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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 94 127
Rank change year-on-year -78 +33 -33
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,191 1,375 1,333
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.14% 3.18% 2.03%
As % of the Development Applications category 28.46% 41.79% 23.38%
Number of salaries quoted 756 762 755
10th Percentile £34,625 £32,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% +5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £87,300
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £56,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% -5.83%

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 4,185 3,290 5,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.02% 7.62% 8.69%
Number of salaries quoted 2,598 1,996 3,254
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £47,058
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 6 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 6 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 -57 404 £67,750 -12.58% 786
South East -64 236 £55,000 +22.22% 299
North of England -58 225 £52,500 +5.00% 255
South West -29 135 £60,000 +36.36% 108
North West -48 126 £55,000 +10.00% 126
Midlands -111 102 £45,000 -21.74% 144
Yorkshire -31 72 £42,500 -10.53% 96
East of England -38 69 £60,000 +4.35% 105
West Midlands -81 67 £45,000 -30.77% 95
East Midlands -62 35 £39,597 -14.85% 49
North East -51 27 £61,250 +18.93% 33
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
1 412 (34.59%) Confluence
2 91 (7.64%) SharePoint
3 47 (3.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (1.34%) CMS
5 8 (0.67%) SAS
6 7 (0.59%) IIS
6 7 (0.59%) JBoss
7 6 (0.50%) Umbraco
8 5 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.34%) 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%) nginx
11 2 (0.17%) WordPress
12 1 (0.084%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.084%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.084%) WebSphere
Applications
1 114 (9.57%) Microsoft Project
2 70 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (5.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 63 (5.29%) MS Visio
5 29 (2.43%) Trello
6 20 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 7 (0.59%) CATIA
7 7 (0.59%) Moqups
8 4 (0.34%) 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 (0.084%) Notion
11 1 (0.084%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.084%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 43 (3.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (1.09%) Fidessa
4 6 (0.50%) SAP IBP
5 4 (0.34%) Sage 200
5 4 (0.34%) 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 (0.084%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.084%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.084%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.084%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.084%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 356 (29.89%) Azure
2 178 (14.95%) AWS
3 177 (14.86%) Azure DevOps
4 141 (11.84%) Microsoft 365
5 132 (11.08%) SaaS
6 83 (6.97%) GitHub
7 72 (6.05%) Entra ID
8 56 (4.70%) Power Platform
9 35 (2.94%) Miro
10 34 (2.85%) Dynamics 365
11 31 (2.60%) GCP
12 27 (2.27%) Figma
12 27 (2.27%) Serverless
13 26 (2.18%) Mimecast
14 22 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
15 20 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
16 18 (1.51%) IaaS
17 16 (1.34%) Amazon S3
18 15 (1.26%) Google Workspace
18 15 (1.26%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 56 (4.70%) DNS
2 46 (3.86%) VPN
3 41 (3.44%) DHCP
4 38 (3.19%) Firewall
5 34 (2.85%) TCP/IP
6 25 (2.10%) Network Security
7 23 (1.93%) WAN
8 21 (1.76%) Multicast
9 20 (1.68%) LAN
10 15 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.76%) VLAN
12 8 (0.67%) Kerberos
13 7 (0.59%) BIG-IP
13 7 (0.59%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 7 (0.59%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 7 (0.59%) IPv4
13 7 (0.59%) Software-Defined Networking
14 6 (0.50%) FIX Connectivity
14 6 (0.50%) HTTP
14 6 (0.50%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (4.87%) SQL Server
2 52 (4.37%) Power BI
3 27 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (2.10%) MongoDB
5 20 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (1.51%) MySQL
7 17 (1.43%) Relational Database
8 13 (1.09%) Tableau
9 12 (1.01%) Metadata
9 12 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 10 (0.84%) NoSQL
11 7 (0.59%) DynamoDB
11 7 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (0.59%) Geospatial Data
11 7 (0.59%) Redis
12 6 (0.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.42%) Spatial Data
14 4 (0.34%) Big Data
14 4 (0.34%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 118 (9.91%) Git
2 58 (4.87%) GitLab
3 50 (4.20%) Jenkins
4 33 (2.77%) Selenium
5 32 (2.69%) Bitbucket
6 31 (2.60%) Postman
6 31 (2.60%) Rational DOORS
7 26 (2.18%) Cypress.io
8 21 (1.76%) Zephyr
9 14 (1.18%) JMeter
10 11 (0.92%) Cucumber
11 10 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 10 (0.84%) Visual Studio
12 9 (0.76%) Claude Code
12 9 (0.76%) SoapUI
13 7 (0.59%) MSI
13 7 (0.59%) Subversion
14 6 (0.50%) Artifactory
14 6 (0.50%) SonarQube
15 5 (0.42%) TestRail
General
1 439 (36.86%) Social Skills
2 356 (29.89%) Finance
3 228 (19.14%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (6.72%) Organisational Skills
5 73 (6.13%) Banking
6 70 (5.88%) Aerospace
6 70 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 66 (5.54%) Marketing
8 64 (5.37%) Retail
9 58 (4.87%) Law
10 55 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 53 (4.45%) Manufacturing
12 44 (3.69%) Legal
13 33 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
14 29 (2.43%) Electronics
14 29 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
15 26 (2.18%) Games
16 24 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
16 24 (2.02%) Telecoms
17 21 (1.76%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 268 (22.50%) Analyst
2 175 (14.69%) Senior
3 144 (12.09%) Business Analyst
4 117 (9.82%) Lead
5 103 (8.65%) Project Manager
6 85 (7.14%) Developer
7 51 (4.28%) IT Support
7 51 (4.28%) Support Analyst
8 48 (4.03%) Delivery Manager
9 45 (3.78%) IT Analyst
10 44 (3.69%) IT Manager
11 43 (3.61%) Senior Analyst
11 43 (3.61%) Software Engineer
12 41 (3.44%) Product Owner
13 36 (3.02%) Support Engineer
13 36 (3.02%) Technical Analyst
14 32 (2.69%) IT Engineer
15 31 (2.60%) Consultant
16 30 (2.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 30 (2.52%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (5.63%) REST
2 49 (4.11%) .NET
3 48 (4.03%) HTML
4 46 (3.86%) Terraform
5 43 (3.61%) React
6 33 (2.77%) CSS
7 29 (2.43%) FIX Protocol
7 29 (2.43%) JSON
8 28 (2.35%) Middleware
8 28 (2.35%) Node.js
9 27 (2.27%) Playwright
10 25 (2.10%) RESTful
11 24 (2.02%) Gherkin
12 22 (1.85%) SOAP
13 21 (1.76%) XML
14 18 (1.51%) AngularJS
14 18 (1.51%) ASP.NET
15 17 (1.43%) pytest
16 16 (1.34%) Kafka
17 15 (1.26%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 153 (12.85%) Product Ownership
2 101 (8.48%) Onboarding
3 70 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 53 (4.45%) Management Information System
5 48 (4.03%) Data Centre
6 43 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
7 39 (3.27%) Driving Licence
8 35 (2.94%) Cloud Native
9 32 (2.69%) Equities
10 30 (2.52%) PMI
11 27 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
12 24 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
13 23 (1.93%) Fixed Income
14 20 (1.68%) Virtual Team
15 18 (1.51%) Derivative
16 16 (1.34%) Algorithms
17 15 (1.26%) Distributed Systems
18 14 (1.18%) Security Posture
19 12 (1.01%) Biopharmaceutical
19 12 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 150 (12.59%) Windows
2 129 (10.83%) Linux
3 43 (3.61%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.93%) Mac OS
5 14 (1.18%) Windows 10
6 13 (1.09%) Ubuntu
6 13 (1.09%) Unix
7 11 (0.92%) Android
7 11 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.84%) Apple iOS
9 5 (0.42%) CentOS
9 5 (0.42%) Debian
9 5 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.17%) VMS
12 1 (0.084%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.084%) Rocky
12 1 (0.084%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 629 (52.81%) Agile
2 358 (30.06%) Continuous Improvement
3 351 (29.47%) Stakeholder Management
4 325 (27.29%) Problem-Solving
5 300 (25.19%) DevOps
6 262 (22.00%) Scrum
7 222 (18.64%) Project Management
8 203 (17.04%) AI
9 182 (15.28%) User Stories
10 176 (14.78%) ITIL
11 175 (14.69%) CI/CD
12 162 (13.60%) Project Delivery
13 152 (12.76%) Service Management
14 145 (12.17%) Acceptance Criteria
15 142 (11.92%) Requirements Gathering
16 137 (11.50%) Validation
17 134 (11.25%) Decision-Making
17 134 (11.25%) ITSM
17 134 (11.25%) Mentoring
18 131 (11.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 202 (16.96%) SQL
2 173 (14.53%) Python
3 91 (7.64%) PowerShell
4 88 (7.39%) Java
5 79 (6.63%) JavaScript
6 66 (5.54%) C#
7 41 (3.44%) C++
8 40 (3.36%) Bash
8 40 (3.36%) TypeScript
9 29 (2.43%) R
10 13 (1.09%) PHP
11 11 (0.92%) C
12 9 (0.76%) T-SQL
13 8 (0.67%) Bicep
14 7 (0.59%) ActionScript
14 7 (0.59%) 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
1 213 (17.88%) Degree
2 148 (12.43%) Security Cleared
3 91 (7.64%) SC Cleared
4 83 (6.97%) PMI Certification
5 65 (5.46%) PMP
6 43 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 39 (3.27%) DV Cleared
8 34 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 31 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 28 (2.35%) ITIL Certification
10 28 (2.35%) Master's Degree
11 27 (2.27%) AWS Certification
12 26 (2.18%) ISTQB
13 25 (2.10%) CCNA
14 18 (1.51%) A+ Certification
15 14 (1.18%) CSPO
16 12 (1.01%) MBA
17 11 (0.92%) CBAP
17 11 (0.92%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (14.78%) QA
2 56 (4.70%) PMO
3 51 (4.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 45 (3.78%) Accessibility
5 39 (3.27%) Data Quality
6 28 (2.35%) SLA
7 25 (2.10%) GDPR
8 17 (1.43%) WCAG
9 11 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 10 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 9 (0.76%) NCSC
11 9 (0.76%) NIST
11 9 (0.76%) TickIT
12 7 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 12207
13 5 (0.42%) ISO 20022
13 5 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.34%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.34%) Software Quality Assurance
15 3 (0.25%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 109 (9.15%) Active Directory
2 49 (4.11%) Docker
3 34 (2.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.34%) Hyper-V
4 16 (1.34%) vSphere
5 14 (1.18%) Firmware
6 11 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.76%) Embedded Firmware
8 7 (0.59%) Squid
8 7 (0.59%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.34%) KVM
10 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.17%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 1 (0.084%) HDFS
12 1 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 49 (4.11%) Kubernetes
2 48 (4.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 39 (3.27%) Ansible
4 11 (0.92%) ZABBIX
5 9 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.67%) Grafana
6 8 (0.67%) Kibana
6 8 (0.67%) Packer
7 7 (0.59%) Control-M
7 7 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
7 7 (0.59%) 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 (0.34%) Graylog
10 4 (0.34%) Nagios
10 4 (0.34%) Podman
10 4 (0.34%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (0.25%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 301 (25.27%) Microsoft
2 140 (11.75%) ServiceNow
3 81 (6.80%) Oracle
4 78 (6.55%) SAP
5 71 (5.96%) Salesforce
6 41 (3.44%) Atlassian
6 41 (3.44%) VMware
7 34 (2.85%) Splunk
8 32 (2.69%) Cisco
9 28 (2.35%) Google
9 28 (2.35%) IBM
10 27 (2.27%) CrowdStrike
11 23 (1.93%) HubSpot
12 20 (1.68%) BMC
13 18 (1.51%) Red Hat
14 15 (1.26%) Pega
15 14 (1.18%) Adobe
15 14 (1.18%) Sage
16 11 (0.92%) ION Trading
17 10 (0.84%) YouTube