JIRA Job Trends in Manchester

Atlassian JIRA
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring JIRA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 100 97
Rank change year-on-year -8 -3 +9
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 24 56 55
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.82% 2.10% 2.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.46% 24.14% 16.82%
Number of salaries quoted 14 24 46
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,270
25th Percentile £43,438 £44,000 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £82,813 £93,778 £77,813
90th Percentile £88,375 £105,133 £96,539
North West median annual salary £47,683 £50,055 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.74% -8.99% -

All Development Application Skills
Manchester

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 130 232 327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.46% 8.70% 12.92%
Number of salaries quoted 102 126 263
10th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £48,750 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £73,625 £87,500 £82,548
North West median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year - -8.70% +2.68%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JIRA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

JIRA job vacancy trend in Manchester

JIRA
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing JIRA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing JIRA

JIRA
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for JIRA in Manchester

JIRA
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Altrincham - 1 - -
JIRA
North West

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (41.67%) Confluence
2 3 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (8.33%) CMS
4 1 (4.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Apache
4 1 (4.17%) JBoss
4 1 (4.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Trello
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.17%) SAP IBP
2 1 (4.17%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) Adobe Analytics
1 4 (16.67%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) AWS
2 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (12.50%) Figma
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.17%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.17%) ChatGPT
4 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.17%) Google Analytics
4 1 (4.17%) Google Workspace
4 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle Service Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
4 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) HTTP
2 1 (4.17%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 4 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Power BI
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Git
2 5 (20.83%) JUnit
3 2 (8.33%) Maven
4 1 (4.17%) Ant
4 1 (4.17%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.17%) Selenium
4 1 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Banking
4 3 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Law
5 2 (8.33%) Marketing
5 2 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (4.17%) Automotive
6 1 (4.17%) Legal
6 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.17%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Senior
2 4 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Senior Manager
3 3 (12.50%) Senior Strategy Manager
3 3 (12.50%) Strategy Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Product Owner
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Support Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Agile Coach
5 1 (4.17%) Associate Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) Data Compliance Manager
5 1 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Finance Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) CSS
1 6 (25.00%) HTML
2 5 (20.83%) Kafka
3 4 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 4 (16.67%) gRPC
3 4 (16.67%) REST
3 4 (16.67%) RESTful
3 4 (16.67%) Spring
3 4 (16.67%) Spring Batch
3 4 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.17%) ARM Templates
4 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.17%) JSR 170
4 1 (4.17%) Middleware
4 1 (4.17%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Product Ownership
2 4 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.17%) Cybercrime
4 1 (4.17%) Life Science
4 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (4.17%) Low-Code
4 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Mac OS
2 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Agile
2 10 (41.67%) User Experience
3 8 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 6 (25.00%) Analytics
4 6 (25.00%) Scrum
5 5 (20.83%) AI
5 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (20.83%) DevOps
5 5 (20.83%) Roadmaps
6 4 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 4 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
6 4 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (16.67%) ITIL
6 4 (16.67%) Microservices
6 4 (16.67%) OOP
6 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (16.67%) Unit Testing
6 4 (16.67%) UX Design
6 4 (16.67%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 5 (20.83%) Java
3 4 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 2 (8.33%) Python
5 1 (4.17%) Bash
5 1 (4.17%) Groovy
5 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) SAP Certification
2 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) PhD
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.33%) GDPR
3 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (4.17%) GxP
3 1 (4.17%) ISO 14001
3 1 (4.17%) ISO 9001
3 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.17%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Podman
2 1 (4.17%) Puppet
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Adobe
2 3 (12.50%) Qualtrics
3 2 (8.33%) Google
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) SAP
3 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (4.17%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.17%) Concur
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.17%) Spotify