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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 70 92
Rank change year-on-year -80 +22 +30
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 176 237 420
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.13% 3.72% 2.68%
As % of the Development Applications category 25.21% 38.92% 30.09%
Number of salaries quoted 120 151 309
10th Percentile £35,750 £21,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,478 £38,749 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,750 £51,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -15.00% +4.35%
75th Percentile £71,563 £76,250 £78,750
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 698 609 1,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.48% 9.55% 8.89%
Number of salaries quoted 521 446 1,127
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,666 £77,335 £73,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £91,934 £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 2 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 2 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 -39 87 £65,000 +16.07% 60
Yorkshire -64 71 £46,000 -5.17% 37
North East -43 18 £52,000 +131.11% 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 68 (38.64%) Confluence
2 10 (5.68%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.98%) CMS
3 7 (3.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.70%) WordPress
5 2 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.14%) Headless CMS
5 2 (1.14%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.57%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 11 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (5.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.70%) Trello
5 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.57%) Shopify
2 1 (0.57%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 50 (28.41%) Azure
2 23 (13.07%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (9.66%) AWS
4 14 (7.95%) Power Platform
5 13 (7.39%) GitHub
6 12 (6.82%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (5.11%) SaaS
8 7 (3.98%) Google Workspace
9 6 (3.41%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (3.41%) Google Docs
9 6 (3.41%) Google Sheets
10 5 (2.84%) Figma
10 5 (2.84%) Microsoft Copilot
11 4 (2.27%) Boomi
11 4 (2.27%) Dropbox
11 4 (2.27%) GCP
11 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (2.27%) Smartsheet
12 3 (1.70%) Adobe Analytics
12 3 (1.70%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.84%) HTTP
2 1 (0.57%) DNS
2 1 (0.57%) SAN
2 1 (0.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 9 (5.11%) Power BI
3 7 (3.98%) SQL Server
4 6 (3.41%) MongoDB
4 6 (3.41%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.84%) Tableau
6 4 (2.27%) Big Data
6 4 (2.27%) MySQL
7 3 (1.70%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.70%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (1.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.14%) Data Vault
9 1 (0.57%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.57%) Looker
9 1 (0.57%) OLAP
9 1 (0.57%) Power Query
9 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 20 (11.36%) Git
2 8 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.98%) GitLab
4 6 (3.41%) Cucumber
4 6 (3.41%) Postman
5 5 (2.84%) Bitbucket
5 5 (2.84%) JUnit
5 5 (2.84%) REST Assured
5 5 (2.84%) SonarQube
6 4 (2.27%) Artifactory
6 4 (2.27%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (1.70%) JMeter
7 3 (1.70%) Selenium
8 2 (1.14%) Appium
8 2 (1.14%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.14%) JIRA Agile
8 2 (1.14%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.57%) Gatling
9 1 (0.57%) TestRail
9 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 68 (38.64%) Social Skills
2 50 (28.41%) Finance
3 21 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (11.93%) Manufacturing
4 11 (6.25%) Banking
5 9 (5.11%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (4.55%) Advertising
6 8 (4.55%) Law
7 7 (3.98%) Marketing
8 5 (2.84%) Retail
9 4 (2.27%) Games
9 4 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.27%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.14%) Automotive
10 2 (1.14%) Avionics
11 1 (0.57%) Billing
11 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.57%) Legal
11 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.57%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (16.48%) Developer
2 24 (13.64%) Lead
3 23 (13.07%) Senior
4 21 (11.93%) Analyst
5 15 (8.52%) Architect
6 13 (7.39%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (6.82%) JIRA Developer
7 12 (6.82%) Lead Architect
7 12 (6.82%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 9 (5.11%) Systems Engineer
9 8 (4.55%) Applications Support
9 8 (4.55%) Java Developer
10 7 (3.98%) Applications Support Analyst
10 7 (3.98%) Operations Manager
10 7 (3.98%) Support Analyst
11 6 (3.41%) 2nd Line Support
11 6 (3.41%) Project Manager
11 6 (3.41%) Senior Manager
11 6 (3.41%) Service Manager
11 6 (3.41%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.82%) CSS
1 12 (6.82%) REST
2 11 (6.25%) HTML
3 9 (5.11%) React
3 9 (5.11%) RESTful
4 8 (4.55%) AngularJS
4 8 (4.55%) Playwright
4 8 (4.55%) Spring
4 8 (4.55%) Spring Boot
5 7 (3.98%) JSON
6 5 (2.84%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (2.84%) Middleware
7 4 (2.27%) PySpark
7 4 (2.27%) Vue
7 4 (2.27%) YAML
8 3 (1.70%) EDI
8 3 (1.70%) gRPC
8 3 (1.70%) Kafka
8 3 (1.70%) SOAP
8 3 (1.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.23%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.27%) Driving Licence
4 4 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.27%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.70%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.70%) Life Science
5 3 (1.70%) PMI
5 3 (1.70%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.14%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.14%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.57%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.57%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.57%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.57%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.95%) Windows
2 10 (5.68%) Linux
3 6 (3.41%) Windows 10
3 6 (3.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (51.70%) Agile
2 51 (28.98%) Continuous Improvement
3 50 (28.41%) Problem-Solving
4 48 (27.27%) DevOps
5 47 (26.70%) Stakeholder Management
6 45 (25.57%) CI/CD
7 40 (22.73%) Service Management
8 39 (22.16%) Scrum
9 34 (19.32%) ITIL
10 25 (14.20%) Change Management
10 25 (14.20%) ERP
11 22 (12.50%) ITSM
12 20 (11.36%) Business Strategy
12 20 (11.36%) Computer Science
12 20 (11.36%) Project Management
12 20 (11.36%) Roadmaps
12 20 (11.36%) User Experience
13 19 (10.80%) Incident Management
14 18 (10.23%) Kanban
14 18 (10.23%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 34 (19.32%) JavaScript
2 29 (16.48%) SQL
3 20 (11.36%) Java
3 20 (11.36%) PowerShell
4 17 (9.66%) Python
5 8 (4.55%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.70%) Groovy
7 2 (1.14%) C#
7 2 (1.14%) MATLAB
7 2 (1.14%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.57%) C
8 1 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.57%) Perl
8 1 (0.57%) PHP
8 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (26.70%) Degree
2 22 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 14 (7.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 14 (7.95%) Security Cleared
4 8 (4.55%) PMI Certification
4 8 (4.55%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.98%) ISTQB
5 7 (3.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (3.41%) A+ Certification
6 6 (3.41%) HNC
6 6 (3.41%) HND
6 6 (3.41%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 6 (3.41%) PMP
7 5 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.84%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.14%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.14%) SAFe Agilist
10 1 (0.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.39%) QA
2 7 (3.98%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.41%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.41%) GDPR
4 4 (2.27%) GRC
5 3 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.70%) TickIT
6 2 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.14%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.14%) PMO
6 2 (1.14%) WCAG
7 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.57%) GxP
7 1 (0.57%) ISO 14001
7 1 (0.57%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 9 (5.11%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.41%) Docker
3 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 6 (3.41%) Grafana
2 6 (3.41%) Terraform
3 5 (2.84%) Ansible
3 5 (2.84%) Control-M
4 4 (2.27%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.70%) Packer
6 1 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 29 (16.48%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.66%) Atlassian
3 15 (8.52%) SAP
4 12 (6.82%) Siemens
5 9 (5.11%) ServiceNow
6 8 (4.55%) Freshdesk
6 8 (4.55%) Google
7 7 (3.98%) IBM
8 6 (3.41%) Cisco
8 6 (3.41%) Citrix
8 6 (3.41%) Meraki
9 5 (2.84%) Databricks
10 4 (2.27%) Oracle
10 4 (2.27%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.70%) Adobe
11 3 (1.70%) AppDynamics
11 3 (1.70%) Qualtrics
12 2 (1.14%) HubSpot
12 2 (1.14%) Proofpoint
12 2 (1.14%) Zscaler