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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 61 136
Rank change year-on-year -105 +75 -66
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 107 231 177
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.74% 4.02% 1.65%
As % of the Development Applications category 29.48% 51.11% 29.90%
Number of salaries quoted 89 134 111
10th Percentile £25,350 £25,242 £25,000
25th Percentile £26,625 £41,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +22.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £57,500 £73,750 £54,500
90th Percentile £72,000 - £66,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%

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 363 452 592
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.51% 7.86% 5.50%
Number of salaries quoted 244 288 386
10th Percentile £27,000 £33,550 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £44,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,996 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -94 60 £45,000 -30.77% 45
East Midlands -56 47 £27,500 -35.29% 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 27 (25.23%) Confluence
2 6 (5.61%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.87%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (4.67%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.93%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.93%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 34 (31.78%) Azure
2 20 (18.69%) AWS
3 10 (9.35%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (9.35%) SaaS
4 9 (8.41%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (4.67%) GCP
6 4 (3.74%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.80%) ClickUp
7 3 (2.80%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.80%) Siteimprove
8 2 (1.87%) GitHub
8 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.93%) Azure Stack
9 1 (0.93%) Figma
9 1 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.93%) Miro
9 1 (0.93%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.61%) DHCP
1 6 (5.61%) DNS
2 5 (4.67%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.80%) Firewall
3 3 (2.80%) VLAN
3 3 (2.80%) VPN
4 2 (1.87%) HTTP
4 2 (1.87%) LAN
4 2 (1.87%) WAN
5 1 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.93%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (3.74%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (3.74%) Power BI
3 3 (2.80%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.93%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.93%) Metadata
4 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.93%) Power Query
4 1 (0.93%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (14.95%) Git
2 8 (7.48%) Selenium
2 8 (7.48%) Zephyr
3 6 (5.61%) Postman
4 5 (4.67%) GitLab
4 5 (4.67%) SoapUI
4 5 (4.67%) Visual Studio
5 4 (3.74%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.74%) JMeter
5 4 (3.74%) TestRail
6 3 (2.80%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.80%) Subversion
6 3 (2.80%) Toad
7 2 (1.87%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.93%) Bugzilla
General
1 36 (33.64%) Social Skills
2 17 (15.89%) Finance
2 17 (15.89%) Law
3 10 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (6.54%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.67%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.74%) Games
7 3 (2.80%) iGaming
7 3 (2.80%) Legal
7 3 (2.80%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.80%) Retail
8 2 (1.87%) Banking
8 2 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.93%) Automotive
9 1 (0.93%) Billing
9 1 (0.93%) Electronics
9 1 (0.93%) Marketing
9 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (27.10%) Analyst
2 20 (18.69%) Senior
3 19 (17.76%) IT Support
4 16 (14.95%) Senior Analyst
5 12 (11.21%) 2nd Line Support
6 11 (10.28%) Business Analyst
7 8 (7.48%) Project Manager
8 7 (6.54%) Lead
8 7 (6.54%) Senior Business Analyst
8 7 (6.54%) Support Analyst
9 6 (5.61%) Product Owner
9 6 (5.61%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.67%) IT Engineer
10 5 (4.67%) Support Engineer
11 4 (3.74%) Applications Support
11 4 (3.74%) Applications Support Analyst
11 4 (3.74%) Data Business Analyst
11 4 (3.74%) Junior
11 4 (3.74%) Service Manager
11 4 (3.74%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.28%) React
2 5 (4.67%) XML
3 4 (3.74%) JSON
3 4 (3.74%) Middleware
3 4 (3.74%) Playwright
3 4 (3.74%) REST
3 4 (3.74%) SOAP
4 3 (2.80%) ADO
4 3 (2.80%) React Native
5 2 (1.87%) Express.js
5 2 (1.87%) Fastify
5 2 (1.87%) Gherkin
5 2 (1.87%) Node.js
6 1 (0.93%) .NET
6 1 (0.93%) CSS
6 1 (0.93%) CSS3
6 1 (0.93%) HTML
6 1 (0.93%) Sass
6 1 (0.93%) Web Services
6 1 (0.93%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.89%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.48%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.61%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (5.61%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.67%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.80%) Embedded Systems
5 3 (2.80%) PMI
6 2 (1.87%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.87%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.87%) Online Gambling
6 2 (1.87%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (0.93%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.93%) CMDB
7 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.93%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.21%) Windows
2 7 (6.54%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.74%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.87%) Android
4 2 (1.87%) Linux
5 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (49.53%) Agile
2 26 (24.30%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (20.56%) DevOps
4 21 (19.63%) Computer Science
4 21 (19.63%) Service Management
4 21 (19.63%) Stakeholder Management
5 19 (17.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (14.02%) Acceptance Criteria
6 15 (14.02%) SDLC
7 14 (13.08%) ITSM
7 14 (13.08%) Requirements Gathering
7 14 (13.08%) User Stories
7 14 (13.08%) Waterfall
8 13 (12.15%) CI/CD
8 13 (12.15%) Software Testing
8 13 (12.15%) Test Automation
9 12 (11.21%) Decision-Making
9 12 (11.21%) Root Cause Analysis
9 12 (11.21%) Software Engineering
9 12 (11.21%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 26 (24.30%) SQL
2 14 (13.08%) PowerShell
3 8 (7.48%) Java
4 6 (5.61%) C++
4 6 (5.61%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.74%) C#
5 4 (3.74%) Python
6 1 (0.93%) C
6 1 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.93%) Perl
6 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (34.58%) Degree
2 14 (13.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (8.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (7.48%) Security Cleared
5 6 (5.61%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.74%) ISEB
6 4 (3.74%) ISTQB
6 4 (3.74%) PMI Certification
7 3 (2.80%) CBAP
7 3 (2.80%) CCNA
7 3 (2.80%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.80%) IIBA
8 2 (1.87%) ACCA
8 2 (1.87%) CIMA
8 2 (1.87%) CITP
9 1 (0.93%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.93%) MCSE
9 1 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.93%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (22.43%) QA
2 6 (5.61%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.67%) SLA
4 3 (2.80%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.80%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (1.87%) GDPR
5 2 (1.87%) PMO
6 1 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 3 (2.80%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.80%) Embedded Firmware
1 3 (2.80%) Firmware
2 2 (1.87%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.93%) Docker
3 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.93%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (2.80%) BMC PATROL
1 3 (2.80%) Control-M
1 3 (2.80%) HP ALM
1 3 (2.80%) Terraform
1 3 (2.80%) WhatsUp Gold
2 1 (0.93%) Ansible
2 1 (0.93%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.93%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.93%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (13.08%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.15%) Cisco
2 13 (12.15%) ServiceNow
3 11 (10.28%) Meraki
4 8 (7.48%) SAP
5 7 (6.54%) Oracle
6 4 (3.74%) Google
6 4 (3.74%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.80%) Adobe
7 3 (2.80%) BMC
7 3 (2.80%) HP
7 3 (2.80%) Pega
7 3 (2.80%) SolarWinds
7 3 (2.80%) VMware
8 1 (0.93%) Altera
8 1 (0.93%) Cognos
8 1 (0.93%) Freshdesk
8 1 (0.93%) Microsemi
8 1 (0.93%) Workday
8 1 (0.93%) Xilinx