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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 113 156
Rank change year-on-year -3 +43 -50
Contract jobs citing Confluence 430 292 279
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.53% 2.32% 1.55%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.89% 19.86% 13.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 185 186
10th Percentile £363 £302 £363
25th Percentile £450 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £645 £638 £638
90th Percentile £737 £750 £781
England median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £21.40
25th Percentile - - £23.50
Median hourly rate - - £28.50
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - £60.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +15.57%

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 1,661 1,470 2,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.79% 11.67% 11.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,131 986 1,479
10th Percentile £350 £325 £263
25th Percentile £425 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £638
90th Percentile £730 £813 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 30
10th Percentile £15.25 £23.80 £20.15
25th Percentile £17.50 £26.14 £22.44
Median hourly rate £20.61 £32.73 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year -37.04% +8.79% +22.78%
75th Percentile £28.85 £41.91 £40.00
90th Percentile £57.68 £50.38 £58.13
England median hourly rate £28.30 £52.50 £28.01
% change year-on-year -46.10% +87.45% +24.48%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -21 48 £550 +0.46% 15
South London +4 26 £519 +9.17%
West London -25 6 £650 +44.44% 1
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 (9.30%) SharePoint
2 27 (6.28%) nginx
3 6 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.16%) Apache
4 5 (1.16%) Palantir Foundry
5 4 (0.93%) CMS
6 3 (0.70%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.47%) JBoss
7 2 (0.47%) SAS
8 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.23%) CICS
Applications
1 47 (10.93%) MS Visio
2 37 (8.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (6.98%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (5.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (4.19%) Microsoft Office
6 8 (1.86%) Trello
7 4 (0.93%) Notion
8 2 (0.47%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.47%) InDesign
8 2 (0.47%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.23%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.79%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.16%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.16%) Fidessa
2 5 (1.16%) Temenos T24
3 4 (0.93%) Oracle Financials
4 3 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.47%) Actimize
5 2 (0.47%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 2 (0.47%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.47%) Shopify
5 2 (0.47%) Summit
6 1 (0.23%) Endur
6 1 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.23%) MetaTrader
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 75 (17.44%) AWS
2 63 (14.65%) Azure
3 36 (8.37%) GitHub
4 33 (7.67%) Power Platform
5 29 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (4.42%) SaaS
7 17 (3.95%) Amazon S3
7 17 (3.95%) Serverless
7 17 (3.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 15 (3.49%) GCP
9 14 (3.26%) AWS CloudFormation
10 13 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (2.79%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (2.79%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (2.79%) Miro
12 11 (2.56%) Entra ID
12 11 (2.56%) Figma
13 10 (2.33%) Apigee
14 8 (1.86%) Google Workspace
14 8 (1.86%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.02%) VPN
2 11 (2.56%) Firewall
3 8 (1.86%) DNS
3 8 (1.86%) SSL
4 7 (1.63%) Ethernet
4 7 (1.63%) LAN
4 7 (1.63%) Modbus
4 7 (1.63%) OpenVPN
4 7 (1.63%) RS-232
4 7 (1.63%) RS-485
4 7 (1.63%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.63%) WAN
5 5 (1.16%) FTP
5 5 (1.16%) Network Security
6 4 (0.93%) PSTN
6 4 (0.93%) Unified Communications
6 4 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.70%) BIG-IP
7 3 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (6.51%) Power BI
2 23 (5.35%) Tableau
3 14 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (3.02%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (2.33%) Metadata
5 10 (2.33%) NoSQL
6 8 (1.86%) Big Data
6 8 (1.86%) BigQuery
6 8 (1.86%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (1.16%) DynamoDB
7 5 (1.16%) Hadoop
7 5 (1.16%) MongoDB
7 5 (1.16%) Tick Data
8 4 (0.93%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (0.70%) Delta Lake
9 3 (0.70%) DocumentDB
9 3 (0.70%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 392 (91.16%) JIRA
2 60 (13.95%) Git
3 29 (6.74%) Jenkins
4 21 (4.88%) Bitbucket
5 19 (4.42%) GitLab
6 18 (4.19%) Selenium
7 11 (2.56%) SonarQube
8 10 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (1.63%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.63%) ScriptRunner
10 6 (1.40%) Cypress.io
10 6 (1.40%) JUnit
10 6 (1.40%) Maven
10 6 (1.40%) Postman
11 4 (0.93%) JMeter
11 4 (0.93%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.93%) SpecFlow
11 4 (0.93%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.70%) Appium
12 3 (0.70%) Liquibase
General
1 163 (37.91%) Social Skills
2 159 (36.98%) Finance
3 84 (19.53%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (18.37%) Banking
5 64 (14.88%) Public Sector
6 24 (5.58%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (4.65%) Legal
8 17 (3.95%) Retail
9 16 (3.72%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (3.26%) Investment Banking
10 14 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (3.02%) Financial Institution
11 13 (3.02%) Marketing
12 12 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (2.56%) Front Office
14 7 (1.63%) Publishing
15 6 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 5 (1.16%) Corporate Banking
17 4 (0.93%) Advertising
17 4 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 109 (25.35%) Analyst
2 98 (22.79%) Business Analyst
3 50 (11.63%) Senior
4 48 (11.16%) Developer
5 35 (8.14%) Project Manager
6 29 (6.74%) Lead
7 25 (5.81%) Architect
8 21 (4.88%) Delivery Manager
8 21 (4.88%) Senior Analyst
9 19 (4.42%) Consultant
10 16 (3.72%) Banking Analyst
11 15 (3.49%) Banking Business Analyst
12 14 (3.26%) Senior Business Analyst
13 13 (3.02%) Technical Business Analyst
14 12 (2.79%) Technical Analyst
14 12 (2.79%) Technical Manager
15 11 (2.56%) Salesforce Developer
15 11 (2.56%) Scrum Master
16 10 (2.33%) Product Owner
17 9 (2.09%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.65%) REST
2 13 (3.02%) Spring
3 12 (2.79%) AngularJS
3 12 (2.79%) OpenID
4 11 (2.56%) Kafka
4 11 (2.56%) LDAP
4 11 (2.56%) React
4 11 (2.56%) RESTful
5 10 (2.33%) ADO
5 10 (2.33%) Lightning Web Components
6 9 (2.09%) .NET
6 9 (2.09%) HTML
7 8 (1.86%) Node.js
8 7 (1.63%) Apache NiFi
8 7 (1.63%) OAuth
8 7 (1.63%) Playwright
8 7 (1.63%) SOAP
8 7 (1.63%) Web Services
9 6 (1.40%) CSS
9 6 (1.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.77%) Product Ownership
2 20 (4.65%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (2.79%) Cloud Native
5 10 (2.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 10 (2.33%) Virtual Team
6 9 (2.09%) Data Centre
6 9 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.86%) Equities
8 7 (1.63%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (1.40%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.16%) Derivative
10 5 (1.16%) Public Cloud
10 5 (1.16%) Reference Data
11 4 (0.93%) Fixed Income
11 4 (0.93%) IoT
11 4 (0.93%) PKI
11 4 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.74%) Linux
2 14 (3.26%) Windows
3 7 (1.63%) FreeRTOS
4 6 (1.40%) Unix
5 5 (1.16%) Android
6 4 (0.93%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.70%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 289 (67.21%) Agile
2 135 (31.40%) Stakeholder Management
3 113 (26.28%) Scrum
4 89 (20.70%) Problem-Solving
5 87 (20.23%) User Stories
6 82 (19.07%) DevOps
7 80 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 67 (15.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 65 (15.12%) Acceptance Criteria
10 64 (14.88%) Project Management
11 61 (14.19%) CI/CD
12 59 (13.72%) Roadmaps
13 55 (12.79%) Test Automation
13 55 (12.79%) Workshop Facilitation
14 49 (11.40%) Migration
14 49 (11.40%) User Acceptance Testing
15 47 (10.93%) Decision-Making
15 47 (10.93%) SDLC
16 45 (10.47%) Requirements Gathering
17 44 (10.23%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (15.12%) SQL
2 55 (12.79%) Python
3 36 (8.37%) Java
4 26 (6.05%) JavaScript
5 12 (2.79%) Bash
5 12 (2.79%) TypeScript
6 10 (2.33%) Apex Code
6 10 (2.33%) PowerShell
7 9 (2.09%) C#
8 7 (1.63%) C++
8 7 (1.63%) Embedded C++
8 7 (1.63%) Kotlin
9 3 (0.70%) C
9 3 (0.70%) Embedded C
9 3 (0.70%) Groovy
9 3 (0.70%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.47%) Korn
11 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.23%) Swift
11 1 (0.23%) XPath
Qualifications
1 128 (29.77%) Security Cleared
2 120 (27.91%) SC Cleared
3 35 (8.14%) Degree
4 15 (3.49%) CBAP
5 14 (3.26%) PMI Certification
6 13 (3.02%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (2.56%) CISSP
7 11 (2.56%) PMP
8 10 (2.33%) IIBA
9 9 (2.09%) DV Cleared
10 8 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (1.63%) CISM
11 7 (1.63%) CSPO
12 6 (1.40%) ISEB
13 5 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (1.16%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 5 (1.16%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 5 (1.16%) ISTQB
14 4 (0.93%) AWS Certification
14 4 (0.93%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.37%) QA
2 24 (5.58%) GDPR
3 17 (3.95%) Data Quality
3 17 (3.95%) PMO
4 14 (3.26%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.40%) GRC
7 5 (1.16%) MiFID
8 4 (0.93%) SLA
9 3 (0.70%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.70%) NIST
9 3 (0.70%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.47%) EMIR
10 2 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.23%) Basel III
11 1 (0.23%) EU AI Act
11 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 33 (7.67%) Docker
2 8 (1.86%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.86%) Squid
3 7 (1.63%) Embedded Firmware
3 7 (1.63%) Firmware
4 2 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 48 (11.16%) Terraform
2 39 (9.07%) Kubernetes
3 19 (4.42%) Consul
4 15 (3.49%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (3.02%) Packer
6 12 (2.79%) Grafana
7 10 (2.33%) Ansible
7 10 (2.33%) Prometheus
8 7 (1.63%) FortiGate
9 6 (1.40%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.93%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.93%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.93%) PingFederate
11 4 (0.93%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.23%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.23%) CASB
12 1 (0.23%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 41 (9.53%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.60%) Salesforce
2 37 (8.60%) ServiceNow
3 35 (8.14%) Atlassian
4 19 (4.42%) SAP
5 17 (3.95%) Oracle
6 13 (3.02%) Google
7 10 (2.33%) IBM
7 10 (2.33%) MuleSoft
8 9 (2.09%) Adobe
8 9 (2.09%) Databricks
9 8 (1.86%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.86%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.86%) Zscaler
10 7 (1.63%) Alteryx
10 7 (1.63%) Anaplan
11 6 (1.40%) Murex
11 6 (1.40%) Workday
12 5 (1.16%) Bloomberg
12 5 (1.16%) Zuora