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 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 135 105
Rank change year-on-year +36 -30 -65
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 133 147 135
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.35% 1.66% 2.64%
As % of the Development Applications category 43.75% 29.76% 28.48%
Number of salaries quoted 91 83 106
10th Percentile £34,500 £35,500 £39,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -13.79% +16.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £58,750 £70,000
90th Percentile - £65,000 £91,934
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -8.00% +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 304 494 474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.37% 5.59% 9.27%
Number of salaries quoted 226 246 396
10th Percentile £31,625 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £51,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% -10.87% +9.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £73,125 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 10 November 2025.

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 10 November 2025. 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 +39 99 £65,000 +30.00% 75
East Midlands +10 34 £48,000 +6.67% 90
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 65 (48.87%) Confluence
2 8 (6.02%) nginx
3 2 (1.50%) JBoss
3 2 (1.50%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.75%) Appian
4 1 (0.75%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (6.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (6.02%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (3.01%) CATIA
3 4 (3.01%) Trello
4 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.75%) Maximo
2 1 (0.75%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 59 (44.36%) AWS
2 42 (31.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 42 (31.58%) Azure
3 41 (30.83%) Amazon EC2
4 40 (30.08%) Amazon S3
5 39 (29.32%) AWS KMS
6 37 (27.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 36 (27.07%) Amazon ELB
8 28 (21.05%) Amazon Glacier
9 18 (13.53%) Power Platform
10 17 (12.78%) SaaS
11 11 (8.27%) Route 53
12 9 (6.77%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (4.51%) GCP
15 4 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
15 4 (3.01%) IaaS
15 4 (3.01%) Power Automate
15 4 (3.01%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 45 (33.83%) Firewall
2 28 (21.05%) DNS
3 24 (18.05%) HTTP
4 23 (17.29%) FTP
4 23 (17.29%) SMTP
4 23 (17.29%) SSH
5 8 (6.02%) IMAP
5 8 (6.02%) OpenLDAP
6 5 (3.76%) VLAN
7 3 (2.26%) VPN
8 2 (1.50%) DHCP
9 1 (0.75%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.75%) Modbus
9 1 (0.75%) SAN
9 1 (0.75%) SSL
9 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.75%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (30.83%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (11.28%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (10.53%) Power BI
4 11 (8.27%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (7.52%) SQL Server
6 7 (5.26%) MySQL
7 5 (3.76%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.26%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.50%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.50%) Metadata
9 2 (1.50%) Tableau
10 1 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.75%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 52 (39.10%) Git
2 43 (32.33%) Jenkins
3 36 (27.07%) Vagrant
4 13 (9.77%) Sonatype Nexus
5 10 (7.52%) Maven
6 8 (6.02%) SonarQube
7 7 (5.26%) GitLab
8 6 (4.51%) Bitbucket
8 6 (4.51%) Cucumber
8 6 (4.51%) JUnit
8 6 (4.51%) Selenium
9 5 (3.76%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (2.26%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (2.26%) DbUnit
10 3 (2.26%) jMock
10 3 (2.26%) Mockito
11 2 (1.50%) ERwin
11 2 (1.50%) Gradle
11 2 (1.50%) Postman
12 1 (0.75%) Zephyr
General
1 36 (27.07%) Public Sector
1 36 (27.07%) Social Skills
2 26 (19.55%) Finance
3 17 (12.78%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.28%) Law
5 14 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (9.77%) Retail
7 8 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.76%) Banking
8 5 (3.76%) Corporate Banking
8 5 (3.76%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.01%) Games
10 3 (2.26%) Billing
10 3 (2.26%) Marketing
11 2 (1.50%) Automotive
11 2 (1.50%) Legal
11 2 (1.50%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.75%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 21 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (13.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 17 (12.78%) Senior
3 17 (12.78%) Support Engineer
4 16 (12.03%) Infrastructure Support
4 16 (12.03%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 15 (11.28%) Analyst
6 14 (10.53%) AWS Engineer
7 12 (9.02%) Developer
8 10 (7.52%) Junior
8 10 (7.52%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (6.02%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (6.02%) Lead
9 8 (6.02%) Product Owner
9 8 (6.02%) Software Engineer
10 7 (5.26%) Business Analyst
10 7 (5.26%) Project Manager
11 6 (4.51%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.51%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.27%) HTML
2 10 (7.52%) .NET
2 10 (7.52%) CSS
2 10 (7.52%) REST
2 10 (7.52%) Spring
2 10 (7.52%) Spring Boot
3 9 (6.77%) RESTful
4 8 (6.02%) JPA
4 8 (6.02%) LDAP
4 8 (6.02%) React
5 7 (5.26%) CSS3
5 7 (5.26%) HTML5
6 6 (4.51%) AngularJS
6 6 (4.51%) SOAP
7 5 (3.76%) Jest
7 5 (3.76%) Kafka
7 5 (3.76%) Redux
7 5 (3.76%) Sass
8 4 (3.01%) Laravel
8 4 (3.01%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (18.80%) Replication
2 22 (16.54%) Product Ownership
3 11 (8.27%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.76%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.01%) Driving Licence
5 4 (3.01%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.26%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.50%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.75%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.75%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.75%) NHS
8 1 (0.75%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.75%) SCADA
8 1 (0.75%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (31.58%) Linux
2 36 (27.07%) VMS
3 26 (19.55%) Windows
4 23 (17.29%) Amazon Linux
5 9 (6.77%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (40.60%) DevOps
2 52 (39.10%) Agile
3 40 (30.08%) Change Management
4 36 (27.07%) Cloud Security
4 36 (27.07%) Configuration Management
5 28 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
6 24 (18.05%) Patch Management
6 24 (18.05%) Project Management
7 22 (16.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 22 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
9 18 (13.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 17 (12.78%) CI/CD
11 16 (12.03%) Decision-Making
12 14 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
12 14 (10.53%) ITIL
12 14 (10.53%) Mentoring
12 14 (10.53%) Scrum
13 13 (9.77%) Service Delivery
13 13 (9.77%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 39 (29.32%) PowerShell
1 39 (29.32%) Python
2 36 (27.07%) Groovy
3 29 (21.80%) SQL
4 26 (19.55%) Java
5 15 (11.28%) Perl
6 11 (8.27%) JavaScript
7 9 (6.77%) C#
7 9 (6.77%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.01%) PHP
9 3 (2.26%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.75%) XAML
Qualifications
1 41 (30.83%) Security Cleared
2 39 (29.32%) SC Cleared
3 35 (26.32%) Degree
4 12 (9.02%) AWS Certification
4 12 (9.02%) Azure Certification
5 7 (5.26%) PMI Certification
5 7 (5.26%) PMP
6 6 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.76%) ISTQB
8 4 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (3.01%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (2.26%) CITP
10 2 (1.50%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.78%) QA
2 12 (9.02%) SLA
3 8 (6.02%) PMO
4 7 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (3.76%) Accessibility
6 3 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 3 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 1 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.75%) EMIR
7 1 (0.75%) GDPR
7 1 (0.75%) NIST
7 1 (0.75%) NIST 800
System Software
1 36 (27.07%) Active Directory
2 32 (24.06%) Docker
3 25 (18.80%) DFS Replication
4 8 (6.02%) Dovecot
4 8 (6.02%) Postfix
4 8 (6.02%) Squid
5 4 (3.01%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.01%) vSphere
6 3 (2.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (30.83%) Terraform
2 36 (27.07%) Grafana
2 36 (27.07%) Prometheus
3 14 (10.53%) Ansible
4 9 (6.77%) Nessus
5 8 (6.02%) Proxmox
6 5 (3.76%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.50%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 45 (33.83%) ServiceNow
2 19 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.77%) Juniper
4 8 (6.02%) Jaspersoft
5 6 (4.51%) Oracle
6 5 (3.76%) Google
6 5 (3.76%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.76%) Solace
7 4 (3.01%) Atlassian
7 4 (3.01%) Cisco
7 4 (3.01%) IBM
7 4 (3.01%) SonicWALL
8 2 (1.50%) Sparx
9 1 (0.75%) Autodesk
9 1 (0.75%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.75%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.75%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.75%) VMware
9 1 (0.75%) Zend