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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 126 93
Rank change year-on-year +21 -33 -20
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 26 26 53
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.77% 1.27% 2.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.14% 22.61% 20.15%
Number of salaries quoted 16 21 22
10th Percentile £33,125 £41,250 £41,251
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,197
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -17.36%
75th Percentile £71,563 £68,750 £80,313
90th Percentile £83,750 £73,750 £82,375
South East median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +21.05% -9.52% -8.70%

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 70 115 263
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.07% 5.60% 10.85%
Number of salaries quoted 34 55 153
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,750 £46,250
25th Percentile £39,563 £46,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £69,688 £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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -22 9 £82,500 +13.79% 9
Slough +35 3 £50,000 -28.57% 4
Bracknell -16 2 £40,000 -5.88% 4
Maidenhead - 1 £65,000 - 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 4 (15.38%) Confluence
2 2 (7.69%) Gentran
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Adobe Campaign
1 1 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) AWS
2 7 (26.92%) Serverless
3 5 (19.23%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (19.23%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (19.23%) Amazon S3
3 5 (19.23%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (15.38%) SaaS
5 3 (11.54%) Azure
6 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.69%) Google Workspace
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Stack
7 1 (3.85%) GCP
7 1 (3.85%) GitHub
7 1 (3.85%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.85%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) DHCP
1 1 (3.85%) DNS
1 1 (3.85%) LAN
1 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.85%) VLAN
1 1 (3.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 2 (7.69%) MySQL
1 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
1 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (7.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 12 (46.15%) Git
2 7 (26.92%) GitLab
3 6 (23.08%) Jenkins
4 5 (19.23%) Cucumber
4 5 (19.23%) SonarQube
5 4 (15.38%) Artifactory
5 4 (15.38%) IntelliJ
6 2 (7.69%) Mocha
6 2 (7.69%) Selenium
7 1 (3.85%) CircleCI
7 1 (3.85%) Zephyr
General
1 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 9 (34.62%) Finance
3 7 (26.92%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (19.23%) Manufacturing
5 4 (15.38%) Aerospace
5 4 (15.38%) Avionics
5 4 (15.38%) Electronics
6 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.85%) Marketing
6 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Customer Support Technician
3 4 (15.38%) Java Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Repair Technician
3 4 (15.38%) Support Technician
3 4 (15.38%) Technical Customer Support
3 4 (15.38%) Technical Support
4 3 (11.54%) Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Salesforce Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Senior
5 2 (7.69%) DevOps Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Onboarding Specialist
5 2 (7.69%) Product Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Products Support Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Project Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (7.69%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (34.62%) REST
2 5 (19.23%) JSON
2 5 (19.23%) Terraform
3 4 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (15.38%) Lightning Web Components
3 4 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (15.38%) YAML
4 3 (11.54%) AngularJS
5 2 (7.69%) CSS
5 2 (7.69%) EDI
5 2 (7.69%) Express.js
5 2 (7.69%) HTML
5 2 (7.69%) HTML5
5 2 (7.69%) Jest
5 2 (7.69%) Node.js
6 1 (3.85%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (15.38%) Analogue Electronics
3 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.85%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.85%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Android
2 1 (3.85%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.85%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (46.15%) Agile
1 12 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 10 (38.46%) DevOps
3 8 (30.77%) ERP
3 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (30.77%) Test Automation
4 7 (26.92%) Microservices
5 6 (23.08%) AI
5 6 (23.08%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (23.08%) Customer Service
5 6 (23.08%) Roadmaps
5 6 (23.08%) Service Management
6 5 (19.23%) Auto-Scaling
6 5 (19.23%) Code Quality
6 5 (19.23%) CRM
6 5 (19.23%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (19.23%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) Java
2 7 (26.92%) Python
3 6 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 5 (19.23%) Groovy
4 5 (19.23%) SQL
5 4 (15.38%) Apex Code
5 4 (15.38%) C#
5 4 (15.38%) SOQL
6 3 (11.54%) Perl
7 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (19.23%) Degree
1 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.85%) CCNA
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.85%) DBS Check
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (26.92%) QA
2 3 (11.54%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Kubernetes
2 5 (19.23%) Ansible
3 4 (15.38%) Packer
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Salesforce
2 6 (23.08%) IBM
3 5 (19.23%) Oracle
4 4 (15.38%) AppDynamics
4 4 (15.38%) Sage
5 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
5 3 (11.54%) ServiceNow
6 2 (7.69%) Google
6 2 (7.69%) SAP
7 1 (3.85%) Adobe
7 1 (3.85%) Atlassian