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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 108 111
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -71
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 116 159 116
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.51% 2.28% 2.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.19% 30.69% 27.62%
Number of salaries quoted 83 98 99
10th Percentile £34,500 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,875 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £50,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% -13.79% +16.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £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 296 518 420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.85% 7.42% 9.17%
Number of salaries quoted 224 305 369
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £73,250 £81,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £61,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.64% -6.15% -

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 16 December 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 16 December 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 0 79 £45,000 -14.29% 40
East Midlands -9 37 £52,000 +9.47% 23
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 (37.07%) Confluence
2 5 (4.31%) nginx
2 5 (4.31%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.72%) JBoss
3 2 (1.72%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.86%) Appian
4 1 (0.86%) IIS
4 1 (0.86%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (6.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.31%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (4.31%) Trello
3 4 (3.45%) CATIA
3 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.86%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.86%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (4.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.86%) Maximo
2 1 (0.86%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 39 (33.62%) Azure
2 33 (28.45%) AWS
3 20 (17.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 18 (15.52%) Amazon EC2
4 18 (15.52%) Amazon S3
4 18 (15.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 17 (14.66%) Amazon ELB
5 17 (14.66%) AWS KMS
5 17 (14.66%) SaaS
6 13 (11.21%) Power Platform
7 12 (10.34%) Amazon Glacier
8 10 (8.62%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (6.03%) GCP
11 6 (5.17%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (4.31%) Route 53
13 4 (3.45%) IaaS
13 4 (3.45%) PaaS
13 4 (3.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 3 (2.59%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 26 (22.41%) Firewall
2 20 (17.24%) DNS
3 16 (13.79%) HTTP
4 15 (12.93%) FTP
4 15 (12.93%) SMTP
4 15 (12.93%) SSH
5 5 (4.31%) IMAP
5 5 (4.31%) OpenLDAP
5 5 (4.31%) VLAN
6 3 (2.59%) VPN
7 2 (1.72%) DHCP
8 1 (0.86%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.86%) Modbus
8 1 (0.86%) SAN
8 1 (0.86%) SSL
8 1 (0.86%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.86%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.52%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (10.34%) Power BI
3 9 (7.76%) MySQL
3 9 (7.76%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.31%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.45%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.72%) MariaDB
6 2 (1.72%) Tableau
7 1 (0.86%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.86%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 33 (28.45%) Git
2 22 (18.97%) Jenkins
3 17 (14.66%) Vagrant
4 7 (6.03%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (5.17%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (3.45%) Subversion
7 3 (2.59%) JUnit
7 3 (2.59%) Postman
8 2 (1.72%) GitLab
8 2 (1.72%) Gradle
8 2 (1.72%) Maven
8 2 (1.72%) Selenium
8 2 (1.72%) TestRail
9 1 (0.86%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.86%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.86%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.86%) Zephyr
General
1 36 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 20 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (15.52%) Finance
3 18 (15.52%) Law
4 15 (12.93%) Public Sector
5 11 (9.48%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (5.17%) Retail
7 5 (4.31%) Electronics
8 4 (3.45%) Billing
8 4 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.59%) Automotive
9 3 (2.59%) Games
9 3 (2.59%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.59%) Marketing
10 2 (1.72%) Legal
11 1 (0.86%) Advertising
11 1 (0.86%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 17 (14.66%) Senior
2 14 (12.07%) Analyst
3 13 (11.21%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (9.48%) Support Engineer
5 10 (8.62%) Product Owner
6 9 (7.76%) 2nd Line Support
6 9 (7.76%) IT Engineer
7 8 (6.90%) Developer
7 8 (6.90%) IT Support
7 8 (6.90%) IT Support Engineer
7 8 (6.90%) Junior
8 7 (6.03%) Head of Support
8 7 (6.03%) Lead
8 7 (6.03%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (5.17%) Applications Support
9 6 (5.17%) Business Analyst
9 6 (5.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (5.17%) Test Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Project Manager
10 5 (4.31%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.03%) .NET
2 6 (5.17%) HTML
2 6 (5.17%) Laravel
3 5 (4.31%) CSS
3 5 (4.31%) LDAP
3 5 (4.31%) REST
4 4 (3.45%) XML
5 3 (2.59%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.59%) Next.js
5 3 (2.59%) Node.js
5 3 (2.59%) React
5 3 (2.59%) React Native
5 3 (2.59%) SOAP
5 3 (2.59%) Vue
6 2 (1.72%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.72%) ASP.NET
6 2 (1.72%) CSS3
6 2 (1.72%) Playwright
6 2 (1.72%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.72%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.10%) Product Ownership
2 11 (9.48%) Replication
3 6 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.45%) Driving Licence
4 4 (3.45%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (3.45%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.72%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.86%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.86%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.86%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.86%) NHS
6 1 (0.86%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.86%) SCADA
6 1 (0.86%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (18.10%) Linux
2 17 (14.66%) VMS
3 15 (12.93%) Amazon Linux
4 12 (10.34%) Windows
5 6 (5.17%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (43.97%) Agile
2 30 (25.86%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 29 (25.00%) DevOps
4 27 (23.28%) Stakeholder Management
5 24 (20.69%) Project Management
6 20 (17.24%) Change Management
7 17 (14.66%) Cloud Security
7 17 (14.66%) Configuration Management
8 16 (13.79%) Decision-Making
8 16 (13.79%) Patch Management
9 14 (12.07%) Scrum
10 13 (11.21%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (11.21%) ITIL
11 12 (10.34%) Acceptance Criteria
11 12 (10.34%) Service Delivery
11 12 (10.34%) User Stories
12 11 (9.48%) CI/CD
12 11 (9.48%) Platform Engineering
13 10 (8.62%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (18.10%) Python
2 20 (17.24%) SQL
3 19 (16.38%) PowerShell
4 17 (14.66%) Groovy
5 13 (11.21%) Java
6 10 (8.62%) Perl
7 6 (5.17%) C#
7 6 (5.17%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.17%) PHP
8 5 (4.31%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.59%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.86%) C
10 1 (0.86%) C++
10 1 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.86%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.86%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.86%) XAML
Qualifications
1 33 (28.45%) Degree
2 20 (17.24%) Security Cleared
3 18 (15.52%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.76%) AWS Certification
4 9 (7.76%) Azure Certification
4 9 (7.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (6.03%) PMI Certification
5 7 (6.03%) PMP
6 6 (5.17%) ISTQB
7 5 (4.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.72%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.86%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.66%) QA
2 12 (10.34%) SLA
3 7 (6.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (6.03%) PMO
4 3 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 3 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 2 (1.72%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.86%) GDPR
6 1 (0.86%) NIST
6 1 (0.86%) NIST 800
System Software
1 20 (17.24%) Active Directory
2 17 (14.66%) Docker
3 11 (9.48%) DFS Replication
4 5 (4.31%) Dovecot
4 5 (4.31%) Postfix
4 5 (4.31%) Squid
5 4 (3.45%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.45%) vSphere
6 3 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (19.83%) Terraform
2 17 (14.66%) Grafana
2 17 (14.66%) Prometheus
3 6 (5.17%) Nessus
4 5 (4.31%) Proxmox
5 3 (2.59%) Ansible
6 2 (1.72%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.86%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.86%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (23.28%) ServiceNow
2 23 (19.83%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.17%) Oracle
4 5 (4.31%) Google
4 5 (4.31%) Jaspersoft
4 5 (4.31%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.45%) Cisco
5 4 (3.45%) IBM
5 4 (3.45%) SonicWALL
6 3 (2.59%) Zend
7 2 (1.72%) Juniper
8 1 (0.86%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.86%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.86%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.86%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.86%) Denodo
8 1 (0.86%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.86%) Talend
8 1 (0.86%) VMware