Confluence Contracts in Manchester

Confluence
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Confluence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Confluence over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 87 94
Rank change year-on-year +26 +7 +9
Contract jobs citing Confluence 18 9 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.94% 0.59% 1.27%
As % of the Application Platforms category 12.59% 10.34% 17.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 17
10th Percentile £359 - £316
25th Percentile £405 £500 £337
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £563 £650 £525
90th Percentile £625 £665 £668
North West median daily rate £410 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -18.00% +5.26% -3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £73.00 - -
25th Percentile £73.75 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £78.13 - -
90th Percentile £78.50 - -
North West median hourly rate £75.00 - -

All Application Platform Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 143 87 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.44% 5.74% 7.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 60 103
10th Percentile £213 £251 £314
25th Percentile £375 £311 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.18% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £515 £526 £550
90th Percentile £600 £653 £650
North West median daily rate £425 £438 £475
% change year-on-year -2.86% -7.89% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile £16.14 £27.78 £16.67
25th Percentile £16.25 £34.19 £22.67
Median hourly rate £75.00 £45.50 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year +64.84% +70.09% +47.67%
75th Percentile £77.50 £57.44 £38.06
90th Percentile £78.25 £64.23 £54.83
North West median hourly rate £40.59 £32.12 £20.50
% change year-on-year +26.39% +56.66% +9.33%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Confluence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Confluence in Manchester

Confluence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Confluence in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Confluence in Manchester

Confluence
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Confluence in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Confluence in Manchester

Confluence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Confluence in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Confluence in Manchester

Confluence
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Confluence within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Bolton - 3 - -
Salford - 2 £450 -
Confluence
North West

Confluence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (16.67%) Slack
3 2 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.56%) Azure
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 2 (11.11%) MySQL
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 17 (94.44%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) Cucumber
2 2 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (11.11%) Jasmine
2 2 (11.11%) JUnit
3 1 (5.56%) Appium
3 1 (5.56%) Postman
3 1 (5.56%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (5.56%) Selenium
3 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (5.56%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.11%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
5 1 (5.56%) Aviation
5 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Project Manager
2 3 (16.67%) Developer
2 3 (16.67%) IT Manager
2 3 (16.67%) IT Project Manager
2 3 (16.67%) Lead
2 3 (16.67%) Senior
2 3 (16.67%) Technical Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Programme Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Programme Planner
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Data Centre Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Delivery Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) OpenAPI
1 2 (11.11%) RESTful
1 2 (11.11%) Spring
1 2 (11.11%) Spring Batch
1 2 (11.11%) Spring Boot
1 2 (11.11%) Spring Security
1 2 (11.11%) Swagger
2 1 (5.56%) Chai
2 1 (5.56%) Kafka
2 1 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (11.11%) Virtual Team
2 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Mainframe
2 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
1 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Agile
2 6 (33.33%) Project Management
3 5 (27.78%) Microservices
4 4 (22.22%) ITIL
5 3 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (16.67%) BDD
5 3 (16.67%) Generative AI
5 3 (16.67%) Kanban
5 3 (16.67%) LLM
5 3 (16.67%) Machine Learning
5 3 (16.67%) Migration
5 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 3 (16.67%) Scrum
5 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 2 (11.11%) Budget Management
6 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
6 2 (11.11%) Kernel Tuning
6 2 (11.11%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Bash
1 2 (11.11%) Java
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.56%) APMP
3 1 (5.56%) DBS Check
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) PMO
1 2 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Atlassian
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Dell
3 1 (5.56%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.56%) SAP
3 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow