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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 122 107
Rank change year-on-year +19 -15 -40
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,169 1,346 1,424
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.53% 2.19% 3.06%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.65% 23.76% 24.14%
Number of salaries quoted 749 777 1,113
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £47,250
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 £78,750
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 3,105 5,666 5,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.72% 9.21% 12.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,091 3,214 4,807
10th Percentile £30,000 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £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 £77,500 £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 23 November 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 23 November 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 +44 429 £76,250 +20.08% 163
South East +36 323 £45,000 -14.29% 179
North of England -15 151 £47,592 -9.35% 53
Midlands +36 126 £56,250 +12.50% 65
West Midlands +41 95 £60,000 +20.00% 42
South West -23 74 £43,000 -14.00% 75
Yorkshire +37 68 £44,500 +7.64% 16
North West -17 65 £46,250 -15.91% 34
East of England -11 49 £57,500 +13.30% 43
East Midlands +14 31 £49,500 +10.00% 22
North East -13 18 £51,500 - 3
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
1 353 (30.20%) Confluence
2 49 (4.19%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.63%) CMS
4 15 (1.28%) IIS
5 14 (1.20%) Apache
6 11 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
6 11 (0.94%) WordPress
7 10 (0.86%) Umbraco
8 8 (0.68%) nginx
9 6 (0.51%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.43%) JBoss
11 3 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
11 3 (0.26%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.26%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.086%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.086%) Appian
12 1 (0.086%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.086%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.086%) Sitecore CMS
12 1 (0.086%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 80 (6.84%) Microsoft Office
2 69 (5.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 53 (4.53%) Microsoft Project
4 38 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (2.48%) MS Visio
6 23 (1.97%) Trello
7 8 (0.68%) CATIA
7 8 (0.68%) Simulink
8 7 (0.60%) MadCap Flare
9 6 (0.51%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 5 (0.43%) Windchill
11 3 (0.26%) Chatbot
12 2 (0.17%) Adobe XD
12 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
12 2 (0.17%) Sketch
13 1 (0.086%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.086%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.086%) Doxygen
13 1 (0.086%) InDesign
13 1 (0.086%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 103 (8.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.43%) Elite 3E
3 5 (0.43%) Fidessa
3 5 (0.43%) SAP IBP
4 3 (0.26%) Endur
4 3 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.26%) SAP CX
4 3 (0.26%) SAP MII
4 3 (0.26%) SAP PP
4 3 (0.26%) Shopify
5 2 (0.17%) EuroRunner
5 2 (0.17%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.17%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.17%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.17%) Sage X3
5 2 (0.17%) SAP APO
5 2 (0.17%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.17%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 242 (20.70%) Azure
2 154 (13.17%) Azure DevOps
3 142 (12.15%) AWS
4 76 (6.50%) Microsoft 365
5 69 (5.90%) Power Platform
6 64 (5.47%) SaaS
7 55 (4.70%) GitHub
8 45 (3.85%) Amazon S3
9 42 (3.59%) GCP
10 39 (3.34%) Amazon EC2
11 37 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 35 (2.99%) Entra ID
12 35 (2.99%) Serverless
13 34 (2.91%) AWS KMS
14 32 (2.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 31 (2.65%) Amazon ELB
16 29 (2.48%) Slack
17 28 (2.40%) Figma
18 25 (2.14%) Amazon Glacier
18 25 (2.14%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 56 (4.79%) Firewall
2 48 (4.11%) DNS
3 23 (1.97%) SSH
4 22 (1.88%) HTTP
5 20 (1.71%) DHCP
6 19 (1.63%) FTP
6 19 (1.63%) SMTP
7 15 (1.28%) VLAN
7 15 (1.28%) Wireless
8 14 (1.20%) Internet
9 13 (1.11%) Multicast
9 13 (1.11%) TCP/IP
10 11 (0.94%) VPN
11 6 (0.51%) Broadband
11 6 (0.51%) IMAP
11 6 (0.51%) OpenLDAP
11 6 (0.51%) SAN
11 6 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.34%) Cisco ISE
12 4 (0.34%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (5.73%) SQL Server
2 42 (3.59%) Power BI
3 36 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
3 36 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (2.82%) MySQL
5 25 (2.14%) Relational Database
6 21 (1.80%) MongoDB
7 20 (1.71%) NoSQL
8 18 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (1.28%) Tableau
10 10 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (0.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 9 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (0.60%) OLAP
14 6 (0.51%) DB2
14 6 (0.51%) Mixpanel
14 6 (0.51%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 189 (16.17%) Git
2 120 (10.27%) Jenkins
3 72 (6.16%) eCATT
4 57 (4.88%) Selenium
5 47 (4.02%) Bitbucket
6 39 (3.34%) NeoLoad
7 36 (3.08%) Postman
8 30 (2.57%) Vagrant
9 27 (2.31%) GitLab
10 23 (1.97%) Rational DOORS
11 22 (1.88%) Cypress.io
11 22 (1.88%) SoapUI
11 22 (1.88%) Team Foundation Server
12 19 (1.63%) TeamCity
12 19 (1.63%) WebDriver
13 18 (1.54%) Cucumber
13 18 (1.54%) Visual Studio
14 17 (1.45%) Maven
15 16 (1.37%) JUnit
16 15 (1.28%) TestRail
General
1 499 (42.69%) Social Skills
2 340 (29.08%) Finance
3 173 (14.80%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (11.46%) Marketing
5 100 (8.55%) Presentation Skills
6 95 (8.13%) Manufacturing
7 80 (6.84%) Influencing Skills
8 73 (6.24%) Banking
9 69 (5.90%) Organisational Skills
10 62 (5.30%) Law
11 53 (4.53%) Public Sector
12 41 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 40 (3.42%) Retail
14 31 (2.65%) Legal
15 25 (2.14%) Automotive
16 23 (1.97%) Advertising
17 22 (1.88%) Front Office
18 20 (1.71%) French Language
19 19 (1.63%) Electronics
19 19 (1.63%) Swedish Language
Job Titles
1 242 (20.70%) Analyst
2 193 (16.51%) Senior
3 157 (13.43%) Lead
4 131 (11.21%) Developer
5 69 (5.90%) Business Analyst
6 68 (5.82%) Support Analyst
7 64 (5.47%) Project Manager
8 56 (4.79%) Support Engineer
9 47 (4.02%) Applications Support
10 42 (3.59%) Software Engineer
11 40 (3.42%) Test Analyst
12 39 (3.34%) Applications Support Analyst
13 37 (3.17%) Test Leader
14 36 (3.08%) DevOps Engineer
15 35 (2.99%) Senior Manager
16 31 (2.65%) Senior Developer
17 30 (2.57%) Junior
18 29 (2.48%) Team Leader
19 28 (2.40%) Product Owner
20 27 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (6.42%) HTML
2 69 (5.90%) .NET
3 55 (4.70%) React
4 48 (4.11%) CSS
5 39 (3.34%) REST
6 35 (2.99%) Node.js
6 35 (2.99%) SOAP
7 32 (2.74%) RESTful
8 22 (1.88%) AngularJS
8 22 (1.88%) Kafka
9 20 (1.71%) Spring
10 19 (1.63%) XML
11 18 (1.54%) Elastic Stack
11 18 (1.54%) SAP Fiori
12 17 (1.45%) Spring Boot
13 16 (1.37%) .NET Core
13 16 (1.37%) Vue
14 14 (1.20%) FIX Protocol
14 14 (1.20%) JSON
14 14 (1.20%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 99 (8.47%) Product Ownership
2 63 (5.39%) Onboarding
3 50 (4.28%) Management Information System
4 26 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
5 23 (1.97%) Cloud Native
5 23 (1.97%) IoT
5 23 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
6 21 (1.80%) Replication
6 21 (1.80%) Virtual Team
7 20 (1.71%) Mobile App
8 19 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.45%) Derivative
9 17 (1.45%) Equities
10 16 (1.37%) Algorithms
10 16 (1.37%) Fixed Income
11 14 (1.20%) Wiki
12 11 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
13 10 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
14 9 (0.77%) Data Centre
14 9 (0.77%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 142 (12.15%) Windows
2 135 (11.55%) Linux
3 30 (2.57%) VMS
4 19 (1.63%) Amazon Linux
5 18 (1.54%) Windows Server
6 17 (1.45%) Mac OS
6 17 (1.45%) Windows 10
7 14 (1.20%) Android
7 14 (1.20%) Unix
8 10 (0.86%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.77%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.34%) Solaris
13 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.26%) OpenWrt
15 2 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
16 1 (0.086%) Check Point GAiA
16 1 (0.086%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 531 (45.42%) Agile
2 287 (24.55%) Continuous Improvement
3 285 (24.38%) Problem-Solving
4 219 (18.73%) DevOps
5 158 (13.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 152 (13.00%) Scrum
7 145 (12.40%) CI/CD
7 145 (12.40%) Project Management
8 140 (11.98%) Change Management
8 140 (11.98%) Roadmaps
9 134 (11.46%) ITIL
10 133 (11.38%) Test Management
11 130 (11.12%) Test Automation
12 117 (10.01%) Computer Science
13 110 (9.41%) Mentoring
14 106 (9.07%) User Experience
15 105 (8.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 91 (7.78%) ERP
17 87 (7.44%) SDLC
17 87 (7.44%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 210 (17.96%) SQL
2 164 (14.03%) Python
3 120 (10.27%) PowerShell
4 116 (9.92%) JavaScript
5 96 (8.21%) Java
6 78 (6.67%) C#
7 55 (4.70%) TypeScript
8 43 (3.68%) Bash
9 37 (3.17%) Groovy
10 23 (1.97%) C++
11 20 (1.71%) Go
12 16 (1.37%) Perl
13 15 (1.28%) Apex Code
14 12 (1.03%) PHP
15 10 (0.86%) C
15 10 (0.86%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.60%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.51%) PL/SQL
17 6 (0.51%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.34%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 344 (29.43%) Degree
2 127 (10.86%) Security Cleared
3 76 (6.50%) SC Cleared
4 63 (5.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (4.36%) ISTQB
6 35 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 31 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 29 (2.48%) PMI Certification
9 25 (2.14%) PMP
10 24 (2.05%) AWS Certification
10 24 (2.05%) MCSE
11 22 (1.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 20 (1.71%) Azure Certification
13 19 (1.63%) DV Cleared
14 18 (1.54%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 16 (1.37%) Master's Degree
16 12 (1.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 11 (0.94%) HND
17 11 (0.94%) SAP Certification
18 10 (0.86%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 157 (13.43%) QA
2 67 (5.73%) Accessibility
3 48 (4.11%) PMO
4 38 (3.25%) SLA
5 30 (2.57%) Def Stans
6 29 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (2.22%) Data Quality
8 18 (1.54%) GDPR
8 18 (1.54%) NIST
9 12 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 12 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 10 (0.86%) WCAG
11 8 (0.68%) MiFID
12 6 (0.51%) PERC
13 4 (0.34%) P3O
14 3 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.26%) SEPA
15 2 (0.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 2 (0.17%) MISRA
15 2 (0.17%) UCITS
System Software
1 108 (9.24%) Active Directory
2 73 (6.24%) Docker
3 21 (1.80%) DFS Replication
4 20 (1.71%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.94%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.77%) vSphere
7 8 (0.68%) Firmware
8 6 (0.51%) Dovecot
8 6 (0.51%) Postfix
8 6 (0.51%) Squid
9 3 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.086%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.086%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 73 (6.24%) HP ALM
2 70 (5.99%) Terraform
3 55 (4.70%) Grafana
4 50 (4.28%) Kubernetes
4 50 (4.28%) Prometheus
5 48 (4.11%) Microsoft Intune
6 40 (3.42%) Ansible
7 20 (1.71%) SCCM
8 14 (1.20%) Puppet
9 13 (1.11%) Control-M
10 12 (1.03%) ZABBIX
11 10 (0.86%) Nessus
12 7 (0.60%) Kibana
13 6 (0.51%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.51%) Proxmox
14 5 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
15 4 (0.34%) Docker Swarm
15 4 (0.34%) HP Quality Center
15 4 (0.34%) Salt
15 4 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 217 (18.56%) Microsoft
2 123 (10.52%) SAP
3 113 (9.67%) ServiceNow
4 87 (7.44%) Atlassian
5 75 (6.42%) HP
6 64 (5.47%) Salesforce
7 43 (3.68%) Google
8 42 (3.59%) Oracle
9 28 (2.40%) IBM
10 23 (1.97%) VMware
11 22 (1.88%) Adobe
12 15 (1.28%) Tenable
13 13 (1.11%) Cisco
14 12 (1.03%) Juniper
15 11 (0.94%) Dynatrace
16 10 (0.86%) Bloomberg
17 9 (0.77%) Qualtrics
17 9 (0.77%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
18 8 (0.68%) Okta
18 8 (0.68%) Splunk