JIRA Job Trends

Atlassian JIRA
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring JIRA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 114 97
Rank change year-on-year +11 -17 -31
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,299 1,397 1,607
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.20% 2.52% 3.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 35.64% 24.50% 25.44%
Number of salaries quoted 757 798 1,234
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £51,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.86% -11.30% +4.55%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,645 5,703 6,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.16% 10.28% 12.36%
Number of salaries quoted 2,395 3,332 5,077
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,574 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £82,548
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -6.36% -5.98% +6.36%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in the UK

JIRA
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JIRA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing JIRA

JIRA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for JIRA in the UK

JIRA
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the UK over the 6 months to 31 December 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
England +8 1,106 £57,500 -0.05% 2,495
UK excluding London +2 819 £47,500 -6.86% 2,368
London +32 394 £75,000 +15.38% 354
Work from Home +12 375 £53,500 -5.00% 1,292
South East +39 338 £45,000 -21.74% 628
North of England -39 133 £47,683 -4.63% 488
Midlands -8 106 £47,500 -7.32% 466
Scotland +35 97 £64,999 +8.33% 120
South West -42 70 £42,500 -11.46% 265
West Midlands -5 67 £42,500 -19.05% 239
Yorkshire +8 64 £43,250 +1.76% 222
North West -36 52 £47,592 -4.92% 231
East of England -25 45 £57,500 +6.98% 331
East Midlands -9 39 £55,000 +10.00% 204
Northern Ireland -2 24 £50,000 -4.76% 33
North East -20 17 £51,500 - 35
Wales -11 7 £70,000 +7.69% 63

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 381 (29.33%) Confluence
2 52 (4.00%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.54%) CMS
4 18 (1.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 13 (1.00%) Apache
5 13 (1.00%) IIS
6 9 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.62%) WordPress
8 6 (0.46%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.46%) Umbraco
8 6 (0.46%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.31%) JBoss
9 4 (0.31%) nginx
10 3 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.23%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.15%) CICS
11 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
12 1 (0.077%) FileNet
12 1 (0.077%) SAS
Applications
1 80 (6.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
3 71 (5.47%) Microsoft Project
4 35 (2.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 29 (2.23%) MS Visio
6 25 (1.92%) Trello
7 15 (1.15%) CATIA
8 7 (0.54%) Windchill
9 6 (0.46%) Simulink
10 5 (0.38%) MadCap Flare
11 4 (0.31%) Mozilla Thunderbird
12 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
13 2 (0.15%) Adobe XD
13 2 (0.15%) Photoshop
13 2 (0.15%) Sketch
14 1 (0.077%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 1 (0.077%) Adobe Illustrator
14 1 (0.077%) Doxygen
14 1 (0.077%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 110 (8.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 24 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (1.39%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (0.77%) Workday HCM
5 8 (0.62%) Shopify
6 7 (0.54%) Fidessa
6 7 (0.54%) SAP IBP
7 6 (0.46%) Magento
7 6 (0.46%) SAP MII
8 5 (0.38%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.31%) Elite 3E
9 4 (0.31%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.31%) SAP PP
10 3 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.23%) SAP CX
11 2 (0.15%) Endur
11 2 (0.15%) EuroRunner
11 2 (0.15%) Markit EDM
11 2 (0.15%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 303 (23.33%) Azure
2 213 (16.40%) Azure DevOps
3 110 (8.47%) AWS
4 104 (8.01%) GitHub
5 87 (6.70%) Power Platform
6 75 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
7 68 (5.23%) SaaS
8 48 (3.70%) GCP
9 43 (3.31%) Entra ID
10 36 (2.77%) GitHub Copilot
11 35 (2.69%) Snowflake
12 32 (2.46%) Figma
13 27 (2.08%) Slack
14 25 (1.92%) Serverless
15 21 (1.62%) OCI
15 21 (1.62%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 20 (1.54%) Amazon S3
17 19 (1.46%) dbt
17 19 (1.46%) Power Automate
18 18 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 35 (2.69%) Firewall
2 34 (2.62%) DNS
3 19 (1.46%) DHCP
4 18 (1.39%) Multicast
5 17 (1.31%) HTTP
6 14 (1.08%) TCP/IP
7 13 (1.00%) VLAN
7 13 (1.00%) Wireless
8 12 (0.92%) SSH
8 12 (0.92%) VPN
9 9 (0.69%) FTP
9 9 (0.69%) SMTP
10 8 (0.62%) Internet
10 8 (0.62%) Telnet
10 8 (0.62%) WAN
11 6 (0.46%) Broadband
11 6 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.31%) Cisco IOS
12 4 (0.31%) IMAP
12 4 (0.31%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (5.77%) SQL Server
2 64 (4.93%) Power BI
3 50 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (3.08%) Tableau
5 34 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (2.31%) MySQL
7 23 (1.77%) Relational Database
8 17 (1.31%) NoSQL
9 16 (1.23%) MongoDB
10 14 (1.08%) Snowflake Schema
11 13 (1.00%) DB2
12 12 (0.92%) Metadata
13 11 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (0.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 10 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 8 (0.62%) BusinessObjects
15 8 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 7 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
16 7 (0.54%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 174 (13.39%) Git
2 109 (8.39%) Jenkins
3 78 (6.00%) Selenium
4 69 (5.31%) eCATT
5 64 (4.93%) Postman
6 53 (4.08%) Bitbucket
7 45 (3.46%) Rational DOORS
8 40 (3.08%) SoapUI
8 40 (3.08%) Team Foundation Server
9 39 (3.00%) NeoLoad
10 38 (2.93%) GitLab
11 36 (2.77%) WebDriver
12 29 (2.23%) Cypress.io
13 26 (2.00%) Cucumber
14 21 (1.62%) Subversion
15 20 (1.54%) Visual Studio
16 18 (1.39%) TeamCity
17 17 (1.31%) Oracle Forms
18 16 (1.23%) JUnit
18 16 (1.23%) TestRail
General
1 557 (42.88%) Social Skills
2 426 (32.79%) Finance
3 220 (16.94%) Analytical Skills
4 145 (11.16%) Marketing
5 117 (9.01%) Manufacturing
6 98 (7.54%) Presentation Skills
7 75 (5.77%) Banking
8 74 (5.70%) Influencing Skills
9 73 (5.62%) Organisational Skills
10 51 (3.93%) Law
11 45 (3.46%) Public Sector
12 43 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 43 (3.31%) Retail
13 34 (2.62%) Legal
14 28 (2.16%) Front Office
15 25 (1.92%) Advertising
15 25 (1.92%) French Language
16 24 (1.85%) Swedish Language
17 19 (1.46%) Electronics
18 18 (1.39%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 254 (19.55%) Analyst
2 227 (17.47%) Senior
3 186 (14.32%) Lead
4 115 (8.85%) Developer
5 73 (5.62%) Support Analyst
6 71 (5.47%) Business Analyst
7 55 (4.23%) Project Manager
8 50 (3.85%) Test Analyst
9 48 (3.70%) Applications Support
9 48 (3.70%) Support Engineer
10 46 (3.54%) Test Leader
11 45 (3.46%) Team Leader
12 40 (3.08%) Consultant
12 40 (3.08%) Software Engineer
13 39 (3.00%) Applications Support Analyst
14 32 (2.46%) Technical Support
15 31 (2.39%) Senior Manager
16 30 (2.31%) Product Owner
16 30 (2.31%) Senior Developer
17 28 (2.16%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (7.01%) HTML
2 73 (5.62%) .NET
3 61 (4.70%) SOAP
4 53 (4.08%) REST
5 52 (4.00%) CSS
6 50 (3.85%) React
6 50 (3.85%) RESTful
7 37 (2.85%) Node.js
8 31 (2.39%) SAP Fiori
9 27 (2.08%) FIX Protocol
9 27 (2.08%) SAML
10 22 (1.69%) OAuth
11 21 (1.62%) Elastic Stack
12 20 (1.54%) Kafka
12 20 (1.54%) OAuth2
12 20 (1.54%) XML
13 19 (1.46%) Web Services
14 18 (1.39%) Spring
15 17 (1.31%) Gherkin
15 17 (1.31%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 127 (9.78%) Product Ownership
2 82 (6.31%) Onboarding
3 62 (4.77%) Management Information System
4 57 (4.39%) Cloud Native
5 35 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
6 33 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
7 32 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
8 29 (2.23%) Equities
9 28 (2.16%) Fixed Income
10 26 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
11 19 (1.46%) Algorithms
11 19 (1.46%) Virtual Team
12 15 (1.15%) Derivative
13 14 (1.08%) Data Centre
14 13 (1.00%) Mobile App
15 12 (0.92%) Embedded Systems
16 11 (0.85%) IoT
17 10 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
17 10 (0.77%) PMI
17 10 (0.77%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 117 (9.01%) Windows
2 108 (8.31%) Linux
3 23 (1.77%) Windows Server
4 15 (1.15%) Mac OS
5 14 (1.08%) Windows 10
6 11 (0.85%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.77%) Android
7 10 (0.77%) Unix
8 9 (0.69%) Amazon Linux
8 9 (0.69%) VMS
9 7 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.46%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
12 4 (0.31%) Solaris
12 4 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.23%) OpenWrt
14 2 (0.15%) FreeRTOS
15 1 (0.077%) Embedded Linux
15 1 (0.077%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 627 (48.27%) Agile
2 368 (28.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 284 (21.86%) Problem-Solving
4 265 (20.40%) DevOps
5 204 (15.70%) CI/CD
6 188 (14.47%) Scrum
7 172 (13.24%) ITIL
8 171 (13.16%) Test Automation
9 159 (12.24%) Test Management
10 154 (11.86%) Roadmaps
11 152 (11.70%) Stakeholder Management
12 139 (10.70%) Change Management
13 136 (10.47%) User Experience
14 135 (10.39%) Project Management
15 131 (10.08%) Coaching
16 129 (9.93%) Mentoring
17 126 (9.70%) AI
18 125 (9.62%) Analytics
19 122 (9.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 119 (9.16%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 254 (19.55%) SQL
2 176 (13.55%) Python
3 121 (9.31%) JavaScript
4 120 (9.24%) Java
5 110 (8.47%) PowerShell
6 84 (6.47%) C#
7 52 (4.00%) TypeScript
8 38 (2.93%) Bash
9 27 (2.08%) C++
10 23 (1.77%) Shell Script
11 21 (1.62%) Go
11 21 (1.62%) PL/SQL
12 15 (1.15%) C
12 15 (1.15%) T-SQL
13 14 (1.08%) Apex Code
14 13 (1.00%) Groovy
15 10 (0.77%) PHP
16 7 (0.54%) Perl
17 4 (0.31%) Ada
18 3 (0.23%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 376 (28.95%) Degree
2 121 (9.31%) Security Cleared
3 72 (5.54%) ISTQB
4 66 (5.08%) SC Cleared
5 65 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 57 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
7 40 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 38 (2.93%) PMI Certification
9 34 (2.62%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 33 (2.54%) MCSE
11 31 (2.39%) PMP
12 28 (2.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 22 (1.69%) Master's Degree
14 19 (1.46%) DV Cleared
15 18 (1.39%) AWS Certification
16 16 (1.23%) SAP Certification
17 14 (1.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 13 (1.00%) Azure Certification
18 13 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
19 10 (0.77%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (13.93%) QA
2 79 (6.08%) Accessibility
3 44 (3.39%) PMO
4 36 (2.77%) SLA
5 33 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (2.31%) Def Stans
7 28 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 27 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 25 (1.92%) GDPR
10 20 (1.54%) Data Quality
11 17 (1.31%) NIST
12 10 (0.77%) WCAG
13 6 (0.46%) Basel II
14 5 (0.38%) GMP
14 5 (0.38%) PERC
14 5 (0.38%) PMBOK
15 4 (0.31%) MiFID
16 3 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
16 3 (0.23%) P3O
16 3 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 106 (8.16%) Active Directory
2 52 (4.00%) Docker
3 20 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.62%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.46%) vSphere
7 5 (0.38%) DFS Replication
8 4 (0.31%) Dovecot
8 4 (0.31%) Postfix
8 4 (0.31%) Squid
9 2 (0.15%) Firmware
9 2 (0.15%) RACF
9 2 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.077%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 73 (5.62%) HP ALM
2 61 (4.70%) Terraform
3 48 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 47 (3.62%) Kubernetes
5 42 (3.23%) Grafana
6 34 (2.62%) Prometheus
6 34 (2.62%) Single Sign-On
7 25 (1.92%) Ansible
8 17 (1.31%) SCCM
9 12 (0.92%) ZABBIX
10 11 (0.85%) Control-M
11 9 (0.69%) Puppet
12 7 (0.54%) Nessus
13 6 (0.46%) Progress Chef
14 5 (0.38%) Kibana
15 4 (0.31%) HP Quality Center
15 4 (0.31%) Nagios
15 4 (0.31%) Proxmox
15 4 (0.31%) vCenter Server
16 2 (0.15%) Podman
Vendors
1 250 (19.25%) Microsoft
2 142 (10.93%) SAP
3 115 (8.85%) ServiceNow
4 93 (7.16%) Atlassian
5 75 (5.77%) HP
6 72 (5.54%) Salesforce
7 62 (4.77%) Oracle
8 49 (3.77%) IBM
9 44 (3.39%) Google
10 25 (1.92%) Adobe
11 19 (1.46%) VMware
12 15 (1.15%) Splunk
12 15 (1.15%) Tenable
13 13 (1.00%) Cisco
14 11 (0.85%) HubSpot
14 11 (0.85%) Workday
15 10 (0.77%) MuleSoft
15 10 (0.77%) Siemens
16 9 (0.69%) Bloomberg
16 9 (0.69%) Dynatrace