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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 95 131
Rank change year-on-year -72 +36 -33
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,155 1,393 1,470
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.21% 3.19% 2.03%
As % of the Development Applications category 28.21% 39.64% 24.31%
Number of salaries quoted 814 851 915
10th Percentile £34,250 £32,500 £35,500
25th Percentile £41,563 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £90,000
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 4,095 3,514 6,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.30% 8.04% 8.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,682 2,240 4,013
10th Percentile £35,625 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,000 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £61,600 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.44% +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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -66 352 £70,000 -6.67% 194
North of England -44 252 £55,000 +10.00% 66
South East -7 229 £57,500 +15.00% 120
North West -46 140 £60,000 +14.29% 27
South West -31 121 £55,000 +22.22% 64
Midlands -95 110 £43,500 -20.91% 62
Yorkshire -43 80 £43,000 -14.00% 24
East of England -33 78 £62,500 +8.70% 33
West Midlands -85 66 £45,000 -30.77% 48
East Midlands -56 44 £27,500 -35.29% 14
North East -34 32 £60,000 +166.67% 16
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
1 390 (33.77%) Confluence
2 96 (8.31%) SharePoint
3 55 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (1.39%) CMS
5 8 (0.69%) IIS
6 7 (0.61%) SAS
7 6 (0.52%) Apache
7 6 (0.52%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.43%) JBoss
9 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
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%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.17%) Drupal
10 2 (0.17%) Gentran
11 1 (0.087%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.087%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 98 (8.48%) Microsoft Project
2 62 (5.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 53 (4.59%) Microsoft Office
4 43 (3.72%) MS Visio
5 23 (1.99%) Trello
6 15 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (0.78%) CATIA
8 5 (0.43%) Moqups
9 3 (0.26%) Sketch
10 2 (0.17%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.17%) InVision
11 1 (0.087%) Notion
11 1 (0.087%) Simulink
11 1 (0.087%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 37 (3.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (1.13%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.52%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.43%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.35%) Sage 200
6 4 (0.35%) SAP Business One
7 3 (0.26%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
8 2 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 2 (0.17%) Magento
8 2 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.17%) Shopify
9 1 (0.087%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.087%) Oracle Financials
9 1 (0.087%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.087%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 370 (32.03%) Azure
2 184 (15.93%) AWS
3 170 (14.72%) Azure DevOps
4 133 (11.52%) Microsoft 365
5 116 (10.04%) SaaS
6 66 (5.71%) Entra ID
6 66 (5.71%) GitHub
7 60 (5.19%) Power Platform
8 47 (4.07%) GCP
9 33 (2.86%) Miro
10 30 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
10 30 (2.60%) Serverless
11 29 (2.51%) Mimecast
12 26 (2.25%) Figma
13 23 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (1.65%) Amazon S3
15 16 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
16 15 (1.30%) Boomi
16 15 (1.30%) Smartsheet
17 13 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 39 (3.38%) VPN
2 35 (3.03%) DNS
3 30 (2.60%) Firewall
3 30 (2.60%) TCP/IP
4 28 (2.42%) DHCP
5 22 (1.90%) WAN
6 21 (1.82%) Multicast
6 21 (1.82%) Network Security
7 20 (1.73%) LAN
8 13 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.78%) Kerberos
10 8 (0.69%) IPv4
10 8 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
11 7 (0.61%) VLAN
12 6 (0.52%) FIX Connectivity
12 6 (0.52%) HTTP
12 6 (0.52%) Internet
13 5 (0.43%) SSL
13 5 (0.43%) VoIP
13 5 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (5.54%) SQL Server
2 53 (4.59%) Power BI
3 27 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (2.08%) MySQL
4 24 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (1.90%) MongoDB
6 18 (1.56%) Relational Database
7 16 (1.39%) Tableau
8 15 (1.30%) NoSQL
9 13 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (0.61%) Big Data
10 7 (0.61%) DynamoDB
10 7 (0.61%) Geospatial Data
11 6 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.43%) Metadata
12 5 (0.43%) Redis
12 5 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.35%) Data Vault
13 4 (0.35%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 127 (11.00%) Git
2 51 (4.42%) GitLab
3 41 (3.55%) Jenkins
4 36 (3.12%) Bitbucket
5 33 (2.86%) Selenium
6 31 (2.68%) Postman
7 26 (2.25%) Zephyr
8 19 (1.65%) Cypress.io
9 16 (1.39%) Cucumber
9 16 (1.39%) Rational DOORS
10 11 (0.95%) SoapUI
10 11 (0.95%) SonarQube
11 10 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 10 (0.87%) JMeter
12 9 (0.78%) REST Assured
12 9 (0.78%) TestRail
12 9 (0.78%) Visual Studio
13 7 (0.61%) Artifactory
13 7 (0.61%) MSI
14 6 (0.52%) Apache Continuum
General
1 407 (35.24%) Social Skills
2 323 (27.97%) Finance
3 217 (18.79%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (6.75%) Marketing
5 66 (5.71%) Law
6 65 (5.63%) Public Sector
7 64 (5.54%) Banking
8 61 (5.28%) Organisational Skills
9 59 (5.11%) Retail
10 55 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 50 (4.33%) Legal
12 44 (3.81%) Aerospace
13 39 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
14 34 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
15 33 (2.86%) Manufacturing
16 32 (2.77%) Games
17 27 (2.34%) Automotive
17 27 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
18 18 (1.56%) Electronics
19 14 (1.21%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 239 (20.69%) Analyst
2 178 (15.41%) Senior
3 119 (10.30%) Business Analyst
3 119 (10.30%) Lead
4 98 (8.48%) Project Manager
5 85 (7.36%) Developer
6 70 (6.06%) IT Support
7 52 (4.50%) Support Engineer
8 48 (4.16%) Software Engineer
9 46 (3.98%) Senior Analyst
10 43 (3.72%) Support Analyst
11 41 (3.55%) IT Manager
12 39 (3.38%) Delivery Manager
12 39 (3.38%) IT Engineer
13 38 (3.29%) IT Analyst
14 36 (3.12%) Systems Engineer
15 33 (2.86%) Senior Developer
16 32 (2.77%) IT Support Engineer
16 32 (2.77%) Product Manager
17 31 (2.68%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (5.19%) REST
2 55 (4.76%) Terraform
3 51 (4.42%) React
4 49 (4.24%) HTML
5 47 (4.07%) .NET
6 43 (3.72%) JSON
7 39 (3.38%) CSS
8 30 (2.60%) Middleware
8 30 (2.60%) XML
9 29 (2.51%) FIX Protocol
9 29 (2.51%) Node.js
10 26 (2.25%) RESTful
10 26 (2.25%) SOAP
11 25 (2.16%) Playwright
12 22 (1.90%) AngularJS
13 18 (1.56%) ASP.NET
13 18 (1.56%) EDI
13 18 (1.56%) pytest
14 17 (1.47%) .NET Framework
15 16 (1.39%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 146 (12.64%) Product Ownership
2 114 (9.87%) Onboarding
3 57 (4.94%) Enterprise Software
4 50 (4.33%) Management Information System
5 41 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
6 39 (3.38%) Driving Licence
7 37 (3.20%) Data Centre
8 35 (3.03%) Cloud Native
9 32 (2.77%) Equities
10 31 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
10 31 (2.68%) PMI
11 23 (1.99%) Fixed Income
12 20 (1.73%) Derivative
13 19 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
14 18 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
15 17 (1.47%) Algorithms
15 17 (1.47%) Virtual Team
16 16 (1.39%) Security Posture
17 13 (1.13%) Enterprise Cloud
18 12 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 150 (12.99%) Windows
2 139 (12.03%) Linux
3 52 (4.50%) Windows Server
4 22 (1.90%) Mac OS
5 13 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.13%) Ubuntu
6 10 (0.87%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.87%) Unix
6 10 (0.87%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.61%) Android
8 6 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.43%) CentOS
9 5 (0.43%) Debian
10 4 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.17%) ThreadX
11 2 (0.17%) VMS
12 1 (0.087%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 611 (52.90%) Agile
2 329 (28.48%) Continuous Improvement
3 308 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 304 (26.32%) DevOps
5 293 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
6 248 (21.47%) Scrum
7 193 (16.71%) Project Management
8 184 (15.93%) CI/CD
9 164 (14.20%) ITIL
10 154 (13.33%) Service Management
11 146 (12.64%) Decision-Making
12 145 (12.55%) AI
13 142 (12.29%) Roadmaps
14 141 (12.21%) User Stories
15 139 (12.03%) Project Delivery
16 131 (11.34%) Workflow
17 130 (11.26%) ITSM
18 128 (11.08%) SDLC
19 122 (10.56%) Waterfall
20 121 (10.48%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 204 (17.66%) SQL
2 173 (14.98%) Python
3 95 (8.23%) PowerShell
4 93 (8.05%) Java
5 82 (7.10%) JavaScript
6 59 (5.11%) C#
7 39 (3.38%) Bash
8 38 (3.29%) C++
9 36 (3.12%) TypeScript
10 32 (2.77%) R
11 16 (1.39%) PHP
12 12 (1.04%) C
13 8 (0.69%) Bicep
13 8 (0.69%) Perl
13 8 (0.69%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.61%) Groovy
14 7 (0.61%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.52%) Tcl
15 6 (0.52%) VB.NET
16 5 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 211 (18.27%) Degree
2 135 (11.69%) Security Cleared
3 83 (7.19%) SC Cleared
4 77 (6.67%) PMI Certification
5 58 (5.02%) PMP
6 42 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 36 (3.12%) DV Cleared
9 32 (2.77%) Cisco Certification
9 32 (2.77%) ISTQB
10 30 (2.60%) AWS Certification
11 26 (2.25%) Master's Degree
12 25 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
13 23 (1.99%) ITIL Certification
14 22 (1.90%) CCNA
15 11 (0.95%) CISSP
16 10 (0.87%) A+ Certification
17 9 (0.78%) CCNP
17 9 (0.78%) CISM
17 9 (0.78%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (14.20%) QA
2 57 (4.94%) PMO
3 55 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 52 (4.50%) Accessibility
5 36 (3.12%) Data Quality
6 32 (2.77%) GDPR
7 28 (2.42%) SLA
8 18 (1.56%) WCAG
9 13 (1.13%) TickIT
10 10 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 10 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 10 (0.87%) NCSC
10 10 (0.87%) NIST
11 9 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 9 (0.78%) Software Quality Assurance
12 8 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.61%) GRC
14 6 (0.52%) MiFID
14 6 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 112 (9.70%) Active Directory
2 63 (5.45%) Docker
3 35 (3.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.39%) Hyper-V
5 14 (1.21%) vSphere
6 11 (0.95%) Firmware
7 9 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (0.69%) Squid
8 8 (0.69%) VMware NSX
9 7 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.35%) KVM
11 3 (0.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.087%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.087%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 50 (4.33%) Kubernetes
2 47 (4.07%) Microsoft Intune
3 43 (3.72%) Ansible
4 14 (1.21%) Packer
5 12 (1.04%) ZABBIX
6 9 (0.78%) Grafana
7 8 (0.69%) Kibana
7 8 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
8 7 (0.61%) SCCM
9 6 (0.52%) Control-M
9 6 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (0.52%) Proxmox
10 5 (0.43%) Nagios
10 5 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (0.35%) Functional Safety
11 4 (0.35%) Graylog
11 4 (0.35%) Podman
11 4 (0.35%) SCOM
12 3 (0.26%) VxRail
Vendors
1 274 (23.72%) Microsoft
2 142 (12.29%) ServiceNow
3 82 (7.10%) Oracle
4 81 (7.01%) Salesforce
5 66 (5.71%) SAP
6 41 (3.55%) Cisco
6 41 (3.55%) Splunk
6 41 (3.55%) VMware
7 37 (3.20%) Atlassian
8 31 (2.68%) CrowdStrike
8 31 (2.68%) IBM
9 30 (2.60%) Google
10 28 (2.42%) BMC
11 25 (2.16%) HubSpot
12 20 (1.73%) Meraki
13 19 (1.65%) Red Hat
14 11 (0.95%) Adobe
14 11 (0.95%) ION Trading
15 9 (0.78%) Bloomberg
15 9 (0.78%) Sage