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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 108 132
Rank change year-on-year -54 +24 -10
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 217 272 217
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.90% 2.86% 1.64%
As % of the Development Applications category 27.06% 49.54% 23.38%
Number of salaries quoted 119 100 93
10th Percentile £33,400 £34,775 £37,650
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +1.85%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,531 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,250 £86,375 £97,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -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 802 549 928
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.34% 5.77% 7.01%
Number of salaries quoted 496 306 521
10th Percentile £37,500 £28,750 £37,574
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,884 £79,375 £76,250
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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -45 120 £55,000 +10.00% 99
Yorkshire -30 70 £42,500 -10.53% 94
North East -59 27 £61,250 +18.93% 23
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 (28.11%) Confluence
2 17 (7.83%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.84%) CMS
3 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.92%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.92%) WordPress
5 1 (0.46%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.46%) SAS
Applications
1 24 (11.06%) Microsoft Project
2 22 (10.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (9.68%) MS Visio
4 20 (9.22%) Microsoft Office
5 11 (5.07%) Trello
6 3 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.92%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.92%) InVision
7 2 (0.92%) Sketch
8 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 14 (6.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.84%) Sage 200
2 4 (1.84%) SAP Business One
2 4 (1.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.46%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 64 (29.49%) Azure
2 41 (18.89%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (14.29%) AWS
4 26 (11.98%) GitHub
5 17 (7.83%) Power Platform
6 14 (6.45%) SaaS
7 13 (5.99%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (5.53%) Serverless
9 11 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (5.07%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (4.61%) Amazon S3
11 8 (3.69%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (3.69%) IaaS
12 6 (2.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (2.76%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.76%) GCP
13 5 (2.30%) Boomi
13 5 (2.30%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.07%) DNS
2 9 (4.15%) Firewall
3 8 (3.69%) Network Security
4 7 (3.23%) BIG-IP
4 7 (3.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 7 (3.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (1.38%) DHCP
5 3 (1.38%) HTTP
6 2 (0.92%) BGP
6 2 (0.92%) CTI
6 2 (0.92%) DMZ
6 2 (0.92%) IPsec
6 2 (0.92%) NX-OS
6 2 (0.92%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.92%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.92%) WAN
7 1 (0.46%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.46%) RTP
7 1 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.37%) Power BI
2 11 (5.07%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (2.30%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.38%) MySQL
5 3 (1.38%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.92%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.92%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.92%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.92%) Tableau
7 1 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.46%) Mixpanel
7 1 (0.46%) Power Query
7 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.46%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.46%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 14 (6.45%) Jenkins
2 11 (5.07%) GitLab
3 9 (4.15%) Bitbucket
4 8 (3.69%) Git
5 6 (2.76%) Artifactory
5 6 (2.76%) Cypress.io
5 6 (2.76%) Postman
6 5 (2.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (2.30%) JMeter
7 3 (1.38%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.38%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.38%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.92%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.92%) Balsamiq
8 2 (0.92%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.92%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.46%) Gemini Tracker
9 1 (0.46%) Selenium
9 1 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.46%) TestComplete
General
1 69 (31.80%) Social Skills
2 60 (27.65%) Finance
3 48 (22.12%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.76%) Retail
5 17 (7.83%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (5.07%) Law
8 10 (4.61%) Banking
8 10 (4.61%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.69%) Games
9 8 (3.69%) Marketing
10 6 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.76%) Legal
11 5 (2.30%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.38%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.92%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.92%) Automotive
14 2 (0.92%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 67 (30.88%) Analyst
2 36 (16.59%) Business Analyst
3 24 (11.06%) Senior
4 22 (10.14%) Project Manager
5 17 (7.83%) IT Manager
6 15 (6.91%) Developer
7 14 (6.45%) Delivery Manager
8 12 (5.53%) IT Analyst
9 10 (4.61%) Coordinator
9 10 (4.61%) IT Project Manager
9 10 (4.61%) Project Coordinator
10 9 (4.15%) Service Analyst
11 8 (3.69%) Change Analyst
11 8 (3.69%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.69%) Senior Analyst
11 8 (3.69%) Senior Business Analyst
12 7 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (3.23%) Senior Developer
12 7 (3.23%) Support Analyst
12 7 (3.23%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.99%) Terraform
2 9 (4.15%) REST
3 8 (3.69%) Gherkin
3 8 (3.69%) Playwright
4 7 (3.23%) JSON
4 7 (3.23%) Middleware
4 7 (3.23%) Node.js
5 6 (2.76%) CSS
5 6 (2.76%) HTML
5 6 (2.76%) RESTful
5 6 (2.76%) SOAP
5 6 (2.76%) XML
6 5 (2.30%) .NET
6 5 (2.30%) AngularJS
6 5 (2.30%) EDI
6 5 (2.30%) Spring
6 5 (2.30%) Spring Boot
7 4 (1.84%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.84%) React
8 2 (0.92%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.76%) Enterprise Software
2 18 (8.29%) Product Ownership
3 16 (7.37%) Driving Licence
4 12 (5.53%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.23%) PMI
5 7 (3.23%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.76%) Management Information System
7 5 (2.30%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (1.38%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.38%) Life Science
8 3 (1.38%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.38%) SystemC
9 2 (0.92%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.92%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.92%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (0.92%) PKI
9 2 (0.92%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.53%) Linux
2 10 (4.61%) Windows
3 3 (1.38%) Unix
4 1 (0.46%) VMS
4 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (58.53%) Agile
2 72 (33.18%) DevOps
3 66 (30.41%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (30.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 59 (27.19%) Continuous Improvement
5 49 (22.58%) Project Management
5 49 (22.58%) Scrum
6 42 (19.35%) CI/CD
7 41 (18.89%) Decision-Making
8 38 (17.51%) User Stories
9 36 (16.59%) AI
9 36 (16.59%) Software Delivery
10 35 (16.13%) Business Analysis
10 35 (16.13%) ERP
11 34 (15.67%) Requirements Gathering
12 33 (15.21%) CRM
12 33 (15.21%) SDLC
13 32 (14.75%) ITIL
14 31 (14.29%) Service Management
15 30 (13.82%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 46 (21.20%) SQL
2 28 (12.90%) Python
3 12 (5.53%) JavaScript
4 11 (5.07%) PowerShell
4 11 (5.07%) TypeScript
5 9 (4.15%) Java
6 8 (3.69%) C#
7 7 (3.23%) ActionScript
8 3 (1.38%) C++
8 3 (1.38%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.92%) Bash
9 2 (0.92%) C
9 2 (0.92%) R
9 2 (0.92%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.92%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.46%) Bicep
10 1 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.46%) Go
10 1 (0.46%) PHP
Qualifications
1 35 (16.13%) Degree
2 21 (9.68%) Security Cleared
3 14 (6.45%) ITIL Certification
3 14 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 13 (5.99%) PMI Certification
5 10 (4.61%) PMP
6 7 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.30%) AWS Certification
7 5 (2.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (2.30%) DBS Check
7 5 (2.30%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.84%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.38%) IIBA
9 3 (1.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.92%) CCIE
10 2 (0.92%) CCNA
10 2 (0.92%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.60%) QA
2 14 (6.45%) PMO
3 8 (3.69%) Data Quality
4 7 (3.23%) GDPR
4 7 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (3.23%) SLA
5 6 (2.76%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 5 (2.30%) TickIT
7 3 (1.38%) WCAG
8 2 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.92%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.46%) AQAP
9 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.46%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.46%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.46%) SEPA
9 1 (0.46%) TARGET2
System Software
1 10 (4.61%) Docker
2 5 (2.30%) vSphere
3 2 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (4.61%) Ansible
2 9 (4.15%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.30%) Grafana
4 3 (1.38%) Control-M
4 3 (1.38%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (0.92%) FortiGate
5 2 (0.92%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (0.46%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.46%) Opsview
6 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 52 (23.96%) Microsoft
2 18 (8.29%) SAP
3 17 (7.83%) ServiceNow
4 11 (5.07%) Oracle
5 9 (4.15%) F5
5 9 (4.15%) YouTube
6 8 (3.69%) Splunk
7 7 (3.23%) Atlassian
7 7 (3.23%) Sage
7 7 (3.23%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.76%) Cisco
9 5 (2.30%) VMware
10 4 (1.84%) Google
10 4 (1.84%) UiPath
11 2 (0.92%) Adobe
11 2 (0.92%) BMC
11 2 (0.92%) Liquidlogic
11 2 (0.92%) Pega
11 2 (0.92%) Remedy
11 2 (0.92%) Zscaler