JIRA Job Trends in the East Midlands

Atlassian JIRA
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring JIRA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 60 109
Rank change year-on-year -49 +49 -13
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 56 46 74
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.31% 3.10% 1.81%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.09% 27.22% 26.15%
Number of salaries quoted 46 43 52
10th Percentile - - £35,050
25th Percentile £24,750 £21,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £37,500 £48,415
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -22.54% -9.93%
75th Percentile £57,500 £50,625 £53,750
90th Percentile £84,000 £62,000 £64,875
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%

All Development Application Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 151 169 283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 3.52% 11.38% 6.91%
Number of salaries quoted 112 132 216
10th Percentile £24,750 £27,256 £35,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,279 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.85% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £77,250 £67,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JIRA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

JIRA job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

JIRA
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing JIRA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing JIRA

JIRA
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for JIRA in the East Midlands

JIRA
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicestershire -26 20 £56,250 +7.14% 4
Derbyshire -22 15 £25,500 +13.33% 2
Nottinghamshire -7 10 £26,375 -44.47% 4
Lincolnshire -35 7 £42,500 +13.33% 2
Northamptonshire -21 1 £52,500 +44.83% 4
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 29 (51.79%) Confluence
2 1 (1.79%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Chatbot
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (1.79%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 12 (21.43%) Azure
2 4 (7.14%) SaaS
3 3 (5.36%) AWS
3 3 (5.36%) ClickUp
4 2 (3.57%) GCP
5 1 (1.79%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.57%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (8.93%) Git
1 5 (8.93%) Subversion
General
1 28 (50.00%) Law
2 12 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 9 (16.07%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.93%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (8.93%) Electronics
4 5 (8.93%) Finance
5 3 (5.36%) Billing
5 3 (5.36%) Legal
6 1 (1.79%) Games
6 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.79%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (35.71%) IT Support
2 12 (21.43%) Analyst
3 8 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 8 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
3 8 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 7 (12.50%) Product Owner
5 6 (10.71%) 2nd Line Support
5 6 (10.71%) Business Analyst
5 6 (10.71%) IT Analyst
5 6 (10.71%) IT Support Analyst
5 6 (10.71%) Support Analyst
6 5 (8.93%) Agile Product Owner
6 5 (8.93%) Embedded Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Senior
6 5 (8.93%) Software Test Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Systems Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Systems Test Engineer
6 5 (8.93%) Test Engineer
7 4 (7.14%) Head of Support
7 4 (7.14%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.57%) Laravel
1 2 (3.57%) RESTful
2 1 (1.79%) Bootstrap
2 1 (1.79%) Node.js
2 1 (1.79%) React
2 1 (1.79%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.93%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (5.36%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (71.43%) Agile
2 17 (30.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (26.79%) ITSM
4 14 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 14 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 12 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (17.86%) Backlog Refinement
7 8 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
7 8 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
8 7 (12.50%) Product Backlog
8 7 (12.50%) Scrum
8 7 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
8 7 (12.50%) User Experience
9 6 (10.71%) Computer Science
9 6 (10.71%) Service Management
9 6 (10.71%) Task Automation
9 6 (10.71%) User Stories
10 5 (8.93%) Scenario Testing
10 5 (8.93%) Software Testing
10 5 (8.93%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (25.00%) SQL
2 6 (10.71%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.36%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.57%) PHP
5 1 (1.79%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (14.29%) Degree
2 6 (10.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (1.79%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.79%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (25.00%) SLA
2 13 (23.21%) QA
3 1 (1.79%) GDPR
3 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 3 (5.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (10.71%) Cisco
1 6 (10.71%) Meraki
2 3 (5.36%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.57%) Zend
4 1 (1.79%) HubSpot
4 1 (1.79%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow