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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 111 145
Rank change year-on-year -11 +34 -38
Contract jobs citing Confluence 446 349 301
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.26% 2.57% 1.74%
As % of the Application Platforms category 23.47% 22.49% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 228 214
10th Percentile £400 £359 £360
25th Percentile £447 £436 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £531
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.53% -7.61%
75th Percentile £647 £639 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile - - £21.10
25th Percentile £61.25 £86.25 £22.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £87.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +207.02% -56.15%
75th Percentile £76.25 £88.75 £33.75
90th Percentile £83.75 - £52.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +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 1,900 1,552 2,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.62% 11.44% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,246 1,040 1,673
10th Percentile £357 £331 £300
25th Percentile £425 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £664 £738
90th Percentile £704 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 17 27
10th Percentile £16.03 £24.40 £20.65
25th Percentile £19.66 £26.04 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -0.66% -33.24%
75th Percentile £41.33 £53.75 £39.38
90th Percentile £81.55 £73.25 £69.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £47.12 £32.31
% change year-on-year -31.03% +45.85% -31.98%

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 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -39 44 £539 +1.41% 11
South London +6 28 £519 -9.82%
West London -21 2 - - 3
North London - 2 - - 1
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 42 (9.42%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.91%) nginx
3 6 (1.35%) CMS
3 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.12%) JBoss
4 5 (1.12%) SAS
5 3 (0.67%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.45%) Camunda
7 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.22%) Appian
7 1 (0.22%) CICS
7 1 (0.22%) Drupal
7 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.22%) Mule
Applications
1 39 (8.74%) MS Visio
2 30 (6.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (5.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (4.71%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (0.90%) Notion
7 3 (0.67%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.45%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.45%) Final Cut Pro
8 2 (0.45%) Trello
9 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.22%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (2.02%) Temenos T24
2 4 (0.90%) Actimize
3 3 (0.67%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.67%) Summit
4 2 (0.45%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.45%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
4 2 (0.45%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.45%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.45%) Shopify
5 1 (0.22%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.22%) Endur
5 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.22%) MetaTrader
5 1 (0.22%) Primavera
5 1 (0.22%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.22%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 96 (21.52%) AWS
2 90 (20.18%) Azure
3 43 (9.64%) Amazon S3
4 42 (9.42%) GitHub
5 39 (8.74%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (8.07%) Power Platform
7 31 (6.95%) Serverless
8 30 (6.73%) Amazon EC2
9 28 (6.28%) AWS Lambda
10 26 (5.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 22 (4.93%) GitHub Actions
12 21 (4.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 17 (3.81%) Amazon EKS
13 17 (3.81%) Figma
13 17 (3.81%) SaaS
14 16 (3.59%) GCP
15 13 (2.91%) dbt
16 12 (2.69%) Entra ID
17 11 (2.47%) Miro
18 10 (2.24%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.81%) Firewall
2 14 (3.14%) DNS
3 13 (2.91%) TCP/IP
3 13 (2.91%) VPN
4 10 (2.24%) OpenVPN
5 7 (1.57%) HTTP
5 7 (1.57%) Network Security
5 7 (1.57%) SSL
6 6 (1.35%) WAN
7 5 (1.12%) LAN
8 4 (0.90%) PSTN
8 4 (0.90%) Unified Communications
8 4 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.67%) SSH
10 2 (0.45%) DSL
10 2 (0.45%) FTP
10 2 (0.45%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.22%) Internet
11 1 (0.22%) NGFW
11 1 (0.22%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (6.95%) Power BI
2 27 (6.05%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (2.91%) Amazon Athena
4 12 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (2.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 12 (2.69%) Tableau
5 10 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (2.24%) SQL Server
6 9 (2.02%) DynamoDB
7 8 (1.79%) Metadata
8 7 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (1.35%) BigQuery
9 6 (1.35%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.12%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (1.12%) Oracle Database
10 5 (1.12%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (0.67%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.67%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (0.67%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 402 (90.13%) JIRA
2 68 (15.25%) Git
3 31 (6.95%) Jenkins
4 27 (6.05%) GitLab
5 15 (3.36%) Bitbucket
5 15 (3.36%) Selenium
6 11 (2.47%) Cypress.io
6 11 (2.47%) SonarQube
6 11 (2.47%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (1.57%) REST Assured
8 6 (1.35%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.35%) JMeter
8 6 (1.35%) Zephyr
9 5 (1.12%) ScriptRunner
10 4 (0.90%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.90%) JUnit
10 4 (0.90%) Liquibase
10 4 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.67%) Ant
11 3 (0.67%) Mockito
General
1 166 (37.22%) Social Skills
2 159 (35.65%) Finance
3 90 (20.18%) Banking
4 82 (18.39%) Public Sector
5 73 (16.37%) Analytical Skills
6 27 (6.05%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (4.04%) Retail
8 14 (3.14%) Financial Institution
9 13 (2.91%) Legal
9 13 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.79%) Military
13 7 (1.57%) Front Office
14 6 (1.35%) Corporate Banking
14 6 (1.35%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.35%) Marketing
15 5 (1.12%) Retail Banking
16 4 (0.90%) Law
16 4 (0.90%) Police
Job Titles
1 97 (21.75%) Analyst
2 81 (18.16%) Business Analyst
3 47 (10.54%) Senior
4 46 (10.31%) Developer
4 46 (10.31%) Lead
5 30 (6.73%) Architect
6 22 (4.93%) Delivery Manager
7 19 (4.26%) Consultant
8 15 (3.36%) Data Engineer
8 15 (3.36%) Project Manager
8 15 (3.36%) Scrum Master
9 14 (3.14%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (3.14%) Product Owner
10 11 (2.47%) Banking Analyst
10 11 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
10 11 (2.47%) Technical Architect
11 10 (2.24%) Banking Business Analyst
11 10 (2.24%) Data Business Analyst
11 10 (2.24%) Salesforce Developer
12 9 (2.02%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (5.61%) REST
2 20 (4.48%) React
3 16 (3.59%) AngularJS
4 13 (2.91%) OpenID
5 12 (2.69%) PySpark
6 11 (2.47%) JSON
6 11 (2.47%) LDAP
6 11 (2.47%) SOAP
7 10 (2.24%) Lightning Web Components
7 10 (2.24%) Node.js
7 10 (2.24%) RESTful
8 9 (2.02%) CSS
8 9 (2.02%) HTML
8 9 (2.02%) OAuth
9 8 (1.79%) .NET
9 8 (1.79%) OAuth2
9 8 (1.79%) XML
10 6 (1.35%) Bootstrap
10 6 (1.35%) Loki
10 6 (1.35%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 64 (14.35%) Product Ownership
2 28 (6.28%) Onboarding
3 16 (3.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 14 (3.14%) Cloud Native
5 12 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (2.47%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.57%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.57%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.35%) Derivative
9 6 (1.35%) Management Information System
9 6 (1.35%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.35%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.12%) Replication
11 4 (0.90%) Clustering
11 4 (0.90%) IoT
11 4 (0.90%) Mobile Banking
11 4 (0.90%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.16%) Linux
2 12 (2.69%) Windows
3 8 (1.79%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.12%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.67%) Android
6 3 (0.67%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.67%) Unix
7 1 (0.22%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.22%) SUSE
7 1 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (66.82%) Agile
2 147 (32.96%) Stakeholder Management
3 116 (26.01%) DevOps
4 99 (22.20%) CI/CD
5 96 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
5 96 (21.52%) Scrum
6 81 (18.16%) User Stories
7 73 (16.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 64 (14.35%) User Acceptance Testing
9 60 (13.45%) Test Automation
10 58 (13.00%) Acceptance Criteria
10 58 (13.00%) Migration
10 58 (13.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 56 (12.56%) AI
12 47 (10.54%) SDLC
13 46 (10.31%) Infrastructure as Code
13 46 (10.31%) Roadmaps
14 44 (9.87%) Business Analysis
15 43 (9.64%) Requirements Gathering
16 41 (9.19%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 78 (17.49%) SQL
2 71 (15.92%) Python
3 36 (8.07%) Java
4 24 (5.38%) JavaScript
5 17 (3.81%) TypeScript
6 16 (3.59%) Bash
7 15 (3.36%) PowerShell
8 10 (2.24%) Apex Code
9 9 (2.02%) C#
9 9 (2.02%) Groovy
10 6 (1.35%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.12%) Perl
12 3 (0.67%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.67%) Swift
12 3 (0.67%) VBA
13 2 (0.45%) Cypher
13 2 (0.45%) Korn
13 2 (0.45%) R
13 2 (0.45%) SHACL
13 2 (0.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 157 (35.20%) Security Cleared
2 140 (31.39%) SC Cleared
3 36 (8.07%) Degree
4 18 (4.04%) DV Cleared
5 13 (2.91%) AWS Certification
5 13 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (2.47%) PMI Certification
7 8 (1.79%) CISSP
8 7 (1.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 7 (1.57%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.57%) CISM
8 7 (1.57%) PMP
9 6 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (1.35%) IIBA
10 5 (1.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (1.12%) CBAP
10 5 (1.12%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 5 (1.12%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 5 (1.12%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (9.42%) QA
2 33 (7.40%) Data Quality
3 18 (4.04%) PMO
4 15 (3.36%) Accessibility
4 15 (3.36%) GDPR
5 9 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.35%) ISO 20022
6 6 (1.35%) WCAG
7 5 (1.12%) MiFID
7 5 (1.12%) SEPA
8 3 (0.67%) EMIR
8 3 (0.67%) SLA
9 2 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.45%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.45%) NCSC
9 2 (0.45%) NIST
9 2 (0.45%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.22%) GRC
10 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 27 (6.05%) Docker
2 8 (1.79%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.57%) Squid
4 4 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 66 (14.80%) Terraform
2 28 (6.28%) Grafana
3 27 (6.05%) Kubernetes
4 18 (4.04%) Prometheus
4 18 (4.04%) Single Sign-On
5 17 (3.81%) Ansible
6 12 (2.69%) Consul
7 8 (1.79%) Argo
8 7 (1.57%) FortiGate
9 6 (1.35%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (1.12%) Control-M
10 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.90%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.90%) PingFederate
12 3 (0.67%) Istio
12 3 (0.67%) Podman
12 3 (0.67%) SELinux
13 2 (0.45%) Packer
13 2 (0.45%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 49 (10.99%) ServiceNow
2 46 (10.31%) Microsoft
3 30 (6.73%) Salesforce
4 28 (6.28%) Atlassian
5 23 (5.16%) SAP
6 22 (4.93%) Oracle
7 18 (4.04%) IBM
8 14 (3.14%) Google
9 13 (2.91%) Splunk
10 11 (2.47%) Databricks
10 11 (2.47%) Red Hat
11 9 (2.02%) Informatica
12 8 (1.79%) Adobe
12 8 (1.79%) Dynatrace
12 8 (1.79%) Temenos
13 7 (1.57%) MuleSoft
14 6 (1.35%) Zscaler
15 5 (1.12%) Murex
15 5 (1.12%) Workday
15 5 (1.12%) xMatters