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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 119 100
Rank change year-on-year +15 -19 -31
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,130 1,327 1,427
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.40% 2.28% 3.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.40% 23.97% 24.65%
Number of salaries quoted 712 763 1,117
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,881 £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 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £88,750 £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 3,021 5,535 5,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.42% 9.53% 12.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,029 3,171 4,758
10th Percentile £29,750 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,250 £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 £78,750 £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 1 December 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 1 December 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 +43 414 £78,000 +24.80% 122
South East +42 320 £42,500 -22.73% 139
North of England -22 142 £47,683 -13.14% 71
Midlands +21 118 £52,500 +5.00% 61
West Midlands +30 87 £57,500 +12.20% 34
South West -21 74 £43,000 -14.00% 61
Yorkshire +25 67 £44,000 +3.53% 22
North West -24 58 £47,592 -13.47% 42
East of England -20 45 £57,500 +12.75% 47
East Midlands +9 31 £49,500 +10.00% 25
North East -16 17 £51,500 - 9
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
1 342 (30.27%) Confluence
2 50 (4.42%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.59%) CMS
4 13 (1.15%) IIS
5 12 (1.06%) Apache
6 11 (0.97%) WordPress
7 9 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.80%) Umbraco
8 6 (0.53%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.44%) JBoss
9 5 (0.44%) nginx
10 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.27%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.27%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.088%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.088%) Appian
11 1 (0.088%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.088%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.088%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.088%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 80 (7.08%) Microsoft Office
2 67 (5.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 51 (4.51%) Microsoft Project
4 37 (3.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (2.48%) MS Visio
6 22 (1.95%) Trello
7 10 (0.88%) CATIA
8 8 (0.71%) Simulink
9 7 (0.62%) MadCap Flare
10 5 (0.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 5 (0.44%) Windchill
11 3 (0.27%) Chatbot
12 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.18%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.18%) Sketch
13 1 (0.088%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.088%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.088%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.088%) Doxygen
13 1 (0.088%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 104 (9.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.44%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.44%) SAP IBP
4 4 (0.35%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.27%) Endur
5 3 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.27%) SAP CX
5 3 (0.27%) SAP MII
5 3 (0.27%) SAP PP
6 2 (0.18%) EuroRunner
6 2 (0.18%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 2 (0.18%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.18%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.18%) SAP APO
6 2 (0.18%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.18%) SAP SCM
6 2 (0.18%) Shopify
6 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 231 (20.44%) Azure
2 153 (13.54%) Azure DevOps
3 116 (10.27%) AWS
4 73 (6.46%) Microsoft 365
5 64 (5.66%) Power Platform
6 62 (5.49%) SaaS
7 52 (4.60%) GitHub
8 37 (3.27%) Amazon S3
9 36 (3.19%) GCP
10 33 (2.92%) Entra ID
10 33 (2.92%) Serverless
11 30 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
12 29 (2.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 28 (2.48%) Figma
14 27 (2.39%) Slack
14 27 (2.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 26 (2.30%) AWS KMS
16 25 (2.21%) Amazon ELB
17 23 (2.04%) Power Automate
17 23 (2.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 46 (4.07%) Firewall
2 44 (3.89%) DNS
3 22 (1.95%) HTTP
4 20 (1.77%) SSH
5 18 (1.59%) DHCP
6 17 (1.50%) FTP
6 17 (1.50%) SMTP
7 14 (1.24%) TCP/IP
7 14 (1.24%) VLAN
7 14 (1.24%) Wireless
8 13 (1.15%) Internet
9 12 (1.06%) Multicast
10 10 (0.88%) VPN
11 6 (0.53%) Broadband
11 6 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.44%) IMAP
12 5 (0.44%) OpenLDAP
13 4 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
13 4 (0.35%) Cisco ISE
13 4 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (5.58%) SQL Server
2 40 (3.54%) Power BI
3 30 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
4 27 (2.39%) MySQL
5 23 (2.04%) Relational Database
6 19 (1.68%) MongoDB
6 19 (1.68%) NoSQL
7 18 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
8 14 (1.24%) Tableau
9 9 (0.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 8 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.62%) DB2
11 7 (0.62%) OLAP
11 7 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (0.44%) Metadata
13 5 (0.44%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 174 (15.40%) Git
2 111 (9.82%) Jenkins
3 72 (6.37%) eCATT
4 56 (4.96%) Selenium
5 43 (3.81%) Bitbucket
6 39 (3.45%) NeoLoad
7 37 (3.27%) Postman
8 25 (2.21%) Rational DOORS
9 24 (2.12%) GitLab
9 24 (2.12%) SoapUI
9 24 (2.12%) Team Foundation Server
9 24 (2.12%) Vagrant
10 21 (1.86%) Cypress.io
10 21 (1.86%) WebDriver
11 17 (1.50%) Cucumber
11 17 (1.50%) Visual Studio
12 16 (1.42%) TeamCity
12 16 (1.42%) TestRail
13 15 (1.33%) JUnit
14 14 (1.24%) Maven
General
1 480 (42.48%) Social Skills
2 329 (29.12%) Finance
3 167 (14.78%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (11.59%) Marketing
5 100 (8.85%) Presentation Skills
6 96 (8.50%) Manufacturing
7 79 (6.99%) Influencing Skills
8 72 (6.37%) Organisational Skills
9 70 (6.19%) Banking
10 57 (5.04%) Law
11 44 (3.89%) Public Sector
12 40 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 37 (3.27%) Retail
14 29 (2.57%) Legal
15 23 (2.04%) Front Office
16 22 (1.95%) Advertising
16 22 (1.95%) Automotive
17 19 (1.68%) French Language
18 18 (1.59%) Electronics
18 18 (1.59%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 233 (20.62%) Analyst
2 185 (16.37%) Senior
3 158 (13.98%) Lead
4 114 (10.09%) Developer
5 69 (6.11%) Support Analyst
6 68 (6.02%) Business Analyst
7 61 (5.40%) Project Manager
8 52 (4.60%) Support Engineer
9 47 (4.16%) Applications Support
10 42 (3.72%) Test Analyst
11 40 (3.54%) Test Leader
12 39 (3.45%) Applications Support Analyst
12 39 (3.45%) Software Engineer
13 34 (3.01%) Senior Manager
14 33 (2.92%) DevOps Engineer
15 30 (2.65%) Team Leader
16 28 (2.48%) Junior
16 28 (2.48%) Product Owner
16 28 (2.48%) Senior Developer
17 27 (2.39%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (6.11%) HTML
2 62 (5.49%) .NET
3 49 (4.34%) React
4 40 (3.54%) CSS
5 38 (3.36%) REST
6 36 (3.19%) SOAP
7 34 (3.01%) Node.js
8 32 (2.83%) RESTful
9 20 (1.77%) Kafka
9 20 (1.77%) XML
10 19 (1.68%) SAP Fiori
11 17 (1.50%) Elastic Stack
11 17 (1.50%) Spring
12 16 (1.42%) AngularJS
13 14 (1.24%) .NET Core
13 14 (1.24%) Lightning Web Components
13 14 (1.24%) Spring Boot
14 13 (1.15%) FIX Protocol
14 13 (1.15%) Middleware
14 13 (1.15%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 96 (8.50%) Product Ownership
2 63 (5.58%) Onboarding
3 49 (4.34%) Management Information System
4 25 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
4 25 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
5 23 (2.04%) Cloud Native
6 22 (1.95%) Virtual Team
7 20 (1.77%) IoT
8 18 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.50%) Derivative
9 17 (1.50%) Equities
10 16 (1.42%) Algorithms
10 16 (1.42%) Fixed Income
10 16 (1.42%) Replication
11 14 (1.24%) Mobile App
12 12 (1.06%) Wiki
13 10 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
13 10 (0.88%) Embedded Systems
13 10 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 131 (11.59%) Windows
2 122 (10.80%) Linux
3 24 (2.12%) VMS
4 17 (1.50%) Amazon Linux
4 17 (1.50%) Windows 10
5 16 (1.42%) Windows Server
6 14 (1.24%) Mac OS
7 13 (1.15%) Android
8 11 (0.97%) Unix
9 10 (0.88%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.62%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.35%) Solaris
12 4 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.27%) OpenWrt
14 2 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
15 1 (0.088%) Check Point GAiA
15 1 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 513 (45.40%) Agile
2 280 (24.78%) Continuous Improvement
3 268 (23.72%) Problem-Solving
4 207 (18.32%) DevOps
5 149 (13.19%) Stakeholder Management
6 148 (13.10%) Scrum
7 140 (12.39%) CI/CD
8 137 (12.12%) Test Management
9 136 (12.04%) Project Management
10 135 (11.95%) Roadmaps
11 131 (11.59%) Change Management
12 130 (11.50%) ITIL
13 121 (10.71%) Test Automation
14 109 (9.65%) Computer Science
15 108 (9.56%) User Experience
16 107 (9.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 100 (8.85%) Mentoring
18 91 (8.05%) ERP
19 85 (7.52%) SDLC
19 85 (7.52%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 200 (17.70%) SQL
2 153 (13.54%) Python
3 110 (9.73%) PowerShell
4 108 (9.56%) JavaScript
5 89 (7.88%) Java
6 70 (6.19%) C#
7 53 (4.69%) TypeScript
8 43 (3.81%) Bash
9 30 (2.65%) Groovy
10 23 (2.04%) C++
11 20 (1.77%) Go
12 15 (1.33%) Apex Code
13 14 (1.24%) Perl
14 10 (0.88%) C
15 8 (0.71%) PHP
15 8 (0.71%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.53%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.53%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.53%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.35%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 336 (29.73%) Degree
2 124 (10.97%) Security Cleared
3 72 (6.37%) SC Cleared
4 57 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (4.69%) ISTQB
6 36 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 33 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 27 (2.39%) PMI Certification
9 25 (2.21%) MCSE
10 23 (2.04%) PMP
11 22 (1.95%) AWS Certification
11 22 (1.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 20 (1.77%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 17 (1.50%) Azure Certification
13 17 (1.50%) DV Cleared
14 16 (1.42%) Master's Degree
15 13 (1.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 11 (0.97%) HND
16 11 (0.97%) SAP Certification
17 8 (0.71%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (13.81%) QA
2 66 (5.84%) Accessibility
3 46 (4.07%) PMO
4 38 (3.36%) SLA
5 30 (2.65%) Def Stans
5 30 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (2.21%) Data Quality
7 18 (1.59%) GDPR
7 18 (1.59%) NIST
8 15 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 15 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 10 (0.88%) WCAG
10 8 (0.71%) MiFID
11 6 (0.53%) PERC
12 4 (0.35%) P3O
13 3 (0.27%) Basel II
13 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.27%) SEPA
14 2 (0.18%) MISRA
14 2 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 101 (8.94%) Active Directory
2 62 (5.49%) Docker
3 20 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 16 (1.42%) DFS Replication
6 8 (0.71%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.62%) vSphere
8 5 (0.44%) Dovecot
8 5 (0.44%) Firmware
8 5 (0.44%) Postfix
8 5 (0.44%) Squid
9 3 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.088%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.088%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 73 (6.46%) HP ALM
2 61 (5.40%) Terraform
3 47 (4.16%) Grafana
4 46 (4.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 45 (3.98%) Kubernetes
6 43 (3.81%) Prometheus
7 33 (2.92%) Ansible
8 17 (1.50%) SCCM
9 13 (1.15%) Puppet
10 12 (1.06%) Control-M
10 12 (1.06%) ZABBIX
11 8 (0.71%) Nessus
12 6 (0.53%) Kibana
12 6 (0.53%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.44%) Proxmox
14 4 (0.35%) HP Quality Center
14 4 (0.35%) Nagios
14 4 (0.35%) vCenter Server
15 3 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
15 3 (0.27%) Salt
Vendors
1 208 (18.41%) Microsoft
2 125 (11.06%) SAP
3 102 (9.03%) ServiceNow
4 86 (7.61%) Atlassian
5 75 (6.64%) HP
6 64 (5.66%) Salesforce
7 40 (3.54%) Oracle
8 37 (3.27%) Google
9 31 (2.74%) IBM
10 21 (1.86%) Adobe
11 20 (1.77%) VMware
12 15 (1.33%) Tenable
13 13 (1.15%) Cisco
14 10 (0.88%) Bloomberg
15 9 (0.80%) Dynatrace
15 9 (0.80%) Qualtrics
15 9 (0.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 8 (0.71%) Juniper
16 8 (0.71%) Zscaler
17 7 (0.62%) Red Hat