JIRA Job Trends in Birmingham

Atlassian JIRA
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring JIRA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 104 83
Rank change year-on-year +26 -21 +13
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 28 29 21
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.62% 1.60% 1.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 28.57% 22.66% 17.07%
Number of salaries quoted 16 22 20
10th Percentile £26,250 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £34,813 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -20.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £50,938 £58,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £63,750 £91,934
West Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -22.73% -4.35% +13.86%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 98 128 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 5.68% 7.08% 9.08%
Number of salaries quoted 75 59 117
10th Percentile - £41,800 £37,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £46,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £58,750 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £70,300 £74,000 £87,500
West Midlands median annual salary £48,250 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -16.09% +4.55% -

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JIRA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

JIRA job vacancy trend in Birmingham

JIRA
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing JIRA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing JIRA

JIRA
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Birmingham over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for JIRA in Birmingham

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 7 (25.00%) Confluence
2 5 (17.86%) SharePoint
3 2 (7.14%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (10.71%) Trello
2 2 (7.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) Azure
2 9 (32.14%) AWS
2 9 (32.14%) SaaS
3 7 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 5 (17.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (17.86%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (17.86%) Amazon ELB
4 5 (17.86%) Amazon S3
4 5 (17.86%) AWS KMS
4 5 (17.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon Glacier
5 3 (10.71%) Firebase
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) Route 53
6 2 (7.14%) Smartsheet
7 1 (3.57%) Figma
7 1 (3.57%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) DNS
1 5 (17.86%) Firewall
1 5 (17.86%) FTP
1 5 (17.86%) HTTP
1 5 (17.86%) SMTP
1 5 (17.86%) SSH
2 2 (7.14%) IMAP
2 2 (7.14%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) Power BI
2 5 (17.86%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (17.86%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (10.71%) MySQL
3 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Git
2 5 (17.86%) Jenkins
2 5 (17.86%) Vagrant
General
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Law
3 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
4 5 (17.86%) Finance
5 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (7.14%) Games
6 2 (7.14%) Legal
6 2 (7.14%) Marketing
6 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) Applications Support
1 6 (21.43%) Lead
2 5 (17.86%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (17.86%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Head of Support
2 5 (17.86%) IT Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) IT Support
2 5 (17.86%) IT Support Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Support Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Junior
3 3 (10.71%) Junior Software Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Senior
3 3 (10.71%) Senior Manager
3 3 (10.71%) Software Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) CSS
1 3 (10.71%) HTML
1 3 (10.71%) Laravel
1 3 (10.71%) Next.js
1 3 (10.71%) Node.js
1 3 (10.71%) React
1 3 (10.71%) React Native
1 3 (10.71%) Vue
2 2 (7.14%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (10.71%) Mobile App
3 2 (7.14%) Replication
4 1 (3.57%) NHS
4 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (17.86%) Amazon Linux
1 5 (17.86%) Linux
1 5 (17.86%) VMS
2 2 (7.14%) Ubuntu
2 2 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (25.00%) DevOps
3 7 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 6 (21.43%) Change Management
4 6 (21.43%) CRM
4 6 (21.43%) Incident Management
4 6 (21.43%) Mentoring
5 5 (17.86%) Agile
5 5 (17.86%) Configuration Management
5 5 (17.86%) ITIL
5 5 (17.86%) Patch Management
5 5 (17.86%) Performance Metrics
5 5 (17.86%) Process Management
5 5 (17.86%) Project Management
5 5 (17.86%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (17.86%) Service Delivery Management
5 5 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (17.86%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.86%) Groovy
1 5 (17.86%) PowerShell
1 5 (17.86%) Python
2 3 (10.71%) Java
2 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
2 3 (10.71%) Perl
2 3 (10.71%) PHP
2 3 (10.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (46.43%) Degree
2 6 (21.43%) PMI Certification
2 6 (21.43%) PMP
3 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
4 3 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (17.86%) SLA
2 3 (10.71%) QA
3 2 (7.14%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Docker
2 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
3 2 (7.14%) DFS Replication
3 2 (7.14%) Dovecot
3 2 (7.14%) Postfix
3 2 (7.14%) Squid
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Grafana
1 5 (17.86%) Prometheus
1 5 (17.86%) Terraform
2 2 (7.14%) Nessus
2 2 (7.14%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (3.57%) CrowdStrike