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

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 87 127
Rank change year-on-year -52 +40 -70
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 120 148 219
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.01% 3.08% 1.98%
As % of the Development Applications category 31.09% 34.82% 26.58%
Number of salaries quoted 98 122 162
10th Percentile £24,750 £21,445 £26,000
25th Percentile £26,344 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,543 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.16% +10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £61,500 £68,063 £62,875
90th Percentile £82,875 £71,250 £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 386 425 824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.24% 8.84% 7.45%
Number of salaries quoted 298 322 675
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,813 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.27% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 15 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 15 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 -49 63 £44,543 -30.13% 38
East Midlands -34 57 £42,500 +16.44% 22
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 47 (39.17%) Confluence
2 8 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.83%) CMS
3 1 (0.83%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.33%) Trello
3 1 (0.83%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.83%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.83%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.83%) Maximo
2 1 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 43 (35.83%) Azure
2 18 (15.00%) AWS
3 14 (11.67%) SaaS
4 12 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (8.33%) GCP
5 10 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (5.00%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.33%) Slack
8 3 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.50%) ClickUp
8 3 (2.50%) Datadog
8 3 (2.50%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.50%) IaaS
8 3 (2.50%) PaaS
8 3 (2.50%) Siteimprove
9 2 (1.67%) Asana
9 2 (1.67%) Firebase
9 2 (1.67%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.83%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.17%) VPN
2 4 (3.33%) Firewall
3 3 (2.50%) DNS
4 2 (1.67%) LAN
4 2 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.83%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.00%) Power BI
2 5 (4.17%) MySQL
3 3 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.50%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.67%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.83%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.83%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 10 (8.33%) Git
2 6 (5.00%) Selenium
3 5 (4.17%) Subversion
3 5 (4.17%) TestRail
4 4 (3.33%) Zephyr
5 3 (2.50%) Postman
5 3 (2.50%) Toad
6 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.83%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.83%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.83%) SoapUI
General
1 34 (28.33%) Law
2 30 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 21 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (15.83%) Finance
5 9 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (5.00%) Electronics
7 5 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.33%) Billing
8 4 (3.33%) Games
8 4 (3.33%) Legal
8 4 (3.33%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.50%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.67%) Banking
10 2 (1.67%) iGaming
10 2 (1.67%) Marketing
10 2 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.83%) Advertising
11 1 (0.83%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.83%) Retail
Job Titles
1 35 (29.17%) Analyst
2 30 (25.00%) IT Support
3 19 (15.83%) Senior
4 18 (15.00%) IT Engineer
4 18 (15.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 18 (15.00%) Support Engineer
5 16 (13.33%) Business Analyst
6 15 (12.50%) Lead
7 13 (10.83%) Senior Analyst
8 11 (9.17%) 2nd Line Support
9 9 (7.50%) Product Owner
9 9 (7.50%) Support Analyst
10 7 (5.83%) Junior
10 7 (5.83%) Senior Business Analyst
11 6 (5.00%) Embedded Engineer
11 6 (5.00%) IT Analyst
11 6 (5.00%) IT Support Analyst
12 5 (4.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 5 (4.17%) Software Test Engineer
12 5 (4.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.00%) React
2 5 (4.17%) Laravel
3 4 (3.33%) React Native
4 3 (2.50%) Node.js
4 3 (2.50%) XML
5 2 (1.67%) CSS
5 2 (1.67%) HTML
5 2 (1.67%) Next.js
5 2 (1.67%) Playwright
5 2 (1.67%) RESTful
5 2 (1.67%) Vue
6 1 (0.83%) Alpine.js
6 1 (0.83%) Bootstrap
6 1 (0.83%) JSON
6 1 (0.83%) LAMP
6 1 (0.83%) Redux
6 1 (0.83%) REST
6 1 (0.83%) Symfony
6 1 (0.83%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 26 (21.67%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.17%) Embedded Systems
2 5 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.50%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.67%) CMDB
4 2 (1.67%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.83%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.83%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.83%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.83%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.67%) Windows
2 1 (0.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (65.83%) Agile
2 31 (25.83%) Continuous Improvement
3 24 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (18.33%) Acceptance Criteria
4 22 (18.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (16.67%) ITSM
5 20 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
6 19 (15.83%) User Acceptance Testing
6 19 (15.83%) User Stories
7 18 (15.00%) Backlog Refinement
7 18 (15.00%) DevOps
7 18 (15.00%) Scrum
8 17 (14.17%) Computer Science
8 17 (14.17%) Decision-Making
8 17 (14.17%) Incident Management
9 15 (12.50%) Test Automation
10 13 (10.83%) Requirements Gathering
10 13 (10.83%) Scenario Testing
10 13 (10.83%) Software Testing
10 13 (10.83%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 31 (25.83%) SQL
2 9 (7.50%) PowerShell
3 5 (4.17%) PHP
4 4 (3.33%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.33%) Python
4 4 (3.33%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.50%) Java
6 2 (1.67%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.83%) C
7 1 (0.83%) C++
7 1 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.83%) Embedded C
7 1 (0.83%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 28 (23.33%) Degree
2 13 (10.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (9.17%) Security Cleared
4 9 (7.50%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.33%) PMI Certification
5 4 (3.33%) PMP
6 3 (2.50%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.67%) CITP
8 1 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.83%) MySQL Certification
8 1 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (26.67%) QA
2 17 (14.17%) SLA
3 4 (3.33%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.50%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.67%) GDPR
5 2 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.67%) PMO
6 1 (0.83%) GRC
6 1 (0.83%) NIST
6 1 (0.83%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.83%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.50%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.33%) Terraform
2 3 (2.50%) HP ALM
3 2 (1.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.83%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 9 (7.50%) Google
4 6 (5.00%) Cisco
4 6 (5.00%) Meraki
5 5 (4.17%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.33%) Oracle
7 3 (2.50%) HP
7 3 (2.50%) Zend
8 2 (1.67%) Logitech
8 2 (1.67%) Yealink
9 1 (0.83%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.83%) Denodo
9 1 (0.83%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.83%) IBM
9 1 (0.83%) Planon
9 1 (0.83%) Talend