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 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 95 129
Rank change year-on-year -74 +34 -34
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,173 1,307 1,359
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.17% 3.04% 1.99%
As % of the Development Applications category 29.17% 40.55% 23.40%
Number of salaries quoted 792 768 804
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,750 £42,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,250 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%

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 4,021 3,223 5,808
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.00% 7.50% 8.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,575 1,994 3,523
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81,125 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -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 15 September 2026.

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 15 September 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
London -63 371 £68,000 -12.26% 996
North of England -31 241 £55,000 +10.00% 245
South East -25 231 £57,500 +21.05% 257
South West -35 134 £55,000 +22.22% 142
North West -38 133 £60,000 +20.00% 133
Midlands -96 111 £44,022 -23.35% 117
Yorkshire -33 77 £42,750 -11.87% 77
West Midlands -74 76 £45,000 -30.77% 80
East of England -40 69 £62,500 +8.70% 136
East Midlands -65 35 £38,847 -14.15% 37
North East -36 31 £63,750 +6.25% 37
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
1 410 (34.95%) Confluence
2 93 (7.93%) SharePoint
3 56 (4.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (1.28%) CMS
5 8 (0.68%) IIS
6 7 (0.60%) SAS
7 6 (0.51%) JBoss
7 6 (0.51%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.34%) Apache
8 4 (0.34%) Drupal
9 3 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.26%) nginx
9 3 (0.26%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.26%) WordPress
10 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.17%) Gentran
11 1 (0.085%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.085%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.085%) WebSphere
Applications
1 105 (8.95%) Microsoft Project
2 66 (5.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 62 (5.29%) Microsoft Office
4 51 (4.35%) MS Visio
5 23 (1.96%) Trello
6 19 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.60%) CATIA
8 5 (0.43%) Moqups
9 3 (0.26%) Simulink
9 3 (0.26%) Sketch
10 2 (0.17%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.17%) InVision
11 1 (0.085%) Notion
11 1 (0.085%) OrCAD
11 1 (0.085%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 41 (3.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (1.11%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.51%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.43%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.34%) Sage 200
6 4 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.34%) SAP Business One
7 3 (0.26%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
8 2 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 2 (0.17%) Magento
8 2 (0.17%) Shopify
9 1 (0.085%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.085%) Oracle EBS R12
9 1 (0.085%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.085%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.085%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 364 (31.03%) Azure
2 189 (16.11%) AWS
3 170 (14.49%) Azure DevOps
4 136 (11.59%) Microsoft 365
5 125 (10.66%) SaaS
6 77 (6.56%) Entra ID
7 73 (6.22%) GitHub
8 55 (4.69%) Power Platform
9 44 (3.75%) GCP
10 32 (2.73%) Miro
10 32 (2.73%) Serverless
11 31 (2.64%) Dynamics 365
11 31 (2.64%) Mimecast
12 26 (2.22%) Figma
13 25 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
14 22 (1.88%) Amazon S3
15 21 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
17 15 (1.28%) Boomi
18 14 (1.19%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 48 (4.09%) DNS
2 46 (3.92%) VPN
3 41 (3.50%) DHCP
4 34 (2.90%) TCP/IP
5 32 (2.73%) Firewall
6 23 (1.96%) WAN
7 21 (1.79%) Network Security
8 20 (1.71%) LAN
9 19 (1.62%) Multicast
10 14 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.77%) Kerberos
11 9 (0.77%) VLAN
12 8 (0.68%) IPv4
12 8 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
13 6 (0.51%) FIX Connectivity
13 6 (0.51%) HTTP
13 6 (0.51%) NX-OS
14 5 (0.43%) Internet
14 5 (0.43%) NAS
14 5 (0.43%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (4.94%) SQL Server
2 51 (4.35%) Power BI
3 26 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (1.88%) MongoDB
5 21 (1.79%) MySQL
5 21 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (1.45%) Relational Database
7 16 (1.36%) Tableau
8 14 (1.19%) NoSQL
9 13 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (0.60%) DynamoDB
10 7 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
11 6 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (0.51%) Redis
12 5 (0.43%) Metadata
12 5 (0.43%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.34%) Big Data
13 4 (0.34%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 129 (11.00%) Git
2 60 (5.12%) GitLab
3 49 (4.18%) Jenkins
4 34 (2.90%) Bitbucket
4 34 (2.90%) Selenium
5 32 (2.73%) Postman
6 25 (2.13%) Cypress.io
6 25 (2.13%) Zephyr
7 22 (1.88%) Rational DOORS
8 17 (1.45%) Cucumber
9 15 (1.28%) JMeter
10 11 (0.94%) SoapUI
10 11 (0.94%) SonarQube
11 10 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 9 (0.77%) Visual Studio
13 8 (0.68%) Claude Code
13 8 (0.68%) TestRail
14 7 (0.60%) Artifactory
14 7 (0.60%) REST Assured
14 7 (0.60%) Subversion
General
1 419 (35.72%) Social Skills
2 341 (29.07%) Finance
3 220 (18.76%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (6.48%) Marketing
5 67 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 65 (5.54%) Organisational Skills
7 61 (5.20%) Aerospace
7 61 (5.20%) Banking
7 61 (5.20%) Law
8 58 (4.94%) Retail
9 53 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 49 (4.18%) Legal
11 45 (3.84%) Manufacturing
12 36 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
13 29 (2.47%) Games
13 29 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
14 27 (2.30%) Automotive
15 25 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
15 25 (2.13%) Electronics
16 20 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 246 (20.97%) Analyst
2 180 (15.35%) Senior
3 126 (10.74%) Business Analyst
4 125 (10.66%) Lead
5 100 (8.53%) Project Manager
6 86 (7.33%) Developer
7 62 (5.29%) IT Support
8 48 (4.09%) Support Analyst
8 48 (4.09%) Support Engineer
9 46 (3.92%) Senior Analyst
10 43 (3.67%) Software Engineer
11 42 (3.58%) IT Manager
11 42 (3.58%) Product Owner
12 41 (3.50%) IT Analyst
13 37 (3.15%) Delivery Manager
13 37 (3.15%) IT Engineer
14 33 (2.81%) Technical Analyst
15 32 (2.73%) Systems Engineer
16 31 (2.64%) Consultant
16 31 (2.64%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (6.14%) REST
2 54 (4.60%) HTML
2 54 (4.60%) Terraform
3 46 (3.92%) .NET
3 46 (3.92%) React
4 42 (3.58%) JSON
5 38 (3.24%) CSS
6 30 (2.56%) Playwright
7 29 (2.47%) Middleware
7 29 (2.47%) RESTful
7 29 (2.47%) SOAP
7 29 (2.47%) XML
8 27 (2.30%) FIX Protocol
9 25 (2.13%) Gherkin
9 25 (2.13%) Node.js
10 22 (1.88%) AngularJS
11 18 (1.53%) EDI
12 16 (1.36%) ASP.NET
12 16 (1.36%) pytest
13 15 (1.28%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 162 (13.81%) Product Ownership
2 103 (8.78%) Onboarding
3 65 (5.54%) Enterprise Software
4 49 (4.18%) Management Information System
5 43 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
6 41 (3.50%) Data Centre
7 40 (3.41%) Driving Licence
8 37 (3.15%) Cloud Native
9 31 (2.64%) PMI
10 30 (2.56%) Equities
11 28 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
12 23 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
13 21 (1.79%) Fixed Income
14 19 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
15 18 (1.53%) Virtual Team
16 16 (1.36%) Derivative
17 15 (1.28%) Security Posture
18 13 (1.11%) Algorithms
18 13 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
19 12 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 152 (12.96%) Windows
2 134 (11.42%) Linux
3 46 (3.92%) Windows Server
4 22 (1.88%) Mac OS
5 14 (1.19%) Windows 10
6 13 (1.11%) Ubuntu
7 12 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (1.02%) Unix
8 10 (0.85%) Android
8 10 (0.85%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.43%) CentOS
9 5 (0.43%) Debian
9 5 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.17%) VMS
12 1 (0.085%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.085%) Rocky
12 1 (0.085%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 619 (52.77%) Agile
2 343 (29.24%) Continuous Improvement
3 328 (27.96%) Stakeholder Management
4 305 (26.00%) Problem-Solving
5 300 (25.58%) DevOps
6 265 (22.59%) Scrum
7 203 (17.31%) Project Management
8 181 (15.43%) CI/CD
9 178 (15.17%) AI
10 175 (14.92%) ITIL
11 163 (13.90%) User Stories
12 150 (12.79%) Service Management
13 147 (12.53%) Project Delivery
14 146 (12.45%) Decision-Making
14 146 (12.45%) Roadmaps
15 137 (11.68%) Workflow
16 134 (11.42%) Acceptance Criteria
17 133 (11.34%) Requirements Gathering
18 131 (11.17%) ITSM
19 127 (10.83%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 207 (17.65%) SQL
2 169 (14.41%) Python
3 98 (8.35%) Java
4 97 (8.27%) PowerShell
5 79 (6.73%) JavaScript
6 59 (5.03%) C#
7 39 (3.32%) Bash
8 37 (3.15%) C++
8 37 (3.15%) TypeScript
9 34 (2.90%) R
10 14 (1.19%) PHP
11 11 (0.94%) C
11 11 (0.94%) Perl
12 8 (0.68%) Bicep
13 7 (0.60%) Groovy
14 6 (0.51%) PL/SQL
14 6 (0.51%) Tcl
14 6 (0.51%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.51%) VB.NET
15 5 (0.43%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 219 (18.67%) Degree
2 145 (12.36%) Security Cleared
3 89 (7.59%) SC Cleared
4 79 (6.73%) PMI Certification
5 60 (5.12%) PMP
6 39 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
7 38 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 37 (3.15%) DV Cleared
9 36 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (2.64%) ISTQB
10 31 (2.64%) Master's Degree
11 29 (2.47%) AWS Certification
12 28 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
13 26 (2.22%) CCNA
14 25 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
15 16 (1.36%) A+ Certification
16 12 (1.02%) CSPO
16 12 (1.02%) MBA
17 11 (0.94%) CISSP
18 10 (0.85%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (14.83%) QA
2 57 (4.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 56 (4.77%) PMO
4 49 (4.18%) Accessibility
5 35 (2.98%) Data Quality
6 29 (2.47%) SLA
7 28 (2.39%) GDPR
8 18 (1.53%) WCAG
9 13 (1.11%) TickIT
10 11 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 10 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 10 (0.85%) NCSC
11 10 (0.85%) NIST
12 7 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 7 (0.60%) Software Quality Assurance
13 6 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.43%) GRC
15 4 (0.34%) ISO 26262
15 4 (0.34%) MiFID
System Software
1 116 (9.89%) Active Directory
2 54 (4.60%) Docker
3 36 (3.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.45%) vSphere
5 16 (1.36%) Hyper-V
6 12 (1.02%) Firmware
6 12 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.68%) Squid
7 8 (0.68%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.34%) KVM
10 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.17%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.085%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 52 (4.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 49 (4.18%) Kubernetes
3 45 (3.84%) Ansible
4 14 (1.19%) Packer
5 12 (1.02%) ZABBIX
6 9 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.68%) Grafana
7 8 (0.68%) Kibana
8 7 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
8 7 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (0.51%) BMC PATROL
9 6 (0.51%) Control-M
9 6 (0.51%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.51%) Proxmox
9 6 (0.51%) SCCM
10 5 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (0.34%) Functional Safety
11 4 (0.34%) Graylog
11 4 (0.34%) Nagios
11 4 (0.34%) Podman
Vendors
1 292 (24.89%) Microsoft
2 145 (12.36%) ServiceNow
3 80 (6.82%) Oracle
4 78 (6.65%) Salesforce
5 72 (6.14%) SAP
6 42 (3.58%) Atlassian
6 42 (3.58%) VMware
7 38 (3.24%) Splunk
8 37 (3.15%) Cisco
9 32 (2.73%) CrowdStrike
10 31 (2.64%) Google
11 29 (2.47%) IBM
12 25 (2.13%) BMC
13 23 (1.96%) HubSpot
14 20 (1.71%) Red Hat
15 13 (1.11%) Meraki
16 12 (1.02%) Adobe
16 12 (1.02%) Sage
17 11 (0.94%) ION Trading
18 9 (0.77%) Bloomberg