Confluence Contracts in the UK excluding London

Confluence
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Confluence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Confluence over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 120 89
Rank change year-on-year +11 -31 +4
Contract jobs citing Confluence 399 504 898
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.94% 2.14% 2.93%
As % of the Application Platforms category 22.84% 19.34% 23.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 369 631
10th Percentile £356 £304 £385
25th Percentile £463 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £580
90th Percentile £700 £694 £638
UK median daily rate £538 £547 £525
% change year-on-year -1.74% +4.19% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 14 13
10th Percentile £55.63 £22.16 -
25th Percentile £62.19 £51.25 £38.68
Median hourly rate £70.00 £56.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.89% +18.95% -18.10%
75th Percentile £71.25 £84.36 £54.75
90th Percentile £77.25 £86.66 £63.40
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £56.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +10.62% +13.00% -6.98%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

Confluence is in the Application Platforms category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,747 2,606 3,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.51% 11.09% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,176 1,876 2,658
10th Percentile £208 £203 £185
25th Percentile £320 £350 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £580 £545
90th Percentile £650 £675 £631
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 99 139
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.08 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.25 £17.61 £15.02
Median hourly rate £24.09 £27.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.40% +48.65% -2.63%
75th Percentile £50.47 £65.88 £36.63
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.24 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £27.51 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -38.87% +100.00% +5.14%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Confluence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Confluence in the UK excluding London

Confluence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Confluence in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Confluence in the UK excluding London

Confluence
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Confluence in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Confluence in the UK excluding London

Confluence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Confluence in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Confluence in the UK excluding London

Confluence
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Confluence in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Confluence in the UK excluding London

Confluence
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Confluence within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. 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
Scotland +68 122 £575 +35.29% 5
South West +32 98 £550 -4.35% 17
South East +27 98 £500 -3.85% 43
North of England -28 44 £513 -1.44% 31
Yorkshire +2 21 £550 +4.76% 15
North West +1 21 £500 +11.11% 16
East of England -20 21 £410 -18.00% 15
Midlands -62 16 £416 -22.77% 16
East Midlands +21 8 £345 -53.57% 3
West Midlands -66 8 £550 +2.23% 13
North East -2 2 - -
Wales +16 1 - - 2
Confluence
UK

Confluence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 44 (11.03%) SharePoint
2 35 (8.77%) SharePoint Server
3 28 (7.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (2.01%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 7 (1.75%) Apache
6 4 (1.00%) Appian
6 4 (1.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.50%) JBoss
7 2 (0.50%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.50%) WildFly
8 1 (0.25%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.25%) SAS
8 1 (0.25%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 18 (4.51%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (4.26%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.50%) Simulink
6 1 (0.25%) InVision
6 1 (0.25%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.25%) Sketch
6 1 (0.25%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 8 (2.01%) SAP Hybris
2 4 (1.00%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.50%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.25%) Magento
4 1 (0.25%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.25%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.25%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 87 (21.80%) Azure
2 50 (12.53%) AWS
3 34 (8.52%) Azure Stack
4 28 (7.02%) Power Platform
5 21 (5.26%) GitHub
6 18 (4.51%) GCP
7 17 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (2.76%) Apigee
9 10 (2.51%) Kong
9 10 (2.51%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 7 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (1.75%) Collibra
10 7 (1.75%) PaaS
10 7 (1.75%) PowerApps
11 6 (1.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (1.00%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.00%) SaaS
12 4 (1.00%) Serverless
12 4 (1.00%) Slack
13 3 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 46 (11.53%) Firewall
2 37 (9.27%) BGP
3 25 (6.27%) DNS
4 17 (4.26%) TCP/IP
5 16 (4.01%) DHCP
5 16 (4.01%) SNMP
6 15 (3.76%) Software-Defined Radio
7 12 (3.01%) VPN
8 6 (1.50%) HTTP
8 6 (1.50%) VSAN
9 5 (1.25%) 5G
10 4 (1.00%) Skype
11 2 (0.50%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (0.50%) LAN
11 2 (0.50%) OpenLDAP
11 2 (0.50%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.50%) SSL
11 2 (0.50%) WAN
11 2 (0.50%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.02%) Power BI
2 14 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (3.26%) SQL Server
4 11 (2.76%) MongoDB
5 7 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (1.75%) Metadata
5 7 (1.75%) Tableau
6 5 (1.25%) MySQL
6 5 (1.25%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.00%) Big Data
7 4 (1.00%) OLAP
7 4 (1.00%) OLTP
7 4 (1.00%) Oracle OLAP
8 3 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (0.75%) Couchbase
8 3 (0.75%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.75%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.50%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 383 (95.99%) JIRA
2 64 (16.04%) Bitbucket
2 64 (16.04%) Git
3 62 (15.54%) Jenkins
4 30 (7.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 23 (5.76%) GitLab
6 21 (5.26%) Eclipse
7 18 (4.51%) Postman
8 16 (4.01%) Cucumber
8 16 (4.01%) Robot Framework
9 15 (3.76%) GoogleTest
10 14 (3.51%) JUnit
11 10 (2.51%) IntelliJ
12 7 (1.75%) JMeter
13 6 (1.50%) CircleCI
13 6 (1.50%) PyCharm
13 6 (1.50%) Travis CI
14 5 (1.25%) Artifactory
14 5 (1.25%) Selenium
14 5 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 173 (43.36%) Social Skills
2 83 (20.80%) Analytical Skills
3 81 (20.30%) Public Sector
4 47 (11.78%) Finance
5 25 (6.27%) Aerospace
6 21 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
7 18 (4.51%) Military
8 17 (4.26%) Manufacturing
9 11 (2.76%) Banking
9 11 (2.76%) Marketing
10 10 (2.51%) Telecoms
11 9 (2.26%) Retail
12 8 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.75%) Electronics
14 6 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
16 4 (1.00%) Automotive
16 4 (1.00%) Legal
17 3 (0.75%) Police
18 2 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 61 (15.29%) Analyst
2 48 (12.03%) Senior
3 45 (11.28%) Developer
4 31 (7.77%) Business Analyst
5 24 (6.02%) Architect
6 23 (5.76%) Test Engineer
7 22 (5.51%) Product Manager
8 21 (5.26%) Integration Engineer
8 21 (5.26%) Test and Integration Engineer
9 19 (4.76%) Project Manager
10 18 (4.51%) Delivery Manager
11 17 (4.26%) Microsoft Engineer
11 17 (4.26%) Software Engineer
12 16 (4.01%) DevOps Engineer
13 15 (3.76%) Senior Manager
14 14 (3.51%) Java Developer
14 14 (3.51%) JIRA Engineer
15 13 (3.26%) Lead
16 12 (3.01%) Applications Engineer
16 12 (3.01%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (8.02%) .NET
2 27 (6.77%) .NET Core
3 26 (6.52%) HTML
4 24 (6.02%) CSS
4 24 (6.02%) REST
5 19 (4.76%) Kafka
6 17 (4.26%) Spring
7 16 (4.01%) Apache Camel
7 16 (4.01%) Spring Boot
8 15 (3.76%) XML
9 13 (3.26%) J2EE
9 13 (3.26%) React
9 13 (3.26%) Web Services
10 10 (2.51%) JSON
10 10 (2.51%) Node.js
11 9 (2.26%) Elastic Stack
11 9 (2.26%) SOAP
12 8 (2.01%) RESTful
13 7 (1.75%) YAML
14 6 (1.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 37 (9.27%) Private Cloud
2 27 (6.77%) Product Ownership
3 21 (5.26%) PKI
4 17 (4.26%) Data Centre
5 14 (3.51%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.26%) Linux Command Line
7 8 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.75%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.50%) Data Structures
10 5 (1.25%) Clustering
10 5 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (1.00%) Credit Risk
11 4 (1.00%) DataPower
11 4 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.00%) Mainframe
11 4 (1.00%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.00%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
12 2 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 83 (20.80%) Linux
2 81 (20.30%) Windows
3 18 (4.51%) Windows Server
4 16 (4.01%) Windows Server 2012
5 7 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.50%) Unix
7 5 (1.25%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.75%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.50%) VMS
10 1 (0.25%) AIX
10 1 (0.25%) Android
10 1 (0.25%) CentOS
10 1 (0.25%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.25%) VxWorks
10 1 (0.25%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (53.88%) Agile
2 66 (16.54%) Scrum
3 64 (16.04%) DevOps
3 64 (16.04%) Project Management
4 59 (14.79%) Service Management
5 51 (12.78%) CI/CD
6 50 (12.53%) Continuous Integration
6 50 (12.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 49 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (11.28%) ITIL
9 41 (10.28%) Capacity Management
10 39 (9.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (9.52%) Roadmaps
12 35 (8.77%) Network Management
13 34 (8.52%) Security Monitoring
13 34 (8.52%) User Stories
14 30 (7.52%) ITSM
15 29 (7.27%) Configuration Management
15 29 (7.27%) Task Automation
15 29 (7.27%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 78 (19.55%) Python
2 57 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 51 (12.78%) SQL
4 42 (10.53%) Java
5 35 (8.77%) JavaScript
6 22 (5.51%) C++
7 19 (4.76%) Bash
8 10 (2.51%) Go
9 9 (2.26%) Groovy
10 8 (2.01%) C
11 6 (1.50%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.50%) T-SQL
12 5 (1.25%) C#
12 5 (1.25%) Scala
12 5 (1.25%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.50%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.25%) ABAP
14 1 (0.25%) Assembly Language
14 1 (0.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 180 (45.11%) Security Cleared
2 130 (32.58%) SC Cleared
3 53 (13.28%) Degree
4 46 (11.53%) DV Cleared
5 20 (5.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 16 (4.01%) MCSE
6 16 (4.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (3.76%) MCSA
8 14 (3.51%) Master's Degree
9 6 (1.50%) CCNA
9 6 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.00%) Chartered Engineer
11 4 (1.00%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.75%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.75%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.75%) PMP
13 2 (0.50%) CSPO
13 2 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.50%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (9.77%) Government Security Classifications
2 19 (4.76%) PMO
3 18 (4.51%) QA
4 8 (2.01%) GDPR
4 8 (2.01%) GxP
5 7 (1.75%) Disclosure Scotland
6 6 (1.50%) Good Clinical Practice
6 6 (1.50%) NCSC
7 5 (1.25%) Accessibility
7 5 (1.25%) NIST
8 4 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.75%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.50%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.50%) IFRS
10 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.25%) IEC 61508
11 1 (0.25%) MISRA C
11 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (7.77%) Docker
1 31 (7.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (7.52%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.76%) Firmware
4 13 (3.26%) VMware NSX
5 9 (2.26%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.50%) VirtualBox
7 4 (1.00%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.00%) vSphere
8 1 (0.25%) HDFS
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.25%) Snort
8 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 50 (12.53%) Ansible
2 31 (7.77%) Kubernetes
3 28 (7.02%) Terraform
4 25 (6.27%) PowerCLI
4 25 (6.27%) SCOM
5 17 (4.26%) Kibana
6 9 (2.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 7 (1.75%) Grafana
7 7 (1.75%) Puppet
8 6 (1.50%) Docker Swarm
8 6 (1.50%) logstash
8 6 (1.50%) Progress Chef
8 6 (1.50%) Prometheus
9 5 (1.25%) vCenter Server
10 4 (1.00%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.75%) Rancher
12 2 (0.50%) OPNET
13 1 (0.25%) SCCM
13 1 (0.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 142 (35.59%) Atlassian
2 70 (17.54%) Microsoft
3 37 (9.27%) VMware
4 26 (6.52%) SAP
5 23 (5.76%) Oracle
6 22 (5.51%) Dell
6 22 (5.51%) HP
7 20 (5.01%) Google
8 11 (2.76%) Splunk
9 10 (2.51%) Cisco
10 9 (2.26%) Salesforce
11 8 (2.01%) Adobe
11 8 (2.01%) ServiceNow
12 6 (1.50%) Databricks
12 6 (1.50%) IBM
13 5 (1.25%) Red Hat
14 4 (1.00%) Palo Alto
14 4 (1.00%) TSYS
15 2 (0.50%) MuleSoft
15 2 (0.50%) Perfecto Mobile