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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 90 118
Rank change year-on-year -39 +28 -67
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 119 147 214
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.13% 3.08% 2.05%
As % of the Development Applications category 31.90% 36.84% 26.35%
Number of salaries quoted 95 124 164
10th Percentile £24,750 £21,836 £26,000
25th Percentile £26,250 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,500 £52,500 £49,329
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +6.43% -10.31%
75th Percentile £61,375 £67,688 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,250 £71,250 £75,772
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 373 399 812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.54% 8.36% 7.79%
Number of salaries quoted 285 320 673
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £39,788
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +7.84% -7.27%
75th Percentile £64,750 £65,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,450 £75,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.73% +5.00% -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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -36 62 £44,543 -31.47% 42
East Midlands -37 57 £42,500 +13.33% 28
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 45 (37.82%) Confluence
2 7 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.84%) CMS
3 1 (0.84%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Project
1 4 (3.36%) Trello
2 1 (0.84%) CATIA
2 1 (0.84%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.84%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.84%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (4.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.84%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.84%) Maximo
2 1 (0.84%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (34.45%) Azure
2 17 (14.29%) AWS
3 15 (12.61%) SaaS
4 11 (9.24%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (8.40%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (6.72%) GCP
7 6 (5.04%) Power Platform
8 4 (3.36%) Slack
9 3 (2.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.52%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.52%) ClickUp
9 3 (2.52%) Datadog
9 3 (2.52%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.52%) Firebase
9 3 (2.52%) IaaS
9 3 (2.52%) PaaS
10 2 (1.68%) Asana
10 2 (1.68%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.84%) Miro
11 1 (0.84%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.20%) Firewall
1 5 (4.20%) VPN
2 3 (2.52%) DNS
3 2 (1.68%) LAN
3 2 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.84%) Modbus
4 1 (0.84%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.04%) MySQL
1 6 (5.04%) Power BI
2 4 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (2.52%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.84%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.84%) Pentaho
4 1 (0.84%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (10.08%) Git
2 5 (4.20%) Subversion
3 4 (3.36%) Selenium
4 3 (2.52%) Postman
4 3 (2.52%) TestRail
5 2 (1.68%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.68%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.84%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.84%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.84%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.84%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.84%) Toad
General
1 33 (27.73%) Law
2 29 (24.37%) Social Skills
3 22 (18.49%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (14.29%) Finance
5 7 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (5.04%) Electronics
7 5 (4.20%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.36%) Billing
8 4 (3.36%) Games
8 4 (3.36%) Legal
8 4 (3.36%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.52%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.68%) Banking
10 2 (1.68%) Marketing
10 2 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.68%) Retail
11 1 (0.84%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.84%) Automotive
11 1 (0.84%) iGaming
11 1 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (26.05%) Analyst
2 29 (24.37%) IT Support
3 19 (15.97%) IT Engineer
4 18 (15.13%) IT Support Engineer
4 18 (15.13%) Support Engineer
5 17 (14.29%) Senior
6 15 (12.61%) Lead
7 14 (11.76%) Business Analyst
8 11 (9.24%) 2nd Line Support
9 10 (8.40%) Product Owner
10 9 (7.56%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (6.72%) Support Analyst
12 7 (5.88%) Junior
13 6 (5.04%) Embedded Engineer
13 6 (5.04%) IT Analyst
13 6 (5.04%) IT Support Analyst
14 5 (4.20%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 5 (4.20%) Agile Product Owner
14 5 (4.20%) Software Test Engineer
14 5 (4.20%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.88%) React
2 6 (5.04%) Laravel
3 5 (4.20%) React Native
4 4 (3.36%) Node.js
5 3 (2.52%) CSS
5 3 (2.52%) HTML
5 3 (2.52%) Next.js
5 3 (2.52%) Vue
5 3 (2.52%) XML
6 2 (1.68%) Playwright
6 2 (1.68%) RESTful
7 1 (0.84%) .NET
7 1 (0.84%) Alpine.js
7 1 (0.84%) Bootstrap
7 1 (0.84%) JSON
7 1 (0.84%) LAMP
7 1 (0.84%) Redux
7 1 (0.84%) REST
7 1 (0.84%) Symfony
7 1 (0.84%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 27 (22.69%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.04%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.20%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (4.20%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.52%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.68%) CMDB
5 2 (1.68%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.84%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.84%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.84%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.84%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.84%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.84%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.84%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.84%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.68%) Windows
2 1 (0.84%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (64.71%) Agile
2 31 (26.05%) Continuous Improvement
3 26 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (17.65%) Acceptance Criteria
4 21 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (16.81%) ITSM
5 20 (16.81%) Scrum
5 20 (16.81%) User Acceptance Testing
6 18 (15.13%) User Stories
7 17 (14.29%) DevOps
7 17 (14.29%) Incident Management
7 17 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
8 16 (13.45%) Backlog Refinement
9 15 (12.61%) Computer Science
9 15 (12.61%) Decision-Making
9 15 (12.61%) Sprint Planning
10 13 (10.92%) CI/CD
10 13 (10.92%) Test Automation
11 12 (10.08%) Software Testing
12 11 (9.24%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 28 (23.53%) SQL
2 8 (6.72%) PowerShell
3 6 (5.04%) PHP
4 5 (4.20%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.36%) Python
5 4 (3.36%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.52%) Java
7 2 (1.68%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.84%) C
8 1 (0.84%) C#
8 1 (0.84%) C++
8 1 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.84%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.84%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 25 (21.01%) Degree
2 13 (10.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (9.24%) Security Cleared
4 9 (7.56%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.36%) ISTQB
5 4 (3.36%) PMI Certification
5 4 (3.36%) PMP
6 3 (2.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.68%) CITP
8 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.84%) MySQL Certification
8 1 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (26.05%) QA
2 17 (14.29%) SLA
3 3 (2.52%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.68%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.68%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.68%) GDPR
4 2 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.84%) GRC
5 1 (0.84%) NIST
5 1 (0.84%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.84%) PMO
5 1 (0.84%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.84%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (3.36%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.68%) Docker
4 1 (0.84%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.84%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (3.36%) Terraform
2 2 (1.68%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.84%) Ansible
3 1 (0.84%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.84%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (18.49%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.40%) ServiceNow
3 7 (5.88%) Google
4 6 (5.04%) Cisco
5 5 (4.20%) Meraki
5 5 (4.20%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.52%) Zend
7 2 (1.68%) Logitech
7 2 (1.68%) Oracle
7 2 (1.68%) Yealink
8 1 (0.84%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.84%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.84%) Denodo
8 1 (0.84%) HP
8 1 (0.84%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.84%) IBM
8 1 (0.84%) Planon
8 1 (0.84%) SonicWALL
8 1 (0.84%) Talend