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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 116 153
Rank change year-on-year +11 +37 -46
Contract jobs citing Confluence 429 310 292
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.61% 2.43% 1.60%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.85% 20.53% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 198 201
10th Percentile £357 £303 £375
25th Percentile £446 £401 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -6.78%
75th Percentile £644 £638 £638
90th Percentile £734 £758 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £21.85
25th Percentile - - £23.88
Median hourly rate - - £32.50
75th Percentile - - £44.38
90th Percentile - - £52.25
England median hourly rate £45.46 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -27.26% - +17.92%

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 1,598 1,510 2,007
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.72% 11.81% 11.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,101 989 1,461
10th Percentile £350 £324 £263
25th Percentile £420 £409 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% +2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £625 £673 £630
90th Percentile £725 £810 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 28
10th Percentile £15.20 - £19.45
25th Percentile £17.50 £23.80 £23.31
Median hourly rate £19.00 £32.52 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year -41.57% +8.11% +25.33%
75th Percentile £28.88 £41.91 £40.00
90th Percentile £60.02 £44.34 £51.61
England median hourly rate £27.21 £50.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -45.58% +96.08% +13.33%

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 19 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 19 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 -10 54 £525 -4.11% 13
South London +1 23 £519 +9.17% 8
West London -19 6 £650 +52.94% 7
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 39 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 27 (6.29%) nginx
3 6 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.17%) Apache
4 5 (1.17%) Palantir Foundry
5 4 (0.93%) CMS
6 3 (0.70%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.47%) JBoss
7 2 (0.47%) SAS
8 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.23%) CICS
Applications
1 48 (11.19%) MS Visio
2 41 (9.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (7.23%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (6.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (4.43%) 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%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.80%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.63%) Fidessa
3 5 (1.17%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.93%) Oracle Financials
4 4 (0.93%) Temenos T24
5 3 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.47%) Actimize
6 2 (0.47%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.47%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.47%) Shopify
6 2 (0.47%) Summit
7 1 (0.23%) Endur
7 1 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.23%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.23%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 74 (17.25%) AWS
2 56 (13.05%) Azure
3 46 (10.72%) GitHub
4 32 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (7.46%) Power Platform
5 18 (4.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 17 (3.96%) Amazon S3
7 16 (3.73%) SaaS
7 16 (3.73%) Serverless
8 15 (3.50%) GCP
9 14 (3.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
10 13 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (2.80%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (2.80%) Miro
12 10 (2.33%) Apigee
13 9 (2.10%) Figma
13 9 (2.10%) Google Workspace
13 9 (2.10%) Lucidchart
13 9 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.73%) VPN
2 15 (3.50%) Firewall
3 11 (2.56%) DNS
3 11 (2.56%) WAN
4 9 (2.10%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.63%) Ethernet
5 7 (1.63%) LAN
5 7 (1.63%) Modbus
5 7 (1.63%) OpenVPN
5 7 (1.63%) RS-232
5 7 (1.63%) RS-485
5 7 (1.63%) SD-WAN
6 6 (1.40%) Network Security
7 5 (1.17%) FTP
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%) BIG-IP
9 3 (0.70%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.29%) Power BI
2 23 (5.36%) Tableau
3 15 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (2.33%) NoSQL
7 9 (2.10%) SQL Server
8 8 (1.86%) Big Data
8 8 (1.86%) BigQuery
9 7 (1.63%) Tick Data
10 6 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (1.40%) Metadata
11 5 (1.17%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.17%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.93%) Relational Database
13 3 (0.70%) Delta Lake
13 3 (0.70%) DocumentDB
13 3 (0.70%) DynamoDB
13 3 (0.70%) Spark SQL
14 2 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 392 (91.38%) JIRA
2 54 (12.59%) Git
3 38 (8.86%) Jenkins
4 23 (5.36%) GitLab
5 22 (5.13%) Bitbucket
6 20 (4.66%) Selenium
7 14 (3.26%) Sonatype Nexus
8 11 (2.56%) SonarQube
9 9 (2.10%) Cucumber
10 8 (1.86%) JUnit
10 8 (1.86%) Maven
11 6 (1.40%) Postman
12 5 (1.17%) SpecFlow
13 4 (0.93%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.93%) JMeter
13 4 (0.93%) REST Assured
13 4 (0.93%) ScriptRunner
13 4 (0.93%) Zephyr
14 3 (0.70%) Ant
14 3 (0.70%) TestRail
General
1 166 (38.69%) Social Skills
2 156 (36.36%) Finance
3 82 (19.11%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (18.65%) Banking
5 61 (14.22%) Public Sector
6 26 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (4.66%) Legal
8 15 (3.50%) Investment Banking
8 15 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (3.26%) Retail
10 13 (3.03%) Financial Institution
10 13 (3.03%) Marketing
10 13 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.80%) Front Office
12 7 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.63%) Publishing
13 4 (0.93%) Advertising
13 4 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
13 4 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 118 (27.51%) Analyst
2 108 (25.17%) Business Analyst
3 45 (10.49%) Developer
4 43 (10.02%) Senior
5 37 (8.62%) Project Manager
6 27 (6.29%) Lead
7 23 (5.36%) Architect
8 21 (4.90%) Delivery Manager
9 20 (4.66%) Senior Analyst
9 20 (4.66%) Technical Business Analyst
10 19 (4.43%) Technical Analyst
11 18 (4.20%) Consultant
12 17 (3.96%) Banking Analyst
13 16 (3.73%) Banking Business Analyst
14 14 (3.26%) Senior Business Analyst
15 12 (2.80%) Technical Manager
16 11 (2.56%) Product Owner
16 11 (2.56%) Salesforce Developer
17 10 (2.33%) Scrum Master
18 9 (2.10%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.50%) Spring
2 14 (3.26%) REST
3 11 (2.56%) Kafka
4 10 (2.33%) ADO
4 10 (2.33%) Lightning Web Components
4 10 (2.33%) RESTful
5 8 (1.86%) OpenID
5 8 (1.86%) Playwright
5 8 (1.86%) XML
6 7 (1.63%) .NET
6 7 (1.63%) Apache NiFi
6 7 (1.63%) LDAP
6 7 (1.63%) Web Services
7 6 (1.40%) HTML
7 6 (1.40%) JSON
7 6 (1.40%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (1.40%) React
7 6 (1.40%) SOAP
7 6 (1.40%) Spring Boot
8 5 (1.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.32%) Product Ownership
2 24 (5.59%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (2.56%) Cloud Native
5 10 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (2.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 9 (2.10%) Equities
6 9 (2.10%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.10%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.10%) Virtual Team
7 8 (1.86%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.63%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.40%) Reference Data
10 5 (1.17%) Derivative
11 4 (0.93%) Fixed Income
11 4 (0.93%) IoT
11 4 (0.93%) PMI
12 3 (0.70%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 30 (6.99%) Linux
2 14 (3.26%) Windows
3 8 (1.86%) Unix
4 7 (1.63%) FreeRTOS
5 6 (1.40%) Android
6 4 (0.93%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.70%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 282 (65.73%) Agile
2 131 (30.54%) Stakeholder Management
3 108 (25.17%) Scrum
4 90 (20.98%) User Stories
5 85 (19.81%) DevOps
6 84 (19.58%) Problem-Solving
7 83 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
8 68 (15.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 67 (15.62%) Acceptance Criteria
9 67 (15.62%) CI/CD
10 62 (14.45%) Project Management
11 58 (13.52%) Workshop Facilitation
12 56 (13.05%) Roadmaps
13 54 (12.59%) Test Automation
14 52 (12.12%) User Acceptance Testing
15 49 (11.42%) Migration
15 49 (11.42%) Requirements Gathering
16 46 (10.72%) Decision-Making
17 45 (10.49%) Project Delivery
18 43 (10.02%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 66 (15.38%) SQL
2 54 (12.59%) Python
3 33 (7.69%) Java
4 18 (4.20%) JavaScript
5 13 (3.03%) Bash
6 11 (2.56%) PowerShell
7 10 (2.33%) Apex Code
7 10 (2.33%) C#
8 7 (1.63%) C++
8 7 (1.63%) Embedded C++
8 7 (1.63%) Kotlin
8 7 (1.63%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.70%) C
9 3 (0.70%) Embedded C
9 3 (0.70%) Korn
9 3 (0.70%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.23%) PHP
10 1 (0.23%) Swift
10 1 (0.23%) XPath
Qualifications
1 126 (29.37%) Security Cleared
2 118 (27.51%) SC Cleared
3 38 (8.86%) Degree
4 16 (3.73%) CBAP
5 14 (3.26%) PMI Certification
6 12 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (2.56%) CISSP
7 11 (2.56%) PMP
8 9 (2.10%) DV Cleared
8 9 (2.10%) IIBA
9 8 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (1.86%) CSPO
10 7 (1.63%) ISTQB
11 6 (1.40%) CESG Certified Professional
11 6 (1.40%) ISEB
12 5 (1.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (1.17%) CISM
12 5 (1.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 5 (1.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 5 (1.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (8.86%) QA
2 23 (5.36%) GDPR
3 16 (3.73%) Data Quality
3 16 (3.73%) PMO
4 14 (3.26%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.40%) GRC
7 5 (1.17%) MiFID
8 4 (0.93%) SLA
9 3 (0.70%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.47%) EMIR
10 2 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.47%) NIST
10 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.23%) Basel III
11 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (8.16%) Docker
2 8 (1.86%) Squid
3 7 (1.63%) Embedded Firmware
3 7 (1.63%) Firmware
4 5 (1.17%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 48 (11.19%) Terraform
2 39 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 19 (4.43%) Ansible
3 19 (4.43%) Consul
4 13 (3.03%) Grafana
4 13 (3.03%) Packer
5 11 (2.56%) Prometheus
5 11 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (1.63%) FortiGate
7 6 (1.40%) Jamf Pro
7 6 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.93%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.70%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.23%) CA Endevor
10 1 (0.23%) CASB
10 1 (0.23%) HP Quality Center
10 1 (0.23%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.23%) SCCM
10 1 (0.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 42 (9.79%) Microsoft
2 36 (8.39%) Salesforce
3 33 (7.69%) Atlassian
4 26 (6.06%) ServiceNow
5 19 (4.43%) SAP
6 17 (3.96%) Oracle
7 12 (2.80%) Google
8 10 (2.33%) MuleSoft
9 9 (2.10%) Adobe
9 9 (2.10%) Databricks
9 9 (2.10%) IBM
10 8 (1.86%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.86%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.86%) Zscaler
11 7 (1.63%) Alteryx
11 7 (1.63%) Anaplan
11 7 (1.63%) Cisco
12 6 (1.40%) Murex
12 6 (1.40%) Workday
13 5 (1.17%) Cloudera