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 26 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
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 334 334
Rank change year-on-year -42 0 +54
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 158 179 254
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.58% 0.65%
As % of the Vendors category 1.08% 1.28% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 95 178
10th Percentile £418 £434 £396
25th Percentile £525 £497 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £625 £573
Median % change year-on-year - +9.17% +4.09%
75th Percentile £738 £719 £657
90th Percentile £775 £775 £700
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £575
% change year-on-year - +8.70% +6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 26
10th Percentile £71.88 £57.55 £54.75
25th Percentile £74.69 £62.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £81.25 £67.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% +12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £89.69 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £93.63 £72.75 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £81.25 £68.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% +14.58% +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 14,619 14,016 17,412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.66% 45.17% 44.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,425 8,426 11,432
10th Percentile £286 £300 £252
25th Percentile £405 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -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% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 718 439 617
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £15.30
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £33.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% -26.67% +70.68%
75th Percentile £45.55 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.90 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.18% -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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +2 63 £725 +9.43% 13
London +3 53 £671 +3.15% 15
West Midlands -17 17 £525 +19.31% 2
Midlands -27 17 £525 +19.31% 3
North of England -59 11 £575 +8.49% 8
South East -21 10 £450 -2.17% 10
North West -36 8 £588 +10.85% 5
Yorkshire - 2 £575 - 2
North East - 1 £463 - 1
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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
1 107 (67.72%) Confluence
2 7 (4.43%) nginx
2 7 (4.43%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.63%) CMS
3 1 (0.63%) EPiServer
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 35 (22.15%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (15.82%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (4.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (4.43%) MS Visio
4 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (1.27%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (1.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (1.27%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (1.27%) InDesign
5 2 (1.27%) Photoshop
5 2 (1.27%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 27 (17.09%) GitHub
2 26 (16.46%) AWS
3 14 (8.86%) Azure
4 13 (8.23%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (6.96%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (6.96%) Amazon S3
6 9 (5.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (4.43%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (4.43%) Serverless
8 6 (3.80%) Azure API Management
9 5 (3.16%) Power Platform
9 5 (3.16%) SaaS
9 5 (3.16%) Slack
10 4 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.90%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (1.90%) AWS KMS
11 3 (1.90%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (1.90%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (1.90%) Datadog
11 3 (1.90%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.96%) DNS
2 8 (5.06%) BGP
2 8 (5.06%) Unified Communications
3 7 (4.43%) IPsec
3 7 (4.43%) MPLS
3 7 (4.43%) VPN
4 5 (3.16%) OpenLDAP
5 3 (1.90%) DHCP
5 3 (1.90%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.27%) X.509
7 1 (0.63%) Firewall
7 1 (0.63%) OSPF
7 1 (0.63%) Skype
7 1 (0.63%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.63%) VLAN
7 1 (0.63%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (13.92%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.33%) NoSQL
3 8 (5.06%) SQL Server
4 6 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.16%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (3.16%) Couchbase
6 4 (2.53%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (2.53%) Metadata
6 4 (2.53%) Power BI
7 3 (1.90%) DB2
7 3 (1.90%) DynamoDB
7 3 (1.90%) MySQL
7 3 (1.90%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.27%) Redis
9 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.63%) Big Data
9 1 (0.63%) CouchDB
9 1 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 118 (74.68%) JIRA
2 30 (18.99%) Bitbucket
2 30 (18.99%) Jenkins
3 29 (18.35%) Git
4 17 (10.76%) GitLab
5 8 (5.06%) Artifactory
6 7 (4.43%) ScriptRunner
7 5 (3.16%) Selenium
8 4 (2.53%) JUnit
8 4 (2.53%) Maven
8 4 (2.53%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.90%) Bitbucket Server
9 3 (1.90%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.90%) DbUnit
9 3 (1.90%) jMock
9 3 (1.90%) Mockito
9 3 (1.90%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (1.90%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.90%) webpack
General
1 71 (44.94%) Social Skills
2 52 (32.91%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (13.92%) Military
4 20 (12.66%) Finance
5 17 (10.76%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.96%) Banking
7 7 (4.43%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.16%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.53%) Front Office
10 3 (1.90%) Advertising
10 3 (1.90%) Marketing
10 3 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.90%) Publishing
11 2 (1.27%) Automotive
11 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.27%) Legal
11 2 (1.27%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.63%) Electronics
12 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.63%) Police
Job Titles
1 27 (17.09%) Architect
2 21 (13.29%) Developer
3 20 (12.66%) Service Architect
4 13 (8.23%) Administrator
5 12 (7.59%) JIRA Administrator
6 11 (6.96%) Analyst
6 11 (6.96%) Senior
7 10 (6.33%) Senior Developer
8 8 (5.06%) Business Analyst
9 7 (4.43%) Network Engineer
9 7 (4.43%) Service Management Specialist
10 6 (3.80%) Consultant
10 6 (3.80%) DevOps Specialist
10 6 (3.80%) Java Developer
10 6 (3.80%) JIRA Specialist
11 5 (3.16%) Applications Support
11 5 (3.16%) Lead
11 5 (3.16%) Technical Analyst
11 5 (3.16%) Technical Business Analyst
12 4 (2.53%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (22.15%) REST
2 11 (6.96%) React
3 10 (6.33%) AngularJS
4 8 (5.06%) RESTful
5 7 (4.43%) NETCONF
5 7 (4.43%) RESTCONF
6 6 (3.80%) .NET
6 6 (3.80%) Bootstrap
6 6 (3.80%) CSS
6 6 (3.80%) SOAP
6 6 (3.80%) Web Services
7 5 (3.16%) boto
7 5 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (3.16%) Gherkin
7 5 (3.16%) Kafka
7 5 (3.16%) LDAP
7 5 (3.16%) mypy
7 5 (3.16%) Node.js
7 5 (3.16%) pytest
7 5 (3.16%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.56%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.33%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (5.70%) Onboarding
3 9 (5.70%) PKI
4 6 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.90%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.90%) Derivative
5 3 (1.90%) Educational Technology
5 3 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.90%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.27%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.27%) Social Media
6 2 (1.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.63%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.63%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.63%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.63%) PMI
7 1 (0.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.76%) Linux
2 14 (8.86%) Windows
3 9 (5.70%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.16%) Unix
5 1 (0.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (65.19%) Agile
2 54 (34.18%) Service Management
3 44 (27.85%) ITIL
4 41 (25.95%) DevOps
5 35 (22.15%) Critical Thinking
6 29 (18.35%) CI/CD
6 29 (18.35%) Scrum
7 25 (15.82%) Acceptance Criteria
7 25 (15.82%) Analytical Thinking
7 25 (15.82%) Business Continuity
8 24 (15.19%) Knowledge Transfer
9 23 (14.56%) Change Management
9 23 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (12.66%) ITSM
10 20 (12.66%) Security Patching
10 20 (12.66%) Service Design
10 20 (12.66%) TOGAF
10 20 (12.66%) Workflow
11 19 (12.03%) Microservices
12 18 (11.39%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 49 (31.01%) Python
2 29 (18.35%) PowerShell
3 14 (8.86%) Java
3 14 (8.86%) SQL
4 10 (6.33%) Bash
4 10 (6.33%) Go
4 10 (6.33%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.80%) C#
6 3 (1.90%) C
6 3 (1.90%) C++
6 3 (1.90%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.90%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.27%) Ruby
8 1 (0.63%) Groovy
8 1 (0.63%) PHP
Qualifications
1 99 (62.66%) Security Cleared
2 96 (60.76%) SC Cleared
3 49 (31.01%) Degree
4 20 (12.66%) TOGAF Certification
5 15 (9.49%) DV Cleared
6 9 (5.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (5.06%) CCNP
7 8 (5.06%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.16%) APMP
9 3 (1.90%) MCSA
9 3 (1.90%) MCSE
9 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.90%) OCA
9 3 (1.90%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.27%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.63%) CBAP
11 1 (0.63%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.80%) QA
2 3 (1.90%) GDPR
2 3 (1.90%) IEC 61508
2 3 (1.90%) IEC 62304
2 3 (1.90%) ISO 26262
2 3 (1.90%) ITGC
2 3 (1.90%) NIST
3 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.63%) P3O
4 1 (0.63%) PMO
4 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (15.19%) Docker
2 10 (6.33%) Active Directory
2 10 (6.33%) VMware ESXi
2 10 (6.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.16%) Firmware
4 3 (1.90%) Postfix
5 1 (0.63%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 29 (18.35%) Kubernetes
2 20 (12.66%) OPNET
3 14 (8.86%) Ansible
4 11 (6.96%) Terraform
5 5 (3.16%) SCCM
6 4 (2.53%) Grafana
6 4 (2.53%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.53%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.90%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.63%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (0.63%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.63%) Packer
8 1 (0.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 24 (15.19%) ServiceNow
2 20 (12.66%) Remedy
3 15 (9.49%) VMware
4 14 (8.86%) Microsoft
5 8 (5.06%) Cisco
6 5 (3.16%) Oracle
7 4 (2.53%) Splunk
7 4 (2.53%) Veeam
8 3 (1.90%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (1.90%) Jaspersoft
8 3 (1.90%) SAP
8 3 (1.90%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.27%) Adobe
9 2 (1.27%) Dell
9 2 (1.27%) Okta
9 2 (1.27%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.63%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.63%) Databricks
10 1 (0.63%) Nintex
10 1 (0.63%) Optimizely