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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 25 49
Rank change year-on-year -18 +24 +4
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 3 6 15
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 0.56% 3.51% 2.23%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.00% 23.08% 13.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 10
10th Percentile £67,950 £45,625 £41,250
25th Percentile £68,625 £53,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 £63,750 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.37% +38.59% +2.22%
75th Percentile £72,375 £75,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,450 - £105,000
South Wales median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +44.44% -5.26%

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 15 26 113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 2.79% 15.20% 16.79%
Number of salaries quoted 11 22 97
10th Percentile £39,221 - £32,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,000 £49,735 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.70% -5.27% -2.77%
75th Percentile £70,500 £64,063 £68,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £78,750
South Wales median annual salary £54,085 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.94% +9.52% -4.55%

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Manager
1 1 (33.33%) IT Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) QA Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Quality Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior IT Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior IT Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Conflict Resolution
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Line Management
2 1 (33.33%) Matrix Management
2 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle