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 15 October 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
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 393 355
Rank change year-on-year -141 -38 -20
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 113 127 178
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.45% 0.55%
As % of the Vendors category 0.58% 0.94% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 88 91
10th Percentile £305 £377 £438
25th Percentile £408 £477 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £643 £651 £725
90th Percentile £775 £762 £775
UK median daily rate £487 £575 £619
% change year-on-year -15.35% -7.07% +5.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 18
10th Percentile - £71.88 £37.55
25th Percentile £58.43 £74.69 £62.50
Median hourly rate £63.14 £81.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.30% +16.07% +16.67%
75th Percentile £76.75 £89.69 -
90th Percentile - £93.63 -
UK median hourly rate £65.57 £81.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year -19.30% +16.07% +16.67%

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 19,526 13,473 14,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.68% 47.86% 44.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,932 8,580 8,572
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -3.38% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £626
90th Percentile £715 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,295 652 502
10th Percentile £13.91 £15.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.56 £18.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.04 £35.18
Median % change year-on-year +2.85% -28.83% -20.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £42.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £69.96 £71.13
UK median hourly rate £24.19 £24.81 £33.00
% change year-on-year -2.50% -24.82% -24.83%

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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 15 October 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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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 15 October 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 -96 41 £592 -5.30% 92
Midlands -43 27 £450 -10.00% 9
West Midlands -41 25 £445 -11.00% 9
North of England -70 17 £584 -2.75% 16
South West -44 12 £505 -19.52% 16
Yorkshire -36 10 £608 -6.54% 9
South East -70 9 £273 -39.44% 15
North West -54 7 £462 -16.00% 5
East of England - 2 £472 - 4
East Midlands - 1 £450 -
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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 55 (48.67%) Confluence
2 3 (2.65%) CMS
2 3 (2.65%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (1.77%) Apache
3 2 (1.77%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.88%) IIS
4 1 (0.88%) JBoss
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.88%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.77%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Magento
1 3 (2.65%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.88%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 13 (11.50%) AWS
2 12 (10.62%) Azure
3 11 (9.73%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (9.73%) SaaS
4 10 (8.85%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 5 (4.42%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (4.42%) Amazon S3
5 5 (4.42%) GitHub
6 4 (3.54%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (3.54%) AWS KMS
6 4 (3.54%) Route 53
7 3 (2.65%) Figma
7 3 (2.65%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 3 (2.65%) Slack
8 2 (1.77%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.77%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.77%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.88%) Copilot Studio
9 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.54%) DNS
2 3 (2.65%) VSAN
3 2 (1.77%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.88%) DHCP
4 1 (0.88%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.88%) Skype
4 1 (0.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.54%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (3.54%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (3.54%) DynamoDB
1 4 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.77%) Power BI
3 1 (0.88%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.88%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.88%) Looker
3 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.88%) MySQL
3 1 (0.88%) Power Query
3 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.88%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 75 (66.37%) JIRA
2 14 (12.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 14 (12.39%) Bitbucket
3 8 (7.08%) Git
4 6 (5.31%) ScriptRunner
5 4 (3.54%) DbUnit
5 4 (3.54%) Jenkins
5 4 (3.54%) JUnit
5 4 (3.54%) Maven
5 4 (3.54%) Mockito
5 4 (3.54%) SonarQube
6 3 (2.65%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (2.65%) jMock
6 3 (2.65%) Zephyr
7 2 (1.77%) GitLab
8 1 (0.88%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.88%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.88%) Postman
8 1 (0.88%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.88%) Selenium
General
1 47 (41.59%) Social Skills
2 34 (30.09%) Finance
3 23 (20.35%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (15.93%) Banking
5 14 (12.39%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.19%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (4.42%) Marketing
8 3 (2.65%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.77%) Arabic Language
9 2 (1.77%) Retail
10 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Law
10 1 (0.88%) Legal
10 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 25 (22.12%) JIRA Engineer
2 10 (8.85%) Consultant
3 9 (7.96%) Lead
3 9 (7.96%) Technical Engineer
4 8 (7.08%) JIRA Consultant
5 7 (6.19%) Delivery Manager
5 7 (6.19%) Developer
5 7 (6.19%) Project Manager
5 7 (6.19%) Technical Manager
6 6 (5.31%) 2nd Line Support
6 6 (5.31%) Product Owner
6 6 (5.31%) Technical Delivery Manager
7 5 (4.42%) Agile Project Manager
7 5 (4.42%) Analyst
7 5 (4.42%) Banking Project Manager
8 4 (3.54%) Business Analyst
8 4 (3.54%) Java Developer
8 4 (3.54%) Senior
9 3 (2.65%) PMO Manager
9 3 (2.65%) Programme Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.08%) REST
2 7 (6.19%) Terraform
3 5 (4.42%) Web Services
4 4 (3.54%) ActiveMQ
4 4 (3.54%) AngularJS
4 4 (3.54%) Hibernate
4 4 (3.54%) JPA
4 4 (3.54%) RESTful
4 4 (3.54%) SOAP
4 4 (3.54%) Spring
4 4 (3.54%) Spring Batch
4 4 (3.54%) Spring Boot
4 4 (3.54%) Spring Integration
5 3 (2.65%) Bootstrap
5 3 (2.65%) PowerMock
6 2 (1.77%) Node.js
6 2 (1.77%) Spring Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) JWT
7 1 (0.88%) Playwright
7 1 (0.88%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.58%) Product Ownership
2 14 (12.39%) Onboarding
3 12 (10.62%) Data Centre
4 8 (7.08%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (5.31%) Credit Risk
5 6 (5.31%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (4.42%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.65%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.65%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.77%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.77%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (0.88%) CMDB
9 1 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.88%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.50%) Linux
1 13 (11.50%) Windows
2 9 (7.96%) Windows Server
3 8 (7.08%) macOS
4 6 (5.31%) Windows 10
5 5 (4.42%) CentOS
5 5 (4.42%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (46.90%) Agile
2 39 (34.51%) Migration
3 34 (30.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 32 (28.32%) DevOps
5 30 (26.55%) Scrum
6 28 (24.78%) CI/CD
6 28 (24.78%) Service Management
7 26 (23.01%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (20.35%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (18.58%) Project Management
10 18 (15.93%) Decision-Making
10 18 (15.93%) ITSM
11 15 (13.27%) ITIL
11 15 (13.27%) Kanban
12 14 (12.39%) Project Delivery
13 13 (11.50%) Coaching
13 13 (11.50%) Roadmaps
13 13 (11.50%) SDLC
13 13 (11.50%) Waterfall
14 12 (10.62%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (9.73%) PowerShell
2 10 (8.85%) Python
3 9 (7.96%) Java
3 9 (7.96%) SQL
4 5 (4.42%) Bash
5 2 (1.77%) Groovy
6 1 (0.88%) ActionScript
6 1 (0.88%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (0.88%) C#
6 1 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.88%) Go
6 1 (0.88%) Perl
6 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (38.05%) Security Cleared
2 38 (33.63%) SC Cleared
3 17 (15.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (11.50%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.42%) Degree
6 3 (2.65%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.65%) MCSE
6 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (2.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.77%) A+ Certification
7 2 (1.77%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.77%) CCNA
7 2 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.77%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.77%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.77%) RHCA
8 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.88%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.88%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.85%) QA
2 6 (5.31%) PMO
3 2 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.88%) GRC
4 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (8.85%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.19%) Docker
3 6 (5.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.65%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (2.65%) VMware NSX
4 3 (2.65%) vSphere
5 2 (1.77%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.77%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 7 (6.19%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.42%) Ansible
3 3 (2.65%) Grafana
3 3 (2.65%) PowerCLI
3 3 (2.65%) vCenter Server
4 2 (1.77%) OPNET
4 2 (1.77%) Podman
5 1 (0.88%) SCCM
5 1 (0.88%) SCOM
5 1 (0.88%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (15.93%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.31%) VMware
3 4 (3.54%) SAP
4 3 (2.65%) Cisco
4 3 (2.65%) Google
4 3 (2.65%) Jaspersoft
4 3 (2.65%) SaltStack
4 3 (2.65%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.77%) Databricks
5 2 (1.77%) IBM
5 2 (1.77%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.88%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.88%) Okta
6 1 (0.88%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.88%) Sybase