Atlassian Contract Job Trends in the East of England

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England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 18 May 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
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 83 107
Rank change year-on-year -25 +24 +8
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 6 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.27% 0.20% 0.16%
As % of the Vendors category 0.68% 0.37% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile - - £364
25th Percentile - £456 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £463 £395
Median % change year-on-year -35.14% +17.09% -25.12%
75th Percentile - £469 £408
90th Percentile - - £415
England median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

All Vendors
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 883 536 692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 39.67% 54.75% 36.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 290 349
10th Percentile £192 £225 £200
25th Percentile £356 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £681 £675 £701
England median daily rate £500 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 93 217
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.87 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.55 £15.44 £14.48
Median hourly rate £20.43 £18.85 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.38% +10.88% -10.53%
75th Percentile £34.92 £60.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £85.00 £77.15
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.39 £22.50
% change year-on-year +23.14% +17.30% -40.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Atlassian job vacancy trend in the East of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Atlassian.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Atlassian

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Atlassian.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Atlassian

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Atlassian within the East of England region over the 6 months to 18 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire +11 4 - - 5
Essex - 2 £300 -
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) SaaS
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) Sauce Labs
2 2 (33.33%) TestFlight
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) Android Studio
2 2 (33.33%) Appium
2 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Postman
2 2 (33.33%) Selenium
2 2 (33.33%) Sourcetree
2 2 (33.33%) Xcode
3 1 (16.67%) ScriptRunner
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Excel Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Salesforce Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Business Data Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Data Migration Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) Migration Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) UAT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) B2B
2 3 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
2 3 (50.00%) Data Conversion
2 3 (50.00%) Data Deduplication
2 3 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (50.00%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) API Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Black-Box Testing
3 2 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Fintech
3 2 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Time Management
3 2 (33.33%) White-Box Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) VBA
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Groovy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Grafana
1 2 (33.33%) Kibana
1 2 (33.33%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) Salesforce