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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 96 129
Rank change year-on-year -71 +33 -35
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,173 1,336 1,382
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.17% 3.08% 2.00%
As % of the Development Applications category 29.06% 40.82% 23.53%
Number of salaries quoted 799 793 822
10th Percentile £34,850 £32,550 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,750 £41,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,250 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,750 £94,500 £85,000
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 4,037 3,273 5,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.04% 7.54% 8.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,596 2,039 3,597
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +5.00% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -61 366 £70,000 -8.50% 502
North of England -39 242 £55,000 +10.00% 133
South East -18 234 £57,500 +21.05% 164
North West -36 135 £60,000 +20.00% 66
South West -33 134 £55,000 +22.22% 97
Midlands -83 111 £43,250 -21.36% 67
Yorkshire -41 76 £43,000 -11.35% 47
West Midlands -80 75 £45,000 -30.77% 45
East of England -40 71 £62,500 +8.70% 77
East Midlands -70 36 £38,500 -12.00% 22
North East -38 31 £63,750 +54.55% 21
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
1 403 (34.36%) Confluence
2 94 (8.01%) SharePoint
3 57 (4.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (1.19%) CMS
5 8 (0.68%) IIS
6 7 (0.60%) SAS
7 6 (0.51%) JBoss
7 6 (0.51%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.34%) Apache
9 3 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.26%) Drupal
9 3 (0.26%) nginx
9 3 (0.26%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.26%) WordPress
10 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.17%) Gentran
11 1 (0.085%) MTS
11 1 (0.085%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.085%) WebSphere
Applications
1 105 (8.95%) Microsoft Project
2 67 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 62 (5.29%) Microsoft Office
4 51 (4.35%) MS Visio
5 23 (1.96%) Trello
6 19 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.60%) CATIA
8 5 (0.43%) Moqups
9 3 (0.26%) Simulink
9 3 (0.26%) Sketch
10 2 (0.17%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.17%) InVision
11 1 (0.085%) Notion
11 1 (0.085%) OrCAD
11 1 (0.085%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 40 (3.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (1.11%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.51%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.43%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.34%) Sage 200
6 4 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.34%) SAP Business One
7 3 (0.26%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
8 2 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 2 (0.17%) Magento
8 2 (0.17%) Shopify
9 1 (0.085%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.085%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.085%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.085%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.085%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.085%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 365 (31.12%) Azure
2 188 (16.03%) AWS
3 169 (14.41%) Azure DevOps
4 136 (11.59%) Microsoft 365
5 126 (10.74%) SaaS
6 77 (6.56%) Entra ID
7 72 (6.14%) GitHub
8 55 (4.69%) Power Platform
9 45 (3.84%) GCP
10 32 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
10 32 (2.73%) Mimecast
11 31 (2.64%) Miro
11 31 (2.64%) Serverless
12 26 (2.22%) Figma
13 24 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (1.79%) Amazon S3
15 19 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
17 15 (1.28%) Boomi
18 14 (1.19%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 47 (4.01%) DNS
2 45 (3.84%) VPN
3 40 (3.41%) DHCP
4 33 (2.81%) TCP/IP
5 32 (2.73%) Firewall
6 23 (1.96%) WAN
7 21 (1.79%) Multicast
7 21 (1.79%) Network Security
8 20 (1.71%) LAN
9 14 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.77%) Kerberos
10 9 (0.77%) VLAN
11 8 (0.68%) IPv4
11 8 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
12 6 (0.51%) FIX Connectivity
12 6 (0.51%) HTTP
12 6 (0.51%) NX-OS
13 5 (0.43%) NAS
13 5 (0.43%) SSH
13 5 (0.43%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (4.86%) SQL Server
2 51 (4.35%) Power BI
3 26 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (1.79%) MongoDB
4 21 (1.79%) MySQL
5 19 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (1.36%) Relational Database
6 16 (1.36%) Tableau
7 14 (1.19%) NoSQL
8 13 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (0.60%) DynamoDB
9 7 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
10 6 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.43%) Metadata
11 5 (0.43%) Redis
12 4 (0.34%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.34%) Big Data
12 4 (0.34%) Data Vault
12 4 (0.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 130 (11.08%) Git
2 59 (5.03%) GitLab
3 48 (4.09%) Jenkins
4 35 (2.98%) Bitbucket
4 35 (2.98%) Selenium
5 32 (2.73%) Postman
6 26 (2.22%) Zephyr
7 25 (2.13%) Cypress.io
8 22 (1.88%) Rational DOORS
9 17 (1.45%) Cucumber
10 14 (1.19%) JMeter
11 11 (0.94%) SoapUI
11 11 (0.94%) SonarQube
12 10 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 9 (0.77%) Visual Studio
14 8 (0.68%) REST Assured
14 8 (0.68%) Subversion
14 8 (0.68%) TestRail
15 7 (0.60%) Artifactory
15 7 (0.60%) Claude Code
General
1 419 (35.72%) Social Skills
2 343 (29.24%) Finance
3 220 (18.76%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (6.22%) Marketing
5 66 (5.63%) Public Sector
6 65 (5.54%) Organisational Skills
7 62 (5.29%) Banking
8 61 (5.20%) Aerospace
9 59 (5.03%) Law
10 57 (4.86%) Retail
11 52 (4.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 50 (4.26%) Legal
13 42 (3.58%) Manufacturing
14 36 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
15 30 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
16 29 (2.47%) Games
17 26 (2.22%) Automotive
18 25 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
18 25 (2.13%) Electronics
19 16 (1.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 244 (20.80%) Analyst
2 179 (15.26%) Senior
3 125 (10.66%) Business Analyst
4 124 (10.57%) Lead
5 100 (8.53%) Project Manager
6 85 (7.25%) Developer
7 64 (5.46%) IT Support
8 49 (4.18%) Support Engineer
9 47 (4.01%) Support Analyst
10 46 (3.92%) Senior Analyst
10 46 (3.92%) Software Engineer
11 41 (3.50%) IT Analyst
11 41 (3.50%) IT Manager
11 41 (3.50%) Product Owner
12 38 (3.24%) IT Engineer
13 35 (2.98%) Delivery Manager
14 34 (2.90%) Systems Engineer
15 32 (2.73%) Technical Analyst
16 31 (2.64%) Consultant
16 31 (2.64%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (6.14%) REST
2 53 (4.52%) Terraform
3 51 (4.35%) HTML
4 47 (4.01%) React
5 46 (3.92%) .NET
6 44 (3.75%) JSON
7 38 (3.24%) CSS
8 31 (2.64%) XML
9 30 (2.56%) Playwright
9 30 (2.56%) SOAP
10 29 (2.47%) FIX Protocol
10 29 (2.47%) Middleware
11 28 (2.39%) RESTful
12 24 (2.05%) Node.js
13 23 (1.96%) Gherkin
14 22 (1.88%) AngularJS
15 18 (1.53%) EDI
15 18 (1.53%) pytest
16 16 (1.36%) ASP.NET
17 15 (1.28%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 158 (13.47%) Product Ownership
2 104 (8.87%) Onboarding
3 65 (5.54%) Enterprise Software
4 50 (4.26%) Management Information System
5 44 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
6 41 (3.50%) Data Centre
6 41 (3.50%) Driving Licence
7 37 (3.15%) Cloud Native
8 32 (2.73%) Equities
9 31 (2.64%) PMI
10 28 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
11 23 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
11 23 (1.96%) Fixed Income
12 19 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
13 18 (1.53%) Derivative
13 18 (1.53%) Virtual Team
14 16 (1.36%) Algorithms
15 15 (1.28%) Security Posture
16 13 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
17 12 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 153 (13.04%) Windows
2 134 (11.42%) Linux
3 47 (4.01%) Windows Server
4 22 (1.88%) Mac OS
5 13 (1.11%) Ubuntu
5 13 (1.11%) Windows 10
6 12 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (0.94%) Unix
8 10 (0.85%) Android
8 10 (0.85%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.51%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.43%) CentOS
10 5 (0.43%) Debian
11 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.17%) VMS
13 1 (0.085%) FreeRTOS
13 1 (0.085%) Rocky
13 1 (0.085%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 617 (52.60%) Agile
2 340 (28.99%) Continuous Improvement
3 329 (28.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 300 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
5 299 (25.49%) DevOps
6 264 (22.51%) Scrum
7 204 (17.39%) Project Management
8 181 (15.43%) CI/CD
9 174 (14.83%) ITIL
10 172 (14.66%) AI
11 160 (13.64%) User Stories
12 151 (12.87%) Service Management
13 148 (12.62%) Project Delivery
14 145 (12.36%) Decision-Making
15 144 (12.28%) Roadmaps
16 141 (12.02%) Workflow
17 132 (11.25%) ITSM
17 132 (11.25%) Requirements Gathering
18 129 (11.00%) Acceptance Criteria
18 129 (11.00%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 202 (17.22%) SQL
2 171 (14.58%) Python
3 100 (8.53%) Java
4 97 (8.27%) PowerShell
5 80 (6.82%) JavaScript
6 60 (5.12%) C#
7 39 (3.32%) C++
8 38 (3.24%) Bash
9 37 (3.15%) TypeScript
10 35 (2.98%) R
11 14 (1.19%) PHP
12 11 (0.94%) C
12 11 (0.94%) Perl
13 8 (0.68%) Bicep
14 7 (0.60%) Groovy
15 6 (0.51%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.51%) Tcl
15 6 (0.51%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.51%) VB.NET
16 5 (0.43%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 221 (18.84%) Degree
2 143 (12.19%) Security Cleared
3 87 (7.42%) SC Cleared
4 79 (6.73%) PMI Certification
5 60 (5.12%) PMP
6 41 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 37 (3.15%) DV Cleared
9 36 (3.07%) Cisco Certification
10 33 (2.81%) ISTQB
11 29 (2.47%) AWS Certification
12 28 (2.39%) Master's Degree
12 28 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
13 26 (2.22%) CCNA
14 25 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
15 15 (1.28%) A+ Certification
16 11 (0.94%) CISSP
16 11 (0.94%) CSPO
17 10 (0.85%) CCNP
18 9 (0.77%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (14.92%) QA
2 58 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 56 (4.77%) PMO
4 48 (4.09%) Accessibility
5 35 (2.98%) Data Quality
6 29 (2.47%) SLA
7 28 (2.39%) GDPR
8 18 (1.53%) WCAG
9 13 (1.11%) TickIT
10 11 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 10 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 10 (0.85%) NCSC
11 10 (0.85%) NIST
12 7 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 7 (0.60%) Software Quality Assurance
13 6 (0.51%) GRC
13 6 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.34%) ISO 20022
14 4 (0.34%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 117 (9.97%) Active Directory
2 54 (4.60%) Docker
3 37 (3.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.45%) vSphere
5 16 (1.36%) Hyper-V
6 12 (1.02%) Firmware
6 12 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (0.68%) Squid
7 8 (0.68%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.34%) KVM
10 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.17%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.085%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.085%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.085%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 53 (4.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 49 (4.18%) Kubernetes
3 44 (3.75%) Ansible
4 14 (1.19%) Packer
5 12 (1.02%) ZABBIX
6 9 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.68%) Grafana
7 8 (0.68%) Kibana
8 7 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
8 7 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
8 7 (0.60%) SCCM
9 6 (0.51%) BMC PATROL
9 6 (0.51%) Control-M
9 6 (0.51%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.51%) Proxmox
10 5 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (0.34%) Functional Safety
11 4 (0.34%) Graylog
11 4 (0.34%) Nagios
11 4 (0.34%) Podman
Vendors
1 290 (24.72%) Microsoft
2 146 (12.45%) ServiceNow
3 79 (6.73%) Oracle
4 78 (6.65%) Salesforce
5 71 (6.05%) SAP
6 43 (3.67%) VMware
7 41 (3.50%) Atlassian
8 39 (3.32%) Cisco
8 39 (3.32%) Splunk
9 33 (2.81%) CrowdStrike
10 31 (2.64%) Google
11 29 (2.47%) IBM
12 26 (2.22%) BMC
13 24 (2.05%) HubSpot
14 20 (1.71%) Red Hat
15 14 (1.19%) Meraki
16 12 (1.02%) Sage
17 11 (0.94%) Adobe
17 11 (0.94%) ION Trading
18 9 (0.77%) Bloomberg