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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 95 107
Rank change year-on-year -44 +12 -5
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 135 225 215
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.24% 2.47% 2.54%
As % of the Development Applications category 24.19% 31.42% 22.73%
Number of salaries quoted 70 90 172
10th Percentile £30,350 £31,925 £36,252
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £49,254 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.56% -24.23% +18.18%
75th Percentile £60,750 £63,750 £82,548
90th Percentile £86,250 £78,875 £91,934
England median annual salary £57,500 £58,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.71% -6.40% +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 558 716 946
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.14% 7.85% 11.16%
Number of salaries quoted 405 390 790
10th Percentile - £37,500 £36,270
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £45,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% +1.32%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,313 £73,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 -3 68 £41,038 -3.44% 71
North West -40 50 £47,683 -4.74% 67
North East -20 17 £51,500 - 20
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 48 (35.56%) Confluence
2 9 (6.67%) CMS
3 4 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.96%) WordPress
4 3 (2.22%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.48%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.74%) Apache
6 1 (0.74%) FileNet
6 1 (0.74%) JBoss
6 1 (0.74%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.74%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (8.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (3.70%) Trello
3 4 (2.96%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.48%) Chatbot
4 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Markit EDM
1 2 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.74%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.74%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 36 (26.67%) Azure
2 11 (8.15%) AWS
3 10 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (5.93%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (5.19%) Entra ID
5 7 (5.19%) SaaS
6 5 (3.70%) Figma
6 5 (3.70%) Google Workspace
7 4 (2.96%) Adobe Analytics
7 4 (2.96%) GitHub
7 4 (2.96%) Google Docs
7 4 (2.96%) Google Sheets
7 4 (2.96%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.22%) Contentful
8 3 (2.22%) Slack
9 2 (1.48%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.48%) GCP
10 1 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.74%) Google Tag Manager
10 1 (0.74%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.96%) HTTP
2 2 (1.48%) SAN
3 1 (0.74%) DNS
3 1 (0.74%) RFID
3 1 (0.74%) SSH
3 1 (0.74%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.63%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 5 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.70%) OLAP
4 4 (2.96%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.96%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.22%) Power BI
5 3 (2.22%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (11.11%) Git
2 9 (6.67%) Bitbucket
3 5 (3.70%) JUnit
4 4 (2.96%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (2.22%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.22%) JIRA Agile
6 2 (1.48%) Appium
6 2 (1.48%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.48%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.48%) JMeter
6 2 (1.48%) Maven
6 2 (1.48%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (1.48%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.48%) SpecFlow
6 2 (1.48%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.74%) Ant
7 1 (0.74%) GitLab
7 1 (0.74%) Selenium
7 1 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.74%) TestRail
General
1 64 (47.41%) Social Skills
2 34 (25.19%) Finance
3 16 (11.85%) Manufacturing
4 13 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.93%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (5.19%) Law
7 6 (4.44%) Advertising
7 6 (4.44%) Marketing
8 4 (2.96%) Automotive
8 4 (2.96%) Banking
8 4 (2.96%) Retail
9 3 (2.22%) Avionics
9 3 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.48%) Legal
10 2 (1.48%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.48%) Publishing
11 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Games
11 1 (0.74%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 34 (25.19%) Developer
2 23 (17.04%) JIRA Developer
3 22 (16.30%) Analyst
4 17 (12.59%) Lead
5 10 (7.41%) Architect
5 10 (7.41%) Senior
5 10 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (6.67%) Applications Support
6 9 (6.67%) Business Analyst
6 9 (6.67%) Lead Architect
6 9 (6.67%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 8 (5.93%) Applications Support Analyst
7 8 (5.93%) Support Analyst
8 7 (5.19%) Systems Engineer
9 5 (3.70%) Consultant
9 5 (3.70%) SQL Developer
9 5 (3.70%) Systems Manager
10 4 (2.96%) Software Consultant
10 4 (2.96%) Technical Analyst
10 4 (2.96%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.19%) CSS
1 7 (5.19%) HTML
2 5 (3.70%) Kafka
2 5 (3.70%) React
3 4 (2.96%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.96%) gRPC
3 4 (2.96%) REST
3 4 (2.96%) RESTful
3 4 (2.96%) Spring
3 4 (2.96%) Spring Batch
3 4 (2.96%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.22%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.22%) Playwright
5 2 (1.48%) Bootstrap
5 2 (1.48%) Next.js
5 2 (1.48%) Node.js
5 2 (1.48%) PySpark
5 2 (1.48%) Redux
6 1 (0.74%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.74%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.19%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.44%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.48%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.48%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.74%) Cybercrime
5 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.74%) Life Science
5 1 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.74%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.74%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.74%) PMI
5 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.59%) Windows
2 13 (9.63%) Linux
3 4 (2.96%) Windows 10
3 4 (2.96%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.74%) Fedora
4 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (35.56%) Agile
2 46 (34.07%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (32.59%) ITIL
4 42 (31.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 37 (27.41%) Change Management
6 36 (26.67%) Computer Science
7 33 (24.44%) ITSM
8 29 (21.48%) Service Management
9 25 (18.52%) DevOps
9 25 (18.52%) Incident Management
10 23 (17.04%) Asset Management
11 17 (12.59%) CI/CD
12 16 (11.85%) Containerisation
12 16 (11.85%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (11.11%) Business Strategy
14 14 (10.37%) User Experience
15 13 (9.63%) Project Management
15 13 (9.63%) Scrum
16 12 (8.89%) ERP
17 11 (8.15%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 36 (26.67%) JavaScript
2 26 (19.26%) PowerShell
3 19 (14.07%) SQL
4 10 (7.41%) TypeScript
5 7 (5.19%) Java
5 7 (5.19%) Python
6 5 (3.70%) T-SQL
7 3 (2.22%) C#
8 1 (0.74%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.74%) Bash
8 1 (0.74%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 52 (38.52%) Degree
2 25 (18.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 18 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.44%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (3.70%) Security Cleared
7 4 (2.96%) A+ Certification
7 4 (2.96%) HNC
7 4 (2.96%) HND
7 4 (2.96%) MCP
7 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.22%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.48%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.48%) SAFe Agilist
9 2 (1.48%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.74%) CISM
10 1 (0.74%) CISSP
10 1 (0.74%) PhD
10 1 (0.74%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.74%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.41%) QA
2 4 (2.96%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.96%) GDPR
3 3 (2.22%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 3 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 3 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.48%) PMO
5 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.74%) GxP
5 1 (0.74%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.74%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.74%) SLA
5 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (8.89%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.22%) Docker
3 2 (1.48%) vSphere
4 1 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.67%) Control-M
2 9 (6.67%) Grafana
3 7 (5.19%) Prometheus
4 4 (2.96%) Ansible
4 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.22%) Terraform
6 2 (1.48%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.74%) Podman
7 1 (0.74%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (21.48%) Atlassian
2 25 (18.52%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.63%) SAP
4 9 (6.67%) Siemens
5 8 (5.93%) Google
6 6 (4.44%) Adobe
6 6 (4.44%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.70%) IBM
8 4 (2.96%) Citrix
9 3 (2.22%) Forcepoint
9 3 (2.22%) Oracle
9 3 (2.22%) Proofpoint
9 3 (2.22%) Qualtrics
9 3 (2.22%) Zscaler
10 2 (1.48%) Databricks
10 2 (1.48%) HubSpot
10 2 (1.48%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.48%) VMware
11 1 (0.74%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.74%) Sitecore