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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 106 140
Rank change year-on-year -23 +34 -28
Contract jobs citing Confluence 447 374 302
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.23% 2.76% 1.86%
As % of the Application Platforms category 22.27% 24.08% 14.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 259 216
10th Percentile £408 £331 £319
25th Percentile £450 £450 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £671 £650
90th Percentile £706 £750 £772
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 5
10th Percentile - - £21.10
25th Percentile £61.25 £86.25 £22.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £87.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% +207.02% -56.15%
75th Percentile £77.50 £88.75 £33.75
90th Percentile £84.25 - £52.50
England median hourly rate £63.50 £70.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -9.93% +0.71% +12.00%

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 2,007 1,553 2,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.99% 11.48% 12.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,328 1,058 1,520
10th Percentile £337 £325 £320
25th Percentile £425 £413 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £569
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +3.41%
75th Percentile £625 £672 £763
90th Percentile £712 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 24
10th Percentile £16.80 £24.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.25 £26.00 £21.75
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.75 £26.15
Median % change year-on-year -8.94% +17.59% -44.95%
75th Percentile £41.44 £52.81 £43.44
90th Percentile £73.15 £85.13 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £42.27 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.11% +20.77% -22.22%

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 14 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Confluence in London over the 6 months to 14 August 2026.

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 14 August 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 -41 48 £550 +4.76% 15
South London -3 17 £513 -11.85% 1
West London -22 3 £775 +86.75% 3
North London - 2 - - 1
East London 0 1 £550 +5.77% 2
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 (8.72%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.01%) CMS
3 6 (1.34%) nginx
4 5 (1.12%) JBoss
4 5 (1.12%) SAS
5 3 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (0.67%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.45%) Camunda
6 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.22%) Appian
7 1 (0.22%) Drupal
7 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.22%) Mule
7 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 39 (8.72%) MS Visio
2 36 (8.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (5.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (5.15%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (1.12%) Notion
7 4 (0.89%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.67%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.67%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.67%) Final Cut Pro
8 3 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.67%) Trello
9 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.22%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.22%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (2.01%) Temenos T24
2 6 (1.34%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.89%) Actimize
4 3 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.45%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.45%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
5 2 (0.45%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.45%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.45%) Summit
6 1 (0.22%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.22%) Endur
6 1 (0.22%) MetaTrader
6 1 (0.22%) Primavera
6 1 (0.22%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.22%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 93 (20.81%) AWS
2 90 (20.13%) Azure
3 46 (10.29%) GitHub
4 37 (8.28%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (8.05%) Amazon S3
5 36 (8.05%) Power Platform
6 27 (6.04%) Serverless
7 24 (5.37%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (5.37%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
9 19 (4.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 19 (4.25%) GCP
10 18 (4.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 17 (3.80%) SaaS
12 16 (3.58%) Figma
13 13 (2.91%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (2.68%) OCI
15 10 (2.24%) dbt
15 10 (2.24%) Miro
15 10 (2.24%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.46%) DNS
1 11 (2.46%) Firewall
1 11 (2.46%) TCP/IP
2 10 (2.24%) SSL
3 9 (2.01%) HTTP
4 8 (1.79%) Network Security
5 6 (1.34%) VPN
6 5 (1.12%) OpenVPN
6 5 (1.12%) SSH
7 4 (0.89%) IPv4
8 3 (0.67%) IPv6
9 2 (0.45%) Broadband
9 2 (0.45%) DSL
9 2 (0.45%) FTP
9 2 (0.45%) Internet
9 2 (0.45%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.45%) WAN
10 1 (0.22%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (0.22%) EIGRP
10 1 (0.22%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (7.83%) Power BI
2 23 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (3.36%) SQL Server
4 13 (2.91%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (2.91%) Amazon Redshift
4 13 (2.91%) Tableau
5 11 (2.46%) Metadata
5 11 (2.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (2.01%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (2.01%) DynamoDB
6 9 (2.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 9 (2.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.57%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.34%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (1.34%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.12%) Oracle Database
10 5 (1.12%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.67%) Looker
11 3 (0.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 399 (89.26%) JIRA
2 63 (14.09%) Git
3 34 (7.61%) Jenkins
4 23 (5.15%) GitLab
5 13 (2.91%) Selenium
5 13 (2.91%) Sonatype Nexus
6 11 (2.46%) Cypress.io
7 10 (2.24%) Bitbucket
7 10 (2.24%) Zephyr
8 8 (1.79%) REST Assured
9 6 (1.34%) JMeter
10 5 (1.12%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.12%) ScriptRunner
11 4 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.89%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.89%) JUnit
11 4 (0.89%) Postman
11 4 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.67%) Maven
12 3 (0.67%) Mockito
General
1 173 (38.70%) Social Skills
2 172 (38.48%) Finance
3 99 (22.15%) Banking
4 84 (18.79%) Analytical Skills
5 73 (16.33%) Public Sector
6 21 (4.70%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (4.25%) Retail
8 14 (3.13%) Legal
9 12 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (2.46%) Financial Institution
10 11 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.57%) Military
13 6 (1.34%) Corporate Banking
13 6 (1.34%) Front Office
13 6 (1.34%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.34%) Retail Banking
13 6 (1.34%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.12%) Law
14 5 (1.12%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 96 (21.48%) Analyst
2 77 (17.23%) Business Analyst
3 47 (10.51%) Lead
4 43 (9.62%) Senior
5 42 (9.40%) Developer
6 26 (5.82%) Architect
7 20 (4.47%) Consultant
7 20 (4.47%) Product Owner
8 18 (4.03%) Delivery Manager
9 17 (3.80%) Scrum Master
10 16 (3.58%) Project Manager
11 14 (3.13%) Senior Analyst
12 12 (2.68%) Banking Analyst
12 12 (2.68%) Data Engineer
12 12 (2.68%) DevOps Engineer
13 10 (2.24%) Banking Business Analyst
14 9 (2.01%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (2.01%) Data Business Analyst
14 9 (2.01%) Salesforce Developer
14 9 (2.01%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (6.94%) REST
2 19 (4.25%) React
3 16 (3.58%) AngularJS
4 10 (2.24%) JSON
4 10 (2.24%) Lightning Web Components
5 9 (2.01%) Node.js
5 9 (2.01%) PySpark
5 9 (2.01%) SOAP
6 8 (1.79%) CSS
6 8 (1.79%) HTML
6 8 (1.79%) Loki
6 8 (1.79%) RESTful
6 8 (1.79%) XML
7 7 (1.57%) .NET
7 7 (1.57%) OAuth
7 7 (1.57%) OAuth2
7 7 (1.57%) OpenID
8 6 (1.34%) Bootstrap
8 6 (1.34%) SailPoint
8 6 (1.34%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 76 (17.00%) Product Ownership
2 28 (6.26%) Onboarding
3 17 (3.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 16 (3.58%) Cloud Native
5 15 (3.36%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (2.24%) Clustering
7 10 (2.24%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.57%) Credit Risk
9 7 (1.57%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.57%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.34%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.34%) Replication
11 5 (1.12%) Derivative
11 5 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.12%) Market Risk
11 5 (1.12%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.15%) Linux
2 17 (3.80%) Windows
3 9 (2.01%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (1.34%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.67%) Android
6 3 (0.67%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.45%) Unix
7 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.22%) SUSE
8 1 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.22%) VMS
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 297 (66.44%) Agile
2 160 (35.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 108 (24.16%) DevOps
4 102 (22.82%) Scrum
5 101 (22.60%) CI/CD
5 101 (22.60%) Problem-Solving
6 80 (17.90%) User Stories
7 72 (16.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 69 (15.44%) Migration
9 64 (14.32%) User Acceptance Testing
10 60 (13.42%) Test Automation
11 58 (12.98%) Acceptance Criteria
12 56 (12.53%) AI
13 55 (12.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 53 (11.86%) Business Analysis
15 52 (11.63%) Infrastructure as Code
16 49 (10.96%) SDLC
17 47 (10.51%) Requirements Gathering
17 47 (10.51%) Workshop Facilitation
18 45 (10.07%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 79 (17.67%) SQL
2 71 (15.88%) Python
3 38 (8.50%) Java
4 22 (4.92%) JavaScript
5 21 (4.70%) PowerShell
6 18 (4.03%) Bash
7 17 (3.80%) TypeScript
8 12 (2.68%) Groovy
9 10 (2.24%) Apex Code
10 8 (1.79%) C#
10 8 (1.79%) Perl
11 6 (1.34%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.89%) Swift
13 3 (0.67%) Korn
13 3 (0.67%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.67%) VBA
14 2 (0.45%) Cypher
14 2 (0.45%) R
14 2 (0.45%) SHACL
14 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 156 (34.90%) Security Cleared
2 141 (31.54%) SC Cleared
3 38 (8.50%) Degree
4 23 (5.15%) DV Cleared
5 15 (3.36%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.68%) PMI Certification
7 11 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (2.01%) IIBA
9 8 (1.79%) ISTQB
9 8 (1.79%) PMP
10 7 (1.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (1.57%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.34%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.12%) CBAP
12 5 (1.12%) CISSP
13 4 (0.89%) CISM
14 3 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
14 3 (0.67%) ISEB
15 2 (0.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 2 (0.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (11.19%) QA
2 29 (6.49%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.25%) PMO
4 12 (2.68%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.68%) GDPR
5 6 (1.34%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.34%) SEPA
5 6 (1.34%) WCAG
6 5 (1.12%) SLA
7 4 (0.89%) MiFID
8 2 (0.45%) EMIR
8 2 (0.45%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.45%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.45%) NCSC
8 2 (0.45%) NIST
8 2 (0.45%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.22%) HL7
9 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (6.26%) Docker
2 17 (3.80%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.22%) Squid
6 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 60 (13.42%) Terraform
2 29 (6.49%) Grafana
3 21 (4.70%) Kubernetes
4 20 (4.47%) Ansible
5 15 (3.36%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (3.13%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.24%) Argo
8 7 (1.57%) Control-M
9 6 (1.34%) Microsoft Clustering
9 6 (1.34%) SCOM
10 4 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.89%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.89%) Consul
10 4 (0.89%) PingFederate
10 4 (0.89%) Podman
11 3 (0.67%) Istio
11 3 (0.67%) SELinux
12 2 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.45%) RSA Archer
13 1 (0.22%) CASB
Vendors
1 57 (12.75%) Microsoft
2 40 (8.95%) ServiceNow
3 28 (6.26%) Salesforce
4 24 (5.37%) SAP
5 22 (4.92%) Oracle
6 21 (4.70%) Atlassian
7 19 (4.25%) IBM
8 18 (4.03%) Google
8 18 (4.03%) Splunk
9 10 (2.24%) Databricks
10 9 (2.01%) Adobe
10 9 (2.01%) Informatica
11 8 (1.79%) Temenos
12 7 (1.57%) xMatters
13 6 (1.34%) BMC
13 6 (1.34%) Commvault
13 6 (1.34%) MuleSoft
13 6 (1.34%) Red Hat
13 6 (1.34%) Remedy
13 6 (1.34%) VMware