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 25 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
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 225 203
Rank change year-on-year -70 -22 +104
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 103 145 237
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.89% 1.16%
As % of the Vendors category 1.23% 1.97% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 67 157
10th Percentile £425 £443 £450
25th Percentile £534 £501 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £582
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +3.09% +10.86%
75th Percentile £738 £685 £672
90th Percentile - £725 £700
UK median daily rate £625 £625 £575
% change year-on-year - +8.70% +5.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 19
10th Percentile £71.88 £58.04 £53.85
25th Percentile £74.69 £62.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £81.25 £68.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +10.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £89.69 £70.00 £70.95
90th Percentile £93.63 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £81.25 £68.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% +14.58% +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 8,377 7,350 9,759
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 47.62% 44.92% 47.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,390 4,233 6,214
10th Percentile £222 £220 £210
25th Percentile £369 £390 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 662 432 528
10th Percentile £14.76 £15.22 £14.46
25th Percentile £17.69 £16.25 £18.27
Median hourly rate £22.32 £27.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.85% -38.20% +97.78%
75th Percentile £43.06 £62.51 £61.59
90th Percentile £74.26 £73.98 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.18% -32.58% +73.08%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +2 62 £688 +3.77% 13
West Midlands -19 17 £525 +19.31% 1
Midlands -30 17 £525 +19.31% 2
North of England -58 11 £575 +8.49% 9
South East -19 10 £450 -2.17% 13
North West -35 8 £588 +10.85% 5
Scotland -16 2 - - 3
Yorkshire - 2 £575 - 3
Wales -1 1 £475 -7.32%
North East - 1 £463 - 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 74 (71.84%) Confluence
2 3 (2.91%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.97%) CMS
3 1 (0.97%) EPiServer
Applications
1 33 (32.04%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (23.30%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.97%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (9.71%) GitHub
2 8 (7.77%) AWS
3 7 (6.80%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (4.85%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (4.85%) Amazon S3
5 4 (3.88%) Azure
6 3 (2.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (2.91%) Amazon SQS
6 3 (2.91%) AWS KMS
6 3 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (2.91%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.91%) Route 53
7 2 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.94%) Datadog
7 2 (1.94%) Serverless
8 1 (0.97%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.97%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.77%) BGP
1 8 (7.77%) DNS
1 8 (7.77%) Unified Communications
2 7 (6.80%) IPsec
2 7 (6.80%) MPLS
2 7 (6.80%) VPN
3 2 (1.94%) X.509
4 1 (0.97%) DHCP
4 1 (0.97%) Firewall
4 1 (0.97%) OSPF
4 1 (0.97%) Skype
4 1 (0.97%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.97%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.97%) VLAN
4 1 (0.97%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.71%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (4.85%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (4.85%) Apache Cassandra
2 5 (4.85%) Couchbase
2 5 (4.85%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.88%) Metadata
4 3 (2.91%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (2.91%) DynamoDB
4 3 (2.91%) Power BI
4 3 (2.91%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.94%) MySQL
5 2 (1.94%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.97%) Big Data
6 1 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.97%) Redis
Development Applications
1 82 (79.61%) JIRA
2 19 (18.45%) Jenkins
3 16 (15.53%) Git
4 13 (12.62%) Bitbucket
5 7 (6.80%) Artifactory
6 6 (5.83%) GitLab
7 4 (3.88%) JUnit
7 4 (3.88%) Maven
7 4 (3.88%) SonarQube
8 3 (2.91%) Bitbucket Server
8 3 (2.91%) DbUnit
8 3 (2.91%) jMock
8 3 (2.91%) Mockito
8 3 (2.91%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (1.94%) Selenium
9 2 (1.94%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.94%) Subversion
9 2 (1.94%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.97%) Rational Rhapsody
10 1 (0.97%) Zephyr
General
1 48 (46.60%) Social Skills
2 43 (41.75%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (20.39%) Military
4 13 (12.62%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.91%) Finance
7 2 (1.94%) Automotive
7 2 (1.94%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.97%) Advertising
8 1 (0.97%) Electronics
8 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.97%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 23 (22.33%) Architect
2 19 (18.45%) Service Architect
3 13 (12.62%) Administrator
4 12 (11.65%) Developer
4 12 (11.65%) JIRA Administrator
5 8 (7.77%) Senior
6 7 (6.80%) Network Engineer
6 7 (6.80%) Senior Developer
6 7 (6.80%) Service Management Specialist
7 6 (5.83%) Lead
7 6 (5.83%) Technical Manager
8 5 (4.85%) Consultant
9 4 (3.88%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (3.88%) Programme Manager
9 4 (3.88%) Technical Programme Manager
10 3 (2.91%) Analyst
10 3 (2.91%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (2.91%) JIRA Consultant
10 3 (2.91%) Management Consultant
10 3 (2.91%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (26.21%) REST
2 8 (7.77%) AngularJS
3 7 (6.80%) NETCONF
3 7 (6.80%) RESTCONF
4 5 (4.85%) Kafka
4 5 (4.85%) RabbitMQ
4 5 (4.85%) RESTful
5 4 (3.88%) .NET
5 4 (3.88%) Bootstrap
5 4 (3.88%) SOAP
5 4 (3.88%) Spring
5 4 (3.88%) Web Services
6 3 (2.91%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (2.91%) Hibernate
6 3 (2.91%) JPA
6 3 (2.91%) PowerMock
6 3 (2.91%) React
6 3 (2.91%) Spring Batch
6 3 (2.91%) Spring Boot
6 3 (2.91%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 22 (21.36%) Product Ownership
2 9 (8.74%) PKI
3 6 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.88%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.94%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (12.62%) Windows
2 10 (9.71%) Linux
3 7 (6.80%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.97%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (66.99%) Agile
2 48 (46.60%) Service Management
3 42 (40.78%) ITIL
4 34 (33.01%) Critical Thinking
5 23 (22.33%) Analytical Thinking
5 23 (22.33%) Business Continuity
6 22 (21.36%) DevOps
7 21 (20.39%) Knowledge Transfer
8 19 (18.45%) Acceptance Criteria
8 19 (18.45%) Change Management
8 19 (18.45%) ITSM
8 19 (18.45%) Security Patching
8 19 (18.45%) Service Design
8 19 (18.45%) TOGAF
9 15 (14.56%) CI/CD
10 14 (13.59%) Continuous Integration
11 13 (12.62%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (11.65%) Microservices
12 12 (11.65%) Test Automation
12 12 (11.65%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 33 (32.04%) Python
2 25 (24.27%) PowerShell
3 9 (8.74%) Java
4 5 (4.85%) C++
4 5 (4.85%) Go
5 4 (3.88%) C#
5 4 (3.88%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.88%) SQL
6 3 (2.91%) C
7 2 (1.94%) Ruby
8 1 (0.97%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (73.79%) Security Cleared
2 73 (70.87%) SC Cleared
3 43 (41.75%) Degree
4 19 (18.45%) TOGAF Certification
5 11 (10.68%) DV Cleared
6 8 (7.77%) CCNP
6 8 (7.77%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (7.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (4.85%) APMP
8 3 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.91%) MCSA
8 3 (2.91%) MCSE
8 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.91%) OCA
8 3 (2.91%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (2.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.94%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.91%) IEC 61508
1 3 (2.91%) IEC 62304
1 3 (2.91%) ISO 26262
2 1 (0.97%) QA
2 1 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (0.97%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (11.65%) Docker
2 10 (9.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (7.77%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (4.85%) Firmware
5 3 (2.91%) Postfix
6 1 (0.97%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.97%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (18.45%) OPNET
2 13 (12.62%) Ansible
3 12 (11.65%) Kubernetes
4 5 (4.85%) SCCM
4 5 (4.85%) Terraform
5 3 (2.91%) Grafana
5 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.91%) PowerCLI
5 3 (2.91%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.91%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.97%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (0.97%) Packer
6 1 (0.97%) Puppet
Vendors
1 22 (21.36%) ServiceNow
2 19 (18.45%) Remedy
3 13 (12.62%) VMware
4 10 (9.71%) Microsoft
5 8 (7.77%) Cisco
6 4 (3.88%) Oracle
6 4 (3.88%) Veeam
7 3 (2.91%) Jaspersoft
7 3 (2.91%) SAP
7 3 (2.91%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.94%) Dell
8 2 (1.94%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.97%) HP
9 1 (0.97%) Optimizely