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 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 78 103
Rank change year-on-year -80 +25 +31
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 188 335 415
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.96% 4.34% 2.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 24.64% 51.15% 28.74%
Number of salaries quoted 147 150 299
10th Percentile £37,500 £21,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,647 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.17% +5.45%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,500 £75,772
90th Percentile £85,000 £91,934 £90,000
England median annual salary £58,750 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.08% +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 763 655 1,444
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.90% 8.48% 8.34%
Number of salaries quoted 571 397 1,159
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,985 £77,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £61,018 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.13% +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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -54 111 £62,500 +13.64% 45
Yorkshire -70 63 £46,000 -23.33% 29
North East -40 14 £60,000 +166.67% 10
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 61 (32.45%) Confluence
2 13 (6.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (6.91%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.13%) CMS
4 2 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.06%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.06%) WordPress
5 1 (0.53%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 18 (9.57%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (4.79%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (2.13%) Trello
5 3 (1.60%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (4.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (3.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.53%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.53%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.53%) Shopify
3 1 (0.53%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 60 (31.91%) Azure
2 37 (19.68%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (14.36%) Power Platform
4 20 (10.64%) GitHub
5 19 (10.11%) AWS
6 18 (9.57%) Dynamics 365
7 14 (7.45%) Boomi
8 10 (5.32%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (4.26%) SaaS
9 8 (4.26%) Smartsheet
10 6 (3.19%) GCP
10 6 (3.19%) Google Docs
10 6 (3.19%) Google Sheets
10 6 (3.19%) Google Workspace
11 5 (2.66%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (2.66%) Power Automate
12 4 (2.13%) Dropbox
12 4 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.66%) HTTP
2 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.17%) Power BI
2 13 (6.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 10 (5.32%) NoSQL
4 8 (4.26%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.66%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.66%) Tableau
7 4 (2.13%) Big Data
7 4 (2.13%) MySQL
7 4 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.60%) Power Query
8 3 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.06%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.06%) Mixpanel
10 1 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.53%) Looker
10 1 (0.53%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (8.51%) Git
2 7 (3.72%) GitLab
2 7 (3.72%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.72%) Postman
3 6 (3.19%) SonarQube
4 5 (2.66%) Artifactory
4 5 (2.66%) REST Assured
5 4 (2.13%) Cucumber
5 4 (2.13%) JUnit
6 3 (1.60%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (1.60%) Selenium
6 3 (1.60%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.06%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.06%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (1.06%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.06%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.53%) Gatling
8 1 (0.53%) TestRail
8 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 62 (32.98%) Social Skills
2 51 (27.13%) Finance
3 31 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.04%) Manufacturing
4 17 (9.04%) Marketing
4 17 (9.04%) Retail
5 11 (5.85%) Games
6 10 (5.32%) Banking
7 9 (4.79%) Law
8 8 (4.26%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.66%) Advertising
9 5 (2.66%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.60%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.06%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.53%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.53%) Legal
Job Titles
1 32 (17.02%) Senior
2 31 (16.49%) Developer
3 23 (12.23%) Analyst
4 19 (10.11%) Lead
5 16 (8.51%) Senior Developer
6 14 (7.45%) Project Manager
7 10 (5.32%) Architect
7 10 (5.32%) Delivery Manager
7 10 (5.32%) IT Manager
8 9 (4.79%) Business Analyst
9 8 (4.26%) Java Developer
9 8 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (3.72%) Lead Architect
10 7 (3.72%) Lead Solutions Architect
10 7 (3.72%) Operations Manager
11 6 (3.19%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (3.19%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (3.19%) IT Project Manager
11 6 (3.19%) IT Support
11 6 (3.19%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.64%) REST
2 18 (9.57%) JSON
3 15 (7.98%) CSS
3 15 (7.98%) Middleware
4 14 (7.45%) HTML
5 12 (6.38%) EDI
5 12 (6.38%) SOAP
5 12 (6.38%) XML
6 8 (4.26%) Playwright
6 8 (4.26%) RESTful
7 7 (3.72%) AngularJS
7 7 (3.72%) Spring
7 7 (3.72%) Spring Boot
8 6 (3.19%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (3.19%) React
9 5 (2.66%) .NET
9 5 (2.66%) Vue
10 4 (2.13%) PySpark
10 4 (2.13%) YAML
11 3 (1.60%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.11%) Product Ownership
2 12 (6.38%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (5.32%) Driving Licence
4 9 (4.79%) Enterprise Cloud
5 7 (3.72%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (3.72%) PMI
6 6 (3.19%) Life Science
6 6 (3.19%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.13%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.60%) Private Cloud
9 2 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.06%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.06%) NHS
10 1 (0.53%) CMDB
10 1 (0.53%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.53%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.53%) Marketing Technology
10 1 (0.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.38%) Windows
2 8 (4.26%) Linux
3 6 (3.19%) Windows 10
3 6 (3.19%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (56.38%) Agile
2 71 (37.77%) DevOps
3 57 (30.32%) Stakeholder Management
4 52 (27.66%) Scrum
5 46 (24.47%) Continuous Improvement
5 46 (24.47%) ERP
6 45 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (22.87%) CI/CD
8 33 (17.55%) Project Management
8 33 (17.55%) Roadmaps
9 30 (15.96%) CRM
10 29 (15.43%) Kanban
10 29 (15.43%) Service Management
11 22 (11.70%) Release Management
12 21 (11.17%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 21 (11.17%) Software Delivery
13 20 (10.64%) Decision-Making
13 20 (10.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 19 (10.11%) User Experience
14 19 (10.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 43 (22.87%) SQL
2 23 (12.23%) JavaScript
3 20 (10.64%) Java
4 17 (9.04%) Python
5 12 (6.38%) PowerShell
6 7 (3.72%) C#
7 4 (2.13%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.60%) Groovy
8 3 (1.60%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.06%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.53%) C
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 31 (16.49%) Degree
2 15 (7.98%) PMI Certification
3 13 (6.91%) BPSS Clearance
3 13 (6.91%) Security Cleared
4 9 (4.79%) PMP
5 8 (4.26%) ISTQB
6 7 (3.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (3.19%) A+ Certification
7 6 (3.19%) HNC
7 6 (3.19%) HND
7 6 (3.19%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 6 (3.19%) SC Cleared
8 5 (2.66%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (1.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (1.06%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.06%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.53%) CBAP
11 1 (0.53%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.53%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.53%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.04%) QA
2 12 (6.38%) TickIT
3 8 (4.26%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.72%) PMO
5 6 (3.19%) GRC
6 5 (2.66%) GDPR
7 4 (2.13%) Accessibility
8 2 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (1.06%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.06%) WCAG
9 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.53%) GxP
9 1 (0.53%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.53%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 15288
9 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 9 (4.79%) Docker
2 7 (3.72%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.06%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (3.72%) Terraform
2 6 (3.19%) Ansible
2 6 (3.19%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.60%) Grafana
3 3 (1.60%) Packer
4 2 (1.06%) Control-M
4 2 (1.06%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 43 (22.87%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.17%) SAP
3 16 (8.51%) ServiceNow
4 10 (5.32%) Oracle
5 8 (4.26%) Freshdesk
5 8 (4.26%) Google
6 7 (3.72%) Siemens
7 6 (3.19%) Atlassian
7 6 (3.19%) Cisco
7 6 (3.19%) Citrix
7 6 (3.19%) Databricks
7 6 (3.19%) IBM
7 6 (3.19%) Meraki
7 6 (3.19%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.13%) Sage
9 3 (1.60%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.06%) Amplitude
10 2 (1.06%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.06%) VMware
11 1 (0.53%) Dataiku