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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 108 145
Rank change year-on-year +1 +37 -40
Contract jobs citing Confluence 430 325 311
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.64% 2.43% 1.71%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.66% 20.24% 15.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 204 213
10th Percentile £356 £301 £363
25th Percentile £446 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £810 £775
England median daily rate £500 £503 £538
% change year-on-year -0.50% -6.51% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £22.30
25th Percentile - - £25.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 - £31.50
75th Percentile - - £40.00
90th Percentile - - £50.50
England median hourly rate £44.23 £62.50 £67.27
% change year-on-year -29.23% -7.08% +28.12%

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 1,613 1,606 1,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.91% 12.01% 10.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,113 1,024 1,438
10th Percentile £350 £313 £263
25th Percentile £419 £405 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £501
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +4.79% -8.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £726 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 32
10th Percentile £15.20 £23.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £24.36 £22.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.71% +16.67% +32.57%
75th Percentile £28.88 £41.18 £34.38
90th Percentile £60.02 £44.09 £48.63
England median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £25.50
% change year-on-year -35.98% +66.67% +15.07%

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 March 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 March 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 -12 51 £525 -2.78% 23
South London +1 24 £519 +9.17% 8
West London -17 8 £500 +19.05% 8
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 (7.67%) SharePoint
2 28 (6.51%) nginx
3 6 (1.40%) Apache
3 6 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.40%) Palantir Foundry
4 4 (0.93%) CMS
5 3 (0.70%) Traefik
6 2 (0.47%) SAS
6 2 (0.47%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.23%) CICS
7 1 (0.23%) IIS
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 47 (10.93%) MS Visio
2 44 (10.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (7.21%) Microsoft Project
4 28 (6.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (4.19%) Microsoft Office
6 8 (1.86%) Trello
7 4 (0.93%) Notion
8 2 (0.47%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.47%) InDesign
8 2 (0.47%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.23%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.23%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.79%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.63%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.93%) Aladdin
3 4 (0.93%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.47%) Actimize
5 2 (0.47%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 2 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.47%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.47%) Shopify
5 2 (0.47%) Summit
6 1 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.23%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.23%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 82 (19.07%) AWS
2 63 (14.65%) Azure
3 52 (12.09%) GitHub
4 35 (8.14%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (7.67%) Power Platform
6 19 (4.42%) Amazon S3
7 17 (3.95%) SaaS
7 17 (3.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 16 (3.72%) Amazon EKS
8 16 (3.72%) GCP
9 15 (3.49%) Amazon EC2
9 15 (3.49%) Serverless
10 13 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (3.02%) Miro
11 11 (2.56%) Figma
11 11 (2.56%) Slack
12 10 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (2.33%) Lucidchart
12 10 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (2.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.95%) Firewall
2 15 (3.49%) VPN
3 12 (2.79%) DNS
4 11 (2.56%) WAN
5 9 (2.09%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.63%) Ethernet
6 7 (1.63%) LAN
6 7 (1.63%) Modbus
6 7 (1.63%) OpenVPN
6 7 (1.63%) RS-232
6 7 (1.63%) RS-485
6 7 (1.63%) SD-WAN
7 6 (1.40%) FTP
7 6 (1.40%) Network Security
8 4 (0.93%) PSTN
8 4 (0.93%) SSL
8 4 (0.93%) Unified Communications
8 4 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 3 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.28%) Power BI
2 20 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (4.19%) Tableau
4 15 (3.49%) SQL Server
5 14 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
6 12 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
6 12 (2.79%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (1.63%) Big Data
8 7 (1.63%) BigQuery
8 7 (1.63%) Hadoop
8 7 (1.63%) Tick Data
9 6 (1.40%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.93%) Metadata
10 4 (0.93%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.70%) Amazon Aurora
11 3 (0.70%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.70%) DocumentDB
11 3 (0.70%) Redis
11 3 (0.70%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 398 (92.56%) JIRA
2 52 (12.09%) Git
3 45 (10.47%) Jenkins
4 27 (6.28%) GitLab
5 22 (5.12%) Bitbucket
5 22 (5.12%) Selenium
6 17 (3.95%) SonarQube
7 14 (3.26%) Sonatype Nexus
8 12 (2.79%) Cucumber
9 11 (2.56%) JUnit
10 9 (2.09%) Postman
11 8 (1.86%) Maven
11 8 (1.86%) SpecFlow
12 6 (1.40%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.93%) Android Studio
13 4 (0.93%) JMeter
13 4 (0.93%) REST Assured
13 4 (0.93%) ScriptRunner
13 4 (0.93%) TestRail
13 4 (0.93%) Zephyr
General
1 171 (39.77%) Social Skills
2 154 (35.81%) Finance
3 81 (18.84%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (15.58%) Banking
5 58 (13.49%) Public Sector
6 24 (5.58%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (4.19%) Investment Banking
7 18 (4.19%) Legal
8 16 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (3.02%) Marketing
10 13 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (3.02%) Retail
11 12 (2.79%) Financial Institution
11 12 (2.79%) Front Office
12 7 (1.63%) Publishing
12 7 (1.63%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.93%) Advertising
15 3 (0.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 113 (26.28%) Analyst
2 104 (24.19%) Business Analyst
3 47 (10.93%) Senior
4 43 (10.00%) Developer
5 38 (8.84%) Project Manager
6 30 (6.98%) Lead
7 21 (4.88%) Architect
8 19 (4.42%) Senior Analyst
8 19 (4.42%) Technical Business Analyst
9 18 (4.19%) Technical Analyst
10 17 (3.95%) Consultant
11 14 (3.26%) Delivery Manager
11 14 (3.26%) Product Owner
11 14 (3.26%) Senior Business Analyst
12 13 (3.02%) Banking Analyst
13 12 (2.79%) Banking Business Analyst
13 12 (2.79%) Full-Stack Developer
13 12 (2.79%) Technical Manager
14 11 (2.56%) Scrum Master
15 10 (2.33%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.49%) REST
1 15 (3.49%) Spring
2 14 (3.26%) .NET
3 13 (3.02%) Kafka
4 12 (2.79%) RESTful
5 11 (2.56%) Playwright
6 10 (2.33%) ADO
6 10 (2.33%) Lightning Web Components
6 10 (2.33%) XML
7 9 (2.09%) JSON
7 9 (2.09%) LDAP
7 9 (2.09%) OpenID
8 8 (1.86%) Apache NiFi
8 8 (1.86%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (1.63%) AngularJS
9 7 (1.63%) HTML
9 7 (1.63%) SOAP
9 7 (1.63%) Web Services
10 6 (1.40%) React
10 6 (1.40%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 47 (10.93%) Product Ownership
2 24 (5.58%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (2.56%) Cloud Native
4 11 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (2.09%) Data Centre
5 9 (2.09%) Equities
5 9 (2.09%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.09%) Public Cloud
5 9 (2.09%) Virtual Team
6 7 (1.63%) Derivative
6 7 (1.63%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.16%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.16%) PMI
8 5 (1.16%) Reference Data
8 5 (1.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 4 (0.93%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 33 (7.67%) Linux
2 14 (3.26%) Windows
3 10 (2.33%) Unix
4 7 (1.63%) Android
4 7 (1.63%) FreeRTOS
5 4 (0.93%) VMS
6 3 (0.70%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.47%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (65.12%) Agile
2 122 (28.37%) Stakeholder Management
3 107 (24.88%) Scrum
4 94 (21.86%) User Stories
5 92 (21.40%) DevOps
6 90 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
7 82 (19.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 72 (16.74%) CI/CD
9 68 (15.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 67 (15.58%) Acceptance Criteria
11 60 (13.95%) Project Management
12 57 (13.26%) Roadmaps
13 53 (12.33%) Test Automation
13 53 (12.33%) Workshop Facilitation
14 52 (12.09%) User Acceptance Testing
15 49 (11.40%) Requirements Gathering
16 46 (10.70%) Migration
17 45 (10.47%) Project Delivery
18 43 (10.00%) Decision-Making
19 41 (9.53%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 70 (16.28%) SQL
2 55 (12.79%) Python
3 35 (8.14%) Java
4 19 (4.42%) JavaScript
5 14 (3.26%) C#
6 12 (2.79%) Bash
6 12 (2.79%) PowerShell
7 10 (2.33%) Apex Code
8 9 (2.09%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.86%) C++
10 7 (1.63%) Embedded C++
11 6 (1.40%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.70%) C
12 3 (0.70%) Embedded C
12 3 (0.70%) Go
12 3 (0.70%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.47%) Korn
14 1 (0.23%) Groovy
14 1 (0.23%) PHP
14 1 (0.23%) XPath
Qualifications
1 119 (27.67%) Security Cleared
2 112 (26.05%) SC Cleared
3 43 (10.00%) Degree
4 16 (3.72%) CBAP
5 15 (3.49%) PMI Certification
6 11 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (2.56%) CISSP
6 11 (2.56%) PMP
7 10 (2.33%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.86%) CSPO
8 8 (1.86%) IIBA
9 7 (1.63%) ISTQB
10 6 (1.40%) CESG Certified Professional
10 6 (1.40%) ISEB
10 6 (1.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 5 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (1.16%) CISM
11 5 (1.16%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 5 (1.16%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (9.30%) QA
2 22 (5.12%) GDPR
3 15 (3.49%) Accessibility
3 15 (3.49%) Data Quality
3 15 (3.49%) PMO
4 7 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.40%) GRC
6 5 (1.16%) MiFID
7 3 (0.70%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.70%) SLA
7 3 (0.70%) WCAG
8 2 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.47%) EMIR
8 2 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.47%) NIST
8 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.47%) SEPA
9 1 (0.23%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 43 (10.00%) Docker
2 9 (2.09%) Squid
3 7 (1.63%) Embedded Firmware
3 7 (1.63%) Firmware
4 5 (1.16%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.23%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.23%) Dovecot
7 1 (0.23%) etcd
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.23%) Postfix
7 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 45 (10.47%) Kubernetes
1 45 (10.47%) Terraform
2 19 (4.42%) Consul
3 18 (4.19%) Ansible
4 17 (3.95%) Grafana
5 13 (3.02%) Packer
6 12 (2.79%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (1.63%) FortiGate
9 6 (1.40%) Jamf Pro
9 6 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.93%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.70%) Istio
11 3 (0.70%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.47%) Argo
13 1 (0.23%) CASB
13 1 (0.23%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 1 (0.23%) Proxmox
13 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 45 (10.47%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.60%) Salesforce
3 31 (7.21%) Atlassian
4 29 (6.74%) ServiceNow
5 20 (4.65%) Oracle
6 13 (3.02%) SAP
7 12 (2.79%) Google
8 9 (2.09%) Databricks
8 9 (2.09%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.86%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.86%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.63%) Adobe
10 7 (1.63%) Alteryx
10 7 (1.63%) Anaplan
10 7 (1.63%) Cisco
11 6 (1.40%) Cloudera
11 6 (1.40%) Foundry
11 6 (1.40%) Murex
11 6 (1.40%) Palantir
11 6 (1.40%) Zscaler