JIRA Job Trends in Berkshire

Atlassian JIRA
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring JIRA skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 87 71
Rank change year-on-year -30 -16 -4
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 28 56 76
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.43% 2.31% 3.81%
As % of the Development Applications category 24.35% 20.59% 18.23%
Number of salaries quoted 23 23 44
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,253 £50,375
25th Percentile £43,125 £43,131 £54,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £60,250
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -17.01% +4.78%
75th Percentile £66,875 £79,375 £75,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £82,250 £87,500
South East median annual salary £46,750 £52,500 £56,250
% change year-on-year -10.95% -6.67% +2.27%

All Development Application Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 115 272 417
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.86% 11.23% 20.90%
Number of salaries quoted 56 155 313
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,500 £45,750
25th Percentile £46,188 £54,375 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile - £95,000 £112,500
South East median annual salary £62,000 £58,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% -3.33% +4.35%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in Berkshire

JIRA
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing JIRA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing JIRA

JIRA
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Berkshire over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for JIRA in Berkshire

JIRA
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 18 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
Reading +2 9 £72,500 +45.00% 4
Bracknell +33 7 £42,500 -43.33% 2
Windsor -42 7 £47,500 - 2
Slough - 4 £67,500 - 49
JIRA
South East

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (32.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (25.00%) MadCap Flare
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) Azure
2 7 (25.00%) GitHub
2 7 (25.00%) Google Analytics
2 7 (25.00%) Google Docs
3 5 (17.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (17.86%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (17.86%) Amazon S3
3 5 (17.86%) AWS
3 5 (17.86%) AWS KMS
4 3 (10.71%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (10.71%) Route 53
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon Glacier
5 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (3.57%) Miro
6 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) DNS
1 2 (7.14%) Firewall
1 2 (7.14%) FTP
1 2 (7.14%) HTTP
1 2 (7.14%) SMTP
1 2 (7.14%) SSH
2 1 (3.57%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (10.71%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (10.71%) DynamoDB
2 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.57%) MySQL
3 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Jenkins
1 6 (21.43%) SoapUI
2 5 (17.86%) Git
2 5 (17.86%) Postman
2 5 (17.86%) Selenium
2 5 (17.86%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (17.86%) WebDriver
3 3 (10.71%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (10.71%) DbUnit
3 3 (10.71%) jMock
3 3 (10.71%) JUnit
3 3 (10.71%) Maven
3 3 (10.71%) Mockito
3 3 (10.71%) SonarQube
4 2 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (7.14%) Vagrant
5 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
General
1 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 9 (32.14%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.14%) Banking
4 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Advertising
5 1 (3.57%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.57%) Automotive
5 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Electronics
5 1 (3.57%) Health Technology
5 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Analyst
1 7 (25.00%) Author
1 7 (25.00%) Technical Author
2 5 (17.86%) Lead
2 5 (17.86%) Senior
3 4 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) Senior Test Analyst
3 4 (14.29%) Test Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Business Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Java Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Lead Developer
4 3 (10.71%) Lead Java Developer
5 2 (7.14%) Architect
5 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Lead Business Analyst
5 2 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Project Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Salesforce Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) SOAP
2 5 (17.86%) .NET
2 5 (17.86%) HTML
3 3 (10.71%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (10.71%) AngularJS
3 3 (10.71%) Bootstrap
3 3 (10.71%) Hibernate
3 3 (10.71%) JPA
3 3 (10.71%) PowerMock
3 3 (10.71%) RESTful
3 3 (10.71%) Spring
3 3 (10.71%) Spring Batch
3 3 (10.71%) Spring Boot
3 3 (10.71%) Spring Integration
3 3 (10.71%) Web Services
4 2 (7.14%) Gherkin
4 2 (7.14%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (7.14%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (10.71%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (7.14%) Replication
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.57%) CAN bus
4 1 (3.57%) Contactless
4 1 (3.57%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (3.57%) FMCG
4 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.57%) IoT
4 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.57%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.57%) NHS
4 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (21.43%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Amazon Linux
2 2 (7.14%) VMS
2 2 (7.14%) Windows
3 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (92.86%) Agile
2 12 (42.86%) Scrum
3 7 (25.00%) Analytics
3 7 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 6 (21.43%) API Testing
4 6 (21.43%) Test Scripting
5 5 (17.86%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 5 (17.86%) Non-Functional Testing
5 5 (17.86%) Software Testing
5 5 (17.86%) Test Management
6 4 (14.29%) DevOps
6 4 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 3 (10.71%) BDD
7 3 (10.71%) Business Analysis
7 3 (10.71%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (10.71%) Kanban
7 3 (10.71%) Microservices
7 3 (10.71%) Open Source
7 3 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (10.71%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) Java
2 9 (32.14%) Python
3 7 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (17.86%) C#
4 5 (17.86%) SQL
5 2 (7.14%) Apex Code
5 2 (7.14%) Groovy
5 2 (7.14%) Perl
5 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 2 (7.14%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) Degree
2 5 (17.86%) ISTQB
2 5 (17.86%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.57%) HNC
5 1 (3.57%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.14%) DFS Replication
3 1 (3.57%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (3.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Grafana
1 2 (7.14%) Prometheus
1 2 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Google
2 4 (14.29%) Atlassian
3 2 (7.14%) Salesforce
3 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.57%) EMC
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft