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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 121 108
Rank change year-on-year +21 -13 -68
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 118 158 121
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.92% 1.90% 2.49%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.55% 29.26% 27.07%
Number of salaries quoted 85 93 96
10th Percentile £34,350 £35,000 £35,875
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -13.79% +16.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £60,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £90,967
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 291 540 447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.73% 6.48% 9.22%
Number of salaries quoted 219 296 382
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £44,541
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £80,000
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 1 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 1 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 +30 87 £57,500 +12.20% 32
East Midlands +9 31 £49,500 +10.00% 24
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 51 (43.22%) Confluence
2 5 (4.24%) nginx
3 4 (3.39%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.69%) JBoss
4 2 (1.69%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.85%) Appian
5 1 (0.85%) IIS
5 1 (0.85%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (5.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (4.24%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (4.24%) Trello
3 4 (3.39%) CATIA
4 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.85%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 4 (3.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.85%) Maximo
2 1 (0.85%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (34.75%) AWS
2 36 (30.51%) Azure
3 28 (23.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 26 (22.03%) Amazon EC2
4 26 (22.03%) Amazon S3
5 25 (21.19%) AWS KMS
5 25 (21.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 24 (20.34%) Amazon ELB
7 19 (16.10%) Amazon Glacier
8 17 (14.41%) SaaS
9 13 (11.02%) Power Platform
10 9 (7.63%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (5.93%) GCP
12 6 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (5.08%) Route 53
13 4 (3.39%) IaaS
13 4 (3.39%) PaaS
13 4 (3.39%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 4 (3.39%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 33 (27.97%) Firewall
2 22 (18.64%) DNS
3 18 (15.25%) HTTP
4 17 (14.41%) FTP
4 17 (14.41%) SMTP
4 17 (14.41%) SSH
5 5 (4.24%) IMAP
5 5 (4.24%) OpenLDAP
5 5 (4.24%) VLAN
6 3 (2.54%) VPN
7 2 (1.69%) DHCP
8 1 (0.85%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.85%) Modbus
8 1 (0.85%) SAN
8 1 (0.85%) SSL
8 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.85%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (22.03%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (10.17%) Power BI
3 10 (8.47%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (7.63%) MySQL
5 6 (5.08%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (3.39%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.39%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.69%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.69%) Tableau
8 1 (0.85%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.85%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.85%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 40 (33.90%) Git
2 30 (25.42%) Jenkins
3 24 (20.34%) Vagrant
4 7 (5.93%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (5.08%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (3.39%) JUnit
7 3 (2.54%) Maven
7 3 (2.54%) Postman
8 2 (1.69%) GitLab
8 2 (1.69%) Gradle
8 2 (1.69%) Selenium
8 2 (1.69%) TestRail
9 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.85%) DbUnit
9 1 (0.85%) jMock
9 1 (0.85%) Mockito
9 1 (0.85%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.85%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.85%) Subversion
9 1 (0.85%) Zephyr
General
1 35 (29.66%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.49%) Public Sector
3 18 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (15.25%) Finance
4 17 (14.41%) Law
5 11 (9.32%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (5.08%) Retail
7 4 (3.39%) Games
8 3 (2.54%) Automotive
8 3 (2.54%) Billing
8 3 (2.54%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.54%) Marketing
9 2 (1.69%) Electronics
9 2 (1.69%) Legal
10 1 (0.85%) Advertising
10 1 (0.85%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.85%) Back Office
10 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (14.41%) Senior
2 15 (12.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (12.71%) Support Engineer
3 14 (11.86%) Analyst
4 11 (9.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (8.47%) Infrastructure Support
5 10 (8.47%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 9 (7.63%) Developer
6 9 (7.63%) Junior
6 9 (7.63%) Product Owner
7 8 (6.78%) 2nd Line Support
7 8 (6.78%) AWS Engineer
7 8 (6.78%) IT Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Business Analyst
8 7 (5.93%) IT Support
8 7 (5.93%) IT Support Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Lead
8 7 (5.93%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Project Manager
9 5 (4.24%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.93%) .NET
2 6 (5.08%) HTML
2 6 (5.08%) Laravel
3 5 (4.24%) CSS
3 5 (4.24%) LDAP
3 5 (4.24%) REST
4 4 (3.39%) AngularJS
4 4 (3.39%) SOAP
4 4 (3.39%) XML
5 3 (2.54%) Next.js
5 3 (2.54%) Node.js
5 3 (2.54%) React
5 3 (2.54%) React Native
5 3 (2.54%) RESTful
5 3 (2.54%) Spring
5 3 (2.54%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.54%) Vue
6 2 (1.69%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (1.69%) Spring MVC
6 2 (1.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.95%) Product Ownership
2 16 (13.56%) Replication
3 6 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (4.24%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.39%) Driving Licence
5 4 (3.39%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.69%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.85%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.85%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.85%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.85%) NHS
7 1 (0.85%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.85%) SCADA
7 1 (0.85%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (24.58%) Linux
2 24 (20.34%) VMS
3 17 (14.41%) Amazon Linux
3 17 (14.41%) Windows
4 6 (5.08%) Ubuntu
5 2 (1.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (41.53%) Agile
2 35 (29.66%) DevOps
3 28 (23.73%) Change Management
4 27 (22.88%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (22.88%) Stakeholder Management
5 25 (21.19%) Project Management
6 24 (20.34%) Cloud Security
6 24 (20.34%) Configuration Management
7 23 (19.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (15.25%) Patch Management
9 16 (13.56%) Decision-Making
10 15 (12.71%) Scrum
11 14 (11.86%) ITIL
12 13 (11.02%) Business Intelligence
12 13 (11.02%) Platform Engineering
12 13 (11.02%) Service Delivery
12 13 (11.02%) User Stories
13 12 (10.17%) Acceptance Criteria
14 11 (9.32%) CI/CD
14 11 (9.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 28 (23.73%) Python
2 26 (22.03%) PowerShell
3 24 (20.34%) Groovy
4 19 (16.10%) SQL
5 16 (13.56%) Java
6 12 (10.17%) Perl
7 6 (5.08%) C#
7 6 (5.08%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.08%) PHP
8 5 (4.24%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.54%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.85%) C
10 1 (0.85%) C++
10 1 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.85%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.85%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.85%) XAML
Qualifications
1 34 (28.81%) Degree
2 28 (23.73%) Security Cleared
3 26 (22.03%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.63%) AWS Certification
4 9 (7.63%) Azure Certification
4 9 (7.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.93%) PMI Certification
5 7 (5.93%) PMP
6 6 (5.08%) ISTQB
7 5 (4.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.69%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.85%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.56%) QA
2 12 (10.17%) SLA
3 7 (5.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (5.93%) PMO
4 3 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 3 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 2 (1.69%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.85%) EMIR
6 1 (0.85%) GDPR
6 1 (0.85%) NIST
6 1 (0.85%) NIST 800
System Software
1 27 (22.88%) Active Directory
2 20 (16.95%) Docker
3 16 (13.56%) DFS Replication
4 5 (4.24%) Dovecot
4 5 (4.24%) Postfix
4 5 (4.24%) Squid
5 4 (3.39%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.39%) vSphere
6 3 (2.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (24.58%) Terraform
2 24 (20.34%) Grafana
2 24 (20.34%) Prometheus
3 8 (6.78%) Ansible
4 6 (5.08%) Nessus
5 5 (4.24%) Proxmox
6 2 (1.69%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.85%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.85%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (27.97%) ServiceNow
2 21 (17.80%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.93%) Juniper
4 6 (5.08%) Oracle
5 5 (4.24%) Google
5 5 (4.24%) Jaspersoft
5 5 (4.24%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.39%) Cisco
6 4 (3.39%) IBM
6 4 (3.39%) SonicWALL
7 3 (2.54%) Zend
8 2 (1.69%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.85%) Autodesk
9 1 (0.85%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.85%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.85%) Denodo
9 1 (0.85%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.85%) Talend
9 1 (0.85%) VMware