Confluence Contracts in London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Confluence skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Confluence over the 3 months to 23 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Confluence England / London
Location	3 months to 23 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	169	194	255
Rank change year-on-year	+25	+61
Contract jobs citing Confluence	314	276	176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	1.52%	1.28%	0.75%
As % of the Application Platforms category	8.89%	6.87%	4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted	203	196	111
Median daily rate	£475	£495	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-4.04%	+23.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£343	£350	£300
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£618	£638	£538
UK excluding London median daily rate	£450	£450	£413
% change year-on-year	-	+9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	0	0
Median hourly rate	-	-	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£53.35	-	-

Confluence is in the application platform skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for application platform skills.

Contract Application Platform Skills London
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills	3533	4020	4373
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London	17.08%	18.58%	18.66%
Number of daily rates quoted	2483	2900	2916
Median daily rate	£475	£450	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.55%	+12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£295	£250
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£575
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£390	£350
% change year-on-year	+2.69%	+11.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted	38	45	104
Median hourly rate	£22.00	£17.50	£19.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+25.71%	-7.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.50	£12.50	£12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£26.28	£36.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£25.00	£23.00	£21.00
% change year-on-year	+8.69%	+9.52%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend in London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in London citing Confluence as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Application Platforms category.

Job vacancy trend for Confluence in London

Confluence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Confluence in London.

Contractor daily rate trend for Confluence in London

Confluence
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Confluence in London over the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Confluence in London

Confluence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Confluence in London.

Contractor hourly rate trend 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 3 months to 23 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
City of London	+6	35	£450	-1.36%	11
Croydon	+12	28	£525	+40.00%	5
Docklands, London	+2	4	£480	+1.10%
Westminster	+7	2	£544	+20.83%
Osterley	-	1	£313	-
Confluence England

Confluence
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in London

For the 6 months to 23 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Confluence also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the London region with a requirement for Confluence.

1	669 (96.68%)	JIRA
2	455 (65.75%)	Agile Software Development
3	248 (35.84%)	Java
4	224 (32.37%)	Scrum
5	211 (30.49%)	Git (software)
6	209 (30.20%)	DevOps
7	193 (27.89%)	Jenkins
8	172 (24.86%)	Atlassian
9	164 (23.70%)	Finance
10	157 (22.69%)	Linux
10	157 (22.69%)	TDD
11	156 (22.54%)	Continuous Integration
12	141 (20.38%)	HTML
13	136 (19.65%)	Spring
14	122 (17.63%)	CSS

15	119 (17.20%)	Banking
16	117 (16.91%)	BDD
17	115 (16.62%)	Test Automation
17	115 (16.62%)	Docker
18	112 (16.18%)	JavaScript
19	106 (15.32%)	Amazon AWS
20	105 (15.17%)	SQL
21	100 (14.45%)	Microservices
22	99 (14.31%)	HTML5
23	93 (13.44%)	Ansible
24	91 (13.15%)	Cucumber
25	89 (12.86%)	Oracle
26	88 (12.72%)	Bitbucket
27	87 (12.57%)	AngularJS
28	86 (12.43%)	Kanban

Confluence
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	33 (4.77%)	Apache
1	33 (4.77%)	Apache Solr
2	32 (4.62%)	Oracle SOA Suite
3	25 (3.61%)	Cloud Foundry
4	21 (3.03%)	Tomcat
5	19 (2.75%)	Apache Spark
6	17 (2.46%)	CMS
7	15 (2.17%)	Adobe Experience Manager
7	15 (2.17%)	Elasticsearch
7	15 (2.17%)	SharePoint
8	13 (1.88%)	JBoss
8	13 (1.88%)	WebLogic
9	10 (1.45%)	Anypoint
9	10 (1.45%)	IIS
10	8 (1.16%)	WebSphere
11	7 (1.01%)	nginx
12	6 (0.87%)	Mule
12	6 (0.87%)	OpenStack
12	6 (0.87%)	Oracle Workflow
13	3 (0.43%)	Liferay

Applications
1	30 (4.34%)	MS Visio
2	26 (3.76%)	Microsoft Excel
3	18 (2.60%)	Microsoft Office
4	17 (2.46%)	HipChat
5	16 (2.31%)	Microsoft Project
6	15 (2.17%)	Photoshop
7	10 (1.45%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
8	2 (0.29%)	InVision
9	1 (0.14%)	Acrobat
9	1 (0.14%)	OmniGraffle
9	1 (0.14%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	18 (2.60%)	Payment Gateway
2	17 (2.46%)	SAP Hybris
3	6 (0.87%)	SAP Oil and Gas
4	4 (0.58%)	Oracle BPM
5	3 (0.43%)	Salesforce.com CRM
6	2 (0.29%)	NetSuite
6	2 (0.29%)	Oracle Applications
7	1 (0.14%)	Adobe Campaign
7	1 (0.14%)	IntelliMatch
7	1 (0.14%)	Maximo
7	1 (0.14%)	Remedy ITSM
7	1 (0.14%)	RMDS

Cloud Services
1	106 (15.32%)	Amazon AWS
2	71 (10.26%)	GitHub
3	56 (8.09%)	Microsoft Azure
4	22 (3.18%)	Amazon EC2
4	22 (3.18%)	Amazon S3
5	21 (3.03%)	Amazon CloudWatch
5	21 (3.03%)	PaaS
6	14 (2.02%)	AWS CloudFormation
7	12 (1.73%)	Virtual Private Cloud
8	10 (1.45%)	Amazon ELB
8	10 (1.45%)	Slack
9	9 (1.30%)	G Suite
10	7 (1.01%)	Basecamp
10	7 (1.01%)	Bluemix
10	7 (1.01%)	IaaS
10	7 (1.01%)	IBM Cloud
11	6 (0.87%)	Force.com
11	6 (0.87%)	SoftLayer
12	5 (0.72%)	OpenShift
12	5 (0.72%)	Trello

Communications & Networking
1	28 (4.05%)	HTTP
2	19 (2.75%)	DNS
3	17 (2.46%)	LDAP
4	16 (2.31%)	Firewall
5	13 (1.88%)	OpenVPN
5	13 (1.88%)	SSL
6	12 (1.73%)	Kerberos
6	12 (1.73%)	VPN
7	11 (1.59%)	OpenLDAP
7	11 (1.59%)	SSH
8	6 (0.87%)	Cisco Nexus
8	6 (0.87%)	DVB
8	6 (0.87%)	Internet
8	6 (0.87%)	Wi-Fi
9	5 (0.72%)	Reverse Proxy
9	5 (0.72%)	TCP/IP
10	4 (0.58%)	LAN
10	4 (0.58%)	Skype
10	4 (0.58%)	Wireshark
11	3 (0.43%)	AMQP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	64 (9.25%)	PostgreSQL
2	47 (6.79%)	Big Data
3	41 (5.92%)	Hadoop
4	35 (5.06%)	HBase
5	30 (4.34%)	MongoDB
6	29 (4.19%)	MySQL
7	27 (3.90%)	NoSQL
7	27 (3.90%)	SQL Server
8	20 (2.89%)	Amazon RDS
8	20 (2.89%)	Relational Database
9	19 (2.75%)	Endeca
10	16 (2.31%)	Oracle Database
11	15 (2.17%)	Data Warehouse
12	12 (1.73%)	Apache Cassandra
12	12 (1.73%)	BusinessObjects
13	9 (1.30%)	QlikView
13	9 (1.30%)	Redis
14	8 (1.16%)	Oracle Database 11g
14	8 (1.16%)	RDBMS
15	5 (0.72%)	IBM InfoSphere

Development Applications
1	669 (96.68%)	JIRA
2	211 (30.49%)	Git (software)
3	193 (27.89%)	Jenkins
4	91 (13.15%)	Cucumber
5	88 (12.72%)	Bitbucket
6	71 (10.26%)	Maven
6	71 (10.26%)	Sonatype Nexus
7	63 (9.10%)	Selenium
8	60 (8.67%)	JUnit
9	51 (7.37%)	Atlassian Bamboo
9	51 (7.37%)	Subversion
10	49 (7.08%)	TeamCity
11	35 (5.06%)	IntelliJ
12	29 (4.19%)	WebDriver
13	24 (3.47%)	Mockito
14	23 (3.32%)	Karma Test Runner
15	22 (3.18%)	Gradle
15	22 (3.18%)	Jasmine
15	22 (3.18%)	SonarQube
16	19 (2.75%)	GitLab

General
1	164 (23.70%)	Finance
2	119 (17.20%)	Banking
3	47 (6.79%)	Retail
4	26 (3.76%)	Investment Banking
5	24 (3.47%)	Marketing
6	12 (1.73%)	Back Office
7	10 (1.45%)	Front Office
7	10 (1.45%)	Publishing
7	10 (1.45%)	Retail Banking
7	10 (1.45%)	Telecoms
8	9 (1.30%)	Games
8	9 (1.30%)	Legal
9	6 (0.87%)	Electronics
9	6 (0.87%)	Manufacturing
10	5 (0.72%)	Pharmaceutical
11	4 (0.58%)	Advertising
12	3 (0.43%)	Corporate Banking
12	3 (0.43%)	Multimedia
13	2 (0.29%)	Financial Institution
14	1 (0.14%)	Law

Job Titles
1	208 (30.06%)	Developer
2	96 (13.87%)	Analyst
3	93 (13.44%)	DevOps Engineer
4	67 (9.68%)	Business Analyst
5	61 (8.82%)	Java Developer
6	55 (7.95%)	Architect
7	40 (5.78%)	AWS Engineer
8	33 (4.77%)	AWS DevOps
9	31 (4.48%)	Project Manager
10	30 (4.34%)	AWS DevOps Engineer
11	27 (3.90%)	Cloud Engineer
12	25 (3.61%)	Senior Developer
12	25 (3.61%)	Tester
13	23 (3.32%)	Consultant
14	20 (2.89%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14	20 (2.89%)	Linux Engineer
15	17 (2.46%)	Agile Business Analyst
15	17 (2.46%)	Hybris Developer
16	16 (2.31%)	Administrator
17	15 (2.17%)	Release Manager

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	141 (20.38%)	HTML
2	136 (19.65%)	Spring
3	122 (17.63%)	CSS
4	99 (14.31%)	HTML5
5	87 (12.57%)	AngularJS
6	85 (12.28%)	REST
7	70 (10.12%)	CSS3
8	67 (9.68%)	RESTful
9	63 (9.10%)	Web Services
10	62 (8.96%)	Spring Boot
11	54 (7.80%)	XML
12	51 (7.37%)	JSON
13	44 (6.36%)	J2EE
14	42 (6.07%)	Node.js
15	39 (5.64%)	.NET
16	34 (4.91%)	jQuery
17	33 (4.77%)	Apache Camel
18	32 (4.62%)	React
19	30 (4.34%)	Spring MVC
20	27 (3.90%)	Gherkin

Miscellaneous
1	55 (7.95%)	Analytical Skills
2	35 (5.06%)	Enterprise Software
3	33 (4.77%)	Computer Science
3	33 (4.77%)	User Experience
4	25 (3.61%)	iPad
4	25 (3.61%)	Mobile App
5	21 (3.03%)	Equities
6	20 (2.89%)	Data Centre
7	19 (2.75%)	Linux Command Line
7	19 (2.75%)	Social Media
8	18 (2.60%)	Video on Demand
9	16 (2.31%)	Fintech
10	14 (2.02%)	Hedge funds
11	13 (1.88%)	Cloud Native
11	13 (1.88%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
11	13 (1.88%)	STB
12	12 (1.73%)	Management Information System
12	12 (1.73%)	Wiki
13	11 (1.59%)	Greenfield Project
14	9 (1.30%)	Algorithms

Operating Systems
1	157 (22.69%)	Linux
2	64 (9.25%)	Unix
3	44 (6.36%)	Windows
4	33 (4.77%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	29 (4.19%)	Apple iOS
6	21 (3.03%)	CentOS
7	13 (1.88%)	Android
8	10 (1.45%)	Windows Server
9	6 (0.87%)	Ubuntu
10	5 (0.72%)	Solaris
11	4 (0.58%)	Windows Server 2012
12	3 (0.43%)	Windows Server 2008
13	2 (0.29%)	Debian
13	2 (0.29%)	VMS
14	1 (0.14%)	Mac OS
14	1 (0.14%)	Windows 2000 Server
14	1 (0.14%)	Windows 7
14	1 (0.14%)	Windows 8
14	1 (0.14%)	Windows Server 2003
14	1 (0.14%)	Windows Vista

Processes & Methodologies
1	455 (65.75%)	Agile Software Development
2	224 (32.37%)	Scrum
3	209 (30.20%)	DevOps
4	157 (22.69%)	TDD
5	156 (22.54%)	Continuous Integration
6	117 (16.91%)	BDD
7	115 (16.62%)	Test Automation
8	100 (14.45%)	Microservices
9	86 (12.43%)	Kanban
10	70 (10.12%)	Open Source
11	64 (9.25%)	Configuration Management
12	63 (9.10%)	User Stories
13	59 (8.53%)	Project Management
14	58 (8.38%)	Continuous Delivery
15	55 (7.95%)	MVC
16	54 (7.80%)	SOA
17	53 (7.66%)	OO
18	51 (7.37%)	Stakeholder Management
19	49 (7.08%)	Responsive Web Design
20	45 (6.50%)	Analytics

Programming Languages
1	248 (35.84%)	Java
2	112 (16.18%)	JavaScript
3	105 (15.17%)	SQL
4	85 (12.28%)	Python
5	38 (5.49%)	Ruby
6	37 (5.35%)	Bash Shell
7	32 (4.62%)	C#
8	22 (3.18%)	Perl
9	19 (2.75%)	PowerShell
9	19 (2.75%)	Shell Script
10	18 (2.60%)	PL/SQL
11	16 (2.31%)	Scala
12	15 (2.17%)	Groovy
13	13 (1.88%)	C++
14	12 (1.73%)	Apex Code
15	9 (1.30%)	Apple Swift
15	9 (1.30%)	Objective-C
16	8 (1.16%)	C
17	6 (0.87%)	ActionScript
17	6 (0.87%)	VB

Qualifications
1	86 (12.43%)	Security Cleared
2	70 (10.12%)	SC Cleared
3	58 (8.38%)	Degree
4	22 (3.18%)	ISEB
5	16 (2.31%)	DV Cleared
6	8 (1.16%)	BPSS Clearance
7	7 (1.01%)	Computer Science Degree
7	7 (1.01%)	PMI Certification
7	7 (1.01%)	PMP
7	7 (1.01%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
8	5 (0.72%)	BC Cleared
8	5 (0.72%)	ISTQB
8	5 (0.72%)	Six Sigma Green Belt
9	4 (0.58%)	IIBA
10	3 (0.43%)	AWS Certification
10	3 (0.43%)	CBAP
11	2 (0.29%)	CAPM
11	2 (0.29%)	DBS Check
11	2 (0.29%)	RHCE
11	2 (0.29%)	RHCSA

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	72 (10.40%)	QA
2	13 (1.88%)	PMO
3	6 (0.87%)	Data Quality
4	5 (0.72%)	WCAG
5	4 (0.58%)	COBIT
5	4 (0.58%)	MiFID
6	2 (0.29%)	GCP
6	2 (0.29%)	ISO/IEC 20000
6	2 (0.29%)	PCI DSS
6	2 (0.29%)	Solvency II
7	1 (0.14%)	HL7
7	1 (0.14%)	ISO 20022
7	1 (0.14%)	ISO/IEC 27001
7	1 (0.14%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
7	1 (0.14%)	SLA

System Software
1	115 (16.62%)	Docker
2	18 (2.60%)	vCloud
3	11 (1.59%)	Active Directory
3	11 (1.59%)	Postfix
3	11 (1.59%)	Squid
3	11 (1.59%)	Virtual Machines
4	10 (1.45%)	HDFS
5	9 (1.30%)	Apache ZooKeeper
6	7 (1.01%)	VMware ESXi
7	2 (0.29%)	Hyper-V
7	2 (0.29%)	VMware Infrastructure
8	1 (0.14%)	Cronacle
8	1 (0.14%)	Gluster
8	1 (0.14%)	Oracle RAC
8	1 (0.14%)	Terminal Services
8	1 (0.14%)	Xen
8	1 (0.14%)	XenDesktop

Systems Management
1	93 (13.44%)	Ansible
2	57 (8.24%)	Puppet
3	53 (7.66%)	Kubernetes
4	43 (6.21%)	Terraform
5	22 (3.18%)	Opscode Chef
6	18 (2.60%)	ZABBIX
7	14 (2.02%)	HP Quality Center
7	14 (2.02%)	Rancher
8	13 (1.88%)	Docker Swarm
8	13 (1.88%)	HockeyApp
8	13 (1.88%)	logstash
9	12 (1.73%)	Kibana
10	11 (1.59%)	Rsyslog
10	11 (1.59%)	Sysdig
11	7 (1.01%)	Nagios
12	6 (0.87%)	FortiGate
12	6 (0.87%)	Forum Sentry
13	5 (0.72%)	Dollar Universe
13	5 (0.72%)	Hadoop YARN
14	4 (0.58%)	yum

Vendors
1	172 (24.86%)	Atlassian
2	89 (12.86%)	Oracle
3	35 (5.06%)	Microsoft
4	34 (4.91%)	Adobe
5	30 (4.34%)	Red Hat
6	29 (4.19%)	Splunk
7	24 (3.47%)	SAP
8	23 (3.32%)	Google
8	23 (3.32%)	IBM
9	22 (3.18%)	VMware
10	21 (3.03%)	ATG
11	20 (2.89%)	AppDynamics
12	19 (2.75%)	New Relic
12	19 (2.75%)	Sonatype
13	17 (2.46%)	hybris
13	17 (2.46%)	MuleSoft
14	15 (2.17%)	Apple
14	15 (2.17%)	Salesforce.com
15	13 (1.88%)	HP
16	10 (1.45%)	Cisco