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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 82 120
Rank change year-on-year -67 +38 -63
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 115 151 232
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.93% 3.09% 2.05%
As % of the Development Applications category 29.79% 35.12% 27.65%
Number of salaries quoted 96 124 171
10th Percentile £24,750 £21,836 £26,000
25th Percentile £26,531 £35,938 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,543 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £62,063 £69,000 £62,200
90th Percentile £83,125 £72,125 £75,772
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%

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 386 430 839
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.14% 8.79% 7.42%
Number of salaries quoted 298 325 679
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £64,350
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
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 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 22 April 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 22 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
West Midlands -58 60 £44,543 -25.76% 49
East Midlands -38 55 £42,500 +13.33% 16
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 44 (38.26%) Confluence
2 8 (6.96%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.87%) CMS
3 1 (0.87%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.61%) Trello
4 1 (0.87%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.87%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.87%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.87%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.87%) Maximo
2 1 (0.87%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 39 (33.91%) Azure
2 17 (14.78%) AWS
3 12 (10.43%) SaaS
4 11 (9.57%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (7.83%) GCP
7 6 (5.22%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.48%) Slack
9 3 (2.61%) ClickUp
9 3 (2.61%) Siteimprove
10 2 (1.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.74%) Datadog
10 2 (1.74%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.74%) Google Workspace
10 2 (1.74%) IaaS
10 2 (1.74%) PaaS
11 1 (0.87%) Firebase
11 1 (0.87%) Lucidchart
11 1 (0.87%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.48%) VPN
2 2 (1.74%) DNS
2 2 (1.74%) Firewall
2 2 (1.74%) LAN
2 2 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.22%) Power BI
2 4 (3.48%) MySQL
3 3 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (2.61%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.87%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.87%) Pentaho
5 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (6.96%) Git
2 6 (5.22%) Selenium
3 5 (4.35%) Subversion
3 5 (4.35%) TestRail
4 4 (3.48%) Zephyr
5 3 (2.61%) Postman
5 3 (2.61%) Toad
6 1 (0.87%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.87%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.87%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.87%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.87%) SoapUI
General
1 34 (29.57%) Law
2 27 (23.48%) Social Skills
3 19 (16.52%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (15.65%) Finance
5 9 (7.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (5.22%) Electronics
7 5 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.48%) Games
8 4 (3.48%) Legal
9 3 (2.61%) Billing
9 3 (2.61%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.74%) Banking
10 2 (1.74%) iGaming
10 2 (1.74%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.74%) Marketing
10 2 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.87%) Advertising
11 1 (0.87%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.87%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 33 (28.70%) Analyst
2 29 (25.22%) IT Support
3 19 (16.52%) Senior
4 17 (14.78%) IT Engineer
4 17 (14.78%) IT Support Engineer
4 17 (14.78%) Support Engineer
5 15 (13.04%) Lead
6 14 (12.17%) Business Analyst
7 13 (11.30%) Senior Analyst
8 11 (9.57%) 2nd Line Support
9 10 (8.70%) Product Owner
10 9 (7.83%) Support Analyst
11 7 (6.09%) Senior Business Analyst
12 6 (5.22%) Embedded Engineer
12 6 (5.22%) IT Analyst
12 6 (5.22%) IT Support Analyst
13 5 (4.35%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 5 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 5 (4.35%) Agile Product Owner
13 5 (4.35%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.22%) React
2 4 (3.48%) Laravel
2 4 (3.48%) React Native
3 3 (2.61%) XML
4 2 (1.74%) Node.js
4 2 (1.74%) Playwright
4 2 (1.74%) RESTful
5 1 (0.87%) Alpine.js
5 1 (0.87%) Bootstrap
5 1 (0.87%) CSS
5 1 (0.87%) HTML
5 1 (0.87%) JSON
5 1 (0.87%) LAMP
5 1 (0.87%) Next.js
5 1 (0.87%) Redux
5 1 (0.87%) REST
5 1 (0.87%) Symfony
5 1 (0.87%) Vue
5 1 (0.87%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 25 (21.74%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.35%) Embedded Systems
2 5 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.74%) CMDB
3 2 (1.74%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.74%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.87%) AI Agents
4 1 (0.87%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.87%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.87%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.74%) Windows
2 1 (0.87%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (65.22%) Agile
2 31 (26.96%) Continuous Improvement
3 22 (19.13%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (17.39%) Acceptance Criteria
4 20 (17.39%) ITSM
4 20 (17.39%) Root Cause Analysis
4 20 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 18 (15.65%) Backlog Refinement
6 17 (14.78%) DevOps
6 17 (14.78%) User Acceptance Testing
6 17 (14.78%) User Stories
7 16 (13.91%) Computer Science
7 16 (13.91%) Incident Management
7 16 (13.91%) Scrum
8 15 (13.04%) Decision-Making
8 15 (13.04%) Test Automation
9 14 (12.17%) Software Testing
10 13 (11.30%) Scenario Testing
10 13 (11.30%) Sprint Planning
11 12 (10.43%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 31 (26.96%) SQL
2 9 (7.83%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.48%) PHP
3 4 (3.48%) Python
3 4 (3.48%) TypeScript
4 3 (2.61%) Java
4 3 (2.61%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.74%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (0.87%) C
6 1 (0.87%) C++
6 1 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.87%) Embedded C
6 1 (0.87%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 27 (23.48%) Degree
2 12 (10.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (8.70%) Security Cleared
4 8 (6.96%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.48%) PMI Certification
5 4 (3.48%) PMP
6 3 (2.61%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.74%) CITP
8 1 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.87%) MySQL Certification
8 1 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (27.83%) QA
2 16 (13.91%) SLA
3 4 (3.48%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.61%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.61%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (1.74%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.74%) GDPR
5 2 (1.74%) PMO
6 1 (0.87%) GRC
6 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.87%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (1.74%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.74%) Docker
1 2 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (2.61%) HP ALM
1 3 (2.61%) Terraform
2 2 (1.74%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.87%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (15.65%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.83%) ServiceNow
3 8 (6.96%) Google
4 6 (5.22%) Cisco
4 6 (5.22%) Meraki
5 5 (4.35%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.48%) Oracle
7 3 (2.61%) HP
7 3 (2.61%) Zend
8 2 (1.74%) Logitech
8 2 (1.74%) Yealink
9 1 (0.87%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.87%) Denodo
9 1 (0.87%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.87%) IBM
9 1 (0.87%) Planon
9 1 (0.87%) Talend