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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 106 134
Rank change year-on-year -59 +28 -12
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 228 274 219
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.94% 2.85% 1.62%
As % of the Development Applications category 28.08% 49.02% 22.81%
Number of salaries quoted 129 103 101
10th Percentile £33,650 £35,000 £38,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,163 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,250 £86,250 £97,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% -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 812 559 960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.36% 5.81% 7.10%
Number of salaries quoted 508 316 556
10th Percentile £38,765 £28,750 £37,574
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.63% +2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,269 £79,375 £75,625
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 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 4 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 4 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 -41 128 £55,000 +10.00% 150
Yorkshire -41 72 £42,500 -10.53% 105
North East -44 28 £60,000 +16.50% 46
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 68 (29.82%) Confluence
2 18 (7.89%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.75%) CMS
5 2 (0.88%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.88%) WordPress
6 1 (0.44%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.44%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (10.53%) Microsoft Project
2 23 (10.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (10.09%) MS Visio
3 20 (8.77%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (4.82%) Trello
5 3 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.88%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.88%) InVision
6 2 (0.88%) Sketch
7 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (5.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.75%) Sage 200
3 4 (1.75%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.44%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 72 (31.58%) Azure
2 48 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
3 32 (14.04%) AWS
4 30 (13.16%) GitHub
5 22 (9.65%) Power Platform
6 16 (7.02%) Dynamics 365
7 14 (6.14%) SaaS
8 13 (5.70%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (5.26%) Serverless
10 11 (4.82%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (4.39%) Amazon S3
11 10 (4.39%) Boomi
12 8 (3.51%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (3.51%) IaaS
13 7 (3.07%) GCP
14 6 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 6 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
14 6 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (2.63%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.82%) DNS
2 9 (3.95%) Firewall
3 8 (3.51%) Network Security
4 7 (3.07%) BIG-IP
4 7 (3.07%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 7 (3.07%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (1.32%) DHCP
5 3 (1.32%) HTTP
6 2 (0.88%) BGP
6 2 (0.88%) CTI
6 2 (0.88%) DMZ
6 2 (0.88%) IPsec
6 2 (0.88%) NX-OS
6 2 (0.88%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.88%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.88%) WAN
7 1 (0.44%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.21%) Power BI
2 12 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 10 (4.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (2.19%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.32%) MySQL
6 3 (1.32%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.88%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (0.88%) Mixpanel
7 2 (0.88%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.88%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.88%) Power Query
7 2 (0.88%) Tableau
8 1 (0.44%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.44%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.44%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 14 (6.14%) Jenkins
2 11 (4.82%) GitLab
3 9 (3.95%) Bitbucket
4 8 (3.51%) Git
5 6 (2.63%) Artifactory
5 6 (2.63%) Cypress.io
5 6 (2.63%) Postman
6 5 (2.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (2.19%) JMeter
7 3 (1.32%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.32%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.32%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.32%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.88%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.88%) Balsamiq
8 2 (0.88%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.44%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.44%) Selenium
9 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.44%) TestComplete
General
1 74 (32.46%) Social Skills
2 62 (27.19%) Finance
3 52 (22.81%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.65%) Retail
5 16 (7.02%) Public Sector
6 14 (6.14%) Marketing
7 13 (5.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (4.82%) Games
8 11 (4.82%) Law
8 11 (4.82%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (4.39%) Banking
10 6 (2.63%) Legal
11 5 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (2.19%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.32%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.88%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.88%) Automotive
14 2 (0.88%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 69 (30.26%) Analyst
2 38 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 28 (12.28%) Senior
4 23 (10.09%) Project Manager
5 20 (8.77%) Developer
6 16 (7.02%) Delivery Manager
6 16 (7.02%) IT Manager
7 13 (5.70%) IT Analyst
8 11 (4.82%) Senior Developer
9 10 (4.39%) Coordinator
9 10 (4.39%) Project Coordinator
10 9 (3.95%) IT Project Manager
10 9 (3.95%) Service Analyst
11 8 (3.51%) Change Analyst
11 8 (3.51%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.51%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (3.51%) Senior Business Analyst
12 7 (3.07%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 7 (3.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.07%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.70%) REST
1 13 (5.70%) Terraform
2 12 (5.26%) JSON
2 12 (5.26%) Middleware
3 10 (4.39%) SOAP
3 10 (4.39%) XML
4 9 (3.95%) EDI
5 8 (3.51%) Gherkin
5 8 (3.51%) Playwright
6 7 (3.07%) CSS
6 7 (3.07%) HTML
6 7 (3.07%) Node.js
7 6 (2.63%) .NET
7 6 (2.63%) RESTful
8 5 (2.19%) AngularJS
8 5 (2.19%) Spring
8 5 (2.19%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.75%) React
10 2 (0.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.89%) Enterprise Software
1 18 (7.89%) Product Ownership
2 14 (6.14%) Driving Licence
3 12 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.51%) PMI
5 7 (3.07%) Enterprise Cloud
5 7 (3.07%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.07%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.19%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.32%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.32%) Life Science
7 3 (1.32%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.32%) SystemC
8 2 (0.88%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.88%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (0.88%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.88%) Online Gambling
8 2 (0.88%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.26%) Linux
2 10 (4.39%) Windows
3 3 (1.32%) Unix
4 1 (0.44%) VMS
4 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (58.33%) Agile
2 79 (34.65%) DevOps
3 69 (30.26%) Problem-Solving
4 66 (28.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 62 (27.19%) Continuous Improvement
6 55 (24.12%) Scrum
7 52 (22.81%) Project Management
8 43 (18.86%) CI/CD
8 43 (18.86%) Decision-Making
9 38 (16.67%) ERP
10 37 (16.23%) Requirements Gathering
10 37 (16.23%) User Stories
11 36 (15.79%) Business Analysis
11 36 (15.79%) CRM
12 35 (15.35%) AI
12 35 (15.35%) Kanban
12 35 (15.35%) Software Delivery
13 33 (14.47%) Coaching
13 33 (14.47%) SDLC
14 32 (14.04%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 52 (22.81%) SQL
2 28 (12.28%) Python
3 13 (5.70%) JavaScript
4 11 (4.82%) PowerShell
4 11 (4.82%) TypeScript
5 9 (3.95%) C#
5 9 (3.95%) Java
6 7 (3.07%) ActionScript
7 4 (1.75%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.32%) C++
9 2 (0.88%) Bash
9 2 (0.88%) C
9 2 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.88%) R
9 2 (0.88%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.88%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.44%) Bicep
10 1 (0.44%) Go
10 1 (0.44%) PHP
Qualifications
1 35 (15.35%) Degree
2 21 (9.21%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.58%) PMI Certification
4 14 (6.14%) ITIL Certification
4 14 (6.14%) SC Cleared
5 11 (4.82%) PMP
6 7 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.19%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.19%) DBS Check
7 5 (2.19%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.75%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.32%) IIBA
9 3 (1.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.88%) CCIE
10 2 (0.88%) CSPO
10 2 (0.88%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.09%) QA
2 14 (6.14%) PMO
3 9 (3.95%) TickIT
4 8 (3.51%) Data Quality
5 7 (3.07%) GDPR
5 7 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (3.07%) SLA
6 6 (2.63%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 3 (1.32%) WCAG
8 2 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.88%) GRC
8 2 (0.88%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.44%) AQAP
9 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 10 (4.39%) Docker
2 5 (2.19%) vSphere
3 2 (0.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (4.39%) Ansible
2 9 (3.95%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.19%) Grafana
4 3 (1.32%) Control-M
4 3 (1.32%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (0.88%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.88%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (0.44%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.44%) Opsview
6 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 57 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.89%) SAP
3 16 (7.02%) ServiceNow
4 10 (4.39%) Oracle
5 9 (3.95%) F5
5 9 (3.95%) YouTube
6 8 (3.51%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.51%) Splunk
7 7 (3.07%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.07%) Sage
8 6 (2.63%) Cisco
9 5 (2.19%) Google
9 5 (2.19%) VMware
10 4 (1.75%) UiPath
11 2 (0.88%) Amplitude
11 2 (0.88%) Databricks
11 2 (0.88%) FIS
11 2 (0.88%) Liquidlogic
11 2 (0.88%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.88%) Pega