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 22 November 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
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 394 345 329
Rank change year-on-year -49 -16 +80
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 151 178 262
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.57% 0.66%
As % of the Vendors category 1.04% 1.26% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 93 183
10th Percentile £414 £434 £378
25th Percentile £513 £494 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +11.61% +1.82%
75th Percentile £738 £706 £656
90th Percentile £775 £768 £698
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 25
10th Percentile £71.88 £49.50 £54.70
25th Percentile £74.69 £62.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £81.25 £68.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +14.58% +9.09%
75th Percentile £89.69 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £93.63 £72.38 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £81.25 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +16.07% +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 14,583 14,091 17,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.69% 45.07% 44.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,389 8,482 11,678
10th Percentile £286 £300 £255
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £729
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 733 440 624
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.90
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.98 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £32.75 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.66% -26.82% +66.57%
75th Percentile £47.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £76.45
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.17% -32.58% +73.08%

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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 22 November 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 22 November 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 22 November 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
South West -3 57 £633 -4.53% 19
London +6 51 £671 +4.16% 28
West Midlands -21 18 £500 +13.63% 2
Midlands -31 18 £500 +13.63% 3
North of England -50 11 £575 +8.49% 12
South East -18 10 £450 -2.17% 11
North West -41 8 £588 +10.85% 8
Yorkshire - 2 £575 - 3
North East - 1 £463 - 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 99 (65.56%) Confluence
2 7 (4.64%) nginx
2 7 (4.64%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.66%) CMS
3 1 (0.66%) EPiServer
3 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 29 (19.21%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (12.58%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (4.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (4.64%) MS Visio
4 4 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (1.32%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (1.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (1.32%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (1.32%) InDesign
5 2 (1.32%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 27 (17.88%) AWS
1 27 (17.88%) GitHub
2 13 (8.61%) GitHub Actions
3 12 (7.95%) Amazon EC2
3 12 (7.95%) Amazon S3
3 12 (7.95%) Azure
4 10 (6.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (4.64%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (4.64%) Serverless
6 6 (3.97%) Azure API Management
7 5 (3.31%) Power Platform
7 5 (3.31%) SaaS
7 5 (3.31%) Slack
8 4 (2.65%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (2.65%) AWS KMS
8 4 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.65%) Route 53
9 3 (1.99%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (1.99%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.28%) DNS
2 8 (5.30%) BGP
2 8 (5.30%) Unified Communications
3 7 (4.64%) IPsec
3 7 (4.64%) MPLS
3 7 (4.64%) VPN
4 5 (3.31%) OpenLDAP
5 3 (1.99%) DHCP
5 3 (1.99%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.32%) X.509
7 1 (0.66%) Firewall
7 1 (0.66%) OSPF
7 1 (0.66%) Skype
7 1 (0.66%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.66%) VLAN
7 1 (0.66%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (15.23%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (6.62%) NoSQL
3 8 (5.30%) SQL Server
4 7 (4.64%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.31%) Amazon Aurora
5 5 (3.31%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (3.31%) Couchbase
6 4 (2.65%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.65%) Metadata
6 4 (2.65%) Power BI
7 3 (1.99%) DB2
7 3 (1.99%) MySQL
7 3 (1.99%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.32%) Redis
9 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.66%) Big Data
9 1 (0.66%) CouchDB
9 1 (0.66%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 110 (72.85%) JIRA
2 31 (20.53%) Jenkins
3 30 (19.87%) Bitbucket
3 30 (19.87%) Git
4 17 (11.26%) GitLab
5 8 (5.30%) Artifactory
6 7 (4.64%) ScriptRunner
7 5 (3.31%) JUnit
7 5 (3.31%) Maven
7 5 (3.31%) Selenium
7 5 (3.31%) SonarQube
8 4 (2.65%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (2.65%) DbUnit
8 4 (2.65%) jMock
8 4 (2.65%) Mockito
9 3 (1.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (1.99%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.99%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (1.99%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.99%) webpack
General
1 65 (43.05%) Social Skills
2 44 (29.14%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (11.92%) Finance
3 18 (11.92%) Public Sector
4 16 (10.60%) Military
5 11 (7.28%) Banking
6 7 (4.64%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.31%) Investment Banking
8 4 (2.65%) Front Office
9 3 (1.99%) Advertising
9 3 (1.99%) Marketing
9 3 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.99%) Publishing
10 2 (1.32%) Automotive
10 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.32%) Legal
10 2 (1.32%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.66%) Electronics
11 1 (0.66%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.66%) Police
Job Titles
1 22 (14.57%) Developer
2 21 (13.91%) Architect
3 14 (9.27%) Service Architect
4 13 (8.61%) Administrator
5 12 (7.95%) JIRA Administrator
6 11 (7.28%) Analyst
6 11 (7.28%) Senior
7 10 (6.62%) Senior Developer
8 8 (5.30%) Business Analyst
9 7 (4.64%) Java Developer
9 7 (4.64%) Network Engineer
9 7 (4.64%) Service Management Specialist
10 6 (3.97%) Consultant
10 6 (3.97%) DevOps Specialist
10 6 (3.97%) JIRA Specialist
11 5 (3.31%) Applications Support
11 5 (3.31%) Lead
11 5 (3.31%) Technical Analyst
11 5 (3.31%) Technical Business Analyst
12 4 (2.65%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (23.84%) REST
2 11 (7.28%) AngularJS
2 11 (7.28%) React
3 9 (5.96%) RESTful
4 7 (4.64%) Bootstrap
4 7 (4.64%) NETCONF
4 7 (4.64%) RESTCONF
4 7 (4.64%) SOAP
4 7 (4.64%) Web Services
5 6 (3.97%) .NET
5 6 (3.97%) CSS
6 5 (3.31%) boto
6 5 (3.31%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (3.31%) Flake8
6 5 (3.31%) Gherkin
6 5 (3.31%) Kafka
6 5 (3.31%) mypy
6 5 (3.31%) Node.js
6 5 (3.31%) pytest
6 5 (3.31%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.60%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.62%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (5.96%) Onboarding
3 9 (5.96%) PKI
4 7 (4.64%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.99%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.99%) Derivative
5 3 (1.99%) Educational Technology
5 3 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.99%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.32%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.32%) Social Media
6 2 (1.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.66%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.66%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.66%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.66%) Replication
7 1 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.92%) Linux
2 14 (9.27%) Windows
3 9 (5.96%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.31%) Unix
5 1 (0.66%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (63.58%) Agile
2 48 (31.79%) Service Management
3 42 (27.81%) DevOps
4 38 (25.17%) ITIL
5 29 (19.21%) CI/CD
5 29 (19.21%) Critical Thinking
6 28 (18.54%) Scrum
7 23 (15.23%) Change Management
7 23 (15.23%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (13.25%) ITSM
8 20 (13.25%) Microservices
8 20 (13.25%) Workflow
9 19 (12.58%) Acceptance Criteria
9 19 (12.58%) Analytical Thinking
9 19 (12.58%) Business Continuity
9 19 (12.58%) Continuous Integration
10 18 (11.92%) Knowledge Transfer
11 17 (11.26%) Project Management
12 15 (9.93%) Kanban
12 15 (9.93%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 49 (32.45%) Python
2 29 (19.21%) PowerShell
3 15 (9.93%) Java
3 15 (9.93%) SQL
4 10 (6.62%) Bash
4 10 (6.62%) Go
4 10 (6.62%) JavaScript
5 6 (3.97%) C#
6 3 (1.99%) C
6 3 (1.99%) C++
6 3 (1.99%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.99%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.32%) Ruby
8 1 (0.66%) Groovy
8 1 (0.66%) PHP
Qualifications
1 94 (62.25%) Security Cleared
2 91 (60.26%) SC Cleared
3 43 (28.48%) Degree
4 15 (9.93%) DV Cleared
5 14 (9.27%) TOGAF Certification
6 9 (5.96%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (5.30%) CCNP
7 8 (5.30%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.31%) APMP
9 3 (1.99%) MCSA
9 3 (1.99%) MCSE
9 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.99%) OCA
9 3 (1.99%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.32%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.66%) CBAP
11 1 (0.66%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.97%) QA
2 3 (1.99%) GDPR
2 3 (1.99%) IEC 61508
2 3 (1.99%) IEC 62304
2 3 (1.99%) ISO 26262
2 3 (1.99%) ITGC
2 3 (1.99%) NIST
3 2 (1.32%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.66%) P3O
4 1 (0.66%) PMO
4 1 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.66%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (16.56%) Docker
2 10 (6.62%) Active Directory
2 10 (6.62%) VMware ESXi
2 10 (6.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.31%) Firmware
4 4 (2.65%) Postfix
5 1 (0.66%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 29 (19.21%) Kubernetes
2 14 (9.27%) Ansible
2 14 (9.27%) OPNET
3 11 (7.28%) Terraform
4 5 (3.31%) Grafana
4 5 (3.31%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.31%) SCCM
5 4 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.99%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.99%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.66%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (0.66%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.66%) Packer
7 1 (0.66%) Puppet
Vendors
1 18 (11.92%) ServiceNow
2 15 (9.93%) VMware
3 14 (9.27%) Microsoft
3 14 (9.27%) Remedy
4 8 (5.30%) Cisco
5 5 (3.31%) Oracle
6 4 (2.65%) Jaspersoft
6 4 (2.65%) Splunk
6 4 (2.65%) Veeam
7 3 (1.99%) CrowdStrike
7 3 (1.99%) SAP
7 3 (1.99%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.32%) Adobe
8 2 (1.32%) Dell
8 2 (1.32%) Okta
8 2 (1.32%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.66%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.66%) Google
9 1 (0.66%) Nintex
9 1 (0.66%) Planview