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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 118 102
Rank change year-on-year +15 -16 -34
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,131 1,318 1,413
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.40% 2.30% 3.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.41% 23.95% 24.55%
Number of salaries quoted 713 758 1,107
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,300 £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 £88,750 £95,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%

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 3,023 5,504 5,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.41% 9.61% 12.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,033 3,152 4,730
10th Percentile £29,750 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,250 £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 2 December 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 2 December 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 +38 414 £77,500 +24.00% 210
South East +38 322 £42,500 -22.73% 344
North of England -23 141 £47,683 -12.98% 119
Midlands +15 117 £52,500 +5.00% 79
West Midlands +30 86 £57,500 +12.20% 36
South West -25 75 £43,000 -14.00% 85
Yorkshire +23 67 £44,000 +3.53% 32
North West -21 57 £47,592 -13.47% 80
East of England -16 45 £57,500 +12.75% 84
East Midlands +9 31 £49,500 +10.00% 41
North East -17 17 £51,500 - 8
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
1 341 (30.15%) Confluence
2 50 (4.42%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.59%) CMS
4 13 (1.15%) IIS
5 12 (1.06%) Apache
6 11 (0.97%) WordPress
7 9 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.80%) Umbraco
8 6 (0.53%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.44%) JBoss
9 5 (0.44%) nginx
10 3 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.27%) Headless CMS
10 3 (0.27%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.088%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.088%) Appian
11 1 (0.088%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.088%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.088%) Sitecore CMS
11 1 (0.088%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 80 (7.07%) Microsoft Office
2 69 (6.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 51 (4.51%) Microsoft Project
4 37 (3.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (2.48%) MS Visio
6 22 (1.95%) Trello
7 11 (0.97%) CATIA
8 8 (0.71%) Simulink
9 7 (0.62%) MadCap Flare
10 5 (0.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 5 (0.44%) Windchill
11 3 (0.27%) Chatbot
12 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.18%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.18%) Sketch
13 1 (0.088%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.088%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.088%) Doxygen
13 1 (0.088%) InDesign
13 1 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 104 (9.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.44%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.44%) SAP IBP
4 4 (0.35%) Elite 3E
5 3 (0.27%) Endur
5 3 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.27%) SAP CX
5 3 (0.27%) SAP MII
5 3 (0.27%) SAP PP
6 2 (0.18%) EuroRunner
6 2 (0.18%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 2 (0.18%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.18%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.18%) SAP APO
6 2 (0.18%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.18%) SAP SCM
6 2 (0.18%) Shopify
6 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 231 (20.42%) Azure
2 153 (13.53%) Azure DevOps
3 115 (10.17%) AWS
4 73 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
5 64 (5.66%) Power Platform
6 62 (5.48%) SaaS
7 52 (4.60%) GitHub
8 36 (3.18%) Amazon S3
8 36 (3.18%) GCP
9 33 (2.92%) Entra ID
9 33 (2.92%) Serverless
10 29 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
11 28 (2.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 28 (2.48%) Figma
12 27 (2.39%) Slack
13 26 (2.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 25 (2.21%) AWS KMS
15 24 (2.12%) Amazon ELB
16 23 (2.03%) Power Automate
16 23 (2.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 45 (3.98%) Firewall
2 44 (3.89%) DNS
3 22 (1.95%) HTTP
4 20 (1.77%) SSH
5 18 (1.59%) DHCP
6 17 (1.50%) FTP
6 17 (1.50%) SMTP
7 14 (1.24%) TCP/IP
7 14 (1.24%) VLAN
7 14 (1.24%) Wireless
8 13 (1.15%) Internet
9 12 (1.06%) Multicast
10 10 (0.88%) VPN
11 6 (0.53%) Broadband
11 6 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.44%) IMAP
12 5 (0.44%) OpenLDAP
13 4 (0.35%) Cisco IOS
13 4 (0.35%) Cisco ISE
13 4 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (5.57%) SQL Server
2 40 (3.54%) Power BI
3 30 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (2.39%) MySQL
5 26 (2.30%) Amazon RDS
6 23 (2.03%) Relational Database
7 19 (1.68%) MongoDB
7 19 (1.68%) NoSQL
8 18 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
9 13 (1.15%) Tableau
10 9 (0.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 8 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (0.62%) DB2
12 7 (0.62%) OLAP
12 7 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 6 (0.53%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (0.44%) BusinessObjects
14 5 (0.44%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 173 (15.30%) Git
2 110 (9.73%) Jenkins
3 72 (6.37%) eCATT
4 56 (4.95%) Selenium
5 43 (3.80%) Bitbucket
6 39 (3.45%) NeoLoad
7 37 (3.27%) Postman
8 26 (2.30%) Rational DOORS
9 24 (2.12%) GitLab
9 24 (2.12%) SoapUI
9 24 (2.12%) Team Foundation Server
10 23 (2.03%) Vagrant
11 21 (1.86%) Cypress.io
11 21 (1.86%) WebDriver
12 17 (1.50%) Cucumber
12 17 (1.50%) Visual Studio
13 16 (1.41%) TeamCity
13 16 (1.41%) TestRail
14 15 (1.33%) JUnit
15 14 (1.24%) Maven
General
1 482 (42.62%) Social Skills
2 330 (29.18%) Finance
3 169 (14.94%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (11.49%) Marketing
5 100 (8.84%) Presentation Skills
6 96 (8.49%) Manufacturing
7 80 (7.07%) Influencing Skills
8 72 (6.37%) Organisational Skills
9 69 (6.10%) Banking
10 57 (5.04%) Law
11 43 (3.80%) Public Sector
12 40 (3.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 37 (3.27%) Retail
14 29 (2.56%) Legal
15 23 (2.03%) Front Office
16 22 (1.95%) Advertising
16 22 (1.95%) Automotive
17 19 (1.68%) French Language
18 18 (1.59%) Electronics
18 18 (1.59%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 235 (20.78%) Analyst
2 184 (16.27%) Senior
3 158 (13.97%) Lead
4 114 (10.08%) Developer
5 69 (6.10%) Business Analyst
5 69 (6.10%) Support Analyst
6 61 (5.39%) Project Manager
7 51 (4.51%) Support Engineer
8 47 (4.16%) Applications Support
9 42 (3.71%) Test Analyst
10 40 (3.54%) Test Leader
11 39 (3.45%) Applications Support Analyst
11 39 (3.45%) Software Engineer
12 34 (3.01%) Senior Manager
13 33 (2.92%) DevOps Engineer
14 30 (2.65%) Team Leader
15 28 (2.48%) Junior
15 28 (2.48%) Product Owner
15 28 (2.48%) Senior Developer
16 27 (2.39%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (6.10%) HTML
2 62 (5.48%) .NET
3 49 (4.33%) React
4 40 (3.54%) CSS
5 38 (3.36%) REST
6 36 (3.18%) SOAP
7 34 (3.01%) Node.js
8 32 (2.83%) RESTful
9 20 (1.77%) Kafka
9 20 (1.77%) SAP Fiori
9 20 (1.77%) XML
10 17 (1.50%) Elastic Stack
10 17 (1.50%) Spring
11 16 (1.41%) AngularJS
12 14 (1.24%) .NET Core
12 14 (1.24%) Lightning Web Components
12 14 (1.24%) Spring Boot
13 13 (1.15%) FIX Protocol
13 13 (1.15%) Middleware
13 13 (1.15%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 97 (8.58%) Product Ownership
2 63 (5.57%) Onboarding
3 49 (4.33%) Management Information System
4 25 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
4 25 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
5 23 (2.03%) Cloud Native
6 22 (1.95%) Virtual Team
7 20 (1.77%) IoT
8 18 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (1.41%) Algorithms
9 16 (1.41%) Derivative
9 16 (1.41%) Equities
10 15 (1.33%) Fixed Income
10 15 (1.33%) Replication
11 14 (1.24%) Mobile App
12 12 (1.06%) Wiki
13 11 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (0.88%) Embedded Systems
14 10 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
15 9 (0.80%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 130 (11.49%) Windows
2 121 (10.70%) Linux
3 23 (2.03%) VMS
4 17 (1.50%) Amazon Linux
4 17 (1.50%) Windows 10
5 16 (1.41%) Windows Server
6 14 (1.24%) Mac OS
7 13 (1.15%) Android
8 11 (0.97%) Unix
9 10 (0.88%) Apple iOS
10 7 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.62%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.35%) Solaris
12 4 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.27%) OpenWrt
14 2 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
15 1 (0.088%) Check Point GAiA
15 1 (0.088%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 513 (45.36%) Agile
2 281 (24.85%) Continuous Improvement
3 270 (23.87%) Problem-Solving
4 206 (18.21%) DevOps
5 150 (13.26%) Stakeholder Management
6 149 (13.17%) Scrum
7 140 (12.38%) CI/CD
8 137 (12.11%) Test Management
9 136 (12.02%) Project Management
10 135 (11.94%) Roadmaps
11 132 (11.67%) Change Management
12 131 (11.58%) ITIL
13 120 (10.61%) Test Automation
14 109 (9.64%) Computer Science
15 108 (9.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 107 (9.46%) User Experience
17 100 (8.84%) Mentoring
18 92 (8.13%) ERP
19 85 (7.52%) SDLC
20 84 (7.43%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 199 (17.60%) SQL
2 152 (13.44%) Python
3 109 (9.64%) PowerShell
4 108 (9.55%) JavaScript
5 89 (7.87%) Java
6 70 (6.19%) C#
7 53 (4.69%) TypeScript
8 43 (3.80%) Bash
9 29 (2.56%) Groovy
10 23 (2.03%) C++
11 20 (1.77%) Go
12 15 (1.33%) Apex Code
13 14 (1.24%) Perl
14 10 (0.88%) C
15 8 (0.71%) PHP
15 8 (0.71%) Shell Script
16 6 (0.53%) Kotlin
16 6 (0.53%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.53%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.35%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 336 (29.71%) Degree
2 124 (10.96%) Security Cleared
3 71 (6.28%) SC Cleared
4 57 (5.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (4.69%) ISTQB
6 36 (3.18%) Microsoft Certification
7 33 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 28 (2.48%) PMI Certification
9 25 (2.21%) MCSE
10 23 (2.03%) PMP
11 22 (1.95%) AWS Certification
11 22 (1.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 20 (1.77%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 18 (1.59%) DV Cleared
14 17 (1.50%) Azure Certification
15 16 (1.41%) Master's Degree
16 13 (1.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 11 (0.97%) HND
17 11 (0.97%) SAP Certification
18 8 (0.71%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 156 (13.79%) QA
2 66 (5.84%) Accessibility
3 46 (4.07%) PMO
4 38 (3.36%) SLA
5 30 (2.65%) Def Stans
5 30 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (2.21%) Data Quality
7 18 (1.59%) GDPR
7 18 (1.59%) NIST
8 16 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 16 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 10 (0.88%) WCAG
10 8 (0.71%) MiFID
11 6 (0.53%) PERC
12 4 (0.35%) P3O
13 3 (0.27%) Basel II
13 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.27%) SEPA
14 2 (0.18%) MISRA
14 2 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 100 (8.84%) Active Directory
2 62 (5.48%) Docker
3 20 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.33%) DFS Replication
6 8 (0.71%) Hyper-V
7 7 (0.62%) vSphere
8 5 (0.44%) Dovecot
8 5 (0.44%) Firmware
8 5 (0.44%) Postfix
8 5 (0.44%) Squid
9 3 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.088%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.088%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 73 (6.45%) HP ALM
2 60 (5.31%) Terraform
3 46 (4.07%) Grafana
3 46 (4.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 45 (3.98%) Kubernetes
5 42 (3.71%) Prometheus
6 32 (2.83%) Ansible
7 17 (1.50%) SCCM
8 13 (1.15%) Puppet
9 12 (1.06%) Control-M
9 12 (1.06%) ZABBIX
10 8 (0.71%) Nessus
11 6 (0.53%) Kibana
11 6 (0.53%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.44%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.35%) HP Quality Center
13 4 (0.35%) Nagios
13 4 (0.35%) vCenter Server
14 3 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
14 3 (0.27%) Salt
Vendors
1 208 (18.39%) Microsoft
2 126 (11.14%) SAP
3 102 (9.02%) ServiceNow
4 86 (7.60%) Atlassian
5 75 (6.63%) HP
6 64 (5.66%) Salesforce
7 41 (3.63%) Oracle
8 37 (3.27%) Google
9 32 (2.83%) IBM
10 21 (1.86%) Adobe
11 20 (1.77%) VMware
12 15 (1.33%) Tenable
13 13 (1.15%) Cisco
14 9 (0.80%) Bloomberg
14 9 (0.80%) Dynatrace
14 9 (0.80%) Qualtrics
14 9 (0.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 8 (0.71%) Zscaler
16 7 (0.62%) Juniper
16 7 (0.62%) Red Hat