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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 103 142
Rank change year-on-year -28 +39 -32
Contract jobs citing Confluence 441 379 309
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.20% 2.82% 1.91%
As % of the Application Platforms category 21.89% 24.17% 15.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 263 219
10th Percentile £413 £335 £323
25th Percentile £450 £450 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £634 £671 £650
90th Percentile £712 £750 £775
England median daily rate £503 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.95% -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 £65.49 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -6.45% - +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 2,015 1,568 2,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.04% 11.67% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,331 1,067 1,508
10th Percentile £319 £331 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £674 £757
90th Percentile £715 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 23 24
10th Percentile £17.03 £24.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.66 £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 £41.33 £51.88 £43.44
90th Percentile £73.08 £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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -29 49 £550 +4.76% 34
South London -3 15 £531 -8.56% 4
West London -26 3 £775 +86.75% 6
North London - 2 - - 1
East London +3 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 (8.62%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.04%) 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 (8.62%) MS Visio
2 37 (8.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 26 (5.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (4.99%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (1.13%) Notion
7 4 (0.91%) 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 (2.04%) Temenos T24
2 6 (1.36%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.91%) 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 92 (20.86%) AWS
2 87 (19.73%) Azure
3 47 (10.66%) GitHub
4 37 (8.39%) Azure DevOps
5 36 (8.16%) Amazon S3
6 35 (7.94%) Power Platform
7 28 (6.35%) Serverless
8 25 (5.67%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (5.67%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
10 19 (4.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (4.08%) GCP
11 18 (4.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 17 (3.85%) SaaS
13 16 (3.63%) Figma
14 12 (2.72%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (2.72%) OCI
15 11 (2.49%) Miro
15 11 (2.49%) OpenShift
16 10 (2.27%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.49%) Firewall
1 11 (2.49%) TCP/IP
2 10 (2.27%) DNS
2 10 (2.27%) SSL
3 9 (2.04%) HTTP
4 8 (1.81%) Network Security
5 6 (1.36%) VPN
6 5 (1.13%) OpenVPN
6 5 (1.13%) SSH
7 4 (0.91%) IPv4
8 3 (0.68%) IPv6
9 2 (0.45%) Broadband
9 2 (0.45%) DSL
9 2 (0.45%) Internet
9 2 (0.45%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.45%) WAN
10 1 (0.23%) BGP
10 1 (0.23%) EIGRP
10 1 (0.23%) NGFW
10 1 (0.23%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (7.71%) Power BI
2 23 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
4 13 (2.95%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (2.95%) Tableau
5 12 (2.72%) Metadata
5 12 (2.72%) SQL Server
6 11 (2.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 10 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (2.04%) DynamoDB
8 9 (2.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 9 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (1.36%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (1.36%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.13%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.13%) Oracle Database
11 5 (1.13%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.68%) Big Data
12 3 (0.68%) Looker
Development Applications
1 393 (89.12%) JIRA
2 67 (15.19%) Git
3 34 (7.71%) Jenkins
4 23 (5.22%) GitLab
5 15 (3.40%) Selenium
6 13 (2.95%) Cypress.io
6 13 (2.95%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (2.49%) Bitbucket
8 10 (2.27%) Zephyr
9 8 (1.81%) REST Assured
10 6 (1.36%) Postman
11 5 (1.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (1.13%) JMeter
11 5 (1.13%) ScriptRunner
12 4 (0.91%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.91%) IntelliJ
12 4 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (0.68%) Gradle
13 3 (0.68%) Mockito
13 3 (0.68%) SonarQube
General
1 174 (39.46%) Finance
1 174 (39.46%) Social Skills
2 103 (23.36%) Banking
3 88 (19.95%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (16.10%) Public Sector
5 22 (4.99%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (4.31%) Retail
7 14 (3.17%) Legal
8 12 (2.72%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (2.49%) Financial Institution
9 11 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.59%) Investment Banking
11 7 (1.59%) Military
12 6 (1.36%) Corporate Banking
12 6 (1.36%) Front Office
12 6 (1.36%) Retail Banking
12 6 (1.36%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.13%) Law
Job Titles
1 99 (22.45%) Analyst
2 78 (17.69%) Business Analyst
3 45 (10.20%) Lead
4 44 (9.98%) Developer
5 41 (9.30%) Senior
6 22 (4.99%) Architect
7 20 (4.54%) Consultant
7 20 (4.54%) Product Owner
8 18 (4.08%) Delivery Manager
9 17 (3.85%) Scrum Master
10 14 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
11 13 (2.95%) Project Manager
12 12 (2.72%) Data Engineer
12 12 (2.72%) DevOps Engineer
13 11 (2.49%) Banking Analyst
13 11 (2.49%) Technical Analyst
14 10 (2.27%) AWS Engineer
15 9 (2.04%) Banking Business Analyst
15 9 (2.04%) Salesforce Developer
15 9 (2.04%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (13.83%) Terraform
2 31 (7.03%) REST
3 20 (4.54%) React
4 16 (3.63%) AngularJS
5 10 (2.27%) JSON
5 10 (2.27%) Lightning Web Components
6 9 (2.04%) HTML
6 9 (2.04%) Node.js
6 9 (2.04%) Playwright
6 9 (2.04%) SOAP
7 8 (1.81%) CSS
7 8 (1.81%) Loki
7 8 (1.81%) PySpark
7 8 (1.81%) RESTful
8 7 (1.59%) .NET
8 7 (1.59%) OAuth
8 7 (1.59%) OAuth2
8 7 (1.59%) OpenID
9 6 (1.36%) Bootstrap
9 6 (1.36%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 80 (18.14%) Product Ownership
2 27 (6.12%) Onboarding
3 17 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 17 (3.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 14 (3.17%) Data Centre
5 12 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (2.27%) Clustering
6 10 (2.27%) Virtual Team
7 9 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.59%) Credit Risk
8 7 (1.59%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.59%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.59%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.36%) Replication
10 5 (1.13%) Derivative
10 5 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.13%) Market Risk
10 5 (1.13%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.99%) Linux
2 15 (3.40%) Windows
3 8 (1.81%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.36%) Amazon Linux
4 6 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.45%) Android
5 2 (0.45%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.45%) Unix
5 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.23%) SUSE
6 1 (0.23%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (0.23%) VMS
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 296 (67.12%) Agile
2 166 (37.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 110 (24.94%) DevOps
4 105 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
5 104 (23.58%) CI/CD
6 103 (23.36%) Scrum
7 83 (18.82%) User Stories
8 72 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 69 (15.65%) Migration
10 66 (14.97%) User Acceptance Testing
11 64 (14.51%) Test Automation
12 59 (13.38%) Acceptance Criteria
13 56 (12.70%) Business Analysis
14 55 (12.47%) AI
14 55 (12.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 53 (12.02%) Infrastructure as Code
16 52 (11.79%) SDLC
17 51 (11.56%) Requirements Gathering
18 50 (11.34%) Workshop Facilitation
19 46 (10.43%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 83 (18.82%) SQL
2 73 (16.55%) Python
3 38 (8.62%) Java
4 23 (5.22%) JavaScript
5 21 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 18 (4.08%) Bash
6 18 (4.08%) TypeScript
7 12 (2.72%) Groovy
8 10 (2.27%) Apex Code
9 8 (1.81%) C#
9 8 (1.81%) Perl
10 7 (1.59%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.91%) Swift
12 3 (0.68%) Korn
12 3 (0.68%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.68%) VBA
13 2 (0.45%) Cypher
13 2 (0.45%) Go
13 2 (0.45%) R
13 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 156 (35.37%) Security Cleared
2 142 (32.20%) SC Cleared
3 38 (8.62%) Degree
4 23 (5.22%) DV Cleared
5 15 (3.40%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.72%) PMI Certification
7 11 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (2.27%) IIBA
9 8 (1.81%) PMP
10 7 (1.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (1.59%) Azure Certification
10 7 (1.59%) CBAP
10 7 (1.59%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.13%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.91%) CISSP
12 4 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (0.68%) CISM
14 2 (0.45%) ISEB
14 2 (0.45%) MBA
14 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (12.47%) QA
2 31 (7.03%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.31%) PMO
4 12 (2.72%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.59%) GDPR
6 6 (1.36%) ISO 20022
6 6 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.36%) SEPA
6 6 (1.36%) 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 28 (6.35%) Docker
2 17 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.23%) Squid
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 28 (6.35%) Grafana
2 20 (4.54%) Ansible
3 18 (4.08%) Kubernetes
4 14 (3.17%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (2.95%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.49%) Argo
7 7 (1.59%) Control-M
8 6 (1.36%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (1.36%) SCOM
9 4 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.91%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.91%) Consul
9 4 (0.91%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.91%) Podman
10 3 (0.68%) Istio
10 3 (0.68%) SELinux
11 2 (0.45%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.23%) CASB
12 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 59 (13.38%) Microsoft
2 39 (8.84%) ServiceNow
3 25 (5.67%) Salesforce
4 24 (5.44%) SAP
5 21 (4.76%) Atlassian
6 19 (4.31%) Google
6 19 (4.31%) Oracle
7 18 (4.08%) IBM
7 18 (4.08%) Splunk
8 9 (2.04%) Adobe
8 9 (2.04%) Informatica
9 8 (1.81%) Databricks
9 8 (1.81%) Temenos
10 7 (1.59%) xMatters
11 6 (1.36%) BMC
11 6 (1.36%) Commvault
11 6 (1.36%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.36%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.36%) Remedy
11 6 (1.36%) VMware