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

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 98 77
Rank change year-on-year +28 -21 +23
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 32 32 24
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.93% 1.67% 2.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.41% 24.81% 21.62%
Number of salaries quoted 20 22 21
10th Percentile £26,250 £42,500 £40,285
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -37.50% +45.45%
75th Percentile £73,750 £58,750 £91,934
90th Percentile - £67,800 £106,289
West Midlands median annual salary £43,750 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% -12.50% +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 93 129 111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 5.61% 6.75% 9.98%
Number of salaries quoted 73 57 103
10th Percentile - £41,100 £41,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £46,250 £47,650
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £64,750 £67,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £76,800 £91,047
West Midlands median annual salary £48,750 £57,500 £56,750
% change year-on-year -15.22% +1.32% +8.10%

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 19 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 11 (34.38%) Confluence
2 5 (15.63%) SharePoint
3 2 (6.25%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (9.38%) Trello
2 2 (6.25%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (40.63%) AWS
2 12 (37.50%) Azure
3 9 (28.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 9 (28.13%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (28.13%) Amazon ELB
3 9 (28.13%) Amazon S3
3 9 (28.13%) AWS KMS
3 9 (28.13%) SaaS
3 9 (28.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 7 (21.88%) Amazon Glacier
4 7 (21.88%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (21.88%) Power Platform
5 3 (9.38%) Firebase
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.25%) Route 53
6 2 (6.25%) Smartsheet
7 1 (3.13%) Figma
7 1 (3.13%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (28.13%) Firewall
2 7 (21.88%) DNS
2 7 (21.88%) FTP
2 7 (21.88%) HTTP
2 7 (21.88%) SMTP
2 7 (21.88%) SSH
3 2 (6.25%) IMAP
3 2 (6.25%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (28.13%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (21.88%) Power BI
3 5 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (9.38%) MySQL
4 3 (9.38%) Relational Database
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 12 (37.50%) Git
2 9 (28.13%) Jenkins
2 9 (28.13%) Vagrant
General
1 10 (31.25%) Public Sector
2 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
3 7 (21.88%) Law
4 5 (15.63%) Finance
5 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Games
6 2 (6.25%) Legal
6 2 (6.25%) Marketing
6 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) DevOps Engineer
1 7 (21.88%) Support Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Applications Support
2 6 (18.75%) Lead
3 5 (15.63%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) 2nd Line Support
3 5 (15.63%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Head of Support
3 5 (15.63%) IT Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) IT Support
3 5 (15.63%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Junior
5 3 (9.38%) Junior Software Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Senior
5 3 (9.38%) Senior Manager
5 3 (9.38%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) CSS
1 3 (9.38%) HTML
1 3 (9.38%) Laravel
1 3 (9.38%) Next.js
1 3 (9.38%) Node.js
1 3 (9.38%) React
1 3 (9.38%) React Native
1 3 (9.38%) Vue
2 2 (6.25%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (12.50%) Replication
3 3 (9.38%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.13%) NHS
4 1 (3.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Linux
1 9 (28.13%) VMS
2 7 (21.88%) Amazon Linux
3 4 (12.50%) Windows
4 2 (6.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) DevOps
2 10 (31.25%) Change Management
2 10 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (28.13%) Cloud Security
3 9 (28.13%) Configuration Management
4 8 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (21.88%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (21.88%) Patch Management
5 7 (21.88%) Platform Engineering
5 7 (21.88%) Service Delivery
6 6 (18.75%) CRM
6 6 (18.75%) Incident Management
6 6 (18.75%) Mentoring
7 5 (15.63%) Agile
7 5 (15.63%) ITIL
7 5 (15.63%) Performance Metrics
7 5 (15.63%) Process Management
7 5 (15.63%) Project Management
7 5 (15.63%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) Groovy
1 9 (28.13%) PowerShell
1 9 (28.13%) Python
2 5 (15.63%) Java
2 5 (15.63%) Perl
3 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
3 3 (9.38%) PHP
3 3 (9.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (40.63%) Degree
2 9 (28.13%) SC Cleared
2 9 (28.13%) Security Cleared
3 6 (18.75%) PMI Certification
3 6 (18.75%) PMP
4 3 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (15.63%) SLA
2 3 (9.38%) QA
3 2 (6.25%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Active Directory
1 7 (21.88%) Docker
2 4 (12.50%) DFS Replication
3 2 (6.25%) Dovecot
3 2 (6.25%) Postfix
3 2 (6.25%) Squid
Systems Management
1 9 (28.13%) Grafana
1 9 (28.13%) Prometheus
1 9 (28.13%) Terraform
2 2 (6.25%) Ansible
2 2 (6.25%) Nessus
2 2 (6.25%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 11 (34.38%) ServiceNow
2 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.25%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (6.25%) Juniper
4 1 (3.13%) CrowdStrike