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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 95 108
Rank change year-on-year -8 +13 -12
Contract jobs citing Confluence 419 381 429
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.93% 2.53% 2.27%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.76% 21.20% 20.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 249 284
10th Percentile £350 £300 £387
25th Percentile £450 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £559
Median % change year-on-year - -1.57% -2.83%
75th Percentile £652 £663 £675
90th Percentile £741 £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% +31.89%

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 1,566 1,797 2,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.96% 11.93% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,082 1,165 1,441
10th Percentile £325 £303 £288
25th Percentile £413 £409 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £699 £650
90th Percentile £750 £825 £775
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 18 25
10th Percentile - £17.72 £18.60
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.70 £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 £41.18 £44.54
90th Percentile £60.32 £85.88 £64.50
England median hourly rate £32.77 £41.91 £25.00
% change year-on-year -21.81% +67.64% +37.17%

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 18 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 18 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 +10 60 £510 -9.93% 9
South London +13 20 £582 +36.08%
West London -16 7 £415 -17.00% 5
East London +2 1 £520 -5.45% 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 28 (6.68%) nginx
2 26 (6.21%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.39%) Apache
4 3 (0.72%) CMS
4 3 (0.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (0.72%) Traefik
5 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.24%) CICS
5 1 (0.24%) IIS
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 42 (10.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (9.55%) MS Visio
3 29 (6.92%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (5.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (4.06%) Microsoft Office
6 12 (2.86%) Trello
7 10 (2.39%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 5 (1.19%) Notion
9 2 (0.48%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.48%) InDesign
9 2 (0.48%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.24%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.24%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.24%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 10 (2.39%) NetSuite
2 8 (1.91%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.95%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.72%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.72%) Oracle BPM
4 3 (0.72%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.48%) Shopify
6 1 (0.24%) Endur
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.24%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 91 (21.72%) AWS
2 68 (16.23%) Azure
3 52 (12.41%) GitHub
4 29 (6.92%) Power Platform
5 26 (6.21%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (5.73%) Amazon S3
7 23 (5.49%) Amazon EC2
8 21 (5.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 20 (4.77%) Serverless
10 19 (4.53%) GCP
11 17 (4.06%) SaaS
12 15 (3.58%) Miro
13 14 (3.34%) Amazon ECS
13 14 (3.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 13 (3.10%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
15 12 (2.86%) Slack
16 11 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
17 10 (2.39%) Amazon ELB
17 10 (2.39%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 21 (5.01%) Firewall
2 16 (3.82%) SSH
3 15 (3.58%) DNS
3 15 (3.58%) OpenLDAP
4 13 (3.10%) FTP
4 13 (3.10%) SSL
5 11 (2.63%) HTTP
5 11 (2.63%) SMTP
6 10 (2.39%) IMAP
6 10 (2.39%) VPN
7 7 (1.67%) SD-WAN
7 7 (1.67%) WAN
8 5 (1.19%) Network Security
9 3 (0.72%) BGP
9 3 (0.72%) BIG-IP
9 3 (0.72%) Ethernet
9 3 (0.72%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 3 (0.72%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 3 (0.72%) LAN
9 3 (0.72%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (7.16%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (6.68%) Power BI
3 24 (5.73%) Tableau
4 17 (4.06%) SQL Server
5 16 (3.82%) Hadoop
6 14 (3.34%) Big Data
6 14 (3.34%) Elasticsearch
7 13 (3.10%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
8 12 (2.86%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.43%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.43%) Metadata
11 5 (1.19%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.19%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.95%) DB2
12 4 (0.95%) Tick Data
13 3 (0.72%) MySQL
14 2 (0.48%) DynamoDB
14 2 (0.48%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 388 (92.60%) JIRA
2 57 (13.60%) Jenkins
3 55 (13.13%) Git
4 30 (7.16%) GitLab
5 24 (5.73%) Bitbucket
6 19 (4.53%) Selenium
7 13 (3.10%) Cucumber
7 13 (3.10%) SonarQube
8 12 (2.86%) Postman
9 11 (2.63%) Vagrant
10 9 (2.15%) JUnit
11 8 (1.91%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (1.91%) SpecFlow
12 7 (1.67%) Cypress.io
13 5 (1.19%) Maven
14 4 (0.95%) Android Studio
14 4 (0.95%) ScriptRunner
14 4 (0.95%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.95%) Zephyr
15 3 (0.72%) Visual Website Optimizer
General
1 182 (43.44%) Social Skills
2 134 (31.98%) Finance
3 72 (17.18%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (15.51%) Banking
5 54 (12.89%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.30%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (3.82%) Investment Banking
8 15 (3.58%) Documentation Skills
8 15 (3.58%) Front Office
8 15 (3.58%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.39%) Legal
10 9 (2.15%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.91%) Retail
12 7 (1.67%) Marketing
13 6 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.19%) Back Office
14 5 (1.19%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.19%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.19%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 88 (21.00%) Analyst
2 79 (18.85%) Business Analyst
3 50 (11.93%) Senior
4 36 (8.59%) Developer
4 36 (8.59%) Project Manager
5 28 (6.68%) Lead
6 23 (5.49%) Architect
7 22 (5.25%) Product Owner
8 19 (4.53%) DevOps Engineer
9 17 (4.06%) Scrum Master
10 16 (3.82%) Senior Analyst
10 16 (3.82%) Technical Analyst
10 16 (3.82%) Technical Business Analyst
11 15 (3.58%) AWS Engineer
11 15 (3.58%) Platform Engineer
11 15 (3.58%) Senior Business Analyst
12 14 (3.34%) Data Engineer
13 13 (3.10%) AWS DevOps
14 12 (2.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 12 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (6.44%) REST
2 26 (6.21%) LDAP
3 24 (5.73%) Kafka
4 18 (4.30%) .NET
4 18 (4.30%) AngularJS
4 18 (4.30%) HTML
4 18 (4.30%) JSON
4 18 (4.30%) RabbitMQ
5 15 (3.58%) Apache NiFi
5 15 (3.58%) SOAP
5 15 (3.58%) Web Services
6 12 (2.86%) RESTful
7 11 (2.63%) Playwright
7 11 (2.63%) Spring
8 10 (2.39%) React
9 9 (2.15%) HTML5
9 9 (2.15%) SAML
10 8 (1.91%) JDBC
10 8 (1.91%) ODBC
10 8 (1.91%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (11.93%) Product Ownership
2 20 (4.77%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.34%) Replication
4 13 (3.10%) Analytical Mindset
4 13 (3.10%) Management Information System
5 11 (2.63%) Cloud Native
5 11 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 11 (2.63%) Equities
6 9 (2.15%) PMI
7 8 (1.91%) NHS
8 7 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (1.67%) Virtual Team
9 6 (1.43%) Derivative
9 6 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 5 (1.19%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.19%) Mobile App
10 5 (1.19%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 45 (10.74%) Linux
2 24 (5.73%) Windows
3 19 (4.53%) Unix
4 13 (3.10%) VMS
5 11 (2.63%) Ubuntu
6 10 (2.39%) Amazon Linux
7 6 (1.43%) Android
8 2 (0.48%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.48%) FreeRTOS
9 1 (0.24%) CentOS
9 1 (0.24%) Debian
9 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 279 (66.59%) Agile
2 127 (30.31%) Scrum
3 105 (25.06%) Stakeholder Management
4 101 (24.11%) DevOps
5 91 (21.72%) Problem-Solving
6 81 (19.33%) CI/CD
7 75 (17.90%) User Stories
8 68 (16.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 63 (15.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 57 (13.60%) Roadmaps
11 56 (13.37%) Change Management
12 55 (13.13%) Project Management
13 50 (11.93%) Migration
14 48 (11.46%) Microservices
14 48 (11.46%) Workshop Facilitation
15 44 (10.50%) Requirements Gathering
16 43 (10.26%) Test Automation
17 42 (10.02%) User Acceptance Testing
18 41 (9.79%) Acceptance Criteria
18 41 (9.79%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 76 (18.14%) SQL
2 66 (15.75%) Python
3 39 (9.31%) Java
4 28 (6.68%) JavaScript
5 15 (3.58%) PowerShell
6 12 (2.86%) Go
7 11 (2.63%) Bash
7 11 (2.63%) C#
8 10 (2.39%) Groovy
8 10 (2.39%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.67%) Apex Code
10 6 (1.43%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.19%) C++
12 2 (0.48%) C
12 2 (0.48%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.48%) Embedded C++
12 2 (0.48%) Korn
12 2 (0.48%) PHP
12 2 (0.48%) R
13 1 (0.24%) Swift
Qualifications
1 117 (27.92%) Security Cleared
2 116 (27.68%) SC Cleared
3 64 (15.27%) Degree
4 21 (5.01%) PMI Certification
5 17 (4.06%) CBAP
5 17 (4.06%) DV Cleared
6 15 (3.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (3.10%) AWS Certification
7 13 (3.10%) PMP
8 11 (2.63%) CSPO
9 10 (2.39%) Azure Certification
9 10 (2.39%) CISSP
10 9 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (1.67%) CFA
11 7 (1.67%) ISTQB
12 6 (1.43%) CESG Certified Professional
13 5 (1.19%) IIBA
13 5 (1.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 4 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
15 3 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (11.69%) QA
2 15 (3.58%) GDPR
3 13 (3.10%) Accessibility
4 12 (2.86%) PMO
5 6 (1.43%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.19%) GRC
7 4 (0.95%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.95%) SEPA
8 3 (0.72%) ITGC
8 3 (0.72%) NCSC
8 3 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.72%) PSD2
8 3 (0.72%) WCAG
9 2 (0.48%) FIPS 140-2
9 2 (0.48%) MiFID
10 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.24%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 48 (11.46%) Docker
2 10 (2.39%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.39%) DFS Replication
2 10 (2.39%) Dovecot
2 10 (2.39%) Postfix
2 10 (2.39%) Squid
3 6 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.48%) Firmware
4 2 (0.48%) vSphere
5 1 (0.24%) etcd
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.24%) VirtualBox
5 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 42 (10.02%) Terraform
2 41 (9.79%) Kubernetes
3 18 (4.30%) Ansible
3 18 (4.30%) Grafana
4 13 (3.10%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.86%) Packer
6 11 (2.63%) Consul
7 10 (2.39%) Nessus
7 10 (2.39%) Proxmox
8 9 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.95%) Puppet
10 3 (0.72%) Ambari
10 3 (0.72%) Istio
10 3 (0.72%) RSA Archer
10 3 (0.72%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.48%) Argo
11 2 (0.48%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
12 1 (0.24%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.24%) vRealize
Vendors
1 43 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 36 (8.59%) ServiceNow
3 31 (7.40%) Atlassian
4 27 (6.44%) Salesforce
5 14 (3.34%) Oracle
6 13 (3.10%) Cloudera
6 13 (3.10%) Foundry
6 13 (3.10%) Palantir
7 12 (2.86%) Google
7 12 (2.86%) SAP
8 11 (2.63%) Remedy
9 10 (2.39%) HP
9 10 (2.39%) Jaspersoft
10 8 (1.91%) BMC
10 8 (1.91%) Ivanti
11 7 (1.67%) Adobe
11 7 (1.67%) Cisco
11 7 (1.67%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.67%) Splunk
11 7 (1.67%) VMware