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 1 January 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
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 352 310
Rank change year-on-year -37 -42 +78
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 155 150 246
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.53% 0.68%
As % of the Vendors category 1.04% 1.16% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 79 176
10th Percentile £416 £395 £363
25th Percentile £534 £473 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 £625 £560
Median % change year-on-year +5.60% +11.61% +1.82%
75th Percentile £738 £709 £661
90th Percentile £775 £770 £700
UK median daily rate £650 £613 £560
% change year-on-year +6.12% +9.31% +1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 28
10th Percentile £64.29 £54.63 £54.85
25th Percentile £68.37 £60.38 £55.00
Median hourly rate £77.04 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.26% +4.17% +10.09%
75th Percentile £87.58 £66.01 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.78 £71.25 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £77.04 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +23.26% +4.17% +10.09%

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 14,956 12,945 16,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.18% 46.05% 44.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,753 7,849 10,411
10th Percentile £300 £291 £250
25th Percentile £409 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 699 372 613
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.28 £14.18
25th Percentile £18.22 £17.06 £20.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% -34.78% +70.37%
75th Percentile £47.63 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.85 £80.54 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.24 £45.94
% change year-on-year -12.53% -40.71% +76.69%

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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 1 January 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 1 January 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 1 January 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 +8 70 £725 +11.54% 10
London -10 49 £675 +4.85% 15
West Midlands -40 12 £563 +27.84% 2
Midlands -46 12 £563 +27.84% 3
North of England -55 11 £563 +4.55% 14
South East -21 10 £463 -0.54% 14
North West -31 7 £550 +2.23% 7
North East - 2 £463 - 6
Yorkshire - 2 £575 - 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
1 112 (72.26%) Confluence
2 7 (4.52%) nginx
3 5 (3.23%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.65%) CMS
4 1 (0.65%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 42 (27.10%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (23.23%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (4.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (4.52%) MS Visio
4 4 (2.58%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (1.29%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (1.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (1.29%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (1.29%) InDesign
5 2 (1.29%) Photoshop
5 2 (1.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 25 (16.13%) GitHub
2 19 (12.26%) AWS
3 12 (7.74%) Azure
3 12 (7.74%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (3.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (3.87%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (3.87%) Amazon S3
4 6 (3.87%) Azure API Management
5 5 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (3.23%) Serverless
6 4 (2.58%) Slack
7 3 (1.94%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (1.94%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (1.94%) npm
7 3 (1.94%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.94%) SaaS
7 3 (1.94%) Yarn
8 2 (1.29%) Datadog
8 2 (1.29%) Figma
8 2 (1.29%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.23%) OpenLDAP
2 4 (2.58%) DNS
3 3 (1.94%) DHCP
3 3 (1.94%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.65%) BGP
4 1 (0.65%) Firewall
4 1 (0.65%) OSPF
4 1 (0.65%) Skype
4 1 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.65%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.65%) VLAN
4 1 (0.65%) VoIP
4 1 (0.65%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (10.32%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.45%) NoSQL
3 8 (5.16%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.23%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (3.23%) Couchbase
5 4 (2.58%) Metadata
6 3 (1.94%) DB2
7 2 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.29%) Power BI
7 2 (1.29%) Redis
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.65%) Big Data
8 1 (0.65%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.65%) MySQL
8 1 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 123 (79.35%) JIRA
2 32 (20.65%) Bitbucket
3 28 (18.06%) Jenkins
4 25 (16.13%) Git
5 17 (10.97%) GitLab
6 8 (5.16%) ScriptRunner
7 7 (4.52%) Artifactory
8 5 (3.23%) Selenium
9 3 (1.94%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.94%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.94%) webpack
10 2 (1.29%) Android Studio
10 2 (1.29%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (1.29%) Subversion
11 1 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.65%) LabVIEW
11 1 (0.65%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.65%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.65%) TestRail
11 1 (0.65%) Zephyr
General
1 76 (49.03%) Social Skills
2 55 (35.48%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (21.29%) Military
4 20 (12.90%) Finance
5 15 (9.68%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.81%) Banking
7 7 (4.52%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (3.23%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.94%) Advertising
10 3 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.94%) Legal
10 3 (1.94%) Marketing
10 3 (1.94%) Publishing
11 2 (1.29%) Front Office
11 2 (1.29%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.65%) Electronics
12 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.65%) Police
Job Titles
1 38 (24.52%) Architect
2 30 (19.35%) Service Architect
3 17 (10.97%) Developer
4 12 (7.74%) Administrator
5 11 (7.10%) JIRA Administrator
6 10 (6.45%) Analyst
7 9 (5.81%) Consultant
8 8 (5.16%) Senior
9 7 (4.52%) Business Analyst
9 7 (4.52%) JIRA Consultant
9 7 (4.52%) Senior Developer
9 7 (4.52%) Service Management Specialist
10 6 (3.87%) DevOps Specialist
10 6 (3.87%) JIRA Specialist
11 5 (3.23%) Lead
11 5 (3.23%) Programme Manager
11 5 (3.23%) Technical Analyst
11 5 (3.23%) Technical Business Analyst
11 5 (3.23%) Technical Manager
11 5 (3.23%) Technical Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (20.00%) REST
2 9 (5.81%) React
3 6 (3.87%) CSS
4 5 (3.23%) .NET
4 5 (3.23%) boto
4 5 (3.23%) Flake8
4 5 (3.23%) Kafka
4 5 (3.23%) LDAP
4 5 (3.23%) mypy
4 5 (3.23%) pytest
4 5 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (2.58%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.58%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (2.58%) Gherkin
6 3 (1.94%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (1.94%) Bootstrap
6 3 (1.94%) Express.js
6 3 (1.94%) Node.js
6 3 (1.94%) RESTful
6 3 (1.94%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 36 (23.23%) Product Ownership
2 9 (5.81%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.87%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.94%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.94%) Derivative
4 3 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.94%) Educational Technology
4 3 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.29%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.29%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.29%) Social Media
5 2 (1.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.65%) Hedge funds
6 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.65%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.65%) PKI
6 1 (0.65%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.65%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (8.39%) Windows
2 12 (7.74%) Linux
3 9 (5.81%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.23%) Unix
5 2 (1.29%) Android
6 1 (0.65%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (72.26%) Agile
2 58 (37.42%) Service Management
3 51 (32.90%) ITIL
4 39 (25.16%) Critical Thinking
5 38 (24.52%) DevOps
6 36 (23.23%) Analytical Thinking
7 35 (22.58%) Acceptance Criteria
7 35 (22.58%) Business Continuity
8 34 (21.94%) Knowledge Transfer
9 31 (20.00%) TOGAF
10 30 (19.35%) Security Patching
10 30 (19.35%) Service Design
11 28 (18.06%) Scrum
12 27 (17.42%) CI/CD
13 21 (13.55%) Change Management
13 21 (13.55%) Problem-Solving
14 20 (12.90%) ITSM
14 20 (12.90%) Project Management
15 18 (11.61%) Workflow
16 16 (10.32%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (27.10%) Python
2 28 (18.06%) PowerShell
3 11 (7.10%) SQL
4 10 (6.45%) Go
5 9 (5.81%) Bash
5 9 (5.81%) Java
6 7 (4.52%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.23%) C#
8 3 (1.94%) C
8 3 (1.94%) C++
8 3 (1.94%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.94%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.65%) PHP
Qualifications
1 104 (67.10%) Security Cleared
2 102 (65.81%) SC Cleared
3 50 (32.26%) Degree
4 30 (19.35%) TOGAF Certification
5 14 (9.03%) DV Cleared
6 9 (5.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (4.52%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.87%) APMP
9 3 (1.94%) MCSA
9 3 (1.94%) MCSE
9 3 (1.94%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.94%) OCA
9 3 (1.94%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.29%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.65%) CBAP
11 1 (0.65%) CCNP
11 1 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.65%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.87%) QA
2 4 (2.58%) GDPR
3 3 (1.94%) IEC 61508
3 3 (1.94%) IEC 62304
3 3 (1.94%) ISO 26262
4 2 (1.29%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.29%) PMO
5 1 (0.65%) ITGC
5 1 (0.65%) NIST
5 1 (0.65%) P3O
5 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.65%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (10.97%) Docker
2 10 (6.45%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.23%) Firmware
4 3 (1.94%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 30 (19.35%) OPNET
2 23 (14.84%) Kubernetes
3 11 (7.10%) Terraform
4 7 (4.52%) Ansible
5 5 (3.23%) SCCM
6 3 (1.94%) PowerCLI
6 3 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.29%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 1 (0.65%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.65%) Packer
8 1 (0.65%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (21.29%) ServiceNow
2 30 (19.35%) Remedy
3 16 (10.32%) Microsoft
4 8 (5.16%) VMware
5 4 (2.58%) Oracle
5 4 (2.58%) Veeam
6 3 (1.94%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.29%) Adobe
7 2 (1.29%) Coverity
7 2 (1.29%) Databricks
7 2 (1.29%) Dell
7 2 (1.29%) Google
7 2 (1.29%) Okta
7 2 (1.29%) Thales
8 1 (0.65%) Cisco
8 1 (0.65%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.65%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.65%) Nintex
8 1 (0.65%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.65%) Zoho