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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 21 50
Rank change year-on-year -26 +29 +4
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 6 7 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Cardiff 1.01% 4.27% 2.35%
As % of the Development Applications category 28.57% 25.93% 16.52%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 13
10th Percentile £57,074 £45,625 £42,000
25th Percentile £60,984 £53,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £63,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% +15.91% +22.22%
75th Percentile £72,250 £75,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,400 - £96,500
South Wales median annual salary £69,000 £65,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year +6.15% +38.30% -1.05%

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 21 27 115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cardiff 3.55% 16.46% 14.23%
Number of salaries quoted 14 25 97
10th Percentile £39,221 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,449 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,948 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.18% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £69,000 £62,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £72,350 £75,000 £78,000
South Wales median annual salary £54,085 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.86% +14.29% -8.70%

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 10 June 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 3 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Data Pipeline
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) npm
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Bower
2 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (16.67%) IntelliJ
2 1 (16.67%) JMeter
2 1 (16.67%) JUnit
2 1 (16.67%) Karma Test Runner
2 1 (16.67%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (16.67%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
2 1 (16.67%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Software Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) QA Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior IT Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior IT Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Service Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Service Transition Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Software Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Transition Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) HTML
1 2 (33.33%) React
2 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) HTML5
2 1 (16.67%) Jest
2 1 (16.67%) JPA
2 1 (16.67%) jQuery
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) LESS
2 1 (16.67%) PySpark
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) Sass
2 1 (16.67%) SOAP
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (16.67%) Web Services
2 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) BDD
3 2 (33.33%) Conflict Resolution
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) MVC
4 1 (16.67%) OO
4 1 (16.67%) OOP
4 1 (16.67%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (16.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow