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

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 90 121
Rank change year-on-year -54 +31 -3
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 244 335 286
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.11% 3.50% 1.90%
As % of the Development Applications category 29.79% 51.07% 25.15%
Number of salaries quoted 179 159 172
10th Percentile £33,650 £21,250 £37,575
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -3.24%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,840 £74,063
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £110,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%

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 819 656 1,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.74% 6.86% 7.54%
Number of salaries quoted 581 390 811
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £44,000 £45,875 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £74,987 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -43 132 £60,000 +9.09% 44
Yorkshire -26 82 £44,000 -16.19% 41
North East -37 30 £60,000 +85.69% 21
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 76 (31.15%) Confluence
2 21 (8.61%) SharePoint
3 13 (5.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.64%) CMS
5 2 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.82%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.82%) WordPress
6 1 (0.41%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 27 (11.07%) Microsoft Project
2 21 (8.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (7.38%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (7.38%) MS Visio
4 12 (4.92%) Trello
5 2 (0.82%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.82%) InVision
5 2 (0.82%) Sketch
6 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (5.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.05%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.64%) Sage 200
3 4 (1.64%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.41%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 86 (35.25%) Azure
2 54 (22.13%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (13.11%) AWS
4 29 (11.89%) Power Platform
5 26 (10.66%) GitHub
6 17 (6.97%) Dynamics 365
7 15 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (5.33%) Boomi
9 11 (4.51%) SaaS
10 10 (4.10%) Serverless
11 9 (3.69%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (3.69%) GCP
12 8 (3.28%) Amazon S3
12 8 (3.28%) Smartsheet
13 6 (2.46%) Figma
13 6 (2.46%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (2.05%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (2.05%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (2.05%) AWS Fargate
15 4 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.64%) HTTP
2 2 (0.82%) BGP
2 2 (0.82%) DMZ
2 2 (0.82%) IPsec
2 2 (0.82%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.82%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.82%) WAN
3 1 (0.41%) DHCP
3 1 (0.41%) DNS
3 1 (0.41%) Network Security
3 1 (0.41%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.84%) Power BI
2 13 (5.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 12 (4.92%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.69%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.87%) Tableau
7 6 (2.46%) MySQL
8 5 (2.05%) DynamoDB
8 5 (2.05%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.64%) Big Data
10 3 (1.23%) Power Query
10 3 (1.23%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.82%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.82%) Mixpanel
11 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.41%) Looker
12 1 (0.41%) Star Schema
12 1 (0.41%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 18 (7.38%) Git
2 8 (3.28%) Bitbucket
2 8 (3.28%) GitLab
2 8 (3.28%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.87%) Postman
4 6 (2.46%) Artifactory
4 6 (2.46%) SonarQube
5 5 (2.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (2.05%) REST Assured
6 4 (1.64%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.23%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.23%) Selenium
7 3 (1.23%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.23%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.82%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.82%) Balsamiq
8 2 (0.82%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.82%) JUnit
8 2 (0.82%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.41%) TestComplete
General
1 76 (31.15%) Finance
1 76 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 47 (19.26%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (9.43%) Retail
4 18 (7.38%) Marketing
5 16 (6.56%) Public Sector
6 15 (6.15%) Law
7 12 (4.92%) Games
8 11 (4.51%) Banking
9 9 (3.69%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.05%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.05%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.64%) Advertising
12 4 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.23%) Legal
13 3 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.82%) Automotive
14 2 (0.82%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 49 (20.08%) Analyst
2 35 (14.34%) Senior
3 28 (11.48%) Business Analyst
3 28 (11.48%) Developer
4 25 (10.25%) Project Manager
5 18 (7.38%) IT Manager
6 15 (6.15%) Delivery Manager
6 15 (6.15%) Senior Developer
7 11 (4.51%) Scrum Master
8 10 (4.10%) IT Analyst
8 10 (4.10%) IT Project Manager
8 10 (4.10%) Lead
9 8 (3.28%) Coordinator
9 8 (3.28%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (3.28%) Project Coordinator
10 7 (2.87%) IT Support
10 7 (2.87%) Service Analyst
10 7 (2.87%) Service Manager
10 7 (2.87%) Test Engineer
11 6 (2.46%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.79%) REST
2 18 (7.38%) JSON
3 15 (6.15%) Middleware
4 13 (5.33%) CSS
4 13 (5.33%) HTML
4 13 (5.33%) SOAP
4 13 (5.33%) XML
5 12 (4.92%) EDI
6 9 (3.69%) AngularJS
6 9 (3.69%) Spring
6 9 (3.69%) Spring Boot
7 7 (2.87%) .NET
7 7 (2.87%) Node.js
7 7 (2.87%) Playwright
7 7 (2.87%) React
8 6 (2.46%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (2.05%) RESTful
9 5 (2.05%) Vue
10 3 (1.23%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (1.23%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.79%) Product Ownership
2 16 (6.56%) Driving Licence
2 16 (6.56%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (4.51%) PMI
4 9 (3.69%) Enterprise Cloud
5 8 (3.28%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.46%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.46%) Life Science
6 6 (2.46%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.23%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.23%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.23%) SystemC
8 2 (0.82%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.82%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (0.82%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.82%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.82%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.82%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.92%) Linux
2 8 (3.28%) Windows
3 2 (0.82%) Unix
4 1 (0.41%) VMS
4 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (59.43%) Agile
2 95 (38.93%) DevOps
3 75 (30.74%) Stakeholder Management
4 67 (27.46%) Scrum
5 61 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 56 (22.95%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (22.54%) Project Management
8 51 (20.90%) CI/CD
9 45 (18.44%) ERP
10 43 (17.62%) CRM
11 42 (17.21%) Decision-Making
12 40 (16.39%) Kanban
13 37 (15.16%) Software Delivery
14 36 (14.75%) Service Management
15 35 (14.34%) Roadmaps
16 31 (12.70%) Waterfall
17 30 (12.30%) Requirements Gathering
18 29 (11.89%) Business Analysis
18 29 (11.89%) SDLC
19 28 (11.48%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (21.72%) SQL
2 30 (12.30%) Python
3 21 (8.61%) Java
4 19 (7.79%) JavaScript
5 14 (5.74%) PowerShell
6 9 (3.69%) C#
7 5 (2.05%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.64%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.23%) C
9 3 (1.23%) C++
9 3 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.23%) Groovy
10 2 (0.82%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.82%) PHP
10 2 (0.82%) R
10 2 (0.82%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.82%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.41%) Bicep
11 1 (0.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 41 (16.80%) Degree
2 22 (9.02%) PMI Certification
3 19 (7.79%) Security Cleared
4 15 (6.15%) PMP
5 13 (5.33%) ITIL Certification
6 12 (4.92%) SC Cleared
7 8 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.46%) ISTQB
9 5 (2.05%) AWS Certification
9 5 (2.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (2.05%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.23%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.82%) CBAP
11 2 (0.82%) CCIE
11 2 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.41%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.84%) QA
2 13 (5.33%) PMO
3 12 (4.92%) TickIT
4 10 (4.10%) Data Quality
4 10 (4.10%) GDPR
5 7 (2.87%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (2.46%) GRC
6 6 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 4 (1.64%) WCAG
8 2 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.82%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.82%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.41%) AQAP
9 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 13 (5.33%) Docker
2 3 (1.23%) vSphere
3 2 (0.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (4.51%) Terraform
2 10 (4.10%) Ansible
3 8 (3.28%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.05%) Grafana
5 3 (1.23%) Control-M
5 3 (1.23%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (1.23%) Packer
6 2 (0.82%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.41%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 54 (22.13%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.20%) SAP
3 16 (6.56%) ServiceNow
4 11 (4.51%) Oracle
4 11 (4.51%) Salesforce
5 10 (4.10%) Cisco
6 8 (3.28%) Splunk
7 7 (2.87%) Meraki
7 7 (2.87%) Sage
8 6 (2.46%) Databricks
9 5 (2.05%) Freshdesk
10 4 (1.64%) Google
11 3 (1.23%) AppDynamics
11 3 (1.23%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.23%) IBM
11 3 (1.23%) VMware
12 2 (0.82%) Adobe
12 2 (0.82%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.82%) Pega
12 2 (0.82%) Zscaler