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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 108 102
Rank change year-on-year -14 -6 -26
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,054 1,235 1,817
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.76% 2.79% 2.74%
As % of the Development Applications category 31.38% 26.05% 25.93%
Number of salaries quoted 671 712 1,467
10th Percentile £30,250 £37,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £36,875 £45,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £76,250 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £93,778 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,160 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.07% - -

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 3,359 4,741 7,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.61% 10.71% 10.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2,287 2,732 5,786
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,750 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £105,000 £97,290
UK median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +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 18 February 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 18 February 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 0 355 £75,000 +11.11% 141
South East +29 300 £45,875 -23.54% 159
North of England -62 148 £47,500 +0.53% 85
Midlands -29 104 £43,500 -20.91% 96
South West -47 69 £42,500 -12.38% 66
Yorkshire -34 65 £44,000 -2.22% 39
North West -35 64 £50,000 -0.11% 44
West Midlands -31 53 £40,000 -30.43% 75
East Midlands -10 51 £45,000 +2.86% 21
East of England -25 45 £55,000 +10.00% 33
North East -28 19 £51,500 +52.59% 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
1 336 (31.88%) Confluence
2 49 (4.65%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (1.33%) CMS
5 9 (0.85%) Apache
5 9 (0.85%) IIS
6 6 (0.57%) WordPress
7 5 (0.47%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.38%) Documentum
8 4 (0.38%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.19%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.19%) JBoss
9 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.095%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.095%) FileNet
10 1 (0.095%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.095%) SAS
10 1 (0.095%) Tuxedo
10 1 (0.095%) WebSphere
Applications
1 62 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
2 57 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (4.74%) Microsoft Excel
4 27 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (2.47%) MS Visio
6 16 (1.52%) Trello
7 14 (1.33%) CATIA
8 4 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.19%) Simulink
9 2 (0.19%) Windchill
10 1 (0.095%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.095%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.095%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 88 (8.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.85%) Dynamics NAV
3 9 (0.85%) Magento
3 9 (0.85%) Shopify
4 7 (0.66%) Fidessa
4 7 (0.66%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.28%) SAP CX
5 3 (0.28%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.19%) Endur
6 2 (0.19%) EuroRunner
6 2 (0.19%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 2 (0.19%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.19%) SAP MII
6 2 (0.19%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.095%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.095%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.095%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 189 (17.93%) Azure
2 159 (15.09%) Azure DevOps
3 78 (7.40%) Microsoft 365
4 68 (6.45%) AWS
4 68 (6.45%) SaaS
5 46 (4.36%) Power Platform
6 40 (3.80%) GitHub
7 32 (3.04%) Entra ID
7 32 (3.04%) Figma
8 28 (2.66%) Slack
9 25 (2.37%) GCP
10 21 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
10 21 (1.99%) PaaS
11 19 (1.80%) Google Workspace
12 18 (1.71%) Serverless
13 13 (1.23%) Miro
14 12 (1.14%) Mimecast
14 12 (1.14%) Smartsheet
15 11 (1.04%) Adobe Analytics
15 11 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.47%) Firewall
2 23 (2.18%) VPN
3 21 (1.99%) DNS
4 16 (1.52%) Multicast
4 16 (1.52%) TCP/IP
5 14 (1.33%) DHCP
6 12 (1.14%) VLAN
7 10 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (0.66%) Cisco ISE
8 7 (0.66%) HTTP
8 7 (0.66%) LAN
8 7 (0.66%) WAN
9 5 (0.47%) Broadband
10 4 (0.38%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (0.38%) Network Security
11 3 (0.28%) GPON
11 3 (0.28%) IPv4
11 3 (0.28%) IPv6
11 3 (0.28%) PPP
11 3 (0.28%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 32 (3.04%) Power BI
3 29 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (2.09%) MySQL
5 20 (1.90%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.33%) NoSQL
7 13 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (1.23%) MongoDB
8 12 (1.14%) DB2
9 11 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (0.85%) BusinessObjects
11 8 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.57%) Big Data
12 6 (0.57%) Oracle Database
12 6 (0.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 6 (0.57%) Tableau
13 5 (0.47%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.38%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 92 (8.73%) Git
2 69 (6.55%) eCATT
3 63 (5.98%) Selenium
4 47 (4.46%) Jenkins
5 46 (4.36%) Postman
6 38 (3.61%) Bitbucket
6 38 (3.61%) NeoLoad
7 33 (3.13%) SoapUI
8 31 (2.94%) GitLab
9 29 (2.75%) Team Foundation Server
10 27 (2.56%) Rational DOORS
11 26 (2.47%) WebDriver
12 22 (2.09%) Cucumber
13 21 (1.99%) Cypress.io
14 15 (1.42%) Visual Studio
15 14 (1.33%) JUnit
15 14 (1.33%) TeamCity
15 14 (1.33%) TestRail
16 12 (1.14%) JMeter
16 12 (1.14%) Subversion
General
1 443 (42.03%) Social Skills
2 303 (28.75%) Finance
3 146 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (11.48%) Marketing
5 103 (9.77%) Manufacturing
6 91 (8.63%) Presentation Skills
7 71 (6.74%) Influencing Skills
8 67 (6.36%) Banking
9 49 (4.65%) Law
10 37 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
11 35 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 34 (3.23%) Legal
13 28 (2.66%) Retail
14 26 (2.47%) Public Sector
15 21 (1.99%) Advertising
16 15 (1.42%) French Language
17 14 (1.33%) Back Office
17 14 (1.33%) Swedish Language
18 12 (1.14%) Electronics
18 12 (1.14%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 239 (22.68%) Analyst
2 173 (16.41%) Senior
3 152 (14.42%) Lead
4 96 (9.11%) Developer
5 80 (7.59%) Support Analyst
6 73 (6.93%) Business Analyst
7 59 (5.60%) Support Engineer
8 54 (5.12%) IT Support
9 44 (4.17%) Test Analyst
10 43 (4.08%) Test Leader
11 41 (3.89%) Project Manager
12 40 (3.80%) Team Leader
13 38 (3.61%) Applications Support
14 34 (3.23%) Applications Support Analyst
15 31 (2.94%) Software Engineer
15 31 (2.94%) Systems Engineer
16 30 (2.85%) IT Engineer
17 28 (2.66%) IT Support Engineer
17 28 (2.66%) Senior Manager
18 26 (2.47%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (6.74%) HTML
2 51 (4.84%) .NET
3 45 (4.27%) SOAP
4 44 (4.17%) CSS
5 38 (3.61%) React
5 38 (3.61%) REST
6 32 (3.04%) RESTful
7 26 (2.47%) Node.js
8 24 (2.28%) Middleware
9 21 (1.99%) Elastic Stack
10 20 (1.90%) Spring
11 17 (1.61%) FIX Protocol
11 17 (1.61%) Kafka
12 14 (1.33%) Spring Boot
13 13 (1.23%) AngularJS
13 13 (1.23%) pytest
13 13 (1.23%) XML
14 12 (1.14%) Boost C++ Libraries
15 11 (1.04%) Gherkin
15 11 (1.04%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 97 (9.20%) Product Ownership
2 85 (8.06%) Onboarding
3 39 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 31 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (1.99%) Virtual Team
6 20 (1.90%) Equities
7 18 (1.71%) Data Centre
7 18 (1.71%) Fixed Income
8 17 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (1.42%) Mobile App
10 14 (1.33%) Cloud Native
10 14 (1.33%) Derivative
11 13 (1.23%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.04%) NHS
12 11 (1.04%) PMI
13 9 (0.85%) CMDB
14 8 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (0.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 106 (10.06%) Windows
2 87 (8.25%) Linux
3 26 (2.47%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.23%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.14%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.95%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.66%) Unix
8 7 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.57%) Android
10 5 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.28%) OpenWrt
12 3 (0.28%) Solaris
12 3 (0.28%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.19%) CentOS
14 1 (0.095%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.095%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 479 (45.45%) Agile
2 269 (25.52%) Continuous Improvement
3 233 (22.11%) Problem-Solving
4 175 (16.60%) Scrum
5 169 (16.03%) DevOps
6 150 (14.23%) ITIL
7 146 (13.85%) ITSM
8 138 (13.09%) Roadmaps
9 137 (13.00%) Test Management
10 134 (12.71%) CI/CD
11 132 (12.52%) Stakeholder Management
12 127 (12.05%) User Experience
13 124 (11.76%) Service Management
14 116 (11.01%) Test Automation
15 111 (10.53%) ERP
16 105 (9.96%) Computer Science
17 95 (9.01%) Project Management
18 93 (8.82%) Change Management
19 89 (8.44%) SDLC
20 87 (8.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 196 (18.60%) SQL
2 107 (10.15%) Python
3 89 (8.44%) JavaScript
4 88 (8.35%) Java
5 70 (6.64%) PowerShell
6 59 (5.60%) C#
7 34 (3.23%) Bash
8 32 (3.04%) TypeScript
9 21 (1.99%) C++
10 17 (1.61%) Go
11 14 (1.33%) T-SQL
12 10 (0.95%) C
12 10 (0.95%) PHP
13 7 (0.66%) R
14 6 (0.57%) Apex Code
15 5 (0.47%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.38%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.38%) RPG
17 3 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 3 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 281 (26.66%) Degree
2 94 (8.92%) Security Cleared
3 56 (5.31%) SC Cleared
4 53 (5.03%) ISTQB
5 52 (4.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 52 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 41 (3.89%) Microsoft Certification
7 30 (2.85%) PMI Certification
8 29 (2.75%) MCSE
9 28 (2.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 26 (2.47%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 21 (1.99%) PMP
12 18 (1.71%) DV Cleared
13 13 (1.23%) HND
14 12 (1.14%) AWS Certification
15 11 (1.04%) A+ Certification
16 10 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 10 (0.95%) Master's Degree
17 9 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (12.52%) QA
2 54 (5.12%) Accessibility
3 37 (3.51%) SLA
4 34 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (3.13%) PMO
6 21 (1.99%) GDPR
7 18 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 17 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 15 (1.42%) NIST
10 8 (0.76%) Data Quality
10 8 (0.76%) WCAG
11 6 (0.57%) Basel II
12 5 (0.47%) PERC
13 4 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.28%) MiFID
14 3 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.28%) SEPA
14 3 (0.28%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 97 (9.20%) Active Directory
2 45 (4.27%) Docker
3 19 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.57%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.57%) vSphere
6 2 (0.19%) Firmware
6 2 (0.19%) Terminal Server
6 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.095%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.095%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 72 (6.83%) HP ALM
2 46 (4.36%) Kubernetes
3 38 (3.61%) Microsoft Intune
4 29 (2.75%) Terraform
5 21 (1.99%) Grafana
5 21 (1.99%) SCCM
6 20 (1.90%) Prometheus
7 18 (1.71%) Ansible
8 11 (1.04%) ZABBIX
9 9 (0.85%) Control-M
10 8 (0.76%) Puppet
11 6 (0.57%) Nagios
11 6 (0.57%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.38%) Kibana
13 4 (0.38%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
15 2 (0.19%) Nessus
15 2 (0.19%) Podman
15 2 (0.19%) SCOM
Vendors
1 205 (19.45%) Microsoft
2 121 (11.48%) SAP
3 98 (9.30%) ServiceNow
4 79 (7.50%) Atlassian
5 72 (6.83%) HP
6 67 (6.36%) Salesforce
7 39 (3.70%) Google
8 36 (3.42%) Oracle
9 35 (3.32%) IBM
10 20 (1.90%) VMware
11 19 (1.80%) Adobe
11 19 (1.80%) HubSpot
12 17 (1.61%) Cisco
13 16 (1.52%) BMC
13 16 (1.52%) Tenable
14 14 (1.33%) Zscaler
15 13 (1.23%) Siemens
16 11 (1.04%) Citrix
16 11 (1.04%) Splunk
17 9 (0.85%) Bloomberg