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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 91 120
Rank change year-on-year -53 +29 +12
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 242 338 287
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.12% 3.52% 1.90%
As % of the Development Applications category 29.73% 50.90% 25.33%
Number of salaries quoted 179 162 172
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% - -0.47%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,335 £74,063
90th Percentile £83,750 £88,625 £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 814 664 1,133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.77% 6.92% 7.52%
Number of salaries quoted 582 396 808
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £37,425
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £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 £87,375 £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 4 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 4 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 -47 131 £60,000 +9.09% 52
Yorkshire -34 83 £43,647 -20.64% 43
North East -39 28 £60,000 +85.69% 17
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 75 (30.99%) Confluence
2 21 (8.68%) SharePoint
3 13 (5.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.65%) CMS
5 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.83%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.83%) WordPress
6 1 (0.41%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 27 (11.16%) Microsoft Project
2 19 (7.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (7.02%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (7.02%) MS Visio
4 12 (4.96%) Trello
5 2 (0.83%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.83%) InVision
5 2 (0.83%) Sketch
6 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (5.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.65%) Sage 200
3 4 (1.65%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.41%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 84 (34.71%) Azure
2 53 (21.90%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (12.81%) AWS
4 29 (11.98%) Power Platform
5 27 (11.16%) GitHub
6 17 (7.02%) Dynamics 365
7 15 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (5.37%) Boomi
9 12 (4.96%) SaaS
10 10 (4.13%) Serverless
11 9 (3.72%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (3.72%) GCP
12 8 (3.31%) Amazon S3
12 8 (3.31%) Smartsheet
13 6 (2.48%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (2.07%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (2.07%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (2.07%) AWS Fargate
14 5 (2.07%) Figma
15 4 (1.65%) Dropbox
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.65%) HTTP
2 2 (0.83%) BGP
2 2 (0.83%) DMZ
2 2 (0.83%) IPsec
2 2 (0.83%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.83%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.83%) 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 (9.92%) Power BI
2 13 (5.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 12 (4.96%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.72%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.89%) Tableau
7 6 (2.48%) MySQL
8 5 (2.07%) DynamoDB
8 5 (2.07%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.65%) Big Data
10 3 (1.24%) Power Query
10 3 (1.24%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.83%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.83%) Mixpanel
11 2 (0.83%) 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 (7.44%) Git
2 8 (3.31%) Bitbucket
2 8 (3.31%) GitLab
2 8 (3.31%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.89%) Postman
4 6 (2.48%) Artifactory
4 6 (2.48%) SonarQube
5 5 (2.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (2.07%) REST Assured
6 4 (1.65%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.24%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.24%) Selenium
7 3 (1.24%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.24%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.83%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.83%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.83%) JUnit
8 2 (0.83%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.41%) Balsamiq
9 1 (0.41%) TestComplete
General
1 76 (31.40%) Social Skills
2 75 (30.99%) Finance
3 46 (19.01%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (9.50%) Retail
5 18 (7.44%) Marketing
6 15 (6.20%) Law
7 14 (5.79%) Public Sector
8 12 (4.96%) Games
9 11 (4.55%) Banking
10 9 (3.72%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (2.07%) Financial Institution
12 5 (2.07%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.65%) Advertising
13 4 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.24%) Legal
14 3 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.83%) Automotive
15 2 (0.83%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 47 (19.42%) Analyst
2 36 (14.88%) Senior
3 28 (11.57%) Developer
4 26 (10.74%) Business Analyst
5 25 (10.33%) Project Manager
6 18 (7.44%) IT Manager
7 15 (6.20%) Delivery Manager
7 15 (6.20%) Senior Developer
8 11 (4.55%) Scrum Master
9 10 (4.13%) IT Analyst
9 10 (4.13%) IT Project Manager
10 8 (3.31%) Coordinator
10 8 (3.31%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.31%) Lead
10 8 (3.31%) Project Coordinator
11 7 (2.89%) Applications Engineer
11 7 (2.89%) IT Support
11 7 (2.89%) Service Analyst
11 7 (2.89%) Service Manager
11 7 (2.89%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.85%) REST
2 18 (7.44%) JSON
3 15 (6.20%) Middleware
4 13 (5.37%) CSS
4 13 (5.37%) HTML
4 13 (5.37%) SOAP
4 13 (5.37%) XML
5 12 (4.96%) EDI
6 9 (3.72%) AngularJS
6 9 (3.72%) Spring
6 9 (3.72%) Spring Boot
7 7 (2.89%) .NET
7 7 (2.89%) Node.js
7 7 (2.89%) Playwright
7 7 (2.89%) React
8 6 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (2.07%) RESTful
9 5 (2.07%) Vue
10 3 (1.24%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (1.24%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.44%) Product Ownership
2 16 (6.61%) Driving Licence
2 16 (6.61%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (4.55%) PMI
4 9 (3.72%) Enterprise Cloud
5 8 (3.31%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.48%) Life Science
6 6 (2.48%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.24%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.24%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.24%) SystemC
8 2 (0.83%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.83%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (0.83%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.83%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.83%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.83%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (0.83%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.96%) Linux
2 8 (3.31%) Windows
3 2 (0.83%) Unix
4 1 (0.41%) VMS
4 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (58.68%) Agile
2 93 (38.43%) DevOps
3 74 (30.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 66 (27.27%) Scrum
5 60 (24.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 55 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (22.73%) Project Management
7 51 (21.07%) CI/CD
8 45 (18.60%) ERP
9 43 (17.77%) CRM
10 42 (17.36%) Decision-Making
11 39 (16.12%) Kanban
12 37 (15.29%) Service Management
13 35 (14.46%) Roadmaps
13 35 (14.46%) Software Delivery
14 30 (12.40%) Waterfall
15 28 (11.57%) Release Management
15 28 (11.57%) Requirements Gathering
15 28 (11.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 27 (11.16%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 53 (21.90%) SQL
2 30 (12.40%) Python
3 21 (8.68%) Java
4 19 (7.85%) JavaScript
5 14 (5.79%) PowerShell
6 9 (3.72%) C#
7 5 (2.07%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.65%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.24%) C
9 3 (1.24%) C++
9 3 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.24%) Groovy
10 2 (0.83%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.83%) PHP
10 2 (0.83%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.83%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.41%) Bicep
11 1 (0.41%) Perl
11 1 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 41 (16.94%) Degree
2 22 (9.09%) PMI Certification
3 18 (7.44%) Security Cleared
4 15 (6.20%) PMP
5 13 (5.37%) ITIL Certification
6 11 (4.55%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.48%) ISTQB
8 5 (2.07%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (2.07%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.24%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.83%) CBAP
10 2 (0.83%) CCIE
10 2 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.41%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.41%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.92%) QA
2 13 (5.37%) PMO
3 12 (4.96%) TickIT
4 10 (4.13%) GDPR
5 9 (3.72%) Data Quality
6 7 (2.89%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (2.48%) GRC
7 6 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 4 (1.65%) WCAG
9 2 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.83%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.83%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.41%) AQAP
10 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 13 (5.37%) Docker
2 3 (1.24%) vSphere
3 2 (0.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (4.55%) Terraform
2 10 (4.13%) Ansible
3 8 (3.31%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.07%) Grafana
5 3 (1.24%) Control-M
5 3 (1.24%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (1.24%) Packer
6 2 (0.83%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.41%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 53 (21.90%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.26%) SAP
3 16 (6.61%) ServiceNow
4 11 (4.55%) Oracle
5 10 (4.13%) Cisco
5 10 (4.13%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.31%) Splunk
7 7 (2.89%) Meraki
7 7 (2.89%) Sage
8 6 (2.48%) Databricks
9 5 (2.07%) Freshdesk
10 4 (1.65%) Google
11 3 (1.24%) AppDynamics
11 3 (1.24%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.24%) IBM
11 3 (1.24%) VMware
12 2 (0.83%) Adobe
12 2 (0.83%) F5
12 2 (0.83%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.83%) Pega