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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 71 91
Rank change year-on-year -75 +20 +30
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 169 251 406
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.17% 3.76% 2.73%
As % of the Development Applications category 25.49% 38.62% 30.10%
Number of salaries quoted 103 152 303
10th Percentile £32,250 £21,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,125 £40,561 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,027 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -20.32% +9.19%
75th Percentile £64,375 £76,250 £77,261
90th Percentile £83,500 £91,934 £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 663 650 1,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.58% 9.73% 9.08%
Number of salaries quoted 493 454 1,102
10th Percentile - £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £76,250 £73,250
90th Percentile £82,250 £87,500 £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 19 March 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 19 March 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
North West -40 76 £57,500 +2.68% 48
Yorkshire -48 75 £46,000 -5.17% 38
North East -45 18 £51,500 +128.89% 16
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 64 (37.87%) Confluence
2 11 (6.51%) SharePoint
3 9 (5.33%) CMS
4 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.37%) WordPress
5 3 (1.78%) Umbraco
6 2 (1.18%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.59%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 9 (5.33%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (4.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.78%) Trello
5 2 (1.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.59%) Shopify
2 1 (0.59%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 41 (24.26%) Azure
2 17 (10.06%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (5.33%) Power Platform
4 9 (5.33%) SaaS
5 8 (4.73%) AWS
6 7 (4.14%) GitHub
6 7 (4.14%) Google Workspace
7 6 (3.55%) Google Docs
7 6 (3.55%) Google Sheets
8 5 (2.96%) Figma
8 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Copilot
9 4 (2.37%) Dropbox
9 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.78%) Adobe Analytics
10 3 (1.78%) Contentful
10 3 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.78%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.78%) Slack
11 2 (1.18%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.96%) HTTP
2 1 (0.59%) DNS
2 1 (0.59%) SAN
2 1 (0.59%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.10%) SQL Server
2 8 (4.73%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.55%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.37%) Power BI
5 4 (2.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.78%) Big Data
6 3 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.78%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.18%) MySQL
7 2 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.59%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.59%) OLAP
8 1 (0.59%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 18 (10.65%) Git
2 8 (4.73%) Bitbucket
3 5 (2.96%) JUnit
3 5 (2.96%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (2.37%) GitLab
4 4 (2.37%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.37%) Postman
5 3 (1.78%) Selenium
6 2 (1.18%) Appium
6 2 (1.18%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.18%) JIRA Agile
6 2 (1.18%) JMeter
6 2 (1.18%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.18%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.18%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.59%) Artifactory
7 1 (0.59%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.59%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.59%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.59%) TestRail
General
1 74 (43.79%) Social Skills
2 45 (26.63%) Finance
3 21 (12.43%) Manufacturing
4 15 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (5.33%) Banking
6 8 (4.73%) Advertising
6 8 (4.73%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (4.14%) Law
8 5 (2.96%) Marketing
8 5 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.78%) Automotive
9 3 (1.78%) Retail
10 2 (1.18%) Avionics
10 2 (1.18%) Games
10 2 (1.18%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.59%) Billing
11 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.59%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (20.12%) Developer
2 23 (13.61%) JIRA Developer
3 22 (13.02%) Lead
4 21 (12.43%) Analyst
5 18 (10.65%) Senior
6 14 (8.28%) Architect
7 13 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (7.10%) Lead Architect
8 12 (7.10%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 11 (6.51%) Applications Support
10 10 (5.92%) Applications Support Analyst
10 10 (5.92%) Support Analyst
10 10 (5.92%) Systems Engineer
11 7 (4.14%) Operations Manager
12 6 (3.55%) Senior Manager
12 6 (3.55%) Senior Strategy Manager
12 6 (3.55%) Service Manager
12 6 (3.55%) Strategy Manager
13 5 (2.96%) QA Engineer
13 5 (2.96%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.92%) CSS
2 9 (5.33%) HTML
3 7 (4.14%) React
4 6 (3.55%) RESTful
5 5 (2.96%) AngularJS
5 5 (2.96%) Playwright
5 5 (2.96%) Spring
5 5 (2.96%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.37%) REST
7 3 (1.78%) Flask
7 3 (1.78%) gRPC
7 3 (1.78%) Kafka
7 3 (1.78%) Next.js
7 3 (1.78%) Spring Batch
8 2 (1.18%) .NET
8 2 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.18%) Middleware
8 2 (1.18%) PySpark
8 2 (1.18%) Vue
9 1 (0.59%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.88%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (2.37%) Management Information System
2 4 (2.37%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.78%) Driving Licence
3 3 (1.78%) Life Science
3 3 (1.78%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.18%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.18%) PMI
4 2 (1.18%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.59%) CMDB
5 1 (0.59%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.59%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.59%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (0.59%) NHS
5 1 (0.59%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.06%) Windows
2 11 (6.51%) Linux
3 6 (3.55%) Windows 10
3 6 (3.55%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.59%) Fedora
4 1 (0.59%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (42.60%) Agile
2 63 (37.28%) Continuous Improvement
3 55 (32.54%) Problem-Solving
4 48 (28.40%) ITIL
4 48 (28.40%) Service Management
5 39 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 38 (22.49%) Change Management
7 34 (20.12%) Computer Science
7 34 (20.12%) ITSM
8 32 (18.93%) CI/CD
9 30 (17.75%) DevOps
10 27 (15.98%) Incident Management
10 27 (15.98%) Scrum
11 24 (14.20%) Asset Management
12 21 (12.43%) ERP
13 19 (11.24%) Business Strategy
13 19 (11.24%) User Experience
14 16 (9.47%) Containerisation
14 16 (9.47%) Project Management
14 16 (9.47%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 41 (24.26%) JavaScript
2 29 (17.16%) PowerShell
3 18 (10.65%) SQL
4 11 (6.51%) Java
5 9 (5.33%) Python
6 8 (4.73%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.78%) C#
8 2 (1.18%) MATLAB
8 2 (1.18%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.59%) PHP
9 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (34.32%) Degree
2 25 (14.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 23 (13.61%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (4.73%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (4.73%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (4.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (3.55%) A+ Certification
6 6 (3.55%) HNC
6 6 (3.55%) HND
6 6 (3.55%) ISTQB
6 6 (3.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 6 (3.55%) Security Cleared
7 5 (2.96%) PMI Certification
8 4 (2.37%) PMP
9 3 (1.78%) SC Cleared
10 2 (1.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (1.18%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.59%) CISM
11 1 (0.59%) CISSP
11 1 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.33%) QA
2 5 (2.96%) GDPR
3 4 (2.37%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.78%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.18%) GRC
5 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 2 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 2 (1.18%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.18%) PMO
6 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.59%) GxP
6 1 (0.59%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.59%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (5.92%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.96%) Docker
3 1 (0.59%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (4.73%) Control-M
1 8 (4.73%) Grafana
1 8 (4.73%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.14%) Prometheus
3 4 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.18%) Ansible
4 2 (1.18%) Terraform
5 1 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 29 (17.16%) Atlassian
2 28 (16.57%) Microsoft
3 14 (8.28%) SAP
4 12 (7.10%) Siemens
5 9 (5.33%) Google
6 8 (4.73%) Freshdesk
6 8 (4.73%) ServiceNow
7 6 (3.55%) Citrix
8 5 (2.96%) IBM
9 4 (2.37%) Cisco
9 4 (2.37%) Meraki
9 4 (2.37%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.78%) Adobe
10 3 (1.78%) Forcepoint
10 3 (1.78%) Oracle
10 3 (1.78%) Proofpoint
10 3 (1.78%) Qualtrics
10 3 (1.78%) Zscaler
11 2 (1.18%) Databricks
11 2 (1.18%) Splunk