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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 102 133
Rank change year-on-year -30 +31 -29
Contract jobs citing Confluence 453 383 330
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.26% 2.86% 2.03%
As % of the Application Platforms category 22.08% 24.90% 16.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 265 227
10th Percentile £403 £339 £313
25th Percentile £450 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +6.98% -6.52%
75th Percentile £626 £670 £674
90th Percentile £701 £750 £788
England median daily rate £504 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile - - £22.98
25th Percentile £61.25 £86.25 £24.44
Median hourly rate £67.50 £87.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% +186.89% -53.08%
75th Percentile £77.50 £88.75 £41.56
90th Percentile £84.25 - £55.63
England median hourly rate £67.47 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.61% - +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 2,052 1,538 2,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.22% 11.49% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,351 1,036 1,488
10th Percentile £313 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £671 £763
90th Percentile £701 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 24 25
10th Percentile £19.03 £24.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £23.16 £26.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £28.40 £33.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -15.24% +40.76% -49.89%
75th Percentile £41.44 £53.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £73.15 £88.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £42.27 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.11% +12.72% -21.05%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -34 48 £550 +4.76% 44
South London -15 16 £550 -5.34% 1
West London -22 4 £838 +101.81% 8
North London - 3 - - 1
East London +2 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 39 (8.61%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.99%) CMS
3 6 (1.32%) nginx
4 5 (1.10%) JBoss
5 4 (0.88%) Camunda
5 4 (0.88%) SAS
6 3 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.66%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.22%) Appian
7 1 (0.22%) Drupal
7 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.22%) Mule
7 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 39 (8.61%) MS Visio
2 38 (8.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (5.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (4.42%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (3.31%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (1.10%) Notion
6 5 (1.10%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.88%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.88%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.88%) Final Cut Pro
8 3 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.44%) Trello
10 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.22%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.22%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.22%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (1.99%) Temenos T24
2 6 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.44%) Actimize
3 2 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.44%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
3 2 (0.44%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.44%) Summit
4 1 (0.22%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.22%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.22%) Endur
4 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.22%) MetaTrader
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.22%) Primavera
4 1 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 100 (22.08%) AWS
2 96 (21.19%) Azure
3 50 (11.04%) GitHub
4 44 (9.71%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (9.05%) Amazon S3
6 38 (8.39%) Power Platform
7 29 (6.40%) Serverless
8 26 (5.74%) AWS Lambda
9 25 (5.52%) GitHub Actions
10 24 (5.30%) Amazon EC2
11 23 (5.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 21 (4.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 20 (4.42%) Figma
14 19 (4.19%) GCP
15 16 (3.53%) SaaS
16 14 (3.09%) OpenShift
17 12 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
17 12 (2.65%) Miro
17 12 (2.65%) OCI
18 11 (2.43%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.65%) Firewall
1 12 (2.65%) HTTP
2 11 (2.43%) DNS
3 10 (2.21%) SSL
3 10 (2.21%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.55%) Network Security
4 7 (1.55%) SSH
5 5 (1.10%) VPN
6 4 (0.88%) IPv4
6 4 (0.88%) OpenVPN
7 3 (0.66%) IPv6
8 2 (0.44%) Broadband
8 2 (0.44%) DSL
8 2 (0.44%) FTP
8 2 (0.44%) IMAP
8 2 (0.44%) Internet
8 2 (0.44%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (0.44%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.44%) SMTP
8 2 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (8.17%) Power BI
2 24 (5.30%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (3.31%) Amazon Redshift
4 14 (3.09%) Amazon Athena
4 14 (3.09%) SQL Server
5 13 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (2.65%) Tableau
7 11 (2.43%) Metadata
7 11 (2.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (2.21%) DynamoDB
8 10 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (1.99%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (1.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 9 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (1.32%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.32%) Oracle Database
10 6 (1.32%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.10%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.88%) Big Data
13 3 (0.66%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 403 (88.96%) JIRA
2 72 (15.89%) Git
3 39 (8.61%) Jenkins
4 27 (5.96%) GitLab
5 16 (3.53%) Selenium
6 14 (3.09%) Sonatype Nexus
7 13 (2.87%) Cypress.io
8 10 (2.21%) Bitbucket
8 10 (2.21%) Zephyr
9 9 (1.99%) REST Assured
10 6 (1.32%) Postman
11 5 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.10%) Gradle
11 5 (1.10%) JMeter
11 5 (1.10%) JUnit
11 5 (1.10%) Maven
11 5 (1.10%) Mockito
11 5 (1.10%) ScriptRunner
12 4 (0.88%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (0.88%) IntelliJ
General
1 172 (37.97%) Finance
2 171 (37.75%) Social Skills
3 108 (23.84%) Banking
4 85 (18.76%) Analytical Skills
5 74 (16.34%) Public Sector
6 21 (4.64%) Retail
7 20 (4.42%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (2.43%) Financial Institution
10 11 (2.43%) Legal
11 8 (1.77%) Investment Banking
11 8 (1.77%) Military
11 8 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
12 6 (1.32%) Retail Banking
13 5 (1.10%) Front Office
13 5 (1.10%) Law
13 5 (1.10%) Police
13 5 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 102 (22.52%) Analyst
2 80 (17.66%) Business Analyst
3 48 (10.60%) Lead
4 47 (10.38%) Developer
5 39 (8.61%) Senior
6 24 (5.30%) Architect
7 19 (4.19%) Product Owner
8 18 (3.97%) Consultant
8 18 (3.97%) Scrum Master
9 16 (3.53%) Delivery Manager
10 15 (3.31%) Banking Analyst
10 15 (3.31%) DevOps Engineer
11 14 (3.09%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (2.87%) Data Engineer
13 12 (2.65%) AWS Engineer
13 12 (2.65%) Project Manager
14 11 (2.43%) Technical Analyst
15 10 (2.21%) Banking Business Analyst
15 10 (2.21%) Senior Business Analyst
16 9 (1.99%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (14.35%) Terraform
2 31 (6.84%) REST
3 22 (4.86%) React
4 16 (3.53%) AngularJS
5 12 (2.65%) JSON
6 11 (2.43%) HTML
7 10 (2.21%) CSS
7 10 (2.21%) Lightning Web Components
7 10 (2.21%) Node.js
8 9 (1.99%) Playwright
8 9 (1.99%) PySpark
8 9 (1.99%) RESTful
8 9 (1.99%) SOAP
9 8 (1.77%) Loki
10 7 (1.55%) .NET
10 7 (1.55%) Kafka
10 7 (1.55%) OAuth
10 7 (1.55%) OAuth2
10 7 (1.55%) XML
11 6 (1.32%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 80 (17.66%) Product Ownership
2 28 (6.18%) Onboarding
3 20 (4.42%) Cloud Native
4 17 (3.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 13 (2.87%) Data Centre
5 13 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.21%) Clustering
6 10 (2.21%) Data Structures
6 10 (2.21%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (1.99%) Replication
8 8 (1.77%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.55%) Credit Risk
9 7 (1.55%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.10%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.30%) Linux
2 17 (3.75%) Windows
3 9 (1.99%) Amazon Linux
4 7 (1.55%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.66%) Unix
7 2 (0.44%) Android
7 2 (0.44%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.44%) VMS
7 2 (0.44%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.22%) SUSE
8 1 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (67.11%) Agile
2 169 (37.31%) Stakeholder Management
3 124 (27.37%) DevOps
4 109 (24.06%) CI/CD
5 108 (23.84%) Scrum
6 103 (22.74%) Problem-Solving
7 87 (19.21%) User Stories
8 74 (16.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 74 (16.34%) Migration
9 68 (15.01%) User Acceptance Testing
10 67 (14.79%) Test Automation
11 60 (13.25%) Acceptance Criteria
12 59 (13.02%) Infrastructure as Code
13 57 (12.58%) AI
13 57 (12.58%) Business Analysis
14 56 (12.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 54 (11.92%) Requirements Gathering
15 54 (11.92%) SDLC
16 51 (11.26%) Workshop Facilitation
17 47 (10.38%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 84 (18.54%) SQL
2 77 (17.00%) Python
3 41 (9.05%) Java
4 24 (5.30%) JavaScript
5 23 (5.08%) PowerShell
6 18 (3.97%) Bash
6 18 (3.97%) TypeScript
7 15 (3.31%) Groovy
8 10 (2.21%) Apex Code
9 9 (1.99%) Perl
10 7 (1.55%) C#
10 7 (1.55%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.88%) Swift
12 3 (0.66%) Korn
12 3 (0.66%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.66%) VBA
13 2 (0.44%) Cypher
13 2 (0.44%) Go
13 2 (0.44%) R
13 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 164 (36.20%) Security Cleared
2 150 (33.11%) SC Cleared
3 40 (8.83%) Degree
4 23 (5.08%) DV Cleared
5 19 (4.19%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.65%) PMI Certification
7 11 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (2.21%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.99%) IIBA
10 8 (1.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 8 (1.77%) ISTQB
11 7 (1.55%) CBAP
11 7 (1.55%) PMP
12 6 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (1.10%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.66%) CISSP
14 3 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.44%) CISM
15 2 (0.44%) ISEB
15 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (12.14%) QA
2 31 (6.84%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.19%) PMO
4 14 (3.09%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.32%) GDPR
5 6 (1.32%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.32%) SEPA
5 6 (1.32%) WCAG
6 5 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.10%) SLA
7 4 (0.88%) MiFID
8 3 (0.66%) EMIR
8 3 (0.66%) NIST
9 2 (0.44%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.44%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.44%) NCSC
10 1 (0.22%) HL7
10 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.22%) WAI
System Software
1 33 (7.28%) Docker
2 18 (3.97%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.44%) DFS Replication
4 2 (0.44%) Dovecot
4 2 (0.44%) Postfix
4 2 (0.44%) Squid
5 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 30 (6.62%) Grafana
2 20 (4.42%) Ansible
3 18 (3.97%) Kubernetes
4 16 (3.53%) Prometheus
5 13 (2.87%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (2.65%) Argo
7 7 (1.55%) Control-M
8 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (1.32%) SCOM
9 4 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.88%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.88%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.88%) Podman
10 3 (0.66%) Consul
10 3 (0.66%) Istio
10 3 (0.66%) SELinux
11 2 (0.44%) Nessus
11 2 (0.44%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.44%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 62 (13.69%) Microsoft
2 41 (9.05%) ServiceNow
3 23 (5.08%) Salesforce
3 23 (5.08%) SAP
4 21 (4.64%) IBM
5 20 (4.42%) Oracle
6 19 (4.19%) Atlassian
6 19 (4.19%) Splunk
7 17 (3.75%) Google
8 10 (2.21%) Informatica
9 8 (1.77%) Adobe
9 8 (1.77%) Temenos
10 7 (1.55%) xMatters
11 6 (1.32%) BMC
11 6 (1.32%) Commvault
11 6 (1.32%) Databricks
11 6 (1.32%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.32%) Remedy
11 6 (1.32%) VMware
12 5 (1.10%) Red Hat