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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 102 123
Rank change year-on-year -32 +21 -23
Contract jobs citing Confluence 451 385 348
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.22% 2.85% 2.14%
As % of the Application Platforms category 21.55% 24.62% 17.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 266 236
10th Percentile £405 £350 £313
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.57% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £671 £675
90th Percentile £701 £750 £800
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile - £47.33 £22.98
25th Percentile £61.25 £53.81 £24.44
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.25 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +113.93% -39.00%
75th Percentile £77.50 £77.31 £41.56
90th Percentile £84.25 £84.18 £55.63
England median hourly rate £67.47 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.61% - +14.29%

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 2,093 1,564 2,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.30% 11.59% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,389 1,042 1,469
10th Percentile £313 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £670 £763
90th Percentile £707 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 24 28
10th Percentile £19.03 £24.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £22.83 £26.00 £21.75
Median hourly rate £28.40 £33.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.24% +9.84% -8.27%
75th Percentile £41.68 £53.75 £43.44
90th Percentile £73.30 £88.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £43.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -24.42% -9.47% +3.06%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -27 53 £540 +2.86% 24
South London -11 15 £550 -4.84% 1
West London -28 6 £838 +101.81% 5
North London - 3 - - 1
East London +2 1 £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 35 (7.76%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.77%) CMS
3 6 (1.33%) nginx
4 5 (1.11%) Camunda
5 4 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.89%) JBoss
5 4 (0.89%) SAS
6 3 (0.67%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.22%) Apache
8 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.22%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.22%) Appian
8 1 (0.22%) Drupal
8 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.22%) Mule
8 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 40 (8.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (7.76%) MS Visio
3 28 (6.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (3.99%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (3.10%) 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%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.22%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.22%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.22%) Sketch
9 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.55%) Remedy ITSM
1 7 (1.55%) Temenos T24
2 2 (0.44%) Actimize
2 2 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.44%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
2 2 (0.44%) IntelliMatch
2 2 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.44%) Summit
3 1 (0.22%) Eloqua
3 1 (0.22%) Endur
3 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.22%) MetaTrader
3 1 (0.22%) OneSumX
3 1 (0.22%) Primavera
3 1 (0.22%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 101 (22.39%) AWS
2 95 (21.06%) Azure
3 53 (11.75%) GitHub
4 44 (9.76%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (8.65%) Amazon S3
6 36 (7.98%) Power Platform
7 28 (6.21%) Serverless
8 25 (5.54%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (5.54%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (5.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 24 (5.32%) Amazon EC2
10 22 (4.88%) GCP
11 19 (4.21%) Figma
11 19 (4.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 17 (3.77%) SaaS
13 15 (3.33%) OpenShift
14 14 (3.10%) Miro
15 12 (2.66%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (2.66%) OCI
16 11 (2.44%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.88%) HTTP
2 12 (2.66%) DNS
2 12 (2.66%) Firewall
3 11 (2.44%) SSL
3 11 (2.44%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.55%) Network Security
4 7 (1.55%) SSH
5 4 (0.89%) IPv4
5 4 (0.89%) OpenVPN
6 3 (0.67%) Internet
6 3 (0.67%) IPv6
6 3 (0.67%) VPN
7 2 (0.44%) Broadband
7 2 (0.44%) DSL
7 2 (0.44%) FTP
7 2 (0.44%) IMAP
7 2 (0.44%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (0.44%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.44%) SMTP
7 2 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (7.76%) Power BI
2 25 (5.54%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 15 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 13 (2.88%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (2.22%) Metadata
8 9 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (2.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 9 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (2.00%) Tableau
9 8 (1.77%) DynamoDB
10 7 (1.55%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.55%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.33%) BigQuery
11 6 (1.33%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.89%) Big Data
13 3 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 405 (89.80%) JIRA
2 73 (16.19%) Git
3 43 (9.53%) Jenkins
4 29 (6.43%) GitLab
5 14 (3.10%) Selenium
5 14 (3.10%) Sonatype Nexus
6 12 (2.66%) Cypress.io
7 10 (2.22%) Bitbucket
7 10 (2.22%) REST Assured
8 9 (2.00%) Zephyr
9 8 (1.77%) JUnit
9 8 (1.77%) Maven
9 8 (1.77%) Mockito
10 7 (1.55%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.33%) Gradle
11 6 (1.33%) JMeter
11 6 (1.33%) Postman
12 5 (1.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (1.11%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (1.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 175 (38.80%) Social Skills
2 173 (38.36%) Finance
3 104 (23.06%) Banking
4 88 (19.51%) Analytical Skills
5 72 (15.96%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.43%) Retail
7 18 (3.99%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.00%) Financial Institution
9 9 (2.00%) Investment Banking
9 9 (2.00%) Legal
10 8 (1.77%) Military
10 8 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.55%) Retail Banking
11 7 (1.55%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.33%) Front Office
12 6 (1.33%) Law
13 5 (1.11%) Aviation
13 5 (1.11%) Police
Job Titles
1 95 (21.06%) Analyst
2 73 (16.19%) Business Analyst
3 50 (11.09%) Lead
4 46 (10.20%) Developer
5 42 (9.31%) Senior
6 22 (4.88%) Architect
7 19 (4.21%) Product Owner
7 19 (4.21%) Scrum Master
8 17 (3.77%) Consultant
9 16 (3.55%) Delivery Manager
10 15 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
11 13 (2.88%) Data Engineer
11 13 (2.88%) Project Manager
11 13 (2.88%) Senior Analyst
12 12 (2.66%) AWS Engineer
13 11 (2.44%) Banking Analyst
14 10 (2.22%) Product Manager
15 9 (2.00%) Platform Engineer
15 9 (2.00%) Senior Business Analyst
15 9 (2.00%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (13.97%) Terraform
2 34 (7.54%) REST
3 21 (4.66%) React
4 18 (3.99%) AngularJS
5 12 (2.66%) HTML
5 12 (2.66%) JSON
6 11 (2.44%) CSS
6 11 (2.44%) RESTful
6 11 (2.44%) SOAP
7 10 (2.22%) Node.js
8 9 (2.00%) Kafka
8 9 (2.00%) Lightning Web Components
8 9 (2.00%) Playwright
8 9 (2.00%) PySpark
8 9 (2.00%) Spring Boot
9 8 (1.77%) Loki
10 7 (1.55%) JPA
10 7 (1.55%) OAuth
10 7 (1.55%) OAuth2
10 7 (1.55%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 85 (18.85%) Product Ownership
2 29 (6.43%) Onboarding
3 25 (5.54%) Cloud Native
4 15 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (3.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 13 (2.88%) Data Centre
7 12 (2.66%) Virtual Team
8 11 (2.44%) Data Structures
8 11 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (2.22%) Clustering
10 9 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (2.00%) Replication
11 8 (1.77%) Credit Risk
11 8 (1.77%) Management Information System
12 7 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.33%) Market Risk
13 6 (1.33%) Mobile App
14 5 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
14 5 (1.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 5 (1.11%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.32%) Linux
2 17 (3.77%) Windows
3 9 (2.00%) Amazon Linux
4 6 (1.33%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (0.67%) Unix
6 2 (0.44%) Android
6 2 (0.44%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.44%) VMS
6 2 (0.44%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.22%) SUSE
7 1 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (67.18%) Agile
2 171 (37.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 126 (27.94%) DevOps
4 115 (25.50%) CI/CD
5 110 (24.39%) Scrum
6 104 (23.06%) Problem-Solving
7 88 (19.51%) User Stories
8 75 (16.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 75 (16.63%) Migration
9 70 (15.52%) Test Automation
10 64 (14.19%) User Acceptance Testing
11 61 (13.53%) AI
12 57 (12.64%) Business Analysis
12 57 (12.64%) Infrastructure as Code
13 55 (12.20%) SDLC
14 54 (11.97%) Acceptance Criteria
14 54 (11.97%) Requirements Gathering
14 54 (11.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 52 (11.53%) Workshop Facilitation
16 50 (11.09%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 84 (18.63%) SQL
2 77 (17.07%) Python
3 42 (9.31%) Java
4 22 (4.88%) JavaScript
4 22 (4.88%) PowerShell
5 18 (3.99%) Bash
5 18 (3.99%) TypeScript
6 15 (3.33%) Groovy
7 9 (2.00%) Apex Code
7 9 (2.00%) Perl
8 7 (1.55%) PL/SQL
9 6 (1.33%) C#
10 3 (0.67%) Korn
10 3 (0.67%) Swift
10 3 (0.67%) VBA
11 2 (0.44%) Cypher
11 2 (0.44%) Go
11 2 (0.44%) R
11 2 (0.44%) SHACL
11 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 158 (35.03%) Security Cleared
2 145 (32.15%) SC Cleared
3 41 (9.09%) Degree
4 26 (5.76%) DV Cleared
5 18 (3.99%) AWS Certification
6 15 (3.33%) PMI Certification
7 11 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (2.22%) PMP
9 9 (2.00%) Azure Certification
9 9 (2.00%) IIBA
10 8 (1.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 7 (1.55%) CBAP
11 7 (1.55%) ISTQB
12 6 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (1.33%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.67%) CISSP
13 3 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.44%) ISEB
14 2 (0.44%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (13.30%) QA
2 31 (6.87%) Data Quality
3 21 (4.66%) PMO
4 13 (2.88%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.33%) GDPR
5 6 (1.33%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.33%) SEPA
5 6 (1.33%) SLA
5 6 (1.33%) WCAG
6 5 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.89%) MiFID
8 3 (0.67%) EMIR
8 3 (0.67%) NIST
9 2 (0.44%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.44%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.44%) NCSC
10 1 (0.22%) HL7
10 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.22%) WAI
System Software
1 35 (7.76%) Docker
2 17 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.44%) DFS Replication
4 2 (0.44%) Dovecot
4 2 (0.44%) Postfix
4 2 (0.44%) Squid
5 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 34 (7.54%) Grafana
2 20 (4.43%) Ansible
3 18 (3.99%) Kubernetes
3 18 (3.99%) Prometheus
4 13 (2.88%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (2.66%) Argo
6 8 (1.77%) Control-M
7 6 (1.33%) Microsoft Clustering
7 6 (1.33%) SCOM
8 4 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.89%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.89%) PingFederate
8 4 (0.89%) Podman
9 3 (0.67%) Consul
9 3 (0.67%) Istio
9 3 (0.67%) SELinux
10 2 (0.44%) Kibana
10 2 (0.44%) Nessus
10 2 (0.44%) Proxmox
10 2 (0.44%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 64 (14.19%) Microsoft
2 42 (9.31%) ServiceNow
3 21 (4.66%) Salesforce
4 20 (4.43%) IBM
5 19 (4.21%) Atlassian
5 19 (4.21%) Oracle
5 19 (4.21%) Splunk
6 18 (3.99%) Google
7 17 (3.77%) SAP
8 10 (2.22%) Informatica
9 7 (1.55%) BMC
9 7 (1.55%) Remedy
9 7 (1.55%) xMatters
10 6 (1.33%) Adobe
10 6 (1.33%) Commvault
10 6 (1.33%) Databricks
10 6 (1.33%) Temenos
10 6 (1.33%) VMware
11 5 (1.11%) Ping Identity
11 5 (1.11%) Red Hat