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 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 100 124
Rank change year-on-year -6 +24 -24
Contract jobs citing Confluence 412 344 343
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.70% 2.55% 1.85%
As % of the Application Platforms category 27.03% 21.38% 16.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 210 242
10th Percentile £356 £302 £375
25th Percentile £443 £400 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £810 £800
England median daily rate £500 £507 £540
% change year-on-year -1.47% -6.02% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £26.88
25th Percentile - - £29.69
Median hourly rate £43.00 - £35.75
75th Percentile - - £44.38
90th Percentile - - £52.25
England median hourly rate £44.23 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -29.23% - +16.82%

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 1,524 1,609 2,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.00% 11.94% 10.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 1,000 1,446
10th Percentile £349 £308 £263
25th Percentile £415 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £528 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +5.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £625
90th Percentile £738 £810 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 11 34
10th Percentile - £19.95 £17.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £23.80 £22.00
Median hourly rate £24.08 £35.00 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.21% +18.64% +26.53%
75th Percentile £37.56 £40.46 £32.50
90th Percentile £87.31 £41.91 £47.72
England median hourly rate £27.21 £45.00 £25.75
% change year-on-year -39.53% +74.76% +17.05%

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 -13 49 £500 -8.26% 14
South London +5 23 £519 +9.17% 9
West London -17 9 £500 +19.05% 12
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 32 (7.77%) SharePoint
2 30 (7.28%) nginx
3 8 (1.94%) Palantir Foundry
4 7 (1.70%) Apache
5 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.97%) CMS
7 3 (0.73%) Traefik
8 2 (0.49%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.24%) CICS
9 1 (0.24%) IIS
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 44 (10.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (9.95%) MS Visio
3 28 (6.80%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (6.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (4.61%) Microsoft Office
6 8 (1.94%) Trello
7 4 (0.97%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 4 (0.97%) Notion
8 2 (0.49%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.49%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.49%) InDesign
8 2 (0.49%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.24%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.24%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.24%) OmniGraffle
9 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.91%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.70%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.73%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.49%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.49%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.49%) Shopify
4 2 (0.49%) Summit
5 1 (0.24%) Endur
5 1 (0.24%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.24%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.24%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 83 (20.15%) AWS
2 56 (13.59%) Azure
3 54 (13.11%) GitHub
4 35 (8.50%) Power Platform
5 29 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (5.58%) Amazon S3
7 19 (4.61%) Amazon EC2
7 19 (4.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 17 (4.13%) Serverless
9 16 (3.88%) Amazon EKS
9 16 (3.88%) SaaS
10 14 (3.40%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (3.40%) Miro
11 13 (3.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 13 (3.16%) Figma
11 13 (3.16%) GCP
12 11 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (2.67%) PowerApps
13 10 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
13 10 (2.43%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.37%) Firewall
2 15 (3.64%) VPN
3 14 (3.40%) DNS
4 11 (2.67%) WAN
5 8 (1.94%) Ethernet
5 8 (1.94%) FTP
5 8 (1.94%) TCP/IP
6 7 (1.70%) LAN
6 7 (1.70%) Modbus
6 7 (1.70%) RS-232
6 7 (1.70%) RS-485
6 7 (1.70%) SD-WAN
6 7 (1.70%) SSH
7 6 (1.46%) Network Security
7 6 (1.46%) OpenVPN
8 5 (1.21%) HTTP
8 5 (1.21%) SMTP
8 5 (1.21%) SSL
9 4 (0.97%) PSTN
9 4 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (7.04%) Power BI
2 22 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (5.10%) Tableau
4 15 (3.64%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (3.16%) NoSQL
6 12 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (2.91%) SQL Server
7 9 (2.18%) Big Data
7 9 (2.18%) Hadoop
8 8 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (1.70%) MongoDB
9 7 (1.70%) Tick Data
10 6 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (1.46%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.46%) Metadata
11 3 (0.73%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.73%) DocumentDB
11 3 (0.73%) Redis
11 3 (0.73%) Relational Database
11 3 (0.73%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 379 (91.99%) JIRA
2 53 (12.86%) Git
3 48 (11.65%) Jenkins
4 28 (6.80%) GitLab
5 21 (5.10%) Bitbucket
6 20 (4.85%) Selenium
7 17 (4.13%) SonarQube
8 12 (2.91%) Sonatype Nexus
9 10 (2.43%) Cucumber
9 10 (2.43%) JUnit
10 9 (2.18%) Postman
11 8 (1.94%) Maven
12 7 (1.70%) SpecFlow
13 6 (1.46%) Cypress.io
14 4 (0.97%) Android Studio
14 4 (0.97%) ScriptRunner
14 4 (0.97%) TestRail
14 4 (0.97%) Vagrant
14 4 (0.97%) Zephyr
15 3 (0.73%) REST Assured
General
1 169 (41.02%) Social Skills
2 142 (34.47%) Finance
3 80 (19.42%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (15.53%) Banking
5 58 (14.08%) Public Sector
6 21 (5.10%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (4.85%) Investment Banking
8 15 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (3.40%) Front Office
9 14 (3.40%) Legal
9 14 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (2.91%) Marketing
11 11 (2.67%) Retail
12 10 (2.43%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.46%) Back Office
13 6 (1.46%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.21%) Publishing
15 4 (0.97%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 100 (24.27%) Analyst
2 96 (23.30%) Business Analyst
3 43 (10.44%) Senior
4 41 (9.95%) Developer
5 34 (8.25%) Project Manager
6 29 (7.04%) Lead
7 20 (4.85%) Architect
8 19 (4.61%) Technical Business Analyst
9 18 (4.37%) Technical Analyst
10 17 (4.13%) Senior Business Analyst
11 15 (3.64%) Senior Analyst
12 14 (3.40%) Consultant
13 13 (3.16%) Delivery Manager
13 13 (3.16%) Product Owner
14 12 (2.91%) Full-Stack Developer
14 12 (2.91%) Scrum Master
15 11 (2.67%) Banking Analyst
15 11 (2.67%) DevOps Engineer
16 10 (2.43%) Banking Business Analyst
16 10 (2.43%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.64%) .NET
1 15 (3.64%) Kafka
1 15 (3.64%) REST
2 14 (3.40%) Spring
3 12 (2.91%) LDAP
3 12 (2.91%) RESTful
4 10 (2.43%) Apache NiFi
4 10 (2.43%) Playwright
5 9 (2.18%) JSON
5 9 (2.18%) Lightning Web Components
5 9 (2.18%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (1.94%) ADO
6 8 (1.94%) OpenID
6 8 (1.94%) XML
7 7 (1.70%) AngularJS
7 7 (1.70%) HTML
7 7 (1.70%) SOAP
7 7 (1.70%) Web Services
8 6 (1.46%) React
8 6 (1.46%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 41 (9.95%) Product Ownership
2 22 (5.34%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.64%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (2.91%) Cloud Native
5 11 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (2.43%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.18%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.94%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.94%) Equities
9 7 (1.70%) Public Cloud
10 6 (1.46%) Derivative
10 6 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.46%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.46%) NHS
10 6 (1.46%) PMI
11 5 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.21%) Reference Data
11 5 (1.21%) Replication
11 5 (1.21%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.74%) Linux
2 17 (4.13%) Windows
3 11 (2.67%) Unix
4 7 (1.70%) FreeRTOS
4 7 (1.70%) VMS
5 6 (1.46%) Android
6 4 (0.97%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (0.97%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (65.29%) Agile
2 116 (28.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 108 (26.21%) Scrum
4 89 (21.60%) DevOps
5 87 (21.12%) User Stories
6 85 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
7 73 (17.72%) Continuous Improvement
8 68 (16.50%) CI/CD
9 66 (16.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 60 (14.56%) Project Management
11 57 (13.83%) Acceptance Criteria
11 57 (13.83%) Roadmaps
12 50 (12.14%) Workshop Facilitation
13 48 (11.65%) Requirements Gathering
13 48 (11.65%) Test Automation
13 48 (11.65%) User Acceptance Testing
14 44 (10.68%) Change Management
14 44 (10.68%) Migration
15 42 (10.19%) Project Delivery
16 41 (9.95%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 70 (16.99%) SQL
2 57 (13.83%) Python
3 34 (8.25%) Java
4 18 (4.37%) JavaScript
5 15 (3.64%) PowerShell
6 13 (3.16%) C#
7 12 (2.91%) Bash
8 9 (2.18%) Apex Code
9 8 (1.94%) C++
9 8 (1.94%) TypeScript
10 7 (1.70%) Embedded C++
11 6 (1.46%) Kotlin
12 4 (0.97%) Go
12 4 (0.97%) Groovy
13 3 (0.73%) C
13 3 (0.73%) Embedded C
13 3 (0.73%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.49%) Korn
15 1 (0.24%) PHP
15 1 (0.24%) XPath
Qualifications
1 113 (27.43%) Security Cleared
2 107 (25.97%) SC Cleared
3 49 (11.89%) Degree
4 16 (3.88%) CBAP
5 15 (3.64%) PMI Certification
6 12 (2.91%) DV Cleared
7 10 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (2.43%) CISSP
7 10 (2.43%) PMP
8 7 (1.70%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.70%) CFA
8 7 (1.70%) CSPO
8 7 (1.70%) ISTQB
9 6 (1.46%) CESG Certified Professional
9 6 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.46%) IIBA
10 5 (1.21%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 4 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (0.97%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (10.19%) QA
2 19 (4.61%) GDPR
3 17 (4.13%) Accessibility
4 14 (3.40%) PMO
5 13 (3.16%) Data Quality
6 7 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.46%) GRC
8 4 (0.97%) MiFID
9 3 (0.73%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.73%) NCSC
9 3 (0.73%) SLA
9 3 (0.73%) WCAG
10 2 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.49%) EMIR
10 2 (0.49%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.49%) NIST
10 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.49%) SEPA
11 1 (0.24%) Basel III
11 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
System Software
1 46 (11.17%) Docker
2 11 (2.67%) Squid
3 7 (1.70%) Embedded Firmware
3 7 (1.70%) Firmware
4 5 (1.21%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.97%) DFS Replication
5 4 (0.97%) Dovecot
5 4 (0.97%) Postfix
6 2 (0.49%) vSphere
7 1 (0.24%) etcd
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 47 (11.41%) Terraform
2 43 (10.44%) Kubernetes
3 18 (4.37%) Consul
3 18 (4.37%) Grafana
4 17 (4.13%) Ansible
5 13 (3.16%) Packer
5 13 (3.16%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (1.46%) FortiGate
8 5 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.97%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.97%) Nessus
9 4 (0.97%) Proxmox
10 3 (0.73%) Istio
10 3 (0.73%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.49%) Argo
12 1 (0.24%) Network Intrusion Detection System
12 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
12 1 (0.24%) vRealize
Vendors
1 43 (10.44%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.28%) Salesforce
3 29 (7.04%) Atlassian
3 29 (7.04%) ServiceNow
4 17 (4.13%) Oracle
5 10 (2.43%) Google
5 10 (2.43%) SAP
6 9 (2.18%) Adobe
7 8 (1.94%) Cloudera
7 8 (1.94%) Foundry
7 8 (1.94%) MuleSoft
7 8 (1.94%) Palantir
8 7 (1.70%) Alteryx
8 7 (1.70%) Anaplan
8 7 (1.70%) Cisco
8 7 (1.70%) Dynatrace
8 7 (1.70%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.46%) Murex
9 6 (1.46%) VMware
10 5 (1.21%) IBM