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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 101 125
Rank change year-on-year -2 +24 -25
Contract jobs citing Confluence 395 353 364
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.72% 2.56% 1.97%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.37% 21.62% 18.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 222 260
10th Percentile £350 £300 £381
25th Percentile £448 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £810 £800
England median daily rate £500 £518 £550
% change year-on-year -3.38% -5.91% -
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 £43.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -31.20% - +19.05%

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 1,498 1,633 2,004
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.32% 11.84% 10.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,033 1,022 1,438
10th Percentile £325 £308 £262
25th Percentile £415 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £738 £810 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 29
10th Percentile - £17.35 £17.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.91 £21.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -8.46% +15.22%
75th Percentile £45.25 £38.00 £32.50
90th Percentile £92.44 £41.91 £50.77
England median hourly rate £27.21 £45.00 £26.78
% change year-on-year -39.53% +68.04% +37.33%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -2 52 £518 -6.55% 12
South London +5 19 £519 +9.17% 5
West London -11 9 £500 +28.21% 5
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 32 (8.10%) nginx
2 28 (7.09%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.77%) Apache
4 4 (1.01%) CMS
5 3 (0.76%) Traefik
6 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.25%) IIS
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 44 (11.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (10.13%) MS Visio
3 28 (7.09%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (6.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (4.81%) Microsoft Office
6 9 (2.28%) Trello
7 8 (2.03%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 4 (1.01%) Notion
9 2 (0.51%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.51%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.51%) InDesign
9 2 (0.51%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.25%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.25%) OmniGraffle
10 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.04%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.77%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.76%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.76%) Shopify
4 2 (0.51%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.25%) Endur
5 1 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.25%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.25%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 82 (20.76%) AWS
2 57 (14.43%) Azure
3 54 (13.67%) GitHub
4 28 (7.09%) Power Platform
5 27 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (5.32%) Amazon S3
7 20 (5.06%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (4.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 16 (4.05%) GCP
9 16 (4.05%) Serverless
10 14 (3.54%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (3.54%) Miro
11 13 (3.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (3.29%) Route 53
11 13 (3.29%) SaaS
12 12 (3.04%) Amazon ECS
13 11 (2.78%) Figma
14 10 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
14 10 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.32%) Firewall
2 16 (4.05%) DNS
3 14 (3.54%) SSH
3 14 (3.54%) VPN
4 12 (3.04%) FTP
5 9 (2.28%) HTTP
5 9 (2.28%) SMTP
6 8 (2.03%) Ethernet
6 8 (2.03%) IMAP
6 8 (2.03%) OpenLDAP
7 7 (1.77%) Modbus
7 7 (1.77%) RS-232
7 7 (1.77%) RS-485
7 7 (1.77%) SD-WAN
7 7 (1.77%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.77%) WAN
8 6 (1.52%) Network Security
8 6 (1.52%) SSL
9 5 (1.27%) OpenVPN
10 3 (0.76%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
1 26 (6.58%) Power BI
2 21 (5.32%) Tableau
3 14 (3.54%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (3.29%) NoSQL
4 13 (3.29%) SQL Server
5 12 (3.04%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (2.53%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (2.28%) Big Data
7 9 (2.28%) Hadoop
8 7 (1.77%) BigQuery
8 7 (1.77%) MongoDB
8 7 (1.77%) Tick Data
9 6 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.52%) Metadata
10 3 (0.76%) DocumentDB
10 3 (0.76%) Redis
11 2 (0.51%) DB2
11 2 (0.51%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 363 (91.90%) JIRA
2 52 (13.16%) Jenkins
3 49 (12.41%) Git
4 24 (6.08%) GitLab
5 21 (5.32%) Bitbucket
5 21 (5.32%) Selenium
6 18 (4.56%) SonarQube
7 11 (2.78%) Cucumber
7 11 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (2.53%) JUnit
9 9 (2.28%) Postman
10 8 (2.03%) Maven
10 8 (2.03%) Vagrant
11 7 (1.77%) SpecFlow
12 5 (1.27%) Cypress.io
12 5 (1.27%) Zephyr
13 4 (1.01%) Android Studio
13 4 (1.01%) ScriptRunner
14 3 (0.76%) TestRail
14 3 (0.76%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 169 (42.78%) Social Skills
2 137 (34.68%) Finance
3 76 (19.24%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (16.20%) Banking
5 51 (12.91%) Public Sector
6 21 (5.32%) Investment Banking
7 18 (4.56%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (3.54%) Front Office
11 13 (3.29%) Legal
11 13 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (2.78%) Retail
13 10 (2.53%) Marketing
14 7 (1.77%) Telecoms
15 6 (1.52%) Financial Institution
16 5 (1.27%) Back Office
16 5 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 5 (1.27%) Publishing
17 4 (1.01%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 93 (23.54%) Analyst
2 88 (22.28%) Business Analyst
3 42 (10.63%) Senior
4 40 (10.13%) Developer
5 32 (8.10%) Project Manager
6 29 (7.34%) Lead
7 19 (4.81%) Architect
8 18 (4.56%) Technical Analyst
8 18 (4.56%) Technical Business Analyst
9 17 (4.30%) Senior Business Analyst
10 16 (4.05%) Product Owner
11 15 (3.80%) Scrum Master
11 15 (3.80%) Senior Analyst
12 14 (3.54%) AWS Engineer
12 14 (3.54%) Consultant
12 14 (3.54%) DevOps Engineer
13 12 (3.04%) AWS DevOps
13 12 (3.04%) Platform Engineer
14 11 (2.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 11 (2.78%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.56%) Kafka
2 15 (3.80%) .NET
2 15 (3.80%) LDAP
3 13 (3.29%) REST
3 13 (3.29%) Spring
4 10 (2.53%) Apache NiFi
4 10 (2.53%) Playwright
4 10 (2.53%) RESTful
5 9 (2.28%) Lightning Web Components
6 8 (2.03%) HTML
6 8 (2.03%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (1.77%) AngularJS
7 7 (1.77%) JSON
7 7 (1.77%) OpenID
7 7 (1.77%) React
7 7 (1.77%) XML
8 6 (1.52%) Node.js
8 6 (1.52%) SOAP
8 6 (1.52%) Web Services
9 5 (1.27%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 44 (11.14%) Product Ownership
2 19 (4.81%) Onboarding
3 16 (4.05%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 11 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (2.53%) PMI
5 10 (2.53%) Replication
6 9 (2.28%) Equities
6 9 (2.28%) Virtual Team
7 7 (1.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 6 (1.52%) Data Centre
8 6 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.52%) NHS
9 5 (1.27%) Derivative
9 5 (1.27%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.01%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.01%) PKI
10 4 (1.01%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (9.87%) Linux
2 20 (5.06%) Windows
3 12 (3.04%) Unix
4 11 (2.78%) VMS
5 8 (2.03%) Amazon Linux
5 8 (2.03%) Ubuntu
6 7 (1.77%) FreeRTOS
7 6 (1.52%) Android
8 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (64.56%) Agile
2 108 (27.34%) Scrum
3 105 (26.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 88 (22.28%) DevOps
5 84 (21.27%) Problem-Solving
6 81 (20.51%) User Stories
7 70 (17.72%) CI/CD
8 68 (17.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 66 (16.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 58 (14.68%) Project Management
11 55 (13.92%) Roadmaps
12 52 (13.16%) Acceptance Criteria
13 51 (12.91%) Workshop Facilitation
14 48 (12.15%) Requirements Gathering
15 46 (11.65%) User Acceptance Testing
16 44 (11.14%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 44 (11.14%) Test Automation
17 42 (10.63%) Migration
18 41 (10.38%) Change Management
18 41 (10.38%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 70 (17.72%) SQL
2 54 (13.67%) Python
3 34 (8.61%) Java
4 18 (4.56%) JavaScript
5 15 (3.80%) PowerShell
6 12 (3.04%) Bash
7 11 (2.78%) C#
8 9 (2.28%) Apex Code
9 8 (2.03%) C++
9 8 (2.03%) Groovy
9 8 (2.03%) TypeScript
10 7 (1.77%) Embedded C++
11 6 (1.52%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.01%) Go
13 3 (0.76%) C
13 3 (0.76%) Embedded C
14 2 (0.51%) Korn
14 2 (0.51%) R
15 1 (0.25%) PHP
15 1 (0.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 103 (26.08%) Security Cleared
2 101 (25.57%) SC Cleared
3 58 (14.68%) Degree
4 21 (5.32%) PMI Certification
5 18 (4.56%) CBAP
6 12 (3.04%) DV Cleared
6 12 (3.04%) PMP
7 11 (2.78%) AWS Certification
8 10 (2.53%) CISSP
9 8 (2.03%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (2.03%) CSPO
10 7 (1.77%) CFA
10 7 (1.77%) ISTQB
11 6 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (1.52%) CESG Certified Professional
11 6 (1.52%) IIBA
12 5 (1.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 4 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (1.01%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (9.62%) QA
2 16 (4.05%) Accessibility
2 16 (4.05%) GDPR
3 15 (3.80%) PMO
4 7 (1.77%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.77%) GRC
5 5 (1.27%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.01%) SEPA
7 3 (0.76%) MiFID
7 3 (0.76%) NCSC
7 3 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.76%) PSD2
7 3 (0.76%) SLA
7 3 (0.76%) WCAG
8 2 (0.51%) FIPS 140-2
8 2 (0.51%) NIST
9 1 (0.25%) EMIR
9 1 (0.25%) P3O
9 1 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 49 (12.41%) Docker
2 14 (3.54%) Squid
3 8 (2.03%) DFS Replication
3 8 (2.03%) Dovecot
3 8 (2.03%) Postfix
4 7 (1.77%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (1.77%) Firmware
5 5 (1.27%) Active Directory
5 5 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.51%) vSphere
7 1 (0.25%) etcd
7 1 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 47 (11.90%) Terraform
2 42 (10.63%) Kubernetes
3 21 (5.32%) Grafana
4 17 (4.30%) Consul
5 16 (4.05%) Prometheus
6 15 (3.80%) Ansible
7 13 (3.29%) Packer
8 8 (2.03%) Nessus
8 8 (2.03%) Proxmox
9 7 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.27%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.76%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.76%) Istio
11 3 (0.76%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.51%) Argo
13 1 (0.25%) Ambari
13 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
13 1 (0.25%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.25%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 1 (0.25%) vRealize
Vendors
1 40 (10.13%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.84%) Atlassian
2 27 (6.84%) Salesforce
2 27 (6.84%) ServiceNow
3 15 (3.80%) Oracle
4 10 (2.53%) Google
4 10 (2.53%) SAP
5 8 (2.03%) Adobe
5 8 (2.03%) Cloudera
5 8 (2.03%) Foundry
5 8 (2.03%) Jaspersoft
5 8 (2.03%) MuleSoft
5 8 (2.03%) Palantir
6 7 (1.77%) Alteryx
6 7 (1.77%) Anaplan
6 7 (1.77%) Cisco
6 7 (1.77%) Red Hat
7 6 (1.52%) DocuSign
7 6 (1.52%) Dynatrace
7 6 (1.52%) VMware