.07%) Amazon Linux
3 7 (7.07%) VMS
4 5 (5.05%) Unix
5 2 (2.02%) CentOS
5 2 (2.02%) Debian
5 2 (2.02%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (55.56%) Agile
2 23 (23.23%) Test Strategy
3 21 (21.21%) DevOps
4 18 (18.18%) Scrum
5 17 (17.17%) Project Management
6 16 (16.16%) Scenario Testing
7 15 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (14.14%) CI/CD
8 14 (14.14%) Migration
8 14 (14.14%) Systems Engineering
9 13 (13.13%) Change Management
9 13 (13.13%) Network Monitoring
10 12 (12.12%) Defect Management
10 12 (12.12%) Performance Testing
10 12 (12.12%) System Integration Testing
10 12 (12.12%) Test Management
10 12 (12.12%) User Stories
11 10 (10.10%) Functional Testing
11 10 (10.10%) Workflow
12 9 (9.09%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (17.17%) Python
2 15 (15.15%) SQL
3 13 (13.13%) PowerShell
4 10 (10.10%) Groovy
5 8 (8.08%) Java
6 6 (6.06%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.06%) Shell Script
7 5 (5.05%) Bash
7 5 (5.05%) Perl
8 4 (4.04%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.02%) Go
9 2 (2.02%) R
9 2 (2.02%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.01%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.01%) Bicep
10 1 (1.01%) C#
10 1 (1.01%) PHP
Qualifications
1 34 (34.34%) Security Cleared
2 31 (31.31%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.09%) Degree
4 4 (4.04%) CISSP
4 4 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.04%) ISTQB
5 3 (3.03%) CEH
5 3 (3.03%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.02%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.02%) PMP
7 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.01%) ISEB
7 1 (1.01%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.10%) QA
2 1 (1.01%) Automotive SPICE
2 1 (1.01%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.01%) ISO 26262
2 1 (1.01%) PMO
2 1 (1.01%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (18.18%) Docker
2 5 (5.05%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.05%) DFS Replication
3 2 (2.02%) Dovecot
3 2 (2.02%) Postfix
3 2 (2.02%) Squid
4 1 (1.01%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (1.01%) Firmware
4 1 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (11.11%) Terraform
2 10 (10.10%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.09%) Prometheus
4 8 (8.08%) Grafana
5 6 (6.06%) HP ALM
6 5 (5.05%) Ansible
7 4 (4.04%) Nessus
8 3 (3.03%) Kibana
9 2 (2.02%) Puppet
10 1 (1.01%) Argo
10 1 (1.01%) FortiGate
10 1 (1.01%) logstash
10 1 (1.01%) QRadar
10 1 (1.01%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 17 (17.17%) Atlassian
2 14 (14.14%) ServiceNow
3 12 (12.12%) Oracle
4 10 (10.10%) Microsoft
5 7 (7.07%) MuleSoft
6 6 (6.06%) HP
7 5 (5.05%) Cisco
7 5 (5.05%) Salesforce
8 4 (4.04%) CheckPoint
8 4 (4.04%) F5
8 4 (4.04%) Palo Alto
8 4 (4.04%) SolarWinds
9 3 (3.03%) IBM
9 3 (3.03%) SAP
10 2 (2.02%) Jaspersoft
10 2 (2.02%) Red Hat
10 2 (2.02%) Sophos
10 2 (2.02%) VMware
11 1 (1.01%) Infor
11 1 (1.01%) Veeam