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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 103 129
Rank change year-on-year -28 +26 -23
Contract jobs citing Confluence 446 380 326
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.22% 2.84% 2.00%
As % of the Application Platforms category 22.04% 24.47% 15.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 263 224
10th Percentile £405 £335 £327
25th Percentile £450 £447 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £626 £671 £668
90th Percentile £709 £750 £775
England median daily rate £502 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile - - £22.98
25th Percentile £61.25 £86.25 £24.44
Median hourly rate £67.50 £87.50 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% +186.89% -53.08%
75th Percentile £77.50 £88.75 £41.56
90th Percentile £84.25 - £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 2,024 1,553 2,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.09% 11.61% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,333 1,048 1,496
10th Percentile £313 £325 £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 £623 £671 £763
90th Percentile £712 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 24 25
10th Percentile £19.03 £24.50 £17.08
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £28.40 £30.75 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -7.66% +29.20% -42.30%
75th Percentile £41.44 £50.94 £38.75
90th Percentile £73.15 £80.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £41.26 £37.50
% change year-on-year -21.22% +10.01% -18.64%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -39 46 £550 +4.76% 34
South London -10 17 £550 -5.34% 2
West London -25 3 £775 +86.75% 8
North London - 2 - - 2
East London +4 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 39 (8.74%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.02%) CMS
3 6 (1.35%) nginx
4 5 (1.12%) JBoss
5 4 (0.90%) SAS
6 3 (0.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.67%) Headless CMS
7 2 (0.45%) Camunda
7 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.22%) Appian
8 1 (0.22%) Drupal
8 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.22%) Mule
8 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 38 (8.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 38 (8.52%) MS Visio
2 25 (5.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (4.71%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (1.12%) Notion
6 4 (0.90%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.67%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.67%) Adobe Premiere
7 3 (0.67%) Final Cut Pro
7 3 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.67%) Trello
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.22%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.22%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 1 (0.22%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (2.02%) Temenos T24
2 6 (1.35%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.45%) Actimize
3 2 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.45%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
3 2 (0.45%) IntelliMatch
3 2 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.45%) Summit
4 1 (0.22%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.22%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.22%) Endur
4 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.22%) MetaTrader
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.22%) Primavera
4 1 (0.22%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.22%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 97 (21.75%) AWS
2 93 (20.85%) Azure
3 49 (10.99%) GitHub
4 40 (8.97%) Amazon S3
4 40 (8.97%) Azure DevOps
5 38 (8.52%) Power Platform
6 29 (6.50%) Serverless
7 26 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
8 25 (5.61%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (5.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 23 (5.16%) Amazon EC2
10 21 (4.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 19 (4.26%) Figma
12 18 (4.04%) GCP
13 17 (3.81%) SaaS
14 13 (2.91%) Miro
15 12 (2.69%) OCI
16 11 (2.47%) Amazon ECS
16 11 (2.47%) Amazon EKS
16 11 (2.47%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.91%) Firewall
2 11 (2.47%) DNS
2 11 (2.47%) HTTP
3 10 (2.24%) SSL
3 10 (2.24%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.79%) Network Security
5 7 (1.57%) SSH
6 5 (1.12%) VPN
7 4 (0.90%) IPv4
7 4 (0.90%) OpenVPN
8 3 (0.67%) IPv6
9 2 (0.45%) Broadband
9 2 (0.45%) DSL
9 2 (0.45%) FTP
9 2 (0.45%) IMAP
9 2 (0.45%) Internet
9 2 (0.45%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (0.45%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.45%) SMTP
9 2 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (8.30%) Power BI
2 24 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (3.36%) Amazon Redshift
4 14 (3.14%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (2.69%) SQL Server
6 12 (2.69%) Tableau
7 11 (2.47%) Metadata
7 11 (2.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 10 (2.24%) DynamoDB
8 10 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (2.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 9 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (1.35%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.35%) Oracle Database
11 5 (1.12%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.12%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.90%) Big Data
13 3 (0.67%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 397 (89.01%) JIRA
2 72 (16.14%) Git
3 37 (8.30%) Jenkins
4 24 (5.38%) GitLab
5 15 (3.36%) Selenium
6 13 (2.91%) Cypress.io
6 13 (2.91%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (2.24%) Bitbucket
7 10 (2.24%) Zephyr
8 8 (1.79%) REST Assured
9 6 (1.35%) Postman
10 5 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (1.12%) JMeter
10 5 (1.12%) ScriptRunner
11 4 (0.90%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.90%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.67%) Gradle
12 3 (0.67%) JUnit
12 3 (0.67%) Mockito
General
1 175 (39.24%) Social Skills
2 171 (38.34%) Finance
3 104 (23.32%) Banking
4 86 (19.28%) Analytical Skills
5 75 (16.82%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
6 20 (4.48%) Retail
7 12 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
7 12 (2.69%) Legal
7 12 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (2.47%) Financial Institution
9 9 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.57%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.57%) Military
11 6 (1.35%) Corporate Banking
11 6 (1.35%) Front Office
11 6 (1.35%) Retail Banking
11 6 (1.35%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.12%) Law
Job Titles
1 97 (21.75%) Analyst
2 76 (17.04%) Business Analyst
3 46 (10.31%) Developer
3 46 (10.31%) Lead
4 39 (8.74%) Senior
5 22 (4.93%) Architect
6 20 (4.48%) Product Owner
7 19 (4.26%) Consultant
8 18 (4.04%) Delivery Manager
9 17 (3.81%) Scrum Master
10 15 (3.36%) DevOps Engineer
11 13 (2.91%) Banking Analyst
11 13 (2.91%) Data Engineer
12 12 (2.69%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (2.69%) Project Manager
12 12 (2.69%) Senior Analyst
13 11 (2.47%) Technical Analyst
14 9 (2.02%) Banking Business Analyst
14 9 (2.02%) Salesforce Developer
14 9 (2.02%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (14.35%) Terraform
2 31 (6.95%) REST
3 20 (4.48%) React
4 16 (3.59%) AngularJS
5 10 (2.24%) JSON
5 10 (2.24%) Lightning Web Components
5 10 (2.24%) Node.js
6 9 (2.02%) HTML
6 9 (2.02%) PySpark
6 9 (2.02%) SOAP
7 8 (1.79%) CSS
7 8 (1.79%) Loki
7 8 (1.79%) Playwright
7 8 (1.79%) RESTful
8 7 (1.57%) .NET
8 7 (1.57%) OAuth
8 7 (1.57%) OAuth2
9 6 (1.35%) Bootstrap
9 6 (1.35%) SailPoint
9 6 (1.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 80 (17.94%) Product Ownership
2 28 (6.28%) Onboarding
3 19 (4.26%) Cloud Native
4 17 (3.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 14 (3.14%) Data Centre
6 12 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.24%) Clustering
7 10 (2.24%) Virtual Team
8 9 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (2.02%) Replication
9 7 (1.57%) Credit Risk
9 7 (1.57%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.57%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.57%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.12%) Derivative
10 5 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.12%) Market Risk
10 5 (1.12%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 25 (5.61%) Linux
2 17 (3.81%) Windows
3 9 (2.02%) Amazon Linux
4 7 (1.57%) Apple iOS
5 6 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.22%) SUSE
8 1 (0.22%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 298 (66.82%) Agile
2 162 (36.32%) Stakeholder Management
3 118 (26.46%) DevOps
4 110 (24.66%) CI/CD
5 103 (23.09%) Problem-Solving
5 103 (23.09%) Scrum
6 81 (18.16%) User Stories
7 77 (17.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 73 (16.37%) Migration
9 66 (14.80%) Test Automation
10 65 (14.57%) User Acceptance Testing
11 58 (13.00%) Acceptance Criteria
11 58 (13.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 58 (13.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 55 (12.33%) AI
12 55 (12.33%) Business Analysis
13 52 (11.66%) SDLC
14 51 (11.43%) Workshop Facilitation
15 50 (11.21%) Requirements Gathering
16 46 (10.31%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 83 (18.61%) SQL
2 75 (16.82%) Python
3 39 (8.74%) Java
4 23 (5.16%) PowerShell
5 22 (4.93%) JavaScript
6 18 (4.04%) Bash
6 18 (4.04%) TypeScript
7 15 (3.36%) Groovy
8 10 (2.24%) Apex Code
9 9 (2.02%) Perl
10 7 (1.57%) C#
10 7 (1.57%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.90%) Swift
12 3 (0.67%) Korn
12 3 (0.67%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.67%) VBA
13 2 (0.45%) Cypher
13 2 (0.45%) Go
13 2 (0.45%) R
13 2 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 160 (35.87%) Security Cleared
2 146 (32.74%) SC Cleared
3 39 (8.74%) Degree
4 23 (5.16%) DV Cleared
5 19 (4.26%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.69%) PMI Certification
7 11 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (2.24%) Azure Certification
9 9 (2.02%) IIBA
10 8 (1.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 8 (1.79%) PMP
11 7 (1.57%) CBAP
11 7 (1.57%) ISTQB
12 5 (1.12%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.90%) CISSP
13 4 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
14 3 (0.67%) CISM
14 3 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
15 2 (0.45%) ISEB
15 2 (0.45%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (12.33%) QA
2 30 (6.73%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.26%) PMO
4 13 (2.91%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.57%) GDPR
6 6 (1.35%) ISO 20022
6 6 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.35%) SEPA
6 6 (1.35%) WCAG
7 5 (1.12%) MiFID
7 5 (1.12%) SLA
8 3 (0.67%) EMIR
8 3 (0.67%) 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 (0.22%) HL7
10 1 (0.22%) WAI
System Software
1 32 (7.17%) Docker
2 18 (4.04%) 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 30 (6.73%) Grafana
2 20 (4.48%) Ansible
3 17 (3.81%) Kubernetes
4 15 (3.36%) Prometheus
5 13 (2.91%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (2.47%) Argo
7 7 (1.57%) Control-M
8 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Clustering
8 6 (1.35%) SCOM
9 4 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.90%) CA Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.90%) PingFederate
9 4 (0.90%) Podman
10 3 (0.67%) Consul
10 3 (0.67%) Istio
10 3 (0.67%) SELinux
11 2 (0.45%) Nessus
11 2 (0.45%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.45%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.22%) WSUS
Vendors
1 61 (13.68%) Microsoft
2 44 (9.87%) ServiceNow
3 24 (5.38%) Salesforce
3 24 (5.38%) SAP
4 20 (4.48%) Atlassian
4 20 (4.48%) Oracle
5 19 (4.26%) Splunk
6 18 (4.04%) Google
6 18 (4.04%) IBM
7 10 (2.24%) Informatica
8 8 (1.79%) Adobe
8 8 (1.79%) Temenos
9 7 (1.57%) xMatters
10 6 (1.35%) BMC
10 6 (1.35%) Commvault
10 6 (1.35%) Databricks
10 6 (1.35%) MuleSoft
10 6 (1.35%) Remedy
10 6 (1.35%) VMware
11 5 (1.12%) Red Hat