Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
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The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for JIRA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited JIRA over the 6 months to 17 May 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Atlassian JIRA
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
17 May 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 61 89 81
Rank change year-on-year +28 -8 +25
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 3,573 1,118 371
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 5.09% 3.65% 3.92%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.42% 16.56% 17.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,870 936 304
10th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £39,124
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £82,125
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +4.76%

JIRA is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for development application skills.

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 16,682 6,750 2,085
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 23.77% 22.02% 22.00%
Number of salaries quoted 8,255 5,539 1,784
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% - +10.00%

JIRA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

JIRA trend for jobs with a WFH option

JIRA
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing JIRA.

JIRA salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

JIRA
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing JIRA over the 6 months to 17 May 2022.

JIRA salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 17 May 2022, JIRA job roles required the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for JIRA.

1 2,399 (67.14%) Agile
2 1,296 (36.27%) Confluence
3 1,155 (32.33%) Social Skills
4 1,098 (30.73%) Git (software)
5 1,079 (30.20%) JavaScript
6 999 (27.96%) Scrum
7 958 (26.81%) Finance
8 944 (26.42%) DevOps
9 854 (23.90%) AWS
10 795 (22.25%) SQL
11 763 (21.35%) CI/CD
12 738 (20.65%) Java
13 726 (20.32%) Test Automation
14 704 (19.70%) Azure
15 681 (19.06%) Python
16 642 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
17 629 (17.60%) Software Engineering
18 626 (17.52%) Docker
19 598 (16.74%) Jenkins
20 585 (16.37%) CSS
20 585 (16.37%) Linux
21 580 (16.23%) React
22 572 (16.01%) HTML
23 562 (15.73%) QA
24 528 (14.78%) Project Management
25 515 (14.41%) Kubernetes
26 479 (13.41%) User Experience
27 453 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
28 437 (12.23%) GitHub
29 436 (12.20%) Microsoft

JIRA
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1,296 (36.27%) Confluence
2 157 (4.39%) Elasticsearch
3 149 (4.17%) Apache
4 107 (2.99%) CMS
5 69 (1.93%) WordPress
6 59 (1.65%) SharePoint
7 48 (1.34%) Apache Spark
8 43 (1.20%) IIS
9 36 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
10 30 (0.84%) Tomcat
11 29 (0.81%) JBoss
12 27 (0.76%) Jupyter
13 23 (0.64%) Cloud Foundry
14 22 (0.62%) WebSphere
15 17 (0.48%) GlassFish
16 15 (0.42%) nginx
17 11 (0.31%) Drupal
17 11 (0.31%) WildFly
18 9 (0.25%) Headless CMS
19 7 (0.20%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 126 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 106 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
3 79 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 64 (1.79%) MS Visio
5 62 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
6 39 (1.09%) InVision
7 34 (0.95%) Sketch
8 26 (0.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 24 (0.67%) Photoshop
10 20 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
11 10 (0.28%) Adobe XD
12 8 (0.22%) Zeplin
13 6 (0.17%) Chatbot
14 5 (0.14%) Adobe After Effects
14 5 (0.14%) RoboHelp
15 4 (0.11%) Windchill
16 3 (0.084%) Acrobat
16 3 (0.084%) FileZilla
16 3 (0.084%) FrameMaker
17 2 (0.056%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 26 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
3 16 (0.45%) Shopify
4 13 (0.36%) Magento
5 9 (0.25%) NetSuite
6 8 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
7 6 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 6 (0.17%) Workfront
8 5 (0.14%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
9 4 (0.11%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (0.084%) Oracle Applications
10 3 (0.084%) Oracle Cash Management
10 3 (0.084%) Oracle EBS
10 3 (0.084%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.084%) Oracle General Ledger
10 3 (0.084%) Oracle Payables
10 3 (0.084%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 3 (0.084%) Oracle Receivables
11 2 (0.056%) Oracle ERP
11 2 (0.056%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 854 (23.90%) AWS
2 704 (19.70%) Azure
3 437 (12.23%) GitHub
4 329 (9.21%) SaaS
5 276 (7.72%) GCP
6 168 (4.70%) Serverless
7 164 (4.59%) Amazon S3
8 124 (3.47%) Slack
9 105 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
10 83 (2.32%) AWS Lambda
11 77 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
12 75 (2.10%) PaaS
13 74 (2.07%) Asana
13 74 (2.07%) npm
14 69 (1.93%) GitHub Actions
15 64 (1.79%) OpenShift
16 63 (1.76%) Power Platform
17 60 (1.68%) Sauce Labs
17 60 (1.68%) Trello
18 58 (1.62%) Heroku
Communications & Networking
1 88 (2.46%) HTTP
2 79 (2.21%) Internet
3 68 (1.90%) DNS
4 49 (1.37%) TCP/IP
5 47 (1.32%) SSL
6 43 (1.20%) DHCP
7 38 (1.06%) Network Security
7 38 (1.06%) Wireshark
8 35 (0.98%) tcpdump
9 34 (0.95%) IMAP
10 33 (0.92%) Firewall
11 25 (0.70%) DKIM
11 25 (0.70%) DMARC
12 24 (0.67%) SSH
13 23 (0.64%) VoIP
14 18 (0.50%) MQTT
14 18 (0.50%) WAN
15 16 (0.45%) BGP
15 16 (0.45%) PPP
16 15 (0.42%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 387 (10.83%) MySQL
2 301 (8.42%) PostgreSQL
3 248 (6.94%) SQL Server
4 161 (4.51%) Big Data
5 147 (4.11%) NoSQL
6 126 (3.53%) Relational Database
7 121 (3.39%) Redis
8 102 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
9 95 (2.66%) MongoDB
10 61 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
11 59 (1.65%) Amazon DynamoDB
11 59 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 57 (1.60%) Power BI
13 50 (1.40%) BigQuery
14 39 (1.09%) Tableau
15 35 (0.98%) Apache Cassandra
16 32 (0.90%) Neo4j
17 28 (0.78%) Metadata
18 21 (0.59%) MariaDB
19 19 (0.53%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 1,098 (30.73%) Git (software)
2 598 (16.74%) Jenkins
3 270 (7.56%) Selenium
4 242 (6.77%) GitLab
5 226 (6.33%) Cucumber
6 218 (6.10%) Bitbucket
7 165 (4.62%) Cypress.io
8 164 (4.59%) Postman
9 140 (3.92%) webpack
10 88 (2.46%) CircleCI
11 79 (2.21%) JMeter
12 76 (2.13%) Appium
12 76 (2.13%) JUnit
13 75 (2.10%) RSpec
13 75 (2.10%) TestRail
14 72 (2.02%) Zephyr
15 68 (1.90%) SonarQube
16 64 (1.79%) Subversion
17 61 (1.71%) SpecFlow
18 59 (1.65%) WebDriver
General
1 1,155 (32.33%) Social Skills
2 958 (26.81%) Finance
3 453 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
4 297 (8.31%) Marketing
5 275 (7.70%) Retail
6 273 (7.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 232 (6.49%) Banking
8 183 (5.12%) Games
9 180 (5.04%) Public Sector
10 148 (4.14%) Presentation Skills
11 116 (3.25%) Organisational Skills
12 113 (3.16%) Advertising
12 113 (3.16%) Law
13 96 (2.69%) Pharmaceutical
14 93 (2.60%) Legal
15 55 (1.54%) Telecoms
16 48 (1.34%) Financial Institution
17 36 (1.01%) Back Office
18 34 (0.95%) Electronics
18 34 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 878 (24.57%) Developer
2 423 (11.84%) Analyst
3 295 (8.26%) Software Engineer
4 237 (6.63%) Senior Developer
5 195 (5.46%) Business Analyst
6 167 (4.67%) QA Engineer
7 165 (4.62%) Product Owner
8 162 (4.53%) Project Manager
9 139 (3.89%) Test Engineer
10 128 (3.58%) Product Manager
11 126 (3.53%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 123 (3.44%) Senior Software Engineer
13 120 (3.36%) Scrum Master
14 115 (3.22%) DevOps Engineer
15 105 (2.94%) PHP Developer
16 104 (2.91%) Software Developer
17 98 (2.74%) .NET Developer
17 98 (2.74%) Cloud Engineer
17 98 (2.74%) Full Stack Developer
18 97 (2.71%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 585 (16.37%) CSS
2 580 (16.23%) React
3 572 (16.01%) HTML
4 405 (11.34%) Node.js
5 351 (9.82%) REST
6 339 (9.49%) .NET
7 269 (7.53%) AngularJS
8 236 (6.61%) RESTful
9 230 (6.44%) Vue.js
10 202 (5.65%) Spring
11 177 (4.95%) Sass
12 162 (4.53%) Jest
13 158 (4.42%) GraphQL
14 155 (4.34%) Web Services
15 150 (4.20%) JSON
16 141 (3.95%) HTML5
17 123 (3.44%) SOAP
18 122 (3.41%) jQuery
19 119 (3.33%) Laravel
20 117 (3.27%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 479 (13.41%) User Experience
2 204 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
3 189 (5.29%) Mobile App
4 127 (3.55%) Enterprise Software
5 117 (3.27%) Cyberattack
6 115 (3.22%) Management Information System
7 110 (3.08%) Virtual Team
8 91 (2.55%) NHS
9 85 (2.38%) Algorithms
10 75 (2.10%) Cyber Defence
11 71 (1.99%) Blockchain
12 61 (1.71%) Sports Betting
13 60 (1.68%) Data Structures
14 59 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
15 56 (1.57%) Cloud Native
16 55 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
16 55 (1.54%) Public Cloud
17 45 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 44 (1.23%) Cybercrime
19 41 (1.15%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 585 (16.37%) Linux
2 268 (7.50%) Windows
3 158 (4.42%) Android
4 140 (3.92%) Apple iOS
5 139 (3.89%) Unix
6 54 (1.51%) Windows Server
7 37 (1.04%) Mac OS
8 33 (0.92%) Ubuntu
9 25 (0.70%) Debian
10 16 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
11 9 (0.25%) CentOS
11 9 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
11 9 (0.25%) VMS
12 6 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 5 (0.14%) Amazon Linux
13 5 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.11%) Windows 10
15 3 (0.084%) Oracle Linux
16 2 (0.056%) Mac OS X
16 2 (0.056%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,399 (67.14%) Agile
2 999 (27.96%) Scrum
3 944 (26.42%) DevOps
4 763 (21.35%) CI/CD
5 726 (20.32%) Test Automation
6 642 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
7 629 (17.60%) Software Engineering
8 528 (14.78%) Project Management
9 411 (11.50%) Mentoring
10 409 (11.45%) Full Stack Development
11 388 (10.86%) User Stories
12 383 (10.72%) Continuous Integration
13 381 (10.66%) Kanban
13 381 (10.66%) SDLC
14 372 (10.41%) Microservices
15 362 (10.13%) Software Testing
16 334 (9.35%) Analytics
17 323 (9.04%) Stakeholder Management
18 292 (8.17%) Coaching
18 292 (8.17%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1,079 (30.20%) JavaScript
2 795 (22.25%) SQL
3 738 (20.65%) Java
4 681 (19.06%) Python
5 364 (10.19%) C#
6 344 (9.63%) PHP
7 283 (7.92%) TypeScript
8 212 (5.93%) Ruby
9 199 (5.57%) ES6
10 166 (4.65%) Bash
11 151 (4.23%) C++
12 129 (3.61%) Shell Script
13 123 (3.44%) PowerShell
14 96 (2.69%) C
15 88 (2.46%) Go
16 86 (2.41%) Kotlin
17 59 (1.65%) T-SQL
18 32 (0.90%) Apple Swift
19 30 (0.84%) Groovy
19 30 (0.84%) Scala
Qualifications
1 347 (9.71%) Degree
2 191 (5.35%) Security Cleared
3 153 (4.28%) SC Cleared
4 133 (3.72%) ISTQB
5 120 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 62 (1.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 59 (1.65%) Master's Degree
8 49 (1.37%) PMI Certification
9 44 (1.23%) ISEB
10 43 (1.20%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 42 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
11 42 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
12 26 (0.73%) AWS Certification
13 23 (0.64%) DV Cleared
14 19 (0.53%) APMP
14 19 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
15 17 (0.48%) CCNP
16 16 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 15 (0.42%) CESG Certified Professional
17 15 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 562 (15.73%) QA
2 105 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 50 (1.40%) PMO
4 43 (1.20%) Data Quality
5 34 (0.95%) SLA
6 22 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (0.59%) WCAG
8 19 (0.53%) GDPR
9 17 (0.48%) NIST
10 16 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 15 (0.42%) IASME
12 12 (0.34%) WAI
13 11 (0.31%) HL7
14 8 (0.22%) COBIT
14 8 (0.22%) FISMA
14 8 (0.22%) HIPAA
14 8 (0.22%) HITRUST
14 8 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 8 (0.22%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.20%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 626 (17.52%) Docker
2 48 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (1.20%) Active Directory
4 22 (0.62%) Hyper-V
5 21 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (0.28%) Firmware
7 7 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 5 (0.14%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 5 (0.14%) GridGain
9 3 (0.084%) Openswan
9 3 (0.084%) Postfix
10 2 (0.056%) Apache Flume
10 2 (0.056%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.056%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.028%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 515 (14.41%) Kubernetes
2 225 (6.30%) Terraform
3 192 (5.37%) Ansible
4 67 (1.88%) Grafana
5 61 (1.71%) Kibana
6 54 (1.51%) Prometheus
7 48 (1.34%) Opscode Chef
8 47 (1.32%) Bugsnag
9 45 (1.26%) HP ALM
9 45 (1.26%) Puppet
10 32 (0.90%) HP Quality Center
11 31 (0.87%) Nagios
12 26 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
12 26 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
13 17 (0.48%) CASB
14 15 (0.42%) vCenter Server
15 14 (0.39%) logstash
16 13 (0.36%) SCCM
16 13 (0.36%) WSUS
17 10 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 436 (12.20%) Microsoft
2 369 (10.33%) Google
3 278 (7.78%) Atlassian
4 184 (5.15%) Oracle
5 124 (3.47%) Salesforce.com
6 107 (2.99%) SAP
7 74 (2.07%) ServiceNow
8 67 (1.88%) Apple
9 61 (1.71%) Adobe
10 55 (1.54%) VMware
11 53 (1.48%) HP
12 45 (1.26%) New Relic
13 35 (0.98%) Cisco
13 35 (0.98%) Datto
14 34 (0.95%) Splunk
14 34 (0.95%) Zend
15 30 (0.84%) Siemens
16 29 (0.81%) IBM
16 29 (0.81%) PayPal
17 28 (0.78%) WooCommerce