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

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 100 102
Rank change year-on-year -51 +2 -18
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 999 1,088 2,057
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.41% 2.98% 2.62%
As % of the Development Applications category 27.76% 28.14% 27.10%
Number of salaries quoted 722 786 1,545
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £31,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £45,000 £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 £75,900 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -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 3,599 3,866 7,590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.06% 10.58% 9.65%
Number of salaries quoted 2,475 2,717 6,047
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,125 £48,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.51% +5.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £105,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -26 312 £75,000 +7.53% 202
South East +16 234 £52,500 -12.50% 145
North of England -83 172 £51,500 +0.98% 115
Midlands -38 121 £44,543 -15.96% 70
North West -45 86 £65,000 +16.07% 60
Yorkshire -71 68 £46,000 -5.17% 37
East of England -18 66 £55,000 +15.79% 47
South West -68 66 £42,500 -11.46% 42
West Midlands -43 64 £44,543 -31.47% 42
East Midlands -33 57 £42,500 +13.33% 28
North East -36 18 £52,000 +131.11% 18
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
1 345 (34.53%) Confluence
2 71 (7.11%) SharePoint
3 30 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (1.10%) CMS
5 10 (1.00%) Apache
6 9 (0.90%) IIS
7 6 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.50%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.50%) WordPress
9 4 (0.40%) Documentum
10 2 (0.20%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.10%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.10%) Drupal
11 1 (0.10%) nginx
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.10%) SAS
11 1 (0.10%) Tuxedo
11 1 (0.10%) Umbraco
Applications
1 70 (7.01%) Microsoft Project
2 49 (4.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 36 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
4 25 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (2.30%) MS Visio
6 15 (1.50%) CATIA
7 12 (1.20%) Trello
8 4 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.10%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 22 (2.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (1.00%) Magento
3 10 (1.00%) Shopify
4 9 (0.90%) Dynamics NAV
4 9 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.50%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (0.20%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 2 (0.20%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.20%) SAP CX
6 2 (0.20%) SAP IBP
6 2 (0.20%) Visualfiles
6 2 (0.20%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.10%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.10%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 1 (0.10%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.10%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.10%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 237 (23.72%) Azure
2 114 (11.41%) Azure DevOps
3 95 (9.51%) Microsoft 365
4 88 (8.81%) AWS
5 71 (7.11%) SaaS
6 52 (5.21%) GitHub
7 49 (4.90%) Power Platform
8 40 (4.00%) Entra ID
8 40 (4.00%) GCP
9 28 (2.80%) Dynamics 365
10 24 (2.40%) PaaS
11 23 (2.30%) Figma
12 22 (2.20%) Google Workspace
13 21 (2.10%) Mimecast
13 21 (2.10%) Slack
14 16 (1.60%) Serverless
14 16 (1.60%) Smartsheet
15 15 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
16 14 (1.40%) Miro
17 13 (1.30%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.80%) VPN
2 26 (2.60%) Firewall
3 17 (1.70%) Multicast
4 16 (1.60%) DNS
5 14 (1.40%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (1.00%) DHCP
7 10 (1.00%) LAN
7 10 (1.00%) Network Security
8 9 (0.90%) WAN
9 8 (0.80%) Cisco ISE
10 7 (0.70%) HTTP
11 6 (0.60%) VLAN
12 5 (0.50%) SSL
13 4 (0.40%) Wireless
14 3 (0.30%) Cisco IOS
14 3 (0.30%) DOCSIS
14 3 (0.30%) DSL
14 3 (0.30%) GPON
14 3 (0.30%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (6.21%) SQL Server
2 34 (3.40%) Power BI
3 28 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (2.00%) Relational Database
5 18 (1.80%) MySQL
6 16 (1.60%) NoSQL
7 12 (1.20%) MongoDB
8 11 (1.10%) DB2
9 9 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (0.80%) Tableau
11 7 (0.70%) Big Data
11 7 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 6 (0.60%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.40%) Power Query
15 3 (0.30%) Looker
Development Applications
1 101 (10.11%) Git
2 56 (5.61%) Selenium
3 48 (4.80%) Postman
4 46 (4.60%) Jenkins
5 37 (3.70%) GitLab
6 30 (3.00%) Bitbucket
7 29 (2.90%) SoapUI
8 28 (2.80%) Rational DOORS
9 25 (2.50%) Cucumber
10 23 (2.30%) Team Foundation Server
11 20 (2.00%) WebDriver
12 16 (1.60%) Cypress.io
13 15 (1.50%) Zephyr
14 14 (1.40%) TeamCity
14 14 (1.40%) TestRail
15 13 (1.30%) JUnit
16 12 (1.20%) Visual Studio
17 11 (1.10%) JMeter
18 9 (0.90%) SonarQube
18 9 (0.90%) Subversion
General
1 392 (39.24%) Social Skills
2 264 (26.43%) Finance
3 145 (14.51%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (7.81%) Banking
5 68 (6.81%) Marketing
6 62 (6.21%) Law
7 48 (4.80%) Presentation Skills
8 47 (4.70%) Legal
9 40 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
10 39 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
11 38 (3.80%) Manufacturing
12 31 (3.10%) Retail
13 29 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 29 (2.90%) Public Sector
14 25 (2.50%) Advertising
15 17 (1.70%) Games
16 15 (1.50%) Automotive
17 14 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
18 13 (1.30%) Electronics
19 12 (1.20%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 201 (20.12%) Analyst
2 143 (14.31%) Senior
3 117 (11.71%) Lead
4 75 (7.51%) IT Support
5 74 (7.41%) Developer
6 73 (7.31%) Support Engineer
7 70 (7.01%) Support Analyst
8 68 (6.81%) Business Analyst
9 48 (4.80%) Project Manager
10 43 (4.30%) Systems Engineer
11 38 (3.80%) Applications Support
12 37 (3.70%) IT Engineer
13 36 (3.60%) IT Support Engineer
14 33 (3.30%) Software Engineer
15 32 (3.20%) Applications Support Analyst
16 31 (3.10%) Senior Manager
17 27 (2.70%) 2nd Line Support
17 27 (2.70%) Architect
17 27 (2.70%) Sales Executive
18 26 (2.60%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (6.81%) HTML
2 47 (4.70%) .NET
2 47 (4.70%) CSS
3 44 (4.40%) SOAP
4 43 (4.30%) React
4 43 (4.30%) REST
5 36 (3.60%) RESTful
6 26 (2.60%) JSON
6 26 (2.60%) Middleware
6 26 (2.60%) Node.js
7 21 (2.10%) Elastic Stack
7 21 (2.10%) XML
8 19 (1.90%) Spring
9 18 (1.80%) FIX Protocol
10 16 (1.60%) AngularJS
10 16 (1.60%) Playwright
10 16 (1.60%) pytest
11 14 (1.40%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 14 (1.40%) Kafka
11 14 (1.40%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 103 (10.31%) Product Ownership
2 92 (9.21%) Onboarding
3 32 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
4 29 (2.90%) Management Information System
5 21 (2.10%) Equities
6 19 (1.90%) Data Centre
6 19 (1.90%) Derivative
6 19 (1.90%) Fixed Income
7 18 (1.80%) Virtual Team
8 17 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (1.60%) Algorithms
10 15 (1.50%) Mobile App
11 14 (1.40%) NHS
12 13 (1.30%) PMI
13 12 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
14 11 (1.10%) Driving Licence
15 10 (1.00%) Cloud Native
15 10 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
16 9 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 102 (10.21%) Windows
2 83 (8.31%) Linux
3 32 (3.20%) Windows Server
4 12 (1.20%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.00%) Windows 10
6 9 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (0.80%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
8 5 (0.50%) Android
8 5 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.40%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.40%) Unix
9 4 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.30%) CentOS
10 3 (0.30%) OpenWrt
11 1 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.10%) Solaris
11 1 (0.10%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 527 (52.75%) Agile
2 224 (22.42%) Continuous Improvement
2 224 (22.42%) Problem-Solving
3 193 (19.32%) DevOps
4 188 (18.82%) Scrum
5 171 (17.12%) Stakeholder Management
6 159 (15.92%) CI/CD
7 144 (14.41%) ITIL
8 134 (13.41%) ITSM
9 130 (13.01%) Service Management
10 118 (11.81%) User Experience
11 101 (10.11%) SDLC
12 100 (10.01%) Roadmaps
13 99 (9.91%) Test Automation
14 95 (9.51%) Change Management
15 92 (9.21%) Project Management
16 91 (9.11%) Computer Science
16 91 (9.11%) Decision-Making
17 87 (8.71%) Software Engineering
18 86 (8.61%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 202 (20.22%) SQL
2 107 (10.71%) Python
3 86 (8.61%) Java
4 78 (7.81%) JavaScript
5 59 (5.91%) PowerShell
6 46 (4.60%) C#
7 32 (3.20%) TypeScript
8 27 (2.70%) Bash
9 19 (1.90%) C++
10 16 (1.60%) R
11 14 (1.40%) PHP
12 13 (1.30%) T-SQL
13 12 (1.20%) C
14 9 (0.90%) Go
15 6 (0.60%) Groovy
15 6 (0.60%) Perl
16 5 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.50%) Google Apps Script
16 5 (0.50%) PL/SQL
17 4 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 237 (23.72%) Degree
2 96 (9.61%) Security Cleared
3 61 (6.11%) SC Cleared
4 57 (5.71%) ISTQB
5 56 (5.61%) BPSS Clearance
6 47 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (4.00%) PMI Certification
8 30 (3.00%) PMP
9 27 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (2.10%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 20 (2.00%) DV Cleared
12 17 (1.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 15 (1.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 14 (1.40%) Master's Degree
15 12 (1.20%) MCSE
16 10 (1.00%) A+ Certification
16 10 (1.00%) AWS Certification
17 8 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
17 8 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 7 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (12.21%) QA
2 37 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 34 (3.40%) SLA
4 33 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (2.90%) PMO
6 25 (2.50%) GDPR
7 20 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 19 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 15 (1.50%) Data Quality
10 7 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
10 7 (0.70%) MiFID
10 7 (0.70%) NIST
11 6 (0.60%) Basel II
11 6 (0.60%) GRC
12 5 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.50%) PERC
12 5 (0.50%) Software Quality Assurance
13 4 (0.40%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 4 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 92 (9.21%) Active Directory
2 52 (5.21%) Docker
3 17 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.30%) Firmware
5 3 (0.30%) Terminal Server
6 2 (0.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 47 (4.70%) Kubernetes
2 40 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 39 (3.90%) Terraform
4 23 (2.30%) Ansible
5 17 (1.70%) Grafana
6 15 (1.50%) Prometheus
6 15 (1.50%) SCCM
7 10 (1.00%) HP ALM
8 8 (0.80%) Puppet
8 8 (0.80%) ZABBIX
9 6 (0.60%) Nagios
9 6 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.50%) Control-M
10 5 (0.50%) Packer
10 5 (0.50%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.50%) vCenter Server
11 4 (0.40%) Kibana
12 3 (0.30%) Functional Safety
12 3 (0.30%) SCOM
13 2 (0.20%) VxRail
Vendors
1 195 (19.52%) Microsoft
2 105 (10.51%) ServiceNow
3 71 (7.11%) Salesforce
4 62 (6.21%) Atlassian
5 49 (4.90%) SAP
6 43 (4.30%) Google
7 40 (4.00%) IBM
8 39 (3.90%) Oracle
9 30 (3.00%) HubSpot
10 27 (2.70%) BMC
11 26 (2.60%) Cisco
12 21 (2.10%) CrowdStrike
13 18 (1.80%) VMware
14 17 (1.70%) Splunk
15 15 (1.50%) Adobe
16 13 (1.30%) Siemens
16 13 (1.30%) Zscaler
17 12 (1.20%) Citrix
17 12 (1.20%) Meraki
18 10 (1.00%) HP