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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 141 116
Rank change year-on-year +44 -25 -76
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 126 149 121
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 2.14% 1.70% 2.42%
As % of the Development Applications category 41.45% 29.27% 26.65%
Number of salaries quoted 89 85 96
10th Percentile £34,450 £35,000 £35,875
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.79% +16.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £58,750 £70,000
90th Percentile - £65,000 £91,934
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 304 509 454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.17% 5.79% 9.07%
Number of salaries quoted 228 256 386
10th Percentile £30,350 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,438 £38,938 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £52,500 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.14% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £66,500 £64,063 £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 20 November 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 20 November 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 +39 95 £60,000 +20.00% 57
East Midlands +8 31 £46,500 +3.33% 44
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 59 (46.83%) Confluence
2 7 (5.56%) nginx
3 3 (2.38%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.59%) JBoss
4 2 (1.59%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.79%) Appian
5 1 (0.79%) IIS
5 1 (0.79%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (6.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.56%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 5 (3.97%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (3.97%) Trello
4 4 (3.17%) CATIA
5 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.79%) Maximo
2 1 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 49 (38.89%) AWS
2 38 (30.16%) Azure
3 36 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 35 (27.78%) Amazon EC2
5 34 (26.98%) Amazon S3
6 33 (26.19%) AWS KMS
7 32 (25.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 31 (24.60%) Amazon ELB
9 24 (19.05%) Amazon Glacier
10 17 (13.49%) SaaS
11 16 (12.70%) Power Platform
12 10 (7.94%) Microsoft 365
13 9 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (7.14%) Route 53
14 8 (6.35%) Amazon ECS
15 6 (4.76%) GCP
16 4 (3.17%) IaaS
16 4 (3.17%) PaaS
16 4 (3.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 4 (3.17%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 40 (31.75%) Firewall
2 25 (19.84%) DNS
3 21 (16.67%) HTTP
4 20 (15.87%) FTP
4 20 (15.87%) SMTP
4 20 (15.87%) SSH
5 7 (5.56%) IMAP
5 7 (5.56%) OpenLDAP
6 5 (3.97%) VLAN
7 3 (2.38%) VPN
8 2 (1.59%) DHCP
9 1 (0.79%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.79%) Modbus
9 1 (0.79%) SAN
9 1 (0.79%) SSL
9 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.79%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (27.78%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (10.32%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (10.32%) Power BI
3 9 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (6.35%) MySQL
5 5 (3.97%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.97%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.59%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.59%) MariaDB
6 2 (1.59%) Tableau
7 1 (0.79%) Metadata
7 1 (0.79%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.79%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 47 (37.30%) Git
2 38 (30.16%) Jenkins
3 31 (24.60%) Vagrant
4 8 (6.35%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (3.97%) JUnit
5 5 (3.97%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (3.17%) Maven
7 3 (2.38%) Postman
8 2 (1.59%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (1.59%) DbUnit
8 2 (1.59%) GitLab
8 2 (1.59%) Gradle
8 2 (1.59%) jMock
8 2 (1.59%) Mockito
8 2 (1.59%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.79%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.79%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.79%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.79%) TestRail
9 1 (0.79%) Zephyr
General
1 37 (29.37%) Social Skills
2 30 (23.81%) Public Sector
3 21 (16.67%) Finance
4 18 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (13.49%) Law
6 14 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (6.35%) Retail
8 4 (3.17%) Games
9 3 (2.38%) Billing
9 3 (2.38%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.38%) Marketing
10 2 (1.59%) Automotive
10 2 (1.59%) Legal
11 1 (0.79%) Back Office
11 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 18 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
1 18 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 17 (13.49%) Senior
3 16 (12.70%) Analyst
3 16 (12.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support
4 14 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 13 (10.32%) AWS Engineer
6 11 (8.73%) Developer
7 10 (7.94%) Junior
8 9 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (6.35%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (6.35%) Business Analyst
9 8 (6.35%) Lead
9 8 (6.35%) Product Owner
10 7 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support
10 7 (5.56%) IT Engineer
10 7 (5.56%) Project Manager
11 6 (4.76%) IT Support
11 6 (4.76%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.14%) .NET
2 7 (5.56%) LDAP
3 6 (4.76%) HTML
4 5 (3.97%) AngularJS
4 5 (3.97%) CSS
4 5 (3.97%) Laravel
4 5 (3.97%) REST
4 5 (3.97%) SOAP
5 4 (3.17%) Spring
5 4 (3.17%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.17%) XML
6 3 (2.38%) Next.js
6 3 (2.38%) Node.js
6 3 (2.38%) React
6 3 (2.38%) React Native
6 3 (2.38%) RESTful
6 3 (2.38%) Vue
6 3 (2.38%) Web Services
7 2 (1.59%) .NET Core
7 2 (1.59%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 22 (17.46%) Replication
2 19 (15.08%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.97%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.17%) Driving Licence
5 4 (3.17%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.59%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.59%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.79%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.79%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.79%) NHS
8 1 (0.79%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.79%) SCADA
8 1 (0.79%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (29.37%) Linux
2 31 (24.60%) VMS
3 23 (18.25%) Windows
4 20 (15.87%) Amazon Linux
5 8 (6.35%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (37.30%) Agile
2 44 (34.92%) DevOps
3 35 (27.78%) Change Management
4 31 (24.60%) Cloud Security
4 31 (24.60%) Configuration Management
5 27 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 26 (20.63%) Project Management
7 22 (17.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 21 (16.67%) Patch Management
9 16 (12.70%) Decision-Making
9 16 (12.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 16 (12.70%) Platform Engineering
10 15 (11.90%) Scrum
11 14 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
11 14 (11.11%) ITIL
12 13 (10.32%) CI/CD
12 13 (10.32%) Service Delivery
12 13 (10.32%) User Stories
13 11 (8.73%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 34 (26.98%) PowerShell
1 34 (26.98%) Python
2 31 (24.60%) Groovy
3 23 (18.25%) SQL
4 18 (14.29%) Java
5 13 (10.32%) Perl
6 8 (6.35%) C#
7 6 (4.76%) JavaScript
8 5 (3.97%) PHP
9 4 (3.17%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.38%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.79%) XAML
Qualifications
1 35 (27.78%) Degree
1 35 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 33 (26.19%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.73%) AWS Certification
3 11 (8.73%) Azure Certification
4 8 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (5.56%) PMI Certification
5 7 (5.56%) PMP
6 6 (4.76%) ISTQB
7 5 (3.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.59%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.79%) CITP
10 1 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.79%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.11%) QA
2 12 (9.52%) SLA
3 8 (6.35%) PMO
4 7 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 3 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 2 (1.59%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.79%) EMIR
7 1 (0.79%) GDPR
7 1 (0.79%) NIST
7 1 (0.79%) NIST 800
System Software
1 32 (25.40%) Active Directory
2 24 (19.05%) Docker
3 22 (17.46%) DFS Replication
4 7 (5.56%) Dovecot
4 7 (5.56%) Postfix
4 7 (5.56%) Squid
5 4 (3.17%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.17%) vSphere
6 3 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (28.57%) Terraform
2 31 (24.60%) Grafana
2 31 (24.60%) Prometheus
3 12 (9.52%) Ansible
4 8 (6.35%) Nessus
5 7 (5.56%) Proxmox
6 2 (1.59%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.79%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.79%) Puppet
Vendors
1 40 (31.75%) ServiceNow
2 21 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.73%) Juniper
4 7 (5.56%) Jaspersoft
4 7 (5.56%) Oracle
5 5 (3.97%) Google
5 5 (3.97%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.17%) Cisco
6 4 (3.17%) IBM
6 4 (3.17%) SonicWALL
7 3 (2.38%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.59%) Zend
9 1 (0.79%) Autodesk
9 1 (0.79%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (0.79%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (0.79%) Denodo
9 1 (0.79%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.79%) Sparx
9 1 (0.79%) Talend
9 1 (0.79%) VMware