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 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
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 337 333
Rank change year-on-year -64 -4 +42
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 149 141 236
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.54% 0.62%
As % of the Vendors category 0.98% 1.17% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 73 173
10th Percentile £421 £403 £314
25th Percentile £525 £463 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £628 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% +6.82% -
75th Percentile £738 £685 £625
90th Percentile £758 £750 £685
UK median daily rate £619 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 28
10th Percentile £64.29 £54.78 £54.85
25th Percentile £68.37 £59.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £77.04 £62.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +23.26% +2.04% +14.49%
75th Percentile £87.58 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.78 £70.40 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £77.04 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +23.26% +3.31% +13.08%

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 15,165 12,061 16,637
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 45.86% 46.27% 43.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,957 7,243 10,765
10th Percentile £300 £283 £250
25th Percentile £410 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £706 £715 £734
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 731 346 850
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £12.99
25th Percentile £17.78 £19.24 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.58 £30.41 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.46% +1.35% -6.25%
75th Percentile £52.27 £63.75 £57.46
90th Percentile £71.50 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £28.60 £30.00
% change year-on-year -16.70% -4.67% +3.45%

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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 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 3 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 3 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 +6 70 £725 +13.06% 21
London -15 48 £575 +0.88% 21
South East -37 11 £500 -9.09% 13
North of England -57 11 £550 +1.57% 12
West Midlands -50 7 £421 -3.00% 5
Midlands -70 7 £421 -3.00% 10
North West -35 6 £550 +2.23% 8
North East - 3 £463 - 1
Yorkshire -48 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
1 111 (74.50%) Confluence
2 12 (8.05%) nginx
3 2 (1.34%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 43 (28.86%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (24.16%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (4.03%) MS Visio
4 5 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (3.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.34%) Adobe After Effects
5 2 (1.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (1.34%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (1.34%) InDesign
5 2 (1.34%) Photoshop
5 2 (1.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.34%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 19 (12.75%) AWS
2 17 (11.41%) GitHub
3 11 (7.38%) Azure
4 7 (4.70%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (4.03%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (4.03%) Amazon S3
5 6 (4.03%) Azure API Management
5 6 (4.03%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (4.03%) Serverless
5 6 (4.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (3.36%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.36%) Route 53
7 3 (2.01%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (2.01%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.34%) Figma
8 2 (1.34%) Google Workspace
8 2 (1.34%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.34%) SaaS
8 2 (1.34%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.04%) DNS
2 8 (5.37%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.36%) Firewall
3 5 (3.36%) OpenVPN
3 5 (3.36%) VPN
4 3 (2.01%) DHCP
5 1 (0.67%) BGP
5 1 (0.67%) OSPF
5 1 (0.67%) Skype
5 1 (0.67%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.67%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.67%) VLAN
5 1 (0.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.41%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (7.38%) NoSQL
3 6 (4.03%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.36%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (3.36%) Couchbase
4 5 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (2.68%) Metadata
6 2 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.34%) DB2
6 2 (1.34%) Power BI
6 2 (1.34%) Redis
7 1 (0.67%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.67%) Big Data
7 1 (0.67%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.67%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.67%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.67%) MySQL
7 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 120 (80.54%) JIRA
2 33 (22.15%) Bitbucket
3 29 (19.46%) Jenkins
4 17 (11.41%) Git
5 13 (8.72%) GitLab
6 7 (4.70%) ScriptRunner
7 6 (4.03%) Artifactory
8 5 (3.36%) SonarQube
9 3 (2.01%) Android Studio
9 3 (2.01%) Selenium
9 3 (2.01%) Subversion
10 2 (1.34%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.34%) LabVIEW
10 2 (1.34%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (1.34%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.67%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.67%) TestRail
General
1 80 (53.69%) Social Skills
2 55 (36.91%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (22.15%) Military
4 17 (11.41%) Finance
4 17 (11.41%) Public Sector
5 12 (8.05%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.68%) Banking
6 4 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.01%) Advertising
7 3 (2.01%) Legal
7 3 (2.01%) Marketing
7 3 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.01%) Publishing
8 2 (1.34%) Billing
8 2 (1.34%) German Language
8 2 (1.34%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.34%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.67%) Electronics
9 1 (0.67%) Front Office
9 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 44 (29.53%) Architect
2 30 (20.13%) Service Architect
3 15 (10.07%) Developer
4 11 (7.38%) Analyst
4 11 (7.38%) Consultant
5 9 (6.04%) JIRA Consultant
6 7 (4.70%) JIRA Specialist
6 7 (4.70%) Service Management Specialist
7 6 (4.03%) Administrator
7 6 (4.03%) JIRA Administrator
7 6 (4.03%) Senior
7 6 (4.03%) Technical Architect
8 5 (3.36%) Business Analyst
8 5 (3.36%) Programme Manager
8 5 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (3.36%) Technical Manager
8 5 (3.36%) Technical Programme Manager
9 4 (2.68%) AWS Architect
9 4 (2.68%) Lead
9 4 (2.68%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (16.11%) REST
2 6 (4.03%) Kafka
3 5 (3.36%) LDAP
3 5 (3.36%) OpenID
3 5 (3.36%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (3.36%) React
4 4 (2.68%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (2.01%) .NET
5 3 (2.01%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.01%) ASP.NET Web API
5 3 (2.01%) Bootstrap
5 3 (2.01%) Express.js
5 3 (2.01%) Middleware
5 3 (2.01%) SOAP
5 3 (2.01%) WCF
5 3 (2.01%) Web Services
5 3 (2.01%) WPF
6 2 (1.34%) CSS
6 2 (1.34%) HTML
6 2 (1.34%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 36 (24.16%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.04%) Onboarding
3 6 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (2.68%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.01%) Educational Technology
5 3 (2.01%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.34%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.34%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.34%) Social Media
6 2 (1.34%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.67%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.67%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.67%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.67%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.67%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.67%) Replication
7 1 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.40%) Linux
2 10 (6.71%) Windows
3 8 (5.37%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.36%) Unix
5 3 (2.01%) Android
6 1 (0.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (71.81%) Agile
2 58 (38.93%) Service Management
3 49 (32.89%) ITIL
4 40 (26.85%) DevOps
5 39 (26.17%) Critical Thinking
6 37 (24.83%) Analytical Thinking
7 34 (22.82%) Acceptance Criteria
7 34 (22.82%) Knowledge Transfer
8 32 (21.48%) Business Continuity
8 32 (21.48%) TOGAF
9 30 (20.13%) Security Patching
9 30 (20.13%) Service Design
10 27 (18.12%) Scrum
11 25 (16.78%) Problem-Solving
12 24 (16.11%) CI/CD
13 20 (13.42%) ITSM
13 20 (13.42%) Project Management
14 17 (11.41%) Change Management
15 15 (10.07%) Waterfall
16 14 (9.40%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (24.83%) Python
2 26 (17.45%) PowerShell
3 10 (6.71%) Bash
3 10 (6.71%) SQL
4 5 (3.36%) Go
4 5 (3.36%) Java
5 4 (2.68%) C++
6 3 (2.01%) C
6 3 (2.01%) C#
6 3 (2.01%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.34%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 105 (70.47%) Security Cleared
2 103 (69.13%) SC Cleared
3 51 (34.23%) Degree
4 30 (20.13%) TOGAF Certification
5 13 (8.72%) DV Cleared
6 8 (5.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (4.03%) APMP
7 6 (4.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.01%) MCSA
8 3 (2.01%) MCSE
8 3 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.01%) OCA
8 3 (2.01%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (2.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.34%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.67%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.67%) CCNP
10 1 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.68%) GDPR
2 3 (2.01%) IEC 61508
2 3 (2.01%) IEC 62304
2 3 (2.01%) ISO 26262
3 2 (1.34%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.34%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.67%) PMO
4 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (11.41%) Docker
2 6 (4.03%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.36%) Squid
4 3 (2.01%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.34%) Firmware
6 1 (0.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 30 (20.13%) OPNET
2 21 (14.09%) Kubernetes
3 17 (11.41%) Terraform
4 7 (4.70%) Ansible
5 6 (4.03%) Grafana
5 6 (4.03%) Prometheus
5 6 (4.03%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (3.36%) Consul
6 5 (3.36%) FortiGate
7 3 (2.01%) PowerCLI
7 3 (2.01%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (1.34%) SCCM
9 1 (0.67%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.67%) Packer
9 1 (0.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (22.15%) ServiceNow
2 30 (20.13%) Remedy
3 16 (10.74%) Microsoft
4 7 (4.70%) VMware
5 5 (3.36%) Dynatrace
5 5 (3.36%) Red Hat
6 4 (2.68%) Oracle
7 3 (2.01%) Coverity
7 3 (2.01%) SolarWinds
7 3 (2.01%) Thales
7 3 (2.01%) Veeam
8 2 (1.34%) Adobe
8 2 (1.34%) Databricks
8 2 (1.34%) Google
8 2 (1.34%) Okta
8 2 (1.34%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.67%) Cisco
9 1 (0.67%) Dell
9 1 (0.67%) HP
9 1 (0.67%) SAP