JIRA Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Atlassian JIRA
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring JIRA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 80 118
Rank change year-on-year +25 +38 -22
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 146 114 115
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 3.35% 3.49% 2.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 54.07% 26.33% 21.46%
Number of salaries quoted 58 56 86
10th Percentile £30,250 £38,750 £35,625
25th Percentile £32,563 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,750 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.08% - -
75th Percentile £55,813 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £78,750
South East median annual salary £45,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -24.17% +9.09% -4.35%

All Development Application Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 270 433 536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.20% 13.25% 9.95%
Number of salaries quoted 128 238 407
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £33,250 £45,000 £52,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £63,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% -1.56% +6.67%
75th Percentile £68,750 £81,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £76,625 £83,750 £92,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

JIRA
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing JIRA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing JIRA

JIRA
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

Salary histogram for JIRA in the Thames Valley

JIRA
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 13 February 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
Berkshire +39 105 £47,500 - 13
Buckinghamshire +5 33 £34,500 -46.92% 17
Oxfordshire -16 8 £32,500 -53.57% 7
JIRA
South East

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 13 (8.90%) Confluence
2 1 (0.68%) Apache
2 1 (0.68%) CMS
2 1 (0.68%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (4.79%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.68%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 69 (47.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 72 (49.32%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (4.79%) Miro
3 3 (2.05%) Azure
3 3 (2.05%) Power Platform
4 2 (1.37%) AWS
4 2 (1.37%) Smartsheet
4 2 (1.37%) Snowflake
5 1 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.68%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (0.68%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (0.68%) Figma
5 1 (0.68%) GitHub
5 1 (0.68%) OCI
5 1 (0.68%) SaaS
5 1 (0.68%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.37%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.05%) Power BI
2 2 (1.37%) MySQL
3 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 69 (47.26%) eCATT
2 38 (26.03%) NeoLoad
3 11 (7.53%) SoapUI
4 10 (6.85%) Postman
4 10 (6.85%) Selenium
4 10 (6.85%) Team Foundation Server
4 10 (6.85%) WebDriver
5 6 (4.11%) Git
5 6 (4.11%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.37%) Subversion
7 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.68%) JMeter
7 1 (0.68%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.68%) Zephyr
General
1 83 (56.85%) Finance
2 78 (53.42%) Marketing
3 72 (49.32%) Manufacturing
4 56 (38.36%) Presentation Skills
5 41 (28.08%) Influencing Skills
6 40 (27.40%) Social Skills
7 20 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (5.48%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.37%) Health Technology
10 2 (1.37%) Law
10 2 (1.37%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.68%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 72 (49.32%) Analyst
2 43 (29.45%) Senior
3 35 (23.97%) Lead
4 27 (18.49%) Test Analyst
5 26 (17.81%) Test Leader
6 22 (15.07%) Support Analyst
7 16 (10.96%) Automation Test Lead
8 13 (8.90%) Applications Support
8 13 (8.90%) Applications Support Analyst
9 12 (8.22%) Performance Analyst
9 12 (8.22%) Performance Test Analyst
9 12 (8.22%) Testing Analyst
10 10 (6.85%) Performance Test Leader
11 9 (6.16%) Automation Test Analyst
12 6 (4.11%) IT Support
12 6 (4.11%) Sales Executive
12 6 (4.11%) Solutions Sales Executive
12 6 (4.11%) Technical Analyst
12 6 (4.11%) Technical Support
12 6 (4.11%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.53%) SOAP
2 10 (6.85%) .NET
2 10 (6.85%) HTML
3 2 (1.37%) Laravel
3 2 (1.37%) Next.js
3 2 (1.37%) React
3 2 (1.37%) Tailwind CSS
4 1 (0.68%) ADO
4 1 (0.68%) CSS
4 1 (0.68%) RESTful
4 1 (0.68%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.16%) Enterprise Software
1 9 (6.16%) Onboarding
2 6 (4.11%) NHS
3 5 (3.42%) Life Science
4 4 (2.74%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.05%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.37%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.68%) Sports Betting
7 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (14.38%) Windows
2 2 (1.37%) Linux
2 2 (1.37%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (54.79%) Test Management
2 69 (47.26%) Source to Pay
3 60 (41.10%) ERP
4 55 (37.67%) Roadmaps
5 54 (36.99%) Continuous Improvement
6 50 (34.25%) Product Roadmap
6 50 (34.25%) Visualisation
7 43 (29.45%) Risk Management
8 41 (28.08%) Requirements Gathering
9 39 (26.71%) Performance Testing
9 39 (26.71%) Test Strategy
10 35 (23.97%) Continuous Delivery
11 31 (21.23%) Agile
12 29 (19.86%) Test Automation
13 28 (19.18%) Programme Management
14 26 (17.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 25 (17.12%) Defect Management
16 23 (15.75%) Test Scripting
17 20 (13.70%) User Experience
18 17 (11.64%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 27 (18.49%) SQL
2 10 (6.85%) C#
2 10 (6.85%) Java
3 2 (1.37%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 46 (31.51%) Degree
2 13 (8.90%) ISTQB
3 10 (6.85%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 10 (6.85%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.42%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.05%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.37%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (19.86%) QA
2 5 (3.42%) Def Stans
3 4 (2.74%) PMO
4 3 (2.05%) SLA
5 2 (1.37%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.37%) GDPR
5 2 (1.37%) WCAG
6 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (3.42%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.37%) Terminal Server
2 2 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 69 (47.26%) HP ALM
2 2 (1.37%) SCCM
2 2 (1.37%) SCOM
Vendors
1 69 (47.26%) HP
1 69 (47.26%) SAP
2 10 (6.85%) ServiceNow
3 7 (4.79%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.11%) BMC
4 6 (4.11%) HubSpot
5 3 (2.05%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.37%) Cisco
6 2 (1.37%) Juniper
6 2 (1.37%) McAfee
6 2 (1.37%) VMware
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle
7 1 (0.68%) Sitecore