Atlassian and Canva: the Sydney tech jobs UK graduates are overlooking in 2026

Atlassian is a $50 billion company. Canva was last valued at over $25 billion. Both are headquartered in Sydney. Both have exceptional cultures, strong graduate programmes, genuine equity upside, and established international hiring pipelines. And yet, most UK business and law graduates have never seriously considered applying to either of them.

That is a gap worth closing, and one that the graduates who do take Sydney seriously are exploiting to their advantage.

Why Atlassian is one of the best graduate employers in Sydney

Atlassian builds software used by millions of teams worldwide: Jira, Confluence, Trello, Bitbucket, and more. The Sydney HQ is the global centre of the company and recruits graduates across engineering, product management, data analytics, and commercial roles (strategy, finance, sales operations).

What makes Atlassian distinctive as a graduate employer:

• RSUs (Restricted Stock Units) from day one, equity in a NASDAQ-listed company with real market value
• Distributed-first culture: work done in Sydney has genuinely global reach and visibility
• Values-driven environment, including TEAM Anywhere and Open Company No Bullshit, that actually informs how the company operates
• Graduate salary: AUD 95,000–130,000 depending on role (~£48–66k), plus superannuation and RSU grants
• Graduate programmes in engineering, product, and business roles with structured onboarding

Atlassian's enterprise software business generates substantial recurring revenue ($4.5bn+ in revenue as of 2025), which makes the equity component more than notional.