JIRA Jobs in the West Midlands

Atlassian JIRA
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring JIRA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited JIRA over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 131 57
Rank change year-on-year +81 -74 -10
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 188 146 273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.53% 1.75% 5.00%
As % of the Development Applications category 53.41% 28.63% 39.00%
Number of salaries quoted 97 100 103
10th Percentile £39,750 £25,000 £26,950
25th Percentile £48,000 £32,500 £40,767
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £49,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -12.39% +13.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £64,050 £66,250
90th Percentile - £75,772 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 352 510 700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.48% 6.13% 12.81%
Number of salaries quoted 206 378 364
10th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,438 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,375 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.83% -11.54% +4.00%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the West Midlands

JIRA
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for JIRA in the West Midlands

JIRA
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

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 7 July 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
Birmingham +49 64 £72,500 +28.66% 17
Warwickshire +40 50 £67,500 +125.00% 35
Staffordshire +47 30 £65,000 +68.83% 21
Solihull - 12 £34,000 - 2
Coventry +8 9 £52,500 +11.70% 9
Shropshire +15 6 £60,000 +26.32% 6
Dudley - 5 £30,000 -
Worcestershire +12 4 £65,000 +160.00% 1
Herefordshire - 3 - - 1
Wolverhampton +18 1 £70,000 +27.27% 2
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 86 (45.74%) Confluence
2 4 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.13%) nginx
2 4 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.06%) CMS
4 1 (0.53%) ColdFusion
4 1 (0.53%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 11 (5.85%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.13%) Mozilla Thunderbird
4 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.53%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (4.26%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (1.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.53%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 68 (36.17%) AWS
2 51 (27.13%) Azure
3 40 (21.28%) Amazon EC2
4 39 (20.74%) Amazon S3
5 38 (20.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 38 (20.21%) AWS KMS
6 35 (18.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 34 (18.09%) Amazon ELB
8 30 (15.96%) Amazon Glacier
9 14 (7.45%) GCP
10 9 (4.79%) Miro
11 8 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (4.26%) Power Platform
11 8 (4.26%) Route 53
12 7 (3.72%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (3.19%) GitHub
14 5 (2.66%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (2.66%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (2.66%) Figma
14 5 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 34 (18.09%) Firewall
2 19 (10.11%) DNS
2 19 (10.11%) HTTP
3 18 (9.57%) FTP
3 18 (9.57%) SMTP
3 18 (9.57%) SSH
4 5 (2.66%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (2.13%) IMAP
6 3 (1.60%) Broadband
7 1 (0.53%) DHCP
7 1 (0.53%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.53%) SAN
7 1 (0.53%) SSL
7 1 (0.53%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (21.81%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (13.83%) SQL Server
3 20 (10.64%) MySQL
3 20 (10.64%) Relational Database
4 11 (5.85%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (4.26%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (4.26%) Power BI
6 5 (2.66%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.13%) Metadata
8 3 (1.60%) Redis
9 2 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.06%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.53%) Big Data
10 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.53%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.53%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 66 (35.11%) Git
2 42 (22.34%) Bitbucket
3 41 (21.81%) Selenium
4 39 (20.74%) Jenkins
5 35 (18.62%) Sonatype Nexus
6 34 (18.09%) Vagrant
7 31 (16.49%) SonarQube
8 29 (15.43%) Maven
9 27 (14.36%) GitLab
10 25 (13.30%) Cucumber
11 16 (8.51%) Rational DOORS
12 5 (2.66%) JUnit
13 4 (2.13%) Bitbucket Server
13 4 (2.13%) DbUnit
13 4 (2.13%) jMock
13 4 (2.13%) Mockito
14 3 (1.60%) ERwin
15 1 (0.53%) Bugzilla
15 1 (0.53%) Cypress.io
15 1 (0.53%) Subversion
General
1 37 (19.68%) Social Skills
2 35 (18.62%) Public Sector
3 32 (17.02%) Finance
4 30 (15.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (12.77%) Banking
6 16 (8.51%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (8.51%) Legal
6 16 (8.51%) Retail
7 14 (7.45%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (5.85%) Corporate Banking
8 11 (5.85%) Investment Banking
9 9 (4.79%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (3.72%) Automotive
11 2 (1.06%) Back Office
11 2 (1.06%) Games
11 2 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.06%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.06%) Marketing
12 1 (0.53%) Law
12 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (19.68%) Senior
2 34 (18.09%) Software Engineer
3 25 (13.30%) Lead
4 17 (9.04%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (8.51%) Automation Engineer
5 16 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (7.98%) AWS Engineer
6 15 (7.98%) Validation Engineer
7 14 (7.45%) Infrastructure Support
7 14 (7.45%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 14 (7.45%) Support Engineer
8 13 (6.91%) Analyst
9 11 (5.85%) Systems Engineer
10 10 (5.32%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (5.32%) Developer
10 10 (5.32%) IT Engineer
10 10 (5.32%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (5.32%) Product Owner
11 8 (4.26%) Agile Product Owner
11 8 (4.26%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (15.43%) React
2 28 (14.89%) JPA
2 28 (14.89%) Spring
2 28 (14.89%) Spring Boot
3 27 (14.36%) HTML
4 26 (13.83%) CSS
5 25 (13.30%) Redux
6 24 (12.77%) Kafka
7 21 (11.17%) .NET
8 20 (10.64%) RESTful
9 17 (9.04%) Hibernate
10 12 (6.38%) Jest
10 12 (6.38%) REST
11 11 (5.85%) CSS3
11 11 (5.85%) HTML5
11 11 (5.85%) Sass
12 8 (4.26%) Node.js
13 7 (3.72%) AngularJS
13 7 (3.72%) Laravel
13 7 (3.72%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 41 (21.81%) Product Ownership
2 25 (13.30%) Replication
3 24 (12.77%) Enterprise Software
4 20 (10.64%) SCADA
5 15 (7.98%) Operational Technology
6 9 (4.79%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.13%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (2.13%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.60%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.60%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.06%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (1.06%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.53%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.53%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.53%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.53%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.53%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 58 (30.85%) Linux
2 45 (23.94%) Windows
3 34 (18.09%) VMS
4 19 (10.11%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (3.19%) Android
5 6 (3.19%) Apple iOS
6 5 (2.66%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.06%) CentOS
7 2 (1.06%) Debian
7 2 (1.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (56.38%) Agile
2 84 (44.68%) DevOps
3 65 (34.57%) CI/CD
4 46 (24.47%) Test Automation
5 41 (21.81%) Mentoring
6 37 (19.68%) Change Management
6 37 (19.68%) Software Engineering
7 34 (18.09%) Cloud Security
7 34 (18.09%) Configuration Management
8 33 (17.55%) Containerisation
8 33 (17.55%) Front End Development
9 32 (17.02%) SDLC
10 31 (16.49%) Coaching
11 29 (15.43%) Microservices
12 28 (14.89%) Scrum
13 27 (14.36%) Systems Engineering
14 26 (13.83%) Full-Stack Development
14 26 (13.83%) Roadmaps
15 24 (12.77%) Performance Optimisation
15 24 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (24.47%) Java
2 40 (21.28%) Python
3 39 (20.74%) SQL
4 37 (19.68%) JavaScript
5 35 (18.62%) PowerShell
6 33 (17.55%) Groovy
7 23 (12.23%) C#
8 15 (7.98%) Perl
8 15 (7.98%) TypeScript
9 7 (3.72%) PHP
10 2 (1.06%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.53%) Ruby
11 1 (0.53%) XAML
Qualifications
1 41 (21.81%) Security Cleared
2 37 (19.68%) BPSS Clearance
3 36 (19.15%) SC Cleared
4 32 (17.02%) Degree
5 20 (10.64%) ISTQB
6 10 (5.32%) AWS Certification
6 10 (5.32%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.66%) CITP
8 4 (2.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.53%) ISEB
10 1 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (17.55%) QA
2 11 (5.85%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.19%) GDPR
4 5 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.13%) PMO
6 2 (1.06%) SLA
7 1 (0.53%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.53%) EMIR
System Software
1 52 (27.66%) Docker
2 33 (17.55%) Active Directory
3 25 (13.30%) DFS Replication
4 4 (2.13%) Dovecot
4 4 (2.13%) Postfix
4 4 (2.13%) Squid
5 1 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.53%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 37 (19.68%) Grafana
1 37 (19.68%) Prometheus
2 35 (18.62%) Terraform
3 33 (17.55%) Ansible
4 28 (14.89%) Kubernetes
5 5 (2.66%) HP ALM
5 5 (2.66%) Nessus
6 4 (2.13%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.53%) Puppet
Vendors
1 37 (19.68%) ServiceNow
2 24 (12.77%) Solace
3 22 (11.70%) Atlassian
3 22 (11.70%) Microsoft
4 15 (7.98%) Juniper
5 11 (5.85%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.72%) Oracle
7 5 (2.66%) HP
7 5 (2.66%) MuleSoft
7 5 (2.66%) OpenAI
8 4 (2.13%) Jaspersoft
9 3 (1.60%) Sparx
10 1 (0.53%) Google
10 1 (0.53%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.53%) Sophos
10 1 (0.53%) VMware