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

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 101 126
Rank change year-on-year -69 +25 -31
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,208 1,292 1,388
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.18% 3.01% 2.02%
As % of the Development Applications category 29.02% 40.09% 23.61%
Number of salaries quoted 798 763 817
10th Percentile £35,000 £33,050 £36,550
25th Percentile £41,563 £42,000 £45,000
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 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +6.19% -5.83%

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 4,163 3,223 5,879
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.07% 7.51% 8.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,634 2,003 3,519
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £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 21 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 21 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 -61 390 £70,000 -9.68% 1,033
South East -20 243 £57,500 +25.00% 292
North of England -48 239 £55,000 +10.00% 272
South West -22 137 £55,000 +23.60% 158
North West -47 133 £60,000 +20.00% 147
Midlands -103 111 £44,772 -22.47% 129
Yorkshire -18 78 £42,750 -10.00% 88
West Midlands -83 75 £45,000 -30.77% 87
East of England -43 72 £61,250 +6.52% 147
East Midlands -66 36 £39,194 -15.71% 42
North East -40 28 £68,750 +23.32% 39
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
1 422 (34.93%) Confluence
2 96 (7.95%) SharePoint
3 55 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (1.24%) CMS
5 7 (0.58%) IIS
5 7 (0.58%) SAS
6 6 (0.50%) JBoss
6 6 (0.50%) Umbraco
7 4 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.25%) Apache
8 3 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.25%) Drupal
8 3 (0.25%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.17%) Gentran
9 2 (0.17%) nginx
9 2 (0.17%) WordPress
10 1 (0.083%) MTS
10 1 (0.083%) WebSphere
Applications
1 110 (9.11%) Microsoft Project
2 70 (5.79%) Microsoft Office
3 68 (5.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 57 (4.72%) MS Visio
5 25 (2.07%) Trello
6 20 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.58%) CATIA
8 6 (0.50%) Moqups
9 3 (0.25%) Simulink
9 3 (0.25%) Sketch
10 2 (0.17%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.17%) InVision
10 2 (0.17%) OrCAD
11 1 (0.083%) Notion
11 1 (0.083%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.083%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 43 (3.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (1.08%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.50%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.41%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.33%) Sage 200
6 4 (0.33%) SAP Business One
7 3 (0.25%) Magento
7 3 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.25%) Shopify
8 2 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
8 2 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 2 (0.17%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.17%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.083%) Dynamics NAV
9 1 (0.083%) Maximo
9 1 (0.083%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.083%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 370 (30.63%) Azure
2 187 (15.48%) AWS
3 178 (14.74%) Azure DevOps
4 138 (11.42%) Microsoft 365
5 129 (10.68%) SaaS
6 77 (6.37%) GitHub
7 76 (6.29%) Entra ID
8 57 (4.72%) Power Platform
9 39 (3.23%) GCP
10 36 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
11 32 (2.65%) Miro
11 32 (2.65%) Serverless
12 30 (2.48%) Mimecast
13 27 (2.24%) Figma
14 25 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
15 21 (1.74%) Amazon S3
15 21 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
17 15 (1.24%) Boomi
18 14 (1.16%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 51 (4.22%) DNS
2 46 (3.81%) VPN
3 41 (3.39%) DHCP
4 35 (2.90%) Firewall
5 34 (2.81%) TCP/IP
6 23 (1.90%) Network Security
6 23 (1.90%) WAN
7 20 (1.66%) LAN
7 20 (1.66%) Multicast
8 15 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.75%) Kerberos
9 9 (0.75%) VLAN
10 8 (0.66%) IPv4
10 8 (0.66%) Software-Defined Networking
11 6 (0.50%) FIX Connectivity
11 6 (0.50%) HTTP
11 6 (0.50%) NX-OS
12 5 (0.41%) Internet
12 5 (0.41%) SSH
12 5 (0.41%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (4.72%) SQL Server
2 53 (4.39%) Power BI
3 26 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (1.82%) MongoDB
5 21 (1.74%) MySQL
5 21 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (1.49%) Relational Database
7 17 (1.41%) Tableau
8 13 (1.08%) NoSQL
8 13 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (0.75%) Metadata
10 7 (0.58%) DynamoDB
10 7 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
11 6 (0.50%) Redis
12 5 (0.41%) Big Data
13 4 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.33%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 129 (10.68%) Git
2 60 (4.97%) GitLab
3 51 (4.22%) Jenkins
4 35 (2.90%) Selenium
5 34 (2.81%) Bitbucket
6 32 (2.65%) Postman
7 25 (2.07%) Cypress.io
7 25 (2.07%) Rational DOORS
8 24 (1.99%) Zephyr
9 16 (1.32%) Cucumber
10 14 (1.16%) JMeter
11 11 (0.91%) SoapUI
11 11 (0.91%) SonarQube
12 10 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 10 (0.83%) Visual Studio
13 8 (0.66%) Claude Code
14 7 (0.58%) Artifactory
14 7 (0.58%) MSI
14 7 (0.58%) Subversion
14 7 (0.58%) TestRail
General
1 441 (36.51%) Social Skills
2 351 (29.06%) Finance
3 227 (18.79%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (6.46%) Organisational Skills
5 72 (5.96%) Marketing
6 68 (5.63%) Public Sector
7 65 (5.38%) Aerospace
8 64 (5.30%) Banking
9 60 (4.97%) Retail
10 59 (4.88%) Law
11 53 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 52 (4.30%) Manufacturing
13 48 (3.97%) Legal
14 34 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
15 29 (2.40%) Electronics
15 29 (2.40%) Games
16 28 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
17 27 (2.24%) Presentation Skills
18 25 (2.07%) Automotive
19 20 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 264 (21.85%) Analyst
2 179 (14.82%) Senior
3 137 (11.34%) Business Analyst
4 128 (10.60%) Lead
5 104 (8.61%) Project Manager
6 86 (7.12%) Developer
7 58 (4.80%) IT Support
8 52 (4.30%) Support Analyst
9 46 (3.81%) Senior Analyst
10 44 (3.64%) Delivery Manager
10 44 (3.64%) Software Engineer
10 44 (3.64%) Support Engineer
11 43 (3.56%) IT Analyst
12 42 (3.48%) IT Manager
13 41 (3.39%) Product Owner
14 36 (2.98%) IT Engineer
15 35 (2.90%) Technical Analyst
16 32 (2.65%) Consultant
16 32 (2.65%) Product Manager
17 31 (2.57%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (5.96%) REST
2 53 (4.39%) HTML
2 53 (4.39%) Terraform
3 47 (3.89%) .NET
4 46 (3.81%) React
5 42 (3.48%) JSON
6 37 (3.06%) CSS
7 30 (2.48%) Middleware
8 28 (2.32%) FIX Protocol
8 28 (2.32%) Playwright
8 28 (2.32%) RESTful
8 28 (2.32%) SOAP
8 28 (2.32%) XML
9 26 (2.15%) Node.js
10 24 (1.99%) Gherkin
11 21 (1.74%) AngularJS
12 18 (1.49%) EDI
13 17 (1.41%) pytest
14 16 (1.32%) ASP.NET
15 15 (1.24%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 162 (13.41%) Product Ownership
2 106 (8.77%) Onboarding
3 67 (5.55%) Enterprise Software
4 52 (4.30%) Management Information System
5 44 (3.64%) Data Centre
6 42 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
7 40 (3.31%) Driving Licence
8 37 (3.06%) Cloud Native
9 32 (2.65%) Equities
9 32 (2.65%) PMI
10 28 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
11 24 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
12 22 (1.82%) Fixed Income
13 21 (1.74%) Virtual Team
14 20 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
15 18 (1.49%) Derivative
16 15 (1.24%) Security Posture
17 14 (1.16%) Algorithms
18 13 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
19 12 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 153 (12.67%) Windows
2 134 (11.09%) Linux
3 45 (3.73%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.90%) Mac OS
5 14 (1.16%) Windows 10
6 13 (1.08%) Ubuntu
7 12 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.99%) Unix
8 10 (0.83%) Android
8 10 (0.83%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.41%) CentOS
9 5 (0.41%) Debian
9 5 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.17%) VMS
12 1 (0.083%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.083%) Rocky
12 1 (0.083%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 634 (52.48%) Agile
2 358 (29.64%) Continuous Improvement
3 348 (28.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 325 (26.90%) Problem-Solving
5 303 (25.08%) DevOps
6 266 (22.02%) Scrum
7 216 (17.88%) Project Management
8 190 (15.73%) AI
9 181 (14.98%) CI/CD
10 177 (14.65%) ITIL
10 177 (14.65%) User Stories
11 158 (13.08%) Project Delivery
12 153 (12.67%) Service Management
13 145 (12.00%) Decision-Making
14 142 (11.75%) Roadmaps
15 141 (11.67%) Acceptance Criteria
15 141 (11.67%) Requirements Gathering
16 137 (11.34%) Workflow
17 134 (11.09%) Validation
18 132 (10.93%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 213 (17.63%) SQL
2 176 (14.57%) Python
3 98 (8.11%) Java
4 95 (7.86%) PowerShell
5 80 (6.62%) JavaScript
6 61 (5.05%) C#
7 40 (3.31%) Bash
8 39 (3.23%) C++
9 38 (3.15%) TypeScript
10 33 (2.73%) R
11 13 (1.08%) PHP
12 10 (0.83%) C
12 10 (0.83%) Perl
13 8 (0.66%) Bicep
14 7 (0.58%) Groovy
15 6 (0.50%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.50%) Tcl
15 6 (0.50%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.50%) VB.NET
16 5 (0.41%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 221 (18.29%) Degree
2 148 (12.25%) Security Cleared
3 88 (7.28%) SC Cleared
4 83 (6.87%) PMI Certification
5 63 (5.22%) PMP
6 43 (3.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 38 (3.15%) DV Cleared
8 37 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 36 (2.98%) Cisco Certification
10 30 (2.48%) ISTQB
10 30 (2.48%) Master's Degree
10 30 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 28 (2.32%) AWS Certification
12 27 (2.24%) ITIL Certification
13 26 (2.15%) CCNA
14 17 (1.41%) A+ Certification
15 12 (0.99%) CSPO
15 12 (0.99%) MBA
16 11 (0.91%) CBAP
16 11 (0.91%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (14.82%) QA
2 58 (4.80%) PMO
3 56 (4.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 48 (3.97%) Accessibility
5 38 (3.15%) Data Quality
6 29 (2.40%) SLA
7 26 (2.15%) GDPR
8 17 (1.41%) WCAG
9 13 (1.08%) TickIT
10 11 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 10 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 10 (0.83%) NIST
12 9 (0.75%) NCSC
13 7 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 12207
14 6 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.50%) Software Quality Assurance
15 5 (0.41%) MiFID
16 4 (0.33%) GRC
16 4 (0.33%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 114 (9.44%) Active Directory
2 52 (4.30%) Docker
3 36 (2.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.41%) vSphere
5 16 (1.32%) Hyper-V
6 12 (0.99%) Firmware
6 12 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.66%) Squid
7 8 (0.66%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.58%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.33%) KVM
10 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.17%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.083%) HDFS
12 1 (0.083%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 51 (4.22%) Kubernetes
1 51 (4.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (3.64%) Ansible
3 13 (1.08%) Packer
4 12 (0.99%) ZABBIX
5 9 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.66%) Kibana
7 7 (0.58%) Control-M
7 7 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
7 7 (0.58%) Grafana
7 7 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (0.50%) BMC PATROL
8 6 (0.50%) FortiGate
8 6 (0.50%) Proxmox
9 5 (0.41%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (0.41%) SCCM
10 4 (0.33%) Graylog
10 4 (0.33%) Nagios
10 4 (0.33%) Podman
11 3 (0.25%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 307 (25.41%) Microsoft
2 143 (11.84%) ServiceNow
3 82 (6.79%) Oracle
4 77 (6.37%) SAP
5 76 (6.29%) Salesforce
6 44 (3.64%) Atlassian
7 42 (3.48%) VMware
8 37 (3.06%) Splunk
9 35 (2.90%) Cisco
10 31 (2.57%) CrowdStrike
10 31 (2.57%) IBM
11 30 (2.48%) Google
12 24 (1.99%) HubSpot
13 23 (1.90%) BMC
14 20 (1.66%) Red Hat
15 14 (1.16%) Adobe
16 13 (1.08%) Sage
17 11 (0.91%) ION Trading
17 11 (0.91%) Meraki
17 11 (0.91%) Pega