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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 98 131
Rank change year-on-year -69 +33 -34
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,155 1,375 1,450
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.24% 3.14% 2.01%
As % of the Development Applications category 28.06% 38.25% 24.21%
Number of salaries quoted 834 852 934
10th Percentile £33,550 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £42,500 £42,875
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 £93,375 £94,878 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,400 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.33% +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 3,595 5,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.41% 8.21% 8.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,718 2,311 4,108
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £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 £100,000 £98,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,715 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.86% +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 9 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 9 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 -67 343 £70,000 -5.08% 341
North of England -51 246 £55,000 +4.76% 109
South East -7 235 £57,500 +15.00% 151
North West -42 134 £60,000 +9.09% 45
South West -16 122 £52,500 +16.67% 61
Midlands -93 108 £42,500 -22.73% 71
East of England -31 83 £62,500 +8.70% 41
Yorkshire -40 81 £43,647 -12.71% 45
West Midlands -91 60 £45,000 -30.77% 48
East Midlands -58 48 £27,500 -35.29% 23
North East -36 31 £60,000 +85.69% 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
1 383 (33.16%) Confluence
2 96 (8.31%) SharePoint
3 56 (4.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (1.30%) CMS
5 8 (0.69%) IIS
6 7 (0.61%) 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%) Gentran
12 1 (0.087%) Drupal
12 1 (0.087%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.087%) WebSphere
Applications
1 91 (7.88%) Microsoft Project
2 54 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (4.68%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (3.03%) MS Visio
4 24 (2.08%) Trello
5 14 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.95%) CATIA
7 4 (0.35%) Moqups
8 3 (0.26%) Sketch
9 2 (0.17%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.17%) InVision
10 1 (0.087%) Notion
10 1 (0.087%) Simulink
10 1 (0.087%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 34 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (1.04%) Fidessa
4 7 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.52%) SAP IBP
6 5 (0.43%) Visualfiles
7 4 (0.35%) Sage 200
7 4 (0.35%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.35%) Shopify
8 3 (0.26%) Magento
8 3 (0.26%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.087%) Oracle Assets
10 1 (0.087%) Oracle EBS R12
10 1 (0.087%) Oracle General Ledger
10 1 (0.087%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.087%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.087%) Remedy ITSM
10 1 (0.087%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.087%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 363 (31.43%) Azure
2 178 (15.41%) AWS
3 167 (14.46%) Azure DevOps
4 130 (11.26%) Microsoft 365
5 112 (9.70%) SaaS
6 70 (6.06%) GitHub
7 63 (5.45%) Entra ID
8 57 (4.94%) Power Platform
9 47 (4.07%) GCP
10 32 (2.77%) Serverless
11 31 (2.68%) Miro
12 30 (2.60%) Mimecast
13 26 (2.25%) Figma
14 25 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
15 24 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
16 20 (1.73%) Amazon S3
17 17 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
18 15 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
18 15 (1.30%) Boomi
19 14 (1.21%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.03%) VPN
2 28 (2.42%) DNS
2 28 (2.42%) Firewall
2 28 (2.42%) TCP/IP
3 21 (1.82%) DHCP
3 21 (1.82%) Multicast
3 21 (1.82%) WAN
4 19 (1.65%) LAN
4 19 (1.65%) Network Security
5 13 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (0.78%) Kerberos
7 8 (0.69%) IPv4
7 8 (0.69%) Software-Defined Networking
8 7 (0.61%) HTTP
9 5 (0.43%) FIX Connectivity
9 5 (0.43%) NAS
9 5 (0.43%) SSL
9 5 (0.43%) VoIP
9 5 (0.43%) Wireless
10 4 (0.35%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (5.54%) SQL Server
2 49 (4.24%) Power BI
3 26 (2.25%) MySQL
4 24 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (2.08%) MongoDB
4 24 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (1.47%) Relational Database
6 16 (1.39%) NoSQL
6 16 (1.39%) Tableau
7 13 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (0.69%) Big Data
9 7 (0.61%) DynamoDB
9 7 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (0.61%) Geospatial Data
10 6 (0.52%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.43%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.43%) Redis
11 5 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (0.35%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.35%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 130 (11.26%) Git
2 52 (4.50%) GitLab
3 41 (3.55%) Jenkins
4 37 (3.20%) Bitbucket
5 34 (2.94%) Selenium
6 30 (2.60%) Postman
7 26 (2.25%) Zephyr
8 18 (1.56%) Cucumber
9 17 (1.47%) Cypress.io
10 16 (1.39%) Rational DOORS
11 11 (0.95%) JMeter
11 11 (0.95%) SonarQube
12 10 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 10 (0.87%) SoapUI
13 9 (0.78%) REST Assured
13 9 (0.78%) TestRail
13 9 (0.78%) Visual Studio
14 7 (0.61%) Artifactory
14 7 (0.61%) MSI
14 7 (0.61%) TeamCity
General
1 400 (34.63%) Social Skills
2 305 (26.41%) Finance
3 203 (17.58%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (6.67%) Marketing
5 63 (5.45%) Law
6 62 (5.37%) Public Sector
7 58 (5.02%) Banking
8 57 (4.94%) Retail
9 53 (4.59%) Organisational Skills
10 51 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 51 (4.42%) Legal
11 38 (3.29%) Aerospace
12 37 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
13 35 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
14 32 (2.77%) Games
15 27 (2.34%) Automotive
16 26 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
16 26 (2.25%) Manufacturing
17 15 (1.30%) Advertising
17 15 (1.30%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 216 (18.70%) Analyst
2 174 (15.06%) Senior
3 118 (10.22%) Lead
4 107 (9.26%) Business Analyst
5 96 (8.31%) Project Manager
6 88 (7.62%) Developer
7 73 (6.32%) IT Support
8 59 (5.11%) Support Engineer
9 49 (4.24%) Software Engineer
10 43 (3.72%) Support Analyst
11 42 (3.64%) IT Engineer
12 41 (3.55%) Systems Engineer
13 40 (3.46%) IT Manager
13 40 (3.46%) Senior Analyst
14 38 (3.29%) Delivery Manager
14 38 (3.29%) Product Manager
15 35 (3.03%) IT Analyst
15 35 (3.03%) IT Support Engineer
16 34 (2.94%) Senior Developer
17 31 (2.68%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (5.11%) REST
2 57 (4.94%) React
3 47 (4.07%) .NET
3 47 (4.07%) HTML
4 44 (3.81%) CSS
5 43 (3.72%) JSON
6 30 (2.60%) Middleware
7 29 (2.51%) FIX Protocol
7 29 (2.51%) Node.js
7 29 (2.51%) XML
8 27 (2.34%) RESTful
9 26 (2.25%) SOAP
10 24 (2.08%) Playwright
11 23 (1.99%) AngularJS
12 19 (1.65%) EDI
12 19 (1.65%) pytest
13 18 (1.56%) ASP.NET
14 17 (1.47%) .NET Framework
15 16 (1.39%) Kafka
16 15 (1.30%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 138 (11.95%) Product Ownership
2 120 (10.39%) Onboarding
3 55 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
4 47 (4.07%) Management Information System
5 43 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
6 37 (3.20%) Driving Licence
7 34 (2.94%) Cloud Native
8 33 (2.86%) Data Centre
9 32 (2.77%) Equities
10 31 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
11 29 (2.51%) PMI
12 22 (1.90%) Fixed Income
13 20 (1.73%) Derivative
14 18 (1.56%) Algorithms
14 18 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
15 17 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
15 17 (1.47%) Virtual Team
16 16 (1.39%) Security Posture
17 12 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
17 12 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 146 (12.64%) Windows
2 138 (11.95%) Linux
3 53 (4.59%) Windows Server
4 21 (1.82%) Mac OS
5 15 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (1.21%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.87%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.69%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.61%) CentOS
9 7 (0.61%) Unix
9 7 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.52%) Android
11 5 (0.43%) Debian
12 4 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
13 2 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
13 2 (0.17%) ThreadX
13 2 (0.17%) VMS
14 1 (0.087%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 607 (52.55%) Agile
2 315 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
3 303 (26.23%) DevOps
4 292 (25.28%) Stakeholder Management
5 277 (23.98%) Problem-Solving
6 245 (21.21%) Scrum
7 191 (16.54%) CI/CD
8 178 (15.41%) Project Management
9 156 (13.51%) ITIL
10 154 (13.33%) Service Management
11 139 (12.03%) Roadmaps
12 138 (11.95%) ITSM
13 137 (11.86%) Decision-Making
14 132 (11.43%) Workflow
15 129 (11.17%) SDLC
16 127 (11.00%) Project Delivery
17 126 (10.91%) AI
18 124 (10.74%) CRM
18 124 (10.74%) User Stories
19 121 (10.48%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 201 (17.40%) SQL
2 169 (14.63%) Python
3 96 (8.31%) Java
4 90 (7.79%) PowerShell
5 87 (7.53%) JavaScript
6 60 (5.19%) C#
7 41 (3.55%) Bash
8 38 (3.29%) TypeScript
9 36 (3.12%) C++
10 33 (2.86%) R
11 21 (1.82%) PHP
12 14 (1.21%) C
13 8 (0.69%) Bicep
13 8 (0.69%) PL/SQL
13 8 (0.69%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.61%) Groovy
14 7 (0.61%) Perl
15 6 (0.52%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.52%) VB.NET
16 5 (0.43%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 196 (16.97%) Degree
2 131 (11.34%) Security Cleared
3 83 (7.19%) SC Cleared
4 72 (6.23%) PMI Certification
5 54 (4.68%) PMP
6 40 (3.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 37 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 32 (2.77%) ISTQB
9 31 (2.68%) DV Cleared
10 29 (2.51%) AWS Certification
10 29 (2.51%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (1.73%) Master's Degree
13 19 (1.65%) CCNA
14 14 (1.21%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (0.87%) CISSP
16 9 (0.78%) Azure Certification
16 9 (0.78%) RHCE
16 9 (0.78%) RHCSA
17 8 (0.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 161 (13.94%) QA
2 56 (4.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 51 (4.42%) Accessibility
3 51 (4.42%) PMO
4 35 (3.03%) GDPR
5 30 (2.60%) Data Quality
5 30 (2.60%) SLA
6 18 (1.56%) WCAG
7 13 (1.13%) TickIT
8 12 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 11 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 10 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 9 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.78%) NIST
11 9 (0.78%) Software Quality Assurance
12 8 (0.69%) NCSC
13 7 (0.61%) GRC
14 6 (0.52%) MiFID
14 6 (0.52%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 114 (9.87%) Active Directory
2 69 (5.97%) Docker
3 34 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.39%) Hyper-V
5 12 (1.04%) vSphere
6 10 (0.87%) Firmware
7 8 (0.69%) Squid
7 8 (0.69%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
8 7 (0.61%) 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 2 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
11 2 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.087%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 56 (4.85%) Terraform
2 53 (4.59%) Kubernetes
3 48 (4.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 46 (3.98%) Ansible
5 14 (1.21%) Packer
6 12 (1.04%) ZABBIX
7 11 (0.95%) Grafana
8 10 (0.87%) Kibana
9 9 (0.78%) SCCM
10 8 (0.69%) Docker Swarm
10 8 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.61%) Nagios
12 6 (0.52%) Control-M
12 6 (0.52%) Proxmox
13 5 (0.43%) Podman
13 5 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
14 4 (0.35%) Functional Safety
14 4 (0.35%) Graylog
14 4 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
14 4 (0.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 261 (22.60%) Microsoft
2 144 (12.47%) ServiceNow
3 85 (7.36%) Salesforce
4 81 (7.01%) Oracle
5 65 (5.63%) SAP
6 42 (3.64%) Splunk
7 40 (3.46%) VMware
8 37 (3.20%) Cisco
9 35 (3.03%) IBM
10 34 (2.94%) Atlassian
10 34 (2.94%) CrowdStrike
11 33 (2.86%) BMC
12 30 (2.60%) HubSpot
13 29 (2.51%) Google
14 19 (1.65%) Red Hat
15 18 (1.56%) Meraki
16 13 (1.13%) Adobe
17 9 (0.78%) Freshdesk
17 9 (0.78%) ION Trading
17 9 (0.78%) Sage