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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 109 105
Rank change year-on-year -10 -4 -29
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,049 1,242 1,826
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.77% 2.78% 2.75%
As % of the Development Applications category 31.48% 26.04% 25.87%
Number of salaries quoted 663 714 1,472
10th Percentile £30,250 £37,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £36,875 £45,370 £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 £76,625 £71,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £93,750 £93,778 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,498 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.50% - -

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 3,332 4,770 7,059
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.62% 10.68% 10.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,265 2,741 5,831
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,250 £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 £77,250 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £105,000 £97,290
UK median annual salary £57,500 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.50% +2.50% -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 15 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 15 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 -1 357 £75,000 +11.11% 127
South East +26 302 £45,875 -23.54% 149
North of England -51 144 £47,500 +0.53% 73
Midlands -34 102 £44,500 -19.09% 100
South West -51 71 £42,500 -12.38% 55
Yorkshire -34 63 £43,250 -3.89% 34
North West -33 62 £50,000 -0.11% 36
West Midlands -28 53 £40,000 -30.43% 72
East Midlands -6 49 £45,000 - 28
East of England -22 44 £56,250 +12.50% 36
North East -24 19 £51,500 +128.89% 4
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
1 331 (31.55%) Confluence
2 48 (4.58%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.33%) CMS
3 14 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.95%) Apache
5 9 (0.86%) IIS
6 6 (0.57%) WordPress
7 5 (0.48%) 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 63 (6.01%) Microsoft Project
2 62 (5.91%) Microsoft Office
3 52 (4.96%) Microsoft Excel
4 28 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 27 (2.57%) MS Visio
6 16 (1.53%) Trello
7 14 (1.33%) CATIA
8 4 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.29%) Simulink
10 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.19%) Windchill
11 1 (0.095%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.095%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.095%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 88 (8.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.86%) Dynamics NAV
3 9 (0.86%) Magento
3 9 (0.86%) Shopify
4 7 (0.67%) Fidessa
4 7 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.29%) SAP CX
5 3 (0.29%) 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%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.19%) SAP MII
6 2 (0.19%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.095%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.095%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 184 (17.54%) Azure
2 155 (14.78%) Azure DevOps
3 77 (7.34%) Microsoft 365
4 69 (6.58%) AWS
5 65 (6.20%) SaaS
6 45 (4.29%) Power Platform
7 39 (3.72%) GitHub
8 32 (3.05%) Entra ID
8 32 (3.05%) Figma
9 28 (2.67%) Slack
10 25 (2.38%) GCP
11 21 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
11 21 (2.00%) PaaS
12 19 (1.81%) Google Workspace
13 18 (1.72%) Serverless
14 13 (1.24%) Miro
15 12 (1.14%) Adobe Analytics
15 12 (1.14%) Mimecast
15 12 (1.14%) Smartsheet
16 11 (1.05%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.48%) Firewall
2 23 (2.19%) VPN
3 21 (2.00%) DNS
4 16 (1.53%) Multicast
4 16 (1.53%) TCP/IP
5 14 (1.33%) DHCP
6 12 (1.14%) VLAN
7 10 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (0.67%) Cisco ISE
8 7 (0.67%) HTTP
8 7 (0.67%) LAN
8 7 (0.67%) WAN
9 5 (0.48%) Broadband
10 4 (0.38%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (0.38%) Network Security
11 3 (0.29%) GPON
11 3 (0.29%) IPv4
11 3 (0.29%) IPv6
11 3 (0.29%) PPP
11 3 (0.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (5.91%) SQL Server
2 32 (3.05%) Power BI
3 29 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (2.10%) MySQL
5 20 (1.91%) Relational Database
6 13 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (1.24%) MongoDB
6 13 (1.24%) NoSQL
7 11 (1.05%) DB2
7 11 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (0.86%) BusinessObjects
9 8 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (0.57%) Oracle Database
10 6 (0.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 6 (0.57%) Tableau
11 5 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.48%) Big Data
12 4 (0.38%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 96 (9.15%) Git
2 69 (6.58%) eCATT
3 64 (6.10%) Selenium
4 49 (4.67%) Jenkins
5 47 (4.48%) Postman
6 40 (3.81%) Bitbucket
7 38 (3.62%) NeoLoad
8 33 (3.15%) SoapUI
9 32 (3.05%) GitLab
10 30 (2.86%) Team Foundation Server
11 27 (2.57%) Rational DOORS
11 27 (2.57%) WebDriver
12 21 (2.00%) Cypress.io
13 19 (1.81%) Cucumber
14 15 (1.43%) JUnit
14 15 (1.43%) Visual Studio
15 14 (1.33%) TeamCity
15 14 (1.33%) TestRail
16 12 (1.14%) Subversion
17 11 (1.05%) JMeter
General
1 446 (42.52%) Social Skills
2 299 (28.50%) Finance
3 148 (14.11%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (11.53%) Marketing
5 103 (9.82%) Manufacturing
6 91 (8.67%) Presentation Skills
7 69 (6.58%) Influencing Skills
8 66 (6.29%) Banking
9 50 (4.77%) Law
10 39 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
11 37 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 35 (3.34%) Legal
13 27 (2.57%) Retail
14 26 (2.48%) Public Sector
15 22 (2.10%) Advertising
16 19 (1.81%) French Language
17 18 (1.72%) Swedish Language
18 15 (1.43%) Back Office
19 14 (1.33%) Front Office
20 13 (1.24%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 241 (22.97%) Analyst
2 174 (16.59%) Senior
3 155 (14.78%) Lead
4 96 (9.15%) Developer
5 80 (7.63%) Support Analyst
6 74 (7.05%) Business Analyst
7 56 (5.34%) Support Engineer
8 53 (5.05%) IT Support
9 45 (4.29%) Test Analyst
10 43 (4.10%) Project Manager
10 43 (4.10%) Test Leader
11 42 (4.00%) Team Leader
12 38 (3.62%) Applications Support
13 34 (3.24%) Applications Support Analyst
14 31 (2.96%) Software Engineer
14 31 (2.96%) Systems Engineer
15 30 (2.86%) IT Engineer
16 27 (2.57%) IT Support Engineer
16 27 (2.57%) Senior Manager
17 26 (2.48%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (6.86%) HTML
2 52 (4.96%) .NET
3 45 (4.29%) SOAP
4 44 (4.19%) CSS
5 39 (3.72%) React
6 38 (3.62%) REST
7 32 (3.05%) RESTful
8 26 (2.48%) Node.js
9 24 (2.29%) Middleware
10 21 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
11 20 (1.91%) Spring
12 17 (1.62%) FIX Protocol
12 17 (1.62%) Kafka
13 14 (1.33%) Spring Boot
14 13 (1.24%) AngularJS
14 13 (1.24%) pytest
14 13 (1.24%) XML
15 12 (1.14%) Boost C++ Libraries
16 11 (1.05%) Gherkin
16 11 (1.05%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 94 (8.96%) Product Ownership
2 85 (8.10%) Onboarding
3 39 (3.72%) Management Information System
4 28 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (2.00%) Virtual Team
6 20 (1.91%) Equities
7 18 (1.72%) Data Centre
7 18 (1.72%) Fixed Income
8 17 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
9 15 (1.43%) Mobile App
10 14 (1.33%) Cloud Native
10 14 (1.33%) Derivative
11 13 (1.24%) Algorithms
12 11 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.05%) NHS
12 11 (1.05%) PMI
13 8 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
13 8 (0.76%) CMDB
13 8 (0.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 104 (9.91%) Windows
2 88 (8.39%) Linux
3 25 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 13 (1.24%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.14%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.95%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.67%) Unix
7 7 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (0.57%) Android
9 5 (0.48%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.29%) OpenWrt
11 3 (0.29%) Solaris
12 2 (0.19%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.095%) CentOS
13 1 (0.095%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.095%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 476 (45.38%) Agile
2 271 (25.83%) Continuous Improvement
3 234 (22.31%) Problem-Solving
4 171 (16.30%) Scrum
5 165 (15.73%) DevOps
6 150 (14.30%) ITIL
7 144 (13.73%) ITSM
8 139 (13.25%) Test Management
9 137 (13.06%) Roadmaps
10 132 (12.58%) CI/CD
11 130 (12.39%) Stakeholder Management
12 126 (12.01%) User Experience
13 122 (11.63%) Service Management
14 115 (10.96%) Test Automation
15 112 (10.68%) ERP
16 106 (10.10%) Computer Science
17 97 (9.25%) Project Management
18 95 (9.06%) Change Management
19 88 (8.39%) SDLC
19 88 (8.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 195 (18.59%) SQL
2 107 (10.20%) Python
3 89 (8.48%) JavaScript
4 86 (8.20%) Java
5 69 (6.58%) PowerShell
6 60 (5.72%) C#
7 33 (3.15%) Bash
7 33 (3.15%) TypeScript
8 21 (2.00%) C++
9 17 (1.62%) Go
10 14 (1.33%) T-SQL
11 10 (0.95%) C
11 10 (0.95%) PHP
12 7 (0.67%) R
13 6 (0.57%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.38%) Google Apps Script
14 4 (0.38%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.29%) Perl
15 3 (0.29%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.29%) RPG
Qualifications
1 288 (27.45%) Degree
2 92 (8.77%) Security Cleared
3 54 (5.15%) ISTQB
4 52 (4.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 52 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
4 52 (4.96%) SC Cleared
5 43 (4.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 31 (2.96%) MCSE
6 31 (2.96%) PMI Certification
7 28 (2.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 26 (2.48%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 22 (2.10%) PMP
10 20 (1.91%) DV Cleared
11 13 (1.24%) HND
12 12 (1.14%) AWS Certification
13 11 (1.05%) A+ Certification
13 11 (1.05%) Master's Degree
14 10 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 9 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 9 (0.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (12.77%) QA
2 54 (5.15%) Accessibility
3 38 (3.62%) SLA
4 35 (3.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (3.15%) PMO
6 21 (2.00%) GDPR
7 18 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 17 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 15 (1.43%) NIST
10 9 (0.86%) Data Quality
11 8 (0.76%) WCAG
12 6 (0.57%) Basel II
13 5 (0.48%) PERC
14 4 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.29%) Def Stans
15 3 (0.29%) MiFID
15 3 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.29%) SEPA
15 3 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 97 (9.25%) Active Directory
2 43 (4.10%) Docker
3 19 (1.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.53%) 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 (6.86%) HP ALM
2 45 (4.29%) Kubernetes
3 40 (3.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (2.67%) Terraform
5 20 (1.91%) Grafana
5 20 (1.91%) SCCM
6 19 (1.81%) Prometheus
7 17 (1.62%) Ansible
8 11 (1.05%) ZABBIX
9 9 (0.86%) Control-M
10 8 (0.76%) Puppet
11 6 (0.57%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.48%) Kibana
12 5 (0.48%) Nagios
12 5 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.38%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
15 2 (0.19%) Nessus
15 2 (0.19%) Podman
15 2 (0.19%) SCOM
Vendors
1 207 (19.73%) Microsoft
2 121 (11.53%) SAP
3 98 (9.34%) ServiceNow
4 79 (7.53%) Atlassian
5 72 (6.86%) HP
6 66 (6.29%) Salesforce
7 39 (3.72%) Google
8 37 (3.53%) Oracle
9 34 (3.24%) IBM
10 20 (1.91%) VMware
11 19 (1.81%) Adobe
11 19 (1.81%) HubSpot
12 17 (1.62%) Cisco
13 16 (1.53%) BMC
14 15 (1.43%) Tenable
15 13 (1.24%) Siemens
15 13 (1.24%) Zscaler
16 10 (0.95%) Citrix
16 10 (0.95%) Splunk
17 9 (0.86%) Bloomberg