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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 121 104
Rank change year-on-year +17 -17 -36
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,192 1,295 1,425
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.57% 2.15% 3.06%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.70% 23.58% 24.08%
Number of salaries quoted 764 731 1,118
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -8.00% +5.00%

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 3,162 5,493 5,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.82% 9.10% 12.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,112 3,062 4,821
10th Percentile £30,000 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £100,000
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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025. 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 +50 437 £75,000 +20.00% 478
South East +44 329 £45,000 -18.18% 268
North of England -13 153 £47,592 -13.47% 131
Midlands +39 125 £56,250 +15.38% 108
West Midlands +43 95 £60,000 +20.00% 61
South West -16 77 £43,000 -14.00% 110
Yorkshire +36 68 £44,500 +6.15% 43
North West -19 67 £46,250 -15.91% 79
East of England -8 53 £57,500 +13.86% 64
East Midlands +12 30 £48,000 +6.67% 46
North East -19 18 £51,500 - 9
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
1 366 (30.70%) Confluence
2 51 (4.28%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.68%) CMS
4 16 (1.34%) IIS
5 14 (1.17%) Apache
6 11 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.92%) Umbraco
6 11 (0.92%) WordPress
7 9 (0.76%) nginx
8 6 (0.50%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.42%) JBoss
10 3 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.25%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.084%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.084%) Appian
11 1 (0.084%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.084%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.084%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.084%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 83 (6.96%) Microsoft Office
2 71 (5.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 54 (4.53%) Microsoft Project
4 41 (3.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 30 (2.52%) MS Visio
6 23 (1.93%) Trello
7 8 (0.67%) CATIA
8 7 (0.59%) MadCap Flare
8 7 (0.59%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 7 (0.59%) Simulink
9 5 (0.42%) Windchill
10 3 (0.25%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.17%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.17%) Sketch
12 1 (0.084%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.084%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.084%) Doxygen
12 1 (0.084%) InDesign
12 1 (0.084%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 103 (8.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.42%) Elite 3E
3 5 (0.42%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.42%) SAP IBP
4 3 (0.25%) Endur
4 3 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.25%) SAP CX
4 3 (0.25%) SAP MII
4 3 (0.25%) SAP PP
4 3 (0.25%) Shopify
5 2 (0.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.17%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.17%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.17%) SAP APO
5 2 (0.17%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.17%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 246 (20.64%) Azure
2 154 (12.92%) Azure DevOps
3 148 (12.42%) AWS
4 78 (6.54%) Microsoft 365
5 70 (5.87%) Power Platform
6 66 (5.54%) SaaS
7 57 (4.78%) GitHub
8 46 (3.86%) Amazon S3
9 43 (3.61%) GCP
10 40 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
11 38 (3.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 36 (3.02%) Serverless
13 35 (2.94%) AWS KMS
13 35 (2.94%) Entra ID
14 33 (2.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 32 (2.68%) Amazon ELB
16 30 (2.52%) Slack
17 28 (2.35%) Figma
18 26 (2.18%) Power Automate
19 25 (2.10%) Amazon Glacier
Communications & Networking
1 57 (4.78%) Firewall
2 50 (4.19%) DNS
3 25 (2.10%) SSH
4 23 (1.93%) HTTP
5 20 (1.68%) DHCP
5 20 (1.68%) FTP
5 20 (1.68%) SMTP
6 16 (1.34%) Wireless
7 15 (1.26%) Internet
7 15 (1.26%) VLAN
8 13 (1.09%) Multicast
8 13 (1.09%) TCP/IP
9 11 (0.92%) VPN
10 7 (0.59%) IMAP
10 7 (0.59%) OpenLDAP
11 6 (0.50%) Broadband
11 6 (0.50%) SAN
11 6 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.34%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.34%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (5.62%) SQL Server
2 42 (3.52%) Power BI
3 39 (3.27%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
5 34 (2.85%) MySQL
6 25 (2.10%) Relational Database
7 23 (1.93%) MongoDB
8 22 (1.85%) NoSQL
9 18 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (1.26%) Tableau
11 10 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (0.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 8 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (0.59%) OLAP
14 6 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
14 6 (0.50%) DB2
Development Applications
1 191 (16.02%) Git
2 125 (10.49%) Jenkins
3 72 (6.04%) eCATT
4 58 (4.87%) Selenium
5 49 (4.11%) Bitbucket
6 39 (3.27%) NeoLoad
7 36 (3.02%) Postman
8 31 (2.60%) Vagrant
9 28 (2.35%) GitLab
10 25 (2.10%) SoapUI
11 22 (1.85%) Cypress.io
11 22 (1.85%) Rational DOORS
11 22 (1.85%) Team Foundation Server
12 19 (1.59%) Cucumber
12 19 (1.59%) TeamCity
12 19 (1.59%) Visual Studio
12 19 (1.59%) WebDriver
13 17 (1.43%) Maven
14 16 (1.34%) JUnit
15 15 (1.26%) TestRail
General
1 508 (42.62%) Social Skills
2 347 (29.11%) Finance
3 176 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
4 137 (11.49%) Marketing
5 101 (8.47%) Presentation Skills
6 95 (7.97%) Manufacturing
7 80 (6.71%) Influencing Skills
8 75 (6.29%) Banking
9 69 (5.79%) Organisational Skills
10 65 (5.45%) Law
11 54 (4.53%) Public Sector
12 43 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 43 (3.61%) Retail
13 31 (2.60%) Legal
14 25 (2.10%) Automotive
15 23 (1.93%) Advertising
16 22 (1.85%) Front Office
17 20 (1.68%) French Language
18 19 (1.59%) Swedish Language
19 18 (1.51%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 246 (20.64%) Analyst
2 197 (16.53%) Senior
3 160 (13.42%) Lead
4 132 (11.07%) Developer
5 71 (5.96%) Business Analyst
6 69 (5.79%) Support Analyst
7 68 (5.70%) Project Manager
8 58 (4.87%) Support Engineer
9 49 (4.11%) Applications Support
10 43 (3.61%) Software Engineer
11 40 (3.36%) Applications Support Analyst
11 40 (3.36%) Test Analyst
12 37 (3.10%) DevOps Engineer
12 37 (3.10%) Test Leader
13 36 (3.02%) Senior Manager
14 31 (2.60%) Junior
15 30 (2.52%) Senior Developer
16 29 (2.43%) Product Owner
16 29 (2.43%) Team Leader
17 28 (2.35%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (6.46%) HTML
2 70 (5.87%) .NET
3 55 (4.61%) React
4 49 (4.11%) CSS
5 39 (3.27%) REST
6 38 (3.19%) SOAP
7 35 (2.94%) Node.js
8 32 (2.68%) RESTful
9 23 (1.93%) Kafka
10 22 (1.85%) AngularJS
10 22 (1.85%) XML
11 21 (1.76%) Spring
12 18 (1.51%) Elastic Stack
12 18 (1.51%) SAP Fiori
12 18 (1.51%) Spring Boot
13 17 (1.43%) .NET Core
14 16 (1.34%) Vue
15 14 (1.17%) FIX Protocol
15 14 (1.17%) JSON
15 14 (1.17%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 100 (8.39%) Product Ownership
2 63 (5.29%) Onboarding
3 50 (4.19%) Management Information System
4 26 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
5 25 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (2.01%) IoT
7 23 (1.93%) Cloud Native
7 23 (1.93%) Virtual Team
8 22 (1.85%) Replication
9 20 (1.68%) Mobile App
10 19 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.43%) Derivative
11 17 (1.43%) Equities
12 16 (1.34%) Algorithms
12 16 (1.34%) Fixed Income
12 16 (1.34%) Wiki
13 11 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
15 9 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
15 9 (0.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 143 (12.00%) Windows
2 136 (11.41%) Linux
3 31 (2.60%) VMS
4 20 (1.68%) Amazon Linux
5 18 (1.51%) Windows Server
6 17 (1.43%) Mac OS
6 17 (1.43%) Windows 10
7 14 (1.17%) Android
7 14 (1.17%) Unix
8 10 (0.84%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.84%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.34%) Solaris
12 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.25%) OpenWrt
14 2 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
15 1 (0.084%) Check Point GAiA
15 1 (0.084%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 545 (45.72%) Agile
2 291 (24.41%) Continuous Improvement
2 291 (24.41%) Problem-Solving
3 222 (18.62%) DevOps
4 166 (13.93%) Stakeholder Management
5 154 (12.92%) Project Management
6 152 (12.75%) Scrum
7 150 (12.58%) CI/CD
8 144 (12.08%) Roadmaps
9 141 (11.83%) Change Management
10 135 (11.33%) ITIL
11 133 (11.16%) Test Automation
11 133 (11.16%) Test Management
12 119 (9.98%) Computer Science
13 112 (9.40%) Mentoring
14 108 (9.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 107 (8.98%) User Experience
16 92 (7.72%) ERP
17 89 (7.47%) Visualisation
17 89 (7.47%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 218 (18.29%) SQL
2 167 (14.01%) Python
3 122 (10.23%) PowerShell
4 119 (9.98%) JavaScript
5 97 (8.14%) Java
6 80 (6.71%) C#
7 54 (4.53%) TypeScript
8 43 (3.61%) Bash
9 38 (3.19%) Groovy
10 22 (1.85%) C++
11 20 (1.68%) Go
12 16 (1.34%) Perl
13 15 (1.26%) Apex Code
14 12 (1.01%) PHP
15 10 (0.84%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.76%) C
17 7 (0.59%) Kotlin
18 6 (0.50%) PL/SQL
18 6 (0.50%) T-SQL
19 4 (0.34%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 349 (29.28%) Degree
2 130 (10.91%) Security Cleared
3 78 (6.54%) SC Cleared
4 65 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (4.28%) ISTQB
6 35 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 32 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 29 (2.43%) PMI Certification
9 27 (2.27%) AWS Certification
10 25 (2.10%) PMP
11 24 (2.01%) MCSE
12 23 (1.93%) Azure Certification
13 22 (1.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 19 (1.59%) DV Cleared
15 18 (1.51%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 15 (1.26%) Master's Degree
17 12 (1.01%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 11 (0.92%) CIMA
18 11 (0.92%) HND
18 11 (0.92%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (13.26%) QA
2 68 (5.70%) Accessibility
3 49 (4.11%) PMO
4 38 (3.19%) SLA
5 30 (2.52%) Def Stans
5 30 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (2.27%) Data Quality
7 18 (1.51%) GDPR
7 18 (1.51%) NIST
8 12 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 12 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 10 (0.84%) WCAG
10 9 (0.76%) MiFID
11 6 (0.50%) PERC
12 4 (0.34%) P3O
13 3 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.25%) SEPA
14 2 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (0.17%) MISRA
14 2 (0.17%) UCITS
System Software
1 109 (9.14%) Active Directory
2 75 (6.29%) Docker
3 22 (1.85%) DFS Replication
4 20 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (1.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.92%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.76%) vSphere
7 8 (0.67%) Firmware
8 7 (0.59%) Dovecot
8 7 (0.59%) Postfix
8 7 (0.59%) Squid
9 3 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.084%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.084%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 73 (6.12%) HP ALM
2 72 (6.04%) Terraform
3 56 (4.70%) Grafana
4 51 (4.28%) Kubernetes
4 51 (4.28%) Prometheus
5 48 (4.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 41 (3.44%) Ansible
7 20 (1.68%) SCCM
8 15 (1.26%) Puppet
9 13 (1.09%) Control-M
10 12 (1.01%) ZABBIX
11 11 (0.92%) Nessus
12 7 (0.59%) Kibana
12 7 (0.59%) Proxmox
13 6 (0.50%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.42%) Salt
15 4 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
15 4 (0.34%) HP Quality Center
15 4 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 220 (18.46%) Microsoft
2 124 (10.40%) SAP
3 115 (9.65%) ServiceNow
4 89 (7.47%) Atlassian
5 75 (6.29%) HP
6 64 (5.37%) Salesforce
7 44 (3.69%) Google
8 43 (3.61%) Oracle
9 28 (2.35%) IBM
10 23 (1.93%) VMware
11 22 (1.85%) Adobe
12 15 (1.26%) Tenable
13 13 (1.09%) Cisco
14 12 (1.01%) Juniper
15 11 (0.92%) Dynatrace
16 10 (0.84%) Bloomberg
17 9 (0.76%) Qualtrics
17 9 (0.76%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
18 8 (0.67%) Okta
18 8 (0.67%) Splunk