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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 91 95
Rank change year-on-year -62 +4 +33
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 182 227 427
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.06% 3.33% 2.60%
As % of the Development Applications category 25.82% 37.71% 29.76%
Number of salaries quoted 132 158 309
10th Percentile £37,500 £21,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,824 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,692 £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 705 602 1,435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.12% 8.82% 8.73%
Number of salaries quoted 524 451 1,149
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £45,500 £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 £69,457 £76,840 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,375 £90,000 £85,000
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 16 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 16 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 -34 100 £65,000 +18.18% 47
Yorkshire -68 66 £46,000 -5.17% 34
North East -35 16 £60,000 +166.67% 11
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 72 (39.56%) Confluence
2 11 (6.04%) SharePoint
3 10 (5.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.65%) CMS
5 2 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.55%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.55%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 11 (6.04%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.65%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.65%) Trello
5 1 (0.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.55%) Shopify
2 1 (0.55%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 58 (31.87%) Azure
2 32 (17.58%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (10.99%) Power Platform
4 19 (10.44%) AWS
5 18 (9.89%) GitHub
6 12 (6.59%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (5.49%) Boomi
7 10 (5.49%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (4.40%) SaaS
9 7 (3.85%) Google Workspace
10 6 (3.30%) Google Docs
10 6 (3.30%) Google Sheets
11 5 (2.75%) GCP
11 5 (2.75%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (2.75%) Smartsheet
12 4 (2.20%) Dropbox
12 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (1.65%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (1.65%) Figma
13 3 (1.65%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.75%) HTTP
2 1 (0.55%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.24%) Power BI
2 11 (6.04%) NoSQL
3 8 (4.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (3.85%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.30%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.75%) Tableau
7 4 (2.20%) Big Data
7 4 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.20%) MySQL
8 3 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.10%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.10%) Power Query
9 2 (1.10%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.55%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.55%) Looker
10 1 (0.55%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 19 (10.44%) Git
2 8 (4.40%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.85%) GitLab
4 6 (3.30%) Cucumber
4 6 (3.30%) Postman
5 5 (2.75%) JUnit
5 5 (2.75%) REST Assured
5 5 (2.75%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.20%) Artifactory
6 4 (2.20%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (1.65%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.65%) JMeter
7 3 (1.65%) Selenium
8 2 (1.10%) Appium
8 2 (1.10%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.10%) JIRA Agile
8 2 (1.10%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.55%) Gatling
9 1 (0.55%) TestRail
9 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (37.36%) Social Skills
2 51 (28.02%) Finance
3 26 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (10.99%) Manufacturing
5 13 (7.14%) Marketing
6 10 (5.49%) Banking
7 9 (4.95%) Retail
8 8 (4.40%) Games
9 7 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (3.85%) Law
10 6 (3.30%) Advertising
10 6 (3.30%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.10%) Avionics
13 1 (0.55%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.55%) Billing
13 1 (0.55%) Legal
13 1 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.55%) Publishing
13 1 (0.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (15.93%) Developer
2 26 (14.29%) Senior
3 24 (13.19%) Lead
4 22 (12.09%) Analyst
5 14 (7.69%) Architect
6 12 (6.59%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (6.04%) Lead Architect
7 11 (6.04%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 10 (5.49%) Senior Developer
9 9 (4.95%) Project Manager
10 8 (4.40%) Delivery Manager
10 8 (4.40%) Java Developer
11 7 (3.85%) JIRA Developer
11 7 (3.85%) Operations Manager
11 7 (3.85%) Systems Engineer
12 6 (3.30%) 2nd Line Support
12 6 (3.30%) Applications Support
12 6 (3.30%) Business Analyst
12 6 (3.30%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (3.30%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.34%) REST
2 14 (7.69%) CSS
3 13 (7.14%) HTML
3 13 (7.14%) JSON
4 11 (6.04%) Middleware
5 9 (4.95%) Playwright
5 9 (4.95%) RESTful
6 8 (4.40%) AngularJS
6 8 (4.40%) EDI
6 8 (4.40%) SOAP
6 8 (4.40%) Spring
6 8 (4.40%) Spring Boot
6 8 (4.40%) XML
7 7 (3.85%) React
8 5 (2.75%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (2.75%) Vue
9 4 (2.20%) .NET
9 4 (2.20%) PySpark
9 4 (2.20%) YAML
10 3 (1.65%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.99%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.30%) Enterprise Cloud
3 6 (3.30%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.75%) PMI
5 4 (2.20%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.20%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.20%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.65%) Life Science
6 3 (1.65%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.10%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.10%) NHS
7 2 (1.10%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.55%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.55%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.55%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.59%) Windows
2 9 (4.95%) Linux
3 6 (3.30%) Windows 10
3 6 (3.30%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.55%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (54.95%) Agile
2 58 (31.87%) DevOps
3 49 (26.92%) Continuous Improvement
3 49 (26.92%) Stakeholder Management
4 48 (26.37%) Scrum
5 47 (25.82%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (24.73%) CI/CD
7 34 (18.68%) Service Management
8 30 (16.48%) ERP
9 27 (14.84%) Roadmaps
10 26 (14.29%) Kanban
11 24 (13.19%) ITIL
11 24 (13.19%) Project Management
12 21 (11.54%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 19 (10.44%) User Experience
14 18 (9.89%) Business Strategy
14 18 (9.89%) SDLC
15 17 (9.34%) Change Management
15 17 (9.34%) Sprint Planning
16 16 (8.79%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 35 (19.23%) SQL
2 30 (16.48%) JavaScript
3 20 (10.99%) Java
4 17 (9.34%) Python
5 15 (8.24%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.40%) TypeScript
7 4 (2.20%) C#
8 3 (1.65%) Groovy
9 2 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.10%) MATLAB
9 2 (1.10%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.55%) C
10 1 (0.55%) Perl
10 1 (0.55%) PHP
10 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.55%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 39 (21.43%) Degree
2 21 (11.54%) BPSS Clearance
3 15 (8.24%) Security Cleared
4 12 (6.59%) PMI Certification
5 9 (4.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 8 (4.40%) PMP
6 8 (4.40%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.85%) ISTQB
7 7 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (3.30%) A+ Certification
8 6 (3.30%) HNC
8 6 (3.30%) HND
8 6 (3.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 3 (1.65%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.10%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.10%) SAFe Agilist
11 1 (0.55%) CBAP
11 1 (0.55%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.24%) QA
2 8 (4.40%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.40%) TickIT
3 6 (3.30%) GRC
4 5 (2.75%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.75%) GDPR
5 4 (2.20%) PMO
6 2 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.10%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.10%) WCAG
7 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.55%) GxP
7 1 (0.55%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.55%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 8 (4.40%) Docker
2 7 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (3.85%) Kubernetes
1 7 (3.85%) Terraform
2 6 (3.30%) Ansible
3 4 (2.20%) Grafana
4 3 (1.65%) Control-M
4 3 (1.65%) Packer
5 2 (1.10%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 33 (18.13%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.24%) SAP
3 11 (6.04%) Siemens
4 10 (5.49%) Atlassian
5 8 (4.40%) Freshdesk
5 8 (4.40%) Google
5 8 (4.40%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.85%) IBM
7 6 (3.30%) Cisco
7 6 (3.30%) Citrix
7 6 (3.30%) Databricks
7 6 (3.30%) Meraki
8 5 (2.75%) Salesforce
9 4 (2.20%) Oracle
10 3 (1.65%) AppDynamics
11 2 (1.10%) MuleSoft
11 2 (1.10%) Splunk
12 1 (0.55%) Thales
12 1 (0.55%) Veracode
12 1 (0.55%) Workday