JIRA Job Trends in Yorkshire

Atlassian JIRA
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring JIRA skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 59 101
Rank change year-on-year -78 +42 +19
Permanent jobs citing JIRA 62 96 128
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.98% 3.79% 2.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.99% 45.50% 28.44%
Number of salaries quoted 49 68 97
10th Percentile £26,625 £24,925 £32,300
25th Percentile £39,000 £40,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% -12.50% +9.33%
75th Percentile £53,750 £76,250 £75,772
90th Percentile £73,750 £87,500 £87,529
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -8.33%

All Development Application Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 282 211 450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 4.46% 8.33% 7.98%
Number of salaries quoted 186 149 388
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £45,000 £44,241
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £77,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,625 £93,778 £75,772
England median annual salary £61,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.17% +5.00% -7.69%

JIRA
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

JIRA job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

JIRA
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing JIRA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing JIRA

JIRA
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing JIRA in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for JIRA in Yorkshire

JIRA
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing JIRA within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
West Yorkshire -72 21 £47,500 -24.00% 19
South Yorkshire -34 20 £45,000 -35.71% 18
North Yorkshire +3 12 £72,500 - 2
JIRA
England

JIRA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 5 (8.06%) Confluence
2 3 (4.84%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.61%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.61%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (4.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (1.61%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 15 (24.19%) Azure
2 10 (16.13%) AWS
3 6 (9.68%) Google Docs
3 6 (9.68%) Google Sheets
3 6 (9.68%) Google Workspace
4 5 (8.06%) GitHub
4 5 (8.06%) Power Platform
4 5 (8.06%) SaaS
4 5 (8.06%) Smartsheet
5 4 (6.45%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (4.84%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (4.84%) Amazon S3
6 3 (4.84%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.84%) Power Automate
6 3 (4.84%) PowerApps
6 3 (4.84%) Serverless
7 2 (3.23%) BrowserStack
7 2 (3.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.06%) Power BI
2 3 (4.84%) Big Data
2 3 (4.84%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (4.84%) MongoDB
2 3 (4.84%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.84%) Power Query
2 3 (4.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (3.23%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.23%) Tableau
4 1 (1.61%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Git
2 5 (8.06%) GitLab
2 5 (8.06%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.84%) Artifactory
3 3 (4.84%) Cucumber
3 3 (4.84%) SonarQube
4 2 (3.23%) JUnit
4 2 (3.23%) Postman
4 2 (3.23%) Selenium
4 2 (3.23%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.61%) Rational DOORS
General
1 27 (43.55%) Social Skills
2 15 (24.19%) Finance
3 8 (12.90%) Law
4 7 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (9.68%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (17.74%) Senior
2 9 (14.52%) Analyst
2 9 (14.52%) Developer
3 7 (11.29%) Operations Manager
4 6 (9.68%) 2nd Line Support
4 6 (9.68%) IT Support
5 5 (8.06%) Head of Projects
5 5 (8.06%) Lead
6 4 (6.45%) IT Manager
6 4 (6.45%) Team Leader
7 3 (4.84%) Help Desk Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Help Desk Team Lead
7 3 (4.84%) Product Analyst
7 3 (4.84%) Senior Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Senior Service Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Senior Strategy Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Service Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Software Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Strategy Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.68%) CSS
1 6 (9.68%) JSON
2 5 (8.06%) HTML
2 5 (8.06%) REST
3 3 (4.84%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (4.84%) Flask
3 3 (4.84%) PySpark
3 3 (4.84%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (4.84%) YAML
4 2 (3.23%) .NET
4 2 (3.23%) HTML5 Canvas
4 2 (3.23%) React
5 1 (1.61%) FHIR
5 1 (1.61%) Laravel
5 1 (1.61%) Middleware
5 1 (1.61%) Next.js
5 1 (1.61%) Node.js
5 1 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.06%) Life Science
2 3 (4.84%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (4.84%) Private Cloud
3 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.61%) CMDB
4 1 (1.61%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.61%) NHS
4 1 (1.61%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.90%) Windows
2 6 (9.68%) Windows 10
2 6 (9.68%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (43.55%) Agile
2 22 (35.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 21 (33.87%) DevOps
3 21 (33.87%) Service Management
4 20 (32.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (27.42%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (20.97%) CI/CD
6 13 (20.97%) Scrum
7 11 (17.74%) Incident Management
7 11 (17.74%) Service Delivery
8 10 (16.13%) ITIL
9 9 (14.52%) Project Management
10 8 (12.90%) Decision-Making
10 8 (12.90%) E-Commerce
10 8 (12.90%) ERP
10 8 (12.90%) ITSM
10 8 (12.90%) Release Management
10 8 (12.90%) Waterfall
11 7 (11.29%) Business Case
11 7 (11.29%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 17 (27.42%) SQL
2 10 (16.13%) JavaScript
2 10 (16.13%) PowerShell
3 9 (14.52%) Python
4 4 (6.45%) Java
5 3 (4.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (4.84%) Groovy
6 2 (3.23%) C#
6 2 (3.23%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.61%) Perl
7 1 (1.61%) PHP
7 1 (1.61%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (32.26%) Degree
2 8 (12.90%) Security Cleared
3 7 (11.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (9.68%) A+ Certification
4 6 (9.68%) HNC
4 6 (9.68%) HND
4 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 6 (9.68%) PMI Certification
5 5 (8.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 5 (8.06%) PMP
6 4 (6.45%) SC Cleared
7 2 (3.23%) ISTQB
7 2 (3.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.61%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.90%) QA
2 5 (8.06%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.06%) GRC
3 3 (4.84%) GDPR
4 2 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.23%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (3.23%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.61%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (11.29%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.84%) Ansible
1 3 (4.84%) Kubernetes
1 3 (4.84%) Packer
1 3 (4.84%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.90%) Freshdesk
3 6 (9.68%) Cisco
3 6 (9.68%) Citrix
3 6 (9.68%) Google
3 6 (9.68%) Meraki
4 5 (8.06%) ServiceNow
5 4 (6.45%) Databricks
5 4 (6.45%) IBM
5 4 (6.45%) SAP
6 3 (4.84%) AppDynamics
6 3 (4.84%) Atlassian
7 2 (3.23%) Oracle
8 1 (1.61%) Foundry
8 1 (1.61%) Palantir