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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 111 115
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 -75
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 108 153 108
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.38% 2.31% 2.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 35.64% 29.94% 24.71%
Number of salaries quoted 79 93 93
10th Percentile £34,500 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £36,875 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -13.79% +16.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £65,000 £91,934
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,530 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.05% -7.95% +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 303 511 437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.88% 7.71% 8.65%
Number of salaries quoted 234 295 385
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £35,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

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 January 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 January 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 -7 68 £42,500 -19.81% 51
East Midlands -16 40 £53,500 +9.74% 31
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 (34.26%) Confluence
2 5 (4.63%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.70%) nginx
4 1 (0.93%) Appian
4 1 (0.93%) IIS
4 1 (0.93%) JBoss
4 1 (0.93%) SAS
4 1 (0.93%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.63%) Trello
3 4 (3.70%) CATIA
3 4 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (3.70%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.93%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (4.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.93%) Maximo
2 1 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (31.48%) Azure
2 21 (19.44%) AWS
3 17 (15.74%) SaaS
4 12 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 10 (9.26%) Power Platform
6 9 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
6 9 (8.33%) Amazon S3
6 9 (8.33%) AWS KMS
6 9 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 8 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (5.56%) GCP
9 5 (4.63%) Amazon Glacier
10 4 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.70%) IaaS
10 4 (3.70%) PaaS
10 4 (3.70%) Route 53
11 3 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (16.67%) Firewall
2 14 (12.96%) DNS
3 10 (9.26%) HTTP
4 9 (8.33%) FTP
4 9 (8.33%) SMTP
4 9 (8.33%) SSH
5 5 (4.63%) VLAN
6 4 (3.70%) IMAP
6 4 (3.70%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (2.78%) VPN
8 2 (1.85%) DHCP
9 1 (0.93%) Modbus
9 1 (0.93%) SAN
9 1 (0.93%) SSL
9 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.93%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.26%) Power BI
2 9 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (8.33%) MySQL
3 8 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (3.70%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.70%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.85%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.93%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (20.37%) Git
2 12 (11.11%) Jenkins
3 9 (8.33%) Vagrant
4 6 (5.56%) Rational DOORS
5 5 (4.63%) Subversion
6 3 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.85%) GitLab
7 2 (1.85%) Postman
7 2 (1.85%) Selenium
7 2 (1.85%) TestRail
8 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.93%) Gradle
8 1 (0.93%) JUnit
8 1 (0.93%) Maven
8 1 (0.93%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.93%) Zephyr
General
1 32 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (17.59%) Law
4 14 (12.96%) Finance
5 9 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.48%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (5.56%) Electronics
8 5 (4.63%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (4.63%) Retail
9 4 (3.70%) Billing
10 3 (2.78%) Games
10 3 (2.78%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.78%) Marketing
11 2 (1.85%) Automotive
11 2 (1.85%) Legal
12 1 (0.93%) Advertising
12 1 (0.93%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 18 (16.67%) Senior
2 14 (12.96%) Analyst
3 12 (11.11%) Product Owner
4 9 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support
4 9 (8.33%) Head of Support
4 9 (8.33%) IT Engineer
4 9 (8.33%) Lead
4 9 (8.33%) Support Engineer
5 8 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (7.41%) IT Support
5 8 (7.41%) IT Support Engineer
5 8 (7.41%) Junior
6 7 (6.48%) Business Analyst
6 7 (6.48%) Test Engineer
7 6 (5.56%) Applications Support
7 6 (5.56%) Developer
7 6 (5.56%) Embedded Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) Senior Manager
8 5 (4.63%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.56%) HTML
1 6 (5.56%) Laravel
2 5 (4.63%) CSS
3 4 (3.70%) .NET
3 4 (3.70%) LDAP
3 4 (3.70%) REST
4 3 (2.78%) Next.js
4 3 (2.78%) Node.js
4 3 (2.78%) React
4 3 (2.78%) React Native
4 3 (2.78%) Vue
4 3 (2.78%) XML
5 2 (1.85%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.85%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.85%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.85%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (1.85%) CSS3
5 2 (1.85%) HTML5
5 2 (1.85%) Playwright
5 2 (1.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.52%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (4.63%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (4.63%) Replication
4 4 (3.70%) Driving Licence
4 4 (3.70%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.85%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.93%) NHS
6 1 (0.93%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.93%) SCADA
6 1 (0.93%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.11%) Linux
2 9 (8.33%) Amazon Linux
2 9 (8.33%) VMS
3 6 (5.56%) Windows
4 5 (4.63%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (47.22%) Agile
2 34 (31.48%) Continuous Improvement
3 30 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (19.44%) Project Management
6 19 (17.59%) DevOps
7 17 (15.74%) Decision-Making
8 14 (12.96%) Change Management
8 14 (12.96%) Service Delivery
9 13 (12.04%) Acceptance Criteria
9 13 (12.04%) CI/CD
9 13 (12.04%) Sprint Planning
9 13 (12.04%) User Stories
10 12 (11.11%) ITIL
10 12 (11.11%) Scrum
10 12 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
11 11 (10.19%) Business Intelligence
11 11 (10.19%) Product Backlog
12 10 (9.26%) Patch Management
12 10 (9.26%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 17 (15.74%) SQL
2 12 (11.11%) Python
3 11 (10.19%) PowerShell
4 9 (8.33%) Groovy
5 6 (5.56%) Java
5 6 (5.56%) PHP
6 5 (4.63%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.63%) Perl
7 4 (3.70%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.78%) C#
9 2 (1.85%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.93%) C
10 1 (0.93%) C++
10 1 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.93%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.93%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 29 (26.85%) Degree
2 13 (12.04%) Security Cleared
3 11 (10.19%) SC Cleared
4 9 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (6.48%) PMI Certification
5 7 (6.48%) PMP
6 6 (5.56%) ISTQB
7 5 (4.63%) AWS Certification
7 5 (4.63%) Azure Certification
7 5 (4.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.85%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.93%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (20.37%) QA
2 11 (10.19%) SLA
3 7 (6.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (5.56%) PMO
5 3 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 3 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 2 (1.85%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.93%) GDPR
7 1 (0.93%) NIST
7 1 (0.93%) NIST 800
System Software
1 13 (12.04%) Active Directory
2 11 (10.19%) Docker
3 5 (4.63%) DFS Replication
4 4 (3.70%) Dovecot
4 4 (3.70%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.70%) Postfix
4 4 (3.70%) Squid
4 4 (3.70%) vSphere
5 3 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (12.96%) Terraform
2 9 (8.33%) Grafana
2 9 (8.33%) Prometheus
3 5 (4.63%) Nessus
4 4 (3.70%) Proxmox
5 2 (1.85%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.93%) Ansible
6 1 (0.93%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.93%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (20.37%) Microsoft
2 18 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 4 (3.70%) Cisco
3 4 (3.70%) Google
3 4 (3.70%) IBM
3 4 (3.70%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (3.70%) Oracle
3 4 (3.70%) Salesforce
3 4 (3.70%) SonicWALL
4 3 (2.78%) Zend
5 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.93%) Autodesk
5 1 (0.93%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (0.93%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (0.93%) Denodo
5 1 (0.93%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.93%) Talend
5 1 (0.93%) VMware