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

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 119 161
Rank change year-on-year +1 +42 -44
Contract jobs citing Confluence 417 291 277
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.34% 2.35% 1.58%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.18% 20.44% 13.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 178 184
10th Percentile £363 £313 £363
25th Percentile £449 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £523 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -2.79% -10.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £707 £750 £784
England median daily rate £500 £512 £538
% change year-on-year -2.34% -4.74% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £21.25
25th Percentile £61.25 - £22.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £26.75
75th Percentile £63.75 - £37.94
90th Percentile - - £52.50
England median hourly rate £62.75 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.46% +4.00% +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 1,656 1,424 2,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.30% 11.52% 11.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,106 957 1,497
10th Percentile £363 £350 £263
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £670
90th Percentile £725 £825 £825
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 9 27
10th Percentile £15.30 £25.56 £15.50
25th Percentile £19.03 £26.04 £22.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £27.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.85% -5.26% -18.57%
75th Percentile £28.82 £50.00 £36.50
90th Percentile £67.45 £53.75 £60.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £52.50 £25.50
% change year-on-year -46.67% +105.88% -27.14%

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 14 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 14 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 -22 43 £600 +4.35% 22
South London +8 27 £519 +9.17%
West London -24 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 41 (9.83%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.40%) nginx
3 6 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.96%) CMS
5 3 (0.72%) Apache
5 3 (0.72%) SAS
5 3 (0.72%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.48%) JBoss
6 2 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.24%) CICS
7 1 (0.24%) Drupal
Applications
1 47 (11.27%) MS Visio
2 35 (8.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (6.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (5.76%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (1.44%) Notion
7 4 (0.96%) Trello
8 2 (0.48%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.24%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.24%) InDesign
9 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (2.40%) NetSuite
2 6 (1.44%) Temenos T24
3 3 (0.72%) Actimize
3 3 (0.72%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.72%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.72%) Oracle Financials
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 66 (15.83%) AWS
2 65 (15.59%) Azure
3 33 (7.91%) Power Platform
4 31 (7.43%) GitHub
5 29 (6.95%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (6.00%) Amazon S3
7 22 (5.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 21 (5.04%) SaaS
9 19 (4.56%) Serverless
10 18 (4.32%) Amazon EC2
11 17 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (4.08%) Figma
12 13 (3.12%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (3.12%) GCP
13 11 (2.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (2.64%) Entra ID
14 10 (2.40%) Apigee
14 10 (2.40%) Miro
15 9 (2.16%) Lucidchart
15 9 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.08%) Firewall
2 13 (3.12%) VPN
3 9 (2.16%) DNS
3 9 (2.16%) SSL
4 8 (1.92%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.68%) Ethernet
5 7 (1.68%) LAN
5 7 (1.68%) Modbus
5 7 (1.68%) OpenVPN
5 7 (1.68%) RS-232
5 7 (1.68%) RS-485
5 7 (1.68%) WAN
6 6 (1.44%) Network Security
7 4 (0.96%) FTP
7 4 (0.96%) PSTN
7 4 (0.96%) Unified Communications
7 4 (0.96%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.72%) BGP
8 3 (0.72%) HTTP
8 3 (0.72%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.47%) Power BI
2 18 (4.32%) Tableau
3 14 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (2.40%) Metadata
5 9 (2.16%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (2.16%) SQL Server
6 8 (1.92%) DynamoDB
7 7 (1.68%) BigQuery
8 6 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.20%) Big Data
9 5 (1.20%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.96%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (0.96%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.96%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.72%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.72%) DocumentDB
11 3 (0.72%) Spark SQL
11 3 (0.72%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 383 (91.85%) JIRA
2 51 (12.23%) Git
3 26 (6.24%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.84%) Selenium
5 12 (2.88%) Bitbucket
5 12 (2.88%) GitLab
5 12 (2.88%) Sonatype Nexus
6 10 (2.40%) Cypress.io
6 10 (2.40%) SonarQube
7 5 (1.20%) ScriptRunner
7 5 (1.20%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.96%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.96%) IntelliJ
8 4 (0.96%) JMeter
8 4 (0.96%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.96%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.72%) Ant
9 3 (0.72%) JUnit
9 3 (0.72%) Maven
9 3 (0.72%) TestRail
General
1 160 (38.37%) Social Skills
2 156 (37.41%) Finance
3 84 (20.14%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (18.47%) Banking
5 71 (17.03%) Public Sector
6 27 (6.47%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (5.28%) Legal
8 16 (3.84%) Retail
9 15 (3.60%) Financial Institution
10 13 (3.12%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (2.64%) Investment Banking
12 11 (2.64%) Marketing
13 8 (1.92%) Front Office
14 6 (1.44%) Corporate Banking
14 6 (1.44%) Military
15 5 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 4 (0.96%) Publishing
17 3 (0.72%) Games
Job Titles
1 109 (26.14%) Analyst
2 96 (23.02%) Business Analyst
3 46 (11.03%) Senior
4 45 (10.79%) Developer
5 39 (9.35%) Lead
6 26 (6.24%) Project Manager
7 24 (5.76%) Architect
8 21 (5.04%) Delivery Manager
9 19 (4.56%) Consultant
9 19 (4.56%) Senior Analyst
10 14 (3.36%) Banking Analyst
10 14 (3.36%) Technical Analyst
10 14 (3.36%) Technical Business Analyst
11 13 (3.12%) Banking Business Analyst
11 13 (3.12%) Technical Manager
12 12 (2.88%) Salesforce Developer
12 12 (2.88%) Scrum Master
12 12 (2.88%) Senior Business Analyst
13 10 (2.40%) Data Business Analyst
13 10 (2.40%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.08%) REST
2 15 (3.60%) React
3 13 (3.12%) AngularJS
4 12 (2.88%) OpenID
5 11 (2.64%) LDAP
5 11 (2.64%) Lightning Web Components
6 10 (2.40%) Node.js
6 10 (2.40%) RESTful
7 9 (2.16%) ADO
7 9 (2.16%) Spring
8 8 (1.92%) .NET
8 8 (1.92%) HTML
8 8 (1.92%) Kafka
9 7 (1.68%) OAuth
10 6 (1.44%) OAuth2
10 6 (1.44%) SOAP
11 5 (1.20%) CSS
11 5 (1.20%) SAML
11 5 (1.20%) Spring Boot
12 4 (0.96%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 47 (11.27%) Product Ownership
2 22 (5.28%) Onboarding
3 16 (3.84%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (2.40%) Data Centre
4 10 (2.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 9 (2.16%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.16%) Virtual Team
6 8 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.20%) Derivative
8 5 (1.20%) Equities
8 5 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.20%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.20%) PMI
8 5 (1.20%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.96%) Clustering
9 4 (0.96%) IoT
9 4 (0.96%) Mobile App
9 4 (0.96%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (4.08%) Linux
2 16 (3.84%) Windows
3 7 (1.68%) FreeRTOS
4 6 (1.44%) Apple iOS
5 4 (0.96%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (0.96%) Android
6 3 (0.72%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.24%) Unix
7 1 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 274 (65.71%) Agile
2 134 (32.13%) Stakeholder Management
3 90 (21.58%) Scrum
4 82 (19.66%) User Stories
5 80 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
6 78 (18.71%) DevOps
7 75 (17.99%) Continuous Improvement
8 63 (15.11%) Acceptance Criteria
8 63 (15.11%) CI/CD
8 63 (15.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 57 (13.67%) Project Management
10 54 (12.95%) Migration
10 54 (12.95%) Test Automation
11 53 (12.71%) Roadmaps
11 53 (12.71%) Workshop Facilitation
12 48 (11.51%) SDLC
13 46 (11.03%) Requirements Gathering
13 46 (11.03%) User Acceptance Testing
14 42 (10.07%) Change Management
14 42 (10.07%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 64 (15.35%) SQL
2 54 (12.95%) Python
3 31 (7.43%) Java
4 25 (6.00%) JavaScript
5 16 (3.84%) TypeScript
6 13 (3.12%) PowerShell
7 11 (2.64%) Apex Code
8 8 (1.92%) Bash
8 8 (1.92%) C#
8 8 (1.92%) Groovy
9 7 (1.68%) C++
9 7 (1.68%) Embedded C++
10 4 (0.96%) Kotlin
10 4 (0.96%) Perl
11 3 (0.72%) C
11 3 (0.72%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.48%) Korn
12 2 (0.48%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.48%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.24%) XPath
Qualifications
1 129 (30.94%) Security Cleared
2 113 (27.10%) SC Cleared
3 31 (7.43%) Degree
4 16 (3.84%) CBAP
4 16 (3.84%) DV Cleared
5 13 (3.12%) PMI Certification
6 10 (2.40%) IIBA
7 8 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (1.92%) CISSP
7 8 (1.92%) PMP
8 7 (1.68%) CISM
9 6 (1.44%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.44%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.44%) 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 36 (8.63%) QA
2 20 (4.80%) Data Quality
2 20 (4.80%) GDPR
2 20 (4.80%) PMO
3 14 (3.36%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.68%) MiFID
6 5 (1.20%) SLA
6 5 (1.20%) WCAG
7 3 (0.72%) EMIR
7 3 (0.72%) GRC
7 3 (0.72%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.72%) NIST
7 3 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.48%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.24%) Basel III
9 1 (0.24%) NCSC
9 1 (0.24%) P3O
System Software
1 20 (4.80%) Docker
2 8 (1.92%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.92%) Squid
3 7 (1.68%) Embedded Firmware
3 7 (1.68%) Firmware
4 2 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (9.83%) Terraform
2 23 (5.52%) Kubernetes
3 17 (4.08%) Grafana
4 16 (3.84%) Prometheus
5 14 (3.36%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (2.88%) Ansible
7 11 (2.64%) Consul
8 7 (1.68%) FortiGate
9 6 (1.44%) 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 40 (9.59%) ServiceNow
2 36 (8.63%) Microsoft
3 35 (8.39%) Salesforce
4 31 (7.43%) Atlassian
5 22 (5.28%) SAP
6 16 (3.84%) Oracle
7 11 (2.64%) IBM
8 10 (2.40%) Databricks
8 10 (2.40%) Google
8 10 (2.40%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.92%) Adobe
9 8 (1.92%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.92%) Zscaler
10 7 (1.68%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.68%) Splunk
11 6 (1.44%) Workday
12 5 (1.20%) Alteryx
12 5 (1.20%) Anaplan
12 5 (1.20%) Murex
12 5 (1.20%) Zuora