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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 99 137
Rank change year-on-year -9 +38 -36
Contract jobs citing Confluence 427 347 327
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.74% 2.56% 1.79%
As % of the Application Platforms category 27.57% 21.38% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 212 228
10th Percentile £356 £302 £375
25th Percentile £431 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £645
90th Percentile £738 £810 £791
England median daily rate £500 £509 £540
% change year-on-year -1.72% -5.79% -1.82%
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% - +16.82%

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 1,549 1,623 1,989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.94% 11.98% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,073 1,014 1,422
10th Percentile £348 £308 £262
25th Percentile £415 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £626 £656 £625
90th Percentile £738 £810 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 11 32
10th Percentile - £19.95 £17.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £23.80 £22.00
Median hourly rate £24.08 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.21% +16.67% +32.57%
75th Percentile £37.56 £40.46 £34.38
90th Percentile £87.31 £41.91 £48.63
England median hourly rate £27.21 £47.50 £25.75
% change year-on-year -42.72% +84.47% +17.05%

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 February 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 February 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 -19 49 £500 -8.26% 11
South London +4 25 £519 +9.17% 4
West London -20 9 £500 +19.05% 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 33 (7.73%) SharePoint
2 30 (7.03%) nginx
3 8 (1.87%) Palantir Foundry
4 7 (1.64%) Apache
5 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.94%) CMS
7 3 (0.70%) Traefik
8 2 (0.47%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.23%) CICS
9 1 (0.23%) IIS
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 44 (10.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (9.84%) MS Visio
3 29 (6.79%) Microsoft Project
4 27 (6.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (4.45%) Microsoft Office
6 8 (1.87%) Trello
7 4 (0.94%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 4 (0.94%) 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%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.23%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.23%) OmniGraffle
9 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.81%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.64%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.70%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.70%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.47%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.47%) Shopify
4 2 (0.47%) Summit
5 1 (0.23%) Endur
5 1 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.23%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.23%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 86 (20.14%) AWS
2 63 (14.75%) Azure
3 53 (12.41%) GitHub
4 36 (8.43%) Power Platform
5 32 (7.49%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (5.39%) Amazon S3
7 19 (4.45%) Amazon EC2
7 19 (4.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 17 (3.98%) Serverless
9 16 (3.75%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (3.75%) SaaS
10 15 (3.51%) GCP
11 14 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (3.28%) Miro
12 13 (3.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (3.04%) Figma
13 11 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
13 11 (2.58%) Lucidchart
13 11 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (2.58%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.22%) Firewall
2 15 (3.51%) VPN
3 14 (3.28%) DNS
4 11 (2.58%) WAN
5 9 (2.11%) FTP
6 8 (1.87%) Ethernet
6 8 (1.87%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.64%) LAN
7 7 (1.64%) Modbus
7 7 (1.64%) RS-232
7 7 (1.64%) RS-485
7 7 (1.64%) SD-WAN
8 6 (1.41%) Network Security
8 6 (1.41%) OpenVPN
8 6 (1.41%) SSH
9 5 (1.17%) HTTP
9 5 (1.17%) SMTP
10 4 (0.94%) PSTN
10 4 (0.94%) SSL
10 4 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.03%) Power BI
2 23 (5.39%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (4.68%) Tableau
4 15 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
5 14 (3.28%) SQL Server
6 13 (3.04%) NoSQL
7 12 (2.81%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
9 9 (2.11%) Big Data
9 9 (2.11%) Hadoop
10 7 (1.64%) MongoDB
10 7 (1.64%) Tick Data
11 6 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.41%) BigQuery
11 6 (1.41%) Metadata
12 3 (0.70%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.70%) DocumentDB
12 3 (0.70%) Redis
12 3 (0.70%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.70%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 393 (92.04%) JIRA
2 53 (12.41%) Git
3 48 (11.24%) Jenkins
4 28 (6.56%) GitLab
5 21 (4.92%) Bitbucket
5 21 (4.92%) Selenium
6 17 (3.98%) SonarQube
7 12 (2.81%) Sonatype Nexus
8 11 (2.58%) Cucumber
8 11 (2.58%) JUnit
9 9 (2.11%) Postman
10 8 (1.87%) Maven
11 7 (1.64%) SpecFlow
12 6 (1.41%) Cypress.io
13 4 (0.94%) Android Studio
13 4 (0.94%) ScriptRunner
13 4 (0.94%) TestRail
13 4 (0.94%) Vagrant
13 4 (0.94%) Zephyr
14 3 (0.70%) JMeter
General
1 175 (40.98%) Social Skills
2 146 (34.19%) Finance
3 82 (19.20%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (14.99%) Banking
5 61 (14.29%) Public Sector
6 22 (5.15%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (4.92%) Investment Banking
8 16 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (3.28%) Front Office
10 14 (3.28%) Legal
10 14 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.81%) Marketing
11 12 (2.81%) Retail
12 10 (2.34%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.41%) Back Office
13 6 (1.41%) Publishing
13 6 (1.41%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.94%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 105 (24.59%) Analyst
2 99 (23.19%) Business Analyst
3 47 (11.01%) Senior
4 41 (9.60%) Developer
5 37 (8.67%) Project Manager
6 30 (7.03%) Lead
7 22 (5.15%) Architect
8 18 (4.22%) Technical Business Analyst
9 17 (3.98%) Senior Analyst
9 17 (3.98%) Senior Business Analyst
9 17 (3.98%) Technical Analyst
10 14 (3.28%) Consultant
11 13 (3.04%) Delivery Manager
11 13 (3.04%) Product Owner
12 12 (2.81%) Banking Analyst
12 12 (2.81%) Full-Stack Developer
12 12 (2.81%) Scrum Master
13 11 (2.58%) Banking Business Analyst
13 11 (2.58%) DevOps Engineer
13 11 (2.58%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.51%) .NET
1 15 (3.51%) Kafka
1 15 (3.51%) REST
1 15 (3.51%) Spring
2 12 (2.81%) LDAP
2 12 (2.81%) RESTful
3 10 (2.34%) Apache NiFi
3 10 (2.34%) Playwright
4 9 (2.11%) ADO
4 9 (2.11%) JSON
4 9 (2.11%) Lightning Web Components
4 9 (2.11%) RabbitMQ
4 9 (2.11%) XML
5 8 (1.87%) OpenID
6 7 (1.64%) AngularJS
6 7 (1.64%) HTML
6 7 (1.64%) SOAP
6 7 (1.64%) Web Services
7 6 (1.41%) React
7 6 (1.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.84%) Product Ownership
2 23 (5.39%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.51%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (2.81%) Cloud Native
5 11 (2.58%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (2.34%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.11%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.11%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.87%) Equities
8 8 (1.87%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.41%) Derivative
9 6 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.41%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.41%) NHS
9 6 (1.41%) PMI
10 5 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.17%) Reference Data
10 5 (1.17%) Replication
10 5 (1.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.43%) Linux
2 19 (4.45%) Windows
3 11 (2.58%) Unix
4 7 (1.64%) Android
4 7 (1.64%) FreeRTOS
4 7 (1.64%) VMS
5 4 (0.94%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (0.94%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.47%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (65.11%) Agile
2 120 (28.10%) Stakeholder Management
3 109 (25.53%) Scrum
4 91 (21.31%) DevOps
5 88 (20.61%) User Stories
6 87 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
7 77 (18.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 70 (16.39%) CI/CD
9 69 (16.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 63 (14.75%) Project Management
11 59 (13.82%) Acceptance Criteria
12 58 (13.58%) Roadmaps
13 52 (12.18%) Workshop Facilitation
14 50 (11.71%) Test Automation
15 48 (11.24%) Migration
15 48 (11.24%) Requirements Gathering
15 48 (11.24%) User Acceptance Testing
16 44 (10.30%) Change Management
17 42 (9.84%) Project Delivery
18 40 (9.37%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 70 (16.39%) SQL
2 58 (13.58%) Python
3 34 (7.96%) Java
4 18 (4.22%) JavaScript
5 15 (3.51%) PowerShell
6 13 (3.04%) C#
7 12 (2.81%) Bash
8 9 (2.11%) Apex Code
9 8 (1.87%) C++
9 8 (1.87%) TypeScript
10 7 (1.64%) Embedded C++
11 6 (1.41%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.94%) Go
12 4 (0.94%) Groovy
13 3 (0.70%) C
13 3 (0.70%) Embedded C
13 3 (0.70%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.47%) Korn
15 1 (0.23%) PHP
15 1 (0.23%) XPath
Qualifications
1 118 (27.63%) Security Cleared
2 111 (26.00%) SC Cleared
3 51 (11.94%) Degree
4 17 (3.98%) CBAP
5 15 (3.51%) PMI Certification
6 12 (2.81%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (2.34%) CISSP
7 10 (2.34%) PMP
8 7 (1.64%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.64%) CFA
8 7 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (1.64%) CSPO
8 7 (1.64%) IIBA
8 7 (1.64%) ISTQB
9 6 (1.41%) CESG Certified Professional
10 5 (1.17%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.17%) ISEB
10 5 (1.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.94%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (9.84%) QA
2 24 (5.62%) GDPR
3 17 (3.98%) Accessibility
4 15 (3.51%) PMO
5 13 (3.04%) Data Quality
6 8 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.41%) GRC
8 4 (0.94%) MiFID
9 3 (0.70%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.70%) NCSC
9 3 (0.70%) SLA
9 3 (0.70%) WCAG
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%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.47%) SEPA
11 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (11.01%) Docker
2 11 (2.58%) Squid
3 7 (1.64%) Embedded Firmware
3 7 (1.64%) Firmware
4 5 (1.17%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.94%) DFS Replication
5 4 (0.94%) Dovecot
5 4 (0.94%) Postfix
6 2 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.47%) vSphere
7 1 (0.23%) etcd
7 1 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 47 (11.01%) Terraform
2 45 (10.54%) Kubernetes
3 19 (4.45%) Grafana
4 18 (4.22%) Consul
5 17 (3.98%) Ansible
6 14 (3.28%) Prometheus
7 13 (3.04%) Packer
8 9 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (1.41%) FortiGate
10 5 (1.17%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.94%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.94%) Nessus
11 4 (0.94%) Proxmox
12 3 (0.70%) Istio
12 3 (0.70%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.47%) Argo
14 1 (0.23%) Network Intrusion Detection System
14 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
14 1 (0.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 43 (10.07%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.73%) Salesforce
3 29 (6.79%) Atlassian
3 29 (6.79%) ServiceNow
4 19 (4.45%) Oracle
5 10 (2.34%) Google
5 10 (2.34%) SAP
6 9 (2.11%) Adobe
7 8 (1.87%) Cloudera
7 8 (1.87%) Foundry
7 8 (1.87%) MuleSoft
7 8 (1.87%) Palantir
8 7 (1.64%) Alteryx
8 7 (1.64%) Anaplan
8 7 (1.64%) Cisco
8 7 (1.64%) Databricks
8 7 (1.64%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.64%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.41%) Murex
9 6 (1.41%) VMware