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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 103 130
Rank change year-on-year -29 +27 -22
Contract jobs citing Confluence 444 375 307
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.21% 2.79% 1.90%
As % of the Application Platforms category 22.02% 24.05% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 260 217
10th Percentile £413 £331 £320
25th Percentile £450 £449 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £635 £671 £650
90th Percentile £708 £750 £775
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 £65.49 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -6.45% - +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 2,016 1,559 2,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.03% 11.58% 12.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,333 1,059 1,511
10th Percentile £319 £325 £324
25th Percentile £425 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £750
90th Percentile £713 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 22 24
10th Percentile £17.03 £24.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.66 £26.00 £21.75
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.75 £26.15
Median % change year-on-year -8.94% +17.59% -25.29%
75th Percentile £41.33 £52.81 £43.44
90th Percentile £73.08 £85.13 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £41.45 £36.25
% change year-on-year -21.59% +14.34% -14.71%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -25 48 £550 +4.76% 28
South London -6 16 £531 -8.56% 3
West London -25 3 £775 +86.75% 3
North London - 2 - - 2
East London -1 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 38 (8.56%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.03%) CMS
3 5 (1.13%) JBoss
3 5 (1.13%) nginx
3 5 (1.13%) SAS
4 3 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.68%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.45%) Camunda
5 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.23%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.23%) Appian
6 1 (0.23%) Drupal
6 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.23%) Mule
6 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 38 (8.56%) MS Visio
2 37 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (5.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (5.18%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (1.13%) Notion
7 4 (0.90%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.68%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.68%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.68%) Final Cut Pro
8 3 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.68%) Trello
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.23%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.23%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (2.03%) Temenos T24
2 6 (1.35%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.90%) Actimize
4 2 (0.45%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.45%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
4 2 (0.45%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.45%) Summit
5 1 (0.23%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.23%) Endur
5 1 (0.23%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.23%) MetaTrader
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.23%) Primavera
5 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 93 (20.95%) AWS
2 88 (19.82%) Azure
3 46 (10.36%) GitHub
4 37 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 35 (7.88%) Amazon S3
5 35 (7.88%) Power Platform
6 27 (6.08%) Serverless
7 24 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (4.73%) Amazon EC2
9 20 (4.50%) GCP
10 19 (4.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (4.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 17 (3.83%) SaaS
13 16 (3.60%) Figma
14 12 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (2.70%) OCI
15 11 (2.48%) OpenShift
16 10 (2.25%) Miro
17 9 (2.03%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.48%) Firewall
1 11 (2.48%) TCP/IP
2 10 (2.25%) DNS
2 10 (2.25%) SSL
3 9 (2.03%) HTTP
4 8 (1.80%) Network Security
5 6 (1.35%) VPN
6 5 (1.13%) OpenVPN
6 5 (1.13%) SSH
7 4 (0.90%) IPv4
8 3 (0.68%) 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 (0.23%) EIGRP
10 1 (0.23%) NGFW
10 1 (0.23%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (7.66%) Power BI
2 22 (4.95%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (3.15%) SQL Server
4 13 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (2.93%) Amazon Redshift
4 13 (2.93%) Tableau
5 11 (2.48%) Metadata
5 11 (2.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (2.03%) DynamoDB
6 9 (2.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 9 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.35%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (1.35%) BigQuery
8 6 (1.35%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.13%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.13%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.68%) Looker
10 3 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 396 (89.19%) JIRA
2 66 (14.86%) Git
3 34 (7.66%) Jenkins
4 23 (5.18%) GitLab
5 15 (3.38%) Selenium
6 13 (2.93%) Sonatype Nexus
7 12 (2.70%) Cypress.io
8 10 (2.25%) Bitbucket
8 10 (2.25%) Zephyr
9 8 (1.80%) REST Assured
10 6 (1.35%) JMeter
11 5 (1.13%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.13%) Postman
11 5 (1.13%) ScriptRunner
12 4 (0.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.90%) IntelliJ
12 4 (0.90%) JUnit
12 4 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (0.68%) Maven
13 3 (0.68%) Mockito
General
1 173 (38.96%) Finance
2 170 (38.29%) Social Skills
3 102 (22.97%) Banking
4 86 (19.37%) Analytical Skills
5 71 (15.99%) Public Sector
6 22 (4.95%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (4.28%) Retail
8 14 (3.15%) Legal
9 12 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (2.48%) Financial Institution
11 9 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.58%) Military
13 6 (1.35%) Corporate Banking
13 6 (1.35%) Front Office
13 6 (1.35%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.35%) Retail Banking
13 6 (1.35%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.13%) Law
14 5 (1.13%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 98 (22.07%) Analyst
2 78 (17.57%) Business Analyst
3 47 (10.59%) Lead
4 43 (9.68%) Developer
4 43 (9.68%) Senior
5 24 (5.41%) Architect
6 20 (4.50%) Consultant
6 20 (4.50%) Product Owner
7 18 (4.05%) Delivery Manager
8 17 (3.83%) Scrum Master
9 15 (3.38%) Senior Analyst
10 13 (2.93%) Project Manager
11 12 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (2.48%) Banking Analyst
12 11 (2.48%) Data Engineer
13 10 (2.25%) Technical Analyst
14 9 (2.03%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (2.03%) Banking Business Analyst
14 9 (2.03%) Salesforce Developer
14 9 (2.03%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (6.98%) REST
2 19 (4.28%) React
3 16 (3.60%) AngularJS
4 10 (2.25%) JSON
4 10 (2.25%) Lightning Web Components
5 9 (2.03%) Node.js
5 9 (2.03%) SOAP
6 8 (1.80%) CSS
6 8 (1.80%) HTML
6 8 (1.80%) Loki
6 8 (1.80%) Playwright
6 8 (1.80%) PySpark
6 8 (1.80%) RESTful
6 8 (1.80%) XML
7 7 (1.58%) .NET
7 7 (1.58%) OAuth
7 7 (1.58%) OAuth2
7 7 (1.58%) OpenID
8 6 (1.35%) Bootstrap
8 6 (1.35%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 79 (17.79%) Product Ownership
2 27 (6.08%) Onboarding
3 17 (3.83%) Cloud Native
3 17 (3.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 15 (3.38%) Data Centre
5 12 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (2.25%) Clustering
6 10 (2.25%) Virtual Team
7 9 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.58%) Credit Risk
8 7 (1.58%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.58%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.58%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.35%) Replication
10 5 (1.13%) Derivative
10 5 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.13%) Market Risk
10 5 (1.13%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.95%) Linux
2 16 (3.60%) Windows
3 8 (1.80%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.35%) Amazon Linux
4 6 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.45%) Android
5 2 (0.45%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.45%) Unix
5 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.23%) SUSE
6 1 (0.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.23%) VMS
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (66.44%) Agile
2 164 (36.94%) Stakeholder Management
3 109 (24.55%) DevOps
4 104 (23.42%) Scrum
5 103 (23.20%) CI/CD
6 101 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
7 84 (18.92%) User Stories
8 72 (16.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 70 (15.77%) Migration
10 65 (14.64%) User Acceptance Testing
11 62 (13.96%) Test Automation
12 61 (13.74%) Acceptance Criteria
13 56 (12.61%) Business Analysis
14 55 (12.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 54 (12.16%) AI
16 53 (11.94%) SDLC
17 52 (11.71%) Infrastructure as Code
18 51 (11.49%) Workshop Facilitation
19 50 (11.26%) Requirements Gathering
20 47 (10.59%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 80 (18.02%) SQL
2 72 (16.22%) Python
3 38 (8.56%) Java
4 22 (4.95%) JavaScript
5 21 (4.73%) PowerShell
6 18 (4.05%) Bash
7 17 (3.83%) TypeScript
8 12 (2.70%) Groovy
9 10 (2.25%) Apex Code
10 8 (1.80%) C#
10 8 (1.80%) Perl
11 6 (1.35%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.90%) Swift
13 3 (0.68%) Korn
13 3 (0.68%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.68%) VBA
14 2 (0.45%) Cypher
14 2 (0.45%) Go
14 2 (0.45%) R
14 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 156 (35.14%) Security Cleared
2 142 (31.98%) SC Cleared
3 40 (9.01%) Degree
4 23 (5.18%) DV Cleared
5 15 (3.38%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.70%) PMI Certification
7 11 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (2.48%) IIBA
8 8 (1.80%) CBAP
8 8 (1.80%) ISTQB
8 8 (1.80%) PMP
9 7 (1.58%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 7 (1.58%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.35%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.90%) CISSP
11 4 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (0.90%) ISEB
12 3 (0.68%) CISM
13 2 (0.45%) MBA
13 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (12.16%) QA
2 29 (6.53%) Data Quality
3 20 (4.50%) PMO
4 12 (2.70%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.58%) GDPR
6 6 (1.35%) ISO 20022
6 6 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.35%) SEPA
6 6 (1.35%) WCAG
7 5 (1.13%) SLA
8 4 (0.90%) MiFID
9 3 (0.68%) NIST
10 2 (0.45%) EMIR
10 2 (0.45%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.45%) JSP 440
10 2 (0.45%) NCSC
10 2 (0.45%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.23%) HL7
11 1 (0.23%) WAI
System Software
1 29 (6.53%) Docker
2 17 (3.83%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.23%) Squid
6 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 60 (13.51%) Terraform
2 29 (6.53%) Grafana
3 21 (4.73%) Kubernetes
4 20 (4.50%) Ansible
5 14 (3.15%) Prometheus
5 14 (3.15%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (2.48%) Argo
7 7 (1.58%) Control-M
8 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (1.35%) SCOM
9 4 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.90%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.90%) Consul
9 4 (0.90%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.90%) Podman
10 3 (0.68%) Istio
10 3 (0.68%) SELinux
11 2 (0.45%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.23%) CASB
12 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 57 (12.84%) Microsoft
2 39 (8.78%) ServiceNow
3 25 (5.63%) Salesforce
4 24 (5.41%) SAP
5 21 (4.73%) Atlassian
6 19 (4.28%) Google
7 18 (4.05%) IBM
7 18 (4.05%) Oracle
7 18 (4.05%) Splunk
8 9 (2.03%) Adobe
8 9 (2.03%) Informatica
9 8 (1.80%) Databricks
9 8 (1.80%) Temenos
10 7 (1.58%) xMatters
11 6 (1.35%) BMC
11 6 (1.35%) Commvault
11 6 (1.35%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.35%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.35%) Remedy
11 6 (1.35%) VMware