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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 92 103
Rank change year-on-year -59 +11 +18
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 191 219 420
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.05% 3.08% 2.52%
As % of the Development Applications category 26.68% 37.06% 29.52%
Number of salaries quoted 142 155 304
10th Percentile £37,500 £21,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,471 £41,438 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,840 £75,772
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 716 591 1,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.92% 8.32% 8.55%
Number of salaries quoted 527 444 1,152
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,975 £35,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £45,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,140 £76,840 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,750 £91,354 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 1 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 1 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 -20 109 £65,000 +18.18% 40
Yorkshire -74 67 £46,000 -5.17% 41
North East -31 15 £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 71 (37.17%) Confluence
2 13 (6.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (6.28%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.05%) CMS
5 1 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 15 (7.85%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (4.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.57%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.57%) Trello
5 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (2.09%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.52%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (0.52%) Shopify
2 1 (0.52%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 61 (31.94%) Azure
2 38 (19.90%) Azure DevOps
3 26 (13.61%) Power Platform
4 21 (10.99%) GitHub
5 19 (9.95%) AWS
6 17 (8.90%) Dynamics 365
7 14 (7.33%) Boomi
8 9 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (4.19%) SaaS
9 8 (4.19%) Smartsheet
10 7 (3.66%) Google Workspace
11 6 (3.14%) Google Docs
11 6 (3.14%) Google Sheets
12 5 (2.62%) GCP
12 5 (2.62%) Microsoft Copilot
13 4 (2.09%) Dropbox
13 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Purview
13 4 (2.09%) Power Automate
14 3 (1.57%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (1.57%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.62%) HTTP
2 1 (0.52%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (10.99%) Power BI
2 13 (6.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 11 (5.76%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.66%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.14%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (3.14%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.62%) Tableau
7 4 (2.09%) Big Data
7 4 (2.09%) MySQL
7 4 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.57%) Power Query
8 3 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.05%) Data Vault
9 2 (1.05%) Mixpanel
9 2 (1.05%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.52%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.52%) Looker
Development Applications
1 18 (9.42%) Git
2 7 (3.66%) GitLab
2 7 (3.66%) Jenkins
2 7 (3.66%) Postman
3 5 (2.62%) Cucumber
3 5 (2.62%) JUnit
3 5 (2.62%) REST Assured
3 5 (2.62%) SonarQube
4 4 (2.09%) Artifactory
4 4 (2.09%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (1.57%) Selenium
6 2 (1.05%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.05%) Cypress.io
6 2 (1.05%) JMeter
6 2 (1.05%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.52%) Appium
7 1 (0.52%) Gatling
7 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.52%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.52%) Zephyr
General
1 72 (37.70%) Social Skills
2 52 (27.23%) Finance
3 31 (16.23%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.95%) Manufacturing
5 17 (8.90%) Marketing
6 13 (6.81%) Retail
7 10 (5.24%) Banking
7 10 (5.24%) Games
8 8 (4.19%) Law
9 6 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (2.62%) Advertising
10 5 (2.62%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.05%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.52%) Billing
13 1 (0.52%) Legal
13 1 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 33 (17.28%) Developer
2 29 (15.18%) Senior
3 23 (12.04%) Analyst
3 23 (12.04%) Lead
4 14 (7.33%) Senior Developer
5 13 (6.81%) Architect
6 11 (5.76%) Project Manager
6 11 (5.76%) Solutions Architect
7 10 (5.24%) Delivery Manager
7 10 (5.24%) Lead Architect
7 10 (5.24%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 8 (4.19%) Business Analyst
8 8 (4.19%) Java Developer
9 7 (3.66%) JIRA Developer
9 7 (3.66%) Operations Manager
10 6 (3.14%) 2nd Line Support
10 6 (3.14%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (3.14%) IT Manager
10 6 (3.14%) IT Support
10 6 (3.14%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.99%) REST
2 18 (9.42%) JSON
3 15 (7.85%) CSS
3 15 (7.85%) Middleware
4 14 (7.33%) HTML
5 12 (6.28%) EDI
5 12 (6.28%) SOAP
5 12 (6.28%) XML
6 9 (4.71%) RESTful
7 8 (4.19%) AngularJS
7 8 (4.19%) Playwright
7 8 (4.19%) Spring
7 8 (4.19%) Spring Boot
8 6 (3.14%) React
9 5 (2.62%) .NET
9 5 (2.62%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (2.62%) Vue
10 4 (2.09%) PySpark
10 4 (2.09%) YAML
11 3 (1.57%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.47%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.71%) Enterprise Cloud
3 8 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (4.19%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.66%) Driving Licence
4 7 (3.66%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.14%) PMI
6 4 (2.09%) Life Science
6 4 (2.09%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.57%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.05%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.05%) NHS
9 1 (0.52%) CMDB
9 1 (0.52%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.52%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.52%) Marketing Technology
9 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.76%) Windows
2 8 (4.19%) Linux
3 6 (3.14%) Windows 10
3 6 (3.14%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (54.45%) Agile
2 68 (35.60%) DevOps
3 54 (28.27%) Scrum
4 52 (27.23%) Stakeholder Management
5 51 (26.70%) Problem-Solving
6 50 (26.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 44 (23.04%) CI/CD
8 41 (21.47%) ERP
9 33 (17.28%) Service Management
10 32 (16.75%) Roadmaps
11 30 (15.71%) Kanban
12 28 (14.66%) Project Management
13 24 (12.57%) CRM
14 22 (11.52%) ITIL
14 22 (11.52%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 21 (10.99%) Release Management
16 19 (9.95%) User Experience
17 18 (9.42%) Decision-Making
17 18 (9.42%) SDLC
17 18 (9.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 41 (21.47%) SQL
2 28 (14.66%) JavaScript
3 20 (10.47%) Java
4 16 (8.38%) Python
5 15 (7.85%) PowerShell
6 6 (3.14%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.62%) C#
8 3 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.57%) Groovy
8 3 (1.57%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.05%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.52%) C
10 1 (0.52%) Perl
10 1 (0.52%) PHP
10 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.52%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 35 (18.32%) Degree
2 17 (8.90%) BPSS Clearance
3 14 (7.33%) PMI Certification
3 14 (7.33%) Security Cleared
4 9 (4.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 8 (4.19%) PMP
6 7 (3.66%) ISTQB
6 7 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (3.66%) SC Cleared
7 6 (3.14%) A+ Certification
7 6 (3.14%) HNC
7 6 (3.14%) HND
7 6 (3.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (1.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.05%) Azure Certification
9 2 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.05%) SAFe Agilist
10 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.38%) QA
2 12 (6.28%) TickIT
3 8 (4.19%) Data Quality
3 8 (4.19%) PMO
4 6 (3.14%) GRC
5 5 (2.62%) GDPR
6 4 (2.09%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.05%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.05%) WCAG
8 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.52%) GxP
8 1 (0.52%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.52%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 8 (4.19%) Docker
2 7 (3.66%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (3.66%) Terraform
2 6 (3.14%) Ansible
2 6 (3.14%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.57%) Grafana
3 3 (1.57%) Packer
4 2 (1.05%) Control-M
5 1 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 37 (19.37%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.42%) SAP
3 12 (6.28%) ServiceNow
4 10 (5.24%) Atlassian
4 10 (5.24%) Siemens
5 9 (4.71%) Google
6 8 (4.19%) Freshdesk
7 7 (3.66%) IBM
8 6 (3.14%) Cisco
8 6 (3.14%) Citrix
8 6 (3.14%) Databricks
8 6 (3.14%) Meraki
8 6 (3.14%) Oracle
8 6 (3.14%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.57%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.57%) Sage
10 2 (1.05%) Amplitude
10 2 (1.05%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.52%) Alteryx
11 1 (0.52%) Foundry