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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 126 157
Rank change year-on-year +9 +31 -41
Contract jobs citing Confluence 415 282 290
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.29% 2.30% 1.66%
As % of the Application Platforms category 24.84% 20.51% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 173 195
10th Percentile £373 £320 £363
25th Percentile £450 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -10.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £766
England median daily rate £500 £501 £538
% change year-on-year -0.25% -6.74% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £21.40
25th Percentile £61.25 - £23.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £28.50
75th Percentile £63.75 - £36.88
90th Percentile - - £50.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £63.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year -1.57% +2.00% +8.70%

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 1,671 1,375 2,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.24% 11.24% 11.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,112 921 1,536
10th Percentile £363 £356 £263
25th Percentile £425 £413 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £675 £675
90th Percentile £715 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 9 27
10th Percentile £15.40 £25.56 £15.50
25th Percentile £19.03 £26.04 £22.88
Median hourly rate £25.50 £27.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.48% -13.83%
75th Percentile £35.75 £50.00 £36.88
90th Percentile £65.60 £53.75 £60.50
England median hourly rate £28.44 £53.06 £28.50
% change year-on-year -46.40% +86.16% -24.00%

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 22 May 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
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 22 May 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 -20 45 £575 - 11
South London +1 27 £519 +9.17%
West London -27 8 £650 +34.02% 4
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 40 (9.64%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.41%) nginx
3 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.96%) CMS
5 3 (0.72%) SAS
5 3 (0.72%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.48%) Apache
6 2 (0.48%) JBoss
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.24%) CICS
7 1 (0.24%) Drupal
7 1 (0.24%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 44 (10.60%) MS Visio
2 32 (7.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (5.54%) Microsoft Project
4 22 (5.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 15 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
6 7 (1.69%) Notion
7 4 (0.96%) Trello
8 1 (0.24%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (2.17%) NetSuite
2 6 (1.45%) Temenos T24
3 3 (0.72%) Actimize
3 3 (0.72%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.72%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.48%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.48%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.48%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.48%) Summit
5 1 (0.24%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.24%) Endur
5 1 (0.24%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.24%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.24%) MetaTrader
5 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.24%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.24%) SAP SRM
5 1 (0.24%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 67 (16.14%) AWS
2 65 (15.66%) Azure
3 33 (7.95%) Power Platform
4 32 (7.71%) GitHub
5 30 (7.23%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (6.02%) Amazon S3
7 22 (5.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 20 (4.82%) SaaS
9 19 (4.58%) Amazon EC2
9 19 (4.58%) Serverless
10 18 (4.34%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (3.86%) Figma
12 13 (3.13%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (2.89%) GCP
14 11 (2.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (2.65%) Entra ID
15 10 (2.41%) Apigee
15 10 (2.41%) Lucidchart
16 9 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
16 9 (2.17%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.34%) Firewall
2 13 (3.13%) VPN
3 11 (2.65%) DNS
3 11 (2.65%) SSL
4 10 (2.41%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.93%) Network Security
6 7 (1.69%) LAN
6 7 (1.69%) OpenVPN
6 7 (1.69%) WAN
7 6 (1.45%) Ethernet
7 6 (1.45%) Modbus
7 6 (1.45%) RS-232
7 6 (1.45%) RS-485
8 5 (1.20%) HTTP
9 4 (0.96%) PSTN
9 4 (0.96%) Unified Communications
9 4 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.72%) BIG-IP
10 3 (0.72%) FTP
10 3 (0.72%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.51%) Power BI
2 18 (4.34%) Tableau
3 14 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (2.41%) Metadata
5 9 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (1.93%) DynamoDB
6 8 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (1.93%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (1.45%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.20%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (0.96%) Big Data
9 4 (0.96%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.96%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.72%) Amazon QuickSight
10 3 (0.72%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.72%) Spark SQL
10 3 (0.72%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 379 (91.33%) JIRA
2 49 (11.81%) Git
3 26 (6.27%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.86%) Selenium
5 13 (3.13%) GitLab
6 12 (2.89%) Bitbucket
6 12 (2.89%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (2.41%) Cypress.io
8 9 (2.17%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.20%) ScriptRunner
9 5 (1.20%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.96%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.96%) JMeter
10 4 (0.96%) REST Assured
10 4 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.72%) Ant
11 3 (0.72%) Appium
11 3 (0.72%) Liquibase
11 3 (0.72%) Maven
11 3 (0.72%) TestRail
General
1 160 (38.55%) Social Skills
2 153 (36.87%) Finance
3 85 (20.48%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (18.80%) Banking
5 71 (17.11%) Public Sector
6 26 (6.27%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (4.82%) Legal
8 17 (4.10%) Retail
9 15 (3.61%) Financial Institution
10 13 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (2.65%) Investment Banking
13 10 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (2.17%) Marketing
15 8 (1.93%) Front Office
16 7 (1.69%) Military
17 6 (1.45%) Corporate Banking
18 5 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 4 (0.96%) Publishing
20 3 (0.72%) Games
Job Titles
1 104 (25.06%) Analyst
2 92 (22.17%) Business Analyst
3 46 (11.08%) Senior
4 45 (10.84%) Developer
5 39 (9.40%) Lead
6 24 (5.78%) Architect
7 23 (5.54%) Project Manager
8 22 (5.30%) Delivery Manager
9 20 (4.82%) Consultant
10 18 (4.34%) Senior Analyst
11 14 (3.37%) Banking Analyst
12 13 (3.13%) Banking Business Analyst
12 13 (3.13%) Technical Manager
13 12 (2.89%) Salesforce Developer
13 12 (2.89%) Scrum Master
13 12 (2.89%) Technical Analyst
13 12 (2.89%) Technical Business Analyst
14 11 (2.65%) DevOps Engineer
14 11 (2.65%) Senior Business Analyst
15 9 (2.17%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.10%) REST
2 15 (3.61%) React
3 13 (3.13%) AngularJS
4 12 (2.89%) OpenID
5 11 (2.65%) LDAP
5 11 (2.65%) Lightning Web Components
6 10 (2.41%) Node.js
6 10 (2.41%) RESTful
7 9 (2.17%) Spring
8 8 (1.93%) .NET
8 8 (1.93%) ADO
8 8 (1.93%) HTML
9 7 (1.69%) OAuth
10 6 (1.45%) Kafka
10 6 (1.45%) OAuth2
10 6 (1.45%) SOAP
11 5 (1.20%) CSS
11 5 (1.20%) SAML
11 5 (1.20%) Spring Boot
12 4 (0.96%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 48 (11.57%) Product Ownership
2 22 (5.30%) Onboarding
3 16 (3.86%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (2.41%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 9 (2.17%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.17%) Data Centre
6 8 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.69%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.20%) Derivative
8 5 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.20%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.96%) Clustering
9 4 (0.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (0.96%) Equities
9 4 (0.96%) Management Information System
9 4 (0.96%) Market Risk
9 4 (0.96%) PKI
9 4 (0.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (4.34%) Linux
2 15 (3.61%) Windows
3 6 (1.45%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.45%) FreeRTOS
4 4 (0.96%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.96%) Android
5 3 (0.72%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.48%) Unix
7 1 (0.24%) SUSE
7 1 (0.24%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (64.82%) Agile
2 132 (31.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 88 (21.20%) Scrum
4 81 (19.52%) DevOps
5 80 (19.28%) Problem-Solving
5 80 (19.28%) User Stories
6 72 (17.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 65 (15.66%) CI/CD
8 64 (15.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 60 (14.46%) Acceptance Criteria
10 53 (12.77%) Migration
10 53 (12.77%) Project Management
11 51 (12.29%) Roadmaps
11 51 (12.29%) SDLC
11 51 (12.29%) Test Automation
12 50 (12.05%) Workshop Facilitation
13 45 (10.84%) User Acceptance Testing
14 43 (10.36%) Requirements Gathering
15 41 (9.88%) AI
15 41 (9.88%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 63 (15.18%) SQL
2 56 (13.49%) Python
3 29 (6.99%) Java
4 24 (5.78%) JavaScript
5 15 (3.61%) TypeScript
6 13 (3.13%) PowerShell
7 11 (2.65%) Apex Code
8 9 (2.17%) Bash
9 8 (1.93%) Groovy
10 7 (1.69%) C#
11 6 (1.45%) C++
11 6 (1.45%) Embedded C++
12 4 (0.96%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.96%) Perl
13 2 (0.48%) C
13 2 (0.48%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.48%) Korn
13 2 (0.48%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.24%) XPath
Qualifications
1 130 (31.33%) Security Cleared
2 114 (27.47%) SC Cleared
3 29 (6.99%) Degree
4 15 (3.61%) CBAP
4 15 (3.61%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.65%) PMI Certification
6 10 (2.41%) IIBA
7 8 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (1.93%) CISSP
8 7 (1.69%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.69%) CISM
8 7 (1.69%) PMP
9 6 (1.45%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.45%) CSPO
10 5 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (1.20%) ISEB
10 5 (1.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 5 (1.20%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 3 (0.72%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (8.92%) QA
2 21 (5.06%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.06%) PMO
3 18 (4.34%) GDPR
4 13 (3.13%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.69%) MiFID
7 5 (1.20%) SLA
7 5 (1.20%) WCAG
8 3 (0.72%) EMIR
8 3 (0.72%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.72%) NIST
9 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.48%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.48%) GRC
9 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.48%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.48%) NCSC
9 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.24%) Basel III
System Software
1 22 (5.30%) Docker
2 8 (1.93%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.93%) Squid
3 6 (1.45%) Embedded Firmware
3 6 (1.45%) Firmware
4 2 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (9.88%) Terraform
2 25 (6.02%) Kubernetes
3 19 (4.58%) Grafana
4 17 (4.10%) Prometheus
5 14 (3.37%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (3.13%) Ansible
7 12 (2.89%) Consul
8 7 (1.69%) FortiGate
9 6 (1.45%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.96%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.96%) PingFederate
12 3 (0.72%) HP ALM
13 2 (0.48%) Packer
14 1 (0.24%) CA Endevor
14 1 (0.24%) CASB
14 1 (0.24%) Network Intrusion Detection System
14 1 (0.24%) Podman
14 1 (0.24%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 41 (9.88%) ServiceNow
2 34 (8.19%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.19%) Salesforce
3 29 (6.99%) Atlassian
4 20 (4.82%) SAP
5 16 (3.86%) Oracle
6 11 (2.65%) Google
6 11 (2.65%) IBM
7 10 (2.41%) MuleSoft
8 9 (2.17%) Databricks
9 8 (1.93%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.93%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.93%) Zscaler
10 7 (1.69%) Adobe
10 7 (1.69%) Splunk
11 6 (1.45%) Workday
12 5 (1.20%) Murex
12 5 (1.20%) Temenos
12 5 (1.20%) Zuora
13 4 (0.96%) Cisco