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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 109 104
Rank change year-on-year +8 -5 -34
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,104 1,269 1,370
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.12% 2.57% 3.00%
As % of the Development Applications category 35.27% 24.71% 24.64%
Number of salaries quoted 694 722 1,067
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,019 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,530 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -7.95% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £81,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £96,539
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%

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 3,130 5,136 5,560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.01% 10.41% 12.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,154 2,967 4,556
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £102,500
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 2 January 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 2 January 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 +26 396 £76,250 +17.31% 165
South East +39 337 £45,000 -21.74% 134
North of England -37 130 £47,683 -4.63% 82
Midlands -7 108 £47,500 -5.00% 63
West Midlands -7 68 £42,500 -19.81% 41
South West -38 68 £42,500 -10.53% 40
Yorkshire +4 62 £43,250 +1.76% 36
North West -33 51 £47,500 -5.10% 38
East of England -24 45 £57,500 +6.98% 36
East Midlands -16 40 £53,500 +9.74% 22
North East -23 17 £51,500 - 8
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
1 325 (29.44%) Confluence
2 48 (4.35%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.54%) CMS
4 13 (1.18%) Apache
4 13 (1.18%) IIS
5 9 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.72%) WordPress
7 6 (0.54%) Tomcat
7 6 (0.54%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.36%) JBoss
8 4 (0.36%) nginx
9 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.27%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.18%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.091%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.091%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.091%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.091%) SAS
11 1 (0.091%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.091%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 71 (6.43%) Microsoft Office
2 58 (5.25%) Microsoft Project
3 55 (4.98%) Microsoft Excel
4 33 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (2.36%) MS Visio
6 20 (1.81%) Trello
7 15 (1.36%) CATIA
8 5 (0.45%) Simulink
8 5 (0.45%) Windchill
9 4 (0.36%) MadCap Flare
9 4 (0.36%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.18%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.18%) Sketch
11 1 (0.091%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.091%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.091%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.091%) Doxygen
11 1 (0.091%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 99 (8.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.63%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.54%) Shopify
5 5 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
5 5 (0.45%) Magento
6 4 (0.36%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.36%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.27%) SAP CX
7 3 (0.27%) SAP MII
8 2 (0.18%) Endur
8 2 (0.18%) EuroRunner
8 2 (0.18%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 2 (0.18%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.18%) Sage X3
8 2 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.091%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.091%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 213 (19.29%) Azure
2 157 (14.22%) Azure DevOps
3 85 (7.70%) AWS
4 74 (6.70%) Microsoft 365
5 58 (5.25%) SaaS
6 52 (4.71%) Power Platform
7 50 (4.53%) GitHub
8 35 (3.17%) Entra ID
9 30 (2.72%) Figma
10 27 (2.45%) GCP
10 27 (2.45%) Slack
11 25 (2.26%) Serverless
12 20 (1.81%) Amazon S3
13 19 (1.72%) Power Automate
14 18 (1.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 17 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
16 16 (1.45%) PowerApps
17 14 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
17 14 (1.27%) PaaS
18 13 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.08%) DNS
2 31 (2.81%) Firewall
3 19 (1.72%) DHCP
4 18 (1.63%) Multicast
5 17 (1.54%) HTTP
6 14 (1.27%) TCP/IP
7 13 (1.18%) VLAN
8 12 (1.09%) SSH
8 12 (1.09%) VPN
9 10 (0.91%) Wireless
10 9 (0.82%) FTP
10 9 (0.82%) SMTP
11 8 (0.72%) Internet
12 6 (0.54%) Broadband
12 6 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
13 4 (0.36%) Cisco ISE
13 4 (0.36%) IMAP
13 4 (0.36%) OpenLDAP
13 4 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (6.52%) SQL Server
2 31 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (2.63%) Power BI
4 28 (2.54%) MySQL
5 22 (1.99%) Relational Database
6 17 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (1.45%) MongoDB
7 16 (1.45%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.00%) DB2
9 10 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (0.72%) BusinessObjects
11 8 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 8 (0.72%) Tableau
12 7 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (0.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.54%) OLAP
14 5 (0.45%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 145 (13.13%) Git
2 90 (8.15%) Jenkins
3 76 (6.88%) Selenium
4 69 (6.25%) eCATT
5 58 (5.25%) Postman
6 43 (3.89%) Bitbucket
7 40 (3.62%) SoapUI
7 40 (3.62%) Team Foundation Server
8 39 (3.53%) NeoLoad
9 35 (3.17%) WebDriver
10 32 (2.90%) Rational DOORS
11 25 (2.26%) Cypress.io
11 25 (2.26%) GitLab
12 20 (1.81%) Cucumber
13 18 (1.63%) TeamCity
14 17 (1.54%) Visual Studio
15 16 (1.45%) TestRail
16 15 (1.36%) JUnit
17 13 (1.18%) JMeter
17 13 (1.18%) Subversion
General
1 482 (43.66%) Social Skills
2 324 (29.35%) Finance
3 149 (13.50%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (11.32%) Marketing
5 97 (8.79%) Manufacturing
6 94 (8.51%) Presentation Skills
7 72 (6.52%) Influencing Skills
8 71 (6.43%) Banking
9 70 (6.34%) Organisational Skills
10 50 (4.53%) Law
11 36 (3.26%) Retail
12 35 (3.17%) Legal
13 34 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 27 (2.45%) Public Sector
15 23 (2.08%) Advertising
16 20 (1.81%) Front Office
17 19 (1.72%) Electronics
17 19 (1.72%) French Language
18 18 (1.63%) Swedish Language
19 15 (1.36%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 224 (20.29%) Analyst
2 185 (16.76%) Senior
3 172 (15.58%) Lead
4 108 (9.78%) Developer
5 66 (5.98%) Support Analyst
6 62 (5.62%) Business Analyst
7 49 (4.44%) Test Analyst
8 48 (4.35%) Project Manager
9 47 (4.26%) Support Engineer
10 46 (4.17%) Test Leader
11 43 (3.89%) Applications Support
12 36 (3.26%) Software Engineer
13 34 (3.08%) Applications Support Analyst
14 33 (2.99%) Team Leader
15 30 (2.72%) Technical Support
16 28 (2.54%) Product Owner
16 28 (2.54%) Senior Analyst
17 27 (2.45%) Senior Developer
17 27 (2.45%) Senior Manager
17 27 (2.45%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (7.88%) HTML
2 70 (6.34%) .NET
3 52 (4.71%) SOAP
4 47 (4.26%) CSS
5 45 (4.08%) React
6 43 (3.89%) REST
7 33 (2.99%) Node.js
7 33 (2.99%) RESTful
8 21 (1.90%) Elastic Stack
9 20 (1.81%) Kafka
9 20 (1.81%) SAP Fiori
10 19 (1.72%) FIX Protocol
10 19 (1.72%) XML
11 18 (1.63%) Spring
12 16 (1.45%) Middleware
13 14 (1.27%) Gherkin
13 14 (1.27%) pytest
13 14 (1.27%) Spring Boot
14 13 (1.18%) AngularJS
14 13 (1.18%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 87 (7.88%) Product Ownership
2 71 (6.43%) Onboarding
3 43 (3.89%) Management Information System
4 25 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
5 24 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (1.81%) Cloud Native
6 20 (1.81%) Equities
7 19 (1.72%) Algorithms
7 19 (1.72%) Fixed Income
7 19 (1.72%) Virtual Team
8 18 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (1.36%) Derivative
10 13 (1.18%) Mobile App
11 12 (1.09%) Embedded Systems
12 11 (1.00%) IoT
13 10 (0.91%) Data Centre
14 9 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
14 9 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (0.82%) PMI
15 8 (0.72%) Satnav
Operating Systems
1 107 (9.69%) Linux
2 106 (9.60%) Windows
3 15 (1.36%) Mac OS
3 15 (1.36%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.27%) Windows 10
5 11 (1.00%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.91%) Android
6 10 (0.91%) Unix
7 9 (0.82%) Amazon Linux
7 9 (0.82%) VMS
8 7 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.54%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.36%) Solaris
11 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.27%) OpenWrt
13 2 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.091%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.091%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 498 (45.11%) Agile
2 294 (26.63%) Continuous Improvement
3 247 (22.37%) Problem-Solving
4 181 (16.39%) DevOps
5 166 (15.04%) Scrum
6 152 (13.77%) Test Management
7 143 (12.95%) ITIL
8 138 (12.50%) CI/CD
8 138 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 129 (11.68%) Roadmaps
10 128 (11.59%) Test Automation
11 123 (11.14%) Change Management
11 123 (11.14%) User Experience
12 112 (10.14%) Project Management
13 111 (10.05%) Computer Science
14 106 (9.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 100 (9.06%) ITSM
16 98 (8.88%) Mentoring
17 96 (8.70%) ERP
18 94 (8.51%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 208 (18.84%) SQL
2 129 (11.68%) Python
3 104 (9.42%) JavaScript
4 99 (8.97%) Java
5 86 (7.79%) PowerShell
6 80 (7.25%) C#
7 46 (4.17%) TypeScript
8 37 (3.35%) Bash
9 25 (2.26%) C++
10 20 (1.81%) Go
11 14 (1.27%) Apex Code
12 13 (1.18%) Groovy
13 11 (1.00%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.82%) C
15 7 (0.63%) Perl
15 7 (0.63%) PHP
16 6 (0.54%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.36%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 3 (0.27%) RPG
Qualifications
1 331 (29.98%) Degree
2 111 (10.05%) Security Cleared
3 71 (6.43%) ISTQB
4 57 (5.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 57 (5.16%) SC Cleared
5 46 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 34 (3.08%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 34 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 29 (2.63%) PMI Certification
8 27 (2.45%) MCSE
9 26 (2.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 22 (1.99%) PMP
11 19 (1.72%) DV Cleared
12 15 (1.36%) Master's Degree
13 14 (1.27%) AWS Certification
13 14 (1.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 10 (0.91%) HND
15 9 (0.82%) A+ Certification
15 9 (0.82%) Azure Certification
15 9 (0.82%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (15.04%) QA
2 64 (5.80%) Accessibility
3 39 (3.53%) PMO
4 36 (3.26%) SLA
5 32 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (2.72%) Def Stans
7 21 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 20 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 19 (1.72%) Data Quality
10 17 (1.54%) GDPR
11 16 (1.45%) NIST
12 10 (0.91%) WCAG
13 6 (0.54%) Basel II
14 5 (0.45%) PERC
15 4 (0.36%) MiFID
16 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
16 3 (0.27%) P3O
16 3 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 3 (0.27%) SEPA
16 3 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 90 (8.15%) Active Directory
2 51 (4.62%) Docker
3 19 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.72%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.54%) vSphere
7 5 (0.45%) DFS Replication
8 4 (0.36%) Dovecot
8 4 (0.36%) Postfix
8 4 (0.36%) Squid
9 2 (0.18%) Firmware
9 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.091%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 73 (6.61%) HP ALM
2 48 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 45 (4.08%) Kubernetes
4 39 (3.53%) Terraform
5 33 (2.99%) Grafana
6 30 (2.72%) Prometheus
7 21 (1.90%) Ansible
8 17 (1.54%) SCCM
9 12 (1.09%) ZABBIX
10 11 (1.00%) Control-M
11 9 (0.82%) Puppet
12 7 (0.63%) Nessus
13 6 (0.54%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.45%) Kibana
15 4 (0.36%) HP Quality Center
15 4 (0.36%) Nagios
15 4 (0.36%) Proxmox
15 4 (0.36%) vCenter Server
16 2 (0.18%) Docker Swarm
16 2 (0.18%) Podman
Vendors
1 209 (18.93%) Microsoft
2 129 (11.68%) SAP
3 96 (8.70%) ServiceNow
4 85 (7.70%) Atlassian
5 75 (6.79%) HP
6 60 (5.43%) Salesforce
7 42 (3.80%) Oracle
8 36 (3.26%) IBM
9 33 (2.99%) Google
10 20 (1.81%) Adobe
11 19 (1.72%) VMware
12 14 (1.27%) Tenable
13 13 (1.18%) Cisco
14 12 (1.09%) HubSpot
15 10 (0.91%) Siemens
16 9 (0.82%) Bloomberg
16 9 (0.82%) BMC
16 9 (0.82%) Dynatrace
16 9 (0.82%) Qualtrics
16 9 (0.82%) Splunk