JIRA Jobs in the UK excluding London

Atlassian JIRA
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 115 110
Rank change year-on-year +36 -5 -43
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,341 1,755 1,834
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.41% 2.35% 3.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 32.72% 26.39% 23.92%
Number of salaries quoted 631 1,133 1,017
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,500 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,548 £77,929
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,098 6,649 7,667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.41% 8.92% 13.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,483 4,535 4,291
10th Percentile £37,574 £33,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,250 £42,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,560 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,600 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,000 £58,700 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.62% -9.69% +4.00%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the UK excluding London

JIRA
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for JIRA in the UK excluding London

JIRA
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for JIRA in the UK excluding London

JIRA
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
North of England +32 482 £50,000 -11.50% 880
North West +32 376 £50,000 -20.18% 413
Midlands +69 280 £55,000 +18.92% 799
South East -14 195 £60,000 +14.29% 1,269
West Midlands +63 173 £65,000 +44.44% 448
South West +7 145 £46,500 -7.00% 493
Scotland +51 116 £52,000 -16.80% 187
East of England +21 108 £53,000 +17.78% 617
East Midlands +50 107 £37,500 -21.05% 297
Yorkshire +29 93 £55,000 - 356
Wales +19 15 £65,000 +44.44% 114
North East 0 15 £22,500 -57.14% 113
Northern Ireland +42 12 £52,500 -4.55% 49
JIRA
UK

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 542 (40.42%) Confluence
2 66 (4.92%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.42%) CMS
4 8 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.52%) Kentico
6 6 (0.45%) nginx
7 5 (0.37%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.37%) IIS
8 4 (0.30%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.22%) Apache
9 3 (0.22%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.22%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.15%) Moodle
10 2 (0.15%) Totara
10 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.075%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.075%) CICS
11 1 (0.075%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.075%) Mendix
Applications
1 54 (4.03%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (3.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 47 (3.50%) Microsoft Project
4 39 (2.91%) Trello
5 19 (1.42%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.45%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.15%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.075%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.075%) Weka
Business Applications
1 13 (0.97%) Salesforce CRM
2 6 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.15%) Shopify
5 1 (0.075%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.075%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.075%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 390 (29.08%) Azure
2 383 (28.56%) AWS
3 206 (15.36%) GCP
4 51 (3.80%) GitHub
5 41 (3.06%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (2.68%) Miro
7 35 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
8 31 (2.31%) Amazon EC2
9 30 (2.24%) Serverless
10 28 (2.09%) Amazon S3
10 28 (2.09%) Asana
10 28 (2.09%) Power Platform
11 26 (1.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 24 (1.79%) SaaS
13 21 (1.57%) AWS KMS
14 18 (1.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 17 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
16 16 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
16 16 (1.19%) Power Automate
17 15 (1.12%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 90 (6.71%) Broadband
2 33 (2.46%) Firewall
3 23 (1.72%) DNS
4 21 (1.57%) HTTP
5 13 (0.97%) VPN
6 12 (0.89%) SSH
7 10 (0.75%) DHCP
7 10 (0.75%) VLAN
8 8 (0.60%) Internet
9 7 (0.52%) FTP
9 7 (0.52%) SMTP
10 6 (0.45%) SAN
10 6 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.30%) 5G
11 4 (0.30%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (0.30%) LAN
11 4 (0.30%) Multicast
11 4 (0.30%) SSL
11 4 (0.30%) WAN
12 3 (0.22%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 294 (21.92%) SQL Server
2 73 (5.44%) MySQL
3 54 (4.03%) Relational Database
4 40 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
5 35 (2.61%) Tableau
6 32 (2.39%) NoSQL
7 26 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
7 26 (1.94%) MongoDB
8 16 (1.19%) Power BI
9 10 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.60%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
10 8 (0.60%) Redis
11 7 (0.52%) BusinessObjects
11 7 (0.52%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.45%) Amazon QuickSight
13 5 (0.37%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (0.37%) Metadata
13 5 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 317 (23.64%) Bitbucket
2 298 (22.22%) Selenium
3 270 (20.13%) SonarQube
4 269 (20.06%) GitLab
5 259 (19.31%) Cucumber
6 258 (19.24%) Sonatype Nexus
7 253 (18.87%) Maven
8 164 (12.23%) Git
9 99 (7.38%) Rational DOORS
10 51 (3.80%) Jenkins
11 45 (3.36%) Visual Studio
12 21 (1.57%) eggPlant
13 16 (1.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 15 (1.12%) Vagrant
15 14 (1.04%) JUnit
15 14 (1.04%) Postman
16 9 (0.67%) Subversion
17 7 (0.52%) JMeter
17 7 (0.52%) TeamCity
17 7 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 415 (30.95%) Finance
2 307 (22.89%) Banking
3 289 (21.55%) Social Skills
4 266 (19.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 127 (9.47%) Retail
6 91 (6.79%) Investment Banking
7 90 (6.71%) Corporate Banking
8 77 (5.74%) Law
9 76 (5.67%) Analytical Skills
10 74 (5.52%) Manufacturing
11 45 (3.36%) Legal
12 42 (3.13%) Public Sector
13 32 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
14 28 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
14 28 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (2.09%) Marketing
14 28 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
15 27 (2.01%) Avionics
16 25 (1.86%) Electronics
17 13 (0.97%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 324 (24.16%) Software Engineer
2 240 (17.90%) Senior
3 158 (11.78%) Analyst
4 130 (9.69%) Lead
5 90 (6.71%) Developer
6 81 (6.04%) Principal Engineer
7 70 (5.22%) Embedded Engineer
8 68 (5.07%) Architect
9 65 (4.85%) Release Engineer
10 60 (4.47%) Solutions Architect
11 58 (4.33%) Lead Architect
11 58 (4.33%) Lead Solutions Architect
12 50 (3.73%) Support Analyst
13 49 (3.65%) IT Support
14 43 (3.21%) Principal Systems Engineer
15 42 (3.13%) Project Manager
16 39 (2.91%) IT Analyst
16 39 (2.91%) Senior Software Engineer
17 36 (2.68%) Business Analyst
17 36 (2.68%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 296 (22.07%) React
2 282 (21.03%) HTML
3 280 (20.88%) CSS
4 277 (20.66%) Spring
5 267 (19.91%) Spring Boot
6 263 (19.61%) Kafka
7 256 (19.09%) Redux
8 252 (18.79%) JPA
9 164 (12.23%) Hibernate
10 119 (8.87%) REST
11 115 (8.58%) RESTful
12 100 (7.46%) Jest
13 98 (7.31%) HTML5
14 93 (6.94%) Sass
15 92 (6.86%) CSS3
16 77 (5.74%) .NET
17 76 (5.67%) Middleware
18 47 (3.50%) Node.js
19 41 (3.06%) AngularJS
20 24 (1.79%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 343 (25.58%) Product Ownership
2 250 (18.64%) Enterprise Software
3 67 (5.00%) Embedded Systems
4 34 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
5 32 (2.39%) Management Information System
6 25 (1.86%) SCADA
7 22 (1.64%) Video\Live Streaming
8 21 (1.57%) Over-the-Top Content
9 20 (1.49%) Mobile App
9 20 (1.49%) Social Media
10 18 (1.34%) Operational Technology
11 17 (1.27%) Onboarding
11 17 (1.27%) Satnav
12 15 (1.12%) Public Cloud
13 14 (1.04%) Cloud Native
14 13 (0.97%) Replication
15 11 (0.82%) Algorithms
15 11 (0.82%) Data Structures
15 11 (0.82%) IoT
16 10 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 143 (10.66%) Linux
2 102 (7.61%) Windows
3 15 (1.12%) VMS
4 13 (0.97%) Android
5 8 (0.60%) Amazon Linux
6 7 (0.52%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.52%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.52%) Windows Vista
7 6 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.45%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.45%) Unix
7 6 (0.45%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.45%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.22%) Debian
8 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.15%) CentOS
9 2 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.15%) Solaris
9 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 879 (65.55%) Agile
2 448 (33.41%) CI/CD
3 412 (30.72%) DevOps
4 374 (27.89%) Test Automation
5 349 (26.03%) Software Engineering
6 313 (23.34%) SDLC
7 293 (21.85%) Microservices
8 282 (21.03%) Full-Stack Development
9 279 (20.81%) Containerisation
10 275 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
11 268 (19.99%) Front End Development
12 251 (18.72%) Performance Optimisation
13 206 (15.36%) Mentoring
14 197 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
15 191 (14.24%) TDD
16 171 (12.75%) Scrum
17 166 (12.38%) Clean Code
18 165 (12.30%) Strategic Thinking
19 163 (12.16%) Roadmaps
20 162 (12.08%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 377 (28.11%) SQL
2 343 (25.58%) Java
3 338 (25.21%) JavaScript
4 131 (9.77%) TypeScript
5 103 (7.68%) C#
6 80 (5.97%) Python
7 50 (3.73%) C
8 26 (1.94%) PowerShell
9 20 (1.49%) Groovy
10 16 (1.19%) VB
11 15 (1.12%) Ada
12 14 (1.04%) C++
12 14 (1.04%) PHP
13 8 (0.60%) Bash
14 7 (0.52%) Perl
15 6 (0.45%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.45%) Go
16 4 (0.30%) Ruby
16 4 (0.30%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 273 (20.36%) Degree
2 228 (17.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 58 (4.33%) Chartered Engineer
4 55 (4.10%) Security Cleared
5 48 (3.58%) ISTQB
6 40 (2.98%) SC Cleared
7 35 (2.61%) PMI Certification
8 32 (2.39%) HND
8 32 (2.39%) PMP
9 23 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (1.49%) DBS Check
11 16 (1.19%) HNC
12 13 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.75%) A+ Certification
13 10 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 9 (0.67%) Azure Certification
15 7 (0.52%) CITP
16 6 (0.45%) AWS Certification
16 6 (0.45%) Numerate Degree
17 5 (0.37%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 309 (23.04%) QA
2 106 (7.90%) Accessibility
3 41 (3.06%) Data Quality
4 39 (2.91%) SLA
5 13 (0.97%) GDPR
6 10 (0.75%) PMO
7 8 (0.60%) ISO 20022
7 8 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.45%) NIST
9 3 (0.22%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.22%) IEC 62304
9 3 (0.22%) ISO 13485
10 2 (0.15%) GxP
11 1 (0.075%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.075%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.075%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.075%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.075%) IFRS
11 1 (0.075%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.075%) NCSC
System Software
1 320 (23.86%) Docker
2 35 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.04%) Firmware
4 13 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (0.82%) DFS Replication
6 10 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.52%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.22%) vSphere
9 2 (0.15%) Dovecot
9 2 (0.15%) KVM
9 2 (0.15%) NFS
9 2 (0.15%) pfSense
9 2 (0.15%) Postfix
9 2 (0.15%) Squid
9 2 (0.15%) SRDF
9 2 (0.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (0.15%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.15%) Xen
10 1 (0.075%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 297 (22.15%) Kubernetes
2 70 (5.22%) Ansible
3 38 (2.83%) Terraform
4 28 (2.09%) Grafana
5 25 (1.86%) Prometheus
6 8 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.37%) HP ALM
7 5 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.30%) Nessus
8 4 (0.30%) Progress Chef
8 4 (0.30%) Puppet
8 4 (0.30%) SCCM
9 3 (0.22%) Argo
9 3 (0.22%) Istio
9 3 (0.22%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.15%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.15%) Graylog
10 2 (0.15%) Kustomize
10 2 (0.15%) Packer
10 2 (0.15%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 246 (18.34%) Solace
2 241 (17.97%) Microsoft
3 82 (6.11%) Atlassian
4 72 (5.37%) SAP
5 71 (5.29%) Salesforce
6 68 (5.07%) ServiceNow
7 63 (4.70%) IBM
8 58 (4.33%) Siemens
9 39 (2.91%) Google
10 28 (2.09%) Oracle
11 21 (1.57%) Keysight
12 18 (1.34%) VMware
13 13 (0.97%) Cisco
14 10 (0.75%) Juniper
15 8 (0.60%) Splunk
16 7 (0.52%) Adobe
16 7 (0.52%) MuleSoft
17 6 (0.45%) BMC
17 6 (0.45%) HP
17 6 (0.45%) Remedy