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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 84 81
Rank change year-on-year +39 -3 -12
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 104 52 65
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 5.63% 2.39% 3.48%
As % of the Development Applications category 59.09% 17.33% 19.58%
Number of salaries quoted 23 23 37
10th Percentile £32,550 £41,263 -
25th Percentile £37,000 £45,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £52,625 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £73,250 £81,250 £85,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -18.18% -4.35% +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 176 300 332
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 9.53% 13.77% 17.79%
Number of salaries quoted 46 147 241
10th Percentile £32,625 £46,250 £45,750
25th Percentile £42,188 £52,500 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £70,625 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £112,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%

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 12 November 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 12 November 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
Slough - 33 £35,000 - 6
Windsor -8 30 £47,500 - 6
Maidenhead -15 25 - - 6
Reading +12 8 £72,500 +45.00% 18
Bracknell +40 7 £42,500 -43.33% 7
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 13 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (0.96%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (6.73%) MadCap Flare
1 7 (6.73%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 69 (66.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 71 (68.27%) Azure DevOps
2 11 (10.58%) Azure
3 7 (6.73%) GitHub
3 7 (6.73%) Google Analytics
3 7 (6.73%) Google Docs
4 4 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (3.85%) Amazon S3
4 4 (3.85%) AWS
4 4 (3.85%) AWS KMS
4 4 (3.85%) Miro
5 2 (1.92%) Amazon ELB
5 2 (1.92%) Amazon Glacier
5 2 (1.92%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (1.92%) Route 53
5 2 (1.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (0.96%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.96%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.92%) DNS
1 2 (1.92%) Firewall
1 2 (1.92%) FTP
1 2 (1.92%) HTTP
1 2 (1.92%) SMTP
1 2 (1.92%) SSH
2 1 (0.96%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (1.92%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (1.92%) DynamoDB
2 2 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 69 (66.35%) eCATT
2 38 (36.54%) NeoLoad
3 7 (6.73%) Postman
3 7 (6.73%) Selenium
3 7 (6.73%) SoapUI
3 7 (6.73%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (6.73%) WebDriver
4 4 (3.85%) Git
4 4 (3.85%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.92%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (1.92%) DbUnit
5 2 (1.92%) jMock
5 2 (1.92%) JUnit
5 2 (1.92%) Maven
5 2 (1.92%) Mockito
5 2 (1.92%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.92%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.96%) Bitbucket
General
1 84 (80.77%) Finance
2 73 (70.19%) Manufacturing
3 70 (67.31%) Marketing
4 52 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
5 41 (39.42%) Influencing Skills
6 19 (18.27%) Social Skills
7 7 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.92%) Banking
10 2 (1.92%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.96%) Advertising
11 1 (0.96%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.96%) Automotive
11 1 (0.96%) Electronics
11 1 (0.96%) Law
Job Titles
1 47 (45.19%) Analyst
2 36 (34.62%) Senior
3 31 (29.81%) Lead
4 26 (25.00%) Test Leader
5 25 (24.04%) Test Analyst
6 16 (15.38%) Automation Test Lead
7 12 (11.54%) Performance Analyst
7 12 (11.54%) Performance Test Analyst
7 12 (11.54%) Testing Analyst
8 10 (9.62%) Performance Test Leader
9 9 (8.65%) Automation Test Analyst
10 7 (6.73%) Author
10 7 (6.73%) Technical Author
11 4 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
11 4 (3.85%) Senior Test Analyst
12 3 (2.88%) Business Analyst
12 3 (2.88%) Cutover Manager
12 3 (2.88%) Tester
13 2 (1.92%) DevOps Engineer
13 2 (1.92%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.65%) SOAP
2 7 (6.73%) .NET
2 7 (6.73%) HTML
3 2 (1.92%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (1.92%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.92%) Bootstrap
3 2 (1.92%) Hibernate
3 2 (1.92%) JPA
3 2 (1.92%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (1.92%) PowerMock
3 2 (1.92%) RESTful
3 2 (1.92%) Spring
3 2 (1.92%) Spring Batch
3 2 (1.92%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.92%) Spring Integration
3 2 (1.92%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (2.88%) Life Science
3 2 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (1.92%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.92%) Replication
4 1 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.96%) CAN bus
4 1 (0.96%) Contactless
4 1 (0.96%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (0.96%) FMCG
4 1 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.96%) IoT
4 1 (0.96%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.96%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.85%) Linux
2 2 (1.92%) Amazon Linux
2 2 (1.92%) VMS
2 2 (1.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (73.08%) Test Management
2 69 (66.35%) Source to Pay
3 60 (57.69%) ERP
4 50 (48.08%) Product Roadmap
4 50 (48.08%) Roadmaps
4 50 (48.08%) Visualisation
5 44 (42.31%) Risk Management
6 42 (40.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 40 (38.46%) Requirements Gathering
8 38 (36.54%) Performance Testing
8 38 (36.54%) Test Strategy
9 35 (33.65%) Continuous Delivery
10 31 (29.81%) Agile
11 28 (26.92%) Test Automation
12 24 (23.08%) Programme Management
13 22 (21.15%) Defect Management
14 21 (20.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 17 (16.35%) Test Scripting
16 13 (12.50%) User Experience
17 12 (11.54%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.58%) Java
2 9 (8.65%) Python
3 7 (6.73%) C#
3 7 (6.73%) JavaScript
3 7 (6.73%) SQL
4 2 (1.92%) Apex Code
4 2 (1.92%) Groovy
4 2 (1.92%) Perl
4 2 (1.92%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.92%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 18 (17.31%) Degree
2 7 (6.73%) ISTQB
2 7 (6.73%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 5 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.92%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.92%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.92%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.92%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.96%) HNC
5 1 (0.96%) HND
5 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (22.12%) QA
2 3 (2.88%) PMO
3 1 (0.96%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.96%) GDPR
3 1 (0.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (3.85%) Docker
2 2 (1.92%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.92%) DFS Replication
3 1 (0.96%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.96%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 69 (66.35%) HP ALM
2 2 (1.92%) Grafana
2 2 (1.92%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 69 (66.35%) HP
1 69 (66.35%) SAP
2 7 (6.73%) Google
3 3 (2.88%) Atlassian
3 3 (2.88%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.92%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.92%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.96%) EMC
5 1 (0.96%) Sitecore