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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 96 128
Rank change year-on-year -63 +32 -32
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,104 1,362 1,583
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.22% 3.14% 2.06%
As % of the Development Applications category 27.79% 37.44% 24.78%
Number of salaries quoted 819 855 1,065
10th Percentile £33,250 £32,500 £34,100
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 3,973 3,638 6,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.41% 8.38% 8.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,684 2,365 4,531
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year -7.69% +10.73% -9.69%

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 28 July 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 July 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 -64 330 £70,000 -5.08% 210
North of England -57 234 £55,000 +4.76% 67
South East +20 223 £57,500 +15.00% 134
North West -47 129 £60,000 +11.63% 33
South West -20 112 £47,500 +5.56% 43
Midlands -96 104 £42,750 -22.27% 52
East of England -16 82 £66,250 +15.22% 32
Yorkshire -44 78 £45,500 -20.87% 24
West Midlands -84 55 £45,000 -33.33% 35
East Midlands -54 49 £27,500 -24.66% 17
North East -34 27 £63,750 +97.30% 11
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
1 368 (33.33%) Confluence
2 93 (8.42%) SharePoint
3 54 (4.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.09%) CMS
5 8 (0.72%) IIS
6 7 (0.63%) SAS
7 6 (0.54%) Apache
7 6 (0.54%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.36%) JBoss
8 4 (0.36%) WordPress
9 3 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.18%) Gentran
10 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.091%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.091%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.091%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.091%) Tomcat
Applications
1 85 (7.70%) Microsoft Project
2 53 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 49 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
4 27 (2.45%) MS Visio
5 22 (1.99%) Trello
6 13 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.72%) CATIA
8 3 (0.27%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.27%) Sketch
9 2 (0.18%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.18%) InVision
9 2 (0.18%) Moqups
10 1 (0.091%) Notion
10 1 (0.091%) Simulink
10 1 (0.091%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.091%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 34 (3.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (1.00%) Fidessa
4 8 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.54%) SAP IBP
5 6 (0.54%) Shopify
6 5 (0.45%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.36%) Magento
7 4 (0.36%) Sage 200
7 4 (0.36%) SAP Business One
8 3 (0.27%) Dynamics NAV
8 3 (0.27%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.18%) Workfront
10 1 (0.091%) FLEXCUBE
10 1 (0.091%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.091%) Oracle EBS
10 1 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.091%) Oracle SCM
10 1 (0.091%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 333 (30.16%) Azure
2 159 (14.40%) AWS
3 156 (14.13%) Azure DevOps
4 125 (11.32%) Microsoft 365
5 107 (9.69%) SaaS
6 71 (6.43%) GitHub
7 58 (5.25%) Entra ID
8 57 (5.16%) Power Platform
9 46 (4.17%) GCP
10 29 (2.63%) Miro
10 29 (2.63%) Serverless
11 28 (2.54%) Mimecast
12 26 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
13 24 (2.17%) Figma
14 23 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
15 21 (1.90%) Amazon S3
16 17 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (1.36%) Smartsheet
18 14 (1.27%) Boomi
18 14 (1.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (3.44%) VPN
2 30 (2.72%) Firewall
3 29 (2.63%) DNS
3 29 (2.63%) TCP/IP
4 21 (1.90%) DHCP
4 21 (1.90%) Multicast
5 20 (1.81%) Network Security
5 20 (1.81%) WAN
6 18 (1.63%) LAN
7 13 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (0.72%) IPv4
8 8 (0.72%) Kerberos
8 8 (0.72%) Software-Defined Networking
9 5 (0.45%) Cisco ISE
9 5 (0.45%) Internet
9 5 (0.45%) NAS
9 5 (0.45%) SSL
9 5 (0.45%) VoIP
9 5 (0.45%) Wireless
10 4 (0.36%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 49 (4.44%) Power BI
3 27 (2.45%) MySQL
4 25 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (1.90%) MongoDB
7 18 (1.63%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.45%) NoSQL
8 16 (1.45%) Tableau
9 13 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (0.72%) Big Data
10 8 (0.72%) DynamoDB
11 7 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
12 6 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.54%) Geospatial Data
13 5 (0.45%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (0.36%) Data Vault
14 4 (0.36%) Power Query
14 4 (0.36%) Redis
Development Applications
1 120 (10.87%) Git
2 53 (4.80%) GitLab
3 40 (3.62%) Jenkins
4 35 (3.17%) Bitbucket
5 31 (2.81%) Selenium
6 27 (2.45%) Postman
7 24 (2.17%) Zephyr
8 17 (1.54%) Cucumber
9 13 (1.18%) Cypress.io
10 12 (1.09%) Rational DOORS
11 11 (1.00%) SonarQube
12 10 (0.91%) JMeter
13 9 (0.82%) SoapUI
14 8 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 8 (0.72%) REST Assured
14 8 (0.72%) TestRail
14 8 (0.72%) Visual Studio
15 7 (0.63%) Artifactory
15 7 (0.63%) JUnit
15 7 (0.63%) TeamCity
General
1 391 (35.42%) Social Skills
2 279 (25.27%) Finance
3 178 (16.12%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (6.61%) Marketing
5 57 (5.16%) Banking
6 56 (5.07%) Law
7 54 (4.89%) Public Sector
7 54 (4.89%) Retail
8 49 (4.44%) Legal
8 49 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
9 42 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 38 (3.44%) Influencing Skills
11 34 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
12 31 (2.81%) Games
13 27 (2.45%) Automotive
14 25 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
15 23 (2.08%) Aerospace
15 23 (2.08%) Manufacturing
16 16 (1.45%) Advertising
17 12 (1.09%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 204 (18.48%) Analyst
2 166 (15.04%) Senior
3 110 (9.96%) Lead
4 96 (8.70%) Business Analyst
5 91 (8.24%) Project Manager
6 87 (7.88%) Developer
7 73 (6.61%) IT Support
8 64 (5.80%) Support Engineer
9 49 (4.44%) Support Analyst
10 48 (4.35%) Software Engineer
11 43 (3.89%) IT Engineer
12 39 (3.53%) IT Manager
12 39 (3.53%) Systems Engineer
13 38 (3.44%) Delivery Manager
14 37 (3.35%) IT Support Engineer
15 35 (3.17%) Product Manager
16 34 (3.08%) Senior Analyst
17 32 (2.90%) Applications Support
17 32 (2.90%) Senior Developer
18 31 (2.81%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (5.16%) React
2 53 (4.80%) REST
3 46 (4.17%) HTML
4 45 (4.08%) .NET
4 45 (4.08%) CSS
5 41 (3.71%) JSON
6 34 (3.08%) Middleware
7 32 (2.90%) Node.js
8 27 (2.45%) FIX Protocol
8 27 (2.45%) SOAP
8 27 (2.45%) XML
9 25 (2.26%) RESTful
10 24 (2.17%) AngularJS
11 21 (1.90%) EDI
11 21 (1.90%) Playwright
12 20 (1.81%) pytest
13 18 (1.63%) ASP.NET
14 17 (1.54%) Spring
15 16 (1.45%) .NET Framework
16 15 (1.36%) Boost C++ Libraries
Miscellaneous
1 125 (11.32%) Product Ownership
2 109 (9.87%) Onboarding
3 53 (4.80%) Enterprise Software
4 43 (3.89%) Self-Motivation
5 38 (3.44%) Management Information System
6 35 (3.17%) Driving Licence
7 32 (2.90%) Equities
8 30 (2.72%) Data Centre
9 28 (2.54%) Cloud Native
10 24 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
11 22 (1.99%) Fixed Income
12 21 (1.90%) Derivative
12 21 (1.90%) PMI
13 19 (1.72%) Algorithms
14 17 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
15 16 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
15 16 (1.45%) Security Posture
16 15 (1.36%) Virtual Team
17 12 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
17 12 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 142 (12.86%) Windows
2 135 (12.23%) Linux
3 51 (4.62%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.81%) Mac OS
5 14 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (1.18%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.00%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.72%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.63%) CentOS
9 7 (0.63%) Unix
9 7 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.45%) Android
10 5 (0.45%) Debian
11 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.18%) ThreadX
12 2 (0.18%) VMS
13 1 (0.091%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 578 (52.36%) Agile
2 291 (26.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 280 (25.36%) DevOps
4 269 (24.37%) Stakeholder Management
5 254 (23.01%) Problem-Solving
6 226 (20.47%) Scrum
7 180 (16.30%) CI/CD
8 163 (14.76%) Project Management
9 149 (13.50%) Service Management
10 148 (13.41%) ITIL
11 140 (12.68%) ITSM
12 126 (11.41%) Decision-Making
13 124 (11.23%) Roadmaps
14 123 (11.14%) SDLC
15 120 (10.87%) CRM
15 120 (10.87%) Project Delivery
16 118 (10.69%) Workflow
17 112 (10.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 112 (10.14%) User Stories
18 111 (10.05%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 201 (18.21%) SQL
2 161 (14.58%) Python
3 90 (8.15%) Java
4 84 (7.61%) JavaScript
5 82 (7.43%) PowerShell
6 57 (5.16%) C#
7 38 (3.44%) Bash
8 37 (3.35%) TypeScript
9 32 (2.90%) C++
10 30 (2.72%) R
11 21 (1.90%) PHP
12 13 (1.18%) C
13 11 (1.00%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.82%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.63%) Bicep
15 7 (0.63%) Groovy
15 7 (0.63%) Perl
16 6 (0.54%) VB.NET
17 5 (0.45%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.45%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 180 (16.30%) Degree
2 108 (9.78%) Security Cleared
3 69 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 62 (5.62%) PMI Certification
5 52 (4.71%) PMP
6 35 (3.17%) ISTQB
7 34 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
9 25 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
11 23 (2.08%) AWS Certification
12 22 (1.99%) DV Cleared
13 20 (1.81%) CCNA
14 18 (1.63%) Master's Degree
15 9 (0.82%) CCNP
15 9 (0.82%) CISSP
15 9 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
15 9 (0.82%) RHCE
15 9 (0.82%) RHCSA
16 8 (0.72%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (13.41%) QA
2 49 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 47 (4.26%) PMO
4 42 (3.80%) Accessibility
5 34 (3.08%) SLA
6 30 (2.72%) GDPR
7 26 (2.36%) Data Quality
8 15 (1.36%) WCAG
9 13 (1.18%) TickIT
10 9 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 8 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 8 (0.72%) NIST
11 8 (0.72%) Software Quality Assurance
12 7 (0.63%) GRC
12 7 (0.63%) NCSC
13 6 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 6 (0.54%) MiFID
13 6 (0.54%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 110 (9.96%) Active Directory
2 65 (5.89%) Docker
3 33 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.36%) Hyper-V
5 12 (1.09%) vSphere
6 9 (0.82%) Firmware
7 8 (0.72%) Squid
7 8 (0.72%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
9 6 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.36%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 4 (0.36%) KVM
11 3 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (0.091%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 53 (4.80%) Terraform
2 51 (4.62%) Kubernetes
3 45 (4.08%) Ansible
3 45 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (1.27%) Packer
5 12 (1.09%) ZABBIX
6 11 (1.00%) Grafana
7 10 (0.91%) Kibana
7 10 (0.91%) SCCM
8 8 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
9 7 (0.63%) Nagios
10 6 (0.54%) Control-M
10 6 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.45%) Podman
11 5 (0.45%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.36%) Functional Safety
12 4 (0.36%) Graylog
12 4 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
12 4 (0.36%) Prometheus
12 4 (0.36%) VxRail
Vendors
1 251 (22.74%) Microsoft
2 141 (12.77%) ServiceNow
3 84 (7.61%) Salesforce
4 73 (6.61%) Oracle
5 59 (5.34%) SAP
6 43 (3.89%) Splunk
7 38 (3.44%) VMware
8 34 (3.08%) BMC
9 33 (2.99%) Cisco
9 33 (2.99%) CrowdStrike
9 33 (2.99%) IBM
10 31 (2.81%) HubSpot
11 29 (2.63%) Atlassian
11 29 (2.63%) Google
12 16 (1.45%) Red Hat
13 14 (1.27%) Meraki
14 13 (1.18%) Adobe
15 12 (1.09%) Freshdesk
16 11 (1.00%) Zscaler
17 8 (0.72%) Workday