JIRA Job Trends in the North of England

Atlassian JIRA
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring JIRA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 88 104
Rank change year-on-year -58 +16 +7
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 148 221 321
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.14% 2.86% 2.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 23.91% 33.48% 27.07%
Number of salaries quoted 81 105 266
10th Percentile £37,500 £29,825 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £47,500 £65,175
Median % change year-on-year +0.39% -27.12% +18.50%
75th Percentile £60,750 £63,900 £75,772
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 619 660 1,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.77% 8.53% 9.41%
Number of salaries quoted 460 388 1,006
10th Percentile - £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £43,063 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,372 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.87% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £64,000 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £77,750 £83,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -7.69%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in the North of England

JIRA
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing JIRA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing JIRA

JIRA
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the North of England over the 6 months to 22 February 2026.

Salary histogram for JIRA in the North of England

JIRA
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the North of England region over the 6 months to 22 February 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
Yorkshire -34 66 £45,000 - 36
North West -45 63 £52,500 +4.89% 43
North East -32 19 £51,500 +14.44% 6
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 56 (37.84%) Confluence
2 9 (6.08%) CMS
3 5 (3.38%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.70%) WordPress
5 3 (2.03%) Umbraco
6 2 (1.35%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.68%) Apache
7 1 (0.68%) FileNet
7 1 (0.68%) JBoss
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.68%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.68%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.05%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.70%) Trello
4 3 (2.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.35%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.68%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.68%) SAP MII
3 1 (0.68%) Shopify
3 1 (0.68%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 32 (21.62%) Azure
2 11 (7.43%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (6.76%) AWS
4 9 (6.08%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (4.73%) Google Workspace
5 7 (4.73%) Power Platform
6 6 (4.05%) Google Docs
6 6 (4.05%) Google Sheets
6 6 (4.05%) SaaS
7 5 (3.38%) Figma
7 5 (3.38%) GitHub
8 4 (2.70%) Adobe Analytics
9 3 (2.03%) Contentful
9 3 (2.03%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.03%) Slack
10 2 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.35%) GCP
11 1 (0.68%) Apigee
11 1 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.68%) Boomi
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.38%) HTTP
2 2 (1.35%) SAN
3 1 (0.68%) DNS
3 1 (0.68%) SSH
3 1 (0.68%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.78%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.05%) NoSQL
3 5 (3.38%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.38%) Power BI
3 5 (3.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.03%) OLAP
5 3 (2.03%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.68%) Big Data
7 1 (0.68%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.68%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (12.16%) Git
2 9 (6.08%) Bitbucket
3 6 (4.05%) JUnit
4 5 (3.38%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (2.03%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.03%) GitLab
5 3 (2.03%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.03%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.35%) Appium
6 2 (1.35%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.35%) JIRA Agile
6 2 (1.35%) JMeter
6 2 (1.35%) Maven
6 2 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.35%) Selenium
6 2 (1.35%) SpecFlow
6 2 (1.35%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.68%) Ant
7 1 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.68%) TestRail
General
1 71 (47.97%) Social Skills
2 36 (24.32%) Finance
3 22 (14.86%) Manufacturing
4 11 (7.43%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (4.73%) Advertising
6 5 (3.38%) Banking
6 5 (3.38%) Marketing
6 5 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.70%) Automotive
7 4 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.70%) Law
8 3 (2.03%) Retail
9 2 (1.35%) Avionics
9 2 (1.35%) Games
9 2 (1.35%) Legal
9 2 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.35%) Publishing
10 1 (0.68%) Billing
10 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.68%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 36 (24.32%) Developer
2 23 (15.54%) JIRA Developer
3 22 (14.86%) Lead
4 20 (13.51%) Analyst
5 17 (11.49%) Senior
6 13 (8.78%) Architect
6 13 (8.78%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (8.11%) Lead Architect
7 12 (8.11%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 11 (7.43%) Applications Support
9 10 (6.76%) Applications Support Analyst
9 10 (6.76%) Support Analyst
10 8 (5.41%) Systems Engineer
11 7 (4.73%) Business Analyst
11 7 (4.73%) Operations Manager
12 6 (4.05%) Senior Manager
12 6 (4.05%) Senior Strategy Manager
12 6 (4.05%) Strategy Manager
13 5 (3.38%) Service Manager
14 4 (2.70%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.76%) CSS
2 9 (6.08%) HTML
3 6 (4.05%) React
3 6 (4.05%) RESTful
4 5 (3.38%) AngularJS
4 5 (3.38%) Kafka
4 5 (3.38%) REST
4 5 (3.38%) Spring
4 5 (3.38%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (2.70%) gRPC
5 4 (2.70%) Spring Batch
6 3 (2.03%) Middleware
6 3 (2.03%) Next.js
6 3 (2.03%) Playwright
7 2 (1.35%) PySpark
8 1 (0.68%) Laravel
8 1 (0.68%) OSGi
8 1 (0.68%) Swagger
8 1 (0.68%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.76%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (2.03%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.35%) Life Science
4 2 (1.35%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.35%) PMI
4 2 (1.35%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.68%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.68%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.68%) NHS
5 1 (0.68%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.68%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.68%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.16%) Windows
2 13 (8.78%) Linux
3 6 (4.05%) Windows 10
3 6 (4.05%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.68%) Fedora
4 1 (0.68%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (39.19%) Continuous Improvement
2 55 (37.16%) Agile
3 49 (33.11%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (31.76%) ITIL
5 40 (27.03%) Service Management
6 37 (25.00%) Change Management
7 36 (24.32%) Computer Science
8 32 (21.62%) ITSM
9 26 (17.57%) DevOps
9 26 (17.57%) Stakeholder Management
10 25 (16.89%) Incident Management
11 24 (16.22%) CI/CD
12 23 (15.54%) Asset Management
13 19 (12.84%) ERP
14 18 (12.16%) Business Strategy
14 18 (12.16%) Scrum
15 17 (11.49%) Containerisation
16 16 (10.81%) Service Delivery
16 16 (10.81%) User Experience
17 13 (8.78%) PLM
Programming Languages
1 38 (25.68%) JavaScript
2 26 (17.57%) PowerShell
3 18 (12.16%) SQL
4 10 (6.76%) Java
5 9 (6.08%) TypeScript
6 8 (5.41%) Python
7 4 (2.70%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.03%) C#
9 1 (0.68%) Bash
9 1 (0.68%) Groovy
9 1 (0.68%) PHP
9 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (37.16%) Degree
2 25 (16.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 21 (14.19%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.05%) A+ Certification
5 6 (4.05%) HNC
5 6 (4.05%) HND
5 6 (4.05%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (4.05%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 6 (4.05%) Security Cleared
6 4 (2.70%) ISTQB
7 3 (2.03%) PMI Certification
7 3 (2.03%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.35%) PMP
8 2 (1.35%) SAFe Agilist
8 2 (1.35%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.68%) CISSP
9 1 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.68%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.73%) QA
2 4 (2.70%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.70%) GDPR
3 3 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.35%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.68%) GxP
5 1 (0.68%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.68%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.68%) PMO
5 1 (0.68%) SLA
5 1 (0.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (6.76%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.70%) Docker
3 2 (1.35%) vSphere
4 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (6.76%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.08%) Control-M
2 9 (6.08%) Grafana
3 7 (4.73%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.70%) Ansible
4 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.03%) Terraform
6 2 (1.35%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.68%) Podman
7 1 (0.68%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (20.27%) Atlassian
2 24 (16.22%) Microsoft
3 16 (10.81%) SAP
4 12 (8.11%) Siemens
5 10 (6.76%) Google
6 8 (5.41%) Freshdesk
6 8 (5.41%) ServiceNow
7 6 (4.05%) Citrix
7 6 (4.05%) IBM
8 4 (2.70%) Adobe
9 3 (2.03%) Forcepoint
9 3 (2.03%) Oracle
9 3 (2.03%) Proofpoint
9 3 (2.03%) Qualtrics
9 3 (2.03%) Salesforce
9 3 (2.03%) Zscaler
10 2 (1.35%) Databricks
10 2 (1.35%) HubSpot
10 2 (1.35%) Splunk
10 2 (1.35%) VMware