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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 81 128
Rank change year-on-year -65 +47 -72
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 114 155 232
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.89% 3.11% 2.02%
As % of the Development Applications category 30.24% 36.13% 27.75%
Number of salaries quoted 98 125 171
10th Percentile £24,750 £22,031 £26,000
25th Percentile £33,125 £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 £65,000 £71,250 £62,200
90th Percentile £82,875 £72,500 £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 377 429 836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.96% 8.61% 7.26%
Number of salaries quoted 292 323 675
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,750 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,250 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,625 £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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -57 60 £45,000 -25.00% 54
East Midlands -34 54 £42,500 +13.33% 19
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 43 (37.72%) 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 2 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.88%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.88%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (4.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.88%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 36 (31.58%) Azure
2 15 (13.16%) AWS
3 11 (9.65%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (9.65%) SaaS
4 10 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (6.14%) 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%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.88%) Asana
10 1 (0.88%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (0.88%) Datadog
10 1 (0.88%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.88%) GitHub
10 1 (0.88%) IaaS
10 1 (0.88%) Oracle Service Cloud
10 1 (0.88%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.63%) VPN
2 2 (1.75%) LAN
2 2 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.88%) DNS
3 1 (0.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.26%) Power BI
2 4 (3.51%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (2.63%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.75%) MySQL
5 1 (0.88%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.88%) Metadata
5 1 (0.88%) Pentaho
5 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.88%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (5.26%) Git
1 6 (5.26%) Selenium
1 6 (5.26%) Subversion
2 5 (4.39%) TestRail
3 3 (2.63%) Postman
3 3 (2.63%) Toad
3 3 (2.63%) Zephyr
4 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.88%) Bugzilla
4 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.88%) PHPUnit
4 1 (0.88%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.88%) SoapUI
General
1 34 (29.82%) Law
2 27 (23.68%) Social Skills
3 20 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (14.91%) Finance
5 9 (7.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (5.26%) Electronics
7 4 (3.51%) Games
7 4 (3.51%) Legal
8 3 (2.63%) Billing
8 3 (2.63%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.63%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.75%) Banking
9 2 (1.75%) iGaming
9 2 (1.75%) Marketing
9 2 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.75%) Retail
10 1 (0.88%) Advertising
10 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (27.19%) Analyst
2 28 (24.56%) IT Support
3 19 (16.67%) Senior
4 16 (14.04%) IT Engineer
4 16 (14.04%) IT Support Engineer
4 16 (14.04%) Support Engineer
5 15 (13.16%) Lead
6 13 (11.40%) Business Analyst
7 12 (10.53%) Senior Analyst
8 11 (9.65%) 2nd Line Support
8 11 (9.65%) Product Owner
9 9 (7.89%) Support Analyst
10 6 (5.26%) Embedded Engineer
10 6 (5.26%) IT Analyst
10 6 (5.26%) IT Support Analyst
10 6 (5.26%) Senior Business Analyst
10 6 (5.26%) Test Engineer
11 5 (4.39%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 5 (4.39%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 5 (4.39%) Agile Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.26%) React
2 3 (2.63%) React Native
3 2 (1.75%) Laravel
3 2 (1.75%) Node.js
3 2 (1.75%) Playwright
3 2 (1.75%) REST
3 2 (1.75%) XML
4 1 (0.88%) Alpine.js
4 1 (0.88%) Bootstrap
4 1 (0.88%) Express.js
4 1 (0.88%) Fastify
4 1 (0.88%) JSON
4 1 (0.88%) LAMP
4 1 (0.88%) Middleware
4 1 (0.88%) Redux
4 1 (0.88%) RESTful
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%) Analytical Mindset
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 75 (65.79%) Agile
2 32 (28.07%) Continuous Improvement
3 22 (19.30%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (17.54%) ITSM
4 20 (17.54%) Root Cause Analysis
5 19 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (15.79%) Backlog Refinement
7 17 (14.91%) Acceptance Criteria
7 17 (14.91%) DevOps
8 16 (14.04%) Software Testing
8 16 (14.04%) User Stories
9 15 (13.16%) Computer Science
9 15 (13.16%) Decision-Making
9 15 (13.16%) Incident Management
10 14 (12.28%) Sprint Planning
10 14 (12.28%) Test Automation
10 14 (12.28%) User Acceptance Testing
11 13 (11.40%) Scrum
11 13 (11.40%) SDLC
12 12 (10.53%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 30 (26.32%) SQL
2 9 (7.89%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.51%) Python
4 3 (2.63%) Java
4 3 (2.63%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.75%) Google Apps Script
5 2 (1.75%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.75%) PHP
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 27 (23.68%) Degree
2 12 (10.53%) 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
8 1 (0.88%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.88%) 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 32 (28.07%) QA
2 15 (13.16%) SLA
3 4 (3.51%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.63%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.75%) Data Quality
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%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.88%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (0.88%) Firmware
2 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
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 8 (7.02%) ServiceNow
3 7 (6.14%) 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
8 2 (1.75%) Logitech
8 2 (1.75%) Yealink
8 2 (1.75%) Zend
9 1 (0.88%) Adobe
9 1 (0.88%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.88%) Cognos
9 1 (0.88%) Denodo
9 1 (0.88%) Planon
9 1 (0.88%) Talend