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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 109 125
Rank change year-on-year -23 +16 -79
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 103 156 173
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.22% 2.55% 2.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 32.70% 30.71% 25.52%
Number of salaries quoted 76 97 148
10th Percentile £26,250 £36,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,772 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.60% +10.00% -2.87%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,125 £71,250 £75,772
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

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 315 508 678
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.75% 8.31% 8.28%
Number of salaries quoted 245 300 591
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £64,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,450 £75,000 £75,772
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.37% +4.58% -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 6 February 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 6 February 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 -19 59 £41,250 -28.26% 87
East Midlands -14 44 £49,500 +10.00% 30
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 38 (36.89%) Confluence
2 5 (4.85%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.97%) Appian
3 1 (0.97%) CMS
3 1 (0.97%) IIS
3 1 (0.97%) nginx
3 1 (0.97%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (4.85%) Microsoft Project
1 5 (4.85%) Trello
2 4 (3.88%) CATIA
3 1 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.97%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.97%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.97%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (4.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.97%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.97%) Maximo
2 1 (0.97%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 32 (31.07%) Azure
2 15 (14.56%) SaaS
3 12 (11.65%) AWS
4 10 (9.71%) Power Platform
5 9 (8.74%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (8.74%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (5.83%) GCP
7 5 (4.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (4.85%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.88%) IaaS
8 4 (3.88%) PaaS
8 4 (3.88%) Slack
9 3 (2.91%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.91%) Datadog
9 3 (2.91%) Firebase
10 2 (1.94%) Amazon ELB
10 2 (1.94%) Asana
10 2 (1.94%) AWS KMS
10 2 (1.94%) Smartsheet
10 2 (1.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.71%) Firewall
2 6 (5.83%) DNS
3 5 (4.85%) VPN
4 4 (3.88%) VLAN
5 2 (1.94%) FTP
5 2 (1.94%) HTTP
5 2 (1.94%) LAN
5 2 (1.94%) SMTP
5 2 (1.94%) SSH
5 2 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.97%) DHCP
6 1 (0.97%) IMAP
6 1 (0.97%) Modbus
6 1 (0.97%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.97%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.97%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.71%) Power BI
2 8 (7.77%) MySQL
3 5 (4.85%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.88%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.91%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.97%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.97%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 13 (12.62%) Git
2 5 (4.85%) Subversion
3 4 (3.88%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (2.91%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.94%) Postman
5 2 (1.94%) TestRail
5 2 (1.94%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.97%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.97%) GitLab
6 1 (0.97%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.97%) Selenium
6 1 (0.97%) Zephyr
General
1 28 (27.18%) Social Skills
2 25 (24.27%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (20.39%) Law
4 13 (12.62%) Finance
5 6 (5.83%) Electronics
5 6 (5.83%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.85%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.88%) Billing
7 4 (3.88%) Games
7 4 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.88%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.91%) Marketing
8 3 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.91%) Retail
9 2 (1.94%) Automotive
9 2 (1.94%) Legal
10 1 (0.97%) Advertising
10 1 (0.97%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.97%) Banking
10 1 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (22.33%) Analyst
2 17 (16.50%) IT Support
3 16 (15.53%) Senior
4 14 (13.59%) IT Engineer
4 14 (13.59%) Support Engineer
5 13 (12.62%) IT Support Engineer
6 12 (11.65%) Business Analyst
7 9 (8.74%) 2nd Line Support
7 9 (8.74%) Head of Support
7 9 (8.74%) Lead
8 7 (6.80%) Junior
8 7 (6.80%) Product Owner
9 6 (5.83%) Applications Support
9 6 (5.83%) Embedded Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) IT Analyst
10 5 (4.85%) Software Test Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Support Analyst
10 5 (4.85%) Systems Test Engineer
10 5 (4.85%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.83%) Laravel
2 5 (4.85%) HTML
3 4 (3.88%) CSS
4 3 (2.91%) .NET
4 3 (2.91%) Next.js
4 3 (2.91%) Node.js
4 3 (2.91%) React
4 3 (2.91%) React Native
4 3 (2.91%) Vue
4 3 (2.91%) XML
5 2 (1.94%) Playwright
5 2 (1.94%) REST
5 2 (1.94%) RESTful
6 1 (0.97%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.97%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (0.97%) CSS3
6 1 (0.97%) HTML5
6 1 (0.97%) JSON
6 1 (0.97%) OAuth
6 1 (0.97%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 18 (17.48%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.83%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.85%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (4.85%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.85%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.88%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.94%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.97%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.97%) CMDB
6 1 (0.97%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.97%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.97%) NHS
6 1 (0.97%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.97%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.97%) Replication
6 1 (0.97%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.91%) Linux
1 3 (2.91%) Windows
2 2 (1.94%) Amazon Linux
2 2 (1.94%) VMS
3 1 (0.97%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (57.28%) Agile
2 35 (33.98%) Continuous Improvement
3 30 (29.13%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (23.30%) Stakeholder Management
5 17 (16.50%) Incident Management
6 16 (15.53%) Project Management
6 16 (15.53%) User Acceptance Testing
7 15 (14.56%) Scrum
8 14 (13.59%) Acceptance Criteria
8 14 (13.59%) Decision-Making
8 14 (13.59%) User Stories
9 13 (12.62%) DevOps
9 13 (12.62%) Root Cause Analysis
9 13 (12.62%) Service Delivery
10 12 (11.65%) ITIL
10 12 (11.65%) ITSM
11 11 (10.68%) Business Intelligence
11 11 (10.68%) Customer Service
11 11 (10.68%) Sprint Planning
12 10 (9.71%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 20 (19.42%) SQL
2 6 (5.83%) PHP
3 5 (4.85%) PowerShell
3 5 (4.85%) Python
4 4 (3.88%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.91%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.94%) C#
6 2 (1.94%) Google Apps Script
6 2 (1.94%) Groovy
7 1 (0.97%) C
7 1 (0.97%) C++
7 1 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.97%) Embedded C
7 1 (0.97%) Java
7 1 (0.97%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.97%) Perl
Qualifications
1 28 (27.18%) Degree
2 9 (8.74%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (7.77%) PMI Certification
3 8 (7.77%) PMP
3 8 (7.77%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.88%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.97%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.97%) CITP
6 1 (0.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.97%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.97%) MySQL Certification
6 1 (0.97%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (20.39%) QA
2 15 (14.56%) SLA
3 7 (6.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 3 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 3 (2.91%) PMO
5 2 (1.94%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.94%) GDPR
6 1 (0.97%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.97%) GRC
6 1 (0.97%) NIST
6 1 (0.97%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.97%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (8.74%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.88%) Hyper-V
2 4 (3.88%) vSphere
3 3 (2.91%) Docker
3 3 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.97%) DFS Replication
4 1 (0.97%) Dovecot
4 1 (0.97%) Postfix
4 1 (0.97%) Squid
Systems Management
1 7 (6.80%) Terraform
2 2 (1.94%) Grafana
2 2 (1.94%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.97%) Ansible
3 1 (0.97%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.97%) Nessus
3 1 (0.97%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 25 (24.27%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.74%) ServiceNow
3 6 (5.83%) Google
4 5 (4.85%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.88%) Cisco
5 4 (3.88%) IBM
5 4 (3.88%) SonicWALL
6 3 (2.91%) Zend
7 2 (1.94%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.94%) Logitech
7 2 (1.94%) Oracle
7 2 (1.94%) Yealink
8 1 (0.97%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.97%) Denodo
8 1 (0.97%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.97%) Jaspersoft
8 1 (0.97%) Planon
8 1 (0.97%) Talend