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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 91 117
Rank change year-on-year -49 +26 +10
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 251 333 289
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.14% 3.45% 1.91%
As % of the Development Applications category 30.50% 51.31% 25.53%
Number of salaries quoted 182 157 170
10th Percentile £34,325 £21,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £71,875 £76,250 £70,649
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £110,000
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 823 649 1,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.72% 6.71% 7.46%
Number of salaries quoted 574 386 794
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.48% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £74,987 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -40 135 £60,000 +11.63% 41
Yorkshire -27 85 £43,000 -14.00% 31
North East -40 31 £60,000 +85.69% 20
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 79 (31.47%) Confluence
2 21 (8.37%) SharePoint
3 13 (5.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.99%) CMS
5 2 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.80%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.80%) WordPress
6 1 (0.40%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 28 (11.16%) Microsoft Project
2 21 (8.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 18 (7.17%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (7.17%) MS Visio
4 12 (4.78%) Trello
5 2 (0.80%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.80%) InVision
5 2 (0.80%) Sketch
6 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (5.58%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.99%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.59%) Sage 200
3 4 (1.59%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.40%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 89 (35.46%) Azure
2 55 (21.91%) Azure DevOps
3 35 (13.94%) AWS
4 29 (11.55%) Power Platform
5 26 (10.36%) GitHub
6 17 (6.77%) Dynamics 365
7 15 (5.98%) Microsoft 365
8 13 (5.18%) Boomi
9 12 (4.78%) SaaS
10 10 (3.98%) GCP
10 10 (3.98%) Serverless
11 9 (3.59%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (3.19%) Amazon S3
12 8 (3.19%) Smartsheet
13 7 (2.79%) Microsoft Copilot
14 6 (2.39%) Figma
15 5 (1.99%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (1.99%) AWS CloudFormation
15 5 (1.99%) AWS Fargate
16 4 (1.59%) Dropbox
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.99%) HTTP
2 2 (0.80%) BGP
2 2 (0.80%) DMZ
2 2 (0.80%) IPsec
2 2 (0.80%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.80%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.80%) WAN
3 1 (0.40%) DHCP
3 1 (0.40%) DNS
3 1 (0.40%) Network Security
3 1 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.56%) Power BI
2 13 (5.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 12 (4.78%) SQL Server
4 9 (3.59%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (2.79%) Tableau
7 6 (2.39%) MySQL
8 5 (1.99%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.99%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.59%) Big Data
10 3 (1.20%) Power Query
10 3 (1.20%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.80%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.80%) Mixpanel
11 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
12 1 (0.40%) Looker
12 1 (0.40%) Star Schema
12 1 (0.40%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 18 (7.17%) Git
2 8 (3.19%) Bitbucket
2 8 (3.19%) GitLab
2 8 (3.19%) Jenkins
3 7 (2.79%) Postman
4 6 (2.39%) Artifactory
4 6 (2.39%) SonarQube
5 5 (1.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (1.99%) REST Assured
6 4 (1.59%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.20%) Selenium
7 3 (1.20%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.20%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.80%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.80%) Balsamiq
8 2 (0.80%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.80%) JUnit
8 2 (0.80%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.40%) TestComplete
General
1 79 (31.47%) Finance
2 77 (30.68%) Social Skills
3 49 (19.52%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (9.56%) Retail
5 18 (7.17%) Marketing
5 18 (7.17%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.98%) Law
7 12 (4.78%) Banking
7 12 (4.78%) Games
8 11 (4.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.99%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.99%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.59%) Advertising
11 4 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.20%) Legal
12 3 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.80%) Automotive
13 2 (0.80%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 56 (22.31%) Analyst
2 36 (14.34%) Senior
3 31 (12.35%) Business Analyst
4 28 (11.16%) Developer
5 25 (9.96%) Project Manager
6 18 (7.17%) IT Manager
7 15 (5.98%) Senior Developer
8 14 (5.58%) Delivery Manager
9 13 (5.18%) IT Analyst
10 11 (4.38%) Scrum Master
11 10 (3.98%) IT Project Manager
11 10 (3.98%) Lead
12 9 (3.59%) Coordinator
12 9 (3.59%) Project Coordinator
12 9 (3.59%) Service Analyst
13 8 (3.19%) Change Analyst
13 8 (3.19%) DevOps Engineer
14 7 (2.79%) IT Support
14 7 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
14 7 (2.79%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.57%) REST
2 18 (7.17%) JSON
3 15 (5.98%) Middleware
4 13 (5.18%) CSS
4 13 (5.18%) HTML
4 13 (5.18%) SOAP
4 13 (5.18%) XML
5 12 (4.78%) EDI
6 9 (3.59%) AngularJS
6 9 (3.59%) Spring
6 9 (3.59%) Spring Boot
7 7 (2.79%) .NET
7 7 (2.79%) Node.js
7 7 (2.79%) Playwright
7 7 (2.79%) React
8 6 (2.39%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (1.99%) RESTful
9 5 (1.99%) Vue
10 3 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (1.20%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.37%) Product Ownership
2 16 (6.37%) Driving Licence
2 16 (6.37%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (3.98%) PMI
4 9 (3.59%) Enterprise Cloud
5 7 (2.79%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (2.39%) Life Science
6 6 (2.39%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.20%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.20%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.20%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.20%) SystemC
8 2 (0.80%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.80%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (0.80%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.80%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.80%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.80%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.78%) Linux
2 8 (3.19%) Windows
3 2 (0.80%) Unix
4 1 (0.40%) VMS
4 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (59.76%) Agile
2 96 (38.25%) DevOps
3 77 (30.68%) Stakeholder Management
4 67 (26.69%) Scrum
5 63 (25.10%) Continuous Improvement
6 59 (23.51%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (22.71%) Project Management
8 51 (20.32%) CI/CD
9 46 (18.33%) Decision-Making
10 45 (17.93%) ERP
11 44 (17.53%) CRM
12 40 (15.94%) Kanban
13 38 (15.14%) Software Delivery
14 37 (14.74%) Service Management
15 36 (14.34%) Roadmaps
16 33 (13.15%) SDLC
17 32 (12.75%) Requirements Gathering
17 32 (12.75%) Waterfall
18 30 (11.95%) Business Analysis
19 28 (11.16%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 55 (21.91%) SQL
2 30 (11.95%) Python
3 22 (8.76%) Java
4 19 (7.57%) JavaScript
5 14 (5.58%) PowerShell
6 9 (3.59%) C#
7 5 (1.99%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.59%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.20%) C
9 3 (1.20%) C++
9 3 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.20%) Groovy
10 2 (0.80%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.80%) PHP
10 2 (0.80%) R
10 2 (0.80%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.80%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.40%) Bicep
11 1 (0.40%) Perl
Qualifications
1 41 (16.33%) Degree
2 21 (8.37%) PMI Certification
3 20 (7.97%) Security Cleared
4 16 (6.37%) ITIL Certification
5 15 (5.98%) PMP
6 12 (4.78%) SC Cleared
7 8 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (2.39%) ISTQB
9 5 (1.99%) AWS Certification
9 5 (1.99%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 5 (1.99%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.59%) DBS Check
11 3 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 2 (0.80%) CBAP
12 2 (0.80%) CCIE
12 2 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.80%) CSPO
12 2 (0.80%) IIBA
12 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.16%) QA
2 15 (5.98%) PMO
3 12 (4.78%) TickIT
4 11 (4.38%) GDPR
5 10 (3.98%) Data Quality
6 8 (3.19%) Accessibility
7 7 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (2.39%) GRC
8 6 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 4 (1.59%) WCAG
10 2 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.80%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.80%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.40%) AQAP
11 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 13 (5.18%) Docker
2 3 (1.20%) vSphere
3 2 (0.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (4.38%) Terraform
2 10 (3.98%) Ansible
3 8 (3.19%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.99%) Grafana
5 3 (1.20%) Control-M
5 3 (1.20%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (1.20%) Packer
6 2 (0.80%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.40%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 56 (22.31%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.97%) SAP
3 16 (6.37%) ServiceNow
4 11 (4.38%) Oracle
4 11 (4.38%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.98%) Cisco
6 8 (3.19%) Splunk
7 7 (2.79%) Meraki
7 7 (2.79%) Sage
8 6 (2.39%) Databricks
9 5 (1.99%) Google
10 3 (1.20%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.20%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.20%) Freshdesk
10 3 (1.20%) IBM
10 3 (1.20%) VMware
11 2 (0.80%) Amplitude
11 2 (0.80%) Liquidlogic
11 2 (0.80%) UiPath
11 2 (0.80%) Zscaler