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 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
14 Oct 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 93 74
Rank change year-on-year +42 -19 +31
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 53 27 33
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 4.48% 1.23% 2.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 51.96% 22.31% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 40 18 27
10th Percentile £51,875 - £40,171
25th Percentile £62,500 £42,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £50,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% -31.03% +20.83%
75th Percentile £73,750 £52,500 £91,934
90th Percentile - £56,460 £106,289
West Midlands median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% -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 102 121 132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 8.62% 5.50% 10.28%
Number of salaries quoted 82 48 119
10th Percentile £31,875 £41,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £54,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.68% -5.22% -4.17%
75th Percentile £73,750 £69,560 £78,750
90th Percentile - £84,125 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +10.01%

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 14 October 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 35 (66.04%) Confluence
2 5 (9.43%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (9.43%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (3.77%) Trello
3 1 (1.89%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 34 (64.15%) AWS
2 33 (62.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 33 (62.26%) Amazon EC2
2 33 (62.26%) Amazon S3
2 33 (62.26%) AWS KMS
3 29 (54.72%) Amazon ELB
3 29 (54.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 24 (45.28%) Amazon Glacier
5 9 (16.98%) Azure
5 9 (16.98%) Route 53
6 8 (15.09%) Power Platform
7 7 (13.21%) SaaS
8 5 (9.43%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (9.43%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (7.55%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.89%) Figma
10 1 (1.89%) Firebase
10 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (1.89%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 29 (54.72%) Firewall
2 16 (30.19%) DNS
2 16 (30.19%) FTP
2 16 (30.19%) HTTP
2 16 (30.19%) SMTP
2 16 (30.19%) SSH
3 5 (9.43%) IMAP
3 5 (9.43%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (62.26%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (18.87%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (16.98%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (15.09%) Power BI
5 4 (7.55%) DynamoDB
5 4 (7.55%) Metadata
6 2 (3.77%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.89%) MySQL
7 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (64.15%) Git
2 33 (62.26%) Jenkins
3 29 (54.72%) Vagrant
4 4 (7.55%) Bitbucket Server
4 4 (7.55%) DbUnit
4 4 (7.55%) jMock
4 4 (7.55%) JUnit
4 4 (7.55%) Maven
4 4 (7.55%) Mockito
4 4 (7.55%) SonarQube
5 3 (5.66%) ERwin
6 1 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 35 (66.04%) Public Sector
2 11 (20.75%) Social Skills
3 6 (11.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (9.43%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.66%) Finance
6 2 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.77%) Law
7 1 (1.89%) Back Office
7 1 (1.89%) Games
7 1 (1.89%) Legal
7 1 (1.89%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (30.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (24.53%) AWS Engineer
2 13 (24.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 12 (22.64%) Infrastructure Support
3 12 (22.64%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 12 (22.64%) Support Engineer
4 10 (18.87%) Lead
5 8 (15.09%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) Applications Support
6 5 (9.43%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (9.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 5 (9.43%) Head of Support
6 5 (9.43%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (7.55%) Developer
7 4 (7.55%) Java Developer
7 4 (7.55%) Lead Developer
7 4 (7.55%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.32%) EDI
2 5 (9.43%) Bootstrap
2 5 (9.43%) LDAP
3 4 (7.55%) ActiveMQ
3 4 (7.55%) AngularJS
3 4 (7.55%) Hibernate
3 4 (7.55%) JPA
3 4 (7.55%) PowerMock
3 4 (7.55%) RESTful
3 4 (7.55%) SOAP
3 4 (7.55%) Spring
3 4 (7.55%) Spring Batch
3 4 (7.55%) Spring Boot
3 4 (7.55%) Spring Integration
3 4 (7.55%) Web Services
4 2 (3.77%) Node.js
4 2 (3.77%) React
5 1 (1.89%) Laravel
5 1 (1.89%) Redux
5 1 (1.89%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (33.96%) Replication
2 5 (9.43%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (7.55%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (5.66%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.89%) NHS
5 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.89%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.89%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 33 (62.26%) Linux
2 29 (54.72%) VMS
3 18 (33.96%) Windows
4 16 (30.19%) Amazon Linux
5 5 (9.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (60.38%) DevOps
2 30 (56.60%) Change Management
3 29 (54.72%) Cloud Security
3 29 (54.72%) Configuration Management
4 16 (30.19%) Patch Management
4 16 (30.19%) Platform Engineering
5 14 (26.42%) Agile
6 13 (24.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (18.87%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (15.09%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (13.21%) Service Delivery
10 6 (11.32%) Data Management
10 6 (11.32%) Data Transformation
10 6 (11.32%) Incident Management
11 5 (9.43%) ITIL
11 5 (9.43%) Performance Tuning
11 5 (9.43%) Process Management
11 5 (9.43%) Root Cause Analysis
11 5 (9.43%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 29 (54.72%) Groovy
1 29 (54.72%) PowerShell
1 29 (54.72%) Python
2 15 (28.30%) Java
3 11 (20.75%) Perl
4 7 (13.21%) SQL
5 2 (3.77%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.89%) PHP
6 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 33 (62.26%) SC Cleared
1 33 (62.26%) Security Cleared
2 16 (30.19%) Degree
3 5 (9.43%) AWS Certification
3 5 (9.43%) Azure Certification
3 5 (9.43%) CITP
3 5 (9.43%) PMI Certification
3 5 (9.43%) PMP
4 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.89%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (9.43%) SLA
2 3 (5.66%) QA
3 1 (1.89%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.89%) EMIR
3 1 (1.89%) GDPR
3 1 (1.89%) PMO
System Software
1 24 (45.28%) Active Directory
2 20 (37.74%) Docker
3 18 (33.96%) DFS Replication
4 5 (9.43%) Dovecot
4 5 (9.43%) Postfix
4 5 (9.43%) Squid
Systems Management
1 29 (54.72%) Grafana
1 29 (54.72%) Prometheus
1 29 (54.72%) Terraform
2 13 (24.53%) Ansible
3 5 (9.43%) Nessus
3 5 (9.43%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 30 (56.60%) ServiceNow
2 13 (24.53%) Juniper
3 5 (9.43%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (7.55%) Atlassian
4 4 (7.55%) Microsoft
5 3 (5.66%) Sparx
6 1 (1.89%) CrowdStrike
11 JIRA jobs in Birmingham