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 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 91 109
Rank change year-on-year -57 +18 +22
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 223 345 368
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.07% 3.66% 2.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 28.89% 51.96% 26.46%
Number of salaries quoted 172 162 255
10th Percentile £37,500 £21,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,750 £55,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -3.15% +1.13%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,840 £75,772
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £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 772 664 1,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.71% 7.05% 7.86%
Number of salaries quoted 574 396 1,045
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,987 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £82,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year -3.85% +10.73% -9.69%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -49 127 £60,000 +11.63% 31
Yorkshire -44 72 £46,000 -26.40% 18
North East -48 24 £63,750 +97.30% 4
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 71 (31.84%) Confluence
2 16 (7.17%) SharePoint
3 13 (5.83%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.35%) CMS
5 2 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.90%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.90%) WordPress
6 1 (0.45%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 26 (11.66%) Microsoft Project
2 16 (7.17%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (5.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (5.38%) Trello
4 9 (4.04%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.90%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.90%) InVision
5 2 (0.90%) Sketch
6 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 12 (5.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (2.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.79%) Sage 200
3 4 (1.79%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.45%) Shopify
4 1 (0.45%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 79 (35.43%) Azure
2 49 (21.97%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (13.45%) AWS
3 30 (13.45%) Power Platform
4 27 (12.11%) GitHub
5 17 (7.62%) Dynamics 365
6 14 (6.28%) Boomi
7 10 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (4.48%) SaaS
7 10 (4.48%) Serverless
8 9 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (4.04%) GCP
9 8 (3.59%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.59%) Smartsheet
10 6 (2.69%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (2.24%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.24%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.24%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (1.79%) Dropbox
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.35%) HTTP
2 2 (0.90%) BGP
2 2 (0.90%) DMZ
2 2 (0.90%) IPsec
2 2 (0.90%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.90%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.90%) WAN
3 1 (0.45%) DHCP
3 1 (0.45%) DNS
3 1 (0.45%) Network Security
3 1 (0.45%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (11.21%) Power BI
2 13 (5.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 10 (4.48%) NoSQL
3 10 (4.48%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.14%) MySQL
5 7 (3.14%) Tableau
6 6 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (2.24%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.24%) MongoDB
8 4 (1.79%) Big Data
9 3 (1.35%) Power Query
9 3 (1.35%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.90%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.90%) Mixpanel
10 2 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 1 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.45%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.45%) Looker
11 1 (0.45%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (8.52%) Git
2 9 (4.04%) GitLab
3 8 (3.59%) Bitbucket
3 8 (3.59%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.14%) Postman
4 7 (3.14%) SonarQube
5 6 (2.69%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (2.24%) REST Assured
7 4 (1.79%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (1.35%) Selenium
8 3 (1.35%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.35%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.90%) Axure RP
9 2 (0.90%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.90%) JUnit
9 2 (0.90%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.90%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.45%) TestComplete
General
1 71 (31.84%) Finance
1 71 (31.84%) Social Skills
2 36 (16.14%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (9.87%) Retail
4 17 (7.62%) Marketing
5 12 (5.38%) Games
6 11 (4.93%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.48%) Banking
7 10 (4.48%) Law
7 10 (4.48%) Manufacturing
8 9 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.24%) Advertising
9 5 (2.24%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.90%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.45%) Billing
12 1 (0.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 34 (15.25%) Senior
2 31 (13.90%) Developer
3 29 (13.00%) Analyst
4 26 (11.66%) Project Manager
5 18 (8.07%) IT Manager
6 17 (7.62%) Business Analyst
7 15 (6.73%) Senior Developer
8 13 (5.83%) Delivery Manager
9 11 (4.93%) Lead
10 10 (4.48%) IT Project Manager
10 10 (4.48%) Service Manager
11 9 (4.04%) Scrum Master
12 8 (3.59%) DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.59%) Java Developer
13 7 (3.14%) Applications Engineer
13 7 (3.14%) IT Support
13 7 (3.14%) Operations Manager
13 7 (3.14%) Senior Manager
14 6 (2.69%) Architect
14 6 (2.69%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.97%) REST
2 19 (8.52%) JSON
3 17 (7.62%) Middleware
4 15 (6.73%) CSS
5 14 (6.28%) HTML
6 13 (5.83%) SOAP
6 13 (5.83%) XML
7 12 (5.38%) EDI
8 10 (4.48%) AngularJS
8 10 (4.48%) Spring
8 10 (4.48%) Spring Boot
9 9 (4.04%) React
10 8 (3.59%) Node.js
11 7 (3.14%) .NET
11 7 (3.14%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (3.14%) Playwright
11 7 (3.14%) RESTful
12 6 (2.69%) Vue
13 4 (1.79%) YAML
14 3 (1.35%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.97%) Product Ownership
2 17 (7.62%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (6.28%) Driving Licence
4 10 (4.48%) PMI
5 9 (4.04%) Enterprise Cloud
6 6 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.69%) Life Science
6 6 (2.69%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.69%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.35%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.35%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.90%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.90%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (0.90%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.90%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.90%) NHS
9 2 (0.90%) Virtual Reality
10 1 (0.45%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.48%) Linux
2 8 (3.59%) Windows
3 3 (1.35%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.90%) Unix
4 2 (0.90%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (60.54%) Agile
2 87 (39.01%) DevOps
3 72 (32.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 62 (27.80%) Scrum
5 59 (26.46%) Continuous Improvement
6 53 (23.77%) Project Management
7 52 (23.32%) CI/CD
8 49 (21.97%) ERP
9 47 (21.08%) Problem-Solving
10 40 (17.94%) CRM
11 35 (15.70%) Kanban
11 35 (15.70%) Roadmaps
12 31 (13.90%) Service Management
12 31 (13.90%) Software Delivery
13 27 (12.11%) Release Management
13 27 (12.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 26 (11.66%) SDLC
15 25 (11.21%) Collaborative Culture
16 23 (10.31%) Decision-Making
16 23 (10.31%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 53 (23.77%) SQL
2 28 (12.56%) Python
3 24 (10.76%) Java
4 21 (9.42%) JavaScript
5 12 (5.38%) PowerShell
6 9 (4.04%) C#
7 6 (2.69%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.35%) Groovy
8 3 (1.35%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.90%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.90%) PHP
9 2 (0.90%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.45%) Bicep
10 1 (0.45%) C
10 1 (0.45%) C++
10 1 (0.45%) Perl
10 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (18.39%) Degree
2 22 (9.87%) PMI Certification
3 16 (7.17%) PMP
4 13 (5.83%) Security Cleared
5 8 (3.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (3.59%) SC Cleared
6 7 (3.14%) ISTQB
7 5 (2.24%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.24%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.35%) A+ Certification
9 3 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.35%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.90%) CCIE
10 2 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.76%) QA
2 12 (5.38%) TickIT
3 10 (4.48%) PMO
4 7 (3.14%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.69%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.69%) GRC
6 5 (2.24%) GDPR
7 4 (1.79%) WCAG
8 2 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.90%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.45%) AQAP
9 1 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (5.83%) Docker
2 4 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (4.93%) Terraform
2 10 (4.48%) Ansible
3 8 (3.59%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.24%) Grafana
5 3 (1.35%) Control-M
5 3 (1.35%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (1.35%) Packer
6 2 (0.90%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.45%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 50 (22.42%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.31%) SAP
3 18 (8.07%) ServiceNow
4 12 (5.38%) Oracle
5 9 (4.04%) Splunk
6 8 (3.59%) Cisco
6 8 (3.59%) Freshdesk
6 8 (3.59%) Salesforce
7 7 (3.14%) Sage
8 6 (2.69%) Databricks
8 6 (2.69%) Google
8 6 (2.69%) Meraki
9 5 (2.24%) IBM
10 4 (1.79%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.35%) AppDynamics
11 3 (1.35%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.35%) Siemens
11 3 (1.35%) VMware
12 2 (0.90%) Adobe
12 2 (0.90%) F5