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 26 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
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 334 319
Rank change year-on-year -65 -15 +52
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 176 149 237
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.58% 0.64%
As % of the Vendors category 1.11% 1.24% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 86 181
10th Percentile £413 £406 £350
25th Percentile £500 £457 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £569 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.49% +3.41% -
75th Percentile £738 £659 £650
90th Percentile £759 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £594 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +7.95% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 22
10th Percentile £35.97 £55.38 £54.55
25th Percentile £52.43 £60.38 £55.00
Median hourly rate £68.04 £62.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +8.86% +2.04% +12.39%
75th Percentile £81.63 £64.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.40 £71.25 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £74.50 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +19.20% +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 15,894 12,025 16,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.94% 46.67% 43.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,383 7,440 10,316
10th Percentile £305 £285 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +0.96% -3.30%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £705 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £517
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.58% -1.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 355 875
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.43 £21.25 £15.29
Median hourly rate £24.00 £31.35 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.43% +20.56% -20.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £54.78
90th Percentile £73.75 £81.80 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.28 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -19.08% +15.38% -21.21%

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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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +1 71 £725 +20.83% 18
London -8 59 £525 - 13
South East -42 15 £500 -14.97% 6
West Midlands -60 14 £448 +3.23% 13
Midlands -62 14 £448 +3.23% 15
North of England -57 12 £550 +0.92% 9
North West -28 7 £499 - 5
East of England - 4 £300 - 1
North East - 3 £463 - 1
Yorkshire -62 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
1 121 (68.75%) Confluence
2 14 (7.95%) nginx
3 3 (1.70%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.57%) Mattermost
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 42 (23.86%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (20.45%) Microsoft Project
3 8 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (3.41%) MS Visio
5 5 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (1.14%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (1.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (1.14%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (1.14%) InDesign
6 2 (1.14%) Photoshop
6 2 (1.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) LabWindows
2 1 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.57%) SAP CAR
2 1 (0.57%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.57%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.57%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.57%) SAP Retail
2 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.57%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 32 (18.18%) AWS
2 22 (12.50%) GitHub
3 17 (9.66%) Azure
4 15 (8.52%) Amazon EC2
4 15 (8.52%) Amazon S3
5 14 (7.95%) Route 53
6 10 (5.68%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (5.11%) Serverless
8 8 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (3.98%) Amazon SQS
9 7 (3.98%) AWS KMS
9 7 (3.98%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (3.98%) SaaS
10 6 (3.41%) Azure API Management
10 6 (3.41%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (2.27%) Google Workspace
11 4 (2.27%) Slack
12 3 (1.70%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.25%) DNS
2 10 (5.68%) TCP/IP
3 7 (3.98%) Firewall
3 7 (3.98%) OpenVPN
3 7 (3.98%) VPN
4 3 (1.70%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (6.82%) NoSQL
3 9 (5.11%) DynamoDB
4 8 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (3.98%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (2.84%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (2.84%) Couchbase
7 4 (2.27%) Metadata
7 4 (2.27%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.14%) DocumentDB
8 2 (1.14%) Power BI
8 2 (1.14%) Redis
9 1 (0.57%) Big Data
9 1 (0.57%) CouchDB
9 1 (0.57%) DB2
9 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.57%) MySQL
9 1 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 135 (76.70%) JIRA
2 35 (19.89%) Jenkins
3 30 (17.05%) Bitbucket
4 22 (12.50%) Git
5 14 (7.95%) GitLab
5 14 (7.95%) SonarQube
6 10 (5.68%) Maven
7 8 (4.55%) ScriptRunner
8 7 (3.98%) DbUnit
8 7 (3.98%) jMock
8 7 (3.98%) JUnit
8 7 (3.98%) Mockito
9 6 (3.41%) Subversion
10 5 (2.84%) Android Studio
10 5 (2.84%) Artifactory
10 5 (2.84%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (2.27%) Selenium
12 3 (1.70%) Eclipse
13 2 (1.14%) IntelliJ
13 2 (1.14%) Xcode
General
1 90 (51.14%) Social Skills
2 59 (33.52%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (18.75%) Military
4 27 (15.34%) Public Sector
5 18 (10.23%) Finance
6 14 (7.95%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.84%) Banking
9 3 (1.70%) Advertising
9 3 (1.70%) Legal
9 3 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.70%) Publishing
10 2 (1.14%) Billing
10 2 (1.14%) German Language
10 2 (1.14%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.14%) Marketing
10 2 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.57%) Automotive
11 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (26.14%) Architect
2 30 (17.05%) Service Architect
3 23 (13.07%) Developer
4 14 (7.95%) Analyst
5 13 (7.39%) Senior
6 11 (6.25%) Consultant
7 9 (5.11%) JIRA Consultant
8 8 (4.55%) Java Developer
8 8 (4.55%) JIRA Engineer
9 7 (3.98%) Administrator
9 7 (3.98%) JIRA Specialist
9 7 (3.98%) Service Management Specialist
9 7 (3.98%) Technical Architect
10 6 (3.41%) Business Analyst
10 6 (3.41%) Data Centre Engineer
10 6 (3.41%) JIRA Administrator
10 6 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.84%) Programme Manager
11 5 (2.84%) Technical Manager
11 5 (2.84%) Technical Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (17.61%) REST
2 10 (5.68%) AngularJS
2 10 (5.68%) SOAP
2 10 (5.68%) Web Services
3 8 (4.55%) Bootstrap
4 7 (3.98%) ActiveMQ
4 7 (3.98%) Hibernate
4 7 (3.98%) JPA
4 7 (3.98%) Kafka
4 7 (3.98%) LDAP
4 7 (3.98%) Node.js
4 7 (3.98%) OpenID
4 7 (3.98%) PowerMock
4 7 (3.98%) Spring
4 7 (3.98%) Spring Batch
4 7 (3.98%) Spring Boot
4 7 (3.98%) Spring Cloud
4 7 (3.98%) Spring Integration
5 6 (3.41%) RESTful
6 5 (2.84%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 36 (20.45%) Product Ownership
2 13 (7.39%) Data Centre
3 11 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.11%) Onboarding
5 7 (3.98%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.27%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (1.70%) Educational Technology
7 3 (1.70%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.14%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.14%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.14%) e-Learning
8 2 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.14%) Social Media
8 2 (1.14%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.57%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.57%) Learning Management System
9 1 (0.57%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.57%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 25 (14.20%) Linux
2 9 (5.11%) Windows
3 7 (3.98%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.84%) Android
4 5 (2.84%) Unix
5 1 (0.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (67.61%) Agile
2 62 (35.23%) Service Management
3 53 (30.11%) DevOps
4 50 (28.41%) ITIL
5 38 (21.59%) Critical Thinking
6 37 (21.02%) Analytical Thinking
7 35 (19.89%) Scrum
8 34 (19.32%) Acceptance Criteria
8 34 (19.32%) Knowledge Transfer
8 34 (19.32%) TOGAF
9 31 (17.61%) Business Continuity
9 31 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (17.05%) Security Patching
10 30 (17.05%) Service Design
11 28 (15.91%) CI/CD
12 21 (11.93%) Change Management
12 21 (11.93%) ITSM
13 19 (10.80%) Project Management
13 19 (10.80%) Workflow
14 18 (10.23%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 38 (21.59%) Python
2 23 (13.07%) PowerShell
3 16 (9.09%) Java
3 16 (9.09%) SQL
4 11 (6.25%) Bash
5 5 (2.84%) Go
6 4 (2.27%) C++
7 3 (1.70%) C#
7 3 (1.70%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.70%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.14%) C
8 2 (1.14%) VBA
9 1 (0.57%) PHP
Qualifications
1 114 (64.77%) Security Cleared
2 110 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 52 (29.55%) Degree
4 31 (17.61%) TOGAF Certification
5 14 (7.95%) DV Cleared
6 9 (5.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 6 (3.41%) APMP
9 5 (2.84%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.70%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.70%) MCSA
10 3 (1.70%) MCSE
10 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.70%) OCA
10 3 (1.70%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (1.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.27%) Data Quality
1 4 (2.27%) GDPR
2 2 (1.14%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.14%) IEC 61508
2 2 (1.14%) IEC 62304
2 2 (1.14%) ISO 26262
2 2 (1.14%) QA
3 1 (0.57%) PMO
3 1 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.57%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (13.64%) Docker
2 7 (3.98%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.98%) Squid
3 6 (3.41%) Postfix
4 3 (1.70%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 30 (17.05%) OPNET
2 24 (13.64%) Kubernetes
3 20 (11.36%) Terraform
4 18 (10.23%) Grafana
5 9 (5.11%) Prometheus
6 8 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (3.98%) Consul
7 7 (3.98%) FortiGate
8 5 (2.84%) Ansible
9 3 (1.70%) PowerCLI
9 3 (1.70%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (1.14%) Kibana
10 2 (1.14%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
11 1 (0.57%) Packer
Vendors
1 33 (18.75%) ServiceNow
2 31 (17.61%) Remedy
3 18 (10.23%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.98%) Dynatrace
4 7 (3.98%) Jaspersoft
4 7 (3.98%) Red Hat
5 6 (3.41%) VMware
6 4 (2.27%) Google
6 4 (2.27%) Oracle
6 4 (2.27%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.70%) Coverity
7 3 (1.70%) SolarWinds
7 3 (1.70%) Thales
7 3 (1.70%) Veeam
8 2 (1.14%) Adobe
8 2 (1.14%) Databricks
8 2 (1.14%) Okta
8 2 (1.14%) SAP
9 1 (0.57%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.57%) Nintex