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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 96 118
Rank change year-on-year -73 +22 -26
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,029 1,314 2,042
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.21% 3.21% 2.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 26.80% 36.46% 25.98%
Number of salaries quoted 765 801 1,467
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,245 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% +13.17% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,250 £77,500 £70,625
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +13.64% -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 3,840 3,604 7,861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.52% 8.81% 8.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2,561 2,346 5,771
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,743 £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 £97,500 £101,125 £93,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 28 June 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 28 June 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 -69 301 £72,500 +3.57% 140
South East +27 220 £57,500 +6.98% 123
North of England -69 216 £55,000 - 93
North West -50 119 £60,000 +9.09% 52
Midlands -101 105 £44,022 -23.40% 40
South West -60 87 £52,500 +12.90% 56
East of England -9 77 £70,000 +26.70% 29
Yorkshire -48 75 £45,000 -30.77% 31
West Midlands -89 53 £47,500 -29.63% 26
East Midlands -47 52 £27,500 -22.54% 14
North East -39 22 £67,500 +108.90% 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
1 354 (34.40%) Confluence
2 86 (8.36%) SharePoint
3 46 (4.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.17%) CMS
5 8 (0.78%) IIS
6 6 (0.58%) Apache
6 6 (0.58%) Umbraco
7 5 (0.49%) SAS
8 4 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.39%) Documentum
8 4 (0.39%) JBoss
8 4 (0.39%) WordPress
9 3 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.19%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.19%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.19%) Gentran
10 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.097%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.097%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.097%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 77 (7.48%) Microsoft Project
2 42 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
4 23 (2.24%) MS Visio
5 17 (1.65%) Trello
6 12 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 11 (1.07%) CATIA
8 3 (0.29%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.29%) Sketch
8 3 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.19%) InVision
10 1 (0.097%) Notion
Business Applications
1 31 (3.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (1.07%) Fidessa
3 11 (1.07%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.58%) Shopify
5 5 (0.49%) Magento
5 5 (0.49%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.39%) Sage 200
6 4 (0.39%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.19%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.19%) Workfront
8 1 (0.097%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.097%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.097%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.097%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.097%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.097%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 282 (27.41%) Azure
2 140 (13.61%) Azure DevOps
3 135 (13.12%) AWS
4 115 (11.18%) Microsoft 365
5 85 (8.26%) SaaS
6 68 (6.61%) GitHub
7 56 (5.44%) Power Platform
8 50 (4.86%) Entra ID
9 44 (4.28%) GCP
10 31 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
11 27 (2.62%) Serverless
12 24 (2.33%) Mimecast
13 23 (2.24%) Figma
14 22 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
15 19 (1.85%) Amazon S3
15 19 (1.85%) Google Workspace
15 19 (1.85%) Smartsheet
16 18 (1.75%) Miro
16 18 (1.75%) PaaS
17 17 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.69%) VPN
2 28 (2.72%) Firewall
3 23 (2.24%) Multicast
4 20 (1.94%) DNS
4 20 (1.94%) TCP/IP
5 19 (1.85%) Network Security
6 17 (1.65%) LAN
7 15 (1.46%) DHCP
8 13 (1.26%) WAN
8 13 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (0.78%) IPv4
9 8 (0.78%) Software-Defined Networking
10 7 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
11 5 (0.49%) Kerberos
11 5 (0.49%) SSL
11 5 (0.49%) VoIP
11 5 (0.49%) Wireless
12 4 (0.39%) Internet
13 3 (0.29%) FIX Connectivity
13 3 (0.29%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (5.83%) SQL Server
2 43 (4.18%) Power BI
3 25 (2.43%) MySQL
4 22 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (1.75%) MongoDB
6 18 (1.75%) Relational Database
7 15 (1.46%) NoSQL
8 14 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 14 (1.36%) Tableau
9 10 (0.97%) Big Data
10 8 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (0.68%) DynamoDB
11 7 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.39%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.39%) Power Query
12 4 (0.39%) Redis
13 3 (0.29%) Data Vault
13 3 (0.29%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 111 (10.79%) Git
2 47 (4.57%) GitLab
3 36 (3.50%) Jenkins
4 32 (3.11%) Selenium
5 30 (2.92%) Bitbucket
6 28 (2.72%) Postman
7 20 (1.94%) Zephyr
8 14 (1.36%) Cucumber
8 14 (1.36%) Cypress.io
8 14 (1.36%) Rational DOORS
9 13 (1.26%) SonarQube
10 10 (0.97%) SoapUI
11 8 (0.78%) JUnit
11 8 (0.78%) REST Assured
11 8 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
12 7 (0.68%) JMeter
12 7 (0.68%) Oracle APEX
12 7 (0.68%) TeamCity
12 7 (0.68%) TestRail
12 7 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 365 (35.47%) Social Skills
2 264 (25.66%) Finance
3 147 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (6.90%) Marketing
5 59 (5.73%) Banking
6 53 (5.15%) Law
7 49 (4.76%) Retail
8 47 (4.57%) Legal
9 39 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
9 39 (3.79%) Public Sector
10 36 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
11 34 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 33 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
13 32 (3.11%) Games
14 27 (2.62%) Manufacturing
15 25 (2.43%) Automotive
16 21 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
17 18 (1.75%) Aerospace
18 17 (1.65%) Advertising
19 10 (0.97%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 194 (18.85%) Analyst
2 158 (15.35%) Senior
3 105 (10.20%) Lead
4 95 (9.23%) Business Analyst
5 87 (8.45%) Developer
6 75 (7.29%) IT Support
7 74 (7.19%) Project Manager
8 70 (6.80%) Support Engineer
9 53 (5.15%) Support Analyst
10 45 (4.37%) IT Engineer
11 42 (4.08%) Software Engineer
12 40 (3.89%) IT Support Engineer
12 40 (3.89%) Systems Engineer
13 36 (3.50%) IT Manager
14 33 (3.21%) Delivery Manager
14 33 (3.21%) Scrum Master
15 31 (3.01%) Applications Support
16 29 (2.82%) Product Owner
16 29 (2.82%) Senior Analyst
16 29 (2.82%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (5.25%) React
2 50 (4.86%) REST
3 48 (4.66%) HTML
4 45 (4.37%) .NET
5 42 (4.08%) CSS
6 37 (3.60%) JSON
7 36 (3.50%) Middleware
8 30 (2.92%) SOAP
9 29 (2.82%) FIX Protocol
10 28 (2.72%) Node.js
11 24 (2.33%) XML
12 23 (2.24%) RESTful
13 22 (2.14%) EDI
13 22 (2.14%) pytest
14 20 (1.94%) AngularJS
15 18 (1.75%) ASP.NET
15 18 (1.75%) Spring
16 17 (1.65%) Boost C++ Libraries
16 17 (1.65%) Playwright
17 13 (1.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 119 (11.56%) Product Ownership
2 103 (10.01%) Onboarding
3 39 (3.79%) Enterprise Software
4 36 (3.50%) Management Information System
4 36 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
5 33 (3.21%) Driving Licence
5 33 (3.21%) Equities
6 24 (2.33%) Data Centre
7 23 (2.24%) Fixed Income
8 21 (2.04%) Algorithms
8 21 (2.04%) Cloud Native
8 21 (2.04%) Derivative
9 17 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (1.46%) PMI
11 14 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (1.17%) Virtual Team
13 11 (1.07%) Mobile App
14 10 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 128 (12.44%) Windows
2 123 (11.95%) Linux
3 50 (4.86%) Windows Server
4 14 (1.36%) Mac OS
5 13 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (1.26%) Ubuntu
6 10 (0.97%) Windows 10
7 8 (0.78%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.68%) CentOS
8 7 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.58%) Unix
10 5 (0.49%) Debian
11 2 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
11 2 (0.19%) ThreadX
11 2 (0.19%) VMS
11 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.097%) Android
12 1 (0.097%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 542 (52.67%) Agile
2 256 (24.88%) Continuous Improvement
3 253 (24.59%) DevOps
4 220 (21.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 209 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
6 204 (19.83%) Scrum
7 168 (16.33%) CI/CD
8 142 (13.80%) Service Management
9 136 (13.22%) ITSM
10 135 (13.12%) ITIL
11 128 (12.44%) Project Management
12 123 (11.95%) Roadmaps
13 118 (11.47%) CRM
14 116 (11.27%) Decision-Making
15 115 (11.18%) SDLC
16 107 (10.40%) User Stories
17 105 (10.20%) Workflow
18 101 (9.82%) Software Engineering
19 100 (9.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 92 (8.94%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 194 (18.85%) SQL
2 152 (14.77%) Python
3 85 (8.26%) Java
4 75 (7.29%) PowerShell
5 70 (6.80%) JavaScript
6 47 (4.57%) C#
7 34 (3.30%) Bash
8 30 (2.92%) TypeScript
9 27 (2.62%) C++
10 25 (2.43%) R
11 20 (1.94%) PHP
12 10 (0.97%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.78%) C
14 7 (0.68%) Groovy
14 7 (0.68%) Perl
15 6 (0.58%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.49%) Google Apps Script
16 5 (0.49%) Tcl
16 5 (0.49%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 171 (16.62%) Degree
2 100 (9.72%) Security Cleared
3 58 (5.64%) SC Cleared
4 43 (4.18%) PMI Certification
5 37 (3.60%) PMP
6 36 (3.50%) ISTQB
7 31 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 30 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 23 (2.24%) DV Cleared
11 20 (1.94%) AWS Certification
11 20 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (1.55%) CCNA
13 15 (1.46%) Master's Degree
14 13 (1.26%) A+ Certification
15 8 (0.78%) CCNP
15 8 (0.78%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.78%) OSCP
15 8 (0.78%) RHCE
15 8 (0.78%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (13.22%) QA
2 37 (3.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 36 (3.50%) Accessibility
3 36 (3.50%) SLA
4 32 (3.11%) PMO
5 24 (2.33%) Data Quality
6 20 (1.94%) GDPR
7 13 (1.26%) TickIT
8 12 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 11 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 11 (1.07%) WCAG
10 9 (0.87%) Software Quality Assurance
11 8 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.78%) GRC
12 7 (0.68%) MiFID
13 6 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.58%) NIST
13 6 (0.58%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.39%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 105 (10.20%) Active Directory
2 65 (6.32%) Docker
3 29 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.17%) vSphere
5 10 (0.97%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.78%) Squid
6 8 (0.78%) VMware NSX
7 5 (0.49%) Embedded Firmware
7 5 (0.49%) Firmware
7 5 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.39%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 4 (0.39%) KVM
9 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.19%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 49 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 48 (4.66%) Terraform
3 40 (3.89%) Ansible
4 37 (3.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (1.36%) Packer
6 12 (1.17%) ZABBIX
7 11 (1.07%) Grafana
7 11 (1.07%) SCCM
8 10 (0.97%) Kibana
9 8 (0.78%) Docker Swarm
9 8 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.68%) Nagios
11 5 (0.49%) Podman
11 5 (0.49%) Prometheus
11 5 (0.49%) SCOM
12 4 (0.39%) Functional Safety
12 4 (0.39%) Graylog
12 4 (0.39%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.39%) VxRail
13 3 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 226 (21.96%) Microsoft
2 142 (13.80%) ServiceNow
3 78 (7.58%) Salesforce
4 65 (6.32%) Oracle
5 47 (4.57%) SAP
6 36 (3.50%) Google
6 36 (3.50%) IBM
6 36 (3.50%) Splunk
7 32 (3.11%) VMware
8 31 (3.01%) BMC
8 31 (3.01%) HubSpot
9 30 (2.92%) Atlassian
9 30 (2.92%) CrowdStrike
10 28 (2.72%) Cisco
11 14 (1.36%) Adobe
11 14 (1.36%) Red Hat
12 12 (1.17%) Freshdesk
12 12 (1.17%) Meraki
13 11 (1.07%) Citrix
14 10 (0.97%) Zscaler