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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 103 116
Rank change year-on-year -22 +13 -70
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 107 155 158
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.32% 2.48% 2.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.97% 29.69% 25.94%
Number of salaries quoted 79 95 136
10th Percentile £26,250 £36,250 £33,375
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.89% +1.90% +3.96%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,750 £67,950 £75,772
England median annual salary £55,660 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.23% - -

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 306 522 609
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.77% 8.36% 8.31%
Number of salaries quoted 235 302 526
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £33,125 £42,125 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £75,772
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% 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 25 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 25 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 -12 64 £44,543 -22.53% 76
East Midlands -3 43 £50,750 +6.84% 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 39 (36.45%) Confluence
2 5 (4.67%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.80%) nginx
4 1 (0.93%) Appian
4 1 (0.93%) CMS
4 1 (0.93%) IIS
4 1 (0.93%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (5.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (5.61%) Trello
2 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (3.74%) CATIA
4 3 (2.80%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.93%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (4.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.87%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.93%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.93%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 34 (31.78%) Azure
2 17 (15.89%) SaaS
3 16 (14.95%) AWS
4 11 (10.28%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (9.35%) Power Platform
6 9 (8.41%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (7.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (5.61%) GCP
9 5 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (4.67%) Amazon ELB
9 5 (4.67%) Amazon S3
9 5 (4.67%) AWS KMS
9 5 (4.67%) Entra ID
9 5 (4.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (3.74%) IaaS
10 4 (3.74%) PaaS
10 4 (3.74%) Slack
11 3 (2.80%) Datadog
11 3 (2.80%) Firebase
11 3 (2.80%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 14 (13.08%) Firewall
2 10 (9.35%) DNS
3 6 (5.61%) HTTP
4 5 (4.67%) FTP
4 5 (4.67%) SMTP
4 5 (4.67%) SSH
4 5 (4.67%) VLAN
4 5 (4.67%) VPN
5 3 (2.80%) IMAP
5 3 (2.80%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (1.87%) DHCP
6 2 (1.87%) LAN
6 2 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.93%) Modbus
7 1 (0.93%) SAN
7 1 (0.93%) SSL
7 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.93%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.35%) Power BI
2 9 (8.41%) MySQL
3 7 (6.54%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.67%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (3.74%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.74%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.80%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (1.87%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.93%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 17 (15.89%) Git
2 7 (6.54%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.67%) Subversion
3 5 (4.67%) Vagrant
4 4 (3.74%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (1.87%) GitLab
5 2 (1.87%) Postman
5 2 (1.87%) TestRail
6 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.93%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.93%) Selenium
6 1 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.93%) Zephyr
General
1 31 (28.97%) Social Skills
2 24 (22.43%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (17.76%) Law
4 13 (12.15%) Finance
5 8 (7.48%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.61%) Electronics
7 5 (4.67%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.67%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (3.74%) Billing
8 4 (3.74%) Games
8 4 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.74%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.74%) Marketing
9 3 (2.80%) Retail
10 2 (1.87%) Automotive
10 2 (1.87%) Legal
11 1 (0.93%) Advertising
11 1 (0.93%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.93%) Banking
11 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (19.63%) Analyst
2 17 (15.89%) Senior
3 15 (14.02%) IT Support
4 13 (12.15%) IT Engineer
4 13 (12.15%) Support Engineer
5 12 (11.21%) IT Support Engineer
6 11 (10.28%) Business Analyst
7 10 (9.35%) Lead
7 10 (9.35%) Product Owner
8 9 (8.41%) 2nd Line Support
8 9 (8.41%) Head of Support
9 7 (6.54%) Junior
10 6 (5.61%) Applications Support
10 6 (5.61%) Embedded Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) Developer
11 5 (4.67%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) Software Test Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) Systems Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.61%) HTML
1 6 (5.61%) Laravel
2 5 (4.67%) CSS
3 4 (3.74%) .NET
4 3 (2.80%) LDAP
4 3 (2.80%) Next.js
4 3 (2.80%) Node.js
4 3 (2.80%) React
4 3 (2.80%) React Native
4 3 (2.80%) REST
4 3 (2.80%) Vue
4 3 (2.80%) XML
5 2 (1.87%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.87%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.87%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.87%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (1.87%) CSS3
5 2 (1.87%) HTML5
5 2 (1.87%) Playwright
5 2 (1.87%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.69%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.61%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.67%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.67%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.74%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.80%) Replication
6 2 (1.87%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.93%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.93%) CMDB
7 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.93%) NHS
7 1 (0.93%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.93%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.54%) Linux
2 6 (5.61%) Windows
3 5 (4.67%) Amazon Linux
3 5 (4.67%) VMS
4 4 (3.74%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (55.14%) Agile
2 34 (31.78%) Continuous Improvement
3 32 (29.91%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (21.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 17 (15.89%) DevOps
6 16 (14.95%) Project Management
7 15 (14.02%) Incident Management
7 15 (14.02%) User Acceptance Testing
7 15 (14.02%) User Stories
8 14 (13.08%) Acceptance Criteria
8 14 (13.08%) Scrum
9 13 (12.15%) CI/CD
9 13 (12.15%) Decision-Making
9 13 (12.15%) Service Delivery
9 13 (12.15%) Sprint Planning
10 12 (11.21%) ITIL
11 11 (10.28%) Business Intelligence
11 11 (10.28%) CRM
11 11 (10.28%) Customer Service
11 11 (10.28%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 21 (19.63%) SQL
2 9 (8.41%) Python
3 8 (7.48%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.61%) PHP
5 5 (4.67%) Groovy
5 5 (4.67%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.74%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.80%) C#
8 2 (1.87%) Google Apps Script
8 2 (1.87%) Java
8 2 (1.87%) Perl
9 1 (0.93%) C
9 1 (0.93%) C++
9 1 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.93%) Embedded C
9 1 (0.93%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (28.97%) Degree
2 11 (10.28%) SC Cleared
2 11 (10.28%) Security Cleared
3 9 (8.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (7.48%) PMI Certification
4 8 (7.48%) PMP
5 4 (3.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.74%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.80%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.80%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.93%) CITP
7 1 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.93%) MySQL Certification
7 1 (0.93%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (20.56%) QA
2 13 (12.15%) SLA
3 7 (6.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 3 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 3 (2.80%) PMO
5 2 (1.87%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.87%) GDPR
6 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.93%) GRC
6 1 (0.93%) NIST
6 1 (0.93%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.93%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (9.35%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.54%) Docker
3 4 (3.74%) Hyper-V
3 4 (3.74%) vSphere
4 3 (2.80%) DFS Replication
4 3 (2.80%) Dovecot
4 3 (2.80%) Postfix
4 3 (2.80%) Squid
4 3 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (9.35%) Terraform
2 5 (4.67%) Grafana
2 5 (4.67%) Prometheus
3 4 (3.74%) Nessus
4 3 (2.80%) Proxmox
5 2 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.93%) Ansible
6 1 (0.93%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.93%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (24.30%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.21%) ServiceNow
3 6 (5.61%) Google
3 6 (5.61%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.74%) Cisco
4 4 (3.74%) IBM
4 4 (3.74%) SonicWALL
5 3 (2.80%) Jaspersoft
5 3 (2.80%) Oracle
5 3 (2.80%) Zend
6 2 (1.87%) Logitech
6 2 (1.87%) Yealink
7 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.93%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.93%) Denodo
7 1 (0.93%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.93%) Planon
7 1 (0.93%) Talend
7 1 (0.93%) VMware