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 14 August 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
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 277 198
Rank change year-on-year -95 -79 +83
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 94 91 193
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.60% 1.05%
As % of the Vendors category 0.85% 1.24% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 57 116
10th Percentile £300 £380 £455
25th Percentile £406 £456 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £550 £571
Median % change year-on-year -13.82% -3.72% -7.49%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £700
90th Percentile £640 £650 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 18
10th Percentile - £50.35 £37.55
25th Percentile £58.43 £51.30 £64.57
Median hourly rate £63.14 £54.94 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.92% -21.52% +21.74%
75th Percentile £68.00 £59.67 -
90th Percentile £78.80 £65.00 £72.38
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £54.94 £70.00
% change year-on-year +14.92% -21.52% +21.74%

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 11,064 7,310 7,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 40.36% 47.80% 43.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,750 4,481 4,822
10th Percentile £285 £223 £220
25th Percentile £404 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -4.40% -
75th Percentile £591 £581 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £689
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £522
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.21% -0.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 967 598 723
10th Percentile £14.45 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.57 £16.86 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.23 £21.35 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.97% -23.77% -17.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.66 £61.45
90th Percentile £83.67 £68.23 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -28.40%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -30 44 £453 -9.50% 14
West Midlands -37 42 £455 -9.00% 12
North of England -64 18 £600 -5.88% 8
South West -57 12 £438 -25.53% 17
South East -79 10 £393 -15.03% 14
Yorkshire -35 9 £620 -4.62% 3
North West -46 9 £600 +2.13% 3
Scotland -3 8 £725 - 2
East of England -19 2 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 £450 - 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 47 (50.00%) Confluence
2 5 (5.32%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.13%) CMS
3 2 (2.13%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (1.06%) Mattermost
4 1 (1.06%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.06%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.19%) LabWindows
2 2 (2.13%) Magento
2 2 (2.13%) SAP CRM
3 1 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 15 (15.96%) AWS
2 11 (11.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 11 (11.70%) Amazon EC2
2 11 (11.70%) Amazon S3
2 11 (11.70%) Amazon SQS
2 11 (11.70%) AWS KMS
2 11 (11.70%) Azure
2 11 (11.70%) Route 53
3 10 (10.64%) GitHub
4 8 (8.51%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (7.45%) SaaS
6 6 (6.38%) Microsoft Copilot
6 6 (6.38%) Power Platform
7 5 (5.32%) Entra ID
8 4 (4.26%) Copilot Studio
8 4 (4.26%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (2.13%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 1 (1.06%) OCI
11 1 (1.06%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.77%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (11.70%) Amazon Aurora
2 11 (11.70%) DynamoDB
2 11 (11.70%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (6.38%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (6.38%) Power BI
3 6 (6.38%) Power Query
4 2 (2.13%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.06%) MySQL
5 1 (1.06%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 61 (64.89%) JIRA
2 13 (13.83%) Maven
3 12 (12.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 12 (12.77%) Bitbucket
4 11 (11.70%) DbUnit
4 11 (11.70%) Git
4 11 (11.70%) Jenkins
4 11 (11.70%) JUnit
4 11 (11.70%) Mockito
4 11 (11.70%) SonarQube
5 10 (10.64%) Bitbucket Server
5 10 (10.64%) jMock
6 4 (4.26%) IntelliJ
7 3 (3.19%) ScriptRunner
8 2 (2.13%) Eclipse
8 2 (2.13%) Subversion
9 1 (1.06%) LabVIEW
General
1 37 (39.36%) Social Skills
2 25 (26.60%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (21.28%) Public Sector
4 18 (19.15%) Finance
5 8 (8.51%) Banking
6 6 (6.38%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.13%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.13%) Marketing
7 2 (2.13%) Military
8 1 (1.06%) Advertising
8 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (21.28%) Developer
2 17 (18.09%) JIRA Engineer
3 11 (11.70%) Java Developer
4 6 (6.38%) Power BI Developer
4 6 (6.38%) Senior
5 5 (5.32%) 2nd Line Support
5 5 (5.32%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 5 (5.32%) Consultant
5 5 (5.32%) Technical Engineer
6 4 (4.26%) Administrator
6 4 (4.26%) Data Manager
6 4 (4.26%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (4.26%) JIRA Administrator
6 4 (4.26%) JIRA Consultant
6 4 (4.26%) Lead
6 4 (4.26%) Software Engineer
6 4 (4.26%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 4 (4.26%) Technical Manager
7 3 (3.19%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.83%) REST
2 11 (11.70%) ActiveMQ
2 11 (11.70%) AngularJS
2 11 (11.70%) Hibernate
2 11 (11.70%) JPA
2 11 (11.70%) RESTful
2 11 (11.70%) SOAP
2 11 (11.70%) Spring
2 11 (11.70%) Spring Batch
2 11 (11.70%) Spring Boot
2 11 (11.70%) Spring Integration
2 11 (11.70%) Web Services
3 10 (10.64%) Bootstrap
3 10 (10.64%) PowerMock
4 9 (9.57%) Spring Cloud
5 5 (5.32%) Node.js
6 2 (2.13%) ADO
6 2 (2.13%) XML
7 1 (1.06%) React
7 1 (1.06%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.83%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (8.51%) Product Ownership
3 7 (7.45%) Data Centre
3 7 (7.45%) Onboarding
4 6 (6.38%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (5.32%) Data Structures
6 4 (4.26%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (3.19%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (2.13%) AI Agents
8 2 (2.13%) Client/Server
8 2 (2.13%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.06%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (22.34%) Linux
2 10 (10.64%) Windows
3 9 (9.57%) Windows Server
4 5 (5.32%) Mac OS
4 5 (5.32%) Windows 10
5 4 (4.26%) CentOS
5 4 (4.26%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (50.00%) Agile
2 37 (39.36%) DevOps
3 31 (32.98%) Scrum
4 25 (26.60%) CI/CD
4 25 (26.60%) Stakeholder Management
5 22 (23.40%) Migration
5 22 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (19.15%) Service Management
7 17 (18.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (18.09%) Decision-Making
7 17 (18.09%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 16 (17.02%) ITSM
9 15 (15.96%) Kanban
10 14 (14.89%) Containerisation
10 14 (14.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 12 (12.77%) ITIL
12 11 (11.70%) Microservices
12 11 (11.70%) Project Management
12 11 (11.70%) TDD
13 10 (10.64%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 20 (21.28%) SQL
2 14 (14.89%) Java
3 9 (9.57%) PowerShell
4 7 (7.45%) Python
5 6 (6.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (5.32%) Bash
7 1 (1.06%) Groovy
7 1 (1.06%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.06%) VBA
Qualifications
1 52 (55.32%) Security Cleared
2 42 (44.68%) SC Cleared
3 12 (12.77%) DV Cleared
4 8 (8.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.26%) CCNA
5 4 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (4.26%) MCSE
5 4 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (4.26%) RHCA
5 4 (4.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (3.19%) AWS Certification
6 3 (3.19%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.19%) Degree
7 1 (1.06%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.51%) PMO
2 6 (6.38%) GRC
3 5 (5.32%) QA
4 4 (4.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (3.19%) Data Quality
5 3 (3.19%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (15.96%) Docker
2 8 (8.51%) Postfix
3 6 (6.38%) Active Directory
4 4 (4.26%) Hyper-V
4 4 (4.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (11.70%) Grafana
2 4 (4.26%) Ansible
2 4 (4.26%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.26%) Podman
2 4 (4.26%) Prometheus
2 4 (4.26%) Terraform
3 1 (1.06%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 10 (10.64%) Jaspersoft
1 10 (10.64%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.38%) ServiceNow
3 4 (4.26%) Cisco
3 4 (4.26%) VMware
4 2 (2.13%) SAP
4 2 (2.13%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.06%) Denodo
5 1 (1.06%) Informatica
5 1 (1.06%) Oracle
5 1 (1.06%) Remedy
5 1 (1.06%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.06%) Sparx
5 1 (1.06%) Talend