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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 103 80
Rank change year-on-year +49 -23 +26
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 48 26 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 3.46% 1.19% 2.21%
As % of the Development Applications category 47.06% 21.31% 21.09%
Number of salaries quoted 34 17 24
10th Percentile £32,225 - £50,100
25th Percentile £53,125 £42,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £50,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% -37.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £52,500 £91,934
90th Percentile - £58,750 £106,289
West Midlands median annual salary £60,250 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +20.50% -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 102 122 128
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 7.35% 5.60% 10.50%
Number of salaries quoted 82 46 117
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £36,563 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,563 £80,000
90th Percentile - £81,625 £87,500
West Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - - +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 18 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 29 (60.42%) Confluence
2 4 (8.33%) nginx
3 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
1 4 (8.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.25%) Trello
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (4.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 30 (62.50%) AWS
2 26 (54.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 26 (54.17%) Amazon EC2
2 26 (54.17%) Amazon S3
2 26 (54.17%) AWS KMS
3 23 (47.92%) Amazon ELB
3 23 (47.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 19 (39.58%) Amazon Glacier
5 11 (22.92%) Azure
6 9 (18.75%) SaaS
7 8 (16.67%) Power Platform
8 7 (14.58%) Route 53
9 6 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (6.25%) Firebase
12 2 (4.17%) Smartsheet
13 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (2.08%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 23 (47.92%) Firewall
2 13 (27.08%) DNS
2 13 (27.08%) FTP
2 13 (27.08%) HTTP
2 13 (27.08%) SMTP
2 13 (27.08%) SSH
3 4 (8.33%) IMAP
3 4 (8.33%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (54.17%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (16.67%) Power BI
4 7 (14.58%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (6.25%) DynamoDB
5 3 (6.25%) MySQL
5 3 (6.25%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.17%) Metadata
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 29 (60.42%) Git
2 26 (54.17%) Jenkins
3 23 (47.92%) Vagrant
4 3 (6.25%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (6.25%) DbUnit
4 3 (6.25%) jMock
4 3 (6.25%) JUnit
4 3 (6.25%) Maven
4 3 (6.25%) Mockito
4 3 (6.25%) SonarQube
5 2 (4.17%) ERwin
General
1 27 (56.25%) Public Sector
2 11 (22.92%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.50%) Finance
4 4 (8.33%) Law
4 4 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.17%) Games
6 2 (4.17%) Legal
6 2 (4.17%) Marketing
7 1 (2.08%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 13 (27.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 11 (22.92%) AWS Engineer
4 10 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (20.83%) Infrastructure Support
4 10 (20.83%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 9 (18.75%) Lead
6 7 (14.58%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (10.42%) Applications Support
7 5 (10.42%) Head of Support
8 4 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (8.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 4 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (8.33%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 4 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) Junior
9 3 (6.25%) Lead Developer
9 3 (6.25%) Senior
9 3 (6.25%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.33%) LDAP
2 3 (6.25%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (6.25%) AngularJS
2 3 (6.25%) Bootstrap
2 3 (6.25%) CSS
2 3 (6.25%) EDI
2 3 (6.25%) Hibernate
2 3 (6.25%) HTML
2 3 (6.25%) JPA
2 3 (6.25%) Laravel
2 3 (6.25%) Node.js
2 3 (6.25%) PowerMock
2 3 (6.25%) React
2 3 (6.25%) React Native
2 3 (6.25%) RESTful
2 3 (6.25%) SOAP
2 3 (6.25%) Spring
2 3 (6.25%) Spring Batch
2 3 (6.25%) Spring Integration
2 3 (6.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (29.17%) Replication
2 5 (10.42%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (6.25%) Distributed Architecture
3 3 (6.25%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.08%) NHS
4 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.08%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.08%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 26 (54.17%) Linux
2 23 (47.92%) VMS
3 14 (29.17%) Windows
4 13 (27.08%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (8.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (52.08%) DevOps
2 24 (50.00%) Change Management
3 23 (47.92%) Cloud Security
3 23 (47.92%) Configuration Management
4 13 (27.08%) Patch Management
4 13 (27.08%) Platform Engineering
5 10 (20.83%) Agile
5 10 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (14.58%) Service Delivery
8 6 (12.50%) Incident Management
8 6 (12.50%) Mentoring
8 6 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (10.42%) Computer Science
9 5 (10.42%) Process Management
9 5 (10.42%) Root Cause Analysis
9 5 (10.42%) Service Delivery Management
9 5 (10.42%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 23 (47.92%) Groovy
1 23 (47.92%) PowerShell
1 23 (47.92%) Python
2 12 (25.00%) Java
3 9 (18.75%) Perl
4 5 (10.42%) SQL
5 3 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 3 (6.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 26 (54.17%) SC Cleared
1 26 (54.17%) Security Cleared
2 17 (35.42%) Degree
3 6 (12.50%) PMI Certification
3 6 (12.50%) PMP
4 4 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 4 (8.33%) Azure Certification
5 3 (6.25%) CITP
5 3 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (10.42%) SLA
2 3 (6.25%) QA
3 2 (4.17%) PMO
4 1 (2.08%) EMIR
System Software
1 19 (39.58%) Active Directory
2 16 (33.33%) Docker
3 14 (29.17%) DFS Replication
4 4 (8.33%) Dovecot
4 4 (8.33%) Postfix
4 4 (8.33%) Squid
Systems Management
1 23 (47.92%) Grafana
1 23 (47.92%) Prometheus
1 23 (47.92%) Terraform
2 10 (20.83%) Ansible
3 4 (8.33%) Nessus
3 4 (8.33%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 24 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 10 (20.83%) Juniper
3 4 (8.33%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.25%) Atlassian
5 2 (4.17%) Sparx
6 1 (2.08%) CrowdStrike