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 25 April 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
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 319 350
Rank change year-on-year -77 +31 +25
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 180 159 190
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.65% 0.51%
As % of the Vendors category 1.07% 1.36% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 99 141
10th Percentile £410 £425 £358
25th Percentile £472 £506 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £738 £650 £663
90th Percentile £765 £788 £700
UK median daily rate £600 £563 £525
% change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -7.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 10
10th Percentile £41.72 £49.63 -
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.53 £55.00
Median hourly rate £63.14 £57.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.32% -7.60% +10.62%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £72.29 £65.00 £71.93
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £58.88 £60.50
% change year-on-year +7.24% -2.69% +7.08%

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 16,858 11,676 15,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.28% 47.48% 42.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,986 7,555 9,996
10th Percentile £313 £289 £255
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £631
90th Percentile £711 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £518
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.48% -1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 885 457 987
10th Percentile £15.35 £14.99 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £18.13 £14.21
Median hourly rate £30.15 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.64% +22.22% -44.10%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.13 £55.06
90th Percentile £79.20 £76.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £27.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +12.44% +20.56% -48.86%

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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 25 April 2026.

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 25 April 2026.

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 25 April 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
South West -15 59 £725 +26.09% 8
London -59 58 £550 -12.00% 12
West Midlands -50 33 £425 -7.61% 2
Midlands -51 33 £425 -7.61% 3
North of England -71 12 £463 -22.92% 6
South East -76 12 £493 -6.10% 16
North West -38 9 £524 -4.82% 5
East of England -36 5 £300 -35.14% 1
North East -21 3 £463 -28.85% 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
1 124 (68.89%) Confluence
2 14 (7.78%) nginx
3 6 (3.33%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.56%) Mattermost
4 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 43 (23.89%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (19.44%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (6.11%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.67%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.11%) Trello
6 1 (0.56%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.56%) InDesign
6 1 (0.56%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.11%) LabWindows
2 1 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.56%) SAP CAR
2 1 (0.56%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.56%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.56%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.56%) SAP Retail
2 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.56%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 35 (19.44%) AWS
2 19 (10.56%) GitHub
3 18 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
3 18 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 18 (10.00%) Route 53
4 12 (6.67%) Azure
5 11 (6.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (6.11%) Amazon SQS
5 11 (6.11%) AWS KMS
6 10 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (5.56%) SaaS
7 9 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (5.00%) Serverless
8 8 (4.44%) Power Platform
9 7 (3.89%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (2.78%) Google Workspace
11 5 (2.78%) Slack
12 4 (2.22%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.44%) DNS
1 8 (4.44%) TCP/IP
2 7 (3.89%) Firewall
2 7 (3.89%) OpenVPN
2 7 (3.89%) VPN
3 1 (0.56%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (12.78%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (7.22%) DynamoDB
3 12 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (6.11%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (4.44%) Power BI
6 7 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (3.89%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (3.89%) NoSQL
7 5 (2.78%) Power Query
8 4 (2.22%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.11%) DocumentDB
9 2 (1.11%) Metadata
9 2 (1.11%) Tableau
10 1 (0.56%) DB2
10 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.56%) MySQL
10 1 (0.56%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 141 (78.33%) JIRA
2 32 (17.78%) Bitbucket
3 27 (15.00%) Jenkins
4 19 (10.56%) Git
5 18 (10.00%) SonarQube
6 15 (8.33%) Maven
7 12 (6.67%) ScriptRunner
8 11 (6.11%) DbUnit
8 11 (6.11%) jMock
8 11 (6.11%) JUnit
8 11 (6.11%) Mockito
9 9 (5.00%) Bitbucket Server
10 8 (4.44%) GitLab
11 7 (3.89%) Subversion
12 5 (2.78%) Android Studio
13 4 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (2.22%) Eclipse
13 4 (2.22%) IntelliJ
14 3 (1.67%) Selenium
15 2 (1.11%) LabVIEW
General
1 98 (54.44%) Social Skills
2 61 (33.89%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (18.89%) Military
3 34 (18.89%) Public Sector
4 25 (13.89%) Finance
5 10 (5.56%) Banking
6 9 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.67%) Billing
9 3 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.11%) Advertising
10 2 (1.11%) German Language
10 2 (1.11%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.11%) Legal
10 2 (1.11%) Retail
11 1 (0.56%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.56%) Marketing
11 1 (0.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (23.89%) Architect
2 30 (16.67%) Service Architect
3 29 (16.11%) Developer
4 17 (9.44%) JIRA Engineer
5 15 (8.33%) Senior
6 12 (6.67%) Analyst
6 12 (6.67%) Java Developer
7 11 (6.11%) Administrator
8 10 (5.56%) JIRA Administrator
9 9 (5.00%) Data Centre Engineer
10 8 (4.44%) Consultant
10 8 (4.44%) Data Manager
10 8 (4.44%) JIRA Consultant
11 7 (3.89%) JIRA Specialist
11 7 (3.89%) Project Manager
11 7 (3.89%) Technical Architect
12 6 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
13 5 (2.78%) AWS Architect
13 5 (2.78%) Data Analyst
13 5 (2.78%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (13.33%) REST
2 12 (6.67%) AngularJS
2 12 (6.67%) SOAP
2 12 (6.67%) Web Services
3 11 (6.11%) ActiveMQ
3 11 (6.11%) Hibernate
3 11 (6.11%) JPA
3 11 (6.11%) PowerMock
3 11 (6.11%) Spring
3 11 (6.11%) Spring Batch
3 11 (6.11%) Spring Boot
3 11 (6.11%) Spring Cloud
3 11 (6.11%) Spring Integration
4 10 (5.56%) Bootstrap
4 10 (5.56%) RESTful
5 8 (4.44%) Node.js
6 7 (3.89%) LDAP
6 7 (3.89%) OpenID
7 4 (2.22%) XML
8 3 (1.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 17 (9.44%) Data Centre
3 13 (7.22%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.33%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.22%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.22%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.67%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.11%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.11%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.11%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.56%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.56%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.56%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.56%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 30 (16.67%) Linux
2 8 (4.44%) Windows
3 6 (3.33%) Unix
3 6 (3.33%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.78%) Android
5 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (61.11%) Agile
2 66 (36.67%) Service Management
3 59 (32.78%) DevOps
4 49 (27.22%) ITIL
5 44 (24.44%) Scrum
6 37 (20.56%) Analytical Thinking
6 37 (20.56%) Critical Thinking
6 37 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (20.00%) TOGAF
8 31 (17.22%) Acceptance Criteria
8 31 (17.22%) Knowledge Transfer
9 30 (16.67%) Business Continuity
9 30 (16.67%) CI/CD
9 30 (16.67%) Security Patching
9 30 (16.67%) Service Design
10 26 (14.44%) Stakeholder Management
11 24 (13.33%) Workflow
12 21 (11.67%) ITSM
13 20 (11.11%) Migration
13 20 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 30 (16.67%) Python
2 27 (15.00%) SQL
3 19 (10.56%) Java
4 14 (7.78%) PowerShell
5 12 (6.67%) Bash
6 6 (3.33%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.67%) Groovy
8 3 (1.67%) VBA
9 2 (1.11%) C++
10 1 (0.56%) C#
10 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 115 (63.89%) Security Cleared
2 111 (61.67%) SC Cleared
3 43 (23.89%) Degree
4 33 (18.33%) TOGAF Certification
5 9 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (4.44%) DV Cleared
7 6 (3.33%) AWS Certification
8 5 (2.78%) APMP
9 4 (2.22%) Azure Certification
9 4 (2.22%) MCSE
9 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (2.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (1.11%) CCNA
11 2 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.11%) MCSA
11 2 (1.11%) OCA
11 2 (1.11%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (1.11%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.44%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.78%) GRC
2 5 (2.78%) PMO
3 4 (2.22%) SLA
4 2 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.11%) GDPR
4 2 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.11%) QA
5 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
System Software
1 24 (13.33%) Docker
2 10 (5.56%) Postfix
3 7 (3.89%) Squid
4 4 (2.22%) Active Directory
4 4 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.11%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 30 (16.67%) OPNET
2 23 (12.78%) Grafana
3 21 (11.67%) Kubernetes
4 19 (10.56%) Terraform
5 12 (6.67%) Prometheus
6 7 (3.89%) Consul
6 7 (3.89%) FortiGate
6 7 (3.89%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (2.22%) Ansible
8 3 (1.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (1.11%) Kibana
9 2 (1.11%) Podman
9 2 (1.11%) PowerCLI
9 2 (1.11%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.56%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 39 (21.67%) ServiceNow
2 31 (17.22%) Remedy
3 18 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 11 (6.11%) Jaspersoft
5 7 (3.89%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.89%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.33%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.78%) Google
7 5 (2.78%) VMware
8 4 (2.22%) Oracle
9 3 (1.67%) Coverity
9 3 (1.67%) Thales
10 2 (1.11%) Cisco
10 2 (1.11%) Databricks
10 2 (1.11%) SAP
10 2 (1.11%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.11%) Veeam
11 1 (0.56%) Adobe
11 1 (0.56%) Informatica
11 1 (0.56%) Sparx