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 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 39 52
Rank change year-on-year -27 +13 -10
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 9 28 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Staffordshire 0.93% 5.22% 1.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.62% 59.57% 21.05%
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 7
10th Percentile £34,000 £30,411 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,750 £30,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £51,500 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.18% +58.46% -16.13%
75th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £50,000
90th Percentile £64,000 £62,750 £55,000
West Midlands median annual salary £44,543 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -22.53% +4.55% +6.84%

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 26 47 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Staffordshire 2.68% 8.77% 6.63%
Number of salaries quoted 21 13 36
10th Percentile £27,750 £34,550 £33,125
25th Percentile £36,250 £47,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +37.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £65,000 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £77,000 £78,000
West Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £58,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.80% +6.36% -

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 24 January 2026.

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 24 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
Stoke-on-Trent +12 2 £36,250 -29.61% 5
Burton-upon-Trent -8 1 £37,500 +61.36%
Rugeley - 1 £65,000 -
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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (11.11%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (33.33%) Datadog
2 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 3 (33.33%) GCP
2 3 (33.33%) IaaS
2 3 (33.33%) PaaS
2 3 (33.33%) SaaS
3 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Firewall
2 3 (33.33%) DNS
2 3 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (11.11%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Advertising
2 1 (11.11%) Aerospace
2 1 (11.11%) Automotive
2 1 (11.11%) Billing
2 1 (11.11%) Electronics
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Games
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) IT Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) IT Support
1 3 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Junior
1 3 (33.33%) Junior Cloud Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Junior Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Junior IT Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Junior IT Support
1 3 (33.33%) Junior Support Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
1 1 (11.11%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (11.11%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Agile
1 3 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (22.22%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
2 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
2 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
2 2 (22.22%) ETL
2 2 (22.22%) Mathematics
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Data Extraction
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Forensics
3 1 (11.11%) Process Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) Validation
3 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) C
2 1 (11.11%) C++
2 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (11.11%) Embedded C
2 1 (11.11%) MATLAB
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) SLA
2 1 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (11.11%) NIST
2 1 (11.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 3 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Google
2 3 (33.33%) ServiceNow