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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 99 112
Rank change year-on-year -34 +13 -10
Contract jobs citing Confluence 453 392 360
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.23% 2.93% 2.25%
As % of the Application Platforms category 21.74% 25.64% 17.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 275 240
10th Percentile £404 £331 £307
25th Percentile £450 £442 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £675
90th Percentile £701 £742 £801
England median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.56% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - £47.33 -
25th Percentile £61.25 £53.81 £31.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.25 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +100.77% -35.00%
75th Percentile £77.50 £77.31 £33.75
90th Percentile £84.25 £84.18 -
England median hourly rate £67.47 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.61% - +7.69%

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 2,084 1,529 2,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.25% 11.43% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,380 1,030 1,411
10th Percentile £313 £313 £310
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £649 £750
90th Percentile £701 £788 £850
England median daily rate £500 £492 £525
% change year-on-year +1.63% -6.29% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 21 25
10th Percentile £19.03 £24.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £22.83 £26.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £28.40 £35.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -20.01% +49.16% -13.45%
75th Percentile £41.68 £53.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £73.30 £88.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.70 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.01% -6.67% -11.76%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -31 57 £550 +10.00% 35
South London -14 11 £550 -4.84%
West London -24 8 £838 +101.81% 6
North London - 3 - -
East London +4 2 £550 +5.77% 3
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 27 (5.96%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.77%) CMS
3 6 (1.32%) nginx
4 5 (1.10%) Camunda
5 4 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.88%) SAS
6 3 (0.66%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.66%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.66%) JBoss
6 3 (0.66%) Traefik
7 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.22%) Apache
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.22%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.22%) Appian
7 1 (0.22%) Drupal
7 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.22%) Mule
7 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 40 (8.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (7.95%) MS Visio
3 26 (5.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (3.97%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (3.53%) 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%) Gliffy
9 2 (0.44%) Productboard
10 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.22%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.22%) Sketch
10 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.55%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (0.88%) Temenos T24
3 3 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.44%) Actimize
4 2 (0.44%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
4 2 (0.44%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.44%) Summit
5 1 (0.22%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.22%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.22%) OneSumX
5 1 (0.22%) Primavera
5 1 (0.22%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 108 (23.84%) AWS
2 103 (22.74%) Azure
3 54 (11.92%) GitHub
4 51 (11.26%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (9.93%) Power Platform
6 41 (9.05%) Amazon S3
7 26 (5.74%) Serverless
8 25 (5.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 25 (5.52%) Amazon EC2
9 23 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (5.08%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (4.86%) GCP
11 21 (4.64%) Miro
12 19 (4.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 18 (3.97%) Figma
14 17 (3.75%) SaaS
15 15 (3.31%) OpenShift
16 13 (2.87%) Amazon EKS
17 10 (2.21%) dbt
17 10 (2.21%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.09%) DNS
2 13 (2.87%) HTTP
3 12 (2.65%) Firewall
4 11 (2.43%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.77%) SSL
6 7 (1.55%) Network Security
6 7 (1.55%) SSH
7 5 (1.10%) VPN
8 4 (0.88%) IPv4
8 4 (0.88%) OpenVPN
9 3 (0.66%) Internet
9 3 (0.66%) IPv6
9 3 (0.66%) OpenLDAP
10 2 (0.44%) Broadband
10 2 (0.44%) DSL
10 2 (0.44%) FTP
10 2 (0.44%) IMAP
10 2 (0.44%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.44%) SMTP
10 2 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (9.71%) Power BI
2 34 (7.51%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (3.97%) SQL Server
4 15 (3.31%) Amazon Redshift
5 13 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (2.43%) Amazon Athena
6 11 (2.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (2.21%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (1.99%) Metadata
8 9 (1.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 9 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (1.55%) Data Lake
9 7 (1.55%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.32%) DynamoDB
10 6 (1.32%) Oracle Database
10 6 (1.32%) Tableau
11 5 (1.10%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.10%) MySQL
12 3 (0.66%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 407 (89.85%) JIRA
2 71 (15.67%) Git
3 42 (9.27%) Jenkins
4 35 (7.73%) GitLab
5 15 (3.31%) Selenium
6 14 (3.09%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (2.43%) Bitbucket
7 11 (2.43%) Zephyr
8 10 (2.21%) Cypress.io
8 10 (2.21%) REST Assured
9 8 (1.77%) Cucumber
9 8 (1.77%) JMeter
9 8 (1.77%) JUnit
9 8 (1.77%) Maven
9 8 (1.77%) Mockito
10 7 (1.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 7 (1.55%) Gradle
10 7 (1.55%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.32%) Postman
12 5 (1.10%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 174 (38.41%) Finance
2 173 (38.19%) Social Skills
3 99 (21.85%) Banking
4 95 (20.97%) Analytical Skills
5 76 (16.78%) Public Sector
6 21 (4.64%) Influencing Skills
7 19 (4.19%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (4.19%) Organisational Skills
7 19 (4.19%) Retail
8 12 (2.65%) Telecoms
9 10 (2.21%) Financial Institution
9 10 (2.21%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.77%) Military
12 7 (1.55%) Aviation
12 7 (1.55%) Legal
12 7 (1.55%) Retail Banking
13 6 (1.32%) Front Office
13 6 (1.32%) Law
13 6 (1.32%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 97 (21.41%) Analyst
2 73 (16.11%) Business Analyst
3 50 (11.04%) Lead
4 40 (8.83%) Developer
5 39 (8.61%) Senior
6 24 (5.30%) Architect
7 21 (4.64%) Product Owner
8 19 (4.19%) Scrum Master
9 15 (3.31%) Consultant
9 15 (3.31%) DevOps Engineer
10 14 (3.09%) Product Manager
11 13 (2.87%) Data Engineer
12 12 (2.65%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (2.65%) Project Manager
12 12 (2.65%) Technical Analyst
13 11 (2.43%) Delivery Manager
13 11 (2.43%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (2.43%) Senior Analyst
14 10 (2.21%) Technical Manager
14 10 (2.21%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (12.80%) Terraform
2 33 (7.28%) REST
3 18 (3.97%) React
3 18 (3.97%) SOAP
4 13 (2.87%) AngularJS
4 13 (2.87%) JSON
5 12 (2.65%) HTML
6 11 (2.43%) CSS
7 10 (2.21%) Kafka
7 10 (2.21%) Playwright
7 10 (2.21%) RESTful
8 9 (1.99%) Lightning Web Components
8 9 (1.99%) PySpark
8 9 (1.99%) Spring Boot
9 8 (1.77%) Loki
9 8 (1.77%) Web Services
10 7 (1.55%) Hibernate
10 7 (1.55%) JPA
10 7 (1.55%) Spring
10 7 (1.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 97 (21.41%) Product Ownership
2 32 (7.06%) Onboarding
3 25 (5.52%) Cloud Native
4 16 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (2.65%) Data Centre
7 11 (2.43%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.43%) Virtual Team
8 10 (2.21%) Credit Risk
8 10 (2.21%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.21%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 9 (1.99%) Replication
10 8 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.77%) Market Risk
11 7 (1.55%) Clustering
11 7 (1.55%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.32%) Derivative
13 5 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 5 (1.10%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 27 (5.96%) Linux
2 18 (3.97%) Windows
3 9 (1.99%) Amazon Linux
3 9 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.32%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.10%) Unix
6 4 (0.88%) VMS
7 3 (0.66%) Android
7 3 (0.66%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.44%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.22%) CentOS
9 1 (0.22%) SUSE
9 1 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (66.45%) Agile
2 181 (39.96%) Stakeholder Management
3 128 (28.26%) DevOps
4 118 (26.05%) Scrum
5 117 (25.83%) CI/CD
6 106 (23.40%) Problem-Solving
7 99 (21.85%) User Stories
8 83 (18.32%) Migration
9 81 (17.88%) Continuous Improvement
10 71 (15.67%) Test Automation
11 67 (14.79%) User Acceptance Testing
12 66 (14.57%) AI
13 65 (14.35%) Acceptance Criteria
13 65 (14.35%) Business Analysis
14 57 (12.58%) Requirements Gathering
15 55 (12.14%) Infrastructure as Code
15 55 (12.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 53 (11.70%) SDLC
17 52 (11.48%) Sprint Planning
18 50 (11.04%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 97 (21.41%) SQL
2 72 (15.89%) Python
3 44 (9.71%) Java
4 25 (5.52%) PowerShell
5 21 (4.64%) Bash
6 17 (3.75%) JavaScript
7 15 (3.31%) TypeScript
8 14 (3.09%) Groovy
9 10 (2.21%) Perl
10 9 (1.99%) Apex Code
11 8 (1.77%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.55%) C#
13 5 (1.10%) Go
14 4 (0.88%) Swift
15 3 (0.66%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.66%) VBA
16 2 (0.44%) Korn
16 2 (0.44%) Kotlin
16 2 (0.44%) R
16 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 150 (33.11%) Security Cleared
2 137 (30.24%) SC Cleared
3 51 (11.26%) Degree
4 25 (5.52%) DV Cleared
5 19 (4.19%) AWS Certification
6 18 (3.97%) PMI Certification
7 13 (2.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (2.87%) PMP
8 10 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (1.99%) Azure Certification
9 9 (1.99%) CBAP
10 8 (1.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 7 (1.55%) IIBA
11 7 (1.55%) ISTQB
12 6 (1.32%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.44%) ISEB
14 2 (0.44%) MBA
14 2 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (15.67%) QA
2 38 (8.39%) Data Quality
3 20 (4.42%) PMO
4 12 (2.65%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.32%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.32%) SEPA
5 6 (1.32%) SLA
5 6 (1.32%) WCAG
6 4 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.88%) MiFID
7 3 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.66%) EMIR
7 3 (0.66%) NIST
8 2 (0.44%) GDPR
8 2 (0.44%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.44%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.44%) NCSC
9 1 (0.22%) GRC
9 1 (0.22%) HL7
9 1 (0.22%) WAI
System Software
1 41 (9.05%) Docker
2 14 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.44%) DFS Replication
5 2 (0.44%) Dovecot
5 2 (0.44%) Postfix
5 2 (0.44%) Squid
5 2 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.22%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 36 (7.95%) Grafana
2 26 (5.74%) Kubernetes
3 24 (5.30%) Ansible
4 20 (4.42%) Prometheus
5 13 (2.87%) Argo
6 10 (2.21%) Control-M
7 9 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.32%) Istio
8 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (1.32%) SCOM
9 4 (0.88%) Podman
10 3 (0.66%) Consul
10 3 (0.66%) SELinux
11 2 (0.44%) Kibana
11 2 (0.44%) Nessus
11 2 (0.44%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.44%) WSUS
12 1 (0.22%) HP Quality Center
12 1 (0.22%) SCCM
12 1 (0.22%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 71 (15.67%) Microsoft
2 40 (8.83%) ServiceNow
3 22 (4.86%) Oracle
3 22 (4.86%) Salesforce
4 19 (4.19%) Splunk
5 18 (3.97%) Google
6 17 (3.75%) IBM
7 14 (3.09%) Atlassian
8 13 (2.87%) SAP
9 10 (2.21%) Informatica
10 7 (1.55%) Adobe
10 7 (1.55%) BMC
10 7 (1.55%) Databricks
10 7 (1.55%) Dynatrace
10 7 (1.55%) Remedy
10 7 (1.55%) VMware
10 7 (1.55%) xMatters
11 6 (1.32%) Commvault
11 6 (1.32%) Murex
12 5 (1.10%) Red Hat