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 15 August 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
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 493 361 331
Rank change year-on-year -132 -30 +43
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 133 144 202
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.29% 0.52% 0.61%
As % of the Vendors category 0.70% 1.10% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 98 117
10th Percentile £306 £425 £452
25th Percentile £406 £500 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.83% - -
75th Percentile £600 £671 £700
90th Percentile £792 £788 £751
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 18
10th Percentile - £50.20 £37.55
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.06 £64.57
Median hourly rate £63.14 £54.88 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.05% -21.61% +21.74%
75th Percentile £67.84 £58.69 -
90th Percentile £71.40 £65.48 £72.38
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £54.94 £70.00
% change year-on-year +14.92% -21.52% +21.74%

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 19,062 13,061 14,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.60% 47.18% 43.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,004 8,264 9,264
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £613 £620 £627
90th Percentile £700 £716 £734
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.31% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,028 639 754
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.52 £15.62
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.15% -16.17% -20.00%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -28.40%

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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 15 August 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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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 15 August 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
Midlands -28 44 £453 -9.50% 15
London -79 44 £600 -10.45% 63
West Midlands -29 42 £455 -9.00% 13
North of England -66 18 £600 -5.88% 8
South West -60 12 £438 -25.53% 20
South East -75 11 £300 -35.14% 17
Yorkshire -39 9 £620 -4.62% 3
North West -54 9 £600 +2.13% 3
East of England -19 2 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 £450 - 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 69 (51.88%) Confluence
2 6 (4.51%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.50%) CMS
3 2 (1.50%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.75%) Apache
4 1 (0.75%) JBoss
4 1 (0.75%) Mattermost
4 1 (0.75%) nginx
4 1 (0.75%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Magento
1 2 (1.50%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 21 (15.79%) AWS
2 14 (10.53%) Azure
3 13 (9.77%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (9.77%) SaaS
4 12 (9.02%) Amazon EC2
4 12 (9.02%) Amazon S3
4 12 (9.02%) Route 53
5 11 (8.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (8.27%) Amazon SQS
5 11 (8.27%) AWS KMS
5 11 (8.27%) GitHub
6 7 (5.26%) Entra ID
6 7 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
6 7 (5.26%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.01%) Copilot Studio
7 4 (3.01%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.26%) Figma
9 2 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.50%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.50%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.75%) DNS
1 1 (0.75%) Firewall
1 1 (0.75%) OpenVPN
1 1 (0.75%) SSL
1 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.02%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (8.27%) Amazon Aurora
2 11 (8.27%) DynamoDB
2 11 (8.27%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.26%) Power BI
4 6 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.51%) Power Query
5 3 (2.26%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.50%) MySQL
7 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.75%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.75%) Metadata
7 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.75%) Pentaho
7 1 (0.75%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 91 (68.42%) JIRA
2 18 (13.53%) Bitbucket
3 15 (11.28%) Git
4 14 (10.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 13 (9.77%) Maven
6 12 (9.02%) SonarQube
7 11 (8.27%) DbUnit
7 11 (8.27%) Jenkins
7 11 (8.27%) JUnit
7 11 (8.27%) Mockito
8 10 (7.52%) Bitbucket Server
8 10 (7.52%) jMock
9 9 (6.77%) ScriptRunner
10 4 (3.01%) IntelliJ
11 3 (2.26%) Zephyr
12 2 (1.50%) Eclipse
12 2 (1.50%) Subversion
13 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.75%) Selenium
13 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 52 (39.10%) Social Skills
2 33 (24.81%) Finance
3 32 (24.06%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (20.30%) Public Sector
5 20 (15.04%) Banking
6 8 (6.02%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.01%) Marketing
8 3 (2.26%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.26%) Retail
9 2 (1.50%) Arabic Language
9 2 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.50%) Military
10 1 (0.75%) Advertising
10 1 (0.75%) Billing
10 1 (0.75%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Legal
10 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (20.30%) JIRA Engineer
2 23 (17.29%) Developer
3 11 (8.27%) Java Developer
3 11 (8.27%) Senior
4 9 (6.77%) Administrator
4 9 (6.77%) JIRA Administrator
5 8 (6.02%) Lead
6 7 (5.26%) Project Manager
6 7 (5.26%) Technical Engineer
7 6 (4.51%) 2nd Line Support
7 6 (4.51%) Power BI Developer
7 6 (4.51%) Product Owner
8 5 (3.76%) Analyst
8 5 (3.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 5 (3.76%) Consultant
8 5 (3.76%) Data Centre Engineer
8 5 (3.76%) Data Manager
8 5 (3.76%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (3.01%) Engagement Manager
9 4 (3.01%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.53%) REST
2 11 (8.27%) ActiveMQ
2 11 (8.27%) AngularJS
2 11 (8.27%) Hibernate
2 11 (8.27%) JPA
2 11 (8.27%) RESTful
2 11 (8.27%) SOAP
2 11 (8.27%) Spring
2 11 (8.27%) Spring Batch
2 11 (8.27%) Spring Boot
2 11 (8.27%) Spring Integration
2 11 (8.27%) Web Services
3 10 (7.52%) Bootstrap
3 10 (7.52%) PowerMock
4 9 (6.77%) Spring Cloud
5 5 (3.76%) Node.js
6 2 (1.50%) OAuth
6 2 (1.50%) SAML
6 2 (1.50%) XML
7 1 (0.75%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.03%) Data Centre
1 16 (12.03%) Product Ownership
2 13 (9.77%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.77%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.76%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.76%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.76%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.01%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (3.01%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.50%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.50%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.50%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.50%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.75%) CMDB
7 1 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (0.75%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.75%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (18.05%) Linux
2 12 (9.02%) Windows
3 10 (7.52%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.51%) Mac OS
4 6 (4.51%) Windows 10
5 5 (3.76%) CentOS
5 5 (3.76%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (43.61%) Agile
2 47 (35.34%) DevOps
3 40 (30.08%) Scrum
4 37 (27.82%) Migration
5 33 (24.81%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (24.81%) Service Management
5 33 (24.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 31 (23.31%) CI/CD
7 23 (17.29%) Decision-Making
7 23 (17.29%) ITSM
8 22 (16.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (14.29%) Kanban
10 18 (13.53%) ITIL
10 18 (13.53%) Project Management
10 18 (13.53%) Workflow
11 17 (12.78%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 15 (11.28%) Project Delivery
13 14 (10.53%) Containerisation
14 12 (9.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 12 (9.02%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 23 (17.29%) SQL
2 18 (13.53%) Java
3 15 (11.28%) Python
4 11 (8.27%) PowerShell
5 6 (4.51%) Bash
5 6 (4.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (3.01%) Groovy
7 3 (2.26%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.75%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.75%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (0.75%) C#
8 1 (0.75%) C++
8 1 (0.75%) Perl
8 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.75%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 59 (44.36%) Security Cleared
2 53 (39.85%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.77%) DV Cleared
4 12 (9.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (3.76%) Degree
6 4 (3.01%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.01%) CCNA
6 4 (3.01%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.01%) MCSE
6 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.01%) RHCA
6 4 (3.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (2.26%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.50%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.75%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.75%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.75%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.02%) QA
2 7 (5.26%) PMO
3 6 (4.51%) GRC
4 5 (3.76%) Data Quality
4 5 (3.76%) SLA
5 4 (3.01%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (11.28%) Docker
2 8 (6.02%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.02%) Postfix
3 4 (3.01%) Hyper-V
3 4 (3.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.75%) Squid
Systems Management
1 12 (9.02%) Grafana
2 7 (5.26%) Terraform
3 5 (3.76%) Kubernetes
3 5 (3.76%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.01%) Ansible
4 4 (3.01%) Podman
5 1 (0.75%) Consul
5 1 (0.75%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.75%) Opsgenie
5 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (12.78%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.52%) Jaspersoft
3 7 (5.26%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.01%) Cisco
4 4 (3.01%) VMware
5 3 (2.26%) Google
5 3 (2.26%) SAP
6 2 (1.50%) Databricks
6 2 (1.50%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.50%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.50%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.75%) Denodo
7 1 (0.75%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.75%) Informatica
7 1 (0.75%) Oracle
7 1 (0.75%) Remedy
7 1 (0.75%) Sparx
7 1 (0.75%) Sybase
7 1 (0.75%) Talend