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 29 March 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
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 336 360
Rank change year-on-year -51 +24 +18
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 200 144 195
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.53% 0.59% 0.52%
As % of the Vendors category 1.20% 1.25% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 91 144
10th Percentile £413 £425 £352
25th Percentile £475 £478 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £563 £531
Median % change year-on-year +3.11% +5.88% -7.61%
75th Percentile £738 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £788 £700
UK median daily rate £578 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% +4.76% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 14
10th Percentile £41.72 £51.49 -
25th Percentile £59.22 £58.47 £55.00
Median hourly rate £63.32 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% +4.17% +13.21%
75th Percentile £74.52 £64.06 £68.75
90th Percentile £86.50 £70.63 £70.88
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +1.60% +3.31% +14.15%

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 16,622 11,549 15,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.68% 47.24% 42.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,833 7,493 10,221
10th Percentile £313 £296 £250
25th Percentile £413 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.28%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £514 £514
% change year-on-year -2.79% +0.06% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 876 420 949
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £12.10
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £14.27
Median hourly rate £25.40 £29.07 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% +21.13% -31.97%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.38 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £28.75 £23.50
% change year-on-year -10.37% +22.34% -40.58%

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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 29 March 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 29 March 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 29 March 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 +5 71 £725 +26.09% 13
London -32 67 £525 -17.65% 14
West Midlands -52 29 £425 -3.41% 8
Midlands -63 29 £425 -3.41% 9
South East -55 14 £500 -20.13% 8
North of England -59 12 £463 -15.53% 4
North West -39 8 £447 -18.73% 3
East of England -27 5 £300 -35.14% 3
North East - 3 £463 - 1
Yorkshire -60 1 £575 +5.50%
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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
1 142 (71.00%) Confluence
2 14 (7.00%) nginx
3 6 (3.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.50%) Mattermost
Applications
1 43 (21.50%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (17.50%) Microsoft Project
3 12 (6.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (3.00%) MS Visio
5 5 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (1.00%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (1.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (1.00%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (1.00%) InDesign
6 2 (1.00%) Photoshop
6 2 (1.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) LabWindows
2 1 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.50%) SAP CAR
2 1 (0.50%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.50%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.50%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.50%) SAP Retail
2 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.50%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 32 (16.00%) AWS
2 21 (10.50%) GitHub
3 16 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
3 16 (8.00%) Amazon S3
3 16 (8.00%) Azure
4 15 (7.50%) Route 53
5 10 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (4.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (4.50%) SaaS
6 9 (4.50%) Serverless
7 8 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (4.00%) AWS KMS
7 8 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (3.50%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.00%) Azure API Management
9 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (2.50%) Google Workspace
11 4 (2.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.00%) DNS
2 9 (4.50%) TCP/IP
3 7 (3.50%) Firewall
3 7 (3.50%) OpenVPN
3 7 (3.50%) VPN
4 2 (1.00%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.50%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.00%) DynamoDB
2 10 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 9 (4.50%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (4.50%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (3.50%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (3.50%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (3.50%) Power BI
5 5 (2.50%) Metadata
5 5 (2.50%) Power Query
5 5 (2.50%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.50%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.50%) Couchbase
7 2 (1.00%) DocumentDB
7 2 (1.00%) Tableau
8 1 (0.50%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.50%) DB2
8 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.50%) MySQL
8 1 (0.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 157 (78.50%) JIRA
2 35 (17.50%) Bitbucket
3 31 (15.50%) Jenkins
4 22 (11.00%) Git
5 15 (7.50%) SonarQube
6 12 (6.00%) GitLab
6 12 (6.00%) Maven
7 11 (5.50%) ScriptRunner
8 8 (4.00%) DbUnit
8 8 (4.00%) jMock
8 8 (4.00%) JUnit
8 8 (4.00%) Mockito
9 7 (3.50%) Subversion
10 6 (3.00%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (2.50%) Android Studio
12 4 (2.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (2.00%) Eclipse
12 4 (2.00%) Selenium
13 3 (1.50%) IntelliJ
14 2 (1.00%) LabVIEW
General
1 99 (49.50%) Social Skills
2 63 (31.50%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (16.50%) Military
3 33 (16.50%) Public Sector
4 27 (13.50%) Finance
5 11 (5.50%) Banking
5 11 (5.50%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.00%) Advertising
7 4 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.50%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.50%) Legal
8 3 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.50%) Publishing
9 2 (1.00%) Billing
9 2 (1.00%) German Language
9 2 (1.00%) Marketing
9 2 (1.00%) Retail
10 1 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (23.00%) Architect
2 30 (15.00%) Developer
2 30 (15.00%) Service Architect
3 16 (8.00%) JIRA Engineer
3 16 (8.00%) Senior
4 14 (7.00%) Analyst
5 11 (5.50%) Consultant
6 10 (5.00%) Administrator
7 9 (4.50%) Data Centre Engineer
7 9 (4.50%) Java Developer
7 9 (4.50%) JIRA Administrator
7 9 (4.50%) JIRA Consultant
8 8 (4.00%) Data Manager
8 8 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (3.50%) JIRA Specialist
9 7 (3.50%) Project Manager
9 7 (3.50%) Service Management Specialist
9 7 (3.50%) Technical Architect
10 6 (3.00%) Lead
11 5 (2.50%) Technical Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (17.50%) REST
2 10 (5.00%) AngularJS
2 10 (5.00%) SOAP
2 10 (5.00%) Web Services
3 8 (4.00%) ActiveMQ
3 8 (4.00%) Bootstrap
3 8 (4.00%) Hibernate
3 8 (4.00%) JPA
3 8 (4.00%) PowerMock
3 8 (4.00%) Spring
3 8 (4.00%) Spring Batch
3 8 (4.00%) Spring Boot
3 8 (4.00%) Spring Cloud
3 8 (4.00%) Spring Integration
4 7 (3.50%) LDAP
4 7 (3.50%) Node.js
4 7 (3.50%) OpenID
4 7 (3.50%) RESTful
5 5 (2.50%) Kafka
6 4 (2.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.00%) Product Ownership
2 17 (8.50%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.50%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.00%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.00%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (1.50%) Educational Technology
7 3 (1.50%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.00%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.00%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.00%) e-Learning
8 2 (1.00%) Social Media
8 2 (1.00%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.50%) Learning Management System
9 1 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing Execution System
9 1 (0.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.00%) Linux
2 9 (4.50%) Windows
3 7 (3.50%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.50%) Android
4 5 (2.50%) Unix
5 1 (0.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (64.50%) Agile
2 75 (37.50%) Service Management
3 68 (34.00%) DevOps
4 57 (28.50%) ITIL
5 44 (22.00%) Scrum
6 40 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (18.50%) Analytical Thinking
7 37 (18.50%) Critical Thinking
8 35 (17.50%) CI/CD
8 35 (17.50%) TOGAF
9 33 (16.50%) Acceptance Criteria
9 33 (16.50%) Knowledge Transfer
10 30 (15.00%) Business Continuity
10 30 (15.00%) ITSM
10 30 (15.00%) Security Patching
10 30 (15.00%) Service Design
11 25 (12.50%) Change Management
11 25 (12.50%) Workflow
12 24 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 23 (11.50%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (20.50%) Python
2 24 (12.00%) PowerShell
3 23 (11.50%) SQL
4 16 (8.00%) Java
5 12 (6.00%) Bash
6 6 (3.00%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.50%) Go
8 3 (1.50%) Groovy
8 3 (1.50%) VBA
9 2 (1.00%) C#
9 2 (1.00%) C++
9 2 (1.00%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 127 (63.50%) Security Cleared
2 122 (61.00%) SC Cleared
3 49 (24.50%) Degree
4 32 (16.00%) TOGAF Certification
5 14 (7.00%) DV Cleared
6 9 (4.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.50%) APMP
8 5 (2.50%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.00%) MCSE
9 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (2.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (1.50%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.50%) MCSA
10 3 (1.50%) OCA
10 3 (1.50%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.50%) CCNA
12 1 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.50%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.50%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.50%) GRC
2 5 (2.50%) PMO
2 5 (2.50%) SLA
3 4 (2.00%) GDPR
4 2 (1.00%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.00%) QA
5 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 24 (12.00%) Docker
2 7 (3.50%) Postfix
2 7 (3.50%) Squid
3 6 (3.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 30 (15.00%) OPNET
2 23 (11.50%) Kubernetes
3 21 (10.50%) Terraform
4 19 (9.50%) Grafana
5 10 (5.00%) Prometheus
6 8 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (3.50%) Consul
7 7 (3.50%) FortiGate
8 6 (3.00%) Ansible
9 3 (1.50%) PowerCLI
9 3 (1.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (1.00%) Kibana
10 2 (1.00%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.50%) Packer
11 1 (0.50%) Podman
Vendors
1 39 (19.50%) ServiceNow
2 31 (15.50%) Remedy
3 19 (9.50%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.00%) Jaspersoft
5 7 (3.50%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.50%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.00%) VMware
7 5 (2.50%) Google
7 5 (2.50%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.00%) Oracle
9 3 (1.50%) Coverity
9 3 (1.50%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.50%) Thales
9 3 (1.50%) Veeam
10 2 (1.00%) Adobe
10 2 (1.00%) Databricks
10 2 (1.00%) SAP
11 1 (0.50%) Cisco
11 1 (0.50%) Okta
11 1 (0.50%) Zoho