Atlassian Contracts 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 1 May 2025, 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 229 202 323
Rank change year-on-year -27 +121 +15
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 107 213 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.84% 1.03% 0.59%
As % of the Vendors category 1.72% 2.40% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 154 99
10th Percentile £425 £422 £425
25th Percentile £488 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £606 £643 £700
90th Percentile £660 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £563 £528 £573
% change year-on-year +6.64% -7.86% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 10
10th Percentile £49.77 - £48.34
25th Percentile £51.77 £60.25 £52.19
Median hourly rate £58.88 £62.50 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% +10.62% +28.30%
75th Percentile £62.81 £70.00 £67.19
90th Percentile £64.88 £71.25 £73.60
UK median hourly rate £58.88 £60.50 £56.50
% change year-on-year -2.69% +7.08% +13.00%

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 6,222 8,861 10,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.74% 42.66% 44.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,963 5,339 7,359
10th Percentile £215 £205 £205
25th Percentile £369 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.53%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 940 476
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.79 £14.31
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.16 £17.74
Median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%
75th Percentile £58.63 £58.70 £63.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Atlassian as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Atlassian in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Atlassian in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Atlassian in the UK excluding London

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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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Atlassian in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Atlassian in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Atlassian in the UK excluding London

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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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 -9 33 £575 +9.52% 56
Midlands +46 26 £460 +5.14% 63
West Midlands +39 26 £460 +15.00% 34
South East +43 24 £525 +12.90% 95
North of England +22 14 £600 +3.09% 85
North West +14 8 £550 -5.50% 43
Yorkshire - 6 £650 - 28
North East - 6 £650 - 14
Wales -11 5 £509 -1.21% 10
Scotland -41 5 £600 - 19
East of England +30 2 £463 +14.55% 39
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 76 (71.03%) Confluence
2 4 (3.74%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.80%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.93%) SAS
Applications
1 31 (28.97%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.87%) Open Workbench
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) LabWindows
1 2 (1.87%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 21 (19.63%) AWS
2 6 (5.61%) Azure
3 5 (4.67%) Amazon S3
3 5 (4.67%) IaaS
4 4 (3.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (3.74%) Amazon SQS
4 4 (3.74%) AWS KMS
4 4 (3.74%) Route 53
5 3 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (2.80%) Serverless
6 2 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.87%) GitHub
6 2 (1.87%) PaaS
6 2 (1.87%) SaaS
7 1 (0.93%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.93%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (0.93%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.93%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.35%) Software-Defined Radio
2 7 (6.54%) SNMP
3 4 (3.74%) DNS
3 4 (3.74%) Skype
3 4 (3.74%) Unified Communications
4 3 (2.80%) DHCP
5 2 (1.87%) iSCSI
5 2 (1.87%) SAN
6 1 (0.93%) BGP
6 1 (0.93%) Firewall
6 1 (0.93%) FTP
6 1 (0.93%) HTTP
6 1 (0.93%) OSPF
6 1 (0.93%) SSL
6 1 (0.93%) VLAN
6 1 (0.93%) VoIP
6 1 (0.93%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.74%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (3.74%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (3.74%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.87%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.93%) Adabas
4 1 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.93%) Couchbase
4 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.93%) MySQL
4 1 (0.93%) Power BI
4 1 (0.93%) SAS Data Integration Studio
4 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 89 (83.18%) JIRA
2 35 (32.71%) Bitbucket
3 25 (23.36%) Jenkins
4 24 (22.43%) Git
5 13 (12.15%) GoogleTest
5 13 (12.15%) Robot Framework
6 12 (11.21%) Eclipse
6 12 (11.21%) GitLab
7 7 (6.54%) ScriptRunner
8 6 (5.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (4.67%) Mockito
10 4 (3.74%) Bitbucket Server
10 4 (3.74%) DbUnit
10 4 (3.74%) jMock
10 4 (3.74%) JUnit
10 4 (3.74%) Maven
10 4 (3.74%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.87%) LabVIEW
11 2 (1.87%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (0.93%) WebDriver
General
1 44 (41.12%) Social Skills
2 30 (28.04%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (23.36%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.61%) Finance
4 6 (5.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.80%) Automotive
7 2 (1.87%) Aviation
7 2 (1.87%) Military
8 1 (0.93%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.93%) Electronics
8 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 16 (14.95%) Software Engineer
2 12 (11.21%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 10 (9.35%) Lead
4 9 (8.41%) Senior
5 7 (6.54%) JIRA Engineer
5 7 (6.54%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 6 (5.61%) Developer
6 6 (5.61%) Embedded Engineer
6 6 (5.61%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 6 (5.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (5.61%) Test Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.67%) Software Test Engineer
8 4 (3.74%) Analyst
8 4 (3.74%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (3.74%) Java Developer
9 3 (2.80%) Applications Support
9 3 (2.80%) C++ Software Engineer
9 3 (2.80%) Engagement Manager
9 3 (2.80%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.02%) REST
2 12 (11.21%) Flash
3 11 (10.28%) SOAP
4 7 (6.54%) CSS
4 7 (6.54%) HTML
5 5 (4.67%) Spring
5 5 (4.67%) Spring Batch
5 5 (4.67%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.74%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (3.74%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.74%) Bootstrap
6 4 (3.74%) Hibernate
6 4 (3.74%) JPA
6 4 (3.74%) PowerMock
6 4 (3.74%) RESTful
6 4 (3.74%) Spring Cloud
6 4 (3.74%) Spring Integration
6 4 (3.74%) Web Services
7 2 (1.87%) .NET
7 2 (1.87%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.21%) Clustering
2 9 (8.41%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.61%) PKI
4 4 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.80%) Verilog
5 3 (2.80%) VHDL
6 2 (1.87%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.87%) FPGA
7 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.93%) CMDB
7 1 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.93%) Digital Media
7 1 (0.93%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (31.78%) Linux
2 15 (14.02%) Windows
3 14 (13.08%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.67%) Windows 10
5 4 (3.74%) Unix
6 3 (2.80%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (2.80%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.87%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (68.22%) Agile
2 32 (29.91%) Scrum
2 32 (29.91%) Service Management
3 28 (26.17%) Validation
4 24 (22.43%) System Testing
5 22 (20.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 22 (20.56%) NsoIT
6 21 (19.63%) Software Engineering
7 20 (18.69%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (18.69%) Waterfall
8 18 (16.82%) Critical Thinking
8 18 (16.82%) Migration
8 18 (16.82%) Stakeholder Management
9 16 (14.95%) Computer Science
10 13 (12.15%) Decision-Making
11 12 (11.21%) High Availability
11 12 (11.21%) Power Management
11 12 (11.21%) Software Testing
11 12 (11.21%) SysML
11 12 (11.21%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 15 (14.02%) C++
2 14 (13.08%) Python
2 14 (13.08%) SQL
3 12 (11.21%) PowerShell
4 8 (7.48%) Bash
5 7 (6.54%) Groovy
5 7 (6.54%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.61%) Java
7 5 (4.67%) PL/SQL
8 4 (3.74%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.80%) SystemVerilog
9 3 (2.80%) Tcl
10 2 (1.87%) C
11 1 (0.93%) Go
11 1 (0.93%) Natural
11 1 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 53 (49.53%) Security Cleared
2 50 (46.73%) SC Cleared
3 27 (25.23%) Degree
4 21 (19.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 20 (18.69%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (13.08%) Master's Degree
7 12 (11.21%) CCNA
8 10 (9.35%) CCNP
9 8 (7.48%) OCA
9 8 (7.48%) Oracle Certification
10 7 (6.54%) RHCA
10 7 (6.54%) RHCE
11 5 (4.67%) DV Cleared
12 4 (3.74%) MCSA
12 4 (3.74%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (2.80%) MCSE
14 2 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
15 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
15 1 (0.93%) DBS Check
15 1 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.87%) MISRA
1 2 (1.87%) MISRA C
2 1 (0.93%) GDPR
2 1 (0.93%) NCSC
2 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (20.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (12.15%) VMware ESXi
2 13 (12.15%) VMware NSX
3 5 (4.67%) Docker
3 5 (4.67%) Firmware
4 4 (3.74%) Active Directory
4 4 (3.74%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.74%) Postfix
5 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (2.80%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (18.69%) vCenter Server
2 9 (8.41%) Ansible
3 8 (7.48%) Puppet
4 7 (6.54%) Progress Chef
5 4 (3.74%) Grafana
5 4 (3.74%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.80%) WSUS
7 2 (1.87%) PowerCLI
7 2 (1.87%) SCOM
8 1 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.93%) Avamar
8 1 (0.93%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.93%) OPNET
8 1 (0.93%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.93%) Terraform
8 1 (0.93%) vRealize
8 1 (0.93%) VxRail
Vendors
1 24 (22.43%) VMware
2 23 (21.50%) Microsoft
3 20 (18.69%) Cisco
4 13 (12.15%) Google
5 9 (8.41%) Oracle
6 8 (7.48%) ServiceNow
7 6 (5.61%) Intel
8 4 (3.74%) IBM
8 4 (3.74%) Jaspersoft
8 4 (3.74%) Salesforce
8 4 (3.74%) Veeam
9 3 (2.80%) SAP
9 3 (2.80%) Xilinx
10 2 (1.87%) MuleSoft
10 2 (1.87%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.87%) Talend
11 1 (0.93%) LogRhythm
11 1 (0.93%) Okta
11 1 (0.93%) PagerDuty
11 1 (0.93%) Twitter