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 18 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 94 90
Rank change year-on-year -60 -4 +32
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 187 226 429
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.08% 3.30% 2.60%
As % of the Development Applications category 26.26% 37.60% 29.71%
Number of salaries quoted 137 159 310
10th Percentile £37,500 £21,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,545 £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 712 601 1,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.10% 8.79% 8.75%
Number of salaries quoted 530 452 1,155
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,300 £35,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £45,596 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £69,736 £76,840 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,750 £89,875 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -26 105 £65,000 +18.18% 42
Yorkshire -79 67 £46,000 -5.17% 42
North East -30 15 £60,000 +166.67% 12
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 73 (39.04%) Confluence
2 12 (6.42%) SharePoint
3 10 (5.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.60%) CMS
5 2 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.53%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 13 (6.95%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (4.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.60%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.60%) Trello
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.53%) Shopify
2 1 (0.53%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 60 (32.09%) Azure
2 35 (18.72%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (12.30%) Power Platform
4 19 (10.16%) AWS
4 19 (10.16%) GitHub
5 14 (7.49%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (5.88%) Boomi
7 10 (5.35%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (4.28%) SaaS
9 7 (3.74%) Google Workspace
9 7 (3.74%) Smartsheet
10 6 (3.21%) Google Docs
10 6 (3.21%) Google Sheets
11 5 (2.67%) GCP
11 5 (2.67%) Microsoft Copilot
12 4 (2.14%) Dropbox
12 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (2.14%) Power Automate
13 3 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.67%) HTTP
2 1 (0.53%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (9.63%) Power BI
2 11 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 10 (5.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (3.74%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (3.21%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.67%) Tableau
7 4 (2.14%) Big Data
7 4 (2.14%) MySQL
8 3 (1.60%) Power Query
8 3 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.07%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.07%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.53%) Looker
10 1 (0.53%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 18 (9.63%) Git
2 8 (4.28%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.74%) GitLab
4 6 (3.21%) Cucumber
4 6 (3.21%) Postman
5 5 (2.67%) JUnit
5 5 (2.67%) REST Assured
5 5 (2.67%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.14%) Artifactory
6 4 (2.14%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (1.60%) JMeter
7 3 (1.60%) Selenium
8 2 (1.07%) Appium
8 2 (1.07%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.07%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.07%) JIRA Agile
8 2 (1.07%) SpecFlow
8 2 (1.07%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.53%) Gatling
9 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 69 (36.90%) Social Skills
2 50 (26.74%) Finance
3 27 (14.44%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (10.70%) Manufacturing
5 14 (7.49%) Marketing
6 10 (5.35%) Banking
6 10 (5.35%) Retail
7 9 (4.81%) Games
8 7 (3.74%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (3.74%) Law
9 6 (3.21%) Public Sector
10 5 (2.67%) Advertising
11 3 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.07%) Avionics
12 2 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.53%) Billing
13 1 (0.53%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.53%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.53%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 31 (16.58%) Developer
2 27 (14.44%) Senior
3 24 (12.83%) Lead
4 22 (11.76%) Analyst
5 14 (7.49%) Architect
6 12 (6.42%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (5.88%) Lead Architect
7 11 (5.88%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 11 (5.88%) Senior Developer
8 9 (4.81%) Delivery Manager
8 9 (4.81%) Project Manager
9 8 (4.28%) Java Developer
10 7 (3.74%) Business Analyst
10 7 (3.74%) JIRA Developer
10 7 (3.74%) Operations Manager
10 7 (3.74%) Systems Engineer
11 6 (3.21%) 2nd Line Support
11 6 (3.21%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (3.21%) Service Manager
11 6 (3.21%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (9.63%) REST
2 15 (8.02%) CSS
2 15 (8.02%) JSON
3 14 (7.49%) HTML
4 12 (6.42%) Middleware
5 9 (4.81%) EDI
5 9 (4.81%) Playwright
5 9 (4.81%) RESTful
5 9 (4.81%) SOAP
5 9 (4.81%) XML
6 8 (4.28%) AngularJS
6 8 (4.28%) Spring
6 8 (4.28%) Spring Boot
7 7 (3.74%) React
8 5 (2.67%) .NET
8 5 (2.67%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (2.67%) Vue
9 4 (2.14%) PySpark
9 4 (2.14%) YAML
10 3 (1.60%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.70%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.28%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.21%) Enterprise Cloud
3 6 (3.21%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (3.21%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.21%) PMI
4 5 (2.67%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.14%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.60%) Life Science
6 3 (1.60%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.07%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.07%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.07%) NHS
7 2 (1.07%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.53%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.53%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.53%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.88%) Windows
2 8 (4.28%) Linux
3 6 (3.21%) Windows 10
3 6 (3.21%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.53%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (55.08%) Agile
2 61 (32.62%) DevOps
3 51 (27.27%) Scrum
4 50 (26.74%) Continuous Improvement
5 49 (26.20%) Stakeholder Management
6 48 (25.67%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (24.06%) CI/CD
8 34 (18.18%) Service Management
9 33 (17.65%) ERP
10 29 (15.51%) Kanban
10 29 (15.51%) Roadmaps
11 27 (14.44%) Project Management
12 23 (12.30%) ITIL
13 22 (11.76%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 19 (10.16%) Business Strategy
14 19 (10.16%) CRM
14 19 (10.16%) User Experience
15 18 (9.63%) SDLC
16 17 (9.09%) Decision-Making
16 17 (9.09%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 37 (19.79%) SQL
2 31 (16.58%) JavaScript
3 20 (10.70%) Java
4 17 (9.09%) Python
5 15 (8.02%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.28%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.67%) C#
8 3 (1.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.60%) Groovy
8 3 (1.60%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.07%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.53%) C
10 1 (0.53%) Perl
10 1 (0.53%) PHP
10 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.53%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 39 (20.86%) Degree
2 21 (11.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 15 (8.02%) Security Cleared
4 13 (6.95%) PMI Certification
5 9 (4.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 8 (4.28%) PMP
6 8 (4.28%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.74%) ISTQB
7 7 (3.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (3.21%) A+ Certification
8 6 (3.21%) HNC
8 6 (3.21%) HND
8 6 (3.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (1.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (1.07%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.07%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.53%) CBAP
11 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.02%) QA
2 9 (4.81%) TickIT
3 8 (4.28%) Data Quality
4 6 (3.21%) GRC
4 6 (3.21%) PMO
5 5 (2.67%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.67%) GDPR
6 2 (1.07%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.07%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.07%) WCAG
7 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.53%) GxP
7 1 (0.53%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.53%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 8 (4.28%) Docker
2 7 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (3.74%) Terraform
2 6 (3.21%) Ansible
2 6 (3.21%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.60%) Grafana
3 3 (1.60%) Packer
4 2 (1.07%) Control-M
5 1 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 35 (18.72%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.02%) SAP
3 11 (5.88%) Siemens
4 10 (5.35%) Atlassian
5 8 (4.28%) Freshdesk
5 8 (4.28%) Google
5 8 (4.28%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.74%) IBM
7 6 (3.21%) Cisco
7 6 (3.21%) Citrix
7 6 (3.21%) Databricks
7 6 (3.21%) Meraki
7 6 (3.21%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.14%) Oracle
9 3 (1.60%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.07%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.07%) Sage
10 2 (1.07%) Splunk
11 1 (0.53%) Adobe
11 1 (0.53%) VMware