Confluence Contracts

Confluence
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 108 84
Rank change year-on-year -23 -24 +18
Contract jobs citing Confluence 752 1,368 2,587
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.73% 2.32% 2.92%
As % of the Application Platforms category 18.00% 21.16% 23.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 949 1,738
10th Percentile £363 £360 £398
25th Percentile £463 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £615
90th Percentile £700 £790 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 18 23
10th Percentile £24.40 £22.16 £38.54
25th Percentile £38.38 £41.31 £41.84
Median hourly rate £62.50 £56.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.62% +13.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £70.00 £85.61 £60.25
90th Percentile £75.50 £89.01 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £56.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +23.89% +18.95% -18.10%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 4,178 6,465 11,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.63% 10.95% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,879 4,519 7,639
10th Percentile £250 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +8.42%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £712
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 153 211
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.61 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.41 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £40.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +77.78% +5.14%
75th Percentile £46.18 £66.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.00 £79.19 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.63 £26.48 £18.50
% change year-on-year -10.78% +43.14% -2.63%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Confluence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Confluence in the UK

Confluence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Confluence.

Daily rate trend for Confluence in the UK

Confluence
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Confluence over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Confluence in the UK

Confluence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Confluence.

Hourly rate trend for Confluence in the UK

Confluence
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Confluence over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Confluence in the UK

Confluence
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 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
England -41 573 £525 -4.55% 229
UK excluding London +11 406 £538 +2.38% 135
Work from Home -9 295 £510 -2.86% 112
London -43 282 £538 -10.42% 89
Scotland +65 128 £575 +31.88% 5
South East +36 99 £493 -5.74% 45
South West +36 99 £550 -4.35% 21
North of England -32 44 £513 -1.44% 32
North West +1 21 £500 +11.11% 17
Yorkshire -6 21 £550 +5.77% 15
East of England -17 20 £410 -18.00% 16
Midlands -62 16 £416 -22.77% 18
East Midlands +21 8 £345 -53.57% 3
West Midlands -72 8 £550 +2.23% 15
North East -1 2 - -
Wales +13 1 - - 2

Confluence
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 59 (7.85%) SharePoint
2 36 (4.79%) SharePoint Server
3 29 (3.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.60%) nginx
5 10 (1.33%) Apache
6 9 (1.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.53%) Appian
7 4 (0.53%) CMS
7 4 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.27%) JBoss
8 2 (0.27%) SAS
8 2 (0.27%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.27%) WildFly
9 1 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.13%) IIS
9 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Fuse
9 1 (0.13%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.13%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 51 (6.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (4.92%) MS Visio
3 32 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
4 31 (4.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.40%) Windchill
7 2 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.27%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.27%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.27%) InDesign
7 2 (0.27%) InVision
7 2 (0.27%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.27%) Simulink
7 2 (0.27%) Sketch
7 2 (0.27%) Trello
8 1 (0.13%) OmniGraffle
8 1 (0.13%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.13%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 9 (1.20%) SAP Hybris
2 7 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.80%) ION MarketView
4 4 (0.53%) Temenos T24
5 3 (0.40%) ENOVIA
5 3 (0.40%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.27%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.13%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.13%) Magento
7 1 (0.13%) Maximo
7 1 (0.13%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.13%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.13%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.13%) SAP R/3
7 1 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 164 (21.81%) Azure
2 137 (18.22%) AWS
3 57 (7.58%) Power Platform
4 52 (6.91%) GitHub
5 49 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
6 42 (5.59%) GCP
7 36 (4.79%) Azure Stack
8 26 (3.46%) Slack
9 24 (3.19%) SaaS
10 23 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
11 19 (2.53%) PowerApps
12 16 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
12 16 (2.13%) Serverless
13 15 (1.99%) PaaS
13 15 (1.99%) SAP Commerce Cloud
14 14 (1.86%) Power Automate
15 12 (1.60%) Amazon S3
15 12 (1.60%) Apigee
15 12 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
16 10 (1.33%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 65 (8.64%) Firewall
2 41 (5.45%) DNS
3 37 (4.92%) BGP
4 30 (3.99%) TCP/IP
5 25 (3.32%) DHCP
6 18 (2.39%) SNMP
7 14 (1.86%) Software-Defined Radio
8 13 (1.73%) HTTP
8 13 (1.73%) VPN
9 11 (1.46%) FIX Connectivity
10 9 (1.20%) Kerberos
10 9 (1.20%) VLAN
11 8 (1.06%) NAS
11 8 (1.06%) SAN
12 7 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
12 7 (0.93%) VSAN
13 5 (0.66%) 5G
13 5 (0.66%) HTTPS
14 4 (0.53%) SSL
14 4 (0.53%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (6.38%) Power BI
2 34 (4.52%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (3.59%) SQL Server
4 19 (2.53%) Relational Database
5 18 (2.39%) NoSQL
6 17 (2.26%) MongoDB
7 14 (1.86%) Tableau
8 13 (1.73%) MySQL
9 11 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.33%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (1.06%) Metadata
12 6 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.80%) Apache Cassandra
12 6 (0.80%) Big Data
13 5 (0.66%) Apache Hive
13 5 (0.66%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.53%) Couchbase
14 4 (0.53%) OLAP
14 4 (0.53%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 699 (92.95%) JIRA
2 123 (16.36%) Git
3 113 (15.03%) Jenkins
4 80 (10.64%) Bitbucket
5 54 (7.18%) GitLab
6 31 (4.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 31 (4.12%) Postman
7 24 (3.19%) JMeter
8 21 (2.79%) Eclipse
8 21 (2.79%) JUnit
9 19 (2.53%) TeamCity
10 18 (2.39%) Cucumber
11 15 (1.99%) Robot Framework
11 15 (1.99%) Selenium
12 14 (1.86%) GoogleTest
13 12 (1.60%) Cypress.io
14 11 (1.46%) Appium
15 10 (1.33%) IntelliJ
16 7 (0.93%) Artifactory
16 7 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 253 (33.64%) Social Skills
2 142 (18.88%) Analytical Skills
3 125 (16.62%) Public Sector
4 119 (15.82%) Finance
5 41 (5.45%) Banking
6 25 (3.32%) Aerospace
7 24 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
8 22 (2.93%) Manufacturing
9 21 (2.79%) Military
10 19 (2.53%) Marketing
11 18 (2.39%) Telecoms
12 15 (1.99%) Influencing Skills
12 15 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (1.99%) Retail
13 14 (1.86%) Front Office
14 10 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
15 9 (1.20%) Legal
16 7 (0.93%) Electronics
17 5 (0.66%) Investment Banking
18 4 (0.53%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 124 (16.49%) Analyst
2 92 (12.23%) Senior
3 85 (11.30%) Developer
4 73 (9.71%) Business Analyst
5 48 (6.38%) Architect
6 41 (5.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 33 (4.39%) Project Manager
7 33 (4.39%) Test Engineer
8 28 (3.72%) Delivery Manager
9 27 (3.59%) Java Developer
9 27 (3.59%) Product Manager
10 25 (3.32%) Lead
11 23 (3.06%) Senior Manager
12 21 (2.79%) Integration Engineer
12 21 (2.79%) JIRA Engineer
12 21 (2.79%) Support Engineer
12 21 (2.79%) Test and Integration Engineer
13 20 (2.66%) Applications Engineer
13 20 (2.66%) Software Engineer
14 19 (2.53%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (7.58%) REST
2 36 (4.79%) .NET
3 34 (4.52%) HTML
3 34 (4.52%) XML
4 32 (4.26%) CSS
4 32 (4.26%) Spring
5 31 (4.12%) Spring Boot
6 28 (3.72%) React
7 27 (3.59%) .NET Core
7 27 (3.59%) Kafka
8 23 (3.06%) JSON
8 23 (3.06%) LDAP
9 17 (2.26%) Node.js
9 17 (2.26%) Web Services
10 16 (2.13%) Apache Camel
10 16 (2.13%) RESTful
11 14 (1.86%) JPA
12 13 (1.73%) Elastic Stack
12 13 (1.73%) Hibernate
12 13 (1.73%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 52 (6.91%) Product Ownership
2 40 (5.32%) Private Cloud
3 31 (4.12%) Data Centre
4 21 (2.79%) PKI
5 19 (2.53%) Public Cloud
6 15 (1.99%) Fixed Income
7 13 (1.73%) Clustering
7 13 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (1.73%) Derivative
7 13 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
7 13 (1.73%) Management Information System
8 11 (1.46%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.20%) Data Structures
9 9 (1.20%) Replication
9 9 (1.20%) Wiki
10 8 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (0.80%) Onboarding
13 5 (0.66%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 131 (17.42%) Linux
2 104 (13.83%) Windows
3 29 (3.86%) Unix
3 29 (3.86%) Windows Server
4 16 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 16 (2.13%) Windows Server 2012
5 8 (1.06%) Oracle Linux
5 8 (1.06%) Solaris
6 6 (0.80%) Android
7 5 (0.66%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.66%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (0.40%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.27%) VMS
10 1 (0.13%) AIX
10 1 (0.13%) CentOS
10 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.13%) VxWorks
10 1 (0.13%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 427 (56.78%) Agile
2 168 (22.34%) DevOps
3 133 (17.69%) Scrum
4 105 (13.96%) Stakeholder Management
5 96 (12.77%) Project Management
6 91 (12.10%) Problem-Solving
7 86 (11.44%) CI/CD
8 81 (10.77%) Service Management
9 72 (9.57%) Continuous Integration
10 67 (8.91%) Test Automation
10 67 (8.91%) User Stories
11 62 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 62 (8.24%) ITIL
12 53 (7.05%) Roadmaps
13 51 (6.78%) Migration
14 49 (6.52%) Software Engineering
15 47 (6.25%) Kanban
15 47 (6.25%) Workflow
16 46 (6.12%) High Availability
17 45 (5.98%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 130 (17.29%) Python
2 87 (11.57%) Java
3 82 (10.90%) PowerShell
4 77 (10.24%) SQL
5 58 (7.71%) JavaScript
6 41 (5.45%) Bash
7 27 (3.59%) C++
8 19 (2.53%) Go
9 18 (2.39%) Shell Script
10 15 (1.99%) Groovy
11 13 (1.73%) C
12 11 (1.46%) C#
13 9 (1.20%) TypeScript
14 8 (1.06%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.80%) PL/SQL
15 6 (0.80%) Rust
16 5 (0.66%) Scala
17 3 (0.40%) ABAP
17 3 (0.40%) Google Apps Script
18 2 (0.27%) Perl
Qualifications
1 275 (36.57%) Security Cleared
2 218 (28.99%) SC Cleared
3 99 (13.16%) Degree
4 49 (6.52%) DV Cleared
5 20 (2.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 16 (2.13%) MCSE
6 16 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (1.99%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.99%) MCSA
8 13 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.20%) ISTQB
10 8 (1.06%) PMI Certification
11 7 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.80%) CCNA
12 6 (0.80%) PMP
13 5 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (0.53%) Chartered Engineer
14 4 (0.53%) CSPO
15 3 (0.40%) AWS Certification
15 3 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (7.98%) QA
2 39 (5.19%) Government Security Classifications
3 32 (4.26%) PMO
4 23 (3.06%) GDPR
5 11 (1.46%) NCSC
6 10 (1.33%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.33%) Data Quality
7 9 (1.20%) GxP
7 9 (1.20%) NIST
7 9 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
8 7 (0.93%) Dodd-Frank
8 7 (0.93%) EMIR
8 7 (0.93%) Good Clinical Practice
8 7 (0.93%) MiFID
9 4 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.40%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.40%) WCAG
11 2 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 67 (8.91%) Docker
2 49 (6.52%) Active Directory
3 44 (5.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.99%) Firmware
5 14 (1.86%) VMware NSX
6 9 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.80%) VirtualBox
8 5 (0.66%) vSphere
9 4 (0.53%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.53%) Snort
10 1 (0.13%) HDFS
10 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 84 (11.17%) Kubernetes
2 73 (9.71%) Ansible
3 56 (7.45%) Terraform
4 26 (3.46%) Grafana
5 25 (3.32%) SCOM
6 24 (3.19%) PowerCLI
7 23 (3.06%) Kibana
8 18 (2.39%) Prometheus
9 14 (1.86%) Packer
10 11 (1.46%) Consul
11 10 (1.33%) Puppet
12 9 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 9 (1.20%) Red Hat Satellite
13 8 (1.06%) EMC NetWorker
13 8 (1.06%) logstash
13 8 (1.06%) Netcool
13 8 (1.06%) Progress Chef
13 8 (1.06%) Tivoli
13 8 (1.06%) Tivoli Storage Manager
14 6 (0.80%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 189 (25.13%) Atlassian
2 113 (15.03%) Microsoft
3 53 (7.05%) VMware
4 49 (6.52%) Oracle
5 37 (4.92%) SAP
6 35 (4.65%) ServiceNow
7 33 (4.39%) Google
8 31 (4.12%) Splunk
9 30 (3.99%) Dell
9 30 (3.99%) HP
10 20 (2.66%) Cisco
11 15 (1.99%) IBM
12 14 (1.86%) Adobe
13 13 (1.73%) Bloomberg
14 11 (1.46%) ION Trading
14 11 (1.46%) MarketAxess
14 11 (1.46%) Red Hat
14 11 (1.46%) Tradeweb
15 10 (1.33%) Databricks
16 9 (1.20%) Salesforce