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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 137 90
Rank change year-on-year +63 -47 -48
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 206 162 176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.68% 1.61% 3.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 52.28% 28.83% 33.08%
Number of salaries quoted 108 92 135
10th Percentile £32,000 £30,775 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,313 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,468 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.98% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £54,250 £65,000
90th Percentile - £64,995 £91,934
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +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 394 562 532
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 7.04% 5.60% 9.33%
Number of salaries quoted 242 312 434
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,375
25th Percentile £41,750 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £72,500 £60,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,900 £72,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +2.36%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +68 131 £65,000 +40.54% 73
East Midlands +45 75 £44,500 -6.32% 50
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 115 (55.83%) Confluence
2 8 (3.88%) nginx
3 4 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.94%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.97%) JBoss
4 2 (0.97%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.49%) Appian
5 1 (0.49%) CMS
5 1 (0.49%) ColdFusion
5 1 (0.49%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.49%) Mendix
5 1 (0.49%) Strapi
Applications
1 8 (3.88%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (1.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.46%) Trello
4 2 (0.97%) CATIA
4 2 (0.97%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.97%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 117 (56.80%) AWS
2 99 (48.06%) Azure
3 48 (23.30%) GCP
4 47 (22.82%) Amazon EC2
5 46 (22.33%) Amazon S3
6 45 (21.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 45 (21.84%) AWS KMS
7 42 (20.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 41 (19.90%) Amazon ELB
9 33 (16.02%) Amazon Glacier
10 16 (7.77%) Power Platform
11 12 (5.83%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (5.83%) Route 53
11 12 (5.83%) SaaS
12 9 (4.37%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (4.37%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (4.37%) Power Automate
13 5 (2.43%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (2.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 43 (20.87%) Firewall
2 26 (12.62%) DNS
2 26 (12.62%) HTTP
3 25 (12.14%) FTP
3 25 (12.14%) SMTP
3 25 (12.14%) SSH
4 8 (3.88%) IMAP
4 8 (3.88%) OpenLDAP
5 3 (1.46%) VLAN
6 1 (0.49%) DHCP
6 1 (0.49%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.49%) SAN
6 1 (0.49%) SSL
6 1 (0.49%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (33.01%) SQL Server
2 47 (22.82%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (5.83%) Amazon Aurora
3 12 (5.83%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (5.34%) Power BI
5 4 (1.94%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.94%) Metadata
5 4 (1.94%) MySQL
6 3 (1.46%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.97%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.97%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.97%) Tableau
8 1 (0.49%) Big Data
8 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 76 (36.89%) Sonatype Nexus
2 69 (33.50%) Maven
3 68 (33.01%) Selenium
4 67 (32.52%) SonarQube
5 65 (31.55%) GitLab
6 64 (31.07%) Cucumber
7 63 (30.58%) Bitbucket
8 53 (25.73%) Git
9 48 (23.30%) Jenkins
10 41 (19.90%) Vagrant
11 7 (3.40%) JUnit
12 6 (2.91%) Rational DOORS
13 4 (1.94%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (1.94%) DbUnit
13 4 (1.94%) jMock
13 4 (1.94%) Mockito
14 3 (1.46%) ERwin
15 2 (0.97%) Gradle
16 1 (0.49%) Postman
16 1 (0.49%) TestRail
General
1 80 (38.83%) Finance
2 70 (33.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 63 (30.58%) Banking
4 44 (21.36%) Social Skills
5 38 (18.45%) Public Sector
6 22 (10.68%) Law
6 22 (10.68%) Retail
7 16 (7.77%) Corporate Banking
7 16 (7.77%) Investment Banking
8 15 (7.28%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
10 4 (1.94%) Automotive
10 4 (1.94%) Marketing
11 3 (1.46%) Games
12 2 (0.97%) Back Office
12 2 (0.97%) Billing
12 2 (0.97%) Legal
13 1 (0.49%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.49%) Electronics
13 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 64 (31.07%) Software Engineer
2 23 (11.17%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (10.19%) Analyst
4 17 (8.25%) AWS Engineer
4 17 (8.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (7.28%) Senior
5 15 (7.28%) Support Engineer
6 14 (6.80%) Developer
6 14 (6.80%) Infrastructure Support
6 14 (6.80%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 13 (6.31%) Lead
8 11 (5.34%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (4.85%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (4.85%) Product Owner
10 8 (3.88%) IT Analyst
11 7 (3.40%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (3.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.40%) IT Support
11 7 (3.40%) IT Support Analyst
11 7 (3.40%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (33.50%) Spring
1 69 (33.50%) Spring Boot
2 68 (33.01%) HTML
3 67 (32.52%) CSS
3 67 (32.52%) JPA
3 67 (32.52%) React
4 65 (31.55%) Redux
5 63 (30.58%) Kafka
6 51 (24.76%) Hibernate
7 22 (10.68%) REST
8 21 (10.19%) RESTful
9 18 (8.74%) CSS3
9 18 (8.74%) HTML5
10 16 (7.77%) Jest
10 16 (7.77%) Sass
11 9 (4.37%) .NET
11 9 (4.37%) SOAP
12 8 (3.88%) AngularJS
12 8 (3.88%) Bootstrap
12 8 (3.88%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 76 (36.89%) Product Ownership
2 69 (33.50%) Enterprise Software
3 29 (14.08%) Replication
4 6 (2.91%) SCADA
5 4 (1.94%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.46%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.46%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.97%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.97%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.97%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.49%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.49%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.49%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.49%) NHS
8 1 (0.49%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.49%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 49 (23.79%) Linux
2 41 (19.90%) VMS
3 31 (15.05%) Windows
4 26 (12.62%) Amazon Linux
5 9 (4.37%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.46%) Unix
7 1 (0.49%) CentOS
7 1 (0.49%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (60.19%) DevOps
2 121 (58.74%) Agile
3 78 (37.86%) CI/CD
4 75 (36.41%) Test Automation
5 70 (33.98%) Microservices
6 69 (33.50%) Containerisation
6 69 (33.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 69 (33.50%) Software Engineering
7 64 (31.07%) Front End Development
7 64 (31.07%) SDLC
8 63 (30.58%) Full-Stack Development
8 63 (30.58%) Performance Optimisation
9 51 (24.76%) Clean Code
9 51 (24.76%) TDD
10 43 (20.87%) Change Management
11 41 (19.90%) Cloud Security
11 41 (19.90%) Configuration Management
12 30 (14.56%) Stakeholder Management
13 26 (12.62%) Patch Management
14 25 (12.14%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 90 (43.69%) Java
1 90 (43.69%) SQL
2 71 (34.47%) JavaScript
3 44 (21.36%) Python
4 43 (20.87%) PowerShell
5 40 (19.42%) Groovy
6 22 (10.68%) TypeScript
7 18 (8.74%) Perl
8 11 (5.34%) C#
9 3 (1.46%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.49%) PHP
10 1 (0.49%) XAML
Qualifications
1 45 (21.84%) Security Cleared
2 43 (20.87%) SC Cleared
3 35 (16.99%) Degree
4 14 (6.80%) AWS Certification
4 14 (6.80%) Azure Certification
5 9 (4.37%) ISTQB
6 6 (2.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 6 (2.91%) PMI Certification
6 6 (2.91%) PMP
7 5 (2.43%) CITP
8 4 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.97%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.49%) ISEB
11 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (35.92%) QA
2 16 (7.77%) Accessibility
3 12 (5.83%) SLA
4 6 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.91%) PMO
5 3 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 3 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 2 (0.97%) GDPR
7 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.49%) EMIR
System Software
1 95 (46.12%) Docker
2 38 (18.45%) Active Directory
3 29 (14.08%) DFS Replication
4 8 (3.88%) Dovecot
4 8 (3.88%) Postfix
4 8 (3.88%) Squid
5 2 (0.97%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.97%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 64 (31.07%) Kubernetes
2 44 (21.36%) Terraform
3 41 (19.90%) Grafana
3 41 (19.90%) Prometheus
4 15 (7.28%) Ansible
5 9 (4.37%) Nessus
6 8 (3.88%) Proxmox
7 4 (1.94%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.97%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.49%) Marathon
9 1 (0.49%) Puppet
Vendors
1 63 (30.58%) Solace
2 46 (22.33%) ServiceNow
3 17 (8.25%) Microsoft
4 15 (7.28%) Juniper
5 10 (4.85%) Oracle
6 8 (3.88%) Jaspersoft
6 8 (3.88%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.43%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.94%) Atlassian
8 4 (1.94%) HP
9 3 (1.46%) IBM
9 3 (1.46%) Sparx
10 2 (0.97%) Cisco
10 2 (0.97%) SonicWALL
11 1 (0.49%) Autodesk
11 1 (0.49%) CA Agile Central
11 1 (0.49%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (0.49%) Google
11 1 (0.49%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.49%) VMware