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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 98 115
Rank change year-on-year -4 +17 -24
Contract jobs citing Confluence 403 363 390
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.82% 2.54% 2.15%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.46% 21.70% 19.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 237 268
10th Percentile £331 £300 £380
25th Percentile £450 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £650 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £810 £800
England median daily rate £517 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.57% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £26.88
25th Percentile - - £29.69
Median hourly rate £43.00 - £35.75
75th Percentile - - £44.38
90th Percentile - - £52.25
England median hourly rate £44.23 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -29.23% - +43.68%

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 1,523 1,673 1,964
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.64% 11.69% 10.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,054 1,063 1,378
10th Percentile £321 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £644
90th Percentile £738 £810 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 17 25
10th Percentile - £17.63 £17.00
25th Percentile £17.50 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £23.80 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.04% -13.45% +14.58%
75th Percentile £39.38 £41.91 £40.00
90th Percentile £64.84 £93.25 £61.25
England median hourly rate £27.21 £41.91 £24.00
% change year-on-year -35.08% +74.63% +35.44%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 +9 61 £500 -6.54% 41
South London +4 18 £557 +30.23% 1
West London -12 9 £500 +12.36% 2
East London +1 1 £520 -5.45% 1
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 27 (6.70%) nginx
2 25 (6.20%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.23%) Apache
4 3 (0.74%) CMS
4 3 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (0.74%) Traefik
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.25%) CICS
5 1 (0.25%) IIS
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 42 (10.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (9.68%) MS Visio
3 29 (7.20%) Microsoft Project
4 23 (5.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (4.22%) Microsoft Office
6 11 (2.73%) Trello
7 10 (2.48%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 5 (1.24%) Notion
9 2 (0.50%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.50%) InDesign
9 2 (0.50%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.25%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.25%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 12 (2.98%) NetSuite
2 8 (1.99%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.99%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.74%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.74%) Oracle BPM
4 3 (0.74%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.50%) Shopify
6 1 (0.25%) Endur
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.25%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 87 (21.59%) AWS
2 64 (15.88%) Azure
3 55 (13.65%) GitHub
4 28 (6.95%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (6.95%) Power Platform
5 24 (5.96%) Amazon S3
6 23 (5.71%) Amazon EC2
7 21 (5.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (4.71%) Serverless
9 18 (4.47%) GCP
10 15 (3.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 14 (3.47%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (3.23%) Miro
12 13 (3.23%) SaaS
13 12 (2.98%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (2.48%) Amazon ELB
15 10 (2.48%) Figma
15 10 (2.48%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.71%) Firewall
2 16 (3.97%) SSH
3 15 (3.72%) OpenLDAP
4 14 (3.47%) FTP
5 13 (3.23%) DNS
5 13 (3.23%) SSL
6 11 (2.73%) HTTP
6 11 (2.73%) SMTP
7 10 (2.48%) IMAP
8 9 (2.23%) VPN
9 7 (1.74%) Ethernet
9 7 (1.74%) SD-WAN
9 7 (1.74%) WAN
10 6 (1.49%) Modbus
10 6 (1.49%) RS-232
10 6 (1.49%) RS-485
11 5 (1.24%) Network Security
12 3 (0.74%) BIG-IP
12 3 (0.74%) LAN
12 3 (0.74%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (6.45%) Power BI
3 23 (5.71%) Tableau
4 16 (3.97%) SQL Server
5 15 (3.72%) Hadoop
6 13 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (3.23%) Big Data
6 13 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (2.98%) Amazon Aurora
7 12 (2.98%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.74%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.49%) Metadata
10 5 (1.24%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.99%) DB2
11 4 (0.99%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.99%) Tick Data
12 2 (0.50%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 375 (93.05%) JIRA
2 55 (13.65%) Jenkins
3 54 (13.40%) Git
4 31 (7.69%) GitLab
5 21 (5.21%) Selenium
6 20 (4.96%) Bitbucket
7 13 (3.23%) Cucumber
7 13 (3.23%) SonarQube
8 11 (2.73%) Postman
9 10 (2.48%) JUnit
9 10 (2.48%) Vagrant
10 8 (1.99%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (1.74%) Cypress.io
11 7 (1.74%) SpecFlow
12 5 (1.24%) Maven
12 5 (1.24%) Zephyr
13 4 (0.99%) Android Studio
13 4 (0.99%) ScriptRunner
13 4 (0.99%) TeamCity
14 3 (0.74%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 166 (41.19%) Social Skills
2 137 (34.00%) Finance
3 74 (18.36%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (15.63%) Banking
5 54 (13.40%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.22%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (3.97%) Investment Banking
8 15 (3.72%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (3.47%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (3.23%) Front Office
11 12 (2.98%) Legal
12 10 (2.48%) Retail
13 9 (2.23%) Marketing
13 9 (2.23%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.24%) Back Office
14 5 (1.24%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.24%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.24%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 85 (21.09%) Analyst
2 78 (19.35%) Business Analyst
3 45 (11.17%) Senior
4 37 (9.18%) Developer
5 34 (8.44%) Project Manager
6 28 (6.95%) Lead
7 22 (5.46%) Architect
8 18 (4.47%) Product Owner
9 17 (4.22%) DevOps Engineer
10 16 (3.97%) Scrum Master
10 16 (3.97%) Senior Business Analyst
10 16 (3.97%) Technical Analyst
10 16 (3.97%) Technical Business Analyst
11 15 (3.72%) AWS Engineer
11 15 (3.72%) Platform Engineer
11 15 (3.72%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (3.23%) AWS DevOps
12 13 (3.23%) Consultant
12 13 (3.23%) Data Engineer
13 12 (2.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (6.45%) LDAP
1 26 (6.45%) REST
2 23 (5.71%) Kafka
3 18 (4.47%) HTML
3 18 (4.47%) JSON
4 17 (4.22%) RabbitMQ
5 16 (3.97%) Web Services
6 15 (3.72%) AngularJS
6 15 (3.72%) SOAP
7 14 (3.47%) .NET
7 14 (3.47%) Apache NiFi
8 11 (2.73%) RESTful
8 11 (2.73%) Spring
9 10 (2.48%) Playwright
10 9 (2.23%) HTML5
10 9 (2.23%) SAML
11 8 (1.99%) JDBC
11 8 (1.99%) jQuery
11 8 (1.99%) ODBC
11 8 (1.99%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (10.67%) Product Ownership
2 20 (4.96%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.72%) Analytical Mindset
4 14 (3.47%) Management Information System
4 14 (3.47%) Replication
5 10 (2.48%) Cloud Native
5 10 (2.48%) Equities
5 10 (2.48%) PMI
6 9 (2.23%) Virtual Team
7 7 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.74%) NHS
8 6 (1.49%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.49%) Derivative
8 6 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 5 (1.24%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.24%) Mobile App
10 4 (0.99%) PKI
10 4 (0.99%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 40 (9.93%) Linux
2 23 (5.71%) Windows
3 16 (3.97%) Unix
4 13 (3.23%) VMS
5 10 (2.48%) Amazon Linux
5 10 (2.48%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.49%) Android
6 6 (1.49%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (65.01%) Agile
2 118 (29.28%) Scrum
3 102 (25.31%) Stakeholder Management
4 100 (24.81%) DevOps
5 83 (20.60%) Problem-Solving
6 79 (19.60%) CI/CD
7 73 (18.11%) User Stories
8 67 (16.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 63 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 53 (13.15%) Project Management
11 50 (12.41%) Roadmaps
12 47 (11.66%) Migration
12 47 (11.66%) Workshop Facilitation
13 46 (11.41%) Microservices
14 45 (11.17%) Change Management
14 45 (11.17%) Test Automation
15 43 (10.67%) Acceptance Criteria
15 43 (10.67%) Requirements Gathering
16 42 (10.42%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 41 (10.17%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 74 (18.36%) SQL
2 62 (15.38%) Python
3 37 (9.18%) Java
4 29 (7.20%) JavaScript
5 16 (3.97%) PowerShell
6 11 (2.73%) Bash
7 10 (2.48%) C#
7 10 (2.48%) Go
7 10 (2.48%) Groovy
8 9 (2.23%) Apex Code
9 8 (1.99%) TypeScript
10 7 (1.74%) C++
11 6 (1.49%) Embedded C++
11 6 (1.49%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.74%) C
12 3 (0.74%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.50%) Korn
13 2 (0.50%) R
14 1 (0.25%) PHP
14 1 (0.25%) XPath
Qualifications
1 111 (27.54%) Security Cleared
2 110 (27.30%) SC Cleared
3 58 (14.39%) Degree
4 19 (4.71%) PMI Certification
5 17 (4.22%) CBAP
6 16 (3.97%) DV Cleared
7 13 (3.23%) AWS Certification
8 12 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 10 (2.48%) Azure Certification
9 10 (2.48%) CISSP
9 10 (2.48%) PMP
10 9 (2.23%) CSPO
11 8 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (1.74%) CFA
12 7 (1.74%) ISTQB
13 6 (1.49%) CESG Certified Professional
14 5 (1.24%) IIBA
14 5 (1.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
16 3 (0.74%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (9.68%) QA
2 16 (3.97%) GDPR
3 13 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.98%) PMO
5 6 (1.49%) GRC
6 5 (1.24%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.99%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.99%) SEPA
8 3 (0.74%) NCSC
8 3 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.74%) PSD2
8 3 (0.74%) WCAG
9 2 (0.50%) FIPS 140-2
9 2 (0.50%) MiFID
10 1 (0.25%) Basel III
10 1 (0.25%) EMIR
10 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.25%) P3O
10 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 47 (11.66%) Docker
2 11 (2.73%) Squid
3 10 (2.48%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.48%) DFS Replication
3 10 (2.48%) Dovecot
3 10 (2.48%) Postfix
4 6 (1.49%) Embedded Firmware
4 6 (1.49%) Firmware
5 5 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.50%) vSphere
7 1 (0.25%) etcd
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 42 (10.42%) Terraform
2 39 (9.68%) Kubernetes
3 17 (4.22%) Grafana
4 15 (3.72%) Ansible
5 12 (2.98%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.73%) Packer
7 10 (2.48%) Consul
7 10 (2.48%) Nessus
7 10 (2.48%) Proxmox
7 10 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.74%) Ambari
8 3 (0.74%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.74%) Istio
8 3 (0.74%) Puppet
8 3 (0.74%) RSA Archer
8 3 (0.74%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.50%) Argo
10 1 (0.25%) Oracle Identity Management
10 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.25%) vRealize
Vendors
1 41 (10.17%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.44%) ServiceNow
3 28 (6.95%) Atlassian
3 28 (6.95%) Salesforce
4 16 (3.97%) Oracle
5 12 (2.98%) Cloudera
5 12 (2.98%) Foundry
5 12 (2.98%) Google
5 12 (2.98%) Palantir
5 12 (2.98%) SAP
6 11 (2.73%) HP
6 11 (2.73%) Remedy
7 10 (2.48%) Jaspersoft
8 9 (2.23%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.99%) BMC
9 8 (1.99%) Ivanti
10 7 (1.74%) Adobe
10 7 (1.74%) Alteryx
10 7 (1.74%) Anaplan
10 7 (1.74%) Cisco