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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 70 92
Rank change year-on-year -27 +22 -32
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 16 37 52
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.54% 2.97% 1.88%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.00% 35.92% 23.42%
Number of salaries quoted 15 30 40
10th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,375 £48,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,543 £55,000 £49,600
Median % change year-on-year -19.01% +10.89% -9.82%
75th Percentile £53,125 £66,563 £64,375
90th Percentile £61,500 £75,125 £75,772
West Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £60,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +33.33% -18.18%

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 100 103 222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 3.40% 8.26% 8.04%
Number of salaries quoted 75 79 201
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,085 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.39% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £63,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £74,619 £75,500 £88,750
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -7.49%

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 May 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 6 (37.50%) SharePoint
2 3 (18.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (6.25%) MS Visio
1 1 (6.25%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (6.25%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (62.50%) Azure
2 7 (43.75%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) Figma
5 1 (6.25%) Lucidchart
5 1 (6.25%) Miro
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Service Cloud
5 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 4 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Selenium
General
1 4 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (25.00%) Law
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Analyst
1 6 (37.50%) Lead
2 4 (25.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Data Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) IT Support
2 4 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Power BI Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Data Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) QA Automation Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) QA Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) CSS
1 1 (6.25%) CSS3
1 1 (6.25%) HTML
1 1 (6.25%) HTML5
1 1 (6.25%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.25%) AI Agents
2 1 (6.25%) CMDB
2 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Agile
2 8 (50.00%) CRM
2 8 (50.00%) DevOps
3 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (31.25%) Analytics
5 4 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (25.00%) Data Analytics
5 4 (25.00%) Data Strategy
5 4 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 4 (25.00%) Numerical Analysis
5 4 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
6 3 (18.75%) AI
6 3 (18.75%) Data Management
6 3 (18.75%) Information Management
6 3 (18.75%) Predictive Analytics
6 3 (18.75%) Project Management
6 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (18.75%) CITP
5 1 (6.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 2 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) GRC
2 1 (6.25%) WCAG
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.25%) Adobe
3 1 (6.25%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (6.25%) Planon
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce