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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 60 135
Rank change year-on-year -92 +75 -63
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 107 233 222
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.80% 4.13% 1.74%
As % of the Development Applications category 31.20% 51.10% 29.48%
Number of salaries quoted 93 136 152
10th Percentile £24,750 £26,601 £25,100
25th Percentile £26,437 £37,188 £36,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +15.79% -15.93%
75th Percentile £57,500 £73,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,000 - £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 343 456 753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.57% 8.09% 5.90%
Number of salaries quoted 247 292 547
10th Percentile £26,475 £32,625 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £67,375 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,986 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year -3.85% +10.73% -9.69%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -91 54 £46,250 -28.85% 32
East Midlands -40 53 £26,750 -25.69% 17
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 37 (34.58%) Confluence
2 4 (3.74%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.93%) CMS
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (5.61%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.93%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.93%) Sketch
3 1 (0.93%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.93%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (28.97%) Azure
2 17 (15.89%) AWS
3 11 (10.28%) SaaS
4 9 (8.41%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (7.48%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (4.67%) GCP
6 5 (4.67%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.80%) ClickUp
7 3 (2.80%) Siteimprove
8 2 (1.87%) GitHub
9 1 (0.93%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.93%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.93%) Figma
9 1 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.93%) Lucidchart
9 1 (0.93%) Miro
9 1 (0.93%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.61%) DHCP
1 6 (5.61%) DNS
2 5 (4.67%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.80%) Firewall
3 3 (2.80%) VLAN
3 3 (2.80%) VPN
4 2 (1.87%) LAN
4 2 (1.87%) WAN
5 1 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.93%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 5 (4.67%) Power BI
2 4 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.80%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.93%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.93%) Metadata
4 1 (0.93%) Power Query
4 1 (0.93%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (9.35%) Git
2 7 (6.54%) Selenium
3 6 (5.61%) Zephyr
4 5 (4.67%) Postman
5 4 (3.74%) GitLab
5 4 (3.74%) TestRail
5 4 (3.74%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.80%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.80%) SoapUI
6 3 (2.80%) Toad
7 2 (1.87%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.87%) JMeter
7 2 (1.87%) Subversion
8 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.93%) Bugzilla
General
1 32 (29.91%) Social Skills
2 25 (23.36%) Law
3 15 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (12.15%) Finance
5 11 (10.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.74%) Games
6 4 (3.74%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.74%) Retail
7 3 (2.80%) Banking
7 3 (2.80%) iGaming
7 3 (2.80%) Legal
7 3 (2.80%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.87%) Marketing
9 1 (0.93%) Automotive
9 1 (0.93%) Billing
9 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (28.97%) Analyst
2 22 (20.56%) IT Support
3 16 (14.95%) Senior
4 12 (11.21%) Senior Analyst
5 11 (10.28%) Business Analyst
6 10 (9.35%) IT Engineer
6 10 (9.35%) Support Engineer
7 9 (8.41%) 2nd Line Support
7 9 (8.41%) IT Support Engineer
8 8 (7.48%) Product Owner
8 8 (7.48%) Support Analyst
9 7 (6.54%) Lead
9 7 (6.54%) Project Manager
10 5 (4.67%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.74%) Applications Support
11 4 (3.74%) Applications Support Analyst
11 4 (3.74%) Data Analyst
11 4 (3.74%) IT Support Analyst
11 4 (3.74%) Senior Business Analyst
11 4 (3.74%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.28%) React
2 4 (3.74%) Middleware
2 4 (3.74%) REST
3 3 (2.80%) JSON
3 3 (2.80%) Node.js
3 3 (2.80%) Playwright
3 3 (2.80%) React Native
3 3 (2.80%) XML
4 2 (1.87%) ADO
4 2 (1.87%) Express.js
4 2 (1.87%) Fastify
4 2 (1.87%) SOAP
5 1 (0.93%) .NET
5 1 (0.93%) Bootstrap
5 1 (0.93%) CSS
5 1 (0.93%) CSS3
5 1 (0.93%) HTML
5 1 (0.93%) HTML5
5 1 (0.93%) Sass
5 1 (0.93%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.76%) Product Ownership
2 9 (8.41%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.61%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.74%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.80%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.80%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.87%) CMDB
7 1 (0.93%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.93%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.93%) PKI
7 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.28%) Windows
2 6 (5.61%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.74%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.87%) Android
5 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.93%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (58.88%) Agile
2 22 (20.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 21 (19.63%) ITSM
4 20 (18.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 20 (18.69%) DevOps
4 20 (18.69%) Root Cause Analysis
5 18 (16.82%) Computer Science
6 17 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (15.89%) Service Management
7 15 (14.02%) Decision-Making
8 14 (13.08%) Acceptance Criteria
9 13 (12.15%) Incident Management
9 13 (12.15%) Scrum
9 13 (12.15%) SDLC
9 13 (12.15%) User Stories
10 12 (11.21%) Backlog Refinement
10 12 (11.21%) CI/CD
10 12 (11.21%) Requirements Gathering
10 12 (11.21%) Software Engineering
11 11 (10.28%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 33 (30.84%) SQL
2 11 (10.28%) PowerShell
3 7 (6.54%) Java
4 6 (5.61%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.67%) C++
6 4 (3.74%) C#
7 3 (2.80%) Python
8 2 (1.87%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.93%) C
9 1 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 33 (30.84%) Degree
2 11 (10.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (9.35%) Security Cleared
4 8 (7.48%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (6.54%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.80%) CCNA
6 3 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.80%) CITP
6 3 (2.80%) ISEB
6 3 (2.80%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.87%) ACCA
7 2 (1.87%) CIMA
7 2 (1.87%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.87%) PMP
8 1 (0.93%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.93%) MCSE
8 1 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.93%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (24.30%) QA
2 13 (12.15%) SLA
3 5 (4.67%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.80%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.80%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (1.87%) GDPR
5 2 (1.87%) PMO
6 1 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.93%) GRC
6 1 (0.93%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.80%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.80%) Embedded Firmware
1 3 (2.80%) Firmware
2 2 (1.87%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.93%) Docker
3 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.93%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (2.80%) HP ALM
2 2 (1.87%) BMC PATROL
2 2 (1.87%) Control-M
2 2 (1.87%) Terraform
2 2 (1.87%) WhatsUp Gold
3 1 (0.93%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.93%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.93%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (13.08%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.21%) ServiceNow
3 10 (9.35%) Cisco
4 8 (7.48%) Meraki
5 7 (6.54%) SAP
6 6 (5.61%) Oracle
7 4 (3.74%) Google
7 4 (3.74%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.80%) Adobe
8 3 (2.80%) HP
8 3 (2.80%) VMware
9 2 (1.87%) BMC
9 2 (1.87%) Pega
9 2 (1.87%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.93%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.93%) Cognos
10 1 (0.93%) Freshdesk
10 1 (0.93%) Planon