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

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 85 121
Rank change year-on-year -64 +36 -64
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 114 151 235
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.91% 3.08% 2.05%
As % of the Development Applications category 29.92% 35.36% 28.08%
Number of salaries quoted 95 123 174
10th Percentile £24,750 £21,640 £26,000
25th Percentile £29,563 £35,625 £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 £62,625 £69,750 £62,200
90th Percentile £83,250 £72,250 £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 381 427 837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.04% 8.71% 7.30%
Number of salaries quoted 293 322 678
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £34,700
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £54,344 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% +8.69% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £63,750
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 26 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 26 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 -67 59 £44,543 -25.76% 41
East Midlands -49 55 £42,500 +13.33% 15
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 (38.60%) Confluence
2 8 (7.02%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.88%) CMS
3 1 (0.88%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.63%) Trello
4 1 (0.88%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.88%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (4.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.88%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.88%) Maximo
2 1 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (33.33%) Azure
2 16 (14.04%) AWS
3 11 (9.65%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (9.65%) SaaS
4 10 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (7.89%) GCP
6 6 (5.26%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.51%) Slack
8 3 (2.63%) ClickUp
8 3 (2.63%) Siteimprove
9 2 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.75%) Datadog
9 2 (1.75%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.75%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.75%) IaaS
9 2 (1.75%) PaaS
10 1 (0.88%) Asana
10 1 (0.88%) Lucidchart
10 1 (0.88%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.51%) VPN
2 2 (1.75%) DNS
2 2 (1.75%) Firewall
2 2 (1.75%) LAN
2 2 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.26%) Power BI
2 3 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (2.63%) MySQL
2 3 (2.63%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.88%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.88%) Pentaho
3 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (6.14%) Git
2 6 (5.26%) Selenium
2 6 (5.26%) Subversion
3 5 (4.39%) TestRail
4 4 (3.51%) Zephyr
5 3 (2.63%) Postman
5 3 (2.63%) Toad
6 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.88%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.88%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.88%) SoapUI
General
1 34 (29.82%) Law
2 25 (21.93%) Social Skills
3 19 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (14.91%) Finance
5 9 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (5.26%) Electronics
7 5 (4.39%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.51%) Games
8 4 (3.51%) Legal
9 3 (2.63%) Billing
9 3 (2.63%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.63%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.75%) Banking
10 2 (1.75%) iGaming
10 2 (1.75%) Marketing
10 2 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.75%) Retail
11 1 (0.88%) Advertising
11 1 (0.88%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 33 (28.95%) Analyst
2 29 (25.44%) IT Support
3 19 (16.67%) Senior
4 17 (14.91%) IT Engineer
4 17 (14.91%) IT Support Engineer
4 17 (14.91%) Support Engineer
5 15 (13.16%) Lead
6 14 (12.28%) Business Analyst
7 12 (10.53%) Senior Analyst
8 11 (9.65%) 2nd Line Support
9 10 (8.77%) Product Owner
10 9 (7.89%) Support Analyst
11 6 (5.26%) Embedded Engineer
11 6 (5.26%) IT Analyst
11 6 (5.26%) IT Support Analyst
11 6 (5.26%) Senior Business Analyst
12 5 (4.39%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 5 (4.39%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 5 (4.39%) Software Test Engineer
12 5 (4.39%) Systems Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.39%) React
2 3 (2.63%) Laravel
2 3 (2.63%) React Native
3 2 (1.75%) Playwright
3 2 (1.75%) RESTful
3 2 (1.75%) XML
4 1 (0.88%) Alpine.js
4 1 (0.88%) Bootstrap
4 1 (0.88%) JSON
4 1 (0.88%) LAMP
4 1 (0.88%) Node.js
4 1 (0.88%) Redux
4 1 (0.88%) REST
4 1 (0.88%) Symfony
4 1 (0.88%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 24 (21.05%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.26%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (4.39%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.39%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.75%) CMDB
5 1 (0.88%) AI Agents
5 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.88%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.75%) Windows
2 1 (0.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (64.91%) Agile
2 31 (27.19%) Continuous Improvement
3 21 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (17.54%) ITSM
4 20 (17.54%) Root Cause Analysis
4 20 (17.54%) Stakeholder Management
5 18 (15.79%) Acceptance Criteria
5 18 (15.79%) Backlog Refinement
6 17 (14.91%) DevOps
6 17 (14.91%) User Stories
7 16 (14.04%) Incident Management
7 16 (14.04%) User Acceptance Testing
8 15 (13.16%) Computer Science
8 15 (13.16%) Decision-Making
8 15 (13.16%) Scrum
9 14 (12.28%) Software Testing
9 14 (12.28%) Test Automation
10 13 (11.40%) Sprint Planning
11 12 (10.53%) Requirements Gathering
11 12 (10.53%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (26.32%) SQL
2 9 (7.89%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.51%) Python
3 4 (3.51%) TypeScript
4 3 (2.63%) Java
4 3 (2.63%) PHP
5 2 (1.75%) Google Apps Script
5 2 (1.75%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.88%) C
6 1 (0.88%) C++
6 1 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.88%) Embedded C
6 1 (0.88%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 26 (22.81%) Degree
2 11 (9.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (8.77%) Security Cleared
4 8 (7.02%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.51%) PMI Certification
5 4 (3.51%) PMP
6 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.75%) CITP
7 2 (1.75%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.88%) MySQL Certification
8 1 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (26.32%) QA
2 16 (14.04%) SLA
3 4 (3.51%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.63%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.63%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.75%) GDPR
5 2 (1.75%) PMO
6 1 (0.88%) GRC
6 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (1.75%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.75%) Docker
1 2 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.88%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (2.63%) HP ALM
1 3 (2.63%) Terraform
2 2 (1.75%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.89%) ServiceNow
3 8 (7.02%) Google
4 6 (5.26%) Cisco
4 6 (5.26%) Meraki
5 5 (4.39%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.51%) Oracle
7 3 (2.63%) HP
7 3 (2.63%) Zend
8 2 (1.75%) Logitech
8 2 (1.75%) Yealink
9 1 (0.88%) Adobe
9 1 (0.88%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.88%) Denodo
9 1 (0.88%) IBM
9 1 (0.88%) Planon
9 1 (0.88%) Talend