Development Application Skills in the North West

Description	Rank 6 Months to 14 Dec 2025	Rank YoY Change	Median Salary	Median Salary YoY Change	Historical Absolute & Relative Jobs Vacancies	Live Jobs
Git	85	+27	£34,000	-35.23%	104 1.76%	165
JIRA	124	-32	£47,683	-5.62%	58 0.98%	70
GitLab	147	+43	£66,250	+1.92%	35 0.59%	55
Jenkins	147	+19	£65,000	-10.34%	35 0.59%	31
Cypress.io	170	+28	£64,482	+7.46%	12 0.20%	16
Bitbucket	174	+22	-	-	8 0.14%	8
Selenium	174	+20	£62,000	+37.77%	8 0.14%	19
SonarQube	175	+38	-	-	7 0.12%	9
Sonatype Nexus	175	-	£37,500	-	7 0.12%	1
CircleCI	176	+35	£60,000	-	6 0.10%	1
Postman	176	+27	£75,000	+79.10%	6 0.10%	13
JMeter	178	+30	£70,000	+55.55%	4 0.068%	1
LabVIEW	178	+9	£52,500	+31.25%	4 0.068%	4
Cucumber	178	+31	£70,000	+7.69%	4 0.068%	9
JUnit	178	+31	-	-	4 0.068%	1
Visual Studio	179	+22	£57,500	-	3 0.051%	12
Xcode	179	+36	£65,000	-16.12%	3 0.051%	1
Octopus Deploy	179	+30	£62,500	+4.16%	3 0.051%	1
webpack	179	+27	£57,500	-	3 0.051%	3
JIRA Agile	179	+35	£47,683	-4.20%	3 0.051%
Gatling	179	+21	£70,000	-	3 0.051%
MLflow	179	+36	£42,500	-57.50%	3 0.051%	1
Babel	180	+26	£57,500	-	2 0.034%
Rational DOORS	180	+17	-	-	2 0.034%	4
TeamCity	180	+24	£48,750	-32.75%	2 0.034%	1
Maven	180	+29	-	-	2 0.034%	1
Oracle Forms	180	+29	£50,750	+1.50%	2 0.034%	1
Ant	181	-	-	-	1 0.017%
NUnit	181	+33	£52,500	-2.32%	1 0.017%	6
LSMW	181	-	-	-	1 0.017%	1
LoadRunner	181	-	£67,500	-	1 0.017%
Atlassian Bamboo	181	+33	£85,000	+69.81%	1 0.017%	1
PHPUnit	181	+13	£41,500	-20.95%	1 0.017%	4
Axure RP	181	+33	£50,000	-	1 0.017%	1
SoapUI	181	+33	£52,500	+31.25%	1 0.017%	3
Artifactory	181	+30	-	-	1 0.017%
Appium	181	-	-	-	1 0.017%	9
git-flow	181	+34	£65,000	+13.04%	1 0.017%
Protractor	181	-	£65,000	-	1 0.017%
Pivotal Tracker	181	-	£31,500	-	1 0.017%
CA Release Automation	181	-	£37,500	-	1 0.017%
ER Studio	181	-	-	-	1 0.017%	7
ESLint	181	-	-	-	1 0.017%	1
REST Assured	181	-	-	-	1 0.017%
Locust	181	-	£70,079	-	1 0.017%
Storybook	181	+32	-	-	1 0.017%	1