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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 94 129
Rank change year-on-year -72 +35 -31
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,162 1,349 1,428
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.19% 3.10% 2.01%
As % of the Development Applications category 28.38% 39.66% 23.80%
Number of salaries quoted 812 815 883
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £42,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,250 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £92,375 £94,511 £87,500
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 4,094 3,401 6,001
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.21% 7.80% 8.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,682 2,161 3,826
10th Percentile £36,000 £36,250 £39,500
25th Percentile £47,313 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -66 363 £68,000 -9.33% 736
North of England -39 245 £55,000 +10.00% 204
South East -14 227 £57,500 +21.05% 201
North West -42 136 £60,000 +20.00% 108
South West -31 128 £55,000 +22.22% 144
Midlands -93 110 £44,543 -19.01% 83
Yorkshire -47 77 £43,000 -12.70% 62
East of England -43 75 £62,500 +8.70% 93
West Midlands -75 71 £46,250 -28.85% 54
East Midlands -60 39 £33,000 -23.26% 29
North East -36 32 £60,000 +85.69% 36
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
1 396 (34.08%) Confluence
2 94 (8.09%) SharePoint
3 58 (4.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (1.29%) CMS
5 8 (0.69%) IIS
6 7 (0.60%) SAS
7 6 (0.52%) JBoss
7 6 (0.52%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.43%) Apache
9 4 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.26%) nginx
10 3 (0.26%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.26%) WordPress
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.17%) Drupal
11 2 (0.17%) Gentran
12 1 (0.086%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.086%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 101 (8.69%) Microsoft Project
2 66 (5.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 55 (4.73%) Microsoft Office
4 46 (3.96%) MS Visio
5 23 (1.98%) Trello
6 17 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.69%) CATIA
8 5 (0.43%) Moqups
9 3 (0.26%) Sketch
10 2 (0.17%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.17%) InVision
11 1 (0.086%) Notion
11 1 (0.086%) OrCAD
11 1 (0.086%) Simulink
11 1 (0.086%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 37 (3.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (1.12%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.52%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.43%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.34%) Sage 200
6 4 (0.34%) SAP Business One
7 3 (0.26%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
8 2 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 2 (0.17%) Magento
8 2 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.17%) Shopify
9 1 (0.086%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.086%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.086%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.086%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.086%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.086%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 370 (31.84%) Azure
2 183 (15.75%) AWS
3 173 (14.89%) Azure DevOps
4 138 (11.88%) Microsoft 365
5 124 (10.67%) SaaS
6 75 (6.45%) Entra ID
7 67 (5.77%) GitHub
8 56 (4.82%) Power Platform
9 46 (3.96%) GCP
10 32 (2.75%) Mimecast
10 32 (2.75%) Miro
11 31 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
12 29 (2.50%) Serverless
13 26 (2.24%) Figma
14 22 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
15 18 (1.55%) Amazon S3
16 16 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (1.29%) Boomi
18 14 (1.20%) Anthropic Claude
18 14 (1.20%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 42 (3.61%) VPN
2 41 (3.53%) DNS
3 34 (2.93%) DHCP
4 31 (2.67%) TCP/IP
5 30 (2.58%) Firewall
6 22 (1.89%) Network Security
6 22 (1.89%) WAN
7 20 (1.72%) Multicast
8 19 (1.64%) LAN
9 14 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.77%) Kerberos
11 8 (0.69%) IPv4
11 8 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
11 8 (0.69%) VLAN
12 6 (0.52%) FIX Connectivity
12 6 (0.52%) HTTP
12 6 (0.52%) Internet
13 5 (0.43%) NAS
13 5 (0.43%) VoIP
13 5 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (4.99%) SQL Server
2 51 (4.39%) Power BI
3 27 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (1.89%) MongoDB
5 21 (1.81%) MySQL
5 21 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (1.46%) Relational Database
7 16 (1.38%) Tableau
8 14 (1.20%) NoSQL
9 13 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (0.60%) Big Data
10 7 (0.60%) DynamoDB
10 7 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
11 6 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.43%) Metadata
12 5 (0.43%) Redis
13 4 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.34%) Data Vault
13 4 (0.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 128 (11.02%) Git
2 53 (4.56%) GitLab
3 45 (3.87%) Jenkins
4 37 (3.18%) Bitbucket
5 36 (3.10%) Selenium
6 31 (2.67%) Postman
7 28 (2.41%) Zephyr
8 21 (1.81%) Cypress.io
9 17 (1.46%) Cucumber
9 17 (1.46%) Rational DOORS
10 12 (1.03%) SoapUI
11 11 (0.95%) SonarQube
12 10 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 10 (0.86%) JMeter
13 9 (0.77%) REST Assured
13 9 (0.77%) TestRail
13 9 (0.77%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.60%) Artifactory
14 7 (0.60%) MSI
14 7 (0.60%) Subversion
General
1 410 (35.28%) Social Skills
2 335 (28.83%) Finance
3 223 (19.19%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (6.37%) Marketing
5 66 (5.68%) Public Sector
6 62 (5.34%) Banking
6 62 (5.34%) Organisational Skills
7 59 (5.08%) Law
8 57 (4.91%) Retail
9 53 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 51 (4.39%) Legal
11 49 (4.22%) Aerospace
12 38 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
13 34 (2.93%) Manufacturing
14 32 (2.75%) Games
14 32 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
15 27 (2.32%) Automotive
16 25 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
17 22 (1.89%) Electronics
18 13 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 243 (20.91%) Analyst
2 177 (15.23%) Senior
3 124 (10.67%) Business Analyst
4 120 (10.33%) Lead
5 98 (8.43%) Project Manager
6 85 (7.31%) Developer
7 67 (5.77%) IT Support
8 51 (4.39%) Support Engineer
9 47 (4.04%) Senior Analyst
9 47 (4.04%) Software Engineer
10 44 (3.79%) Support Analyst
11 41 (3.53%) IT Manager
12 40 (3.44%) IT Analyst
12 40 (3.44%) Product Owner
13 39 (3.36%) IT Engineer
14 38 (3.27%) Delivery Manager
15 35 (3.01%) Systems Engineer
16 33 (2.84%) Product Manager
17 32 (2.75%) Senior Developer
17 32 (2.75%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (5.85%) REST
2 51 (4.39%) Terraform
3 49 (4.22%) React
4 47 (4.04%) .NET
4 47 (4.04%) HTML
5 45 (3.87%) JSON
6 37 (3.18%) CSS
7 31 (2.67%) XML
8 30 (2.58%) Middleware
8 30 (2.58%) SOAP
9 28 (2.41%) FIX Protocol
9 28 (2.41%) Playwright
10 26 (2.24%) Node.js
10 26 (2.24%) RESTful
11 21 (1.81%) AngularJS
12 18 (1.55%) EDI
12 18 (1.55%) Gherkin
13 17 (1.46%) ASP.NET
13 17 (1.46%) pytest
14 16 (1.38%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 152 (13.08%) Product Ownership
2 105 (9.04%) Onboarding
3 64 (5.51%) Enterprise Software
4 45 (3.87%) Management Information System
5 41 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
6 39 (3.36%) Data Centre
7 38 (3.27%) Cloud Native
7 38 (3.27%) Driving Licence
8 31 (2.67%) Equities
8 31 (2.67%) PMI
9 28 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
10 25 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
11 22 (1.89%) Fixed Income
12 17 (1.46%) Derivative
12 17 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
12 17 (1.46%) Virtual Team
13 16 (1.38%) Security Posture
14 15 (1.29%) Algorithms
15 13 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
16 12 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 151 (12.99%) Windows
2 134 (11.53%) Linux
3 49 (4.22%) Windows Server
4 22 (1.89%) Mac OS
5 12 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (1.03%) Ubuntu
6 11 (0.95%) Windows 10
7 10 (0.86%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.86%) Unix
8 8 (0.69%) Android
9 6 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.43%) Debian
11 4 (0.34%) CentOS
11 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.17%) ThreadX
12 2 (0.17%) VMS
13 1 (0.086%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 618 (53.18%) Agile
2 332 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 325 (27.97%) Stakeholder Management
4 303 (26.08%) DevOps
5 297 (25.56%) Problem-Solving
6 256 (22.03%) Scrum
7 195 (16.78%) Project Management
8 178 (15.32%) CI/CD
9 169 (14.54%) ITIL
10 158 (13.60%) AI
11 153 (13.17%) User Stories
12 149 (12.82%) Service Management
13 143 (12.31%) Decision-Making
14 142 (12.22%) Project Delivery
15 139 (11.96%) Roadmaps
16 137 (11.79%) Workflow
17 130 (11.19%) Requirements Gathering
18 128 (11.02%) Change Management
18 128 (11.02%) ITSM
19 127 (10.93%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 202 (17.38%) SQL
2 172 (14.80%) Python
3 97 (8.35%) Java
4 95 (8.18%) PowerShell
5 81 (6.97%) JavaScript
6 58 (4.99%) C#
7 38 (3.27%) C++
8 37 (3.18%) Bash
9 35 (3.01%) R
9 35 (3.01%) TypeScript
10 15 (1.29%) PHP
11 12 (1.03%) C
12 10 (0.86%) Perl
13 8 (0.69%) Bicep
14 7 (0.60%) Groovy
14 7 (0.60%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.60%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.52%) Tcl
15 6 (0.52%) VB.NET
16 4 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 208 (17.90%) Degree
2 137 (11.79%) Security Cleared
3 84 (7.23%) SC Cleared
4 79 (6.80%) PMI Certification
5 60 (5.16%) PMP
6 41 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 39 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 36 (3.10%) DV Cleared
9 34 (2.93%) Cisco Certification
10 33 (2.84%) ISTQB
11 30 (2.58%) AWS Certification
12 27 (2.32%) Master's Degree
13 26 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
14 24 (2.07%) CCNA
14 24 (2.07%) ITIL Certification
15 13 (1.12%) A+ Certification
16 11 (0.95%) CISSP
17 10 (0.86%) CCNP
17 10 (0.86%) CSPO
18 9 (0.77%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (14.97%) QA
2 58 (4.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 55 (4.73%) PMO
4 51 (4.39%) Accessibility
5 35 (3.01%) Data Quality
6 29 (2.50%) GDPR
7 27 (2.32%) SLA
8 18 (1.55%) WCAG
9 13 (1.12%) TickIT
10 11 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 10 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 10 (0.86%) NCSC
11 10 (0.86%) NIST
12 9 (0.77%) Software Quality Assurance
13 8 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 12207
14 7 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.60%) GRC
15 6 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 4 (0.34%) ISO 9001
16 4 (0.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 118 (10.15%) Active Directory
2 58 (4.99%) Docker
3 36 (3.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.38%) Hyper-V
5 15 (1.29%) vSphere
6 13 (1.12%) Firmware
7 10 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (0.69%) Embedded Firmware
8 8 (0.69%) Squid
8 8 (0.69%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.34%) KVM
10 3 (0.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.086%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.086%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 52 (4.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 49 (4.22%) Kubernetes
3 43 (3.70%) Ansible
4 14 (1.20%) Packer
5 12 (1.03%) ZABBIX
6 9 (0.77%) Grafana
7 8 (0.69%) Kibana
8 7 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
8 7 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
8 7 (0.60%) SCCM
8 7 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.52%) Control-M
9 6 (0.52%) Proxmox
10 5 (0.43%) BMC PATROL
10 5 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (0.34%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.34%) Functional Safety
11 4 (0.34%) Graylog
11 4 (0.34%) Nagios
11 4 (0.34%) SCOM
Vendors
1 284 (24.44%) Microsoft
2 144 (12.39%) ServiceNow
3 79 (6.80%) Oracle
4 76 (6.54%) Salesforce
5 70 (6.02%) SAP
6 42 (3.61%) VMware
7 40 (3.44%) Splunk
8 39 (3.36%) Cisco
9 37 (3.18%) Atlassian
10 33 (2.84%) CrowdStrike
11 29 (2.50%) Google
11 29 (2.50%) IBM
12 27 (2.32%) BMC
13 24 (2.07%) HubSpot
14 19 (1.64%) Red Hat
15 16 (1.38%) Meraki
16 11 (0.95%) Adobe
16 11 (0.95%) ION Trading
17 9 (0.77%) Bloomberg
17 9 (0.77%) Sage