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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 97 81
Rank change year-on-year +39 -16 +24
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 40 32 25
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.71% 1.51% 2.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 42.55% 24.06% 21.37%
Number of salaries quoted 27 23 22
10th Percentile £28,800 £42,500 £48,700
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £50,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% -37.50% +45.45%
75th Percentile £73,750 £58,750 £91,934
90th Percentile - £67,350 £106,289
West Midlands median annual salary £57,500 £51,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.20% -14.58% +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 94 133 117
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 6.38% 6.29% 10.04%
Number of salaries quoted 73 58 108
10th Percentile - £41,450 £43,375
25th Percentile £28,250 £46,563 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,625 £80,000
90th Percentile - £80,775 £87,500
West Midlands median annual salary £55,100 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +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 1 December 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 22 (55.00%) Confluence
2 4 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (7.50%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (7.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (7.50%) Trello
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (57.50%) AWS
2 19 (47.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 19 (47.50%) Amazon EC2
2 19 (47.50%) Amazon S3
2 19 (47.50%) AWS KMS
3 18 (45.00%) Amazon ELB
3 18 (45.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 15 (37.50%) Amazon Glacier
5 11 (27.50%) Azure
6 9 (22.50%) SaaS
7 7 (17.50%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (17.50%) Power Platform
8 4 (10.00%) Route 53
9 3 (7.50%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (7.50%) Firebase
10 2 (5.00%) Smartsheet
11 1 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
11 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (2.50%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 18 (45.00%) Firewall
2 11 (27.50%) DNS
2 11 (27.50%) FTP
2 11 (27.50%) HTTP
2 11 (27.50%) SMTP
2 11 (27.50%) SSH
3 3 (7.50%) IMAP
3 3 (7.50%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (47.50%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (17.50%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (17.50%) Power BI
3 4 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (7.50%) MySQL
4 3 (7.50%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 22 (55.00%) Git
2 19 (47.50%) Jenkins
3 18 (45.00%) Vagrant
4 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (2.50%) DbUnit
4 1 (2.50%) jMock
4 1 (2.50%) JUnit
4 1 (2.50%) Maven
4 1 (2.50%) Mockito
4 1 (2.50%) SonarQube
General
1 20 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (15.00%) Finance
3 6 (15.00%) Law
4 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Games
5 2 (5.00%) Legal
5 2 (5.00%) Marketing
6 1 (2.50%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 11 (27.50%) DevOps Engineer
1 11 (27.50%) Support Engineer
2 8 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Support
3 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) Lead
5 5 (12.50%) Applications Support
5 5 (12.50%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Head of Support
6 4 (10.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
6 4 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) IT Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) IT Support
6 4 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (7.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) CSS
1 3 (7.50%) HTML
1 3 (7.50%) Laravel
1 3 (7.50%) LDAP
1 3 (7.50%) Next.js
1 3 (7.50%) Node.js
1 3 (7.50%) React
1 3 (7.50%) React Native
1 3 (7.50%) Vue
2 1 (2.50%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (2.50%) Hibernate
2 1 (2.50%) JPA
2 1 (2.50%) PowerMock
2 1 (2.50%) RESTful
2 1 (2.50%) SOAP
2 1 (2.50%) Spring
2 1 (2.50%) Spring Batch
2 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.50%) Spring Integration
2 1 (2.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Replication
2 5 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (7.50%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.50%) NHS
4 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.50%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.50%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 19 (47.50%) Linux
2 18 (45.00%) VMS
3 11 (27.50%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (25.00%) Windows
5 3 (7.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (47.50%) Change Management
1 19 (47.50%) DevOps
2 18 (45.00%) Cloud Security
2 18 (45.00%) Configuration Management
3 11 (27.50%) Patch Management
3 11 (27.50%) Platform Engineering
4 8 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (17.50%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 7 (17.50%) Service Delivery
6 6 (15.00%) Incident Management
6 6 (15.00%) Mentoring
7 5 (12.50%) Agile
7 5 (12.50%) CRM
7 5 (12.50%) ITIL
7 5 (12.50%) Process Management
7 5 (12.50%) Project Management
7 5 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (45.00%) Groovy
1 18 (45.00%) PowerShell
1 18 (45.00%) Python
2 9 (22.50%) Java
3 8 (20.00%) Perl
4 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
4 3 (7.50%) PHP
4 3 (7.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (47.50%) SC Cleared
1 19 (47.50%) Security Cleared
2 15 (37.50%) Degree
3 6 (15.00%) PMI Certification
3 6 (15.00%) PMP
4 3 (7.50%) AWS Certification
4 3 (7.50%) Azure Certification
4 3 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (12.50%) SLA
2 3 (7.50%) QA
3 2 (5.00%) PMO
4 1 (2.50%) EMIR
System Software
1 15 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 12 (30.00%) Docker
3 10 (25.00%) DFS Replication
4 3 (7.50%) Dovecot
4 3 (7.50%) Postfix
4 3 (7.50%) Squid
Systems Management
1 18 (45.00%) Grafana
1 18 (45.00%) Prometheus
1 18 (45.00%) Terraform
2 7 (17.50%) Ansible
3 3 (7.50%) Nessus
3 3 (7.50%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 19 (47.50%) ServiceNow
2 7 (17.50%) Juniper
3 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 3 (7.50%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (2.50%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.50%) CrowdStrike
10 JIRA jobs in Birmingham