JIRA Job Trends in the Midlands

Atlassian JIRA
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring JIRA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 141 107
Rank change year-on-year +45 -34 -68
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 125 149 127
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.18% 1.69% 2.50%
As % of the Development Applications category 41.81% 29.33% 26.85%
Number of salaries quoted 89 85 101
10th Percentile £34,450 £35,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -13.79% +16.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £58,750 £70,000
90th Percentile - £65,000 £91,934
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%

All Development Application Skills
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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 299 508 473
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.21% 5.75% 9.30%
Number of salaries quoted 226 256 401
10th Percentile £30,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,063 £38,938 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,350 £52,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.33% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £69,550
90th Percentile £73,750 £73,125 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in the Midlands

JIRA
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing JIRA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing JIRA

JIRA
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the Midlands over the 6 months to 17 November 2025.

Salary histogram for JIRA in the Midlands

JIRA
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 November 2025. 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
West Midlands +44 94 £62,625 +25.25% 61
East Midlands +3 31 £46,500 +3.33% 56
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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 60 (48.00%) Confluence
2 7 (5.60%) nginx
3 2 (1.60%) JBoss
3 2 (1.60%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.60%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.80%) Appian
4 1 (0.80%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (6.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.60%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (3.20%) CATIA
4 4 (3.20%) Trello
5 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.80%) Maximo
2 1 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 49 (39.20%) AWS
2 37 (29.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 37 (29.60%) Azure
3 36 (28.80%) Amazon EC2
4 35 (28.00%) Amazon S3
5 34 (27.20%) AWS KMS
6 32 (25.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 31 (24.80%) Amazon ELB
8 24 (19.20%) Amazon Glacier
9 17 (13.60%) Power Platform
9 17 (13.60%) SaaS
10 10 (8.00%) Route 53
11 9 (7.20%) Microsoft 365
12 8 (6.40%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (6.40%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (4.80%) GCP
14 4 (3.20%) IaaS
14 4 (3.20%) PaaS
14 4 (3.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 4 (3.20%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 40 (32.00%) Firewall
2 25 (20.00%) DNS
3 21 (16.80%) HTTP
4 20 (16.00%) FTP
4 20 (16.00%) SMTP
4 20 (16.00%) SSH
5 7 (5.60%) IMAP
5 7 (5.60%) OpenLDAP
6 5 (4.00%) VLAN
7 3 (2.40%) VPN
8 2 (1.60%) DHCP
9 1 (0.80%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.80%) Modbus
9 1 (0.80%) SAN
9 1 (0.80%) SSL
9 1 (0.80%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.80%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (28.80%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (11.20%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (11.20%) Power BI
3 10 (8.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (5.60%) MySQL
5 5 (4.00%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.00%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.40%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.60%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.60%) Metadata
7 2 (1.60%) Tableau
8 1 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.80%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.80%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 47 (37.60%) Git
2 38 (30.40%) Jenkins
3 31 (24.80%) Vagrant
4 8 (6.40%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (4.80%) JUnit
6 5 (4.00%) Maven
6 5 (4.00%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (2.40%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (2.40%) DbUnit
7 3 (2.40%) jMock
7 3 (2.40%) Mockito
7 3 (2.40%) Postman
7 3 (2.40%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.60%) ERwin
8 2 (1.60%) GitLab
8 2 (1.60%) Gradle
9 1 (0.80%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.80%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.80%) TestRail
9 1 (0.80%) Zephyr
General
1 36 (28.80%) Social Skills
2 31 (24.80%) Public Sector
3 21 (16.80%) Finance
4 17 (13.60%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (12.80%) Law
6 13 (10.40%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (6.40%) Retail
8 4 (3.20%) Games
9 3 (2.40%) Billing
9 3 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.40%) Marketing
10 2 (1.60%) Automotive
10 2 (1.60%) Legal
10 2 (1.60%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.80%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 18 (14.40%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (13.60%) Senior
2 17 (13.60%) Support Engineer
3 16 (12.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (12.00%) Analyst
5 14 (11.20%) Infrastructure Support
5 14 (11.20%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 13 (10.40%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (8.80%) Developer
8 10 (8.00%) Junior
8 10 (8.00%) Lead
9 9 (7.20%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.40%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 8 (6.40%) Product Owner
11 7 (5.60%) Business Analyst
11 7 (5.60%) Project Manager
12 6 (4.80%) 2nd Line Support
12 6 (4.80%) IT Engineer
13 5 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 5 (4.00%) Head of Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.20%) .NET
2 7 (5.60%) LDAP
3 6 (4.80%) AngularJS
3 6 (4.80%) HTML
3 6 (4.80%) SOAP
4 5 (4.00%) CSS
4 5 (4.00%) REST
4 5 (4.00%) Spring
4 5 (4.00%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.20%) Laravel
5 4 (3.20%) RESTful
5 4 (3.20%) Web Services
5 4 (3.20%) XML
6 3 (2.40%) Bootstrap
6 3 (2.40%) Node.js
6 3 (2.40%) PowerMock
6 3 (2.40%) React
6 3 (2.40%) React Native
6 3 (2.40%) Spring Batch
6 3 (2.40%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.60%) Replication
2 18 (14.40%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.80%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.20%) Driving Licence
5 4 (3.20%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.40%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.60%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.60%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.80%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.80%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.80%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.80%) NHS
8 1 (0.80%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.80%) SCADA
8 1 (0.80%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (29.60%) Linux
2 31 (24.80%) VMS
3 23 (18.40%) Windows
4 20 (16.00%) Amazon Linux
5 8 (6.40%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (38.40%) Agile
2 43 (34.40%) DevOps
3 35 (28.00%) Change Management
4 31 (24.80%) Cloud Security
4 31 (24.80%) Configuration Management
5 28 (22.40%) Stakeholder Management
6 24 (19.20%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (19.20%) Project Management
7 22 (17.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (16.80%) Patch Management
9 16 (12.80%) Decision-Making
9 16 (12.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 16 (12.80%) Platform Engineering
10 14 (11.20%) Business Intelligence
10 14 (11.20%) ITIL
10 14 (11.20%) Scrum
11 13 (10.40%) Service Delivery
12 12 (9.60%) User Stories
13 11 (8.80%) CI/CD
14 10 (8.00%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 34 (27.20%) PowerShell
1 34 (27.20%) Python
2 31 (24.80%) Groovy
3 23 (18.40%) SQL
4 19 (15.20%) Java
5 13 (10.40%) Perl
6 8 (6.40%) C#
7 6 (4.80%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.20%) PHP
8 4 (3.20%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.40%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.80%) XAML
Qualifications
1 36 (28.80%) Security Cleared
2 34 (27.20%) Degree
2 34 (27.20%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.80%) AWS Certification
3 11 (8.80%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.60%) PMI Certification
4 7 (5.60%) PMP
5 6 (4.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.80%) ISTQB
6 5 (4.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.40%) CITP
9 2 (1.60%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.40%) QA
2 12 (9.60%) SLA
3 8 (6.40%) PMO
4 7 (5.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 3 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 1 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.80%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.80%) EMIR
6 1 (0.80%) GDPR
6 1 (0.80%) NIST
6 1 (0.80%) NIST 800
System Software
1 32 (25.60%) Active Directory
2 24 (19.20%) Docker
3 22 (17.60%) DFS Replication
4 7 (5.60%) Dovecot
4 7 (5.60%) Postfix
4 7 (5.60%) Squid
5 4 (3.20%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.20%) vSphere
6 3 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (28.80%) Terraform
2 31 (24.80%) Grafana
2 31 (24.80%) Prometheus
3 12 (9.60%) Ansible
4 8 (6.40%) Nessus
5 7 (5.60%) Proxmox
6 2 (1.60%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.80%) Puppet
Vendors
1 40 (32.00%) ServiceNow
2 21 (16.80%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.80%) Juniper
4 7 (5.60%) Jaspersoft
5 6 (4.80%) Oracle
6 5 (4.00%) Google
6 5 (4.00%) Salesforce
7 4 (3.20%) Atlassian
7 4 (3.20%) Cisco
7 4 (3.20%) IBM
7 4 (3.20%) SonicWALL
8 2 (1.60%) Sparx
9 1 (0.80%) Autodesk
9 1 (0.80%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.80%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.80%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.80%) VMware
9 1 (0.80%) Zend