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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 77 100
Rank change year-on-year -77 +23 +29
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 191 333 414
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.04% 4.39% 2.45%
As % of the Development Applications category 25.92% 47.98% 29.05%
Number of salaries quoted 147 157 299
10th Percentile £37,500 £21,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,897 £41,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,840 £75,772
90th Percentile £85,000 £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 737 694 1,425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.01% 9.15% 8.45%
Number of salaries quoted 546 442 1,155
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,825 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,840 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £91,741 £83,900
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.38% +4.58% -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 11 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 11 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 -57 111 £62,500 +13.64% 37
Yorkshire -66 63 £46,000 -11.12% 32
North East -39 17 £60,000 +166.67% 10
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 66 (34.55%) Confluence
2 13 (6.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (6.28%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.09%) CMS
5 2 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.05%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.05%) WordPress
6 1 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 17 (8.90%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.19%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.62%) Trello
4 3 (1.57%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (3.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.52%) Shopify
3 1 (0.52%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 62 (32.46%) Azure
2 37 (19.37%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (13.61%) Power Platform
4 20 (10.47%) AWS
4 20 (10.47%) GitHub
5 17 (8.90%) Dynamics 365
6 14 (7.33%) Boomi
7 9 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (4.19%) SaaS
8 8 (4.19%) Smartsheet
9 7 (3.66%) GCP
9 7 (3.66%) Google Workspace
10 6 (3.14%) Google Docs
10 6 (3.14%) Google Sheets
11 5 (2.62%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (2.09%) Dropbox
12 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (2.09%) Power Automate
13 3 (1.57%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.57%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.62%) HTTP
2 1 (0.52%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.99%) Power BI
2 13 (6.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 11 (5.76%) NoSQL
4 9 (4.71%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (3.14%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.62%) Tableau
7 4 (2.09%) Big Data
7 4 (2.09%) MySQL
7 4 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.57%) Power Query
8 3 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.05%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.05%) Mixpanel
9 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.52%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.52%) Looker
Development Applications
1 18 (9.42%) Git
2 7 (3.66%) GitLab
2 7 (3.66%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.66%) Postman
2 7 (3.66%) SonarQube
3 6 (3.14%) Artifactory
4 5 (2.62%) Cucumber
4 5 (2.62%) JUnit
4 5 (2.62%) REST Assured
5 4 (2.09%) Bitbucket
5 4 (2.09%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (1.57%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.57%) Selenium
6 3 (1.57%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.05%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.05%) JMeter
7 2 (1.05%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.52%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.52%) TestComplete
8 1 (0.52%) Zephyr
General
1 66 (34.55%) Social Skills
2 53 (27.75%) Finance
3 31 (16.23%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.90%) Manufacturing
4 17 (8.90%) Marketing
5 15 (7.85%) Retail
6 10 (5.24%) Banking
6 10 (5.24%) Games
7 8 (4.19%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (4.19%) Law
8 5 (2.62%) Advertising
8 5 (2.62%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.57%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.05%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.52%) Billing
11 1 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 29 (15.18%) Developer
1 29 (15.18%) Senior
2 24 (12.57%) Analyst
3 19 (9.95%) Lead
4 14 (7.33%) Senior Developer
5 13 (6.81%) Project Manager
6 11 (5.76%) Architect
7 10 (5.24%) Delivery Manager
8 9 (4.71%) Business Analyst
8 9 (4.71%) IT Manager
8 9 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (4.19%) Java Developer
9 8 (4.19%) Lead Architect
9 8 (4.19%) Lead Solutions Architect
10 7 (3.66%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (3.66%) Operations Manager
11 6 (3.14%) 2nd Line Support
11 6 (3.14%) Scrum Master
11 6 (3.14%) Service Manager
11 6 (3.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.99%) REST
2 18 (9.42%) JSON
3 15 (7.85%) CSS
3 15 (7.85%) Middleware
4 14 (7.33%) HTML
5 12 (6.28%) EDI
5 12 (6.28%) SOAP
5 12 (6.28%) XML
6 9 (4.71%) RESTful
7 8 (4.19%) AngularJS
7 8 (4.19%) Playwright
7 8 (4.19%) Spring
7 8 (4.19%) Spring Boot
8 7 (3.66%) Elastic Stack
9 6 (3.14%) React
10 5 (2.62%) .NET
10 5 (2.62%) Vue
11 4 (2.09%) PySpark
11 4 (2.09%) YAML
12 3 (1.57%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.47%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.24%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (4.71%) Driving Licence
3 9 (4.71%) Enterprise Cloud
4 8 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.66%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.14%) PMI
7 5 (2.62%) Life Science
8 4 (2.09%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.57%) Private Cloud
10 2 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.05%) NHS
11 1 (0.52%) CMDB
11 1 (0.52%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
11 1 (0.52%) Low-Code
11 1 (0.52%) Marketing Technology
11 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.81%) Windows
2 10 (5.24%) Linux
3 6 (3.14%) Windows 10
3 6 (3.14%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (55.50%) Agile
2 71 (37.17%) DevOps
3 55 (28.80%) Stakeholder Management
4 54 (28.27%) Scrum
5 47 (24.61%) Continuous Improvement
5 47 (24.61%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (23.04%) CI/CD
7 43 (22.51%) ERP
8 32 (16.75%) Project Management
8 32 (16.75%) Roadmaps
9 30 (15.71%) Kanban
10 29 (15.18%) Service Management
11 28 (14.66%) CRM
12 22 (11.52%) Release Management
12 22 (11.52%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 20 (10.47%) Decision-Making
13 20 (10.47%) Software Delivery
14 19 (9.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 19 (9.95%) User Experience
15 18 (9.42%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 43 (22.51%) SQL
2 24 (12.57%) JavaScript
3 22 (11.52%) Java
4 18 (9.42%) Python
5 13 (6.81%) PowerShell
6 7 (3.66%) C#
7 6 (3.14%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.57%) Groovy
8 3 (1.57%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.05%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.52%) C
10 1 (0.52%) Perl
10 1 (0.52%) PHP
10 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.52%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 33 (17.28%) Degree
2 15 (7.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 14 (7.33%) PMI Certification
4 13 (6.81%) Security Cleared
5 8 (4.19%) PMP
6 7 (3.66%) ISTQB
6 7 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (3.14%) A+ Certification
7 6 (3.14%) HNC
7 6 (3.14%) HND
7 6 (3.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 6 (3.14%) SC Cleared
8 5 (2.62%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (1.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (1.05%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.05%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.90%) QA
2 12 (6.28%) TickIT
3 8 (4.19%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.19%) PMO
4 6 (3.14%) GRC
5 5 (2.62%) GDPR
6 4 (2.09%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.05%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.05%) WCAG
8 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.52%) GxP
8 1 (0.52%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.52%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 10 (5.24%) Docker
2 7 (3.66%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (4.19%) Kubernetes
1 8 (4.19%) Terraform
2 7 (3.66%) Ansible
3 5 (2.62%) Grafana
4 4 (2.09%) Control-M
5 3 (1.57%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (1.57%) Packer
6 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 42 (21.99%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.95%) SAP
3 15 (7.85%) ServiceNow
4 9 (4.71%) Google
5 8 (4.19%) Atlassian
5 8 (4.19%) Freshdesk
5 8 (4.19%) Oracle
5 8 (4.19%) Siemens
6 7 (3.66%) IBM
7 6 (3.14%) Cisco
7 6 (3.14%) Citrix
7 6 (3.14%) Databricks
7 6 (3.14%) Meraki
7 6 (3.14%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.57%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.57%) Sage
8 3 (1.57%) VMware
9 2 (1.05%) Amplitude
9 2 (1.05%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.52%) Spotify