JIRA Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Atlassian JIRA
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 103 80
Rank change year-on-year -1 -23 -14
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 475 946 1,678
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 3.13% 2.80% 3.94%
As % of the Development Applications category 24.62% 24.39% 25.69%
Number of salaries quoted 308 677 1,093
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,700 £59,191
Median % change year-on-year +6.47% -0.83% +2.94%
75th Percentile £76,250 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £83,000 £89,382
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +2.56%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

JIRA falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,929 3,878 6,532
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.72% 11.46% 15.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,448 3,010 4,653
10th Percentile £42,500 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £64,472
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -6.94% +7.45%
75th Percentile £81,250 £75,772 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,934 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

JIRA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

JIRA trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

JIRA
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing JIRA over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

JIRA salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 193 (40.63%) Confluence
2 23 (4.84%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.95%) CMS
4 10 (2.11%) Kentico
5 6 (1.26%) nginx
6 5 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.05%) WordPress
7 3 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.63%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.42%) Apache
8 2 (0.42%) Moodle
8 2 (0.42%) Totara
8 2 (0.42%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.42%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.21%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.21%) Mendix
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 34 (7.16%) Microsoft Project
2 26 (5.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (5.47%) Trello
3 10 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (1.68%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.26%) Chatbot
5 6 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.63%) Adobe XD
6 3 (0.63%) Sketch
7 1 (0.21%) Weka
Business Applications
1 9 (1.89%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.63%) CA PPM
4 2 (0.42%) Dynamics GP
4 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 181 (38.11%) Azure
2 155 (32.63%) AWS
3 96 (20.21%) GCP
4 48 (10.11%) GitHub
5 34 (7.16%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (7.16%) SaaS
6 30 (6.32%) Power Platform
7 29 (6.11%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (3.58%) Power Automate
9 15 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (2.95%) Amazon S3
11 13 (2.74%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (2.32%) Amazon EKS
12 11 (2.32%) Boomi
12 11 (2.32%) Slack
13 10 (2.11%) Kontent
14 9 (1.89%) Entra ID
14 9 (1.89%) Serverless
15 8 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (1.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.68%) DNS
2 7 (1.47%) HTTP
3 6 (1.26%) Firewall
4 5 (1.05%) DHCP
4 5 (1.05%) Multicast
4 5 (1.05%) VPN
5 4 (0.84%) 5G
5 4 (0.84%) Broadband
5 4 (0.84%) Internet
5 4 (0.84%) TCP/IP
6 3 (0.63%) LAN
6 3 (0.63%) WAN
7 2 (0.42%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.42%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.42%) FCoE
7 2 (0.42%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (0.42%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.42%) NAS
7 2 (0.42%) SAN
7 2 (0.42%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (25.26%) SQL Server
2 30 (6.32%) Power BI
2 30 (6.32%) Relational Database
3 19 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (3.37%) MySQL
5 14 (2.95%) MongoDB
6 10 (2.11%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (2.11%) NoSQL
6 10 (2.11%) Redis
7 9 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (1.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (1.89%) Tableau
8 7 (1.47%) MariaDB
9 5 (1.05%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.05%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (1.05%) Power Query
9 5 (1.05%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 113 (23.79%) SonarQube
2 97 (20.42%) Selenium
3 94 (19.79%) Bitbucket
3 94 (19.79%) GitLab
4 91 (19.16%) Cucumber
5 88 (18.53%) Sonatype Nexus
6 86 (18.11%) Git
6 86 (18.11%) Maven
7 35 (7.37%) Jenkins
8 17 (3.58%) Visual Studio
9 10 (2.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 9 (1.89%) JUnit
11 6 (1.26%) AppScan
11 6 (1.26%) Subversion
12 4 (0.84%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.84%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.84%) Postman
12 4 (0.84%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (0.63%) IBM UrbanCode
14 2 (0.42%) REST Assured
General
1 198 (41.68%) Finance
2 179 (37.68%) Social Skills
3 141 (29.68%) Banking
4 90 (18.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 48 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
6 37 (7.79%) Retail
7 35 (7.37%) Marketing
8 28 (5.89%) Investment Banking
9 21 (4.42%) Corporate Banking
10 20 (4.21%) Public Sector
11 19 (4.00%) Law
12 11 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (2.11%) Electronics
13 10 (2.11%) Manufacturing
13 10 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.89%) Back Office
15 8 (1.68%) Advertising
15 8 (1.68%) Legal
16 7 (1.47%) Publishing
17 5 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 127 (26.74%) Software Engineer
2 83 (17.47%) Developer
3 75 (15.79%) Senior
4 46 (9.68%) Analyst
5 44 (9.26%) Senior Developer
6 36 (7.58%) Lead
6 36 (7.58%) Project Manager
7 17 (3.58%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (3.16%) IT Manager
9 14 (2.95%) Business Analyst
9 14 (2.95%) Product Owner
10 13 (2.74%) Lead Developer
10 13 (2.74%) Senior Software Engineer
11 12 (2.53%) Junior
11 12 (2.53%) Support Analyst
11 12 (2.53%) Support Engineer
12 11 (2.32%) Administrator
12 11 (2.32%) Software Developer
13 10 (2.11%) .NET Developer
13 10 (2.11%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (26.11%) React
2 114 (24.00%) CSS
2 114 (24.00%) HTML
3 108 (22.74%) Spring
4 93 (19.58%) Spring Boot
5 92 (19.37%) Kafka
6 91 (19.16%) Redux
7 84 (17.68%) JPA
8 64 (13.47%) Hibernate
9 42 (8.84%) REST
9 42 (8.84%) RESTful
10 40 (8.42%) Node.js
11 30 (6.32%) CSS3
11 30 (6.32%) HTML5
12 26 (5.47%) Jest
12 26 (5.47%) Sass
13 24 (5.05%) .NET
13 24 (5.05%) Web Services
14 20 (4.21%) AngularJS
15 19 (4.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 137 (28.84%) Product Ownership
2 91 (19.16%) Enterprise Software
3 23 (4.84%) Management Information System
4 16 (3.37%) Virtual Team
5 15 (3.16%) CMDB
5 15 (3.16%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.53%) Algorithms
6 12 (2.53%) Public Cloud
7 10 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (2.11%) PMI
8 9 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.47%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.47%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.26%) Molecular Biology
10 6 (1.26%) Social Media
11 5 (1.05%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.05%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 34 (7.16%) Linux
2 28 (5.89%) Windows
3 9 (1.89%) Unix
4 7 (1.47%) Android
5 5 (1.05%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.84%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.63%) Debian
7 3 (0.63%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.63%) Windows Vista
8 2 (0.42%) Solaris
8 2 (0.42%) VMS
9 1 (0.21%) CentOS
9 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (61.68%) Agile
2 193 (40.63%) DevOps
3 145 (30.53%) Software Engineering
4 128 (26.95%) SDLC
5 127 (26.74%) CI/CD
6 119 (25.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 119 (25.05%) Test Automation
7 112 (23.58%) Microservices
8 110 (23.16%) Front End Development
9 99 (20.84%) Full-Stack Development
10 96 (20.21%) Containerisation
10 96 (20.21%) Project Management
11 95 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
12 92 (19.37%) Performance Optimisation
13 82 (17.26%) TDD
14 76 (16.00%) Mentoring
15 71 (14.95%) Clean Code
16 67 (14.11%) Scrum
16 67 (14.11%) User Experience
17 56 (11.79%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 174 (36.63%) SQL
2 158 (33.26%) JavaScript
3 143 (30.11%) Java
4 54 (11.37%) Python
5 48 (10.11%) TypeScript
6 39 (8.21%) C#
7 15 (3.16%) PHP
7 15 (3.16%) PowerShell
8 14 (2.95%) T-SQL
9 11 (2.32%) Bash
10 10 (2.11%) Groovy
11 9 (1.89%) C++
12 8 (1.68%) Ruby
13 7 (1.47%) Go
14 6 (1.26%) Shell Script
15 5 (1.05%) C
15 5 (1.05%) Objective-C
16 4 (0.84%) Kotlin
17 3 (0.63%) Perl
18 2 (0.42%) VB
Qualifications
1 68 (14.32%) Degree
2 26 (5.47%) PMI Certification
3 18 (3.79%) PMP
4 17 (3.58%) Security Cleared
5 14 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.47%) ISTQB
8 6 (1.26%) Numerate Degree
9 5 (1.05%) CSPO
9 5 (1.05%) DBS Check
9 5 (1.05%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.05%) SAP Certification
10 4 (0.84%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.84%) HND
10 4 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.84%) SC Cleared
11 3 (0.63%) OCP
11 3 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (27.16%) QA
2 34 (7.16%) Accessibility
3 19 (4.00%) SLA
4 12 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (2.53%) PMO
5 9 (1.89%) GDPR
6 4 (0.84%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.84%) P3O
7 3 (0.63%) IEC 62304
7 3 (0.63%) ISO 13485
8 2 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.42%) NIST
8 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.21%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.21%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 138 (29.05%) Docker
2 16 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.63%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.42%) KVM
5 2 (0.42%) NFS
5 2 (0.42%) SRDF
5 2 (0.42%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (0.42%) vSphere
5 2 (0.42%) Xen
6 1 (0.21%) HDFS
6 1 (0.21%) pfSense
6 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.21%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 130 (27.37%) Kubernetes
2 20 (4.21%) Ansible
3 19 (4.00%) Terraform
4 14 (2.95%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (2.53%) Grafana
6 11 (2.32%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.11%) Progress Chef
8 9 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
8 9 (1.89%) Puppet
9 7 (1.47%) Kustomize
9 7 (1.47%) Opsgenie
10 4 (0.84%) Argo
11 3 (0.63%) Istio
11 3 (0.63%) Kibana
11 3 (0.63%) logstash
11 3 (0.63%) Packer
12 2 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.21%) Avamar
13 1 (0.21%) Check_MK
13 1 (0.21%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 89 (18.74%) Microsoft
2 82 (17.26%) Solace
3 33 (6.95%) Google
4 26 (5.47%) Atlassian
5 25 (5.26%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.53%) Oracle
7 11 (2.32%) MuleSoft
7 11 (2.32%) Salesforce
8 10 (2.11%) SAP
9 8 (1.68%) Adobe
10 7 (1.47%) Dynatrace
11 6 (1.26%) IBM
11 6 (1.26%) Sawtooth Software
11 6 (1.26%) Splunk
11 6 (1.26%) VMware
12 5 (1.05%) Cisco
12 5 (1.05%) Databricks
12 5 (1.05%) OpenAI
12 5 (1.05%) Teradata
12 5 (1.05%) Xamarin