Atlassian JIRA
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 95 68
Rank change year-on-year -12 -27 +11
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 2,486 3,538 8,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.49% 3.57% 5.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 26.09% 24.91% 22.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,687 2,076 3,887
10th Percentile £31,500 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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 requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 9,528 14,205 36,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.54% 14.32% 22.92%
Number of salaries quoted 6,654 8,679 15,823
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +9.25%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the UK

JIRA
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing JIRA.

Salary trend for JIRA in the UK

JIRA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for JIRA in the UK

JIRA
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the UK over the 6 months to 18 May 2024. 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
England -18 2,150 £55,000 -8.33% 593
UK excluding London -3 1,773 £52,500 -4.55% 419
Work from Home -27 925 £57,500 -0.86% 309
London -31 623 £65,000 -5.55% 204
North of England +40 442 £60,000 +9.09% 93
South East -25 365 £52,500 -8.70% 121
South West +29 341 £50,000 - 61
North West +45 244 £62,783 +9.19% 54
Midlands -64 240 £47,500 -13.64% 88
Scotland -42 209 £62,500 +3.72% 22
West Midlands -63 151 £45,000 -18.18% 55
Yorkshire +26 134 £60,000 +9.33% 30
East of England -18 124 £45,000 -21.74% 33
East Midlands 0 85 £47,500 -13.64% 33
North East +20 64 £52,500 +5.00% 12
Wales +27 41 £45,000 +5.88% 11
Northern Ireland +33 14 £55,000 -24.14% 3

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 848 (34.11%) Confluence
2 130 (5.23%) SharePoint
3 53 (2.13%) CMS
4 37 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 26 (1.05%) WebSphere
6 25 (1.01%) Apache
7 21 (0.84%) Captiva
7 21 (0.84%) FileNet
7 21 (0.84%) WordPress
8 13 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
8 13 (0.52%) nginx
9 12 (0.48%) IIS
10 10 (0.40%) SAS
11 9 (0.36%) Drupal
12 8 (0.32%) Apache Spark
13 6 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 6 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.20%) Kentico
14 5 (0.20%) Tomcat
15 4 (0.16%) Jupyter
Applications
1 149 (5.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 141 (5.67%) Microsoft Office
3 77 (3.10%) Microsoft Project
4 75 (3.02%) MS Visio
5 68 (2.74%) Trello
6 36 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 23 (0.93%) Simulink
8 22 (0.88%) Stateflow
9 17 (0.68%) Photoshop
10 15 (0.60%) Sketch
11 7 (0.28%) CANalyzer
12 5 (0.20%) Doxygen
12 5 (0.20%) OrCAD
13 4 (0.16%) Maya
13 4 (0.16%) MotionBuilder
14 2 (0.080%) Adobe After Effects
14 2 (0.080%) Adobe Creative Suite
14 2 (0.080%) Adobe Illustrator
14 2 (0.080%) Adobe Premiere
14 2 (0.080%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 32 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (1.17%) SDL Web 8
3 16 (0.64%) PlanetPress Connect
4 11 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.20%) CA PPM
5 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.16%) Magento
6 4 (0.16%) MIS ActiveH
6 4 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.16%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.12%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.12%) Sage 300 ERP
7 3 (0.12%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.12%) SAP MDM
7 3 (0.12%) SAP Retail
7 3 (0.12%) SAP SD
8 2 (0.080%) BusinessWorks
8 2 (0.080%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 548 (22.04%) Azure
2 382 (15.37%) AWS
3 185 (7.44%) Power Platform
4 183 (7.36%) GitHub
5 178 (7.16%) Azure DevOps
6 128 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
7 97 (3.90%) SaaS
8 88 (3.54%) GCP
9 68 (2.74%) Serverless
10 54 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
11 47 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
12 44 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
13 43 (1.73%) Miro
14 42 (1.69%) Entra ID
14 42 (1.69%) Figma
15 31 (1.25%) Amazon S3
16 28 (1.13%) AWS CloudFormation
17 27 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
18 25 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
19 24 (0.97%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 100 (4.02%) Firewall
2 49 (1.97%) DNS
3 47 (1.89%) TCP/IP
4 37 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
5 34 (1.37%) VPN
6 30 (1.21%) DHCP
7 27 (1.09%) Wireless
8 19 (0.76%) 5G
8 19 (0.76%) Modbus
9 18 (0.72%) Network Security
10 17 (0.68%) HTTP
11 15 (0.60%) PBX
12 14 (0.56%) J1939
12 14 (0.56%) LAN
12 14 (0.56%) MPLS
13 13 (0.52%) RS-232
14 12 (0.48%) WAN
15 11 (0.44%) BGP
15 11 (0.44%) Bluetooth
15 11 (0.44%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (9.13%) SQL Server
2 173 (6.96%) Power BI
3 113 (4.55%) MySQL
4 86 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
5 64 (2.57%) Relational Database
5 64 (2.57%) Tableau
6 55 (2.21%) NoSQL
7 50 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
8 49 (1.97%) Data Vault
9 35 (1.41%) MongoDB
10 34 (1.37%) Delta Lake
11 29 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 25 (1.01%) Data Lake
13 23 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
14 17 (0.68%) Big Data
15 15 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 14 (0.56%) Metadata
17 13 (0.52%) GIS
17 13 (0.52%) Looker
17 13 (0.52%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 482 (19.39%) Git
2 218 (8.77%) Jenkins
3 204 (8.21%) Bitbucket
4 142 (5.71%) Visual Studio
5 113 (4.55%) GitLab
6 97 (3.90%) Selenium
7 81 (3.26%) Sourcetree
8 65 (2.61%) Cucumber
9 47 (1.89%) Postman
10 45 (1.81%) Team Foundation Server
11 44 (1.77%) Cypress.io
12 40 (1.61%) TeamCity
13 39 (1.57%) Subversion
14 38 (1.53%) NUnit
15 29 (1.17%) Moq
16 28 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
16 28 (1.13%) SpecFlow
17 27 (1.09%) Octopus Deploy
17 27 (1.09%) TestRail
18 25 (1.01%) Zephyr
General
1 826 (33.23%) Social Skills
2 678 (27.27%) Finance
3 328 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
4 228 (9.17%) Banking
5 190 (7.64%) Marketing
6 171 (6.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 157 (6.32%) Presentation Skills
8 156 (6.28%) Law
9 135 (5.43%) Public Sector
10 106 (4.26%) Games
11 105 (4.22%) Legal
12 99 (3.98%) Retail
13 77 (3.10%) Aerospace
14 67 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
15 64 (2.57%) Automotive
16 63 (2.53%) Electronics
17 57 (2.29%) Manufacturing
18 49 (1.97%) Telecoms
19 31 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
20 30 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 449 (18.06%) Developer
2 392 (15.77%) Senior
3 359 (14.44%) Analyst
4 259 (10.42%) Lead
5 208 (8.37%) Software Engineer
6 192 (7.72%) Business Analyst
7 153 (6.15%) Project Manager
8 145 (5.83%) Senior Developer
9 94 (3.78%) Full Stack Developer
10 84 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
11 82 (3.30%) Support Engineer
12 79 (3.18%) 3D Developer
12 79 (3.18%) Games Developer
12 79 (3.18%) Unity 3D Developer
13 72 (2.90%) Applications Support
14 67 (2.70%) Data Engineer
15 62 (2.49%) IT Manager
16 58 (2.33%) Senior Analyst
17 56 (2.25%) Senior Software Engineer
18 55 (2.21%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 237 (9.53%) HTML
2 203 (8.17%) .NET
3 198 (7.96%) CSS
4 170 (6.84%) React
5 149 (5.99%) RESTful
6 126 (5.07%) REST
7 111 (4.47%) .NET Framework
8 105 (4.22%) SOAP
9 99 (3.98%) Web Services
10 89 (3.58%) Node.js
11 86 (3.46%) XML
12 84 (3.38%) ASP.NET
13 82 (3.30%) AngularJS
13 82 (3.30%) JSON
14 79 (3.18%) Unity (Game Engine)
15 77 (3.10%) jQuery
16 76 (3.06%) Spring
17 73 (2.94%) Entity Framework
18 63 (2.53%) Vue
19 49 (1.97%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 229 (9.21%) Product Ownership
2 80 (3.22%) Virtual Reality
3 69 (2.78%) Data Structures
3 69 (2.78%) Mobile App
4 67 (2.70%) Management Information System
5 55 (2.21%) IoT
5 55 (2.21%) Public Cloud
6 53 (2.13%) Onboarding
7 52 (2.09%) Self-Motivation
8 51 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
9 41 (1.65%) Reinsurance
10 40 (1.61%) Algorithms
11 39 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
12 36 (1.45%) Market Risk
13 34 (1.37%) Data Centre
14 33 (1.33%) Cloud Native
15 30 (1.21%) Legacy Code
16 28 (1.13%) Distributed Systems
17 27 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
18 23 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 362 (14.56%) Linux
2 230 (9.25%) Windows
3 92 (3.70%) Unix
4 67 (2.70%) Windows Server
5 46 (1.85%) Android
6 38 (1.53%) Apple iOS
6 38 (1.53%) Mac OS
7 24 (0.97%) Windows 10
8 19 (0.76%) Ubuntu
9 18 (0.72%) CentOS
10 17 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
11 16 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
12 14 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
13 6 (0.24%) Debian
13 6 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 6 (0.24%) Windows 7
14 5 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
15 4 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
16 3 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
16 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,311 (52.74%) Agile
2 645 (25.95%) Scrum
3 627 (25.22%) DevOps
4 542 (21.80%) Problem-Solving
5 409 (16.45%) Project Management
6 402 (16.17%) Software Engineering
7 309 (12.43%) CI/CD
8 281 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 276 (11.10%) Roadmaps
10 270 (10.86%) Test Automation
11 248 (9.98%) Mentoring
12 243 (9.77%) Stakeholder Management
13 242 (9.73%) Coaching
14 229 (9.21%) User Stories
15 221 (8.89%) Kanban
16 214 (8.61%) Software Testing
17 212 (8.53%) SDLC
18 204 (8.21%) Business Intelligence
19 199 (8.00%) Migration
20 185 (7.44%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 467 (18.79%) SQL
2 332 (13.35%) JavaScript
3 331 (13.31%) C#
4 297 (11.95%) Python
5 278 (11.18%) Java
6 108 (4.34%) PowerShell
7 99 (3.98%) C
8 76 (3.06%) C++
9 74 (2.98%) TypeScript
10 73 (2.94%) PHP
11 72 (2.90%) Bash
12 56 (2.25%) T-SQL
13 35 (1.41%) Perl
14 29 (1.17%) MATLAB
14 29 (1.17%) Ruby
15 28 (1.13%) Shell Script
16 25 (1.01%) Kotlin
17 24 (0.97%) Embedded C
18 22 (0.88%) Apex Code
18 22 (0.88%) Go
Qualifications
1 582 (23.41%) Degree
2 302 (12.15%) Security Cleared
3 230 (9.25%) SC Cleared
4 101 (4.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 80 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 66 (2.65%) PMI Certification
7 61 (2.45%) DV Cleared
8 55 (2.21%) PMP
9 43 (1.73%) ISTQB
10 26 (1.05%) HND
11 24 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (0.97%) ISEB
12 21 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
13 20 (0.80%) CCNA
14 19 (0.76%) Master's Degree
15 16 (0.64%) CSPO
16 15 (0.60%) Azure Certification
16 15 (0.60%) DBS Check
16 15 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Certification
16 15 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 252 (10.14%) QA
2 133 (5.35%) Data Quality
3 123 (4.95%) GDPR
4 68 (2.74%) PMO
5 60 (2.41%) SLA
6 52 (2.09%) Accessibility
7 25 (1.01%) ISO 9001
8 23 (0.93%) MISRA
9 20 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 15288
10 14 (0.56%) Automotive SPICE
10 14 (0.56%) ISO 26262
10 14 (0.56%) PSD2
11 10 (0.40%) NCSC
11 10 (0.40%) NIST
12 9 (0.36%) IEC 62304
12 9 (0.36%) ISO 20022
13 8 (0.32%) AUTOSAR
14 6 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
16 4 (0.16%) JTAG
System Software
1 195 (7.84%) Docker
2 80 (3.22%) Active Directory
3 46 (1.85%) Firmware
4 44 (1.77%) VMware ESXi
5 28 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
6 24 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
7 14 (0.56%) Hyper-V
8 10 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
8 10 (0.40%) NFS
8 10 (0.40%) pfSense
9 9 (0.36%) vSphere
10 2 (0.080%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.040%) iptables
11 1 (0.040%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.040%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 178 (7.16%) Kubernetes
2 137 (5.51%) Terraform
3 109 (4.38%) Ansible
4 45 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 29 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (0.97%) Grafana
7 20 (0.80%) vCenter Server
8 18 (0.72%) Microsoft Clustering
9 17 (0.68%) Progress Chef
10 15 (0.60%) Istio
10 15 (0.60%) Packer
11 11 (0.44%) HP ALM
11 11 (0.44%) ZABBIX
12 10 (0.40%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 10 (0.40%) SCDPM
12 10 (0.40%) SCOM
13 9 (0.36%) Puppet
13 9 (0.36%) SCCM
14 8 (0.32%) Functional Safety
15 7 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 445 (17.90%) Microsoft
2 181 (7.28%) Atlassian
3 162 (6.52%) ServiceNow
4 123 (4.95%) Oracle
5 108 (4.34%) Salesforce
6 90 (3.62%) Google
7 82 (3.30%) VMware
8 76 (3.06%) SAP
9 64 (2.57%) IBM
10 53 (2.13%) Databricks
11 51 (2.05%) Informatica
12 42 (1.69%) Adobe
13 35 (1.41%) Cisco
14 28 (1.13%) Apple
15 27 (1.09%) Splunk
16 25 (1.01%) Veeam
17 24 (0.97%) Commvault
18 21 (0.84%) Kofax
18 21 (0.84%) Pega
19 20 (0.80%) Palo Alto