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

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	171	103	123
Rank change year-on-year	-68	+20	0
Permanent jobs citing JIRA	211	268	224
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England	0.88%	2.97%	1.76%
As % of the Development Applications category	25.89%	48.99%	24.97%
Number of salaries quoted	110	100	86
10^th Percentile	£30,000	£30,500	£36,250
25^th Percentile	£41,250	£40,000	£44,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£52,500	£50,000	£55,000
Median % change year-on-year	+5.00%	-9.09%	-1.79%
75^th Percentile	£62,500	£61,094	£68,750
90^th Percentile	£75,250	£86,375	£103,750
England median annual salary	£57,500	£57,500	£57,500
% change year-on-year	-	-	-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.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills	815	547	897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England	3.38%	6.05%	7.03%
Number of salaries quoted	502	312	485
10^th Percentile	£38,984	£28,250	£37,500
25^th Percentile	£47,000	£41,250	£43,750
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£60,000	£52,500	£52,500
Median % change year-on-year	+14.29%	-	-8.70%
75^th Percentile	£75,000	£67,500	£67,500
90^th Percentile	£92,500	£77,500	£77,500
England median annual salary	£62,500	£62,500	£60,000
% change year-on-year	-	+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 Salary Trend in the North of England

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 October 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 October 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	-73	111	£55,000	+10.00%	79
Yorkshire	-25	73	£42,500	-8.11%	79
North East	-54	27	£67,500	+31.07%	22
JIRA England

JIRA Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 19 October 2026, job vacancies citing JIRA also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region with a requirement for JIRA.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Agile	59.7%	126
2	DevOps	32.7%	69
2	Stakeholder Management	32.7%	69
4	Problem-Solving	29.9%	63
5	Azure	28.9%	61
6	Confluence	28.4%	60
7	Continuous Improvement	27.5%	58
8	Microsoft	23.2%	49
9	SQL	21.8%	46
10	Project Management	20.9%	44
10	Scrum	20.9%	44
12	CI/CD	20.4%	43
13	Decision-Making	19.4%	41
14	User Stories	18.5%	39
15	Azure DevOps	18.0%	38
16	AI	17.5%	37
16	Business Analysis	17.5%	37
18	Requirements Gathering	16.6%	35
18	Software Delivery	16.6%	35
20	Degree	16.1%	34
21	AWS	15.2%	32
21	ITIL	15.2%	32
21	SDLC	15.2%	32
24	ERP	14.7%	31
24	Service Management	14.7%	31
26	CRM	14.2%	30
27	Python	13.7%	29
28	ITSM	13.3%	28
28	Validation	13.3%	28
28	Waterfall	13.3%	28

JIRA Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Development Applications

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Jenkins	6.6%	14
2	GitLab	5.2%	11
3	Bitbucket	4.7%	10
4	Artifactory	3.3%	7
4	Git	3.3%	7
6	Cypress.io	2.8%	6
6	Postman	2.8%	6
8	Atlassian Bamboo	2.4%	5
8	JMeter	2.4%	5
10	Octopus Deploy	1.9%	4
10	SonarQube	1.9%	4
10	TeamCity	1.9%	4
13	Axure RP	0.9%	2
13	Balsamiq	0.9%	2
13	Zephyr	0.9%	2
16	Gemini Tracker	0.5%	1
16	Selenium	0.5%	1
16	Sonatype Nexus	0.5%	1
16	TestRail	0.5%	1
16	Visual Studio	0.5%	1