JIRA Job Trends in the East of England

Atlassian JIRA
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring JIRA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 88 86
Rank change year-on-year -22 -2 +10
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 44 89 119
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.96% 2.64% 2.68%
As % of the Development Applications category 43.14% 32.25% 28.27%
Number of salaries quoted 34 56 87
10th Percentile £29,000 - £26,250
25th Percentile £35,250 £43,750 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £75,000 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £67,200 £70,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

All Development Application Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 102 276 421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 2.22% 8.19% 9.49%
Number of salaries quoted 84 149 345
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,250 £43,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.09% +8.16% -14.78%
75th Percentile £69,688 £66,901 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in the East of England

JIRA
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing JIRA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing JIRA

JIRA
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the East of England over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Salary histogram for JIRA in the East of England

JIRA
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the East of England region over the 6 months to 10 February 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
Hertfordshire -2 22 £70,000 +16.67% 10
Cambridgeshire +1 11 £43,750 -22.22% 11
Suffolk -3 5 £38,500 -40.53% 2
Bedfordshire +9 4 £31,250 -34.21% 2
Essex -8 2 £37,500 -25.00% 8
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 24 (54.55%) Confluence
2 8 (18.18%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (18.18%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.45%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (11.36%) Azure
2 5 (11.36%) Entra ID
3 4 (9.09%) OneDrive
4 3 (6.82%) AWS
5 2 (4.55%) Power Automate
5 2 (4.55%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.55%) PowerApps
5 2 (4.55%) SaaS
5 2 (4.55%) Serverless
6 1 (2.27%) Google Workspace
6 1 (2.27%) IaaS
6 1 (2.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.36%) Firewall
2 3 (6.82%) VPN
2 3 (6.82%) WAN
3 2 (4.55%) DHCP
3 2 (4.55%) Internet
3 2 (4.55%) LAN
3 2 (4.55%) Wireless
4 1 (2.27%) Broadband
4 1 (2.27%) DNS
4 1 (2.27%) DOCSIS
4 1 (2.27%) DSL
4 1 (2.27%) GPON
4 1 (2.27%) IPv4
4 1 (2.27%) IPv6
4 1 (2.27%) PPP
4 1 (2.27%) RTP
4 1 (2.27%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.27%) VoIP
4 1 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.91%) Amazon Redshift
1 7 (15.91%) BusinessObjects
1 7 (15.91%) MySQL
2 3 (6.82%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 3 (6.82%) GitLab
1 3 (6.82%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (2.27%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.27%) Git
3 1 (2.27%) Rational DOORS
General
1 15 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 8 (18.18%) Finance
3 7 (15.91%) Marketing
3 7 (15.91%) Organisational Skills
3 7 (15.91%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (11.36%) Military
5 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (9.09%) Automotive
6 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.27%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (15.91%) Sales Executive
2 6 (13.64%) Business Sales Executive
2 6 (13.64%) IT Support
2 6 (13.64%) New Business Sales Executive
2 6 (13.64%) Solutions Sales Executive
3 5 (11.36%) PMO Officer
3 5 (11.36%) Project Officer
3 5 (11.36%) Project Support Officer
3 5 (11.36%) Support Officer
4 4 (9.09%) Analyst
4 4 (9.09%) Developer
4 4 (9.09%) IT Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Report Developer
4 4 (9.09%) Support Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Validation Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Data Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Senior
5 3 (6.82%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.45%) Onboarding
2 5 (11.36%) Product Ownership
2 5 (11.36%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.55%) IoT
3 2 (4.55%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.27%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.27%) FPGA
4 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.09%) Windows
1 4 (9.09%) Windows Server
2 3 (6.82%) Linux
3 1 (2.27%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (2.27%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.27%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (45.45%) Agile
2 10 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (22.73%) ITIL
3 9 (20.45%) Use Case
4 8 (18.18%) Decision-Making
4 8 (18.18%) ITSM
4 8 (18.18%) Service Management
5 7 (15.91%) B2B
5 7 (15.91%) Business Development
5 7 (15.91%) CRM
5 7 (15.91%) Data Modelling
5 7 (15.91%) ETL
5 7 (15.91%) GTM Strategy
5 7 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (15.91%) Project Management
5 7 (15.91%) SIAM
5 7 (15.91%) Workflow
6 6 (13.64%) Business Strategy
6 6 (13.64%) Computer Science
6 6 (13.64%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.18%) Python
2 7 (15.91%) SQL
3 5 (11.36%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.27%) C
4 1 (2.27%) C++
4 1 (2.27%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (27.27%) Degree
2 6 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (9.09%) PMI Certification
3 4 (9.09%) PMP
4 2 (4.55%) CompTIA CySA+
4 2 (4.55%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (4.55%) GSEC
5 1 (2.27%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) PMO
2 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.27%) MISRA
2 1 (2.27%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (15.91%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.27%) Firmware
2 1 (2.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (15.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.27%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (2.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (27.27%) Microsoft
1 12 (27.27%) ServiceNow
2 7 (15.91%) BMC
2 7 (15.91%) HubSpot
2 7 (15.91%) Salesforce
2 7 (15.91%) SAP
3 4 (9.09%) Atlassian
4 3 (6.82%) IBM
5 2 (4.55%) Oracle
6 1 (2.27%) Google
6 1 (2.27%) Okta