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 17 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
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 435 319 366
Rank change year-on-year -116 +47 +18
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 160 162 179
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.39% 0.66% 0.49%
As % of the Vendors category 0.95% 1.39% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 101 129
10th Percentile £395 £400 £350
25th Percentile £462 £494 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £738 £650 £675
90th Percentile - £788 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £556 £525
% change year-on-year -1.12% +5.95% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 11
10th Percentile £45.06 £48.70 £55.00
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.06 £62.50
Median hourly rate £63.14 £55.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.79% -21.43% +21.74%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.50 -
90th Percentile £71.40 £64.00 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £56.38 £62.50
% change year-on-year +11.99% -9.80% +8.70%

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 16,929 11,649 15,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.18% 47.62% 41.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,957 7,504 9,714
10th Percentile £313 £276 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.99%
75th Percentile £611 £625 £635
90th Percentile £710 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 899 465 1,004
10th Percentile £15.37 £14.84 £12.04
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.44 £14.27
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.87% +17.56% -40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £57.33
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +27.45% +15.91% -48.24%

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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 17 May 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 17 May 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 17 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
London -59 57 £522 -19.73% 14
South West -27 39 £725 +26.09% 13
West Midlands -56 33 £425 -6.59% 2
Midlands -62 33 £425 -6.59% 3
South East -68 13 £488 -2.50% 11
North of England -69 12 £600 +9.09% 5
North West -35 10 £600 +29.73% 3
East of England -23 6 £300 -35.14% 5
North East -24 2 - - 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
1 104 (65.00%) Confluence
2 7 (4.38%) nginx
3 6 (3.75%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.63%) Mattermost
4 1 (0.63%) SAS
Applications
1 34 (21.25%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (16.25%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (6.88%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.88%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.25%) Trello
6 1 (0.63%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.63%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.63%) InDesign
6 1 (0.63%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.25%) LabWindows
2 1 (0.63%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.63%) SAP CAR
2 1 (0.63%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.63%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.63%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.63%) SAP Retail
2 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.63%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 27 (16.88%) AWS
2 18 (11.25%) Amazon EC2
2 18 (11.25%) Amazon S3
2 18 (11.25%) Route 53
3 15 (9.38%) GitHub
4 12 (7.50%) Azure
5 11 (6.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (6.88%) Amazon SQS
5 11 (6.88%) AWS KMS
5 11 (6.88%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (6.88%) SaaS
6 9 (5.63%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (5.63%) Serverless
7 8 (5.00%) Power Platform
8 7 (4.38%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (4.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (3.75%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (3.13%) Google Workspace
10 5 (3.13%) Slack
11 4 (2.50%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.00%) DNS
1 8 (5.00%) TCP/IP
2 7 (4.38%) Firewall
2 7 (4.38%) OpenVPN
2 7 (4.38%) VPN
3 1 (0.63%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (9.38%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (8.13%) DynamoDB
3 12 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (6.88%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (5.00%) Power BI
6 7 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (4.38%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (3.13%) Power Query
8 4 (2.50%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.25%) DocumentDB
9 2 (1.25%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.25%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.25%) Tableau
10 1 (0.63%) DB2
10 1 (0.63%) Metadata
10 1 (0.63%) MySQL
10 1 (0.63%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 120 (75.00%) JIRA
2 22 (13.75%) Bitbucket
3 19 (11.88%) Jenkins
4 18 (11.25%) SonarQube
5 15 (9.38%) Git
5 15 (9.38%) Maven
6 11 (6.88%) DbUnit
6 11 (6.88%) jMock
6 11 (6.88%) JUnit
6 11 (6.88%) Mockito
6 11 (6.88%) ScriptRunner
7 9 (5.63%) Bitbucket Server
8 7 (4.38%) Subversion
9 5 (3.13%) Android Studio
10 4 (2.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (2.50%) Eclipse
10 4 (2.50%) IntelliJ
11 3 (1.88%) Selenium
11 3 (1.88%) Zephyr
12 2 (1.25%) Artifactory
General
1 84 (52.50%) Social Skills
2 54 (33.75%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (19.38%) Public Sector
4 28 (17.50%) Finance
5 27 (16.88%) Military
6 9 (5.63%) Banking
6 9 (5.63%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.88%) Billing
9 3 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.25%) Advertising
10 2 (1.25%) German Language
10 2 (1.25%) Legal
10 2 (1.25%) Retail
11 1 (0.63%) Automotive
11 1 (0.63%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.63%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (22.50%) Architect
2 29 (18.13%) Developer
3 23 (14.38%) Service Architect
4 16 (10.00%) JIRA Engineer
4 16 (10.00%) Senior
5 12 (7.50%) Java Developer
6 11 (6.88%) Analyst
7 9 (5.63%) Data Centre Engineer
8 7 (4.38%) Administrator
8 7 (4.38%) Data Manager
8 7 (4.38%) Lead
8 7 (4.38%) Technical Architect
9 6 (3.75%) Consultant
9 6 (3.75%) JIRA Administrator
9 6 (3.75%) JIRA Consultant
9 6 (3.75%) Project Manager
9 6 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.13%) AWS Architect
10 5 (3.13%) Data Analyst
10 5 (3.13%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.63%) REST
2 12 (7.50%) AngularJS
2 12 (7.50%) SOAP
2 12 (7.50%) Web Services
3 11 (6.88%) ActiveMQ
3 11 (6.88%) Hibernate
3 11 (6.88%) JPA
3 11 (6.88%) PowerMock
3 11 (6.88%) Spring
3 11 (6.88%) Spring Batch
3 11 (6.88%) Spring Boot
3 11 (6.88%) Spring Cloud
3 11 (6.88%) Spring Integration
4 10 (6.25%) Bootstrap
4 10 (6.25%) RESTful
5 8 (5.00%) Node.js
6 7 (4.38%) LDAP
6 7 (4.38%) OpenID
7 4 (2.50%) XML
8 3 (1.88%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 22 (13.75%) Data Centre
3 13 (8.13%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.75%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.88%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.88%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.25%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.25%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.25%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.63%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.63%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.63%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.63%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.63%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.13%) Linux
2 6 (3.75%) Windows
3 5 (3.13%) Android
4 4 (2.50%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (50.63%) Agile
2 51 (31.88%) Service Management
3 45 (28.13%) DevOps
4 37 (23.13%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (21.88%) ITIL
5 35 (21.88%) Scrum
6 30 (18.75%) CI/CD
7 29 (18.13%) TOGAF
8 28 (17.50%) Analytical Thinking
9 26 (16.25%) Critical Thinking
9 26 (16.25%) Knowledge Transfer
9 26 (16.25%) Migration
9 26 (16.25%) Stakeholder Management
10 24 (15.00%) Acceptance Criteria
11 23 (14.38%) Business Continuity
11 23 (14.38%) Security Patching
11 23 (14.38%) Service Design
12 19 (11.88%) Workflow
13 18 (11.25%) Decision-Making
13 18 (11.25%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 22 (13.75%) SQL
2 20 (12.50%) Java
3 18 (11.25%) Python
4 6 (3.75%) Bash
4 6 (3.75%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (3.13%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.50%) Groovy
7 3 (1.88%) VBA
8 2 (1.25%) C++
9 1 (0.63%) C#
9 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 87 (54.38%) Security Cleared
2 83 (51.88%) SC Cleared
3 33 (20.63%) Degree
4 26 (16.25%) TOGAF Certification
5 6 (3.75%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.75%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (2.50%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.88%) APMP
8 3 (1.88%) CCNA
8 3 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.88%) MCSE
8 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.88%) RHCA
8 3 (1.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.13%) GRC
2 5 (3.13%) PMO
2 5 (3.13%) QA
3 4 (2.50%) SLA
4 3 (1.88%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.25%) GDPR
6 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (11.25%) Docker
2 10 (6.25%) Postfix
3 7 (4.38%) Squid
4 4 (2.50%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.88%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.88%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (14.38%) Grafana
1 23 (14.38%) OPNET
2 15 (9.38%) Kubernetes
3 14 (8.75%) Terraform
4 12 (7.50%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.38%) Consul
5 7 (4.38%) FortiGate
5 7 (4.38%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.88%) Ansible
6 3 (1.88%) Podman
6 3 (1.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (1.25%) Kibana
7 2 (1.25%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.63%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 32 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 24 (15.00%) Remedy
3 19 (11.88%) Microsoft
4 11 (6.88%) Jaspersoft
5 7 (4.38%) Dynatrace
5 7 (4.38%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.75%) Google
6 6 (3.75%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.50%) VMware
8 3 (1.88%) Cisco
8 3 (1.88%) Coverity
8 3 (1.88%) Thales
9 2 (1.25%) Oracle
9 2 (1.25%) SAP
10 1 (0.63%) Adobe
10 1 (0.63%) Databricks
10 1 (0.63%) Informatica
10 1 (0.63%) Sparx
10 1 (0.63%) Splunk
10 1 (0.63%) Zoho