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 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 97 118
Rank change year-on-year -64 +21 -24
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,008 1,284 2,049
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.22% 3.26% 2.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 26.64% 35.39% 25.82%
Number of salaries quoted 756 774 1,467
10th Percentile £32,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £45,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,900 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £61,123 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.93% +11.13% -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 3,784 3,628 7,935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.58% 9.20% 8.45%
Number of salaries quoted 2,543 2,377 5,863
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £48,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £58,700
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +10.73% -9.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £61,018 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.13% +13.04% -11.54%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -57 300 £72,500 +3.57% 178
South East +44 218 £57,500 -4.17% 119
North of England -72 206 £57,500 +4.55% 84
North West -44 118 £60,000 +9.09% 38
Midlands -83 106 £44,543 -19.01% 43
South West -58 80 £47,500 +2.15% 50
East of England -10 76 £70,000 +32.08% 41
Yorkshire -59 69 £46,000 -20.00% 42
East Midlands -44 53 £31,250 -16.67% 16
West Midlands -86 53 £47,500 -29.63% 27
North East -34 19 £67,500 +200.00% 5
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
1 350 (34.72%) Confluence
2 81 (8.04%) SharePoint
3 38 (3.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.19%) CMS
5 8 (0.79%) IIS
6 7 (0.69%) Apache
7 6 (0.60%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.50%) JBoss
9 4 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.40%) Documentum
9 4 (0.40%) WordPress
10 3 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.30%) SAS
11 2 (0.20%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.20%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.20%) Gentran
11 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.099%) Drupal
12 1 (0.099%) nginx
Applications
1 79 (7.84%) Microsoft Project
2 41 (4.07%) Microsoft Office
3 39 (3.87%) Microsoft Excel
4 22 (2.18%) MS Visio
5 14 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (1.39%) Trello
6 12 (1.19%) CATIA
7 3 (0.30%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.30%) Sketch
7 3 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.20%) InVision
9 1 (0.099%) Notion
Business Applications
1 32 (3.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.99%) Fidessa
3 10 (0.99%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.69%) Magento
4 7 (0.69%) Shopify
5 6 (0.60%) Dynamics NAV
6 5 (0.50%) Visualfiles
7 3 (0.30%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.30%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.20%) Workfront
9 1 (0.099%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.099%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 1 (0.099%) NetSuite
9 1 (0.099%) Oracle EBS R12
9 1 (0.099%) Oracle General Ledger
9 1 (0.099%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.099%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.099%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 263 (26.09%) Azure
2 130 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
3 128 (12.70%) AWS
4 105 (10.42%) Microsoft 365
5 74 (7.34%) SaaS
6 65 (6.45%) GitHub
7 57 (5.65%) Power Platform
8 45 (4.46%) GCP
9 44 (4.37%) Entra ID
10 36 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
11 25 (2.48%) Serverless
12 23 (2.28%) Figma
13 20 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
13 20 (1.98%) Smartsheet
14 18 (1.79%) Amazon S3
14 18 (1.79%) Google Workspace
14 18 (1.79%) Mimecast
14 18 (1.79%) PaaS
15 16 (1.59%) Boomi
15 16 (1.59%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.47%) VPN
2 26 (2.58%) Firewall
3 25 (2.48%) Multicast
4 18 (1.79%) Network Security
5 17 (1.69%) DNS
5 17 (1.69%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.59%) LAN
7 13 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (1.19%) DHCP
8 12 (1.19%) WAN
9 8 (0.79%) IPv4
9 8 (0.79%) Software-Defined Networking
10 6 (0.60%) Cisco ISE
11 5 (0.50%) SSL
11 5 (0.50%) Wireless
12 4 (0.40%) HTTP
12 4 (0.40%) VoIP
13 3 (0.30%) FIX Connectivity
13 3 (0.30%) Internet
14 2 (0.20%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (5.75%) SQL Server
2 42 (4.17%) Power BI
3 25 (2.48%) MySQL
4 23 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (1.59%) MongoDB
5 16 (1.59%) NoSQL
5 16 (1.59%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 12 (1.19%) Tableau
8 9 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (0.89%) Big Data
9 7 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (0.60%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.40%) Db2
12 4 (0.40%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.40%) Power Query
13 3 (0.30%) Mixpanel
13 3 (0.30%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 104 (10.32%) Git
2 43 (4.27%) GitLab
3 42 (4.17%) Selenium
4 37 (3.67%) Postman
5 35 (3.47%) Jenkins
6 29 (2.88%) Bitbucket
7 19 (1.88%) Zephyr
8 18 (1.79%) Cypress.io
9 17 (1.69%) SoapUI
10 15 (1.49%) Rational DOORS
10 15 (1.49%) Team Foundation Server
11 14 (1.39%) Cucumber
11 14 (1.39%) SonarQube
12 12 (1.19%) WebDriver
13 10 (0.99%) JUnit
14 8 (0.79%) REST Assured
14 8 (0.79%) TeamCity
15 7 (0.69%) Apache Continuum
15 7 (0.69%) Oracle APEX
15 7 (0.69%) TestRail
General
1 357 (35.42%) Social Skills
2 269 (26.69%) Finance
3 138 (13.69%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (7.34%) Marketing
5 60 (5.95%) Banking
6 55 (5.46%) Law
7 44 (4.37%) Retail
8 43 (4.27%) Legal
9 38 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
9 38 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
10 36 (3.57%) Public Sector
11 32 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 31 (3.08%) Games
12 31 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
13 29 (2.88%) Manufacturing
14 25 (2.48%) Automotive
15 22 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
16 19 (1.88%) Aerospace
17 17 (1.69%) Advertising
18 12 (1.19%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 194 (19.25%) Analyst
2 159 (15.77%) Senior
3 105 (10.42%) Lead
4 94 (9.33%) Business Analyst
5 83 (8.23%) Developer
6 71 (7.04%) IT Support
7 70 (6.94%) Project Manager
8 67 (6.65%) Support Engineer
9 54 (5.36%) Support Analyst
10 41 (4.07%) IT Engineer
11 39 (3.87%) Systems Engineer
12 38 (3.77%) Software Engineer
13 36 (3.57%) IT Support Engineer
14 34 (3.37%) IT Manager
15 32 (3.17%) Applications Support
15 32 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
16 31 (3.08%) Scrum Master
17 30 (2.98%) Delivery Manager
17 30 (2.98%) Product Manager
18 29 (2.88%) Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (5.65%) HTML
2 52 (5.16%) React
3 51 (5.06%) REST
4 49 (4.86%) .NET
5 45 (4.46%) CSS
6 38 (3.77%) SOAP
7 36 (3.57%) Middleware
8 35 (3.47%) JSON
9 29 (2.88%) FIX Protocol
10 27 (2.68%) Node.js
11 23 (2.28%) pytest
11 23 (2.28%) RESTful
11 23 (2.28%) XML
12 21 (2.08%) AngularJS
12 21 (2.08%) EDI
13 20 (1.98%) Spring
14 18 (1.79%) ASP.NET
14 18 (1.79%) Boost C++ Libraries
15 17 (1.69%) Playwright
16 15 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 115 (11.41%) Product Ownership
2 104 (10.32%) Onboarding
3 37 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
4 35 (3.47%) Management Information System
4 35 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
5 33 (3.27%) Equities
6 32 (3.17%) Driving Licence
7 25 (2.48%) Fixed Income
8 22 (2.18%) Derivative
9 21 (2.08%) Algorithms
10 20 (1.98%) Data Centre
11 16 (1.59%) Cloud Native
11 16 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
12 15 (1.49%) PMI
13 12 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
13 12 (1.19%) Mobile App
13 12 (1.19%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.99%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 113 (11.21%) Linux
1 113 (11.21%) Windows
2 44 (4.37%) Windows Server
3 12 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (1.19%) Ubuntu
4 10 (0.99%) Mac OS
5 9 (0.89%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.79%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.69%) CentOS
7 7 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (0.60%) Unix
9 4 (0.40%) Debian
10 2 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.20%) ThreadX
10 2 (0.20%) VMS
11 1 (0.099%) Android
11 1 (0.099%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 534 (52.98%) Agile
2 243 (24.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 235 (23.31%) DevOps
4 216 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 208 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
6 204 (20.24%) Scrum
7 160 (15.87%) CI/CD
8 141 (13.99%) Service Management
9 138 (13.69%) ITSM
10 132 (13.10%) ITIL
11 126 (12.50%) Project Management
12 120 (11.90%) Roadmaps
13 116 (11.51%) CRM
13 116 (11.51%) Decision-Making
14 115 (11.41%) SDLC
15 103 (10.22%) User Stories
16 99 (9.82%) Workflow
17 97 (9.62%) Software Engineering
18 95 (9.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 95 (9.42%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 196 (19.44%) SQL
2 144 (14.29%) Python
3 91 (9.03%) Java
4 68 (6.75%) JavaScript
5 66 (6.55%) PowerShell
6 50 (4.96%) C#
7 33 (3.27%) Bash
8 30 (2.98%) TypeScript
9 25 (2.48%) C++
10 19 (1.88%) PHP
10 19 (1.88%) R
11 12 (1.19%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.69%) C
12 7 (0.69%) Groovy
12 7 (0.69%) Perl
13 5 (0.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.50%) Google Apps Script
13 5 (0.50%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.50%) VB.NET
14 4 (0.40%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 173 (17.16%) Degree
2 90 (8.93%) Security Cleared
3 51 (5.06%) SC Cleared
4 45 (4.46%) ISTQB
5 41 (4.07%) PMI Certification
6 34 (3.37%) PMP
7 32 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 31 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 29 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 21 (2.08%) DV Cleared
11 18 (1.79%) AWS Certification
12 17 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (1.39%) CCNA
13 14 (1.39%) Master's Degree
14 11 (1.09%) A+ Certification
14 11 (1.09%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
15 8 (0.79%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.79%) OSCP
15 8 (0.79%) RHCE
15 8 (0.79%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (13.39%) QA
2 35 (3.47%) SLA
3 34 (3.37%) Accessibility
4 32 (3.17%) PMO
5 29 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (2.28%) Data Quality
7 16 (1.59%) GDPR
8 13 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 13 (1.29%) TickIT
9 12 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 9 (0.89%) Software Quality Assurance
10 9 (0.89%) WCAG
11 8 (0.79%) GRC
12 7 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.69%) MiFID
13 6 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.60%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.40%) ISO 26262
15 4 (0.40%) NIST
System Software
1 95 (9.42%) Active Directory
2 64 (6.35%) Docker
3 25 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.09%) vSphere
5 9 (0.89%) Hyper-V
6 8 (0.79%) Squid
6 8 (0.79%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
7 4 (0.40%) Firmware
7 4 (0.40%) KVM
8 3 (0.30%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 3 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
9 2 (0.20%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 47 (4.66%) Kubernetes
2 44 (4.37%) Terraform
3 37 (3.67%) Ansible
4 33 (3.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (1.39%) Packer
6 13 (1.29%) Grafana
7 12 (1.19%) ZABBIX
8 11 (1.09%) SCCM
9 9 (0.89%) Kibana
10 8 (0.79%) Docker Swarm
10 8 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.69%) Nagios
11 7 (0.69%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.50%) Podman
12 5 (0.50%) SCOM
13 4 (0.40%) Functional Safety
13 4 (0.40%) Graylog
13 4 (0.40%) Proxmox
14 3 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
14 3 (0.30%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 216 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 142 (14.09%) ServiceNow
3 77 (7.64%) Salesforce
4 64 (6.35%) Oracle
5 46 (4.56%) SAP
6 36 (3.57%) Google
7 35 (3.47%) IBM
8 34 (3.37%) Atlassian
8 34 (3.37%) Splunk
9 33 (3.27%) BMC
9 33 (3.27%) HubSpot
10 28 (2.78%) VMware
11 26 (2.58%) Cisco
12 24 (2.38%) CrowdStrike
13 14 (1.39%) Adobe
14 13 (1.29%) Red Hat
15 12 (1.19%) Freshdesk
15 12 (1.19%) Meraki
16 11 (1.09%) Citrix
17 9 (0.89%) Zscaler