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 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 117 116
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 -11
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 147 234 193
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.56% 1.95% 2.63%
As % of the Development Applications category 29.11% 27.02% 20.55%
Number of salaries quoted 90 94 157
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,773 £36,262
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,541 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £54,897 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.14% -15.54% +23.81%
75th Percentile £60,750 £65,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £86,375 £86,625 £91,934
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -8.00% +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 505 866 939
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.36% 7.21% 12.81%
Number of salaries quoted 370 468 785
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,100 £42,500
25th Percentile £29,938 £43,710 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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 +21 68 £44,500 +4.71% 18
North West -13 61 £47,500 -13.64% 34
North East -16 18 £51,500 - 6
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 47 (31.97%) Confluence
2 12 (8.16%) CMS
3 8 (5.44%) WordPress
4 7 (4.76%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.36%) Apache
5 2 (1.36%) Headless CMS
5 2 (1.36%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.68%) FileNet
6 1 (0.68%) JBoss
6 1 (0.68%) nginx
6 1 (0.68%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.68%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (10.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.44%) MS Visio
3 7 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (4.08%) Trello
5 3 (2.04%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.68%) CANalyzer
6 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.36%) Markit EDM
1 2 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.68%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.68%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 40 (27.21%) Azure
2 18 (12.24%) AWS
3 10 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (5.44%) Entra ID
4 8 (5.44%) SaaS
5 7 (4.76%) Slack
6 6 (4.08%) Power Platform
7 5 (3.40%) Figma
7 5 (3.40%) GitHub
7 5 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.72%) Adobe Analytics
8 4 (2.72%) GCP
9 3 (2.04%) Contentful
9 3 (2.04%) PaaS
10 2 (1.36%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.36%) Google Analytics
11 1 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.68%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.68%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.72%) SAN
2 2 (1.36%) DNS
2 2 (1.36%) HTTP
3 1 (0.68%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.68%) Firewall
3 1 (0.68%) Network Security
3 1 (0.68%) RFID
3 1 (0.68%) SSH
3 1 (0.68%) SSL
3 1 (0.68%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.68%) VLAN
3 1 (0.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 6 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.08%) OLAP
3 6 (4.08%) Power BI
3 6 (4.08%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.04%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.04%) MySQL
4 3 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.36%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 16 (10.88%) Git
2 12 (8.16%) Bitbucket
3 5 (3.40%) Artifactory
3 5 (3.40%) SonarQube
4 4 (2.72%) JUnit
4 4 (2.72%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (2.72%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (2.72%) TeamCity
5 3 (2.04%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.04%) JIRA Agile
5 3 (2.04%) Maven
6 2 (1.36%) Appium
6 2 (1.36%) GitLab
6 2 (1.36%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.36%) JMeter
6 2 (1.36%) Selenium
6 2 (1.36%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.36%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.68%) Ant
7 1 (0.68%) CANoe
General
1 62 (42.18%) Social Skills
2 32 (21.77%) Finance
3 16 (10.88%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (8.84%) Law
5 8 (5.44%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (5.44%) Marketing
6 7 (4.76%) Manufacturing
6 7 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.08%) Advertising
7 6 (4.08%) Banking
8 5 (3.40%) Automotive
9 4 (2.72%) Retail
10 3 (2.04%) Avionics
11 2 (1.36%) Games
11 2 (1.36%) Publishing
12 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.68%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.68%) Legal
12 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.68%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 36 (24.49%) Developer
2 29 (19.73%) Analyst
3 20 (13.61%) JIRA Developer
4 16 (10.88%) Business Analyst
5 11 (7.48%) Senior
6 8 (5.44%) Consultant
6 8 (5.44%) Lead
7 7 (4.76%) Account Manager
7 7 (4.76%) Applications Support
7 7 (4.76%) Applications Support Analyst
7 7 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (4.76%) Project Manager
7 7 (4.76%) Support Analyst
7 7 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (4.08%) Architect
8 6 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (4.08%) SQL Developer
8 6 (4.08%) Technical Analyst
8 6 (4.08%) Technical Business Analyst
9 5 (3.40%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.44%) React
2 6 (4.08%) HTML
3 5 (3.40%) CSS
3 5 (3.40%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (2.72%) Node.js
4 4 (2.72%) Redux
5 3 (2.04%) .NET
5 3 (2.04%) Bootstrap
5 3 (2.04%) Kafka
5 3 (2.04%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.36%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.36%) gRPC
6 2 (1.36%) Middleware
6 2 (1.36%) Next.js
6 2 (1.36%) Playwright
6 2 (1.36%) REST
6 2 (1.36%) RESTful
6 2 (1.36%) Spring
6 2 (1.36%) Spring Batch
7 1 (0.68%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.80%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.40%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.04%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.36%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.36%) Derivative
4 2 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.36%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.36%) Equities
4 2 (1.36%) Fixed Income
4 2 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.36%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.36%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.36%) Social Media
5 1 (0.68%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (0.68%) Life Science
5 1 (0.68%) Online Games
5 1 (0.68%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.68%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.88%) Windows
2 15 (10.20%) Linux
3 1 (0.68%) Check Point GAiA
3 1 (0.68%) Fedora
3 1 (0.68%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (39.46%) Agile
2 46 (31.29%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (25.85%) ITIL
4 37 (25.17%) Change Management
4 37 (25.17%) Computer Science
5 36 (24.49%) Continuous Improvement
6 31 (21.09%) DevOps
7 27 (18.37%) ITSM
8 24 (16.33%) Service Management
9 22 (14.97%) Project Management
10 21 (14.29%) Incident Management
11 20 (13.61%) Asset Management
11 20 (13.61%) CI/CD
12 18 (12.24%) Containerisation
13 17 (11.56%) Stakeholder Management
14 15 (10.20%) Mentoring
15 14 (9.52%) Roadmaps
16 13 (8.84%) Scrum
16 13 (8.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 12 (8.16%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 33 (22.45%) JavaScript
2 27 (18.37%) PowerShell
3 21 (14.29%) SQL
4 14 (9.52%) Python
5 10 (6.80%) TypeScript
6 9 (6.12%) Java
7 6 (4.08%) C#
7 6 (4.08%) T-SQL
8 5 (3.40%) Bash
9 3 (2.04%) PHP
10 1 (0.68%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.68%) C
10 1 (0.68%) C++
10 1 (0.68%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 55 (37.41%) Degree
2 20 (13.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 13 (8.84%) BPSS Clearance
3 13 (8.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (4.08%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (2.72%) DBS Check
6 3 (2.04%) PMP
6 3 (2.04%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.04%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.36%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.36%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.68%) CCSA
8 1 (0.68%) CCSE
8 1 (0.68%) CISM
8 1 (0.68%) CISSP
8 1 (0.68%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.68%) PhD
8 1 (0.68%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.20%) QA
2 4 (2.72%) Accessibility
2 4 (2.72%) GDPR
3 3 (2.04%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 3 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 2 (1.36%) PMO
4 2 (1.36%) SLA
5 1 (0.68%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.68%) NIST
5 1 (0.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (5.44%) Active Directory
1 8 (5.44%) Docker
2 4 (2.72%) vSphere
3 3 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (8.84%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.48%) Control-M
2 11 (7.48%) Grafana
3 7 (4.76%) Ansible
3 7 (4.76%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.40%) Terraform
5 4 (2.72%) Docker Swarm
5 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.68%) Podman
6 1 (0.68%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (19.05%) Atlassian
2 20 (13.61%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.44%) SAP
4 7 (4.76%) Google
4 7 (4.76%) Salesforce
5 6 (4.08%) Adobe
6 5 (3.40%) IBM
6 5 (3.40%) Siemens
7 4 (2.72%) VMware
8 3 (2.04%) Forcepoint
8 3 (2.04%) Proofpoint
8 3 (2.04%) Qualtrics
8 3 (2.04%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.04%) Zscaler
9 2 (1.36%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.36%) Bloomberg
9 2 (1.36%) HubSpot
9 2 (1.36%) Informatica
10 1 (0.68%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.68%) Red Hat