Confluence Contracts in the Midlands

Confluence
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 63 116 56
Rank change year-on-year +53 -60 -4
Contract jobs citing Confluence 50 17 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.61% 0.62% 3.92%
As % of the Application Platforms category 27.78% 8.29% 30.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 9 103
10th Percentile £291 £312 £375
25th Percentile £449 £355 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year +6.05% -11.71% +19.56%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £540
90th Percentile £562 £590 £600
England median daily rate £512 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.74% -2.27% +4.76%

All Application Platform Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 180 205 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.40% 7.44% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 144 323
10th Percentile £250 £147 £209
25th Percentile £363 £298 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £375 £455
Median % change year-on-year +22.67% -17.58% +1.56%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £540
90th Percentile £588 £638 £619
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 9
10th Percentile £16.60 £17.47 £14.48
25th Percentile £16.94 £22.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.50 £39.53 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.20% +113.68% -7.50%
75th Percentile £20.24 £51.91 £26.48
90th Percentile £32.36 - £34.93
England median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Confluence in the Midlands

Confluence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Confluence in the Midlands

Confluence
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Confluence in the Midlands

Confluence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Confluence in the Midlands

Confluence
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Confluence within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +40 35 £512 -6.91% 30
East Midlands +16 14 £449 +30.00% 6
Confluence
England

Confluence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (4.00%) SAS
2 1 (2.00%) Appian
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.00%) Open Workbench
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.00%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 14 (28.00%) AWS
2 3 (6.00%) Azure
3 2 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (4.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (4.00%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (4.00%) AWS CodeCommit
3 2 (4.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 2 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (4.00%) Boomi
3 2 (4.00%) IaaS
3 2 (4.00%) OCI
3 2 (4.00%) PaaS
3 2 (4.00%) SaaS
3 2 (4.00%) Serverless
4 1 (2.00%) Asana
4 1 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.00%) DHCP
1 2 (4.00%) DNS
1 2 (4.00%) Firewall
1 2 (4.00%) HTTP
1 2 (4.00%) OpenLDAP
1 2 (4.00%) SAN
1 2 (4.00%) SSL
1 2 (4.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.00%) Big Data
1 6 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (6.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.00%) IDMS
3 2 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.00%) Looker
4 1 (2.00%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 48 (96.00%) JIRA
2 10 (20.00%) GitLab
3 8 (16.00%) Bitbucket
4 7 (14.00%) Jenkins
4 7 (14.00%) Selenium
5 6 (12.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (12.00%) Maven
6 5 (10.00%) Git
7 4 (8.00%) JUnit
7 4 (8.00%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (6.00%) Cucumber
8 3 (6.00%) JMeter
8 3 (6.00%) Postman
8 3 (6.00%) REST Assured
8 3 (6.00%) ScriptRunner
8 3 (6.00%) TestNG
8 3 (6.00%) Travis CI
9 2 (4.00%) CA Release Automation
9 2 (4.00%) Gradle
9 2 (4.00%) Mockito
General
1 16 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (26.00%) Finance
3 6 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.00%) Marketing
4 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.00%) Automotive
5 1 (2.00%) Banking
5 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (22.00%) Engagement Manager
2 6 (12.00%) Developer
2 6 (12.00%) Senior
3 4 (8.00%) Data Engineer
3 4 (8.00%) Data Manager
3 4 (8.00%) Programme Manager
3 4 (8.00%) Technical Manager
4 3 (6.00%) Delivery Manager
4 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) Java Developer
4 3 (6.00%) JIRA Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) Scrum Master
4 3 (6.00%) Technical Programme Manager
4 3 (6.00%) Tester
5 2 (4.00%) Analyst
5 2 (4.00%) Lead
5 2 (4.00%) Python Developer
5 2 (4.00%) Senior Developer
5 2 (4.00%) Senior Manager
5 2 (4.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.00%) CSS
1 4 (8.00%) Hibernate
1 4 (8.00%) HTML
1 4 (8.00%) Node.js
1 4 (8.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (4.00%) Ajax
2 2 (4.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (4.00%) Bootstrap
2 2 (4.00%) Django
2 2 (4.00%) HTML5
2 2 (4.00%) JPA
2 2 (4.00%) jQuery
2 2 (4.00%) Kafka
2 2 (4.00%) LDAP
2 2 (4.00%) React
2 2 (4.00%) Spring
2 2 (4.00%) Spring Integration
2 2 (4.00%) Spring MVC
2 2 (4.00%) Web Services
2 2 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (4.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.00%) IoT
3 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.00%) Linux
1 6 (12.00%) Unix
2 2 (4.00%) CentOS
2 2 (4.00%) Debian
2 2 (4.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (84.00%) Agile
2 16 (32.00%) Project Delivery
2 16 (32.00%) Project Management
3 12 (24.00%) Agile Project Management
4 10 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 10 (20.00%) DevOps
5 9 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (18.00%) Scrum
6 8 (16.00%) Analytics
6 8 (16.00%) Microservices
6 8 (16.00%) Test Automation
7 7 (14.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (12.00%) Data Transformation
8 6 (12.00%) Sprint Planning
8 6 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (10.00%) Migration
9 5 (10.00%) Regression Testing
9 5 (10.00%) TDD
10 4 (8.00%) Asset Management
10 4 (8.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.00%) SQL
2 8 (16.00%) Python
3 6 (12.00%) Java
3 6 (12.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (12.00%) Shell Script
4 4 (8.00%) PL/SQL
5 3 (6.00%) Bash
5 3 (6.00%) Groovy
6 2 (4.00%) COBOL
6 2 (4.00%) R
6 2 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (26.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (22.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.00%) ISTQB
4 3 (6.00%) CEH
4 3 (6.00%) CISSP
4 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (6.00%) Degree
5 2 (4.00%) ISEB
5 2 (4.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.00%) CBAP
6 1 (2.00%) IIBA
6 1 (2.00%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.00%) PMP
6 1 (2.00%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (14.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.00%) Puppet
3 3 (6.00%) Kibana
4 2 (4.00%) Nessus
4 2 (4.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (26.00%) Atlassian
2 4 (8.00%) IBM
2 4 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.00%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (4.00%) Oracle
3 2 (4.00%) Sophos
3 2 (4.00%) Veracode
3 2 (4.00%) VMware
4 1 (2.00%) Databricks
4 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.00%) Talend