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

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 72 24
Rank change year-on-year +52 -48 -4
Contract jobs citing JIRA 96 40 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.13% 2.06% 8.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 53.63% 19.51% 58.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 26 149
10th Percentile £313 £275 £281
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £536
Median % change year-on-year -0.70% -6.06% +14.35%
75th Percentile £514 £550 £550
90th Percentile £575 £700 £600
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +4.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £10.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +447.62% - -
75th Percentile £58.75 £21.63 -
90th Percentile - £41.65 -
England median hourly rate £57.75 £55.00 £65.84
% change year-on-year +5.00% -16.47% +47.96%

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 179 205 337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.29% 10.56% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 146 248
10th Percentile £399 £260 £361
25th Percentile £449 £358 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £538
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -16.36% +9.80%
75th Percentile £548 £537 £590
90th Percentile £648 £566 £700
England median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 1
10th Percentile - £10.50 -
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.88 £31.69
Median hourly rate £57.50 £56.25 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +68.49% -14.40%
75th Percentile £58.75 £58.75 £35.08
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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
Shropshire +19 33 £478 -8.61% 4
Warwickshire +19 27 £475 -26.92% 18
Birmingham +27 25 £500 +2.56% 32
Worcestershire -2 3 £700 +47.37% 7
Staffordshire +3 2 £550 - 26
Herefordshire - 2 £700 -
Solihull +17 1 - - 2
Coventry +1 1 £140 -73.33% 15
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 34 (35.42%) Confluence
2 2 (2.08%) SAS
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.04%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (3.13%) MS Visio
4 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (2.08%) Open Workbench
5 1 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.04%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.08%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.04%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (19.79%) AWS
2 7 (7.29%) Azure
3 4 (4.17%) Amazon S3
3 4 (4.17%) SaaS
4 3 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (2.08%) AWS CodeCommit
5 2 (2.08%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 2 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.08%) Boomi
5 2 (2.08%) Figma
5 2 (2.08%) GCP
5 2 (2.08%) GitHub
5 2 (2.08%) IaaS
5 2 (2.08%) OCI
5 2 (2.08%) PaaS
5 2 (2.08%) Serverless
6 1 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.08%) DHCP
1 2 (2.08%) DNS
1 2 (2.08%) Firewall
1 2 (2.08%) HTTP
1 2 (2.08%) OpenLDAP
1 2 (2.08%) SAN
1 2 (2.08%) SSL
1 2 (2.08%) VLAN
2 1 (1.04%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (1.04%) Converged Networks
2 1 (1.04%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.25%) Big Data
1 6 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (3.13%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.08%) IDMS
3 2 (2.08%) MySQL
3 2 (2.08%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.04%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 9 (9.38%) Git
1 9 (9.38%) GitLab
2 6 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 6 (6.25%) Bitbucket
3 5 (5.21%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.13%) JMeter
4 3 (3.13%) Postman
4 3 (3.13%) REST Assured
4 3 (3.13%) ScriptRunner
4 3 (3.13%) Selenium
4 3 (3.13%) TestNG
4 3 (3.13%) Travis CI
5 2 (2.08%) CA Gen
5 2 (2.08%) Maven
5 2 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.04%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.04%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.04%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.04%) Toad
6 1 (1.04%) Zephyr
General
1 32 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.29%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (7.29%) Finance
3 6 (6.25%) Automotive
4 5 (5.21%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.08%) Military
7 1 (1.04%) Games
7 1 (1.04%) Humanities
7 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.04%) Legal
7 1 (1.04%) Local Government
7 1 (1.04%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (14.58%) Tester
2 13 (13.54%) Analyst
3 11 (11.46%) Engagement Manager
4 9 (9.38%) Lead
4 9 (9.38%) Senior
5 8 (8.33%) Developer
5 8 (8.33%) Project Manager
6 6 (6.25%) Senior Developer
7 5 (5.21%) OAT Analyst
8 4 (4.17%) Business Analyst
8 4 (4.17%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.17%) Data Manager
8 4 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (3.13%) Consultant
9 3 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.13%) JIRA Consultant
9 3 (3.13%) QA Leader
9 3 (3.13%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (3.13%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.21%) Middleware
2 3 (3.13%) RESTful
2 3 (3.13%) YAML
3 2 (2.08%) Django
3 2 (2.08%) LDAP
3 2 (2.08%) MACH
3 2 (2.08%) Node.js
3 2 (2.08%) React
3 2 (2.08%) REST
4 1 (1.04%) .NET
4 1 (1.04%) ADO
4 1 (1.04%) Gherkin
4 1 (1.04%) HTML
4 1 (1.04%) Kafka
4 1 (1.04%) Laravel
4 1 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.04%) Vue
4 1 (1.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.63%) SCADA
2 8 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (5.21%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.04%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.04%) IoT
5 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.33%) Unix
2 7 (7.29%) Linux
3 5 (5.21%) Windows
4 2 (2.08%) CentOS
4 2 (2.08%) Debian
4 2 (2.08%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.04%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (53.13%) Agile
2 18 (18.75%) Project Management
3 16 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 16 (16.67%) Test Strategy
4 14 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (13.54%) DevOps
5 13 (13.54%) Scrum
5 13 (13.54%) Workflow
6 12 (12.50%) Project Delivery
7 11 (11.46%) CI/CD
7 11 (11.46%) Systems Engineering
7 11 (11.46%) Test Management
8 10 (10.42%) Data Collection
8 10 (10.42%) Functional Testing
8 10 (10.42%) Network Monitoring
8 10 (10.42%) Performance Testing
8 10 (10.42%) Scenario Testing
9 9 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (9.38%) Defect Management
10 8 (8.33%) Demand Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (17.71%) SQL
2 10 (10.42%) Python
3 7 (7.29%) Shell Script
4 5 (5.21%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.21%) PL/SQL
5 3 (3.13%) Bash
5 3 (3.13%) Groovy
5 3 (3.13%) Java
6 2 (2.08%) COBOL
6 2 (2.08%) Go
6 2 (2.08%) R
6 2 (2.08%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.04%) C#
7 1 (1.04%) PHP
Qualifications
1 21 (21.88%) Security Cleared
2 19 (19.79%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (7.29%) Degree
4 6 (6.25%) ISTQB
5 4 (4.17%) CISSP
6 3 (3.13%) CEH
6 3 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.13%) ISEB
7 2 (2.08%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.08%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (2.08%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.08%) PMP
8 1 (1.04%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.04%) ACCA
8 1 (1.04%) CBAP
8 1 (1.04%) CIMA
8 1 (1.04%) CIPFA
8 1 (1.04%) ICAEW
8 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.38%) QA
2 3 (3.13%) PMO
3 1 (1.04%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.04%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (10.42%) Docker
2 1 (1.04%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (1.04%) Firmware
2 1 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 8 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.21%) HP ALM
3 3 (3.13%) Kibana
3 3 (3.13%) Terraform
4 2 (2.08%) Nessus
4 2 (2.08%) Puppet
5 1 (1.04%) Ansible
5 1 (1.04%) Argo
5 1 (1.04%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.04%) logstash
5 1 (1.04%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.04%) QRadar
5 1 (1.04%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 23 (23.96%) Atlassian
2 12 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 11 (11.46%) Oracle
4 5 (5.21%) HP
4 5 (5.21%) MuleSoft
5 4 (4.17%) IBM
5 4 (4.17%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.13%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.13%) SAP
7 2 (2.08%) Sophos
7 2 (2.08%) VMware
8 1 (1.04%) Adobe
8 1 (1.04%) Cisco
8 1 (1.04%) Civica
8 1 (1.04%) Infor
8 1 (1.04%) Micro Focus
8 1 (1.04%) Planview
8 1 (1.04%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.04%) Talend
8 1 (1.04%) webMethods