Confluence Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Confluence
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Confluence skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 64 82
Rank change year-on-year -17 +18 -17
Contract jobs citing Confluence 14 33 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.08% 2.21% 1.76%
As % of the Application Platforms category 11.02% 18.03% 18.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 17
10th Percentile £409 £359 £308
25th Percentile £422 £409 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £491 £574 £606
90th Percentile £496 £585 £653
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 7
10th Percentile - - £67.54
25th Percentile £67.50 - £69.41
Median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -31.03% +45.00%
75th Percentile £73.75 - £73.75
90th Percentile £74.50 - £74.25
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - +7.69% +12.17%

All Application Platform Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 127 183 179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 9.79% 12.26% 9.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 115 110
10th Percentile £220 £220 £208
25th Percentile £400 £295 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £420 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.88% -16.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £558 £631
90th Percentile £640 £575 £704
England median daily rate £492 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -6.29% +0.96% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 18
10th Percentile £16.60 £20.40 £14.18
25th Percentile £17.33 £24.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £41.45 £30.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.17% +50.00% +46.41%
75th Percentile £72.50 £40.00 £73.44
90th Percentile £73.50 £46.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% -16.67% +114.29%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Confluence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Confluence in the East of England

Confluence
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Confluence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Confluence

Confluence
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Confluence.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Confluence

Confluence
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Confluence within the East of England region over the 6 months to 29 September 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bedfordshire -6 7 - -
Cambridgeshire -13 5 £500 +17.65% 1
Hertfordshire +2 1 £400 +6.67% 4
Norfolk -10 1 £463 -7.50% 2
Confluence
England

Confluence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 7 (50.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) JIRA
2 3 (21.43%) Artifactory
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (35.71%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Aerospace
3 2 (14.29%) Electronics
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Principal Engineer
1 5 (35.71%) Principal Systems Engineer
1 5 (35.71%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Electronics Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Validation Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Verification Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Automation Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Process Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Product Owner
3 1 (7.14%) Security Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) CSS
1 1 (7.14%) HTML
1 1 (7.14%) JSON
1 1 (7.14%) React
1 1 (7.14%) Redux
1 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (28.57%) Management Information System
3 3 (21.43%) Public Cloud
4 2 (14.29%) Virtual Team
5 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
5 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Data Management
1 7 (50.00%) PDM
1 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (42.86%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) Validation
3 5 (35.71%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 5 (35.71%) Systems Engineering
3 5 (35.71%) Verification and Validation
4 4 (28.57%) Cryptography
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (21.43%) Workload Management
6 2 (14.29%) Architecture Roadmap
6 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
6 2 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
6 2 (14.29%) Security Patching
6 2 (14.29%) SOAR
6 2 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Bash
2 3 (21.43%) Perl
3 2 (14.29%) MATLAB
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Ansible
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Google
1 3 (21.43%) IBM
1 3 (21.43%) Red Hat
2 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow