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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 95 128
Rank change year-on-year -70 +33 -28
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,162 1,372 1,450
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.20% 3.13% 2.04%
As % of the Development Applications category 28.33% 39.78% 24.15%
Number of salaries quoted 816 832 891
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £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 £75,250 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,125 £93,778 £87,500
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 4,101 3,449 6,005
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.22% 7.87% 8.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,686 2,191 3,862
10th Percentile £35,625 £37,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,023 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £64,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% +7.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £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 30 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 30 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 -56 362 £70,000 -6.67% 364
North of England -47 249 £55,000 +8.91% 108
South East -25 225 £57,500 +21.05% 158
North West -41 138 £60,000 +11.63% 54
South West -39 123 £55,000 +22.22% 97
Midlands -88 113 £44,022 -19.96% 60
Yorkshire -37 79 £43,000 -14.00% 32
East of England -29 76 £62,500 +8.70% 43
West Midlands -75 71 £46,250 -28.85% 40
East Midlands -65 42 £27,500 -36.05% 20
North East -40 32 £60,000 +85.69% 24
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
1 395 (33.99%) Confluence
2 94 (8.09%) SharePoint
3 56 (4.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (1.29%) CMS
5 8 (0.69%) IIS
6 7 (0.60%) SAS
7 6 (0.52%) JBoss
7 6 (0.52%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.43%) Apache
9 4 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.26%) nginx
10 3 (0.26%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.26%) WordPress
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.17%) Drupal
11 2 (0.17%) Gentran
12 1 (0.086%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.086%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 99 (8.52%) Microsoft Project
2 64 (5.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 52 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
4 44 (3.79%) MS Visio
5 23 (1.98%) Trello
6 15 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.69%) 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 (0.086%) Notion
11 1 (0.086%) OrCAD
11 1 (0.086%) Simulink
11 1 (0.086%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 37 (3.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (1.12%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.52%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.43%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.34%) Sage 200
6 4 (0.34%) 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%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.17%) Shopify
9 1 (0.086%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.086%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.086%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.086%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.086%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 372 (32.01%) Azure
2 184 (15.83%) AWS
3 176 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
4 134 (11.53%) Microsoft 365
5 119 (10.24%) SaaS
6 71 (6.11%) Entra ID
7 67 (5.77%) GitHub
8 58 (4.99%) Power Platform
9 46 (3.96%) GCP
10 32 (2.75%) Dynamics 365
10 32 (2.75%) Miro
11 30 (2.58%) Mimecast
12 29 (2.50%) Serverless
13 26 (2.24%) Figma
14 22 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
15 18 (1.55%) Amazon S3
16 16 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (1.29%) Boomi
18 14 (1.20%) Smartsheet
19 13 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 40 (3.44%) VPN
2 38 (3.27%) DNS
3 31 (2.67%) DHCP
4 30 (2.58%) TCP/IP
5 29 (2.50%) Firewall
6 22 (1.89%) Network Security
6 22 (1.89%) WAN
7 20 (1.72%) Multicast
8 19 (1.64%) LAN
9 13 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.77%) Kerberos
11 8 (0.69%) IPv4
11 8 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
11 8 (0.69%) VLAN
12 6 (0.52%) FIX Connectivity
12 6 (0.52%) HTTP
12 6 (0.52%) Internet
13 5 (0.43%) NAS
13 5 (0.43%) VoIP
13 5 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (5.34%) SQL Server
2 52 (4.48%) Power BI
3 28 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (2.07%) MySQL
5 22 (1.89%) MongoDB
5 22 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (1.46%) Relational Database
7 16 (1.38%) Tableau
8 15 (1.29%) NoSQL
9 13 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (0.60%) Big Data
10 7 (0.60%) DynamoDB
10 7 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
11 6 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.43%) Metadata
12 5 (0.43%) Redis
12 5 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.34%) Data Vault
13 4 (0.34%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 131 (11.27%) Git
2 52 (4.48%) GitLab
3 45 (3.87%) Jenkins
4 37 (3.18%) Bitbucket
5 36 (3.10%) Selenium
6 31 (2.67%) Postman
7 28 (2.41%) Zephyr
8 21 (1.81%) Cypress.io
9 17 (1.46%) Cucumber
10 15 (1.29%) Rational DOORS
11 12 (1.03%) SoapUI
12 11 (0.95%) JMeter
12 11 (0.95%) SonarQube
13 10 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 9 (0.77%) REST Assured
14 9 (0.77%) TestRail
14 9 (0.77%) Visual Studio
15 7 (0.60%) Artifactory
15 7 (0.60%) MSI
15 7 (0.60%) Subversion
General
1 410 (35.28%) Social Skills
2 333 (28.66%) Finance
3 221 (19.02%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (6.45%) Marketing
5 66 (5.68%) Public Sector
6 64 (5.51%) Banking
7 61 (5.25%) Organisational Skills
8 60 (5.16%) Law
9 57 (4.91%) Retail
10 53 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 51 (4.39%) Legal
12 47 (4.04%) Aerospace
13 40 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
14 33 (2.84%) Manufacturing
15 32 (2.75%) Games
15 32 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
16 27 (2.32%) Automotive
17 26 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
18 20 (1.72%) Electronics
19 13 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 243 (20.91%) Analyst
2 178 (15.32%) Senior
3 123 (10.59%) Business Analyst
4 122 (10.50%) Lead
5 99 (8.52%) Project Manager
6 87 (7.49%) Developer
7 68 (5.85%) IT Support
8 49 (4.22%) Support Engineer
9 47 (4.04%) Software Engineer
10 46 (3.96%) Senior Analyst
11 44 (3.79%) Support Analyst
12 41 (3.53%) IT Manager
13 39 (3.36%) Delivery Manager
13 39 (3.36%) IT Analyst
13 39 (3.36%) IT Engineer
14 35 (3.01%) Product Owner
14 35 (3.01%) Systems Engineer
15 33 (2.84%) Product Manager
15 33 (2.84%) Senior Developer
16 32 (2.75%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (5.68%) REST
2 52 (4.48%) Terraform
3 51 (4.39%) React
4 49 (4.22%) HTML
5 48 (4.13%) .NET
6 45 (3.87%) JSON
7 39 (3.36%) CSS
8 31 (2.67%) XML
9 30 (2.58%) Middleware
10 29 (2.50%) SOAP
11 28 (2.41%) FIX Protocol
11 28 (2.41%) Node.js
11 28 (2.41%) Playwright
12 27 (2.32%) RESTful
13 22 (1.89%) AngularJS
14 18 (1.55%) ASP.NET
14 18 (1.55%) EDI
15 17 (1.46%) .NET Framework
15 17 (1.46%) Gherkin
15 17 (1.46%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 150 (12.91%) Product Ownership
2 106 (9.12%) Onboarding
3 60 (5.16%) Enterprise Software
4 45 (3.87%) Management Information System
5 40 (3.44%) Self-Motivation
6 39 (3.36%) Data Centre
7 38 (3.27%) Cloud Native
7 38 (3.27%) Driving Licence
8 31 (2.67%) Equities
8 31 (2.67%) PMI
9 30 (2.58%) Legacy Systems
10 22 (1.89%) Fixed Income
11 21 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
12 18 (1.55%) Derivative
12 18 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
12 18 (1.55%) Virtual Team
13 16 (1.38%) Algorithms
13 16 (1.38%) Security Posture
14 13 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
15 12 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 150 (12.91%) Windows
2 135 (11.62%) Linux
3 49 (4.22%) Windows Server
4 22 (1.89%) Mac OS
5 12 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.03%) Ubuntu
6 11 (0.95%) Unix
6 11 (0.95%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.86%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.69%) Android
9 6 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.43%) Debian
11 4 (0.34%) CentOS
11 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.17%) ThreadX
12 2 (0.17%) VMS
13 1 (0.086%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 620 (53.36%) Agile
2 332 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 320 (27.54%) Stakeholder Management
4 307 (26.42%) DevOps
5 297 (25.56%) Problem-Solving
6 255 (21.94%) Scrum
7 193 (16.61%) Project Management
8 182 (15.66%) CI/CD
9 168 (14.46%) ITIL
10 154 (13.25%) AI
11 151 (12.99%) Service Management
12 148 (12.74%) User Stories
13 145 (12.48%) Decision-Making
14 143 (12.31%) Roadmaps
15 140 (12.05%) Project Delivery
16 130 (11.19%) Workflow
17 129 (11.10%) SDLC
18 128 (11.02%) ITSM
19 127 (10.93%) Waterfall
20 126 (10.84%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 203 (17.47%) SQL
2 171 (14.72%) Python
3 98 (8.43%) Java
4 95 (8.18%) PowerShell
5 82 (7.06%) JavaScript
6 59 (5.08%) C#
7 38 (3.27%) C++
8 37 (3.18%) Bash
9 36 (3.10%) TypeScript
10 33 (2.84%) R
11 15 (1.29%) PHP
12 12 (1.03%) C
13 10 (0.86%) Perl
14 8 (0.69%) Bicep
14 8 (0.69%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.60%) Groovy
15 7 (0.60%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.52%) Tcl
16 6 (0.52%) VB.NET
17 5 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 211 (18.16%) Degree
2 135 (11.62%) Security Cleared
3 82 (7.06%) SC Cleared
4 80 (6.88%) PMI Certification
5 61 (5.25%) PMP
6 44 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 37 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 36 (3.10%) DV Cleared
9 33 (2.84%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (2.84%) ISTQB
10 30 (2.58%) AWS Certification
11 27 (2.32%) Master's Degree
12 25 (2.15%) ITIL Certification
12 25 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
13 23 (1.98%) CCNA
14 12 (1.03%) A+ Certification
15 11 (0.95%) CISSP
16 10 (0.86%) CCNP
17 9 (0.77%) CISM
17 9 (0.77%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (14.72%) QA
2 56 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 55 (4.73%) PMO
4 51 (4.39%) Accessibility
5 36 (3.10%) Data Quality
6 30 (2.58%) GDPR
7 27 (2.32%) SLA
8 18 (1.55%) WCAG
9 13 (1.12%) TickIT
10 11 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 10 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 10 (0.86%) NCSC
11 10 (0.86%) NIST
12 9 (0.77%) Software Quality Assurance
13 8 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 12207
14 7 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.60%) GRC
15 6 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.43%) MiFID
17 4 (0.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 114 (9.81%) Active Directory
2 59 (5.08%) Docker
3 35 (3.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.38%) Hyper-V
5 14 (1.20%) vSphere
6 13 (1.12%) Firmware
7 9 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (0.69%) Embedded Firmware
8 8 (0.69%) Squid
8 8 (0.69%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.34%) KVM
10 3 (0.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.086%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.086%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 50 (4.30%) Kubernetes
2 49 (4.22%) Microsoft Intune
3 43 (3.70%) Ansible
4 14 (1.20%) Packer
5 12 (1.03%) ZABBIX
6 9 (0.77%) Grafana
7 8 (0.69%) Kibana
8 7 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
8 7 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
8 7 (0.60%) SCCM
8 7 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.52%) Control-M
9 6 (0.52%) Proxmox
10 5 (0.43%) BMC PATROL
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
11 4 (0.34%) SCOM
Vendors
1 280 (24.10%) Microsoft
2 143 (12.31%) ServiceNow
3 79 (6.80%) Oracle
4 77 (6.63%) Salesforce
5 68 (5.85%) SAP
6 41 (3.53%) VMware
7 40 (3.44%) Cisco
7 40 (3.44%) Splunk
8 37 (3.18%) Atlassian
9 31 (2.67%) CrowdStrike
10 29 (2.50%) Google
10 29 (2.50%) IBM
11 27 (2.32%) BMC
12 23 (1.98%) HubSpot
13 19 (1.64%) Red Hat
14 18 (1.55%) Meraki
15 11 (0.95%) Adobe
15 11 (0.95%) ION Trading
16 9 (0.77%) Bloomberg
16 9 (0.77%) Sage