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 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 102 126
Rank change year-on-year +12 +24 -43
Contract jobs citing Confluence 879 722 768
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.81% 2.49% 2.06%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.50% 22.58% 20.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 660 461 528
10th Percentile £330 £313 £380
25th Percentile £422 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £660
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +1.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 29
10th Percentile £27.21 £47.89 £51.00
25th Percentile £39.00 £59.94 £55.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £67.27
Median % change year-on-year - -7.08% +31.89%
75th Percentile £71.50 £69.26 £72.50
90th Percentile £82.00 £70.88 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £67.27
% change year-on-year -4.00% -7.08% +31.89%

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 3,317 3,198 3,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.62% 11.04% 9.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,283 2,004 2,509
10th Percentile £290 £263 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £725 £775 £712
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 67 126
10th Percentile £15.60 £17.05 £14.02
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £32.77 £41.91 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.81% +67.64% +37.17%
75th Percentile £69.36 £64.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.40 £70.50 £73.13
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £35.00 £26.39
% change year-on-year -22.26% +32.63% +42.84%

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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 2025.

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 18 December 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
London -8 419 £550 - 68
North of England -10 168 £500 -2.91% 32
Yorkshire -15 102 £513 -0.97% 18
Midlands +15 94 £444 -6.97% 29
South West +11 92 £725 +15.31% 20
South East -17 75 £511 +8.72% 55
West Midlands +17 72 £450 -10.00% 20
North West 0 57 £465 -10.14% 14
East Midlands -6 21 £380 -9.52% 9
East of England -33 15 £425 - 8
North East -3 9 £520 +15.56% 1
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 70 (7.96%) SharePoint
2 32 (3.64%) nginx
3 16 (1.82%) CMS
4 11 (1.25%) Apache
5 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.34%) Traefik
6 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.23%) CICS
6 2 (0.23%) IIS
7 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.11%) FileNet
7 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.11%) WordPress
Applications
1 93 (10.58%) Microsoft Project
2 89 (10.13%) Microsoft Office
3 76 (8.65%) Microsoft Excel
4 73 (8.30%) MS Visio
5 49 (5.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 14 (1.59%) Trello
7 11 (1.25%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 5 (0.57%) Notion
9 2 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.23%) InDesign
9 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.11%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.11%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.11%) MadCap Flare
10 1 (0.11%) OmniGraffle
10 1 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (1.48%) NetSuite
2 9 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.46%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.34%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.34%) Oracle BPM
5 3 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.34%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.23%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.23%) Shopify
7 1 (0.11%) Endur
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.11%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.11%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.11%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.11%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 145 (16.50%) AWS
2 120 (13.65%) Azure
3 90 (10.24%) GitHub
4 46 (5.23%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (4.78%) Power Platform
6 36 (4.10%) Amazon EC2
6 36 (4.10%) Amazon S3
7 33 (3.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 33 (3.75%) GCP
8 28 (3.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 26 (2.96%) Serverless
10 24 (2.73%) Miro
10 24 (2.73%) SaaS
11 23 (2.62%) GitHub Actions
11 23 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
11 23 (2.62%) Slack
12 21 (2.39%) Amazon ECS
12 21 (2.39%) Lucidchart
13 19 (2.16%) Amazon ELB
13 19 (2.16%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (4.89%) Firewall
2 37 (4.21%) SSH
3 25 (2.84%) DNS
4 21 (2.39%) FTP
5 20 (2.28%) HTTP
5 20 (2.28%) SMTP
6 16 (1.82%) OpenLDAP
6 16 (1.82%) SSL
7 15 (1.71%) VPN
8 11 (1.25%) IMAP
9 10 (1.14%) WAN
10 9 (1.02%) SD-WAN
10 9 (1.02%) VSAN
11 7 (0.80%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.68%) Network Security
13 5 (0.57%) Kerberos
13 5 (0.57%) LAN
14 4 (0.46%) BGP
14 4 (0.46%) Ethernet
14 4 (0.46%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
1 40 (4.55%) Power BI
2 34 (3.87%) Tableau
3 26 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (2.73%) SQL Server
5 23 (2.62%) NoSQL
6 17 (1.93%) Big Data
7 16 (1.82%) Hadoop
8 15 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (1.48%) Amazon Aurora
9 13 (1.48%) Metadata
10 9 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
10 9 (1.02%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.91%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.80%) MySQL
13 6 (0.68%) Redis
14 5 (0.57%) Apache Cassandra
14 5 (0.57%) Couchbase
14 5 (0.57%) Oracle Database
15 4 (0.46%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 810 (92.15%) JIRA
2 120 (13.65%) Jenkins
3 94 (10.69%) Git
4 56 (6.37%) GitLab
5 54 (6.14%) Bitbucket
6 29 (3.30%) Selenium
7 22 (2.50%) Cucumber
8 21 (2.39%) Vagrant
9 20 (2.28%) Postman
10 19 (2.16%) Sonatype Nexus
11 18 (2.05%) SonarQube
12 11 (1.25%) JUnit
13 9 (1.02%) SpecFlow
14 8 (0.91%) Cypress.io
15 7 (0.80%) Maven
15 7 (0.80%) REST Assured
16 6 (0.68%) ScriptRunner
17 5 (0.57%) Android Studio
17 5 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 5 (0.57%) Zephyr
General
1 407 (46.30%) Social Skills
2 238 (27.08%) Finance
3 169 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (12.86%) Banking
5 112 (12.74%) Public Sector
6 41 (4.66%) Military
7 30 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
8 29 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
9 27 (3.07%) Presentation Skills
10 24 (2.73%) Retail
11 20 (2.28%) Legal
11 20 (2.28%) Manufacturing
12 19 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (1.93%) Investment Banking
14 16 (1.82%) Front Office
14 16 (1.82%) Telecoms
15 13 (1.48%) Automotive
16 10 (1.14%) Marketing
16 10 (1.14%) Publishing
17 8 (0.91%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 180 (20.48%) Analyst
2 140 (15.93%) Business Analyst
3 87 (9.90%) Architect
4 86 (9.78%) Project Manager
5 73 (8.30%) Senior
6 61 (6.94%) Developer
7 57 (6.48%) Lead
8 39 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
9 36 (4.10%) DevOps Engineer
10 32 (3.64%) Product Owner
11 30 (3.41%) Service Architect
12 29 (3.30%) Scrum Master
13 28 (3.19%) Technical Analyst
14 27 (3.07%) AWS DevOps
14 27 (3.07%) Delivery Manager
14 27 (3.07%) Technical Business Analyst
15 26 (2.96%) AWS Engineer
15 26 (2.96%) Consultant
15 26 (2.96%) Platform Engineer
15 26 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (7.39%) REST
2 35 (3.98%) Kafka
3 33 (3.75%) LDAP
4 29 (3.30%) .NET
4 29 (3.30%) HTML
5 27 (3.07%) JSON
6 26 (2.96%) RESTful
7 25 (2.84%) SOAP
8 24 (2.73%) RabbitMQ
9 23 (2.62%) AngularJS
10 20 (2.28%) SAML
11 17 (1.93%) Web Services
12 16 (1.82%) OAuth
12 16 (1.82%) Spring
13 15 (1.71%) Apache NiFi
13 15 (1.71%) Playwright
13 15 (1.71%) React
14 14 (1.59%) Middleware
14 14 (1.59%) XML
15 13 (1.48%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 145 (16.50%) Product Ownership
2 38 (4.32%) Onboarding
3 31 (3.53%) Cloud Native
4 24 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
5 23 (2.62%) Replication
6 21 (2.39%) Management Information System
7 20 (2.28%) Mobile App
8 17 (1.93%) Data Centre
9 15 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
9 15 (1.71%) PMI
10 14 (1.59%) Tandem
11 13 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
13 11 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (1.25%) Equities
13 11 (1.25%) Virtual Team
14 10 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (1.14%) NHS
15 8 (0.91%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 81 (9.22%) Linux
2 71 (8.08%) Windows
3 32 (3.64%) Unix
4 23 (2.62%) VMS
5 19 (2.16%) Amazon Linux
6 12 (1.37%) Ubuntu
7 10 (1.14%) Android
8 9 (1.02%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.34%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.23%) CentOS
10 2 (0.23%) Debian
10 2 (0.23%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.23%) Solaris
10 2 (0.23%) zOS
11 1 (0.11%) AIX
11 1 (0.11%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.11%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.11%) MVS
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 560 (63.71%) Agile
2 224 (25.48%) DevOps
2 224 (25.48%) Stakeholder Management
3 211 (24.00%) Scrum
4 180 (20.48%) Problem-Solving
5 146 (16.61%) Project Management
6 144 (16.38%) CI/CD
7 129 (14.68%) Change Management
8 126 (14.33%) User Stories
9 123 (13.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 121 (13.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 99 (11.26%) Acceptance Criteria
12 98 (11.15%) Roadmaps
13 97 (11.04%) Migration
14 96 (10.92%) Project Delivery
15 93 (10.58%) ITIL
16 84 (9.56%) Decision-Making
17 82 (9.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 80 (9.10%) Test Automation
18 80 (9.10%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 149 (16.95%) Python
2 105 (11.95%) SQL
3 62 (7.05%) Java
4 58 (6.60%) PowerShell
5 50 (5.69%) JavaScript
6 32 (3.64%) Bash
7 24 (2.73%) Go
8 21 (2.39%) C#
9 19 (2.16%) Groovy
10 15 (1.71%) Perl
11 14 (1.59%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.80%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.68%) Kotlin
14 5 (0.57%) C++
14 5 (0.57%) PHP
15 3 (0.34%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.34%) R
15 3 (0.34%) Shell Script
16 2 (0.23%) C
16 2 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 252 (28.67%) Security Cleared
2 232 (26.39%) SC Cleared
3 180 (20.48%) Degree
4 46 (5.23%) PMI Certification
5 41 (4.66%) TOGAF Certification
6 37 (4.21%) PMP
7 35 (3.98%) CISSP
8 32 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 30 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
10 26 (2.96%) CISM
11 25 (2.84%) DV Cleared
12 22 (2.50%) CBAP
13 18 (2.05%) Master's Degree
14 15 (1.71%) CSPO
15 14 (1.59%) AWS Certification
16 12 (1.37%) Azure Certification
17 10 (1.14%) PhD
18 7 (0.80%) CFA
18 7 (0.80%) ISTQB
19 6 (0.68%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (8.76%) QA
2 28 (3.19%) GDPR
3 27 (3.07%) PMO
4 22 (2.50%) Accessibility
5 16 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 13 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.37%) Data Quality
8 11 (1.25%) NIST
9 7 (0.80%) GRC
9 7 (0.80%) ISO 20022
9 7 (0.80%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.80%) PSD2
9 7 (0.80%) WCAG
10 5 (0.57%) NCSC
10 5 (0.57%) SEPA
11 4 (0.46%) Basel III
11 4 (0.46%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.34%) ITGC
13 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.23%) FIPS 140-2
System Software
1 82 (9.33%) Docker
2 24 (2.73%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (2.05%) DFS Replication
5 11 (1.25%) Dovecot
5 11 (1.25%) Postfix
5 11 (1.25%) Squid
6 10 (1.14%) vSphere
7 7 (0.80%) Firmware
8 5 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.34%) VMware NSX
10 2 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.23%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.23%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.11%) KVM
11 1 (0.11%) NFS
11 1 (0.11%) SRDF
11 1 (0.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 1 (0.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 78 (8.87%) Kubernetes
2 72 (8.19%) Terraform
3 57 (6.48%) Ansible
4 32 (3.64%) Grafana
5 30 (3.41%) OPNET
6 26 (2.96%) Prometheus
7 17 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (1.71%) Packer
8 15 (1.71%) Puppet
9 14 (1.59%) NetBackup
10 13 (1.48%) Consul
11 11 (1.25%) Nessus
12 10 (1.14%) Proxmox
13 8 (0.91%) vRealize
14 7 (0.80%) VxRail
15 6 (0.68%) SCCM
16 5 (0.57%) Istio
17 4 (0.46%) Progress Chef
18 3 (0.34%) Ambari
18 3 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 110 (12.51%) Atlassian
2 94 (10.69%) Microsoft
3 85 (9.67%) ServiceNow
4 46 (5.23%) Remedy
5 44 (5.01%) Oracle
6 40 (4.55%) Salesforce
7 25 (2.84%) IBM
8 23 (2.62%) VMware
9 22 (2.50%) HP
10 21 (2.39%) Commvault
11 20 (2.28%) Cisco
11 20 (2.28%) Google
12 19 (2.16%) BiZZdesign
13 18 (2.05%) SAP
14 17 (1.93%) CyberArk
14 17 (1.93%) Red Hat
15 13 (1.48%) Cloudera
15 13 (1.48%) Foundry
15 13 (1.48%) Palantir
15 13 (1.48%) Splunk