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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 113 102
Rank change year-on-year +22 -11 -9
Contract jobs citing Confluence 453 369 469
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.19% 2.33% 2.38%
As % of the Application Platforms category 27.98% 19.18% 22.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 240 311
10th Percentile £348 £300 £380
25th Percentile £449 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £652 £675 £674
90th Percentile £738 £810 £810
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £47.33 - £35.50
25th Percentile £53.81 - £41.88
Median hourly rate £65.25 - £55.00
75th Percentile £77.31 - £61.25
90th Percentile £84.18 - £63.50
England median hourly rate £63.27 £67.26 £63.75
% change year-on-year -5.94% +5.51% +27.50%

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 1,619 1,924 2,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.40% 12.17% 10.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,110 1,273 1,477
10th Percentile £325 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £420 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £650
90th Percentile £750 £850 £775
England median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 21 25
10th Percentile - £18.00 £18.60
25th Percentile £17.50 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £26.00 £33.07 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.38% +20.25% +17.95%
75th Percentile £46.00 £39.00 £44.54
90th Percentile £87.75 £63.75 £64.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £41.91 £24.00
% change year-on-year -15.29% +74.63% +23.08%

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 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
Central London +26 71 £500 -9.09% 9
South London +9 21 £582 +22.47% 2
West London -12 6 £415 -17.00% 2
East London +4 1 £520 -5.45% 2
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 38 (8.39%) nginx
2 26 (5.74%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.87%) Apache
4 4 (0.88%) CMS
5 3 (0.66%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.66%) Traefik
6 2 (0.44%) Camunda
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.22%) Appian
7 1 (0.22%) CICS
7 1 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.22%) JBoss
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 45 (9.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (7.95%) MS Visio
3 31 (6.84%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (5.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (2.65%) Trello
7 10 (2.21%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 2 (0.44%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.44%) InDesign
8 2 (0.44%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.22%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.22%) Notion
9 1 (0.22%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 12 (2.65%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.10%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.88%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.66%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.66%) Oracle BPM
4 3 (0.66%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.44%) Shopify
6 1 (0.22%) Endur
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 112 (24.72%) AWS
2 75 (16.56%) Azure
3 51 (11.26%) GitHub
4 31 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (6.18%) Power Platform
6 26 (5.74%) Amazon S3
7 25 (5.52%) Amazon EC2
8 23 (5.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 22 (4.86%) GCP
10 21 (4.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 20 (4.42%) Serverless
12 17 (3.75%) Miro
12 17 (3.75%) SaaS
13 16 (3.53%) Slack
14 15 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
15 14 (3.09%) Amazon ECS
16 13 (2.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 11 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
18 10 (2.21%) Amazon ELB
18 10 (2.21%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.42%) Firewall
2 17 (3.75%) DNS
3 16 (3.53%) SSH
3 16 (3.53%) SSL
4 15 (3.31%) OpenLDAP
5 13 (2.87%) FTP
6 12 (2.65%) HTTP
7 11 (2.43%) SMTP
8 10 (2.21%) IMAP
9 9 (1.99%) VPN
10 6 (1.32%) SD-WAN
10 6 (1.32%) WAN
11 4 (0.88%) Network Security
12 3 (0.66%) DHCP
12 3 (0.66%) Ethernet
13 2 (0.44%) HTTPS
13 2 (0.44%) Internet
13 2 (0.44%) LAN
13 2 (0.44%) SNMP
13 2 (0.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (6.84%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (5.96%) Power BI
3 20 (4.42%) Tableau
4 17 (3.75%) SQL Server
5 16 (3.53%) Hadoop
6 14 (3.09%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (2.87%) Big Data
8 12 (2.65%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (2.43%) NoSQL
10 7 (1.55%) Metadata
11 5 (1.10%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.10%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.10%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.88%) DB2
12 4 (0.88%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.88%) Tick Data
13 3 (0.66%) Delta Lake
13 3 (0.66%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 419 (92.49%) JIRA
2 67 (14.79%) Git
3 55 (12.14%) Jenkins
4 30 (6.62%) GitLab
5 25 (5.52%) Bitbucket
6 16 (3.53%) Selenium
7 13 (2.87%) Cucumber
7 13 (2.87%) SonarQube
8 11 (2.43%) Postman
8 11 (2.43%) Vagrant
9 9 (1.99%) JUnit
10 8 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (1.77%) SpecFlow
11 7 (1.55%) Cypress.io
11 7 (1.55%) Zephyr
12 5 (1.10%) Android Studio
12 5 (1.10%) Maven
12 5 (1.10%) ScriptRunner
13 4 (0.88%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.88%) TestRail
General
1 202 (44.59%) Social Skills
2 126 (27.81%) Finance
3 72 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (15.23%) Banking
5 54 (11.92%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.42%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (4.19%) Investment Banking
8 18 (3.97%) Front Office
8 18 (3.97%) Presentation Skills
9 15 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.87%) Retail
11 11 (2.43%) Telecoms
12 10 (2.21%) Legal
13 8 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.55%) Back Office
15 6 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (1.32%) Marketing
16 5 (1.10%) Electronics
16 5 (1.10%) Manufacturing
16 5 (1.10%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 90 (19.87%) Analyst
2 77 (17.00%) Business Analyst
3 53 (11.70%) Senior
4 38 (8.39%) Project Manager
5 37 (8.17%) Developer
6 34 (7.51%) Architect
7 33 (7.28%) Lead
8 19 (4.19%) DevOps Engineer
8 19 (4.19%) Product Owner
9 18 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
10 17 (3.75%) Scrum Master
11 16 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
11 16 (3.53%) Technical Analyst
11 16 (3.53%) Technical Business Analyst
12 15 (3.31%) AWS Engineer
13 14 (3.09%) Administrator
13 14 (3.09%) Consultant
13 14 (3.09%) Data Engineer
13 14 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
14 13 (2.87%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (8.39%) REST
2 31 (6.84%) AngularJS
3 30 (6.62%) LDAP
4 25 (5.52%) .NET
4 25 (5.52%) Kafka
5 24 (5.30%) HTML
6 23 (5.08%) JSON
7 22 (4.86%) RabbitMQ
7 22 (4.86%) Web Services
8 21 (4.64%) SOAP
9 20 (4.42%) React
10 15 (3.31%) Apache NiFi
10 15 (3.31%) HTML5
11 13 (2.87%) SAML
12 12 (2.65%) Apache Camel
12 12 (2.65%) JDBC
12 12 (2.65%) jQuery
12 12 (2.65%) ODBC
12 12 (2.65%) RESTful
12 12 (2.65%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 50 (11.04%) Product Ownership
2 21 (4.64%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.31%) Management Information System
4 14 (3.09%) Cloud Native
4 14 (3.09%) Replication
5 11 (2.43%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.43%) Equities
6 10 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (2.21%) Derivative
7 9 (1.99%) NHS
8 8 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.77%) PMI
9 7 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.55%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.32%) Fixed Income
10 6 (1.32%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.32%) PKI
10 6 (1.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 5 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 55 (12.14%) Linux
2 27 (5.96%) Windows
3 19 (4.19%) Unix
4 13 (2.87%) VMS
5 11 (2.43%) Ubuntu
6 10 (2.21%) Amazon Linux
7 6 (1.32%) Android
8 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.44%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.22%) CentOS
9 1 (0.22%) Debian
9 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 307 (67.77%) Agile
2 137 (30.24%) Scrum
3 110 (24.28%) DevOps
4 95 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
5 92 (20.31%) Stakeholder Management
6 79 (17.44%) CI/CD
7 70 (15.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 66 (14.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 66 (14.57%) User Stories
9 60 (13.25%) Roadmaps
10 56 (12.36%) Project Management
11 55 (12.14%) Microservices
12 53 (11.70%) Change Management
12 53 (11.70%) Migration
13 48 (10.60%) User Acceptance Testing
14 39 (8.61%) Requirements Gathering
14 39 (8.61%) Test Automation
14 39 (8.61%) Workshop Facilitation
15 38 (8.39%) Kanban
15 38 (8.39%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (17.00%) SQL
2 74 (16.34%) Python
3 50 (11.04%) Java
4 35 (7.73%) JavaScript
5 18 (3.97%) TypeScript
6 15 (3.31%) PowerShell
7 12 (2.65%) C#
7 12 (2.65%) Go
8 11 (2.43%) Bash
8 11 (2.43%) Groovy
9 6 (1.32%) C++
9 6 (1.32%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.10%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.44%) C
11 2 (0.44%) Embedded C
11 2 (0.44%) Embedded C++
11 2 (0.44%) Korn
11 2 (0.44%) PHP
11 2 (0.44%) R
12 1 (0.22%) Swift
Qualifications
1 127 (28.04%) Security Cleared
2 125 (27.59%) SC Cleared
3 68 (15.01%) Degree
4 22 (4.86%) PMI Certification
5 19 (4.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (3.75%) DV Cleared
7 15 (3.31%) PMP
8 12 (2.65%) AWS Certification
8 12 (2.65%) CISSP
9 10 (2.21%) Azure Certification
10 9 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (1.77%) CBAP
12 7 (1.55%) CSPO
12 7 (1.55%) ISTQB
13 6 (1.32%) CESG Certified Professional
13 6 (1.32%) CFA
14 5 (1.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 3 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
16 2 (0.44%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (11.04%) QA
2 16 (3.53%) GDPR
3 14 (3.09%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.21%) PMO
5 8 (1.77%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.10%) GRC
6 5 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.10%) SEPA
7 4 (0.88%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.88%) NCSC
8 3 (0.66%) ITGC
8 3 (0.66%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.66%) PSD2
8 3 (0.66%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.66%) WCAG
9 2 (0.44%) FIPS 140-2
9 2 (0.44%) MiFID
9 2 (0.44%) NIST
10 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 56 (12.36%) Docker
2 12 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.21%) DFS Replication
3 10 (2.21%) Dovecot
3 10 (2.21%) Postfix
3 10 (2.21%) Squid
4 6 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.66%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.44%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.44%) Firmware
6 2 (0.44%) vSphere
7 1 (0.22%) etcd
7 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.22%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 50 (11.04%) Kubernetes
2 49 (10.82%) Terraform
3 22 (4.86%) Packer
4 21 (4.64%) Consul
5 18 (3.97%) Grafana
6 16 (3.53%) Ansible
7 14 (3.09%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (2.87%) Prometheus
9 10 (2.21%) Nessus
9 10 (2.21%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.88%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.88%) Puppet
11 3 (0.66%) Ambari
11 3 (0.66%) Istio
11 3 (0.66%) RSA Archer
11 3 (0.66%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.44%) Argo
13 1 (0.22%) HP Operations Orchestration
13 1 (0.22%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 48 (10.60%) Microsoft
2 47 (10.38%) ServiceNow
3 32 (7.06%) Atlassian
4 26 (5.74%) Salesforce
5 16 (3.53%) HP
6 15 (3.31%) Oracle
7 14 (3.09%) Remedy
8 13 (2.87%) Cloudera
8 13 (2.87%) Foundry
8 13 (2.87%) Google
8 13 (2.87%) Palantir
9 12 (2.65%) BMC
9 12 (2.65%) Ivanti
9 12 (2.65%) SAP
10 10 (2.21%) Jaspersoft
11 9 (1.99%) Splunk
12 7 (1.55%) Adobe
12 7 (1.55%) DocuSign
12 7 (1.55%) Duck Creek
12 7 (1.55%) VMware