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 September 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
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 390 345 336
Rank change year-on-year -45 -9 +71
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 119 187 272
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.43% 0.57% 0.64%
As % of the Vendors category 0.92% 1.30% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 100 188
10th Percentile £425 £438 £343
25th Percentile £500 £463 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £671 £685 £675
90th Percentile £788 £763 £743
UK median daily rate £581 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -3.13% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 16 21
10th Percentile £50.34 £37.55 £54.50
25th Percentile £51.41 £63.92 £55.00
Median hourly rate £54.31 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.42% +16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £60.69 - £70.00
90th Percentile £66.28 - £76.53
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +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 12,865 14,401 18,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.02% 44.18% 43.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,156 8,822 12,481
10th Percentile £275 £300 £262
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £615 £630 £650
90th Percentile £700 £731 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 609 601 587
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.25 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £15.62 £18.97
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -17.65% +77.75%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.25 £63.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £70.00 £75.35
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.21 £43.38
% change year-on-year -16.74% -30.36% +85.44%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Atlassian as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Atlassian 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 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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
London +12 49 £670 -5.96% 31
West Midlands -2 21 £500 -13.04% 3
Midlands -4 21 £500 -4.76% 4
South West -20 18 £625 +4.17% 8
North of England -22 18 £588 +11.37% 16
North West -23 13 £550 +4.27% 9
South East +16 11 £450 +15.38% 23
North East - 6 £650 - 4
Yorkshire - 5 £650 - 3
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 68 (57.14%) Confluence
2 10 (8.40%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.84%) Camunda
4 1 (0.84%) CMS
4 1 (0.84%) Drupal
4 1 (0.84%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.84%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (10.92%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.52%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 41 (34.45%) AWS
2 17 (14.29%) GitHub
3 14 (11.76%) IaaS
4 13 (10.92%) Amazon EC2
4 13 (10.92%) Amazon S3
5 11 (9.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (7.56%) npm
7 8 (6.72%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (6.72%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (6.72%) Serverless
7 8 (6.72%) Yarn
8 6 (5.04%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (5.04%) AWS KMS
8 6 (5.04%) Azure
8 6 (5.04%) Route 53
9 5 (4.20%) Power Platform
9 5 (4.20%) Slack
10 4 (3.36%) SaaS
11 3 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.40%) Unified Communications
2 9 (7.56%) BGP
2 9 (7.56%) DNS
3 7 (5.88%) IPsec
3 7 (5.88%) MPLS
3 7 (5.88%) VPN
4 5 (4.20%) OpenLDAP
5 3 (2.52%) Skype
6 2 (1.68%) DHCP
6 2 (1.68%) Firewall
6 2 (1.68%) OSPF
6 2 (1.68%) VLAN
6 2 (1.68%) VoIP
6 2 (1.68%) X.509
7 1 (0.84%) HTTP
7 1 (0.84%) SNMP
7 1 (0.84%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.84%) Software-Defined Radio
7 1 (0.84%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.84%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.92%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (6.72%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (5.04%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (5.04%) DynamoDB
3 6 (5.04%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.36%) Power BI
5 3 (2.52%) DB2
5 3 (2.52%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.68%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.68%) MySQL
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 75 (63.03%) JIRA
2 25 (21.01%) Bitbucket
2 25 (21.01%) Git
3 22 (18.49%) ScriptRunner
4 17 (14.29%) Jenkins
5 8 (6.72%) webpack
6 7 (5.88%) Artifactory
6 7 (5.88%) GitLab
6 7 (5.88%) JUnit
6 7 (5.88%) Maven
6 7 (5.88%) SonarQube
7 6 (5.04%) Bitbucket Server
7 6 (5.04%) DbUnit
7 6 (5.04%) jMock
7 6 (5.04%) Mockito
8 5 (4.20%) Selenium
9 4 (3.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (2.52%) Cucumber
10 3 (2.52%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (2.52%) TeamCity
General
1 35 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.33%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (16.81%) Finance
4 19 (15.97%) Public Sector
5 16 (13.45%) Banking
6 8 (6.72%) Investment Banking
7 5 (4.20%) Automotive
7 5 (4.20%) Front Office
8 3 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.52%) Military
9 2 (1.68%) Back Office
9 2 (1.68%) Marketing
9 2 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.84%) Aviation
10 1 (0.84%) Electronics
10 1 (0.84%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.84%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (22.69%) Developer
2 22 (18.49%) Senior
3 11 (9.24%) Administrator
3 11 (9.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (8.40%) JIRA Administrator
4 10 (8.40%) JIRA Engineer
4 10 (8.40%) Senior Developer
4 10 (8.40%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (7.56%) Java Developer
6 8 (6.72%) Applications Support
6 8 (6.72%) UI Developer
7 7 (5.88%) Network Engineer
7 7 (5.88%) Senior UI Developer
8 6 (5.04%) Analyst
8 6 (5.04%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.20%) IT Support
9 5 (4.20%) JIRA Specialist
9 5 (4.20%) Lead
9 5 (4.20%) Migration Engineer
9 5 (4.20%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.45%) React
2 14 (11.76%) REST
3 12 (10.08%) CSS
4 11 (9.24%) AngularJS
4 11 (9.24%) RESTful
5 7 (5.88%) Bootstrap
5 7 (5.88%) NETCONF
5 7 (5.88%) Node.js
5 7 (5.88%) RESTCONF
5 7 (5.88%) SOAP
5 7 (5.88%) Spring
5 7 (5.88%) Web Services
6 6 (5.04%) ActiveMQ
6 6 (5.04%) Hibernate
6 6 (5.04%) JPA
6 6 (5.04%) PowerMock
6 6 (5.04%) Spring Batch
6 6 (5.04%) Spring Boot
6 6 (5.04%) Spring Cloud
6 6 (5.04%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.24%) PKI
2 9 (7.56%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.72%) Derivative
4 7 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.52%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.52%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.68%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.68%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.68%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.68%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.84%) Clustering
7 1 (0.84%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.84%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.84%) PMI
7 1 (0.84%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.24%) Linux
2 10 (8.40%) Windows
3 4 (3.36%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.68%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.84%) Unix
5 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (51.26%) Agile
2 28 (23.53%) Migration
3 22 (18.49%) CI/CD
4 21 (17.65%) DevOps
5 19 (15.97%) Scrum
6 17 (14.29%) Microservices
7 16 (13.45%) Performance Tuning
7 16 (13.45%) Service Management
8 15 (12.61%) Incident Management
8 15 (12.61%) ITIL
8 15 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (11.76%) Containerisation
9 14 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 14 (11.76%) Software Engineering
10 13 (10.92%) Continuous Integration
10 13 (10.92%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 12 (10.08%) BDD
11 12 (10.08%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (10.08%) Task Automation
11 12 (10.08%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 23 (19.33%) Java
2 20 (16.81%) Groovy
3 19 (15.97%) JavaScript
3 19 (15.97%) Python
4 13 (10.92%) SQL
5 9 (7.56%) PowerShell
6 8 (6.72%) TypeScript
7 5 (4.20%) Go
8 4 (3.36%) C
8 4 (3.36%) C#
8 4 (3.36%) C++
9 2 (1.68%) Haskell
9 2 (1.68%) Ruby
10 1 (0.84%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.84%) Bash
10 1 (0.84%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (51.26%) Security Cleared
2 55 (46.22%) SC Cleared
3 20 (16.81%) Degree
4 11 (9.24%) DV Cleared
5 10 (8.40%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (7.56%) CCNP
7 3 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.68%) CBAP
8 2 (1.68%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.84%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.84%) CCNA
9 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.84%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.84%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.04%) QA
2 3 (2.52%) IEC 61508
2 3 (2.52%) IEC 62304
2 3 (2.52%) ISO 26262
2 3 (2.52%) ITGC
2 3 (2.52%) NIST
3 1 (0.84%) NCSC
3 1 (0.84%) P3O
3 1 (0.84%) PMO
3 1 (0.84%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (11.76%) Docker
2 10 (8.40%) VMware ESXi
3 9 (7.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (6.72%) Active Directory
5 6 (5.04%) Postfix
6 5 (4.20%) Firmware
7 2 (1.68%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.84%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.84%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.40%) Ansible
3 7 (5.88%) Grafana
3 7 (5.88%) Prometheus
4 5 (4.20%) SCCM
5 3 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.68%) Puppet
6 2 (1.68%) Terraform
7 1 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.84%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (0.84%) OPNET
7 1 (0.84%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.84%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.84%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (13.45%) Microsoft
2 12 (10.08%) VMware
3 11 (9.24%) ServiceNow
4 10 (8.40%) Cisco
5 7 (5.88%) Salesforce
6 6 (5.04%) Jaspersoft
6 6 (5.04%) SAP
7 4 (3.36%) Splunk
8 3 (2.52%) CrowdStrike
8 3 (2.52%) Oracle
9 2 (1.68%) Dell
9 2 (1.68%) IBM
9 2 (1.68%) Veeam
10 1 (0.84%) Google
10 1 (0.84%) HP
10 1 (0.84%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.84%) Nintex
10 1 (0.84%) Okta
10 1 (0.84%) Optimizely
10 1 (0.84%) Planview