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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 92 128
Rank change year-on-year -78 +36 -32
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,200 1,373 1,354
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.15% 3.16% 2.04%
As % of the Development Applications category 28.56% 41.57% 23.45%
Number of salaries quoted 764 766 769
10th Percentile £34,475 £32,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £44,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £85,400
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,250
% change year-on-year -8.33% +8.60% -7.92%

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 4,201 3,303 5,775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.04% 7.61% 8.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,611 2,013 3,315
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £47,231
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -53 406 £67,500 -12.90% 869
South East -59 237 £55,000 +22.22% 311
North of England -59 228 £52,500 +5.00% 274
South West -23 135 £60,000 +36.36% 134
North West -41 128 £55,000 +10.00% 144
Midlands -99 103 £45,000 -21.74% 159
Yorkshire -41 72 £42,500 -10.53% 103
East of England -38 71 £60,000 +4.35% 141
West Midlands -82 68 £45,000 -30.77% 98
East Midlands -78 35 £39,597 -14.85% 61
North East -44 28 £60,000 +16.50% 30
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
1 416 (34.67%) Confluence
2 91 (7.58%) SharePoint
3 48 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (1.33%) CMS
5 8 (0.67%) SAS
6 7 (0.58%) IIS
6 7 (0.58%) JBoss
7 6 (0.50%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.33%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.25%) Apache
10 3 (0.25%) Drupal
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.17%) Gentran
11 2 (0.17%) nginx
11 2 (0.17%) WordPress
12 1 (0.083%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.083%) WebSphere
Applications
1 114 (9.50%) Microsoft Project
2 70 (5.83%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (5.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 64 (5.33%) MS Visio
5 29 (2.42%) Trello
6 20 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.58%) CATIA
7 7 (0.58%) Moqups
8 4 (0.33%) Simulink
9 3 (0.25%) Sketch
10 2 (0.17%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.17%) InVision
10 2 (0.17%) OrCAD
11 1 (0.083%) Notion
11 1 (0.083%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.083%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 42 (3.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (1.08%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.50%) SAP IBP
5 4 (0.33%) Sage 200
5 4 (0.33%) SAP Business One
6 3 (0.25%) Magento
6 3 (0.25%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.25%) Shopify
6 3 (0.25%) Visualfiles
6 3 (0.25%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.17%) FLEXCUBE
7 2 (0.17%) Integrated Workplace Management System
7 2 (0.17%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.083%) Actimize
8 1 (0.083%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.083%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 1 (0.083%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.083%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 360 (30.00%) Azure
2 180 (15.00%) AWS
2 180 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
3 142 (11.83%) Microsoft 365
4 132 (11.00%) SaaS
5 84 (7.00%) GitHub
6 72 (6.00%) Entra ID
7 57 (4.75%) Power Platform
8 35 (2.92%) Dynamics 365
9 34 (2.83%) Miro
10 32 (2.67%) GCP
11 28 (2.33%) Figma
12 27 (2.25%) Serverless
13 26 (2.17%) Mimecast
14 22 (1.83%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
16 18 (1.50%) IaaS
17 16 (1.33%) Amazon S3
18 15 (1.25%) Google Workspace
18 15 (1.25%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 56 (4.67%) DNS
2 46 (3.83%) VPN
3 41 (3.42%) DHCP
4 38 (3.17%) Firewall
5 34 (2.83%) TCP/IP
6 25 (2.08%) Network Security
7 23 (1.92%) WAN
8 21 (1.75%) Multicast
9 20 (1.67%) LAN
10 15 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.75%) VLAN
12 8 (0.67%) IPv4
12 8 (0.67%) Kerberos
12 8 (0.67%) Software-Defined Networking
13 7 (0.58%) BIG-IP
13 7 (0.58%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 7 (0.58%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 6 (0.50%) FIX Connectivity
14 6 (0.50%) HTTP
14 6 (0.50%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (4.92%) SQL Server
2 53 (4.42%) Power BI
3 27 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (2.08%) MongoDB
5 20 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (1.50%) MySQL
7 17 (1.42%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 13 (1.08%) Tableau
9 12 (1.00%) Metadata
10 10 (0.83%) NoSQL
11 7 (0.58%) DynamoDB
11 7 (0.58%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
11 7 (0.58%) Redis
12 6 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.42%) Spatial Data
14 4 (0.33%) Big Data
14 4 (0.33%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 119 (9.92%) Git
2 59 (4.92%) GitLab
3 51 (4.25%) Jenkins
4 33 (2.75%) Bitbucket
4 33 (2.75%) Selenium
5 31 (2.58%) Postman
5 31 (2.58%) Rational DOORS
6 26 (2.17%) Cypress.io
7 22 (1.83%) Zephyr
8 14 (1.17%) JMeter
9 11 (0.92%) Cucumber
10 10 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 10 (0.83%) Visual Studio
11 9 (0.75%) Claude Code
11 9 (0.75%) SoapUI
12 7 (0.58%) MSI
12 7 (0.58%) Subversion
13 6 (0.50%) Artifactory
13 6 (0.50%) SonarQube
13 6 (0.50%) TestRail
General
1 443 (36.92%) Social Skills
2 355 (29.58%) Finance
3 229 (19.08%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (6.83%) Organisational Skills
5 72 (6.00%) Banking
6 71 (5.92%) Aerospace
7 70 (5.83%) Public Sector
8 69 (5.75%) Marketing
9 64 (5.33%) Retail
10 59 (4.92%) Law
11 55 (4.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 54 (4.50%) Manufacturing
13 44 (3.67%) Legal
14 32 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
15 30 (2.50%) Electronics
16 29 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
17 26 (2.17%) Games
18 25 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
19 24 (2.00%) Telecoms
20 22 (1.83%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 271 (22.58%) Analyst
2 177 (14.75%) Senior
3 145 (12.08%) Business Analyst
4 117 (9.75%) Lead
5 103 (8.58%) Project Manager
6 86 (7.17%) Developer
7 52 (4.33%) IT Support
7 52 (4.33%) Support Analyst
8 49 (4.08%) Delivery Manager
9 46 (3.83%) IT Analyst
10 44 (3.67%) Senior Analyst
11 43 (3.58%) IT Manager
11 43 (3.58%) Software Engineer
12 41 (3.42%) Product Owner
13 36 (3.00%) Support Engineer
13 36 (3.00%) Technical Analyst
14 32 (2.67%) IT Engineer
14 32 (2.67%) Product Manager
15 31 (2.58%) Consultant
16 30 (2.50%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (5.67%) REST
2 49 (4.08%) .NET
3 48 (4.00%) HTML
4 47 (3.92%) Terraform
5 43 (3.58%) React
6 33 (2.75%) CSS
7 30 (2.50%) JSON
8 29 (2.42%) FIX Protocol
8 29 (2.42%) Middleware
9 28 (2.33%) Node.js
10 26 (2.17%) Playwright
11 25 (2.08%) RESTful
12 24 (2.00%) Gherkin
13 23 (1.92%) SOAP
14 22 (1.83%) XML
15 18 (1.50%) AngularJS
15 18 (1.50%) ASP.NET
16 17 (1.42%) pytest
17 16 (1.33%) Kafka
18 15 (1.25%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 154 (12.83%) Product Ownership
2 104 (8.67%) Onboarding
3 71 (5.92%) Enterprise Software
4 53 (4.42%) Management Information System
5 48 (4.00%) Data Centre
6 44 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
7 38 (3.17%) Driving Licence
8 36 (3.00%) Cloud Native
9 32 (2.67%) Equities
10 30 (2.50%) PMI
11 28 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
12 24 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
13 23 (1.92%) Fixed Income
14 20 (1.67%) Virtual Team
15 18 (1.50%) Derivative
16 16 (1.33%) Algorithms
17 15 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
18 14 (1.17%) Security Posture
19 13 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
20 12 (1.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 152 (12.67%) Windows
2 130 (10.83%) Linux
3 44 (3.67%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.92%) Mac OS
5 14 (1.17%) Windows 10
6 13 (1.08%) Ubuntu
6 13 (1.08%) Unix
7 11 (0.92%) Android
7 11 (0.92%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.42%) CentOS
8 5 (0.42%) Debian
8 5 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.17%) VMS
11 1 (0.083%) FreeRTOS
11 1 (0.083%) Rocky
11 1 (0.083%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 633 (52.75%) Agile
2 363 (30.25%) Continuous Improvement
3 350 (29.17%) Stakeholder Management
4 327 (27.25%) Problem-Solving
5 302 (25.17%) DevOps
6 263 (21.92%) Scrum
7 222 (18.50%) Project Management
8 203 (16.92%) AI
9 183 (15.25%) User Stories
10 177 (14.75%) ITIL
11 176 (14.67%) CI/CD
12 162 (13.50%) Project Delivery
13 153 (12.75%) Service Management
14 146 (12.17%) Acceptance Criteria
15 143 (11.92%) Requirements Gathering
16 136 (11.33%) Validation
17 135 (11.25%) Decision-Making
18 134 (11.17%) ITSM
18 134 (11.17%) Mentoring
19 130 (10.83%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 203 (16.92%) SQL
2 174 (14.50%) Python
3 93 (7.75%) PowerShell
4 89 (7.42%) Java
5 79 (6.58%) JavaScript
6 66 (5.50%) C#
7 41 (3.42%) Bash
7 41 (3.42%) C++
8 40 (3.33%) TypeScript
9 29 (2.42%) R
10 13 (1.08%) PHP
11 11 (0.92%) C
12 9 (0.75%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.67%) Bicep
14 7 (0.58%) ActionScript
14 7 (0.58%) Perl
15 6 (0.50%) Tcl
15 6 (0.50%) VB.NET
16 5 (0.42%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.42%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 215 (17.92%) Degree
2 149 (12.42%) Security Cleared
3 91 (7.58%) SC Cleared
4 83 (6.92%) PMI Certification
5 65 (5.42%) PMP
6 43 (3.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 39 (3.25%) DV Cleared
8 35 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
9 34 (2.83%) Computer Science Degree
10 32 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
11 28 (2.33%) AWS Certification
11 28 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
11 28 (2.33%) Master's Degree
12 27 (2.25%) ISTQB
13 26 (2.17%) CCNA
14 18 (1.50%) A+ Certification
15 14 (1.17%) CSPO
16 12 (1.00%) MBA
17 11 (0.92%) CBAP
17 11 (0.92%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (14.75%) QA
2 57 (4.75%) PMO
3 51 (4.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 47 (3.92%) Accessibility
5 37 (3.08%) Data Quality
6 28 (2.33%) SLA
7 25 (2.08%) GDPR
8 17 (1.42%) WCAG
9 11 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 10 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 10 (0.83%) TickIT
11 9 (0.75%) NCSC
11 9 (0.75%) NIST
12 7 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 12207
13 5 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 5 (0.42%) Software Quality Assurance
14 4 (0.33%) ISO 20022
14 4 (0.33%) ISO 9001
15 3 (0.25%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 111 (9.25%) Active Directory
2 50 (4.17%) Docker
3 35 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.42%) vSphere
5 16 (1.33%) Hyper-V
6 14 (1.17%) Firmware
7 11 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.75%) Embedded Firmware
9 8 (0.67%) Squid
9 8 (0.67%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.33%) KVM
11 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.17%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 1 (0.083%) HDFS
13 1 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 50 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 48 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 40 (3.33%) Ansible
4 12 (1.00%) ZABBIX
5 9 (0.75%) Packer
5 9 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.67%) Grafana
6 8 (0.67%) Kibana
7 7 (0.58%) Control-M
7 7 (0.58%) Docker Swarm
7 7 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (0.50%) BMC PATROL
8 6 (0.50%) FortiGate
8 6 (0.50%) Proxmox
9 5 (0.42%) SCCM
10 4 (0.33%) Graylog
10 4 (0.33%) Nagios
10 4 (0.33%) Podman
10 4 (0.33%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (0.25%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 305 (25.42%) Microsoft
2 143 (11.92%) ServiceNow
3 82 (6.83%) Oracle
4 78 (6.50%) SAP
5 71 (5.92%) Salesforce
6 42 (3.50%) Atlassian
6 42 (3.50%) VMware
7 35 (2.92%) Splunk
8 32 (2.67%) Cisco
9 29 (2.42%) IBM
10 28 (2.33%) Google
11 27 (2.25%) CrowdStrike
12 24 (2.00%) HubSpot
13 21 (1.75%) BMC
14 19 (1.58%) Red Hat
15 15 (1.25%) Pega
16 14 (1.17%) Adobe
16 14 (1.17%) Sage
17 11 (0.92%) ION Trading
18 10 (0.83%) YouTube