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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 100 118
Rank change year-on-year -68 +18 -27
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,073 1,355 1,947
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.23% 3.13% 2.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 27.90% 36.79% 25.83%
Number of salaries quoted 802 841 1,384
10th Percentile £32,575 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,813 £44,000 £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 £75,188 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,125 £96,250 £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 3,846 3,683 7,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.39% 8.50% 8.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,613 2,398 5,474
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +12.07% -10.77%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £61,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.15% +13.04% -11.54%

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 16 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 16 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 -70 317 £70,750 +1.07% 140
South East +24 223 £57,500 +15.00% 116
North of England -58 223 £55,000 +2.33% 52
North West -47 127 £60,000 +11.63% 31
Midlands -91 106 £43,250 -21.36% 51
South West -30 101 £47,500 +4.40% 48
East of England -11 79 £70,000 +21.74% 40
Yorkshire -44 72 £46,000 -26.40% 18
West Midlands -97 54 £46,250 -30.19% 32
East Midlands -61 52 £27,125 -24.65% 19
North East -45 24 £63,750 +97.30% 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
1 356 (33.18%) Confluence
2 90 (8.39%) SharePoint
3 51 (4.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.12%) CMS
5 9 (0.84%) 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 80 (7.46%) Microsoft Project
2 46 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 43 (4.01%) Microsoft Office
4 22 (2.05%) MS Visio
4 22 (2.05%) Trello
5 12 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.75%) CATIA
7 3 (0.28%) Sketch
7 3 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.19%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.19%) InVision
9 1 (0.093%) Moqups
9 1 (0.093%) Notion
9 1 (0.093%) Simulink
9 1 (0.093%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 34 (3.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.93%) Fidessa
3 10 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.65%) Shopify
5 5 (0.47%) Magento
5 5 (0.47%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.47%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.37%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.37%) Sage 200
6 4 (0.37%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.19%) Workfront
8 1 (0.093%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.093%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.093%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.093%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.093%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.093%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 316 (29.45%) Azure
2 150 (13.98%) Azure DevOps
3 148 (13.79%) AWS
4 124 (11.56%) Microsoft 365
5 97 (9.04%) SaaS
6 72 (6.71%) GitHub
7 56 (5.22%) Power Platform
8 55 (5.13%) Entra ID
9 45 (4.19%) GCP
10 28 (2.61%) Serverless
11 27 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
11 27 (2.52%) Mimecast
12 23 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (2.14%) Figma
13 22 (2.05%) Miro
14 21 (1.96%) Amazon S3
15 18 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (1.58%) PaaS
16 17 (1.58%) Smartsheet
17 16 (1.49%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 39 (3.63%) VPN
2 31 (2.89%) Firewall
3 28 (2.61%) DNS
3 28 (2.61%) TCP/IP
4 21 (1.96%) Multicast
4 21 (1.96%) Network Security
5 20 (1.86%) DHCP
6 19 (1.77%) WAN
7 17 (1.58%) LAN
8 12 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.75%) IPv4
9 8 (0.75%) Kerberos
9 8 (0.75%) Software-Defined Networking
10 7 (0.65%) Cisco ISE
11 5 (0.47%) Internet
11 5 (0.47%) SSL
11 5 (0.47%) VoIP
11 5 (0.47%) Wireless
12 4 (0.37%) NAS
13 3 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (5.68%) SQL Server
2 46 (4.29%) Power BI
3 27 (2.52%) MySQL
4 24 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (1.96%) MongoDB
7 17 (1.58%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.49%) NoSQL
9 15 (1.40%) Tableau
10 13 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 10 (0.93%) Big Data
12 8 (0.75%) DynamoDB
13 7 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
14 5 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 4 (0.37%) Data Vault
15 4 (0.37%) Oracle Database
15 4 (0.37%) Power Query
15 4 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 118 (11.00%) Git
2 53 (4.94%) GitLab
3 39 (3.63%) Jenkins
4 32 (2.98%) Bitbucket
5 29 (2.70%) Selenium
6 25 (2.33%) Postman
7 23 (2.14%) Zephyr
8 16 (1.49%) Cucumber
9 13 (1.21%) Rational DOORS
10 12 (1.12%) Cypress.io
10 12 (1.12%) SonarQube
11 9 (0.84%) JMeter
12 8 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 8 (0.75%) REST Assured
12 8 (0.75%) SoapUI
12 8 (0.75%) TestRail
12 8 (0.75%) Visual Studio
13 7 (0.65%) Artifactory
13 7 (0.65%) JUnit
13 7 (0.65%) TeamCity
General
1 375 (34.95%) Social Skills
2 266 (24.79%) Finance
3 164 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (6.52%) Marketing
5 55 (5.13%) Banking
6 52 (4.85%) Retail
7 51 (4.75%) Law
8 46 (4.29%) Organisational Skills
8 46 (4.29%) Public Sector
9 45 (4.19%) Legal
10 37 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 34 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
11 34 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
12 32 (2.98%) Games
13 26 (2.42%) Automotive
14 24 (2.24%) Manufacturing
15 23 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
16 20 (1.86%) Aerospace
17 17 (1.58%) Advertising
18 12 (1.12%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 194 (18.08%) Analyst
2 163 (15.19%) Senior
3 105 (9.79%) Lead
4 91 (8.48%) Business Analyst
5 87 (8.11%) Developer
6 85 (7.92%) Project Manager
7 76 (7.08%) IT Support
8 70 (6.52%) Support Engineer
9 53 (4.94%) Support Analyst
10 49 (4.57%) Software Engineer
11 46 (4.29%) IT Engineer
12 42 (3.91%) Systems Engineer
13 40 (3.73%) IT Support Engineer
14 38 (3.54%) IT Manager
15 34 (3.17%) Delivery Manager
16 33 (3.08%) Scrum Master
17 32 (2.98%) Applications Support
17 32 (2.98%) Product Manager
18 31 (2.89%) Senior Analyst
18 31 (2.89%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (5.22%) React
2 53 (4.94%) REST
3 44 (4.10%) HTML
4 43 (4.01%) .NET
4 43 (4.01%) CSS
5 39 (3.63%) JSON
6 37 (3.45%) Middleware
7 32 (2.98%) Node.js
8 28 (2.61%) SOAP
9 27 (2.52%) FIX Protocol
10 26 (2.42%) RESTful
11 25 (2.33%) XML
12 22 (2.05%) AngularJS
13 21 (1.96%) EDI
13 21 (1.96%) pytest
14 20 (1.86%) Playwright
15 19 (1.77%) ASP.NET
15 19 (1.77%) Spring
16 16 (1.49%) Boost C++ Libraries
17 15 (1.40%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 125 (11.65%) Product Ownership
2 101 (9.41%) Onboarding
3 50 (4.66%) Enterprise Software
4 42 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
5 41 (3.82%) Management Information System
6 35 (3.26%) Driving Licence
7 32 (2.98%) Equities
8 28 (2.61%) Data Centre
9 26 (2.42%) Cloud Native
10 24 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
11 21 (1.96%) Fixed Income
12 20 (1.86%) Algorithms
12 20 (1.86%) Derivative
13 17 (1.58%) Distributed Systems
13 17 (1.58%) PMI
14 16 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
15 15 (1.40%) Security Posture
16 14 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
17 12 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
17 12 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 140 (13.05%) Windows
2 133 (12.40%) Linux
3 53 (4.94%) Windows Server
4 17 (1.58%) Mac OS
5 14 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (1.21%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.93%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.75%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
9 7 (0.65%) CentOS
9 7 (0.65%) Unix
10 5 (0.47%) Debian
11 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.28%) Android
13 2 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
13 2 (0.19%) ThreadX
13 2 (0.19%) VMS
14 1 (0.093%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 565 (52.66%) Agile
2 277 (25.82%) Continuous Improvement
3 271 (25.26%) DevOps
4 245 (22.83%) Stakeholder Management
5 229 (21.34%) Problem-Solving
6 217 (20.22%) Scrum
7 176 (16.40%) CI/CD
8 144 (13.42%) Service Management
9 142 (13.23%) Project Management
10 140 (13.05%) ITIL
11 136 (12.67%) ITSM
12 126 (11.74%) Roadmaps
13 121 (11.28%) CRM
14 119 (11.09%) SDLC
15 115 (10.72%) Decision-Making
16 112 (10.44%) Software Engineering
17 111 (10.34%) User Stories
18 110 (10.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 108 (10.07%) Workflow
20 107 (9.97%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 193 (17.99%) SQL
2 154 (14.35%) Python
3 88 (8.20%) Java
4 80 (7.46%) PowerShell
5 78 (7.27%) JavaScript
6 50 (4.66%) C#
7 36 (3.36%) Bash
8 35 (3.26%) TypeScript
9 29 (2.70%) C++
10 28 (2.61%) R
11 20 (1.86%) PHP
12 13 (1.21%) C
13 10 (0.93%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.75%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.65%) Groovy
16 6 (0.56%) Bicep
16 6 (0.56%) Perl
16 6 (0.56%) VB.NET
17 5 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 5 (0.47%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 178 (16.59%) Degree
2 105 (9.79%) Security Cleared
3 65 (6.06%) SC Cleared
4 53 (4.94%) PMI Certification
5 47 (4.38%) PMP
6 35 (3.26%) ISTQB
7 33 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 28 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
9 25 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
11 22 (2.05%) AWS Certification
12 21 (1.96%) DV Cleared
13 19 (1.77%) CCNA
14 17 (1.58%) Master's Degree
15 9 (0.84%) A+ Certification
15 9 (0.84%) CCNP
15 9 (0.84%) CISSP
15 9 (0.84%) RHCE
15 9 (0.84%) RHCSA
16 8 (0.75%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 143 (13.33%) QA
2 46 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (3.63%) Accessibility
3 39 (3.63%) PMO
4 37 (3.45%) SLA
5 26 (2.42%) GDPR
6 23 (2.14%) Data Quality
7 14 (1.30%) WCAG
8 13 (1.21%) TickIT
9 9 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (0.84%) GRC
9 9 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 8 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 8 (0.75%) NIST
10 8 (0.75%) Software Quality Assurance
11 6 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.56%) MiFID
11 6 (0.56%) NCSC
11 6 (0.56%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 109 (10.16%) Active Directory
2 64 (5.96%) Docker
3 32 (2.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.30%) Hyper-V
5 12 (1.12%) vSphere
6 9 (0.84%) Firmware
7 8 (0.75%) Squid
7 8 (0.75%) 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%) Terminal Server
12 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 51 (4.75%) Terraform
2 49 (4.57%) Kubernetes
3 44 (4.10%) Ansible
4 43 (4.01%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (1.30%) Packer
6 12 (1.12%) ZABBIX
7 11 (1.03%) Grafana
7 11 (1.03%) SCCM
8 10 (0.93%) Kibana
9 8 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
10 7 (0.65%) Nagios
11 6 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.47%) Control-M
12 5 (0.47%) Podman
12 5 (0.47%) SCOM
13 4 (0.37%) Functional Safety
13 4 (0.37%) Graylog
13 4 (0.37%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
13 4 (0.37%) VxRail
Vendors
1 238 (22.18%) Microsoft
2 147 (13.70%) ServiceNow
3 77 (7.18%) Salesforce
4 68 (6.34%) Oracle
5 57 (5.31%) SAP
6 43 (4.01%) Splunk
7 36 (3.36%) VMware
8 35 (3.26%) IBM
9 33 (3.08%) BMC
9 33 (3.08%) Cisco
9 33 (3.08%) CrowdStrike
10 31 (2.89%) HubSpot
11 30 (2.80%) Google
12 28 (2.61%) Atlassian
13 16 (1.49%) Red Hat
14 14 (1.30%) Adobe
15 13 (1.21%) Meraki
15 13 (1.21%) Zscaler
16 12 (1.12%) Freshdesk
17 9 (0.84%) Tenable