JIRA Jobs in Manchester

Atlassian JIRA
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring JIRA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited JIRA over the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 87 124
Rank change year-on-year +22 +37 -46
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 119 142 132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 5.19% 2.71% 2.75%
As % of the Development Applications category 45.08% 27.95% 20.15%
Number of salaries quoted 57 93 74
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £33,025
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -4.86% +8.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,772 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,778 £95,231 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £62,783 £57,500
% change year-on-year -20.36% +9.19% +23.66%

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 264 508 655
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 11.51% 9.68% 13.64%
Number of salaries quoted 181 384 409
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,075 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £43,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,778 £83,750 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,055 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.99% -8.33% +9.09%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in Manchester

JIRA
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for JIRA in Manchester

JIRA
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Manchester over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

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 18 May 2025. 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
Bolton - 23 £75,000 - 3
Stockport +11 4 £62,500 -13.79% 5
Oldham -1 3 - -
Wigan - 3 - -
Sale - 3 - -
Salford - 3 - - 2
Altrincham - 3 - - 3
Ashton-under-Lyne - 3 - - 2
JIRA
North West

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 49 (41.18%) Confluence
2 3 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.84%) CMS
3 1 (0.84%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.84%) Moodle
3 1 (0.84%) Totara
Applications
1 21 (17.65%) Microsoft Project
2 20 (16.81%) Trello
3 11 (9.24%) MS Visio
4 7 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (4.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (38.66%) AWS
2 45 (37.82%) Azure
3 26 (21.85%) GCP
4 5 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (3.36%) Figma
5 4 (3.36%) GitHub
5 4 (3.36%) Google Workspace
5 4 (3.36%) Miro
5 4 (3.36%) Nutanix
5 4 (3.36%) Slack
6 2 (1.68%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.84%) Contentful
7 1 (0.84%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.84%) Serverless
7 1 (0.84%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.56%) HTTP
2 5 (4.20%) DNS
3 4 (3.36%) Cisco IOS
3 4 (3.36%) Firewall
3 4 (3.36%) SSH
3 4 (3.36%) VPN
4 1 (0.84%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (22.69%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.72%) NoSQL
3 7 (5.88%) MongoDB
4 6 (5.04%) MySQL
5 3 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.68%) Cloud Spanner
6 2 (1.68%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.84%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 37 (31.09%) SonarQube
2 36 (30.25%) Selenium
3 30 (25.21%) Cucumber
3 30 (25.21%) GitLab
4 28 (23.53%) Bitbucket
5 27 (22.69%) Maven
5 27 (22.69%) Sonatype Nexus
6 20 (16.81%) Git
7 6 (5.04%) Postman
8 4 (3.36%) Appium
8 4 (3.36%) Balsamiq
8 4 (3.36%) Fiddler
8 4 (3.36%) JMeter
8 4 (3.36%) JUnit
8 4 (3.36%) LoadRunner
9 2 (1.68%) TestRail
10 1 (0.84%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.84%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.84%) YouTrack
General
1 73 (61.34%) Finance
2 57 (47.90%) Social Skills
3 43 (36.13%) Banking
4 31 (26.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 21 (17.65%) Retail
6 19 (15.97%) Investment Banking
7 18 (15.13%) Corporate Banking
8 16 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (6.72%) Financial Institution
10 5 (4.20%) Cantonese Language
10 5 (4.20%) Mandarin Language
11 4 (3.36%) Law
12 3 (2.52%) Games
12 3 (2.52%) Legal
12 3 (2.52%) Public Sector
13 2 (1.68%) Back Office
13 2 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.84%) Electronics
14 1 (0.84%) Marketing
14 1 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 43 (36.13%) Software Engineer
2 14 (11.76%) Head of Delivery
2 14 (11.76%) Head of IT
2 14 (11.76%) Senior
3 9 (7.56%) Analyst
4 8 (6.72%) Lead
5 7 (5.88%) Project Manager
6 5 (4.20%) Java Engineer
6 5 (4.20%) Tester
7 4 (3.36%) Digital Product Owner
7 4 (3.36%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (3.36%) IT Support
7 4 (3.36%) Java Software Engineer
7 4 (3.36%) Product Owner
7 4 (3.36%) QA Tester
8 3 (2.52%) Games Engineer
8 3 (2.52%) Product Manager
8 3 (2.52%) Release Train Manager
8 3 (2.52%) Senior Test Engineer
8 3 (2.52%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (36.97%) Spring
2 36 (30.25%) Spring Boot
3 34 (28.57%) Kafka
4 33 (27.73%) CSS
4 33 (27.73%) HTML
5 30 (25.21%) React
6 28 (23.53%) Redux
7 27 (22.69%) JPA
8 24 (20.17%) RESTful
9 23 (19.33%) REST
10 19 (15.97%) Jest
11 18 (15.13%) CSS3
11 18 (15.13%) HTML5
11 18 (15.13%) Sass
12 13 (10.92%) Node.js
13 9 (7.56%) Hibernate
14 4 (3.36%) AngularJS
14 4 (3.36%) gRPC
14 4 (3.36%) LDAP
14 4 (3.36%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 42 (35.29%) Product Ownership
2 30 (25.21%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (16.81%) Social Media
4 6 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.36%) Anti-Spyware
7 3 (2.52%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.52%) Online Games
7 3 (2.52%) Wiki
8 2 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.68%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.68%) PDA
8 2 (1.68%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.84%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.84%) NHS
9 1 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.40%) Windows
2 7 (5.88%) Linux
3 6 (5.04%) Windows Vista
4 5 (4.20%) Android
5 1 (0.84%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (84.87%) Agile
2 50 (42.02%) SDLC
3 49 (41.18%) DevOps
4 47 (39.50%) Software Engineering
5 44 (36.97%) CI/CD
5 44 (36.97%) Microservices
6 38 (31.93%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (31.93%) Test Automation
7 35 (29.41%) Mentoring
8 34 (28.57%) Containerisation
8 34 (28.57%) Scrum
9 33 (27.73%) Full-Stack Development
9 33 (27.73%) User Experience
10 29 (24.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (22.69%) Front End Development
11 27 (22.69%) Performance Optimisation
12 24 (20.17%) TDD
13 23 (19.33%) Code Quality
13 23 (19.33%) PRINCE2
14 22 (18.49%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 54 (45.38%) Java
2 39 (32.77%) JavaScript
3 29 (24.37%) SQL
4 26 (21.85%) TypeScript
5 8 (6.72%) Python
6 2 (1.68%) Go
7 1 (0.84%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.84%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (22.69%) Degree
2 20 (16.81%) DBS Check
2 20 (16.81%) PMI Certification
2 20 (16.81%) PMP
3 5 (4.20%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (36.13%) QA
2 26 (21.85%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.36%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.84%) IEC 62304
4 1 (0.84%) ISO 13485
4 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.84%) NIST
4 1 (0.84%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 42 (35.29%) Docker
2 4 (3.36%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 43 (36.13%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.36%) Ansible
2 4 (3.36%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.84%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (22.69%) Solace
2 17 (14.29%) Google
3 13 (10.92%) ServiceNow
4 9 (7.56%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.20%) Bloomberg
6 4 (3.36%) Cisco
6 4 (3.36%) Okta
6 4 (3.36%) Oracle
6 4 (3.36%) Perforce
6 4 (3.36%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.36%) VMware
7 1 (0.84%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.84%) Intel
7 1 (0.84%) Planview
7 1 (0.84%) Revolut
7 1 (0.84%) Siebel