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 29 December 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
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 234 186
Rank change year-on-year -55 -48 +103
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 105 114 242
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.58% 0.78% 1.24%
As % of the Vendors category 1.24% 1.70% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 52 160
10th Percentile £421 £435 £413
25th Percentile £553 £520 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +4.35% +4.74%
75th Percentile £738 £685 £673
90th Percentile - £725 £700
UK median daily rate £650 £613 £561
% change year-on-year +6.12% +9.25% +1.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 21
10th Percentile £64.29 £55.11 £54.50
25th Percentile £68.37 £60.81 £55.00
Median hourly rate £77.04 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.26% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £87.58 £68.08 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.78 £74.63 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £77.04 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +23.26% +4.17% +9.09%

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 8,481 6,724 9,091
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 46.45% 46.09% 46.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,524 4,008 5,743
10th Percentile £220 £215 £208
25th Percentile £375 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 651 354 521
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.22 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.50 £16.94 £17.75
Median hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -45.86% +102.88%
75th Percentile £44.63 £59.41 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -13.36% -40.06% +76.99%

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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 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 29 December 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 +10 69 £725 +11.54% 23
West Midlands -37 13 £550 +24.99% 6
Midlands -51 13 £550 +24.99% 14
North of England -47 11 £563 +4.55% 28
South East -18 9 £425 -8.60% 31
North West -25 7 £550 +2.23% 13
Scotland 0 3 - - 13
Yorkshire - 2 £575 - 8
North East - 2 £463 - 7
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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 81 (77.14%) Confluence
2 4 (3.81%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.95%) CMS
3 1 (0.95%) EPiServer
Applications
1 41 (39.05%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (34.29%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.95%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.90%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 10 (9.52%) GitHub
2 6 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (2.86%) Power Platform
4 2 (1.90%) Azure
5 1 (0.95%) AWS
5 1 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (0.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (0.95%) Datadog
5 1 (0.95%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (0.95%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.95%) BGP
1 1 (0.95%) DHCP
1 1 (0.95%) DNS
1 1 (0.95%) Firewall
1 1 (0.95%) OSPF
1 1 (0.95%) Skype
1 1 (0.95%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (0.95%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.95%) Unified Communications
1 1 (0.95%) VLAN
1 1 (0.95%) VoIP
1 1 (0.95%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
1 5 (4.76%) Couchbase
1 5 (4.76%) NoSQL
1 5 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.81%) Metadata
3 3 (2.86%) Power BI
4 2 (1.90%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.95%) Big Data
5 1 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.95%) Redis
5 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 88 (83.81%) JIRA
2 17 (16.19%) Jenkins
3 16 (15.24%) Bitbucket
4 12 (11.43%) Git
5 6 (5.71%) GitLab
6 5 (4.76%) Artifactory
7 4 (3.81%) Subversion
8 2 (1.90%) Android Studio
8 2 (1.90%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (1.90%) Selenium
8 2 (1.90%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.95%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.95%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.95%) ScriptRunner
9 1 (0.95%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.95%) Zephyr
General
1 55 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 47 (44.76%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (30.48%) Military
4 10 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.86%) Finance
6 2 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.90%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.95%) Advertising
7 1 (0.95%) Electronics
7 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.95%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 34 (32.38%) Architect
2 30 (28.57%) Service Architect
3 13 (12.38%) Administrator
4 12 (11.43%) JIRA Administrator
5 9 (8.57%) Developer
6 8 (7.62%) Consultant
7 7 (6.67%) Service Management Specialist
7 7 (6.67%) Technical Manager
8 6 (5.71%) JIRA Consultant
9 5 (4.76%) Lead
9 5 (4.76%) Programme Manager
9 5 (4.76%) Senior
9 5 (4.76%) Technical Programme Manager
10 4 (3.81%) Delivery Manager
10 4 (3.81%) Senior Developer
11 3 (2.86%) Automation Engineer
11 3 (2.86%) Management Consultant
11 3 (2.86%) Service Management Consultant
11 3 (2.86%) Software Engineer
11 3 (2.86%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (22.86%) REST
2 5 (4.76%) Kafka
2 5 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
3 3 (2.86%) .NET
4 2 (1.90%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.95%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (0.95%) Bootstrap
5 1 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.95%) Express.js
5 1 (0.95%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.95%) JFC
5 1 (0.95%) Middleware
5 1 (0.95%) Playwright
5 1 (0.95%) React
5 1 (0.95%) SOAP
5 1 (0.95%) WCF
5 1 (0.95%) Web Services
5 1 (0.95%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 34 (32.38%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.90%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.90%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.95%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.95%) PKI
4 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (12.38%) Windows
2 7 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 6 (5.71%) Linux
4 2 (1.90%) Android
5 1 (0.95%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (77.14%) Agile
2 55 (52.38%) Service Management
3 51 (48.57%) ITIL
4 39 (37.14%) Critical Thinking
5 35 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
6 34 (32.38%) Business Continuity
7 32 (30.48%) Knowledge Transfer
8 30 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
8 30 (28.57%) Security Patching
8 30 (28.57%) Service Design
8 30 (28.57%) TOGAF
9 20 (19.05%) ITSM
10 19 (18.10%) Change Management
10 19 (18.10%) DevOps
11 13 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (11.43%) CI/CD
12 12 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (11.43%) Waterfall
13 11 (10.48%) Project Delivery
13 11 (10.48%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (24.76%) Python
2 25 (23.81%) PowerShell
3 5 (4.76%) C++
3 5 (4.76%) Go
3 5 (4.76%) Java
4 3 (2.86%) C
4 3 (2.86%) C#
5 1 (0.95%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.95%) SQL
5 1 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 84 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 81 (77.14%) SC Cleared
3 45 (42.86%) Degree
4 30 (28.57%) TOGAF Certification
5 11 (10.48%) DV Cleared
6 7 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (5.71%) APMP
8 3 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.86%) MCSA
8 3 (2.86%) MCSE
8 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.86%) OCA
8 3 (2.86%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (2.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.90%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.95%) CCNP
10 1 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.86%) IEC 61508
1 3 (2.86%) IEC 62304
1 3 (2.86%) ISO 26262
2 1 (0.95%) PMO
2 1 (0.95%) QA
2 1 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (0.95%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (5.71%) Docker
2 5 (4.76%) Firmware
3 3 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.95%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.95%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 30 (28.57%) OPNET
2 9 (8.57%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.71%) Ansible
4 5 (4.76%) SCCM
4 5 (4.76%) Terraform
5 3 (2.86%) PowerCLI
5 3 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (0.95%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.95%) Packer
7 1 (0.95%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (29.52%) ServiceNow
2 30 (28.57%) Remedy
3 11 (10.48%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.71%) VMware
5 4 (3.81%) Oracle
5 4 (3.81%) Veeam
6 3 (2.86%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.90%) Coverity
7 2 (1.90%) Dell
7 2 (1.90%) Thales
8 1 (0.95%) Cisco
8 1 (0.95%) HP
8 1 (0.95%) Optimizely
8 1 (0.95%) SAP
8 1 (0.95%) Zoho