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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 92 124
Rank change year-on-year -79 +32 -30
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,185 1,371 1,291
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.14% 3.21% 2.02%
As % of the Development Applications category 27.99% 42.78% 23.03%
Number of salaries quoted 742 753 722
10th Percentile £33,800 £32,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,250 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,680
% change year-on-year -4.35% +3.27% -7.20%

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 4,234 3,205 5,606
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.07% 7.50% 8.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,608 1,983 3,146
10th Percentile £38,000 £33,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £81,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -57 405 £70,000 -9.68% 621
South East -64 233 £55,000 +22.22% 211
North of England -62 217 £52,500 +5.00% 173
South West -27 136 £58,750 +36.63% 65
North West -56 120 £55,000 +10.00% 73
Midlands -95 106 £44,772 -22.47% 80
Yorkshire -31 71 £42,500 -10.53% 82
West Midlands -81 70 £46,250 -28.85% 50
East of England -43 69 £60,000 +4.35% 60
East Midlands -64 36 £39,597 -14.85% 30
North East -59 26 £67,500 +31.07% 18
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
1 404 (34.09%) Confluence
2 92 (7.76%) SharePoint
3 47 (3.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (1.35%) CMS
5 8 (0.68%) SAS
6 7 (0.59%) IIS
6 7 (0.59%) JBoss
7 5 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.42%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.34%) Drupal
8 4 (0.34%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.25%) Apache
10 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.17%) nginx
10 2 (0.17%) WordPress
11 1 (0.084%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.084%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.084%) MTS
11 1 (0.084%) Tomcat
Applications
1 118 (9.96%) Microsoft Project
2 71 (5.99%) Microsoft Office
3 67 (5.65%) Microsoft Excel
4 62 (5.23%) MS Visio
5 29 (2.45%) Trello
6 22 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.68%) CATIA
7 8 (0.68%) Moqups
8 6 (0.51%) Simulink
9 3 (0.25%) Sketch
10 2 (0.17%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.17%) InVision
10 2 (0.17%) OrCAD
11 1 (0.084%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.084%) Mathcad
11 1 (0.084%) Notion
11 1 (0.084%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.084%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 45 (3.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (1.10%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.51%) SAP IBP
5 4 (0.34%) Sage 200
5 4 (0.34%) SAP Business One
6 3 (0.25%) Magento
6 3 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.25%) Shopify
6 3 (0.25%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.17%) Adobe Campaign
7 2 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
7 2 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.17%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.17%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 348 (29.37%) Azure
2 173 (14.60%) AWS
3 171 (14.43%) Azure DevOps
4 148 (12.49%) Microsoft 365
5 134 (11.31%) SaaS
6 78 (6.58%) GitHub
7 74 (6.24%) Entra ID
8 53 (4.47%) Power Platform
9 33 (2.78%) Miro
10 31 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
11 27 (2.28%) Serverless
12 26 (2.19%) Mimecast
13 25 (2.11%) GCP
14 21 (1.77%) Figma
14 21 (1.77%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
16 17 (1.43%) IaaS
17 16 (1.35%) Amazon S3
17 16 (1.35%) Google Workspace
17 16 (1.35%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 56 (4.73%) DNS
2 47 (3.97%) VPN
3 41 (3.46%) DHCP
4 39 (3.29%) Firewall
5 35 (2.95%) TCP/IP
6 26 (2.19%) Network Security
7 25 (2.11%) WAN
8 21 (1.77%) LAN
8 21 (1.77%) Multicast
9 15 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.76%) VLAN
11 8 (0.68%) Kerberos
12 7 (0.59%) BIG-IP
12 7 (0.59%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 7 (0.59%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 6 (0.51%) FIX Connectivity
13 6 (0.51%) HTTP
13 6 (0.51%) Internet
13 6 (0.51%) NX-OS
13 6 (0.51%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (4.81%) SQL Server
2 49 (4.14%) Power BI
3 26 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (2.19%) MongoDB
4 19 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (1.60%) Relational Database
5 18 (1.52%) MySQL
6 13 (1.10%) Tableau
7 12 (1.01%) Metadata
8 10 (0.84%) NoSQL
9 9 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (0.59%) DynamoDB
10 7 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (0.59%) Geospatial Data
10 7 (0.59%) Redis
11 6 (0.51%) Spatial Data
11 6 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 117 (9.87%) Git
2 60 (5.06%) GitLab
3 48 (4.05%) Jenkins
4 34 (2.87%) Rational DOORS
5 32 (2.70%) Selenium
6 31 (2.62%) Bitbucket
7 30 (2.53%) Postman
8 27 (2.28%) Cypress.io
9 20 (1.69%) Zephyr
10 14 (1.18%) JMeter
11 10 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 10 (0.84%) Claude Code
11 10 (0.84%) Cucumber
12 9 (0.76%) Visual Studio
13 8 (0.68%) SoapUI
14 7 (0.59%) Artifactory
14 7 (0.59%) MSI
14 7 (0.59%) Subversion
15 6 (0.51%) IntelliJ
16 5 (0.42%) SonarQube
General
1 444 (37.47%) Social Skills
2 361 (30.46%) Finance
3 228 (19.24%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (6.92%) Organisational Skills
5 74 (6.24%) Banking
6 70 (5.91%) Public Sector
7 69 (5.82%) Aerospace
8 64 (5.40%) Marketing
9 62 (5.23%) Retail
10 56 (4.73%) Law
11 55 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 54 (4.56%) Manufacturing
13 44 (3.71%) Legal
14 34 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
15 29 (2.45%) Electronics
15 29 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
16 26 (2.19%) Telecoms
17 24 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
18 23 (1.94%) Games
18 23 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 266 (22.45%) Analyst
2 170 (14.35%) Senior
3 142 (11.98%) Business Analyst
4 109 (9.20%) Lead
5 104 (8.78%) Project Manager
6 80 (6.75%) Developer
7 51 (4.30%) Support Analyst
8 50 (4.22%) Delivery Manager
8 50 (4.22%) IT Support
9 44 (3.71%) IT Analyst
9 44 (3.71%) IT Manager
10 43 (3.63%) Software Engineer
11 42 (3.54%) Senior Analyst
12 40 (3.38%) Product Owner
13 35 (2.95%) Support Engineer
13 35 (2.95%) Technical Analyst
14 31 (2.62%) IT Engineer
14 31 (2.62%) Technical Manager
15 30 (2.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 29 (2.45%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (5.57%) REST
2 48 (4.05%) .NET
3 46 (3.88%) HTML
4 44 (3.71%) Terraform
5 43 (3.63%) React
6 31 (2.62%) CSS
7 30 (2.53%) FIX Protocol
8 29 (2.45%) Node.js
9 27 (2.28%) Playwright
10 26 (2.19%) JSON
11 25 (2.11%) Gherkin
11 25 (2.11%) Middleware
11 25 (2.11%) RESTful
12 19 (1.60%) AngularJS
13 18 (1.52%) SOAP
13 18 (1.52%) XML
14 17 (1.43%) ASP.NET
14 17 (1.43%) pytest
15 14 (1.18%) GraphQL
15 14 (1.18%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 149 (12.57%) Product Ownership
2 101 (8.52%) Onboarding
3 70 (5.91%) Enterprise Software
4 51 (4.30%) Data Centre
4 51 (4.30%) Management Information System
5 46 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
6 40 (3.38%) Driving Licence
7 34 (2.87%) Cloud Native
8 32 (2.70%) Equities
9 28 (2.36%) PMI
10 26 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
11 24 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
11 24 (2.03%) Fixed Income
12 20 (1.69%) Virtual Team
13 18 (1.52%) Algorithms
13 18 (1.52%) Derivative
14 15 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
15 14 (1.18%) Security Posture
16 13 (1.10%) Biopharmaceutical
17 12 (1.01%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 147 (12.41%) Windows
2 124 (10.46%) Linux
3 40 (3.38%) Windows Server
4 24 (2.03%) macOS
5 14 (1.18%) Windows 10
6 13 (1.10%) Ubuntu
6 13 (1.10%) Unix
7 12 (1.01%) Android
8 11 (0.93%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.42%) CentOS
10 5 (0.42%) Debian
10 5 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.17%) VMS
13 1 (0.084%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.084%) Rocky
13 1 (0.084%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 621 (52.41%) Agile
2 361 (30.46%) Continuous Improvement
3 350 (29.54%) Stakeholder Management
4 326 (27.51%) Problem-Solving
5 294 (24.81%) DevOps
6 255 (21.52%) Scrum
7 221 (18.65%) Project Management
8 206 (17.38%) AI
9 182 (15.36%) ITIL
10 179 (15.11%) User Stories
11 173 (14.60%) CI/CD
12 166 (14.01%) Project Delivery
13 153 (12.91%) Service Management
14 145 (12.24%) Acceptance Criteria
15 138 (11.65%) Requirements Gathering
16 136 (11.48%) ITSM
17 134 (11.31%) Validation
18 132 (11.14%) Mentoring
19 131 (11.05%) Decision-Making
20 130 (10.97%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 201 (16.96%) SQL
2 169 (14.26%) Python
3 91 (7.68%) Java
4 88 (7.43%) PowerShell
5 79 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 67 (5.65%) C#
7 43 (3.63%) C++
8 40 (3.38%) TypeScript
9 38 (3.21%) Bash
10 29 (2.45%) R
11 13 (1.10%) C
12 11 (0.93%) PHP
13 8 (0.68%) Bicep
13 8 (0.68%) Perl
13 8 (0.68%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.59%) ActionScript
14 7 (0.59%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.59%) MATLAB
15 6 (0.51%) SOQL
15 6 (0.51%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 214 (18.06%) Degree
2 149 (12.57%) Security Cleared
3 93 (7.85%) SC Cleared
4 83 (7.00%) PMI Certification
5 68 (5.74%) PMP
6 41 (3.46%) BPSS Clearance
7 37 (3.12%) DV Cleared
8 36 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 35 (2.95%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (2.62%) Microsoft Certification
11 30 (2.53%) ITIL Certification
12 29 (2.45%) Master's Degree
13 26 (2.19%) AWS Certification
13 26 (2.19%) CCNA
14 24 (2.03%) ISTQB
15 20 (1.69%) A+ Certification
16 15 (1.27%) CSPO
17 13 (1.10%) MBA
18 12 (1.01%) CCNP
19 11 (0.93%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (14.68%) QA
2 60 (5.06%) PMO
3 53 (4.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 42 (3.54%) Accessibility
5 37 (3.12%) Data Quality
6 29 (2.45%) SLA
7 25 (2.11%) GDPR
8 16 (1.35%) WCAG
9 11 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 10 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 10 (0.84%) NIST
11 9 (0.76%) NCSC
12 8 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 12207
14 6 (0.51%) TickIT
15 5 (0.42%) ISO 20022
15 5 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 4 (0.34%) ISO 9001
17 3 (0.25%) ISO 8583
17 3 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 109 (9.20%) Active Directory
2 46 (3.88%) Docker
3 34 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.43%) Hyper-V
5 16 (1.35%) Firmware
5 16 (1.35%) vSphere
6 11 (0.93%) Embedded Firmware
7 10 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.51%) Squid
8 6 (0.51%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.34%) KVM
10 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.17%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.084%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 51 (4.30%) Kubernetes
2 49 (4.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 36 (3.04%) Ansible
4 10 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (0.84%) ZABBIX
5 7 (0.59%) Control-M
5 7 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
5 7 (0.59%) Grafana
5 7 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
6 6 (0.51%) BMC PATROL
6 6 (0.51%) FortiGate
6 6 (0.51%) Kibana
6 6 (0.51%) Packer
6 6 (0.51%) Proxmox
7 4 (0.34%) Graylog
7 4 (0.34%) Nagios
7 4 (0.34%) Podman
7 4 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (0.25%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.25%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 300 (25.32%) Microsoft
2 143 (12.07%) ServiceNow
3 80 (6.75%) Oracle
4 78 (6.58%) SAP
5 74 (6.24%) Salesforce
6 41 (3.46%) VMware
7 38 (3.21%) Atlassian
8 33 (2.78%) Cisco
8 33 (2.78%) Splunk
9 28 (2.36%) IBM
10 27 (2.28%) CrowdStrike
11 26 (2.19%) Google
12 23 (1.94%) HubSpot
13 20 (1.69%) BMC
14 17 (1.43%) Pega
15 16 (1.35%) Red Hat
15 16 (1.35%) Sage
16 15 (1.27%) Adobe
17 11 (0.93%) ION Trading
17 11 (0.93%) Thales