JIRA Job Trends in Swansea

Atlassian JIRA
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring JIRA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 12 -
Rank change year-on-year -24 - -
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 15 1 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 4.32% 2.44% -
As % of the Development Applications category 45.45% 20.00% -
Number of salaries quoted 15 1 0
10th Percentile £28,640 - -
25th Percentile £36,625 £41,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% - -
75th Percentile £62,500 £43,750 -
90th Percentile £73,750 - -
West Wales median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £38,000
% change year-on-year +11.76% +11.84% +68.89%

All Development Application Skills
Swansea

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 Swansea.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 33 5 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 9.51% 12.20% 16.28%
Number of salaries quoted 33 5 17
10th Percentile £32,650 £43,344 £35,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,486 £40,808
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,124 £46,131
Median % change year-on-year +19.70% +8.66% +15.33%
75th Percentile £73,750 £53,762 £52,500
90th Percentile £80,000 - £63,750
West Wales median annual salary £60,000 £50,124 £45,000
% change year-on-year +19.70% +11.39% +6.25%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in Swansea

JIRA
Salary Trend in Swansea

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing JIRA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing JIRA

JIRA
Salary Histogram in Swansea

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Swansea over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for JIRA in Swansea

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea 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 9 (60.00%) Confluence
2 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Azure
1 10 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (53.33%) AWS
3 7 (46.67%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (46.67%) Serverless
4 4 (26.67%) GitHub
4 4 (26.67%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (6.67%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) Selenium
2 6 (40.00%) JUnit
2 6 (40.00%) Postman
3 4 (26.67%) Cypress.io
3 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
3 4 (26.67%) REST Assured
3 4 (26.67%) Zephyr
4 3 (20.00%) Git
4 3 (20.00%) GitLab
4 3 (20.00%) Newman
4 3 (20.00%) TestRail
5 2 (13.33%) Bugzilla
6 1 (6.67%) Burp Suite
6 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
6 1 (6.67%) Gatling
6 1 (6.67%) JMeter
6 1 (6.67%) Pa11y
General
1 13 (86.67%) Public Sector
2 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (26.67%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (26.67%) Finance
5 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (6.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Developer
1 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 3 (20.00%) Lead
1 3 (20.00%) Senior
1 3 (20.00%) Senior Developer
1 3 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
1 3 (20.00%) Senior Software Developer
1 3 (20.00%) Software Developer
1 3 (20.00%) Test Leader
2 2 (13.33%) Manual Tester
2 2 (13.33%) Project Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Tester
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Development Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Product Owner
3 1 (6.67%) Software Development Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) Node.js
1 7 (46.67%) Ruby on Rails
1 7 (46.67%) Spring Boot
2 6 (40.00%) Playwright
2 6 (40.00%) React
2 6 (40.00%) Spring
3 4 (26.67%) REST
4 3 (20.00%) CSS
4 3 (20.00%) CSS3
4 3 (20.00%) HTML
4 3 (20.00%) HTML5
4 3 (20.00%) Jest
5 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Product Ownership
2 7 (46.67%) Cloud Native
3 6 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (40.00%) Mainframe
4 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (6.67%) Digital Wallet
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Agile
1 15 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 13 (86.67%) DevOps
3 11 (73.33%) Scrum
4 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
5 7 (46.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (46.67%) Microservices
5 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (40.00%) Kanban
6 6 (40.00%) Migration
6 6 (40.00%) Test Automation
7 5 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
7 5 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 5 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
7 5 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
7 5 (33.33%) Validation
8 4 (26.67%) Data Strategy
8 4 (26.67%) OWASP
8 4 (26.67%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Java
1 7 (46.67%) Ruby
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) ISTQB
2 4 (26.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (13.33%) PMI Certification
4 2 (13.33%) PMP
5 1 (6.67%) CBAP
5 1 (6.67%) CSPO
5 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (53.33%) WCAG
2 5 (33.33%) Accessibility
3 4 (26.67%) QA
4 1 (6.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) OneLogin
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle