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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 127 156
Rank change year-on-year +14 +29 -44
Contract jobs citing Confluence 425 290 281
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.39% 2.31% 1.59%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.39% 19.73% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 177 189
10th Percentile £363 £313 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -3.26% -10.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £707 £750 £778
England median daily rate £500 £512 £531
% change year-on-year -2.34% -3.62% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £21.25
25th Percentile £61.25 - £22.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £26.75
75th Percentile £63.75 - £37.94
90th Percentile - - £52.50
England median hourly rate £62.75 £63.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year -1.57% +2.00% +8.70%

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 1,674 1,470 1,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.40% 11.69% 11.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,125 992 1,473
10th Percentile £363 £350 £263
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 9 28
10th Percentile £15.40 £25.56 £15.50
25th Percentile £17.50 £26.04 £22.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £27.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -6.85% -6.09% -17.86%
75th Percentile £28.88 £50.00 £34.75
90th Percentile £70.09 £53.75 £59.38
England median hourly rate £27.86 £51.25 £25.50
% change year-on-year -45.65% +100.98% -24.44%

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 6 May 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
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 6 May 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 -29 42 £550 -4.35% 17
South London +8 29 £519 +9.17% 1
West London -24 8 £650 +44.44% 4
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 42 (9.88%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.29%) nginx
3 6 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.18%) CMS
5 3 (0.71%) Apache
5 3 (0.71%) SAS
5 3 (0.71%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.47%) JBoss
6 2 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.24%) CICS
7 1 (0.24%) Drupal
Applications
1 47 (11.06%) MS Visio
2 35 (8.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (6.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 26 (6.12%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.41%) Notion
6 5 (1.18%) Trello
7 2 (0.47%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.24%) InDesign
8 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.82%) NetSuite
2 6 (1.41%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.94%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.71%) Actimize
4 3 (0.71%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.71%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.47%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 2 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.47%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.47%) Shopify
5 2 (0.47%) Summit
6 1 (0.24%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.24%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.24%) MetaTrader
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 71 (16.71%) AWS
2 63 (14.82%) Azure
3 34 (8.00%) Power Platform
4 33 (7.76%) GitHub
5 29 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (5.65%) Amazon S3
7 22 (5.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 21 (4.94%) SaaS
9 19 (4.47%) Serverless
10 17 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
10 17 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
10 17 (4.00%) Figma
11 13 (3.06%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (3.06%) GCP
12 11 (2.59%) Entra ID
12 11 (2.59%) Miro
13 10 (2.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 10 (2.35%) Apigee
14 9 (2.12%) Lucidchart
14 9 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.76%) Firewall
2 13 (3.06%) VPN
3 8 (1.88%) DNS
3 8 (1.88%) SSL
4 7 (1.65%) Ethernet
4 7 (1.65%) LAN
4 7 (1.65%) Modbus
4 7 (1.65%) OpenVPN
4 7 (1.65%) RS-232
4 7 (1.65%) RS-485
4 7 (1.65%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.65%) WAN
5 5 (1.18%) Network Security
6 4 (0.94%) FTP
6 4 (0.94%) PSTN
6 4 (0.94%) Unified Communications
6 4 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.71%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (0.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 3 (0.71%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (6.59%) Power BI
2 19 (4.47%) Tableau
3 15 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (2.35%) Metadata
5 9 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (2.12%) SQL Server
6 8 (1.88%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.65%) BigQuery
8 6 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.18%) Big Data
9 5 (1.18%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.18%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.94%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.71%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.71%) DocumentDB
11 3 (0.71%) Spark SQL
11 3 (0.71%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 392 (92.24%) JIRA
2 54 (12.71%) Git
3 25 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.76%) Selenium
5 15 (3.53%) Bitbucket
6 14 (3.29%) GitLab
7 12 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
8 11 (2.59%) SonarQube
9 10 (2.35%) Cypress.io
10 5 (1.18%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.18%) ScriptRunner
10 5 (1.18%) Zephyr
11 4 (0.94%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.94%) JMeter
11 4 (0.94%) JUnit
11 4 (0.94%) Postman
11 4 (0.94%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.94%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.71%) Ant
12 3 (0.71%) Appium
General
1 161 (37.88%) Finance
1 161 (37.88%) Social Skills
2 89 (20.94%) Analytical Skills
3 79 (18.59%) Banking
4 72 (16.94%) Public Sector
5 28 (6.59%) Documentation Skills
6 22 (5.18%) Legal
7 17 (4.00%) Retail
8 15 (3.53%) Financial Institution
9 14 (3.29%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.82%) Marketing
11 12 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (2.35%) Investment Banking
13 8 (1.88%) Front Office
14 6 (1.41%) Military
14 6 (1.41%) Publishing
15 5 (1.18%) Corporate Banking
15 5 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 3 (0.71%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 112 (26.35%) Analyst
2 99 (23.29%) Business Analyst
3 47 (11.06%) Developer
4 45 (10.59%) Senior
5 39 (9.18%) Lead
6 28 (6.59%) Project Manager
7 25 (5.88%) Architect
8 22 (5.18%) Delivery Manager
9 20 (4.71%) Consultant
10 19 (4.47%) Senior Analyst
11 14 (3.29%) Banking Analyst
11 14 (3.29%) Technical Analyst
11 14 (3.29%) Technical Business Analyst
12 13 (3.06%) Banking Business Analyst
13 12 (2.82%) Salesforce Developer
13 12 (2.82%) Senior Business Analyst
13 12 (2.82%) Technical Manager
14 11 (2.59%) Scrum Master
15 10 (2.35%) Data Business Analyst
16 9 (2.12%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.00%) REST
2 15 (3.53%) React
3 12 (2.82%) OpenID
4 11 (2.59%) AngularJS
4 11 (2.59%) LDAP
4 11 (2.59%) Lightning Web Components
5 9 (2.12%) ADO
5 9 (2.12%) RESTful
5 9 (2.12%) Spring
6 8 (1.88%) .NET
6 8 (1.88%) HTML
6 8 (1.88%) Kafka
6 8 (1.88%) Node.js
7 7 (1.65%) OAuth
8 6 (1.41%) OAuth2
8 6 (1.41%) SOAP
9 5 (1.18%) CSS
9 5 (1.18%) SAML
9 5 (1.18%) Spring Boot
10 4 (0.94%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 47 (11.06%) Product Ownership
2 21 (4.94%) Onboarding
3 17 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (2.35%) Data Centre
4 10 (2.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 10 (2.35%) Virtual Team
5 8 (1.88%) Cloud Native
5 8 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.41%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.18%) Derivative
8 5 (1.18%) Equities
8 5 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.18%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.18%) PMI
8 5 (1.18%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.94%) Clustering
9 4 (0.94%) Market Risk
9 4 (0.94%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.47%) Linux
2 16 (3.76%) Windows
3 7 (1.65%) FreeRTOS
4 6 (1.41%) Android
4 6 (1.41%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.71%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (0.71%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.24%) Unix
6 1 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (66.12%) Agile
2 136 (32.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 96 (22.59%) Scrum
4 85 (20.00%) User Stories
5 79 (18.59%) Problem-Solving
6 78 (18.35%) DevOps
7 76 (17.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 66 (15.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 65 (15.29%) Acceptance Criteria
10 62 (14.59%) CI/CD
11 60 (14.12%) Project Management
12 55 (12.94%) Roadmaps
13 54 (12.71%) Migration
13 54 (12.71%) Workshop Facilitation
14 52 (12.24%) Test Automation
15 49 (11.53%) User Acceptance Testing
16 48 (11.29%) Requirements Gathering
16 48 (11.29%) SDLC
17 45 (10.59%) Decision-Making
18 42 (9.88%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (15.06%) SQL
2 53 (12.47%) Python
3 33 (7.76%) Java
4 25 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 16 (3.76%) TypeScript
6 12 (2.82%) PowerShell
7 11 (2.59%) Apex Code
8 8 (1.88%) Bash
8 8 (1.88%) C#
9 7 (1.65%) C++
9 7 (1.65%) Embedded C++
10 6 (1.41%) Groovy
10 6 (1.41%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.71%) C
11 3 (0.71%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.71%) Perl
12 2 (0.47%) Korn
12 2 (0.47%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.47%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.24%) XPath
Qualifications
1 132 (31.06%) Security Cleared
2 116 (27.29%) SC Cleared
3 32 (7.53%) Degree
4 16 (3.76%) CBAP
4 16 (3.76%) DV Cleared
5 13 (3.06%) PMI Certification
6 10 (2.35%) IIBA
7 9 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.88%) CISSP
8 8 (1.88%) PMP
9 7 (1.65%) CISM
10 6 (1.41%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.41%) CSPO
11 5 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (1.18%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.18%) ISEB
11 5 (1.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 5 (1.18%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 3 (0.71%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (8.94%) QA
2 20 (4.71%) GDPR
2 20 (4.71%) PMO
3 19 (4.47%) Data Quality
4 16 (3.76%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.65%) MiFID
7 5 (1.18%) SLA
7 5 (1.18%) WCAG
8 4 (0.94%) GRC
9 3 (0.71%) EMIR
9 3 (0.71%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.71%) NIST
9 3 (0.71%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.24%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.24%) NCSC
11 1 (0.24%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 24 (5.65%) Docker
2 8 (1.88%) Squid
3 7 (1.65%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.65%) Embedded Firmware
3 7 (1.65%) Firmware
4 2 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (9.65%) Terraform
2 26 (6.12%) Kubernetes
3 16 (3.76%) Grafana
4 15 (3.53%) Prometheus
5 14 (3.29%) Consul
5 14 (3.29%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (2.82%) Ansible
7 7 (1.65%) FortiGate
8 6 (1.41%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (1.18%) Packer
10 4 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.94%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.94%) PingFederate
11 3 (0.71%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.47%) RSA Archer
13 1 (0.24%) CA Endevor
13 1 (0.24%) CASB
13 1 (0.24%) HP Quality Center
13 1 (0.24%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 40 (9.41%) ServiceNow
2 38 (8.94%) Salesforce
3 37 (8.71%) Microsoft
4 30 (7.06%) Atlassian
5 22 (5.18%) SAP
6 17 (4.00%) Oracle
7 11 (2.59%) Google
7 11 (2.59%) IBM
8 10 (2.35%) Databricks
8 10 (2.35%) MuleSoft
9 9 (2.12%) Adobe
9 9 (2.12%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.88%) Zscaler
11 7 (1.65%) Alteryx
11 7 (1.65%) Anaplan
11 7 (1.65%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.65%) Splunk
12 6 (1.41%) Workday
13 5 (1.18%) Murex
13 5 (1.18%) Zuora