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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 100 124
Rank change year-on-year -63 +24 -32
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,079 1,357 1,732
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.21% 3.13% 2.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 27.90% 37.08% 25.14%
Number of salaries quoted 808 852 1,205
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £33,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,938 £42,500
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 £70,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £97,375 £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 3,868 3,660 6,889
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.35% 8.45% 8.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,639 2,386 4,938
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
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 £81,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +12.07% -10.77%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 -66 322 £70,000 -5.08% 240
South East +14 223 £57,500 +15.00% 154
North of England -61 222 £55,000 +4.76% 94
North West -51 126 £60,000 +9.09% 46
South West -36 105 £47,500 +5.56% 45
Midlands -96 103 £42,500 -22.73% 58
East of England -7 81 £70,000 +21.74% 40
Yorkshire -46 72 £46,000 -20.00% 37
East Midlands -50 52 £26,750 -25.69% 22
West Midlands -85 51 £46,250 -28.85% 36
North East -42 24 £63,750 +97.30% 12
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
1 359 (33.27%) Confluence
2 92 (8.53%) SharePoint
3 53 (4.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.11%) CMS
5 8 (0.74%) IIS
6 7 (0.65%) SAS
7 6 (0.56%) Apache
7 6 (0.56%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.37%) JBoss
8 4 (0.37%) WordPress
9 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.19%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.19%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.19%) Documentum
10 2 (0.19%) Gentran
10 2 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.093%) Drupal
11 1 (0.093%) nginx
11 1 (0.093%) Tomcat
Applications
1 82 (7.60%) Microsoft Project
2 51 (4.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 47 (4.36%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (2.04%) Trello
5 21 (1.95%) MS Visio
6 14 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.74%) CATIA
8 3 (0.28%) Sketch
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.19%) InVision
9 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.093%) Moqups
10 1 (0.093%) Notion
10 1 (0.093%) Simulink
10 1 (0.093%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 33 (3.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (1.02%) Fidessa
4 9 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.56%) SAP IBP
5 6 (0.56%) Shopify
6 5 (0.46%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.37%) Magento
7 4 (0.37%) Sage 200
7 4 (0.37%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.19%) Workfront
10 1 (0.093%) Aladdin
10 1 (0.093%) FLEXCUBE
10 1 (0.093%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.093%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.093%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.093%) Oracle SCM
10 1 (0.093%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 323 (29.94%) Azure
2 150 (13.90%) AWS
2 150 (13.90%) Azure DevOps
3 128 (11.86%) Microsoft 365
4 105 (9.73%) SaaS
5 72 (6.67%) GitHub
6 58 (5.38%) Entra ID
7 57 (5.28%) Power Platform
8 45 (4.17%) GCP
9 29 (2.69%) Mimecast
10 28 (2.59%) Serverless
11 26 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
11 26 (2.41%) Miro
12 23 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (2.13%) Figma
13 21 (1.95%) Amazon S3
14 18 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
14 18 (1.67%) PaaS
15 16 (1.48%) Smartsheet
16 14 (1.30%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 39 (3.61%) VPN
2 31 (2.87%) Firewall
3 30 (2.78%) DNS
3 30 (2.78%) TCP/IP
4 22 (2.04%) Multicast
5 21 (1.95%) DHCP
5 21 (1.95%) Network Security
6 20 (1.85%) WAN
7 18 (1.67%) LAN
8 13 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.74%) IPv4
9 8 (0.74%) Kerberos
9 8 (0.74%) Software-Defined Networking
10 6 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
11 5 (0.46%) Internet
11 5 (0.46%) SSL
11 5 (0.46%) VoIP
11 5 (0.46%) Wireless
12 4 (0.37%) NAS
12 4 (0.37%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (5.65%) SQL Server
2 48 (4.45%) Power BI
3 27 (2.50%) MySQL
4 24 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (1.95%) MongoDB
6 18 (1.67%) Relational Database
7 16 (1.48%) NoSQL
7 16 (1.48%) Tableau
8 13 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (0.93%) Big Data
10 8 (0.74%) DynamoDB
11 7 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
12 5 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.37%) Data Vault
13 4 (0.37%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.37%) Power Query
13 4 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 118 (10.94%) Git
2 53 (4.91%) GitLab
3 40 (3.71%) Jenkins
4 33 (3.06%) Bitbucket
5 29 (2.69%) Selenium
6 25 (2.32%) Postman
7 23 (2.13%) Zephyr
8 16 (1.48%) Cucumber
9 13 (1.20%) Rational DOORS
10 12 (1.11%) Cypress.io
10 12 (1.11%) SonarQube
11 9 (0.83%) JMeter
12 8 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (0.74%) REST Assured
12 8 (0.74%) SoapUI
12 8 (0.74%) TestRail
12 8 (0.74%) Visual Studio
13 7 (0.65%) Artifactory
13 7 (0.65%) JUnit
13 7 (0.65%) TeamCity
General
1 382 (35.40%) Social Skills
2 271 (25.12%) Finance
3 165 (15.29%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (6.58%) Marketing
5 53 (4.91%) Banking
6 51 (4.73%) Law
7 50 (4.63%) Retail
8 49 (4.54%) Organisational Skills
9 48 (4.45%) Legal
10 45 (4.17%) Public Sector
11 35 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
12 34 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 33 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
14 32 (2.97%) Games
15 27 (2.50%) Automotive
16 24 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
17 20 (1.85%) Manufacturing
18 19 (1.76%) Aerospace
19 17 (1.58%) Advertising
20 12 (1.11%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 194 (17.98%) Analyst
2 164 (15.20%) Senior
3 107 (9.92%) Lead
4 90 (8.34%) Business Analyst
5 87 (8.06%) Developer
6 85 (7.88%) Project Manager
7 77 (7.14%) IT Support
8 70 (6.49%) Support Engineer
9 50 (4.63%) Software Engineer
9 50 (4.63%) Support Analyst
10 46 (4.26%) IT Engineer
11 42 (3.89%) Systems Engineer
12 40 (3.71%) IT Support Engineer
13 38 (3.52%) IT Manager
14 34 (3.15%) Delivery Manager
15 33 (3.06%) Product Manager
15 33 (3.06%) Senior Analyst
16 32 (2.97%) Scrum Master
17 31 (2.87%) Senior Developer
18 30 (2.78%) Applications Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (5.28%) React
2 52 (4.82%) REST
3 44 (4.08%) HTML
4 43 (3.99%) CSS
5 42 (3.89%) .NET
6 39 (3.61%) JSON
7 34 (3.15%) Middleware
8 32 (2.97%) Node.js
9 28 (2.59%) FIX Protocol
10 26 (2.41%) RESTful
10 26 (2.41%) SOAP
11 25 (2.32%) XML
12 24 (2.22%) AngularJS
13 21 (1.95%) EDI
13 21 (1.95%) pytest
14 20 (1.85%) Playwright
15 18 (1.67%) ASP.NET
15 18 (1.67%) Spring
16 16 (1.48%) Boost C++ Libraries
17 15 (1.39%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 122 (11.31%) Product Ownership
2 104 (9.64%) Onboarding
3 51 (4.73%) Enterprise Software
4 43 (3.99%) Management Information System
4 43 (3.99%) Self-Motivation
5 35 (3.24%) Driving Licence
6 33 (3.06%) Equities
7 29 (2.69%) Data Centre
8 26 (2.41%) Cloud Native
9 23 (2.13%) Fixed Income
10 22 (2.04%) Derivative
11 21 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
12 20 (1.85%) Algorithms
13 19 (1.76%) PMI
14 17 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
14 17 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
15 16 (1.48%) Security Posture
16 14 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
16 14 (1.30%) Virtual Team
17 12 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 142 (13.16%) Windows
2 137 (12.70%) Linux
3 50 (4.63%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.76%) Mac OS
5 14 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (1.20%) Ubuntu
7 12 (1.11%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.65%) CentOS
8 7 (0.65%) Unix
8 7 (0.65%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (0.46%) Android
9 5 (0.46%) Debian
10 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.19%) ThreadX
11 2 (0.19%) VMS
12 1 (0.093%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 562 (52.09%) Agile
2 274 (25.39%) Continuous Improvement
3 272 (25.21%) DevOps
4 251 (23.26%) Stakeholder Management
5 235 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
6 218 (20.20%) Scrum
7 177 (16.40%) CI/CD
8 150 (13.90%) Project Management
9 146 (13.53%) Service Management
10 142 (13.16%) ITIL
11 137 (12.70%) ITSM
12 124 (11.49%) Roadmaps
13 120 (11.12%) SDLC
14 119 (11.03%) CRM
15 118 (10.94%) Decision-Making
16 115 (10.66%) Workflow
17 114 (10.57%) Software Engineering
18 111 (10.29%) User Stories
19 110 (10.19%) Project Delivery
20 109 (10.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 196 (18.16%) SQL
2 156 (14.46%) Python
3 89 (8.25%) Java
4 81 (7.51%) JavaScript
4 81 (7.51%) PowerShell
5 53 (4.91%) C#
6 37 (3.43%) Bash
7 36 (3.34%) TypeScript
8 30 (2.78%) C++
8 30 (2.78%) R
9 20 (1.85%) PHP
10 13 (1.20%) C
11 9 (0.83%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.74%) PL/SQL
13 7 (0.65%) Groovy
14 6 (0.56%) Bicep
14 6 (0.56%) Perl
14 6 (0.56%) VB.NET
15 5 (0.46%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.46%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 176 (16.31%) Degree
2 100 (9.27%) Security Cleared
3 62 (5.75%) SC Cleared
4 56 (5.19%) PMI Certification
5 48 (4.45%) PMP
6 34 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (3.15%) ISTQB
7 29 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
8 25 (2.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (2.04%) AWS Certification
9 22 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 20 (1.85%) CCNA
11 19 (1.76%) DV Cleared
12 17 (1.58%) Master's Degree
13 9 (0.83%) CCNP
13 9 (0.83%) CISSP
13 9 (0.83%) RHCE
13 9 (0.83%) RHCSA
14 8 (0.74%) OSCP
15 7 (0.65%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (13.44%) QA
2 50 (4.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (4.17%) PMO
4 38 (3.52%) Accessibility
4 38 (3.52%) SLA
5 26 (2.41%) GDPR
6 24 (2.22%) Data Quality
7 13 (1.20%) TickIT
7 13 (1.20%) WCAG
8 9 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 8 (0.74%) GRC
9 8 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 8 (0.74%) NIST
9 8 (0.74%) Software Quality Assurance
10 6 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.56%) MiFID
10 6 (0.56%) NCSC
10 6 (0.56%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 110 (10.19%) Active Directory
2 65 (6.02%) Docker
3 33 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.39%) Hyper-V
5 12 (1.11%) vSphere
6 9 (0.83%) Firmware
7 8 (0.74%) Squid
7 8 (0.74%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.65%) Embedded Firmware
9 6 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.37%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 4 (0.37%) KVM
11 3 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.093%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 51 (4.73%) Terraform
2 50 (4.63%) Kubernetes
3 45 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 44 (4.08%) Ansible
5 14 (1.30%) Packer
6 12 (1.11%) ZABBIX
7 11 (1.02%) Grafana
8 10 (0.93%) Kibana
8 10 (0.93%) SCCM
9 8 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
10 7 (0.65%) Nagios
11 6 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.46%) Control-M
12 5 (0.46%) Podman
12 5 (0.46%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.37%) Functional Safety
13 4 (0.37%) Graylog
13 4 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
13 4 (0.37%) SCOM
13 4 (0.37%) VxRail
Vendors
1 247 (22.89%) Microsoft
2 142 (13.16%) ServiceNow
3 79 (7.32%) Salesforce
4 69 (6.39%) Oracle
5 55 (5.10%) SAP
6 43 (3.99%) Splunk
7 37 (3.43%) VMware
8 35 (3.24%) CrowdStrike
8 35 (3.24%) IBM
9 34 (3.15%) BMC
10 33 (3.06%) Cisco
11 32 (2.97%) HubSpot
12 29 (2.69%) Atlassian
13 28 (2.59%) Google
14 16 (1.48%) Red Hat
15 14 (1.30%) Adobe
15 14 (1.30%) Meraki
16 13 (1.20%) Freshdesk
16 13 (1.20%) Zscaler
17 9 (0.83%) Tenable