The first table below looks at the demand for JIRA skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited JIRA over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Development Applications category for the North West region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Atlassian JIRA
Rank 211 220 221
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +1
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 32 27 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.445% 0.380% 0.189%
As % of the Development Applications category 2.855% 2.435% 1.393%
Number of salaries quoted 24 9 12
Average salary £33,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.00% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,400 £20,250
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £66,000 £37,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £38,500
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +10.38%
All Development Applications
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
1121 1109 933
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 15.60% 15.62% 13.59%
Number of salaries quoted 972 978 861
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
JIRA
England

JIRA
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing JIRA across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

North West JIRA Jobs Demand Trend

JIRA
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing JIRA across the North West region.

North West JIRA Salary Trend

JIRA
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing JIRA across the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North West JIRA Salary Histogram

JIRA
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cheshire +22 22 £35,000 +29.62%
Manchester -28 10 £27,500 -35.29%
JIRA
England

JIRA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing JIRA also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited JIRA.

1 31 (41.89%) Java
2 27 (36.49%) Oracle
3 23 (31.08%) Subversion
3 23 (31.08%) Spring
4 22 (29.73%) Agile Software Development
4 22 (29.73%) Scrum
5 20 (27.03%) TDD
5 20 (27.03%) ISEB
5 20 (27.03%) jQuery
6 19 (25.68%) Hibernate
7 17 (22.97%) Linux
7 17 (22.97%) PHP
7 17 (22.97%) SQL
7 17 (22.97%) ISTQB
8 16 (21.62%) Maven
9 15 (20.27%) SQL Server
9 15 (20.27%) Web Services
9 15 (20.27%) UNIX
10 14 (18.92%) JUnit
10 14 (18.92%) Bugzilla
10 14 (18.92%) Git (software)
11 13 (17.57%) Degree
11 13 (17.57%) BDD
11 13 (17.57%) J2EE
11 13 (17.57%) JavaScript
11 13 (17.57%) Oracle 10g
12 12 (16.22%) XML
12 12 (16.22%) Configuration Management
12 12 (16.22%) MVC
12 12 (16.22%) Waterfall

JIRA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing JIRA also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited JIRA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 23 (31.08%) Spring
2 20 (27.03%) jQuery
3 19 (25.68%) Hibernate
4 15 (20.27%) Web Services
5 13 (17.57%) J2EE
6 12 (16.22%) XML
7 11 (14.86%) Ajax
7 11 (14.86%) HTML
7 11 (14.86%) .NET
8 10 (13.51%) SOAP
8 10 (13.51%) Struts
8 10 (13.51%) JDBC
8 10 (13.51%) JSP
8 10 (13.51%) REST
9 9 (12.16%) EJB 3.0
9 9 (12.16%) EJB
9 9 (12.16%) CSS
9 9 (12.16%) Swing
10 8 (10.81%) JPA
11 6 (8.108%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 10 (13.51%) Tomcat
2 7 (9.459%) Confluence
2 7 (9.459%) Apache
3 6 (8.108%) Jetty
4 4 (5.405%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.351%) Magento
5 1 (1.351%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (5.405%) MS Excel
2 2 (2.703%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.703%) MS Project
3 1 (1.351%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (2.703%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.757%) HTTP
2 2 (2.703%) SAN
2 2 (2.703%) Internet
2 2 (2.703%) FTP
3 1 (1.351%) LAN
3 1 (1.351%) WAN
3 1 (1.351%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (20.27%) SQL Server
2 13 (17.57%) Oracle 10g
3 11 (14.86%) MySQL
4 3 (4.054%) DB2
4 3 (4.054%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.703%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 23 (31.08%) Subversion
2 16 (21.62%) Maven
3 14 (18.92%) JUnit
3 14 (18.92%) Bugzilla
3 14 (18.92%) Git (software)
4 11 (14.86%) ClearCase
5 10 (13.51%) Ant
6 9 (12.16%) Eclipse
7 8 (10.81%) Team Foundation Server
8 7 (9.459%) Mercurial
8 7 (9.459%) Hudson
9 6 (8.108%) Log4j
9 6 (8.108%) Jenkins
10 5 (6.757%) Visual Studio
11 4 (5.405%) Mockito
12 3 (4.054%) Selenium
12 3 (4.054%) NUnit
13 1 (1.351%) Trac
13 1 (1.351%) GitHub
13 1 (1.351%) Cucumber
General
1 9 (12.16%) Retail
2 4 (5.405%) Pharmaceutical
2 4 (5.405%) Games
3 2 (2.703%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.351%) Billing
Job Titles
1 24 (32.43%) Developer
2 17 (22.97%) Java Developer
3 13 (17.57%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 13 (17.57%) Analyst
4 11 (14.86%) Test Analyst
5 10 (13.51%) Test Engineer
6 9 (12.16%) Java Software Developer
6 9 (12.16%) Software Developer
7 6 (8.108%) Team Leader
7 6 (8.108%) ScrumMaster
8 5 (6.757%) Senior Java Software Developer
8 5 (6.757%) Software Manager
8 5 (6.757%) Lead Test Analyst
8 5 (6.757%) Test Project Leader
8 5 (6.757%) Release Manager
8 5 (6.757%) Software Configuration Manager
8 5 (6.757%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (6.757%) Build Manager
8 5 (6.757%) Project Analyst
8 5 (6.757%) Senior Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.405%) LIMS
1 4 (5.405%) Life Science
2 3 (4.054%) BBC
3 2 (2.703%) AS400
3 2 (2.703%) Interactive TV
3 2 (2.703%) Animation
3 2 (2.703%) Semantic Web
3 2 (2.703%) iSeries
3 2 (2.703%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.351%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.351%) SCADA
4 1 (1.351%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 17 (22.97%) Linux
2 15 (20.27%) UNIX
3 8 (10.81%) Windows
4 6 (8.108%) Solaris
5 2 (2.703%) Mac OS X
5 2 (2.703%) Android
5 2 (2.703%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (29.73%) Agile Software Development
1 22 (29.73%) Scrum
2 20 (27.03%) TDD
3 13 (17.57%) BDD
4 12 (16.22%) Configuration Management
4 12 (16.22%) MVC
4 12 (16.22%) Waterfall
4 12 (16.22%) User Acceptance Testing
5 11 (14.86%) Release Management
6 9 (12.16%) Test Automation
6 9 (12.16%) Performance Testing
6 9 (12.16%) Use Case
7 8 (10.81%) Project Management
7 8 (10.81%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (9.459%) Automated Testing
8 7 (9.459%) E-Commerce
9 6 (8.108%) RAD
9 6 (8.108%) High Availability
9 6 (8.108%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (8.108%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (41.89%) Java
2 17 (22.97%) PHP
2 17 (22.97%) SQL
3 13 (17.57%) JavaScript
4 5 (6.757%) Perl
5 4 (5.405%) Python
5 4 (5.405%) PL/SQL
5 4 (5.405%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.054%) Ruby
6 3 (4.054%) C#
7 2 (2.703%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.351%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.351%) RPG
8 1 (1.351%) C++
8 1 (1.351%) Delphi
8 1 (1.351%) VC++
8 1 (1.351%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 20 (27.03%) ISEB
2 17 (22.97%) ISTQB
3 13 (17.57%) Degree
4 9 (12.16%) HND
5 1 (1.351%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.351%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.459%) QA
Systems Management
1 10 (13.51%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 27 (36.49%) Oracle
2 8 (10.81%) Zend
3 6 (8.108%) HP
4 5 (6.757%) IBM
5 3 (4.054%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.703%) Remedy
6 2 (2.703%) Planview
6 2 (2.703%) AccuRev
7 1 (1.351%) Facebook
7 1 (1.351%) Twitter
7 1 (1.351%) Perforce
7 1 (1.351%) Adobe
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