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 12 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 34 47
Rank change year-on-year -5 +13 +4
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 2 5 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 0.49% 2.44% 2.64%
As % of the Development Applications category 25.00% 13.51% 16.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 13
10th Percentile - £40,750 £42,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £45,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £57,500 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -18.53% +1.62%
75th Percentile £72,500 £61,250 £72,433
90th Percentile - - £98,487
South Wales median annual salary £65,748 £65,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +1.15% -7.90% +3.07%

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 8 37 100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 1.94% 18.05% 16.50%
Number of salaries quoted 7 30 89
10th Percentile £28,700 £23,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £29,500 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £32,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% -38.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £73,283 £51,165 £70,000
90th Percentile £74,066 £61,250 £78,750
South Wales median annual salary £57,500 £47,307 £52,500
% change year-on-year +21.55% -9.89% -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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Quality Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior IT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior IT Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Matrix Management
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle