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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 92 122
Rank change year-on-year -49 +30 +9
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 253 327 285
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.13% 3.41% 1.88%
As % of the Development Applications category 30.26% 51.50% 25.15%
Number of salaries quoted 177 152 160
10th Percentile £33,050 £26,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% -3.81% +2.97%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,313 £70,954
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £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 836 635 1,133
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.73% 6.62% 7.47%
Number of salaries quoted 575 377 774
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £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 19 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 19 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 -42 139 £60,000 +14.29% 65
Yorkshire -25 82 £43,000 -14.00% 40
North East -37 32 £60,000 +85.69% 27
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 79 (31.23%) Confluence
2 22 (8.70%) SharePoint
3 12 (4.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.98%) CMS
5 2 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.79%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.79%) WordPress
6 1 (0.40%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 28 (11.07%) Microsoft Project
2 24 (9.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (7.51%) MS Visio
4 18 (7.11%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (4.74%) Trello
6 2 (0.79%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.79%) InVision
6 2 (0.79%) Sketch
7 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (5.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.58%) Sage 200
3 4 (1.58%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 90 (35.57%) Azure
2 56 (22.13%) Azure DevOps
3 35 (13.83%) AWS
4 28 (11.07%) Power Platform
5 25 (9.88%) GitHub
6 19 (7.51%) Dynamics 365
7 16 (6.32%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (5.14%) Boomi
9 11 (4.35%) SaaS
10 10 (3.95%) GCP
10 10 (3.95%) Serverless
11 9 (3.56%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (3.16%) Amazon S3
12 8 (3.16%) Smartsheet
13 6 (2.37%) Figma
13 6 (2.37%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (1.98%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (1.98%) AWS Fargate
15 4 (1.58%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.98%) HTTP
2 2 (0.79%) BGP
2 2 (0.79%) DMZ
2 2 (0.79%) IPsec
2 2 (0.79%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.79%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.79%) WAN
3 1 (0.40%) DHCP
3 1 (0.40%) DNS
3 1 (0.40%) Network Security
3 1 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.49%) Power BI
2 13 (5.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 12 (4.74%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (3.16%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.77%) Tableau
6 6 (2.37%) MySQL
7 5 (1.98%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.58%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.19%) Big Data
9 3 (1.19%) Power Query
9 3 (1.19%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.79%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.79%) Mixpanel
10 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.40%) Looker
11 1 (0.40%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.40%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 18 (7.11%) Git
2 8 (3.16%) Bitbucket
2 8 (3.16%) GitLab
2 8 (3.16%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.77%) Postman
4 6 (2.37%) Artifactory
4 6 (2.37%) SonarQube
5 5 (1.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (1.98%) REST Assured
6 4 (1.58%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.19%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.19%) Selenium
7 3 (1.19%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.19%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.79%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.79%) Balsamiq
8 2 (0.79%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.79%) JUnit
8 2 (0.79%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.40%) TestComplete
General
1 81 (32.02%) Finance
2 78 (30.83%) Social Skills
3 54 (21.34%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (9.49%) Retail
5 18 (7.11%) Marketing
5 18 (7.11%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.93%) Law
7 12 (4.74%) Games
8 11 (4.35%) Banking
8 11 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.98%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.98%) Legal
12 4 (1.58%) Advertising
12 4 (1.58%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.79%) Automotive
14 2 (0.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 61 (24.11%) Analyst
2 35 (13.83%) Senior
3 32 (12.65%) Business Analyst
4 28 (11.07%) Developer
5 25 (9.88%) Project Manager
6 18 (7.11%) IT Manager
7 15 (5.93%) Delivery Manager
7 15 (5.93%) Senior Developer
8 13 (5.14%) IT Analyst
9 10 (3.95%) IT Project Manager
9 10 (3.95%) Scrum Master
10 9 (3.56%) Coordinator
10 9 (3.56%) Lead
10 9 (3.56%) Project Coordinator
10 9 (3.56%) Service Analyst
11 8 (3.16%) Change Analyst
11 8 (3.16%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.16%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (3.16%) Senior Business Analyst
12 7 (2.77%) Agile Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.51%) REST
2 18 (7.11%) JSON
3 15 (5.93%) Middleware
4 13 (5.14%) CSS
4 13 (5.14%) HTML
4 13 (5.14%) SOAP
4 13 (5.14%) XML
5 12 (4.74%) EDI
6 9 (3.56%) AngularJS
6 9 (3.56%) Spring
6 9 (3.56%) Spring Boot
7 7 (2.77%) .NET
7 7 (2.77%) Node.js
7 7 (2.77%) Playwright
7 7 (2.77%) React
8 6 (2.37%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (1.98%) RESTful
9 5 (1.98%) Vue
10 4 (1.58%) Gherkin
11 3 (1.19%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.91%) Product Ownership
2 16 (6.32%) Driving Licence
2 16 (6.32%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (3.95%) PMI
4 9 (3.56%) Enterprise Cloud
5 7 (2.77%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.37%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.98%) Life Science
8 3 (1.19%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.19%) Marketing Technology
8 3 (1.19%) SystemC
9 2 (0.79%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.79%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (0.79%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.79%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.79%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.79%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.14%) Linux
2 9 (3.56%) Windows
3 3 (1.19%) Unix
4 1 (0.40%) VMS
4 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (59.68%) Agile
2 97 (38.34%) DevOps
3 76 (30.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 68 (26.88%) Scrum
5 62 (24.51%) Continuous Improvement
6 61 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (22.53%) Project Management
8 49 (19.37%) CI/CD
9 48 (18.97%) Decision-Making
10 44 (17.39%) ERP
11 43 (17.00%) CRM
12 39 (15.42%) Kanban
13 38 (15.02%) Software Delivery
14 36 (14.23%) Roadmaps
15 35 (13.83%) Service Management
16 33 (13.04%) Business Analysis
16 33 (13.04%) Requirements Gathering
16 33 (13.04%) Waterfall
17 32 (12.65%) SDLC
18 30 (11.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 55 (21.74%) SQL
2 29 (11.46%) Python
3 22 (8.70%) Java
4 18 (7.11%) JavaScript
5 14 (5.53%) PowerShell
6 9 (3.56%) C#
7 5 (1.98%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.58%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.19%) C
9 3 (1.19%) C++
9 3 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.19%) Groovy
10 2 (0.79%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.79%) PHP
10 2 (0.79%) R
10 2 (0.79%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.79%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.40%) Bicep
11 1 (0.40%) Perl
Qualifications
1 41 (16.21%) Degree
2 22 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 21 (8.30%) PMI Certification
4 16 (6.32%) ITIL Certification
5 15 (5.93%) PMP
6 13 (5.14%) SC Cleared
7 7 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.37%) ISTQB
9 5 (1.98%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (1.98%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.58%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.79%) CBAP
12 2 (0.79%) CCIE
12 2 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.79%) CSPO
12 2 (0.79%) IIBA
12 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.49%) QA
2 15 (5.93%) PMO
3 12 (4.74%) Data Quality
3 12 (4.74%) TickIT
4 11 (4.35%) GDPR
5 8 (3.16%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (2.37%) GRC
7 6 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 4 (1.58%) WCAG
9 3 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.79%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.79%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.40%) AQAP
11 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 12 (4.74%) Docker
2 3 (1.19%) vSphere
3 2 (0.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (4.35%) Terraform
2 10 (3.95%) Ansible
3 8 (3.16%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.98%) Grafana
5 3 (1.19%) Control-M
5 3 (1.19%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (1.19%) Packer
6 2 (0.79%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.40%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 57 (22.53%) Microsoft
2 19 (7.51%) SAP
3 16 (6.32%) ServiceNow
4 11 (4.35%) Oracle
5 10 (3.95%) Cisco
5 10 (3.95%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.16%) Splunk
7 7 (2.77%) Meraki
7 7 (2.77%) Sage
8 6 (2.37%) Databricks
9 5 (1.98%) Google
10 4 (1.58%) YouTube
11 3 (1.19%) AppDynamics
11 3 (1.19%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.19%) IBM
11 3 (1.19%) VMware
12 2 (0.79%) Adobe
12 2 (0.79%) F5
12 2 (0.79%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.79%) Pega