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 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 97 110
Rank change year-on-year -4 +13 -17
Contract jobs citing Confluence 430 376 428
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.99% 2.48% 2.26%
As % of the Application Platforms category 27.16% 20.60% 20.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 245 282
10th Percentile £331 £301 £400
25th Percentile £450 £410 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £559
Median % change year-on-year - -1.57% -2.83%
75th Percentile £650 £666 £675
90th Percentile £738 £810 £810
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £35.50
25th Percentile - - £41.88
Median hourly rate £43.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £61.25
90th Percentile - - £63.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £67.27
% change year-on-year - -7.08% +34.53%

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 1,583 1,825 2,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.02% 12.05% 10.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,101 1,185 1,436
10th Percentile £325 £303 £294
25th Percentile £413 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £650
90th Percentile £750 £825 £775
England median daily rate £500 £514 £500
% change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 19 25
10th Percentile - £17.82 £18.60
25th Percentile £17.50 £22.40 £21.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -13.45% +14.58%
75th Percentile £35.75 £40.46 £44.54
90th Percentile £60.32 £78.50 £64.50
England median hourly rate £32.77 £41.91 £26.00
% change year-on-year -21.81% +61.19% +40.54%

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 16 December 2025.

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 16 December 2025. 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 61 £510 -10.13% 7
South London +10 20 £582 +36.08% 1
West London -15 7 £415 -17.00% 5
East London +2 1 £520 -5.45% 1
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 28 (6.51%) nginx
2 25 (5.81%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.33%) Apache
4 3 (0.70%) CMS
4 3 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (0.70%) Traefik
5 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.23%) Appian
5 1 (0.23%) CICS
5 1 (0.23%) IIS
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 47 (10.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (10.00%) MS Visio
3 32 (7.44%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (5.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (2.79%) Trello
7 10 (2.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 5 (1.16%) Notion
9 2 (0.47%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.47%) InDesign
9 2 (0.47%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.23%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.23%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 12 (2.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 10 (2.33%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.93%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.70%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.70%) Oracle BPM
4 3 (0.70%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.47%) Shopify
6 1 (0.23%) Endur
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.23%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 91 (21.16%) AWS
2 67 (15.58%) Azure
3 51 (11.86%) GitHub
4 28 (6.51%) Power Platform
5 26 (6.05%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (5.58%) Amazon S3
7 23 (5.35%) Amazon EC2
8 21 (4.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 20 (4.65%) Serverless
10 19 (4.42%) GCP
11 17 (3.95%) SaaS
12 16 (3.72%) Miro
13 15 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (3.26%) Amazon ECS
14 14 (3.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 13 (3.02%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (3.02%) Slack
16 11 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
17 10 (2.33%) Amazon ELB
17 10 (2.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.88%) Firewall
2 17 (3.95%) DNS
3 16 (3.72%) SSH
3 16 (3.72%) SSL
4 15 (3.49%) OpenLDAP
5 13 (3.02%) FTP
6 11 (2.56%) HTTP
6 11 (2.56%) SMTP
7 10 (2.33%) IMAP
7 10 (2.33%) VPN
8 7 (1.63%) SD-WAN
8 7 (1.63%) WAN
9 5 (1.16%) Network Security
10 3 (0.70%) BGP
10 3 (0.70%) BIG-IP
10 3 (0.70%) DHCP
10 3 (0.70%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 3 (0.70%) LAN
10 3 (0.70%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (6.28%) Power BI
3 23 (5.35%) Tableau
4 17 (3.95%) SQL Server
5 16 (3.72%) Hadoop
6 14 (3.26%) Big Data
6 14 (3.26%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (3.02%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (2.79%) Amazon Aurora
9 11 (2.56%) NoSQL
10 7 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.40%) BigQuery
12 5 (1.16%) Metadata
12 5 (1.16%) Oracle Database
13 4 (0.93%) DB2
13 4 (0.93%) MongoDB
13 4 (0.93%) Tick Data
14 3 (0.70%) MySQL
15 2 (0.47%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 2 (0.47%) Redis
Development Applications
1 398 (92.56%) JIRA
2 57 (13.26%) Jenkins
3 55 (12.79%) Git
4 30 (6.98%) GitLab
5 24 (5.58%) Bitbucket
6 19 (4.42%) Selenium
7 13 (3.02%) Cucumber
7 13 (3.02%) SonarQube
8 12 (2.79%) Postman
9 11 (2.56%) Vagrant
10 9 (2.09%) JUnit
11 8 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (1.86%) SpecFlow
12 7 (1.63%) Cypress.io
13 5 (1.16%) Maven
13 5 (1.16%) Zephyr
14 4 (0.93%) Android Studio
14 4 (0.93%) ScriptRunner
14 4 (0.93%) TeamCity
15 3 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 188 (43.72%) Social Skills
2 133 (30.93%) Finance
3 71 (16.51%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (15.35%) Banking
5 52 (12.09%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
7 17 (3.95%) Front Office
8 16 (3.72%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (3.72%) Investment Banking
8 16 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (2.56%) Legal
9 11 (2.56%) Retail
10 9 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (2.09%) Telecoms
11 7 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.63%) Marketing
12 6 (1.40%) Back Office
13 5 (1.16%) Electronics
13 5 (1.16%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.16%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 89 (20.70%) Analyst
2 79 (18.37%) Business Analyst
3 55 (12.79%) Senior
4 39 (9.07%) Project Manager
5 35 (8.14%) Developer
6 28 (6.51%) Architect
7 27 (6.28%) Lead
8 22 (5.12%) Product Owner
9 19 (4.42%) DevOps Engineer
10 17 (3.95%) Scrum Master
11 16 (3.72%) Senior Analyst
11 16 (3.72%) Technical Analyst
11 16 (3.72%) Technical Business Analyst
12 15 (3.49%) AWS Engineer
12 15 (3.49%) Platform Engineer
12 15 (3.49%) Senior Business Analyst
13 14 (3.26%) Data Engineer
14 13 (3.02%) AWS DevOps
14 13 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
15 12 (2.79%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (7.21%) REST
2 30 (6.98%) LDAP
3 23 (5.35%) AngularJS
3 23 (5.35%) Kafka
4 22 (5.12%) JSON
4 22 (5.12%) RabbitMQ
5 21 (4.88%) HTML
6 19 (4.42%) .NET
6 19 (4.42%) SOAP
6 19 (4.42%) Web Services
7 15 (3.49%) Apache NiFi
8 13 (3.02%) HTML5
8 13 (3.02%) SAML
9 12 (2.79%) Apache Camel
9 12 (2.79%) JDBC
9 12 (2.79%) jQuery
9 12 (2.79%) ODBC
10 11 (2.56%) Playwright
10 11 (2.56%) React
10 11 (2.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 53 (12.33%) Product Ownership
2 21 (4.88%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.26%) Replication
4 13 (3.02%) Analytical Mindset
4 13 (3.02%) Management Information System
5 12 (2.79%) Cloud Native
6 11 (2.56%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.33%) Equities
8 9 (2.09%) PMI
9 8 (1.86%) Derivative
9 8 (1.86%) NHS
9 8 (1.86%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.16%) Fixed Income
12 5 (1.16%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.16%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 4 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 4 (0.93%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 45 (10.47%) Linux
2 26 (6.05%) Windows
3 19 (4.42%) Unix
4 13 (3.02%) VMS
5 11 (2.56%) Ubuntu
6 10 (2.33%) Amazon Linux
7 6 (1.40%) Android
8 2 (0.47%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.47%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.23%) CentOS
9 1 (0.23%) Debian
9 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 287 (66.74%) Agile
2 130 (30.23%) Scrum
3 103 (23.95%) DevOps
4 101 (23.49%) Stakeholder Management
5 88 (20.47%) Problem-Solving
6 80 (18.60%) CI/CD
7 73 (16.98%) User Stories
8 72 (16.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 69 (16.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 57 (13.26%) Roadmaps
11 56 (13.02%) Change Management
12 53 (12.33%) Microservices
12 53 (12.33%) Project Management
13 49 (11.40%) Migration
14 46 (10.70%) User Acceptance Testing
14 46 (10.70%) Workshop Facilitation
15 45 (10.47%) Requirements Gathering
16 42 (9.77%) Test Automation
17 39 (9.07%) Acceptance Criteria
17 39 (9.07%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 78 (18.14%) SQL
2 67 (15.58%) Python
3 41 (9.53%) Java
4 32 (7.44%) JavaScript
5 15 (3.49%) PowerShell
6 12 (2.79%) Go
7 11 (2.56%) Bash
7 11 (2.56%) C#
7 11 (2.56%) TypeScript
8 10 (2.33%) Groovy
9 7 (1.63%) Apex Code
10 6 (1.40%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.16%) C++
12 2 (0.47%) C
12 2 (0.47%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.47%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.47%) Korn
12 2 (0.47%) PHP
12 2 (0.47%) R
13 1 (0.23%) Swift
Qualifications
1 116 (26.98%) Security Cleared
2 114 (26.51%) SC Cleared
3 66 (15.35%) Degree
4 21 (4.88%) PMI Certification
5 17 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (3.95%) DV Cleared
6 15 (3.49%) CBAP
7 13 (3.02%) AWS Certification
7 13 (3.02%) PMP
8 11 (2.56%) CSPO
9 10 (2.33%) Azure Certification
9 10 (2.33%) CISSP
10 9 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.63%) ISTQB
12 6 (1.40%) CESG Certified Professional
12 6 (1.40%) CFA
13 5 (1.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.70%) CCIE
15 3 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (12.09%) QA
2 16 (3.72%) GDPR
3 14 (3.26%) PMO
4 13 (3.02%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.16%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.16%) GRC
6 4 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.93%) SEPA
7 3 (0.70%) ISO 20022
7 3 (0.70%) ITGC
7 3 (0.70%) MiFID
7 3 (0.70%) NCSC
7 3 (0.70%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.70%) PSD2
7 3 (0.70%) WCAG
8 2 (0.47%) FIPS 140-2
9 1 (0.23%) Basel III
9 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.23%) FATCA
System Software
1 47 (10.93%) Docker
2 12 (2.79%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.33%) DFS Replication
3 10 (2.33%) Dovecot
3 10 (2.33%) Postfix
3 10 (2.33%) Squid
4 6 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.70%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.47%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.47%) Firmware
6 2 (0.47%) vSphere
7 1 (0.23%) etcd
7 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.23%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 42 (9.77%) Terraform
2 40 (9.30%) Kubernetes
3 18 (4.19%) Ansible
3 18 (4.19%) Grafana
4 13 (3.02%) Prometheus
4 13 (3.02%) Single Sign-On
5 12 (2.79%) Packer
6 11 (2.56%) Consul
7 10 (2.33%) Nessus
7 10 (2.33%) Proxmox
8 4 (0.93%) Puppet
9 3 (0.70%) Ambari
9 3 (0.70%) HP ALM
9 3 (0.70%) Istio
9 3 (0.70%) RSA Archer
9 3 (0.70%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.47%) Argo
11 1 (0.23%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.23%) HP Operations Orchestration
11 1 (0.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 43 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 41 (9.53%) ServiceNow
3 31 (7.21%) Atlassian
4 29 (6.74%) Salesforce
5 15 (3.49%) HP
5 15 (3.49%) Remedy
6 14 (3.26%) Oracle
7 13 (3.02%) Cloudera
7 13 (3.02%) Foundry
7 13 (3.02%) Palantir
8 12 (2.79%) BMC
8 12 (2.79%) Google
8 12 (2.79%) Ivanti
8 12 (2.79%) SAP
9 10 (2.33%) Jaspersoft
10 7 (1.63%) Adobe
10 7 (1.63%) Cisco
10 7 (1.63%) DocuSign
10 7 (1.63%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.63%) Splunk