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 14 September 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
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 513 389 337
Rank change year-on-year -124 -52 +9
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 116 120 187
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.44% 0.57%
As % of the Vendors category 0.61% 0.92% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 86 100
10th Percentile £309 £425 £438
25th Percentile £408 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £639 £674 £685
90th Percentile £780 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £487 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -17.15% -2.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 16
10th Percentile - £50.34 £37.55
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.41 £63.92
Median hourly rate £63.14 £54.31 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.26% -22.42% +16.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £60.69 -
90th Percentile £72.29 £66.28 -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +14.79% -21.43% +16.67%

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 19,121 12,976 14,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.57% 47.08% 44.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,913 8,232 8,889
10th Percentile £311 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £620 £615 £630
90th Percentile £710 £700 £731
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,107 605 607
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.79 £15.62
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% -17.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.09 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.70 £69.65 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £25.15 £30.80
% change year-on-year +7.36% -18.33% -28.38%

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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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -93 41 £638 -4.92% 115
Midlands -37 31 £450 -10.00% 12
West Midlands -38 29 £448 -10.50% 6
North of England -73 20 £600 +2.13% 29
North West -54 11 £537 -2.36% 15
South West -54 10 £490 -21.60% 33
Yorkshire -30 9 £620 -4.62% 8
South East -56 9 £273 -39.44% 27
East of England - 2 £472 - 10
East Midlands - 1 £450 - 6
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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 56 (48.28%) Confluence
2 3 (2.59%) CMS
2 3 (2.59%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (1.72%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.86%) Apache
4 1 (0.86%) JBoss
4 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.86%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.59%) Magento
1 3 (2.59%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.86%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 16 (13.79%) AWS
2 13 (11.21%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (9.48%) Azure
4 10 (8.62%) SaaS
5 7 (6.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (6.03%) Amazon EC2
5 7 (6.03%) Amazon S3
5 7 (6.03%) Amazon SQS
5 7 (6.03%) AWS KMS
5 7 (6.03%) Entra ID
5 7 (6.03%) GitHub
5 7 (6.03%) Microsoft Copilot
5 7 (6.03%) Power Platform
5 7 (6.03%) Route 53
6 4 (3.45%) Copilot Studio
6 4 (3.45%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.59%) Figma
7 3 (2.59%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 2 (1.72%) Slack
9 1 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.59%) DNS
2 2 (1.72%) VSAN
3 1 (0.86%) DHCP
3 1 (0.86%) Skype
3 1 (0.86%) SSL
3 1 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (6.03%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (6.03%) DynamoDB
2 7 (6.03%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (6.03%) Power BI
3 6 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (5.17%) Power Query
4 3 (2.59%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.72%) MySQL
6 1 (0.86%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.86%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.86%) Metadata
6 1 (0.86%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.86%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.86%) Sybase ASE
6 1 (0.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 77 (66.38%) JIRA
2 13 (11.21%) Bitbucket
3 12 (10.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 11 (9.48%) Git
5 8 (6.90%) ScriptRunner
6 7 (6.03%) DbUnit
6 7 (6.03%) Jenkins
6 7 (6.03%) JUnit
6 7 (6.03%) Maven
6 7 (6.03%) Mockito
6 7 (6.03%) SonarQube
7 6 (5.17%) Bitbucket Server
7 6 (5.17%) jMock
8 3 (2.59%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.86%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.86%) GitLab
9 1 (0.86%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.86%) Postman
9 1 (0.86%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.86%) Selenium
General
1 49 (42.24%) Social Skills
2 33 (28.45%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (25.86%) Finance
4 21 (18.10%) Banking
5 17 (14.66%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.03%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (4.31%) Marketing
8 4 (3.45%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.59%) Retail
10 2 (1.72%) Arabic Language
10 2 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.86%) Billing
11 1 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.86%) Law
11 1 (0.86%) Legal
11 1 (0.86%) Military
11 1 (0.86%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (20.69%) JIRA Engineer
2 16 (13.79%) Developer
3 8 (6.90%) Lead
4 7 (6.03%) Administrator
4 7 (6.03%) Delivery Manager
4 7 (6.03%) Java Developer
4 7 (6.03%) JIRA Administrator
4 7 (6.03%) Senior
4 7 (6.03%) Technical Engineer
4 7 (6.03%) Technical Manager
5 6 (5.17%) 2nd Line Support
5 6 (5.17%) Consultant
5 6 (5.17%) Power BI Developer
5 6 (5.17%) Product Owner
5 6 (5.17%) Project Manager
5 6 (5.17%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 5 (4.31%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 4 (3.45%) Agile Project Manager
7 4 (3.45%) Analyst
7 4 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.07%) REST
2 8 (6.90%) Terraform
3 7 (6.03%) ActiveMQ
3 7 (6.03%) AngularJS
3 7 (6.03%) Hibernate
3 7 (6.03%) JPA
3 7 (6.03%) RESTful
3 7 (6.03%) SOAP
3 7 (6.03%) Spring
3 7 (6.03%) Spring Batch
3 7 (6.03%) Spring Boot
3 7 (6.03%) Spring Integration
3 7 (6.03%) Web Services
4 6 (5.17%) Bootstrap
4 6 (5.17%) PowerMock
5 5 (4.31%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (1.72%) Node.js
7 1 (0.86%) EDI
7 1 (0.86%) LAMP
7 1 (0.86%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.24%) Product Ownership
2 12 (10.34%) Data Centre
3 11 (9.48%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (9.48%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.31%) Credit Risk
4 5 (4.31%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (3.45%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.59%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.72%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.72%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.72%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.86%) Market Risk
8 1 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (14.66%) Linux
2 13 (11.21%) Windows
3 11 (9.48%) Windows Server
4 7 (6.03%) Mac OS
5 6 (5.17%) Windows 10
6 5 (4.31%) CentOS
6 5 (4.31%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (44.83%) Agile
2 34 (29.31%) DevOps
3 33 (28.45%) Migration
4 31 (26.72%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (26.72%) Scrum
5 30 (25.86%) Stakeholder Management
6 29 (25.00%) Service Management
7 28 (24.14%) CI/CD
8 25 (21.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (18.10%) Decision-Making
10 19 (16.38%) Project Management
11 18 (15.52%) ITSM
12 17 (14.66%) Kanban
13 16 (13.79%) ITIL
14 15 (12.93%) Workflow
15 13 (11.21%) AI
16 12 (10.34%) Coaching
16 12 (10.34%) SDLC
17 11 (9.48%) Product Backlog
17 11 (9.48%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 18 (15.52%) SQL
2 15 (12.93%) Python
3 11 (9.48%) Java
3 11 (9.48%) PowerShell
4 6 (5.17%) Bash
4 6 (5.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (3.45%) Groovy
6 3 (2.59%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.86%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.86%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (0.86%) C#
7 1 (0.86%) Perl
7 1 (0.86%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.86%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 45 (38.79%) Security Cleared
2 41 (35.34%) SC Cleared
3 16 (13.79%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (11.21%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.31%) Degree
5 5 (4.31%) MCSE
5 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (4.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (3.45%) CCNA
6 4 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.45%) RHCA
7 3 (2.59%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.72%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.72%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.86%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.86%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.86%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.90%) QA
2 6 (5.17%) GRC
3 5 (4.31%) PMO
4 4 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.86%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (9.48%) Docker
2 7 (6.03%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.31%) Postfix
4 4 (3.45%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.72%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (6.03%) Grafana
2 6 (5.17%) Ansible
2 6 (5.17%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.45%) Podman
4 3 (2.59%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.72%) OPNET
5 2 (1.72%) PowerCLI
5 2 (1.72%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.86%) Opsgenie
6 1 (0.86%) SCCM
6 1 (0.86%) SCOM
6 1 (0.86%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (15.52%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.03%) ServiceNow
2 7 (6.03%) VMware
3 6 (5.17%) Jaspersoft
4 5 (4.31%) Cisco
5 4 (3.45%) SAP
6 3 (2.59%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.72%) Databricks
7 2 (1.72%) Google
7 2 (1.72%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.72%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.86%) Denodo
8 1 (0.86%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.86%) Informatica
8 1 (0.86%) Oracle
8 1 (0.86%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.86%) Sybase
8 1 (0.86%) Talend