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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 99 116
Rank change year-on-year -34 +17 -17
Contract jobs citing Confluence 446 389 360
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.21% 2.89% 2.21%
As % of the Application Platforms category 21.51% 24.97% 17.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 270 243
10th Percentile £404 £348 £308
25th Percentile £450 £450 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +6.98% -5.83%
75th Percentile £625 £669 £675
90th Percentile £701 £750 £800
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 4
10th Percentile - £47.33 £22.98
25th Percentile £61.25 £53.81 £24.44
Median hourly rate £67.50 £65.25 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +113.93% -39.00%
75th Percentile £77.50 £77.31 £41.56
90th Percentile £84.25 £84.18 £55.63
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 2,073 1,558 2,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.26% 11.57% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,371 1,041 1,476
10th Percentile £313 £316 £308
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £752
90th Percentile £712 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £499 £525
% change year-on-year +0.20% -4.95% +0.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 24 27
10th Percentile £19.03 £24.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £22.83 £26.00 £21.50
Median hourly rate £28.40 £33.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.24% +17.54% -0.87%
75th Percentile £41.68 £53.75 £48.13
90th Percentile £73.30 £88.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £41.45 £47.50
% change year-on-year -21.59% -12.74% +5.56%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -32 52 £540 +5.37% 39
South London -13 14 £550 -4.84% 1
West London -24 6 £838 +101.81% 9
North London - 3 - - 1
East London +3 2 £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 30 (6.73%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.79%) CMS
3 6 (1.35%) nginx
4 5 (1.12%) Camunda
5 4 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.90%) SAS
6 3 (0.67%) Headless CMS
6 3 (0.67%) JBoss
7 2 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.22%) Apache
8 1 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.22%) Apache Superset
8 1 (0.22%) Appian
8 1 (0.22%) Drupal
8 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.22%) Mule
8 1 (0.22%) Traefik
Applications
1 40 (8.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (7.62%) MS Visio
3 28 (6.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (4.04%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (1.12%) Notion
6 5 (1.12%) Photoshop
7 4 (0.90%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.90%) Adobe Premiere
7 4 (0.90%) Final Cut Pro
8 3 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.22%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.22%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.22%) Sketch
9 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.12%) Temenos T24
3 3 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.45%) Actimize
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%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.45%) Summit
5 1 (0.22%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.22%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.22%) OneSumX
5 1 (0.22%) Primavera
5 1 (0.22%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 103 (23.09%) AWS
2 97 (21.75%) Azure
3 53 (11.88%) GitHub
4 44 (9.87%) Azure DevOps
5 40 (8.97%) Power Platform
6 39 (8.74%) Amazon S3
7 27 (6.05%) Serverless
8 24 (5.38%) Amazon EC2
8 24 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (5.38%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (5.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 22 (4.93%) GCP
11 19 (4.26%) Figma
11 19 (4.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 17 (3.81%) SaaS
13 15 (3.36%) Miro
14 14 (3.14%) OpenShift
15 12 (2.69%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (2.69%) OCI
16 10 (2.24%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.91%) HTTP
2 12 (2.69%) DNS
2 12 (2.69%) Firewall
3 11 (2.47%) SSL
3 11 (2.47%) TCP/IP
4 7 (1.57%) Network Security
4 7 (1.57%) SSH
5 4 (0.90%) IPv4
5 4 (0.90%) OpenVPN
6 3 (0.67%) Internet
6 3 (0.67%) IPv6
6 3 (0.67%) VPN
7 2 (0.45%) Broadband
7 2 (0.45%) DSL
7 2 (0.45%) FTP
7 2 (0.45%) IMAP
7 2 (0.45%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (0.45%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.45%) SMTP
7 2 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (8.74%) Power BI
2 29 (6.50%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (3.59%) SQL Server
4 15 (3.36%) Amazon Redshift
5 13 (2.91%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (2.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (2.24%) Metadata
9 9 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (2.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 9 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (1.79%) DynamoDB
11 7 (1.57%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.57%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.35%) Oracle Database
12 6 (1.35%) Tableau
13 5 (1.12%) BigQuery
14 3 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 404 (90.58%) JIRA
2 73 (16.37%) Git
3 43 (9.64%) Jenkins
4 31 (6.95%) GitLab
5 14 (3.14%) Selenium
5 14 (3.14%) Sonatype Nexus
6 12 (2.69%) Cypress.io
7 10 (2.24%) REST Assured
7 10 (2.24%) Zephyr
8 9 (2.02%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.79%) JUnit
9 8 (1.79%) Maven
9 8 (1.79%) Mockito
10 7 (1.57%) JMeter
10 7 (1.57%) SonarQube
11 6 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (1.35%) Cucumber
11 6 (1.35%) Gradle
11 6 (1.35%) Postman
12 5 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 174 (39.01%) Social Skills
2 170 (38.12%) Finance
3 96 (21.52%) Banking
4 91 (20.40%) Analytical Skills
5 73 (16.37%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.48%) Influencing Skills
6 20 (4.48%) Retail
7 18 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
8 17 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.02%) Investment Banking
10 8 (1.79%) Financial Institution
10 8 (1.79%) Legal
10 8 (1.79%) Military
10 8 (1.79%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.57%) Retail Banking
12 6 (1.35%) Front Office
12 6 (1.35%) Law
12 6 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.12%) Aviation
13 5 (1.12%) Police
Job Titles
1 90 (20.18%) Analyst
2 68 (15.25%) Business Analyst
3 49 (10.99%) Lead
4 43 (9.64%) Developer
4 43 (9.64%) Senior
5 23 (5.16%) Architect
6 19 (4.26%) Product Owner
6 19 (4.26%) Scrum Master
7 16 (3.59%) Consultant
8 14 (3.14%) DevOps Engineer
9 13 (2.91%) Data Engineer
9 13 (2.91%) Product Manager
10 12 (2.69%) AWS Engineer
10 12 (2.69%) Project Manager
10 12 (2.69%) Senior Analyst
11 11 (2.47%) Delivery Manager
12 10 (2.24%) Banking Analyst
12 10 (2.24%) Platform Engineer
12 10 (2.24%) User Researcher
13 9 (2.02%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (13.68%) Terraform
2 34 (7.62%) REST
3 22 (4.93%) React
4 19 (4.26%) AngularJS
5 15 (3.36%) SOAP
6 12 (2.69%) HTML
6 12 (2.69%) JSON
7 11 (2.47%) CSS
7 11 (2.47%) RESTful
8 10 (2.24%) Node.js
9 9 (2.02%) Kafka
9 9 (2.02%) Lightning Web Components
9 9 (2.02%) Playwright
9 9 (2.02%) PySpark
9 9 (2.02%) Spring Boot
10 8 (1.79%) Loki
11 7 (1.57%) Hibernate
11 7 (1.57%) OAuth2
11 7 (1.57%) Web Services
11 7 (1.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 90 (20.18%) Product Ownership
2 30 (6.73%) Onboarding
3 26 (5.83%) Cloud Native
4 15 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.91%) Data Centre
5 13 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (2.69%) Virtual Team
7 11 (2.47%) Data Structures
7 11 (2.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 10 (2.24%) Clustering
9 9 (2.02%) Replication
10 8 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
10 8 (1.79%) Credit Risk
10 8 (1.79%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.35%) Market Risk
12 6 (1.35%) Mobile App
13 5 (1.12%) Derivative
13 5 (1.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 5 (1.12%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.38%) Linux
2 17 (3.81%) Windows
3 9 (2.02%) Amazon Linux
4 7 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.12%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.67%) Unix
7 2 (0.45%) Android
7 2 (0.45%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.45%) VMS
7 2 (0.45%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.22%) SUSE
8 1 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (66.82%) Agile
2 171 (38.34%) Stakeholder Management
3 124 (27.80%) DevOps
4 115 (25.78%) CI/CD
5 112 (25.11%) Scrum
6 106 (23.77%) Problem-Solving
7 90 (20.18%) User Stories
8 77 (17.26%) Migration
9 76 (17.04%) Continuous Improvement
10 71 (15.92%) Test Automation
11 62 (13.90%) AI
11 62 (13.90%) User Acceptance Testing
12 59 (13.23%) Business Analysis
13 56 (12.56%) Acceptance Criteria
13 56 (12.56%) Infrastructure as Code
14 54 (12.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 52 (11.66%) Requirements Gathering
16 49 (10.99%) SDLC
16 49 (10.99%) Sprint Planning
17 48 (10.76%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 88 (19.73%) SQL
2 76 (17.04%) Python
3 46 (10.31%) Java
4 22 (4.93%) JavaScript
5 21 (4.71%) PowerShell
6 19 (4.26%) TypeScript
7 17 (3.81%) Bash
8 16 (3.59%) Groovy
9 9 (2.02%) Apex Code
9 9 (2.02%) Perl
10 7 (1.57%) PL/SQL
11 6 (1.35%) C#
12 3 (0.67%) Go
12 3 (0.67%) Swift
12 3 (0.67%) VBA
13 2 (0.45%) Cypher
13 2 (0.45%) Korn
13 2 (0.45%) R
13 2 (0.45%) SHACL
13 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 152 (34.08%) Security Cleared
2 139 (31.17%) SC Cleared
3 43 (9.64%) Degree
4 26 (5.83%) DV Cleared
5 18 (4.04%) AWS Certification
6 17 (3.81%) PMI Certification
7 12 (2.69%) PMP
8 11 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (2.02%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 8 (1.79%) IIBA
11 7 (1.57%) CBAP
11 7 (1.57%) ISTQB
12 6 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (1.35%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.67%) CISSP
13 3 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 2 (0.45%) ISEB
14 2 (0.45%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (14.13%) QA
2 35 (7.85%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.26%) PMO
4 12 (2.69%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.35%) ISO 20022
5 6 (1.35%) SEPA
5 6 (1.35%) SLA
5 6 (1.35%) WCAG
6 5 (1.12%) GDPR
7 4 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.90%) MiFID
8 3 (0.67%) EMIR
8 3 (0.67%) NIST
9 2 (0.45%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.45%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.45%) NCSC
10 1 (0.22%) HL7
10 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.22%) WAI
System Software
1 36 (8.07%) Docker
2 16 (3.59%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.45%) DFS Replication
4 2 (0.45%) Dovecot
4 2 (0.45%) Postfix
4 2 (0.45%) Squid
5 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 35 (7.85%) Grafana
2 20 (4.48%) Ansible
2 20 (4.48%) Kubernetes
3 19 (4.26%) Prometheus
4 12 (2.69%) Argo
4 12 (2.69%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.79%) Control-M
6 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Clustering
6 6 (1.35%) SCOM
7 4 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.90%) CA Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.90%) Istio
7 4 (0.90%) PingFederate
7 4 (0.90%) Podman
8 3 (0.67%) Consul
8 3 (0.67%) SELinux
9 2 (0.45%) Kibana
9 2 (0.45%) Nessus
9 2 (0.45%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.45%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 64 (14.35%) Microsoft
2 43 (9.64%) ServiceNow
3 22 (4.93%) Salesforce
4 20 (4.48%) Oracle
4 20 (4.48%) Splunk
5 18 (4.04%) Google
6 17 (3.81%) Atlassian
6 17 (3.81%) IBM
7 14 (3.14%) SAP
8 10 (2.24%) Informatica
9 7 (1.57%) BMC
9 7 (1.57%) Remedy
9 7 (1.57%) xMatters
10 6 (1.35%) Adobe
10 6 (1.35%) Commvault
10 6 (1.35%) Databricks
10 6 (1.35%) Dynatrace
10 6 (1.35%) VMware
11 5 (1.12%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.12%) Temenos