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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 108 102
Rank change year-on-year -14 -6 -27
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,049 1,246 1,830
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.77% 2.79% 2.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 31.46% 26.06% 25.91%
Number of salaries quoted 662 715 1,474
10th Percentile £30,250 £37,900 £31,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,564 £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 £77,000 £71,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £93,750 £93,778 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,498 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.50% - -

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 3,334 4,781 7,064
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.64% 10.69% 10.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,267 2,744 5,834
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,250 £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 £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £105,000 £96,539
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 14 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 14 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 +4 358 £75,000 +13.21% 126
South East +22 300 £45,500 -24.17% 143
North of England -48 144 £47,500 -1.05% 73
Midlands -30 102 £44,500 -19.09% 97
South West -58 71 £42,500 -12.38% 55
Yorkshire -37 63 £43,250 -3.89% 33
North West -32 62 £50,000 -0.11% 37
West Midlands -30 53 £40,000 -30.43% 71
East Midlands -11 49 £45,000 - 26
East of England -24 45 £57,500 +15.00% 33
North East -28 19 £51,500 - 4
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 (31.65%) Confluence
2 49 (4.67%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.33%) CMS
3 14 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.95%) Apache
5 9 (0.86%) IIS
6 6 (0.57%) 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 (0.095%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.095%) FileNet
10 1 (0.095%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.095%) SAS
10 1 (0.095%) Tuxedo
10 1 (0.095%) WebSphere
Applications
1 63 (6.01%) Microsoft Project
2 62 (5.91%) Microsoft Office
3 52 (4.96%) Microsoft Excel
4 28 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 27 (2.57%) MS Visio
6 16 (1.53%) Trello
7 14 (1.33%) CATIA
8 4 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.29%) Simulink
10 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.19%) Windchill
11 1 (0.095%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.095%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.095%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 88 (8.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.76%) Dynamics NAV
3 8 (0.76%) Magento
3 8 (0.76%) Shopify
4 7 (0.67%) Fidessa
4 7 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.29%) SAP CX
5 3 (0.29%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.19%) Endur
6 2 (0.19%) EuroRunner
6 2 (0.19%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 2 (0.19%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.19%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.19%) SAP MII
6 2 (0.19%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.095%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.095%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 184 (17.54%) Azure
2 154 (14.68%) Azure DevOps
3 77 (7.34%) Microsoft 365
4 70 (6.67%) AWS
5 65 (6.20%) SaaS
6 46 (4.39%) Power Platform
7 39 (3.72%) GitHub
8 33 (3.15%) Figma
9 32 (3.05%) Entra ID
10 27 (2.57%) Slack
11 26 (2.48%) GCP
12 21 (2.00%) PaaS
13 20 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
13 20 (1.91%) Serverless
14 19 (1.81%) Google Workspace
15 13 (1.24%) Miro
16 12 (1.14%) Adobe Analytics
16 12 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (1.14%) Mimecast
16 12 (1.14%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.48%) Firewall
2 23 (2.19%) VPN
3 21 (2.00%) DNS
4 16 (1.53%) Multicast
4 16 (1.53%) TCP/IP
5 14 (1.33%) DHCP
6 12 (1.14%) VLAN
7 10 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (0.67%) Cisco ISE
8 7 (0.67%) HTTP
8 7 (0.67%) LAN
8 7 (0.67%) WAN
9 5 (0.48%) Broadband
10 4 (0.38%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (0.38%) Network Security
11 3 (0.29%) GPON
11 3 (0.29%) IPv4
11 3 (0.29%) IPv6
11 3 (0.29%) PPP
11 3 (0.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (5.91%) SQL Server
2 32 (3.05%) Power BI
3 29 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (2.10%) MySQL
5 19 (1.81%) Relational Database
6 13 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (1.24%) MongoDB
6 13 (1.24%) NoSQL
7 11 (1.05%) DB2
7 11 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (0.86%) BusinessObjects
9 8 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
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%) Big Data
12 4 (0.38%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 99 (9.44%) Git
2 69 (6.58%) eCATT
3 64 (6.10%) Selenium
4 51 (4.86%) Jenkins
5 47 (4.48%) Postman
6 41 (3.91%) Bitbucket
7 38 (3.62%) NeoLoad
8 33 (3.15%) SoapUI
9 32 (3.05%) GitLab
10 31 (2.96%) Team Foundation Server
11 27 (2.57%) Rational DOORS
11 27 (2.57%) WebDriver
12 22 (2.10%) Cypress.io
13 19 (1.81%) Cucumber
14 15 (1.43%) JUnit
14 15 (1.43%) TeamCity
14 15 (1.43%) Visual Studio
15 14 (1.33%) TestRail
16 13 (1.24%) Subversion
17 11 (1.05%) JMeter
General
1 449 (42.80%) Social Skills
2 300 (28.60%) Finance
3 149 (14.20%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (11.53%) Marketing
5 103 (9.82%) Manufacturing
6 91 (8.67%) Presentation Skills
7 69 (6.58%) Influencing Skills
8 67 (6.39%) Banking
9 49 (4.67%) Law
10 40 (3.81%) Organisational Skills
11 37 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 35 (3.34%) Legal
13 27 (2.57%) Retail
14 26 (2.48%) Public Sector
15 21 (2.00%) Advertising
16 19 (1.81%) French Language
17 18 (1.72%) Swedish Language
18 14 (1.33%) Back Office
18 14 (1.33%) Electronics
18 14 (1.33%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 238 (22.69%) Analyst
2 175 (16.68%) Senior
3 158 (15.06%) Lead
4 96 (9.15%) Developer
5 78 (7.44%) Support Analyst
6 73 (6.96%) Business Analyst
7 56 (5.34%) Support Engineer
8 53 (5.05%) IT Support
9 45 (4.29%) Test Analyst
10 43 (4.10%) Project Manager
10 43 (4.10%) Test Leader
11 42 (4.00%) Team Leader
12 36 (3.43%) Applications Support
13 32 (3.05%) Applications Support Analyst
14 31 (2.96%) Software Engineer
15 30 (2.86%) IT Engineer
16 29 (2.76%) Systems Engineer
17 28 (2.67%) Senior Manager
18 27 (2.57%) IT Support Engineer
19 26 (2.48%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (7.05%) HTML
2 53 (5.05%) .NET
3 45 (4.29%) CSS
4 44 (4.19%) SOAP
5 41 (3.91%) React
6 37 (3.53%) REST
7 32 (3.05%) RESTful
8 27 (2.57%) Node.js
9 23 (2.19%) Middleware
10 21 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
10 21 (2.00%) Spring
11 17 (1.62%) FIX Protocol
11 17 (1.62%) Kafka
12 15 (1.43%) Spring Boot
13 14 (1.33%) XML
14 13 (1.24%) AngularJS
14 13 (1.24%) pytest
15 12 (1.14%) Boost C++ Libraries
15 12 (1.14%) Next.js
16 11 (1.05%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 94 (8.96%) Product Ownership
2 84 (8.01%) Onboarding
3 39 (3.72%) Management Information System
4 28 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (2.10%) Virtual Team
6 20 (1.91%) Equities
7 18 (1.72%) Data Centre
7 18 (1.72%) Fixed Income
8 17 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (1.43%) Cloud Native
9 15 (1.43%) Mobile App
10 14 (1.33%) Derivative
11 13 (1.24%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.05%) NHS
12 11 (1.05%) PMI
13 8 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (0.76%) CMDB
13 8 (0.76%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 101 (9.63%) Windows
2 88 (8.39%) Linux
3 25 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.24%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.14%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.95%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.67%) 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
12 2 (0.19%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.095%) CentOS
13 1 (0.095%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.095%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 477 (45.47%) Agile
2 273 (26.02%) Continuous Improvement
3 233 (22.21%) Problem-Solving
4 171 (16.30%) Scrum
5 166 (15.82%) DevOps
6 150 (14.30%) ITIL
7 143 (13.63%) ITSM
8 139 (13.25%) Roadmaps
8 139 (13.25%) Test Management
9 133 (12.68%) CI/CD
10 131 (12.49%) Stakeholder Management
11 127 (12.11%) User Experience
12 121 (11.53%) Service Management
13 115 (10.96%) Test Automation
14 111 (10.58%) ERP
15 107 (10.20%) Computer Science
16 96 (9.15%) Project Management
17 95 (9.06%) Change Management
18 89 (8.48%) SDLC
18 89 (8.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 192 (18.30%) SQL
2 107 (10.20%) Python
3 92 (8.77%) JavaScript
4 88 (8.39%) Java
5 70 (6.67%) PowerShell
6 61 (5.82%) C#
7 35 (3.34%) TypeScript
8 33 (3.15%) Bash
9 21 (2.00%) C++
10 17 (1.62%) Go
11 13 (1.24%) T-SQL
12 10 (0.95%) PHP
13 8 (0.76%) C
14 7 (0.67%) R
15 6 (0.57%) Apex Code
16 4 (0.38%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.38%) Shell Script
17 3 (0.29%) Perl
17 3 (0.29%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.29%) RPG
Qualifications
1 288 (27.45%) Degree
2 93 (8.87%) Security Cleared
3 54 (5.15%) ISTQB
4 53 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 52 (4.96%) SC Cleared
6 50 (4.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 43 (4.10%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (2.96%) MCSE
8 31 (2.96%) PMI Certification
9 28 (2.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 26 (2.48%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 22 (2.10%) PMP
12 20 (1.91%) DV Cleared
13 13 (1.24%) AWS Certification
13 13 (1.24%) HND
14 11 (1.05%) A+ Certification
14 11 (1.05%) Master's Degree
15 10 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 10 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 9 (0.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (12.96%) QA
2 54 (5.15%) Accessibility
3 38 (3.62%) SLA
4 35 (3.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (3.15%) PMO
6 20 (1.91%) GDPR
7 18 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 17 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 15 (1.43%) NIST
10 9 (0.86%) Data Quality
11 8 (0.76%) WCAG
12 6 (0.57%) Basel II
13 5 (0.48%) PERC
14 4 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.38%) Def Stans
15 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.29%) MiFID
15 3 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.29%) SEPA
15 3 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 97 (9.25%) Active Directory
2 44 (4.19%) Docker
3 19 (1.81%) 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 (0.095%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.095%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 72 (6.86%) HP ALM
2 45 (4.29%) Kubernetes
3 40 (3.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (2.67%) Terraform
5 20 (1.91%) Grafana
5 20 (1.91%) SCCM
6 19 (1.81%) Prometheus
7 17 (1.62%) Ansible
8 11 (1.05%) ZABBIX
9 9 (0.86%) Control-M
10 8 (0.76%) Puppet
11 6 (0.57%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.48%) Kibana
12 5 (0.48%) Nagios
12 5 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.38%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
15 2 (0.19%) HP Quality Center
15 2 (0.19%) Podman
15 2 (0.19%) SCOM
Vendors
1 207 (19.73%) Microsoft
2 121 (11.53%) SAP
3 97 (9.25%) ServiceNow
4 80 (7.63%) Atlassian
5 72 (6.86%) HP
6 66 (6.29%) Salesforce
7 40 (3.81%) Google
8 37 (3.53%) Oracle
9 34 (3.24%) IBM
10 20 (1.91%) VMware
11 19 (1.81%) Adobe
11 19 (1.81%) HubSpot
12 17 (1.62%) Cisco
13 16 (1.53%) BMC
14 15 (1.43%) Tenable
15 13 (1.24%) Siemens
15 13 (1.24%) Zscaler
16 10 (0.95%) Citrix
16 10 (0.95%) Splunk
17 9 (0.86%) Bloomberg