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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 110 106
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 -35
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,064 1,247 1,501
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.98% 2.61% 2.84%
As % of the Development Applications category 33.80% 25.05% 25.09%
Number of salaries quoted 658 704 1,168
10th Percentile £30,500 £37,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £38,813 £45,250 £46,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% -2.92% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £92,500 £93,750
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 3,148 4,978 5,982
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.87% 10.41% 11.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,133 2,826 4,908
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%

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 19 January 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 19 January 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 +16 371 £75,000 +15.38% 127
South East +33 320 £45,000 -21.74% 230
North of England -47 135 £47,500 -1.05% 136
Midlands -14 104 £47,500 -9.95% 134
Yorkshire -9 67 £41,075 -3.35% 62
South West -55 66 £42,500 -11.46% 99
West Midlands -7 63 £42,500 -26.09% 61
North West -42 51 £47,683 -4.69% 57
East of England -21 44 £57,500 +12.75% 109
East Midlands -9 41 £52,500 +10.53% 70
North East -23 17 £51,500 - 17
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
1 317 (29.79%) Confluence
2 44 (4.14%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.41%) CMS
4 13 (1.22%) Apache
5 12 (1.13%) IIS
6 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
7 6 (0.56%) Tomcat
7 6 (0.56%) WordPress
8 5 (0.47%) Umbraco
9 4 (0.38%) JBoss
9 4 (0.38%) nginx
10 3 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.19%) Documentum
11 2 (0.19%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.094%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.094%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.094%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.094%) SAS
12 1 (0.094%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 67 (6.30%) Microsoft Office
2 59 (5.55%) Microsoft Project
3 50 (4.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 29 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 26 (2.44%) MS Visio
6 20 (1.88%) Trello
7 14 (1.32%) CATIA
8 5 (0.47%) Windchill
9 4 (0.38%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 3 (0.28%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.28%) Simulink
11 2 (0.19%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.19%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.19%) Sketch
11 2 (0.19%) Spreadsheet
12 1 (0.094%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.094%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.094%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.094%) Doxygen
12 1 (0.094%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 89 (8.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (2.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.66%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
4 5 (0.47%) Magento
4 5 (0.47%) Shopify
5 4 (0.38%) Elite 3E
6 3 (0.28%) SAP CX
6 3 (0.28%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.19%) Endur
7 2 (0.19%) EuroRunner
7 2 (0.19%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 2 (0.19%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.19%) Sage X3
7 2 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.19%) SAP MII
7 2 (0.19%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.094%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 200 (18.80%) Azure
2 156 (14.66%) Azure DevOps
3 81 (7.61%) AWS
4 80 (7.52%) Microsoft 365
5 58 (5.45%) SaaS
6 51 (4.79%) Power Platform
7 45 (4.23%) GitHub
8 31 (2.91%) Figma
9 30 (2.82%) Entra ID
10 28 (2.63%) Slack
11 27 (2.54%) GCP
12 22 (2.07%) Serverless
13 19 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
14 17 (1.60%) Google Workspace
15 16 (1.50%) PaaS
15 16 (1.50%) Power Automate
16 15 (1.41%) Amazon S3
17 14 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
17 14 (1.32%) Salesforce Service Cloud
18 13 (1.22%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.82%) DNS
1 30 (2.82%) Firewall
2 19 (1.79%) DHCP
3 18 (1.69%) VPN
4 16 (1.50%) Multicast
5 14 (1.32%) HTTP
6 13 (1.22%) TCP/IP
6 13 (1.22%) VLAN
7 10 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (0.75%) SSH
9 6 (0.56%) FTP
9 6 (0.56%) LAN
9 6 (0.56%) SMTP
9 6 (0.56%) WAN
9 6 (0.56%) Wireless
10 5 (0.47%) Broadband
10 5 (0.47%) Cisco ISE
10 5 (0.47%) Internet
11 4 (0.38%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (0.38%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (6.48%) SQL Server
2 31 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (2.82%) Power BI
4 25 (2.35%) MySQL
5 21 (1.97%) Relational Database
6 16 (1.50%) NoSQL
7 15 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
7 15 (1.41%) MongoDB
8 11 (1.03%) DB2
8 11 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (0.75%) BusinessObjects
9 8 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (0.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 7 (0.66%) Tableau
11 6 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.47%) OLAP
12 5 (0.47%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 134 (12.59%) Git
2 84 (7.89%) Jenkins
3 73 (6.86%) Selenium
4 69 (6.48%) eCATT
5 57 (5.36%) Postman
6 41 (3.85%) Bitbucket
7 39 (3.67%) NeoLoad
7 39 (3.67%) Team Foundation Server
8 38 (3.57%) SoapUI
9 33 (3.10%) WebDriver
10 28 (2.63%) Rational DOORS
11 27 (2.54%) GitLab
12 24 (2.26%) Cypress.io
13 19 (1.79%) Cucumber
14 17 (1.60%) Visual Studio
15 16 (1.50%) TeamCity
16 15 (1.41%) JUnit
16 15 (1.41%) TestRail
17 14 (1.32%) Subversion
18 13 (1.22%) JMeter
General
1 476 (44.74%) Social Skills
2 314 (29.51%) Finance
3 147 (13.82%) Analytical Skills
4 124 (11.65%) Marketing
5 99 (9.30%) Manufacturing
6 90 (8.46%) Presentation Skills
7 73 (6.86%) Banking
8 67 (6.30%) Organisational Skills
9 66 (6.20%) Influencing Skills
10 47 (4.42%) Law
11 37 (3.48%) Legal
12 34 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 33 (3.10%) Retail
14 25 (2.35%) Public Sector
15 22 (2.07%) Advertising
16 19 (1.79%) Electronics
16 19 (1.79%) French Language
16 19 (1.79%) Front Office
17 18 (1.69%) Swedish Language
18 13 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 225 (21.15%) Analyst
2 184 (17.29%) Senior
3 174 (16.35%) Lead
4 104 (9.77%) Developer
5 67 (6.30%) Business Analyst
6 65 (6.11%) Support Analyst
7 49 (4.61%) Test Analyst
8 48 (4.51%) Support Engineer
9 44 (4.14%) Project Manager
9 44 (4.14%) Test Leader
10 38 (3.57%) Applications Support
10 38 (3.57%) Team Leader
11 34 (3.20%) IT Support
11 34 (3.20%) Software Engineer
12 30 (2.82%) Applications Support Analyst
13 28 (2.63%) Technical Support
14 27 (2.54%) Product Owner
14 27 (2.54%) Senior Analyst
15 26 (2.44%) Senior Developer
16 25 (2.35%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (7.89%) HTML
2 67 (6.30%) .NET
3 50 (4.70%) SOAP
4 46 (4.32%) CSS
5 41 (3.85%) React
6 40 (3.76%) REST
7 30 (2.82%) RESTful
8 29 (2.73%) Node.js
9 21 (1.97%) Elastic Stack
10 19 (1.79%) Kafka
11 18 (1.69%) Spring
12 17 (1.60%) FIX Protocol
12 17 (1.60%) XML
13 16 (1.50%) Middleware
14 13 (1.22%) AngularJS
14 13 (1.22%) pytest
14 13 (1.22%) Spring Boot
15 12 (1.13%) Boost C++ Libraries
16 11 (1.03%) Gherkin
16 11 (1.03%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 85 (7.99%) Product Ownership
2 78 (7.33%) Onboarding
3 35 (3.29%) Management Information System
4 26 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
5 22 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
6 20 (1.88%) Equities
6 20 (1.88%) Virtual Team
7 19 (1.79%) Cloud Native
8 18 (1.69%) Fixed Income
9 17 (1.60%) Algorithms
9 17 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
10 14 (1.32%) Derivative
10 14 (1.32%) Mobile App
11 13 (1.22%) Data Centre
12 12 (1.13%) Embedded Systems
13 11 (1.03%) PMI
14 8 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
14 8 (0.75%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (0.75%) Satnav
Operating Systems
1 108 (10.15%) Windows
2 98 (9.21%) Linux
3 23 (2.16%) Windows Server
4 16 (1.50%) Windows 10
5 13 (1.22%) Mac OS
6 9 (0.85%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.75%) Unix
8 7 (0.66%) Android
8 7 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.56%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (0.56%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.56%) VMS
9 6 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.28%) OpenWrt
12 3 (0.28%) Solaris
13 2 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
14 1 (0.094%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.094%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 466 (43.80%) Agile
2 292 (27.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 244 (22.93%) Problem-Solving
4 170 (15.98%) DevOps
5 164 (15.41%) Scrum
6 149 (14.00%) Test Management
7 146 (13.72%) ITIL
8 139 (13.06%) CI/CD
9 130 (12.22%) Roadmaps
10 128 (12.03%) Stakeholder Management
11 126 (11.84%) Test Automation
12 124 (11.65%) User Experience
13 118 (11.09%) Change Management
14 112 (10.53%) ITSM
15 106 (9.96%) Computer Science
15 106 (9.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 101 (9.49%) ERP
16 101 (9.49%) Project Management
17 97 (9.12%) Service Management
18 89 (8.36%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 206 (19.36%) SQL
2 119 (11.18%) Python
3 95 (8.93%) JavaScript
4 93 (8.74%) Java
5 81 (7.61%) PowerShell
6 76 (7.14%) C#
7 41 (3.85%) TypeScript
8 33 (3.10%) Bash
9 23 (2.16%) C++
10 18 (1.69%) Go
11 11 (1.03%) Apex Code
12 10 (0.94%) Groovy
12 10 (0.94%) T-SQL
13 9 (0.85%) C
14 7 (0.66%) PHP
15 5 (0.47%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.38%) Google Apps Script
16 4 (0.38%) Perl
17 3 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 3 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 321 (30.17%) Degree
2 115 (10.81%) Security Cleared
3 68 (6.39%) ISTQB
4 59 (5.55%) SC Cleared
5 56 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 47 (4.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 40 (3.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (3.10%) PMI Certification
9 32 (3.01%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 29 (2.73%) MCSE
11 27 (2.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 24 (2.26%) PMP
13 20 (1.88%) DV Cleared
14 15 (1.41%) AWS Certification
14 15 (1.41%) HND
15 14 (1.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 13 (1.22%) A+ Certification
16 13 (1.22%) Master's Degree
17 9 (0.85%) Azure Certification
18 8 (0.75%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (14.85%) QA
2 62 (5.83%) Accessibility
3 35 (3.29%) PMO
3 35 (3.29%) SLA
4 31 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 30 (2.82%) Def Stans
6 20 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 19 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 18 (1.69%) Data Quality
9 17 (1.60%) GDPR
10 15 (1.41%) NIST
11 10 (0.94%) WCAG
12 6 (0.56%) Basel II
13 5 (0.47%) PERC
14 4 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.28%) MiFID
15 3 (0.28%) P3O
15 3 (0.28%) SEPA
15 3 (0.28%) SOC 2
16 2 (0.19%) MISRA
System Software
1 96 (9.02%) Active Directory
2 48 (4.51%) Docker
3 17 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.66%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.56%) vSphere
7 4 (0.38%) DFS Replication
7 4 (0.38%) Dovecot
7 4 (0.38%) Postfix
7 4 (0.38%) Squid
8 2 (0.19%) Firmware
8 2 (0.19%) Terminal Server
8 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 73 (6.86%) HP ALM
2 47 (4.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 45 (4.23%) Kubernetes
4 34 (3.20%) Terraform
5 28 (2.63%) Grafana
6 26 (2.44%) Prometheus
7 18 (1.69%) SCCM
8 17 (1.60%) Ansible
9 11 (1.03%) ZABBIX
10 10 (0.94%) Control-M
11 9 (0.85%) Puppet
12 7 (0.66%) Nessus
13 5 (0.47%) Kibana
13 5 (0.47%) Progress Chef
13 5 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.47%) vCenter Server
14 4 (0.38%) Nagios
14 4 (0.38%) Proxmox
15 3 (0.28%) HP Quality Center
16 2 (0.19%) SCOM
Vendors
1 211 (19.83%) Microsoft
2 121 (11.37%) SAP
3 92 (8.65%) ServiceNow
4 82 (7.71%) Atlassian
5 74 (6.95%) HP
6 63 (5.92%) Salesforce
7 43 (4.04%) Oracle
8 38 (3.57%) Google
9 31 (2.91%) IBM
10 20 (1.88%) Adobe
11 19 (1.79%) VMware
12 14 (1.32%) Cisco
13 13 (1.22%) HubSpot
14 12 (1.13%) Tenable
15 11 (1.03%) Siemens
16 10 (0.94%) BMC
17 9 (0.85%) Dynatrace
17 9 (0.85%) Qualtrics
18 8 (0.75%) Reuters
18 8 (0.75%) Zscaler