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 3 months leading up to 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 37 67
Rank change year-on-year -42 +30 -10
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 15 19 21
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.81% 3.14% 2.07%
As % of the Development Applications category 23.81% 51.35% 23.60%
Number of salaries quoted 5 10 12
10th Percentile - £36,800 -
25th Percentile £29,500 £57,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,250 £72,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.28% +52.63% -43.17%
75th Percentile £61,033 £73,750 £50,625
90th Percentile £84,413 - £52,500
West Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £60,125 £47,501
% change year-on-year -25.16% +26.58% -20.83%

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 63 37 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 3.39% 6.12% 8.78%
Number of salaries quoted 15 27 30
10th Percentile £30,700 £28,250 £38,975
25th Percentile £40,745 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,522 £57,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +3.52% +12.20% -10.87%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £66,875
90th Percentile £98,000 - £84,125
West Midlands median annual salary £52,500 £58,750 £56,250
% change year-on-year -10.64% +4.44% -2.17%

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 3 months to 21 September 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 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) AWS
3 3 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (16.67%) SaaS
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.56%) Figma
5 1 (5.56%) IaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Miro
5 1 (5.56%) PaaS
5 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) LAN
1 4 (22.22%) Network Security
1 4 (22.22%) WAN
2 2 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
1 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.56%) Power BI
1 1 (5.56%) Power Query
1 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Git
General
1 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 4 (22.22%) Finance
4 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Project Manager
1 7 (38.89%) Senior
2 5 (27.78%) Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) Business Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) Senior Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) Senior Business Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) Technical Manager
3 4 (22.22%) Technical Project Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Digital Project Manager
4 2 (11.11%) IT Manager
4 2 (11.11%) IT Services Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Junior
4 2 (11.11%) Junior Digital Project Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Junior Project Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Senior IT Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Service Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Service Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) .NET
1 1 (5.56%) CSS
1 1 (5.56%) CSS3
1 1 (5.56%) HTML
1 1 (5.56%) HTML5
1 1 (5.56%) Sass
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Data Centre
1 4 (22.22%) Product Ownership
1 4 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 3 (16.67%) PMI
3 2 (11.11%) CMDB
3 2 (11.11%) IoT
3 2 (11.11%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.56%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) Agile
2 11 (61.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (50.00%) Project Delivery
4 8 (44.44%) AI
5 7 (38.89%) ITIL
5 7 (38.89%) Project Management
6 6 (33.33%) DevOps
6 6 (33.33%) User Experience
7 5 (27.78%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (22.22%) BPMN
8 4 (22.22%) Data Analysis
8 4 (22.22%) Decision-Making
8 4 (22.22%) Migration
8 4 (22.22%) Network Design
8 4 (22.22%) PRINCE2
8 4 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
8 4 (22.22%) Scrum
8 4 (22.22%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) C#
2 1 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Degree
2 5 (27.78%) PMI Certification
3 4 (22.22%) CCNA
3 4 (22.22%) CCNP
3 4 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (22.22%) PMP
4 3 (16.67%) CBAP
4 3 (16.67%) IIBA
4 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
5 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (11.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (5.56%) CITP
6 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) NCSC
2 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Ansible
1 1 (5.56%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Cisco
3 2 (11.11%) Adobe
3 2 (11.11%) Planon
3 2 (11.11%) Salesforce
3 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.56%) Duck Creek
4 1 (5.56%) Guidewire
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) YouTube