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 17 September 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 204 246
Rank change year-on-year -93 +42 +92
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 71 171 180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.96% 0.84%
As % of the Vendors category 0.97% 2.19% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 92 117
10th Percentile £368 £450 £463
25th Percentile £425 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £559 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -10.64% +19.05%
75th Percentile £638 £685 £688
90th Percentile £649 £749 £700
UK median daily rate £588 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -2.08% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 17 19
10th Percentile £50.58 £37.55 £53.85
25th Percentile £52.00 £67.02 £55.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £60.00 - £70.64
90th Percentile £66.00 £72.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% +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 7,355 7,805 9,869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 47.55% 43.84% 45.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,546 4,547 6,351
10th Percentile £220 £220 £206
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +3.09%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 591 579 494
10th Percentile £14.30 £14.16 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.62 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.28 £30.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.07% -27.71% +107.50%
75th Percentile £40.13 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £70.00 £74.81
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -16.17% -31.56% +83.33%

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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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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 17 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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
West Midlands -1 21 £500 -13.04% 3
Midlands -3 21 £500 -4.76% 4
North of England -18 18 £588 +11.37% 19
South West -26 17 £625 +2.04% 8
North West -26 13 £550 +4.27% 12
South East +13 11 £450 +15.38% 25
North East - 6 £650 - 4
Yorkshire - 5 £650 - 3
Scotland -39 4 - -
Wales +3 2 £475 -5.47% 1
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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 35 (49.30%) Confluence
2 5 (7.04%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.41%) Camunda
3 1 (1.41%) CMS
3 1 (1.41%) EPiServer
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.41%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 12 (16.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 21 (29.58%) AWS
2 8 (11.27%) Amazon EC2
2 8 (11.27%) Amazon S3
3 6 (8.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (8.45%) Amazon SQS
3 6 (8.45%) AWS KMS
3 6 (8.45%) Route 53
4 5 (7.04%) GitHub
5 4 (5.63%) Azure
5 4 (5.63%) IaaS
6 3 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (4.23%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.23%) Serverless
7 2 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.82%) Datadog
7 2 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.82%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.41%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.08%) Unified Communications
2 9 (12.68%) BGP
2 9 (12.68%) DNS
3 7 (9.86%) IPsec
3 7 (9.86%) MPLS
3 7 (9.86%) VPN
4 3 (4.23%) Skype
5 2 (2.82%) DHCP
5 2 (2.82%) Firewall
5 2 (2.82%) OSPF
5 2 (2.82%) VLAN
5 2 (2.82%) VoIP
5 2 (2.82%) X.509
6 1 (1.41%) HTTP
6 1 (1.41%) SNMP
6 1 (1.41%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (1.41%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (1.41%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.41%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.68%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (11.27%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (8.45%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (8.45%) DynamoDB
4 3 (4.23%) Power BI
4 3 (4.23%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.82%) MySQL
5 2 (2.82%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.41%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 43 (60.56%) JIRA
2 14 (19.72%) Bitbucket
3 13 (18.31%) Jenkins
4 10 (14.08%) Git
5 7 (9.86%) JUnit
5 7 (9.86%) Maven
5 7 (9.86%) SonarQube
6 6 (8.45%) Artifactory
6 6 (8.45%) Bitbucket Server
6 6 (8.45%) DbUnit
6 6 (8.45%) jMock
6 6 (8.45%) Mockito
6 6 (8.45%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (4.23%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (2.82%) GitLab
8 2 (2.82%) Selenium
8 2 (2.82%) SpecFlow
8 2 (2.82%) Subversion
8 2 (2.82%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (2.82%) Zephyr
General
1 23 (32.39%) Social Skills
2 17 (23.94%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (21.13%) Public Sector
4 5 (7.04%) Automotive
5 4 (5.63%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.63%) Finance
6 2 (2.82%) Electronics
6 2 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.82%) Marketing
6 2 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Aviation
7 1 (1.41%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (18.31%) Developer
2 10 (14.08%) Senior
3 9 (12.68%) Administrator
4 8 (11.27%) JIRA Administrator
5 7 (9.86%) Network Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Java Developer
7 5 (7.04%) Applications Support
7 5 (7.04%) IT Support
7 5 (7.04%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 5 (7.04%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Architect
8 4 (5.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) JIRA Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Lead
8 4 (5.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Telephony Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Delivery Manager
9 3 (4.23%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.23%) Software Architect
10 2 (2.82%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.49%) AngularJS
2 9 (12.68%) REST
3 8 (11.27%) RESTful
4 7 (9.86%) Bootstrap
4 7 (9.86%) NETCONF
4 7 (9.86%) RESTCONF
4 7 (9.86%) SOAP
4 7 (9.86%) Spring
4 7 (9.86%) Web Services
5 6 (8.45%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (8.45%) Hibernate
5 6 (8.45%) JPA
5 6 (8.45%) PowerMock
5 6 (8.45%) Spring Batch
5 6 (8.45%) Spring Boot
5 6 (8.45%) Spring Cloud
5 6 (8.45%) Spring Integration
6 5 (7.04%) .NET
7 4 (5.63%) React
8 3 (4.23%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.49%) PKI
2 9 (12.68%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.23%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.82%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.82%) FPGA
5 1 (1.41%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.90%) Linux
2 11 (15.49%) Windows
3 4 (5.63%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.82%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.41%) Unix
5 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (47.89%) Agile
2 15 (21.13%) CI/CD
3 14 (19.72%) Containerisation
3 14 (19.72%) ITIL
3 14 (19.72%) Scrum
4 13 (18.31%) DevOps
5 11 (15.49%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (15.49%) Microservices
6 10 (14.08%) Critical Thinking
6 10 (14.08%) Service Management
6 10 (14.08%) System Testing
6 10 (14.08%) Test Automation
7 9 (12.68%) BDD
7 9 (12.68%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (12.68%) Migration
7 9 (12.68%) NsoIT
7 9 (12.68%) Software Engineering
7 9 (12.68%) TDD
7 9 (12.68%) Validation
8 8 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 13 (18.31%) Java
2 12 (16.90%) Python
3 8 (11.27%) SQL
4 7 (9.86%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.45%) C++
5 6 (8.45%) Groovy
5 6 (8.45%) PowerShell
6 5 (7.04%) C
7 4 (5.63%) C#
8 2 (2.82%) Ruby
9 1 (1.41%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (60.56%) Security Cleared
2 37 (52.11%) SC Cleared
3 17 (23.94%) Degree
4 9 (12.68%) CCNP
4 9 (12.68%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (9.86%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.41%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.41%) CBAP
6 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.41%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.23%) IEC 61508
1 3 (4.23%) IEC 62304
1 3 (4.23%) ISO 26262
2 1 (1.41%) NCSC
2 1 (1.41%) QA
2 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (14.08%) Docker
2 9 (12.68%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (11.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (8.45%) Postfix
5 5 (7.04%) Firmware
6 2 (2.82%) Active Directory
6 2 (2.82%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (1.41%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (14.08%) Ansible
2 7 (9.86%) Kubernetes
3 6 (8.45%) Grafana
3 6 (8.45%) Prometheus
4 5 (7.04%) SCCM
5 3 (4.23%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.82%) Puppet
7 1 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.41%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (1.41%) OPNET
7 1 (1.41%) Terraform
7 1 (1.41%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (22.54%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.49%) VMware
3 9 (12.68%) Cisco
4 7 (9.86%) Salesforce
4 7 (9.86%) ServiceNow
5 6 (8.45%) Jaspersoft
5 6 (8.45%) SAP
6 2 (2.82%) Dell
6 2 (2.82%) Oracle
6 2 (2.82%) Veeam
7 1 (1.41%) Google
7 1 (1.41%) HP
7 1 (1.41%) IBM
7 1 (1.41%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.41%) Optimizely