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 3 May 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
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 318 353
Rank change year-on-year -99 +35 +27
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 171 161 186
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.66% 0.50%
As % of the Vendors category 1.01% 1.39% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 100 138
10th Percentile £406 £425 £354
25th Percentile £466 £505 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £738 £650 £659
90th Percentile £775 £788 £700
UK median daily rate £600 £563 £525
% change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 10
10th Percentile £45.06 £49.63 £55.00
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.53 £56.88
Median hourly rate £63.14 £57.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.32% -11.15% +15.04%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.13 £70.00
90th Percentile £71.40 £65.00 £71.93
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £58.88 £60.50
% change year-on-year +7.24% -2.69% +7.08%

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 16,947 11,572 15,610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.87% 47.47% 42.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,050 7,462 9,925
10th Percentile £313 £288 £259
25th Percentile £413 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.99%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £631
90th Percentile £711 £725 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 885 464 1,002
10th Percentile £15.32 £14.84 £12.01
25th Percentile £18.69 £17.75 £14.27
Median hourly rate £30.75 £27.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.36% +20.56% -43.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £57.33
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.88 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.88 £26.34 £22.50
% change year-on-year +17.24% +17.04% -48.86%

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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 3 May 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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -61 55 £538 -14.00% 20
South West -6 52 £725 +26.09% 9
West Midlands -51 34 £425 -7.61% 2
Midlands -62 34 £425 -7.61% 3
South East -69 13 £488 -7.14% 15
North of England -64 11 £524 -12.75% 7
North West -36 9 £524 -4.82% 5
East of England -33 6 £300 -35.14% 1
North East -23 2 - - 2
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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
1 117 (68.42%) Confluence
2 9 (5.26%) nginx
3 6 (3.51%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.58%) Mattermost
4 1 (0.58%) SAS
Applications
1 43 (25.15%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (20.47%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (6.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.75%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.17%) Trello
6 1 (0.58%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (0.58%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.58%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.58%) InDesign
6 1 (0.58%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.17%) LabWindows
2 1 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.58%) SAP CAR
2 1 (0.58%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.58%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.58%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.58%) SAP Retail
2 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.58%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 29 (16.96%) AWS
2 18 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
2 18 (10.53%) Amazon S3
2 18 (10.53%) Route 53
3 16 (9.36%) GitHub
4 11 (6.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (6.43%) Amazon SQS
4 11 (6.43%) AWS KMS
4 11 (6.43%) Azure
4 11 (6.43%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (5.85%) SaaS
6 9 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (5.26%) Serverless
7 8 (4.68%) Power Platform
8 7 (4.09%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (4.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (3.51%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (2.92%) Google Workspace
10 5 (2.92%) Slack
11 4 (2.34%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.68%) DNS
1 8 (4.68%) TCP/IP
2 7 (4.09%) Firewall
2 7 (4.09%) OpenVPN
2 7 (4.09%) VPN
3 1 (0.58%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.94%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (7.60%) DynamoDB
3 12 (7.02%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (6.43%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (4.68%) Power BI
6 7 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (4.09%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.92%) Power Query
8 4 (2.34%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.34%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.17%) DocumentDB
9 2 (1.17%) Tableau
10 1 (0.58%) DB2
10 1 (0.58%) Metadata
10 1 (0.58%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.58%) MySQL
10 1 (0.58%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 134 (78.36%) JIRA
2 26 (15.20%) Bitbucket
3 23 (13.45%) Jenkins
4 19 (11.11%) Git
5 18 (10.53%) SonarQube
6 15 (8.77%) Maven
7 11 (6.43%) DbUnit
7 11 (6.43%) jMock
7 11 (6.43%) JUnit
7 11 (6.43%) Mockito
7 11 (6.43%) ScriptRunner
8 9 (5.26%) Bitbucket Server
9 7 (4.09%) Subversion
10 5 (2.92%) Android Studio
11 4 (2.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (2.34%) Eclipse
11 4 (2.34%) GitLab
11 4 (2.34%) IntelliJ
12 3 (1.75%) Selenium
12 3 (1.75%) Zephyr
General
1 97 (56.73%) Social Skills
2 63 (36.84%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (19.88%) Military
4 33 (19.30%) Public Sector
5 28 (16.37%) Finance
6 9 (5.26%) Banking
6 9 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.75%) Billing
9 3 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.17%) Advertising
10 2 (1.17%) German Language
10 2 (1.17%) Legal
10 2 (1.17%) Retail
11 1 (0.58%) Automotive
11 1 (0.58%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.58%) Marketing
11 1 (0.58%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (25.15%) Architect
2 30 (17.54%) Service Architect
3 29 (16.96%) Developer
4 16 (9.36%) JIRA Engineer
5 15 (8.77%) Senior
6 12 (7.02%) Analyst
6 12 (7.02%) Java Developer
7 9 (5.26%) Data Centre Engineer
7 9 (5.26%) Lead
8 8 (4.68%) Administrator
8 8 (4.68%) Data Manager
9 7 (4.09%) Consultant
9 7 (4.09%) JIRA Administrator
9 7 (4.09%) JIRA Consultant
9 7 (4.09%) Project Manager
9 7 (4.09%) Technical Architect
10 6 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.92%) Data Analyst
11 5 (2.92%) Programme Manager
11 5 (2.92%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.11%) REST
2 12 (7.02%) AngularJS
2 12 (7.02%) SOAP
2 12 (7.02%) Web Services
3 11 (6.43%) ActiveMQ
3 11 (6.43%) Hibernate
3 11 (6.43%) JPA
3 11 (6.43%) PowerMock
3 11 (6.43%) Spring
3 11 (6.43%) Spring Batch
3 11 (6.43%) Spring Boot
3 11 (6.43%) Spring Cloud
3 11 (6.43%) Spring Integration
4 10 (5.85%) Bootstrap
4 10 (5.85%) RESTful
5 8 (4.68%) Node.js
6 7 (4.09%) LDAP
6 7 (4.09%) OpenID
7 4 (2.34%) XML
8 3 (1.75%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (20.47%) Product Ownership
2 22 (12.87%) Data Centre
3 13 (7.60%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.51%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.34%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.75%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.17%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.17%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.17%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.17%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.58%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.58%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.58%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.58%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.58%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.58%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 25 (14.62%) Linux
2 9 (5.26%) Windows
3 7 (4.09%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.92%) Android
5 1 (0.58%) Unix
5 1 (0.58%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (56.73%) Agile
2 60 (35.09%) Service Management
3 49 (28.65%) DevOps
4 44 (25.73%) ITIL
5 38 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (22.22%) Scrum
6 37 (21.64%) Analytical Thinking
6 37 (21.64%) Critical Thinking
7 36 (21.05%) TOGAF
8 31 (18.13%) Acceptance Criteria
8 31 (18.13%) Knowledge Transfer
9 30 (17.54%) Business Continuity
9 30 (17.54%) Security Patching
9 30 (17.54%) Service Design
10 28 (16.37%) CI/CD
10 28 (16.37%) Stakeholder Management
11 25 (14.62%) Migration
12 20 (11.70%) Project Management
12 20 (11.70%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 19 (11.11%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 24 (14.04%) SQL
2 23 (13.45%) Python
3 20 (11.70%) Java
4 10 (5.85%) PowerShell
5 7 (4.09%) Bash
6 6 (3.51%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (2.34%) Groovy
9 3 (1.75%) VBA
10 2 (1.17%) C++
11 1 (0.58%) C#
11 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 103 (60.23%) Security Cleared
2 99 (57.89%) SC Cleared
3 43 (25.15%) Degree
4 33 (19.30%) TOGAF Certification
5 6 (3.51%) AWS Certification
5 6 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.51%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.92%) APMP
6 5 (2.92%) MCSE
6 5 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (2.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (2.34%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.75%) CCNA
8 3 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.75%) RHCA
9 2 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.17%) MCSA
9 2 (1.17%) OCA
9 2 (1.17%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.68%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.92%) GRC
2 5 (2.92%) PMO
3 4 (2.34%) QA
3 4 (2.34%) SLA
4 3 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.17%) GDPR
6 1 (0.58%) Accessibility
System Software
1 20 (11.70%) Docker
2 10 (5.85%) Postfix
3 7 (4.09%) Squid
4 5 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (2.34%) Active Directory
6 3 (1.75%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 30 (17.54%) OPNET
2 23 (13.45%) Grafana
3 17 (9.94%) Kubernetes
4 15 (8.77%) Terraform
5 12 (7.02%) Prometheus
6 7 (4.09%) Consul
6 7 (4.09%) FortiGate
6 7 (4.09%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (2.92%) Ansible
8 3 (1.75%) Podman
8 3 (1.75%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (1.17%) Kibana
9 2 (1.17%) PowerCLI
9 2 (1.17%) Rundeck
10 1 (0.58%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 39 (22.81%) ServiceNow
2 31 (18.13%) Remedy
3 18 (10.53%) Microsoft
4 11 (6.43%) Jaspersoft
5 7 (4.09%) Dynatrace
5 7 (4.09%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.51%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.51%) VMware
7 5 (2.92%) Google
8 4 (2.34%) Oracle
9 3 (1.75%) Cisco
9 3 (1.75%) Coverity
9 3 (1.75%) Thales
10 2 (1.17%) SAP
10 2 (1.17%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.17%) Veeam
11 1 (0.58%) Adobe
11 1 (0.58%) Databricks
11 1 (0.58%) Informatica
11 1 (0.58%) Sparx