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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 78 91
Rank change year-on-year -62 +13 +26
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 159 235 404
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.15% 3.38% 2.79%
As % of the Development Applications category 25.04% 36.10% 30.06%
Number of salaries quoted 92 133 304
10th Percentile £31,875 £24,650 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,748 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,950 £48,507 £62,783
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% -22.74% +9.19%
75th Percentile £62,813 £75,000 £75,772
90th Percentile £77,375 £91,547 £90,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -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 635 651 1,344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.58% 9.36% 9.28%
Number of salaries quoted 469 432 1,104
10th Percentile - £36,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £44,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £73,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -44 71 £58,750 +6.82% 42
Yorkshire -44 69 £45,500 +1.11% 35
North East -38 19 £51,500 +59.39% 13
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 62 (38.99%) Confluence
2 10 (6.29%) CMS
2 10 (6.29%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.52%) WordPress
4 3 (1.89%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.26%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.63%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.63%) FileNet
6 1 (0.63%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 6 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (3.77%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.52%) Trello
3 3 (1.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.26%) Markit EDM
1 2 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.63%) Shopify
2 1 (0.63%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 38 (23.90%) Azure
2 14 (8.81%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (7.55%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (6.92%) Power Platform
5 10 (6.29%) AWS
6 8 (5.03%) SaaS
7 7 (4.40%) Google Workspace
8 6 (3.77%) GitHub
8 6 (3.77%) Google Docs
8 6 (3.77%) Google Sheets
9 5 (3.14%) Figma
10 4 (2.52%) Adobe Analytics
10 4 (2.52%) Dropbox
10 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (1.89%) Contentful
11 3 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.89%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.89%) Slack
12 2 (1.26%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.52%) HTTP
2 2 (1.26%) SAN
3 1 (0.63%) DNS
3 1 (0.63%) SSH
3 1 (0.63%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.18%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.40%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.77%) Power BI
4 5 (3.14%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.89%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.26%) Big Data
7 2 (1.26%) MySQL
7 2 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.63%) OLAP
8 1 (0.63%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 17 (10.69%) Git
2 9 (5.66%) Bitbucket
3 5 (3.14%) JUnit
3 5 (3.14%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (1.89%) GitLab
4 3 (1.89%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.26%) Appium
5 2 (1.26%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.26%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.26%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.26%) JIRA Agile
5 2 (1.26%) JMeter
5 2 (1.26%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.26%) Selenium
5 2 (1.26%) SpecFlow
5 2 (1.26%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.63%) Maven
6 1 (0.63%) Postman
6 1 (0.63%) TestRail
General
1 74 (46.54%) Social Skills
2 41 (25.79%) Finance
3 22 (13.84%) Manufacturing
4 12 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.03%) Advertising
6 7 (4.40%) Banking
6 7 (4.40%) Law
7 6 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.77%) Marketing
8 5 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.89%) Automotive
9 3 (1.89%) Retail
10 2 (1.26%) Avionics
10 2 (1.26%) Games
10 2 (1.26%) Legal
10 2 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.26%) Publishing
11 1 (0.63%) Billing
11 1 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 35 (22.01%) Developer
2 23 (14.47%) JIRA Developer
2 23 (14.47%) Lead
3 21 (13.21%) Analyst
4 17 (10.69%) Senior
5 13 (8.18%) Architect
5 13 (8.18%) Solutions Architect
6 12 (7.55%) Lead Architect
6 12 (7.55%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 11 (6.92%) Applications Support
8 10 (6.29%) Applications Support Analyst
8 10 (6.29%) Support Analyst
9 9 (5.66%) Systems Engineer
10 7 (4.40%) Operations Manager
11 6 (3.77%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.77%) Senior Manager
11 6 (3.77%) Senior Strategy Manager
11 6 (3.77%) Strategy Manager
12 5 (3.14%) Service Manager
13 4 (2.52%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.29%) CSS
2 9 (5.66%) HTML
3 7 (4.40%) React
4 6 (3.77%) RESTful
5 5 (3.14%) AngularJS
5 5 (3.14%) Spring
5 5 (3.14%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.52%) REST
7 3 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.89%) gRPC
7 3 (1.89%) Kafka
7 3 (1.89%) Next.js
7 3 (1.89%) Playwright
7 3 (1.89%) Spring Batch
8 2 (1.26%) Flask
8 2 (1.26%) Middleware
8 2 (1.26%) PySpark
8 2 (1.26%) Vue
9 1 (0.63%) Hibernate
9 1 (0.63%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.92%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (2.52%) Onboarding
3 3 (1.89%) Life Science
3 3 (1.89%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.26%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.26%) Driving Licence
4 2 (1.26%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.26%) PMI
4 2 (1.26%) Private Cloud
4 2 (1.26%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.63%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.63%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.63%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (0.63%) NHS
5 1 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.32%) Windows
2 13 (8.18%) Linux
3 6 (3.77%) Windows 10
3 6 (3.77%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.63%) Fedora
4 1 (0.63%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (39.62%) Continuous Improvement
2 61 (38.36%) Agile
3 54 (33.96%) Problem-Solving
4 48 (30.19%) ITIL
5 46 (28.93%) Service Management
6 38 (23.90%) Change Management
7 36 (22.64%) Computer Science
8 35 (22.01%) ITSM
9 32 (20.13%) Stakeholder Management
10 27 (16.98%) CI/CD
10 27 (16.98%) DevOps
11 25 (15.72%) Incident Management
12 23 (14.47%) Asset Management
13 21 (13.21%) Scrum
14 20 (12.58%) ERP
15 19 (11.95%) Business Strategy
15 19 (11.95%) User Experience
16 17 (10.69%) Containerisation
17 16 (10.06%) Service Delivery
18 13 (8.18%) PLM
Programming Languages
1 39 (24.53%) JavaScript
2 29 (18.24%) PowerShell
3 18 (11.32%) SQL
4 10 (6.29%) Java
5 8 (5.03%) Python
5 8 (5.03%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.89%) C#
7 2 (1.26%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.63%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.63%) PHP
8 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 56 (35.22%) Degree
2 25 (15.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 22 (13.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (6.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (4.40%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (4.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (3.77%) A+ Certification
6 6 (3.77%) HNC
6 6 (3.77%) HND
6 6 (3.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 6 (3.77%) Security Cleared
7 5 (3.14%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.89%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.89%) SC Cleared
9 2 (1.26%) PMP
9 2 (1.26%) SAFe Agilist
10 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.63%) CISM
10 1 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.63%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.40%) QA
2 5 (3.14%) GDPR
3 4 (2.52%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.26%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 2 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.63%) GxP
6 1 (0.63%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.63%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.63%) PMO
6 1 (0.63%) SLA
6 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (6.29%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.14%) Docker
3 2 (1.26%) vSphere
4 1 (0.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (5.66%) Control-M
1 9 (5.66%) Grafana
1 9 (5.66%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.40%) Prometheus
3 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.89%) Ansible
4 3 (1.89%) Terraform
5 2 (1.26%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 30 (18.87%) Atlassian
2 29 (18.24%) Microsoft
3 15 (9.43%) SAP
4 12 (7.55%) Siemens
5 10 (6.29%) Google
6 8 (5.03%) Freshdesk
6 8 (5.03%) ServiceNow
7 6 (3.77%) Citrix
7 6 (3.77%) IBM
8 4 (2.52%) Adobe
8 4 (2.52%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.89%) Cisco
9 3 (1.89%) Forcepoint
9 3 (1.89%) Meraki
9 3 (1.89%) Oracle
9 3 (1.89%) Proofpoint
9 3 (1.89%) Qualtrics
9 3 (1.89%) Zscaler
10 2 (1.26%) HubSpot
10 2 (1.26%) Splunk