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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 46 94
Rank change year-on-year -63 +48 -36
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 9 57 42
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.27% 4.57% 1.64%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.59% 46.34% 30.43%
Number of salaries quoted 8 48 25
10th Percentile £38,600 £48,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £43,247 £52,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,272 £72,500 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year -34.80% +23.51% -2.17%
75th Percentile £61,500 £73,750 £62,200
90th Percentile £62,550 - £75,772
West Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £67,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -33.33% +58.82% -25.44%

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 85 123 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.59% 9.87% 5.38%
Number of salaries quoted 49 100 109
10th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year - +2.21% +2.09%
75th Percentile £74,066 £73,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,430 - £88,750
West Midlands median annual salary £51,250 £60,250 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.94% +14.76% -8.70%

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 27 July 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 3 (33.33%) Confluence
2 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
1 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (22.22%) SaaS
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Figma
3 1 (11.11%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Selenium
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Data Analyst
1 3 (33.33%) Power BI Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Project Manager
2 2 (22.22%) QA Automation Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) QA Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) QA Leader
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Data Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Agile Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) UI/UX Designer
3 1 (11.11%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) CSS
1 1 (11.11%) CSS3
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
1 1 (11.11%) HTML5
1 1 (11.11%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (44.44%) Analytics
3 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (33.33%) Data Analytics
4 3 (33.33%) Data Strategy
4 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 3 (33.33%) Numerical Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (22.22%) AI
5 2 (22.22%) Data Management
5 2 (22.22%) Information Management
5 2 (22.22%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Predictive Analytics
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) Project Management
5 2 (22.22%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) Adobe
3 1 (11.11%) CA Agile Central