Confluence Contract Job Trends in Essex

Confluence
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring Confluence skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 15 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing Confluence 2 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 1.27% 5.19% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 33.33% 28.57% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £325 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - -
East of England median daily rate £400 £450 £375
% change year-on-year -11.11% +20.00% -26.83%

All Application Platform Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 6 14 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 3.80% 18.18% 12.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 21
10th Percentile - £216 £194
25th Percentile - £240 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £280 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -37.78% -10.45%
75th Percentile - £317 £500
90th Percentile - £322 £513
East of England median daily rate £425 £450 £375
% change year-on-year -5.56% +20.00% -21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £51.63 - -
25th Percentile £52.19 - £12.13
Median hourly rate £53.75 £200.00 £12.25
Median % change year-on-year -73.13% +1532.65% -81.30%
75th Percentile £54.69 - £12.38
90th Percentile £54.88 - -
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £66.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year -68.18% +371.43% -17.09%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Confluence job vacancy trend in Essex

Confluence
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Confluence

Confluence
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Confluence within the Essex region over the 6 months to 3 April 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
Basildon -3 2 £300 -
Confluence
East of England

Confluence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) Sauce Labs
1 2 (100.00%) TestFlight
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Android Studio
1 2 (100.00%) Appium
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Sourcetree
1 2 (100.00%) Xcode
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Quality Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) UAT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Black-Box Testing
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Fintech
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Time Management
1 2 (100.00%) White-Box Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kibana
1 2 (100.00%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Atlassian