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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 100 126
Rank change year-on-year -60 +26 -32
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,095 1,364 1,627
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.23% 3.15% 2.07%
As % of the Development Applications category 27.86% 37.32% 24.79%
Number of salaries quoted 813 856 1,106
10th Percentile £33,250 £32,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £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 £96,875 £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 3,930 3,655 6,564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.40% 8.44% 8.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,660 2,380 4,669
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,969 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,018 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.13% +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 £58,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +12.07% -10.77%

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 25 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 25 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 -73 329 £70,000 -6.67% 197
North of England -52 232 £55,000 +4.76% 67
South East 0 222 £57,500 +15.00% 127
North West -47 129 £60,000 +11.63% 33
South West -30 110 £47,500 +5.56% 38
Midlands -100 102 £42,750 -22.27% 51
East of England -10 80 £70,000 +21.74% 35
Yorkshire -44 76 £46,000 -23.33% 26
West Midlands -92 53 £46,250 -31.48% 34
East Midlands -64 49 £27,125 -25.68% 17
North East -37 27 £63,750 +97.30% 9
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
1 364 (33.24%) Confluence
2 94 (8.58%) SharePoint
3 55 (5.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (1.00%) CMS
5 8 (0.73%) IIS
6 7 (0.64%) SAS
7 6 (0.55%) Apache
7 6 (0.55%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.37%) JBoss
8 4 (0.37%) 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%) Drupal
11 1 (0.091%) nginx
11 1 (0.091%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.091%) WebSphere
Applications
1 84 (7.67%) Microsoft Project
2 53 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 47 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (2.28%) MS Visio
5 22 (2.01%) Trello
6 14 (1.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.73%) 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 (3.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 11 (1.00%) Fidessa
4 8 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.55%) SAP IBP
5 6 (0.55%) Shopify
6 5 (0.46%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.37%) Magento
7 4 (0.37%) Sage 200
7 4 (0.37%) 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
1 331 (30.23%) Azure
2 156 (14.25%) Azure DevOps
3 154 (14.06%) AWS
4 129 (11.78%) Microsoft 365
5 107 (9.77%) SaaS
6 71 (6.48%) GitHub
7 60 (5.48%) Entra ID
8 55 (5.02%) Power Platform
9 45 (4.11%) GCP
10 29 (2.65%) Mimecast
10 29 (2.65%) Serverless
11 28 (2.56%) Miro
12 26 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
12 26 (2.37%) Figma
13 23 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (1.92%) Amazon S3
15 17 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
16 15 (1.37%) Smartsheet
17 14 (1.28%) Boomi
17 14 (1.28%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (3.56%) VPN
2 30 (2.74%) DNS
2 30 (2.74%) Firewall
2 30 (2.74%) TCP/IP
3 21 (1.92%) DHCP
3 21 (1.92%) Multicast
4 20 (1.83%) Network Security
4 20 (1.83%) WAN
5 18 (1.64%) LAN
6 13 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (0.73%) IPv4
7 8 (0.73%) Kerberos
7 8 (0.73%) Software-Defined Networking
8 5 (0.46%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (0.46%) Internet
8 5 (0.46%) SSL
8 5 (0.46%) VoIP
8 5 (0.46%) Wireless
9 4 (0.37%) NAS
9 4 (0.37%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (5.66%) SQL Server
2 47 (4.29%) Power BI
3 27 (2.47%) MySQL
4 24 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (1.92%) MongoDB
6 18 (1.64%) Relational Database
7 16 (1.46%) NoSQL
7 16 (1.46%) Tableau
8 13 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (0.73%) Big Data
9 8 (0.73%) DynamoDB
10 7 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (0.55%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
12 5 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.37%) Data Vault
13 4 (0.37%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.37%) Power Query
13 4 (0.37%) Redis
Development Applications
1 118 (10.78%) Git
2 52 (4.75%) GitLab
3 40 (3.65%) Jenkins
4 33 (3.01%) Bitbucket
5 31 (2.83%) Selenium
6 27 (2.47%) Postman
7 24 (2.19%) Zephyr
8 17 (1.55%) Cucumber
9 13 (1.19%) Cypress.io
10 12 (1.10%) Rational DOORS
11 11 (1.00%) SonarQube
12 10 (0.91%) JMeter
13 9 (0.82%) SoapUI
14 8 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 8 (0.73%) REST Assured
14 8 (0.73%) TestRail
14 8 (0.73%) Visual Studio
15 7 (0.64%) Artifactory
15 7 (0.64%) JUnit
15 7 (0.64%) TeamCity
General
1 391 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 276 (25.21%) Finance
3 172 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (6.48%) Marketing
5 54 (4.93%) Banking
5 54 (4.93%) Law
5 54 (4.93%) Public Sector
6 53 (4.84%) Retail
7 49 (4.47%) Legal
7 49 (4.47%) Organisational Skills
8 40 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 37 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
10 32 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
11 31 (2.83%) Games
12 27 (2.47%) Automotive
13 25 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
14 21 (1.92%) Aerospace
15 20 (1.83%) Manufacturing
16 16 (1.46%) Advertising
17 12 (1.10%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 200 (18.26%) Analyst
2 165 (15.07%) Senior
3 107 (9.77%) Lead
4 94 (8.58%) Business Analyst
5 89 (8.13%) Project Manager
6 87 (7.95%) Developer
7 74 (6.76%) IT Support
8 66 (6.03%) Support Engineer
9 50 (4.57%) Support Analyst
10 49 (4.47%) Software Engineer
11 43 (3.93%) IT Engineer
12 39 (3.56%) Systems Engineer
13 38 (3.47%) IT Manager
14 37 (3.38%) Delivery Manager
14 37 (3.38%) IT Support Engineer
15 35 (3.20%) Product Manager
16 33 (3.01%) Senior Analyst
17 32 (2.92%) Applications Support
17 32 (2.92%) Scrum Master
17 32 (2.92%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (5.21%) React
2 53 (4.84%) REST
3 46 (4.20%) HTML
4 45 (4.11%) CSS
5 43 (3.93%) .NET
6 40 (3.65%) JSON
7 34 (3.11%) Middleware
8 32 (2.92%) Node.js
9 27 (2.47%) FIX Protocol
9 27 (2.47%) SOAP
10 26 (2.37%) XML
11 25 (2.28%) RESTful
12 24 (2.19%) AngularJS
13 21 (1.92%) Playwright
14 20 (1.83%) EDI
14 20 (1.83%) pytest
15 18 (1.64%) ASP.NET
15 18 (1.64%) Spring
16 16 (1.46%) .NET Framework
17 15 (1.37%) Boost C++ Libraries
Miscellaneous
1 125 (11.42%) Product Ownership
2 110 (10.05%) Onboarding
3 53 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
4 41 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
5 38 (3.47%) Management Information System
6 35 (3.20%) Driving Licence
7 32 (2.92%) Equities
8 28 (2.56%) Data Centre
9 27 (2.47%) Cloud Native
10 22 (2.01%) Fixed Income
10 22 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
11 21 (1.92%) Derivative
12 19 (1.74%) Algorithms
12 19 (1.74%) PMI
13 17 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
14 16 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
14 16 (1.46%) Security Posture
14 16 (1.46%) Virtual Team
15 12 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
15 12 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 143 (13.06%) Windows
2 135 (12.33%) Linux
3 51 (4.66%) Windows Server
4 20 (1.83%) Mac OS
5 14 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (1.19%) Ubuntu
7 11 (1.00%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.73%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.64%) CentOS
9 7 (0.64%) Unix
9 7 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.46%) Android
10 5 (0.46%) Debian
11 4 (0.37%) 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
1 573 (52.33%) Agile
2 286 (26.12%) Continuous Improvement
3 278 (25.39%) DevOps
4 264 (24.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 249 (22.74%) Problem-Solving
6 227 (20.73%) Scrum
7 179 (16.35%) CI/CD
8 158 (14.43%) Project Management
9 145 (13.24%) ITIL
10 144 (13.15%) Service Management
11 137 (12.51%) ITSM
12 124 (11.32%) Roadmaps
13 123 (11.23%) Decision-Making
14 122 (11.14%) SDLC
15 119 (10.87%) CRM
16 117 (10.68%) Workflow
17 113 (10.32%) Project Delivery
18 112 (10.23%) Software Engineering
18 112 (10.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 111 (10.14%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 196 (17.90%) SQL
2 155 (14.16%) Python
3 91 (8.31%) Java
4 84 (7.67%) JavaScript
5 81 (7.40%) PowerShell
6 54 (4.93%) C#
7 38 (3.47%) Bash
8 37 (3.38%) TypeScript
9 31 (2.83%) R
10 29 (2.65%) C++
11 21 (1.92%) PHP
12 13 (1.19%) C
13 11 (1.00%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.82%) PL/SQL
15 7 (0.64%) Bicep
15 7 (0.64%) Groovy
16 6 (0.55%) Perl
16 6 (0.55%) VB.NET
17 5 (0.46%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.46%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 176 (16.07%) Degree
2 109 (9.95%) Security Cleared
3 69 (6.30%) SC Cleared
4 59 (5.39%) PMI Certification
5 51 (4.66%) PMP
6 35 (3.20%) ISTQB
7 34 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 29 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
9 25 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (2.10%) AWS Certification
10 23 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
11 21 (1.92%) DV Cleared
12 20 (1.83%) CCNA
13 18 (1.64%) Master's Degree
14 9 (0.82%) CCNP
14 9 (0.82%) CISSP
14 9 (0.82%) RHCE
14 9 (0.82%) RHCSA
15 8 (0.73%) Azure Certification
15 8 (0.73%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (13.42%) QA
2 50 (4.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 46 (4.20%) PMO
4 41 (3.74%) Accessibility
5 34 (3.11%) SLA
6 30 (2.74%) GDPR
7 26 (2.37%) Data Quality
8 15 (1.37%) WCAG
9 13 (1.19%) TickIT
10 9 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 8 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 12207
11 8 (0.73%) NIST
11 8 (0.73%) Software Quality Assurance
12 7 (0.64%) GRC
12 7 (0.64%) NCSC
13 6 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.55%) MiFID
13 6 (0.55%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 111 (10.14%) Active Directory
2 65 (5.94%) Docker
3 33 (3.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.37%) Hyper-V
5 12 (1.10%) vSphere
6 9 (0.82%) Firmware
7 8 (0.73%) Squid
7 8 (0.73%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.64%) Embedded Firmware
9 6 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.37%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 4 (0.37%) 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 52 (4.75%) Terraform
2 51 (4.66%) Kubernetes
3 46 (4.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 43 (3.93%) Ansible
5 14 (1.28%) Packer
6 12 (1.10%) ZABBIX
7 11 (1.00%) Grafana
8 10 (0.91%) Kibana
8 10 (0.91%) SCCM
9 8 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
10 7 (0.64%) Nagios
11 6 (0.55%) Control-M
11 6 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.46%) Podman
12 5 (0.46%) Proxmox
13 4 (0.37%) Functional Safety
13 4 (0.37%) Graylog
13 4 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.37%) Prometheus
13 4 (0.37%) VxRail
Vendors
1 252 (23.01%) Microsoft
2 141 (12.88%) ServiceNow
3 83 (7.58%) Salesforce
4 70 (6.39%) Oracle
5 58 (5.30%) SAP
6 42 (3.84%) Splunk
7 38 (3.47%) VMware
8 34 (3.11%) BMC
8 34 (3.11%) CrowdStrike
9 33 (3.01%) Cisco
9 33 (3.01%) IBM
10 31 (2.83%) HubSpot
11 29 (2.65%) Atlassian
12 28 (2.56%) Google
13 16 (1.46%) Red Hat
14 14 (1.28%) Meraki
15 13 (1.19%) Adobe
16 12 (1.10%) Freshdesk
17 11 (1.00%) Zscaler
18 8 (0.73%) Workday