JIRA Engineer
UK

The median JIRA Engineer salary in the UK is £75,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 892 987 1233
Rank change year-on-year +95 +246 -327
Permanent jobs requiring a JIRA Engineer 15 8 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.008% 0.001%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.009% 0.001%
Number of salaries quoted 15 6 1
10th Percentile £32,800 £53,750 -
25th Percentile £58,125 £65,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £86,250 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +102.94% +13.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £96,250 £43,750
90th Percentile £99,000 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,750 £60,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% +41.18% +30.77%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 93,191 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.63% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 66,790 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

JIRA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured JIRA Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA Engineer in the UK

JIRA Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for JIRA Engineer in the UK

JIRA Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA Engineer over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for JIRA Engineer in the UK

JIRA Engineer
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +97 15 £75,000 -13.04%
London +127 11 £75,000 -18.92%
Work from Home - 7 £75,000 -
East of England +19 4 £63,750 +6.25%
UK excluding London -8 4 £63,750 +6.25% 3

JIRA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, JIRA Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring JIRA Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) JIRA
2 11 (73.33%) Jenkins
2 11 (73.33%) DevOps
2 11 (73.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 9 (60.00%) AWS
3 9 (60.00%) Confluence
3 9 (60.00%) Atlassian
3 9 (60.00%) Linux
4 8 (53.33%) Migration
4 8 (53.33%) Subversion
4 8 (53.33%) Java
4 8 (53.33%) Python
4 8 (53.33%) Data Migration
4 8 (53.33%) Kubernetes
4 8 (53.33%) GitHub
4 8 (53.33%) Bitbucket
4 8 (53.33%) Docker
4 8 (53.33%) Terraform
4 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
5 6 (40.00%) Artifactory
5 6 (40.00%) SonarQube
6 5 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
6 5 (33.33%) Packer
6 5 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (33.33%) Serverless

JIRA Engineer Skill Set
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 9 (60.00%) Confluence
2 2 (13.33%) nginx
3 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (6.67%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) GitHub
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 5 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (33.33%) Route 53
3 5 (33.33%) Serverless
3 5 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (26.67%) Azure
5 3 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
6 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (100.00%) JIRA
2 11 (73.33%) Jenkins
2 11 (73.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 8 (53.33%) Bitbucket
3 8 (53.33%) Subversion
4 6 (40.00%) Artifactory
4 6 (40.00%) SonarQube
5 4 (26.67%) ClearCase
5 4 (26.67%) ClearQuest
6 3 (20.00%) Git
6 3 (20.00%) GitLab
6 3 (20.00%) Redmine
General
1 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) .NET
1 3 (20.00%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (6.67%) iPad
4 1 (6.67%) iPhone
4 1 (6.67%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (6.67%) Mac OS
3 1 (6.67%) Windows
3 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) DevOps
2 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 8 (53.33%) Data Migration
2 8 (53.33%) Migration
3 5 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 5 (33.33%) Innovative Thinking
3 5 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
5 3 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 3 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 2 (13.33%) Defect Tracking
6 2 (13.33%) Manual Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Sprint Planning
6 2 (13.33%) Test Management
7 1 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (6.67%) ITSM
7 1 (6.67%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Java
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) C#
2 3 (20.00%) Go
2 3 (20.00%) Ruby
2 3 (20.00%) Rust
3 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
1 2 (13.33%) ISTQB
1 2 (13.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) iptables
3 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Kubernetes
1 8 (53.33%) Terraform
2 5 (33.33%) Packer
3 3 (20.00%) Ansible
3 3 (20.00%) Progress Chef
4 2 (13.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Atlassian
2 3 (20.00%) IBM
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft