Atlassian Contracts

Atlassian
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 336 357
Rank change year-on-year -5 +21 +64
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 184 278 403
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.64% 0.68%
As % of the Vendors category 1.33% 1.50% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 191 278
10th Percentile £413 £400 £413
25th Percentile £456 £463 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £573
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -7.42% +4.09%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £673
90th Percentile £765 £725 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 12
10th Percentile £49.77 £47.50 £39.33
25th Percentile £51.77 £55.00 £51.81
Median hourly rate £58.88 £60.50 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +7.08% +13.00%
75th Percentile £62.81 £66.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £64.88 £70.63 £71.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.88 £62.50 £56.50
% change year-on-year -5.80% +10.62% +28.30%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,870 18,503 25,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.44% 42.44% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,703 11,477 17,115
10th Percentile £288 £263 £273
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £619 £627 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 569 1,097 689
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.15 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.46% -49.37% +108.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
% change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +107.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Atlassian as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Atlassian in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Atlassian.

Daily rate trend for Atlassian in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Atlassian over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Atlassian in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Atlassian.

Hourly rate trend for Atlassian in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Atlassian over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Atlassian in the UK

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Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +34 158 £575 +6.98% 118
UK excluding London -31 107 £550 +4.76% 83
Work from Home +7 66 £525 +5.00% 114
London +40 52 £625 +13.64% 43
South West -10 33 £575 +9.52% 18
Midlands +49 26 £460 +15.00% 7
West Midlands +41 26 £460 +15.00% 7
South East +40 24 £525 +12.90% 14
North of England +31 14 £600 +3.09% 32
North West +8 8 £550 -5.50% 21
North East - 6 £650 - 5
Yorkshire - 6 £650 - 6
Wales -7 5 £509 -1.21% 3
Scotland -46 5 £600 - 6
East of England +33 2 £463 +14.55% 2

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 121 (65.76%) Confluence
2 5 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.63%) SAS
3 3 (1.63%) Skype for Business
4 2 (1.09%) Apache
5 1 (0.54%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.54%) IIS
5 1 (0.54%) Mattermost
5 1 (0.54%) nginx
Applications
1 30 (16.30%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.80%) Trello
3 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.09%) Open Workbench
5 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) LabWindows
1 2 (1.09%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 45 (24.46%) AWS
2 16 (8.70%) Azure
2 16 (8.70%) IaaS
3 14 (7.61%) npm
4 12 (6.52%) Yarn
5 9 (4.89%) GitHub
6 8 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (4.35%) Power Platform
7 7 (3.80%) Amazon S3
8 6 (3.26%) Route 53
9 5 (2.72%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (2.72%) Serverless
10 4 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.17%) Amazon SQS
10 4 (2.17%) AWS KMS
11 3 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (1.09%) PaaS
12 2 (1.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.43%) Software-Defined Radio
2 8 (4.35%) SNMP
3 5 (2.72%) DNS
4 4 (2.17%) DHCP
5 3 (1.63%) Firewall
5 3 (1.63%) Skype
5 3 (1.63%) Unified Communications
6 2 (1.09%) Internet
6 2 (1.09%) iSCSI
6 2 (1.09%) SAN
6 2 (1.09%) SSL
7 1 (0.54%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.54%) FTP
7 1 (0.54%) HTTP
7 1 (0.54%) Network Security
7 1 (0.54%) OSPF
7 1 (0.54%) SMTP
7 1 (0.54%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.54%) VLAN
7 1 (0.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (4.35%) Power BI
3 6 (3.26%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (3.26%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (3.26%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.72%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.72%) MySQL
5 4 (2.17%) Big Data
5 4 (2.17%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.09%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (1.09%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.09%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.09%) SAS Data Integration Studio
8 1 (0.54%) Adabas
8 1 (0.54%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.54%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.54%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.54%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 143 (77.72%) JIRA
2 42 (22.83%) Bitbucket
3 39 (21.20%) Git
4 29 (15.76%) Jenkins
5 28 (15.22%) ScriptRunner
6 15 (8.15%) GitLab
7 13 (7.07%) GoogleTest
7 13 (7.07%) Robot Framework
8 12 (6.52%) Eclipse
8 12 (6.52%) webpack
9 6 (3.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 6 (3.26%) SonarQube
10 5 (2.72%) Maven
10 5 (2.72%) Mockito
11 4 (2.17%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (2.17%) DbUnit
11 4 (2.17%) jMock
11 4 (2.17%) JUnit
12 3 (1.63%) GoCD
13 2 (1.09%) Rational DOORS
General
1 72 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 39 (21.20%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (16.85%) Public Sector
4 24 (13.04%) Finance
5 12 (6.52%) Banking
5 12 (6.52%) Investment Banking
6 8 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (4.35%) Military
7 6 (3.26%) Legal
7 6 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.17%) Automotive
8 4 (2.17%) Marketing
9 3 (1.63%) Billing
9 3 (1.63%) German Language
9 3 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.09%) Aviation
10 2 (1.09%) Law
10 2 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.54%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.54%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 30 (16.30%) Senior
2 21 (11.41%) Developer
3 18 (9.78%) JIRA Engineer
3 18 (9.78%) Software Engineer
4 15 (8.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (7.07%) Analyst
5 13 (7.07%) Lead
6 12 (6.52%) Senior Developer
6 12 (6.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (6.52%) UI Developer
6 12 (6.52%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 11 (5.98%) Architect
7 11 (5.98%) Senior UI Developer
8 8 (4.35%) JIRA Architect
8 8 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (3.80%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 6 (3.26%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (3.26%) Embedded Engineer
10 6 (3.26%) JIRA Administrator
10 6 (3.26%) JIRA Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (10.33%) CSS
2 18 (9.78%) REST
3 13 (7.07%) React
3 13 (7.07%) SOAP
4 12 (6.52%) Flash
5 7 (3.80%) HTML
5 7 (3.80%) Spring
6 6 (3.26%) Spring Boot
7 5 (2.72%) Redux
7 5 (2.72%) RESTful
7 5 (2.72%) RxJS
7 5 (2.72%) Spring Batch
7 5 (2.72%) Web Services
8 4 (2.17%) ActiveMQ
8 4 (2.17%) AngularJS
8 4 (2.17%) Bootstrap
8 4 (2.17%) Hibernate
8 4 (2.17%) JPA
8 4 (2.17%) PowerMock
8 4 (2.17%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.52%) Clustering
1 12 (6.52%) Derivative
2 11 (5.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 11 (5.98%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.35%) Onboarding
4 7 (3.80%) PKI
5 4 (2.17%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.63%) Verilog
6 3 (1.63%) VHDL
7 2 (1.09%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.09%) FPGA
7 2 (1.09%) Genomics
7 2 (1.09%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.09%) Omics
8 1 (0.54%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.54%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.54%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (20.11%) Linux
2 18 (9.78%) Windows
3 14 (7.61%) Windows Server
4 7 (3.80%) Unix
5 5 (2.72%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.63%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (1.63%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.09%) VMS
8 1 (0.54%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (64.13%) Agile
2 41 (22.28%) Service Management
3 38 (20.65%) Migration
4 36 (19.57%) Scrum
5 31 (16.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 30 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (15.76%) Validation
8 24 (13.04%) DevOps
8 24 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
9 23 (12.50%) Software Engineering
9 23 (12.50%) System Testing
10 21 (11.41%) NsoIT
10 21 (11.41%) Waterfall
11 18 (9.78%) Incident Management
11 18 (9.78%) Project Management
12 17 (9.24%) Critical Thinking
12 17 (9.24%) Workflow
13 16 (8.70%) Computer Science
13 16 (8.70%) Performance Tuning
14 15 (8.15%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 28 (15.22%) Groovy
2 27 (14.67%) Python
3 24 (13.04%) Java
4 22 (11.96%) JavaScript
5 20 (10.87%) SQL
6 15 (8.15%) C++
6 15 (8.15%) PowerShell
7 12 (6.52%) TypeScript
8 11 (5.98%) Bash
9 6 (3.26%) PL/SQL
10 4 (2.17%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.63%) SystemVerilog
11 3 (1.63%) Tcl
12 2 (1.09%) C
12 2 (1.09%) R
13 1 (0.54%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.54%) Go
13 1 (0.54%) Natural
13 1 (0.54%) SOQL
13 1 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 76 (41.30%) Security Cleared
2 71 (38.59%) SC Cleared
3 30 (16.30%) Degree
4 21 (11.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 19 (10.33%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (7.61%) Master's Degree
7 12 (6.52%) CCNA
8 9 (4.89%) CCNP
9 8 (4.35%) OCA
9 8 (4.35%) Oracle Certification
10 7 (3.80%) DV Cleared
10 7 (3.80%) RHCA
10 7 (3.80%) RHCE
11 5 (2.72%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (2.17%) MCSA
12 4 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (1.63%) MCSE
14 2 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
14 2 (1.09%) CBAP
15 1 (0.54%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.26%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.09%) MISRA
2 2 (1.09%) MISRA C
2 2 (1.09%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.54%) GDPR
3 1 (0.54%) NCSC
3 1 (0.54%) PMO
3 1 (0.54%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (11.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (7.07%) VMware ESXi
2 13 (7.07%) VMware NSX
3 7 (3.80%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.80%) Docker
4 5 (2.72%) Firmware
5 4 (2.17%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.17%) Postfix
6 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (1.63%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (10.87%) vCenter Server
2 12 (6.52%) Ansible
3 9 (4.89%) Puppet
4 8 (4.35%) Progress Chef
5 7 (3.80%) Terraform
6 5 (2.72%) Opsgenie
7 4 (2.17%) Grafana
7 4 (2.17%) Kubernetes
7 4 (2.17%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.63%) WSUS
9 2 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (1.09%) PowerCLI
9 2 (1.09%) SCOM
10 1 (0.54%) Avamar
10 1 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.54%) OPNET
10 1 (0.54%) Salt
10 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.54%) vRealize
10 1 (0.54%) VxRail
Vendors
1 30 (16.30%) Microsoft
2 24 (13.04%) VMware
3 19 (10.33%) Cisco
4 14 (7.61%) Google
4 14 (7.61%) Oracle
4 14 (7.61%) ServiceNow
5 8 (4.35%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.26%) Intel
7 4 (2.17%) IBM
7 4 (2.17%) Jaspersoft
7 4 (2.17%) MuleSoft
7 4 (2.17%) SAP
7 4 (2.17%) Veeam
8 3 (1.63%) Pega
8 3 (1.63%) Talend
8 3 (1.63%) Xilinx
9 2 (1.09%) Adobe
9 2 (1.09%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.09%) PagerDuty
9 2 (1.09%) SolarWinds