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

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 114 125
Rank change year-on-year -15 +11 -83
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 105 148 105
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.34% 2.27% 1.93%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.65% 29.25% 24.03%
Number of salaries quoted 77 90 91
10th Percentile £33,700 £36,125 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,688 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £65,125 £87,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,560 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.10% -7.90% +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 303 506 437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.86% 7.77% 8.05%
Number of salaries quoted 234 292 386
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,529 £55,000 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% +1.38% -1.36%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £65,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £73,625 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

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 8 January 2026.

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 8 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
West Midlands -11 66 £42,500 -22.73% 65
East Midlands +2 39 £55,000 +15.79% 71
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 34 (32.38%) Confluence
2 5 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.81%) nginx
4 1 (0.95%) Appian
4 1 (0.95%) IIS
4 1 (0.95%) JBoss
4 1 (0.95%) SAS
4 1 (0.95%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.76%) Trello
3 4 (3.81%) CATIA
3 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (3.81%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.95%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.95%) Maximo
2 1 (0.95%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 33 (31.43%) Azure
2 19 (18.10%) AWS
3 17 (16.19%) SaaS
4 10 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (9.52%) Power Platform
5 8 (7.62%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (6.67%) Amazon ELB
6 7 (6.67%) Amazon S3
6 7 (6.67%) AWS KMS
6 7 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 6 (5.71%) GCP
8 4 (3.81%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (3.81%) IaaS
8 4 (3.81%) PaaS
8 4 (3.81%) Route 53
9 3 (2.86%) Amazon Glacier
9 3 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.86%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 16 (15.24%) Firewall
2 12 (11.43%) DNS
3 8 (7.62%) HTTP
4 7 (6.67%) FTP
4 7 (6.67%) SMTP
4 7 (6.67%) SSH
5 5 (4.76%) VLAN
6 4 (3.81%) IMAP
6 4 (3.81%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (3.81%) VPN
7 2 (1.90%) DHCP
8 1 (0.95%) LAN
8 1 (0.95%) Modbus
8 1 (0.95%) SAN
8 1 (0.95%) SSL
8 1 (0.95%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.95%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.52%) Power BI
2 9 (8.57%) MySQL
3 8 (7.62%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.81%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (3.81%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.81%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.90%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.95%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (19.05%) Git
2 10 (9.52%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.67%) Vagrant
4 6 (5.71%) Rational DOORS
5 5 (4.76%) Subversion
6 2 (1.90%) GitLab
6 2 (1.90%) Postman
6 2 (1.90%) Selenium
6 2 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.90%) TestRail
7 1 (0.95%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.95%) Gradle
7 1 (0.95%) JUnit
7 1 (0.95%) Maven
7 1 (0.95%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.95%) Zephyr
General
1 31 (29.52%) Social Skills
2 20 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (17.14%) Law
4 13 (12.38%) Finance
5 9 (8.57%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.71%) Electronics
6 6 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.81%) Billing
8 4 (3.81%) Retail
9 3 (2.86%) Games
9 3 (2.86%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.86%) Marketing
10 2 (1.90%) Automotive
10 2 (1.90%) Legal
11 1 (0.95%) Advertising
11 1 (0.95%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 18 (17.14%) Senior
2 14 (13.33%) Analyst
3 11 (10.48%) Product Owner
4 10 (9.52%) IT Engineer
4 10 (9.52%) Support Engineer
5 9 (8.57%) 2nd Line Support
5 9 (8.57%) Head of Support
5 9 (8.57%) IT Support
5 9 (8.57%) IT Support Engineer
5 9 (8.57%) Lead
6 8 (7.62%) Junior
7 7 (6.67%) Business Analyst
7 7 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (6.67%) Test Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) Applications Support
8 6 (5.71%) Developer
8 6 (5.71%) Embedded Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Senior Manager
9 5 (4.76%) Software Test Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.71%) HTML
1 6 (5.71%) Laravel
2 5 (4.76%) CSS
3 4 (3.81%) .NET
3 4 (3.81%) LDAP
3 4 (3.81%) REST
4 3 (2.86%) Next.js
4 3 (2.86%) Node.js
4 3 (2.86%) React
4 3 (2.86%) React Native
4 3 (2.86%) Vue
4 3 (2.86%) XML
5 2 (1.90%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.90%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.90%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (1.90%) CSS3
5 2 (1.90%) HTML5
5 2 (1.90%) Playwright
5 2 (1.90%) RESTful
5 2 (1.90%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 19 (18.10%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.76%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.81%) Driving Licence
4 4 (3.81%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.81%) Replication
5 2 (1.90%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.95%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.95%) NHS
6 1 (0.95%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.95%) SCADA
6 1 (0.95%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.52%) Linux
2 7 (6.67%) Amazon Linux
2 7 (6.67%) VMS
3 6 (5.71%) Windows
4 5 (4.76%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (47.62%) Agile
2 33 (31.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 31 (29.52%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (19.05%) Project Management
6 17 (16.19%) DevOps
7 16 (15.24%) Decision-Making
8 14 (13.33%) Service Delivery
9 13 (12.38%) Acceptance Criteria
9 13 (12.38%) CI/CD
9 13 (12.38%) User Stories
10 12 (11.43%) Change Management
10 12 (11.43%) ITIL
10 12 (11.43%) Scrum
10 12 (11.43%) Sprint Planning
10 12 (11.43%) User Acceptance Testing
11 11 (10.48%) Business Intelligence
12 10 (9.52%) Computer Science
12 10 (9.52%) Incident Management
12 10 (9.52%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (16.19%) SQL
2 11 (10.48%) Python
3 10 (9.52%) PowerShell
4 7 (6.67%) Groovy
5 6 (5.71%) PHP
6 5 (4.76%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.81%) Java
7 4 (3.81%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.86%) C#
8 3 (2.86%) Perl
9 2 (1.90%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.95%) C
10 1 (0.95%) C++
10 1 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.95%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.95%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.95%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 28 (26.67%) Degree
2 12 (11.43%) Security Cleared
3 10 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 9 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (6.67%) PMI Certification
5 7 (6.67%) PMP
6 6 (5.71%) ISTQB
7 5 (4.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (3.81%) AWS Certification
8 4 (3.81%) Azure Certification
8 4 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.90%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.95%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (20.00%) QA
2 10 (9.52%) SLA
3 7 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (5.71%) PMO
5 3 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 3 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 2 (1.90%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.95%) GDPR
7 1 (0.95%) NIST
7 1 (0.95%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (10.48%) Active Directory
2 9 (8.57%) Docker
3 4 (3.81%) DFS Replication
3 4 (3.81%) Dovecot
3 4 (3.81%) Hyper-V
3 4 (3.81%) Postfix
3 4 (3.81%) Squid
3 4 (3.81%) vSphere
4 3 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (11.43%) Terraform
2 7 (6.67%) Grafana
2 7 (6.67%) Prometheus
3 5 (4.76%) Nessus
4 4 (3.81%) Proxmox
5 2 (1.90%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.95%) Ansible
6 1 (0.95%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.95%) Puppet
6 1 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (21.90%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.76%) Google
4 4 (3.81%) Cisco
4 4 (3.81%) IBM
4 4 (3.81%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (3.81%) Oracle
4 4 (3.81%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.81%) SonicWALL
5 3 (2.86%) Zend
6 1 (0.95%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.95%) Autodesk
6 1 (0.95%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.95%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (0.95%) Denodo
6 1 (0.95%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.95%) Logitech
6 1 (0.95%) Talend
6 1 (0.95%) VMware
6 1 (0.95%) Yealink