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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 97 89
Rank change year-on-year +20 -8 +2
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 27 29 26
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.50% 1.61% 1.64%
As % of the Development Applications category 27.84% 22.66% 17.57%
Number of salaries quoted 15 23 26
10th Percentile £26,250 £42,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £33,375 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -14.89% +6.82%
75th Percentile £48,125 £58,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £67,250 £67,350 £89,717
West Midlands median annual salary £44,543 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -22.53% - +11.69%

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 97 128 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 5.39% 7.10% 9.33%
Number of salaries quoted 73 59 140
10th Percentile - £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £47,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -34.78% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £57,500 £68,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £66,000 £75,900 £87,500
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -20.83% +9.09% -

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 22 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 6 (22.22%) Confluence
2 5 (18.52%) SharePoint
3 2 (7.41%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (11.11%) Trello
2 2 (7.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.70%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (3.70%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (48.15%) Azure
2 9 (33.33%) SaaS
3 8 (29.63%) AWS
3 8 (29.63%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (25.93%) Power Platform
5 4 (14.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (14.81%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (14.81%) Amazon ELB
5 4 (14.81%) Amazon S3
5 4 (14.81%) AWS KMS
5 4 (14.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (11.11%) Firebase
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (7.41%) Amazon Glacier
7 2 (7.41%) Route 53
7 2 (7.41%) Smartsheet
8 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
8 1 (3.70%) Lucidchart
8 1 (3.70%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) DNS
1 4 (14.81%) Firewall
1 4 (14.81%) FTP
1 4 (14.81%) HTTP
1 4 (14.81%) SMTP
1 4 (14.81%) SSH
2 2 (7.41%) IMAP
2 2 (7.41%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) Power BI
2 5 (18.52%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (14.81%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (11.11%) MySQL
4 3 (11.11%) Relational Database
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Git
2 4 (14.81%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.81%) Vagrant
General
1 10 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Law
3 5 (18.52%) Finance
3 5 (18.52%) Public Sector
4 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Games
5 2 (7.41%) Legal
5 2 (7.41%) Marketing
5 2 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Applications Support
1 6 (22.22%) Lead
2 5 (18.52%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (18.52%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Head of Support
2 5 (18.52%) IT Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) IT Support
2 5 (18.52%) IT Support Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Support Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Junior
4 3 (11.11%) Junior Software Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Senior
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Manager
4 3 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Production Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) CSS
1 3 (11.11%) HTML
1 3 (11.11%) Laravel
1 3 (11.11%) Next.js
1 3 (11.11%) Node.js
1 3 (11.11%) React
1 3 (11.11%) React Native
1 3 (11.11%) Vue
2 2 (7.41%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (14.81%) Mobile App
3 2 (7.41%) Replication
4 1 (3.70%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.70%) CMDB
4 1 (3.70%) NHS
4 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Amazon Linux
1 4 (14.81%) Linux
1 4 (14.81%) VMS
2 2 (7.41%) Ubuntu
2 2 (7.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (29.63%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (25.93%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (25.93%) CRM
3 7 (25.93%) DevOps
3 7 (25.93%) Service Delivery
4 6 (22.22%) Agile
4 6 (22.22%) Incident Management
4 6 (22.22%) ITIL
4 6 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 6 (22.22%) Project Management
5 5 (18.52%) Change Management
5 5 (18.52%) Collaborative Culture
5 5 (18.52%) Configuration Management
5 5 (18.52%) Performance Metrics
5 5 (18.52%) Process Management
5 5 (18.52%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (18.52%) Service Delivery Management
5 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (18.52%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.81%) Groovy
1 4 (14.81%) PowerShell
1 4 (14.81%) Python
2 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 3 (11.11%) PHP
2 3 (11.11%) SQL
3 2 (7.41%) Java
3 2 (7.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (51.85%) Degree
2 6 (22.22%) PMI Certification
2 6 (22.22%) PMP
3 5 (18.52%) SC Cleared
3 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
4 3 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Certification
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (18.52%) SLA
2 3 (11.11%) QA
3 2 (7.41%) PMO
4 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.70%) GDPR
4 1 (3.70%) GRC
4 1 (3.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) Docker
2 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.41%) DFS Replication
2 2 (7.41%) Dovecot
2 2 (7.41%) Postfix
2 2 (7.41%) Squid
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) Grafana
1 4 (14.81%) Prometheus
1 4 (14.81%) Terraform
2 2 (7.41%) Nessus
2 2 (7.41%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
1 7 (25.93%) ServiceNow
2 2 (7.41%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (3.70%) Planon
3 1 (3.70%) Salesforce