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 13 February 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
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 335 329
Rank change year-on-year -62 -6 +40
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 165 148 228
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.57% 0.60%
As % of the Vendors category 1.07% 1.22% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 82 169
10th Percentile £413 £401 £319
25th Percentile £509 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £738 £670 £614
90th Percentile £756 £750 £675
UK median daily rate £588 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 25
10th Percentile £35.97 £55.38 £54.70
25th Percentile £52.43 £60.38 £55.00
Median hourly rate £68.04 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.86% - +14.68%
75th Percentile £81.63 £64.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.40 £71.25 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £68.04 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +8.86% +3.31% +9.01%

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 15,424 12,083 16,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 45.19% 46.36% 43.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,086 7,365 10,555
10th Percentile £300 £278 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £706 £720 £737
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -3.94% -0.86% -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 778 345 846
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £12.93
25th Percentile £17.97 £20.00 £15.35
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.76% +9.73% -14.62%
75th Percentile £56.69 £65.00 £56.49
90th Percentile £72.88 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.91 £29.00 £27.17
% change year-on-year -17.54% +6.76% -14.87%

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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 13 February 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 13 February 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 13 February 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 +3 70 £725 +17.65% 19
London -14 53 £538 -5.70% 7
South East -43 14 £485 -11.91% 4
North of England -52 12 £550 +0.92% 11
West Midlands -61 10 £421 -3.00% 8
Midlands -68 10 £421 -3.00% 13
North West -32 7 £499 - 7
East of England - 4 £300 - 4
North East - 3 £463 - 1
Yorkshire -61 2 £575 +5.50% 3
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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
1 118 (71.52%) Confluence
2 13 (7.88%) nginx
3 3 (1.82%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 44 (26.67%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (21.82%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (3.64%) MS Visio
5 5 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (1.21%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (1.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (1.21%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (1.21%) InDesign
6 2 (1.21%) Photoshop
6 2 (1.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.21%) LabWindows
2 1 (0.61%) SAP CAR
2 1 (0.61%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.61%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.61%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.61%) SAP Retail
2 1 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.61%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 27 (16.36%) AWS
2 19 (11.52%) GitHub
3 15 (9.09%) Azure
4 10 (6.06%) Amazon EC2
4 10 (6.06%) Amazon S3
5 9 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (5.45%) Route 53
6 8 (4.85%) Serverless
7 7 (4.24%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (4.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (3.64%) Azure API Management
8 6 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (2.42%) Google Workspace
9 4 (2.42%) SaaS
9 4 (2.42%) Slack
10 3 (1.82%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (1.82%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.06%) DNS
2 9 (5.45%) TCP/IP
3 6 (3.64%) Firewall
3 6 (3.64%) OpenVPN
3 6 (3.64%) VPN
4 3 (1.82%) DHCP
5 1 (0.61%) BGP
5 1 (0.61%) OSPF
5 1 (0.61%) Skype
5 1 (0.61%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.61%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.61%) VLAN
5 1 (0.61%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (7.27%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (3.03%) Couchbase
4 5 (3.03%) DynamoDB
4 5 (3.03%) SQL Server
5 4 (2.42%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (2.42%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.42%) Metadata
6 2 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.21%) DocumentDB
6 2 (1.21%) Power BI
6 2 (1.21%) Redis
7 1 (0.61%) Big Data
7 1 (0.61%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.61%) DB2
7 1 (0.61%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.61%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 131 (79.39%) JIRA
2 33 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 31 (18.79%) Bitbucket
4 20 (12.12%) Git
5 14 (8.48%) GitLab
6 9 (5.45%) SonarQube
7 8 (4.85%) ScriptRunner
8 5 (3.03%) Android Studio
8 5 (3.03%) Artifactory
8 5 (3.03%) Maven
8 5 (3.03%) Subversion
9 4 (2.42%) Selenium
10 3 (1.82%) DbUnit
10 3 (1.82%) jMock
10 3 (1.82%) JUnit
10 3 (1.82%) Mockito
11 2 (1.21%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.21%) Eclipse
11 2 (1.21%) LabVIEW
11 2 (1.21%) Xcode
General
1 86 (52.12%) Social Skills
2 58 (35.15%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (20.00%) Military
4 21 (12.73%) Public Sector
5 19 (11.52%) Finance
6 13 (7.88%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.03%) Banking
9 3 (1.82%) Advertising
9 3 (1.82%) Legal
9 3 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.82%) Publishing
10 2 (1.21%) Billing
10 2 (1.21%) German Language
10 2 (1.21%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.21%) Marketing
11 1 (0.61%) Automotive
11 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.61%) Police
11 1 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 45 (27.27%) Architect
2 30 (18.18%) Service Architect
3 19 (11.52%) Developer
4 14 (8.48%) Analyst
5 11 (6.67%) Consultant
6 9 (5.45%) JIRA Consultant
7 8 (4.85%) Senior
8 7 (4.24%) JIRA Specialist
8 7 (4.24%) Service Management Specialist
8 7 (4.24%) Technical Architect
9 6 (3.64%) Business Analyst
10 5 (3.03%) Administrator
10 5 (3.03%) AWS Architect
10 5 (3.03%) Programme Manager
10 5 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.03%) Technical Manager
10 5 (3.03%) Technical Programme Manager
11 4 (2.42%) Automation Engineer
11 4 (2.42%) JIRA Administrator
11 4 (2.42%) JIRA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (16.36%) REST
2 7 (4.24%) Kafka
3 6 (3.64%) AngularJS
3 6 (3.64%) LDAP
3 6 (3.64%) OpenID
3 6 (3.64%) SOAP
3 6 (3.64%) Web Services
4 5 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (2.42%) Bootstrap
5 4 (2.42%) Node.js
5 4 (2.42%) React
6 3 (1.82%) .NET
6 3 (1.82%) ASP.NET Web API
6 3 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.82%) Express.js
6 3 (1.82%) PowerMock
6 3 (1.82%) Spring Batch
6 3 (1.82%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.82%) Spring Cloud
6 3 (1.82%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 36 (21.82%) Product Ownership
2 9 (5.45%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.85%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.24%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.42%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (1.82%) Educational Technology
6 3 (1.82%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.82%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.21%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.21%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.21%) e-Learning
7 2 (1.21%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.21%) Social Media
7 2 (1.21%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.61%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 19 (11.52%) Linux
2 8 (4.85%) Windows
3 7 (4.24%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.03%) Android
4 5 (3.03%) Unix
5 1 (0.61%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (69.70%) Agile
2 59 (35.76%) Service Management
3 48 (29.09%) ITIL
4 46 (27.88%) DevOps
5 39 (23.64%) Critical Thinking
6 37 (22.42%) Analytical Thinking
7 34 (20.61%) Acceptance Criteria
7 34 (20.61%) Knowledge Transfer
7 34 (20.61%) TOGAF
8 31 (18.79%) Business Continuity
9 30 (18.18%) Scrum
9 30 (18.18%) Security Patching
9 30 (18.18%) Service Design
10 29 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (16.36%) CI/CD
12 20 (12.12%) ITSM
12 20 (12.12%) Project Management
13 19 (11.52%) Change Management
14 18 (10.91%) Workflow
15 16 (9.70%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 40 (24.24%) Python
2 24 (14.55%) PowerShell
3 12 (7.27%) SQL
4 11 (6.67%) Bash
5 10 (6.06%) Java
6 5 (3.03%) Go
7 3 (1.82%) C#
7 3 (1.82%) C++
7 3 (1.82%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.82%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.21%) C
8 2 (1.21%) VBA
9 1 (0.61%) PHP
Qualifications
1 110 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 107 (64.85%) SC Cleared
3 53 (32.12%) Degree
4 31 (18.79%) TOGAF Certification
5 14 (8.48%) DV Cleared
6 8 (4.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (3.64%) APMP
8 4 (2.42%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.82%) MCSA
9 3 (1.82%) MCSE
9 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.82%) OCA
9 3 (1.82%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.21%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.21%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.61%) CCNP
11 1 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.42%) Data Quality
1 4 (2.42%) GDPR
2 2 (1.21%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.21%) IEC 61508
2 2 (1.21%) IEC 62304
2 2 (1.21%) ISO 26262
2 2 (1.21%) QA
3 1 (0.61%) PMO
3 1 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (12.12%) Docker
2 6 (3.64%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.64%) Squid
3 3 (1.82%) Postfix
3 3 (1.82%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.61%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 30 (18.18%) OPNET
2 23 (13.94%) Kubernetes
3 20 (12.12%) Terraform
4 13 (7.88%) Grafana
5 7 (4.24%) Ansible
5 7 (4.24%) Prometheus
5 7 (4.24%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (3.64%) Consul
6 6 (3.64%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.82%) PowerCLI
7 3 (1.82%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (1.21%) Kibana
8 2 (1.21%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.61%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.61%) Packer
9 1 (0.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 30 (18.18%) Remedy
3 18 (10.91%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.24%) VMware
5 6 (3.64%) Dynatrace
5 6 (3.64%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.42%) Google
6 4 (2.42%) Oracle
6 4 (2.42%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.82%) Coverity
7 3 (1.82%) Jaspersoft
7 3 (1.82%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.82%) Thales
7 3 (1.82%) Veeam
8 2 (1.21%) Adobe
8 2 (1.21%) Databricks
8 2 (1.21%) Okta
8 2 (1.21%) SAP
9 1 (0.61%) Dell
9 1 (0.61%) HP