JIRA Jobs in the South East

Atlassian JIRA
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring JIRA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited JIRA over the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 141 82
Rank change year-on-year +39 -59 -8
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 294 260 405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 2.79% 1.84% 3.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 24.16% 21.59% 25.60%
Number of salaries quoted 161 153 297
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,900 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £63,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,700 £77,500 £79,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -8.33% +2.13%

All Development Application Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,217 1,204 1,582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 11.56% 8.50% 14.00%
Number of salaries quoted 757 867 1,106
10th Percentile £37,574 £38,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £46,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £70,600 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £81,750 £83,750 £91,875
England median annual salary £63,150 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.25% -7.69% +4.00%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the South East

JIRA
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the South East.

Salary trend for JIRA in the South East

JIRA
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the South East over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Salary histogram for JIRA in the South East

JIRA
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the South East region over the 6 months to 3 August 2025. 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
Thames Valley +7 88 £45,000 -10.00% 67
Isle of Wight - 77 £85,700 - 10
Surrey +13 57 £62,500 +13.64% 21
Buckinghamshire +27 51 £40,000 -40.74% 28
Hampshire +52 38 £46,000 -12.38% 33
Berkshire -15 25 £62,500 +25.00% 28
Oxfordshire +33 12 £60,000 +26.32% 12
Kent +4 11 £37,500 -21.05% 11
Middlesex -9 11 - - 2
West Sussex +3 9 £65,000 +52.94% 10
East Sussex +12 1 - - 12
Home Counties - 1 - -
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 58 (19.73%) Confluence
2 11 (3.74%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.06%) IIS
4 4 (1.36%) CMS
5 3 (1.02%) Umbraco
Applications
1 24 (8.16%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.38%) MadCap Flare
2 7 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (1.70%) Trello
5 4 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (1.02%) CATIA
6 3 (1.02%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.68%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.34%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 41 (13.95%) Azure
2 24 (8.16%) AWS
3 19 (6.46%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (4.76%) Asana
4 14 (4.76%) GitHub
5 13 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (3.74%) Miro
7 10 (3.40%) GCP
8 8 (2.72%) Power Platform
9 7 (2.38%) Google Analytics
9 7 (2.38%) Google Docs
10 6 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (2.04%) Amazon S3
11 5 (1.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (1.70%) AWS KMS
11 5 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (1.36%) npm
13 3 (1.02%) Cloudflare
13 3 (1.02%) Google Workspace
13 3 (1.02%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 35 (11.90%) Broadband
2 4 (1.36%) Firewall
3 3 (1.02%) DNS
4 2 (0.68%) FTP
4 2 (0.68%) HTTP
4 2 (0.68%) SMTP
4 2 (0.68%) SSH
5 1 (0.34%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.34%) DHCP
5 1 (0.34%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.34%) GPRS
5 1 (0.34%) LTE
5 1 (0.34%) Modbus
5 1 (0.34%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (10.20%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.36%) MySQL
4 4 (1.36%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (1.02%) DynamoDB
6 2 (0.68%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.68%) Couchbase
6 2 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.68%) GIS
6 2 (0.68%) Power BI
6 2 (0.68%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.68%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.34%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.34%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 80 (27.21%) Rational DOORS
2 35 (11.90%) Git
3 29 (9.86%) Jenkins
4 16 (5.44%) Bitbucket
5 15 (5.10%) Selenium
6 13 (4.42%) SoapUI
7 12 (4.08%) SonarQube
8 11 (3.74%) Maven
8 11 (3.74%) Sonatype Nexus
9 9 (3.06%) Cucumber
10 8 (2.72%) GitLab
11 7 (2.38%) Postman
11 7 (2.38%) Subversion
11 7 (2.38%) Team Foundation Server
11 7 (2.38%) Visual Studio
11 7 (2.38%) WebDriver
12 3 (1.02%) Bitbucket Server
12 3 (1.02%) JMeter
12 3 (1.02%) JUnit
12 3 (1.02%) Vite
General
1 82 (27.89%) Social Skills
2 53 (18.03%) Finance
3 19 (6.46%) Organisational Skills
4 16 (5.44%) Electronics
5 12 (4.08%) Retail
6 11 (3.74%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.74%) Banking
6 11 (3.74%) Influencing Skills
6 11 (3.74%) Marketing
7 10 (3.40%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.72%) Aerospace
8 8 (2.72%) Aviation
8 8 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.38%) Advertising
10 6 (2.04%) Public Sector
11 5 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.36%) Legal
13 3 (1.02%) Back Office
13 3 (1.02%) Publishing
13 3 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 77 (26.19%) System Design Authority
2 47 (15.99%) Analyst
3 35 (11.90%) Senior
4 26 (8.84%) Embedded Engineer
5 25 (8.50%) Release Engineer
6 22 (7.48%) Developer
6 22 (7.48%) Lead
7 17 (5.78%) Support Analyst
8 14 (4.76%) Applications Support
8 14 (4.76%) Electronics Engineer
8 14 (4.76%) Senior Electronics Engineer
9 13 (4.42%) Applications Support Analyst
10 12 (4.08%) Business Analyst
10 12 (4.08%) Software Engineer
11 11 (3.74%) Product Analyst
12 8 (2.72%) Project Manager
13 7 (2.38%) Author
13 7 (2.38%) Technical Analyst
13 7 (2.38%) Technical Author
13 7 (2.38%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.50%) Middleware
2 24 (8.16%) HTML
3 23 (7.82%) .NET
4 17 (5.78%) CSS
5 15 (5.10%) SOAP
6 14 (4.76%) React
6 14 (4.76%) Spring Boot
7 13 (4.42%) Spring
8 12 (4.08%) Hibernate
9 11 (3.74%) JPA
10 10 (3.40%) AngularJS
10 10 (3.40%) Kafka
11 9 (3.06%) RESTful
12 8 (2.72%) .NET Framework
12 8 (2.72%) Redux
13 6 (2.04%) ASP.NET
14 5 (1.70%) REST
14 5 (1.70%) XML
15 4 (1.36%) ASP.NET MVC
15 4 (1.36%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 26 (8.84%) Embedded Systems
2 25 (8.50%) Product Ownership
3 21 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (3.40%) Over-the-Top Content
4 10 (3.40%) Video\Live Streaming
5 9 (3.06%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (3.06%) VHDL
6 7 (2.38%) Driving Licence
6 7 (2.38%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.04%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.36%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.36%) CPLD
8 4 (1.36%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.36%) FPGA
8 4 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.36%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.36%) Robotics
9 3 (1.02%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.68%) Biopharmaceutical
10 2 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (11.90%) Windows
2 18 (6.12%) Linux
3 4 (1.36%) Android
3 4 (1.36%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.02%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.68%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.68%) Unix
5 2 (0.68%) VMS
5 2 (0.68%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.34%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (71.09%) Agile
2 106 (36.05%) Continuous Improvement
3 99 (33.67%) Waterfall
4 90 (30.61%) Configuration Management
5 88 (29.93%) Technical Leadership
6 80 (27.21%) Systems Engineering
7 79 (26.87%) Cybersecurity
8 51 (17.35%) CI/CD
9 49 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 45 (15.31%) Roadmaps
11 36 (12.24%) Artificial Intelligence
11 36 (12.24%) DevOps
12 34 (11.56%) Customer Service
13 33 (11.22%) Scrum
13 33 (11.22%) Strategic Thinking
14 28 (9.52%) Mentoring
14 28 (9.52%) Test Automation
15 27 (9.18%) Continuous Deployment
16 26 (8.84%) Software Delivery
17 25 (8.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (14.97%) SQL
2 30 (10.20%) JavaScript
3 27 (9.18%) Java
4 26 (8.84%) C#
5 12 (4.08%) Python
6 7 (2.38%) C++
7 4 (1.36%) C
8 3 (1.02%) Bash
8 3 (1.02%) Groovy
8 3 (1.02%) Perl
8 3 (1.02%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.68%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.68%) Go
9 2 (0.68%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.68%) SOQL
10 1 (0.34%) Korn
10 1 (0.34%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.34%) PHP
10 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 141 (47.96%) Degree
2 78 (26.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 77 (26.19%) Chartered Engineer
4 27 (9.18%) Security Cleared
5 17 (5.78%) SC Cleared
6 12 (4.08%) ISTQB
6 12 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (2.38%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 4 (1.36%) A+ Certification
9 4 (1.36%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (1.02%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 3 (1.02%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.68%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.68%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.68%) PhD
11 2 (0.68%) PMP
12 1 (0.34%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.14%) QA
2 10 (3.40%) Def Stans
3 6 (2.04%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.36%) PMO
5 3 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 3 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 3 (1.02%) SLA
6 2 (0.68%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.68%) GxP
7 1 (0.34%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 20 (6.80%) Docker
2 10 (3.40%) Firmware
3 7 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.70%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.68%) DFS Replication
6 1 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.34%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (3.74%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.72%) Terraform
3 4 (1.36%) Ansible
4 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.68%) Grafana
5 2 (0.68%) Packer
5 2 (0.68%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.68%) SCCM
5 2 (0.68%) SCOM
6 1 (0.34%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 81 (27.55%) IBM
2 59 (20.07%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.08%) Salesforce
4 10 (3.40%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.72%) Google
5 8 (2.72%) Solace
6 7 (2.38%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.70%) Oracle
8 4 (1.36%) Agilent
8 4 (1.36%) CA Agile Central
9 3 (1.02%) SAP
9 3 (1.02%) VMware
10 2 (0.68%) Cisco
10 2 (0.68%) Juniper
10 2 (0.68%) Rollbar
11 1 (0.34%) EMC
11 1 (0.34%) McAfee
11 1 (0.34%) Tanium
11 1 (0.34%) UiPath
11 1 (0.34%) Workday