JIRA Job Trends in Cardiff

Atlassian JIRA
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring JIRA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 32 48
Rank change year-on-year -27 +16 -7
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 15 5 12
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 1.53% 1.72% 2.04%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.54% 20.00% 15.38%
Number of salaries quoted 9 3 5
10th Percentile £33,950 - £54,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £65,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -45.00% +16.67% -4.44%
75th Percentile £40,250 £75,000 -
90th Percentile £49,265 - £61,500
South Wales median annual salary £41,750 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -40.36% +7.69% +18.18%

All Development Application Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 37 25 78
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 3.77% 8.59% 13.27%
Number of salaries quoted 23 21 58
10th Percentile £35,000 £46,411 -
25th Percentile £36,750 £52,500 £23,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £60,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +84.62% -50.00%
75th Percentile £63,625 £62,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £69,000 £75,000 £64,375
South Wales median annual salary £53,000 £55,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -3.64% +29.41% -29.17%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in Cardiff

JIRA
Salary Trend in Cardiff

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing JIRA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cardiff citing JIRA

JIRA
Salary Histogram in Cardiff

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Cardiff over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for JIRA in Cardiff

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cardiff 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%) Apache
1 2 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
1 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) npm
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Bitbucket
1 8 (53.33%) Git
2 2 (13.33%) Bower
2 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.67%) GitLab
3 1 (6.67%) IntelliJ
3 1 (6.67%) JUnit
3 1 (6.67%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Finance
3 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Legal
5 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (6.67%) Banking
6 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Applications Engineer
1 7 (46.67%) Applications Support
1 7 (46.67%) Applications Support Engineer
1 7 (46.67%) Senior
1 7 (46.67%) Senior Applications Engineer
1 7 (46.67%) Senior Applications Support
1 7 (46.67%) Senior Support Engineer
1 7 (46.67%) Support Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Web Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Java Software Developer
4 1 (6.67%) QA Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Service Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Service Transition Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) HTML
1 3 (20.00%) React
2 2 (13.33%) Ajax
2 2 (13.33%) CSS
2 2 (13.33%) jQuery
2 2 (13.33%) JSON
2 2 (13.33%) LESS
2 2 (13.33%) RESTful
2 2 (13.33%) Sass
2 2 (13.33%) SOAP
2 2 (13.33%) Web Services
2 2 (13.33%) XML
3 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.67%) HTML5
3 1 (6.67%) Jest
3 1 (6.67%) JPA
3 1 (6.67%) Kafka
3 1 (6.67%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) Spring
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Agile
2 8 (53.33%) Service Delivery
3 7 (46.67%) Mentoring
3 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (46.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (33.33%) DevOps
5 4 (26.67%) Collaborative Culture
5 4 (26.67%) Collaborative Engineering
5 4 (26.67%) Scrum
6 3 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (20.00%) Backlog Management
6 3 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 3 (20.00%) Business Analysis
6 3 (20.00%) Coaching
6 3 (20.00%) Data Architecture
6 3 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
6 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (20.00%) Task Automation
6 3 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) SQL
2 7 (46.67%) PowerShell
3 4 (26.67%) PL/SQL
4 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (13.33%) PHP
5 1 (6.67%) Java
5 1 (6.67%) Python
5 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
1 2 (13.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle
1 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow