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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 97 116
Rank change year-on-year -10 +19 -20
Contract jobs citing Confluence 399 351 365
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.72% 2.57% 1.96%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.67% 21.39% 17.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 218 261
10th Percentile £350 £300 £400
25th Percentile £431 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £523 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.13% -2.13%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £673
90th Percentile £738 £810 £800
England median daily rate £500 £514 £550
% change year-on-year -2.68% -6.59% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £26.88
25th Percentile - - £29.69
Median hourly rate £43.00 - £35.75
75th Percentile - - £44.38
90th Percentile - - £52.25
England median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -31.20% - +19.05%

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 1,496 1,641 2,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.20% 12.00% 11.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,036 1,014 1,470
10th Percentile £325 £305 £262
25th Percentile £415 £405 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £503
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +9.34% -8.55%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £630
90th Percentile £738 £810 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £498
% change year-on-year - +0.50% -5.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 31
10th Percentile - £18.19 £17.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £22.84 £21.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £29.40 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% +6.91% +21.52%
75th Percentile £43.00 £39.73 £36.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £41.91 £49.08
England median hourly rate £27.21 £45.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -39.53% +76.47% +30.77%

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 2 February 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 2 February 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 -4 51 £525 -5.19% 26
South London +5 18 £519 +9.17% 3
West London -18 9 £500 +28.21% 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 32 (8.02%) SharePoint
2 31 (7.77%) nginx
3 8 (2.01%) Palantir Foundry
4 7 (1.75%) Apache
5 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.00%) CMS
7 3 (0.75%) Traefik
8 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.25%) IIS
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 45 (11.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (10.28%) MS Visio
3 27 (6.77%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (6.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
6 9 (2.26%) Trello
7 7 (1.75%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 4 (1.00%) Notion
9 2 (0.50%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.50%) InDesign
9 2 (0.50%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.25%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.25%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.25%) OmniGraffle
10 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (3.01%) NetSuite
2 7 (1.75%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.75%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.50%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.50%) Shopify
4 2 (0.50%) Summit
5 1 (0.25%) Endur
5 1 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.25%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 81 (20.30%) AWS
2 60 (15.04%) Azure
3 54 (13.53%) GitHub
4 33 (8.27%) Power Platform
5 28 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (5.01%) Amazon S3
7 19 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
8 18 (4.51%) SaaS
9 17 (4.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 16 (4.01%) GCP
10 16 (4.01%) Serverless
11 14 (3.51%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (3.51%) Miro
12 13 (3.26%) Microsoft 365
12 13 (3.26%) PowerApps
13 12 (3.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (3.01%) Figma
13 12 (3.01%) Route 53
14 11 (2.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.01%) Firewall
2 15 (3.76%) DNS
3 14 (3.51%) VPN
4 11 (2.76%) FTP
4 11 (2.76%) SSH
4 11 (2.76%) WAN
5 8 (2.01%) Ethernet
5 8 (2.01%) HTTP
5 8 (2.01%) SMTP
6 7 (1.75%) IMAP
6 7 (1.75%) LAN
6 7 (1.75%) Modbus
6 7 (1.75%) OpenLDAP
6 7 (1.75%) RS-232
6 7 (1.75%) RS-485
6 7 (1.75%) SD-WAN
6 7 (1.75%) TCP/IP
7 6 (1.50%) Network Security
7 6 (1.50%) SSL
8 5 (1.25%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (6.77%) Power BI
2 25 (6.27%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (5.51%) Tableau
4 14 (3.51%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (3.26%) NoSQL
5 13 (3.26%) SQL Server
6 11 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (2.26%) Big Data
7 9 (2.26%) Hadoop
8 7 (1.75%) BigQuery
8 7 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (1.75%) MongoDB
8 7 (1.75%) Tick Data
9 6 (1.50%) Metadata
10 3 (0.75%) DocumentDB
10 3 (0.75%) Redis
11 2 (0.50%) DB2
11 2 (0.50%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.50%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 366 (91.73%) JIRA
2 50 (12.53%) Jenkins
3 48 (12.03%) Git
4 25 (6.27%) GitLab
5 21 (5.26%) Bitbucket
5 21 (5.26%) Selenium
6 20 (5.01%) SonarQube
7 11 (2.76%) Cucumber
7 11 (2.76%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (2.51%) JUnit
9 9 (2.26%) Postman
10 8 (2.01%) Maven
11 7 (1.75%) SpecFlow
11 7 (1.75%) Vagrant
12 5 (1.25%) Cypress.io
12 5 (1.25%) Zephyr
13 4 (1.00%) Android Studio
13 4 (1.00%) ScriptRunner
14 3 (0.75%) REST Assured
14 3 (0.75%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 168 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 141 (35.34%) Finance
3 77 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (16.54%) Banking
5 53 (13.28%) Public Sector
6 20 (5.01%) Documentation Skills
6 20 (5.01%) Investment Banking
7 15 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (3.51%) Front Office
8 14 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (3.26%) Legal
9 13 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (3.01%) Marketing
11 11 (2.76%) Retail
12 7 (1.75%) Financial Institution
13 6 (1.50%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.25%) Back Office
14 5 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.25%) Publishing
15 4 (1.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 97 (24.31%) Analyst
2 94 (23.56%) Business Analyst
3 43 (10.78%) Senior
4 42 (10.53%) Developer
5 34 (8.52%) Project Manager
6 29 (7.27%) Lead
7 19 (4.76%) Architect
7 19 (4.76%) Technical Business Analyst
8 18 (4.51%) Technical Analyst
9 17 (4.26%) Senior Business Analyst
10 15 (3.76%) Senior Analyst
11 13 (3.26%) AWS Engineer
11 13 (3.26%) Consultant
11 13 (3.26%) DevOps Engineer
11 13 (3.26%) Product Owner
11 13 (3.26%) Scrum Master
12 11 (2.76%) AWS DevOps
12 11 (2.76%) Banking Analyst
12 11 (2.76%) Full-Stack Developer
12 11 (2.76%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.01%) Kafka
2 15 (3.76%) .NET
3 14 (3.51%) LDAP
4 13 (3.26%) REST
4 13 (3.26%) Spring
5 12 (3.01%) RESTful
6 10 (2.51%) Apache NiFi
6 10 (2.51%) Playwright
7 9 (2.26%) Lightning Web Components
8 8 (2.01%) HTML
8 8 (2.01%) RabbitMQ
9 7 (1.75%) ADO
9 7 (1.75%) AngularJS
9 7 (1.75%) JSON
9 7 (1.75%) OpenID
9 7 (1.75%) React
9 7 (1.75%) XML
10 6 (1.50%) Node.js
10 6 (1.50%) SOAP
10 6 (1.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 41 (10.28%) Product Ownership
2 19 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 16 (4.01%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (3.01%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.51%) Cloud Native
5 10 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.26%) PMI
6 9 (2.26%) Virtual Team
7 8 (2.01%) Equities
7 8 (2.01%) Replication
8 7 (1.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 6 (1.50%) Data Centre
9 6 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.50%) NHS
10 5 (1.25%) Derivative
10 5 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.25%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.25%) PKI
11 4 (1.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 38 (9.52%) Linux
2 21 (5.26%) Windows
3 11 (2.76%) Unix
4 10 (2.51%) VMS
5 7 (1.75%) Amazon Linux
5 7 (1.75%) FreeRTOS
5 7 (1.75%) Ubuntu
6 6 (1.50%) Android
7 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (65.66%) Agile
2 116 (29.07%) Stakeholder Management
3 107 (26.82%) Scrum
4 87 (21.80%) DevOps
5 84 (21.05%) User Stories
6 83 (20.80%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (17.29%) CI/CD
7 69 (17.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 65 (16.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 58 (14.54%) Project Management
10 55 (13.78%) Acceptance Criteria
10 55 (13.78%) Roadmaps
11 51 (12.78%) Workshop Facilitation
12 49 (12.28%) Requirements Gathering
13 48 (12.03%) User Acceptance Testing
14 45 (11.28%) Test Automation
15 43 (10.78%) Migration
16 41 (10.28%) Change Management
17 40 (10.03%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 39 (9.77%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 69 (17.29%) SQL
2 55 (13.78%) Python
3 34 (8.52%) Java
4 18 (4.51%) JavaScript
4 18 (4.51%) PowerShell
5 11 (2.76%) Bash
5 11 (2.76%) C#
6 9 (2.26%) Apex Code
7 8 (2.01%) C++
7 8 (2.01%) TypeScript
8 7 (1.75%) Embedded C++
8 7 (1.75%) Groovy
9 6 (1.50%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.00%) Go
11 3 (0.75%) C
11 3 (0.75%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.50%) Korn
12 2 (0.50%) R
13 1 (0.25%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.25%) Swift
Qualifications
1 104 (26.07%) Security Cleared
2 99 (24.81%) SC Cleared
3 54 (13.53%) Degree
4 20 (5.01%) PMI Certification
5 18 (4.51%) CBAP
6 12 (3.01%) DV Cleared
6 12 (3.01%) PMP
7 10 (2.51%) AWS Certification
8 9 (2.26%) CISSP
9 7 (1.75%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.75%) CFA
9 7 (1.75%) CSPO
9 7 (1.75%) ISTQB
10 6 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.50%) CESG Certified Professional
10 6 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.50%) IIBA
11 5 (1.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (1.00%) ISEB
13 3 (0.75%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (9.52%) QA
2 17 (4.26%) Accessibility
3 16 (4.01%) GDPR
4 14 (3.51%) PMO
5 9 (2.26%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.50%) GRC
7 5 (1.25%) ISO 20022
8 4 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.00%) SEPA
9 3 (0.75%) MiFID
9 3 (0.75%) NCSC
9 3 (0.75%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.75%) PSD2
9 3 (0.75%) SLA
9 3 (0.75%) WCAG
10 2 (0.50%) FIPS 140-2
10 2 (0.50%) NIST
11 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.25%) EMIR
11 1 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 48 (12.03%) Docker
2 13 (3.26%) Squid
3 7 (1.75%) DFS Replication
3 7 (1.75%) Dovecot
3 7 (1.75%) Embedded Firmware
3 7 (1.75%) Firmware
3 7 (1.75%) Postfix
4 5 (1.25%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.50%) vSphere
6 1 (0.25%) etcd
6 1 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 46 (11.53%) Terraform
2 42 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 20 (5.01%) Grafana
4 17 (4.26%) Consul
5 15 (3.76%) Prometheus
6 14 (3.51%) Ansible
7 13 (3.26%) Packer
8 7 (1.75%) Nessus
8 7 (1.75%) Proxmox
8 7 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.25%) FortiGate
9 5 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.75%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.75%) Istio
11 3 (0.75%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.50%) Argo
13 1 (0.25%) Ambari
13 1 (0.25%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 1 (0.25%) vRealize
Vendors
1 41 (10.28%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.52%) Salesforce
3 27 (6.77%) Atlassian
4 25 (6.27%) ServiceNow
5 16 (4.01%) Oracle
6 10 (2.51%) Google
6 10 (2.51%) SAP
7 8 (2.01%) Adobe
7 8 (2.01%) Cloudera
7 8 (2.01%) Foundry
7 8 (2.01%) MuleSoft
7 8 (2.01%) Palantir
8 7 (1.75%) Alteryx
8 7 (1.75%) Anaplan
8 7 (1.75%) Cisco
8 7 (1.75%) Jaspersoft
9 6 (1.50%) DocuSign
9 6 (1.50%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.50%) Red Hat
9 6 (1.50%) VMware