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 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 47 58 50
Rank change year-on-year +11 -8 +20
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 24 26 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 3.52% 2.96% 2.73%
As % of the Development Applications category 57.14% 42.62% 42.86%
Number of salaries quoted 8 10 11
10th Percentile £33,211 - £26,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £22,620 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £38,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.39% +18.46% -30.11%
75th Percentile £43,750 £39,438 £43,125
90th Percentile £49,375 £45,870 £52,500
West Midlands median annual salary £65,000 £46,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +40.54% -19.57% +15.00%

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 42 61 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 6.17% 6.95% 6.36%
Number of salaries quoted 25 29 27
10th Percentile £39,000 £22,620 £25,450
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £67,500 £55,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £59,990 £61,600
West Midlands median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +10.50%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA 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 17 September 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 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
Stoke-on-Trent +20 5 £40,000 -5.88% 7
Stafford -4 3 - - 2
Burton-upon-Trent -3 1 £23,405 +0.71%
JIRA
West Midlands

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 8 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (70.83%) Azure
2 16 (66.67%) AWS
3 7 (29.17%) GCP
4 4 (16.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 2 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (66.67%) Bitbucket
1 16 (66.67%) Cucumber
1 16 (66.67%) GitLab
1 16 (66.67%) Maven
1 16 (66.67%) Selenium
1 16 (66.67%) SonarQube
1 16 (66.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (4.17%) Bugzilla
2 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 21 (87.50%) Finance
2 16 (66.67%) Banking
2 16 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 13 (54.17%) Retail
4 9 (37.50%) Corporate Banking
4 9 (37.50%) Investment Banking
5 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
6 2 (8.33%) Automotive
6 2 (8.33%) Marketing
7 1 (4.17%) Billing
7 1 (4.17%) Games
Job Titles
1 16 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Product Specialist
2 4 (16.67%) Products Support Specialist
2 4 (16.67%) Support Specialist
3 2 (8.33%) Product Owner
4 1 (4.17%) Games Tester
4 1 (4.17%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (66.67%) CSS
1 16 (66.67%) HTML
1 16 (66.67%) JPA
1 16 (66.67%) Kafka
1 16 (66.67%) React
1 16 (66.67%) Redux
1 16 (66.67%) Spring
1 16 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 9 (37.50%) CSS3
2 9 (37.50%) HTML5
2 9 (37.50%) Jest
2 9 (37.50%) REST
2 9 (37.50%) RESTful
2 9 (37.50%) Sass
3 7 (29.17%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 18 (75.00%) Product Ownership
2 16 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (79.17%) Agile
2 16 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 16 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 16 (66.67%) DevOps
2 16 (66.67%) Front End Development
2 16 (66.67%) Full-Stack Development
2 16 (66.67%) Microservices
2 16 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 16 (66.67%) SDLC
2 16 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 16 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 9 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 9 (37.50%) Migration
3 9 (37.50%) Responsive Web Design
3 9 (37.50%) Strategic Thinking
3 9 (37.50%) User Experience
4 7 (29.17%) Clean Code
4 7 (29.17%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (29.17%) TDD
5 4 (16.67%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 16 (66.67%) Java
1 16 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 16 (66.67%) SQL
2 9 (37.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.17%) ISEB
1 1 (4.17%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (66.67%) QA
2 9 (37.50%) Accessibility
3 4 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (66.67%) Solace
2 4 (16.67%) Salesforce
2 4 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft