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 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 106 112
Rank change year-on-year -28 +6 -6
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 141 231 198
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.41% 2.12% 2.78%
As % of the Development Applications category 27.70% 27.93% 21.55%
Number of salaries quoted 81 95 163
10th Percentile £30,500 £33,055 £36,270
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,832 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,793 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% -18.83% +28.57%
75th Percentile £60,750 £65,000 £82,548
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,500 £96,231
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 509 827 919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.09% 7.60% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 369 456 766
10th Percentile - £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £64,750 £67,500 £75,000
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 13 December 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 13 December 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 +15 68 £44,000 +0.57% 45
North West -27 55 £48,842 -12.00% 58
North East -20 18 £51,500 - 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 43 (30.50%) Confluence
2 11 (7.80%) CMS
3 7 (4.96%) WordPress
4 6 (4.26%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.42%) Headless CMS
5 2 (1.42%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.71%) Apache
6 1 (0.71%) FileNet
6 1 (0.71%) JBoss
6 1 (0.71%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.71%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (9.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.96%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (4.26%) MS Visio
3 6 (4.26%) Trello
4 3 (2.13%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.71%) CANalyzer
5 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.42%) Markit EDM
1 2 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.71%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.71%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 39 (27.66%) Azure
2 14 (9.93%) AWS
3 11 (7.80%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (5.67%) Entra ID
4 8 (5.67%) SaaS
5 6 (4.26%) Power Platform
5 6 (4.26%) Slack
6 5 (3.55%) Figma
6 5 (3.55%) GitHub
6 5 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.84%) Adobe Analytics
8 3 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (2.13%) Contentful
8 3 (2.13%) GCP
8 3 (2.13%) PaaS
9 1 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.71%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.71%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.71%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (0.71%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.13%) HTTP
1 3 (2.13%) SAN
2 2 (1.42%) DNS
3 1 (0.71%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.71%) Firewall
3 1 (0.71%) Network Security
3 1 (0.71%) RFID
3 1 (0.71%) SSH
3 1 (0.71%) SSL
3 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.71%) VLAN
3 1 (0.71%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (10.64%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 6 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.26%) OLAP
4 5 (3.55%) Power BI
4 5 (3.55%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.84%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.13%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.71%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (12.06%) Git
2 11 (7.80%) Bitbucket
3 5 (3.55%) JUnit
4 4 (2.84%) Artifactory
4 4 (2.84%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (2.84%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.13%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.13%) JIRA Agile
5 3 (2.13%) Maven
5 3 (2.13%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (2.13%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.42%) Appium
6 2 (1.42%) GitLab
6 2 (1.42%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.42%) JMeter
6 2 (1.42%) Selenium
6 2 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.42%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.71%) Ant
7 1 (0.71%) Mockito
General
1 62 (43.97%) Social Skills
2 31 (21.99%) Finance
3 15 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.80%) Law
5 8 (5.67%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (4.96%) Manufacturing
6 7 (4.96%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.26%) Advertising
7 6 (4.26%) Marketing
8 5 (3.55%) Automotive
8 5 (3.55%) Banking
9 4 (2.84%) Retail
10 3 (2.13%) Avionics
11 2 (1.42%) Games
11 2 (1.42%) Publishing
12 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.71%) Legal
12 1 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.71%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 36 (25.53%) Developer
2 26 (18.44%) Analyst
3 22 (15.60%) JIRA Developer
4 13 (9.22%) Business Analyst
5 10 (7.09%) Senior
6 8 (5.67%) Lead
7 7 (4.96%) Applications Support
7 7 (4.96%) Applications Support Analyst
7 7 (4.96%) Consultant
7 7 (4.96%) Project Manager
7 7 (4.96%) Support Analyst
7 7 (4.96%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (4.26%) Account Manager
8 6 (4.26%) Architect
8 6 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (4.26%) SQL Developer
9 5 (3.55%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 5 (3.55%) Software Consultant
9 5 (3.55%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (5.67%) HTML
1 8 (5.67%) React
2 7 (4.96%) CSS
3 4 (2.84%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (2.84%) Kafka
3 4 (2.84%) Node.js
3 4 (2.84%) Redux
3 4 (2.84%) Spring Boot
4 3 (2.13%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.13%) Bootstrap
4 3 (2.13%) gRPC
4 3 (2.13%) Playwright
4 3 (2.13%) REST
4 3 (2.13%) RESTful
4 3 (2.13%) Spring
4 3 (2.13%) Spring Batch
5 2 (1.42%) Middleware
5 2 (1.42%) Next.js
6 1 (0.71%) Hibernate
6 1 (0.71%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.38%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.55%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.84%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.42%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.42%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.42%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.42%) Social Media
6 1 (0.71%) Cybercrime
6 1 (0.71%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.71%) Derivative
6 1 (0.71%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.71%) Equities
6 1 (0.71%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.71%) Life Science
6 1 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.71%) Online Games
6 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.71%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.93%) Windows
2 13 (9.22%) Linux
3 1 (0.71%) Check Point GAiA
3 1 (0.71%) Fedora
3 1 (0.71%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (39.01%) Agile
2 46 (32.62%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (28.37%) ITIL
4 39 (27.66%) Change Management
5 36 (25.53%) Computer Science
6 35 (24.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 31 (21.99%) DevOps
8 29 (20.57%) ITSM
9 26 (18.44%) Service Management
10 23 (16.31%) Incident Management
11 22 (15.60%) Asset Management
12 21 (14.89%) Project Management
13 20 (14.18%) CI/CD
14 18 (12.77%) Containerisation
15 16 (11.35%) Stakeholder Management
16 14 (9.93%) Mentoring
16 14 (9.93%) Roadmaps
17 13 (9.22%) Scrum
18 12 (8.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 12 (8.51%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 37 (26.24%) JavaScript
2 28 (19.86%) PowerShell
3 18 (12.77%) SQL
4 12 (8.51%) Python
5 11 (7.80%) TypeScript
6 8 (5.67%) Java
7 6 (4.26%) T-SQL
8 5 (3.55%) Bash
9 4 (2.84%) C#
10 1 (0.71%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.71%) C
10 1 (0.71%) C++
10 1 (0.71%) Groovy
10 1 (0.71%) PHP
Qualifications
1 53 (37.59%) Degree
2 22 (15.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 13 (9.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (7.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.26%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (2.84%) DBS Check
7 3 (2.13%) PMP
7 3 (2.13%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.13%) Security Cleared
8 2 (1.42%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.42%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.71%) CCSA
9 1 (0.71%) CCSE
9 1 (0.71%) CISM
9 1 (0.71%) CISSP
9 1 (0.71%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.71%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.71%) PhD
9 1 (0.71%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.35%) QA
2 4 (2.84%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.13%) GDPR
3 3 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 3 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 2 (1.42%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.42%) PMO
4 2 (1.42%) SLA
5 1 (0.71%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (5.67%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.26%) Docker
3 3 (2.13%) vSphere
4 2 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (8.51%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.09%) Control-M
2 10 (7.09%) Grafana
3 7 (4.96%) Prometheus
4 6 (4.26%) Ansible
5 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.84%) Terraform
6 3 (2.13%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.71%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.71%) Podman
7 1 (0.71%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (20.57%) Atlassian
2 20 (14.18%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.67%) SAP
4 6 (4.26%) Adobe
5 5 (3.55%) Google
5 5 (3.55%) IBM
5 5 (3.55%) Siemens
6 4 (2.84%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.13%) Forcepoint
7 3 (2.13%) Proofpoint
7 3 (2.13%) Qualtrics
7 3 (2.13%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.13%) VMware
7 3 (2.13%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.42%) HubSpot
8 2 (1.42%) Oracle
9 1 (0.71%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.71%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.71%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.71%) TOWER Software