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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 98 85
Rank change year-on-year +23 -13 -10
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 39 21 74
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 1.75% 1.46% 2.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 35.45% 11.80% 22.84%
Number of salaries quoted 21 15 51
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,700 £38,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,750 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £45,000 £61,700
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% -27.07% -11.86%
75th Percentile £75,000 £64,375 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £74,750 £83,750
South East median annual salary £53,750 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.42% +9.09% -4.35%

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 110 178 324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 4.94% 12.37% 11.18%
Number of salaries quoted 52 104 249
10th Percentile £34,500 £43,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £59,688 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.81% +10.71% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £83,125 £95,000 £95,000
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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -7 8 £82,500 +78.38% 13
Windsor +28 7 £42,500 -32.00%
Maidenhead -2 7 - -
Wokingham -7 4 £57,500 - 6
Slough +18 3 - - 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 4 (10.26%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Apache
2 1 (2.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (15.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.95%) AWS
2 6 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (15.38%) Amazon S3
2 6 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (15.38%) Serverless
3 5 (12.82%) Amazon EKS
3 5 (12.82%) Miro
4 2 (5.13%) Smartsheet
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.56%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (17.95%) SoapUI
2 6 (15.38%) eCATT
2 6 (15.38%) Git
2 6 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 6 (15.38%) Postman
2 6 (15.38%) Selenium
2 6 (15.38%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (15.38%) WebDriver
3 5 (12.82%) Cucumber
3 5 (12.82%) GitLab
3 5 (12.82%) SonarQube
4 4 (10.26%) Artifactory
5 3 (7.69%) NeoLoad
6 2 (5.13%) Subversion
7 1 (2.56%) JMeter
7 1 (2.56%) LoadRunner
General
1 16 (41.03%) Social Skills
2 14 (35.90%) Marketing
3 13 (33.33%) Finance
3 13 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (17.95%) Manufacturing
5 6 (15.38%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (7.69%) Health Technology
6 3 (7.69%) Tech for Good
7 1 (2.56%) Law
7 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) Analyst
1 10 (25.64%) Senior
2 7 (17.95%) Sales Executive
2 7 (17.95%) Test Analyst
3 6 (15.38%) Business Sales Executive
3 6 (15.38%) New Business Sales Executive
3 6 (15.38%) Solutions Sales Executive
4 5 (12.82%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Performance Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Performance Test Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 3 (7.69%) Senior Manager
5 3 (7.69%) Test Specialist
5 3 (7.69%) Tester
5 3 (7.69%) Testing Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Java Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) QA Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.95%) SOAP
2 6 (15.38%) .NET
2 6 (15.38%) HTML
3 5 (12.82%) JSON
3 5 (12.82%) REST
4 4 (10.26%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (10.26%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (10.26%) YAML
5 2 (5.13%) Laravel
5 2 (5.13%) Next.js
5 2 (5.13%) React
5 2 (5.13%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (2.56%) CSS
6 1 (2.56%) RESTful
6 1 (2.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.64%) Onboarding
2 5 (12.82%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (12.82%) Life Science
3 2 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.51%) Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Windows
2 2 (5.13%) Windows Server
2 2 (5.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (53.85%) Agile
2 12 (30.77%) Test Management
3 10 (25.64%) Scrum
3 10 (25.64%) Test Scripting
3 10 (25.64%) User Experience
4 9 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (23.08%) Software Testing
4 9 (23.08%) Workflow
5 8 (20.51%) CI/CD
5 8 (20.51%) Decision-Making
6 7 (17.95%) Business Development
6 7 (17.95%) CRM
6 7 (17.95%) ERP
6 7 (17.95%) GTM Strategy
6 7 (17.95%) ITSM
6 7 (17.95%) Microservices
6 7 (17.95%) Service Management
6 7 (17.95%) SIAM
6 7 (17.95%) Test Automation
6 7 (17.95%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.21%) Java
1 11 (28.21%) SQL
2 6 (15.38%) C#
3 5 (12.82%) Groovy
3 5 (12.82%) Python
4 3 (7.69%) Perl
5 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.13%) PHP
6 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (30.77%) Degree
2 8 (20.51%) ISTQB
3 7 (17.95%) Security Cleared
4 6 (15.38%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
6 2 (5.13%) DV Cleared
6 2 (5.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (5.13%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (25.64%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) GDPR
3 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.56%) PMO
3 1 (2.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.13%) Docker
1 2 (5.13%) Terminal Server
1 2 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (15.38%) HP ALM
2 5 (12.82%) Ansible
2 5 (12.82%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.82%) Terraform
3 4 (10.26%) Packer
4 2 (5.13%) SCCM
4 2 (5.13%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) BMC
1 7 (17.95%) HubSpot
1 7 (17.95%) Salesforce
1 7 (17.95%) ServiceNow
2 6 (15.38%) HP
2 6 (15.38%) SAP
3 4 (10.26%) AppDynamics
3 4 (10.26%) IBM
4 2 (5.13%) Cisco
4 2 (5.13%) Juniper
4 2 (5.13%) McAfee
4 2 (5.13%) VMware
5 1 (2.56%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.56%) Sitecore