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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 110 107
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 -43
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 15 26 51
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.52% 1.45% 1.67%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.13% 19.55% 16.83%
Number of salaries quoted 9 20 33
10th Percentile £37,500 £41,125 £38,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £44,063 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% +27.50% -27.27%
75th Percentile £83,750 £73,750 £62,500
90th Percentile - £74,000 £71,250
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 71 133 303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.48% 7.40% 9.91%
Number of salaries quoted 38 66 212
10th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £44,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £59,188 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £76,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.87% +8.93% -6.04%
75th Percentile £72,813 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £83,750 - £95,000
South East median annual salary £59,500 £62,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.03% +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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -19 8 £82,500 +13.79% 14
Bracknell -11 2 £40,000 -8.57%
Slough +27 1 £55,000 -21.43% 3
Wokingham - 1 £57,500 - 1
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 (13.33%) Confluence
1 2 (13.33%) Gentran
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) Serverless
3 6 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 6 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) MySQL
2 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (13.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Git
2 7 (46.67%) GitLab
3 5 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 5 (33.33%) SonarQube
4 4 (26.67%) Artifactory
5 2 (13.33%) Mocha
5 2 (13.33%) Selenium
6 1 (6.67%) Subversion
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Health Technology
3 1 (6.67%) Marketing
3 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Java Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps Developer
4 2 (13.33%) EDI Specialist
4 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Onboarding Specialist
4 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Head of Engineering
5 1 (6.67%) Head of Software Engineering
5 1 (6.67%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) JSON
1 5 (33.33%) REST
2 4 (26.67%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (26.67%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (26.67%) YAML
3 3 (20.00%) CSS
4 2 (13.33%) EDI
4 2 (13.33%) Express.js
4 2 (13.33%) HTML
4 2 (13.33%) HTML5
4 2 (13.33%) Jest
4 2 (13.33%) Laravel
4 2 (13.33%) Next.js
4 2 (13.33%) Node.js
4 2 (13.33%) React
4 2 (13.33%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (6.67%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (20.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Driving Licence
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Agile
2 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (60.00%) DevOps
2 9 (60.00%) Microservices
3 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 5 (33.33%) Auto-Scaling
4 5 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
4 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (33.33%) Security Hardening
5 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 4 (26.67%) Issue Tracking
5 4 (26.67%) Regression Testing
5 4 (26.67%) Secrets Management
6 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (20.00%) ERP
6 3 (20.00%) Service Management
7 2 (13.33%) Continuous Deployment
7 2 (13.33%) Manual Testing
7 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Java
1 7 (46.67%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) Groovy
3 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
4 3 (20.00%) Perl
5 2 (13.33%) PHP
6 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) Degree
3 2 (13.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) ISTQB
4 1 (6.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (6.67%) GDPR
3 1 (6.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Terminal Server
2 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (33.33%) Ansible
2 5 (33.33%) Terraform
3 4 (26.67%) Packer
4 1 (6.67%) SCCM
4 1 (6.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) IBM
2 4 (26.67%) AppDynamics
2 4 (26.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.67%) Atlassian
3 1 (6.67%) BMC
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco
3 1 (6.67%) HubSpot
3 1 (6.67%) Juniper
3 1 (6.67%) McAfee
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (6.67%) SAP
3 1 (6.67%) VMware