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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 123 151
Rank change year-on-year -1 +28 -36
Contract jobs citing Confluence 407 288 289
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.26% 2.32% 1.65%
As % of the Application Platforms category 24.47% 20.38% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 176 194
10th Percentile £363 £319 £363
25th Percentile £449 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -3.45% -9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £647
90th Percentile £710 £750 £766
England median daily rate £500 £509 £538
% change year-on-year -1.72% -5.35% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £21.40
25th Percentile £61.25 - £23.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £28.50
75th Percentile £63.75 - £36.88
90th Percentile - - £50.00
England median hourly rate £62.75 £63.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year -1.57% +2.00% -

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 1,663 1,413 2,039
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.24% 11.37% 11.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,106 950 1,526
10th Percentile £363 £352 £263
25th Percentile £425 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £825 £834
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 9 27
10th Percentile £15.35 £25.56 £15.50
25th Percentile £19.03 £26.04 £22.88
Median hourly rate £24.16 £27.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -10.54% -10.48% -13.83%
75th Percentile £28.78 £50.00 £36.88
90th Percentile £66.53 £53.75 £60.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £52.50 £27.52
% change year-on-year -46.67% +90.81% -21.39%

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 19 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 19 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 42 £575 - 24
South London +9 27 £519 +9.17%
West London -26 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 40 (9.83%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.46%) nginx
3 6 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.98%) CMS
5 3 (0.74%) Apache
5 3 (0.74%) SAS
5 3 (0.74%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.49%) JBoss
6 2 (0.49%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.25%) CICS
7 1 (0.25%) Drupal
Applications
1 44 (10.81%) MS Visio
2 32 (7.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (5.65%) Microsoft Project
4 22 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (3.44%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (1.47%) Notion
7 4 (0.98%) Trello
8 1 (0.25%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (2.21%) NetSuite
2 6 (1.47%) Temenos T24
3 3 (0.74%) Actimize
3 3 (0.74%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.74%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.49%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.49%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.49%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.49%) Summit
5 1 (0.25%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.25%) Endur
5 1 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.25%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.25%) MetaTrader
5 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.25%) SAP SRM
5 1 (0.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 67 (16.46%) AWS
2 64 (15.72%) Azure
3 33 (8.11%) Power Platform
4 31 (7.62%) GitHub
5 28 (6.88%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (6.14%) Amazon S3
7 22 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 21 (5.16%) SaaS
9 20 (4.91%) Serverless
10 19 (4.67%) Amazon EC2
11 18 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
12 16 (3.93%) Figma
13 13 (3.19%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (2.95%) GCP
15 11 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (2.70%) Entra ID
16 10 (2.46%) Apigee
17 9 (2.21%) Lucidchart
17 9 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
17 9 (2.21%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.18%) Firewall
2 13 (3.19%) VPN
3 10 (2.46%) DNS
3 10 (2.46%) SSL
4 9 (2.21%) TCP/IP
5 7 (1.72%) LAN
5 7 (1.72%) Network Security
5 7 (1.72%) OpenVPN
5 7 (1.72%) WAN
6 6 (1.47%) Ethernet
6 6 (1.47%) Modbus
6 6 (1.47%) RS-232
6 6 (1.47%) RS-485
7 4 (0.98%) HTTP
7 4 (0.98%) PSTN
7 4 (0.98%) Unified Communications
7 4 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.74%) BIG-IP
8 3 (0.74%) FTP
8 3 (0.74%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.63%) Power BI
2 18 (4.42%) Tableau
3 14 (3.44%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (2.46%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (2.46%) Metadata
5 9 (2.21%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (1.97%) DynamoDB
6 8 (1.97%) SQL Server
7 6 (1.47%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (1.47%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.23%) Big Data
8 5 (1.23%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (0.98%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.98%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.74%) Amazon QuickSight
10 3 (0.74%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.74%) Spark SQL
10 3 (0.74%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 372 (91.40%) JIRA
2 49 (12.04%) Git
3 25 (6.14%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.93%) Selenium
5 12 (2.95%) Bitbucket
5 12 (2.95%) Sonatype Nexus
6 11 (2.70%) GitLab
7 10 (2.46%) Cypress.io
8 9 (2.21%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.23%) ScriptRunner
10 4 (0.98%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.98%) JMeter
10 4 (0.98%) REST Assured
10 4 (0.98%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (0.98%) Zephyr
11 3 (0.74%) Ant
11 3 (0.74%) Appium
11 3 (0.74%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.74%) Liquibase
11 3 (0.74%) Maven
General
1 157 (38.57%) Social Skills
2 151 (37.10%) Finance
3 84 (20.64%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (18.92%) Banking
5 71 (17.44%) Public Sector
6 26 (6.39%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (4.91%) Legal
8 16 (3.93%) Retail
9 15 (3.69%) Financial Institution
10 13 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
11 12 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (2.70%) Investment Banking
13 10 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (2.21%) Marketing
15 8 (1.97%) Front Office
16 6 (1.47%) Corporate Banking
16 6 (1.47%) Military
17 5 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 4 (0.98%) Publishing
19 3 (0.74%) Games
Job Titles
1 105 (25.80%) Analyst
2 93 (22.85%) Business Analyst
3 45 (11.06%) Developer
3 45 (11.06%) Senior
4 39 (9.58%) Lead
5 24 (5.90%) Architect
6 23 (5.65%) Project Manager
7 22 (5.41%) Delivery Manager
8 19 (4.67%) Consultant
9 18 (4.42%) Senior Analyst
10 14 (3.44%) Banking Analyst
11 13 (3.19%) Banking Business Analyst
11 13 (3.19%) Technical Analyst
11 13 (3.19%) Technical Business Analyst
11 13 (3.19%) Technical Manager
12 12 (2.95%) Salesforce Developer
12 12 (2.95%) Scrum Master
13 11 (2.70%) Senior Business Analyst
14 10 (2.46%) Data Business Analyst
14 10 (2.46%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.18%) REST
2 15 (3.69%) React
3 13 (3.19%) AngularJS
4 12 (2.95%) OpenID
5 11 (2.70%) LDAP
5 11 (2.70%) Lightning Web Components
6 10 (2.46%) Node.js
6 10 (2.46%) RESTful
7 9 (2.21%) Spring
8 8 (1.97%) .NET
8 8 (1.97%) ADO
8 8 (1.97%) HTML
9 7 (1.72%) Kafka
9 7 (1.72%) OAuth
10 6 (1.47%) OAuth2
10 6 (1.47%) SOAP
11 5 (1.23%) CSS
11 5 (1.23%) SAML
11 5 (1.23%) Spring Boot
12 4 (0.98%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 47 (11.55%) Product Ownership
2 22 (5.41%) Onboarding
3 16 (3.93%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (2.46%) Data Centre
4 10 (2.46%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 9 (2.21%) Cloud Native
6 8 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.72%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.23%) Derivative
8 5 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (1.23%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.23%) PMI
8 5 (1.23%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.98%) Clustering
9 4 (0.98%) Equities
9 4 (0.98%) IoT
9 4 (0.98%) Mobile App
9 4 (0.98%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.93%) Linux
2 15 (3.69%) Windows
3 6 (1.47%) Apple iOS
3 6 (1.47%) FreeRTOS
4 4 (0.98%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (0.98%) Android
5 3 (0.74%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.25%) Unix
6 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 265 (65.11%) Agile
2 131 (32.19%) Stakeholder Management
3 88 (21.62%) Scrum
4 79 (19.41%) Problem-Solving
5 78 (19.16%) User Stories
6 76 (18.67%) DevOps
7 72 (17.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 63 (15.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 62 (15.23%) CI/CD
10 59 (14.50%) Acceptance Criteria
11 53 (13.02%) Project Management
12 52 (12.78%) Migration
13 51 (12.53%) Roadmaps
13 51 (12.53%) Workshop Facilitation
14 50 (12.29%) Test Automation
15 47 (11.55%) SDLC
16 44 (10.81%) User Acceptance Testing
17 43 (10.57%) Requirements Gathering
18 41 (10.07%) Change Management
18 41 (10.07%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 62 (15.23%) SQL
2 54 (13.27%) Python
3 29 (7.13%) Java
4 24 (5.90%) JavaScript
5 15 (3.69%) TypeScript
6 13 (3.19%) PowerShell
7 11 (2.70%) Apex Code
8 8 (1.97%) Bash
8 8 (1.97%) Groovy
9 7 (1.72%) C#
10 6 (1.47%) C++
10 6 (1.47%) Embedded C++
11 4 (0.98%) Kotlin
11 4 (0.98%) Perl
12 2 (0.49%) C
12 2 (0.49%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.49%) Korn
12 2 (0.49%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.49%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.25%) XPath
Qualifications
1 129 (31.70%) Security Cleared
2 113 (27.76%) SC Cleared
3 29 (7.13%) Degree
4 16 (3.93%) CBAP
4 16 (3.93%) DV Cleared
5 12 (2.95%) PMI Certification
6 10 (2.46%) IIBA
7 8 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (1.97%) CISSP
8 7 (1.72%) AWS Certification
8 7 (1.72%) CISM
8 7 (1.72%) PMP
9 6 (1.47%) Azure Certification
9 6 (1.47%) CSPO
10 5 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (1.23%) ISEB
10 5 (1.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 5 (1.23%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 3 (0.74%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.60%) QA
2 20 (4.91%) Data Quality
2 20 (4.91%) PMO
3 18 (4.42%) GDPR
4 13 (3.19%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.72%) MiFID
7 5 (1.23%) SLA
7 5 (1.23%) WCAG
8 3 (0.74%) EMIR
8 3 (0.74%) GRC
8 3 (0.74%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.74%) NIST
9 2 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.49%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.25%) Basel III
10 1 (0.25%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.25%) WAI
System Software
1 21 (5.16%) Docker
2 8 (1.97%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.97%) Squid
3 6 (1.47%) Embedded Firmware
3 6 (1.47%) Firmware
4 2 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (10.07%) Terraform
2 23 (5.65%) Kubernetes
3 18 (4.42%) Grafana
4 16 (3.93%) Prometheus
5 14 (3.44%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (2.95%) Ansible
7 11 (2.70%) Consul
8 7 (1.72%) FortiGate
9 6 (1.47%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.98%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.98%) PingFederate
12 3 (0.74%) HP ALM
13 2 (0.49%) Packer
14 1 (0.25%) CA Endevor
14 1 (0.25%) CASB
14 1 (0.25%) HP Quality Center
14 1 (0.25%) Network Intrusion Detection System
14 1 (0.25%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 40 (9.83%) ServiceNow
2 34 (8.35%) Salesforce
3 33 (8.11%) Microsoft
4 29 (7.13%) Atlassian
5 21 (5.16%) SAP
6 15 (3.69%) Oracle
7 11 (2.70%) IBM
8 10 (2.46%) Google
8 10 (2.46%) MuleSoft
9 9 (2.21%) Databricks
10 8 (1.97%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.97%) Zscaler
11 7 (1.72%) Adobe
11 7 (1.72%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.72%) Splunk
12 6 (1.47%) Workday
13 5 (1.23%) Murex
13 5 (1.23%) Temenos
13 5 (1.23%) Zuora
14 4 (0.98%) Cisco