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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
8 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 102 77
Rank change year-on-year +52 -25 +25
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 53 27 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 3.98% 1.24% 2.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 50.00% 22.13% 21.95%
Number of salaries quoted 37 18 22
10th Percentile £34,700 £42,500 £48,700
25th Percentile £62,500 £43,438 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £50,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% -37.50% +36.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £52,500 £91,934
90th Percentile - £58,750 £106,289
West Midlands median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% -16.67% +20.00%

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 106 122 123
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 7.95% 5.60% 9.94%
Number of salaries quoted 82 47 108
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £42,813 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £57,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +6.96% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,245 £80,000
90th Percentile - £81,200 £85,750
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +9.52%

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 8 November 2025.

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 36 (67.92%) Confluence
2 5 (9.43%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (9.43%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (5.66%) Trello
4 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 37 (69.81%) AWS
2 33 (62.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 33 (62.26%) Amazon EC2
2 33 (62.26%) Amazon S3
2 33 (62.26%) AWS KMS
3 29 (54.72%) Amazon ELB
3 29 (54.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 24 (45.28%) Amazon Glacier
5 10 (18.87%) Azure
6 9 (16.98%) Route 53
6 9 (16.98%) SaaS
7 8 (15.09%) Power Platform
8 5 (9.43%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (9.43%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (7.55%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (5.66%) Firebase
11 2 (3.77%) Smartsheet
12 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (1.89%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 29 (54.72%) Firewall
2 16 (30.19%) DNS
2 16 (30.19%) FTP
2 16 (30.19%) HTTP
2 16 (30.19%) SMTP
2 16 (30.19%) SSH
3 5 (9.43%) IMAP
3 5 (9.43%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (62.26%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (22.64%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (16.98%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (15.09%) Power BI
5 4 (7.55%) DynamoDB
6 3 (5.66%) MySQL
6 3 (5.66%) Relational Database
7 2 (3.77%) Metadata
8 1 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 36 (67.92%) Git
2 33 (62.26%) Jenkins
3 29 (54.72%) Vagrant
4 4 (7.55%) Bitbucket Server
4 4 (7.55%) DbUnit
4 4 (7.55%) jMock
4 4 (7.55%) JUnit
4 4 (7.55%) Maven
4 4 (7.55%) Mockito
4 4 (7.55%) SonarQube
5 2 (3.77%) ERwin
6 1 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 34 (64.15%) Public Sector
2 13 (24.53%) Social Skills
3 6 (11.32%) Finance
4 5 (9.43%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.77%) Games
6 2 (3.77%) Law
6 2 (3.77%) Legal
6 2 (3.77%) Marketing
7 1 (1.89%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 16 (30.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (24.53%) AWS Engineer
2 13 (24.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (22.64%) Infrastructure Support
3 12 (22.64%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 12 (22.64%) Support Engineer
4 8 (15.09%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (15.09%) Lead
5 5 (9.43%) Applications Support
5 5 (9.43%) AWS DevOps
5 5 (9.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Head of Support
5 5 (9.43%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Developer
6 4 (7.55%) Java Developer
6 4 (7.55%) Lead Developer
6 4 (7.55%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.43%) LDAP
2 4 (7.55%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (7.55%) AngularJS
2 4 (7.55%) Bootstrap
2 4 (7.55%) Hibernate
2 4 (7.55%) JPA
2 4 (7.55%) PowerMock
2 4 (7.55%) RESTful
2 4 (7.55%) SOAP
2 4 (7.55%) Spring
2 4 (7.55%) Spring Batch
2 4 (7.55%) Spring Boot
2 4 (7.55%) Spring Integration
2 4 (7.55%) Web Services
3 3 (5.66%) Laravel
3 3 (5.66%) Next.js
3 3 (5.66%) Node.js
3 3 (5.66%) React
3 3 (5.66%) React Native
3 3 (5.66%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (33.96%) Replication
2 5 (9.43%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (7.55%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (5.66%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.89%) NHS
5 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.89%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.89%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 33 (62.26%) Linux
2 29 (54.72%) VMS
3 18 (33.96%) Windows
4 16 (30.19%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (9.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (58.49%) DevOps
2 30 (56.60%) Change Management
3 29 (54.72%) Cloud Security
3 29 (54.72%) Configuration Management
4 16 (30.19%) Patch Management
4 16 (30.19%) Platform Engineering
5 13 (24.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (22.64%) Agile
7 8 (15.09%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (15.09%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (13.21%) Service Delivery
9 6 (11.32%) Incident Management
9 6 (11.32%) Mentoring
10 5 (9.43%) CI/CD
10 5 (9.43%) Computer Science
10 5 (9.43%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (9.43%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (9.43%) Service Delivery Management
10 5 (9.43%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 29 (54.72%) Groovy
1 29 (54.72%) PowerShell
1 29 (54.72%) Python
2 15 (28.30%) Java
3 11 (20.75%) Perl
4 6 (11.32%) SQL
5 3 (5.66%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.66%) PHP
Qualifications
1 33 (62.26%) SC Cleared
1 33 (62.26%) Security Cleared
2 18 (33.96%) Degree
3 6 (11.32%) PMI Certification
3 6 (11.32%) PMP
4 5 (9.43%) AWS Certification
4 5 (9.43%) Azure Certification
5 3 (5.66%) CITP
5 3 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (9.43%) SLA
2 3 (5.66%) QA
3 2 (3.77%) PMO
4 1 (1.89%) EMIR
System Software
1 24 (45.28%) Active Directory
2 20 (37.74%) Docker
3 18 (33.96%) DFS Replication
4 5 (9.43%) Dovecot
4 5 (9.43%) Postfix
4 5 (9.43%) Squid
Systems Management
1 29 (54.72%) Grafana
1 29 (54.72%) Prometheus
1 29 (54.72%) Terraform
2 13 (24.53%) Ansible
3 5 (9.43%) Nessus
3 5 (9.43%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 30 (56.60%) ServiceNow
2 13 (24.53%) Juniper
3 5 (9.43%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (7.55%) Atlassian
5 2 (3.77%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.77%) Sparx
6 1 (1.89%) CrowdStrike
24 JIRA jobs in Birmingham