Confluence Contracts in Cheshire

Confluence
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Confluence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Confluence over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 33 47
Rank change year-on-year +2 +14 0
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Confluence 42 22 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 6.67% 4.40% 0.46%
As % of the Application Platforms category 36.21% 40.00% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 20 2
10th Percentile £300 £385 £454
25th Percentile £350 £483 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £506 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.97% +6.53% +16.71%
75th Percentile £488 £555 £495
90th Percentile £638 £590 £504
North West median daily rate £425 £512 £525
% change year-on-year -17.03% -2.43% -4.55%

All Application Platform Skills
Cheshire

Confluence falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills in Cheshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 116 55 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 18.41% 11.00% 8.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 46 23
10th Percentile £268 £311 £217
25th Percentile £330 £353 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £389 £489 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.55% +2.95% +16.71%
75th Percentile £438 £551 £638
90th Percentile £539 £577 £648
North West median daily rate £410 £463 £500
% change year-on-year -11.35% -7.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £22.16
25th Percentile - - £22.40
Median hourly rate - - £22.53
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.54%
75th Percentile - - £26.90
90th Percentile - - £34.76
North West median hourly rate £47.12 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +17.80% +110.53% -70.30%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Confluence in Cheshire

Confluence
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Confluence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Confluence

Confluence
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Confluence in Cheshire over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Confluence in Cheshire

Confluence
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Confluence within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford -7 31 £402 -20.71% 2
Crewe - 4 £410 - 2
Chester - 2 £638 - 2
Wilmslow - 2 £663 -
Confluence
North West

Confluence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 4 (9.52%) SharePoint
2 3 (7.14%) Apache
2 3 (7.14%) nginx
2 3 (7.14%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (9.52%) MS Visio
2 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (4.76%) InVision
3 2 (4.76%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.14%) AWS
2 2 (4.76%) Azure
2 2 (4.76%) Datadog
2 2 (4.76%) GitHub
2 2 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (2.38%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.38%) OneDrive
3 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) SSH
1 2 (4.76%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.38%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.38%) MySQL
3 1 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 41 (97.62%) JIRA
2 6 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 6 (14.29%) Selenium
3 5 (11.90%) Git
4 4 (9.52%) Bitbucket
4 4 (9.52%) JUnit
4 4 (9.52%) Maven
4 4 (9.52%) SonarQube
4 4 (9.52%) Subversion
5 3 (7.14%) Cucumber
5 3 (7.14%) Gerrit
5 3 (7.14%) GitLab
5 3 (7.14%) Mockito
5 3 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (4.76%) Artifactory
6 2 (4.76%) Axure RP
6 2 (4.76%) SpecFlow
7 1 (2.38%) Appium
7 1 (2.38%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (2.38%) Gradle
General
1 14 (33.33%) Finance
2 13 (30.95%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (30.95%) Social Skills
3 8 (19.05%) Banking
4 4 (9.52%) Automotive
4 4 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (9.52%) Legal
5 2 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Marketing
6 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (28.57%) Analyst
2 11 (26.19%) Business Analyst
3 7 (16.67%) Developer
4 6 (14.29%) Engineering Manager
5 4 (9.52%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (7.14%) Java Developer
6 3 (7.14%) UI Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Scrum Master
7 2 (4.76%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.38%) Junior
8 1 (2.38%) Junior Business Analyst
8 1 (2.38%) Principal Software Engineer
8 1 (2.38%) Programme Manager
8 1 (2.38%) Project Manager
8 1 (2.38%) QA Engineer
8 1 (2.38%) Risk Manager
8 1 (2.38%) Service Analyst
8 1 (2.38%) Technical Business Analyst
8 1 (2.38%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.81%) CSS
1 10 (23.81%) HTML
2 7 (16.67%) React
3 5 (11.90%) Node.js
4 4 (9.52%) AngularJS
4 4 (9.52%) Hibernate
4 4 (9.52%) jQuery
4 4 (9.52%) Spring Boot
5 3 (7.14%) HTML5
5 3 (7.14%) Jest
5 3 (7.14%) JPA
5 3 (7.14%) lodash
5 3 (7.14%) React Native
5 3 (7.14%) Redux
6 2 (4.76%) .NET
6 2 (4.76%) CSS3
6 2 (4.76%) Gherkin
6 2 (4.76%) Playwright
7 1 (2.38%) J2EE
7 1 (2.38%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.05%) Product Ownership
2 4 (9.52%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.76%) PKI
3 2 (4.76%) Tandem
4 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.38%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.38%) PMI
4 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.14%) Apple iOS
1 3 (7.14%) Windows
2 2 (4.76%) Android
2 2 (4.76%) Unix
3 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (83.33%) Agile
2 15 (35.71%) Microservices
2 15 (35.71%) Project Management
2 15 (35.71%) Scrum
3 14 (33.33%) DevOps
4 11 (26.19%) Coaching
5 10 (23.81%) CI/CD
5 10 (23.81%) Test Automation
6 9 (21.43%) Change Management
7 8 (19.05%) Business Analysis
7 8 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (19.05%) Process Improvement
7 8 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (16.67%) Agile Project Management
8 7 (16.67%) Decision-Making
8 7 (16.67%) Epics
8 7 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
8 7 (16.67%) TDD
8 7 (16.67%) User Stories
9 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 14 (33.33%) Java
2 13 (30.95%) JavaScript
3 8 (19.05%) SQL
4 3 (7.14%) Python
5 2 (4.76%) C#
6 1 (2.38%) Bash
6 1 (2.38%) Ruby
6 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) Degree
2 4 (9.52%) CBAP
2 4 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (9.52%) IIBA
2 4 (9.52%) ISEB
3 2 (4.76%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.38%) CSPO
4 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.38%) PMP
4 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.76%) COBIT
2 2 (4.76%) GDPR
2 2 (4.76%) QA
3 1 (2.38%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.38%) PSD2
3 1 (2.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (9.52%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.76%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.38%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (2.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.14%) CA Agile Central
2 3 (7.14%) ServiceNow
2 3 (7.14%) Veracode
3 2 (4.76%) Atlassian
3 2 (4.76%) IBM
4 1 (2.38%) Okta
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle
4 1 (2.38%) UiPath