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 6 May 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
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 230 201
Rank change year-on-year -90 -29 +117
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 122 108 206
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.84% 1.00%
As % of the Vendors category 1.25% 1.74% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 62 149
10th Percentile £405 £425 £405
25th Percentile £460 £484 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £738 £605 £645
90th Percentile - £659 £700
UK median daily rate £600 £563 £525
% change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 13
10th Percentile £48.40 £49.77 £56.05
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.77 £60.25
Median hourly rate £63.14 £58.88 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.24% -5.80% +8.70%
75th Percentile £70.07 £62.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £79.83 £64.88 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £58.88 £60.50
% change year-on-year +7.24% -2.69% +5.22%

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 9,778 6,219 8,732
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 40.35% 48.65% 42.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,255 3,944 5,276
10th Percentile £270 £220 £206
25th Percentile £400 £368 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £663 £691
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 844 427 935
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.42 £11.79
25th Percentile £18.25 £17.30 £14.16
Median hourly rate £27.50 £24.18 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.73% +12.47% -45.64%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £59.95
90th Percentile £77.43 £74.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +19.09% +17.56% -48.57%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -18 51 £725 +26.09% 8
West Midlands -48 34 £423 -8.04% 2
Midlands -62 34 £423 -8.04% 2
South East -62 13 £488 -7.14% 13
North of England -63 11 £524 -12.75% 11
North West -41 9 £524 -4.82% 9
Scotland +3 7 £675 +35.00% 1
East of England -30 6 £300 -35.14% 2
North East -23 2 - - 2
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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 85 (69.67%) Confluence
2 7 (5.74%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.82%) Mattermost
3 1 (0.82%) SAS
Applications
1 43 (35.25%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (28.69%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (5.74%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (4.92%) LabWindows
2 1 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 17 (13.93%) AWS
2 15 (12.30%) GitHub
3 11 (9.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 11 (9.02%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (9.02%) Amazon S3
3 11 (9.02%) Amazon SQS
3 11 (9.02%) AWS KMS
3 11 (9.02%) Route 53
4 10 (8.20%) SaaS
5 8 (6.56%) Azure
6 5 (4.10%) Microsoft Copilot
6 5 (4.10%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.28%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.46%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (2.46%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.46%) PaaS
9 2 (1.64%) IaaS
9 2 (1.64%) Sauce Labs
9 2 (1.64%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.66%) DynamoDB
1 13 (10.66%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (9.84%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (9.02%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.10%) Power BI
5 5 (4.10%) Power Query
6 2 (1.64%) DocumentDB
6 2 (1.64%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.64%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.82%) Metadata
7 1 (0.82%) MySQL
7 1 (0.82%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 94 (77.05%) JIRA
2 20 (16.39%) Jenkins
3 15 (12.30%) Maven
4 13 (10.66%) Bitbucket
4 13 (10.66%) Git
5 11 (9.02%) DbUnit
5 11 (9.02%) jMock
5 11 (9.02%) JUnit
5 11 (9.02%) Mockito
5 11 (9.02%) SonarQube
6 9 (7.38%) Bitbucket Server
7 7 (5.74%) Subversion
8 6 (4.92%) ScriptRunner
9 5 (4.10%) Android Studio
10 4 (3.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (3.28%) Eclipse
10 4 (3.28%) IntelliJ
11 2 (1.64%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.64%) LabVIEW
11 2 (1.64%) Xcode
General
1 73 (59.84%) Social Skills
2 53 (43.44%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (27.87%) Military
4 19 (15.57%) Public Sector
5 17 (13.93%) Finance
6 5 (4.10%) Banking
7 4 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.82%) Advertising
9 1 (0.82%) Automotive
9 1 (0.82%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.82%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 35 (28.69%) Architect
2 30 (24.59%) Service Architect
3 23 (18.85%) Developer
4 11 (9.02%) Java Developer
5 7 (5.74%) Data Manager
5 7 (5.74%) JIRA Engineer
5 7 (5.74%) Software Engineer
6 6 (4.92%) Programme Manager
6 6 (4.92%) Project Manager
7 5 (4.10%) Administrator
7 5 (4.10%) Lead
7 5 (4.10%) Power BI Developer
7 5 (4.10%) Technical Manager
7 5 (4.10%) Technical Programme Manager
8 4 (3.28%) Applications Developer
8 4 (3.28%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 4 (3.28%) JIRA Administrator
8 4 (3.28%) JIRA Consultant
8 4 (3.28%) Principal Engineer
8 4 (3.28%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (10.66%) REST
2 11 (9.02%) ActiveMQ
2 11 (9.02%) AngularJS
2 11 (9.02%) Hibernate
2 11 (9.02%) JPA
2 11 (9.02%) PowerMock
2 11 (9.02%) SOAP
2 11 (9.02%) Spring
2 11 (9.02%) Spring Batch
2 11 (9.02%) Spring Boot
2 11 (9.02%) Spring Cloud
2 11 (9.02%) Spring Integration
2 11 (9.02%) Web Services
3 9 (7.38%) Bootstrap
3 9 (7.38%) RESTful
4 7 (5.74%) Node.js
5 4 (3.28%) XML
6 2 (1.64%) Kafka
6 2 (1.64%) pytest
7 1 (0.82%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 33 (27.05%) Product Ownership
2 13 (10.66%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (5.74%) Data Centre
4 6 (4.92%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.46%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.46%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.46%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.46%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.64%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.64%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.64%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.64%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.82%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.82%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.82%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 1 (0.82%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 21 (17.21%) Linux
2 5 (4.10%) Android
2 5 (4.10%) Windows
2 5 (4.10%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (68.03%) Agile
2 47 (38.52%) Service Management
3 39 (31.97%) ITIL
4 37 (30.33%) Critical Thinking
5 36 (29.51%) DevOps
6 35 (28.69%) Analytical Thinking
7 33 (27.05%) TOGAF
8 30 (24.59%) Acceptance Criteria
8 30 (24.59%) Business Continuity
8 30 (24.59%) Knowledge Transfer
8 30 (24.59%) Security Patching
8 30 (24.59%) Service Design
9 28 (22.95%) Scrum
10 25 (20.49%) Stakeholder Management
11 24 (19.67%) CI/CD
12 21 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (16.39%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 16 (13.11%) Containerisation
15 14 (11.48%) Migration
15 14 (11.48%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 19 (15.57%) Java
1 19 (15.57%) SQL
2 12 (9.84%) Python
3 7 (5.74%) PowerShell
4 5 (4.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (3.28%) Bash
6 3 (2.46%) VBA
7 2 (1.64%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.82%) C#
8 1 (0.82%) C++
8 1 (0.82%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 89 (72.95%) Security Cleared
2 82 (67.21%) SC Cleared
3 38 (31.15%) Degree
4 30 (24.59%) TOGAF Certification
5 6 (4.92%) AWS Certification
6 5 (4.10%) APMP
6 5 (4.10%) DV Cleared
6 5 (4.10%) MCSE
6 5 (4.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (4.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (3.28%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.46%) CCNA
8 3 (2.46%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.46%) RHCA
9 2 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (1.64%) MCSA
9 2 (1.64%) OCA
9 2 (1.64%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.10%) Data Quality
1 5 (4.10%) GRC
2 4 (3.28%) PMO
3 3 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.46%) QA
3 3 (2.46%) SLA
4 1 (0.82%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (13.11%) Docker
2 10 (8.20%) Postfix
3 5 (4.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.46%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (24.59%) OPNET
2 15 (12.30%) Grafana
3 8 (6.56%) Terraform
4 6 (4.92%) Kubernetes
5 5 (4.10%) Ansible
6 4 (3.28%) Prometheus
7 3 (2.46%) Podman
7 3 (2.46%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (1.64%) Kibana
8 2 (1.64%) PowerCLI
8 2 (1.64%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.82%) Opsgenie
9 1 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (30.33%) ServiceNow
2 31 (25.41%) Remedy
3 11 (9.02%) Jaspersoft
3 11 (9.02%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.10%) VMware
5 3 (2.46%) Cisco
5 3 (2.46%) Coverity
5 3 (2.46%) Oracle
5 3 (2.46%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.46%) Thales
6 2 (1.64%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.64%) Veeam
7 1 (0.82%) Denodo
7 1 (0.82%) Informatica
7 1 (0.82%) SAP
7 1 (0.82%) Sparx
7 1 (0.82%) Talend
7 1 (0.82%) Zoho