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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 119 95
Rank change year-on-year +23 -24 -9
Contract jobs citing Confluence 388 356 555
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.89% 2.19% 2.55%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.33% 17.37% 24.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 240 377
10th Percentile £346 £307 £413
25th Percentile £450 £445 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £544 £569
Median % change year-on-year +5.75% -4.44% +1.16%
75th Percentile £671 £675 £706
90th Percentile £750 £800 £810
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile £47.33 £22.98 £32.38
25th Percentile £53.81 £24.44 £34.06
Median hourly rate £65.25 £30.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +113.93% -39.00% +212.50%
75th Percentile £77.31 £41.56 £69.38
90th Percentile £84.18 £55.63 £77.25
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +12.00% +10.67%

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 1,532 2,049 2,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.39% 12.58% 10.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,024 1,451 1,616
10th Percentile £314 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £653 £750 £685
90th Percentile £825 £850 £788
England median daily rate £498 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -5.24% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 27 28
10th Percentile £24.50 £17.08 £19.80
25th Percentile £26.00 £21.50 £21.88
Median hourly rate £33.50 £28.50 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year +17.54% -0.87% -0.59%
75th Percentile £53.75 £48.13 £64.63
90th Percentile £88.38 £75.00 £83.60
England median hourly rate £41.45 £47.50 £45.50
% change year-on-year -12.74% +4.40% +116.67%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Confluence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Confluence 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +12 64 £513 -4.65% 46
South London +2 18 £578 +14.46% 2
West London -3 9 £415 -27.19% 3
East London +9 1 £520 -5.45%
Confluence
England

Confluence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (6.19%) nginx
2 20 (5.15%) SharePoint
3 13 (3.35%) Apache
4 3 (0.77%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.77%) Traefik
5 2 (0.52%) Camunda
5 2 (0.52%) CICS
5 2 (0.52%) CMS
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle Coherence
5 2 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.26%) Appian
6 1 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.26%) JBoss
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 31 (7.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 31 (7.99%) MS Visio
2 20 (5.15%) Microsoft Project
3 16 (4.12%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (3.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (2.58%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 6 (1.55%) Trello
7 1 (0.26%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.26%) Notion
7 1 (0.26%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 12 (3.09%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.77%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.52%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.26%) Endur
4 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.26%) Primavera
4 1 (0.26%) Shopify
4 1 (0.26%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 101 (26.03%) AWS
2 77 (19.85%) Azure
3 35 (9.02%) GitHub
4 32 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (6.19%) Amazon EC2
5 24 (6.19%) Amazon S3
5 24 (6.19%) Power Platform
6 23 (5.93%) Serverless
7 22 (5.67%) GCP
7 22 (5.67%) SaaS
8 20 (5.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 17 (4.38%) AWS CloudFormation
10 16 (4.12%) IaaS
11 15 (3.87%) Miro
12 14 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
12 14 (3.61%) PaaS
12 14 (3.61%) Slack
13 13 (3.35%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (2.58%) AWS KMS
14 10 (2.58%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 25 (6.44%) Firewall
2 16 (4.12%) SSH
3 15 (3.87%) DNS
3 15 (3.87%) OpenLDAP
3 15 (3.87%) SSL
4 12 (3.09%) HTTP
5 11 (2.84%) FTP
5 11 (2.84%) SMTP
6 10 (2.58%) IMAP
7 9 (2.32%) VPN
8 7 (1.80%) Network Security
9 3 (0.77%) DHCP
9 3 (0.77%) WAN
10 2 (0.52%) BGP
10 2 (0.52%) BIG-IP
10 2 (0.52%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.52%) LAN
10 2 (0.52%) OSPF
10 2 (0.52%) SNMP
10 2 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
1 21 (5.41%) Power BI
2 16 (4.12%) SQL Server
3 14 (3.61%) Big Data
3 14 (3.61%) Hadoop
4 13 (3.35%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (3.35%) Tableau
5 12 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (2.58%) Amazon Aurora
6 10 (2.58%) Data Lake
6 10 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (1.55%) Metadata
8 5 (1.29%) DB2
8 5 (1.29%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.03%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.77%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.77%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.77%) Tableau Desktop
11 2 (0.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.52%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 359 (92.53%) JIRA
2 47 (12.11%) Git
3 40 (10.31%) Jenkins
4 19 (4.90%) GitLab
5 18 (4.64%) Bitbucket
6 14 (3.61%) ScriptRunner
7 11 (2.84%) SonarQube
7 11 (2.84%) Vagrant
8 8 (2.06%) Postman
9 7 (1.80%) Cypress.io
10 6 (1.55%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.55%) Gradle
10 6 (1.55%) Selenium
10 6 (1.55%) Zephyr
11 5 (1.29%) SoapUI
11 5 (1.29%) SpecFlow
11 5 (1.29%) Visual Studio
12 4 (1.03%) REST Assured
12 4 (1.03%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.77%) ER Studio
General
1 177 (45.62%) Social Skills
2 111 (28.61%) Finance
3 66 (17.01%) Banking
4 60 (15.46%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (10.57%) Public Sector
6 22 (5.67%) Presentation Skills
7 20 (5.15%) Front Office
8 19 (4.90%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (4.38%) Investment Banking
10 12 (3.09%) Retail
10 12 (3.09%) Telecoms
11 10 (2.58%) Back Office
12 9 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.80%) Military
14 6 (1.55%) Marketing
15 5 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
16 4 (1.03%) Legal
16 4 (1.03%) Local Government
17 3 (0.77%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 77 (19.85%) Analyst
2 64 (16.49%) Business Analyst
3 51 (13.14%) Senior
4 40 (10.31%) Architect
5 39 (10.05%) Developer
6 35 (9.02%) Lead
7 27 (6.96%) Project Manager
8 19 (4.90%) Solutions Architect
9 18 (4.64%) Product Owner
10 15 (3.87%) DevOps Engineer
11 13 (3.35%) Administrator
11 13 (3.35%) Data Engineer
11 13 (3.35%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (3.35%) Technical Leader
12 12 (3.09%) AWS Engineer
13 11 (2.84%) Delivery Manager
13 11 (2.84%) Scrum Master
14 10 (2.58%) AWS DevOps
14 10 (2.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 10 (2.58%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (9.28%) REST
2 33 (8.51%) AngularJS
3 31 (7.99%) LDAP
4 25 (6.44%) JSON
5 24 (6.19%) HTML
6 23 (5.93%) .NET
6 23 (5.93%) Kafka
7 22 (5.67%) RabbitMQ
7 22 (5.67%) Web Services
8 19 (4.90%) React
8 19 (4.90%) SOAP
9 15 (3.87%) HTML5
10 13 (3.35%) SAML
11 12 (3.09%) Apache Camel
11 12 (3.09%) Apache NiFi
11 12 (3.09%) JDBC
11 12 (3.09%) jQuery
11 12 (3.09%) ODBC
11 12 (3.09%) RESTful
12 11 (2.84%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 50 (12.89%) Product Ownership
2 13 (3.35%) Management Information System
2 13 (3.35%) Replication
3 12 (3.09%) Cloud Native
4 9 (2.32%) Data Centre
4 9 (2.32%) NHS
5 8 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (2.06%) Derivative
5 8 (2.06%) Equities
5 8 (2.06%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.80%) PMI
7 6 (1.55%) Data Structures
7 6 (1.55%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.55%) PKI
8 5 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.29%) Market Risk
9 4 (1.03%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.03%) DTCC
Operating Systems
1 37 (9.54%) Linux
2 25 (6.44%) Windows
3 13 (3.35%) VMS
4 11 (2.84%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.84%) Unix
5 10 (2.58%) Amazon Linux
6 8 (2.06%) Android
7 3 (0.77%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.52%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.52%) zOS
9 1 (0.26%) CentOS
9 1 (0.26%) Debian
9 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 275 (70.88%) Agile
2 114 (29.38%) Scrum
3 95 (24.48%) DevOps
4 73 (18.81%) Problem-Solving
5 70 (18.04%) Stakeholder Management
6 60 (15.46%) CI/CD
7 58 (14.95%) Migration
7 58 (14.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 53 (13.66%) Microservices
8 53 (13.66%) Roadmaps
9 47 (12.11%) User Stories
10 46 (11.86%) Project Management
11 44 (11.34%) Change Management
12 42 (10.82%) Continuous Improvement
13 38 (9.79%) User Experience
14 36 (9.28%) Analytics
15 35 (9.02%) SDLC
15 35 (9.02%) User Acceptance Testing
16 33 (8.51%) Risk Management
17 32 (8.25%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 67 (17.27%) SQL
2 58 (14.95%) Python
3 47 (12.11%) Java
4 33 (8.51%) JavaScript
5 23 (5.93%) Groovy
6 18 (4.64%) TypeScript
7 15 (3.87%) PowerShell
8 13 (3.35%) C#
9 12 (3.09%) Go
10 9 (2.32%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.03%) Bash
11 4 (1.03%) Bicep
11 4 (1.03%) C++
12 2 (0.52%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.52%) Haskell
12 2 (0.52%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.52%) R
12 2 (0.52%) Swift
12 2 (0.52%) XPath
13 1 (0.26%) C
Qualifications
1 92 (23.71%) Security Cleared
2 89 (22.94%) SC Cleared
3 62 (15.98%) Degree
4 18 (4.64%) PMI Certification
5 15 (3.87%) Azure Certification
6 13 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (3.35%) DV Cleared
7 11 (2.84%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.84%) PMP
8 7 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.55%) CISSP
10 5 (1.29%) CBAP
11 4 (1.03%) CSPO
12 3 (0.77%) CFA
12 3 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.77%) Six Sigma Green Belt
13 2 (0.52%) CCIE
13 2 (0.52%) OCA
13 2 (0.52%) OCP
13 2 (0.52%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (11.08%) QA
2 10 (2.58%) Accessibility
3 9 (2.32%) Data Quality
4 8 (2.06%) PMO
5 6 (1.55%) GDPR
6 4 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.03%) MiFID
6 4 (1.03%) NCSC
6 4 (1.03%) SEPA
7 3 (0.77%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.77%) ITGC
7 3 (0.77%) PSD2
7 3 (0.77%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.77%) WCAG
8 2 (0.52%) EMIR
8 2 (0.52%) FIPS 140-2
8 2 (0.52%) NIST
8 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.52%) SLA
9 1 (0.26%) Basel III
System Software
1 41 (10.57%) Docker
2 12 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.58%) DFS Replication
3 10 (2.58%) Dovecot
3 10 (2.58%) Postfix
3 10 (2.58%) Squid
4 4 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.52%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (0.52%) vSphere
6 1 (0.26%) etcd
6 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.26%) VirtualBox
6 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 40 (10.31%) Kubernetes
2 36 (9.28%) Terraform
3 16 (4.12%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (3.61%) Consul
4 14 (3.61%) Grafana
4 14 (3.61%) Packer
5 12 (3.09%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.58%) Nessus
6 10 (2.58%) Proxmox
7 9 (2.32%) Ansible
8 3 (0.77%) Istio
8 3 (0.77%) Puppet
9 2 (0.52%) Ambari
9 2 (0.52%) Argo
9 2 (0.52%) CA Endevor
9 2 (0.52%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.52%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.26%) Oracle Identity Management
10 1 (0.26%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 50 (12.89%) ServiceNow
2 41 (10.57%) Microsoft
3 34 (8.76%) Atlassian
4 16 (4.12%) Oracle
4 16 (4.12%) Salesforce
5 14 (3.61%) Google
5 14 (3.61%) HP
5 14 (3.61%) Remedy
6 12 (3.09%) BMC
6 12 (3.09%) Cloudera
6 12 (3.09%) Foundry
6 12 (3.09%) Ivanti
6 12 (3.09%) Palantir
7 10 (2.58%) Jaspersoft
8 9 (2.32%) Splunk
9 7 (1.80%) DocuSign
9 7 (1.80%) Duck Creek
9 7 (1.80%) SAP
10 5 (1.29%) VMware
11 4 (1.03%) Citrix