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 28 July 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
28 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 333 367
Rank change year-on-year -37 +34 +47
Contract jobs citing Atlassian 179 250 338
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.62% 0.62%
As % of the Vendors category 1.15% 1.43% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 153 215
10th Percentile £413 £452 £353
25th Percentile £455 £493 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% - +8.60%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £773
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £568 £605
% change year-on-year -3.08% -6.20% +15.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 18 11
10th Percentile £50.35 £37.55 £51.25
25th Percentile £51.30 £45.94 £56.25
Median hourly rate £54.94 £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.52% +21.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £59.67 - £70.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.38 £71.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.94 £70.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -21.52% +21.74% +4.55%

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 15,554 17,437 23,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.41% 43.44% 44.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,489 10,942 15,631
10th Percentile £278 £280 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £710 £733 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 798 920 662
10th Percentile £14.38 £13.30 £15.02
25th Percentile £17.02 £15.62 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £27.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.85% -32.50% +81.82%
75th Percentile £50.00 £61.30 £63.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £25.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year -10.00% -21.88% +61.53%

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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 28 July 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 28 July 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 28 July 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 +1 153 £575 -4.17% 136
UK excluding London -44 102 £550 -3.08% 67
Work from Home +28 56 £538 +3.37% 68
London +3 54 £668 -7.93% 82
South West -8 29 £575 -9.27% 8
West Midlands +24 28 £460 +31.43% 5
Midlands +18 28 £460 +15.00% 6
South East +22 19 £463 +52.01% 18
North of England -4 17 £650 +22.64% 22
North West -15 12 £550 +3.77% 14
North East - 6 £650 - 2
Wales 0 5 £488 -5.11% 1
Yorkshire - 5 £650 - 6
Scotland -46 4 £500 -28.57% 9
East of England +8 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
1 112 (62.57%) Confluence
2 10 (5.59%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.12%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.56%) Camunda
4 1 (0.56%) CMS
4 1 (0.56%) Drupal
4 1 (0.56%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.56%) Mattermost
Applications
1 24 (13.41%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (1.12%) Trello
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) LabWindows
Cloud Services
1 59 (32.96%) AWS
2 21 (11.73%) GitHub
3 17 (9.50%) Amazon S3
4 16 (8.94%) IaaS
5 15 (8.38%) Amazon EC2
5 15 (8.38%) Azure
6 13 (7.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (6.70%) npm
8 10 (5.59%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (5.59%) Serverless
8 10 (5.59%) Yarn
9 9 (5.03%) Route 53
10 8 (4.47%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (4.47%) AWS KMS
10 8 (4.47%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (3.35%) Power Platform
11 6 (3.35%) SaaS
12 5 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (2.23%) Slack
14 3 (1.68%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.15%) DNS
2 10 (5.59%) Unified Communications
3 9 (5.03%) BGP
4 8 (4.47%) IPsec
4 8 (4.47%) VPN
5 7 (3.91%) MPLS
6 5 (2.79%) OpenLDAP
7 3 (1.68%) DHCP
7 3 (1.68%) Firewall
7 3 (1.68%) Skype
7 3 (1.68%) SNMP
8 2 (1.12%) OSPF
8 2 (1.12%) Software-Defined Radio
8 2 (1.12%) SSL
8 2 (1.12%) VLAN
8 2 (1.12%) X.509
9 1 (0.56%) EIGRP
9 1 (0.56%) Network Security
9 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.50%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (6.15%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (5.03%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (5.03%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.79%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.79%) Power BI
5 4 (2.23%) MySQL
5 4 (2.23%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.12%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.12%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.56%) Big Data
7 1 (0.56%) DB2
7 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 126 (70.39%) JIRA
2 41 (22.91%) Bitbucket
3 37 (20.67%) Git
4 28 (15.64%) Jenkins
5 27 (15.08%) ScriptRunner
6 17 (9.50%) GitLab
7 10 (5.59%) webpack
8 9 (5.03%) JUnit
8 9 (5.03%) Maven
8 9 (5.03%) Mockito
8 9 (5.03%) SonarQube
9 8 (4.47%) Bitbucket Server
9 8 (4.47%) DbUnit
9 8 (4.47%) GoogleTest
9 8 (4.47%) jMock
9 8 (4.47%) Robot Framework
10 7 (3.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 7 (3.91%) Eclipse
11 3 (1.68%) Selenium
11 3 (1.68%) Zephyr
General
1 59 (32.96%) Social Skills
2 40 (22.35%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (16.20%) Public Sector
4 22 (12.29%) Finance
5 16 (8.94%) Banking
6 10 (5.59%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.91%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.79%) Automotive
9 5 (2.79%) Front Office
9 5 (2.79%) Military
10 3 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.12%) Back Office
11 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.12%) Law
11 2 (1.12%) Legal
12 1 (0.56%) Aviation
12 1 (0.56%) Electronics
12 1 (0.56%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 28 (15.64%) Senior
2 27 (15.08%) Developer
3 16 (8.94%) Software Engineer
4 15 (8.38%) JIRA Engineer
5 14 (7.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (7.26%) Analyst
7 12 (6.70%) Senior Developer
7 12 (6.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 11 (6.15%) Administrator
9 10 (5.59%) JIRA Administrator
9 10 (5.59%) UI Developer
10 9 (5.03%) Java Developer
10 9 (5.03%) Senior UI Developer
11 8 (4.47%) Applications Support
11 8 (4.47%) Network Engineer
11 8 (4.47%) Virtualisation Engineer
12 7 (3.91%) Business Analyst
12 7 (3.91%) Lead
13 6 (3.35%) JIRA Specialist
13 6 (3.35%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (15.08%) REST
2 16 (8.94%) SOAP
3 15 (8.38%) React
4 13 (7.26%) CSS
5 12 (6.70%) AngularJS
5 12 (6.70%) RESTful
6 11 (6.15%) Spring
7 9 (5.03%) Spring Batch
7 9 (5.03%) Spring Boot
7 9 (5.03%) Web Services
8 8 (4.47%) ActiveMQ
8 8 (4.47%) Bootstrap
8 8 (4.47%) Flash
8 8 (4.47%) Hibernate
8 8 (4.47%) JPA
8 8 (4.47%) PowerMock
8 8 (4.47%) Spring Cloud
8 8 (4.47%) Spring Integration
9 7 (3.91%) NETCONF
9 7 (3.91%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.26%) PKI
2 10 (5.59%) Derivative
3 9 (5.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 8 (4.47%) Clustering
4 8 (4.47%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.35%) Data Centre
5 6 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.35%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.35%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.23%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.12%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.12%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.12%) FPGA
7 2 (1.12%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.12%) PMI
8 1 (0.56%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.56%) CMDB
8 1 (0.56%) Cyber Defence
8 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 32 (17.88%) Linux
2 17 (9.50%) Windows
3 11 (6.15%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.79%) Unix
5 3 (1.68%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (62.01%) Agile
2 44 (24.58%) Service Management
3 40 (22.35%) Migration
4 36 (20.11%) DevOps
5 32 (17.88%) Scrum
6 28 (15.64%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (14.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 26 (14.53%) System Testing
8 25 (13.97%) Validation
9 24 (13.41%) NsoIT
10 22 (12.29%) CI/CD
11 20 (11.17%) Software Engineering
12 19 (10.61%) Critical Thinking
12 19 (10.61%) ITIL
12 19 (10.61%) Microservices
12 19 (10.61%) Waterfall
13 17 (9.50%) Incident Management
13 17 (9.50%) Project Management
14 16 (8.94%) Performance Tuning
14 16 (8.94%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (17.88%) Python
2 27 (15.08%) Groovy
3 25 (13.97%) Java
4 21 (11.73%) JavaScript
5 20 (11.17%) SQL
6 15 (8.38%) PowerShell
7 10 (5.59%) TypeScript
8 9 (5.03%) Bash
9 8 (4.47%) C++
10 5 (2.79%) Go
10 5 (2.79%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.68%) C#
11 3 (1.68%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.12%) C
12 2 (1.12%) Haskell
12 2 (1.12%) Ruby
13 1 (0.56%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.56%) Korn
13 1 (0.56%) R
Qualifications
1 82 (45.81%) Security Cleared
2 75 (41.90%) SC Cleared
3 29 (16.20%) Degree
4 23 (12.85%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (8.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 15 (8.38%) CCNP
7 10 (5.59%) DV Cleared
8 8 (4.47%) CCNA
8 8 (4.47%) Master's Degree
8 8 (4.47%) OCA
8 8 (4.47%) Oracle Certification
9 7 (3.91%) RHCA
9 7 (3.91%) RHCE
10 4 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.68%) CBAP
12 2 (1.12%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.56%) MCSA
13 1 (0.56%) MCSE
13 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.35%) QA
2 3 (1.68%) ITGC
2 3 (1.68%) NIST
3 2 (1.12%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.12%) SLA
4 1 (0.56%) GDPR
4 1 (0.56%) GRC
4 1 (0.56%) IASME
4 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.56%) NCSC
4 1 (0.56%) P3O
4 1 (0.56%) PMO
System Software
1 23 (12.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (8.94%) VMware ESXi
3 14 (7.82%) Docker
4 9 (5.03%) Active Directory
4 9 (5.03%) VMware NSX
5 8 (4.47%) Postfix
6 3 (1.68%) Firmware
7 2 (1.12%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (9.50%) Ansible
2 16 (8.94%) vCenter Server
3 15 (8.38%) Kubernetes
4 9 (5.03%) Grafana
4 9 (5.03%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.47%) Puppet
6 7 (3.91%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.79%) Terraform
8 4 (2.23%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.12%) SCCM
10 2 (1.12%) WSUS
11 1 (0.56%) Avamar
11 1 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.56%) OPNET
11 1 (0.56%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.56%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.56%) vRealize
11 1 (0.56%) VxRail
Vendors
1 26 (14.53%) VMware
2 23 (12.85%) Cisco
2 23 (12.85%) Microsoft
3 15 (8.38%) ServiceNow
4 14 (7.82%) Oracle
5 9 (5.03%) Google
6 8 (4.47%) Jaspersoft
7 7 (3.91%) Salesforce
8 6 (3.35%) Intel
8 6 (3.35%) SAP
9 5 (2.79%) IBM
10 4 (2.23%) Splunk
10 4 (2.23%) Veeam
11 3 (1.68%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (1.68%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.68%) Pega
12 2 (1.12%) Dell
12 2 (1.12%) SolarWinds
13 1 (0.56%) Apple
13 1 (0.56%) Planview