Confluence Contract Job Trends in England

Confluence
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Confluence skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 105 159
Rank change year-on-year +11 +54 -61
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,027 647 583
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.78% 2.60% 1.54%
As % of the Application Platforms category 28.45% 22.29% 16.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 763 407 417
10th Percentile £333 £321 £363
25th Percentile £413 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £600 £614 £630
90th Percentile £726 £725 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 19
10th Percentile £26.33 £51.93 £37.00
25th Percentile £27.21 £59.50 £51.88
Median hourly rate £45.46 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.26% - +17.92%
75th Percentile £67.84 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £80.05 £74.25 £76.72
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -27.26% - +19.05%

All Application Platform Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,610 2,902 3,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.79% 11.66% 9.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,527 1,888 2,458
10th Percentile £311 £263 £225
25th Percentile £411 £400 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -4.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 57 149
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.90 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.50 £23.80 £15.46
Median hourly rate £27.21 £50.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.58% +96.08% +15.07%
75th Percentile £72.50 £64.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.75 £67.65
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £41.46 £25.50
% change year-on-year -34.01% +62.57% +13.33%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Confluence relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Confluence job vacancy trend in England

Confluence
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Confluence

Confluence
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Confluence in England over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Confluence in England

Confluence
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Confluence

Confluence
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Confluence in England over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Confluence in England

Confluence
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 15 March 2026. 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
London -1 427 £525 +5.00% 90
North of England +10 217 £455 +1.11% 35
Midlands +12 159 £435 -5.35% 34
West Midlands +6 119 £450 -5.66% 20
Yorkshire -10 111 £500 -6.37% 11
South West +7 105 £725 +26.09% 30
North West +31 103 £438 +2.94% 17
South East -52 75 £500 -0.99% 79
East Midlands -10 38 £420 - 14
East of England -29 23 £425 +3.03% 21
North East -16 3 £350 -22.22% 7
Confluence
UK

Confluence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 96 (9.35%) SharePoint
2 31 (3.02%) nginx
3 15 (1.46%) CMS
4 14 (1.36%) SAS
5 10 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.68%) Apache
7 6 (0.58%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.49%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.29%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.29%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.19%) IIS
10 2 (0.19%) JBoss
11 1 (0.097%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.097%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.097%) CICS
11 1 (0.097%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 111 (10.81%) Microsoft Project
2 99 (9.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 91 (8.86%) Microsoft Office
4 85 (8.28%) MS Visio
5 71 (6.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (1.07%) Trello
7 4 (0.39%) Notion
8 2 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.19%) InDesign
8 2 (0.19%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.097%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.097%) FrameMaker
9 1 (0.097%) MadCap Flare
9 1 (0.097%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 15 (1.46%) NetSuite
2 10 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.68%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.49%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.49%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.29%) Temenos T24
7 2 (0.19%) Actimize
7 2 (0.19%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 2 (0.19%) Maximo
7 2 (0.19%) SAP BPC
7 2 (0.19%) Shopify
7 2 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.19%) Summit
8 1 (0.097%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.097%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.097%) Primavera
8 1 (0.097%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.097%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.097%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 178 (17.33%) AWS
2 150 (14.61%) Azure
3 117 (11.39%) GitHub
4 66 (6.43%) Azure DevOps
5 60 (5.84%) Power Platform
6 35 (3.41%) GCP
7 32 (3.12%) SaaS
8 30 (2.92%) Serverless
9 27 (2.63%) Amazon S3
9 27 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 25 (2.43%) GitHub Actions
11 23 (2.24%) Amazon EC2
11 23 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
12 20 (1.95%) Entra ID
13 19 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
13 19 (1.85%) Lucidchart
13 19 (1.85%) Miro
14 18 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
14 18 (1.75%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 28 (2.73%) Firewall
2 22 (2.14%) VPN
3 20 (1.95%) TCP/IP
4 19 (1.85%) WAN
5 14 (1.36%) DNS
6 13 (1.27%) LAN
6 13 (1.27%) Network Security
7 11 (1.07%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (0.88%) Ethernet
9 9 (0.88%) SSH
9 9 (0.88%) VSAN
10 8 (0.78%) Unified Communications
11 7 (0.68%) Modbus
11 7 (0.68%) OpenVPN
11 7 (0.68%) RS-232
11 7 (0.68%) RS-485
12 6 (0.58%) SSL
13 5 (0.49%) FTP
13 5 (0.49%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (5.16%) Power BI
2 48 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
3 42 (4.09%) Tableau
4 24 (2.34%) NoSQL
5 22 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (2.04%) SQL Server
7 17 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
8 15 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
8 15 (1.46%) MongoDB
9 13 (1.27%) Big Data
9 13 (1.27%) Metadata
10 12 (1.17%) DynamoDB
11 10 (0.97%) Hadoop
12 8 (0.78%) BigQuery
12 8 (0.78%) DocumentDB
13 7 (0.68%) MySQL
13 7 (0.68%) Tick Data
14 6 (0.58%) Apache Cassandra
15 5 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
15 5 (0.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 949 (92.41%) JIRA
2 127 (12.37%) Jenkins
3 111 (10.81%) Git
4 63 (6.13%) GitLab
5 48 (4.67%) Bitbucket
6 44 (4.28%) Selenium
7 32 (3.12%) Sonatype Nexus
8 30 (2.92%) Cucumber
8 30 (2.92%) JUnit
9 29 (2.82%) Postman
10 24 (2.34%) SonarQube
11 21 (2.04%) JMeter
12 15 (1.46%) WebDriver
13 12 (1.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 12 (1.17%) Maven
14 9 (0.88%) Android Studio
14 9 (0.88%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.88%) REST Assured
15 8 (0.78%) Zephyr
16 7 (0.68%) ScriptRunner
General
1 455 (44.30%) Social Skills
2 292 (28.43%) Finance
3 204 (19.86%) Analytical Skills
4 170 (16.55%) Banking
5 135 (13.15%) Public Sector
6 53 (5.16%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (4.67%) Military
8 34 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
9 32 (3.12%) Retail
10 31 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
11 25 (2.43%) Legal
12 22 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
13 19 (1.85%) Manufacturing
13 19 (1.85%) Retail Banking
14 17 (1.66%) Investment Banking
15 16 (1.56%) Marketing
16 15 (1.46%) Financial Institution
17 14 (1.36%) Corporate Banking
18 13 (1.27%) Automotive
18 13 (1.27%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 238 (23.17%) Analyst
2 198 (19.28%) Business Analyst
3 114 (11.10%) Architect
4 92 (8.96%) Project Manager
5 81 (7.89%) Senior
6 78 (7.59%) Developer
7 73 (7.11%) Lead
8 48 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
9 40 (3.89%) Tester
10 37 (3.60%) Consultant
11 36 (3.51%) Technical Business Analyst
12 35 (3.41%) Technical Analyst
13 30 (2.92%) Service Architect
14 29 (2.82%) Delivery Manager
15 28 (2.73%) Senior Analyst
16 27 (2.63%) Scrum Master
17 26 (2.53%) Banking Analyst
18 25 (2.43%) Banking Business Analyst
19 24 (2.34%) Technical Manager
20 21 (2.04%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (6.33%) REST
2 41 (3.99%) Spring
3 28 (2.73%) RESTful
4 26 (2.53%) JSON
4 26 (2.53%) Kafka
5 22 (2.14%) HTML
6 21 (2.04%) XML
7 19 (1.85%) Spring Boot
7 19 (1.85%) WireMock
8 18 (1.75%) SOAP
9 17 (1.66%) .NET
9 17 (1.66%) ADO
9 17 (1.66%) OAuth
10 15 (1.46%) Playwright
10 15 (1.46%) React
11 14 (1.36%) Middleware
12 12 (1.17%) RabbitMQ
12 12 (1.17%) SAML
12 12 (1.17%) YAML
13 11 (1.07%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 157 (15.29%) Product Ownership
2 42 (4.09%) Cloud Native
3 35 (3.41%) Onboarding
4 27 (2.63%) Management Information System
5 22 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
6 21 (2.04%) Mobile App
7 20 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
7 20 (1.95%) PMI
8 18 (1.75%) Virtual Team
9 16 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (1.46%) Data Centre
11 14 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.17%) Distributed Architecture
13 12 (1.17%) Public Cloud
14 11 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
15 9 (0.88%) Equities
15 9 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
15 9 (0.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 8 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 89 (8.67%) Linux
2 56 (5.45%) Windows
3 23 (2.24%) Unix
4 17 (1.66%) Android
5 9 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (0.68%) FreeRTOS
7 6 (0.58%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.39%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.19%) AIX
9 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.19%) Solaris
10 1 (0.097%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.097%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 629 (61.25%) Agile
2 304 (29.60%) Stakeholder Management
3 261 (25.41%) DevOps
4 235 (22.88%) Scrum
5 209 (20.35%) Problem-Solving
6 195 (18.99%) CI/CD
7 172 (16.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 165 (16.07%) Project Management
9 158 (15.38%) User Stories
10 154 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 129 (12.56%) Acceptance Criteria
12 115 (11.20%) Test Automation
13 114 (11.10%) Project Delivery
14 111 (10.81%) Decision-Making
14 111 (10.81%) Migration
15 107 (10.42%) Change Management
16 105 (10.22%) Roadmaps
17 102 (9.93%) Workshop Facilitation
18 94 (9.15%) Kanban
18 94 (9.15%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 140 (13.63%) Python
2 121 (11.78%) SQL
3 69 (6.72%) Java
4 55 (5.36%) PowerShell
5 48 (4.67%) JavaScript
6 33 (3.21%) Bash
7 18 (1.75%) TypeScript
8 16 (1.56%) C#
9 12 (1.17%) Shell Script
10 10 (0.97%) Apex Code
10 10 (0.97%) C++
11 9 (0.88%) Kotlin
12 7 (0.68%) Embedded C++
13 6 (0.58%) Go
13 6 (0.58%) Perl
14 5 (0.49%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.29%) C
15 3 (0.29%) Embedded C
15 3 (0.29%) PHP
15 3 (0.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 341 (33.20%) Security Cleared
2 289 (28.14%) SC Cleared
3 185 (18.01%) Degree
4 56 (5.45%) PMI Certification
5 53 (5.16%) PMP
6 44 (4.28%) CISSP
6 44 (4.28%) TOGAF Certification
7 42 (4.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 35 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 34 (3.31%) CISM
10 28 (2.73%) Master's Degree
11 25 (2.43%) DV Cleared
12 20 (1.95%) CBAP
13 17 (1.66%) IIBA
14 15 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
15 14 (1.36%) AWS Certification
16 12 (1.17%) MBA
17 10 (0.97%) PhD
17 10 (0.97%) SAFe Agilist
18 9 (0.88%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (8.28%) QA
2 41 (3.99%) PMO
3 36 (3.51%) GDPR
4 30 (2.92%) Data Quality
5 22 (2.14%) NIST
6 21 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.75%) Accessibility
8 12 (1.17%) GRC
8 12 (1.17%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.88%) Basel III
10 7 (0.68%) PSD2
10 7 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.58%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.58%) SLA
12 5 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 5 (0.49%) HL7
12 5 (0.49%) MiFID
13 4 (0.39%) ISO 20022
13 4 (0.39%) P3O
13 4 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 89 (8.67%) Docker
2 14 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (1.17%) Active Directory
4 8 (0.78%) Squid
4 8 (0.78%) vSphere
5 7 (0.68%) Embedded Firmware
5 7 (0.68%) Firmware
6 3 (0.29%) HDFS
6 3 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.19%) Postfix
7 2 (0.19%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.097%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.097%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 104 (10.13%) Kubernetes
2 76 (7.40%) Terraform
3 64 (6.23%) Ansible
4 36 (3.51%) Grafana
5 30 (2.92%) OPNET
6 25 (2.43%) Prometheus
7 21 (2.04%) Consul
8 16 (1.56%) Packer
8 16 (1.56%) Puppet
9 15 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (1.17%) NetBackup
11 11 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
12 8 (0.78%) vRealize
13 7 (0.68%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
13 7 (0.68%) VxRail
14 5 (0.49%) HP Quality Center
15 4 (0.39%) HP ALM
16 3 (0.29%) CASB
16 3 (0.29%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 135 (13.15%) Atlassian
2 104 (10.13%) Microsoft
3 73 (7.11%) ServiceNow
4 53 (5.16%) Salesforce
5 44 (4.28%) Oracle
6 34 (3.31%) Remedy
7 29 (2.82%) Red Hat
8 27 (2.63%) SAP
9 23 (2.24%) BiZZdesign
10 22 (2.14%) IBM
11 19 (1.85%) Sonatype
12 18 (1.75%) Commvault
12 18 (1.75%) CyberArk
12 18 (1.75%) Splunk
13 17 (1.66%) Cisco
14 16 (1.56%) Google
14 16 (1.56%) VMware
15 15 (1.46%) Databricks
15 15 (1.46%) MuleSoft
16 12 (1.17%) Centrify