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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 115 116
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 -76
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 111 161 113
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.41% 2.37% 2.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.39% 30.61% 26.16%
Number of salaries quoted 81 99 98
10th Percentile £34,500 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £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 £75,900 £65,250 £91,934
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,560 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.10% -7.90% +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 305 526 432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.86% 7.74% 8.72%
Number of salaries quoted 232 310 383
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £35,000
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% - +1.85%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,688 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,675 £73,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £61,339 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.18% -5.63% -

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 26 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 26 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 -3 71 £42,500 -19.05% 137
East Midlands -12 40 £53,500 +12.63% 104
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 38 (34.23%) Confluence
2 5 (4.50%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.60%) nginx
4 2 (1.80%) JBoss
4 2 (1.80%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.90%) Appian
5 1 (0.90%) IIS
5 1 (0.90%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.50%) Trello
3 4 (3.60%) CATIA
3 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (3.60%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.90%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.90%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (4.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.90%) Maximo
2 1 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 36 (32.43%) Azure
2 25 (22.52%) AWS
3 17 (15.32%) SaaS
4 14 (12.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (9.91%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (9.91%) Amazon ELB
5 11 (9.91%) Amazon S3
5 11 (9.91%) AWS KMS
5 11 (9.91%) Power Platform
5 11 (9.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 9 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (7.21%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (6.31%) Amazon Glacier
9 6 (5.41%) GCP
10 4 (3.60%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.60%) IaaS
10 4 (3.60%) PaaS
10 4 (3.60%) Route 53
10 4 (3.60%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 3 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 20 (18.02%) Firewall
2 15 (13.51%) DNS
3 11 (9.91%) HTTP
4 10 (9.01%) FTP
4 10 (9.01%) SMTP
4 10 (9.01%) SSH
5 5 (4.50%) VLAN
6 4 (3.60%) IMAP
6 4 (3.60%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (2.70%) VPN
8 2 (1.80%) DHCP
9 1 (0.90%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.90%) Modbus
9 1 (0.90%) SAN
9 1 (0.90%) SSL
9 1 (0.90%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.90%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.91%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (9.01%) Power BI
3 9 (8.11%) MySQL
4 8 (7.21%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.60%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (3.60%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.60%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.80%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.90%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.90%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (24.32%) Git
2 15 (13.51%) Jenkins
3 11 (9.91%) Vagrant
4 6 (5.41%) Rational DOORS
5 5 (4.50%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (4.50%) Subversion
6 3 (2.70%) JUnit
6 3 (2.70%) Postman
7 2 (1.80%) GitLab
7 2 (1.80%) Gradle
7 2 (1.80%) Maven
7 2 (1.80%) Selenium
7 2 (1.80%) TestRail
8 1 (0.90%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.90%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.90%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.90%) Zephyr
General
1 33 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.02%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (17.12%) Law
4 16 (14.41%) Finance
5 10 (9.01%) Public Sector
6 8 (7.21%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (5.41%) Electronics
7 6 (5.41%) Retail
8 5 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (3.60%) Billing
10 3 (2.70%) Automotive
10 3 (2.70%) Games
10 3 (2.70%) Manufacturing
10 3 (2.70%) Marketing
11 2 (1.80%) Legal
12 1 (0.90%) Advertising
12 1 (0.90%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 17 (15.32%) Senior
2 13 (11.71%) Analyst
3 11 (9.91%) Product Owner
4 10 (9.01%) Support Engineer
5 9 (8.11%) 2nd Line Support
5 9 (8.11%) IT Engineer
6 8 (7.21%) Developer
6 8 (7.21%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (7.21%) Head of Support
6 8 (7.21%) IT Support
6 8 (7.21%) IT Support Engineer
6 8 (7.21%) Junior
6 8 (7.21%) Lead
7 7 (6.31%) Test Engineer
8 6 (5.41%) Applications Support
8 6 (5.41%) Business Analyst
8 6 (5.41%) Embedded Engineer
9 5 (4.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 5 (4.50%) Senior Manager
9 5 (4.50%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.41%) .NET
1 6 (5.41%) HTML
1 6 (5.41%) Laravel
2 5 (4.50%) CSS
2 5 (4.50%) REST
3 4 (3.60%) LDAP
3 4 (3.60%) XML
4 3 (2.70%) Next.js
4 3 (2.70%) Node.js
4 3 (2.70%) React
4 3 (2.70%) React Native
4 3 (2.70%) SOAP
4 3 (2.70%) Vue
5 2 (1.80%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.80%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.80%) ASP.NET
5 2 (1.80%) CSS3
5 2 (1.80%) Playwright
5 2 (1.80%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.80%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.92%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.31%) Replication
3 6 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (4.50%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (3.60%) Driving Licence
5 4 (3.60%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.60%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.80%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.90%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.90%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.90%) NHS
7 1 (0.90%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.90%) SCADA
7 1 (0.90%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.51%) Linux
2 11 (9.91%) VMS
3 10 (9.01%) Amazon Linux
4 8 (7.21%) Windows
5 5 (4.50%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (45.05%) Agile
2 32 (28.83%) Continuous Improvement
3 30 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (24.32%) Stakeholder Management
5 22 (19.82%) DevOps
5 22 (19.82%) Project Management
6 17 (15.32%) Decision-Making
7 14 (12.61%) Change Management
8 13 (11.71%) ITIL
8 13 (11.71%) Scrum
8 13 (11.71%) Service Delivery
9 12 (10.81%) Acceptance Criteria
9 12 (10.81%) User Stories
10 11 (9.91%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (9.91%) CI/CD
10 11 (9.91%) Cloud Security
10 11 (9.91%) Configuration Management
10 11 (9.91%) Patch Management
10 11 (9.91%) Sprint Planning
10 11 (9.91%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (16.22%) SQL
2 14 (12.61%) Python
3 13 (11.71%) PowerShell
4 11 (9.91%) Groovy
5 9 (8.11%) Java
6 6 (5.41%) Perl
6 6 (5.41%) PHP
7 5 (4.50%) C#
7 5 (4.50%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.60%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.70%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.90%) C
10 1 (0.90%) C++
10 1 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.90%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.90%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.90%) XAML
Qualifications
1 30 (27.03%) Degree
2 16 (14.41%) Security Cleared
3 14 (12.61%) SC Cleared
4 9 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (6.31%) PMI Certification
5 7 (6.31%) PMP
6 6 (5.41%) AWS Certification
6 6 (5.41%) Azure Certification
6 6 (5.41%) ISTQB
7 5 (4.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.80%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.90%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.90%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (18.02%) QA
2 12 (10.81%) SLA
3 7 (6.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (5.41%) PMO
5 3 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 3 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 2 (1.80%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.90%) GDPR
7 1 (0.90%) NIST
7 1 (0.90%) NIST 800
System Software
1 15 (13.51%) Active Directory
2 12 (10.81%) Docker
3 7 (6.31%) DFS Replication
4 4 (3.60%) Dovecot
4 4 (3.60%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.60%) Postfix
4 4 (3.60%) Squid
4 4 (3.60%) vSphere
5 3 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (14.41%) Terraform
2 11 (9.91%) Grafana
2 11 (9.91%) Prometheus
3 5 (4.50%) Nessus
4 4 (3.60%) Proxmox
5 2 (1.80%) Ansible
5 2 (1.80%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.90%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.90%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (20.72%) Microsoft
2 21 (18.92%) ServiceNow
3 6 (5.41%) Oracle
4 5 (4.50%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.60%) Cisco
5 4 (3.60%) Google
5 4 (3.60%) IBM
5 4 (3.60%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (3.60%) SonicWALL
6 3 (2.70%) Zend
7 1 (0.90%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.90%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.90%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.90%) Denodo
7 1 (0.90%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.90%) Juniper
7 1 (0.90%) Talend
7 1 (0.90%) VMware