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 12 April 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
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 334 343
Rank change year-on-year -68 +9 +27
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 193 142 195
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.58% 0.52%
As % of the Vendors category 1.15% 1.23% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 87 143
10th Percentile £413 £415 £352
25th Percentile £482 £459 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% +2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £738 £650 £656
90th Percentile £751 £788 £700
UK median daily rate £588 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +6.82% +4.76% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 12
10th Percentile £45.06 £49.77 -
25th Percentile £58.43 £52.14 £55.00
Median hourly rate £63.14 £61.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.66% +0.41% +12.39%
75th Percentile £72.29 £64.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £84.55 £70.63 £71.13
UK median hourly rate £63.32 £60.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +4.66% - +11.01%

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 16,852 11,535 15,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.98% 47.34% 42.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,003 7,489 10,076
10th Percentile £313 £296 £255
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £705 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 875 431 968
10th Percentile £15.35 £14.99 £12.09
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.29 £14.27
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +27.78% -41.56%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.95 £80.59 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £28.09 £27.97 £22.50
% change year-on-year +0.45% +24.29% -47.06%

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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 12 April 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 12 April 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 12 April 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 +9 70 £725 +26.09% 10
London -45 60 £550 -15.38% 7
West Midlands -60 31 £425 -3.41% 2
Midlands -60 31 £425 -3.41% 3
North of England -69 13 £519 -5.25% 7
South East -64 12 £500 -20.13% 12
North West -32 9 £524 -4.82% 6
East of England -37 5 £300 -35.14% 3
North East -17 3 £463 - 1
Yorkshire -57 1 £575 +5.50%
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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
1 137 (70.98%) Confluence
2 14 (7.25%) nginx
3 6 (3.11%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.52%) Mattermost
4 1 (0.52%) SAS
Applications
1 43 (22.28%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (18.13%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (5.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (2.07%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (1.04%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (1.04%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (1.04%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (1.04%) InDesign
6 2 (1.04%) Photoshop
6 2 (1.04%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) LabWindows
2 1 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.52%) SAP CAR
2 1 (0.52%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.52%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.52%) SAP MM
2 1 (0.52%) SAP Retail
2 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.52%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 33 (17.10%) AWS
2 20 (10.36%) GitHub
3 16 (8.29%) Amazon EC2
3 16 (8.29%) Amazon S3
3 16 (8.29%) Route 53
4 12 (6.22%) Azure
5 10 (5.18%) SaaS
6 9 (4.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (4.66%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (4.66%) Amazon SQS
6 9 (4.66%) AWS KMS
6 9 (4.66%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (4.66%) Serverless
7 8 (4.15%) Power Platform
8 7 (3.63%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (3.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (3.11%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (2.59%) Google Workspace
11 4 (2.07%) Power Automate
11 4 (2.07%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.66%) DNS
1 9 (4.66%) TCP/IP
2 7 (3.63%) Firewall
2 7 (3.63%) OpenVPN
2 7 (3.63%) VPN
3 2 (1.04%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.40%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (5.70%) DynamoDB
3 10 (5.18%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (4.66%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (4.15%) NoSQL
5 8 (4.15%) Power BI
6 7 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (3.63%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (2.59%) Metadata
7 5 (2.59%) Power Query
7 5 (2.59%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.04%) DocumentDB
8 2 (1.04%) Tableau
9 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.52%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.52%) DB2
9 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.52%) MySQL
9 1 (0.52%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 153 (79.27%) JIRA
2 32 (16.58%) Bitbucket
3 26 (13.47%) Jenkins
4 18 (9.33%) Git
5 16 (8.29%) SonarQube
6 13 (6.74%) Maven
7 12 (6.22%) ScriptRunner
8 9 (4.66%) DbUnit
8 9 (4.66%) GitLab
8 9 (4.66%) jMock
8 9 (4.66%) JUnit
8 9 (4.66%) Mockito
9 7 (3.63%) Bitbucket Server
9 7 (3.63%) Subversion
10 5 (2.59%) Android Studio
11 4 (2.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (2.07%) Eclipse
11 4 (2.07%) IntelliJ
12 3 (1.55%) Selenium
13 2 (1.04%) LabVIEW
General
1 97 (50.26%) Social Skills
2 60 (31.09%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (17.62%) Military
4 33 (17.10%) Public Sector
5 25 (12.95%) Finance
6 10 (5.18%) Banking
7 9 (4.66%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (3.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.55%) Advertising
10 3 (1.55%) Billing
10 3 (1.55%) Legal
10 3 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.04%) German Language
11 2 (1.04%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.04%) Marketing
11 2 (1.04%) Retail
12 1 (0.52%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.52%) Publishing
12 1 (0.52%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (22.80%) Architect
2 30 (15.54%) Service Architect
3 29 (15.03%) Developer
4 16 (8.29%) JIRA Engineer
5 15 (7.77%) Senior
6 13 (6.74%) Analyst
7 11 (5.70%) Administrator
7 11 (5.70%) Consultant
8 10 (5.18%) Java Developer
8 10 (5.18%) JIRA Administrator
9 9 (4.66%) Data Centre Engineer
9 9 (4.66%) JIRA Consultant
10 8 (4.15%) Data Manager
11 7 (3.63%) JIRA Specialist
11 7 (3.63%) Project Manager
11 7 (3.63%) Service Management Specialist
11 7 (3.63%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.63%) Technical Architect
12 5 (2.59%) AWS Architect
12 5 (2.59%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (16.58%) REST
2 11 (5.70%) AngularJS
2 11 (5.70%) SOAP
2 11 (5.70%) Web Services
3 9 (4.66%) ActiveMQ
3 9 (4.66%) Bootstrap
3 9 (4.66%) Hibernate
3 9 (4.66%) JPA
3 9 (4.66%) PowerMock
3 9 (4.66%) Spring
3 9 (4.66%) Spring Batch
3 9 (4.66%) Spring Boot
3 9 (4.66%) Spring Cloud
3 9 (4.66%) Spring Integration
4 8 (4.15%) RESTful
5 7 (3.63%) LDAP
5 7 (3.63%) Node.js
5 7 (3.63%) OpenID
6 4 (2.07%) XML
7 3 (1.55%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 36 (18.65%) Product Ownership
2 17 (8.81%) Data Centre
3 11 (5.70%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.11%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.59%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.07%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.07%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (1.55%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.04%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.04%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.04%) Social Media
8 2 (1.04%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.52%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.52%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.52%) Learning Management System
9 1 (0.52%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 28 (14.51%) Linux
2 9 (4.66%) Windows
3 7 (3.63%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.11%) Unix
5 5 (2.59%) Android
6 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (64.25%) Agile
2 75 (38.86%) Service Management
3 64 (33.16%) DevOps
4 57 (29.53%) ITIL
5 43 (22.28%) Scrum
6 37 (19.17%) Analytical Thinking
6 37 (19.17%) Critical Thinking
6 37 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (18.13%) TOGAF
8 33 (17.10%) Knowledge Transfer
9 31 (16.06%) Acceptance Criteria
9 31 (16.06%) ITSM
10 30 (15.54%) Business Continuity
10 30 (15.54%) CI/CD
10 30 (15.54%) Security Patching
10 30 (15.54%) Service Design
11 26 (13.47%) Workflow
12 25 (12.95%) Stakeholder Management
13 24 (12.44%) Change Management
14 20 (10.36%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 39 (20.21%) Python
2 25 (12.95%) SQL
3 23 (11.92%) PowerShell
4 17 (8.81%) Java
5 12 (6.22%) Bash
6 6 (3.11%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.55%) Groovy
8 3 (1.55%) VBA
9 2 (1.04%) C#
9 2 (1.04%) C++
9 2 (1.04%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.52%) Go
Qualifications
1 125 (64.77%) Security Cleared
2 120 (62.18%) SC Cleared
3 44 (22.80%) Degree
4 32 (16.58%) TOGAF Certification
5 14 (7.25%) DV Cleared
6 10 (5.18%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.59%) APMP
7 5 (2.59%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.07%) MCSE
8 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (1.55%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.04%) CCNA
10 2 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.04%) MCSA
10 2 (1.04%) OCA
10 2 (1.04%) Oracle Certification
10 2 (1.04%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.15%) Data Quality
2 5 (2.59%) GRC
2 5 (2.59%) PMO
3 4 (2.07%) SLA
4 2 (1.04%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.04%) GDPR
4 2 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.04%) QA
System Software
1 23 (11.92%) Docker
2 8 (4.15%) Postfix
3 7 (3.63%) Squid
4 6 (3.11%) Active Directory
5 4 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.04%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 30 (15.54%) OPNET
2 22 (11.40%) Kubernetes
3 21 (10.88%) Grafana
4 19 (9.84%) Terraform
5 11 (5.70%) Prometheus
6 8 (4.15%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (3.63%) Consul
7 7 (3.63%) FortiGate
8 4 (2.07%) Ansible
9 3 (1.55%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 2 (1.04%) Kibana
10 2 (1.04%) Podman
10 2 (1.04%) PowerCLI
10 2 (1.04%) Rundeck
11 1 (0.52%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 39 (20.21%) ServiceNow
2 31 (16.06%) Remedy
3 19 (9.84%) Microsoft
4 9 (4.66%) Jaspersoft
5 7 (3.63%) Dynatrace
5 7 (3.63%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.11%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.11%) VMware
7 5 (2.59%) Google
8 4 (2.07%) Oracle
9 3 (1.55%) Coverity
9 3 (1.55%) Thales
10 2 (1.04%) Adobe
10 2 (1.04%) Cisco
10 2 (1.04%) Databricks
10 2 (1.04%) SAP
10 2 (1.04%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.04%) Veeam
11 1 (0.52%) Informatica
11 1 (0.52%) Splunk