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 22 October 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
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 217 218
Rank change year-on-year -87 +1 +100
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 76 148 208
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.47% 0.87% 0.99%
As % of the Vendors category 0.97% 1.94% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 67 143
10th Percentile £368 £445 £457
25th Percentile £500 £501 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -2.13% +11.90%
75th Percentile £638 £685 £675
90th Percentile £650 £730 £700
UK median daily rate £575 £625 £586
% change year-on-year -8.00% +6.66% +6.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 21 19
10th Percentile £71.88 £37.55 £51.25
25th Percentile £74.69 £62.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £81.25 £70.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% +12.00% +1.55%
75th Percentile £89.69 - £70.95
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% -2.51%

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 7,821 7,636 9,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.25% 44.67% 46.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,887 4,398 6,324
10th Percentile £221 £220 £208
25th Percentile £363 £384 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +2.36%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £600
90th Percentile £654 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 627 464 524
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.04 £15.62 £17.74
Median hourly rate £21.30 £30.00 £42.15
Median % change year-on-year -29.00% -28.83% +98.49%
75th Percentile £34.99 £63.75 £60.31
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £74.99
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -26.15% -25.86% +82.65%

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 22 October 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 22 October 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 22 October 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 -19 26 £625 -3.85% 33
West Midlands -9 23 £500 -13.04% 2
Midlands -17 23 £500 -4.76% 3
North of England -38 16 £575 +8.49% 9
North West -25 12 £550 +3.77% 6
South East -4 10 £450 -1.10% 34
Yorkshire - 6 £613 - 2
North East - 4 £650 - 1
Scotland -19 2 - - 5
Wales +3 1 £475 -7.32% 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 45 (59.21%) Confluence
2 3 (3.95%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.32%) Camunda
3 1 (1.32%) CMS
3 1 (1.32%) EPiServer
Applications
1 11 (14.47%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.32%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 20 (26.32%) AWS
2 8 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
2 8 (10.53%) Amazon S3
2 8 (10.53%) GitHub
3 6 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (7.89%) Amazon SQS
3 6 (7.89%) AWS KMS
3 6 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
3 6 (7.89%) Route 53
4 4 (5.26%) Azure
4 4 (5.26%) IaaS
5 3 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (3.95%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.63%) Datadog
6 2 (2.63%) Serverless
7 1 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.32%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.84%) BGP
1 9 (11.84%) Unified Communications
2 8 (10.53%) DNS
3 7 (9.21%) IPsec
3 7 (9.21%) MPLS
3 7 (9.21%) VPN
4 2 (2.63%) OSPF
4 2 (2.63%) Skype
4 2 (2.63%) VLAN
4 2 (2.63%) VoIP
4 2 (2.63%) X.509
5 1 (1.32%) DHCP
5 1 (1.32%) Firewall
5 1 (1.32%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (1.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (7.89%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (7.89%) DynamoDB
4 4 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (5.26%) Couchbase
4 4 (5.26%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.95%) Power BI
5 3 (3.95%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.63%) Metadata
6 2 (2.63%) MySQL
6 2 (2.63%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.32%) Big Data
7 1 (1.32%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.32%) Redis
Development Applications
1 52 (68.42%) JIRA
2 19 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 16 (21.05%) Git
4 14 (18.42%) Bitbucket
5 7 (9.21%) GitLab
5 7 (9.21%) JUnit
5 7 (9.21%) Maven
5 7 (9.21%) SonarQube
6 6 (7.89%) Artifactory
6 6 (7.89%) Bitbucket Server
6 6 (7.89%) DbUnit
6 6 (7.89%) jMock
6 6 (7.89%) Mockito
6 6 (7.89%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (3.95%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (2.63%) Selenium
8 2 (2.63%) SpecFlow
8 2 (2.63%) Subversion
8 2 (2.63%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (2.63%) Zephyr
General
1 23 (30.26%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (27.63%) Social Skills
3 15 (19.74%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.95%) Finance
6 2 (2.63%) Automotive
6 2 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.63%) Marketing
6 2 (2.63%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.32%) Advertising
7 1 (1.32%) Electronics
7 1 (1.32%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.32%) Military
7 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (22.37%) Developer
2 11 (14.47%) Senior
3 9 (11.84%) Administrator
4 8 (10.53%) JIRA Administrator
5 7 (9.21%) Network Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Java Developer
6 6 (7.89%) Senior Developer
7 5 (6.58%) Lead
7 5 (6.58%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 5 (6.58%) Service Management Specialist
8 4 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) JIRA Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Telephony Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Consultant
9 3 (3.95%) Software Architect
9 3 (3.95%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (26.32%) REST
2 11 (14.47%) AngularJS
3 8 (10.53%) RESTful
4 7 (9.21%) Bootstrap
4 7 (9.21%) NETCONF
4 7 (9.21%) RESTCONF
4 7 (9.21%) SOAP
4 7 (9.21%) Spring
4 7 (9.21%) Web Services
5 6 (7.89%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (7.89%) Hibernate
5 6 (7.89%) JPA
5 6 (7.89%) PowerMock
5 6 (7.89%) Spring Batch
5 6 (7.89%) Spring Boot
5 6 (7.89%) Spring Cloud
5 6 (7.89%) Spring Integration
6 4 (5.26%) .NET
6 4 (5.26%) Kafka
6 4 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.84%) Distributed Systems
1 9 (11.84%) PKI
2 4 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.63%) Embedded Systems
3 2 (2.63%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (15.79%) Linux
2 10 (13.16%) Windows
3 4 (5.26%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (55.26%) Agile
2 17 (22.37%) DevOps
2 17 (22.37%) Service Management
3 16 (21.05%) CI/CD
3 16 (21.05%) Continuous Integration
3 16 (21.05%) ITIL
4 14 (18.42%) Containerisation
4 14 (18.42%) Microservices
4 14 (18.42%) TDD
5 12 (15.79%) Change Management
5 12 (15.79%) Test Automation
6 10 (13.16%) Critical Thinking
6 10 (13.16%) Kanban
6 10 (13.16%) Open Source
6 10 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (13.16%) Scrum
6 10 (13.16%) System Testing
7 9 (11.84%) Coaching
7 9 (11.84%) NsoIT
7 9 (11.84%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (28.95%) Python
2 13 (17.11%) Java
2 13 (17.11%) PowerShell
3 7 (9.21%) SQL
4 6 (7.89%) Groovy
4 6 (7.89%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.58%) C++
6 4 (5.26%) C#
6 4 (5.26%) Go
7 3 (3.95%) C
8 2 (2.63%) Ruby
9 1 (1.32%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (64.47%) Security Cleared
2 43 (56.58%) SC Cleared
3 18 (23.68%) Degree
4 10 (13.16%) DV Cleared
5 9 (11.84%) CCNP
5 9 (11.84%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.63%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.32%) APMP
8 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.32%) MCSA
8 1 (1.32%) MCSE
8 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.32%) OCA
8 1 (1.32%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.95%) IEC 61508
1 3 (3.95%) IEC 62304
1 3 (3.95%) ISO 26262
2 2 (2.63%) SLA
3 1 (1.32%) QA
3 1 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (18.42%) Docker
2 8 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (7.89%) Postfix
4 5 (6.58%) Firmware
5 1 (1.32%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.32%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (14.47%) Ansible
1 11 (14.47%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.89%) Grafana
2 6 (7.89%) Prometheus
3 5 (6.58%) SCCM
4 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (3.95%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (3.95%) Terraform
5 1 (1.32%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (1.32%) Packer
5 1 (1.32%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (14.47%) VMware
2 10 (13.16%) Microsoft
3 9 (11.84%) Cisco
4 6 (7.89%) Jaspersoft
5 4 (5.26%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.95%) Oracle
6 3 (3.95%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.95%) SAP
7 2 (2.63%) Dell
7 2 (2.63%) Veeam
8 1 (1.32%) HP
8 1 (1.32%) IBM
8 1 (1.32%) Optimizely
8 1 (1.32%) SolarWinds