JIRA Job Trends in the West Midlands

Atlassian JIRA
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring JIRA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 104 107
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 -73
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 66 108 72
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.25% 2.59% 1.98%
As % of the Development Applications category 33.33% 33.13% 24.83%
Number of salaries quoted 40 69 63
10th Percentile £26,250 £37,450 £33,150
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% -8.33% +19.40%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £74,625 £67,500 £89,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,560 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.10% -7.90% +4.17%

All Development Application Skills
West 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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 198 326 290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.74% 7.83% 7.97%
Number of salaries quoted 145 162 265
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,188 £69,550
90th Percentile £72,900 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JIRA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

JIRA job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

JIRA
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing JIRA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing JIRA

JIRA
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Salary histogram for JIRA in the West Midlands

JIRA
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 January 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
Birmingham +19 28 £37,500 -25.00% 11
Staffordshire -30 11 £42,500 +8.97% 3
Warwickshire +22 7 £75,000 +36.36% 18
Solihull +5 4 - - 1
Coventry +2 3 £40,000 -36.00% 8
Shropshire -29 3 £65,000 +18.18% 7
Herefordshire - 3 £70,000 -
Worcestershire -22 1 £52,500 -19.23% 5
Tipton - 1 £42,500 - 2
Walsall - 1 £45,000 - 1
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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 18 (27.27%) Confluence
2 5 (7.58%) SharePoint
3 4 (6.06%) nginx
4 1 (1.52%) Appian
4 1 (1.52%) IIS
4 1 (1.52%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.58%) Trello
3 4 (6.06%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 3 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.52%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 5 (7.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.52%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 24 (36.36%) Azure
2 17 (25.76%) SaaS
3 16 (24.24%) AWS
4 10 (15.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 10 (15.15%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (15.15%) Power Platform
5 8 (12.12%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (10.61%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (10.61%) Amazon ELB
6 7 (10.61%) Amazon S3
6 7 (10.61%) AWS KMS
6 7 (10.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (6.06%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (6.06%) GCP
7 4 (6.06%) IaaS
7 4 (6.06%) PaaS
7 4 (6.06%) Route 53
8 3 (4.55%) Amazon Glacier
8 3 (4.55%) Datadog
8 3 (4.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (18.18%) DNS
1 12 (18.18%) Firewall
2 8 (12.12%) HTTP
3 7 (10.61%) FTP
3 7 (10.61%) SMTP
3 7 (10.61%) SSH
4 4 (6.06%) IMAP
4 4 (6.06%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (6.06%) VPN
5 2 (3.03%) DHCP
6 1 (1.52%) LAN
6 1 (1.52%) Modbus
6 1 (1.52%) SAN
6 1 (1.52%) SSL
6 1 (1.52%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.52%) VLAN
6 1 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.52%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.15%) Power BI
2 8 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (10.61%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (7.58%) MySQL
5 4 (6.06%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (6.06%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.03%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.52%) Pentaho
7 1 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (21.21%) Git
2 9 (13.64%) Jenkins
3 7 (10.61%) Vagrant
4 3 (4.55%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (3.03%) Postman
5 2 (3.03%) Selenium
5 2 (3.03%) TestRail
6 1 (1.52%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.52%) PHPUnit
6 1 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.52%) Zephyr
General
1 20 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (13.64%) Public Sector
3 8 (12.12%) Finance
3 8 (12.12%) Law
4 6 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (6.06%) Retail
6 3 (4.55%) Games
6 3 (4.55%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.55%) Marketing
7 2 (3.03%) Automotive
7 2 (3.03%) Legal
8 1 (1.52%) Advertising
8 1 (1.52%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.52%) Billing
8 1 (1.52%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 11 (16.67%) Analyst
2 10 (15.15%) IT Engineer
2 10 (15.15%) Support Engineer
3 9 (13.64%) IT Support
3 9 (13.64%) IT Support Engineer
4 8 (12.12%) Lead
4 8 (12.12%) Senior
5 7 (10.61%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (10.61%) Junior
6 6 (9.09%) Applications Support
7 5 (7.58%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (7.58%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 5 (7.58%) Head of Support
8 4 (6.06%) Business Analyst
8 4 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (6.06%) Product Owner
8 4 (6.06%) Software Analyst
8 4 (6.06%) Software Engineer
9 3 (4.55%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.06%) HTML
1 4 (6.06%) Laravel
1 4 (6.06%) LDAP
2 3 (4.55%) CSS
2 3 (4.55%) Next.js
2 3 (4.55%) Node.js
2 3 (4.55%) React
2 3 (4.55%) React Native
2 3 (4.55%) Vue
2 3 (4.55%) XML
3 2 (3.03%) .NET
3 2 (3.03%) Playwright
4 1 (1.52%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.52%) JSON
4 1 (1.52%) LAMP
4 1 (1.52%) REST
4 1 (1.52%) SAML
4 1 (1.52%) SOAP
4 1 (1.52%) Symfony
4 1 (1.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.15%) Product Ownership
2 6 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (6.06%) Mobile App
3 4 (6.06%) Replication
4 2 (3.03%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.52%) NHS
5 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.52%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.52%) SCADA
5 1 (1.52%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.64%) Linux
2 7 (10.61%) Amazon Linux
2 7 (10.61%) VMS
3 6 (9.09%) Windows
4 5 (7.58%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (40.91%) Agile
2 19 (28.79%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (25.76%) DevOps
4 13 (19.70%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 11 (16.67%) ITIL
6 11 (16.67%) Project Management
7 10 (15.15%) Acceptance Criteria
7 10 (15.15%) Change Management
7 10 (15.15%) Decision-Making
7 10 (15.15%) Incident Management
7 10 (15.15%) Service Delivery
7 10 (15.15%) User Acceptance Testing
7 10 (15.15%) User Stories
8 8 (12.12%) Computer Science
8 8 (12.12%) Patch Management
9 7 (10.61%) Cloud Security
9 7 (10.61%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 15 (22.73%) SQL
2 11 (16.67%) Python
3 10 (15.15%) PowerShell
4 7 (10.61%) Groovy
5 4 (6.06%) PHP
6 3 (4.55%) Java
6 3 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.55%) Perl
7 1 (1.52%) C
7 1 (1.52%) C#
7 1 (1.52%) C++
7 1 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.52%) Embedded C
7 1 (1.52%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (1.52%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (33.33%) Degree
2 12 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 10 (15.15%) SC Cleared
4 7 (10.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (9.09%) ISTQB
5 6 (9.09%) PMI Certification
5 6 (9.09%) PMP
6 5 (7.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (6.06%) AWS Certification
7 4 (6.06%) Azure Certification
8 2 (3.03%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.52%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.52%) MySQL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (21.21%) QA
2 10 (15.15%) SLA
3 6 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.03%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.03%) PMO
5 1 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.52%) NIST
5 1 (1.52%) NIST 800
System Software
1 9 (13.64%) Docker
2 7 (10.61%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.06%) DFS Replication
3 4 (6.06%) Dovecot
3 4 (6.06%) Postfix
3 4 (6.06%) Squid
4 3 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (13.64%) Terraform
2 7 (10.61%) Grafana
2 7 (10.61%) Prometheus
3 5 (7.58%) Nessus
4 4 (6.06%) Proxmox
5 2 (3.03%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (1.52%) Ansible
6 1 (1.52%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.52%) Puppet
6 1 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 14 (21.21%) ServiceNow
3 5 (7.58%) Google
4 4 (6.06%) Jaspersoft
5 3 (4.55%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.52%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.52%) Autodesk
6 1 (1.52%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.52%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.52%) Denodo
6 1 (1.52%) IBM
6 1 (1.52%) Logitech
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle
6 1 (1.52%) Talend
6 1 (1.52%) VMware
6 1 (1.52%) Yealink
6 1 (1.52%) Zend