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 16 October 2025, 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
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 385 359 342
Rank change year-on-year -26 -17 +58
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 127 177 268
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.55% 0.66%
As % of the Vendors category 0.94% 1.24% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 90 186
10th Percentile £377 £438 £354
25th Percentile £477 £508 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +6.98%
75th Percentile £651 £725 £670
90th Percentile £762 £775 £706
UK median daily rate £575 £613 £586
% change year-on-year -6.12% +4.52% +9.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 23
10th Percentile £71.88 £37.55 £51.90
25th Percentile £74.69 £62.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £81.25 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% +16.67% -2.51%
75th Percentile £89.69 - £70.00
90th Percentile £93.63 - £76.53
UK median hourly rate £81.25 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +16.07% +16.67% -2.51%

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 13,495 14,327 18,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.84% 44.69% 44.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,584 8,579 11,954
10th Percentile £275 £300 £263
25th Percentile £404 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £619 £626 £645
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 663 497 619
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.22 £16.00 £20.13
Median hourly rate £25.08 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.36% -21.35% +85.42%
75th Percentile £42.75 £65.00 £63.52
90th Percentile £69.65 £70.50 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £24.81 £32.75 £43.90
% change year-on-year -24.24% -25.40% +83.61%

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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 16 October 2025.

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 16 October 2025.

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 16 October 2025. 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 +25 55 £625 -12.28% 29
West Midlands -4 23 £500 -13.04% 2
Midlands -9 23 £500 -4.76% 4
South West -29 19 £628 -3.46% 23
North of England -32 16 £600 +13.21% 4
South East -2 12 £450 -1.10% 23
North West -29 12 £550 +3.77% 1
Yorkshire - 6 £650 - 2
North East - 4 £650 - 1
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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 76 (59.84%) Confluence
2 8 (6.30%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.79%) Camunda
3 1 (0.79%) CMS
3 1 (0.79%) Drupal
3 1 (0.79%) EPiServer
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (9.45%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (4.72%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.79%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.79%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.79%) InDesign
4 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.79%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 41 (32.28%) AWS
2 21 (16.54%) GitHub
3 14 (11.02%) Amazon EC2
3 14 (11.02%) Amazon S3
4 13 (10.24%) GitHub Actions
4 13 (10.24%) IaaS
5 12 (9.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (7.87%) Azure
7 7 (5.51%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (5.51%) Serverless
8 6 (4.72%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (4.72%) AWS KMS
8 6 (4.72%) Route 53
9 5 (3.94%) Power Platform
9 5 (3.94%) Slack
10 4 (3.15%) Azure API Management
10 4 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (3.15%) npm
10 4 (3.15%) SaaS
10 4 (3.15%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.09%) BGP
1 9 (7.09%) DNS
1 9 (7.09%) Unified Communications
2 7 (5.51%) IPsec
2 7 (5.51%) MPLS
2 7 (5.51%) VPN
3 5 (3.94%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (1.57%) OSPF
4 2 (1.57%) Skype
4 2 (1.57%) VLAN
4 2 (1.57%) VoIP
4 2 (1.57%) X.509
5 1 (0.79%) DHCP
5 1 (0.79%) Firewall
5 1 (0.79%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.60%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (7.09%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (5.51%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (4.72%) DynamoDB
4 6 (4.72%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.15%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (3.15%) Couchbase
5 4 (3.15%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.15%) Power BI
6 3 (2.36%) DB2
6 3 (2.36%) MySQL
6 3 (2.36%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.57%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.57%) Redis
8 1 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.79%) Big Data
8 1 (0.79%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 85 (66.93%) JIRA
2 27 (21.26%) Git
3 26 (20.47%) Bitbucket
4 24 (18.90%) Jenkins
5 21 (16.54%) ScriptRunner
6 12 (9.45%) GitLab
7 7 (5.51%) Artifactory
7 7 (5.51%) JUnit
7 7 (5.51%) Maven
7 7 (5.51%) SonarQube
8 6 (4.72%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (4.72%) DbUnit
8 6 (4.72%) jMock
8 6 (4.72%) Mockito
9 5 (3.94%) Selenium
10 4 (3.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (3.15%) webpack
11 3 (2.36%) Cucumber
11 3 (2.36%) Rational DOORS
11 3 (2.36%) Zephyr
General
1 40 (31.50%) Social Skills
2 30 (23.62%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (14.96%) Finance
3 19 (14.96%) Public Sector
4 13 (10.24%) Banking
5 6 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (4.72%) Front Office
6 5 (3.94%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.15%) Automotive
8 3 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.36%) Marketing
8 3 (2.36%) Military
8 3 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.57%) Advertising
9 2 (1.57%) Back Office
9 2 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.57%) Publishing
9 2 (1.57%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.79%) Electronics
10 1 (0.79%) Legal
Job Titles
1 27 (21.26%) Developer
2 19 (14.96%) Senior
3 11 (8.66%) Administrator
4 10 (7.87%) Analyst
4 10 (7.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (7.87%) JIRA Administrator
4 10 (7.87%) JIRA Engineer
5 9 (7.09%) Java Developer
5 9 (7.09%) Senior Developer
5 9 (7.09%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (6.30%) Business Analyst
7 7 (5.51%) Applications Support
7 7 (5.51%) Network Engineer
8 6 (4.72%) Lead
9 5 (3.94%) Architect
9 5 (3.94%) Migration Engineer
9 5 (3.94%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 5 (3.94%) Software Engineer
10 4 (3.15%) Technical Analyst
10 4 (3.15%) Telephony Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (16.54%) REST
2 12 (9.45%) React
3 11 (8.66%) AngularJS
3 11 (8.66%) RESTful
4 7 (5.51%) Bootstrap
4 7 (5.51%) CSS
4 7 (5.51%) NETCONF
4 7 (5.51%) RESTCONF
4 7 (5.51%) SOAP
4 7 (5.51%) Spring
4 7 (5.51%) Web Services
5 6 (4.72%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (4.72%) Hibernate
5 6 (4.72%) JPA
5 6 (4.72%) Node.js
5 6 (4.72%) PowerMock
5 6 (4.72%) Spring Batch
5 6 (4.72%) Spring Boot
5 6 (4.72%) Spring Cloud
5 6 (4.72%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.09%) Distributed Systems
1 9 (7.09%) PKI
2 8 (6.30%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.72%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.15%) Derivative
5 3 (2.36%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.36%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.57%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.57%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.57%) Educational Technology
6 2 (1.57%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.79%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.79%) PMI
7 1 (0.79%) Replication
7 1 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.66%) Linux
2 9 (7.09%) Windows
3 4 (3.15%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (50.39%) Agile
2 30 (23.62%) Migration
3 28 (22.05%) CI/CD
4 27 (21.26%) DevOps
5 21 (16.54%) Microservices
6 20 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (15.75%) Scrum
7 18 (14.17%) Continuous Integration
8 15 (11.81%) Containerisation
8 15 (11.81%) Performance Tuning
8 15 (11.81%) Service Management
9 14 (11.02%) Incident Management
9 14 (11.02%) Software Engineering
9 14 (11.02%) Task Automation
9 14 (11.02%) TDD
10 13 (10.24%) BDD
10 13 (10.24%) ITIL
10 13 (10.24%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (10.24%) Test Automation
10 13 (10.24%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 24 (18.90%) Python
2 19 (14.96%) Groovy
2 19 (14.96%) Java
3 14 (11.02%) JavaScript
4 12 (9.45%) SQL
5 10 (7.87%) PowerShell
6 9 (7.09%) Go
7 4 (3.15%) C#
7 4 (3.15%) TypeScript
8 3 (2.36%) C
8 3 (2.36%) C++
9 2 (1.57%) Bash
9 2 (1.57%) Haskell
9 2 (1.57%) Ruby
10 1 (0.79%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.79%) PHP
10 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (50.39%) Security Cleared
2 57 (44.88%) SC Cleared
3 25 (19.69%) Degree
4 10 (7.87%) DV Cleared
5 9 (7.09%) CCNP
5 9 (7.09%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.57%) CBAP
8 2 (1.57%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.79%) APMP
9 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.79%) MCSA
9 1 (0.79%) MCSE
9 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.79%) OCA
9 1 (0.79%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.72%) QA
2 3 (2.36%) IEC 61508
2 3 (2.36%) IEC 62304
2 3 (2.36%) ISO 26262
2 3 (2.36%) ITGC
2 3 (2.36%) NIST
3 2 (1.57%) GDPR
3 2 (1.57%) SLA
4 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.79%) P3O
4 1 (0.79%) PMO
4 1 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (14.96%) Docker
2 8 (6.30%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (6.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (5.51%) Active Directory
4 6 (4.72%) Postfix
5 5 (3.94%) Firmware
6 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 21 (16.54%) Kubernetes
2 12 (9.45%) Ansible
3 7 (5.51%) Grafana
3 7 (5.51%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.94%) SCCM
4 5 (3.94%) Terraform
5 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.36%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.79%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (0.79%) Opsgenie
6 1 (0.79%) Packer
6 1 (0.79%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.79%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (11.02%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.66%) VMware
3 10 (7.87%) ServiceNow
4 9 (7.09%) Cisco
5 6 (4.72%) Jaspersoft
6 5 (3.94%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.94%) SAP
7 4 (3.15%) Oracle
7 4 (3.15%) Splunk
8 3 (2.36%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (1.57%) Dell
9 2 (1.57%) IBM
9 2 (1.57%) Veeam
10 1 (0.79%) Adobe
10 1 (0.79%) HP
10 1 (0.79%) Nintex
10 1 (0.79%) Okta
10 1 (0.79%) Optimizely
10 1 (0.79%) Planview
10 1 (0.79%) SolarWinds