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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 115 138
Rank change year-on-year -39 +23 -10
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 239 257 221
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.99% 2.71% 1.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 28.80% 48.22% 22.35%
Number of salaries quoted 145 100 110
10th Percentile £34,550 £35,000 £38,175
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,206 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +7.87%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £69,688
90th Percentile £80,000 £86,375 £97,500
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 830 533 989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.45% 5.62% 7.10%
Number of salaries quoted 525 302 588
10th Percentile £38,984 £33,750 £37,574
25th Percentile £47,000 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,008 £82,500 £76,625
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -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 September 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 September 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 -46 134 £59,500 +19.00% 128
Yorkshire -16 77 £43,000 -9.47% 82
North East -51 28 £68,750 +23.32% 31
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 (30.13%) Confluence
2 18 (7.53%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.67%) CMS
5 2 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.84%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.84%) WordPress
6 1 (0.42%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 25 (10.46%) Microsoft Project
2 24 (10.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (8.79%) MS Visio
4 20 (8.37%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (4.60%) Trello
6 3 (1.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.84%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.84%) InVision
7 2 (0.84%) Sketch
8 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (5.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.67%) Sage 200
3 4 (1.67%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.42%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 81 (33.89%) Azure
2 53 (22.18%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (16.74%) AWS
4 30 (12.55%) GitHub
5 27 (11.30%) Power Platform
6 19 (7.95%) Dynamics 365
7 15 (6.28%) Serverless
8 14 (5.86%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (5.44%) Amazon S3
9 13 (5.44%) Boomi
9 13 (5.44%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (5.02%) SaaS
11 9 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (3.77%) GCP
11 9 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (2.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (2.51%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.51%) Figma
13 5 (2.09%) AWS Fargate
13 5 (2.09%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.51%) DNS
2 5 (2.09%) Firewall
3 4 (1.67%) Network Security
4 3 (1.26%) BIG-IP
4 3 (1.26%) DHCP
4 3 (1.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (1.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (1.26%) HTTP
5 2 (0.84%) BGP
5 2 (0.84%) CTI
5 2 (0.84%) DMZ
5 2 (0.84%) IPsec
5 2 (0.84%) NX-OS
5 2 (0.84%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.84%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.84%) WAN
6 1 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.88%) Power BI
2 13 (5.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 12 (5.02%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (2.93%) Tableau
6 5 (2.09%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.67%) MySQL
8 3 (1.26%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.26%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.84%) Data Vault
9 2 (0.84%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (0.84%) Mixpanel
9 2 (0.84%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.84%) Power Query
9 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.42%) Looker
10 1 (0.42%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.42%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 13 (5.44%) Git
1 13 (5.44%) GitLab
1 13 (5.44%) Jenkins
2 9 (3.77%) Bitbucket
3 8 (3.35%) Artifactory
4 6 (2.51%) Cypress.io
4 6 (2.51%) Postman
4 6 (2.51%) SonarQube
5 5 (2.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (2.09%) JMeter
6 3 (1.26%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.26%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.26%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.26%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.84%) Axure RP
7 2 (0.84%) Balsamiq
7 2 (0.84%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.42%) TestComplete
8 1 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 79 (33.05%) Social Skills
2 68 (28.45%) Finance
3 56 (23.43%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (10.04%) Retail
5 17 (7.11%) Marketing
6 16 (6.69%) Public Sector
7 13 (5.44%) Games
8 12 (5.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (5.02%) Law
9 10 (4.18%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (3.77%) Banking
11 6 (2.51%) Legal
12 5 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (2.09%) Financial Institution
12 5 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.26%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.84%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.84%) Local Government
14 2 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.84%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (29.29%) Analyst
2 36 (15.06%) Business Analyst
3 32 (13.39%) Senior
4 26 (10.88%) Developer
5 24 (10.04%) Project Manager
6 16 (6.69%) Delivery Manager
6 16 (6.69%) IT Manager
7 14 (5.86%) Senior Developer
8 13 (5.44%) IT Analyst
9 10 (4.18%) Coordinator
9 10 (4.18%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (4.18%) Project Coordinator
10 9 (3.77%) IT Project Manager
10 9 (3.77%) Lead
10 9 (3.77%) Service Analyst
11 8 (3.35%) Change Analyst
11 8 (3.35%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (3.35%) Senior Business Analyst
12 7 (2.93%) Agile Delivery Manager
12 7 (2.93%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.37%) REST
2 18 (7.53%) JSON
3 16 (6.69%) Terraform
4 15 (6.28%) Middleware
5 13 (5.44%) SOAP
5 13 (5.44%) XML
6 12 (5.02%) EDI
7 8 (3.35%) Gherkin
7 8 (3.35%) Playwright
8 7 (2.93%) CSS
8 7 (2.93%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (2.93%) HTML
8 7 (2.93%) Node.js
8 7 (2.93%) RESTful
9 6 (2.51%) .NET
9 6 (2.51%) AngularJS
9 6 (2.51%) Spring
9 6 (2.51%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.67%) React
11 3 (1.26%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.37%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.86%) Driving Licence
2 14 (5.86%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (4.18%) PMI
4 9 (3.77%) Enterprise Cloud
5 8 (3.35%) Data Centre
6 7 (2.93%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.09%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.26%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.26%) Life Science
8 3 (1.26%) NHS
8 3 (1.26%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.26%) SystemC
9 2 (0.84%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.84%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.84%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (0.84%) Online Gambling
9 2 (0.84%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.28%) Linux
2 10 (4.18%) Windows
3 3 (1.26%) Unix
4 1 (0.42%) VMS
4 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (58.16%) Agile
2 90 (37.66%) DevOps
3 70 (29.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 67 (28.03%) Problem-Solving
5 63 (26.36%) Continuous Improvement
6 60 (25.10%) Scrum
7 53 (22.18%) Project Management
8 48 (20.08%) Decision-Making
9 45 (18.83%) CI/CD
10 41 (17.15%) ERP
11 40 (16.74%) CRM
12 38 (15.90%) Kanban
13 37 (15.48%) AI
13 37 (15.48%) Requirements Gathering
13 37 (15.48%) Software Delivery
13 37 (15.48%) User Stories
14 36 (15.06%) Business Analysis
15 33 (13.81%) SDLC
16 31 (12.97%) Coaching
16 31 (12.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 60 (25.10%) SQL
2 30 (12.55%) Python
3 13 (5.44%) Java
3 13 (5.44%) JavaScript
4 12 (5.02%) PowerShell
5 11 (4.60%) TypeScript
6 9 (3.77%) C#
7 4 (1.67%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.26%) ActionScript
8 3 (1.26%) C++
8 3 (1.26%) Groovy
9 2 (0.84%) C
9 2 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.84%) R
9 2 (0.84%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.84%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.42%) Bash
10 1 (0.42%) Bicep
10 1 (0.42%) Perl
10 1 (0.42%) PHP
Qualifications
1 38 (15.90%) Degree
2 25 (10.46%) Security Cleared
3 18 (7.53%) PMI Certification
4 15 (6.28%) SC Cleared
5 14 (5.86%) ITIL Certification
6 12 (5.02%) PMP
7 6 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (2.09%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 5 (2.09%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.67%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.67%) DV Cleared
10 3 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.84%) CBAP
11 2 (0.84%) CSPO
11 2 (0.84%) IIBA
11 2 (0.84%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (10.46%) QA
2 14 (5.86%) PMO
3 12 (5.02%) Data Quality
3 12 (5.02%) TickIT
4 8 (3.35%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.93%) GDPR
5 7 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 5 (2.09%) SLA
8 3 (1.26%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (1.26%) GRC
8 3 (1.26%) WCAG
9 2 (0.84%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.42%) AQAP
10 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 11 (4.60%) Docker
2 5 (2.09%) vSphere
3 2 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (5.02%) Ansible
2 11 (4.60%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.09%) Grafana
4 3 (1.26%) Control-M
4 3 (1.26%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (1.26%) Packer
5 2 (0.84%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.84%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (0.42%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.42%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 59 (24.69%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.53%) SAP
3 16 (6.69%) ServiceNow
4 10 (4.18%) Oracle
5 9 (3.77%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.35%) Splunk
7 7 (2.93%) Cisco
7 7 (2.93%) Sage
7 7 (2.93%) YouTube
8 6 (2.51%) Atlassian
8 6 (2.51%) Databricks
9 5 (2.09%) F5
9 5 (2.09%) Google
9 5 (2.09%) VMware
10 4 (1.67%) UiPath
11 3 (1.26%) AppDynamics
11 3 (1.26%) IBM
12 2 (0.84%) Adobe
12 2 (0.84%) BMC
12 2 (0.84%) Remedy