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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 133 100
Rank change year-on-year +59 -33 -62
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 193 144 136
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 3.50% 1.62% 2.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 53.91% 28.74% 28.94%
Number of salaries quoted 93 81 107
10th Percentile £34,750 £35,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -13.04% +15.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £58,750 £70,000
90th Percentile - £65,000 £91,934
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +1.69%

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 358 501 470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.48% 5.65% 8.94%
Number of salaries quoted 218 252 393
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -7.89% +8.57%
75th Percentile £72,500 £62,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,250 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +0.42% -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 27 October 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 27 October 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 +69 123 £65,000 +30.00% 61
East Midlands +36 70 £48,250 +7.22% 59
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
1 117 (60.62%) Confluence
2 8 (4.15%) nginx
3 2 (1.04%) JBoss
3 2 (1.04%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.52%) Appian
4 1 (0.52%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (4.15%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.07%) CATIA
4 3 (1.55%) Trello
5 2 (1.04%) Chatbot
5 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 119 (61.66%) AWS
2 102 (52.85%) Azure
3 50 (25.91%) GCP
4 47 (24.35%) Amazon EC2
5 46 (23.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 46 (23.83%) Amazon S3
6 45 (23.32%) AWS KMS
7 42 (21.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 41 (21.24%) Amazon ELB
9 33 (17.10%) Amazon Glacier
10 17 (8.81%) Power Platform
11 15 (7.77%) SaaS
12 12 (6.22%) Route 53
13 9 (4.66%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
15 5 (2.59%) Azure Logic Apps
15 5 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
15 5 (2.59%) Power Automate
15 5 (2.59%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 47 (24.35%) Firewall
2 28 (14.51%) DNS
3 26 (13.47%) HTTP
4 25 (12.95%) FTP
4 25 (12.95%) SMTP
4 25 (12.95%) SSH
5 8 (4.15%) IMAP
5 8 (4.15%) OpenLDAP
6 5 (2.59%) VLAN
7 2 (1.04%) DHCP
8 1 (0.52%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.52%) Modbus
8 1 (0.52%) SAN
8 1 (0.52%) SSL
8 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.52%) VPN
8 1 (0.52%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (35.23%) SQL Server
2 47 (24.35%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (7.77%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (6.22%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (6.22%) Power BI
5 6 (3.11%) MySQL
6 5 (2.59%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.07%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.55%) Metadata
9 2 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.04%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.04%) Tableau
10 1 (0.52%) Big Data
10 1 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.52%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.52%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 76 (39.38%) Sonatype Nexus
2 69 (35.75%) Maven
3 67 (34.72%) SonarQube
4 65 (33.68%) GitLab
5 64 (33.16%) Bitbucket
5 64 (33.16%) Cucumber
5 64 (33.16%) Selenium
6 57 (29.53%) Git
7 48 (24.87%) Jenkins
8 41 (21.24%) Vagrant
9 7 (3.63%) JUnit
10 5 (2.59%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (2.07%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (2.07%) DbUnit
11 4 (2.07%) jMock
11 4 (2.07%) Mockito
12 3 (1.55%) ERwin
13 2 (1.04%) Gradle
13 2 (1.04%) Postman
14 1 (0.52%) TestRail
General
1 81 (41.97%) Finance
2 68 (35.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 63 (32.64%) Banking
4 38 (19.69%) Public Sector
5 36 (18.65%) Social Skills
6 24 (12.44%) Retail
7 17 (8.81%) Law
8 16 (8.29%) Corporate Banking
8 16 (8.29%) Investment Banking
8 16 (8.29%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (1.55%) Billing
10 3 (1.55%) Games
11 2 (1.04%) Automotive
11 2 (1.04%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.04%) Marketing
12 1 (0.52%) Back Office
12 1 (0.52%) Legal
Job Titles
1 66 (34.20%) Software Engineer
2 23 (11.92%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (8.81%) AWS Engineer
5 16 (8.29%) Support Engineer
6 15 (7.77%) Infrastructure Support
6 15 (7.77%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 13 (6.74%) Developer
7 13 (6.74%) Senior
8 12 (6.22%) Analyst
9 11 (5.70%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (5.18%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (5.18%) Lead
11 8 (4.15%) Junior
11 8 (4.15%) Product Owner
12 7 (3.63%) AWS DevOps
12 7 (3.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 6 (3.11%) Business Analyst
13 6 (3.11%) Java Developer
13 6 (3.11%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (35.75%) HTML
1 69 (35.75%) Spring
1 69 (35.75%) Spring Boot
2 68 (35.23%) CSS
2 68 (35.23%) React
3 67 (34.72%) JPA
4 65 (33.68%) Redux
5 63 (32.64%) Kafka
6 51 (26.42%) Hibernate
7 21 (10.88%) REST
8 20 (10.36%) RESTful
9 18 (9.33%) CSS3
9 18 (9.33%) HTML5
10 16 (8.29%) Jest
10 16 (8.29%) Sass
11 11 (5.70%) .NET
12 8 (4.15%) LDAP
13 7 (3.63%) AngularJS
13 7 (3.63%) SOAP
14 6 (3.11%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 79 (40.93%) Product Ownership
2 69 (35.75%) Enterprise Software
3 29 (15.03%) Replication
4 5 (2.59%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.07%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (2.07%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.07%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.04%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.04%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.04%) SCADA
8 1 (0.52%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.52%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.52%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.52%) NHS
8 1 (0.52%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.52%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 48 (24.87%) Linux
2 41 (21.24%) VMS
3 31 (16.06%) Windows
4 26 (13.47%) Amazon Linux
5 9 (4.66%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (61.14%) DevOps
2 115 (59.59%) Agile
3 75 (38.86%) CI/CD
4 72 (37.31%) Test Automation
5 71 (36.79%) Software Engineering
6 70 (36.27%) Microservices
7 68 (35.23%) Containerisation
8 67 (34.72%) Continuous Improvement
9 66 (34.20%) Full-Stack Development
10 65 (33.68%) SDLC
11 63 (32.64%) Front End Development
11 63 (32.64%) Performance Optimisation
12 51 (26.42%) Clean Code
12 51 (26.42%) TDD
13 44 (22.80%) Change Management
14 41 (21.24%) Cloud Security
14 41 (21.24%) Configuration Management
15 28 (14.51%) Stakeholder Management
16 26 (13.47%) Patch Management
17 23 (11.92%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 88 (45.60%) Java
2 87 (45.08%) SQL
3 71 (36.79%) JavaScript
4 44 (22.80%) PowerShell
4 44 (22.80%) Python
5 40 (20.73%) Groovy
6 21 (10.88%) TypeScript
7 18 (9.33%) Perl
8 10 (5.18%) C#
9 3 (1.55%) PHP
9 3 (1.55%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.52%) XAML
Qualifications
1 46 (23.83%) Security Cleared
2 44 (22.80%) SC Cleared
3 34 (17.62%) Degree
4 14 (7.25%) AWS Certification
4 14 (7.25%) Azure Certification
5 6 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.59%) CITP
6 5 (2.59%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.59%) PMP
7 4 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.07%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.04%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (39.38%) QA
2 16 (8.29%) Accessibility
3 10 (5.18%) SLA
4 7 (3.63%) PMO
5 6 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 3 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 1 (0.52%) EMIR
7 1 (0.52%) NIST
7 1 (0.52%) NIST 800
System Software
1 94 (48.70%) Docker
2 38 (19.69%) Active Directory
3 29 (15.03%) DFS Replication
4 8 (4.15%) Dovecot
4 8 (4.15%) Postfix
4 8 (4.15%) Squid
5 4 (2.07%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.07%) vSphere
6 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 63 (32.64%) Kubernetes
2 46 (23.83%) Terraform
3 41 (21.24%) Grafana
3 41 (21.24%) Prometheus
4 16 (8.29%) Ansible
5 9 (4.66%) Nessus
6 8 (4.15%) Proxmox
7 2 (1.04%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.52%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 63 (32.64%) Solace
2 47 (24.35%) ServiceNow
3 17 (8.81%) Microsoft
4 15 (7.77%) Juniper
5 8 (4.15%) Jaspersoft
6 7 (3.63%) Oracle
7 5 (2.59%) Atlassian
7 5 (2.59%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.07%) Cisco
8 4 (2.07%) SonicWALL
9 3 (1.55%) Google
9 3 (1.55%) IBM
9 3 (1.55%) Sparx
10 1 (0.52%) Autodesk
10 1 (0.52%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.52%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.52%) HP
10 1 (0.52%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.52%) VMware