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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 124 155
Rank change year-on-year +12 +31 -45
Contract jobs citing Confluence 430 289 277
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.43% 2.30% 1.55%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.34% 19.65% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 175 186
10th Percentile £365 £313 £363
25th Percentile £450 £419 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £516 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% -4.00% -10.42%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £638
90th Percentile £737 £750 £781
England median daily rate £500 £512 £538
% change year-on-year -2.34% -4.74% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £21.25
25th Percentile £61.25 - £22.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £26.75
75th Percentile £63.75 - £37.94
90th Percentile - - £52.50
England median hourly rate £62.75 £63.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year -1.57% +2.00% +8.70%

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 1,697 1,471 1,981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.57% 11.73% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,144 989 1,471
10th Percentile £357 £335 £263
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 8 29
10th Percentile £15.50 £25.34 £15.50
25th Percentile £17.50 £26.03 £22.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £26.73 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% -7.84% -17.14%
75th Percentile £32.32 £50.94 £33.00
90th Percentile £69.36 £53.75 £58.75
England median hourly rate £28.00 £52.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -46.67% +90.91% -12.00%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -20 44 £600 +4.35% 11
South London +3 28 £519 +9.17% 1
West London -19 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 (9.30%) SharePoint
2 16 (3.72%) nginx
3 6 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.93%) CMS
5 3 (0.70%) Apache
5 3 (0.70%) SAS
5 3 (0.70%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.47%) JBoss
6 2 (0.47%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.23%) CICS
7 1 (0.23%) Drupal
Applications
1 46 (10.70%) MS Visio
2 34 (7.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (5.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 25 (5.81%) Microsoft Project
4 15 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.40%) Notion
6 5 (1.16%) Trello
7 2 (0.47%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.23%) InDesign
8 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.79%) NetSuite
2 6 (1.40%) Temenos T24
3 5 (1.16%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.93%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.70%) Actimize
5 3 (0.70%) Aladdin
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%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.23%) Endur
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 71 (16.51%) AWS
2 64 (14.88%) Azure
3 36 (8.37%) GitHub
4 33 (7.67%) Power Platform
5 29 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (5.35%) Amazon S3
7 21 (4.88%) SaaS
7 21 (4.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 18 (4.19%) Serverless
9 17 (3.95%) Figma
10 16 (3.72%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (3.72%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (3.26%) GCP
12 12 (2.79%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (2.56%) Entra ID
13 11 (2.56%) Miro
14 10 (2.33%) Apigee
15 9 (2.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (2.09%) Lucidchart
16 8 (1.86%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.72%) Firewall
2 13 (3.02%) VPN
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 (1.16%) FTP
5 5 (1.16%) 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 27 (6.28%) Power BI
2 19 (4.42%) Tableau
3 15 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (2.33%) Metadata
6 9 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (2.09%) SQL Server
7 8 (1.86%) DynamoDB
8 7 (1.63%) BigQuery
8 7 (1.63%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.40%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (1.16%) Big Data
10 5 (1.16%) MongoDB
10 5 (1.16%) Tick Data
11 4 (0.93%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.70%) Amazon Aurora
12 3 (0.70%) Delta Lake
12 3 (0.70%) DocumentDB
12 3 (0.70%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 397 (92.33%) JIRA
2 56 (13.02%) Git
3 27 (6.28%) Jenkins
4 16 (3.72%) Bitbucket
4 16 (3.72%) Selenium
5 15 (3.49%) GitLab
6 14 (3.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (2.56%) SonarQube
8 10 (2.33%) Cypress.io
9 5 (1.16%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.16%) Maven
9 5 (1.16%) ScriptRunner
9 5 (1.16%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.93%) IntelliJ
10 4 (0.93%) JMeter
10 4 (0.93%) JUnit
10 4 (0.93%) Postman
10 4 (0.93%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.70%) Ant
11 3 (0.70%) Liquibase
General
1 162 (37.67%) Social Skills
2 159 (36.98%) Finance
3 88 (20.47%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (18.37%) Banking
5 72 (16.74%) Public Sector
6 28 (6.51%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (5.12%) Legal
8 17 (3.95%) Retail
9 15 (3.49%) Financial Institution
10 14 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (2.79%) Investment Banking
12 12 (2.79%) Marketing
12 12 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.63%) Front Office
14 6 (1.40%) Military
14 6 (1.40%) Publishing
15 5 (1.16%) Corporate Banking
15 5 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 3 (0.70%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 111 (25.81%) Analyst
2 100 (23.26%) Business Analyst
3 48 (11.16%) Developer
4 45 (10.47%) Senior
5 39 (9.07%) Lead
6 29 (6.74%) Project Manager
7 25 (5.81%) Architect
8 21 (4.88%) Delivery Manager
9 20 (4.65%) Consultant
10 19 (4.42%) Senior Analyst
11 15 (3.49%) Banking Analyst
11 15 (3.49%) Technical Analyst
11 15 (3.49%) Technical Business Analyst
12 14 (3.26%) Banking Business Analyst
13 12 (2.79%) Senior Business Analyst
13 12 (2.79%) Technical Manager
14 11 (2.56%) Data Business Analyst
14 11 (2.56%) Salesforce Developer
15 10 (2.33%) Scrum Master
16 9 (2.09%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.95%) REST
2 15 (3.49%) React
3 12 (2.79%) OpenID
4 11 (2.56%) AngularJS
4 11 (2.56%) LDAP
4 11 (2.56%) Spring
5 10 (2.33%) Lightning Web Components
6 9 (2.09%) ADO
6 9 (2.09%) RESTful
7 8 (1.86%) .NET
7 8 (1.86%) HTML
7 8 (1.86%) Kafka
7 8 (1.86%) Node.js
8 7 (1.63%) OAuth
9 6 (1.40%) OAuth2
9 6 (1.40%) SOAP
10 5 (1.16%) CSS
10 5 (1.16%) SAML
10 5 (1.16%) Spring Boot
10 5 (1.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 46 (10.70%) Product Ownership
2 21 (4.88%) Onboarding
3 17 (3.95%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (2.56%) Data Centre
5 10 (2.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 10 (2.33%) Virtual Team
6 9 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (1.86%) Cloud Native
7 8 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.63%) Equities
9 6 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.40%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.16%) Derivative
10 5 (1.16%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.93%) Clustering
11 4 (0.93%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.93%) PKI
11 4 (0.93%) PMI
11 4 (0.93%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 21 (4.88%) Linux
2 16 (3.72%) Windows
3 7 (1.63%) FreeRTOS
4 6 (1.40%) Android
4 6 (1.40%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (0.70%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.23%) Unix
6 1 (0.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (65.81%) Agile
2 139 (32.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 97 (22.56%) Scrum
4 85 (19.77%) User Stories
5 80 (18.60%) DevOps
5 80 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
6 76 (17.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 70 (16.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 65 (15.12%) Acceptance Criteria
9 59 (13.72%) CI/CD
9 59 (13.72%) Project Management
10 57 (13.26%) Workshop Facilitation
11 55 (12.79%) Migration
11 55 (12.79%) Roadmaps
12 51 (11.86%) Test Automation
13 50 (11.63%) User Acceptance Testing
14 49 (11.40%) SDLC
15 48 (11.16%) Requirements Gathering
16 45 (10.47%) Decision-Making
17 42 (9.77%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 65 (15.12%) SQL
2 57 (13.26%) Python
3 35 (8.14%) Java
4 25 (5.81%) JavaScript
5 16 (3.72%) TypeScript
6 12 (2.79%) PowerShell
7 10 (2.33%) Apex Code
7 10 (2.33%) Bash
8 8 (1.86%) C#
9 7 (1.63%) C++
9 7 (1.63%) Embedded C++
10 6 (1.40%) Groovy
10 6 (1.40%) Kotlin
11 3 (0.70%) C
11 3 (0.70%) Embedded C
11 3 (0.70%) Perl
11 3 (0.70%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.47%) Korn
12 2 (0.47%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.23%) XPath
Qualifications
1 132 (30.70%) Security Cleared
2 116 (26.98%) SC Cleared
3 31 (7.21%) Degree
4 15 (3.49%) CBAP
4 15 (3.49%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (2.56%) PMI Certification
6 10 (2.33%) IIBA
7 8 (1.86%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (1.86%) CISSP
8 7 (1.63%) CISM
8 7 (1.63%) PMP
9 6 (1.40%) AWS Certification
9 6 (1.40%) CSPO
9 6 (1.40%) ISEB
10 5 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (1.16%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.16%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 5 (1.16%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
11 4 (0.93%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.37%) QA
2 21 (4.88%) GDPR
3 19 (4.42%) Data Quality
4 18 (4.19%) PMO
5 16 (3.72%) Accessibility
6 10 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.40%) MiFID
8 5 (1.16%) SLA
8 5 (1.16%) WCAG
9 4 (0.93%) GRC
10 3 (0.70%) EMIR
10 3 (0.70%) ISO 20022
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%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.23%) NCSC
12 1 (0.23%) P3O
System Software
1 25 (5.81%) Docker
2 8 (1.86%) Squid
3 7 (1.63%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.63%) Embedded Firmware
3 7 (1.63%) Firmware
4 2 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 41 (9.53%) Terraform
2 30 (6.98%) Kubernetes
3 16 (3.72%) Grafana
4 15 (3.49%) Consul
4 15 (3.49%) Prometheus
5 14 (3.26%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (2.79%) Ansible
7 7 (1.63%) FortiGate
8 6 (1.40%) Jamf Pro
8 6 (1.40%) Packer
9 5 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 4 (0.93%) CA Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.93%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.93%) PingFederate
11 2 (0.47%) RSA Archer
12 1 (0.23%) CA Endevor
12 1 (0.23%) CASB
12 1 (0.23%) HP Quality Center
12 1 (0.23%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 40 (9.30%) ServiceNow
2 37 (8.60%) Salesforce
3 36 (8.37%) Microsoft
4 32 (7.44%) Atlassian
5 23 (5.35%) SAP
6 17 (3.95%) Oracle
7 12 (2.79%) Google
8 11 (2.56%) IBM
9 10 (2.33%) Databricks
9 10 (2.33%) MuleSoft
10 9 (2.09%) Adobe
10 9 (2.09%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.86%) Zscaler
12 7 (1.63%) Alteryx
12 7 (1.63%) Anaplan
12 7 (1.63%) Red Hat
12 7 (1.63%) Splunk
13 6 (1.40%) Workday
14 5 (1.16%) Murex
14 5 (1.16%) Zuora