Atlassian JIRA
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for JIRA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited JIRA over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 96 68
Rank change year-on-year -13 -28 +13
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 2,461 3,412 8,723
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.40% 3.50% 5.22%
As % of the Development Applications category 25.87% 24.61% 22.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,656 2,016 3,977
10th Percentile £31,500 £36,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,108 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

All Development Application Skills
UK

JIRA is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 9,512 13,867 38,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.27% 14.24% 23.23%
Number of salaries quoted 6,598 8,468 16,021
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,210 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,526 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.42% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the UK

JIRA
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for JIRA in the UK

JIRA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for JIRA in the UK

JIRA
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
England -21 2,133 £55,000 -8.33% 566
UK excluding London -3 1,756 £52,500 -4.55% 403
Work from Home -27 903 £57,500 -0.86% 287
London -30 618 £65,000 -7.14% 186
North of England +36 437 £57,250 +4.31% 92
South East -31 361 £52,500 -4.55% 95
South West +31 339 £50,000 - 58
North West +49 245 £62,783 +11.86% 58
Midlands -60 239 £47,500 -13.64% 89
Scotland -35 202 £62,500 +3.72% 40
West Midlands -66 149 £45,000 -18.18% 57
Yorkshire +21 129 £55,000 +0.22% 28
East of England -26 126 £45,000 -21.74% 28
East Midlands -5 86 £47,500 -13.64% 33
North East +22 63 £52,500 +5.00% 9
Wales +22 42 £45,000 +5.88% 6
Northern Ireland +31 13 £55,000 -24.14% 5

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 821 (33.36%) Confluence
2 129 (5.24%) SharePoint
3 57 (2.32%) CMS
4 36 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 25 (1.02%) Apache
6 19 (0.77%) WordPress
7 13 (0.53%) IIS
7 13 (0.53%) nginx
7 13 (0.53%) WebSphere
8 12 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
9 9 (0.37%) Drupal
9 9 (0.37%) SAS
10 8 (0.33%) Captiva
10 8 (0.33%) FileNet
11 7 (0.28%) Apache Spark
12 6 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 6 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
13 5 (0.20%) Kentico
13 5 (0.20%) Tomcat
14 4 (0.16%) Jupyter
Applications
1 145 (5.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 140 (5.69%) Microsoft Office
3 78 (3.17%) Microsoft Project
4 72 (2.93%) MS Visio
5 66 (2.68%) Trello
6 32 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 23 (0.93%) Simulink
8 22 (0.89%) Stateflow
9 19 (0.77%) Photoshop
10 13 (0.53%) Sketch
11 7 (0.28%) CANalyzer
12 5 (0.20%) Doxygen
12 5 (0.20%) OrCAD
13 4 (0.16%) Maya
13 4 (0.16%) MotionBuilder
14 2 (0.081%) Adobe After Effects
14 2 (0.081%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 2 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.081%) Adobe Premiere
14 2 (0.081%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 34 (1.38%) SDL Web 8
2 27 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.57%) PlanetPress Connect
4 11 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.20%) CA PPM
5 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.16%) Magento
6 4 (0.16%) MIS ActiveH
6 4 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.16%) SAP MDG
6 4 (0.16%) SAP MDM
6 4 (0.16%) SAP Retail
7 3 (0.12%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.12%) Sage 300 ERP
7 3 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.12%) SAP SD
8 2 (0.081%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.081%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 545 (22.15%) Azure
2 392 (15.93%) AWS
3 180 (7.31%) Azure DevOps
4 177 (7.19%) Power Platform
5 163 (6.62%) GitHub
6 123 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
7 97 (3.94%) SaaS
8 86 (3.49%) GCP
9 65 (2.64%) Serverless
10 59 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
11 50 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
12 45 (1.83%) Miro
13 41 (1.67%) Entra ID
14 40 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
14 40 (1.63%) Figma
15 38 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
16 28 (1.14%) Amazon S3
17 24 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
18 23 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
19 22 (0.89%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 98 (3.98%) Firewall
2 51 (2.07%) DNS
3 47 (1.91%) TCP/IP
4 37 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
5 36 (1.46%) VPN
6 33 (1.34%) DHCP
7 28 (1.14%) Wireless
8 20 (0.81%) Modbus
9 19 (0.77%) 5G
9 19 (0.77%) Network Security
10 18 (0.73%) HTTP
11 16 (0.65%) LAN
12 15 (0.61%) MPLS
12 15 (0.61%) WAN
13 14 (0.57%) J1939
14 13 (0.53%) RS-232
15 12 (0.49%) BGP
16 11 (0.45%) Bluetooth
16 11 (0.45%) Ethernet VPN
16 11 (0.45%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 228 (9.26%) SQL Server
2 166 (6.75%) Power BI
3 106 (4.31%) MySQL
4 81 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
5 62 (2.52%) Relational Database
6 58 (2.36%) Tableau
7 55 (2.23%) NoSQL
8 48 (1.95%) Data Vault
9 46 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
10 34 (1.38%) MongoDB
11 32 (1.30%) Delta Lake
12 27 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 25 (1.02%) Data Lake
14 23 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
15 16 (0.65%) Big Data
16 13 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
16 13 (0.53%) GIS
16 13 (0.53%) Looker
16 13 (0.53%) MariaDB
16 13 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 465 (18.89%) Git
2 209 (8.49%) Jenkins
3 194 (7.88%) Bitbucket
4 139 (5.65%) Visual Studio
5 118 (4.79%) GitLab
6 95 (3.86%) Selenium
7 83 (3.37%) Sourcetree
8 61 (2.48%) Cucumber
9 46 (1.87%) Team Foundation Server
10 45 (1.83%) Cypress.io
10 45 (1.83%) TeamCity
11 44 (1.79%) Postman
12 43 (1.75%) NUnit
13 34 (1.38%) Moq
13 34 (1.38%) Subversion
14 30 (1.22%) SpecFlow
15 29 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
16 28 (1.14%) TestRail
17 26 (1.06%) SonarQube
18 25 (1.02%) Zephyr
General
1 844 (34.30%) Social Skills
2 653 (26.53%) Finance
3 320 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 210 (8.53%) Banking
5 194 (7.88%) Marketing
6 168 (6.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 154 (6.26%) Presentation Skills
8 153 (6.22%) Law
9 136 (5.53%) Public Sector
10 103 (4.19%) Legal
11 100 (4.06%) Games
12 98 (3.98%) Retail
13 81 (3.29%) Aerospace
14 67 (2.72%) Organisational Skills
15 64 (2.60%) Automotive
16 63 (2.56%) Electronics
17 58 (2.36%) Manufacturing
18 48 (1.95%) Telecoms
19 32 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
20 28 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 441 (17.92%) Developer
2 381 (15.48%) Senior
3 345 (14.02%) Analyst
4 253 (10.28%) Lead
5 195 (7.92%) Software Engineer
6 186 (7.56%) Business Analyst
7 155 (6.30%) Project Manager
8 136 (5.53%) Senior Developer
9 104 (4.23%) Full Stack Developer
10 99 (4.02%) DevOps Engineer
11 80 (3.25%) Support Engineer
12 74 (3.01%) 3D Developer
12 74 (3.01%) Games Developer
12 74 (3.01%) Unity 3D Developer
13 72 (2.93%) Applications Support
14 65 (2.64%) Data Engineer
15 62 (2.52%) IT Manager
16 56 (2.28%) Senior Analyst
17 55 (2.23%) Test Engineer
18 54 (2.19%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (9.96%) HTML
2 206 (8.37%) CSS
3 203 (8.25%) .NET
4 173 (7.03%) React
5 142 (5.77%) RESTful
6 127 (5.16%) REST
7 114 (4.63%) .NET Framework
8 109 (4.43%) SOAP
9 104 (4.23%) Web Services
10 102 (4.14%) Node.js
11 90 (3.66%) ASP.NET
11 90 (3.66%) XML
12 85 (3.45%) jQuery
12 85 (3.45%) JSON
13 82 (3.33%) AngularJS
14 79 (3.21%) Entity Framework
15 74 (3.01%) Unity (Game Engine)
16 64 (2.60%) Spring
16 64 (2.60%) Vue
17 49 (1.99%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 234 (9.51%) Product Ownership
2 74 (3.01%) Virtual Reality
3 69 (2.80%) Management Information System
3 69 (2.80%) Mobile App
4 68 (2.76%) Data Structures
5 57 (2.32%) IoT
6 54 (2.19%) Onboarding
7 53 (2.15%) Public Cloud
7 53 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
8 52 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
9 41 (1.67%) Algorithms
9 41 (1.67%) Cloud Native
10 39 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
11 38 (1.54%) Reinsurance
12 36 (1.46%) Legacy Code
12 36 (1.46%) Market Risk
13 35 (1.42%) Data Centre
14 29 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
14 29 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
15 24 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 353 (14.34%) Linux
2 225 (9.14%) Windows
3 82 (3.33%) Unix
4 69 (2.80%) Windows Server
5 45 (1.83%) Android
6 37 (1.50%) Apple iOS
7 33 (1.34%) Mac OS
8 24 (0.98%) Windows 10
9 20 (0.81%) CentOS
10 19 (0.77%) Ubuntu
11 17 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
11 17 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
12 14 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
13 7 (0.28%) Debian
14 6 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 6 (0.24%) Windows 7
15 5 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
15 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
16 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,302 (52.91%) Agile
2 656 (26.66%) Scrum
3 630 (25.60%) DevOps
4 532 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
5 407 (16.54%) Project Management
6 380 (15.44%) Software Engineering
7 319 (12.96%) CI/CD
8 286 (11.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 279 (11.34%) Test Automation
10 276 (11.21%) Roadmaps
11 254 (10.32%) Mentoring
12 239 (9.71%) Stakeholder Management
13 228 (9.26%) Coaching
14 226 (9.18%) Kanban
15 225 (9.14%) User Stories
16 218 (8.86%) Software Testing
17 211 (8.57%) SDLC
18 201 (8.17%) Business Intelligence
19 189 (7.68%) Migration
20 182 (7.40%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 453 (18.41%) SQL
2 345 (14.02%) JavaScript
3 328 (13.33%) C#
4 305 (12.39%) Python
5 244 (9.91%) Java
6 109 (4.43%) PowerShell
7 100 (4.06%) C
8 74 (3.01%) C++
8 74 (3.01%) TypeScript
9 72 (2.93%) PHP
10 70 (2.84%) Bash
11 61 (2.48%) T-SQL
12 38 (1.54%) Perl
13 29 (1.18%) MATLAB
13 29 (1.18%) Ruby
14 28 (1.14%) Shell Script
15 25 (1.02%) Kotlin
16 24 (0.98%) Embedded C
16 24 (0.98%) Go
17 23 (0.93%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 573 (23.28%) Degree
2 306 (12.43%) Security Cleared
3 229 (9.31%) SC Cleared
4 97 (3.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 77 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 67 (2.72%) DV Cleared
6 67 (2.72%) PMI Certification
7 55 (2.23%) PMP
8 46 (1.87%) ISTQB
9 28 (1.14%) Azure Certification
10 27 (1.10%) AWS Certification
11 25 (1.02%) HND
12 24 (0.98%) ISEB
13 22 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
14 21 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
15 19 (0.77%) Master's Degree
16 18 (0.73%) CCNA
17 17 (0.69%) CSPO
18 16 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Certification
19 14 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 256 (10.40%) QA
2 128 (5.20%) Data Quality
3 108 (4.39%) GDPR
4 67 (2.72%) PMO
5 60 (2.44%) SLA
6 49 (1.99%) Accessibility
7 25 (1.02%) ISO 9001
8 23 (0.93%) MISRA
9 15 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 14 (0.57%) Automotive SPICE
10 14 (0.57%) ISO 26262
10 14 (0.57%) PSD2
11 12 (0.49%) NIST
12 10 (0.41%) NCSC
13 9 (0.37%) IEC 62304
13 9 (0.37%) ISO 20022
14 8 (0.33%) AUTOSAR
14 8 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.16%) GRC
15 4 (0.16%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 208 (8.45%) Docker
2 77 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 48 (1.95%) Firmware
4 40 (1.63%) VMware ESXi
5 27 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 24 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
7 15 (0.61%) Hyper-V
8 10 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
8 10 (0.41%) NFS
8 10 (0.41%) pfSense
9 9 (0.37%) vSphere
10 2 (0.081%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.041%) iptables
11 1 (0.041%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.041%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 193 (7.84%) Kubernetes
2 154 (6.26%) Terraform
3 124 (5.04%) Ansible
4 45 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 28 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (0.98%) Grafana
7 20 (0.81%) vCenter Server
8 18 (0.73%) Microsoft Clustering
9 15 (0.61%) Istio
10 14 (0.57%) Progress Chef
11 13 (0.53%) Packer
12 12 (0.49%) HP ALM
13 11 (0.45%) ZABBIX
14 10 (0.41%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 10 (0.41%) SCDPM
14 10 (0.41%) SCOM
15 9 (0.37%) SCCM
16 8 (0.33%) Functional Safety
17 7 (0.28%) Puppet
18 6 (0.24%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 436 (17.72%) Microsoft
2 177 (7.19%) Atlassian
3 159 (6.46%) ServiceNow
4 111 (4.51%) Salesforce
5 107 (4.35%) Oracle
6 87 (3.54%) Google
7 77 (3.13%) VMware
8 62 (2.52%) SAP
9 53 (2.15%) Databricks
10 51 (2.07%) IBM
11 50 (2.03%) Informatica
12 44 (1.79%) Adobe
13 35 (1.42%) Cisco
14 27 (1.10%) Splunk
15 26 (1.06%) Apple
15 26 (1.06%) Veeam
16 24 (0.98%) Commvault
17 19 (0.77%) Sun
18 18 (0.73%) AppDynamics
18 18 (0.73%) HP