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 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 100 93
Rank change year-on-year +19 -7 -10
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 26 29 36
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.41% 1.62% 1.85%
As % of the Development Applications category 26.00% 22.48% 19.05%
Number of salaries quoted 15 24 36
10th Percentile £26,250 £46,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,375 £47,313 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -18.37% +11.36%
75th Percentile £46,545 £60,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £54,000 £71,225 £87,500
West Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -26.09% +4.55% +8.91%

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 100 129 189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 5.43% 7.23% 9.72%
Number of salaries quoted 77 60 180
10th Percentile - £45,875 £37,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £47,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,543 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.53% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £52,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £79,925 £87,500
West Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% -

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 2 February 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 (19.23%) SharePoint
2 3 (11.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (11.54%) Trello
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.85%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (3.85%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (46.15%) Azure
2 9 (34.62%) SaaS
3 8 (30.77%) Power Platform
4 6 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (19.23%) AWS
6 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (11.54%) Firebase
7 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
7 2 (7.69%) Smartsheet
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon Glacier
8 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.85%) AWS KMS
8 1 (3.85%) Figma
8 1 (3.85%) Lucidchart
8 1 (3.85%) Oracle Service Cloud
8 1 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) DNS
1 1 (3.85%) Firewall
1 1 (3.85%) FTP
1 1 (3.85%) HTTP
1 1 (3.85%) SMTP
1 1 (3.85%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) Power BI
2 3 (11.54%) MySQL
2 3 (11.54%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (11.54%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Git
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.85%) Vagrant
General
1 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 7 (26.92%) Law
3 5 (19.23%) Finance
4 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
6 2 (7.69%) Games
6 2 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (7.69%) Legal
6 2 (7.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Applications Support
1 6 (23.08%) Lead
2 5 (19.23%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (19.23%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Head of Support
2 5 (19.23%) IT Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) IT Support
2 5 (19.23%) IT Support Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Support Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Senior
4 3 (11.54%) Junior
4 3 (11.54%) Junior Software Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Senior Manager
4 3 (11.54%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Production Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Production Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) CSS
1 3 (11.54%) HTML
1 3 (11.54%) Laravel
1 3 (11.54%) Next.js
1 3 (11.54%) Node.js
1 3 (11.54%) React
1 3 (11.54%) React Native
1 3 (11.54%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (15.38%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.85%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.85%) CMDB
3 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.85%) NHS
3 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Amazon Linux
1 1 (3.85%) Linux
1 1 (3.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (34.62%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (30.77%) Agile
3 8 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (30.77%) CRM
4 7 (26.92%) Service Delivery
4 7 (26.92%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (23.08%) Incident Management
5 6 (23.08%) ITIL
5 6 (23.08%) Mentoring
5 6 (23.08%) Project Management
6 5 (19.23%) Collaborative Culture
6 5 (19.23%) DevOps
6 5 (19.23%) Performance Metrics
6 5 (19.23%) Process Management
6 5 (19.23%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (19.23%) Service Delivery Management
6 5 (19.23%) Strategic Thinking
7 4 (15.38%) Analytics
7 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
1 3 (11.54%) PHP
2 2 (7.69%) SQL
3 1 (3.85%) Groovy
3 1 (3.85%) Java
3 1 (3.85%) Perl
3 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (50.00%) Degree
2 6 (23.08%) PMI Certification
2 6 (23.08%) PMP
3 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
4 3 (11.54%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.85%) CITP
5 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (19.23%) SLA
2 3 (11.54%) QA
3 2 (7.69%) PMO
4 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.85%) GDPR
4 1 (3.85%) GRC
4 1 (3.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Grafana
1 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.85%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (3.85%) Planon
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce