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 29 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 48 44
Rank change year-on-year +13 -4 +16
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 2 10 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 0.66% 1.81% 1.85%
As % of the Development Applications category 10.00% 13.51% 12.28%
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 5
10th Percentile - £53,500 £52,237
25th Percentile - £55,000 £68,718
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £60,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year - -14.98% +17.63%
75th Percentile - £61,250 £72,433
90th Percentile - £62,000 -
South Wales median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.90% +17.63%

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 20 74 57
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 6.64% 13.41% 15.04%
Number of salaries quoted 17 57 43
10th Percentile £39,846 - £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £23,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £32,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% -50.00% +18.18%
75th Percentile £62,500 £46,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £67,127 £61,750 £75,000
South Wales median annual salary £55,000 £35,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +56.03% -41.25% +9.09%

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
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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (50.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (50.00%) Games
1 1 (50.00%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Backend Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) Component Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft