Atlassian Contract Job Trends in Scotland

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UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 14 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
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 108 66
Rank change year-on-year +3 -42 +102
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 6 5 68
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.35% 0.30% 3.01%
As % of the Vendors category 0.91% 0.70% 7.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 29
10th Percentile - £440 £416
25th Percentile £613 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £738 £650 £725
90th Percentile - £680 £750
UK median daily rate £588 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +6.82% +4.76% -7.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.25
Median hourly rate £87.00 £60.00 £60.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% -0.83% -
75th Percentile - - £60.75
90th Percentile - - £61.20
UK median hourly rate £63.32 £60.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +4.66% - +9.01%

All Vendors
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 657 718 908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.47% 43.65% 40.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 442 559
10th Percentile £262 £201 £181
25th Percentile £402 £361 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +0.42%
75th Percentile £576 £538 £588
90th Percentile £686 £624 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.50% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 35 53
10th Percentile £13.97 £16.90 £13.62
25th Percentile £16.09 £19.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £19.68 £23.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% +29.80% -69.18%
75th Percentile £55.00 £24.58 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £28.22 £60.60
UK median hourly rate £28.24 £27.99 £22.29
% change year-on-year +0.88% +25.59% -47.56%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Atlassian relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Atlassian job vacancy trend in Scotland

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Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Atlassian.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Atlassian

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Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Atlassian.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Atlassian

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Atlassian within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 14 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
Edinburgh +5 6 £675 - 1
Atlassian
UK

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (66.67%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) ScriptRunner
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Principal Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Principal Software Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 4 (66.67%) Defect Tracking
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Line Management
4 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
5 1 (16.67%) Budget Management
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Information Architecture
5 1 (16.67%) Information Security
5 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 1 (16.67%) Runbook
5 1 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Webhook
5 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft