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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 111 105
Rank change year-on-year -51 -6 -19
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,007 1,093 2,114
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.27% 2.91% 2.54%
As % of the Development Applications category 27.57% 29.19% 27.21%
Number of salaries quoted 740 807 1,564
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,400 £31,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,413 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £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 3,652 3,745 7,770
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.62% 9.97% 9.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2,477 2,683 6,065
10th Percentile £29,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,739 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £103,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -44 310 £75,000 +7.14% 120
South East +8 219 £57,500 -4.17% 111
North of England -61 188 £56,250 +2.27% 65
Midlands -64 114 £44,543 -10.91% 57
North West -29 106 £65,000 +18.18% 30
South West -66 82 £42,500 -8.60% 36
East of England -18 69 £62,500 +13.64% 25
Yorkshire -75 67 £46,000 -5.17% 31
West Midlands -67 59 £44,543 -25.76% 41
East Midlands -49 55 £42,500 +13.33% 16
North East -39 15 £60,000 +166.67% 5
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
1 354 (35.15%) Confluence
2 75 (7.45%) SharePoint
3 32 (3.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.99%) IIS
5 9 (0.89%) CMS
6 8 (0.79%) Apache
7 5 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.50%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.40%) Documentum
9 3 (0.30%) JBoss
10 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.20%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.20%) Gentran
10 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.20%) WordPress
11 1 (0.099%) Drupal
11 1 (0.099%) nginx
11 1 (0.099%) SAS
11 1 (0.099%) Tuxedo
11 1 (0.099%) Umbraco
Applications
1 74 (7.35%) Microsoft Project
2 46 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 32 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
4 24 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (2.28%) MS Visio
6 14 (1.39%) CATIA
7 9 (0.89%) Trello
8 4 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.30%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.099%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 22 (2.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.99%) Magento
3 10 (0.99%) Shopify
4 9 (0.89%) Dynamics NAV
4 9 (0.89%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.50%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.50%) Visualfiles
6 2 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.20%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.099%) Actimize
7 1 (0.099%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.099%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.099%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.099%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.099%) SAP CX
7 1 (0.099%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.099%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.099%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 246 (24.43%) Azure
2 127 (12.61%) Azure DevOps
3 105 (10.43%) AWS
4 87 (8.64%) Microsoft 365
5 67 (6.65%) SaaS
6 57 (5.66%) Power Platform
7 55 (5.46%) GitHub
8 47 (4.67%) GCP
9 37 (3.67%) Dynamics 365
9 37 (3.67%) Entra ID
10 21 (2.09%) Figma
10 21 (2.09%) Google Workspace
10 21 (2.09%) PaaS
10 21 (2.09%) Smartsheet
11 20 (1.99%) Mimecast
12 16 (1.59%) Serverless
13 15 (1.49%) Miro
13 15 (1.49%) Slack
14 14 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (1.39%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.58%) VPN
2 20 (1.99%) Firewall
3 18 (1.79%) Multicast
4 13 (1.29%) Network Security
5 11 (1.09%) DNS
5 11 (1.09%) LAN
6 10 (0.99%) TCP/IP
7 9 (0.89%) WAN
8 8 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.70%) Cisco ISE
9 7 (0.70%) HTTP
10 5 (0.50%) DHCP
10 5 (0.50%) IPv4
10 5 (0.50%) SSL
10 5 (0.50%) Wireless
11 3 (0.30%) Broadband
11 3 (0.30%) FIX Connectivity
11 3 (0.30%) Software-Defined Networking
12 2 (0.20%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.20%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (6.26%) SQL Server
2 42 (4.17%) Power BI
3 24 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (1.69%) MySQL
5 16 (1.59%) Relational Database
6 15 (1.49%) NoSQL
7 14 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 12 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (1.09%) DB2
9 11 (1.09%) MongoDB
10 9 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (0.89%) Big Data
11 8 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (0.79%) Tableau
12 5 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (0.50%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.40%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.40%) Power Query
14 3 (0.30%) Looker
14 3 (0.30%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 95 (9.43%) Git
2 54 (5.36%) Selenium
3 50 (4.97%) Postman
4 46 (4.57%) Jenkins
5 39 (3.87%) GitLab
6 30 (2.98%) Bitbucket
7 29 (2.88%) SoapUI
8 26 (2.58%) Rational DOORS
9 24 (2.38%) Team Foundation Server
10 23 (2.28%) Cucumber
11 19 (1.89%) WebDriver
12 16 (1.59%) Zephyr
13 14 (1.39%) Cypress.io
13 14 (1.39%) TeamCity
14 13 (1.29%) JUnit
14 13 (1.29%) TestRail
15 11 (1.09%) SonarQube
16 10 (0.99%) Subversion
17 9 (0.89%) JMeter
18 8 (0.79%) Oracle APEX
General
1 388 (38.53%) Social Skills
2 263 (26.12%) Finance
3 140 (13.90%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (7.05%) Banking
5 70 (6.95%) Marketing
6 64 (6.36%) Law
7 45 (4.47%) Legal
8 40 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
9 39 (3.87%) Presentation Skills
10 37 (3.67%) Retail
11 31 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 28 (2.78%) Manufacturing
13 26 (2.58%) Public Sector
14 24 (2.38%) Automotive
14 24 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
15 23 (2.28%) Games
16 21 (2.09%) Advertising
17 18 (1.79%) Electronics
18 15 (1.49%) Aerospace
18 15 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 197 (19.56%) Analyst
2 148 (14.70%) Senior
3 125 (12.41%) Lead
4 80 (7.94%) Developer
5 77 (7.65%) Business Analyst
6 74 (7.35%) IT Support
7 71 (7.05%) Support Engineer
8 65 (6.45%) Support Analyst
9 53 (5.26%) Project Manager
10 43 (4.27%) Systems Engineer
11 37 (3.67%) IT Engineer
11 37 (3.67%) IT Support Engineer
12 35 (3.48%) Applications Support
13 34 (3.38%) Software Engineer
14 29 (2.88%) Applications Support Analyst
14 29 (2.88%) Product Manager
14 29 (2.88%) Sales Executive
15 27 (2.68%) Architect
15 27 (2.68%) Team Leader
16 25 (2.48%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (6.55%) HTML
2 53 (5.26%) REST
3 52 (5.16%) .NET
3 52 (5.16%) SOAP
4 45 (4.47%) CSS
5 44 (4.37%) React
6 36 (3.57%) Middleware
7 35 (3.48%) RESTful
8 33 (3.28%) JSON
9 24 (2.38%) XML
10 23 (2.28%) Elastic Stack
11 21 (2.09%) Node.js
12 20 (1.99%) FIX Protocol
13 19 (1.89%) EDI
14 17 (1.69%) AngularJS
14 17 (1.69%) Kafka
15 16 (1.59%) Playwright
15 16 (1.59%) pytest
15 16 (1.59%) Spring
16 14 (1.39%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 109 (10.82%) Product Ownership
2 96 (9.53%) Onboarding
3 33 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
4 32 (3.18%) Management Information System
5 20 (1.99%) Derivative
5 20 (1.99%) Equities
5 20 (1.99%) Fixed Income
6 19 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (1.79%) Data Centre
8 17 (1.69%) Virtual Team
9 16 (1.59%) Algorithms
10 15 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.49%) PMI
11 14 (1.39%) Cloud Native
11 14 (1.39%) Driving Licence
12 13 (1.29%) Mobile App
13 12 (1.19%) NHS
14 11 (1.09%) Life Science
15 10 (0.99%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 95 (9.43%) Windows
2 87 (8.64%) Linux
3 38 (3.77%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.19%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (0.89%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.50%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.40%) Android
9 4 (0.40%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.30%) CentOS
10 3 (0.30%) Unix
11 2 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.20%) OpenWrt
11 2 (0.20%) ThreadX
12 1 (0.099%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.099%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 537 (53.33%) Agile
2 231 (22.94%) Continuous Improvement
3 215 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
4 212 (21.05%) DevOps
5 205 (20.36%) Scrum
6 179 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
7 160 (15.89%) CI/CD
8 135 (13.41%) Service Management
9 134 (13.31%) ITSM
10 131 (13.01%) ITIL
11 114 (11.32%) Roadmaps
12 110 (10.92%) User Experience
13 107 (10.63%) Project Management
14 104 (10.33%) SDLC
14 104 (10.33%) Test Automation
15 101 (10.03%) Decision-Making
16 96 (9.53%) CRM
16 96 (9.53%) Software Engineering
17 94 (9.33%) Change Management
18 83 (8.24%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 201 (19.96%) SQL
2 110 (10.92%) Python
3 87 (8.64%) Java
4 72 (7.15%) JavaScript
5 58 (5.76%) PowerShell
6 49 (4.87%) C#
7 29 (2.88%) TypeScript
8 26 (2.58%) Bash
9 20 (1.99%) C++
10 17 (1.69%) R
11 15 (1.49%) T-SQL
12 13 (1.29%) PHP
13 11 (1.09%) C
14 7 (0.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (0.60%) Groovy
15 6 (0.60%) Perl
16 5 (0.50%) Google Apps Script
16 5 (0.50%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.40%) Go
17 4 (0.40%) RPG
Qualifications
1 218 (21.65%) Degree
2 97 (9.63%) Security Cleared
3 58 (5.76%) SC Cleared
4 53 (5.26%) ISTQB
5 49 (4.87%) BPSS Clearance
6 47 (4.67%) PMI Certification
7 39 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 34 (3.38%) PMP
9 26 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (2.28%) DV Cleared
11 20 (1.99%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 14 (1.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 14 (1.39%) Master's Degree
13 13 (1.29%) AWS Certification
13 13 (1.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 11 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.99%) MCSE
16 9 (0.89%) CCNA
17 8 (0.79%) A+ Certification
18 7 (0.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (11.92%) QA
2 32 (3.18%) SLA
3 31 (3.08%) PMO
4 29 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (2.68%) Accessibility
6 20 (1.99%) Data Quality
6 20 (1.99%) GDPR
6 20 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 18 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 11 (1.09%) TickIT
9 8 (0.79%) GRC
9 8 (0.79%) MiFID
9 8 (0.79%) Software Quality Assurance
10 7 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.60%) Basel II
12 5 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.40%) ISO 26262
13 4 (0.40%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.40%) WCAG
14 3 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 93 (9.24%) Active Directory
2 60 (5.96%) Docker
3 19 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.40%) vSphere
5 3 (0.30%) Embedded Firmware
5 3 (0.30%) Firmware
5 3 (0.30%) Squid
5 3 (0.30%) Terminal Server
5 3 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.30%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.099%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 46 (4.57%) Kubernetes
2 39 (3.87%) Terraform
3 32 (3.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (2.98%) Ansible
5 12 (1.19%) SCCM
6 11 (1.09%) Grafana
7 9 (0.89%) Packer
8 7 (0.70%) Kibana
8 7 (0.70%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.70%) Puppet
9 6 (0.60%) SCOM
10 5 (0.50%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.50%) ZABBIX
11 4 (0.40%) Functional Safety
12 3 (0.30%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.30%) Nagios
12 3 (0.30%) SCOrch
12 3 (0.30%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.20%) Control-M
Vendors
1 202 (20.06%) Microsoft
2 111 (11.02%) ServiceNow
3 74 (7.35%) Salesforce
4 59 (5.86%) Atlassian
5 47 (4.67%) Oracle
6 44 (4.37%) Google
7 42 (4.17%) IBM
8 41 (4.07%) SAP
9 29 (2.88%) BMC
9 29 (2.88%) HubSpot
10 26 (2.58%) Cisco
11 21 (2.09%) CrowdStrike
12 20 (1.99%) VMware
13 18 (1.79%) Splunk
14 12 (1.19%) Citrix
14 12 (1.19%) Meraki
14 12 (1.19%) Red Hat
15 11 (1.09%) Siemens
16 10 (0.99%) Freshdesk
16 10 (0.99%) Zscaler