JIRA Job Trends in West Wales

Atlassian JIRA
Wales > West Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Wales requiring JIRA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 13 31
Rank change year-on-year -25 +18 +13
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 15 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in West Wales 3.39% 2.17% 0.90%
As % of the Development Applications category 45.45% 20.00% 6.67%
Number of salaries quoted 15 1 2
10th Percentile £28,640 - -
25th Percentile £36,625 £41,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £38,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +11.84% +68.89%
75th Percentile £62,500 £43,750 £39,500
90th Percentile £73,750 - -
Wales median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +27.45% +20.00%

All Development Application Skills
West 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 West Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 33 5 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Wales 7.47% 10.87% 13.51%
Number of salaries quoted 33 5 19
10th Percentile £32,650 £43,344 £36,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,486 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,124 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.70% +11.39% +6.25%
75th Percentile £73,750 £53,762 £52,500
90th Percentile £80,000 - £63,750
Wales median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% +8.20%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in West Wales

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in West Wales

JIRA
Salary Trend in West Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing JIRA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Wales citing JIRA

JIRA
Salary Histogram in West Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA in West Wales over the 6 months to 18 July 2026.

Salary histogram for JIRA in West Wales

JIRA
Job Locations in West Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the West Wales region over the 6 months to 18 July 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
Swansea -24 15 £47,500 +11.76% 2
JIRA
Wales

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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 9 (60.00%) Confluence
2 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) Azure
1 10 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (53.33%) AWS
3 7 (46.67%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (46.67%) Serverless
4 4 (26.67%) GitHub
4 4 (26.67%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (6.67%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) Selenium
2 6 (40.00%) JUnit
2 6 (40.00%) Postman
3 4 (26.67%) Cypress.io
3 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
3 4 (26.67%) REST Assured
3 4 (26.67%) Zephyr
4 3 (20.00%) Git
4 3 (20.00%) GitLab
4 3 (20.00%) Newman
4 3 (20.00%) TestRail
5 2 (13.33%) Bugzilla
6 1 (6.67%) Burp Suite
6 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
6 1 (6.67%) Gatling
6 1 (6.67%) JMeter
6 1 (6.67%) Pa11y
General
1 13 (86.67%) Public Sector
2 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (26.67%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (26.67%) Finance
5 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (6.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) Developer
1 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 3 (20.00%) Lead
1 3 (20.00%) Senior
1 3 (20.00%) Senior Developer
1 3 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
1 3 (20.00%) Senior Software Developer
1 3 (20.00%) Software Developer
1 3 (20.00%) Test Leader
2 2 (13.33%) Manual Tester
2 2 (13.33%) Project Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Tester
3 1 (6.67%) Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Development Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Product Owner
3 1 (6.67%) Software Development Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) Node.js
1 7 (46.67%) Ruby on Rails
1 7 (46.67%) Spring Boot
2 6 (40.00%) Playwright
2 6 (40.00%) React
2 6 (40.00%) Spring
3 4 (26.67%) REST
4 3 (20.00%) CSS
4 3 (20.00%) CSS3
4 3 (20.00%) HTML
4 3 (20.00%) HTML5
4 3 (20.00%) Jest
5 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Product Ownership
2 7 (46.67%) Cloud Native
3 6 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (40.00%) Mainframe
4 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (6.67%) Digital Wallet
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Agile
1 15 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 13 (86.67%) DevOps
3 11 (73.33%) Scrum
4 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
5 7 (46.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (46.67%) Microservices
5 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (40.00%) Kanban
6 6 (40.00%) Migration
6 6 (40.00%) Test Automation
7 5 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
7 5 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 5 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
7 5 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
7 5 (33.33%) Validation
8 4 (26.67%) Data Strategy
8 4 (26.67%) OWASP
8 4 (26.67%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Java
1 7 (46.67%) Ruby
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) ISTQB
2 4 (26.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (13.33%) PMI Certification
4 2 (13.33%) PMP
5 1 (6.67%) CBAP
5 1 (6.67%) CSPO
5 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (53.33%) WCAG
2 5 (33.33%) Accessibility
3 4 (26.67%) QA
4 1 (6.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) OneLogin
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle