JIRA Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Atlassian JIRA
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring JIRA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 52 92
Rank change year-on-year -66 +40 +3
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 24 64 61
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 0.67% 4.52% 2.05%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.79% 48.48% 21.55%
Number of salaries quoted 14 43 42
10th Percentile £38,625 £36,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,410 £45,625 £43,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +14.29% -4.34%
75th Percentile £69,688 £76,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £83,750 £91,934 £100,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £46,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.36% +4.76% -4.34%

All Development Application Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 174 132 283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 4.85% 9.33% 9.49%
Number of salaries quoted 96 98 239
10th Percentile £32,875 £41,775 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,410 £47,500 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,690 £66,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% +20.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,563 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,001 £93,778 £75,772
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% -4.55%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

JIRA
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing JIRA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing JIRA

JIRA
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for JIRA in West Yorkshire

JIRA
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Leeds -83 21 £47,500 -2.08% 12
Bradford -13 5 £59,147 -18.42%
JIRA
Yorkshire

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 3 (12.50%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (4.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.17%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (16.67%) Serverless
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon S3
3 3 (12.50%) Azure
3 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.33%) BrowserStack
4 2 (8.33%) GitHub
4 2 (8.33%) IaaS
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.33%) PaaS
4 2 (8.33%) SaaS
5 1 (4.17%) Asana
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.17%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Tableau
2 1 (4.17%) MySQL
2 1 (4.17%) Power BI
2 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Git
2 5 (20.83%) GitLab
2 5 (20.83%) Jenkins
3 3 (12.50%) Artifactory
3 3 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 3 (12.50%) SonarQube
4 2 (8.33%) JUnit
4 2 (8.33%) Postman
4 2 (8.33%) Selenium
5 1 (4.17%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Analyst
1 5 (20.83%) Developer
2 3 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) IT Manager
2 3 (12.50%) Scrum Master
2 3 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (8.33%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) DevOps Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Java Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Java Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Product Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) QA Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared Java Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Applications Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Operations Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Data Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) PHP Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Project Analyst
4 1 (4.17%) Service Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) REST
2 3 (12.50%) CSS
2 3 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (12.50%) HTML
2 3 (12.50%) JSON
2 3 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (12.50%) YAML
3 2 (8.33%) React
4 1 (4.17%) Doctrine
4 1 (4.17%) FHIR
4 1 (4.17%) Laravel
4 1 (4.17%) Next.js
4 1 (4.17%) Playwright
4 1 (4.17%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) NHS
3 1 (4.17%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (79.17%) Agile
2 16 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (54.17%) DevOps
4 9 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (33.33%) Scrum
6 7 (29.17%) CI/CD
6 7 (29.17%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (25.00%) Conflict Resolution
7 6 (25.00%) ERP
8 5 (20.83%) Change Management
8 5 (20.83%) ITIL
8 5 (20.83%) ITSM
8 5 (20.83%) Kanban
8 5 (20.83%) User Experience
9 4 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
9 4 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
9 4 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (16.67%) Microservices
9 4 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
9 4 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) Groovy
2 3 (12.50%) Java
2 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 3 (12.50%) Python
3 2 (8.33%) PHP
3 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.17%) Perl
4 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Degree
2 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
3 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.33%) ISTQB
4 2 (8.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (4.17%) CBAP
5 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (37.50%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.33%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (8.33%) GDPR
2 2 (8.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.17%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Ansible
1 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (12.50%) Packer
1 3 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) SAP
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 3 (12.50%) AppDynamics
3 3 (12.50%) IBM
4 1 (4.17%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.17%) Databricks
4 1 (4.17%) Foundry
4 1 (4.17%) Freshdesk
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) Palantir
4 1 (4.17%) Progress