Atlassian JIRA
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 114 93
Rank change year-on-year +36 -21 -26
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 1,969 2,454 3,154
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.50% 2.26% 3.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 32.63% 25.82% 24.34%
Number of salaries quoted 917 1,632 1,931
10th Percentile £33,750 £32,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,628 £42,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £94,267 £87,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%

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 6,034 9,505 12,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.73% 8.76% 13.92%
Number of salaries quoted 3,494 6,495 8,140
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £58,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% -10.77% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,772 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £93,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the UK

JIRA
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing JIRA.

Salary trend for JIRA in the UK

JIRA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA over the 6 months to 10 June 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 10 June 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 +44 1,794 £60,000 +9.09% 1,983
UK excluding London +40 1,305 £52,000 -0.95% 1,462
Work from Home +52 901 £65,000 +15.04% 1,043
London +42 485 £70,000 +7.69% 847
North of England +28 459 £50,000 -10.31% 300
North West +29 351 £50,000 -16.67% 175
Midlands +72 281 £55,000 +15.79% 182
South East -12 192 £60,000 +14.29% 560
West Midlands +76 174 £67,500 +50.00% 124
South West +12 143 £46,500 -7.00% 148
East of England +24 110 £53,000 +17.78% 122
East Midlands +65 107 £37,500 -21.05% 47
Scotland +45 106 £52,000 -16.80% 98
Yorkshire +33 95 £55,000 +4.76% 86
North East +4 15 £22,500 -57.14% 42
Wales +8 14 £65,000 +44.44% 27
Northern Ireland +44 12 £52,500 -4.55% 35

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 765 (38.85%) Confluence
2 85 (4.32%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.07%) CMS
4 14 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.36%) Apache
5 7 (0.36%) nginx
6 6 (0.30%) Headless CMS
7 5 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.25%) IIS
7 5 (0.25%) Umbraco
7 5 (0.25%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.20%) Kentico
8 4 (0.20%) Tomcat
8 4 (0.20%) WordPress
9 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.15%) CICS
10 2 (0.10%) Moodle
10 2 (0.10%) Totara
10 2 (0.10%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.051%) WebLogic
Applications
1 143 (7.26%) Microsoft Office
2 85 (4.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 82 (4.16%) Microsoft Project
4 59 (3.00%) Trello
5 39 (1.98%) MS Visio
6 26 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 6 (0.30%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.15%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 2 (0.10%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.051%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.051%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.051%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.051%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.051%) InDesign
10 1 (0.051%) Notion
10 1 (0.051%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.051%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.051%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.051%) Weka
Business Applications
1 16 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (0.56%) NetSuite
2 11 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
3 10 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.25%) CA PPM
4 5 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.10%) Elite 3E
6 2 (0.10%) Magento
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle Financials
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.10%) Shopify
6 2 (0.10%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 501 (25.44%) Azure
2 471 (23.92%) AWS
3 243 (12.34%) GCP
4 98 (4.98%) Miro
5 86 (4.37%) Asana
6 79 (4.01%) GitHub
7 72 (3.66%) Power Platform
8 71 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
9 69 (3.50%) SaaS
10 59 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
11 56 (2.84%) Serverless
12 44 (2.23%) Amazon S3
13 43 (2.18%) Amazon EC2
14 37 (1.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 34 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
16 29 (1.47%) AWS KMS
17 28 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
18 25 (1.27%) Power Automate
19 24 (1.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 22 (1.12%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 291 (14.78%) Broadband
2 44 (2.23%) Firewall
3 34 (1.73%) DNS
4 31 (1.57%) HTTP
5 18 (0.91%) VPN
6 15 (0.76%) Multicast
6 15 (0.76%) SSH
6 15 (0.76%) VLAN
7 13 (0.66%) DHCP
8 11 (0.56%) Internet
8 11 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.46%) FTP
9 9 (0.46%) SMTP
9 9 (0.46%) TCP/IP
10 6 (0.30%) SAN
11 5 (0.25%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (0.25%) Kerberos
12 4 (0.20%) LAN
12 4 (0.20%) OpenLDAP
12 4 (0.20%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 344 (17.47%) SQL Server
2 81 (4.11%) Relational Database
3 73 (3.71%) MySQL
4 56 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
5 52 (2.64%) Power BI
6 45 (2.29%) Tableau
7 40 (2.03%) NoSQL
8 39 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
9 37 (1.88%) MongoDB
10 20 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
11 16 (0.81%) Redis
12 15 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
12 15 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 12 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
13 12 (0.61%) Oracle Reports
13 12 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 11 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.56%) Data Lake
15 10 (0.51%) BigQuery
15 10 (0.51%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 330 (16.76%) Bitbucket
2 318 (16.15%) Selenium
3 297 (15.08%) SonarQube
4 281 (14.27%) Maven
5 278 (14.12%) Sonatype Nexus
6 276 (14.02%) GitLab
7 263 (13.36%) Cucumber
8 232 (11.78%) Git
9 114 (5.79%) Jenkins
10 90 (4.57%) Rational DOORS
11 47 (2.39%) Visual Studio
12 29 (1.47%) JUnit
13 27 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 27 (1.37%) Postman
14 26 (1.32%) TeamCity
15 23 (1.17%) Vagrant
16 17 (0.86%) Ant
17 16 (0.81%) JMeter
18 15 (0.76%) Cypress.io
19 14 (0.71%) Artifactory
General
1 662 (33.62%) Finance
2 472 (23.97%) Social Skills
3 366 (18.59%) Banking
4 288 (14.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 164 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 136 (6.91%) Retail
7 104 (5.28%) Law
8 102 (5.18%) Investment Banking
9 90 (4.57%) Corporate Banking
10 83 (4.22%) Influencing Skills
11 77 (3.91%) Manufacturing
12 66 (3.35%) Marketing
12 66 (3.35%) Public Sector
13 54 (2.74%) Legal
14 40 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
14 40 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
15 35 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
16 24 (1.22%) Avionics
17 22 (1.12%) Electronics
18 19 (0.96%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 350 (17.78%) Software Engineer
2 297 (15.08%) Senior
3 272 (13.81%) Analyst
4 220 (11.17%) Embedded Engineer
5 215 (10.92%) Release Engineer
6 188 (9.55%) Lead
7 168 (8.53%) Developer
8 91 (4.62%) Architect
9 78 (3.96%) Product Analyst
10 72 (3.66%) Project Manager
11 70 (3.56%) Principal Engineer
12 67 (3.40%) Support Analyst
13 65 (3.30%) Solutions Architect
14 63 (3.20%) Business Analyst
15 56 (2.84%) Lead Architect
15 56 (2.84%) Lead Solutions Architect
16 55 (2.79%) IT Support
17 53 (2.69%) Support Engineer
18 47 (2.39%) Senior Software Engineer
19 42 (2.13%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 329 (16.71%) React
2 327 (16.61%) HTML
3 323 (16.40%) CSS
4 298 (15.13%) Spring
5 279 (14.17%) Spring Boot
6 278 (14.12%) Kafka
7 260 (13.20%) Redux
8 257 (13.05%) JPA
9 243 (12.34%) Middleware
10 176 (8.94%) Hibernate
11 162 (8.23%) REST
12 140 (7.11%) RESTful
13 111 (5.64%) HTML5
14 104 (5.28%) .NET
14 104 (5.28%) Jest
15 101 (5.13%) CSS3
16 99 (5.03%) Sass
17 59 (3.00%) AngularJS
18 55 (2.79%) Node.js
19 52 (2.64%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 445 (22.60%) Product Ownership
2 258 (13.10%) Enterprise Software
3 217 (11.02%) Embedded Systems
4 87 (4.42%) Self-Motivation
5 73 (3.71%) Video\Live Streaming
6 72 (3.66%) Over-the-Top Content
7 63 (3.20%) Management Information System
8 32 (1.63%) Onboarding
9 31 (1.57%) Mobile App
9 31 (1.57%) Public Cloud
10 26 (1.32%) SCADA
10 26 (1.32%) Virtual Team
11 25 (1.27%) Social Media
12 22 (1.12%) Algorithms
13 21 (1.07%) Cloud Native
14 19 (0.96%) Replication
15 18 (0.91%) Operational Technology
16 16 (0.81%) CMDB
16 16 (0.81%) Reinsurance
17 15 (0.76%) Satnav
Operating Systems
1 214 (10.87%) Linux
2 144 (7.31%) Windows
3 31 (1.57%) Unix
4 25 (1.27%) VMS
5 18 (0.91%) Android
6 13 (0.66%) Mac OS
6 13 (0.66%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
8 8 (0.41%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.41%) Windows Vista
9 7 (0.36%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.30%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.15%) Debian
14 2 (0.10%) CentOS
14 2 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
14 2 (0.10%) Solaris
14 2 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,328 (67.45%) Agile
2 669 (33.98%) CI/CD
3 533 (27.07%) DevOps
4 428 (21.74%) Roadmaps
5 394 (20.01%) Test Automation
6 382 (19.40%) Software Engineering
7 370 (18.79%) SDLC
8 351 (17.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 328 (16.66%) Microservices
10 327 (16.61%) Strategic Thinking
11 317 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
12 302 (15.34%) Full-Stack Development
13 293 (14.88%) Containerisation
14 288 (14.63%) Front End Development
15 279 (14.17%) Artificial Intelligence
16 261 (13.26%) Performance Optimisation
17 259 (13.15%) Project Management
18 258 (13.10%) Continuous Deployment
19 254 (12.90%) Mentoring
20 239 (12.14%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 508 (25.80%) SQL
2 421 (21.38%) JavaScript
3 388 (19.71%) Java
4 154 (7.82%) Python
5 150 (7.62%) TypeScript
6 149 (7.57%) C#
7 60 (3.05%) PowerShell
8 42 (2.13%) C
9 34 (1.73%) Groovy
10 23 (1.17%) T-SQL
11 22 (1.12%) C++
12 19 (0.96%) Bash
13 17 (0.86%) PHP
14 14 (0.71%) Shell Script
15 12 (0.61%) Apex Code
15 12 (0.61%) Perl
16 11 (0.56%) VB
17 10 (0.51%) Ada
17 10 (0.51%) Ruby
18 8 (0.41%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 364 (18.49%) Degree
2 212 (10.77%) BPSS Clearance
3 84 (4.27%) Security Cleared
4 63 (3.20%) ISTQB
5 61 (3.10%) SC Cleared
6 58 (2.95%) PMI Certification
7 54 (2.74%) Chartered Engineer
8 47 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 46 (2.34%) PMP
10 30 (1.52%) HND
11 27 (1.37%) Azure Certification
12 24 (1.22%) DBS Check
13 19 (0.96%) AWS Certification
14 17 (0.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 16 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
16 15 (0.76%) HNC
16 15 (0.76%) Master's Degree
17 11 (0.56%) A+ Certification
18 9 (0.46%) CISSP
18 9 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 371 (18.84%) QA
2 117 (5.94%) Accessibility
3 49 (2.49%) SLA
4 38 (1.93%) Data Quality
5 31 (1.57%) PMO
6 24 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (0.91%) GDPR
8 15 (0.76%) NIST
9 14 (0.71%) ISO 20022
10 6 (0.30%) P3O
11 5 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
12 4 (0.20%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.20%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.15%) GRC
14 2 (0.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (0.10%) GxP
14 2 (0.10%) IEC 62304
14 2 (0.10%) ISO 13485
14 2 (0.10%) Solvency II
15 1 (0.051%) HIPAA
System Software
1 357 (18.13%) Docker
2 57 (2.89%) Active Directory
3 19 (0.96%) Firmware
4 17 (0.86%) DFS Replication
5 16 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.36%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.25%) vSphere
9 3 (0.15%) Dovecot
9 3 (0.15%) Postfix
9 3 (0.15%) Squid
9 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.10%) KVM
10 2 (0.10%) NFS
10 2 (0.10%) pfSense
10 2 (0.10%) SRDF
10 2 (0.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 2 (0.10%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.10%) Xen
Systems Management
1 329 (16.71%) Kubernetes
2 95 (4.82%) Ansible
3 67 (3.40%) Terraform
4 49 (2.49%) Grafana
5 38 (1.93%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
8 18 (0.91%) Puppet
9 17 (0.86%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (0.36%) Kibana
11 6 (0.30%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.25%) HP Quality Center
12 5 (0.25%) ITRS Geneos
12 5 (0.25%) logstash
12 5 (0.25%) Nessus
12 5 (0.25%) Packer
12 5 (0.25%) Salt
13 4 (0.20%) Argo
13 4 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 363 (18.44%) Microsoft
2 247 (12.54%) Solace
3 137 (6.96%) Salesforce
4 111 (5.64%) ServiceNow
5 102 (5.18%) Atlassian
6 77 (3.91%) SAP
7 73 (3.71%) Oracle
8 71 (3.61%) Google
9 63 (3.20%) IBM
10 56 (2.84%) Siemens
11 24 (1.22%) Splunk
12 22 (1.12%) VMware
13 18 (0.91%) Cisco
14 17 (0.86%) MuleSoft
15 16 (0.81%) Dynatrace
16 15 (0.76%) Juniper
17 12 (0.61%) Adobe
18 11 (0.56%) BMC
18 11 (0.56%) Okta
18 11 (0.56%) Remedy