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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 107 138
Rank change year-on-year -19 +31 -26
Contract jobs citing Confluence 450 372 301
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.23% 2.73% 1.84%
As % of the Application Platforms category 22.75% 23.59% 14.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 251 213
10th Percentile £405 £350 £335
25th Percentile £450 £447 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £554 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% +5.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £650
90th Percentile £709 £750 £763
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 5
10th Percentile - - £21.10
25th Percentile £61.25 £86.25 £22.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £87.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% +207.02% -56.15%
75th Percentile £77.50 £88.75 £33.75
90th Percentile £84.25 - £52.50
England median hourly rate £63.25 £70.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -10.28% +0.71% +9.80%

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 1,978 1,577 2,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.81% 11.56% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,313 1,080 1,535
10th Percentile £350 £331 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £616 £673 £750
90th Percentile £701 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £496 £525
% change year-on-year +0.81% -5.52% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 22 27
10th Percentile £15.50 £24.50 £19.13
25th Percentile £19.14 £26.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.75 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -8.94% +1.96% -36.51%
75th Percentile £41.22 £52.81 £36.25
90th Percentile £73.00 £85.13 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £44.50 £32.11
% change year-on-year -26.97% +38.61% -30.48%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -37 45 £539 +2.62% 38
South London 0 24 £516 -11.33% 2
West London -24 2 - - 1
North London - 2 - - 2
East London +2 1 £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 40 (8.89%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.78%) CMS
3 7 (1.56%) nginx
4 5 (1.11%) JBoss
4 5 (1.11%) SAS
5 3 (0.67%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.67%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.44%) Camunda
6 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.22%) Appian
7 1 (0.22%) CICS
7 1 (0.22%) Drupal
7 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.22%) Mule
Applications
1 40 (8.89%) MS Visio
2 31 (6.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (5.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (4.44%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (1.11%) Notion
7 4 (0.89%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.67%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.67%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.67%) Final Cut Pro
8 3 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.67%) Trello
9 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.22%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (2.00%) Temenos T24
2 5 (1.11%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.89%) Actimize
4 3 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.44%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.44%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
5 2 (0.44%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.44%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.44%) Summit
6 1 (0.22%) Endur
6 1 (0.22%) MetaTrader
6 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.22%) Primavera
6 1 (0.22%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.22%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.22%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 98 (21.78%) AWS
2 93 (20.67%) Azure
3 47 (10.44%) GitHub
4 40 (8.89%) Amazon S3
5 39 (8.67%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (7.33%) Power Platform
7 27 (6.00%) Serverless
8 26 (5.78%) Amazon EC2
9 24 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
9 24 (5.33%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (4.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 22 (4.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 18 (4.00%) GCP
12 17 (3.78%) Figma
13 16 (3.56%) SaaS
14 14 (3.11%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (2.89%) dbt
16 12 (2.67%) OCI
17 10 (2.22%) OpenShift
17 10 (2.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.67%) TCP/IP
2 11 (2.44%) DNS
2 11 (2.44%) Firewall
3 9 (2.00%) HTTP
3 9 (2.00%) SSL
4 8 (1.78%) Network Security
5 7 (1.56%) VPN
6 6 (1.33%) OpenVPN
7 4 (0.89%) SSH
8 2 (0.44%) DSL
8 2 (0.44%) FTP
8 2 (0.44%) Internet
8 2 (0.44%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.44%) WAN
9 1 (0.22%) BGP
9 1 (0.22%) DMZ
9 1 (0.22%) EIGRP
9 1 (0.22%) IPv4
9 1 (0.22%) NGFW
9 1 (0.22%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.11%) Power BI
2 26 (5.78%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 13 (2.89%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (2.89%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (2.67%) Tableau
6 10 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 9 (2.00%) DynamoDB
7 9 (2.00%) Metadata
7 9 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (1.78%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 8 (1.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (1.56%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.33%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (1.11%) Oracle Database
11 5 (1.11%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.67%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (0.67%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 402 (89.33%) JIRA
2 69 (15.33%) Git
3 35 (7.78%) Jenkins
4 27 (6.00%) GitLab
5 14 (3.11%) Selenium
5 14 (3.11%) Sonatype Nexus
6 12 (2.67%) Bitbucket
7 11 (2.44%) Cypress.io
8 10 (2.22%) Zephyr
9 7 (1.56%) JMeter
9 7 (1.56%) REST Assured
10 6 (1.33%) Cucumber
11 5 (1.11%) ScriptRunner
12 4 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.89%) IntelliJ
12 4 (0.89%) JUnit
12 4 (0.89%) Liquibase
12 4 (0.89%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (0.67%) TeamCity
General
1 170 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 168 (37.33%) Finance
3 97 (21.56%) Banking
4 78 (17.33%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (17.33%) Public Sector
5 20 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (3.56%) Retail
7 14 (3.11%) Financial Institution
8 13 (2.89%) Legal
8 13 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.56%) Corporate Banking
11 7 (1.56%) Front Office
11 7 (1.56%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.56%) Military
12 6 (1.33%) Retail Banking
13 5 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.11%) Law
14 4 (0.89%) Police
Job Titles
1 96 (21.33%) Analyst
2 77 (17.11%) Business Analyst
3 49 (10.89%) Lead
4 46 (10.22%) Senior
5 43 (9.56%) Developer
6 25 (5.56%) Architect
7 22 (4.89%) Delivery Manager
8 18 (4.00%) Consultant
8 18 (4.00%) Product Owner
9 16 (3.56%) Scrum Master
10 15 (3.33%) Data Engineer
11 14 (3.11%) Project Manager
12 13 (2.89%) DevOps Engineer
12 13 (2.89%) Senior Analyst
13 11 (2.44%) Banking Analyst
14 10 (2.22%) Security Engineer
15 9 (2.00%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (2.00%) Banking Business Analyst
15 9 (2.00%) Data Business Analyst
15 9 (2.00%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (6.44%) REST
2 20 (4.44%) React
3 16 (3.56%) AngularJS
4 12 (2.67%) JSON
4 12 (2.67%) PySpark
5 11 (2.44%) SOAP
6 10 (2.22%) Node.js
7 9 (2.00%) CSS
7 9 (2.00%) HTML
7 9 (2.00%) Lightning Web Components
7 9 (2.00%) OAuth
7 9 (2.00%) XML
8 8 (1.78%) .NET
8 8 (1.78%) Loki
8 8 (1.78%) OAuth2
8 8 (1.78%) OpenID
8 8 (1.78%) RESTful
9 6 (1.33%) Bootstrap
9 6 (1.33%) LDAP
9 6 (1.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 70 (15.56%) Product Ownership
2 30 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 16 (3.56%) Cloud Native
3 16 (3.56%) Data Centre
3 16 (3.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 12 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.00%) Clustering
6 8 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (1.78%) Virtual Team
7 7 (1.56%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.56%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.33%) Credit Risk
8 6 (1.33%) Derivative
9 5 (1.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 5 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.11%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.11%) Market Risk
9 5 (1.11%) Replication
9 5 (1.11%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.89%) Linux
2 16 (3.56%) Windows
3 8 (1.78%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.11%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.67%) Android
6 3 (0.67%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.44%) Unix
7 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.22%) SUSE
8 1 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (66.44%) Agile
2 152 (33.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 113 (25.11%) DevOps
4 104 (23.11%) CI/CD
5 101 (22.44%) Scrum
6 98 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
7 77 (17.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 76 (16.89%) User Stories
9 71 (15.78%) Migration
10 62 (13.78%) User Acceptance Testing
11 61 (13.56%) Test Automation
12 58 (12.89%) AI
13 56 (12.44%) Acceptance Criteria
14 54 (12.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 53 (11.78%) Infrastructure as Code
15 53 (11.78%) SDLC
16 49 (10.89%) Business Analysis
17 44 (9.78%) Requirements Gathering
18 42 (9.33%) Kanban
18 42 (9.33%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 82 (18.22%) SQL
2 73 (16.22%) Python
3 40 (8.89%) Java
4 24 (5.33%) JavaScript
5 19 (4.22%) Bash
6 18 (4.00%) PowerShell
7 17 (3.78%) TypeScript
8 11 (2.44%) Groovy
9 9 (2.00%) Apex Code
9 9 (2.00%) C#
10 7 (1.56%) Perl
11 6 (1.33%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.67%) Korn
12 3 (0.67%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.67%) Swift
12 3 (0.67%) VBA
13 2 (0.44%) Cypher
13 2 (0.44%) Go
13 2 (0.44%) R
13 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 156 (34.67%) Security Cleared
2 142 (31.56%) SC Cleared
3 38 (8.44%) Degree
4 19 (4.22%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.89%) AWS Certification
7 11 (2.44%) PMI Certification
8 9 (2.00%) IIBA
9 8 (1.78%) CISSP
10 7 (1.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (1.56%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.56%) CISM
10 7 (1.56%) PMP
11 5 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (1.11%) CBAP
11 5 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 5 (1.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 5 (1.11%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (10.67%) QA
2 32 (7.11%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.22%) PMO
4 15 (3.33%) GDPR
5 11 (2.44%) Accessibility
6 9 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.33%) ISO 20022
7 6 (1.33%) WCAG
8 5 (1.11%) MiFID
8 5 (1.11%) SEPA
9 4 (0.89%) SLA
10 3 (0.67%) EMIR
11 2 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.44%) JSP 440
11 2 (0.44%) NCSC
11 2 (0.44%) NIST
11 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.22%) GRC
12 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 29 (6.44%) Docker
2 14 (3.11%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.44%) Squid
4 2 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 64 (14.22%) Terraform
2 29 (6.44%) Grafana
3 22 (4.89%) Kubernetes
4 20 (4.44%) Ansible
5 14 (3.11%) Prometheus
5 14 (3.11%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (2.22%) Argo
7 7 (1.56%) Control-M
8 5 (1.11%) Consul
8 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Clustering
8 5 (1.11%) SCOM
9 4 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.89%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.89%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.89%) Podman
10 3 (0.67%) Istio
10 3 (0.67%) SELinux
11 2 (0.44%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.44%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 53 (11.78%) Microsoft
2 46 (10.22%) ServiceNow
3 27 (6.00%) Salesforce
4 24 (5.33%) Atlassian
4 24 (5.33%) SAP
5 22 (4.89%) Oracle
6 21 (4.67%) IBM
7 18 (4.00%) Splunk
8 15 (3.33%) Google
9 11 (2.44%) Databricks
10 9 (2.00%) Informatica
11 8 (1.78%) Adobe
11 8 (1.78%) Temenos
12 7 (1.56%) Red Hat
12 7 (1.56%) xMatters
13 6 (1.33%) Dynatrace
13 6 (1.33%) MuleSoft
14 5 (1.11%) BMC
14 5 (1.11%) Commvault
14 5 (1.11%) Zscaler