JIRA Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Atlassian JIRA
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring JIRA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 42 70
Rank change year-on-year +16 +28 -52
Contract jobs citing JIRA 169 67 48
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 7.54% 4.03% 2.62%
As % of the Development Applications category 44.59% 38.51% 30.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 46 32
10th Percentile £324 £363 £329
25th Percentile £400 £434 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £504 £504
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% +0.05% -6.41%
75th Percentile £538 £597 £581
90th Percentile £588 £638 £670
England median daily rate £500 £500 £539
% change year-on-year - -7.19% -0.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £54.75 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £56.50 £57.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £58.25 £58.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.50 £62.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year +1.60% +2.04% -2.00%

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 379 174 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.92% 10.46% 8.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 121 100
10th Percentile £363 £375 £319
25th Percentile £429 £434 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% +13.51% -12.24%
75th Percentile £568 £635 £575
90th Percentile £700 £706 £656
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £41.63 - £57.16
25th Percentile £50.06 £56.25 £60.40
Median hourly rate £62.25 £57.50 £66.59
Median % change year-on-year +8.26% -13.65% -
75th Percentile £70.38 £58.75 £73.58
90th Percentile £74.65 - £77.30
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing JIRA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

JIRA job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

JIRA
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing JIRA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing JIRA

JIRA
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JIRA in the West Midlands

JIRA
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing JIRA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing JIRA

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 18 December 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 +17 46 £425 -29.17% 13
Shropshire -15 45 £517 +8.33% 5
Birmingham +16 42 £475 -9.52% 8
Coventry -7 11 £504 +0.80% 2
Staffordshire +7 8 £269 -40.28% 2
Solihull - 6 £358 -
Worcestershire - 4 £575 - 3
Herefordshire -15 1 £575 +4.55%
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 3
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 58 (34.32%) Confluence
2 33 (19.53%) SAS
3 17 (10.06%) SharePoint
4 13 (7.69%) nginx
5 3 (1.78%) Drupal
5 3 (1.78%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.78%) WebLogic
6 2 (1.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.59%) CMS
7 1 (0.59%) IIS
7 1 (0.59%) JBoss
7 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.59%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.59%) SugarCRM
Applications
1 11 (6.51%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (6.51%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 10 (5.92%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (5.92%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (5.92%) MS Visio
3 6 (3.55%) Adobe Illustrator
3 6 (3.55%) Photoshop
4 4 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.37%) Trello
5 1 (0.59%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 5 (2.96%) Maximo
2 4 (2.37%) SAP HR
2 4 (2.37%) SAP PM
3 2 (1.18%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.18%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.59%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.59%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 32 (18.93%) AWS
2 26 (15.38%) Azure
3 20 (11.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 19 (11.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 19 (11.24%) Amazon EC2
4 19 (11.24%) Amazon ELB
4 19 (11.24%) Amazon S3
4 19 (11.24%) AWS KMS
5 16 (9.47%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (9.47%) Power Platform
6 11 (6.51%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (6.51%) GitHub
6 11 (6.51%) Route 53
7 8 (4.73%) Amazon Glacier
7 8 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (4.73%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 7 (4.14%) Lucidchart
9 4 (2.37%) OpenShift
9 4 (2.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (12.43%) DNS
1 21 (12.43%) Firewall
2 19 (11.24%) SMTP
3 18 (10.65%) FTP
3 18 (10.65%) HTTP
3 18 (10.65%) SSH
4 11 (6.51%) IMAP
4 11 (6.51%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (2.37%) VPN
6 3 (1.78%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.59%) DHCP
7 1 (0.59%) LAN
7 1 (0.59%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.59%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.59%) SMS
7 1 (0.59%) SSL
7 1 (0.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (19.53%) Pentaho
2 19 (11.24%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (9.47%) Power BI
4 14 (8.28%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (6.51%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (4.14%) Oracle Database
7 6 (3.55%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 5 (2.96%) Tableau
9 4 (2.37%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (1.78%) MySQL
10 3 (1.78%) Relational Database
11 2 (1.18%) NoSQL
11 2 (1.18%) Redis
12 1 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.59%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.59%) EDMS
12 1 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.59%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.59%) SAS Visual Analytics
Development Applications
1 58 (34.32%) Git
2 55 (32.54%) Jenkins
3 19 (11.24%) Vagrant
4 5 (2.96%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.37%) GitLab
5 4 (2.37%) NeoLoad
5 4 (2.37%) Toad
6 3 (1.78%) Selenium
7 2 (1.18%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.18%) SoapUI
7 2 (1.18%) SonarQube
7 2 (1.18%) TestPartner
7 2 (1.18%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.59%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.59%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (0.59%) GoCD
8 1 (0.59%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.59%) TeamCity
General
1 72 (42.60%) Social Skills
2 36 (21.30%) Public Sector
3 15 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (8.88%) Finance
4 13 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (4.73%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.55%) Legal
7 4 (2.37%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.78%) Marketing
9 2 (1.18%) Banking
9 2 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.18%) Retail
10 1 (0.59%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (14.79%) Analyst
2 23 (13.61%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (10.65%) AWS Engineer
3 18 (10.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 18 (10.65%) Platform Engineer
4 16 (9.47%) AWS DevOps
4 16 (9.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 13 (7.69%) Business Analyst
5 13 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 12 (7.10%) Test Analyst
7 11 (6.51%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 11 (6.51%) Lead
8 10 (5.92%) Project Manager
9 9 (5.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 8 (4.73%) Administrator
10 8 (4.73%) Developer
11 7 (4.14%) JIRA Administrator
12 6 (3.55%) Architect
12 6 (3.55%) Test Leader
12 6 (3.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.51%) LDAP
2 8 (4.73%) REST
3 6 (3.55%) GraphQL
3 6 (3.55%) XML
4 5 (2.96%) RESTful
5 4 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (2.37%) HTML
5 4 (2.37%) Kafka
5 4 (2.37%) Lightning Web Components
5 4 (2.37%) SAP PI
5 4 (2.37%) Visualforce
6 3 (1.78%) .NET
6 3 (1.78%) Middleware
6 3 (1.78%) OAuth
6 3 (1.78%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (1.78%) SOAP
6 3 (1.78%) Spring Boot
7 2 (1.18%) Drush
7 2 (1.18%) Node.js
7 2 (1.18%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.65%) Replication
2 16 (9.47%) Product Ownership
3 11 (6.51%) SCADA
4 6 (3.55%) e-Learning
4 6 (3.55%) Graphic Design
4 6 (3.55%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.78%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.18%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.59%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.59%) Animation
7 1 (0.59%) CMDB
7 1 (0.59%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.59%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.59%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.59%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 34 (20.12%) Windows
2 27 (15.98%) Linux
3 19 (11.24%) Amazon Linux
3 19 (11.24%) VMS
4 10 (5.92%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.18%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.18%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.59%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (54.44%) Agile
2 77 (45.56%) DevOps
3 67 (39.64%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (32.54%) Scrum
5 53 (31.36%) CI/CD
6 47 (27.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 45 (26.63%) Business Intelligence
8 41 (24.26%) Data Modelling
9 37 (21.89%) ETL
9 37 (21.89%) Test Automation
10 35 (20.71%) Analytics
11 31 (18.34%) Data Analytics
11 31 (18.34%) Data Pipeline
11 31 (18.34%) Data Virtualisation
12 30 (17.75%) Deployment Automation
13 29 (17.16%) Change Management
13 29 (17.16%) Data Integration
14 25 (14.79%) Business Analytics
15 24 (14.20%) Stakeholder Management
16 22 (13.02%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (33.14%) SQL
2 31 (18.34%) Python
3 26 (15.38%) PowerShell
4 19 (11.24%) Groovy
5 18 (10.65%) Java
6 10 (5.92%) Perl
7 7 (4.14%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.96%) Apex Code
8 5 (2.96%) Go
9 3 (1.78%) PHP
10 2 (1.18%) Ruby
11 1 (0.59%) Bicep
11 1 (0.59%) R
11 1 (0.59%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 76 (44.97%) Security Cleared
2 67 (39.64%) SC Cleared
3 26 (15.38%) Degree
4 11 (6.51%) Azure Certification
5 10 (5.92%) AWS Certification
6 8 (4.73%) PMI Certification
6 8 (4.73%) PMP
7 4 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.78%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.18%) ISEB
9 2 (1.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.59%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.59%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.59%) IIBA
10 1 (0.59%) MCP
10 1 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.59%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (17.16%) Data Quality
2 14 (8.28%) QA
3 4 (2.37%) PMO
4 2 (1.18%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.18%) NCSC
4 2 (1.18%) NIST
5 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (38.46%) Docker
2 18 (10.65%) DFS Replication
3 11 (6.51%) Active Directory
3 11 (6.51%) Dovecot
3 11 (6.51%) Postfix
3 11 (6.51%) Squid
4 5 (2.96%) Firmware
5 1 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 48 (28.40%) Kubernetes
2 24 (14.20%) Grafana
3 23 (13.61%) Terraform
4 20 (11.83%) Prometheus
5 11 (6.51%) Nessus
6 10 (5.92%) Proxmox
7 5 (2.96%) Ansible
7 5 (2.96%) Argo
7 5 (2.96%) SCCM
8 3 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.18%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.59%) Kibana
10 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.59%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 41 (24.26%) Oracle
2 34 (20.12%) Talend
3 32 (18.93%) Denodo
4 29 (17.16%) ServiceNow
5 17 (10.06%) Microsoft
6 11 (6.51%) Jaspersoft
6 11 (6.51%) SAP
7 10 (5.92%) Salesforce
8 9 (5.33%) Atlassian
9 6 (3.55%) Pega
10 4 (2.37%) IBM
11 3 (1.78%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.78%) Workday
12 2 (1.18%) Adobe
12 2 (1.18%) Ariba
12 2 (1.18%) Google
12 2 (1.18%) HP
12 2 (1.18%) Red Hat
12 2 (1.18%) webMethods
13 1 (0.59%) Sitecore