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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 118 93
Rank change year-on-year +7 -25 -29
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 17 25 47
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.54% 1.36% 1.86%
As % of the Development Applications category 22.67% 21.74% 18.22%
Number of salaries quoted 11 19 28
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £38,500
25th Percentile £38,125 £45,000 £41,263
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +25.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £79,375 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £73,750 £81,625
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% -4.55%

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 75 115 258
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.36% 6.27% 10.23%
Number of salaries quoted 40 55 169
10th Percentile £37,425 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £44,500 £52,500 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £72,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.41% +3.57% -4.76%
75th Percentile £69,063 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £83,750 - £95,000
South East median annual salary £60,000 £62,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +7.83% -4.17%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JIRA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

JIRA job vacancy trend 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 14 August 2026.

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 14 August 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
Reading -18 8 £82,500 +13.79% 10
Bracknell -18 2 £40,000 -5.88% 1
Slough +27 1 £55,000 -21.43%
Maidenhead - 1 £65,000 - 2
JIRA
South East

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (11.76%) Confluence
1 2 (11.76%) Gentran
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) AWS
1 7 (41.18%) Serverless
2 5 (29.41%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (29.41%) Amazon EKS
2 5 (29.41%) Amazon S3
2 5 (29.41%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (11.76%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) SaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Stack
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.88%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DHCP
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) LAN
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.88%) VLAN
1 1 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
1 2 (11.76%) MySQL
1 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
1 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (11.76%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) Git
2 7 (41.18%) GitLab
3 5 (29.41%) Cucumber
3 5 (29.41%) Jenkins
3 5 (29.41%) SonarQube
4 4 (23.53%) Artifactory
5 2 (11.76%) IntelliJ
5 2 (11.76%) Mocha
5 2 (11.76%) Selenium
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 5 (29.41%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Finance
4 2 (11.76%) Aerospace
4 2 (11.76%) Avionics
4 2 (11.76%) Electronics
4 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
4 2 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Java Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Customer Support Technician
3 2 (11.76%) DevOps Developer
3 2 (11.76%) EDI Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Onboarding Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Project Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Repair Technician
3 2 (11.76%) Salesforce Developer
3 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Support Technician
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Customer Support
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Support
4 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) REST
2 5 (29.41%) JSON
3 4 (23.53%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (23.53%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (23.53%) YAML
4 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
4 2 (11.76%) CSS
4 2 (11.76%) EDI
4 2 (11.76%) Express.js
4 2 (11.76%) HTML
4 2 (11.76%) HTML5
4 2 (11.76%) Jest
4 2 (11.76%) Lightning Web Components
4 2 (11.76%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (17.65%) Onboarding
3 2 (11.76%) Analogue Electronics
4 1 (5.88%) Driving Licence
4 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Android
2 1 (5.88%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Agile
1 9 (52.94%) CI/CD
1 9 (52.94%) DevOps
2 7 (41.18%) Microservices
3 5 (29.41%) Auto-Scaling
3 5 (29.41%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (29.41%) ERP
3 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (29.41%) Security Hardening
3 5 (29.41%) Service Management
3 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (29.41%) Test Automation
4 4 (23.53%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (23.53%) Containerisation
4 4 (23.53%) CRM
4 4 (23.53%) Customer Service
4 4 (23.53%) Issue Tracking
4 4 (23.53%) Secrets Management
5 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Java
2 7 (41.18%) Python
3 5 (29.41%) Groovy
4 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
5 3 (17.65%) Perl
6 2 (11.76%) Apex Code
6 2 (11.76%) C#
6 2 (11.76%) SOQL
6 2 (11.76%) SQL
7 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) Degree
4 2 (11.76%) Master's Degree
5 1 (5.88%) CCNA
5 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Kubernetes
2 5 (29.41%) Ansible
2 5 (29.41%) Terraform
3 4 (23.53%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) IBM
2 5 (29.41%) Salesforce
3 4 (23.53%) AppDynamics
3 4 (23.53%) ServiceNow
4 3 (17.65%) Oracle
5 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
5 2 (11.76%) Sage
6 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
6 1 (5.88%) BMC
6 1 (5.88%) HubSpot
6 1 (5.88%) SAP