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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 99 127
Rank change year-on-year -7 +28 -28
Contract jobs citing Confluence 401 355 356
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.69% 2.59% 1.94%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.42% 21.40% 17.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 218 253
10th Percentile £350 £300 £385
25th Percentile £431 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £519 £575
Median % change year-on-year +6.02% -9.78% -0.86%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £810 £800
England median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
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 £42.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -32.80% - +16.82%

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 1,518 1,659 2,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.18% 12.10% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,051 1,023 1,442
10th Percentile £325 £308 £263
25th Percentile £415 £405 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £625
90th Percentile £738 £810 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £491
% change year-on-year - +1.78% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 31
10th Percentile - £18.19 £17.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £22.84 £21.75
Median hourly rate £23.68 £29.40 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.46% +6.91% +21.52%
75th Percentile £41.19 £39.73 £36.25
90th Percentile £92.44 £41.91 £49.08
England median hourly rate £25.42 £45.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -43.52% +76.47% +22.89%

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 5 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 5 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 -9 51 £525 -5.19% 29
South London -1 18 £519 +9.17% 5
West London -16 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 (7.98%) SharePoint
2 31 (7.73%) nginx
3 8 (2.00%) 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%) CICS
8 1 (0.25%) IIS
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 45 (11.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (10.47%) MS Visio
3 27 (6.73%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (6.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (4.74%) Microsoft Office
6 9 (2.24%) 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 (2.99%) 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 79 (19.70%) AWS
2 61 (15.21%) Azure
3 54 (13.47%) GitHub
4 33 (8.23%) Power Platform
5 29 (7.23%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (4.99%) Amazon S3
7 18 (4.49%) SaaS
8 17 (4.24%) Amazon EC2
8 17 (4.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 16 (3.99%) GCP
9 16 (3.99%) Serverless
10 14 (3.49%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (3.49%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (3.49%) Miro
11 13 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (3.24%) PowerApps
12 12 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (2.99%) Figma
12 12 (2.99%) Route 53
13 11 (2.74%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.99%) Firewall
2 15 (3.74%) DNS
3 14 (3.49%) VPN
4 11 (2.74%) FTP
4 11 (2.74%) SSH
4 11 (2.74%) WAN
5 8 (2.00%) Ethernet
5 8 (2.00%) HTTP
5 8 (2.00%) 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 (6.73%) Power BI
2 26 (6.48%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (5.49%) Tableau
4 14 (3.49%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (3.49%) SQL Server
5 13 (3.24%) NoSQL
6 11 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (2.24%) Amazon Aurora
7 9 (2.24%) Big Data
7 9 (2.24%) 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 4 (1.00%) DB2
11 3 (0.75%) DocumentDB
11 3 (0.75%) Redis
12 2 (0.50%) Tableau Desktop
12 2 (0.50%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 368 (91.77%) JIRA
2 51 (12.72%) Jenkins
3 48 (11.97%) Git
4 24 (5.99%) GitLab
5 23 (5.74%) Selenium
6 22 (5.49%) Bitbucket
7 18 (4.49%) SonarQube
8 12 (2.99%) Cucumber
9 11 (2.74%) Sonatype Nexus
10 10 (2.49%) JUnit
11 9 (2.24%) Postman
12 8 (2.00%) Maven
13 7 (1.75%) SpecFlow
13 7 (1.75%) Vagrant
14 6 (1.50%) Cypress.io
15 5 (1.25%) Zephyr
16 4 (1.00%) Android Studio
16 4 (1.00%) ScriptRunner
16 4 (1.00%) TestRail
17 3 (0.75%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 168 (41.90%) Social Skills
2 143 (35.66%) Finance
3 77 (19.20%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (16.71%) Banking
5 54 (13.47%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.99%) Documentation Skills
6 20 (4.99%) Investment Banking
7 15 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (3.49%) Front Office
8 14 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (3.24%) Legal
9 13 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (2.99%) Marketing
11 11 (2.74%) Retail
12 8 (2.00%) 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 98 (24.44%) Analyst
2 94 (23.44%) Business Analyst
3 44 (10.97%) Developer
4 43 (10.72%) Senior
5 34 (8.48%) Project Manager
6 29 (7.23%) Lead
7 19 (4.74%) Architect
7 19 (4.74%) Technical Business Analyst
8 18 (4.49%) Technical Analyst
9 17 (4.24%) Senior Business Analyst
10 15 (3.74%) Senior Analyst
11 13 (3.24%) Consultant
11 13 (3.24%) Product Owner
11 13 (3.24%) Scrum Master
12 12 (2.99%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (2.99%) DevOps Engineer
13 11 (2.74%) Banking Analyst
13 11 (2.74%) Full-Stack Developer
14 10 (2.49%) Banking Business Analyst
14 10 (2.49%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.99%) Kafka
2 15 (3.74%) .NET
3 14 (3.49%) LDAP
3 14 (3.49%) REST
3 14 (3.49%) RESTful
3 14 (3.49%) Spring
4 10 (2.49%) Apache NiFi
4 10 (2.49%) Playwright
5 9 (2.24%) HTML
5 9 (2.24%) Lightning Web Components
6 8 (2.00%) JSON
6 8 (2.00%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (2.00%) React
7 7 (1.75%) ADO
7 7 (1.75%) AngularJS
7 7 (1.75%) Node.js
7 7 (1.75%) OpenID
7 7 (1.75%) SOAP
7 7 (1.75%) Web Services
7 7 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (10.47%) Product Ownership
2 19 (4.74%) Onboarding
3 16 (3.99%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (2.99%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.49%) Cloud Native
5 10 (2.49%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.24%) PMI
6 9 (2.24%) Virtual Team
7 8 (2.00%) Equities
7 8 (2.00%) Replication
8 7 (1.75%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
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%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 38 (9.48%) Linux
2 21 (5.24%) Windows
3 11 (2.74%) Unix
4 10 (2.49%) 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
7 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (65.59%) Agile
2 116 (28.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 108 (26.93%) Scrum
4 87 (21.70%) DevOps
5 85 (21.20%) User Stories
6 83 (20.70%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (17.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 68 (16.96%) CI/CD
9 67 (16.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 58 (14.46%) Project Management
11 56 (13.97%) Acceptance Criteria
12 55 (13.72%) Roadmaps
13 51 (12.72%) Workshop Facilitation
14 49 (12.22%) Requirements Gathering
14 49 (12.22%) User Acceptance Testing
15 47 (11.72%) Test Automation
16 41 (10.22%) Change Management
16 41 (10.22%) Migration
17 40 (9.98%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 39 (9.73%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 70 (17.46%) SQL
2 55 (13.72%) Python
3 36 (8.98%) Java
4 20 (4.99%) JavaScript
5 18 (4.49%) PowerShell
6 11 (2.74%) Bash
6 11 (2.74%) C#
7 9 (2.24%) Apex Code
8 8 (2.00%) C++
8 8 (2.00%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.75%) Embedded C++
9 7 (1.75%) Groovy
10 6 (1.50%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.00%) Go
12 3 (0.75%) C
12 3 (0.75%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.50%) Korn
13 2 (0.50%) R
14 1 (0.25%) PHP
14 1 (0.25%) XPath
Qualifications
1 104 (25.94%) Security Cleared
2 99 (24.69%) SC Cleared
3 55 (13.72%) Degree
4 20 (4.99%) PMI Certification
5 18 (4.49%) CBAP
6 12 (2.99%) DV Cleared
6 12 (2.99%) PMP
7 10 (2.49%) AWS Certification
8 9 (2.24%) 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 40 (9.98%) QA
2 17 (4.24%) Accessibility
3 16 (3.99%) GDPR
4 14 (3.49%) PMO
5 9 (2.24%) 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%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.25%) EMIR
11 1 (0.25%) P3O
System Software
1 49 (12.22%) Docker
2 13 (3.24%) 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 44 (10.97%) Terraform
2 43 (10.72%) Kubernetes
3 20 (4.99%) Grafana
4 17 (4.24%) Consul
5 15 (3.74%) Prometheus
6 14 (3.49%) Ansible
7 13 (3.24%) 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%) HP ALM
10 4 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.75%) Istio
11 3 (0.75%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.50%) Argo
13 1 (0.25%) Network Intrusion Detection System
13 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
13 1 (0.25%) vRealize
Vendors
1 41 (10.22%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.48%) Salesforce
3 29 (7.23%) Atlassian
4 26 (6.48%) ServiceNow
5 16 (3.99%) Oracle
6 10 (2.49%) Google
6 10 (2.49%) SAP
7 8 (2.00%) Adobe
7 8 (2.00%) Cloudera
7 8 (2.00%) Foundry
7 8 (2.00%) MuleSoft
7 8 (2.00%) 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