ATL Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Active Template Library (ATL)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring ATL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 - 398
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ATL 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.004% - 0.010%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.025% - 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £626
75th Percentile £588 - £663
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £525 £200 £300
% change year-on-year +162.50% -33.33% +39.53%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

ATL falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,953 2,420 3,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.88% 18.70% 16.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,617 1,678 2,188
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £572 £608
90th Percentile £673 £638 £694
UK median daily rate £525 £521 £538
% change year-on-year +0.77% -3.07% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 89 219
10th Percentile £36.75 £33.59 £22.70
25th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.43
Median % change year-on-year - +34.21% -25.49%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £68.38
90th Percentile £77.50 £81.01 £74.45
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

ATL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ATL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

ATL job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

ATL
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ATL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ATL

ATL
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ATL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ATL

ATL
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ATL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 June 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 - 1 £525 - 4
ATL
UK

ATL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) InDesign
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Figma
1 1 (100.00%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MSI
1 1 (100.00%) webpack
General
1 1 (100.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) C++ Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Blazor
1 1 (100.00%) COM
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) GeoJSON
1 1 (100.00%) MFC
1 1 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle