ATL Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Active Template Library (ATL)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring ATL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 596 524 752
Rank change year-on-year -72 +228 -
Permanent jobs citing ATL 3 9 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.005% 0.030% 0.013%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.055% 0.18% 0.069%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72,500 - £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 - £37,500
75th Percentile £77,500 - £41,250
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £75,000 £87,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +133.33% -58.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

ATL falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,491 5,021 14,517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.24% 16.96% 18.64%
Number of salaries quoted 4,410 3,161 10,753
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,875 £87,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,253 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%

ATL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing ATL relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

ATL job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

ATL
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ATL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ATL

ATL
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ATL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 June 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands -19 2 - - 1
East Midlands -22 2 - - 1
South West - 1 £75,000 - 2
ATL
UK

ATL
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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) MSI
General
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Business Development Executive
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) COM
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) CSS3
1 1 (33.33%) GeoJSON
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) HTML5
1 1 (33.33%) MFC
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Development
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Dependency Management
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
1 1 (33.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft