JIRA Job Trends in London

Atlassian JIRA
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring JIRA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 132 102
Rank change year-on-year +21 -30 -36
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 372 391 581
As % of all permanent jobs in London 2.60% 2.54% 3.04%
As % of the Development Applications category 30.02% 22.09% 25.09%
Number of salaries quoted 251 257 464
10th Percentile £35,750 £51,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £56,875 £55,000 £53,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -7.14% +1.71%
75th Percentile £90,625 £88,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £100,875
England median annual salary £57,500 £58,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.71% -2.50% -

All Development Application Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,239 1,770 2,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 8.66% 11.50% 12.11%
Number of salaries quoted 819 1,013 1,962
10th Percentile £41,250 £51,250 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £118,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JIRA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

JIRA job vacancy trend in London

JIRA
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing JIRA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing JIRA

JIRA
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA in London over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Salary histogram for JIRA in London

JIRA
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the London region over the 6 months to 20 January 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
Central London -21 40 £72,500 +20.83% 18
West London - 7 £53,500 - 7
South London +37 6 £35,500 -38.26% 10
East London -7 3 - - 3
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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
1 123 (33.06%) Confluence
2 20 (5.38%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.88%) IIS
4 6 (1.61%) Apache
5 5 (1.34%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.54%) CMS
8 2 (0.54%) JBoss
8 2 (0.54%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.27%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 34 (9.14%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (6.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (5.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (5.65%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (4.30%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.81%) Trello
6 2 (0.54%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.54%) Sketch
7 1 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.27%) InDesign
7 1 (0.27%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 13 (3.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (1.88%) Fidessa
3 4 (1.08%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.81%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.54%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.54%) Endur
5 2 (0.54%) EuroRunner
5 2 (0.54%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 2 (0.54%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.54%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.27%) Actimize
6 1 (0.27%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.27%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.27%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.27%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.27%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 98 (26.34%) Azure
2 58 (15.59%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (9.68%) AWS
3 36 (9.68%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (8.06%) GitHub
5 22 (5.91%) Power Platform
6 21 (5.65%) Figma
7 19 (5.11%) Slack
8 14 (3.76%) GCP
9 13 (3.49%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 13 (3.49%) Serverless
10 12 (3.23%) SaaS
11 11 (2.96%) Entra ID
12 10 (2.69%) Dynamics 365
13 9 (2.42%) Power Automate
14 7 (1.88%) Datadog
14 7 (1.88%) Mimecast
14 7 (1.88%) PowerApps
15 6 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
15 6 (1.61%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.30%) Multicast
2 15 (4.03%) DNS
3 13 (3.49%) DHCP
4 11 (2.96%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.88%) VPN
5 7 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.08%) Broadband
6 4 (1.08%) Cisco IOS
6 4 (1.08%) Firewall
6 4 (1.08%) VLAN
7 3 (0.81%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (0.81%) FIX Connectivity
7 3 (0.81%) WAN
8 2 (0.54%) DOCSIS
8 2 (0.54%) DSL
8 2 (0.54%) GPON
8 2 (0.54%) IPv4
8 2 (0.54%) IPv6
8 2 (0.54%) PPP
8 2 (0.54%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (11.83%) SQL Server
2 19 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (2.96%) DB2
4 9 (2.42%) MySQL
5 8 (2.15%) Power BI
6 7 (1.88%) NoSQL
6 7 (1.88%) Tableau
7 6 (1.61%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (1.34%) Metadata
8 5 (1.34%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.08%) Oracle Database
10 3 (0.81%) Big Data
10 3 (0.81%) Mixpanel
11 2 (0.54%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.54%) DataStage
11 2 (0.54%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 50 (13.44%) Git
2 38 (10.22%) Selenium
3 30 (8.06%) Jenkins
4 25 (6.72%) Bitbucket
5 21 (5.65%) Postman
6 20 (5.38%) Cypress.io
7 15 (4.03%) Cucumber
8 12 (3.23%) TeamCity
9 11 (2.96%) Visual Studio
10 9 (2.42%) GitLab
11 8 (2.15%) JMeter
11 8 (2.15%) Team Foundation Server
11 8 (2.15%) Visual Studio Code
12 7 (1.88%) Maven
12 7 (1.88%) TestRail
13 6 (1.61%) Zephyr
14 5 (1.34%) SoapUI
14 5 (1.34%) SpecFlow
14 5 (1.34%) Subversion
14 5 (1.34%) webpack
General
1 188 (50.54%) Social Skills
2 140 (37.63%) Finance
3 63 (16.94%) Analytical Skills
3 63 (16.94%) Banking
4 27 (7.26%) Marketing
5 24 (6.45%) Legal
6 20 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 19 (5.11%) Front Office
7 19 (5.11%) Law
8 17 (4.57%) Retail
9 16 (4.30%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (2.69%) Advertising
12 10 (2.69%) French Language
12 10 (2.69%) Public Sector
13 9 (2.42%) Swedish Language
14 8 (2.15%) Billing
14 8 (2.15%) Spanish Language
15 6 (1.61%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 71 (19.09%) Senior
2 58 (15.59%) Analyst
3 52 (13.98%) Developer
4 47 (12.63%) Lead
5 30 (8.06%) Business Analyst
6 22 (5.91%) Project Manager
7 21 (5.65%) Senior Developer
8 19 (5.11%) Software Engineer
9 18 (4.84%) Support Analyst
10 16 (4.30%) Senior Software Engineer
11 15 (4.03%) IT Manager
11 15 (4.03%) Support Engineer
12 13 (3.49%) Java Developer
12 13 (3.49%) Test Leader
13 12 (3.23%) C++ Software Engineer
13 12 (3.23%) Python Engineer
13 12 (3.23%) Python Software Engineer
13 12 (3.23%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
14 11 (2.96%) Team Leader
15 10 (2.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (9.41%) HTML
2 33 (8.87%) CSS
3 25 (6.72%) React
4 24 (6.45%) Node.js
5 23 (6.18%) .NET
6 22 (5.91%) RESTful
7 20 (5.38%) REST
8 17 (4.57%) FIX Protocol
9 13 (3.49%) Elastic Stack
10 12 (3.23%) Boost C++ Libraries
10 12 (3.23%) pytest
11 11 (2.96%) Gherkin
11 11 (2.96%) GraphQL
11 11 (2.96%) Jest
11 11 (2.96%) XML
12 10 (2.69%) Kafka
12 10 (2.69%) Lightning Web Components
12 10 (2.69%) Spring
13 9 (2.42%) Middleware
13 9 (2.42%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.68%) Product Ownership
2 34 (9.14%) Onboarding
3 24 (6.45%) Management Information System
4 20 (5.38%) Equities
4 20 (5.38%) Greenfield Project
5 18 (4.84%) Fixed Income
6 16 (4.30%) Algorithms
6 16 (4.30%) Cloud Native
7 14 (3.76%) Derivative
7 14 (3.76%) Virtual Team
8 9 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (2.15%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.88%) PMI
11 6 (1.61%) Credit Risk
11 6 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (1.61%) Market Risk
12 5 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.34%) Eurex
12 5 (1.34%) Wiki
13 4 (1.08%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 42 (11.29%) Windows
2 34 (9.14%) Linux
3 10 (2.69%) Windows 10
4 9 (2.42%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.88%) Unix
6 5 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.08%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.08%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.81%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.81%) Solaris
9 2 (0.54%) Android
9 2 (0.54%) OpenWrt
10 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (55.65%) Agile
2 102 (27.42%) DevOps
3 94 (25.27%) Problem-Solving
4 87 (23.39%) CI/CD
5 79 (21.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 65 (17.47%) Scrum
7 61 (16.40%) Test Automation
7 61 (16.40%) User Experience
8 57 (15.32%) SDLC
9 50 (13.44%) Stakeholder Management
10 45 (12.10%) AI
11 43 (11.56%) Project Management
12 41 (11.02%) Computer Science
13 38 (10.22%) Roadmaps
14 35 (9.41%) Analytics
14 35 (9.41%) Continuous Integration
15 34 (9.14%) Software Engineering
15 34 (9.14%) Test Management
16 33 (8.87%) User Acceptance Testing
17 28 (7.53%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 72 (19.35%) Python
1 72 (19.35%) SQL
2 39 (10.48%) JavaScript
3 34 (9.14%) PowerShell
4 33 (8.87%) Java
5 32 (8.60%) C#
6 23 (6.18%) Bash
7 20 (5.38%) TypeScript
8 15 (4.03%) Go
9 14 (3.76%) C++
10 10 (2.69%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.81%) Groovy
11 3 (0.81%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.81%) RPG
11 3 (0.81%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.54%) C
12 2 (0.54%) Google Apps Script
12 2 (0.54%) R
12 2 (0.54%) SOQL
13 1 (0.27%) Swift
Qualifications
1 78 (20.97%) Degree
2 28 (7.53%) ISTQB
2 28 (7.53%) Security Cleared
3 24 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 20 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (5.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (4.30%) PMI Certification
7 14 (3.76%) MCSE
8 9 (2.42%) PMP
9 7 (1.88%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.61%) Master's Degree
11 5 (1.34%) AWS Certified Developer
11 5 (1.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.34%) CBAP
11 5 (1.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 5 (1.34%) MCSA
12 4 (1.08%) ISEB
12 4 (1.08%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
13 3 (0.81%) A+ Certification
13 3 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (18.55%) QA
2 51 (13.71%) Accessibility
3 15 (4.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (3.49%) Data Quality
5 12 (3.23%) NIST
5 12 (3.23%) PMO
6 10 (2.69%) GDPR
7 7 (1.88%) WCAG
8 6 (1.61%) Basel II
8 6 (1.61%) SLA
9 5 (1.34%) PERC
10 4 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.81%) MiFID
11 3 (0.81%) P3O
11 3 (0.81%) SEPA
11 3 (0.81%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.27%) ITGC
12 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 39 (10.48%) Active Directory
2 29 (7.80%) Docker
3 12 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (6.72%) Kubernetes
1 25 (6.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (3.23%) Terraform
3 9 (2.42%) Ansible
4 8 (2.15%) Grafana
5 6 (1.61%) Puppet
6 5 (1.34%) Progress Chef
6 5 (1.34%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.81%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.54%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.27%) Ambari
9 1 (0.27%) Argo
9 1 (0.27%) Podman
9 1 (0.27%) SCCM
9 1 (0.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 89 (23.92%) Microsoft
2 37 (9.95%) Atlassian
2 37 (9.95%) ServiceNow
3 36 (9.68%) Salesforce
4 26 (6.99%) SAP
5 24 (6.45%) Oracle
6 12 (3.23%) Google
6 12 (3.23%) Tenable
7 9 (2.42%) Adobe
8 8 (2.15%) Bloomberg
8 8 (2.15%) Reuters
8 8 (2.15%) VMware
9 7 (1.88%) Dynatrace
9 7 (1.88%) ION Trading
9 7 (1.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 7 (1.88%) Trayport
10 6 (1.61%) Cisco
10 6 (1.61%) iManage
11 5 (1.34%) IBM
11 5 (1.34%) Red Hat