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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 97 114
Rank change year-on-year -38 +17 0
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 49 120 88
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.78% 2.37% 1.96%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.21% 28.78% 17.92%
Number of salaries quoted 23 62 70
10th Percentile £30,650 £40,748 £36,200
25th Percentile £41,875 £44,250 £39,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £50,055 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% -8.99% -
75th Percentile £61,875 £64,725 £82,192
90th Percentile £87,250 £92,275 £90,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,560 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.10% -7.90% +4.17%

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 231 417 491
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.67% 8.24% 10.95%
Number of salaries quoted 176 253 397
10th Percentile - £37,515 £36,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +0.57%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,500 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 -15 24 £53,750 -6.52% 23
Cumbria +4 9 - - 3
Cheshire -21 8 £38,500 -50.32% 19
Lancashire 0 7 £47,683 -4.74% 13
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 24 (48.98%) Confluence
2 6 (12.24%) CMS
3 4 (8.16%) SharePoint
4 3 (6.12%) Umbraco
4 3 (6.12%) WordPress
5 1 (2.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (2.04%) Apache
5 1 (2.04%) JBoss
5 1 (2.04%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Project
1 5 (10.20%) Trello
2 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.04%) SAP IBP
2 1 (2.04%) SAP MII
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.16%) Adobe Analytics
1 4 (8.16%) Azure
2 3 (6.12%) AWS
2 3 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (6.12%) Contentful
2 3 (6.12%) Figma
2 3 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (6.12%) Slack
3 2 (4.08%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.04%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (2.04%) ChatGPT
4 1 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.04%) GitHub
4 1 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.04%) OpenShift
4 1 (2.04%) Oracle Service Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) HTTP
2 1 (2.04%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.16%) MongoDB
1 4 (8.16%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.04%) Power BI
2 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Git
2 5 (10.20%) JUnit
3 3 (6.12%) JIRA Agile
4 2 (4.08%) Maven
4 2 (4.08%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (2.04%) Ant
5 1 (2.04%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.04%) Selenium
5 1 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (24.49%) Finance
2 11 (22.45%) Manufacturing
3 9 (18.37%) Social Skills
4 7 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (8.16%) Automotive
7 3 (6.12%) Avionics
7 3 (6.12%) Banking
7 3 (6.12%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (6.12%) Retail
8 2 (4.08%) Law
8 2 (4.08%) Marketing
8 2 (4.08%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (2.04%) Legal
9 1 (2.04%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (24.49%) Lead
2 9 (18.37%) Architect
2 9 (18.37%) Lead Architect
2 9 (18.37%) Lead Solutions Architect
2 9 (18.37%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (16.33%) Senior
4 4 (8.16%) Analyst
4 4 (8.16%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Systems Manager
5 3 (6.12%) Account Manager
5 3 (6.12%) Lead DevOps
5 3 (6.12%) Project Manager
5 3 (6.12%) Senior Manager
5 3 (6.12%) Senior Strategy Manager
5 3 (6.12%) Strategy Manager
5 3 (6.12%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Product Owner
6 2 (4.08%) Requirements Manager
6 2 (4.08%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.24%) CSS
1 6 (12.24%) HTML
2 5 (10.20%) Kafka
3 4 (8.16%) AngularJS
3 4 (8.16%) gRPC
3 4 (8.16%) REST
3 4 (8.16%) RESTful
3 4 (8.16%) Spring
3 4 (8.16%) Spring Batch
3 4 (8.16%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.04%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.04%) JSR 170
4 1 (2.04%) Middleware
4 1 (2.04%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.16%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.04%) Cybercrime
4 1 (2.04%) Life Science
4 1 (2.04%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.04%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.04%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.08%) Linux
2 1 (2.04%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (65.31%) Agile
2 14 (28.57%) Business Strategy
3 12 (24.49%) User Experience
4 11 (22.45%) Project Management
5 10 (20.41%) CI/CD
5 10 (20.41%) ERP
5 10 (20.41%) PLM
5 10 (20.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (18.37%) CAD
6 9 (18.37%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (18.37%) Enterprise Architecture
6 9 (18.37%) Scrum
7 7 (14.29%) DevOps
7 7 (14.29%) ITIL
7 7 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
8 6 (12.24%) Analytics
8 6 (12.24%) Coaching
9 5 (10.20%) AI
9 5 (10.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.24%) JavaScript
2 5 (10.20%) Java
3 4 (8.16%) TypeScript
4 2 (4.08%) Python
5 1 (2.04%) Bash
5 1 (2.04%) Groovy
5 1 (2.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (32.65%) BPSS Clearance
2 11 (22.45%) Degree
3 2 (4.08%) SAP Certification
4 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.04%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.04%) PhD
4 1 (2.04%) PMP
4 1 (2.04%) SAFe Agilist
4 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.08%) GDPR
2 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 15288
3 1 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.04%) GxP
3 1 (2.04%) ISO 14001
3 1 (2.04%) ISO 9001
3 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.04%) PMO
3 1 (2.04%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (4.08%) Ansible
2 1 (2.04%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.04%) Podman
2 1 (2.04%) Puppet
2 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (22.45%) SAP
2 9 (18.37%) Siemens
3 7 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 6 (12.24%) Adobe
5 3 (6.12%) Qualtrics
5 3 (6.12%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.08%) Google
6 2 (4.08%) IBM
7 1 (2.04%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.04%) Concur
7 1 (2.04%) Oracle
7 1 (2.04%) Salesforce
7 1 (2.04%) Spotify