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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 79 108
Rank change year-on-year -85 +29 +31
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 198 341 409
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.99% 4.31% 2.29%
As % of the Development Applications category 25.78% 50.00% 27.82%
Number of salaries quoted 154 156 291
10th Percentile £37,500 £21,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,999 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% +2.95%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,005 £75,772
90th Percentile £84,625 £91,934 £90,000
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 768 682 1,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.84% 8.62% 8.24%
Number of salaries quoted 575 417 1,160
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,560 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +4.65% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,867 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,668
England median annual salary £61,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.15% +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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -54 115 £60,000 +9.09% 20
Yorkshire -62 67 £46,000 -16.36% 20
North East -44 16 £60,000 +166.67% 8
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 64 (32.32%) Confluence
2 14 (7.07%) SharePoint
3 13 (6.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.02%) CMS
5 2 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.01%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.01%) WordPress
6 1 (0.51%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 20 (10.10%) Microsoft Project
2 10 (5.05%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (2.53%) Trello
5 3 (1.52%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.51%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.51%) InVision
6 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.51%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (5.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.51%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.51%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.51%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.51%) Shopify
3 1 (0.51%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 66 (33.33%) Azure
2 41 (20.71%) Azure DevOps
3 28 (14.14%) Power Platform
4 21 (10.61%) AWS
4 21 (10.61%) GitHub
5 18 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
6 14 (7.07%) Boomi
7 11 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (4.04%) SaaS
8 8 (4.04%) Smartsheet
9 7 (3.54%) GCP
10 6 (3.03%) Google Docs
10 6 (3.03%) Google Sheets
10 6 (3.03%) Google Workspace
11 5 (2.53%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (2.53%) Power Automate
11 5 (2.53%) Serverless
12 4 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.02%) Dropbox
12 4 (2.02%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.02%) HTTP
2 2 (1.01%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.51%) DHCP
3 1 (0.51%) DNS
3 1 (0.51%) Network Security
3 1 (0.51%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.11%) Power BI
2 13 (6.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 9 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 9 (4.55%) SQL Server
4 7 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (3.03%) Tableau
6 5 (2.53%) MySQL
7 4 (2.02%) Big Data
7 4 (2.02%) MongoDB
7 4 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.52%) Power Query
8 3 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.01%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.01%) Mixpanel
9 2 (1.01%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.51%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.51%) Looker
10 1 (0.51%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.51%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 18 (9.09%) Git
2 7 (3.54%) GitLab
2 7 (3.54%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.54%) Postman
3 6 (3.03%) SonarQube
4 5 (2.53%) Artifactory
4 5 (2.53%) REST Assured
5 4 (2.02%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.52%) JUnit
6 3 (1.52%) Selenium
6 3 (1.52%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.01%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.01%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.01%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (1.01%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.01%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.51%) Axure RP
8 1 (0.51%) TestComplete
8 1 (0.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 65 (32.83%) Social Skills
2 52 (26.26%) Finance
3 31 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (9.09%) Manufacturing
4 18 (9.09%) Retail
5 17 (8.59%) Marketing
6 11 (5.56%) Games
7 10 (5.05%) Banking
8 9 (4.55%) Law
9 8 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (3.03%) Public Sector
11 5 (2.53%) Advertising
12 4 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.52%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (1.01%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.51%) Billing
15 1 (0.51%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 34 (17.17%) Developer
2 32 (16.16%) Senior
3 23 (11.62%) Analyst
4 19 (9.60%) Lead
5 16 (8.08%) Project Manager
5 16 (8.08%) Senior Developer
6 12 (6.06%) IT Manager
7 10 (5.05%) Architect
7 10 (5.05%) Delivery Manager
8 9 (4.55%) Business Analyst
8 9 (4.55%) Scrum Master
9 8 (4.04%) IT Project Manager
9 8 (4.04%) Java Developer
9 8 (4.04%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (3.54%) IT Support
10 7 (3.54%) Lead Architect
10 7 (3.54%) Lead Solutions Architect
10 7 (3.54%) Operations Manager
11 6 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.03%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.10%) REST
2 18 (9.09%) JSON
3 16 (8.08%) CSS
4 15 (7.58%) HTML
4 15 (7.58%) Middleware
5 12 (6.06%) EDI
5 12 (6.06%) SOAP
5 12 (6.06%) XML
6 8 (4.04%) Playwright
6 8 (4.04%) RESTful
7 7 (3.54%) React
8 6 (3.03%) .NET
8 6 (3.03%) AngularJS
8 6 (3.03%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (3.03%) Spring
8 6 (3.03%) Spring Boot
8 6 (3.03%) Vue
9 4 (2.02%) PySpark
9 4 (2.02%) YAML
10 3 (1.52%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 14 (7.07%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (6.06%) Driving Licence
4 9 (4.55%) Enterprise Cloud
5 7 (3.54%) PMI
6 6 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (3.03%) Life Science
6 6 (3.03%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.53%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.52%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.01%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.01%) NHS
10 1 (0.51%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.51%) CMDB
10 1 (0.51%) EPoS
10 1 (0.51%) Marketing Technology
10 1 (0.51%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.57%) Windows
2 9 (4.55%) Linux
3 7 (3.54%) Windows 10
4 6 (3.03%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.51%) Unix
5 1 (0.51%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (56.57%) Agile
2 78 (39.39%) DevOps
3 61 (30.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 55 (27.78%) Scrum
5 52 (26.26%) Problem-Solving
6 49 (24.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 48 (24.24%) ERP
8 46 (23.23%) CI/CD
9 37 (18.69%) Project Management
10 33 (16.67%) Kanban
10 33 (16.67%) Roadmaps
11 32 (16.16%) CRM
12 30 (15.15%) Service Management
13 23 (11.62%) Software Delivery
14 22 (11.11%) Release Management
14 22 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 21 (10.61%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 20 (10.10%) Decision-Making
16 20 (10.10%) Waterfall
17 19 (9.60%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 44 (22.22%) SQL
2 24 (12.12%) JavaScript
3 20 (10.10%) Python
4 19 (9.60%) Java
5 13 (6.57%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.04%) C#
7 5 (2.53%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.52%) Groovy
8 3 (1.52%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.01%) MATLAB
9 2 (1.01%) PHP
9 2 (1.01%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.51%) C
10 1 (0.51%) C++
10 1 (0.51%) Perl
10 1 (0.51%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (17.17%) Degree
2 15 (7.58%) PMI Certification
3 13 (6.57%) Security Cleared
4 12 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (4.55%) PMP
6 8 (4.04%) ISTQB
6 8 (4.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.54%) A+ Certification
8 6 (3.03%) HNC
8 6 (3.03%) HND
8 6 (3.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 6 (3.03%) SC Cleared
9 5 (2.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (1.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (1.01%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.51%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.51%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.60%) QA
2 12 (6.06%) TickIT
3 9 (4.55%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.54%) PMO
5 6 (3.03%) GRC
6 5 (2.53%) Accessibility
6 5 (2.53%) GDPR
7 3 (1.52%) WCAG
8 2 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (1.01%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.51%) GxP
9 1 (0.51%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.51%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 12 (6.06%) Docker
2 8 (4.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.01%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (3.54%) Kubernetes
1 7 (3.54%) Terraform
2 6 (3.03%) Ansible
3 3 (1.52%) Grafana
3 3 (1.52%) Packer
4 2 (1.01%) Control-M
4 2 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 49 (24.75%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.62%) SAP
3 19 (9.60%) ServiceNow
4 12 (6.06%) Oracle
5 9 (4.55%) Freshdesk
6 8 (4.04%) Google
7 7 (3.54%) Databricks
7 7 (3.54%) Siemens
8 6 (3.03%) Atlassian
8 6 (3.03%) Cisco
8 6 (3.03%) Citrix
8 6 (3.03%) Meraki
8 6 (3.03%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.53%) IBM
10 4 (2.02%) Sage
11 3 (1.52%) AppDynamics
12 2 (1.01%) Amplitude
12 2 (1.01%) MuleSoft
12 2 (1.01%) VMware
13 1 (0.51%) Spotify