Atlassian Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 11 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
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 235 203
Rank change year-on-year -70 -32 +86
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 107 106 232
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.54% 0.79% 1.11%
As % of the Vendors category 1.22% 1.68% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 55 155
10th Percentile £421 £434 £400
25th Percentile £525 £494 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £738 £663 £600
90th Percentile £739 £720 £675
UK median daily rate £594 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +7.95% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 12 23
10th Percentile £35.97 £55.79 £54.60
25th Percentile £52.43 £60.81 £59.50
Median hourly rate £68.04 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.86% - +14.68%
75th Percentile £81.63 £66.56 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.40 £74.63 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £68.04 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +8.86% +3.31% +9.01%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,793 6,322 9,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.35% 47.02% 44.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,761 3,832 5,820
10th Percentile £225 £213 £208
25th Percentile £385 £366 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 717 313 745
10th Percentile £14.29 £15.23 £12.72
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.50 £14.71
Median hourly rate £22.00 £27.13 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +4.33% -4.59%
75th Percentile £56.69 £62.50 £57.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.08 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.91 £29.00 £26.72
% change year-on-year -17.54% +8.53% -16.26%

Atlassian
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Atlassian job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Atlassian in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Atlassian in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Atlassian in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Atlassian in the UK excluding London

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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 Atlassian within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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 +1 70 £725 +14.62% 19
South East -45 12 £485 -11.91% 8
North of England -53 12 £550 +0.92% 14
West Midlands -62 9 £421 -3.00% 7
Midlands -71 9 £421 -3.00% 14
North West -26 7 £499 - 11
North East - 3 £463 - 1
Scotland +9 2 - - 1
Yorkshire -56 2 £575 +5.50% 2
East of England - 2 £300 - 4
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UK

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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 89 (83.18%) Confluence
2 3 (2.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 43 (40.19%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (33.64%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.87%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (2.80%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 12 (11.21%) GitHub
2 7 (6.54%) AWS
3 5 (4.67%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (3.74%) Azure
5 3 (2.80%) PaaS
6 2 (1.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (1.87%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (1.87%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.87%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (1.87%) AWS KMS
6 2 (1.87%) IaaS
6 2 (1.87%) Route 53
6 2 (1.87%) SaaS
6 2 (1.87%) Sauce Labs
6 2 (1.87%) Serverless
6 2 (1.87%) TestFlight
7 1 (0.93%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.93%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) BGP
1 1 (0.93%) DHCP
1 1 (0.93%) DNS
1 1 (0.93%) OSPF
1 1 (0.93%) Skype
1 1 (0.93%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.93%) Unified Communications
1 1 (0.93%) VLAN
1 1 (0.93%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.41%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (6.54%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.67%) Apache Cassandra
3 5 (4.67%) Couchbase
3 5 (4.67%) Metadata
4 4 (3.74%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.87%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.87%) DocumentDB
6 1 (0.93%) Big Data
6 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.93%) Redis
6 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 91 (85.05%) JIRA
2 23 (21.50%) Jenkins
3 14 (13.08%) Bitbucket
3 14 (13.08%) Git
4 8 (7.48%) GitLab
5 5 (4.67%) Android Studio
6 4 (3.74%) Artifactory
6 4 (3.74%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (2.80%) Selenium
7 3 (2.80%) Subversion
8 2 (1.87%) Appium
8 2 (1.87%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.87%) DbUnit
8 2 (1.87%) jMock
8 2 (1.87%) Maven
8 2 (1.87%) Mockito
8 2 (1.87%) Postman
8 2 (1.87%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (1.87%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.87%) Sourcetree
General
1 57 (53.27%) Social Skills
2 49 (45.79%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (30.84%) Military
4 11 (10.28%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.48%) Finance
6 2 (1.87%) Banking
6 2 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Advertising
7 1 (0.93%) Automotive
7 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 36 (33.64%) Architect
2 30 (28.04%) Service Architect
3 12 (11.21%) Developer
4 8 (7.48%) Consultant
5 7 (6.54%) Service Management Specialist
6 6 (5.61%) JIRA Consultant
7 5 (4.67%) Administrator
7 5 (4.67%) Programme Manager
7 5 (4.67%) Technical Manager
7 5 (4.67%) Technical Programme Manager
8 4 (3.74%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (3.74%) JIRA Administrator
8 4 (3.74%) Senior
8 4 (3.74%) Senior Developer
8 4 (3.74%) Software Engineer
9 3 (2.80%) Analyst
9 3 (2.80%) Android Developer
9 3 (2.80%) Lead
9 3 (2.80%) Management Consultant
9 3 (2.80%) Service Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (21.50%) REST
2 7 (6.54%) Kafka
3 5 (4.67%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (2.80%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.80%) SOAP
4 3 (2.80%) Web Services
5 2 (1.87%) .NET
5 2 (1.87%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (1.87%) Hibernate
5 2 (1.87%) JPA
5 2 (1.87%) Node.js
5 2 (1.87%) PowerMock
5 2 (1.87%) pytest
5 2 (1.87%) Spring
5 2 (1.87%) Spring Batch
5 2 (1.87%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.87%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (1.87%) Spring Integration
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (0.93%) JFC
Miscellaneous
1 32 (29.91%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.80%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.87%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.87%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.87%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (1.87%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.93%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.93%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing Execution System
6 1 (0.93%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.54%) Linux
2 5 (4.67%) Android
2 5 (4.67%) Windows
2 5 (4.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.93%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (84.11%) Agile
2 56 (52.34%) Service Management
3 47 (43.93%) ITIL
4 39 (36.45%) Critical Thinking
5 35 (32.71%) Analytical Thinking
6 33 (30.84%) TOGAF
7 32 (29.91%) Knowledge Transfer
8 30 (28.04%) Acceptance Criteria
8 30 (28.04%) Business Continuity
8 30 (28.04%) Security Patching
8 30 (28.04%) Service Design
9 25 (23.36%) DevOps
10 20 (18.69%) ITSM
11 17 (15.89%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (14.95%) Change Management
12 16 (14.95%) CI/CD
13 14 (13.08%) Stakeholder Management
14 13 (12.15%) Waterfall
15 12 (11.21%) Project Management
16 11 (10.28%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 29 (27.10%) Python
2 21 (19.63%) PowerShell
3 7 (6.54%) Java
4 5 (4.67%) Go
5 3 (2.80%) C++
6 2 (1.87%) C
6 2 (1.87%) C#
6 2 (1.87%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.93%) Bash
7 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (77.57%) Security Cleared
2 80 (74.77%) SC Cleared
3 47 (43.93%) Degree
4 30 (28.04%) TOGAF Certification
5 12 (11.21%) DV Cleared
6 8 (7.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (5.61%) APMP
8 4 (3.74%) AWS Certification
8 4 (3.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.80%) MCSA
9 3 (2.80%) MCSE
9 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.80%) OCA
9 3 (2.80%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (2.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (1.87%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.87%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.93%) CCNP
11 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.87%) IEC 61508
1 2 (1.87%) IEC 62304
1 2 (1.87%) ISO 26262
2 1 (0.93%) GDPR
2 1 (0.93%) PMO
2 1 (0.93%) QA
2 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (8.41%) Docker
2 3 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.87%) Postfix
4 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 30 (28.04%) OPNET
2 8 (7.48%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.48%) Terraform
3 6 (5.61%) Ansible
4 5 (4.67%) Grafana
5 3 (2.80%) PowerCLI
5 3 (2.80%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (1.87%) Kibana
6 2 (1.87%) Rundeck
7 1 (0.93%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.93%) Packer
7 1 (0.93%) Puppet
7 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (29.91%) ServiceNow
2 30 (28.04%) Remedy
3 10 (9.35%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.67%) VMware
5 3 (2.80%) Coverity
5 3 (2.80%) Oracle
5 3 (2.80%) SolarWinds
5 3 (2.80%) Thales
5 3 (2.80%) Veeam
6 2 (1.87%) Jaspersoft
7 1 (0.93%) Cisco
7 1 (0.93%) Dell
7 1 (0.93%) HP
7 1 (0.93%) SAP
7 1 (0.93%) Zoho