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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 122 103
Rank change year-on-year +20 -19 -35
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,193 1,274 1,445
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.61% 2.12% 3.07%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.93% 23.51% 23.98%
Number of salaries quoted 761 710 1,135
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £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 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £88,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -8.00% +5.00%

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 3,145 5,419 6,027
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.88% 9.03% 12.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,098 3,000 4,907
10th Percentile £30,000 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £78,000 £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 18 November 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 18 November 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 +47 431 £75,000 +20.00% 491
South East +43 329 £45,000 -18.18% 370
North of England -2 154 £47,592 -13.47% 134
Midlands +36 127 £57,500 +15.00% 118
West Midlands +46 96 £60,250 +20.50% 60
South West -6 79 £43,000 -14.00% 126
Yorkshire +40 70 £45,000 +8.85% 48
North West -16 67 £46,250 -15.91% 75
East of England -10 55 £57,500 +13.86% 100
East Midlands +9 31 £46,500 +3.33% 58
North East -23 17 £51,500 - 11
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
1 367 (30.76%) Confluence
2 47 (3.94%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.76%) CMS
4 15 (1.26%) IIS
5 13 (1.09%) Apache
6 12 (1.01%) Umbraco
7 11 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (0.92%) WordPress
8 9 (0.75%) nginx
9 5 (0.42%) JBoss
9 5 (0.42%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.25%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.084%) Appian
11 1 (0.084%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.084%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.084%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.084%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 84 (7.04%) Microsoft Office
2 71 (5.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 55 (4.61%) Microsoft Project
4 41 (3.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (2.43%) MS Visio
6 23 (1.93%) Trello
7 8 (0.67%) CATIA
8 7 (0.59%) MadCap Flare
8 7 (0.59%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 7 (0.59%) Simulink
9 5 (0.42%) Windchill
10 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.17%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.17%) Sketch
12 1 (0.084%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.084%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.084%) Doxygen
12 1 (0.084%) InDesign
12 1 (0.084%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 103 (8.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.50%) Elite 3E
4 5 (0.42%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.42%) SAP IBP
5 3 (0.25%) Endur
5 3 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.25%) SAP CX
5 3 (0.25%) SAP MII
5 3 (0.25%) SAP PP
5 3 (0.25%) Shopify
6 2 (0.17%) EuroRunner
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.17%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 248 (20.79%) Azure
2 154 (12.91%) Azure DevOps
3 153 (12.82%) AWS
4 76 (6.37%) Microsoft 365
5 68 (5.70%) Power Platform
6 65 (5.45%) SaaS
7 59 (4.95%) GitHub
8 48 (4.02%) Amazon S3
9 43 (3.60%) Amazon EC2
9 43 (3.60%) GCP
10 40 (3.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 37 (3.10%) AWS KMS
11 37 (3.10%) Serverless
12 35 (2.93%) Entra ID
13 33 (2.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 32 (2.68%) Amazon ELB
15 30 (2.51%) Slack
16 28 (2.35%) Figma
17 26 (2.18%) Power Automate
18 25 (2.10%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 57 (4.78%) Firewall
2 49 (4.11%) DNS
3 25 (2.10%) SSH
4 23 (1.93%) HTTP
5 20 (1.68%) DHCP
5 20 (1.68%) FTP
5 20 (1.68%) SMTP
6 16 (1.34%) Internet
6 16 (1.34%) Wireless
7 15 (1.26%) VLAN
8 13 (1.09%) Multicast
8 13 (1.09%) TCP/IP
9 11 (0.92%) VPN
10 8 (0.67%) Broadband
11 7 (0.59%) IMAP
11 7 (0.59%) OpenLDAP
12 6 (0.50%) SAN
12 6 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.34%) Kerberos
13 4 (0.34%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (5.45%) SQL Server
2 42 (3.52%) Power BI
3 40 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
4 39 (3.27%) Amazon RDS
5 33 (2.77%) MySQL
6 24 (2.01%) Relational Database
7 23 (1.93%) MongoDB
8 22 (1.84%) NoSQL
9 18 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (1.26%) Tableau
11 12 (1.01%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (0.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 8 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (0.59%) Metadata
14 7 (0.59%) OLAP
15 6 (0.50%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 193 (16.18%) Git
2 123 (10.31%) Jenkins
3 72 (6.04%) eCATT
4 58 (4.86%) Selenium
5 48 (4.02%) Bitbucket
6 39 (3.27%) NeoLoad
7 36 (3.02%) Postman
8 31 (2.60%) Vagrant
9 27 (2.26%) GitLab
10 25 (2.10%) SoapUI
11 23 (1.93%) Cypress.io
12 22 (1.84%) Team Foundation Server
13 21 (1.76%) Rational DOORS
14 19 (1.59%) Maven
14 19 (1.59%) Visual Studio
14 19 (1.59%) WebDriver
15 18 (1.51%) JUnit
15 18 (1.51%) TeamCity
16 17 (1.42%) Cucumber
17 15 (1.26%) TestRail
General
1 511 (42.83%) Social Skills
2 347 (29.09%) Finance
3 178 (14.92%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (11.40%) Marketing
5 103 (8.63%) Presentation Skills
6 95 (7.96%) Manufacturing
7 82 (6.87%) Influencing Skills
8 73 (6.12%) Banking
9 68 (5.70%) Organisational Skills
10 65 (5.45%) Law
11 56 (4.69%) Public Sector
12 43 (3.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 43 (3.60%) Retail
13 31 (2.60%) Legal
14 25 (2.10%) Automotive
15 24 (2.01%) Advertising
16 21 (1.76%) Front Office
17 19 (1.59%) Back Office
17 19 (1.59%) French Language
17 19 (1.59%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 246 (20.62%) Analyst
2 197 (16.51%) Senior
3 165 (13.83%) Lead
4 133 (11.15%) Developer
5 71 (5.95%) Business Analyst
6 68 (5.70%) Project Manager
6 68 (5.70%) Support Analyst
7 56 (4.69%) Support Engineer
8 49 (4.11%) Applications Support
9 42 (3.52%) Software Engineer
10 40 (3.35%) Applications Support Analyst
10 40 (3.35%) Test Analyst
11 38 (3.19%) Test Leader
12 37 (3.10%) DevOps Engineer
12 37 (3.10%) Senior Manager
13 32 (2.68%) Junior
14 30 (2.51%) Senior Developer
15 29 (2.43%) Product Owner
15 29 (2.43%) Team Leader
16 28 (2.35%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (6.54%) HTML
2 69 (5.78%) .NET
3 56 (4.69%) React
4 51 (4.27%) CSS
5 39 (3.27%) REST
5 39 (3.27%) SOAP
6 34 (2.85%) Node.js
7 33 (2.77%) RESTful
8 25 (2.10%) AngularJS
9 23 (1.93%) Spring
10 22 (1.84%) Kafka
10 22 (1.84%) XML
11 20 (1.68%) Spring Boot
12 18 (1.51%) .NET Core
12 18 (1.51%) SAP Fiori
13 17 (1.42%) Elastic Stack
13 17 (1.42%) Vue
14 16 (1.34%) Lightning Web Components
15 15 (1.26%) JSON
16 14 (1.17%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 102 (8.55%) Product Ownership
2 60 (5.03%) Onboarding
3 51 (4.27%) Management Information System
4 27 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
5 25 (2.10%) IoT
6 23 (1.93%) Cloud Native
7 22 (1.84%) Replication
7 22 (1.84%) Virtual Team
8 19 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (1.59%) Mobile App
9 17 (1.42%) Equities
10 16 (1.34%) Algorithms
10 16 (1.34%) Derivative
11 15 (1.26%) Fixed Income
11 15 (1.26%) Wiki
12 11 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (0.75%) Data Centre
13 9 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (0.75%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 140 (11.74%) Windows
2 133 (11.15%) Linux
3 31 (2.60%) VMS
4 20 (1.68%) Amazon Linux
5 17 (1.42%) Windows Server
6 16 (1.34%) Mac OS
6 16 (1.34%) Windows 10
7 14 (1.17%) Unix
8 13 (1.09%) Android
9 10 (0.84%) Ubuntu
10 9 (0.75%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 5 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
13 4 (0.34%) Solaris
13 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.25%) OpenWrt
14 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
16 1 (0.084%) Check Point GAiA
16 1 (0.084%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 552 (46.27%) Agile
2 291 (24.39%) Continuous Improvement
2 291 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
3 222 (18.61%) DevOps
4 170 (14.25%) Stakeholder Management
5 155 (12.99%) Project Management
6 153 (12.82%) Scrum
7 147 (12.32%) CI/CD
8 145 (12.15%) Roadmaps
9 140 (11.74%) Change Management
10 134 (11.23%) Test Automation
11 133 (11.15%) ITIL
11 133 (11.15%) Test Management
12 120 (10.06%) Computer Science
13 116 (9.72%) Mentoring
14 110 (9.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 106 (8.89%) User Experience
16 92 (7.71%) ERP
17 91 (7.63%) Waterfall
18 89 (7.46%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 219 (18.36%) SQL
2 167 (14.00%) Python
3 119 (9.97%) PowerShell
4 118 (9.89%) JavaScript
5 98 (8.21%) Java
6 82 (6.87%) C#
7 54 (4.53%) TypeScript
8 41 (3.44%) Bash
9 38 (3.19%) Groovy
10 21 (1.76%) C++
11 20 (1.68%) Go
12 17 (1.42%) Apex Code
13 16 (1.34%) Perl
14 11 (0.92%) PHP
15 10 (0.84%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.67%) C
17 7 (0.59%) Kotlin
18 6 (0.50%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.50%) SOQL
18 6 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 349 (29.25%) Degree
2 132 (11.06%) Security Cleared
3 80 (6.71%) SC Cleared
4 64 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 52 (4.36%) ISTQB
6 35 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 31 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 31 (2.60%) PMI Certification
8 27 (2.26%) AWS Certification
9 26 (2.18%) PMP
10 24 (2.01%) MCSE
11 23 (1.93%) Azure Certification
12 22 (1.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 19 (1.59%) DV Cleared
14 18 (1.51%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 16 (1.34%) Master's Degree
16 12 (1.01%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 11 (0.92%) CIMA
17 11 (0.92%) HND
17 11 (0.92%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (13.24%) QA
2 69 (5.78%) Accessibility
3 49 (4.11%) PMO
4 39 (3.27%) SLA
5 30 (2.51%) Def Stans
5 30 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 28 (2.35%) Data Quality
7 19 (1.59%) NIST
8 18 (1.51%) GDPR
9 12 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 12 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 10 (0.84%) WCAG
11 8 (0.67%) MiFID
12 6 (0.50%) PERC
13 5 (0.42%) P3O
14 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.25%) SEPA
15 2 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 2 (0.17%) MISRA
15 2 (0.17%) UCITS
System Software
1 107 (8.97%) Active Directory
2 75 (6.29%) Docker
3 22 (1.84%) DFS Replication
4 20 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (0.92%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.75%) vSphere
8 8 (0.67%) Firmware
9 7 (0.59%) Dovecot
9 7 (0.59%) Postfix
9 7 (0.59%) Squid
10 3 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.084%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.084%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 73 (6.12%) HP ALM
2 71 (5.95%) Terraform
3 56 (4.69%) Grafana
4 51 (4.27%) Prometheus
5 49 (4.11%) Kubernetes
6 48 (4.02%) Microsoft Intune
7 39 (3.27%) Ansible
8 20 (1.68%) SCCM
9 14 (1.17%) Puppet
10 13 (1.09%) Control-M
11 12 (1.01%) ZABBIX
12 11 (0.92%) Nessus
13 7 (0.59%) Kibana
13 7 (0.59%) Proxmox
14 5 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.42%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.42%) Salt
15 4 (0.34%) HP Quality Center
15 4 (0.34%) Nagios
15 4 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 218 (18.27%) Microsoft
2 124 (10.39%) SAP
3 113 (9.47%) ServiceNow
4 88 (7.38%) Atlassian
5 75 (6.29%) HP
6 64 (5.36%) Salesforce
7 43 (3.60%) Google
8 42 (3.52%) Oracle
9 27 (2.26%) IBM
10 22 (1.84%) Adobe
10 22 (1.84%) VMware
11 15 (1.26%) Tenable
12 13 (1.09%) Cisco
13 12 (1.01%) Juniper
14 11 (0.92%) Dynatrace
15 10 (0.84%) Bloomberg
16 9 (0.75%) Qualtrics
16 9 (0.75%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
17 8 (0.67%) Okta
17 8 (0.67%) Splunk