JIRA Job Trends in England

Atlassian JIRA
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring JIRA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 121 105
Rank change year-on-year +18 -16 -38
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,183 1,333 1,432
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.55% 2.17% 3.06%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.80% 23.69% 24.10%
Number of salaries quoted 758 766 1,121
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £88,125 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%

All Development Application Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,130 5,626 5,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.76% 9.18% 12.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,105 3,182 4,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in England

JIRA
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing JIRA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing JIRA

JIRA
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA in England over the 6 months to 22 November 2025.

Salary histogram for JIRA in England

JIRA
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the England region over the 6 months to 22 November 2025. 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
London +45 433 £75,000 +20.00% 413
South East +42 327 £45,000 -18.18% 236
North of England -4 153 £47,592 -13.14% 120
Midlands +38 127 £56,250 +12.50% 104
West Midlands +44 96 £60,000 +20.00% 59
South West -23 76 £43,000 -14.00% 105
Yorkshire +35 68 £44,500 +7.64% 39
North West -16 67 £46,250 -15.91% 73
East of England -16 49 £57,500 +13.86% 61
East Midlands +12 31 £49,500 +10.00% 44
North East -12 18 £51,500 - 8
JIRA
UK

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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
1 359 (30.35%) Confluence
2 49 (4.14%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.61%) CMS
4 15 (1.27%) IIS
5 14 (1.18%) Apache
6 11 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.93%) WordPress
7 10 (0.85%) Umbraco
8 9 (0.76%) nginx
9 6 (0.51%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.42%) JBoss
11 3 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.25%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.25%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.085%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.085%) Appian
12 1 (0.085%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.085%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.085%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.085%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 80 (6.76%) Microsoft Office
2 69 (5.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 53 (4.48%) Microsoft Project
4 38 (3.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (2.45%) MS Visio
6 23 (1.94%) Trello
7 8 (0.68%) CATIA
7 8 (0.68%) Simulink
8 7 (0.59%) MadCap Flare
8 7 (0.59%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 5 (0.42%) Windchill
10 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.17%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.17%) Sketch
12 1 (0.085%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.085%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.085%) Doxygen
12 1 (0.085%) InDesign
12 1 (0.085%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 103 (8.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.42%) Elite 3E
3 5 (0.42%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.42%) SAP IBP
4 3 (0.25%) Endur
4 3 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.25%) SAP CX
4 3 (0.25%) SAP MII
4 3 (0.25%) SAP PP
4 3 (0.25%) Shopify
5 2 (0.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.17%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.17%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.17%) SAP APO
5 2 (0.17%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.17%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 244 (20.63%) Azure
2 154 (13.02%) Azure DevOps
3 146 (12.34%) AWS
4 78 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
5 69 (5.83%) Power Platform
6 65 (5.49%) SaaS
7 56 (4.73%) GitHub
8 46 (3.89%) Amazon S3
9 43 (3.63%) GCP
10 40 (3.38%) Amazon EC2
11 38 (3.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 35 (2.96%) AWS KMS
12 35 (2.96%) Entra ID
12 35 (2.96%) Serverless
13 33 (2.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 32 (2.70%) Amazon ELB
15 30 (2.54%) Slack
16 28 (2.37%) Figma
17 25 (2.11%) Amazon Glacier
17 25 (2.11%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 57 (4.82%) Firewall
2 49 (4.14%) DNS
3 25 (2.11%) SSH
4 23 (1.94%) HTTP
5 20 (1.69%) DHCP
5 20 (1.69%) FTP
5 20 (1.69%) SMTP
6 15 (1.27%) VLAN
6 15 (1.27%) Wireless
7 14 (1.18%) Internet
8 13 (1.10%) Multicast
8 13 (1.10%) TCP/IP
9 11 (0.93%) VPN
10 7 (0.59%) IMAP
10 7 (0.59%) OpenLDAP
11 6 (0.51%) Broadband
11 6 (0.51%) SAN
11 6 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.34%) Network Security
12 4 (0.34%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (5.66%) SQL Server
2 42 (3.55%) Power BI
3 39 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
5 34 (2.87%) MySQL
6 25 (2.11%) Relational Database
7 22 (1.86%) MongoDB
8 21 (1.78%) NoSQL
9 18 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (1.27%) Tableau
11 10 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 8 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (0.59%) OLAP
14 6 (0.51%) DB2
14 6 (0.51%) Mixpanel
14 6 (0.51%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 191 (16.15%) Git
2 124 (10.48%) Jenkins
3 72 (6.09%) eCATT
4 58 (4.90%) Selenium
5 48 (4.06%) Bitbucket
6 39 (3.30%) NeoLoad
7 36 (3.04%) Postman
8 31 (2.62%) Vagrant
9 28 (2.37%) GitLab
10 25 (2.11%) SoapUI
11 23 (1.94%) Rational DOORS
12 22 (1.86%) Cypress.io
12 22 (1.86%) Team Foundation Server
13 19 (1.61%) Cucumber
13 19 (1.61%) TeamCity
13 19 (1.61%) WebDriver
14 18 (1.52%) Visual Studio
15 17 (1.44%) Maven
16 16 (1.35%) JUnit
17 15 (1.27%) TestRail
General
1 505 (42.69%) Social Skills
2 343 (28.99%) Finance
3 175 (14.79%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (11.50%) Marketing
5 101 (8.54%) Presentation Skills
6 95 (8.03%) Manufacturing
7 80 (6.76%) Influencing Skills
8 74 (6.26%) Banking
9 69 (5.83%) Organisational Skills
10 64 (5.41%) Law
11 54 (4.56%) Public Sector
12 42 (3.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 40 (3.38%) Retail
14 31 (2.62%) Legal
15 25 (2.11%) Automotive
16 23 (1.94%) Advertising
17 22 (1.86%) Front Office
18 20 (1.69%) French Language
19 19 (1.61%) Electronics
19 19 (1.61%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 244 (20.63%) Analyst
2 195 (16.48%) Senior
3 159 (13.44%) Lead
4 132 (11.16%) Developer
5 69 (5.83%) Business Analyst
5 69 (5.83%) Support Analyst
6 64 (5.41%) Project Manager
7 58 (4.90%) Support Engineer
8 49 (4.14%) Applications Support
9 43 (3.63%) Software Engineer
10 40 (3.38%) Applications Support Analyst
10 40 (3.38%) Test Analyst
11 37 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
11 37 (3.13%) Test Leader
12 35 (2.96%) Senior Manager
13 31 (2.62%) Junior
13 31 (2.62%) Senior Developer
14 29 (2.45%) Product Owner
14 29 (2.45%) Team Leader
15 27 (2.28%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (6.42%) HTML
2 69 (5.83%) .NET
3 55 (4.65%) React
4 48 (4.06%) CSS
5 39 (3.30%) REST
6 38 (3.21%) SOAP
7 35 (2.96%) Node.js
8 33 (2.79%) RESTful
9 23 (1.94%) Kafka
10 22 (1.86%) AngularJS
10 22 (1.86%) XML
11 21 (1.78%) Spring
12 18 (1.52%) Elastic Stack
12 18 (1.52%) SAP Fiori
12 18 (1.52%) Spring Boot
13 16 (1.35%) .NET Core
13 16 (1.35%) Vue
14 14 (1.18%) FIX Protocol
14 14 (1.18%) JSON
14 14 (1.18%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 100 (8.45%) Product Ownership
2 63 (5.33%) Onboarding
3 50 (4.23%) Management Information System
4 26 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
5 25 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
6 23 (1.94%) Cloud Native
6 23 (1.94%) IoT
7 22 (1.86%) Replication
8 21 (1.78%) Virtual Team
9 20 (1.69%) Mobile App
10 19 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.44%) Derivative
11 17 (1.44%) Equities
12 16 (1.35%) Algorithms
12 16 (1.35%) Fixed Income
13 15 (1.27%) Wiki
14 11 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
15 10 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
16 9 (0.76%) Data Centre
16 9 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 143 (12.09%) Windows
2 136 (11.50%) Linux
3 31 (2.62%) VMS
4 20 (1.69%) Amazon Linux
5 18 (1.52%) Windows Server
6 17 (1.44%) Mac OS
6 17 (1.44%) Windows 10
7 14 (1.18%) Android
7 14 (1.18%) Unix
8 10 (0.85%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.85%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.34%) Solaris
12 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.25%) OpenWrt
14 2 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
15 1 (0.085%) Check Point GAiA
15 1 (0.085%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 540 (45.65%) Agile
2 289 (24.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 289 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
3 222 (18.77%) DevOps
4 160 (13.52%) Stakeholder Management
5 153 (12.93%) Scrum
6 148 (12.51%) CI/CD
6 148 (12.51%) Project Management
7 142 (12.00%) Roadmaps
8 141 (11.92%) Change Management
9 135 (11.41%) ITIL
10 133 (11.24%) Test Management
11 132 (11.16%) Test Automation
12 118 (9.97%) Computer Science
13 110 (9.30%) Mentoring
14 106 (8.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 106 (8.96%) User Experience
15 92 (7.78%) ERP
16 87 (7.35%) Analytics
16 87 (7.35%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 216 (18.26%) SQL
2 166 (14.03%) Python
3 121 (10.23%) PowerShell
4 118 (9.97%) JavaScript
5 97 (8.20%) Java
6 79 (6.68%) C#
7 55 (4.65%) TypeScript
8 43 (3.63%) Bash
9 38 (3.21%) Groovy
10 23 (1.94%) C++
11 20 (1.69%) Go
12 16 (1.35%) Perl
13 15 (1.27%) Apex Code
14 13 (1.10%) PHP
15 10 (0.85%) C
15 10 (0.85%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.59%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.51%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.51%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.34%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 347 (29.33%) Degree
2 131 (11.07%) Security Cleared
3 79 (6.68%) SC Cleared
4 64 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (4.31%) ISTQB
6 35 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 32 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
8 29 (2.45%) PMI Certification
9 26 (2.20%) AWS Certification
10 25 (2.11%) PMP
11 24 (2.03%) MCSE
12 22 (1.86%) Azure Certification
12 22 (1.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 19 (1.61%) DV Cleared
14 18 (1.52%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 16 (1.35%) Master's Degree
16 12 (1.01%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 11 (0.93%) CIMA
17 11 (0.93%) HND
17 11 (0.93%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (13.36%) QA
2 67 (5.66%) Accessibility
3 48 (4.06%) PMO
4 38 (3.21%) SLA
5 30 (2.54%) Def Stans
6 29 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (2.20%) Data Quality
8 18 (1.52%) GDPR
8 18 (1.52%) NIST
9 12 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 12 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 10 (0.85%) WCAG
11 8 (0.68%) MiFID
12 6 (0.51%) PERC
13 4 (0.34%) P3O
14 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.25%) SEPA
15 2 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 2 (0.17%) MISRA
15 2 (0.17%) UCITS
System Software
1 108 (9.13%) Active Directory
2 75 (6.34%) Docker
3 22 (1.86%) DFS Replication
4 20 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.93%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.76%) vSphere
7 8 (0.68%) Firmware
8 7 (0.59%) Dovecot
8 7 (0.59%) Postfix
8 7 (0.59%) Squid
9 3 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.085%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.085%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 73 (6.17%) HP ALM
2 71 (6.00%) Terraform
3 56 (4.73%) Grafana
4 51 (4.31%) Kubernetes
4 51 (4.31%) Prometheus
5 48 (4.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 40 (3.38%) Ansible
7 20 (1.69%) SCCM
8 14 (1.18%) Puppet
9 13 (1.10%) Control-M
10 12 (1.01%) ZABBIX
11 11 (0.93%) Nessus
12 7 (0.59%) Kibana
12 7 (0.59%) Proxmox
13 6 (0.51%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
15 4 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
15 4 (0.34%) HP Quality Center
15 4 (0.34%) Salt
15 4 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 217 (18.34%) Microsoft
2 123 (10.40%) SAP
3 115 (9.72%) ServiceNow
4 87 (7.35%) Atlassian
5 75 (6.34%) HP
6 64 (5.41%) Salesforce
7 43 (3.63%) Google
7 43 (3.63%) Oracle
8 28 (2.37%) IBM
9 23 (1.94%) VMware
10 22 (1.86%) Adobe
11 15 (1.27%) Tenable
12 13 (1.10%) Cisco
13 12 (1.01%) Juniper
14 11 (0.93%) Dynatrace
15 10 (0.85%) Bloomberg
16 9 (0.76%) Qualtrics
16 9 (0.76%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
17 8 (0.68%) Okta
17 8 (0.68%) Splunk