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 18 September 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
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 296 215
Rank change year-on-year -101 -81 +33
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 81 72 170
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.47% 0.95%
As % of the Vendors category 0.72% 0.98% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 47 91
10th Percentile £288 £368 £453
25th Percentile £408 £425 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £550 £567
Median % change year-on-year -17.09% -3.00% -9.28%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £685
90th Percentile £690 £649 £750
UK median daily rate £487 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -17.15% -2.08% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 17
10th Percentile - £50.58 £37.55
25th Percentile £58.43 £52.00 £67.02
Median hourly rate £63.14 £55.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.79% -21.43% +16.67%
75th Percentile £70.19 £60.00 -
90th Percentile £76.75 £66.00 £72.00
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +14.79% -21.43% +16.67%

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 11,297 7,383 7,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 40.23% 47.72% 44.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,729 4,570 4,606
10th Percentile £275 £220 £220
25th Percentile £405 £363 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £479 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.30% -4.13% -
75th Percentile £598 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,086 586 580
10th Percentile £13.84 £14.36 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.28 £16.95 £15.62
Median hourly rate £25.92 £21.35 £29.89
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -28.58% -29.68%
75th Percentile £60.75 £40.79 £63.75
90th Percentile £77.00 £69.65 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +6.00% -16.17% -32.58%

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 18 September 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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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 18 September 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 -37 31 £450 -10.00% 9
West Midlands -37 29 £448 -10.50% 5
North of England -63 19 £600 +2.13% 18
South West -41 11 £490 -21.60% 18
North West -52 10 £537 -2.36% 8
Scotland -17 9 £600 - 7
Yorkshire -33 9 £620 -4.62% 4
South East -64 9 £273 -39.44% 19
East of England - 2 £472 - 6
East Midlands - 1 £450 - 4
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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 42 (51.85%) Confluence
2 3 (3.70%) CMS
2 3 (3.70%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.23%) SAS
3 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.17%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (3.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Magento
1 3 (3.70%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (13.58%) AWS
2 10 (12.35%) Azure
3 9 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (8.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 7 (8.64%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (8.64%) Amazon S3
4 7 (8.64%) Amazon SQS
4 7 (8.64%) AWS KMS
4 7 (8.64%) Route 53
5 6 (7.41%) Entra ID
5 6 (7.41%) GitHub
6 5 (6.17%) Microsoft Copilot
6 5 (6.17%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.70%) Copilot Studio
7 3 (3.70%) Power Automate
7 3 (3.70%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 2 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.47%) SaaS
9 1 (1.23%) Anthropic Claude
9 1 (1.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.70%) DNS
2 2 (2.47%) VSAN
3 1 (1.23%) DHCP
3 1 (1.23%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.88%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (8.64%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (8.64%) DynamoDB
2 7 (8.64%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (6.17%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (6.17%) Power BI
3 5 (6.17%) Power Query
4 1 (1.23%) MySQL
4 1 (1.23%) Pentaho
4 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 53 (65.43%) JIRA
2 9 (11.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 9 (11.11%) Bitbucket
3 7 (8.64%) DbUnit
3 7 (8.64%) Git
3 7 (8.64%) Jenkins
3 7 (8.64%) JUnit
3 7 (8.64%) Maven
3 7 (8.64%) Mockito
3 7 (8.64%) SonarQube
4 6 (7.41%) Bitbucket Server
4 6 (7.41%) jMock
5 3 (3.70%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (1.23%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.23%) LabVIEW
General
1 32 (39.51%) Social Skills
2 25 (30.86%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (19.75%) Public Sector
4 13 (16.05%) Finance
5 8 (9.88%) Banking
6 4 (4.94%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.70%) Marketing
8 2 (2.47%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.23%) Military
9 1 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (23.46%) JIRA Engineer
2 13 (16.05%) Developer
3 7 (8.64%) Java Developer
4 6 (7.41%) 2nd Line Support
4 6 (7.41%) Delivery Manager
4 6 (7.41%) Senior
4 6 (7.41%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 6 (7.41%) Technical Manager
5 5 (6.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 5 (6.17%) Consultant
5 5 (6.17%) Power BI Developer
6 4 (4.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (4.94%) JIRA Consultant
6 4 (4.94%) Scrum Master
6 4 (4.94%) Technical Engineer
7 3 (3.70%) Analyst
7 3 (3.70%) Business Analyst
7 3 (3.70%) Platform Specialist
7 3 (3.70%) PMO Manager
7 3 (3.70%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.35%) REST
2 7 (8.64%) ActiveMQ
2 7 (8.64%) AngularJS
2 7 (8.64%) Hibernate
2 7 (8.64%) JPA
2 7 (8.64%) RESTful
2 7 (8.64%) SOAP
2 7 (8.64%) Spring
2 7 (8.64%) Spring Batch
2 7 (8.64%) Spring Boot
2 7 (8.64%) Spring Integration
2 7 (8.64%) Web Services
3 6 (7.41%) Bootstrap
3 6 (7.41%) PowerMock
3 6 (7.41%) Terraform
4 5 (6.17%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (2.47%) ADO
5 2 (2.47%) Node.js
6 1 (1.23%) React
6 1 (1.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.58%) Distributed Systems
1 11 (13.58%) Product Ownership
2 9 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 8 (9.88%) Data Centre
4 5 (6.17%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (4.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.70%) Client/Server
6 3 (3.70%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.47%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.47%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.23%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.23%) PKI
8 1 (1.23%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (19.75%) Linux
2 12 (14.81%) Windows
3 11 (13.58%) Windows Server
4 6 (7.41%) Mac OS
4 6 (7.41%) Windows 10
5 5 (6.17%) CentOS
5 5 (6.17%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (48.15%) Agile
2 26 (32.10%) DevOps
3 24 (29.63%) Scrum
4 22 (27.16%) CI/CD
5 21 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (24.69%) Stakeholder Management
7 19 (23.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 17 (20.99%) Migration
8 17 (20.99%) Service Management
9 16 (19.75%) Decision-Making
10 14 (17.28%) Kanban
11 12 (14.81%) ITSM
11 12 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 10 (12.35%) Containerisation
12 10 (12.35%) Project Management
12 10 (12.35%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 10 (12.35%) Workflow
13 9 (11.11%) Coaching
13 9 (11.11%) ITIL
14 8 (9.88%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 14 (17.28%) SQL
2 11 (13.58%) PowerShell
3 8 (9.88%) Java
4 7 (8.64%) Python
5 5 (6.17%) Bash
5 5 (6.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.23%) Groovy
6 1 (1.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 42 (51.85%) Security Cleared
2 35 (43.21%) SC Cleared
3 16 (19.75%) DV Cleared
4 11 (13.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (6.17%) MCSE
5 5 (6.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (6.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (4.94%) CCNA
6 4 (4.94%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (4.94%) RHCA
7 3 (3.70%) Degree
8 2 (2.47%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.47%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.23%) CISM
9 1 (1.23%) CISSP
9 1 (1.23%) CRISC
9 1 (1.23%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (1.23%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.17%) GRC
1 5 (6.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (6.17%) PMO
1 5 (6.17%) QA
2 4 (4.94%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.23%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.23%) ISO 31000
3 1 (1.23%) NCSC
3 1 (1.23%) NIST
3 1 (1.23%) NIST 800
System Software
1 11 (13.58%) Docker
2 7 (8.64%) Active Directory
2 7 (8.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (6.17%) Postfix
4 4 (4.94%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.47%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.47%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.47%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (8.64%) Grafana
2 6 (7.41%) Ansible
2 6 (7.41%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.94%) Podman
4 3 (3.70%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.47%) OPNET
5 2 (2.47%) PowerCLI
5 2 (2.47%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.23%) Opsgenie
6 1 (1.23%) SCCM
6 1 (1.23%) SCOM
6 1 (1.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (16.05%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.64%) VMware
3 6 (7.41%) Jaspersoft
4 5 (6.17%) Cisco
4 5 (6.17%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.70%) SAP
5 3 (3.70%) Sitecore
6 2 (2.47%) SaltStack
7 1 (1.23%) Denodo
7 1 (1.23%) Informatica
7 1 (1.23%) Oracle
7 1 (1.23%) Talend