Atomic Design Contract Job Trends

Atomic Design
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Atomic Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 586 533 599
Rank change year-on-year -53 +66 +161
Contract jobs citing Atomic Design 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.003% 0.002%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.012% 0.003% 0.003%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £349 - -
25th Percentile £355 £556 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £364 £563 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% - -
75th Percentile £378 £569 -
90th Percentile £391 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £358 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £50.00

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Atomic Design falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,589 29,397 38,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.09% 88.30% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,542 17,920 25,365
10th Percentile £300 £308 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £724 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,036 949 1,516
10th Percentile £14.61 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -26.05% +25.57%
75th Percentile £52.52 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.00 £74.77 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.58 £30.62 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.00% -31.97% +42.45%

Atomic Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Atomic Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Atomic Design job vacancy trend in the UK

Atomic Design
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Atomic Design.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Atomic Design

Atomic Design
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Atomic Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Atomic Design

Atomic Design
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Atomic Design within the UK over the 6 months to 30 December 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 -43 4 £364 -35.29% 2
Yorkshire - 3 £358 -
UK excluding London - 3 £358 - 1
North of England - 3 £358 -
London -17 1 £400 -28.89% 1
Work from Home - 1 £358 - 2

Atomic Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) npm
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Babel
1 3 (75.00%) webpack
2 2 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) Postman
2 2 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) React
1 3 (75.00%) Redux
1 3 (75.00%) REST
2 2 (50.00%) Bootstrap
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) CSS3
2 2 (50.00%) DOM
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) Jest
2 2 (50.00%) lodash
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Front End Development
1 3 (75.00%) Sprint Planning
1 3 (75.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 3 (75.00%) Story Points
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) DOM Manipulation/Scripting
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (50.00%) User Experience
2 2 (50.00%) Wireframes
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft