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 26 April 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
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 237 194
Rank change year-on-year -66 -43 +127
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 127 108 215
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.54% 0.85% 1.03%
As % of the Vendors category 1.31% 1.74% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 64 153
10th Percentile £407 £425 £409
25th Percentile £461 £491 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £738 £606 £645
90th Percentile - £660 £700
UK median daily rate £600 £563 £525
% change year-on-year +6.67% +7.14% -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 11
10th Percentile £45.06 £49.77 -
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.77 £60.25
Median hourly rate £63.14 £58.88 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.24% -5.80% +10.62%
75th Percentile £72.29 £62.81 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.85 £64.88 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £58.88 £60.50
% change year-on-year +7.24% -2.69% +7.08%

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 9,685 6,211 8,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 40.88% 48.73% 42.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,230 3,969 5,384
10th Percentile £273 £217 £206
25th Percentile £400 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 831 417 913
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.84 £11.79
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.44 £14.16
Median hourly rate £27.00 £24.19 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +11.62% +12.72% -45.74%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £59.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £27.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +12.44% +20.56% -48.78%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 26 April 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 -6 58 £725 +26.09% 8
West Midlands -50 33 £425 -7.61% 2
Midlands -50 33 £425 -7.61% 3
North of England -70 12 £463 -22.92% 6
South East -76 12 £493 -6.10% 16
North West -34 9 £524 -4.82% 5
Scotland +11 7 £675 +12.50% 1
East of England -30 5 £300 -35.14% 1
North East -21 3 £463 -28.85% 1
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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 90 (70.87%) Confluence
2 7 (5.51%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.79%) Mattermost
3 1 (0.79%) SAS
Applications
1 43 (33.86%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (27.56%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (5.51%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (4.72%) LabWindows
2 1 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 17 (13.39%) AWS
2 14 (11.02%) GitHub
3 11 (8.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 11 (8.66%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (8.66%) Amazon S3
3 11 (8.66%) Amazon SQS
3 11 (8.66%) AWS KMS
3 11 (8.66%) Route 53
4 10 (7.87%) SaaS
5 8 (6.30%) Azure
6 5 (3.94%) Microsoft Copilot
6 5 (3.94%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.15%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.36%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (2.36%) PaaS
9 2 (1.57%) IaaS
9 2 (1.57%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.57%) Sauce Labs
9 2 (1.57%) TestFlight
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.24%) DynamoDB
1 13 (10.24%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (9.45%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (8.66%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (4.72%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (3.94%) Power BI
5 5 (3.94%) Power Query
6 2 (1.57%) DocumentDB
6 2 (1.57%) Metadata
6 2 (1.57%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.57%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.79%) MySQL
7 1 (0.79%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 100 (78.74%) JIRA
2 20 (15.75%) Jenkins
3 15 (11.81%) Maven
4 13 (10.24%) Bitbucket
4 13 (10.24%) Git
5 11 (8.66%) DbUnit
5 11 (8.66%) jMock
5 11 (8.66%) JUnit
5 11 (8.66%) Mockito
5 11 (8.66%) SonarQube
6 9 (7.09%) Bitbucket Server
7 7 (5.51%) Subversion
8 5 (3.94%) Android Studio
8 5 (3.94%) ScriptRunner
9 4 (3.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (3.15%) Eclipse
9 4 (3.15%) IntelliJ
10 2 (1.57%) LabVIEW
10 2 (1.57%) Selenium
10 2 (1.57%) Xcode
General
1 72 (56.69%) Social Skills
2 51 (40.16%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (26.77%) Military
4 19 (14.96%) Public Sector
5 17 (13.39%) Finance
6 5 (3.94%) Banking
7 4 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.79%) Advertising
9 1 (0.79%) Automotive
9 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 35 (27.56%) Architect
2 30 (23.62%) Service Architect
3 23 (18.11%) Developer
4 11 (8.66%) Java Developer
5 8 (6.30%) Administrator
6 7 (5.51%) Data Manager
6 7 (5.51%) JIRA Administrator
6 7 (5.51%) JIRA Engineer
6 7 (5.51%) Software Engineer
7 6 (4.72%) Consultant
7 6 (4.72%) JIRA Consultant
7 6 (4.72%) Project Manager
8 5 (3.94%) Analyst
8 5 (3.94%) Lead
8 5 (3.94%) Power BI Developer
8 5 (3.94%) Programme Manager
8 5 (3.94%) Technical Manager
8 5 (3.94%) Technical Programme Manager
9 4 (3.15%) Principal Software Engineer
9 4 (3.15%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.96%) REST
2 11 (8.66%) ActiveMQ
2 11 (8.66%) AngularJS
2 11 (8.66%) Hibernate
2 11 (8.66%) JPA
2 11 (8.66%) PowerMock
2 11 (8.66%) SOAP
2 11 (8.66%) Spring
2 11 (8.66%) Spring Batch
2 11 (8.66%) Spring Boot
2 11 (8.66%) Spring Cloud
2 11 (8.66%) Spring Integration
2 11 (8.66%) Web Services
3 9 (7.09%) Bootstrap
3 9 (7.09%) RESTful
4 7 (5.51%) Node.js
5 4 (3.15%) XML
6 2 (1.57%) Kafka
6 2 (1.57%) pytest
7 1 (0.79%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 33 (25.98%) Product Ownership
2 13 (10.24%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.72%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.72%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.36%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.36%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.57%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.57%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.57%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.57%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (1.57%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.79%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.79%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.79%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.75%) Linux
2 5 (3.94%) Android
2 5 (3.94%) Windows
2 5 (3.94%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.79%) Unix
3 1 (0.79%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (71.65%) Agile
2 53 (41.73%) Service Management
3 45 (35.43%) ITIL
4 41 (32.28%) DevOps
5 37 (29.13%) Critical Thinking
6 35 (27.56%) Analytical Thinking
7 33 (25.98%) TOGAF
8 30 (23.62%) Acceptance Criteria
8 30 (23.62%) Business Continuity
8 30 (23.62%) Knowledge Transfer
8 30 (23.62%) Security Patching
8 30 (23.62%) Service Design
9 28 (22.05%) Scrum
10 24 (18.90%) CI/CD
10 24 (18.90%) Stakeholder Management
11 20 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (15.75%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 15 (11.81%) Containerisation
12 15 (11.81%) ITSM
13 14 (11.02%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 19 (14.96%) SQL
2 18 (14.17%) Java
3 16 (12.60%) Python
4 13 (10.24%) PowerShell
5 5 (3.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (2.36%) Bash
6 3 (2.36%) VBA
7 2 (1.57%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.79%) C#
8 1 (0.79%) C++
Qualifications
1 95 (74.80%) Security Cleared
2 88 (69.29%) SC Cleared
3 39 (30.71%) Degree
4 30 (23.62%) TOGAF Certification
5 6 (4.72%) AWS Certification
5 6 (4.72%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.94%) APMP
7 4 (3.15%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (3.15%) MCSE
7 4 (3.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (3.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.57%) CCNA
8 2 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.57%) MCSA
8 2 (1.57%) OCA
8 2 (1.57%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.57%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.94%) Data Quality
1 5 (3.94%) GRC
2 4 (3.15%) PMO
3 3 (2.36%) SLA
4 2 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.79%) GDPR
5 1 (0.79%) QA
System Software
1 15 (11.81%) Docker
2 10 (7.87%) Postfix
3 4 (3.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.57%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.57%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 30 (23.62%) OPNET
2 15 (11.81%) Grafana
3 7 (5.51%) Terraform
4 5 (3.94%) Kubernetes
5 4 (3.15%) Ansible
5 4 (3.15%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.36%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (1.57%) Kibana
7 2 (1.57%) Podman
7 2 (1.57%) PowerCLI
7 2 (1.57%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.79%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (29.13%) ServiceNow
2 31 (24.41%) Remedy
3 11 (8.66%) Jaspersoft
3 11 (8.66%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.15%) VMware
5 3 (2.36%) Coverity
5 3 (2.36%) Oracle
5 3 (2.36%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.36%) Thales
6 2 (1.57%) Cisco
6 2 (1.57%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.57%) Veeam
7 1 (0.79%) Denodo
7 1 (0.79%) Informatica
7 1 (0.79%) SAP
7 1 (0.79%) Sparx
7 1 (0.79%) Talend
7 1 (0.79%) Zoho