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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 104 98
Rank change year-on-year -34 -6 +2
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 138 226 200
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.29% 2.35% 2.79%
As % of the Development Applications category 25.37% 29.74% 22.62%
Number of salaries quoted 76 91 164
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,925 £36,270
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £50,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -25.93% +28.57%
75th Percentile £60,750 £63,825 £82,548
90th Percentile £87,500 £78,750 £96,539
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,560 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.10% -7.90% +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 544 760 884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.09% 7.90% 12.34%
Number of salaries quoted 396 425 738
10th Percentile - £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -11.80% +8.23%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £86,625
England median annual salary £60,000 £61,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.38% -

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 25 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 25 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 +6 67 £44,000 +3.53% 110
North West -39 53 £47,592 -4.92% 127
North East -15 18 £51,500 - 15
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 (34.06%) Confluence
2 11 (7.97%) CMS
3 6 (4.35%) WordPress
4 5 (3.62%) Umbraco
5 3 (2.17%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.45%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.72%) Apache
7 1 (0.72%) FileNet
7 1 (0.72%) JBoss
7 1 (0.72%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.72%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (7.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (3.62%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (3.62%) Trello
3 4 (2.90%) MS Visio
4 3 (2.17%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.45%) Markit EDM
1 2 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.72%) SAP IBP
2 1 (0.72%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 38 (27.54%) Azure
2 13 (9.42%) AWS
3 10 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (5.80%) Entra ID
4 8 (5.80%) SaaS
5 6 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.62%) Figma
6 5 (3.62%) Slack
7 4 (2.90%) Adobe Analytics
7 4 (2.90%) GitHub
8 3 (2.17%) Contentful
8 3 (2.17%) GCP
8 3 (2.17%) PaaS
8 3 (2.17%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.45%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.72%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (0.72%) ChatGPT
10 1 (0.72%) Oracle Service Cloud
10 1 (0.72%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.90%) HTTP
2 3 (2.17%) SAN
3 2 (1.45%) DNS
4 1 (0.72%) Firewall
4 1 (0.72%) Network Security
4 1 (0.72%) RFID
4 1 (0.72%) SSH
4 1 (0.72%) SSL
4 1 (0.72%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.72%) VLAN
4 1 (0.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.14%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.80%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 6 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.35%) OLAP
4 4 (2.90%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.90%) NoSQL
4 4 (2.90%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.45%) Power BI
6 2 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (10.87%) Git
2 10 (7.25%) Bitbucket
3 5 (3.62%) JUnit
4 4 (2.90%) Artifactory
4 4 (2.90%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (2.17%) JIRA Agile
5 3 (2.17%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (2.17%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.17%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.45%) Appium
6 2 (1.45%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.45%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.45%) JMeter
6 2 (1.45%) Maven
6 2 (1.45%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.72%) Ant
7 1 (0.72%) GitLab
7 1 (0.72%) Selenium
7 1 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.72%) TestRail
General
1 60 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 31 (22.46%) Finance
3 13 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.97%) Law
5 10 (7.25%) Manufacturing
6 8 (5.80%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (5.07%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (4.35%) Advertising
8 6 (4.35%) Marketing
9 4 (2.90%) Automotive
9 4 (2.90%) Banking
9 4 (2.90%) Retail
10 3 (2.17%) Avionics
11 2 (1.45%) Games
11 2 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.45%) Publishing
12 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.72%) Legal
12 1 (0.72%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 35 (25.36%) Developer
2 24 (17.39%) Analyst
3 23 (16.67%) JIRA Developer
4 14 (10.14%) Lead
5 9 (6.52%) Applications Support
5 9 (6.52%) Architect
5 9 (6.52%) Business Analyst
5 9 (6.52%) Senior
5 9 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (5.80%) Applications Support Analyst
6 8 (5.80%) Lead Architect
6 8 (5.80%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 8 (5.80%) Support Analyst
7 7 (5.07%) Systems Engineer
8 6 (4.35%) Consultant
8 6 (4.35%) Project Manager
8 6 (4.35%) SQL Developer
9 5 (3.62%) Account Manager
9 5 (3.62%) Software Consultant
9 5 (3.62%) Support Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.07%) CSS
1 7 (5.07%) HTML
2 6 (4.35%) React
3 5 (3.62%) Kafka
4 4 (2.90%) AngularJS
4 4 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (2.90%) gRPC
4 4 (2.90%) REST
4 4 (2.90%) RESTful
4 4 (2.90%) Spring
4 4 (2.90%) Spring Batch
4 4 (2.90%) Spring Boot
5 3 (2.17%) Bootstrap
5 3 (2.17%) Node.js
5 3 (2.17%) Playwright
5 3 (2.17%) Redux
6 2 (1.45%) Next.js
7 1 (0.72%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.72%) JWT
7 1 (0.72%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.25%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.45%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.45%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.72%) Cybercrime
5 1 (0.72%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.72%) Life Science
5 1 (0.72%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.72%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.72%) Online Games
5 1 (0.72%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.72%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.14%) Linux
2 13 (9.42%) Windows
3 1 (0.72%) Check Point GAiA
3 1 (0.72%) Fedora
3 1 (0.72%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (36.23%) Agile
2 46 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (31.16%) ITIL
4 38 (27.54%) Continuous Improvement
5 37 (26.81%) Computer Science
6 36 (26.09%) Change Management
7 32 (23.19%) ITSM
8 29 (21.01%) Service Management
9 27 (19.57%) DevOps
10 24 (17.39%) Incident Management
11 23 (16.67%) Asset Management
12 18 (13.04%) CI/CD
12 18 (13.04%) Containerisation
13 17 (12.32%) Project Management
14 16 (11.59%) Stakeholder Management
15 14 (10.14%) Business Strategy
15 14 (10.14%) Roadmaps
15 14 (10.14%) User Experience
16 13 (9.42%) Mentoring
16 13 (9.42%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 37 (26.81%) JavaScript
2 27 (19.57%) PowerShell
3 16 (11.59%) SQL
4 11 (7.97%) TypeScript
5 8 (5.80%) Java
5 8 (5.80%) Python
6 6 (4.35%) T-SQL
7 4 (2.90%) C#
8 3 (2.17%) Bash
9 1 (0.72%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.72%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 49 (35.51%) Degree
2 24 (17.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 17 (12.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 11 (7.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (2.17%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.17%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.45%) SAP Certification
8 1 (0.72%) CCSA
8 1 (0.72%) CCSE
8 1 (0.72%) CISM
8 1 (0.72%) CISSP
8 1 (0.72%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.72%) PhD
8 1 (0.72%) PMP
8 1 (0.72%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.42%) QA
2 4 (2.90%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.17%) GDPR
3 3 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 3 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 2 (1.45%) PMO
4 2 (1.45%) SLA
5 1 (0.72%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.72%) GxP
5 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (5.80%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.62%) Docker
3 3 (2.17%) vSphere
4 2 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (7.97%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.25%) Control-M
2 10 (7.25%) Grafana
3 7 (5.07%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.62%) Ansible
5 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.90%) Terraform
6 3 (2.17%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.72%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.72%) Podman
7 1 (0.72%) Puppet
Vendors
1 30 (21.74%) Atlassian
2 21 (15.22%) Microsoft
3 11 (7.97%) SAP
4 8 (5.80%) Siemens
5 6 (4.35%) Adobe
5 6 (4.35%) ServiceNow
6 5 (3.62%) Google
6 5 (3.62%) IBM
7 3 (2.17%) Forcepoint
7 3 (2.17%) Proofpoint
7 3 (2.17%) Qualtrics
7 3 (2.17%) VMware
7 3 (2.17%) Zscaler
8 2 (1.45%) HubSpot
8 2 (1.45%) Oracle
8 2 (1.45%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.72%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.72%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.72%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.72%) Sitecore