JIRA Job Trends in Wales

Atlassian JIRA
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring JIRA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 50 77
Rank change year-on-year -36 +27 +18
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 15 11 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.79% 2.08% 1.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 28.85% 20.00% 19.49%
Number of salaries quoted 13 10 28
10th Percentile £42,250 £40,875 £26,250
25th Percentile £54,468 £53,750 £40,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +44.44% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £58,125
90th Percentile £73,650 £75,000 £62,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £61,123 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.93% +11.13% -8.33%

All Development Application Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 52 55 195
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 2.73% 10.40% 9.07%
Number of salaries quoted 43 51 151
10th Percentile £39,577 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,486 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +8.20%
75th Percentile £70,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,950 £71,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,858 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.37% +13.04% -11.54%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in Wales

JIRA
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing JIRA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing JIRA

JIRA
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Wales over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Salary histogram for JIRA in Wales

JIRA
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Wales region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
West Wales -23 7 £60,000 +41.18%
South Wales -35 7 £70,000 +7.69% 7
JIRA
UK

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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 8 (53.33%) Confluence
2 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (6.67%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
3 1 (6.67%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (53.33%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (26.67%) Serverless
3 3 (20.00%) GitHub
3 3 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (6.67%) GCP
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (6.67%) Miro
4 1 (6.67%) npm
4 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
1 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
1 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (20.00%) Git
1 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (20.00%) JUnit
1 3 (20.00%) Selenium
2 2 (13.33%) GitLab
2 2 (13.33%) Postman
2 2 (13.33%) REST Assured
2 2 (13.33%) Zephyr
3 1 (6.67%) Bower
3 1 (6.67%) Burp Suite
3 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (6.67%) Gatling
3 1 (6.67%) IntelliJ
3 1 (6.67%) JMeter
3 1 (6.67%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (6.67%) Newman
3 1 (6.67%) Pa11y
3 1 (6.67%) Storybook
3 1 (6.67%) TestRail
General
1 7 (46.67%) Public Sector
2 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (20.00%) Finance
5 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Banking
6 1 (6.67%) Legal
6 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Retail
6 1 (6.67%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Developer
1 3 (20.00%) IT Manager
1 3 (20.00%) Lead
2 2 (13.33%) IT Programme Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Programme Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Project Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) Software Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (6.67%) IT Risk Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Product Owner
3 1 (6.67%) Risk Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior IT Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Service Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Service Transition Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Software Development Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) React
2 4 (26.67%) Spring Boot
3 3 (20.00%) CSS
3 3 (20.00%) HTML
3 3 (20.00%) Jest
3 3 (20.00%) Node.js
3 3 (20.00%) REST
3 3 (20.00%) Ruby on Rails
3 3 (20.00%) Spring
4 2 (13.33%) HTML5
4 2 (13.33%) Playwright
5 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
5 1 (6.67%) Flutter
5 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
5 1 (6.67%) Kafka
5 1 (6.67%) LESS
5 1 (6.67%) React Native
5 1 (6.67%) Sass
5 1 (6.67%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (6.67%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Cloud Native
1 4 (26.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Mainframe
3 1 (6.67%) Digital Wallet
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) AIX
2 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Agile
2 9 (60.00%) DevOps
3 7 (46.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (40.00%) Project Management
5 5 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (33.33%) Decision-Making
5 5 (33.33%) Microservices
5 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (26.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 4 (26.67%) Migration
6 4 (26.67%) PRINCE2
6 4 (26.67%) Project Delivery
6 4 (26.67%) Scrum
6 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
6 4 (26.67%) Waterfall
7 3 (20.00%) BDD
7 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (20.00%) Project Governance
7 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Java
2 3 (20.00%) Ruby
2 3 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) SQL
4 1 (6.67%) Dart
4 1 (6.67%) PHP
4 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) ISTQB
2 2 (13.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) CBAP
3 1 (6.67%) CSPO
3 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
3 1 (6.67%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) WCAG
2 3 (20.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (13.33%) QA
4 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
4 1 (6.67%) GDPR
4 1 (6.67%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
3 1 (6.67%) OneLogin
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow