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 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 109 102
Rank change year-on-year +16 -7 -12
Contract jobs citing Confluence 454 355 473
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.21% 2.26% 2.39%
As % of the Application Platforms category 27.89% 18.54% 22.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 235 313
10th Percentile £352 £300 £380
25th Percentile £450 £405 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £668
90th Percentile £738 £810 £810
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £47.33 - £35.50
25th Percentile £53.81 - £41.88
Median hourly rate £65.25 - £55.00
75th Percentile £77.31 - £61.25
90th Percentile £84.18 - £63.50
England median hourly rate £63.40 £68.75 £66.13
% change year-on-year -7.78% +3.96% +32.27%

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 1,628 1,915 2,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.52% 12.18% 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,125 1,272 1,475
10th Percentile £325 £300 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £650
90th Percentile £755 £850 £775
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 21 26
10th Percentile - £18.00 £19.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £23.80 £21.63
Median hourly rate £26.00 £33.07 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.38% +17.06% +21.17%
75th Percentile £46.00 £39.00 £47.95
90th Percentile £87.75 £63.75 £66.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -11.76% +57.41% +44.00%

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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025. 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 +22 69 £500 -6.54% 66
South London +8 22 £581 +22.39% 3
West London -11 6 £415 -17.00% 3
East London +4 1 £520 -5.45% 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 41 (9.03%) nginx
2 25 (5.51%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.86%) Apache
4 4 (0.88%) CMS
5 3 (0.66%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.66%) Traefik
6 2 (0.44%) Camunda
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.22%) Appian
7 1 (0.22%) CICS
7 1 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.22%) IIS
7 1 (0.22%) JBoss
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 44 (9.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (7.27%) MS Visio
3 31 (6.83%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (5.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
6 10 (2.20%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 10 (2.20%) Trello
7 2 (0.44%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.44%) InDesign
7 2 (0.44%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.22%) EPLAN
8 1 (0.22%) Notion
8 1 (0.22%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 12 (2.64%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.88%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.66%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.66%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.66%) Oracle BPM
3 3 (0.66%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.44%) Shopify
5 1 (0.22%) Endur
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.22%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 114 (25.11%) AWS
2 72 (15.86%) Azure
3 52 (11.45%) GitHub
4 30 (6.61%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (6.17%) Power Platform
6 26 (5.73%) Amazon S3
6 26 (5.73%) AWS CloudFormation
7 25 (5.51%) Amazon EC2
8 22 (4.85%) GCP
9 21 (4.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 20 (4.41%) Serverless
11 18 (3.96%) Miro
12 16 (3.52%) Slack
13 15 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
13 15 (3.30%) SaaS
14 14 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
15 13 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
17 10 (2.20%) Amazon ELB
17 10 (2.20%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.63%) Firewall
2 17 (3.74%) DNS
3 16 (3.52%) SSH
4 15 (3.30%) OpenLDAP
4 15 (3.30%) SSL
5 13 (2.86%) FTP
6 12 (2.64%) HTTP
7 11 (2.42%) SMTP
8 10 (2.20%) IMAP
9 9 (1.98%) VPN
10 7 (1.54%) WAN
11 6 (1.32%) SD-WAN
12 4 (0.88%) Network Security
13 3 (0.66%) DHCP
14 2 (0.44%) Ethernet
14 2 (0.44%) HTTPS
14 2 (0.44%) LAN
14 2 (0.44%) OSPF
14 2 (0.44%) SNMP
14 2 (0.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.05%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (5.95%) Power BI
3 21 (4.63%) Tableau
4 17 (3.74%) SQL Server
5 16 (3.52%) Hadoop
6 15 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (2.86%) Big Data
8 12 (2.64%) Amazon Aurora
9 10 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (2.20%) NoSQL
10 7 (1.54%) Metadata
11 5 (1.10%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.10%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.10%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.88%) DB2
12 4 (0.88%) Tick Data
13 3 (0.66%) MongoDB
13 3 (0.66%) MySQL
13 3 (0.66%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 420 (92.51%) JIRA
2 70 (15.42%) Git
3 58 (12.78%) Jenkins
4 31 (6.83%) GitLab
5 25 (5.51%) Bitbucket
6 15 (3.30%) Selenium
7 13 (2.86%) Cucumber
7 13 (2.86%) SonarQube
8 11 (2.42%) Postman
8 11 (2.42%) Vagrant
9 9 (1.98%) JUnit
10 8 (1.76%) Sonatype Nexus
10 8 (1.76%) SpecFlow
11 7 (1.54%) Cypress.io
11 7 (1.54%) Zephyr
12 5 (1.10%) Android Studio
12 5 (1.10%) Maven
12 5 (1.10%) ScriptRunner
13 4 (0.88%) TeamCity
14 3 (0.66%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 202 (44.49%) Social Skills
2 125 (27.53%) Finance
3 71 (15.64%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (15.42%) Banking
5 54 (11.89%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.19%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (4.19%) Front Office
6 19 (4.19%) Investment Banking
7 18 (3.96%) Presentation Skills
8 16 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (3.08%) Retail
10 11 (2.42%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.76%) Back Office
12 8 (1.76%) Legal
13 7 (1.54%) Marketing
14 6 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (1.10%) Electronics
15 5 (1.10%) Manufacturing
16 4 (0.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 86 (18.94%) Analyst
2 74 (16.30%) Business Analyst
3 52 (11.45%) Senior
4 38 (8.37%) Developer
5 36 (7.93%) Project Manager
6 35 (7.71%) Lead
7 34 (7.49%) Architect
8 21 (4.63%) Product Owner
9 19 (4.19%) DevOps Engineer
10 18 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
11 16 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
11 16 (3.52%) Scrum Master
12 15 (3.30%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (3.30%) Consultant
13 14 (3.08%) Administrator
13 14 (3.08%) Data Engineer
13 14 (3.08%) Technical Analyst
13 14 (3.08%) Technical Business Analyst
14 13 (2.86%) AWS DevOps
14 13 (2.86%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (8.15%) REST
2 31 (6.83%) AngularJS
3 30 (6.61%) LDAP
4 25 (5.51%) .NET
5 24 (5.29%) Kafka
6 23 (5.07%) HTML
6 23 (5.07%) JSON
7 22 (4.85%) RabbitMQ
7 22 (4.85%) Web Services
8 21 (4.63%) SOAP
9 20 (4.41%) React
10 15 (3.30%) Apache NiFi
10 15 (3.30%) HTML5
11 13 (2.86%) SAML
12 12 (2.64%) Apache Camel
12 12 (2.64%) JDBC
12 12 (2.64%) jQuery
12 12 (2.64%) ODBC
13 11 (2.42%) RESTful
13 11 (2.42%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 50 (11.01%) Product Ownership
2 20 (4.41%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.08%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.08%) Management Information System
3 14 (3.08%) Replication
4 12 (2.64%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.42%) Equities
6 10 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (2.20%) Derivative
7 9 (1.98%) NHS
8 8 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.54%) Fixed Income
9 7 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.54%) PMI
10 6 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.32%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.32%) PKI
10 6 (1.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 6 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 59 (13.00%) Linux
2 28 (6.17%) Windows
3 20 (4.41%) Unix
4 13 (2.86%) VMS
5 11 (2.42%) Ubuntu
6 10 (2.20%) Amazon Linux
7 8 (1.76%) Android
8 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.44%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.22%) CentOS
9 1 (0.22%) Debian
9 1 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 311 (68.50%) Agile
2 136 (29.96%) Scrum
3 109 (24.01%) DevOps
4 95 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
5 92 (20.26%) Stakeholder Management
6 79 (17.40%) CI/CD
7 67 (14.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 64 (14.10%) User Stories
9 63 (13.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 61 (13.44%) Roadmaps
11 55 (12.11%) Microservices
11 55 (12.11%) Project Management
12 53 (11.67%) Change Management
13 52 (11.45%) Migration
14 47 (10.35%) User Acceptance Testing
15 39 (8.59%) Workshop Facilitation
16 38 (8.37%) Kanban
16 38 (8.37%) Risk Management
16 38 (8.37%) SDLC
16 38 (8.37%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 75 (16.52%) Python
1 75 (16.52%) SQL
2 54 (11.89%) Java
3 34 (7.49%) JavaScript
4 19 (4.19%) TypeScript
5 16 (3.52%) PowerShell
6 13 (2.86%) C#
7 12 (2.64%) Bash
7 12 (2.64%) Go
8 11 (2.42%) Groovy
9 8 (1.76%) Kotlin
10 5 (1.10%) Apex Code
10 5 (1.10%) C++
11 2 (0.44%) C
11 2 (0.44%) Korn
11 2 (0.44%) PHP
11 2 (0.44%) R
12 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.22%) Swift
12 1 (0.22%) XPath
Qualifications
1 129 (28.41%) Security Cleared
2 126 (27.75%) SC Cleared
3 67 (14.76%) Degree
4 21 (4.63%) PMI Certification
5 19 (4.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (3.74%) DV Cleared
7 15 (3.30%) PMP
8 12 (2.64%) AWS Certification
8 12 (2.64%) CISSP
9 10 (2.20%) Azure Certification
10 9 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.54%) ISTQB
12 6 (1.32%) CBAP
12 6 (1.32%) CESG Certified Professional
12 6 (1.32%) CFA
12 6 (1.32%) CSPO
13 5 (1.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.66%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.66%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (11.23%) QA
2 15 (3.30%) GDPR
3 14 (3.08%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.20%) PMO
5 8 (1.76%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.10%) SEPA
7 4 (0.88%) GRC
7 4 (0.88%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.88%) NCSC
8 3 (0.66%) ITGC
8 3 (0.66%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.66%) PSD2
8 3 (0.66%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.66%) WCAG
9 2 (0.44%) FIPS 140-2
9 2 (0.44%) MiFID
9 2 (0.44%) NIST
10 1 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 59 (13.00%) Docker
2 12 (2.64%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.20%) DFS Replication
3 10 (2.20%) Dovecot
3 10 (2.20%) Postfix
3 10 (2.20%) Squid
4 6 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.66%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.44%) vSphere
7 1 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.22%) etcd
7 1 (0.22%) Firmware
7 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.22%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 53 (11.67%) Kubernetes
2 52 (11.45%) Terraform
3 25 (5.51%) Packer
4 24 (5.29%) Consul
5 18 (3.96%) Grafana
6 16 (3.52%) Ansible
7 14 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (2.86%) Prometheus
9 10 (2.20%) Nessus
9 10 (2.20%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.88%) Puppet
11 3 (0.66%) Ambari
11 3 (0.66%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.66%) Istio
11 3 (0.66%) RSA Archer
11 3 (0.66%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.44%) Argo
13 1 (0.22%) HP Operations Orchestration
13 1 (0.22%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 48 (10.57%) Microsoft
2 47 (10.35%) ServiceNow
3 30 (6.61%) Atlassian
4 24 (5.29%) Salesforce
5 15 (3.30%) HP
5 15 (3.30%) Oracle
6 14 (3.08%) Remedy
7 13 (2.86%) Cloudera
7 13 (2.86%) Foundry
7 13 (2.86%) Google
7 13 (2.86%) Palantir
8 12 (2.64%) BMC
8 12 (2.64%) Ivanti
9 11 (2.42%) SAP
10 10 (2.20%) Jaspersoft
11 9 (1.98%) Splunk
12 7 (1.54%) Adobe
12 7 (1.54%) DocuSign
12 7 (1.54%) Duck Creek
12 7 (1.54%) VMware