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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 97 130
Rank change year-on-year -69 +33 -35
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,159 1,377 1,451
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.23% 3.15% 2.01%
As % of the Development Applications category 28.16% 39.11% 24.14%
Number of salaries quoted 822 847 923
10th Percentile £34,325 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £42,500 £43,336
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,188 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,625 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,395 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.68% +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 4,116 3,521 6,011
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.36% 8.06% 8.31%
Number of salaries quoted 2,707 2,248 4,070
10th Percentile £34,150 £37,500 £38,500
25th Percentile £46,875 £47,637 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £97,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £61,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.60% +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 15 August 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 15 August 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 -64 344 £70,000 -6.67% 583
North of England -37 257 £55,000 +7.84% 114
South East +4 232 £57,500 +15.00% 179
North West -42 140 £60,000 +11.63% 54
South West -35 121 £55,000 +22.22% 93
Midlands -98 107 £43,000 -21.82% 80
Yorkshire -32 85 £43,000 -14.00% 42
East of England -28 81 £62,500 +8.70% 52
West Midlands -88 62 £45,000 -30.77% 53
East Midlands -59 45 £27,500 -35.29% 26
North East -41 32 £60,000 +42.44% 19
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
1 384 (33.13%) Confluence
2 97 (8.37%) SharePoint
3 57 (4.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (1.38%) CMS
5 8 (0.69%) IIS
6 7 (0.60%) SAS
7 6 (0.52%) Apache
7 6 (0.52%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.43%) JBoss
9 4 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.35%) WordPress
10 3 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.26%) nginx
10 3 (0.26%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.17%) Drupal
11 2 (0.17%) Gentran
12 1 (0.086%) MTS
12 1 (0.086%) Tomcat
Applications
1 95 (8.20%) Microsoft Project
2 58 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 55 (4.75%) Microsoft Office
4 40 (3.45%) MS Visio
5 24 (2.07%) Trello
6 15 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 11 (0.95%) CATIA
8 4 (0.35%) Moqups
9 3 (0.26%) Sketch
10 2 (0.17%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.17%) InVision
11 1 (0.086%) Notion
11 1 (0.086%) Simulink
11 1 (0.086%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 35 (3.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (1.12%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.52%) SAP IBP
5 5 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.43%) Visualfiles
6 4 (0.35%) Sage 200
6 4 (0.35%) SAP Business One
7 3 (0.26%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.26%) Shopify
8 2 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
8 2 (0.17%) Magento
8 2 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.086%) Bloomberg TOMS
9 1 (0.086%) Finacle
9 1 (0.086%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.086%) Oracle EBS R12
9 1 (0.086%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.086%) Remedy ITSM
9 1 (0.086%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 376 (32.44%) Azure
2 183 (15.79%) AWS
3 174 (15.01%) Azure DevOps
4 133 (11.48%) Microsoft 365
5 114 (9.84%) SaaS
6 68 (5.87%) GitHub
7 65 (5.61%) Entra ID
8 59 (5.09%) Power Platform
9 47 (4.06%) GCP
10 32 (2.76%) Miro
11 31 (2.67%) Mimecast
11 31 (2.67%) Serverless
12 26 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
13 25 (2.16%) Figma
14 24 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
15 20 (1.73%) Amazon S3
16 17 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
17 15 (1.29%) Boomi
17 15 (1.29%) Smartsheet
18 14 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.19%) VPN
2 30 (2.59%) DNS
3 28 (2.42%) Firewall
3 28 (2.42%) TCP/IP
4 23 (1.98%) DHCP
5 21 (1.81%) Multicast
5 21 (1.81%) WAN
6 19 (1.64%) LAN
6 19 (1.64%) Network Security
7 13 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (0.78%) Kerberos
9 8 (0.69%) IPv4
9 8 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
10 7 (0.60%) HTTP
11 6 (0.52%) FIX Connectivity
11 6 (0.52%) VLAN
12 5 (0.43%) NAS
12 5 (0.43%) SSL
12 5 (0.43%) VoIP
12 5 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (5.61%) SQL Server
2 51 (4.40%) Power BI
3 26 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (2.07%) MySQL
4 24 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (1.98%) MongoDB
6 17 (1.47%) Relational Database
7 16 (1.38%) NoSQL
7 16 (1.38%) Tableau
8 13 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (0.69%) Big Data
10 7 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (0.60%) DynamoDB
10 7 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
11 6 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.43%) Redis
12 5 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.35%) Data Vault
13 4 (0.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 128 (11.04%) Git
2 50 (4.31%) GitLab
3 41 (3.54%) Jenkins
4 36 (3.11%) Bitbucket
5 33 (2.85%) Selenium
6 30 (2.59%) Postman
7 26 (2.24%) Zephyr
8 18 (1.55%) Cucumber
8 18 (1.55%) Cypress.io
9 16 (1.38%) Rational DOORS
10 11 (0.95%) SonarQube
11 10 (0.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 10 (0.86%) JMeter
11 10 (0.86%) SoapUI
11 10 (0.86%) TestRail
12 9 (0.78%) REST Assured
12 9 (0.78%) Visual Studio
13 7 (0.60%) Artifactory
13 7 (0.60%) MSI
13 7 (0.60%) TeamCity
General
1 405 (34.94%) Social Skills
2 321 (27.70%) Finance
3 211 (18.21%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (6.56%) Marketing
5 64 (5.52%) Banking
6 63 (5.44%) Law
6 63 (5.44%) Public Sector
7 59 (5.09%) Organisational Skills
8 58 (5.00%) Retail
9 57 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 53 (4.57%) Legal
11 42 (3.62%) Aerospace
12 38 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
13 34 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
14 31 (2.67%) Games
15 27 (2.33%) Automotive
15 27 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
15 27 (2.33%) Manufacturing
16 15 (1.29%) Electronics
17 14 (1.21%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 229 (19.76%) Analyst
2 177 (15.27%) Senior
3 118 (10.18%) Lead
4 115 (9.92%) Business Analyst
5 97 (8.37%) Project Manager
6 86 (7.42%) Developer
7 71 (6.13%) IT Support
8 57 (4.92%) Support Engineer
9 49 (4.23%) Software Engineer
10 46 (3.97%) Senior Analyst
11 40 (3.45%) IT Engineer
11 40 (3.45%) IT Manager
12 39 (3.36%) Delivery Manager
12 39 (3.36%) Support Analyst
13 38 (3.28%) IT Analyst
13 38 (3.28%) Systems Engineer
14 34 (2.93%) Product Manager
15 33 (2.85%) IT Support Engineer
15 33 (2.85%) Senior Developer
16 31 (2.67%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (5.00%) REST
2 54 (4.66%) React
3 48 (4.14%) .NET
3 48 (4.14%) HTML
4 43 (3.71%) JSON
5 42 (3.62%) CSS
6 29 (2.50%) FIX Protocol
6 29 (2.50%) Middleware
6 29 (2.50%) Node.js
6 29 (2.50%) XML
7 26 (2.24%) RESTful
8 25 (2.16%) Playwright
8 25 (2.16%) SOAP
9 22 (1.90%) AngularJS
10 18 (1.55%) ASP.NET
10 18 (1.55%) EDI
10 18 (1.55%) pytest
11 17 (1.47%) .NET Framework
12 16 (1.38%) Gherkin
12 16 (1.38%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 143 (12.34%) Product Ownership
2 116 (10.01%) Onboarding
3 57 (4.92%) Enterprise Software
4 47 (4.06%) Management Information System
5 44 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
6 37 (3.19%) Driving Licence
7 34 (2.93%) Cloud Native
7 34 (2.93%) Data Centre
8 32 (2.76%) Equities
8 32 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
9 30 (2.59%) PMI
10 23 (1.98%) Fixed Income
11 20 (1.73%) Derivative
12 18 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
12 18 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
13 17 (1.47%) Algorithms
14 16 (1.38%) Security Posture
14 16 (1.38%) Virtual Team
15 12 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
15 12 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 145 (12.51%) Windows
2 137 (11.82%) Linux
3 52 (4.49%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.81%) Mac OS
5 14 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (1.21%) Ubuntu
6 10 (0.86%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.69%) Unix
7 8 (0.69%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.60%) Android
9 6 (0.52%) CentOS
9 6 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.43%) Debian
11 4 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.17%) ThreadX
12 2 (0.17%) VMS
13 1 (0.086%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 612 (52.80%) Agile
2 328 (28.30%) Continuous Improvement
3 308 (26.57%) DevOps
4 305 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
5 286 (24.68%) Problem-Solving
6 246 (21.23%) Scrum
7 188 (16.22%) CI/CD
8 186 (16.05%) Project Management
9 158 (13.63%) ITIL
10 157 (13.55%) Service Management
11 143 (12.34%) Decision-Making
12 140 (12.08%) Roadmaps
13 137 (11.82%) User Stories
14 135 (11.65%) AI
15 134 (11.56%) ITSM
15 134 (11.56%) Project Delivery
16 132 (11.39%) Workflow
17 130 (11.22%) SDLC
18 121 (10.44%) Change Management
18 121 (10.44%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 202 (17.43%) SQL
2 169 (14.58%) Python
3 96 (8.28%) Java
4 91 (7.85%) PowerShell
5 85 (7.33%) JavaScript
6 61 (5.26%) C#
7 39 (3.36%) Bash
8 38 (3.28%) TypeScript
9 37 (3.19%) C++
10 34 (2.93%) R
11 18 (1.55%) PHP
12 12 (1.04%) C
13 8 (0.69%) Bicep
13 8 (0.69%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.60%) Groovy
14 7 (0.60%) Perl
14 7 (0.60%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.52%) Tcl
15 6 (0.52%) VB.NET
16 5 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 203 (17.52%) Degree
2 138 (11.91%) Security Cleared
3 88 (7.59%) SC Cleared
4 75 (6.47%) PMI Certification
5 56 (4.83%) PMP
6 40 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 38 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 35 (3.02%) DV Cleared
9 32 (2.76%) ISTQB
10 30 (2.59%) AWS Certification
11 29 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
12 25 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
13 22 (1.90%) Master's Degree
14 19 (1.64%) CCNA
14 19 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.86%) CISSP
16 9 (0.78%) Azure Certification
16 9 (0.78%) CBAP
16 9 (0.78%) RHCE
16 9 (0.78%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 164 (14.15%) QA
2 56 (4.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 55 (4.75%) PMO
4 53 (4.57%) Accessibility
5 34 (2.93%) Data Quality
6 33 (2.85%) GDPR
7 27 (2.33%) SLA
8 18 (1.55%) WCAG
9 13 (1.12%) TickIT
10 12 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 11 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 12207
12 10 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 9 (0.78%) NIST
13 9 (0.78%) Software Quality Assurance
14 8 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.69%) NCSC
15 7 (0.60%) GRC
16 6 (0.52%) MiFID
16 6 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 5 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 115 (9.92%) Active Directory
2 65 (5.61%) Docker
3 33 (2.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.38%) Hyper-V
5 12 (1.04%) vSphere
6 11 (0.95%) Firmware
7 8 (0.69%) Squid
7 8 (0.69%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
8 7 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.35%) KVM
10 3 (0.26%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.086%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.086%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.086%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 54 (4.66%) Terraform
2 50 (4.31%) Kubernetes
3 48 (4.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 44 (3.80%) Ansible
5 14 (1.21%) Packer
6 12 (1.04%) ZABBIX
7 10 (0.86%) Grafana
8 9 (0.78%) Kibana
9 8 (0.69%) SCCM
9 8 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (0.52%) Control-M
11 6 (0.52%) Nagios
11 6 (0.52%) Proxmox
12 5 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
13 4 (0.35%) Functional Safety
13 4 (0.35%) Graylog
13 4 (0.35%) Podman
13 4 (0.35%) SCOM
Vendors
1 269 (23.21%) Microsoft
2 142 (12.25%) ServiceNow
3 83 (7.16%) Oracle
4 80 (6.90%) Salesforce
5 65 (5.61%) SAP
6 41 (3.54%) Splunk
7 39 (3.36%) VMware
8 38 (3.28%) Cisco
9 36 (3.11%) Atlassian
10 35 (3.02%) IBM
11 34 (2.93%) CrowdStrike
12 30 (2.59%) BMC
12 30 (2.59%) Google
13 27 (2.33%) HubSpot
14 19 (1.64%) Meraki
14 19 (1.64%) Red Hat
15 12 (1.04%) Adobe
16 11 (0.95%) ION Trading
17 9 (0.78%) Bloomberg
17 9 (0.78%) Sage