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 12 January 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
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 285 244 180
Rank change year-on-year -41 -64 +112
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 107 104 249
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.76% 1.28%
As % of the Vendors category 1.30% 1.63% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 47 167
10th Percentile £428 £434 £408
25th Percentile £553 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £575 £561
Median % change year-on-year +9.57% +2.57% +6.78%
75th Percentile £738 £685 £658
90th Percentile - £725 £700
UK median daily rate £650 £600 £560
% change year-on-year +8.33% +7.14% +1.82%
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% - +14.68%
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% +10.09%

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 8,218 6,383 9,012
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 45.77% 46.36% 46.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,400 3,786 5,655
10th Percentile £220 £215 £208
25th Percentile £380 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £686 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 627 332 539
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.22 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.00 £17.20
Median hourly rate £21.50 £24.83 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.41% -44.20% +80.27%
75th Percentile £48.13 £59.91 £62.48
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £73.87
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.13 £43.79
% change year-on-year -12.17% -38.06% +60.71%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 12 January 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 +7 70 £725 +11.54% 12
West Midlands -44 12 £563 +27.84% 3
Midlands -54 12 £563 +27.84% 7
South East -26 11 £425 -8.60% 17
North of England -47 11 £575 +8.95% 14
North West -35 6 £588 +11.32% 8
Scotland +4 3 - - 2
North East - 3 £463 - 4
Yorkshire - 2 £575 - 3
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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 (79.44%) Confluence
2 2 (1.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 42 (39.25%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (33.64%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.80%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 12 (11.21%) GitHub
2 6 (5.61%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (1.87%) Azure
3 2 (1.87%) SaaS
4 1 (0.93%) AWS
4 1 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (0.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (0.93%) Datadog
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (0.93%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) BGP
1 1 (0.93%) DHCP
1 1 (0.93%) DNS
1 1 (0.93%) Firewall
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
1 1 (0.93%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.67%) Apache Cassandra
1 5 (4.67%) Couchbase
1 5 (4.67%) NoSQL
1 5 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (3.74%) Metadata
3 2 (1.87%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.93%) Big Data
4 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.93%) Power BI
4 1 (0.93%) Redis
4 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 88 (82.24%) JIRA
2 18 (16.82%) Bitbucket
2 18 (16.82%) Jenkins
3 12 (11.21%) Git
4 6 (5.61%) Artifactory
4 6 (5.61%) GitLab
5 5 (4.67%) Subversion
6 3 (2.80%) Android Studio
7 2 (1.87%) LabVIEW
7 2 (1.87%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (1.87%) ScriptRunner
7 2 (1.87%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.93%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.93%) Selenium
8 1 (0.93%) SpecFlow
General
1 56 (52.34%) Social Skills
2 47 (43.93%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (30.84%) Military
4 11 (10.28%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.67%) Finance
6 2 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.87%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.93%) Advertising
7 1 (0.93%) Electronics
7 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.93%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 35 (32.71%) Architect
2 30 (28.04%) Service Architect
3 11 (10.28%) Administrator
4 10 (9.35%) Developer
4 10 (9.35%) JIRA Administrator
5 8 (7.48%) Consultant
6 7 (6.54%) Service Management Specialist
6 7 (6.54%) Technical Manager
7 6 (5.61%) JIRA Consultant
8 5 (4.67%) Lead
8 5 (4.67%) Programme Manager
8 5 (4.67%) Senior
8 5 (4.67%) Technical Programme Manager
9 4 (3.74%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (3.74%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.74%) Software Engineer
10 3 (2.80%) Data Manager
10 3 (2.80%) Service Management Consultant
10 3 (2.80%) Software Architect
10 3 (2.80%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (20.56%) REST
2 5 (4.67%) Kafka
2 5 (4.67%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (1.87%) .NET
3 2 (1.87%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.93%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (0.93%) Bootstrap
4 1 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.93%) Express.js
4 1 (0.93%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.93%) JFC
4 1 (0.93%) Middleware
4 1 (0.93%) Playwright
4 1 (0.93%) React
4 1 (0.93%) SOAP
4 1 (0.93%) WCF
4 1 (0.93%) Web Services
4 1 (0.93%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 34 (31.78%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (2.80%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.87%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.87%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.93%) PKI
4 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (12.15%) Windows
2 7 (6.54%) Windows Server
3 6 (5.61%) Linux
4 3 (2.80%) Android
5 1 (0.93%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (78.50%) Agile
2 56 (52.34%) Service Management
3 51 (47.66%) ITIL
4 39 (36.45%) Critical Thinking
5 35 (32.71%) Analytical Thinking
6 34 (31.78%) Business Continuity
7 32 (29.91%) Knowledge Transfer
8 31 (28.97%) TOGAF
9 30 (28.04%) Acceptance Criteria
9 30 (28.04%) Security Patching
9 30 (28.04%) Service Design
10 21 (19.63%) DevOps
11 20 (18.69%) ITSM
12 19 (17.76%) Change Management
13 14 (13.08%) CI/CD
13 14 (13.08%) Stakeholder Management
14 13 (12.15%) Problem-Solving
15 12 (11.21%) Project Delivery
15 12 (11.21%) Project Management
15 12 (11.21%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (24.30%) Python
2 25 (23.36%) PowerShell
3 5 (4.67%) C++
3 5 (4.67%) Go
3 5 (4.67%) Java
4 3 (2.80%) C
5 2 (1.87%) C#
6 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.93%) SQL
6 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 86 (80.37%) Security Cleared
2 83 (77.57%) SC Cleared
3 45 (42.06%) Degree
4 30 (28.04%) TOGAF Certification
5 11 (10.28%) DV Cleared
6 7 (6.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (5.61%) APMP
8 3 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.80%) MCSA
8 3 (2.80%) MCSE
8 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.80%) OCA
8 3 (2.80%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (2.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.87%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.93%) CCNP
10 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.80%) IEC 61508
1 3 (2.80%) IEC 62304
1 3 (2.80%) ISO 26262
2 1 (0.93%) GDPR
2 1 (0.93%) PMO
2 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (5.61%) Docker
2 5 (4.67%) Firmware
3 3 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 30 (28.04%) OPNET
2 9 (8.41%) Kubernetes
3 6 (5.61%) Ansible
4 5 (4.67%) SCCM
4 5 (4.67%) Terraform
5 3 (2.80%) PowerCLI
5 3 (2.80%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.93%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.93%) Packer
6 1 (0.93%) Puppet
6 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (29.91%) ServiceNow
2 30 (28.04%) Remedy
3 13 (12.15%) Microsoft
4 6 (5.61%) VMware
5 4 (3.74%) Veeam
6 3 (2.80%) Coverity
6 3 (2.80%) Oracle
6 3 (2.80%) SolarWinds
6 3 (2.80%) Thales
7 2 (1.87%) Dell
8 1 (0.93%) Cisco
8 1 (0.93%) HP
8 1 (0.93%) SAP
8 1 (0.93%) Zoho