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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 93 68
Rank change year-on-year -11 -25 +11
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 2,517 3,646 7,993
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.54% 3.60% 5.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 26.39% 25.22% 22.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,715 2,123 3,838
10th Percentile £31,500 £37,885 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +0.84% +3.48%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £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 9,537 14,458 35,571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.62% 14.27% 22.67%
Number of salaries quoted 6,706 8,868 15,755
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% +9.65%
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 9 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 9 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 -17 2,169 £55,000 -8.33% 580
UK excluding London -9 1,788 £52,500 -4.55% 398
Work from Home -25 935 £57,500 -2.54% 294
London -33 634 £65,000 -5.55% 188
North of England +37 439 £60,000 +9.09% 78
South East -29 370 £52,500 -8.70% 99
South West +25 349 £50,000 - 71
North West +37 242 £62,783 +9.19% 45
Midlands -62 239 £47,500 -13.64% 82
Scotland -42 216 £62,500 +4.17% 28
West Midlands -70 151 £45,000 -18.18% 48
Yorkshire +29 133 £60,000 +9.33% 31
East of England -13 123 £45,000 -21.74% 37
East Midlands -5 84 £48,415 -7.78% 34
North East +20 64 £52,500 +5.00% 5
Wales +29 41 £45,000 - 11
Northern Ireland +39 14 £42,500 -41.38% 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
1 855 (33.97%) Confluence
2 130 (5.16%) SharePoint
3 50 (1.99%) CMS
4 37 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 33 (1.31%) WebSphere
6 28 (1.11%) Captiva
6 28 (1.11%) FileNet
7 25 (0.99%) Apache
8 21 (0.83%) WordPress
9 14 (0.56%) nginx
10 13 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
11 12 (0.48%) IIS
12 10 (0.40%) SAS
13 9 (0.36%) Drupal
14 8 (0.32%) Apache Spark
15 7 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 6 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
17 5 (0.20%) Kentico
17 5 (0.20%) Tomcat
18 4 (0.16%) Jupyter
Applications
1 148 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 138 (5.48%) Microsoft Office
3 77 (3.06%) Microsoft Project
4 74 (2.94%) MS Visio
5 68 (2.70%) Trello
6 34 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 22 (0.87%) Simulink
7 22 (0.87%) Stateflow
8 16 (0.64%) Photoshop
9 15 (0.60%) Sketch
10 7 (0.28%) CANalyzer
11 5 (0.20%) Doxygen
11 5 (0.20%) OrCAD
12 4 (0.16%) Maya
12 4 (0.16%) MotionBuilder
13 2 (0.079%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.079%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.079%) Adobe Premiere
13 2 (0.079%) Gliffy
13 2 (0.079%) InVision
Business Applications
1 36 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (1.07%) SDL Web 8
3 20 (0.79%) PlanetPress Connect
4 10 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.20%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.20%) Magento
5 5 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 5 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
5 5 (0.20%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.16%) MIS ActiveH
6 4 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.12%) CA PPM
7 3 (0.12%) iTrent
7 3 (0.12%) Sage 200
7 3 (0.12%) Sage 300 ERP
7 3 (0.12%) SAP SD
8 2 (0.079%) BusinessWorks
8 2 (0.079%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.079%) SAP MDM
8 2 (0.079%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 561 (22.29%) Azure
2 386 (15.34%) AWS
3 195 (7.75%) GitHub
4 188 (7.47%) Power Platform
5 186 (7.39%) Azure DevOps
6 130 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
7 103 (4.09%) SaaS
8 97 (3.85%) GCP
9 69 (2.74%) Serverless
10 54 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
11 47 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
12 46 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
13 43 (1.71%) Entra ID
13 43 (1.71%) Miro
14 42 (1.67%) Figma
15 31 (1.23%) Amazon S3
16 28 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
16 28 (1.11%) Slack
17 27 (1.07%) Amazon EC2
18 25 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 101 (4.01%) Firewall
2 48 (1.91%) DNS
2 48 (1.91%) TCP/IP
3 36 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
4 35 (1.39%) VPN
5 29 (1.15%) DHCP
6 28 (1.11%) Wireless
7 20 (0.79%) Modbus
8 19 (0.75%) 5G
9 18 (0.72%) Network Security
10 17 (0.68%) HTTP
11 16 (0.64%) PBX
12 14 (0.56%) J1939
12 14 (0.56%) LAN
12 14 (0.56%) MPLS
13 12 (0.48%) RS-232
13 12 (0.48%) WAN
14 11 (0.44%) BGP
14 11 (0.44%) Bluetooth
14 11 (0.44%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 227 (9.02%) SQL Server
2 175 (6.95%) Power BI
3 117 (4.65%) MySQL
4 90 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
5 66 (2.62%) Tableau
6 63 (2.50%) Relational Database
7 54 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
8 53 (2.11%) NoSQL
9 51 (2.03%) Data Vault
10 36 (1.43%) Delta Lake
11 35 (1.39%) MongoDB
12 29 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 25 (0.99%) Data Lake
14 23 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
15 18 (0.72%) Big Data
16 15 (0.60%) Metadata
16 15 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 14 (0.56%) MariaDB
18 13 (0.52%) GIS
18 13 (0.52%) Looker
Development Applications
1 490 (19.47%) Git
2 221 (8.78%) Jenkins
3 217 (8.62%) Bitbucket
4 148 (5.88%) Visual Studio
5 113 (4.49%) GitLab
6 99 (3.93%) Selenium
7 80 (3.18%) Sourcetree
8 70 (2.78%) Cucumber
9 46 (1.83%) Postman
10 44 (1.75%) Cypress.io
11 43 (1.71%) Team Foundation Server
12 40 (1.59%) Subversion
13 38 (1.51%) TeamCity
14 36 (1.43%) NUnit
15 30 (1.19%) Oracle Forms
16 29 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
17 27 (1.07%) Moq
17 27 (1.07%) SoapUI
17 27 (1.07%) SpecFlow
17 27 (1.07%) TestRail
General
1 821 (32.62%) Social Skills
2 699 (27.77%) Finance
3 333 (13.23%) Analytical Skills
4 236 (9.38%) Banking
5 187 (7.43%) Marketing
6 172 (6.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 164 (6.52%) Presentation Skills
8 159 (6.32%) Law
9 138 (5.48%) Public Sector
10 116 (4.61%) Games
11 107 (4.25%) Legal
12 97 (3.85%) Retail
13 73 (2.90%) Aerospace
14 66 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
15 63 (2.50%) Automotive
16 62 (2.46%) Electronics
17 57 (2.26%) Manufacturing
18 49 (1.95%) Telecoms
19 32 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
20 29 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 455 (18.08%) Developer
2 399 (15.85%) Senior
3 374 (14.86%) Analyst
4 259 (10.29%) Lead
5 214 (8.50%) Software Engineer
6 195 (7.75%) Business Analyst
7 156 (6.20%) Project Manager
8 143 (5.68%) Senior Developer
9 91 (3.62%) Full Stack Developer
10 88 (3.50%) 3D Developer
10 88 (3.50%) Games Developer
10 88 (3.50%) Unity 3D Developer
11 85 (3.38%) DevOps Engineer
12 82 (3.26%) Support Engineer
13 75 (2.98%) Applications Support
14 68 (2.70%) Data Engineer
15 61 (2.42%) IT Manager
16 60 (2.38%) Senior Analyst
17 59 (2.34%) Senior Software Engineer
18 53 (2.11%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 236 (9.38%) HTML
2 199 (7.91%) CSS
3 198 (7.87%) .NET
4 169 (6.71%) React
5 152 (6.04%) RESTful
6 128 (5.09%) REST
7 108 (4.29%) .NET Framework
8 106 (4.21%) SOAP
9 100 (3.97%) Web Services
10 90 (3.58%) Node.js
11 88 (3.50%) Unity (Game Engine)
12 84 (3.34%) JSON
12 84 (3.34%) XML
13 81 (3.22%) AngularJS
14 80 (3.18%) ASP.NET
15 75 (2.98%) jQuery
16 74 (2.94%) Spring
17 70 (2.78%) Entity Framework
18 64 (2.54%) Vue
19 49 (1.95%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 228 (9.06%) Product Ownership
2 90 (3.58%) Virtual Reality
3 71 (2.82%) Data Structures
4 67 (2.66%) Management Information System
4 67 (2.66%) Mobile App
5 56 (2.22%) Public Cloud
6 55 (2.19%) IoT
7 53 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
7 53 (2.11%) Onboarding
8 51 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
9 43 (1.71%) Reinsurance
10 39 (1.55%) Algorithms
11 38 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
12 37 (1.47%) Market Risk
13 34 (1.35%) Data Centre
14 33 (1.31%) Cloud Native
15 28 (1.11%) DataPower
15 28 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
15 28 (1.11%) Legacy Code
15 28 (1.11%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 366 (14.54%) Linux
2 231 (9.18%) Windows
3 99 (3.93%) Unix
4 65 (2.58%) Windows Server
5 48 (1.91%) Android
6 40 (1.59%) Apple iOS
7 38 (1.51%) Mac OS
8 25 (0.99%) Windows 10
9 19 (0.75%) CentOS
9 19 (0.75%) Ubuntu
10 18 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
11 17 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
12 13 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
13 6 (0.24%) Debian
13 6 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 5 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
14 5 (0.20%) Windows 7
15 3 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
15 3 (0.12%) FreeBSD
15 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,329 (52.80%) Agile
2 662 (26.30%) Scrum
3 641 (25.47%) DevOps
4 540 (21.45%) Problem-Solving
5 420 (16.69%) Software Engineering
6 411 (16.33%) Project Management
7 314 (12.48%) CI/CD
8 283 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 274 (10.89%) Test Automation
10 272 (10.81%) Roadmaps
11 251 (9.97%) Mentoring
12 250 (9.93%) Coaching
13 244 (9.69%) Stakeholder Management
14 232 (9.22%) User Stories
15 223 (8.86%) Kanban
16 214 (8.50%) Software Testing
17 213 (8.46%) SDLC
18 206 (8.18%) Migration
19 205 (8.14%) Business Intelligence
20 186 (7.39%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 471 (18.71%) SQL
2 340 (13.51%) C#
3 337 (13.39%) JavaScript
4 302 (12.00%) Python
5 290 (11.52%) Java
6 110 (4.37%) PowerShell
7 97 (3.85%) C
8 78 (3.10%) C++
9 75 (2.98%) TypeScript
10 74 (2.94%) PHP
11 72 (2.86%) Bash
12 53 (2.11%) T-SQL
13 35 (1.39%) Perl
14 29 (1.15%) Ruby
15 28 (1.11%) MATLAB
16 27 (1.07%) Shell Script
17 25 (0.99%) Kotlin
18 24 (0.95%) Embedded C
19 22 (0.87%) Apex Code
19 22 (0.87%) Go
Qualifications
1 590 (23.44%) Degree
2 316 (12.55%) Security Cleared
3 243 (9.65%) SC Cleared
4 113 (4.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 76 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 63 (2.50%) PMI Certification
7 61 (2.42%) DV Cleared
8 54 (2.15%) PMP
9 43 (1.71%) ISTQB
10 26 (1.03%) HND
11 25 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
11 25 (0.99%) ISEB
12 21 (0.83%) CCNA
13 19 (0.75%) Master's Degree
13 19 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
14 16 (0.64%) Azure Certification
14 16 (0.64%) CSPO
15 15 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 15 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 14 (0.56%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 251 (9.97%) QA
2 136 (5.40%) Data Quality
3 130 (5.16%) GDPR
4 69 (2.74%) PMO
5 59 (2.34%) SLA
6 52 (2.07%) Accessibility
7 29 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 25 (0.99%) ISO 9001
9 22 (0.87%) MISRA
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%) GRC
15 5 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 195 (7.75%) Docker
2 82 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 44 (1.75%) Firmware
3 44 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
4 29 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 24 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.56%) Hyper-V
7 11 (0.44%) vSphere
8 10 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
8 10 (0.40%) NFS
8 10 (0.40%) pfSense
9 2 (0.079%) iptables
9 2 (0.079%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.040%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.040%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 177 (7.03%) Kubernetes
2 138 (5.48%) Terraform
3 109 (4.33%) Ansible
4 46 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
5 27 (1.07%) Single Sign-On
6 24 (0.95%) Grafana
7 20 (0.79%) 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%) ZABBIX
12 10 (0.40%) HP ALM
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%) Salt
Vendors
1 456 (18.12%) Microsoft
2 183 (7.27%) Atlassian
3 169 (6.71%) ServiceNow
4 131 (5.20%) Oracle
5 111 (4.41%) Salesforce
6 91 (3.62%) Google
7 85 (3.38%) SAP
8 84 (3.34%) VMware
9 71 (2.82%) IBM
10 54 (2.15%) Databricks
11 53 (2.11%) Informatica
12 42 (1.67%) Adobe
13 36 (1.43%) Cisco
14 29 (1.15%) Apple
15 28 (1.11%) Kofax
15 28 (1.11%) Pega
16 27 (1.07%) Splunk
17 25 (0.99%) Commvault
18 24 (0.95%) Veeam
19 22 (0.87%) Palo Alto