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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 88 124
Rank change year-on-year -61 +36 +9
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 232 339 306
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.09% 3.56% 1.96%
As % of the Development Applications category 28.93% 51.29% 25.44%
Number of salaries quoted 173 163 194
10th Percentile £37,500 £21,250 £37,725
25th Percentile £42,000 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +0.22%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,170 £75,772
90th Percentile £83,750 £88,500 £97,350
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 802 661 1,203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.77% 6.95% 7.69%
Number of salaries quoted 584 395 884
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £44,000 £46,250 £43,750
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 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £61,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.15% +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 29 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 29 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 -49 128 £60,000 +9.09% 32
Yorkshire -34 78 £45,500 -17.27% 25
North East -40 26 £60,000 +85.69% 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 70 (30.17%) Confluence
2 18 (7.76%) SharePoint
3 13 (5.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.72%) CMS
5 2 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.86%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.86%) WordPress
6 1 (0.43%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.43%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 26 (11.21%) Microsoft Project
2 17 (7.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (5.60%) MS Visio
5 12 (5.17%) Trello
6 2 (0.86%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.86%) InVision
6 2 (0.86%) Sketch
7 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (5.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.72%) Sage 200
3 4 (1.72%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (0.43%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 82 (35.34%) Azure
2 52 (22.41%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (13.36%) AWS
4 29 (12.50%) Power Platform
5 27 (11.64%) GitHub
6 17 (7.33%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (5.60%) Boomi
8 11 (4.74%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (4.74%) SaaS
9 10 (4.31%) Serverless
10 9 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (3.88%) GCP
11 8 (3.45%) Amazon S3
11 8 (3.45%) Smartsheet
12 6 (2.59%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (2.16%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (2.16%) AWS Fargate
13 5 (2.16%) Figma
14 4 (1.72%) Dropbox
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.72%) HTTP
2 2 (0.86%) BGP
2 2 (0.86%) DMZ
2 2 (0.86%) IPsec
2 2 (0.86%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.86%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.86%) WAN
3 1 (0.43%) DHCP
3 1 (0.43%) DNS
3 1 (0.43%) Network Security
3 1 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.34%) Power BI
2 13 (5.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 12 (5.17%) SQL Server
4 10 (4.31%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (3.02%) MySQL
6 7 (3.02%) Tableau
7 6 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (2.16%) DynamoDB
8 5 (2.16%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.72%) Big Data
10 3 (1.29%) Power Query
10 3 (1.29%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.86%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.86%) Mixpanel
11 2 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.43%) BusinessObjects
12 1 (0.43%) Star Schema
12 1 (0.43%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 19 (8.19%) Git
2 8 (3.45%) Bitbucket
2 8 (3.45%) GitLab
2 8 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.02%) Postman
4 6 (2.59%) Artifactory
4 6 (2.59%) SonarQube
5 5 (2.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (2.16%) REST Assured
6 4 (1.72%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.29%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.29%) Selenium
7 3 (1.29%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.29%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.86%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.86%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.86%) JUnit
8 2 (0.86%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 75 (32.33%) Social Skills
2 73 (31.47%) Finance
3 41 (17.67%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.48%) Retail
5 18 (7.76%) Marketing
6 14 (6.03%) Public Sector
7 12 (5.17%) Games
7 12 (5.17%) Law
8 11 (4.74%) Banking
9 9 (3.88%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (3.02%) Manufacturing
11 6 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (2.16%) Advertising
12 5 (2.16%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.86%) Legal
15 2 (0.86%) Local Government
15 2 (0.86%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (16.38%) Analyst
2 34 (14.66%) Senior
3 30 (12.93%) Developer
4 25 (10.78%) Project Manager
5 22 (9.48%) Business Analyst
6 18 (7.76%) IT Manager
7 15 (6.47%) Delivery Manager
7 15 (6.47%) Senior Developer
8 10 (4.31%) IT Project Manager
9 9 (3.88%) Lead
9 9 (3.88%) Scrum Master
10 8 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.45%) Service Manager
11 7 (3.02%) Applications Engineer
11 7 (3.02%) Coordinator
11 7 (3.02%) IT Support
11 7 (3.02%) Java Developer
11 7 (3.02%) Project Coordinator
11 7 (3.02%) Senior Manager
12 6 (2.59%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.62%) REST
2 19 (8.19%) JSON
3 16 (6.90%) Middleware
4 15 (6.47%) CSS
5 14 (6.03%) HTML
6 13 (5.60%) SOAP
6 13 (5.60%) XML
7 12 (5.17%) EDI
8 10 (4.31%) AngularJS
8 10 (4.31%) Spring
8 10 (4.31%) Spring Boot
9 9 (3.88%) React
10 8 (3.45%) Node.js
11 7 (3.02%) .NET
11 7 (3.02%) Playwright
12 6 (2.59%) Elastic Stack
12 6 (2.59%) RESTful
12 6 (2.59%) Vue
13 3 (1.29%) Flask
13 3 (1.29%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.76%) Product Ownership
2 17 (7.33%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (6.47%) Driving Licence
4 11 (4.74%) PMI
5 9 (3.88%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (3.45%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.59%) Life Science
7 6 (2.59%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.29%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.29%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.29%) SystemC
9 2 (0.86%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.86%) Augmented Reality
9 2 (0.86%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.86%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.86%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (0.86%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 11 (4.74%) Linux
2 7 (3.02%) Windows
3 2 (0.86%) Unix
4 1 (0.43%) VMS
4 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (59.91%) Agile
2 91 (39.22%) DevOps
3 76 (32.76%) Stakeholder Management
4 65 (28.02%) Scrum
5 60 (25.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 54 (23.28%) Project Management
7 52 (22.41%) CI/CD
7 52 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (19.83%) ERP
9 42 (18.10%) CRM
10 39 (16.81%) Kanban
11 35 (15.09%) Roadmaps
11 35 (15.09%) Software Delivery
12 34 (14.66%) Decision-Making
12 34 (14.66%) Service Management
13 29 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 28 (12.07%) SDLC
15 27 (11.64%) Release Management
15 27 (11.64%) Waterfall
16 26 (11.21%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 53 (22.84%) SQL
2 29 (12.50%) Python
3 23 (9.91%) Java
4 21 (9.05%) JavaScript
5 12 (5.17%) PowerShell
6 9 (3.88%) C#
7 6 (2.59%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.72%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.29%) Groovy
10 2 (0.86%) C
10 2 (0.86%) C++
10 2 (0.86%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.86%) PHP
10 2 (0.86%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.43%) Bicep
11 1 (0.43%) Perl
11 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.43%) R
11 1 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (16.81%) Degree
2 22 (9.48%) PMI Certification
3 16 (6.90%) Security Cleared
4 15 (6.47%) PMP
5 11 (4.74%) SC Cleared
6 8 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (3.02%) ISTQB
8 5 (2.16%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (2.16%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.29%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.86%) CBAP
10 2 (0.86%) CCIE
10 2 (0.86%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.43%) IIBA
11 1 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.34%) QA
2 12 (5.17%) PMO
2 12 (5.17%) TickIT
3 9 (3.88%) Data Quality
4 8 (3.45%) GDPR
5 7 (3.02%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.59%) GRC
7 4 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 4 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.72%) WCAG
8 2 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.86%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.86%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.43%) AQAP
9 1 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 13 (5.60%) Docker
2 3 (1.29%) vSphere
3 2 (0.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (4.74%) Terraform
2 10 (4.31%) Ansible
3 8 (3.45%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.16%) Grafana
5 3 (1.29%) Control-M
5 3 (1.29%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (1.29%) Packer
6 2 (0.86%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.43%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 49 (21.12%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.05%) SAP
3 16 (6.90%) ServiceNow
4 12 (5.17%) Oracle
5 10 (4.31%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.45%) Cisco
6 8 (3.45%) Splunk
7 7 (3.02%) Freshdesk
7 7 (3.02%) Sage
8 6 (2.59%) Databricks
8 6 (2.59%) Meraki
9 4 (1.72%) Google
10 3 (1.29%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.29%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.29%) IBM
10 3 (1.29%) VMware
11 2 (0.86%) Adobe
11 2 (0.86%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.86%) Siemens
11 2 (0.86%) UiPath