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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 88 92
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 -19
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 42 40 35
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.67% 1.81% 1.85%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.00% 21.86% 22.44%
Number of salaries quoted 40 21 30
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,175
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £51,750
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -13.04% +3.50%
75th Percentile £69,600 £56,250 £63,125
90th Percentile £84,000 £62,500 £70,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £59,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.54% -5.60% +4.17%

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 105 183 156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.17% 8.28% 8.23%
Number of salaries quoted 88 130 127
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,938 £33,563 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,529 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.85% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £75,900 £70,000 £69,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 +5 13 £55,000 +4.76% 8
Lincolnshire -5 13 £42,500 +13.33% 10
Northamptonshire -1 9 £43,000 +10.26% 12
Nottinghamshire +16 2 £49,500 +41.43% 12
Derbyshire -16 1 £80,000 +68.42% 15
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 18 (42.86%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) JBoss
2 1 (2.38%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (9.52%) CATIA
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.81%) Azure
2 3 (7.14%) AWS
3 2 (4.76%) GCP
3 2 (4.76%) GitHub
3 2 (4.76%) Miro
4 1 (2.38%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) Firewall
1 4 (9.52%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) MySQL
2 2 (4.76%) MariaDB
2 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) Git
2 5 (11.90%) Subversion
3 3 (7.14%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (4.76%) GitLab
5 1 (2.38%) Gradle
5 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.38%) JUnit
5 1 (2.38%) Maven
5 1 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 11 (26.19%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (26.19%) Law
3 7 (16.67%) Finance
4 5 (11.90%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (11.90%) Electronics
5 4 (9.52%) Billing
Job Titles
1 11 (26.19%) Senior
2 8 (19.05%) Product Owner
3 5 (11.90%) Developer
3 5 (11.90%) Embedded Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Software Test Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Systems Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Systems Test Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Test Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (9.52%) 2nd Line Support Technician
4 4 (9.52%) Agile Product Owner
4 4 (9.52%) Analyst
4 4 (9.52%) Business Analyst
4 4 (9.52%) Head of Support
4 4 (9.52%) Operations Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Senior Support Technician
4 4 (9.52%) Senior Technician
4 4 (9.52%) Software Developer
4 4 (9.52%) Support Technician
4 4 (9.52%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.14%) REST
2 2 (4.76%) .NET
2 2 (4.76%) .NET Core
2 2 (4.76%) AngularJS
2 2 (4.76%) ASP.NET
2 2 (4.76%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (4.76%) CSS
2 2 (4.76%) CSS3
2 2 (4.76%) HTML
2 2 (4.76%) HTML5
2 2 (4.76%) Laravel
2 2 (4.76%) RESTful
3 1 (2.38%) SOAP
3 1 (2.38%) Spring
3 1 (2.38%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.38%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (2.38%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.81%) Product Ownership
2 5 (11.90%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (9.52%) Driving Licence
3 4 (9.52%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Linux
1 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (59.52%) Agile
2 21 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (21.43%) Project Management
6 8 (19.05%) Customer Service
6 8 (19.05%) Product Backlog
7 7 (16.67%) Backlog Refinement
7 7 (16.67%) Software Testing
7 7 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
7 7 (16.67%) User Experience
8 6 (14.29%) Decision-Making
8 6 (14.29%) Logistics
8 6 (14.29%) Scrum
9 5 (11.90%) Actionable Insight
9 5 (11.90%) Issue Tracking
9 5 (11.90%) Performance Testing
9 5 (11.90%) Regression Testing
9 5 (11.90%) Scenario Testing
9 5 (11.90%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.52%) TypeScript
2 2 (4.76%) C#
2 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
2 2 (4.76%) PHP
2 2 (4.76%) SQL
3 1 (2.38%) Java
3 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) Degree
2 3 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.38%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (19.05%) QA
2 4 (9.52%) PMO
3 3 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 3 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 1 (2.38%) GDPR
4 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (9.52%) Active Directory
1 4 (9.52%) Hyper-V
1 4 (9.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.52%) Cisco
2 4 (9.52%) SonicWALL
3 3 (7.14%) IBM
3 3 (7.14%) Oracle
4 2 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.76%) Zend
5 1 (2.38%) HubSpot
5 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow