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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 95 111
Rank change year-on-year -39 +16 -9
Contract jobs citing Confluence 450 410 364
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.21% 3.06% 2.27%
As % of the Application Platforms category 21.71% 26.55% 17.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 294 246
10th Percentile £400 £350 £308
25th Percentile £450 £441 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £555 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +5.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £702 £738 £810
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - £47.33 -
25th Percentile £61.25 £53.81 £31.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.25 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +100.77% -50.00%
75th Percentile £77.50 £77.31 £33.75
90th Percentile £84.25 £84.18 -
England median hourly rate £67.47 £63.40 £70.00
% change year-on-year +6.42% -9.43% +4.07%

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 2,073 1,544 2,041
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.18% 11.52% 12.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,377 1,049 1,395
10th Percentile £313 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year - -7.89% +3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £750
90th Percentile £712 £777 £850
England median daily rate £500 £496 £525
% change year-on-year +0.91% -5.62% +1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 21 25
10th Percentile £19.03 £24.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £22.83 £26.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £28.40 £35.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -20.01% +49.16% -13.45%
75th Percentile £49.46 £53.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £73.30 £88.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.70 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -18.01% -22.22% +46.34%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -37 57 £550 +10.00% 39
South London -16 11 £550 -4.84% 3
West London -20 6 £838 +101.81% 3
North London - 3 - -
East London +2 2 £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 27 (6.00%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.78%) CMS
3 6 (1.33%) nginx
4 5 (1.11%) Camunda
5 4 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.89%) SAS
6 3 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.67%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.67%) JBoss
6 3 (0.67%) Traefik
7 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.22%) Apache
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.22%) Appian
7 1 (0.22%) Drupal
7 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.22%) Mule
7 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 41 (9.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 38 (8.44%) MS Visio
3 26 (5.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (1.11%) Notion
6 5 (1.11%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.89%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.89%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.89%) Final Cut Pro
8 3 (0.67%) Productboard
8 3 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.44%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.22%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.22%) Sketch
10 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.89%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (0.89%) Temenos T24
3 3 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.44%) Actimize
4 2 (0.44%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
4 2 (0.44%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.44%) Summit
5 1 (0.22%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.22%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.22%) OneSumX
5 1 (0.22%) Primavera
5 1 (0.22%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 108 (24.00%) AWS
2 105 (23.33%) Azure
3 54 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
3 54 (12.00%) GitHub
4 46 (10.22%) Power Platform
5 42 (9.33%) Amazon S3
6 26 (5.78%) Serverless
7 25 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 25 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
8 24 (5.33%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (4.67%) GCP
10 21 (4.67%) Miro
11 18 (4.00%) Figma
11 18 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 15 (3.33%) OpenShift
12 15 (3.33%) SaaS
13 14 (3.11%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (2.44%) OCI
15 10 (2.22%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.11%) DNS
2 12 (2.67%) Firewall
3 11 (2.44%) HTTP
3 11 (2.44%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.56%) Network Security
4 7 (1.56%) SSH
4 7 (1.56%) SSL
5 4 (0.89%) IPv4
5 4 (0.89%) OpenVPN
5 4 (0.89%) VPN
6 3 (0.67%) Internet
6 3 (0.67%) IPv6
6 3 (0.67%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (0.44%) Broadband
7 2 (0.44%) DSL
7 2 (0.44%) FTP
7 2 (0.44%) IMAP
7 2 (0.44%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.44%) SMTP
7 2 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (10.00%) Power BI
2 34 (7.56%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (4.00%) SQL Server
4 15 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 13 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
6 11 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (2.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 9 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (1.78%) Metadata
10 7 (1.56%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.56%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.33%) DynamoDB
11 6 (1.33%) Oracle Database
11 6 (1.33%) Tableau
12 5 (1.11%) BigQuery
12 5 (1.11%) MySQL
13 4 (0.89%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 401 (89.11%) JIRA
2 71 (15.78%) Git
3 42 (9.33%) Jenkins
4 36 (8.00%) GitLab
5 15 (3.33%) Selenium
6 14 (3.11%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (2.44%) Bitbucket
7 11 (2.44%) Zephyr
8 10 (2.22%) Cypress.io
8 10 (2.22%) REST Assured
9 8 (1.78%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.78%) JMeter
9 8 (1.78%) JUnit
9 8 (1.78%) Maven
9 8 (1.78%) Mockito
10 7 (1.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 7 (1.56%) Gradle
10 7 (1.56%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.33%) Postman
12 5 (1.11%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 173 (38.44%) Finance
1 173 (38.44%) Social Skills
2 98 (21.78%) Banking
3 96 (21.33%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (17.11%) Public Sector
5 21 (4.67%) Influencing Skills
6 20 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
6 20 (4.44%) Retail
7 19 (4.22%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (2.67%) Telecoms
9 11 (2.44%) Investment Banking
10 10 (2.22%) Financial Institution
10 10 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.78%) Legal
11 8 (1.78%) Military
12 7 (1.56%) Aviation
12 7 (1.56%) Retail Banking
13 6 (1.33%) Front Office
13 6 (1.33%) Law
13 6 (1.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 100 (22.22%) Analyst
2 75 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 49 (10.89%) Lead
4 40 (8.89%) Developer
5 38 (8.44%) Senior
6 22 (4.89%) Architect
6 22 (4.89%) Product Owner
7 17 (3.78%) Scrum Master
8 16 (3.56%) Consultant
8 16 (3.56%) DevOps Engineer
9 15 (3.33%) Product Manager
10 13 (2.89%) Data Engineer
10 13 (2.89%) Technical Analyst
11 12 (2.67%) AWS Engineer
11 12 (2.67%) Project Manager
12 11 (2.44%) Delivery Manager
12 11 (2.44%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
13 10 (2.22%) Banking Analyst
13 10 (2.22%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (13.11%) Terraform
2 30 (6.67%) REST
3 17 (3.78%) React
4 15 (3.33%) SOAP
5 11 (2.44%) JSON
5 11 (2.44%) Kafka
6 10 (2.22%) Lightning Web Components
6 10 (2.22%) Playwright
6 10 (2.22%) RESTful
7 9 (2.00%) AngularJS
7 9 (2.00%) HTML
7 9 (2.00%) Loki
7 9 (2.00%) PySpark
7 9 (2.00%) Spring Boot
8 8 (1.78%) ADO
8 8 (1.78%) CSS
8 8 (1.78%) Spring
8 8 (1.78%) Web Services
9 7 (1.56%) Hibernate
9 7 (1.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 96 (21.33%) Product Ownership
2 32 (7.11%) Onboarding
3 26 (5.78%) Cloud Native
4 16 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (2.67%) Data Centre
5 12 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.44%) Credit Risk
6 11 (2.44%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 11 (2.44%) Virtual Team
7 10 (2.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 9 (2.00%) Market Risk
8 9 (2.00%) Replication
9 8 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.56%) Mobile App
11 6 (1.33%) Clustering
11 6 (1.33%) Derivative
12 5 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.22%) Linux
2 18 (4.00%) Windows
3 9 (2.00%) Amazon Linux
3 9 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.33%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.33%) Unix
5 4 (0.89%) VMS
6 3 (0.67%) Android
6 3 (0.67%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.44%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.22%) CentOS
8 1 (0.22%) SUSE
8 1 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (66.00%) Agile
2 183 (40.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 131 (29.11%) DevOps
4 116 (25.78%) CI/CD
5 114 (25.33%) Scrum
6 104 (23.11%) Problem-Solving
7 103 (22.89%) User Stories
8 83 (18.44%) Migration
9 80 (17.78%) Continuous Improvement
10 71 (15.78%) Test Automation
11 69 (15.33%) Business Analysis
12 67 (14.89%) AI
12 67 (14.89%) User Acceptance Testing
13 66 (14.67%) Acceptance Criteria
14 57 (12.67%) Requirements Gathering
15 56 (12.44%) Infrastructure as Code
15 56 (12.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 54 (12.00%) SDLC
17 51 (11.33%) Business Intelligence
17 51 (11.33%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 99 (22.00%) SQL
2 72 (16.00%) Python
3 42 (9.33%) Java
4 25 (5.56%) PowerShell
5 23 (5.11%) Bash
6 14 (3.11%) Groovy
6 14 (3.11%) JavaScript
6 14 (3.11%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.22%) Apex Code
7 10 (2.22%) Perl
8 8 (1.78%) PL/SQL
9 7 (1.56%) C#
10 5 (1.11%) Go
11 4 (0.89%) Swift
12 3 (0.67%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.67%) VBA
13 2 (0.44%) Cypher
13 2 (0.44%) Korn
13 2 (0.44%) R
13 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 152 (33.78%) Security Cleared
2 137 (30.44%) SC Cleared
3 53 (11.78%) Degree
4 25 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 18 (4.00%) AWS Certification
5 18 (4.00%) PMI Certification
6 13 (2.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.89%) PMP
7 12 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.22%) CBAP
9 8 (1.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (1.78%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.56%) IIBA
10 7 (1.56%) ISTQB
11 6 (1.33%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.44%) ISEB
13 2 (0.44%) MBA
13 2 (0.44%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (16.00%) QA
2 39 (8.67%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.22%) PMO
4 13 (2.89%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.33%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.33%) SEPA
5 6 (1.33%) SLA
5 6 (1.33%) WCAG
6 4 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.89%) MiFID
7 3 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.67%) EMIR
7 3 (0.67%) NIST
8 2 (0.44%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.44%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.44%) NCSC
9 1 (0.22%) GDPR
9 1 (0.22%) HL7
9 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.22%) WAI
System Software
1 42 (9.33%) Docker
2 13 (2.89%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.44%) DFS Replication
5 2 (0.44%) Dovecot
5 2 (0.44%) Postfix
5 2 (0.44%) Squid
5 2 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 37 (8.22%) Grafana
2 26 (5.78%) Kubernetes
3 24 (5.33%) Ansible
4 20 (4.44%) Prometheus
5 14 (3.11%) Argo
6 11 (2.44%) Control-M
7 8 (1.78%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.33%) Istio
8 6 (1.33%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (1.33%) SCOM
9 4 (0.89%) Podman
10 3 (0.67%) Consul
10 3 (0.67%) SELinux
11 2 (0.44%) Kibana
11 2 (0.44%) Nessus
11 2 (0.44%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.44%) WSUS
12 1 (0.22%) HP Quality Center
12 1 (0.22%) SCCM
12 1 (0.22%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 71 (15.78%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.22%) ServiceNow
3 23 (5.11%) Oracle
3 23 (5.11%) Salesforce
4 19 (4.22%) Splunk
5 17 (3.78%) Google
5 17 (3.78%) IBM
6 14 (3.11%) Atlassian
7 13 (2.89%) SAP
8 10 (2.22%) Informatica
9 7 (1.56%) Adobe
9 7 (1.56%) BMC
9 7 (1.56%) Databricks
9 7 (1.56%) Dynatrace
9 7 (1.56%) Murex
9 7 (1.56%) Remedy
9 7 (1.56%) VMware
9 7 (1.56%) xMatters
10 6 (1.33%) Commvault
11 5 (1.11%) Red Hat