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 8 November 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
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 226 208
Rank change year-on-year -92 -18 +106
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 81 146 225
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.47% 0.87% 1.08%
As % of the Vendors category 0.99% 1.95% 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 67 151
10th Percentile £368 £443 £450
25th Percentile £500 £501 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 £625 £585
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% +6.84% +11.43%
75th Percentile £631 £693 £675
90th Percentile £661 £730 £700
UK median daily rate £575 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 19 20
10th Percentile £71.88 £51.21 £51.25
25th Percentile £74.69 £62.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £81.25 £70.00 £61.75
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% +13.36% +12.27%
75th Percentile £89.69 - £70.47
90th Percentile £93.63 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £81.25 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +16.07% +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 8,164 7,480 9,851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 47.86% 44.72% 47.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,209 4,340 6,335
10th Percentile £220 £223 £210
25th Percentile £366 £392 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 648 432 526
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.01 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.62 £17.75
Median hourly rate £22.32 £28.50 £42.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.70% -33.33% +94.32%
75th Percentile £38.55 £62.51 £60.94
90th Percentile £70.55 £70.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £31.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -19.35% -29.32% +75.44%

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 8 November 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 8 November 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 8 November 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
South West -21 36 £588 -12.96% 31
Midlands -24 20 £500 +13.63% 7
West Midlands -25 20 £500 +13.63% 2
North of England -43 12 £563 +6.13% 35
South East -13 10 £450 -1.10% 70
North West -32 9 £550 +3.77% 23
Scotland -9 2 - - 21
Yorkshire - 2 £575 - 4
Wales -1 1 £475 -7.32% 1
North East - 1 £463 - 8
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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 49 (60.49%) Confluence
2 3 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.23%) CMS
3 1 (1.23%) EPiServer
Applications
1 10 (12.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.23%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.35%) AWS
2 9 (11.11%) GitHub
3 7 (8.64%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (7.41%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (4.94%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (4.94%) AWS KMS
5 4 (4.94%) Azure
5 4 (4.94%) Route 53
6 3 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (3.70%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.47%) Datadog
7 2 (2.47%) Serverless
8 1 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.88%) BGP
1 8 (9.88%) DNS
1 8 (9.88%) Unified Communications
2 7 (8.64%) IPsec
2 7 (8.64%) MPLS
2 7 (8.64%) VPN
3 2 (2.47%) X.509
4 1 (1.23%) DHCP
4 1 (1.23%) Firewall
4 1 (1.23%) OSPF
4 1 (1.23%) Skype
4 1 (1.23%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.23%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.23%) VLAN
4 1 (1.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.58%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (6.17%) Apache Cassandra
3 5 (6.17%) Couchbase
3 5 (6.17%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.94%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (4.94%) DynamoDB
4 4 (4.94%) Metadata
5 3 (3.70%) Power BI
5 3 (3.70%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.47%) MySQL
6 2 (2.47%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.23%) Big Data
7 1 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 58 (71.60%) JIRA
2 19 (23.46%) Jenkins
3 16 (19.75%) Git
4 14 (17.28%) Bitbucket
5 6 (7.41%) Artifactory
5 6 (7.41%) GitLab
6 5 (6.17%) JUnit
6 5 (6.17%) Maven
6 5 (6.17%) SonarQube
7 4 (4.94%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (4.94%) DbUnit
7 4 (4.94%) jMock
7 4 (4.94%) Mockito
8 3 (3.70%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (2.47%) Selenium
9 2 (2.47%) SpecFlow
9 2 (2.47%) Subversion
9 2 (2.47%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (2.47%) Zephyr
10 1 (1.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 22 (27.16%) Social Skills
2 21 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (16.05%) Public Sector
4 4 (4.94%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.70%) Finance
6 2 (2.47%) Automotive
6 2 (2.47%) Marketing
6 2 (2.47%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.23%) Advertising
7 1 (1.23%) Electronics
7 1 (1.23%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.23%) Military
7 1 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (17.28%) Developer
2 13 (16.05%) Administrator
3 12 (14.81%) JIRA Administrator
4 8 (9.88%) Senior
5 7 (8.64%) Network Engineer
5 7 (8.64%) Senior Developer
5 7 (8.64%) Service Management Specialist
6 6 (7.41%) Consultant
7 5 (6.17%) Lead
8 4 (4.94%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (4.94%) Java Developer
8 4 (4.94%) JIRA Consultant
9 3 (3.70%) Analyst
9 3 (3.70%) Management Consultant
9 3 (3.70%) Service Management Consultant
9 3 (3.70%) Software Architect
9 3 (3.70%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Technical Leader
9 3 (3.70%) Telephony Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (34.57%) REST
2 9 (11.11%) AngularJS
3 7 (8.64%) NETCONF
3 7 (8.64%) RESTCONF
4 6 (7.41%) RESTful
5 5 (6.17%) Bootstrap
5 5 (6.17%) Kafka
5 5 (6.17%) RabbitMQ
5 5 (6.17%) SOAP
5 5 (6.17%) Spring
5 5 (6.17%) Web Services
6 4 (4.94%) .NET
6 4 (4.94%) ActiveMQ
6 4 (4.94%) Hibernate
6 4 (4.94%) JPA
6 4 (4.94%) PowerMock
6 4 (4.94%) Spring Batch
6 4 (4.94%) Spring Boot
6 4 (4.94%) Spring Cloud
6 4 (4.94%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.11%) PKI
2 7 (8.64%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.94%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.47%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.47%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.81%) Windows
2 10 (12.35%) Linux
3 6 (7.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.23%) Unix
4 1 (1.23%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (56.79%) Agile
2 29 (35.80%) Service Management
3 25 (30.86%) ITIL
4 23 (28.40%) DevOps
5 20 (24.69%) Change Management
5 20 (24.69%) ITSM
6 16 (19.75%) CI/CD
7 15 (18.52%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (16.05%) Microservices
8 13 (16.05%) TDD
9 12 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (14.81%) Test Automation
10 10 (12.35%) Containerisation
10 10 (12.35%) Critical Thinking
10 10 (12.35%) Cybersecurity
10 10 (12.35%) Kanban
10 10 (12.35%) Problem Management
10 10 (12.35%) System Testing
10 10 (12.35%) Workflow
11 9 (11.11%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 32 (39.51%) Python
2 24 (29.63%) PowerShell
3 10 (12.35%) Java
4 5 (6.17%) C++
4 5 (6.17%) Go
4 5 (6.17%) JavaScript
4 5 (6.17%) SQL
5 4 (4.94%) C#
6 3 (3.70%) C
7 2 (2.47%) Ruby
8 1 (1.23%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 51 (62.96%) Security Cleared
2 48 (59.26%) SC Cleared
3 20 (24.69%) Degree
4 11 (13.58%) DV Cleared
5 8 (9.88%) CCNP
5 8 (9.88%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (9.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.47%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.47%) MCSA
7 2 (2.47%) MCSE
7 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.47%) OCA
7 2 (2.47%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (2.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.23%) APMP
8 1 (1.23%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.70%) IEC 61508
1 3 (3.70%) IEC 62304
1 3 (3.70%) ISO 26262
2 2 (2.47%) SLA
3 1 (1.23%) QA
3 1 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (16.05%) Docker
2 9 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (9.88%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (6.17%) Firmware
5 4 (4.94%) Postfix
6 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (14.81%) Ansible
1 12 (14.81%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.17%) SCCM
3 4 (4.94%) Grafana
3 4 (4.94%) Prometheus
3 4 (4.94%) Terraform
4 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.47%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.23%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (1.23%) Packer
6 1 (1.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (14.81%) VMware
2 9 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 8 (9.88%) Cisco
4 4 (4.94%) Jaspersoft
5 3 (3.70%) Oracle
5 3 (3.70%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.70%) SAP
5 3 (3.70%) Veeam
6 2 (2.47%) Dell
6 2 (2.47%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.47%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.23%) HP
7 1 (1.23%) IBM
7 1 (1.23%) Optimizely