JIRA Job Trends in Dorset

Atlassian JIRA
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Dorset requiring JIRA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 16 27
Rank change year-on-year -22 +11 +27
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 9 36 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Dorset 1.96% 9.40% 5.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 42.86% 45.00% 41.67%
Number of salaries quoted 5 17 18
10th Percentile - £32,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £60,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -21.49% +27.37%
75th Percentile £43,750 £50,000 £63,750
90th Percentile - £51,000 £67,500
South West median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% - -5.41%

All Development Application Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 21 80 48
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Dorset 4.58% 20.89% 13.11%
Number of salaries quoted 10 36 43
10th Percentile - £40,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,188 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,250 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £57,813 £66,250
90th Percentile £75,500 £61,375 £74,750
South West median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £56,500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +1.77% +3.50%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in Dorset

JIRA
Salary Trend in Dorset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing JIRA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing JIRA

JIRA
Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Poole -13 5 £42,500 -10.53% 1
Bournemouth -7 3 - - 6
JIRA
South West

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) GitHub
1 2 (22.22%) Slack
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) GitLab
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 3 (33.33%) JUnit
1 3 (33.33%) TestNG
2 2 (22.22%) Checkstyle
2 2 (22.22%) Cypress.io
2 2 (22.22%) ESLint
2 2 (22.22%) Gradle
2 2 (22.22%) Maven
2 2 (22.22%) Mockito
2 2 (22.22%) Selenium
2 2 (22.22%) SonarQube
3 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
3 1 (11.11%) Git
3 1 (11.11%) Postman
3 1 (11.11%) REST Assured
3 1 (11.11%) SoapUI
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (55.56%) Electronics
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Product Manager
1 5 (55.56%) Products Support Manager
1 5 (55.56%) Support Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Qt
2 3 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (22.22%) JWT
3 2 (22.22%) OAuth
3 2 (22.22%) OAuth2
3 2 (22.22%) OpenAPI
3 2 (22.22%) REST
3 2 (22.22%) Spring
3 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
3 2 (22.22%) Spring MVC
3 2 (22.22%) Spring Security
3 2 (22.22%) Swagger
4 1 (11.11%) Kafka
4 1 (11.11%) pytest
4 1 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Arduino
1 5 (55.56%) Embedded Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Raspberry Pi
2 2 (22.22%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (55.56%) Product Strategy
2 5 (55.56%) Roadmaps
2 5 (55.56%) Strategic Roadmap
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Project Management
3 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Agile Project Management
4 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
4 2 (22.22%) Data Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) Dependency Management
4 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) MVC
4 2 (22.22%) Static Code Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
1 3 (33.33%) Python
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Bash
3 1 (11.11%) C#
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Grafana
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (22.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
1 3 (33.33%) Splunk
2 2 (22.22%) Google