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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 100 113
Rank change year-on-year -30 +13 -14
Contract jobs citing Confluence 451 395 364
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.22% 2.93% 2.26%
As % of the Application Platforms category 21.68% 25.65% 17.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 277 243
10th Percentile £403 £331 £308
25th Percentile £450 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £706 £741 £800
England median daily rate £506 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.27% -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 2,080 1,540 2,061
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.23% 11.44% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,378 1,038 1,415
10th Percentile £313 £313 £311
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £750
90th Percentile £710 £788 £850
England median daily rate £500 £491 £525
% change year-on-year +1.78% -6.43% +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 £29.00 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -17.14% -17.65% +6.25%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 -35 57 £550 +10.00% 30
South London -13 11 £550 -4.84%
West London -22 8 £838 +101.81% 5
North London - 3 - -
East London +5 2 £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 27 (5.99%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.77%) CMS
3 6 (1.33%) nginx
4 5 (1.11%) Camunda
5 4 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.89%) SAS
6 3 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.67%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.67%) JBoss
6 3 (0.67%) 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 (8.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (7.98%) MS Visio
3 26 (5.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (3.99%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (3.55%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (1.11%) Notion
6 5 (1.11%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.89%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.89%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.89%) Final Cut Pro
8 3 (0.67%) 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 (0.89%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (0.89%) Temenos T24
3 3 (0.67%) 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
1 106 (23.50%) AWS
2 103 (22.84%) Azure
3 54 (11.97%) GitHub
4 52 (11.53%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (9.98%) Power Platform
6 41 (9.09%) Amazon S3
7 26 (5.76%) Serverless
8 25 (5.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 25 (5.54%) Amazon EC2
9 23 (5.10%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (5.10%) GitHub Actions
10 21 (4.66%) GCP
10 21 (4.66%) Miro
11 19 (4.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 18 (3.99%) Figma
13 17 (3.77%) SaaS
14 15 (3.33%) OpenShift
15 13 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
16 10 (2.22%) dbt
16 10 (2.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.10%) DNS
2 12 (2.66%) Firewall
2 12 (2.66%) HTTP
3 11 (2.44%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.55%) Network Security
4 7 (1.55%) SSH
4 7 (1.55%) SSL
5 5 (1.11%) VPN
6 4 (0.89%) IPv4
6 4 (0.89%) OpenVPN
7 3 (0.67%) Internet
7 3 (0.67%) IPv6
7 3 (0.67%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (0.44%) Broadband
8 2 (0.44%) DSL
8 2 (0.44%) FTP
8 2 (0.44%) IMAP
8 2 (0.44%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.44%) SMTP
8 2 (0.44%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (9.76%) Power BI
2 34 (7.54%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (3.99%) SQL Server
4 15 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 13 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
6 11 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (2.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 9 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (1.77%) Metadata
10 7 (1.55%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.55%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.33%) DynamoDB
11 6 (1.33%) Oracle Database
11 6 (1.33%) Tableau
12 5 (1.11%) BigQuery
12 5 (1.11%) MySQL
13 4 (0.89%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 403 (89.36%) JIRA
2 71 (15.74%) Git
3 42 (9.31%) Jenkins
4 35 (7.76%) GitLab
5 15 (3.33%) Selenium
6 14 (3.10%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (2.44%) Bitbucket
7 11 (2.44%) Zephyr
8 10 (2.22%) Cypress.io
8 10 (2.22%) 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 (1.33%) Postman
12 5 (1.11%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 172 (38.14%) Finance
1 172 (38.14%) Social Skills
2 97 (21.51%) Banking
3 95 (21.06%) Analytical Skills
4 76 (16.85%) Public Sector
5 21 (4.66%) Influencing Skills
6 20 (4.43%) Documentation Skills
6 20 (4.43%) Retail
7 19 (4.21%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (2.66%) Telecoms
9 10 (2.22%) Financial Institution
9 10 (2.22%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.00%) 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 (1.33%) Front Office
13 6 (1.33%) Law
13 6 (1.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 98 (21.73%) Analyst
2 74 (16.41%) Business Analyst
3 50 (11.09%) Lead
4 40 (8.87%) Developer
4 40 (8.87%) Senior
5 23 (5.10%) Architect
6 21 (4.66%) Product Owner
7 17 (3.77%) Scrum Master
8 16 (3.55%) Consultant
9 15 (3.33%) DevOps Engineer
9 15 (3.33%) Product Manager
10 13 (2.88%) Data Engineer
11 12 (2.66%) AWS Engineer
11 12 (2.66%) Project Manager
11 12 (2.66%) Technical Analyst
12 11 (2.44%) Delivery Manager
12 11 (2.44%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
13 10 (2.22%) Banking Analyst
13 10 (2.22%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (12.86%) Terraform
2 32 (7.10%) REST
3 17 (3.77%) React
3 17 (3.77%) SOAP
4 12 (2.66%) JSON
5 11 (2.44%) AngularJS
5 11 (2.44%) HTML
6 10 (2.22%) CSS
6 10 (2.22%) Kafka
6 10 (2.22%) Lightning Web Components
6 10 (2.22%) Playwright
6 10 (2.22%) RESTful
7 9 (2.00%) PySpark
7 9 (2.00%) Spring Boot
8 8 (1.77%) Loki
8 8 (1.77%) Spring
8 8 (1.77%) Web Services
9 7 (1.55%) ADO
9 7 (1.55%) Hibernate
9 7 (1.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 96 (21.29%) Product Ownership
2 32 (7.10%) Onboarding
3 25 (5.54%) Cloud Native
4 16 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (2.66%) Data Centre
7 11 (2.44%) Credit Risk
7 11 (2.44%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.44%) Virtual Team
8 10 (2.22%) Management Information System
8 10 (2.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 9 (2.00%) Market Risk
9 9 (2.00%) Replication
10 8 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
11 7 (1.55%) Mobile App
12 6 (1.33%) Clustering
12 6 (1.33%) Derivative
13 5 (1.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 5 (1.11%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 28 (6.21%) Linux
2 18 (3.99%) Windows
3 9 (2.00%) Amazon Linux
3 9 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.33%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.33%) Unix
5 4 (0.89%) VMS
6 3 (0.67%) Android
6 3 (0.67%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.67%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.44%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.22%) CentOS
8 1 (0.22%) SUSE
8 1 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (65.63%) Agile
2 181 (40.13%) Stakeholder Management
3 128 (28.38%) DevOps
4 115 (25.50%) CI/CD
5 113 (25.06%) Scrum
6 104 (23.06%) Problem-Solving
7 100 (22.17%) User Stories
8 83 (18.40%) Migration
9 79 (17.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 71 (15.74%) Test Automation
11 67 (14.86%) AI
11 67 (14.86%) User Acceptance Testing
12 66 (14.63%) Business Analysis
13 65 (14.41%) Acceptance Criteria
14 59 (13.08%) Requirements Gathering
15 56 (12.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 55 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
17 52 (11.53%) SDLC
18 50 (11.09%) Sprint Planning
18 50 (11.09%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 98 (21.73%) SQL
2 72 (15.96%) Python
3 43 (9.53%) Java
4 25 (5.54%) PowerShell
5 22 (4.88%) Bash
6 16 (3.55%) JavaScript
7 14 (3.10%) Groovy
7 14 (3.10%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.22%) Apex Code
8 10 (2.22%) Perl
9 8 (1.77%) PL/SQL
10 7 (1.55%) C#
11 5 (1.11%) Go
12 4 (0.89%) Swift
13 3 (0.67%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.67%) VBA
14 2 (0.44%) Korn
14 2 (0.44%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.44%) R
14 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 150 (33.26%) Security Cleared
2 137 (30.38%) SC Cleared
3 52 (11.53%) Degree
4 25 (5.54%) DV Cleared
5 19 (4.21%) AWS Certification
6 18 (3.99%) PMI Certification
7 13 (2.88%) PMP
8 12 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (2.00%) Azure Certification
10 9 (2.00%) CBAP
11 8 (1.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 7 (1.55%) IIBA
12 7 (1.55%) ISTQB
13 6 (1.33%) Master's Degree
14 3 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 2 (0.44%) ISEB
15 2 (0.44%) MBA
15 2 (0.44%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (15.74%) QA
2 39 (8.65%) Data Quality
3 20 (4.43%) PMO
4 13 (2.88%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.33%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.33%) SEPA
5 6 (1.33%) SLA
5 6 (1.33%) WCAG
6 4 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.89%) MiFID
7 3 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.67%) EMIR
7 3 (0.67%) NIST
8 2 (0.44%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.44%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.44%) NCSC
9 1 (0.22%) GDPR
9 1 (0.22%) HL7
9 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.22%) WAI
System Software
1 41 (9.09%) Docker
2 13 (2.88%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.33%) 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 (7.98%) Grafana
2 26 (5.76%) Kubernetes
3 24 (5.32%) Ansible
4 20 (4.43%) Prometheus
5 13 (2.88%) Argo
6 11 (2.44%) Control-M
7 8 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (1.33%) Istio
8 6 (1.33%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (1.33%) SCOM
9 4 (0.89%) Podman
10 3 (0.67%) Consul
10 3 (0.67%) 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%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.22%) SCCM
12 1 (0.22%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 69 (15.30%) Microsoft
2 38 (8.43%) ServiceNow
3 23 (5.10%) Salesforce
4 22 (4.88%) Oracle
5 19 (4.21%) Splunk
6 18 (3.99%) Google
7 17 (3.77%) IBM
8 14 (3.10%) Atlassian
9 13 (2.88%) SAP
10 10 (2.22%) Informatica
11 7 (1.55%) Adobe
11 7 (1.55%) BMC
11 7 (1.55%) Databricks
11 7 (1.55%) Dynatrace
11 7 (1.55%) Murex
11 7 (1.55%) Remedy
11 7 (1.55%) VMware
11 7 (1.55%) xMatters
12 6 (1.33%) Commvault
13 5 (1.11%) Red Hat