Atlassian Contract Job Trends in England

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UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 20 November 2025, 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
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 337 329
Rank change year-on-year -56 -8 +57
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 147 176 255
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.57% 0.65%
As % of the Vendors category 1.01% 1.26% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 92 179
10th Percentile £413 £434 £380
25th Percentile £506 £492 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £625 £561
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +11.48% +2.30%
75th Percentile £738 £708 £657
90th Percentile £776 £768 £700
UK median daily rate £588 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -2.08% +4.35% +7.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 25
10th Percentile £71.88 £49.50 £54.70
25th Percentile £74.69 £62.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £81.25 £68.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +14.58% +9.09%
75th Percentile £89.69 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £93.63 £72.38 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £81.25 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +16.07% +16.67% +9.09%

All Vendors
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 14,502 13,998 17,539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.59% 45.07% 44.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,331 8,427 11,527
10th Percentile £285 £300 £255
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 729 430 614
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.16% -21.79% +72.12%
75th Percentile £47.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £76.45
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.17% -32.58% +73.08%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Atlassian job vacancy trend in England

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Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Atlassian

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Atlassian in England over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Atlassian in England

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Atlassian

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Atlassian in England over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Atlassian in England

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Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 20 November 2025. 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
South West -7 54 £633 -4.53% 23
London -11 50 £671 +5.25% 29
Midlands -20 18 £500 +13.63% 3
West Midlands -27 18 £500 +13.63% 2
North of England -61 11 £575 +8.49% 12
South East -17 10 £450 -2.17% 18
North West -40 8 £588 +10.85% 8
Yorkshire - 2 £575 - 2
North East - 1 £463 - 2
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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 96 (65.31%) Confluence
2 7 (4.76%) nginx
2 7 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.68%) CMS
3 1 (0.68%) EPiServer
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 26 (17.69%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (10.88%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (4.76%) MS Visio
4 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (1.36%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (1.36%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (1.36%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (1.36%) InDesign
5 2 (1.36%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 27 (18.37%) AWS
1 27 (18.37%) GitHub
2 13 (8.84%) GitHub Actions
3 12 (8.16%) Amazon EC2
3 12 (8.16%) Amazon S3
3 12 (8.16%) Azure
4 10 (6.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (4.76%) Serverless
6 6 (4.08%) Azure API Management
7 5 (3.40%) Power Platform
7 5 (3.40%) SaaS
7 5 (3.40%) Slack
8 4 (2.72%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (2.72%) AWS KMS
8 4 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.72%) Route 53
9 3 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (2.04%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (2.04%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.80%) DNS
2 8 (5.44%) BGP
2 8 (5.44%) Unified Communications
3 7 (4.76%) IPsec
3 7 (4.76%) MPLS
3 7 (4.76%) VPN
4 5 (3.40%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (1.36%) DHCP
5 2 (1.36%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.36%) X.509
6 1 (0.68%) Firewall
6 1 (0.68%) OSPF
6 1 (0.68%) Skype
6 1 (0.68%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.68%) VLAN
6 1 (0.68%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.65%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.80%) NoSQL
3 7 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (4.76%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.40%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (3.40%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (3.40%) Couchbase
5 4 (2.72%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.72%) Metadata
5 4 (2.72%) Power BI
6 3 (2.04%) DB2
6 3 (2.04%) MySQL
6 3 (2.04%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.36%) Redis
8 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.68%) Big Data
8 1 (0.68%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 107 (72.79%) JIRA
2 31 (21.09%) Jenkins
3 30 (20.41%) Bitbucket
3 30 (20.41%) Git
4 17 (11.56%) GitLab
5 8 (5.44%) Artifactory
6 7 (4.76%) ScriptRunner
7 5 (3.40%) JUnit
7 5 (3.40%) Maven
7 5 (3.40%) Selenium
7 5 (3.40%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.72%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (2.72%) DbUnit
8 4 (2.72%) jMock
8 4 (2.72%) Mockito
9 3 (2.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (2.04%) Cucumber
9 3 (2.04%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (2.04%) TeamCity
9 3 (2.04%) webpack
General
1 62 (42.18%) Social Skills
2 41 (27.89%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (12.24%) Finance
4 17 (11.56%) Public Sector
5 14 (9.52%) Military
6 11 (7.48%) Banking
7 7 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.40%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.72%) Front Office
10 3 (2.04%) Advertising
10 3 (2.04%) Marketing
10 3 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.04%) Publishing
11 2 (1.36%) Automotive
11 2 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.36%) Legal
11 2 (1.36%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.68%) Electronics
12 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.68%) Police
Job Titles
1 21 (14.29%) Developer
2 19 (12.93%) Architect
3 13 (8.84%) Administrator
4 12 (8.16%) JIRA Administrator
4 12 (8.16%) Service Architect
5 11 (7.48%) Analyst
5 11 (7.48%) Senior
6 10 (6.80%) Senior Developer
7 8 (5.44%) Business Analyst
8 7 (4.76%) Java Developer
8 7 (4.76%) Network Engineer
8 7 (4.76%) Service Management Specialist
9 6 (4.08%) Consultant
9 6 (4.08%) DevOps Specialist
9 6 (4.08%) JIRA Specialist
10 5 (3.40%) Applications Support
10 5 (3.40%) Lead
10 5 (3.40%) Technical Analyst
10 5 (3.40%) Technical Business Analyst
11 4 (2.72%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (24.49%) REST
2 10 (6.80%) AngularJS
2 10 (6.80%) React
3 9 (6.12%) RESTful
4 7 (4.76%) NETCONF
4 7 (4.76%) RESTCONF
5 6 (4.08%) Bootstrap
5 6 (4.08%) CSS
5 6 (4.08%) SOAP
5 6 (4.08%) Web Services
6 5 (3.40%) .NET
6 5 (3.40%) boto
6 5 (3.40%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (3.40%) Gherkin
6 5 (3.40%) Kafka
6 5 (3.40%) LDAP
6 5 (3.40%) Node.js
6 5 (3.40%) pytest
6 5 (3.40%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (3.40%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.12%) Enterprise Software
2 9 (6.12%) Onboarding
2 9 (6.12%) PKI
3 7 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.04%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.04%) Derivative
4 3 (2.04%) Educational Technology
4 3 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.04%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.36%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.36%) Social Media
5 2 (1.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.68%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.68%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.68%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.68%) PMI
6 1 (0.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.24%) Linux
2 13 (8.84%) Windows
3 8 (5.44%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.40%) Unix
5 1 (0.68%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (62.59%) Agile
2 46 (31.29%) Service Management
3 42 (28.57%) DevOps
4 36 (24.49%) ITIL
5 29 (19.73%) CI/CD
6 27 (18.37%) Scrum
7 26 (17.69%) Critical Thinking
8 23 (15.65%) Change Management
8 23 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (13.61%) ITSM
9 20 (13.61%) Microservices
9 20 (13.61%) Workflow
10 18 (12.24%) Continuous Integration
11 17 (11.56%) Acceptance Criteria
11 17 (11.56%) Business Continuity
12 16 (10.88%) Analytical Thinking
13 15 (10.20%) Kanban
13 15 (10.20%) Knowledge Transfer
13 15 (10.20%) Project Management
13 15 (10.20%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 49 (33.33%) Python
2 29 (19.73%) PowerShell
3 15 (10.20%) Java
3 15 (10.20%) SQL
4 10 (6.80%) Bash
4 10 (6.80%) Go
4 10 (6.80%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.40%) C#
6 3 (2.04%) C
6 3 (2.04%) C++
6 3 (2.04%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.36%) Ruby
7 2 (1.36%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.68%) Groovy
8 1 (0.68%) PHP
Qualifications
1 90 (61.22%) Security Cleared
2 87 (59.18%) SC Cleared
3 40 (27.21%) Degree
4 14 (9.52%) DV Cleared
5 12 (8.16%) TOGAF Certification
6 9 (6.12%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (5.44%) CCNP
7 8 (5.44%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.72%) APMP
9 3 (2.04%) MCSA
9 3 (2.04%) MCSE
9 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.04%) OCA
9 3 (2.04%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (2.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.36%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.68%) CBAP
11 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.08%) QA
2 3 (2.04%) GDPR
2 3 (2.04%) IEC 61508
2 3 (2.04%) IEC 62304
2 3 (2.04%) ISO 26262
2 3 (2.04%) ITGC
2 3 (2.04%) NIST
3 2 (1.36%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.68%) P3O
4 1 (0.68%) PMO
4 1 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (17.01%) Docker
2 10 (6.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (6.12%) Active Directory
3 9 (6.12%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (3.40%) Firmware
5 4 (2.72%) Postfix
6 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 29 (19.73%) Kubernetes
2 14 (9.52%) Ansible
3 12 (8.16%) OPNET
4 11 (7.48%) Terraform
5 5 (3.40%) Grafana
5 5 (3.40%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.40%) SCCM
6 4 (2.72%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (2.04%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.68%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (0.68%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.68%) Packer
8 1 (0.68%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (10.88%) ServiceNow
2 14 (9.52%) VMware
3 13 (8.84%) Microsoft
4 12 (8.16%) Remedy
5 8 (5.44%) Cisco
6 5 (3.40%) Oracle
7 4 (2.72%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (2.72%) Splunk
7 4 (2.72%) Veeam
8 3 (2.04%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (2.04%) SAP
8 3 (2.04%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.36%) Adobe
9 2 (1.36%) Dell
9 2 (1.36%) Okta
9 2 (1.36%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.68%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.68%) Databricks
10 1 (0.68%) Nintex
10 1 (0.68%) Optimizely