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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 96 94
Rank change year-on-year +14 -2 -6
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 27 29 30
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.49% 1.62% 1.70%
As % of the Development Applications category 27.55% 22.48% 18.52%
Number of salaries quoted 16 23 30
10th Percentile £26,250 £43,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £34,813 £46,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £47,813 £58,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £65,625 £67,350 £87,943
West Midlands median annual salary £44,543 £57,500 £56,250
% change year-on-year -22.53% +2.22% +9.27%

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 98 129 162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 5.41% 7.21% 9.18%
Number of salaries quoted 75 60 153
10th Percentile - £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,543 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.53% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £57,500 £68,375 £72,500
90th Percentile £65,750 £75,450 £87,500
West Midlands median annual salary £46,250 £59,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -22.27% +8.18% -

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 26 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 5 (18.52%) Confluence
1 5 (18.52%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.70%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (11.11%) Trello
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.70%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 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%) Power Platform
4 7 (25.93%) AWS
4 7 (25.93%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (11.11%) Amazon ELB
5 3 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 3 (11.11%) AWS KMS
5 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (11.11%) Firebase
5 3 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon Glacier
6 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
6 2 (7.41%) Smartsheet
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.70%) Figma
7 1 (3.70%) Lucidchart
7 1 (3.70%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) DNS
1 3 (11.11%) Firewall
1 3 (11.11%) FTP
1 3 (11.11%) HTTP
1 3 (11.11%) SMTP
1 3 (11.11%) SSH
2 1 (3.70%) IMAP
2 1 (3.70%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) Power BI
2 4 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (11.11%) MySQL
3 3 (11.11%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Git
2 3 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 3 (11.11%) Vagrant
General
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Law
3 5 (18.52%) Finance
4 4 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.41%) Games
5 2 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (7.41%) Legal
5 2 (7.41%) Marketing
6 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
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%) Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Senior
4 3 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Junior
4 3 (11.11%) Junior Software Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Manager
4 3 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Production Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Production Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Power BI Analyst
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 1 (3.70%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (14.81%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.70%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.70%) CMDB
3 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.70%) NHS
3 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Amazon Linux
1 3 (11.11%) Linux
1 3 (11.11%) VMS
2 1 (3.70%) Ubuntu
2 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (29.63%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (29.63%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (29.63%) CRM
3 7 (25.93%) Agile
3 7 (25.93%) DevOps
3 7 (25.93%) Service Delivery
4 6 (22.22%) Incident Management
4 6 (22.22%) ITIL
4 6 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 6 (22.22%) Project Management
4 6 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (18.52%) Collaborative Culture
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%) Strategic Thinking
6 4 (14.81%) Actionable Insight
6 4 (14.81%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) Groovy
1 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 3 (11.11%) PHP
1 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 3 (11.11%) Python
1 3 (11.11%) SQL
2 2 (7.41%) Java
2 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 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.70%) CITP
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 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 3 (11.11%) Docker
2 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.70%) DFS Replication
3 1 (3.70%) Dovecot
3 1 (3.70%) Postfix
3 1 (3.70%) Squid
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Grafana
1 3 (11.11%) Prometheus
1 3 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (3.70%) Nessus
2 1 (3.70%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 6 (22.22%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.70%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (3.70%) Planon
3 1 (3.70%) Salesforce