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 4 March 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
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 237 191
Rank change year-on-year -64 -46 +104
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 128 104 237
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.61% 0.80% 1.13%
As % of the Vendors category 1.39% 1.66% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 60 165
10th Percentile £405 £434 £400
25th Percentile £463 £491 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £738 £625 £645
90th Percentile - £714 £700
UK median daily rate £588 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +6.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 20
10th Percentile £39.63 £55.38 £54.63
25th Percentile £61.57 £60.38 £60.25
Median hourly rate £74.50 £62.50 £64.88
Median % change year-on-year +19.20% -3.67% +19.05%
75th Percentile £87.00 £64.38 £73.06
90th Percentile £92.55 £71.25 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £74.50 £62.50 £60.50
% change year-on-year +19.20% +3.31% +11.01%

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 9,236 6,280 9,323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 43.93% 48.03% 44.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,980 3,930 5,754
10th Percentile £250 £213 £208
25th Percentile £400 £372 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% - -
75th Percentile £588 £594 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £514
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.17% -2.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 783 335 813
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.51 £12.32
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.00 £14.50
Median hourly rate £22.63 £27.35 £24.65
Median % change year-on-year -17.26% +10.95% -24.15%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £74.60 £81.74 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.55 £29.54 £25.25
% change year-on-year -16.88% +16.97% -27.86%

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 4 March 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 4 March 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 4 March 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 +3 71 £725 +23.40% 18
West Midlands -58 21 £421 -4.32% 17
Midlands -64 21 £421 -4.32% 20
South East -37 16 £500 -14.97% 15
North of England -56 10 £463 -15.14% 10
Scotland +10 6 £675 +12.50% 2
North West -38 5 £374 - 7
East of England -21 4 £300 -35.14% 8
North East - 3 £463 - 1
Yorkshire -60 2 £575 +5.50% 2
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UK

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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 94 (73.44%) Confluence
2 6 (4.69%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.78%) Mattermost
Applications
1 44 (34.38%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (28.13%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.56%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (4.69%) LabWindows
2 1 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (11.72%) GitHub
2 12 (9.38%) AWS
3 7 (5.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (5.47%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (5.47%) Amazon S3
3 7 (5.47%) Amazon SQS
3 7 (5.47%) AWS KMS
3 7 (5.47%) Azure
3 7 (5.47%) Route 53
3 7 (5.47%) SaaS
4 5 (3.91%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (2.34%) PaaS
6 2 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.56%) IaaS
6 2 (1.56%) Sauce Labs
6 2 (1.56%) Serverless
6 2 (1.56%) TestFlight
7 1 (0.78%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.78%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.78%) DHCP
1 1 (0.78%) DNS
1 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.94%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (7.03%) DynamoDB
3 7 (5.47%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (5.47%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (5.47%) NoSQL
4 5 (3.91%) Apache Cassandra
4 5 (3.91%) Couchbase
4 5 (3.91%) Metadata
5 2 (1.56%) DocumentDB
6 1 (0.78%) Big Data
6 1 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.78%) Redis
6 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 102 (79.69%) JIRA
2 24 (18.75%) Jenkins
3 17 (13.28%) Git
4 15 (11.72%) Bitbucket
5 11 (8.59%) Maven
6 8 (6.25%) GitLab
7 7 (5.47%) DbUnit
7 7 (5.47%) jMock
7 7 (5.47%) JUnit
7 7 (5.47%) Mockito
7 7 (5.47%) SonarQube
7 7 (5.47%) Subversion
8 5 (3.91%) Android Studio
8 5 (3.91%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (3.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (3.13%) Eclipse
9 4 (3.13%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (2.34%) Selenium
11 2 (1.56%) Appium
11 2 (1.56%) Cypress.io
General
1 63 (49.22%) Social Skills
2 50 (39.06%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (25.78%) Military
4 16 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 11 (8.59%) Finance
6 3 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.56%) Banking
7 2 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.78%) Advertising
8 1 (0.78%) Automotive
8 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 34 (26.56%) Architect
2 30 (23.44%) Service Architect
3 20 (15.63%) Developer
4 8 (6.25%) Consultant
5 7 (5.47%) Administrator
5 7 (5.47%) Java Developer
5 7 (5.47%) Service Management Specialist
5 7 (5.47%) Software Engineer
6 6 (4.69%) JIRA Administrator
6 6 (4.69%) JIRA Consultant
6 6 (4.69%) JIRA Engineer
6 6 (4.69%) Lead
7 5 (3.91%) Analyst
7 5 (3.91%) Programme Manager
7 5 (3.91%) Technical Manager
7 5 (3.91%) Technical Programme Manager
8 4 (3.13%) Applications Developer
8 4 (3.13%) Principal Engineer
8 4 (3.13%) Principal Software Engineer
8 4 (3.13%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (21.88%) REST
2 8 (6.25%) AngularJS
2 8 (6.25%) SOAP
2 8 (6.25%) Web Services
3 7 (5.47%) ActiveMQ
3 7 (5.47%) Hibernate
3 7 (5.47%) JPA
3 7 (5.47%) Kafka
3 7 (5.47%) PowerMock
3 7 (5.47%) Spring
3 7 (5.47%) Spring Batch
3 7 (5.47%) Spring Boot
3 7 (5.47%) Spring Cloud
3 7 (5.47%) Spring Integration
4 6 (4.69%) Bootstrap
4 6 (4.69%) Node.js
5 5 (3.91%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (3.91%) RESTful
6 4 (3.13%) XML
7 2 (1.56%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 32 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.03%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.69%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.34%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.56%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.56%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.56%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.56%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.56%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.78%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.78%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.78%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 1 (0.78%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.50%) Linux
2 5 (3.91%) Android
2 5 (3.91%) Windows
2 5 (3.91%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.78%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (79.69%) Agile
2 62 (48.44%) Service Management
3 52 (40.63%) ITIL
4 38 (29.69%) Critical Thinking
5 36 (28.13%) DevOps
6 35 (27.34%) Analytical Thinking
7 33 (25.78%) TOGAF
8 32 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
9 30 (23.44%) Acceptance Criteria
9 30 (23.44%) Business Continuity
9 30 (23.44%) Security Patching
9 30 (23.44%) Service Design
10 25 (19.53%) ITSM
11 20 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (15.63%) Scrum
12 19 (14.84%) CI/CD
13 18 (14.06%) Change Management
13 18 (14.06%) Stakeholder Management
14 15 (11.72%) TDD
15 14 (10.94%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 27 (21.09%) Python
2 21 (16.41%) PowerShell
3 14 (10.94%) Java
4 9 (7.03%) SQL
5 5 (3.91%) Go
6 2 (1.56%) C#
6 2 (1.56%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.56%) VBA
7 1 (0.78%) Bash
7 1 (0.78%) C++
7 1 (0.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 94 (73.44%) Security Cleared
2 85 (66.41%) SC Cleared
3 46 (35.94%) Degree
4 30 (23.44%) TOGAF Certification
5 12 (9.38%) DV Cleared
6 8 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (4.69%) APMP
8 5 (3.91%) AWS Certification
8 5 (3.91%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.34%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.34%) MCSA
9 3 (2.34%) MCSE
9 3 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.34%) OCA
9 3 (2.34%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (2.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.13%) PMO
1 4 (3.13%) SLA
2 2 (1.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.78%) GDPR
3 1 (0.78%) QA
3 1 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (10.94%) Docker
2 6 (4.69%) Postfix
3 3 (2.34%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 30 (23.44%) OPNET
2 10 (7.81%) Grafana
3 8 (6.25%) Kubernetes
4 7 (5.47%) Terraform
5 4 (3.13%) Ansible
6 3 (2.34%) PowerCLI
6 3 (2.34%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (1.56%) Kibana
7 2 (1.56%) Rundeck
8 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.78%) Packer
8 1 (0.78%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 31 (24.22%) Remedy
3 12 (9.38%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.47%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (3.13%) VMware
6 3 (2.34%) Coverity
6 3 (2.34%) Oracle
6 3 (2.34%) SolarWinds
6 3 (2.34%) Thales
6 3 (2.34%) Veeam
7 2 (1.56%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.78%) SAP
8 1 (0.78%) Zoho