JIRA Jobs in the North West

Atlassian JIRA
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring JIRA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited JIRA over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 95 141
Rank change year-on-year +27 +46 -77
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 370 243 183
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.76% 2.38% 2.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 46.66% 27.77% 20.49%
Number of salaries quoted 158 161 116
10th Percentile £40,748 £38,750 £31,875
25th Percentile £45,628 £46,250 £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £62,783 £57,375
Median % change year-on-year -20.36% +9.42% +22.07%
75th Percentile £63,900 £87,500 £68,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £77,715
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

All Development Application Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 793 875 893
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 10.21% 8.56% 11.70%
Number of salaries quoted 486 659 561
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,984 £37,828
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £46,549
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £55,000 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year -8.99% -4.86% +5.11%
75th Percentile £63,863 £71,841 £72,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £90,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing JIRA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for JIRA in the North West

JIRA
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing JIRA in the North West.

Salary trend for JIRA in the North West

JIRA
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the North West over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for JIRA in the North West

JIRA
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the North West region over the 6 months to 28 May 2025. 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
Cumbria - 125 £45,628 - 4
Manchester +34 115 £65,000 +27.45% 207
Cheshire +24 60 £27,500 -45.00% 127
Lancashire -30 58 £50,055 -32.18% 90
Merseyside 0 12 £45,000 -47.06% 53
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 160 (43.24%) Confluence
2 43 (11.62%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.27%) CMS
3 1 (0.27%) Headless CMS
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.27%) Moodle
3 1 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (0.27%) Totara
Applications
1 21 (5.68%) Microsoft Project
1 21 (5.68%) Trello
2 10 (2.70%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.27%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 131 (35.41%) AWS
2 129 (34.86%) Azure
3 55 (14.86%) GCP
4 7 (1.89%) GitHub
5 6 (1.62%) Miro
6 5 (1.35%) Slack
7 4 (1.08%) Figma
7 4 (1.08%) Google Workspace
7 4 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.08%) Nutanix
8 3 (0.81%) Serverless
9 2 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.54%) Azure Functions
9 2 (0.54%) Azure Machine Learning
10 1 (0.27%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.27%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.27%) Contentful
10 1 (0.27%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.27%) Stripe
10 1 (0.27%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.43%) HTTP
2 6 (1.62%) DNS
3 5 (1.35%) Firewall
4 4 (1.08%) Broadband
4 4 (1.08%) Cisco IOS
4 4 (1.08%) SSH
4 4 (1.08%) VPN
5 1 (0.27%) Bluetooth
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 11 (2.97%) NoSQL
3 10 (2.70%) MongoDB
4 7 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (1.62%) MySQL
6 4 (1.08%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.54%) Cloud Spanner
7 2 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 127 (34.32%) Bitbucket
2 121 (32.70%) Selenium
3 118 (31.89%) SonarQube
4 115 (31.08%) Cucumber
4 115 (31.08%) GitLab
5 109 (29.46%) Maven
5 109 (29.46%) Sonatype Nexus
6 21 (5.68%) eggPlant
6 21 (5.68%) Git
7 16 (4.32%) Rational DOORS
8 15 (4.05%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (1.62%) Postman
10 4 (1.08%) Appium
10 4 (1.08%) Balsamiq
10 4 (1.08%) Fiddler
10 4 (1.08%) JMeter
10 4 (1.08%) JUnit
10 4 (1.08%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.54%) TestRail
12 1 (0.27%) ClearQuest
General
1 157 (42.43%) Finance
2 124 (33.51%) Banking
3 113 (30.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 74 (20.00%) Retail
5 70 (18.92%) Corporate Banking
5 70 (18.92%) Investment Banking
6 59 (15.95%) Social Skills
7 58 (15.68%) Manufacturing
8 16 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (2.16%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.16%) Law
10 5 (1.35%) Cantonese Language
10 5 (1.35%) Mandarin Language
11 3 (0.81%) Games
11 3 (0.81%) Public Sector
12 2 (0.54%) Legal
13 1 (0.27%) Back Office
13 1 (0.27%) Marketing
13 1 (0.27%) Private Banking
13 1 (0.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 141 (38.11%) Software Engineer
2 82 (22.16%) Senior
3 66 (17.84%) Lead
4 59 (15.95%) Architect
5 58 (15.68%) Lead Architect
5 58 (15.68%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 58 (15.68%) Solutions Architect
6 38 (10.27%) Analyst
7 22 (5.95%) Test Analyst
8 21 (5.68%) Software Analyst
8 21 (5.68%) Software Test Analyst
9 17 (4.59%) Senior Software Engineer
10 15 (4.05%) Capability Manager
10 15 (4.05%) Delivery Manager
10 15 (4.05%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
11 14 (3.78%) Head of Delivery
11 14 (3.78%) Head of IT
12 13 (3.51%) Senior Analyst
13 11 (2.97%) Senior Software Test Analyst
13 11 (2.97%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (34.59%) Spring
2 121 (32.70%) Spring Boot
3 119 (32.16%) Kafka
4 115 (31.08%) CSS
4 115 (31.08%) HTML
5 112 (30.27%) React
6 110 (29.73%) Redux
7 109 (29.46%) JPA
8 76 (20.54%) RESTful
9 75 (20.27%) REST
10 71 (19.19%) Jest
11 70 (18.92%) CSS3
11 70 (18.92%) HTML5
11 70 (18.92%) Sass
12 39 (10.54%) Hibernate
13 12 (3.24%) Node.js
14 4 (1.08%) AngularJS
14 4 (1.08%) gRPC
14 4 (1.08%) LDAP
14 4 (1.08%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 125 (33.78%) Product Ownership
2 111 (30.00%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (5.41%) Social Media
4 18 (4.86%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.62%) Wiki
6 5 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.08%) Anti-Spyware
8 3 (0.81%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (0.81%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.81%) Online Games
9 2 (0.54%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.54%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.54%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.54%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.27%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.27%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.27%) Over-the-Top Content
10 1 (0.27%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.97%) Windows
2 8 (2.16%) Linux
3 6 (1.62%) Android
3 6 (1.62%) Windows Vista
4 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.27%) Unix
4 1 (0.27%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.27%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 292 (78.92%) Agile
2 146 (39.46%) Software Engineering
3 143 (38.65%) Test Automation
4 133 (35.95%) DevOps
5 131 (35.41%) CI/CD
6 130 (35.14%) SDLC
7 128 (34.59%) Microservices
8 119 (32.16%) Containerisation
9 118 (31.89%) Full-Stack Development
10 110 (29.73%) Front End Development
11 109 (29.46%) Performance Optimisation
12 98 (26.49%) Mentoring
13 87 (23.51%) User Experience
14 74 (20.00%) Migration
15 73 (19.73%) Business Strategy
15 73 (19.73%) Strategic Thinking
16 70 (18.92%) Responsive Web Design
17 61 (16.49%) Continuous Improvement
18 59 (15.95%) Enterprise Architecture
19 58 (15.68%) PLM
Programming Languages
1 153 (41.35%) Java
2 122 (32.97%) JavaScript
3 120 (32.43%) SQL
4 77 (20.81%) TypeScript
5 16 (4.32%) VB
6 15 (4.05%) Ada
6 15 (4.05%) C
6 15 (4.05%) C#
7 9 (2.43%) Python
8 1 (0.27%) Go
8 1 (0.27%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.27%) PHP
8 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.27%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 149 (40.27%) BPSS Clearance
2 104 (28.11%) Degree
3 20 (5.41%) DBS Check
3 20 (5.41%) PMI Certification
3 20 (5.41%) PMP
4 15 (4.05%) HND
5 5 (1.35%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.54%) Chartered Engineer
6 2 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.27%) MCP
7 1 (0.27%) MCSA
7 1 (0.27%) MCSE
7 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.27%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (34.05%) QA
2 77 (20.81%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.62%) SLA
4 4 (1.08%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.54%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.27%) IEC 62304
6 1 (0.27%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.27%) NCSC
6 1 (0.27%) PMO
System Software
1 126 (34.05%) Docker
2 5 (1.35%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.27%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 127 (34.32%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.08%) Ansible
2 4 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.27%) SCCM
Vendors
1 109 (29.46%) Solace
2 58 (15.68%) SAP
2 58 (15.68%) Siemens
3 51 (13.78%) Microsoft
4 21 (5.68%) Keysight
5 16 (4.32%) Atlassian
5 16 (4.32%) Google
6 12 (3.24%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.35%) Bloomberg
7 5 (1.35%) Cisco
7 5 (1.35%) VMware
8 4 (1.08%) Okta
8 4 (1.08%) Oracle
8 4 (1.08%) Perforce
8 4 (1.08%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.54%) Databricks
10 1 (0.27%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.27%) Planview
10 1 (0.27%) Revolut
10 1 (0.27%) Siebel