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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 107 104
Rank change year-on-year -17 -3 -26
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,045 1,233 1,820
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.73% 2.80% 2.74%
As % of the Development Applications category 31.00% 26.22% 26.03%
Number of salaries quoted 666 722 1,468
10th Percentile £30,250 £37,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £93,778 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,160 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.07% - -

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 3,371 4,702 6,993
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.57% 10.68% 10.53%
Number of salaries quoted 2,296 2,738 5,785
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,750 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £76,438 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £105,000 £97,290
UK median annual salary £57,500 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.50% +2.50% -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 20 February 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 20 February 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 -5 349 £75,000 +11.11% 200
South East +21 297 £45,500 -24.17% 169
North of England -55 148 £47,500 - 88
Midlands -34 106 £43,500 -20.91% 95
South West -58 69 £42,500 -12.38% 71
Yorkshire -39 66 £45,000 - 39
North West -40 63 £52,500 +4.89% 47
West Midlands -35 54 £41,250 -28.26% 73
East Midlands -9 52 £44,750 +5.29% 22
East of England -28 46 £56,250 +12.50% 32
North East -28 19 £51,500 +52.59% 3
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
1 332 (31.77%) Confluence
2 50 (4.78%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (1.34%) CMS
5 9 (0.86%) Apache
5 9 (0.86%) IIS
6 7 (0.67%) WordPress
7 5 (0.48%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.38%) Documentum
8 4 (0.38%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.19%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.19%) JBoss
9 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.096%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.096%) FileNet
10 1 (0.096%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.096%) SAS
10 1 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
10 1 (0.096%) WebSphere
Applications
1 60 (5.74%) Microsoft Project
2 53 (5.07%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
4 26 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (2.49%) MS Visio
5 16 (1.53%) CATIA
6 15 (1.44%) Trello
7 4 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.19%) Simulink
9 1 (0.096%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.096%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.096%) Sketch
9 1 (0.096%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 88 (8.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.96%) Shopify
4 9 (0.86%) Dynamics NAV
4 9 (0.86%) Magento
5 7 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.57%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.29%) SAP CX
7 3 (0.29%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
8 2 (0.19%) Endur
8 2 (0.19%) EuroRunner
8 2 (0.19%) IBM Planning Analytics
8 2 (0.19%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.19%) SAP MII
8 2 (0.19%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.096%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.096%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.096%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 189 (18.09%) Azure
2 159 (15.22%) Azure DevOps
3 79 (7.56%) Microsoft 365
4 68 (6.51%) AWS
5 67 (6.41%) SaaS
6 46 (4.40%) Power Platform
7 41 (3.92%) GitHub
8 33 (3.16%) Entra ID
9 31 (2.97%) Figma
10 28 (2.68%) Slack
11 25 (2.39%) GCP
12 21 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
12 21 (2.01%) PaaS
13 20 (1.91%) Google Workspace
14 19 (1.82%) Serverless
15 13 (1.24%) Mimecast
16 12 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (1.15%) Miro
16 12 (1.15%) Smartsheet
17 11 (1.05%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (2.58%) Firewall
2 24 (2.30%) VPN
3 20 (1.91%) DNS
4 16 (1.53%) TCP/IP
5 14 (1.34%) Multicast
6 13 (1.24%) DHCP
7 12 (1.15%) VLAN
8 10 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.77%) LAN
9 8 (0.77%) WAN
10 7 (0.67%) Cisco ISE
10 7 (0.67%) HTTP
11 5 (0.48%) Broadband
11 5 (0.48%) Network Security
12 4 (0.38%) Cisco IOS
13 3 (0.29%) DOCSIS
13 3 (0.29%) DSL
13 3 (0.29%) IPv4
13 3 (0.29%) IPv6
13 3 (0.29%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (5.84%) SQL Server
2 32 (3.06%) Power BI
3 29 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (2.01%) MySQL
5 20 (1.91%) Relational Database
6 13 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (1.24%) MongoDB
6 13 (1.24%) NoSQL
7 12 (1.15%) DB2
8 11 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (0.77%) BusinessObjects
9 8 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.57%) Big Data
10 6 (0.57%) Oracle Database
10 6 (0.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 6 (0.57%) Tableau
11 5 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.38%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 93 (8.90%) Git
2 69 (6.60%) eCATT
3 62 (5.93%) Selenium
4 45 (4.31%) Jenkins
4 45 (4.31%) Postman
5 38 (3.64%) Bitbucket
5 38 (3.64%) NeoLoad
6 32 (3.06%) SoapUI
7 31 (2.97%) GitLab
8 29 (2.78%) Rational DOORS
9 27 (2.58%) Team Foundation Server
10 25 (2.39%) WebDriver
11 22 (2.11%) Cucumber
12 20 (1.91%) Cypress.io
13 15 (1.44%) Visual Studio
14 14 (1.34%) TeamCity
14 14 (1.34%) TestRail
15 13 (1.24%) JUnit
16 11 (1.05%) JMeter
16 11 (1.05%) Subversion
General
1 438 (41.91%) Social Skills
2 299 (28.61%) Finance
3 144 (13.78%) Analytical Skills
4 122 (11.67%) Marketing
5 103 (9.86%) Manufacturing
6 93 (8.90%) Presentation Skills
7 71 (6.79%) Influencing Skills
8 64 (6.12%) Banking
9 50 (4.78%) Law
10 35 (3.35%) Legal
11 33 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 33 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
12 27 (2.58%) Retail
13 26 (2.49%) Public Sector
14 21 (2.01%) Advertising
15 13 (1.24%) Back Office
15 13 (1.24%) French Language
16 12 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (1.15%) Swedish Language
17 11 (1.05%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 237 (22.68%) Analyst
2 172 (16.46%) Senior
3 149 (14.26%) Lead
4 94 (9.00%) Developer
5 80 (7.66%) Support Analyst
6 71 (6.79%) Business Analyst
7 59 (5.65%) Support Engineer
8 54 (5.17%) IT Support
9 44 (4.21%) Test Analyst
10 43 (4.11%) Test Leader
11 41 (3.92%) Project Manager
12 38 (3.64%) Applications Support
12 38 (3.64%) Team Leader
13 34 (3.25%) Applications Support Analyst
14 33 (3.16%) Systems Engineer
15 30 (2.87%) IT Engineer
15 30 (2.87%) Software Engineer
16 29 (2.78%) Senior Manager
17 28 (2.68%) IT Support Engineer
18 26 (2.49%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (6.79%) HTML
2 49 (4.69%) .NET
3 46 (4.40%) CSS
4 44 (4.21%) SOAP
5 41 (3.92%) React
6 37 (3.54%) REST
7 32 (3.06%) RESTful
8 26 (2.49%) Node.js
9 24 (2.30%) Middleware
10 21 (2.01%) Elastic Stack
11 20 (1.91%) Spring
12 17 (1.63%) Kafka
13 15 (1.44%) FIX Protocol
14 14 (1.34%) Spring Boot
15 13 (1.24%) AngularJS
16 12 (1.15%) Next.js
16 12 (1.15%) Playwright
16 12 (1.15%) pytest
16 12 (1.15%) XML
17 11 (1.05%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 95 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 85 (8.13%) Onboarding
3 38 (3.64%) Management Information System
4 31 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (2.11%) Virtual Team
6 19 (1.82%) Data Centre
7 18 (1.72%) Equities
8 17 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (1.53%) Fixed Income
9 16 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
9 16 (1.53%) Mobile App
10 14 (1.34%) Cloud Native
11 13 (1.24%) Derivative
12 12 (1.15%) Algorithms
12 12 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (1.05%) NHS
13 11 (1.05%) PMI
14 9 (0.86%) CMDB
15 8 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
15 8 (0.77%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 103 (9.86%) Windows
2 84 (8.04%) Linux
3 26 (2.49%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.15%) Apple iOS
4 12 (1.15%) Windows 10
5 10 (0.96%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.67%) Unix
7 7 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (0.57%) Android
9 5 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.29%) OpenWrt
11 3 (0.29%) Solaris
11 3 (0.29%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.19%) CentOS
13 1 (0.096%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.096%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 475 (45.45%) Agile
2 266 (25.45%) Continuous Improvement
3 232 (22.20%) Problem-Solving
4 170 (16.27%) Scrum
5 169 (16.17%) DevOps
6 151 (14.45%) ITIL
7 146 (13.97%) ITSM
8 137 (13.11%) Roadmaps
9 136 (13.01%) CI/CD
10 135 (12.92%) Test Management
11 133 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
12 127 (12.15%) User Experience
13 125 (11.96%) Service Management
14 116 (11.10%) Test Automation
15 111 (10.62%) ERP
16 103 (9.86%) Computer Science
17 92 (8.80%) Change Management
17 92 (8.80%) Project Management
18 86 (8.23%) SDLC
18 86 (8.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 194 (18.56%) SQL
2 107 (10.24%) Python
3 89 (8.52%) JavaScript
4 88 (8.42%) Java
5 69 (6.60%) PowerShell
6 58 (5.55%) C#
7 35 (3.35%) Bash
8 34 (3.25%) TypeScript
9 20 (1.91%) C++
10 17 (1.63%) Go
11 14 (1.34%) T-SQL
12 12 (1.15%) PHP
13 10 (0.96%) C
14 8 (0.77%) R
15 5 (0.48%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.38%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.38%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.38%) RPG
17 3 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 3 (0.29%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 275 (26.32%) Degree
2 91 (8.71%) Security Cleared
3 54 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 53 (5.07%) SC Cleared
5 52 (4.98%) ISTQB
6 51 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 39 (3.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 30 (2.87%) PMI Certification
9 28 (2.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 27 (2.58%) MCSE
11 25 (2.39%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 22 (2.11%) PMP
13 17 (1.63%) DV Cleared
14 13 (1.24%) HND
15 12 (1.15%) AWS Certification
16 11 (1.05%) A+ Certification
17 10 (0.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 10 (0.96%) Master's Degree
18 9 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 9 (0.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (12.63%) QA
2 51 (4.88%) Accessibility
3 37 (3.54%) SLA
4 35 (3.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (3.16%) PMO
6 20 (1.91%) GDPR
6 20 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 19 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 15 (1.44%) NIST
9 7 (0.67%) Data Quality
9 7 (0.67%) WCAG
10 6 (0.57%) Basel II
11 5 (0.48%) PERC
12 4 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.29%) MiFID
13 3 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.29%) SEPA
13 3 (0.29%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.19%) GRC
System Software
1 94 (9.00%) Active Directory
2 45 (4.31%) Docker
3 19 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.57%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.57%) vSphere
6 2 (0.19%) Firmware
6 2 (0.19%) Terminal Server
6 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.096%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.096%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 72 (6.89%) HP ALM
2 46 (4.40%) Kubernetes
3 38 (3.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (2.68%) Terraform
5 21 (2.01%) Grafana
5 21 (2.01%) SCCM
6 20 (1.91%) Prometheus
7 18 (1.72%) Ansible
8 11 (1.05%) ZABBIX
9 9 (0.86%) Control-M
10 8 (0.77%) Puppet
11 6 (0.57%) Nagios
11 6 (0.57%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.48%) Kibana
12 5 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.38%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
15 2 (0.19%) Nessus
15 2 (0.19%) Podman
15 2 (0.19%) SCOM
Vendors
1 203 (19.43%) Microsoft
2 120 (11.48%) SAP
3 101 (9.67%) ServiceNow
4 78 (7.46%) Atlassian
5 72 (6.89%) HP
6 66 (6.32%) Salesforce
7 39 (3.73%) Google
8 37 (3.54%) IBM
9 35 (3.35%) Oracle
10 21 (2.01%) HubSpot
11 20 (1.91%) VMware
12 18 (1.72%) BMC
12 18 (1.72%) Cisco
13 17 (1.63%) Adobe
14 16 (1.53%) Tenable
15 14 (1.34%) Zscaler
16 13 (1.24%) Siemens
17 11 (1.05%) Citrix
17 11 (1.05%) Splunk
18 10 (0.96%) CrowdStrike