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 26 June 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
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 246 210
Rank change year-on-year -135 -36 +119
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 84 107 201
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.79% 0.95%
As % of the Vendors category 0.81% 1.61% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 69 133
10th Percentile £301 £425 £401
25th Percentile £415 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £700
90th Percentile £721 £649 £723
UK median daily rate £519 £563 £530
% change year-on-year -7.82% +6.13% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 20
10th Percentile £48.40 £50.63 £37.55
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.77 £60.25
Median hourly rate £63.32 £56.38 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.31% -19.46% +21.74%
75th Percentile £70.19 £60.72 -
90th Percentile £79.83 £64.75 £71.63
UK median hourly rate £63.32 £56.38 £68.75
% change year-on-year +12.31% -18.00% +19.57%

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 10,360 6,644 9,002
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 39.83% 48.92% 42.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,434 4,105 5,381
10th Percentile £285 £224 £213
25th Percentile £402 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £519
% change year-on-year - -3.57% -1.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 913 500 1,001
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.75 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.27 £16.95 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.23 £22.75 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +41.63% -1.99% -38.09%
75th Percentile £60.00 £50.00 £60.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £24.18
% change year-on-year +35.15% +4.01% -42.40%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 26 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
Midlands -53 36 £450 -2.17%
West Midlands -50 34 £441 -4.24%
North of England -70 12 £605 +0.83% 4
South West -57 11 £490 -16.60% 11
South East -69 10 £494 +3.95% 8
Scotland -5 9 £725 +45.00%
North West -44 9 £600 +9.09% 2
East of England -25 6 £300 -35.14%
Yorkshire -51 2 £755 +16.15% 1
North East -36 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £450 -
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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 46 (54.76%) Confluence
2 6 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.19%) Mattermost
3 1 (1.19%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.95%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.76%) LabWindows
2 1 (1.19%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 23 (27.38%) AWS
2 14 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 14 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 14 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 14 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
2 14 (16.67%) AWS KMS
2 14 (16.67%) Route 53
3 13 (15.48%) GitHub
4 10 (11.90%) Azure
5 9 (10.71%) SaaS
6 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Copilot
6 6 (7.14%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.76%) Copilot Studio
7 4 (4.76%) Power Automate
8 3 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.57%) PaaS
9 2 (2.38%) IaaS
9 2 (2.38%) Sauce Labs
9 2 (2.38%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (19.05%) DynamoDB
1 16 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (17.86%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (7.14%) Power BI
5 6 (7.14%) Power Query
6 2 (2.38%) DocumentDB
6 2 (2.38%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.38%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.19%) Metadata
7 1 (1.19%) MySQL
7 1 (1.19%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 57 (67.86%) JIRA
2 19 (22.62%) Jenkins
3 18 (21.43%) Maven
4 14 (16.67%) DbUnit
4 14 (16.67%) Git
4 14 (16.67%) JUnit
4 14 (16.67%) Mockito
4 14 (16.67%) SonarQube
5 13 (15.48%) jMock
6 11 (13.10%) Bitbucket Server
7 7 (8.33%) Bitbucket
8 6 (7.14%) ScriptRunner
9 5 (5.95%) Subversion
10 4 (4.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (4.76%) Eclipse
10 4 (4.76%) IntelliJ
11 3 (3.57%) Android Studio
12 2 (2.38%) Appium
12 2 (2.38%) GitLab
12 2 (2.38%) Postman
General
1 37 (44.05%) Social Skills
2 23 (27.38%) Public Sector
3 21 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (19.05%) Finance
5 6 (7.14%) Banking
6 5 (5.95%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.57%) Military
8 2 (2.38%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.19%) Advertising
9 1 (1.19%) Automotive
9 1 (1.19%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (29.76%) Developer
2 14 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 8 (9.52%) JIRA Engineer
4 6 (7.14%) Power BI Developer
4 6 (7.14%) Senior
4 6 (7.14%) Software Engineer
5 5 (5.95%) Applications Developer
5 5 (5.95%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 5 (5.95%) Data Manager
6 4 (4.76%) Administrator
6 4 (4.76%) Analyst
6 4 (4.76%) Architect
6 4 (4.76%) Project Manager
7 3 (3.57%) Consultant
7 3 (3.57%) Data Analyst
7 3 (3.57%) Engagement Manager
7 3 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.57%) Principal Software Engineer
7 3 (3.57%) Senior Developer
7 3 (3.57%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.86%) REST
2 14 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
2 14 (16.67%) Hibernate
2 14 (16.67%) JPA
2 14 (16.67%) SOAP
2 14 (16.67%) Spring
2 14 (16.67%) Spring Batch
2 14 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 14 (16.67%) Spring Integration
2 14 (16.67%) Web Services
3 13 (15.48%) AngularJS
3 13 (15.48%) PowerMock
4 12 (14.29%) RESTful
4 12 (14.29%) Spring Cloud
5 11 (13.10%) Bootstrap
6 8 (9.52%) Node.js
7 4 (4.76%) XML
8 2 (2.38%) ADO
8 2 (2.38%) Kafka
8 2 (2.38%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.05%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (8.33%) Data Structures
3 6 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 6 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.95%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (4.76%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.76%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.38%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.38%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (2.38%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.19%) e-Learning
8 1 (1.19%) Learning Management System
8 1 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.19%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.19%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 22 (26.19%) Linux
2 4 (4.76%) Windows
3 3 (3.57%) Android
3 3 (3.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (58.33%) Agile
2 37 (44.05%) DevOps
3 29 (34.52%) Scrum
4 24 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 22 (26.19%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (21.43%) Containerisation
6 18 (21.43%) Kanban
6 18 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (19.05%) Microservices
8 15 (17.86%) Migration
8 15 (17.86%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 15 (17.86%) TDD
9 13 (15.48%) BDD
9 13 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (15.48%) Decision-Making
10 11 (13.10%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (13.10%) Open Source
10 11 (13.10%) Service Management
10 11 (13.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 11 (13.10%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 23 (27.38%) SQL
2 22 (26.19%) Java
3 9 (10.71%) Python
4 6 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (4.76%) Bash
5 4 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.57%) VBA
7 2 (2.38%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.19%) C#
8 1 (1.19%) C++
8 1 (1.19%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 51 (60.71%) Security Cleared
2 43 (51.19%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 6 (7.14%) DV Cleared
5 5 (5.95%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.57%) CCNA
6 3 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.57%) Degree
6 3 (3.57%) MCSE
6 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.57%) RHCA
6 3 (3.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.19%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.14%) GRC
2 5 (5.95%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.95%) PMO
2 5 (5.95%) QA
3 3 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.57%) SLA
4 1 (1.19%) GDPR
System Software
1 19 (22.62%) Docker
2 11 (13.10%) Postfix
3 3 (3.57%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (20.24%) Grafana
2 6 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.14%) Terraform
3 4 (4.76%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.57%) Ansible
4 3 (3.57%) Podman
5 2 (2.38%) Kibana
5 2 (2.38%) Rundeck
6 1 (1.19%) Opsgenie
6 1 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.19%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 13 (15.48%) Jaspersoft
2 7 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 3 (3.57%) Cisco
3 3 (3.57%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.57%) VMware
4 1 (1.19%) Coverity
4 1 (1.19%) Denodo
4 1 (1.19%) Informatica
4 1 (1.19%) Oracle
4 1 (1.19%) Remedy
4 1 (1.19%) SAP
4 1 (1.19%) Sparx
4 1 (1.19%) Talend
4 1 (1.19%) Thales