Confluence Contract Job Trends in London

Confluence
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Confluence skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 102 122
Rank change year-on-year -32 +20 -22
Contract jobs citing Confluence 444 382 353
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.20% 2.86% 2.18%
As % of the Application Platforms category 21.53% 24.76% 17.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 265 240
10th Percentile £405 £339 £308
25th Percentile £450 £450 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £670 £675
90th Percentile £701 £750 £800
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile - £47.33 £22.98
25th Percentile £61.25 £53.81 £24.44
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.25 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +113.93% -39.00%
75th Percentile £77.50 £77.31 £41.56
90th Percentile £84.25 £84.18 £55.63
England median hourly rate £67.47 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.61% - +12.00%

All Application Platform Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 2,062 1,543 2,048
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.23% 11.56% 12.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,368 1,032 1,463
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £668 £761
90th Percentile £711 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 24 27
10th Percentile £19.03 £24.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £22.83 £26.00 £21.50
Median hourly rate £28.40 £33.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.24% +17.54% -9.52%
75th Percentile £41.68 £53.75 £48.13
90th Percentile £73.30 £88.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £41.45 £47.50
% change year-on-year -21.59% -12.74% +2.86%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Confluence job vacancy trend in London

Confluence
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Confluence

Confluence
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Confluence in London over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Confluence in London

Confluence
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Confluence

Confluence
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Confluence in London over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Confluence in London

Confluence
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Confluence within the London region over the 6 months to 14 September 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
Central London -28 53 £540 +5.37% 31
South London -14 15 £550 -4.84% 1
West London -23 6 £838 +101.81% 6
North London - 3 - -
East London +2 1 £550 +5.77% 3
Confluence
England

Confluence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 33 (7.43%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.80%) CMS
3 6 (1.35%) nginx
4 5 (1.13%) Camunda
5 4 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.90%) SAS
6 3 (0.68%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.68%) JBoss
7 2 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.23%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.23%) Apache
8 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.23%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.23%) Appian
8 1 (0.23%) Drupal
8 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.23%) Mule
Applications
1 40 (9.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (7.66%) MS Visio
3 28 (6.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (4.05%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (3.15%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (1.13%) Notion
6 5 (1.13%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.90%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.90%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.90%) Final Cut Pro
8 3 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.23%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.23%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.23%) Sketch
9 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.58%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (1.35%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.45%) Actimize
3 2 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.45%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
3 2 (0.45%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.45%) Summit
4 1 (0.23%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.23%) Endur
4 1 (0.23%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.23%) OneSumX
4 1 (0.23%) Primavera
4 1 (0.23%) SAP IS-U
4 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 100 (22.52%) AWS
2 95 (21.40%) Azure
3 53 (11.94%) GitHub
4 44 (9.91%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (8.78%) Amazon S3
6 35 (7.88%) Power Platform
7 28 (6.31%) Serverless
8 25 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (5.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 24 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
10 21 (4.73%) GCP
11 19 (4.28%) Figma
11 19 (4.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 17 (3.83%) SaaS
13 15 (3.38%) OpenShift
14 14 (3.15%) Miro
15 12 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (2.70%) OCI
16 10 (2.25%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.93%) HTTP
2 12 (2.70%) DNS
2 12 (2.70%) Firewall
3 11 (2.48%) SSL
3 11 (2.48%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.58%) Network Security
4 7 (1.58%) SSH
5 4 (0.90%) IPv4
5 4 (0.90%) OpenVPN
6 3 (0.68%) Internet
6 3 (0.68%) IPv6
6 3 (0.68%) VPN
7 2 (0.45%) Broadband
7 2 (0.45%) DSL
7 2 (0.45%) FTP
7 2 (0.45%) IMAP
7 2 (0.45%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (0.45%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.45%) SMTP
7 2 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (7.66%) Power BI
2 25 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (3.38%) Amazon Redshift
3 15 (3.38%) SQL Server
4 13 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (2.93%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (2.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (2.25%) Metadata
8 9 (2.03%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (2.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 9 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (1.80%) DynamoDB
10 7 (1.58%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.58%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.58%) Tableau
11 6 (1.35%) Oracle Database
12 5 (1.13%) BigQuery
13 3 (0.68%) Big Data
13 3 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 399 (89.86%) JIRA
2 72 (16.22%) Git
3 42 (9.46%) Jenkins
4 29 (6.53%) GitLab
5 14 (3.15%) Selenium
6 13 (2.93%) Sonatype Nexus
7 12 (2.70%) Cypress.io
8 10 (2.25%) REST Assured
9 9 (2.03%) Bitbucket
9 9 (2.03%) Zephyr
10 8 (1.80%) JUnit
10 8 (1.80%) Maven
10 8 (1.80%) Mockito
11 7 (1.58%) SonarQube
12 6 (1.35%) Gradle
12 6 (1.35%) JMeter
12 6 (1.35%) Postman
13 5 (1.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 5 (1.13%) Bitbucket Server
13 5 (1.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 172 (38.74%) Social Skills
2 170 (38.29%) Finance
3 102 (22.97%) Banking
4 87 (19.59%) Analytical Skills
5 72 (16.22%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.50%) Retail
7 18 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.03%) Financial Institution
9 9 (2.03%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.80%) Legal
10 8 (1.80%) Military
10 8 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.58%) Retail Banking
11 7 (1.58%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.35%) Front Office
12 6 (1.35%) Law
13 5 (1.13%) Aviation
13 5 (1.13%) Police
Job Titles
1 93 (20.95%) Analyst
2 71 (15.99%) Business Analyst
3 48 (10.81%) Lead
4 44 (9.91%) Developer
5 42 (9.46%) Senior
6 22 (4.95%) Architect
7 19 (4.28%) Product Owner
7 19 (4.28%) Scrum Master
8 16 (3.60%) Consultant
8 16 (3.60%) Delivery Manager
9 14 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
10 13 (2.93%) Data Engineer
10 13 (2.93%) Project Manager
10 13 (2.93%) Senior Analyst
11 12 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
12 10 (2.25%) Banking Analyst
12 10 (2.25%) Product Manager
13 9 (2.03%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (2.03%) Senior Business Analyst
13 9 (2.03%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (13.96%) Terraform
2 34 (7.66%) REST
3 21 (4.73%) React
4 18 (4.05%) AngularJS
5 12 (2.70%) HTML
5 12 (2.70%) JSON
6 11 (2.48%) CSS
6 11 (2.48%) RESTful
6 11 (2.48%) SOAP
7 10 (2.25%) Node.js
8 9 (2.03%) Kafka
8 9 (2.03%) Lightning Web Components
8 9 (2.03%) Playwright
8 9 (2.03%) PySpark
8 9 (2.03%) Spring Boot
9 8 (1.80%) Loki
10 7 (1.58%) JPA
10 7 (1.58%) OAuth
10 7 (1.58%) OAuth2
10 7 (1.58%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 85 (19.14%) Product Ownership
2 29 (6.53%) Onboarding
3 25 (5.63%) Cloud Native
4 15 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.93%) Data Centre
6 12 (2.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 12 (2.70%) Virtual Team
7 11 (2.48%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (2.25%) Clustering
9 9 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (2.03%) Replication
10 8 (1.80%) Credit Risk
10 8 (1.80%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.35%) Market Risk
12 6 (1.35%) Mobile App
13 5 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
13 5 (1.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 5 (1.13%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.41%) Linux
2 17 (3.83%) Windows
3 9 (2.03%) Amazon Linux
4 6 (1.35%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.68%) Unix
6 2 (0.45%) Android
6 2 (0.45%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.45%) VMS
6 2 (0.45%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.23%) SUSE
7 1 (0.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 300 (67.57%) Agile
2 168 (37.84%) Stakeholder Management
3 124 (27.93%) DevOps
4 113 (25.45%) CI/CD
5 107 (24.10%) Scrum
6 104 (23.42%) Problem-Solving
7 86 (19.37%) User Stories
8 74 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 73 (16.44%) Migration
10 69 (15.54%) Test Automation
11 62 (13.96%) User Acceptance Testing
12 61 (13.74%) AI
13 57 (12.84%) Business Analysis
13 57 (12.84%) Infrastructure as Code
14 53 (11.94%) Acceptance Criteria
14 53 (11.94%) Requirements Gathering
14 53 (11.94%) SDLC
14 53 (11.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 51 (11.49%) Workshop Facilitation
16 49 (11.04%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 82 (18.47%) SQL
2 75 (16.89%) Python
3 42 (9.46%) Java
4 22 (4.95%) JavaScript
4 22 (4.95%) PowerShell
5 18 (4.05%) TypeScript
6 17 (3.83%) Bash
7 15 (3.38%) Groovy
8 9 (2.03%) Apex Code
8 9 (2.03%) Perl
9 7 (1.58%) PL/SQL
10 6 (1.35%) C#
11 3 (0.68%) Korn
11 3 (0.68%) Swift
11 3 (0.68%) VBA
12 2 (0.45%) Cypher
12 2 (0.45%) Go
12 2 (0.45%) R
12 2 (0.45%) SHACL
12 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 157 (35.36%) Security Cleared
2 144 (32.43%) SC Cleared
3 41 (9.23%) Degree
4 26 (5.86%) DV Cleared
5 18 (4.05%) AWS Certification
6 15 (3.38%) PMI Certification
7 11 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (2.25%) PMP
9 9 (2.03%) Azure Certification
9 9 (2.03%) IIBA
10 8 (1.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 7 (1.58%) CBAP
11 7 (1.58%) ISTQB
12 6 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (1.35%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.68%) CISSP
13 3 (0.68%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.45%) ISEB
14 2 (0.45%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (13.29%) QA
2 30 (6.76%) Data Quality
3 21 (4.73%) PMO
4 13 (2.93%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.35%) GDPR
5 6 (1.35%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.35%) SEPA
5 6 (1.35%) WCAG
6 5 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.13%) SLA
7 4 (0.90%) MiFID
8 3 (0.68%) EMIR
8 3 (0.68%) NIST
9 2 (0.45%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.45%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.45%) NCSC
10 1 (0.23%) HL7
10 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.23%) WAI
System Software
1 34 (7.66%) Docker
2 17 (3.83%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.45%) DFS Replication
4 2 (0.45%) Dovecot
4 2 (0.45%) Postfix
4 2 (0.45%) Squid
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 34 (7.66%) Grafana
2 19 (4.28%) Ansible
3 18 (4.05%) Kubernetes
3 18 (4.05%) Prometheus
4 13 (2.93%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (2.70%) Argo
6 8 (1.80%) Control-M
7 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Clustering
7 6 (1.35%) SCOM
8 4 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.90%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.90%) PingFederate
8 4 (0.90%) Podman
9 3 (0.68%) Consul
9 3 (0.68%) Istio
9 3 (0.68%) SELinux
10 2 (0.45%) Kibana
10 2 (0.45%) Nessus
10 2 (0.45%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.45%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 64 (14.41%) Microsoft
2 42 (9.46%) ServiceNow
3 21 (4.73%) Salesforce
4 19 (4.28%) Oracle
4 19 (4.28%) Splunk
5 18 (4.05%) Atlassian
5 18 (4.05%) Google
5 18 (4.05%) IBM
6 16 (3.60%) SAP
7 10 (2.25%) Informatica
8 7 (1.58%) BMC
8 7 (1.58%) Remedy
8 7 (1.58%) xMatters
9 6 (1.35%) Adobe
9 6 (1.35%) Commvault
9 6 (1.35%) Databricks
9 6 (1.35%) Temenos
9 6 (1.35%) VMware
10 5 (1.13%) Ping Identity
10 5 (1.13%) Red Hat