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 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 107 149
Rank change year-on-year -19 +42 -41
Contract jobs citing Confluence 451 362 303
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.28% 2.66% 1.80%
As % of the Application Platforms category 23.55% 23.12% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 239 215
10th Percentile £400 £359 £358
25th Percentile £448 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +7.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile - - £21.10
25th Percentile £61.25 £86.25 £22.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £87.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +207.02% -56.15%
75th Percentile £76.25 £88.75 £33.75
90th Percentile £83.75 - £52.50
England median hourly rate £62.75 £70.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -10.99% +0.71% +9.80%

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 1,915 1,566 2,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.66% 11.51% 12.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,257 1,060 1,611
10th Percentile £350 £350 £310
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £623 £670 £750
90th Percentile £700 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 19 27
10th Percentile £15.45 £24.00 £20.80
25th Percentile £19.09 £26.02 £23.80
Median hourly rate £27.75 £31.50 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% -0.66% -33.24%
75th Percentile £41.00 £53.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £64.68 £87.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £46.18 £32.11
% change year-on-year -29.62% +43.84% -31.46%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -42 44 £539 +0.23% 21
South London +2 24 £516 -11.33% 1
West London -21 2 - - 2
North London - 2 - - 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 46 (10.20%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.55%) nginx
3 6 (1.33%) CMS
3 6 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.11%) JBoss
4 5 (1.11%) SAS
5 3 (0.67%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.44%) Camunda
7 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.22%) Appian
7 1 (0.22%) CICS
7 1 (0.22%) Drupal
7 1 (0.22%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.22%) Mule
Applications
1 40 (8.87%) MS Visio
2 32 (7.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (5.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (4.66%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
6 5 (1.11%) Notion
7 4 (0.89%) Photoshop
8 3 (0.67%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.67%) Adobe Premiere
8 3 (0.67%) Final Cut Pro
8 3 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.44%) Trello
10 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.22%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (2.00%) Temenos T24
2 4 (0.89%) Actimize
3 3 (0.67%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.67%) Summit
4 2 (0.44%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.44%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
4 2 (0.44%) IntelliMatch
4 2 (0.44%) Loan IQ
4 2 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.44%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.22%) Endur
5 1 (0.22%) MetaTrader
5 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.22%) Primavera
5 1 (0.22%) SAP IS-U
5 1 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.22%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 94 (20.84%) AWS
1 94 (20.84%) Azure
2 44 (9.76%) GitHub
3 40 (8.87%) Azure DevOps
4 39 (8.65%) Amazon S3
5 35 (7.76%) Power Platform
6 27 (5.99%) Serverless
7 26 (5.76%) Amazon EC2
8 24 (5.32%) AWS Lambda
9 23 (5.10%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (4.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 21 (4.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (4.66%) SaaS
12 17 (3.77%) GCP
13 16 (3.55%) Figma
14 13 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (2.88%) dbt
15 12 (2.66%) Entra ID
16 11 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
16 11 (2.44%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.44%) Firewall
2 10 (2.22%) DNS
2 10 (2.22%) TCP/IP
3 8 (1.77%) HTTP
3 8 (1.77%) SSL
4 7 (1.55%) Network Security
4 7 (1.55%) VPN
5 6 (1.33%) OpenVPN
5 6 (1.33%) WAN
6 4 (0.89%) LAN
6 4 (0.89%) PSTN
6 4 (0.89%) SSH
6 4 (0.89%) Unified Communications
6 4 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.44%) DSL
7 2 (0.44%) FTP
7 2 (0.44%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.22%) Internet
8 1 (0.22%) NGFW
8 1 (0.22%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.65%) Power BI
2 27 (5.99%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (2.88%) Amazon Athena
3 13 (2.88%) Tableau
4 12 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (2.66%) Amazon Redshift
4 12 (2.66%) SQL Server
5 9 (2.00%) DynamoDB
5 9 (2.00%) Metadata
5 9 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.33%) BigQuery
6 6 (1.33%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 5 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
7 5 (1.11%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.11%) Relational Database
8 4 (0.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.67%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (0.67%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 403 (89.36%) JIRA
2 68 (15.08%) Git
3 33 (7.32%) Jenkins
4 28 (6.21%) GitLab
5 14 (3.10%) Selenium
6 12 (2.66%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (2.44%) Bitbucket
7 11 (2.44%) Cypress.io
8 9 (2.00%) Zephyr
9 7 (1.55%) REST Assured
10 6 (1.33%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.33%) JMeter
10 6 (1.33%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.11%) ScriptRunner
12 4 (0.89%) IntelliJ
12 4 (0.89%) JUnit
12 4 (0.89%) Liquibase
12 4 (0.89%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (0.67%) Ant
13 3 (0.67%) TeamCity
General
1 171 (37.92%) Social Skills
2 169 (37.47%) Finance
3 98 (21.73%) Banking
4 80 (17.74%) Public Sector
5 75 (16.63%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (3.55%) Retail
8 15 (3.33%) Financial Institution
9 14 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (2.88%) Legal
11 10 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (1.77%) Military
14 7 (1.55%) Corporate Banking
14 7 (1.55%) Front Office
15 6 (1.33%) Investment Banking
15 6 (1.33%) Marketing
15 6 (1.33%) Retail Banking
16 5 (1.11%) Law
17 4 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 96 (21.29%) Analyst
2 78 (17.29%) Business Analyst
3 49 (10.86%) Lead
4 48 (10.64%) Senior
5 45 (9.98%) Developer
6 24 (5.32%) Architect
7 22 (4.88%) Delivery Manager
8 18 (3.99%) Consultant
9 17 (3.77%) Project Manager
9 17 (3.77%) Scrum Master
10 15 (3.33%) Data Engineer
10 15 (3.33%) Product Owner
11 13 (2.88%) DevOps Engineer
12 12 (2.66%) Banking Analyst
12 12 (2.66%) Senior Analyst
13 10 (2.22%) Banking Business Analyst
13 10 (2.22%) Data Business Analyst
14 9 (2.00%) AWS Engineer
14 9 (2.00%) Senior Data Engineer
14 9 (2.00%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (5.99%) REST
2 20 (4.43%) React
3 16 (3.55%) AngularJS
4 12 (2.66%) PySpark
5 11 (2.44%) JSON
5 11 (2.44%) SOAP
6 10 (2.22%) Node.js
6 10 (2.22%) RESTful
7 9 (2.00%) CSS
7 9 (2.00%) HTML
7 9 (2.00%) Lightning Web Components
7 9 (2.00%) OAuth
8 8 (1.77%) .NET
8 8 (1.77%) OAuth2
8 8 (1.77%) OpenID
8 8 (1.77%) XML
9 7 (1.55%) Loki
10 6 (1.33%) ADO
10 6 (1.33%) Bootstrap
10 6 (1.33%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 68 (15.08%) Product Ownership
2 29 (6.43%) Onboarding
3 16 (3.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 15 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 12 (2.66%) Data Centre
5 12 (2.66%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.77%) Data Structures
7 8 (1.77%) Virtual Team
8 7 (1.55%) Public Cloud
9 6 (1.33%) Clustering
9 6 (1.33%) Derivative
9 6 (1.33%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.11%) Credit Risk
10 5 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.11%) Market Risk
10 5 (1.11%) Replication
10 5 (1.11%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 22 (4.88%) Linux
2 15 (3.33%) Windows
3 8 (1.77%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.11%) Amazon Linux
6 3 (0.67%) Android
6 3 (0.67%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.67%) Unix
7 1 (0.22%) SUSE
7 1 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 301 (66.74%) Agile
2 159 (35.25%) Stakeholder Management
3 114 (25.28%) DevOps
4 102 (22.62%) CI/CD
5 100 (22.17%) Scrum
6 95 (21.06%) Problem-Solving
7 79 (17.52%) User Stories
8 78 (17.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 66 (14.63%) Migration
10 64 (14.19%) User Acceptance Testing
11 62 (13.75%) Test Automation
12 59 (13.08%) AI
13 58 (12.86%) Acceptance Criteria
14 56 (12.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 50 (11.09%) Infrastructure as Code
15 50 (11.09%) SDLC
16 46 (10.20%) Business Analysis
17 43 (9.53%) Requirements Gathering
18 41 (9.09%) Project Delivery
18 41 (9.09%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 80 (17.74%) SQL
2 75 (16.63%) Python
3 40 (8.87%) Java
4 24 (5.32%) JavaScript
5 18 (3.99%) PowerShell
6 17 (3.77%) Bash
6 17 (3.77%) TypeScript
7 10 (2.22%) Groovy
8 9 (2.00%) Apex Code
8 9 (2.00%) C#
9 6 (1.33%) Perl
9 6 (1.33%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.67%) Kotlin
10 3 (0.67%) Swift
10 3 (0.67%) VBA
11 2 (0.44%) Cypher
11 2 (0.44%) Korn
11 2 (0.44%) R
11 2 (0.44%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.44%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 153 (33.92%) Security Cleared
2 136 (30.16%) SC Cleared
3 37 (8.20%) Degree
4 19 (4.21%) DV Cleared
5 13 (2.88%) AWS Certification
5 13 (2.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (2.44%) PMI Certification
7 8 (1.77%) CISSP
8 7 (1.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 7 (1.55%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.55%) CISM
8 7 (1.55%) PMP
9 6 (1.33%) IIBA
10 5 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (1.11%) CBAP
10 5 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (1.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 5 (1.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
10 5 (1.11%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.89%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (9.31%) QA
2 33 (7.32%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.21%) PMO
4 15 (3.33%) GDPR
5 12 (2.66%) Accessibility
6 9 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.33%) ISO 20022
7 6 (1.33%) WCAG
8 5 (1.11%) MiFID
8 5 (1.11%) SEPA
9 3 (0.67%) EMIR
9 3 (0.67%) SLA
10 2 (0.44%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.44%) JSP 440
10 2 (0.44%) NCSC
10 2 (0.44%) NIST
10 2 (0.44%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.22%) GRC
11 1 (0.22%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 27 (5.99%) Docker
2 11 (2.44%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.44%) Squid
4 2 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 62 (13.75%) Terraform
2 25 (5.54%) Grafana
3 21 (4.66%) Kubernetes
4 19 (4.21%) Ansible
5 14 (3.10%) Single Sign-On
6 13 (2.88%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.00%) Argo
8 6 (1.33%) Control-M
8 6 (1.33%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (1.11%) Consul
9 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.89%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.89%) PingFederate
10 4 (0.89%) Podman
11 3 (0.67%) Istio
11 3 (0.67%) SELinux
12 2 (0.44%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Clustering
12 2 (0.44%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 51 (11.31%) Microsoft
2 47 (10.42%) ServiceNow
3 30 (6.65%) Salesforce
4 24 (5.32%) SAP
5 23 (5.10%) Atlassian
6 22 (4.88%) Oracle
7 20 (4.43%) IBM
8 15 (3.33%) Google
9 14 (3.10%) Splunk
10 11 (2.44%) Databricks
11 9 (2.00%) Informatica
12 8 (1.77%) Adobe
12 8 (1.77%) Temenos
13 7 (1.55%) Red Hat
14 6 (1.33%) MuleSoft
14 6 (1.33%) xMatters
15 5 (1.11%) Murex
15 5 (1.11%) Workday
15 5 (1.11%) Zscaler
16 4 (0.89%) Fortinet