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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 69 91
Rank change year-on-year -80 +22 +30
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 177 229 423
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.08% 3.58% 2.67%
As % of the Development Applications category 25.29% 37.79% 30.09%
Number of salaries quoted 125 153 310
10th Percentile £36,750 £21,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,748 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £76,250 £78,006
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 700 606 1,406
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.28% 9.49% 8.87%
Number of salaries quoted 521 453 1,133
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £45,000 £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 £68,750 £77,500 £73,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £91,547 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 8 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 8 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 -44 93 £65,000 +16.07% 60
Yorkshire -69 66 £46,000 -5.17% 37
North East -38 18 £56,250 +150.00% 18
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 (40.68%) Confluence
2 10 (5.65%) SharePoint
3 8 (4.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (2.82%) CMS
5 2 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.13%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.56%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.56%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (6.78%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (4.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.69%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.69%) Trello
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.56%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.56%) Shopify
2 1 (0.56%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 52 (29.38%) Azure
2 25 (14.12%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (10.17%) AWS
4 16 (9.04%) Power Platform
5 15 (8.47%) GitHub
6 12 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (5.08%) SaaS
8 8 (4.52%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (3.95%) Boomi
9 7 (3.95%) Google Workspace
10 6 (3.39%) Figma
10 6 (3.39%) Google Docs
10 6 (3.39%) Google Sheets
11 5 (2.82%) GCP
11 5 (2.82%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (2.82%) Smartsheet
12 4 (2.26%) Dropbox
12 4 (2.26%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (1.69%) Adobe Analytics
13 3 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.82%) HTTP
2 1 (0.56%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.21%) NoSQL
1 11 (6.21%) Power BI
2 6 (3.39%) MongoDB
2 6 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (3.39%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (2.82%) Tableau
4 4 (2.26%) Big Data
4 4 (2.26%) MySQL
5 3 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.69%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.13%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.56%) Looker
7 1 (0.56%) Mixpanel
7 1 (0.56%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 19 (10.73%) Git
2 8 (4.52%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.95%) GitLab
4 6 (3.39%) Cucumber
4 6 (3.39%) Postman
5 5 (2.82%) JUnit
5 5 (2.82%) REST Assured
5 5 (2.82%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.26%) Artifactory
6 4 (2.26%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.26%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (1.69%) JMeter
7 3 (1.69%) Selenium
8 2 (1.13%) Appium
8 2 (1.13%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.13%) JIRA Agile
8 2 (1.13%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.56%) Gatling
9 1 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (38.42%) Social Skills
2 50 (28.25%) Finance
3 25 (14.12%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (11.86%) Manufacturing
5 12 (6.78%) Banking
6 10 (5.65%) Marketing
7 9 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (3.95%) Advertising
8 7 (3.95%) Law
9 6 (3.39%) Retail
10 5 (2.82%) Public Sector
11 4 (2.26%) Games
11 4 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.13%) Avionics
13 1 (0.56%) Billing
13 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (14.12%) Developer
1 25 (14.12%) Senior
2 24 (13.56%) Lead
3 23 (12.99%) Analyst
4 15 (8.47%) Architect
5 13 (7.34%) Solutions Architect
6 12 (6.78%) Lead Architect
6 12 (6.78%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 9 (5.08%) Systems Engineer
8 8 (4.52%) Java Developer
8 8 (4.52%) Project Manager
9 7 (3.95%) Applications Support
9 7 (3.95%) JIRA Developer
9 7 (3.95%) Operations Manager
9 7 (3.95%) Senior Developer
10 6 (3.39%) 2nd Line Support
10 6 (3.39%) Senior Manager
10 6 (3.39%) Senior Strategy Manager
10 6 (3.39%) Service Manager
10 6 (3.39%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.91%) REST
2 12 (6.78%) CSS
3 11 (6.21%) HTML
4 9 (5.08%) JSON
4 9 (5.08%) RESTful
5 8 (4.52%) AngularJS
5 8 (4.52%) Middleware
5 8 (4.52%) Playwright
5 8 (4.52%) React
5 8 (4.52%) Spring
5 8 (4.52%) Spring Boot
6 5 (2.82%) EDI
6 5 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (2.82%) SOAP
6 5 (2.82%) XML
7 4 (2.26%) PySpark
7 4 (2.26%) Vue
7 4 (2.26%) YAML
8 3 (1.69%) Kafka
8 3 (1.69%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.73%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.52%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.26%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.26%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (2.26%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.26%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.26%) PMI
5 3 (1.69%) Life Science
5 3 (1.69%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.13%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.13%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.13%) NHS
6 2 (1.13%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.56%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.56%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.34%) Windows
2 9 (5.08%) Linux
3 6 (3.39%) Windows 10
3 6 (3.39%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (54.24%) Agile
2 50 (28.25%) DevOps
3 49 (27.68%) Continuous Improvement
3 49 (27.68%) Stakeholder Management
4 47 (26.55%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (24.29%) CI/CD
6 41 (23.16%) Scrum
7 34 (19.21%) Service Management
8 28 (15.82%) ERP
9 27 (15.25%) ITIL
10 22 (12.43%) Roadmaps
11 21 (11.86%) Project Management
11 21 (11.86%) User Experience
12 20 (11.30%) Business Strategy
12 20 (11.30%) Kanban
13 19 (10.73%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 18 (10.17%) Change Management
15 17 (9.60%) Enterprise Architecture
15 17 (9.60%) SDLC
15 17 (9.60%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 31 (17.51%) SQL
2 29 (16.38%) JavaScript
3 20 (11.30%) Java
4 17 (9.60%) Python
5 15 (8.47%) PowerShell
6 8 (4.52%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.69%) Groovy
8 2 (1.13%) C#
8 2 (1.13%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.56%) C
9 1 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.56%) Perl
9 1 (0.56%) PHP
9 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (23.16%) Degree
2 22 (12.43%) BPSS Clearance
3 14 (7.91%) Security Cleared
4 10 (5.65%) PMI Certification
5 9 (5.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 8 (4.52%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.95%) ISTQB
7 7 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (3.95%) PMP
8 6 (3.39%) A+ Certification
8 6 (3.39%) HNC
8 6 (3.39%) HND
8 6 (3.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 4 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.26%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (1.13%) Azure Certification
11 2 (1.13%) SAFe Agilist
12 1 (0.56%) CBAP
12 1 (0.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.34%) QA
2 8 (4.52%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.39%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.82%) GDPR
4 5 (2.82%) GRC
4 5 (2.82%) TickIT
5 3 (1.69%) PMO
6 2 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.13%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.56%) GxP
7 1 (0.56%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.56%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.56%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (5.08%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.39%) Docker
3 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (3.95%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.39%) Terraform
3 5 (2.82%) Ansible
3 5 (2.82%) Grafana
4 4 (2.26%) Control-M
5 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.69%) Packer
5 3 (1.69%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.56%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 31 (17.51%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.04%) SAP
3 12 (6.78%) Atlassian
3 12 (6.78%) Siemens
4 8 (4.52%) Freshdesk
4 8 (4.52%) Google
4 8 (4.52%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.95%) IBM
6 6 (3.39%) Cisco
6 6 (3.39%) Citrix
6 6 (3.39%) Databricks
6 6 (3.39%) Meraki
7 5 (2.82%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.26%) Oracle
9 3 (1.69%) Adobe
9 3 (1.69%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.69%) Qualtrics
10 2 (1.13%) HubSpot
10 2 (1.13%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.13%) Proofpoint