JIRA Job Trends in Staffordshire

Atlassian JIRA
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring JIRA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 47 43
Rank change year-on-year -2 -4 +19
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 25 29 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Staffordshire 4.05% 3.81% 3.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 65.79% 52.73% 38.24%
Number of salaries quoted 7 12 12
10th Percentile £37,000 - £26,750
25th Percentile £39,375 £22,620 £30,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.39% +18.46% -18.75%
75th Percentile £43,750 £45,938 £40,938
90th Percentile £51,250 £54,300 £52,000
West Midlands median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% -16.67% +20.00%

All Development Application Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 38 55 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 6.16% 7.23% 8.31%
Number of salaries quoted 19 19 32
10th Percentile £40,500 £22,620 £26,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £35,125 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.18% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £62,500 £60,000
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% - +9.52%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

JIRA
Salary Trend in Staffordshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing JIRA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing JIRA

JIRA
Salary Histogram in Staffordshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 25 October 2025.

Salary histogram for JIRA in Staffordshire

JIRA
Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 25 October 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
Stoke-on-Trent +18 4 £40,000 -22.33% 3
Stafford +2 3 - - 1
Burton-upon-Trent -4 1 £37,500 +61.36%
JIRA
West Midlands

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 9 (36.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (72.00%) Azure
2 17 (68.00%) AWS
3 8 (32.00%) GCP
4 4 (16.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 2 (8.00%) SaaS
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.00%) Datadog
6 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.00%) IaaS
6 1 (4.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Firewall
2 1 (4.00%) DNS
2 1 (4.00%) Modbus
2 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (64.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (64.00%) Bitbucket
1 16 (64.00%) Cucumber
1 16 (64.00%) GitLab
1 16 (64.00%) Maven
1 16 (64.00%) Selenium
1 16 (64.00%) SonarQube
1 16 (64.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (4.00%) Git
General
1 21 (84.00%) Finance
2 16 (64.00%) Banking
2 16 (64.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (52.00%) Retail
4 9 (36.00%) Corporate Banking
4 9 (36.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Automotive
5 1 (4.00%) Billing
5 1 (4.00%) Games
5 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.00%) Marketing
5 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (64.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (16.00%) Product Specialist
2 4 (16.00%) Products Support Specialist
2 4 (16.00%) Support Specialist
3 2 (8.00%) Product Owner
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (4.00%) IT Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) IT Support
4 1 (4.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Junior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Junior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Junior IT Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Junior IT Support
4 1 (4.00%) Junior Support Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (64.00%) CSS
1 16 (64.00%) HTML
1 16 (64.00%) JPA
1 16 (64.00%) Kafka
1 16 (64.00%) React
1 16 (64.00%) Redux
1 16 (64.00%) Spring
1 16 (64.00%) Spring Boot
2 9 (36.00%) CSS3
2 9 (36.00%) HTML5
2 9 (36.00%) Jest
2 9 (36.00%) REST
2 9 (36.00%) RESTful
2 9 (36.00%) Sass
3 7 (28.00%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 18 (72.00%) Product Ownership
2 16 (64.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.00%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (4.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (76.00%) Agile
2 16 (64.00%) CI/CD
2 16 (64.00%) Containerisation
2 16 (64.00%) DevOps
2 16 (64.00%) Front End Development
2 16 (64.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 16 (64.00%) Microservices
2 16 (64.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 16 (64.00%) SDLC
2 16 (64.00%) Software Engineering
2 16 (64.00%) Test Automation
3 9 (36.00%) Mentoring
3 9 (36.00%) Migration
3 9 (36.00%) Responsive Web Design
3 9 (36.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 9 (36.00%) User Experience
4 7 (28.00%) Clean Code
4 7 (28.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (28.00%) TDD
5 5 (20.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 16 (64.00%) Java
1 16 (64.00%) JavaScript
1 16 (64.00%) SQL
2 9 (36.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (64.00%) QA
2 9 (36.00%) Accessibility
3 5 (20.00%) SLA
4 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (4.00%) NIST
4 1 (4.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 16 (64.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (64.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (64.00%) Solace
2 5 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 4 (16.00%) Salesforce
4 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.00%) Google