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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 125 158
Rank change year-on-year +11 +33 -53
Contract jobs citing Confluence 429 290 278
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.48% 2.29% 1.55%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.32% 19.48% 13.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 175 184
10th Percentile £363 £305 £363
25th Percentile £445 £407 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.71% -9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £641 £638
90th Percentile £726 £750 £766
England median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £21.25
25th Percentile - - £22.75
Median hourly rate - - £26.75
75th Percentile - - £37.94
90th Percentile - - £52.50
England median hourly rate £63.07 £63.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year -1.07% +2.00% +12.61%

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 1,694 1,489 1,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.78% 11.76% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,145 999 1,476
10th Percentile £353 £325 £263
25th Percentile £425 £411 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +2.44% -6.82%
75th Percentile £625 £674 £638
90th Percentile £725 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +0.96% -5.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 10 30
10th Percentile £15.35 £23.80 £16.85
25th Percentile £17.50 £26.14 £22.00
Median hourly rate £24.08 £32.73 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year -26.43% +8.79% +4.63%
75th Percentile £30.60 £41.91 £40.00
90th Percentile £70.45 £50.38 £63.88
England median hourly rate £35.00 £52.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -33.33% +90.91% +10.00%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -17 47 £525 -4.55% 24
South London +3 27 £519 +9.17% 1
West London -24 8 £650 +44.44% 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 (9.32%) SharePoint
2 27 (6.29%) nginx
3 6 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.93%) Apache
4 4 (0.93%) CMS
5 3 (0.70%) Palantir Foundry
5 3 (0.70%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.47%) JBoss
6 2 (0.47%) SAS
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.23%) CICS
Applications
1 48 (11.19%) MS Visio
2 36 (8.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (6.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 27 (6.29%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.40%) Trello
6 4 (0.93%) Notion
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.23%) InDesign
7 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.80%) NetSuite
2 6 (1.40%) Temenos T24
3 5 (1.17%) Aladdin
3 5 (1.17%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.93%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.70%) Actimize
5 3 (0.70%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.47%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 2 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.47%) SAP BPC
6 2 (0.47%) Shopify
6 2 (0.47%) Summit
7 1 (0.23%) Endur
7 1 (0.23%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.23%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.23%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.23%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 77 (17.95%) AWS
2 64 (14.92%) Azure
3 40 (9.32%) GitHub
4 32 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (7.46%) Power Platform
5 19 (4.43%) Amazon S3
5 19 (4.43%) SaaS
6 18 (4.20%) Serverless
7 17 (3.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 15 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (3.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 14 (3.26%) GCP
10 12 (2.80%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (2.80%) Figma
10 12 (2.80%) Miro
11 11 (2.56%) Entra ID
12 9 (2.10%) Apigee
12 9 (2.10%) Lucidchart
13 8 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.03%) VPN
2 12 (2.80%) Firewall
3 8 (1.86%) DNS
3 8 (1.86%) SSL
4 7 (1.63%) Ethernet
4 7 (1.63%) LAN
4 7 (1.63%) Modbus
4 7 (1.63%) OpenVPN
4 7 (1.63%) RS-232
4 7 (1.63%) RS-485
4 7 (1.63%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.63%) WAN
5 5 (1.17%) FTP
5 5 (1.17%) Network Security
6 4 (0.93%) PSTN
6 4 (0.93%) Unified Communications
6 4 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (0.70%) BGP
7 3 (0.70%) BIG-IP
7 3 (0.70%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (6.06%) Power BI
2 20 (4.66%) Tableau
3 14 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (2.33%) Metadata
6 10 (2.33%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.86%) BigQuery
7 8 (1.86%) SQL Server
8 7 (1.63%) DynamoDB
9 6 (1.40%) Big Data
10 5 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.17%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.17%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.17%) Tick Data
11 3 (0.70%) Delta Lake
11 3 (0.70%) DocumentDB
11 3 (0.70%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.70%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 393 (91.61%) JIRA
2 61 (14.22%) Git
3 30 (6.99%) Jenkins
4 20 (4.66%) Bitbucket
5 19 (4.43%) GitLab
6 18 (4.20%) Selenium
7 11 (2.56%) SonarQube
7 11 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (1.86%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.63%) Cucumber
9 7 (1.63%) Postman
9 7 (1.63%) ScriptRunner
10 6 (1.40%) JUnit
10 6 (1.40%) Maven
11 4 (0.93%) JMeter
11 4 (0.93%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.93%) SpecFlow
11 4 (0.93%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.70%) Appium
12 3 (0.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 156 (36.36%) Finance
2 155 (36.13%) Social Skills
3 86 (20.05%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (18.88%) Banking
5 67 (15.62%) Public Sector
6 26 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (4.66%) Legal
8 17 (3.96%) Retail
9 16 (3.73%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (3.26%) Financial Institution
10 14 (3.26%) Investment Banking
10 14 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (2.80%) Marketing
11 12 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (2.33%) Front Office
13 7 (1.63%) Publishing
14 6 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (1.17%) Corporate Banking
16 4 (0.93%) Telecoms
17 3 (0.70%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 112 (26.11%) Analyst
2 101 (23.54%) Business Analyst
3 48 (11.19%) Developer
4 46 (10.72%) Senior
5 32 (7.46%) Project Manager
6 28 (6.53%) Lead
7 25 (5.83%) Architect
8 21 (4.90%) Delivery Manager
8 21 (4.90%) Senior Analyst
9 16 (3.73%) Banking Analyst
9 16 (3.73%) Consultant
10 15 (3.50%) Banking Business Analyst
11 14 (3.26%) Senior Business Analyst
11 14 (3.26%) Technical Analyst
11 14 (3.26%) Technical Business Analyst
12 13 (3.03%) Scrum Master
12 13 (3.03%) Technical Manager
13 10 (2.33%) Full-Stack Developer
13 10 (2.33%) Salesforce Developer
14 9 (2.10%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.43%) REST
2 13 (3.03%) React
2 13 (3.03%) Spring
3 12 (2.80%) AngularJS
3 12 (2.80%) OpenID
4 11 (2.56%) LDAP
5 10 (2.33%) ADO
5 10 (2.33%) RESTful
6 9 (2.10%) .NET
6 9 (2.10%) HTML
6 9 (2.10%) Kafka
6 9 (2.10%) Lightning Web Components
7 8 (1.86%) Node.js
7 8 (1.86%) Playwright
8 7 (1.63%) OAuth
8 7 (1.63%) SOAP
9 6 (1.40%) CSS
9 6 (1.40%) OAuth2
9 6 (1.40%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.17%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.79%) Product Ownership
2 18 (4.20%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (2.80%) Cloud Native
5 11 (2.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 10 (2.33%) Virtual Team
7 9 (2.10%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.86%) Equities
9 7 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.40%) Mobile App
11 5 (1.17%) Derivative
11 5 (1.17%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.93%) Clustering
12 4 (0.93%) Fixed Income
12 4 (0.93%) IoT
12 4 (0.93%) PKI
12 4 (0.93%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 30 (6.99%) Linux
2 14 (3.26%) Windows
3 7 (1.63%) FreeRTOS
4 6 (1.40%) Unix
5 4 (0.93%) Android
5 4 (0.93%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.70%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (67.13%) Agile
2 131 (30.54%) Stakeholder Management
3 107 (24.94%) Scrum
4 88 (20.51%) User Stories
5 85 (19.81%) DevOps
5 85 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
6 76 (17.72%) Continuous Improvement
7 72 (16.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 67 (15.62%) Acceptance Criteria
9 63 (14.69%) Project Management
10 62 (14.45%) CI/CD
11 57 (13.29%) Test Automation
11 57 (13.29%) Workshop Facilitation
12 55 (12.82%) Roadmaps
13 52 (12.12%) User Acceptance Testing
14 49 (11.42%) Migration
15 48 (11.19%) SDLC
16 47 (10.96%) Requirements Gathering
17 45 (10.49%) Decision-Making
18 44 (10.26%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (15.38%) SQL
2 57 (13.29%) Python
3 35 (8.16%) Java
4 26 (6.06%) JavaScript
5 14 (3.26%) TypeScript
6 13 (3.03%) Bash
7 10 (2.33%) C#
7 10 (2.33%) PowerShell
8 9 (2.10%) Apex Code
9 7 (1.63%) C++
9 7 (1.63%) Embedded C++
10 6 (1.40%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.70%) C
11 3 (0.70%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.70%) Groovy
11 3 (0.70%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.47%) Korn
12 2 (0.47%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.23%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.23%) XPath
Qualifications
1 132 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 121 (28.21%) SC Cleared
3 32 (7.46%) Degree
4 14 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (3.26%) CBAP
5 11 (2.56%) PMI Certification
6 10 (2.33%) IIBA
7 9 (2.10%) CISSP
7 9 (2.10%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (1.86%) PMP
9 7 (1.63%) CISM
10 6 (1.40%) CSPO
10 6 (1.40%) ISEB
11 5 (1.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (1.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 5 (1.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 5 (1.17%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.93%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (8.86%) QA
2 21 (4.90%) GDPR
3 18 (4.20%) Data Quality
4 17 (3.96%) PMO
5 12 (2.80%) Accessibility
6 10 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.40%) MiFID
8 5 (1.17%) GRC
8 5 (1.17%) SLA
9 4 (0.93%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.70%) EMIR
10 3 (0.70%) NIST
10 3 (0.70%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
11 2 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.23%) Basel III
12 1 (0.23%) P3O
12 1 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (7.69%) Docker
2 8 (1.86%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.86%) Squid
3 7 (1.63%) Embedded Firmware
3 7 (1.63%) Firmware
4 2 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (11.66%) Terraform
2 40 (9.32%) Kubernetes
3 20 (4.66%) Consul
4 15 (3.50%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (3.03%) Packer
6 12 (2.80%) Grafana
7 11 (2.56%) Ansible
7 11 (2.56%) Prometheus
8 7 (1.63%) FortiGate
9 6 (1.40%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.93%) CA Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.93%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.93%) PingFederate
12 3 (0.70%) RSA Archer
13 1 (0.23%) CA Endevor
13 1 (0.23%) CASB
13 1 (0.23%) HP Quality Center
13 1 (0.23%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 41 (9.56%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.62%) ServiceNow
3 35 (8.16%) Salesforce
4 34 (7.93%) Atlassian
5 20 (4.66%) SAP
6 17 (3.96%) Oracle
7 13 (3.03%) Google
8 11 (2.56%) IBM
9 9 (2.10%) Databricks
9 9 (2.10%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.86%) Adobe
10 8 (1.86%) Dynatrace
10 8 (1.86%) Zscaler
11 7 (1.63%) Alteryx
11 7 (1.63%) Anaplan
11 7 (1.63%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.63%) Splunk
12 6 (1.40%) Workday
13 5 (1.17%) Murex
13 5 (1.17%) Zuora