JIRA Job Trends in the North West

Atlassian JIRA
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring JIRA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 83 102
Rank change year-on-year -46 +19 +25
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 133 228 184
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.12% 4.41% 2.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 32.28% 53.77% 26.71%
Number of salaries quoted 99 77 111
10th Percentile £37,500 £34,100 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,125 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £75,250 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,500 £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 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 412 424 689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.48% 8.21% 8.21%
Number of salaries quoted 285 215 459
10th Percentile £34,550 £38,850 £36,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,777 £65,938
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,650 £85,000
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 West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing JIRA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

JIRA job vacancy trend in the North West

JIRA
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing JIRA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing JIRA

JIRA
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA in the North West over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

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 12 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
Manchester -39 84 £60,000 -5.88% 58
Cheshire -22 29 £70,000 +100.00% 22
Merseyside -16 11 £42,500 - 3
Lancashire -1 6 £55,000 +144.44% 8
Cumbria -21 2 £45,000 -18.18% 2
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 49 (36.84%) Confluence
2 13 (9.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (9.77%) SharePoint
3 5 (3.76%) CMS
4 2 (1.50%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (15.79%) Microsoft Project
2 8 (6.02%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (5.26%) MS Visio
3 7 (5.26%) Trello
4 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.75%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (10.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.01%) Sage 200
2 4 (3.01%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 54 (40.60%) Azure
2 43 (32.33%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (15.04%) GitHub
3 20 (15.04%) Power Platform
4 14 (10.53%) AWS
4 14 (10.53%) Dynamics 365
5 12 (9.02%) Boomi
6 11 (8.27%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (5.26%) SaaS
8 6 (4.51%) Serverless
9 5 (3.76%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (3.76%) Amazon S3
9 5 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (3.76%) AWS Fargate
9 5 (3.76%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Copilot
10 4 (3.01%) Dropbox
10 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (2.26%) GCP
11 3 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.26%) HTTP
2 2 (1.50%) BGP
2 2 (1.50%) DMZ
2 2 (1.50%) IPsec
2 2 (1.50%) SD-WAN
2 2 (1.50%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.50%) WAN
3 1 (0.75%) DHCP
3 1 (0.75%) DNS
3 1 (0.75%) Network Security
3 1 (0.75%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.28%) Power BI
2 13 (9.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (3.76%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.01%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.01%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.26%) MySQL
5 3 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.50%) Mixpanel
6 2 (1.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (6.77%) Git
2 5 (3.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 5 (3.76%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.75%) Gemini Tracker
3 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.75%) Postman
3 1 (0.75%) PyCharm
3 1 (0.75%) REST Assured
3 1 (0.75%) Selenium
3 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 46 (34.59%) Finance
2 45 (33.83%) Social Skills
3 24 (18.05%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (13.53%) Marketing
4 18 (13.53%) Retail
5 11 (8.27%) Games
6 9 (6.77%) Banking
7 8 (6.02%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (3.76%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.01%) Advertising
9 4 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (3.01%) Law
10 3 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.26%) Legal
10 3 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.50%) Automotive
11 2 (1.50%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.75%) Police
12 1 (0.75%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (17.29%) Project Manager
1 23 (17.29%) Senior
2 20 (15.04%) Developer
3 14 (10.53%) Senior Developer
4 13 (9.77%) Delivery Manager
5 12 (9.02%) Analyst
6 11 (8.27%) Business Analyst
7 10 (7.52%) IT Manager
7 10 (7.52%) IT Project Manager
8 8 (6.02%) Coordinator
8 8 (6.02%) Project Coordinator
8 8 (6.02%) Scrum Master
9 6 (4.51%) Agile Delivery Manager
10 5 (3.76%) Applications Engineer
11 4 (3.01%) ERP Manager
11 4 (3.01%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (3.01%) Head of Digital
11 4 (3.01%) Lead
11 4 (3.01%) Software Delivery Manager
11 4 (3.01%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.77%) Middleware
2 12 (9.02%) EDI
2 12 (9.02%) JSON
2 12 (9.02%) REST
2 12 (9.02%) SOAP
2 12 (9.02%) XML
3 9 (6.77%) AngularJS
3 9 (6.77%) Spring
3 9 (6.77%) Spring Boot
4 6 (4.51%) CSS
4 6 (4.51%) HTML
5 5 (3.76%) Node.js
5 5 (3.76%) RESTful
5 5 (3.76%) Vue
6 4 (3.01%) .NET
7 3 (2.26%) React
8 2 (1.50%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.50%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 2 (1.50%) Entity Framework
8 2 (1.50%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.03%) Driving Licence
2 14 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (8.27%) Product Ownership
4 9 (6.77%) Enterprise Cloud
5 8 (6.02%) PMI
6 7 (5.26%) Onboarding
7 6 (4.51%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.26%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (2.26%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.50%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.50%) Online Gambling
9 2 (1.50%) Video\Live Streaming
10 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.75%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.75%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.75%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.75%) EPoS
10 1 (0.75%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.51%) Linux
2 5 (3.76%) Windows
3 2 (1.50%) Unix
4 1 (0.75%) VMS
4 1 (0.75%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (60.15%) Agile
2 58 (43.61%) DevOps
3 48 (36.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 39 (29.32%) Project Management
4 39 (29.32%) Scrum
5 38 (28.57%) CRM
6 36 (27.07%) Continuous Improvement
6 36 (27.07%) ERP
7 32 (24.06%) Roadmaps
8 31 (23.31%) Problem-Solving
9 30 (22.56%) Software Delivery
10 29 (21.80%) CI/CD
11 25 (18.80%) Kanban
12 20 (15.04%) SDLC
12 20 (15.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 18 (13.53%) Collaborative Culture
13 18 (13.53%) Decision-Making
14 16 (12.03%) Requirements Gathering
15 15 (11.28%) Customer Service
15 15 (11.28%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 27 (20.30%) SQL
2 16 (12.03%) Python
3 12 (9.02%) Java
4 7 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.01%) C#
6 3 (2.26%) C++
7 2 (1.50%) C
7 2 (1.50%) MATLAB
7 2 (1.50%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.50%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.50%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.50%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (13.53%) Degree
2 14 (10.53%) PMI Certification
3 10 (7.52%) PMP
4 5 (3.76%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 5 (3.76%) Master's Degree
5 4 (3.01%) DBS Check
6 3 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.26%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.50%) CCIE
7 2 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.50%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.75%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.75%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.75%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (0.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.02%) TickIT
2 11 (8.27%) PMO
3 8 (6.02%) QA
4 6 (4.51%) GDPR
5 4 (3.01%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.50%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.75%) GRC
System Software
1 4 (3.01%) Docker
2 1 (0.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.01%) Terraform
2 3 (2.26%) Ansible
3 2 (1.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.50%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (0.75%) Grafana
Vendors
1 31 (23.31%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.28%) SAP
3 13 (9.77%) ServiceNow
4 11 (8.27%) Oracle
5 8 (6.02%) Splunk
6 7 (5.26%) Sage
6 7 (5.26%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.50%) Amplitude
7 2 (1.50%) Cisco
7 2 (1.50%) F5
7 2 (1.50%) Google
7 2 (1.50%) Pega
7 2 (1.50%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.75%) Databricks
8 1 (0.75%) Freshdesk
8 1 (0.75%) Liquidlogic
8 1 (0.75%) Siemens
8 1 (0.75%) Thales