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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 99 108
Rank change year-on-year -7 +9 -18
Contract jobs citing Confluence 408 383 410
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.85% 2.59% 2.22%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.55% 21.79% 20.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 249 278
10th Percentile £350 £300 £381
25th Percentile £452 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £568
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -5.85% -1.17%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £810 £800
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £27.50
25th Percentile - - £31.25
Median hourly rate £43.00 - £40.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - £62.00
England median hourly rate £44.23 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -29.23% - +22.55%

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 1,537 1,758 2,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.72% 11.87% 10.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,062 1,128 1,400
10th Percentile £325 £303 £280
25th Percentile £413 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £650
90th Percentile £747 £825 £752
England median daily rate £500 £507 £500
% change year-on-year -1.47% +1.49% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 17 27
10th Percentile - £17.63 £17.00
25th Percentile £17.50 - £21.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -13.45% +14.58%
75th Percentile £34.88 £41.91 £42.27
90th Percentile £58.06 £93.25 £64.25
England median hourly rate £27.46 £42.21 £24.50
% change year-on-year -34.94% +72.27% +36.11%

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 28 December 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
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 28 December 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 +4 59 £505 -10.22% 72
South London +8 18 £557 +30.23% 4
West London -15 7 £500 +12.36% 4
East London -1 1 £520 -5.45% 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 27 (6.62%) nginx
1 27 (6.62%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.96%) Apache
3 3 (0.74%) CMS
3 3 (0.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (0.74%) Traefik
4 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.25%) CICS
4 1 (0.25%) IIS
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 42 (10.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (9.80%) MS Visio
3 28 (6.86%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (2.94%) Trello
7 10 (2.45%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 5 (1.23%) Notion
9 2 (0.49%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.49%) InDesign
9 2 (0.49%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.25%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.25%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 11 (2.70%) NetSuite
2 8 (1.96%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.98%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.74%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.74%) Oracle BPM
4 3 (0.74%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.49%) Shopify
6 1 (0.25%) Endur
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.25%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 88 (21.57%) AWS
2 67 (16.42%) Azure
3 52 (12.75%) GitHub
4 29 (7.11%) Power Platform
5 28 (6.86%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (5.88%) Amazon S3
7 23 (5.64%) Amazon EC2
8 21 (5.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 19 (4.66%) GCP
9 19 (4.66%) Serverless
10 15 (3.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 14 (3.43%) Amazon ECS
11 14 (3.43%) Miro
11 14 (3.43%) SaaS
12 13 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
14 11 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (2.70%) Slack
15 10 (2.45%) Figma
15 10 (2.45%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.66%) Firewall
2 16 (3.92%) SSH
3 15 (3.68%) OpenLDAP
4 14 (3.43%) DNS
4 14 (3.43%) FTP
4 14 (3.43%) SSL
5 11 (2.70%) HTTP
5 11 (2.70%) SMTP
6 10 (2.45%) IMAP
6 10 (2.45%) VPN
7 7 (1.72%) SD-WAN
7 7 (1.72%) WAN
8 5 (1.23%) Ethernet
8 5 (1.23%) Network Security
9 4 (0.98%) Modbus
9 4 (0.98%) RS-232
9 4 (0.98%) RS-485
10 3 (0.74%) BIG-IP
10 3 (0.74%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 3 (0.74%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (6.62%) Power BI
3 24 (5.88%) Tableau
4 17 (4.17%) SQL Server
5 15 (3.68%) Hadoop
6 13 (3.19%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (3.19%) Big Data
6 13 (3.19%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
7 12 (2.94%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.72%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.47%) Metadata
10 5 (1.23%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.98%) DB2
11 4 (0.98%) Oracle Database
11 4 (0.98%) Tick Data
12 2 (0.49%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.49%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.49%) Redis
Development Applications
1 379 (92.89%) JIRA
2 55 (13.48%) Jenkins
3 54 (13.24%) Git
4 31 (7.60%) GitLab
5 21 (5.15%) Bitbucket
5 21 (5.15%) Selenium
6 13 (3.19%) Cucumber
6 13 (3.19%) SonarQube
7 12 (2.94%) Postman
8 10 (2.45%) JUnit
8 10 (2.45%) Vagrant
9 8 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (1.72%) Cypress.io
10 7 (1.72%) SpecFlow
11 5 (1.23%) Maven
11 5 (1.23%) Zephyr
12 4 (0.98%) Android Studio
12 4 (0.98%) ScriptRunner
12 4 (0.98%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.74%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 171 (41.91%) Social Skills
2 136 (33.33%) Finance
3 73 (17.89%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (15.69%) Banking
5 55 (13.48%) Public Sector
6 17 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
7 16 (3.92%) Investment Banking
7 16 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (3.43%) Front Office
10 12 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (2.70%) Legal
12 10 (2.45%) Retail
13 9 (2.21%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.96%) Marketing
15 6 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 5 (1.23%) Back Office
16 5 (1.23%) Financial Institution
16 5 (1.23%) Manufacturing
16 5 (1.23%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 85 (20.83%) Analyst
2 79 (19.36%) Business Analyst
3 45 (11.03%) Senior
4 37 (9.07%) Developer
5 34 (8.33%) Project Manager
6 28 (6.86%) Lead
7 22 (5.39%) Product Owner
8 21 (5.15%) Architect
9 17 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
9 17 (4.17%) Technical Analyst
9 17 (4.17%) Technical Business Analyst
10 16 (3.92%) Scrum Master
11 15 (3.68%) AWS Engineer
11 15 (3.68%) Platform Engineer
11 15 (3.68%) Senior Business Analyst
12 14 (3.43%) Senior Analyst
13 13 (3.19%) AWS DevOps
13 13 (3.19%) Consultant
13 13 (3.19%) Data Engineer
14 12 (2.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (6.37%) LDAP
1 26 (6.37%) REST
2 24 (5.88%) Kafka
3 18 (4.41%) HTML
3 18 (4.41%) JSON
4 17 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
5 16 (3.92%) Web Services
6 15 (3.68%) AngularJS
6 15 (3.68%) SOAP
7 14 (3.43%) .NET
7 14 (3.43%) Apache NiFi
8 11 (2.70%) RESTful
8 11 (2.70%) Spring
9 10 (2.45%) Playwright
9 10 (2.45%) SAML
10 9 (2.21%) HTML5
11 8 (1.96%) JDBC
11 8 (1.96%) jQuery
11 8 (1.96%) ODBC
11 8 (1.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (11.27%) Product Ownership
2 20 (4.90%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.43%) Analytical Mindset
3 14 (3.43%) Management Information System
3 14 (3.43%) Replication
4 11 (2.70%) Cloud Native
4 11 (2.70%) Equities
5 10 (2.45%) PMI
6 9 (2.21%) Data Centre
6 9 (2.21%) Virtual Team
7 8 (1.96%) NHS
8 7 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.47%) Derivative
9 6 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 5 (1.23%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.23%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.23%) PKI
11 4 (0.98%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 42 (10.29%) Linux
2 24 (5.88%) Windows
3 17 (4.17%) Unix
4 13 (3.19%) VMS
5 10 (2.45%) Amazon Linux
5 10 (2.45%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.47%) Android
7 4 (0.98%) FreeRTOS
8 2 (0.49%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 266 (65.20%) Agile
2 119 (29.17%) Scrum
3 104 (25.49%) Stakeholder Management
4 100 (24.51%) DevOps
5 88 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
6 79 (19.36%) CI/CD
7 76 (18.63%) User Stories
8 66 (16.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 61 (14.95%) Continuous Improvement
10 54 (13.24%) Roadmaps
11 52 (12.75%) Project Management
12 49 (12.01%) Workshop Facilitation
13 48 (11.76%) Migration
14 47 (11.52%) Change Management
15 46 (11.27%) Microservices
16 45 (11.03%) Requirements Gathering
17 44 (10.78%) Acceptance Criteria
17 44 (10.78%) Test Automation
18 42 (10.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
19 40 (9.80%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 76 (18.63%) SQL
2 62 (15.20%) Python
3 38 (9.31%) Java
4 28 (6.86%) JavaScript
5 16 (3.92%) PowerShell
6 11 (2.70%) Bash
7 10 (2.45%) C#
7 10 (2.45%) Go
7 10 (2.45%) Groovy
8 9 (2.21%) Apex Code
9 8 (1.96%) TypeScript
10 6 (1.47%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.23%) C++
12 4 (0.98%) Embedded C++
13 3 (0.74%) C
13 3 (0.74%) Embedded C
14 2 (0.49%) Korn
14 2 (0.49%) R
15 1 (0.25%) PHP
15 1 (0.25%) XPath
Qualifications
1 112 (27.45%) Security Cleared
2 111 (27.21%) SC Cleared
3 61 (14.95%) Degree
4 20 (4.90%) PMI Certification
5 17 (4.17%) CBAP
6 16 (3.92%) DV Cleared
7 13 (3.19%) AWS Certification
8 12 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (2.70%) CSPO
9 11 (2.70%) PMP
10 10 (2.45%) Azure Certification
10 10 (2.45%) CISSP
11 8 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (1.72%) CFA
12 7 (1.72%) ISTQB
13 6 (1.47%) CESG Certified Professional
14 5 (1.23%) IIBA
14 5 (1.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
16 3 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (9.31%) QA
2 16 (3.92%) GDPR
3 13 (3.19%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.94%) PMO
5 6 (1.47%) GRC
6 5 (1.23%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.98%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.98%) SEPA
8 3 (0.74%) NCSC
8 3 (0.74%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.74%) PSD2
8 3 (0.74%) WCAG
9 2 (0.49%) FIPS 140-2
9 2 (0.49%) ITGC
9 2 (0.49%) MiFID
10 1 (0.25%) Basel III
10 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.25%) P3O
10 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 47 (11.52%) Docker
2 11 (2.70%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.70%) Squid
3 10 (2.45%) DFS Replication
3 10 (2.45%) Dovecot
3 10 (2.45%) Postfix
4 5 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.98%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (0.98%) Firmware
6 2 (0.49%) 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 42 (10.29%) Terraform
2 39 (9.56%) Kubernetes
3 17 (4.17%) Grafana
4 15 (3.68%) Ansible
5 12 (2.94%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.70%) Packer
7 10 (2.45%) Consul
7 10 (2.45%) Nessus
7 10 (2.45%) Proxmox
7 10 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.74%) Ambari
8 3 (0.74%) Istio
8 3 (0.74%) Puppet
8 3 (0.74%) RSA Archer
8 3 (0.74%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.49%) Argo
9 2 (0.49%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.25%) vRealize
Vendors
1 43 (10.54%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.09%) ServiceNow
3 31 (7.60%) Atlassian
4 28 (6.86%) Salesforce
5 14 (3.43%) Oracle
6 13 (3.19%) Google
6 13 (3.19%) SAP
7 12 (2.94%) Cloudera
7 12 (2.94%) Foundry
7 12 (2.94%) Palantir
8 11 (2.70%) Remedy
9 10 (2.45%) HP
9 10 (2.45%) Jaspersoft
10 9 (2.21%) MuleSoft
11 8 (1.96%) BMC
11 8 (1.96%) Ivanti
12 7 (1.72%) Adobe
12 7 (1.72%) Cisco
12 7 (1.72%) DocuSign
13 6 (1.47%) Anaplan