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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 98 130
Rank change year-on-year -62 +32 -33
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,151 1,372 1,462
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.24% 3.15% 2.01%
As % of the Development Applications category 28.19% 38.09% 24.21%
Number of salaries quoted 840 856 947
10th Percentile £33,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £43,586
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,625 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,400 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.33% +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 4,083 3,602 6,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.40% 8.27% 8.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2,720 2,316 4,156
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,125 £99,375 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.20% +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 6 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 6 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 -70 342 £70,000 -6.67% 332
North of England -46 242 £55,000 +4.76% 104
South East +3 236 £57,500 +15.00% 166
North West -40 132 £60,000 +9.09% 45
South West -15 119 £52,500 +16.67% 58
Midlands -95 109 £42,500 -22.73% 72
East of England -21 85 £62,500 +8.70% 39
Yorkshire -27 82 £44,000 -20.00% 40
West Midlands -87 58 £45,000 -30.77% 48
East Midlands -45 51 £27,500 -26.67% 24
North East -39 28 £60,000 +85.69% 21
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
1 382 (33.19%) Confluence
2 97 (8.43%) SharePoint
3 56 (4.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (1.13%) CMS
5 8 (0.70%) IIS
6 7 (0.61%) SAS
7 6 (0.52%) Apache
7 6 (0.52%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.43%) JBoss
9 4 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.35%) WordPress
10 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.26%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.17%) Gentran
11 2 (0.17%) nginx
12 1 (0.087%) Drupal
12 1 (0.087%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.087%) WebSphere
Applications
1 90 (7.82%) Microsoft Project
2 54 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (2.87%) MS Visio
4 23 (2.00%) Trello
5 14 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.87%) CATIA
7 3 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.26%) Moqups
7 3 (0.26%) Sketch
8 2 (0.17%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.17%) InVision
9 1 (0.087%) Notion
9 1 (0.087%) Simulink
9 1 (0.087%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 34 (2.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (1.04%) Fidessa
4 8 (0.70%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.52%) SAP IBP
6 5 (0.43%) Shopify
6 5 (0.43%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.35%) Magento
7 4 (0.35%) Sage 200
7 4 (0.35%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.26%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.087%) FLEXCUBE
10 1 (0.087%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.087%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.087%) Oracle Financials
10 1 (0.087%) Teamcenter
10 1 (0.087%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 360 (31.28%) Azure
2 171 (14.86%) AWS
3 167 (14.51%) Azure DevOps
4 130 (11.29%) Microsoft 365
5 112 (9.73%) SaaS
6 70 (6.08%) GitHub
7 63 (5.47%) Entra ID
8 57 (4.95%) Power Platform
9 45 (3.91%) GCP
10 31 (2.69%) Miro
11 30 (2.61%) Mimecast
11 30 (2.61%) Serverless
12 26 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
13 24 (2.09%) Figma
14 23 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
15 20 (1.74%) Amazon S3
16 17 (1.48%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (1.30%) Boomi
18 14 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
18 14 (1.22%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.04%) VPN
2 28 (2.43%) DNS
2 28 (2.43%) Firewall
2 28 (2.43%) TCP/IP
3 21 (1.82%) DHCP
3 21 (1.82%) Multicast
3 21 (1.82%) WAN
4 19 (1.65%) LAN
4 19 (1.65%) Network Security
5 13 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (0.78%) Kerberos
7 8 (0.70%) IPv4
7 8 (0.70%) Software-Defined Networking
8 5 (0.43%) FIX Connectivity
8 5 (0.43%) HTTP
8 5 (0.43%) NAS
8 5 (0.43%) SSL
8 5 (0.43%) VoIP
8 5 (0.43%) Wireless
9 4 (0.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (5.65%) SQL Server
2 49 (4.26%) Power BI
3 26 (2.26%) MySQL
4 24 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (2.09%) MongoDB
4 24 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (1.56%) Relational Database
6 16 (1.39%) NoSQL
6 16 (1.39%) Tableau
7 13 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (0.70%) Big Data
9 7 (0.61%) DynamoDB
9 7 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (0.61%) Geospatial Data
10 6 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.43%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.43%) Redis
11 5 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.35%) Data Vault
12 4 (0.35%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 128 (11.12%) Git
2 53 (4.60%) GitLab
3 40 (3.48%) Jenkins
4 36 (3.13%) Bitbucket
5 33 (2.87%) Selenium
6 29 (2.52%) Postman
7 26 (2.26%) Zephyr
8 18 (1.56%) Cucumber
9 16 (1.39%) Cypress.io
10 14 (1.22%) Rational DOORS
11 11 (0.96%) JMeter
11 11 (0.96%) SonarQube
12 10 (0.87%) SoapUI
13 9 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 9 (0.78%) REST Assured
13 9 (0.78%) TestRail
13 9 (0.78%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.61%) Artifactory
14 7 (0.61%) MSI
14 7 (0.61%) TeamCity
General
1 402 (34.93%) Social Skills
2 302 (26.24%) Finance
3 199 (17.29%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (6.52%) Marketing
5 64 (5.56%) Law
6 60 (5.21%) Banking
7 58 (5.04%) Public Sector
8 56 (4.87%) Retail
9 53 (4.60%) Organisational Skills
10 51 (4.43%) Legal
11 49 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 39 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
13 35 (3.04%) Aerospace
13 35 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
14 31 (2.69%) Games
15 28 (2.43%) Automotive
16 26 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
17 24 (2.09%) Manufacturing
18 15 (1.30%) Advertising
19 13 (1.13%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 217 (18.85%) Analyst
2 174 (15.12%) Senior
3 117 (10.17%) Lead
4 106 (9.21%) Business Analyst
5 95 (8.25%) Project Manager
6 88 (7.65%) Developer
7 75 (6.52%) IT Support
8 62 (5.39%) Support Engineer
9 49 (4.26%) Software Engineer
10 45 (3.91%) Support Analyst
11 43 (3.74%) IT Engineer
12 41 (3.56%) Systems Engineer
13 39 (3.39%) IT Manager
13 39 (3.39%) Senior Analyst
14 38 (3.30%) Delivery Manager
15 36 (3.13%) IT Support Engineer
15 36 (3.13%) Product Manager
16 35 (3.04%) IT Analyst
17 34 (2.95%) Senior Developer
18 33 (2.87%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (5.13%) REST
2 58 (5.04%) React
3 47 (4.08%) .NET
3 47 (4.08%) HTML
4 44 (3.82%) CSS
5 43 (3.74%) JSON
6 31 (2.69%) Middleware
7 30 (2.61%) Node.js
8 29 (2.52%) FIX Protocol
8 29 (2.52%) XML
9 27 (2.35%) SOAP
10 26 (2.26%) RESTful
11 24 (2.09%) Playwright
12 23 (2.00%) AngularJS
13 20 (1.74%) EDI
14 19 (1.65%) pytest
15 18 (1.56%) ASP.NET
16 17 (1.48%) .NET Framework
17 15 (1.30%) Kafka
17 15 (1.30%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 135 (11.73%) Product Ownership
2 118 (10.25%) Onboarding
3 53 (4.60%) Enterprise Software
4 45 (3.91%) Management Information System
5 44 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
6 36 (3.13%) Driving Licence
7 32 (2.78%) Cloud Native
7 32 (2.78%) Data Centre
7 32 (2.78%) Equities
8 30 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
9 28 (2.43%) PMI
10 22 (1.91%) Fixed Income
11 20 (1.74%) Derivative
12 18 (1.56%) Algorithms
13 17 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
13 17 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
13 17 (1.48%) Virtual Team
14 16 (1.39%) Security Posture
15 12 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
15 12 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 147 (12.77%) Windows
2 138 (11.99%) Linux
3 52 (4.52%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.82%) Mac OS
5 15 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (1.22%) Ubuntu
7 11 (0.96%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.70%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.61%) CentOS
9 7 (0.61%) Unix
9 7 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.52%) Android
11 5 (0.43%) Debian
12 4 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
13 2 (0.17%) ThreadX
13 2 (0.17%) VMS
14 1 (0.087%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 602 (52.30%) Agile
2 313 (27.19%) Continuous Improvement
3 298 (25.89%) DevOps
4 288 (25.02%) Stakeholder Management
5 274 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
6 241 (20.94%) Scrum
7 189 (16.42%) CI/CD
8 176 (15.29%) Project Management
9 157 (13.64%) Service Management
10 153 (13.29%) ITIL
11 142 (12.34%) ITSM
12 137 (11.90%) Decision-Making
12 137 (11.90%) Roadmaps
13 131 (11.38%) Workflow
14 127 (11.03%) Project Delivery
15 126 (10.95%) SDLC
16 122 (10.60%) CRM
16 122 (10.60%) User Stories
17 121 (10.51%) AI
18 120 (10.43%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 203 (17.64%) SQL
2 167 (14.51%) Python
3 92 (7.99%) Java
4 89 (7.73%) PowerShell
5 87 (7.56%) JavaScript
6 60 (5.21%) C#
7 39 (3.39%) Bash
7 39 (3.39%) TypeScript
8 36 (3.13%) C++
9 32 (2.78%) R
10 21 (1.82%) PHP
11 14 (1.22%) C
12 9 (0.78%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.70%) Bicep
13 8 (0.70%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.61%) Groovy
15 6 (0.52%) Perl
15 6 (0.52%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.52%) VB.NET
16 5 (0.43%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 193 (16.77%) Degree
2 125 (10.86%) Security Cleared
3 78 (6.78%) SC Cleared
4 70 (6.08%) PMI Certification
5 53 (4.60%) PMP
6 39 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 32 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 32 (2.78%) ISTQB
8 30 (2.61%) DV Cleared
9 29 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (2.26%) AWS Certification
10 26 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 19 (1.65%) CCNA
11 19 (1.65%) Master's Degree
12 14 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (0.87%) CISSP
14 9 (0.78%) Azure Certification
14 9 (0.78%) RHCE
14 9 (0.78%) RHCSA
15 8 (0.70%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (13.73%) QA
2 56 (4.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 50 (4.34%) PMO
4 49 (4.26%) Accessibility
5 35 (3.04%) GDPR
6 32 (2.78%) SLA
7 29 (2.52%) Data Quality
8 18 (1.56%) WCAG
9 13 (1.13%) TickIT
10 11 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 10 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 10 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 9 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.78%) NIST
12 9 (0.78%) Software Quality Assurance
13 8 (0.70%) NCSC
14 7 (0.61%) GRC
15 6 (0.52%) MiFID
15 6 (0.52%) PCI DSS
15 6 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 115 (9.99%) Active Directory
2 67 (5.82%) Docker
3 34 (2.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.39%) Hyper-V
5 12 (1.04%) vSphere
6 10 (0.87%) Firmware
7 8 (0.70%) Squid
7 8 (0.70%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
8 7 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.35%) KVM
10 3 (0.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.087%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 54 (4.69%) Terraform
2 52 (4.52%) Kubernetes
3 48 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 45 (3.91%) Ansible
5 14 (1.22%) Packer
6 12 (1.04%) ZABBIX
7 11 (0.96%) Grafana
8 10 (0.87%) Kibana
9 9 (0.78%) SCCM
10 8 (0.70%) Docker Swarm
11 7 (0.61%) Nagios
11 7 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
12 6 (0.52%) Control-M
12 6 (0.52%) Proxmox
13 5 (0.43%) Podman
13 5 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
14 4 (0.35%) Functional Safety
14 4 (0.35%) Graylog
14 4 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.35%) SCOM
Vendors
1 264 (22.94%) Microsoft
2 143 (12.42%) ServiceNow
3 84 (7.30%) Salesforce
4 79 (6.86%) Oracle
5 63 (5.47%) SAP
6 42 (3.65%) Splunk
7 40 (3.48%) VMware
8 37 (3.21%) Cisco
9 34 (2.95%) Atlassian
9 34 (2.95%) CrowdStrike
9 34 (2.95%) IBM
10 33 (2.87%) BMC
11 30 (2.61%) HubSpot
12 28 (2.43%) Google
13 18 (1.56%) Meraki
13 18 (1.56%) Red Hat
14 13 (1.13%) Adobe
15 10 (0.87%) Freshdesk
16 9 (0.78%) Sage
16 9 (0.78%) Zscaler