Atlassian Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

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North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring knowledge or experience of Atlassian products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Atlassian over the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Atlassian Software Systems.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 67 47
Rank change year-on-year -1 -20 -
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 4 1 11
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.52% 0.17% 2.03%
As % of the Vendors category 1.15% 0.33% 4.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 9
10th Percentile £427 - £480
25th Percentile £435 £663 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £675 £530
Median % change year-on-year -33.78% +27.36% -
75th Percentile £554 £688 £567
90th Percentile £606 - £576
North West median daily rate £600 £463 £534
% change year-on-year +29.73% -13.39% -2.91%

All Vendors
Cheshire

Atlassian falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 347 303 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 44.77% 51.36% 46.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 219 165
10th Percentile £322 £313 £276
25th Percentile £413 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £450 £507
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -11.24% +1.40%
75th Percentile £600 £537 £586
90th Percentile £653 £638 £638
North West median daily rate £481 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.32% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 11
10th Percentile £16.13 - £11.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £12.82 £12.50
Median hourly rate £24.86 £50.00 £17.29
Median % change year-on-year -50.28% +189.27% -22.87%
75th Percentile £83.94 £85.44 £17.72
90th Percentile £86.00 £86.00 £17.78
North West median hourly rate £30.00 £29.27 £16.06
% change year-on-year +2.49% +82.25% -41.60%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Atlassian relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Atlassian job vacancy trend in Cheshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Atlassian.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Atlassian

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Atlassian in Cheshire over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Atlassian in Cheshire

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Atlassian within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 13 July 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford - 3 £446 - 1
Alderley Edge - 1 £610 -
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North West

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 4 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) IaaS
1 2 (50.00%) PaaS
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) DocumentDB
1 2 (50.00%) DynamoDB
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) Observability
3 2 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (50.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform