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 16 July 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
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 489 358 350
Rank change year-on-year -131 -8 +39
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 130 153 198
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.29% 0.56% 0.54%
As % of the Vendors category 0.71% 1.19% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 101 126
10th Percentile £332 £425 £438
25th Percentile £431 £485 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £600 £649 £700
90th Percentile £789 £788 £738
UK median daily rate £519 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -5.72% -3.08% -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 16
10th Percentile £45.06 £50.35 £37.55
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.30 £68.44
Median hourly rate £63.14 £54.94 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.92% -21.52% +21.74%
75th Percentile £72.29 £61.55 -
90th Percentile £76.75 £66.25 £73.13
UK median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +15.45% -21.43% +21.74%

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 18,365 12,896 15,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.03% 47.44% 42.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,640 8,142 10,010
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £403 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +0.10% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 978 616 1,013
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.84 £12.71
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.54 £15.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +41.15% -0.40% -29.86%
75th Percentile £65.58 £51.41 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.20 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +39.17% +0.60% -38.27%

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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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -62 55 £525 -16.00% 17
Midlands -54 35 £453 -1.52% 4
West Midlands -52 33 £456 -0.87% 4
North of England -86 13 £600 +9.09% 5
South West -48 11 £490 -15.70% 8
North West -52 10 £600 +29.73% 5
South East -71 9 £488 +2.63% 15
East of England -17 6 £300 -35.14% 2
Yorkshire -55 3 £755 +16.15%
East Midlands - 1 £450 -
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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 70 (53.85%) Confluence
2 7 (5.38%) nginx
3 5 (3.85%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.77%) Mattermost
4 1 (0.77%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.31%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (0.77%) SAP CAR
1 1 (0.77%) SAP CRM
1 1 (0.77%) SAP MDG
1 1 (0.77%) SAP MM
1 1 (0.77%) SAP Retail
1 1 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (0.77%) SAP SD
1 1 (0.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 32 (24.62%) AWS
2 21 (16.15%) Amazon EC2
2 21 (16.15%) Amazon S3
2 21 (16.15%) Route 53
3 14 (10.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 14 (10.77%) Amazon SQS
3 14 (10.77%) AWS KMS
4 12 (9.23%) Azure
4 12 (9.23%) SaaS
5 11 (8.46%) GitHub
5 11 (8.46%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (6.92%) Power Platform
7 8 (6.15%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (6.15%) Serverless
8 7 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (5.38%) Microsoft Copilot
8 7 (5.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (3.08%) Copilot Studio
9 4 (3.08%) Power Automate
9 4 (3.08%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.38%) DNS
1 7 (5.38%) Firewall
1 7 (5.38%) OpenVPN
1 7 (5.38%) TCP/IP
1 7 (5.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.08%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (11.54%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (11.54%) DynamoDB
3 14 (10.77%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (6.92%) Power BI
5 7 (5.38%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (4.62%) Power Query
7 3 (2.31%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.54%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.77%) Db2
9 1 (0.77%) DocumentDB
9 1 (0.77%) Metadata
9 1 (0.77%) MySQL
9 1 (0.77%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.77%) Pentaho
9 1 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 93 (71.54%) JIRA
2 21 (16.15%) SonarQube
3 18 (13.85%) Git
3 18 (13.85%) Jenkins
3 18 (13.85%) Maven
4 16 (12.31%) Bitbucket
5 14 (10.77%) DbUnit
5 14 (10.77%) JUnit
5 14 (10.77%) Mockito
6 13 (10.00%) jMock
7 11 (8.46%) Bitbucket Server
8 10 (7.69%) ScriptRunner
9 5 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (3.08%) Eclipse
10 4 (3.08%) IntelliJ
10 4 (3.08%) Subversion
11 3 (2.31%) Selenium
11 3 (2.31%) Zephyr
12 2 (1.54%) Android Studio
12 2 (1.54%) Appium
General
1 50 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 36 (27.69%) Public Sector
3 29 (22.31%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (21.54%) Finance
5 14 (10.77%) Banking
6 7 (5.38%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.31%) Billing
8 3 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.31%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.31%) Retail
9 2 (1.54%) German Language
9 2 (1.54%) Military
10 1 (0.77%) Advertising
10 1 (0.77%) Automotive
10 1 (0.77%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.77%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.77%) Marketing
10 1 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.77%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (23.08%) Developer
2 19 (14.62%) JIRA Engineer
3 17 (13.08%) Senior
4 15 (11.54%) Java Developer
5 10 (7.69%) Architect
6 9 (6.92%) Administrator
6 9 (6.92%) Data Centre Engineer
7 8 (6.15%) Analyst
7 8 (6.15%) JIRA Administrator
8 6 (4.62%) Consultant
8 6 (4.62%) Lead
8 6 (4.62%) Power BI Developer
8 6 (4.62%) Product Owner
9 5 (3.85%) Applications Developer
9 5 (3.85%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 5 (3.85%) Data Manager
9 5 (3.85%) JIRA Consultant
9 5 (3.85%) Technical Architect
10 4 (3.08%) Project Manager
10 4 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (15.38%) REST
2 14 (10.77%) ActiveMQ
2 14 (10.77%) AngularJS
2 14 (10.77%) Hibernate
2 14 (10.77%) JPA
2 14 (10.77%) SOAP
2 14 (10.77%) Spring
2 14 (10.77%) Spring Batch
2 14 (10.77%) Spring Boot
2 14 (10.77%) Spring Integration
2 14 (10.77%) Web Services
3 13 (10.00%) PowerMock
3 13 (10.00%) RESTful
4 12 (9.23%) Spring Cloud
5 11 (8.46%) Bootstrap
6 9 (6.92%) Node.js
7 7 (5.38%) LDAP
7 7 (5.38%) OpenID
8 4 (3.08%) XML
9 3 (2.31%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 17 (13.08%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.38%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.31%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.31%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.54%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.54%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.54%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.54%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.77%) CMDB
7 1 (0.77%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.77%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.77%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.77%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 23 (17.69%) Linux
2 6 (4.62%) Windows
3 4 (3.08%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.54%) Android
5 1 (0.77%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.77%) Unix
5 1 (0.77%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (40.77%) Agile
2 49 (37.69%) DevOps
3 34 (26.15%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (24.62%) Scrum
5 28 (21.54%) CI/CD
5 28 (21.54%) Stakeholder Management
6 27 (20.77%) Service Management
7 26 (20.00%) Migration
8 24 (18.46%) Decision-Making
8 24 (18.46%) Workflow
9 23 (17.69%) Kanban
10 18 (13.85%) Containerisation
11 17 (13.08%) Microservices
12 16 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (11.54%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 15 (11.54%) TDD
14 14 (10.77%) BDD
14 14 (10.77%) Roadmaps
15 13 (10.00%) ITSM
16 12 (9.23%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (19.23%) SQL
2 23 (17.69%) Java
3 16 (12.31%) Python
4 7 (5.38%) Bash
5 6 (4.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (4.62%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.62%) PowerShell
6 4 (3.08%) Groovy
7 3 (2.31%) VBA
8 1 (0.77%) C++
8 1 (0.77%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 58 (44.62%) Security Cleared
2 52 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.38%) DV Cleared
4 6 (4.62%) AWS Certification
4 6 (4.62%) Degree
5 5 (3.85%) Azure Certification
5 5 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.31%) CCNA
6 3 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.31%) MCSE
6 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.31%) RHCA
6 3 (2.31%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (2.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.77%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.77%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.92%) QA
2 8 (6.15%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.62%) GRC
4 4 (3.08%) PMO
4 4 (3.08%) SLA
5 3 (2.31%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (15.38%) Docker
2 11 (8.46%) Postfix
3 7 (5.38%) Squid
4 4 (3.08%) Active Directory
5 3 (2.31%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (19.23%) Grafana
2 14 (10.77%) Kubernetes
3 13 (10.00%) Terraform
4 12 (9.23%) Prometheus
5 7 (5.38%) Consul
5 7 (5.38%) FortiGate
5 7 (5.38%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (2.31%) Ansible
6 3 (2.31%) Podman
7 2 (1.54%) Kibana
7 2 (1.54%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.77%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 13 (10.00%) Jaspersoft
2 12 (9.23%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.15%) ServiceNow
4 7 (5.38%) Dynatrace
4 7 (5.38%) Red Hat
5 6 (4.62%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.85%) Google
7 3 (2.31%) Cisco
7 3 (2.31%) VMware
8 2 (1.54%) Oracle
8 2 (1.54%) SAP
9 1 (0.77%) Denodo
9 1 (0.77%) Informatica
9 1 (0.77%) Remedy
9 1 (0.77%) Sparx
9 1 (0.77%) Splunk
9 1 (0.77%) Talend