JIRA Job Trends in Watford

Atlassian JIRA
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Watford requiring JIRA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 17 21
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 +37
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 14 18 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Watford 7.18% 10.11% 6.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 87.50% 48.65% 90.91%
Number of salaries quoted 14 16 6
10th Percentile £46,275 - £33,125
25th Percentile £56,250 £60,000 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £62,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +56.25% -30.43%
75th Percentile £75,938 £67,500 £42,500
90th Percentile £81,875 - £58,125
Hertfordshire median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £42,650
% change year-on-year -4.17% +40.68% -25.83%

All Development Application Skills
Watford

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 Watford.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 16 37 11
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Watford 8.21% 20.79% 6.71%
Number of salaries quoted 16 22 6
10th Percentile £34,750 - £33,125
25th Percentile £52,688 £60,000 £35,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £63,750 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - +59.38% -20.00%
75th Percentile £75,313 £67,500 £42,500
90th Percentile £80,625 £76,625 £58,125
Hertfordshire median annual salary £56,250 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% +13.64%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in Watford

JIRA
Salary Trend in Watford

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing JIRA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing JIRA

JIRA
Salary Histogram in Watford

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Watford over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for JIRA in Watford

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Watford 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 7 (50.00%) Confluence
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 2 (14.29%) Google Workspace
2 2 (14.29%) IaaS
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (14.29%) PaaS
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DHCP
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
1 2 (14.29%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 7 (50.00%) BusinessObjects
1 7 (50.00%) MySQL
2 3 (21.43%) Amazon QuickSight
General
1 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Marketing
2 4 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Legal
4 1 (7.14%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Business Sales Executive
1 4 (28.57%) Developer
1 4 (28.57%) New Business Sales Executive
1 4 (28.57%) Report Developer
1 4 (28.57%) Sales Executive
1 4 (28.57%) Solutions Sales Executive
2 3 (21.43%) Data Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) IT Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) IT Operations Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Site Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Product Ownership
2 4 (28.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Mac OS
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
1 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Agile
1 7 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 7 (50.00%) ETL
2 6 (42.86%) ETL Development
2 6 (42.86%) ITIL
2 6 (42.86%) ITSM
3 5 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (35.71%) DevOps
4 4 (28.57%) B2B
4 4 (28.57%) B2B Sales
4 4 (28.57%) Business Development
4 4 (28.57%) CRM
4 4 (28.57%) Decision-Making
4 4 (28.57%) Lead Generation
4 4 (28.57%) Product Strategy
4 4 (28.57%) Service Design
4 4 (28.57%) Service Management
4 4 (28.57%) Use Case
4 4 (28.57%) User Experience
4 4 (28.57%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (14.29%) SCCM
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Control-M
2 1 (7.14%) Grafana
2 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) SAP
2 6 (42.86%) ServiceNow
3 4 (28.57%) BMC
3 4 (28.57%) HubSpot
3 4 (28.57%) Salesforce
4 2 (14.29%) Google
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 2 (14.29%) Okta
5 1 (7.14%) AppDynamics