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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 105 141
Rank change year-on-year -23 +36 -34
Contract jobs citing Confluence 444 378 315
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.21% 2.82% 1.94%
As % of the Application Platforms category 21.98% 24.20% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 262 220
10th Percentile £405 £333 £324
25th Percentile £450 £450 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.30% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £626 £671 £650
90th Percentile £709 £750 £775
England median daily rate £504 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.76% -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 £67.47 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.61% - +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 2,020 1,562 2,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.06% 11.65% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,332 1,059 1,511
10th Percentile £315 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £671 £761
90th Percentile £713 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 23 24
10th Percentile £18.67 £24.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £20.89 £26.00 £21.75
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £26.15
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +14.72% -25.29%
75th Percentile £41.44 £51.88 £43.44
90th Percentile £73.15 £82.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £41.45 £36.25
% change year-on-year -21.59% +14.34% -20.33%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -28 48 £550 +4.76% 39
South London -4 16 £531 -8.56% 3
West London -26 3 £775 +86.75% 2
North London - 2 - - 2
East London +1 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 38 (8.56%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.03%) CMS
3 5 (1.13%) JBoss
3 5 (1.13%) nginx
3 5 (1.13%) SAS
4 3 (0.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.68%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.45%) Camunda
5 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.23%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.23%) Appian
6 1 (0.23%) Drupal
6 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.23%) Mule
6 1 (0.23%) WebSphere
Applications
1 38 (8.56%) MS Visio
2 37 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (5.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (4.95%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (1.13%) Notion
7 4 (0.90%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.68%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.68%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.68%) Final Cut Pro
8 3 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.68%) Trello
9 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.23%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.23%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (2.03%) Temenos T24
2 6 (1.35%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.68%) Actimize
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%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.45%) Summit
5 1 (0.23%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.23%) Endur
5 1 (0.23%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.23%) MetaTrader
5 1 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.23%) Primavera
5 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 94 (21.17%) AWS
2 89 (20.05%) Azure
3 48 (10.81%) GitHub
4 38 (8.56%) Amazon S3
4 38 (8.56%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (8.11%) Power Platform
6 29 (6.53%) Serverless
7 26 (5.86%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
9 22 (4.95%) Amazon EC2
10 20 (4.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (4.28%) Figma
11 19 (4.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 18 (4.05%) GCP
13 17 (3.83%) SaaS
14 14 (3.15%) Miro
15 12 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (2.70%) OCI
16 11 (2.48%) dbt
16 11 (2.48%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.70%) Firewall
2 11 (2.48%) TCP/IP
3 10 (2.25%) DNS
3 10 (2.25%) SSL
4 9 (2.03%) HTTP
5 8 (1.80%) Network Security
6 6 (1.35%) VPN
7 5 (1.13%) OpenVPN
7 5 (1.13%) SSH
8 4 (0.90%) IPv4
9 3 (0.68%) IPv6
10 2 (0.45%) Broadband
10 2 (0.45%) DSL
10 2 (0.45%) Internet
10 2 (0.45%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.45%) WAN
11 1 (0.23%) BGP
11 1 (0.23%) EIGRP
11 1 (0.23%) NGFW
11 1 (0.23%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (7.88%) Power BI
2 23 (5.18%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (3.38%) Amazon Redshift
4 14 (3.15%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (2.93%) Tableau
6 12 (2.70%) SQL Server
7 11 (2.48%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (2.48%) Metadata
7 11 (2.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (2.03%) DynamoDB
8 9 (2.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 9 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (1.58%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.35%) Data Lake
11 6 (1.35%) Oracle Database
12 5 (1.13%) BigQuery
12 5 (1.13%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.90%) Big Data
14 3 (0.68%) Looker
Development Applications
1 396 (89.19%) JIRA
2 69 (15.54%) Git
3 35 (7.88%) Jenkins
4 24 (5.41%) GitLab
5 15 (3.38%) Selenium
6 13 (2.93%) Cypress.io
6 13 (2.93%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (2.48%) Bitbucket
8 10 (2.25%) Zephyr
9 8 (1.80%) REST Assured
10 6 (1.35%) Postman
11 5 (1.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.13%) JMeter
11 5 (1.13%) ScriptRunner
12 4 (0.90%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.90%) IntelliJ
12 4 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (0.68%) Gradle
13 3 (0.68%) Mockito
13 3 (0.68%) SonarQube
General
1 175 (39.41%) Social Skills
2 174 (39.19%) Finance
3 101 (22.75%) Banking
4 88 (19.82%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (16.89%) Public Sector
6 22 (4.95%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (4.28%) Retail
8 13 (2.93%) Legal
9 12 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (2.48%) Financial Institution
10 11 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.58%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.58%) Military
13 6 (1.35%) Corporate Banking
13 6 (1.35%) Front Office
13 6 (1.35%) Retail Banking
13 6 (1.35%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.13%) Law
Job Titles
1 98 (22.07%) Analyst
2 78 (17.57%) Business Analyst
3 45 (10.14%) Lead
4 44 (9.91%) Developer
5 40 (9.01%) Senior
6 22 (4.95%) Architect
7 20 (4.50%) Consultant
7 20 (4.50%) Product Owner
8 18 (4.05%) Delivery Manager
9 17 (3.83%) Scrum Master
10 13 (2.93%) Data Engineer
10 13 (2.93%) DevOps Engineer
10 13 (2.93%) Project Manager
10 13 (2.93%) Senior Analyst
11 11 (2.48%) Banking Analyst
11 11 (2.48%) Technical Analyst
12 10 (2.25%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (2.03%) Banking Business Analyst
13 9 (2.03%) Salesforce Developer
13 9 (2.03%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (14.19%) Terraform
2 31 (6.98%) REST
3 20 (4.50%) React
4 16 (3.60%) AngularJS
5 10 (2.25%) JSON
5 10 (2.25%) Lightning Web Components
6 9 (2.03%) HTML
6 9 (2.03%) Node.js
6 9 (2.03%) Playwright
6 9 (2.03%) PySpark
6 9 (2.03%) SOAP
7 8 (1.80%) CSS
7 8 (1.80%) Loki
7 8 (1.80%) RESTful
8 7 (1.58%) .NET
8 7 (1.58%) OAuth
8 7 (1.58%) OAuth2
8 7 (1.58%) OpenID
9 6 (1.35%) Bootstrap
9 6 (1.35%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 80 (18.02%) Product Ownership
2 27 (6.08%) Onboarding
3 17 (3.83%) Cloud Native
3 17 (3.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 14 (3.15%) Data Centre
5 12 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (2.25%) Clustering
6 10 (2.25%) Virtual Team
7 9 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (1.80%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.58%) Credit Risk
9 7 (1.58%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.58%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.58%) Replication
10 5 (1.13%) Derivative
10 5 (1.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.13%) Market Risk
10 5 (1.13%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.18%) Linux
2 15 (3.38%) Windows
3 8 (1.80%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.58%) Amazon Linux
5 6 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.68%) Unix
7 2 (0.45%) Android
7 2 (0.45%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.23%) SUSE
8 1 (0.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.23%) VMS
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (67.12%) Agile
2 165 (37.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 113 (25.45%) DevOps
4 106 (23.87%) CI/CD
5 105 (23.65%) Problem-Solving
6 102 (22.97%) Scrum
7 83 (18.69%) User Stories
8 74 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 70 (15.77%) Migration
10 65 (14.64%) Test Automation
10 65 (14.64%) User Acceptance Testing
11 59 (13.29%) Acceptance Criteria
12 58 (13.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 56 (12.61%) AI
13 56 (12.61%) Business Analysis
14 55 (12.39%) Infrastructure as Code
15 52 (11.71%) SDLC
16 51 (11.49%) Requirements Gathering
16 51 (11.49%) Workshop Facilitation
17 46 (10.36%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 82 (18.47%) SQL
2 75 (16.89%) Python
3 39 (8.78%) Java
4 23 (5.18%) JavaScript
5 22 (4.95%) PowerShell
6 18 (4.05%) Bash
6 18 (4.05%) TypeScript
7 13 (2.93%) Groovy
8 10 (2.25%) Apex Code
9 9 (2.03%) Perl
10 8 (1.80%) C#
11 7 (1.58%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.90%) Swift
13 3 (0.68%) Korn
13 3 (0.68%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.68%) VBA
14 2 (0.45%) Cypher
14 2 (0.45%) Go
14 2 (0.45%) R
14 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 159 (35.81%) Security Cleared
2 145 (32.66%) SC Cleared
3 38 (8.56%) Degree
4 23 (5.18%) DV Cleared
5 17 (3.83%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (2.70%) PMI Certification
7 10 (2.25%) IIBA
8 8 (1.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 8 (1.80%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.80%) PMP
9 7 (1.58%) CBAP
9 7 (1.58%) ISTQB
10 5 (1.13%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.90%) CISSP
11 4 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.68%) CISM
13 2 (0.45%) ISEB
13 2 (0.45%) MBA
13 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (12.16%) QA
2 31 (6.98%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.28%) PMO
4 13 (2.93%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.58%) GDPR
6 6 (1.35%) ISO 20022
6 6 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.35%) SEPA
6 6 (1.35%) WCAG
7 5 (1.13%) MiFID
7 5 (1.13%) SLA
8 3 (0.68%) EMIR
8 3 (0.68%) NIST
9 2 (0.45%) ISO 9001
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%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.23%) HL7
10 1 (0.23%) WAI
System Software
1 29 (6.53%) Docker
2 18 (4.05%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.23%) Squid
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 29 (6.53%) Grafana
2 20 (4.50%) Ansible
3 18 (4.05%) Kubernetes
4 14 (3.15%) Prometheus
4 14 (3.15%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (2.48%) Argo
6 7 (1.58%) Control-M
7 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Clustering
7 6 (1.35%) SCOM
8 4 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.90%) CA Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.90%) Consul
8 4 (0.90%) PingFederate
8 4 (0.90%) Podman
9 3 (0.68%) Istio
9 3 (0.68%) SELinux
10 2 (0.45%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.23%) CASB
11 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 59 (13.29%) Microsoft
2 40 (9.01%) ServiceNow
3 25 (5.63%) Salesforce
4 24 (5.41%) SAP
5 21 (4.73%) Atlassian
6 20 (4.50%) Oracle
7 19 (4.28%) Google
8 18 (4.05%) IBM
8 18 (4.05%) Splunk
9 10 (2.25%) Informatica
10 9 (2.03%) Adobe
11 8 (1.80%) Temenos
12 7 (1.58%) Databricks
12 7 (1.58%) xMatters
13 6 (1.35%) BMC
13 6 (1.35%) Commvault
13 6 (1.35%) MuleSoft
13 6 (1.35%) Red Hat
13 6 (1.35%) Remedy
13 6 (1.35%) VMware