JIRA Job Trends in the South West

Atlassian JIRA
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring JIRA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 91 76
Rank change year-on-year -38 -15 +32
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 101 81 285
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.21% 2.45% 2.92%
As % of the Development Applications category 26.79% 27.27% 28.56%
Number of salaries quoted 75 53 209
10th Percentile £31,700 £27,150 £27,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £46,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -7.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £62,200
90th Percentile £73,250 £78,000 £68,244
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%

All Development Application Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 377 297 998
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.53% 8.98% 10.22%
Number of salaries quoted 248 187 750
10th Percentile £30,250 £33,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £44,375 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £92,261 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +12.07% -10.77%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in the South West

JIRA
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing JIRA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing JIRA

JIRA
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the South West over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Salary histogram for JIRA in the South West

JIRA
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the South West region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
Gloucestershire -20 34 £51,250 +2.50% 20
Bristol -24 20 £55,000 +20.88% 24
Dorset -6 17 £37,500 -16.67% 4
Somerset -29 17 £70,000 -9.68% 4
Wiltshire -12 9 £55,000 -7.59% 9
Devon -38 2 £45,000 - 1
Cornwall - 1 £47,000 -
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 42 (41.58%) Confluence
2 5 (4.95%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.99%) Apache
3 1 (0.99%) CMS
3 1 (0.99%) Drupal
3 1 (0.99%) IIS
3 1 (0.99%) nginx
3 1 (0.99%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (6.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (3.96%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.98%) Trello
5 1 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.95%) Magento
1 5 (4.95%) Visualfiles
2 4 (3.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.96%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (3.96%) Shopify
3 1 (0.99%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.99%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (28.71%) Azure
2 25 (24.75%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (19.80%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (10.89%) SaaS
5 9 (8.91%) AWS
5 9 (8.91%) Entra ID
6 6 (5.94%) GCP
6 6 (5.94%) Serverless
7 5 (4.95%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (4.95%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (4.95%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.96%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (3.96%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (3.96%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (3.96%) GitHub
8 4 (3.96%) Google Workspace
8 4 (3.96%) Miro
9 3 (2.97%) Lucidchart
10 2 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.91%) Network Security
2 4 (3.96%) Firewall
2 4 (3.96%) IPv4
2 4 (3.96%) Software-Defined Networking
2 4 (3.96%) VPN
3 2 (1.98%) RFID
4 1 (0.99%) DHCP
4 1 (0.99%) DNS
4 1 (0.99%) RS-485
4 1 (0.99%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.93%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.95%) Geospatial Data
3 3 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.98%) MySQL
4 2 (1.98%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.98%) Tableau
5 1 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.99%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (0.99%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.99%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.99%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (25.74%) Git
2 11 (10.89%) GitLab
3 6 (5.94%) Bitbucket
3 6 (5.94%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.95%) MSI
5 3 (2.97%) Postman
5 3 (2.97%) SoapUI
5 3 (2.97%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.99%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.99%) Gatling
6 1 (0.99%) GoogleTest
6 1 (0.99%) JMeter
6 1 (0.99%) Maven
6 1 (0.99%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.99%) Vagrant
6 1 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 47 (46.53%) Social Skills
2 17 (16.83%) Finance
3 11 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.91%) Automotive
5 8 (7.92%) Aerospace
6 5 (4.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.95%) Retail
7 4 (3.96%) Back Office
7 4 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.97%) Local Government
8 3 (2.97%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.97%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.98%) Health Technology
9 2 (1.98%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.98%) Publishing
9 2 (1.98%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.99%) Electronics
10 1 (0.99%) Marketing
10 1 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (16.83%) Analyst
1 17 (16.83%) Lead
1 17 (16.83%) Support Engineer
2 14 (13.86%) Senior
3 10 (9.90%) Azure Engineer
3 10 (9.90%) IT Engineer
3 10 (9.90%) IT Support
3 10 (9.90%) Team Leader
4 9 (8.91%) Desktop Support
4 9 (8.91%) Developer
4 9 (8.91%) IT Support Engineer
4 9 (8.91%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 9 (8.91%) Server Engineer
4 9 (8.91%) Server Support
4 9 (8.91%) Software Engineer
5 7 (6.93%) Applications Support
5 7 (6.93%) Systems Engineer
5 7 (6.93%) Systems Support
5 7 (6.93%) Systems Support Engineer
6 6 (5.94%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.89%) .NET
2 10 (9.90%) REST
3 8 (7.92%) HTML
3 8 (7.92%) Middleware
4 7 (6.93%) SOAP
5 6 (5.94%) .NET Framework
5 6 (5.94%) JSON
5 6 (5.94%) XML
6 5 (4.95%) .NET Core
6 5 (4.95%) ATL
6 5 (4.95%) COM
6 5 (4.95%) CSS
6 5 (4.95%) CSS3
6 5 (4.95%) GeoJSON
6 5 (4.95%) HTML5
6 5 (4.95%) MFC
6 5 (4.95%) RESTful
6 5 (4.95%) WPF
7 4 (3.96%) boto
7 4 (3.96%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.89%) Product Ownership
2 10 (9.90%) Data Centre
2 10 (9.90%) Onboarding
3 9 (8.91%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.94%) Management Information System
5 5 (4.95%) CMDB
6 4 (3.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.96%) IoT
6 4 (3.96%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.96%) Video\Live Streaming
7 3 (2.97%) Driving Licence
7 3 (2.97%) Fat Client
7 3 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.97%) Thin Client
8 2 (1.98%) EPoS
8 2 (1.98%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.99%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.99%) Embedded Systems
9 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.99%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (25.74%) Linux
2 20 (19.80%) Windows
3 8 (7.92%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.99%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.99%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.99%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (49.50%) Agile
2 34 (33.66%) DevOps
3 31 (30.69%) CI/CD
4 24 (23.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (22.77%) ITIL
6 22 (21.78%) Mentoring
7 20 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (19.80%) Software Engineering
8 19 (18.81%) ITSM
8 19 (18.81%) Scrum
8 19 (18.81%) Test Automation
9 16 (15.84%) Customer Service
9 16 (15.84%) Service Management
9 16 (15.84%) Stakeholder Management
10 15 (14.85%) Code Quality
11 14 (13.86%) SDLC
12 13 (12.87%) Software Testing
13 11 (10.89%) Coaching
13 11 (10.89%) Kanban
13 11 (10.89%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 19 (18.81%) Python
2 18 (17.82%) SQL
3 14 (13.86%) C#
4 11 (10.89%) JavaScript
5 10 (9.90%) Java
6 9 (8.91%) TypeScript
7 8 (7.92%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.95%) Bash
8 5 (4.95%) Bicep
9 4 (3.96%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.98%) C
11 1 (0.99%) C++
11 1 (0.99%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.99%) PHP
Qualifications
1 24 (23.76%) Security Cleared
2 12 (11.88%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.89%) DV Cleared
4 8 (7.92%) Degree
5 5 (4.95%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.96%) CCNA
6 4 (3.96%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.96%) ISTQB
6 4 (3.96%) OSCP
6 4 (3.96%) RHCE
6 4 (3.96%) RHCSA
7 2 (1.98%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.99%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.99%) CBAP
8 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.99%) CSPO
8 1 (0.99%) IIBA
8 1 (0.99%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.92%) Accessibility
1 8 (7.92%) QA
2 6 (5.94%) NCSC
3 5 (4.95%) PMO
3 5 (4.95%) WCAG
4 4 (3.96%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.97%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.98%) Good Clinical Practice
6 2 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.99%) GDPR
7 1 (0.99%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (23.76%) Active Directory
2 20 (19.80%) Docker
3 7 (6.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (3.96%) Squid
4 4 (3.96%) VMware NSX
4 4 (3.96%) vSphere
5 3 (2.97%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.98%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (1.98%) Firmware
7 1 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (10.89%) Terraform
2 10 (9.90%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.92%) Ansible
3 8 (7.92%) SCCM
4 6 (5.94%) Packer
5 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (3.96%) ZABBIX
7 3 (2.97%) SCOM
7 3 (2.97%) SCOrch
7 3 (2.97%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.99%) Consul
8 1 (0.99%) Grafana
8 1 (0.99%) Kibana
8 1 (0.99%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.99%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.99%) Puppet
Vendors
1 46 (45.54%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.93%) Google
2 7 (6.93%) VMware
3 6 (5.94%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.95%) Adobe
4 5 (4.95%) Citrix
4 5 (4.95%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (4.95%) McAfee
4 5 (4.95%) Red Hat
4 5 (4.95%) Tenable
4 5 (4.95%) Zscaler
5 4 (3.96%) ConnectWise
5 4 (3.96%) Intel
5 4 (3.96%) Oracle
5 4 (3.96%) Splunk
5 4 (3.96%) WooCommerce
6 2 (1.98%) Freshdesk
6 2 (1.98%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.99%) Remedy
7 1 (0.99%) TOWER Software