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 citing JIRA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 28 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	169	94	123
Rank change year-on-year	-75	+29	-5
Permanent jobs citing JIRA	215	269	229
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England	0.89%	2.92%	1.83%
As % of the Development Applications category	26.41%	47.28%	26.02%
Number of salaries quoted	110	98	88
10^th Percentile	£30,000	£30,500	£33,903
25^th Percentile	£41,250	£40,000	£42,479
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£51,250	£50,000	£55,000
Median % change year-on-year	+2.50%	-9.09%	-4.35%
75^th Percentile	£62,500	£60,750	£68,750
90^th Percentile	£72,625	£86,625	£101,250
England median annual salary	£57,500	£57,500	£57,500
% change year-on-year	-	-	-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 citing development application skills in the North of England.

	6 months to 28 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing development application skills	814	569	880
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England	3.36%	6.18%	7.04%
Number of salaries quoted	496	330	466
10^th Percentile	£38,750	£28,250	£37,000
25^th Percentile	£47,000	£40,000	£43,710
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£60,000	£51,500	£52,500
Median % change year-on-year	+16.50%	-1.90%	-8.70%
75^th Percentile	£75,000	£67,188	£67,500
90^th Percentile	£92,500	£77,500	£77,500
England median annual salary	£62,500	£61,500	£60,000
% change year-on-year	+1.63%	+2.50%	-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 Salary Trend in the North of England

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 28 October 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 28 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
North West	-77	109	£55,000	+15.35%	32
Yorkshire	-23	80	£43,000	-7.03%	19
North East	-59	26	£67,500	+31.07%	3
JIRA England

JIRA Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 28 October 2026, job vacancies citing JIRA also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North of England region citing JIRA.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Agile	62.3%	134
2	Stakeholder Management	34.0%	73
3	DevOps	33.5%	72
4	Azure	31.2%	67
5	Continuous Improvement	30.2%	65
6	Confluence	29.3%	63
7	Problem-Solving	28.8%	62
8	Microsoft	23.3%	50
9	Scrum	22.3%	48
10	Decision-Making	21.9%	47
11	CI/CD	20.9%	45
12	SQL	20.5%	44
12	User Stories	20.5%	44
14	Azure DevOps	19.5%	42
14	Project Management	19.5%	42
16	AI	18.6%	40
16	Business Analysis	18.6%	40
16	Requirements Gathering	18.6%	40
19	Degree	18.1%	39
20	AWS	16.3%	35
21	SDLC	15.8%	34
21	Software Delivery	15.8%	34
23	ITIL	15.3%	33
24	Service Management	14.4%	31
25	CRM	14.0%	30
25	Stakeholder Engagement	14.0%	30
25	Validation	14.0%	30
25	Waterfall	14.0%	30
29	Coaching	13.5%	29
29	Python	13.5%	29

JIRA Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Development Applications

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Jenkins	6.5%	14
2	GitLab	5.1%	11
3	Bitbucket	4.7%	10
4	Artifactory	3.3%	7
4	Git	3.3%	7
6	Cypress.io	2.8%	6
7	Atlassian Bamboo	2.3%	5
7	JMeter	2.3%	5
7	Postman	2.3%	5
7	Zephyr	2.3%	5
11	Balsamiq	1.9%	4
11	Octopus Deploy	1.9%	4
11	SonarQube	1.9%	4
11	TeamCity	1.9%	4
11	TestRail	1.9%	4
16	Axure RP	0.9%	2
17	Gemini Tracker	0.5%	1
17	Rational DOORS	0.5%	1
17	Selenium	0.5%	1
17	Sonatype Nexus	0.5%	1