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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 112 108
Rank change year-on-year +34 -4 -69
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Confluence 68 20 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.69% 0.75% 1.45%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.00% 8.89% 13.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 14 30
10th Percentile £277 £355 £281
25th Percentile £352 £379 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +1.85% +9.09%
75th Percentile £512 £634 £550
90th Percentile £588 £638 £600
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 272 225 321
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 10.78% 8.44% 10.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 150 232
10th Percentile £274 £255 £189
25th Percentile £340 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £423 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% -0.59% -10.53%
75th Percentile £537 £547 £540
90th Percentile £588 £638 £600
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 10
10th Percentile £23.11 £17.30 £11.77
25th Percentile £30.04 £22.50 £17.56
Median hourly rate £34.43 £48.56 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.10% +155.58% +7.04%
75th Percentile £41.39 £51.91 £21.13
90th Percentile £52.93 £54.38 £25.85
England median hourly rate £41.45 £36.25 £45.50
% change year-on-year +14.34% -20.33% +106.82%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Confluence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Confluence

Confluence
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Confluence in the Midlands over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Confluence in the Midlands

Confluence
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Confluence.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Confluence

Confluence
DemandTrendContract 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 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +29 54 £475 -17.39% 24
East Midlands +5 14 £330 -9.67% 11
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 8 (11.76%) nginx
2 5 (7.35%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.47%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (11.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (7.35%) MS Visio
3 4 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (4.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Loan IQ
2 1 (1.47%) Actimize
2 1 (1.47%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.47%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (35.29%) AWS
2 19 (27.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 19 (27.94%) Amazon EC2
2 19 (27.94%) Amazon S3
3 18 (26.47%) Amazon ELB
3 18 (26.47%) AWS KMS
3 18 (26.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 11 (16.18%) Azure
5 10 (14.71%) Amazon Glacier
6 8 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
6 8 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (11.76%) Route 53
7 4 (5.88%) Power Platform
8 3 (4.41%) IaaS
9 2 (2.94%) Lucidchart
9 2 (2.94%) PaaS
10 1 (1.47%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (1.47%) GCP
10 1 (1.47%) GitHub
10 1 (1.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (26.47%) SMTP
2 16 (23.53%) DNS
2 16 (23.53%) Firewall
2 16 (23.53%) FTP
2 16 (23.53%) HTTP
2 16 (23.53%) SSH
3 8 (11.76%) IMAP
3 8 (11.76%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (27.94%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (13.24%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (11.76%) Amazon Aurora
4 5 (7.35%) Big Data
4 5 (7.35%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (5.88%) SQL Server
6 3 (4.41%) Power BI
7 2 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.47%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 65 (95.59%) JIRA
2 21 (30.88%) Jenkins
3 20 (29.41%) Git
4 18 (26.47%) Vagrant
5 10 (14.71%) Bitbucket
6 7 (10.29%) GitLab
6 7 (10.29%) Selenium
7 5 (7.35%) JUnit
7 5 (7.35%) Maven
8 4 (5.88%) Cucumber
8 4 (5.88%) Mockito
8 4 (5.88%) SonarQube
8 4 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (4.41%) ScriptRunner
10 2 (2.94%) JMeter
10 2 (2.94%) Postman
10 2 (2.94%) REST Assured
10 2 (2.94%) TestNG
10 2 (2.94%) Travis CI
11 1 (1.47%) HP UFT
General
1 21 (30.88%) Public Sector
2 18 (26.47%) Social Skills
3 10 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (14.71%) Finance
4 7 (10.29%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.41%) Banking
6 2 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Automotive
7 1 (1.47%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.47%) Legal
7 1 (1.47%) Marketing
7 1 (1.47%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (19.12%) AWS Engineer
2 13 (19.12%) Business Analyst
2 13 (19.12%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 13 (19.12%) Platform Engineer
3 12 (17.65%) Analyst
3 12 (17.65%) AWS DevOps
3 12 (17.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 8 (11.76%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 7 (10.29%) Developer
5 7 (10.29%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 7 (10.29%) Engagement Manager
6 5 (7.35%) Senior
7 4 (5.88%) Administrator
7 4 (5.88%) Java Developer
7 4 (5.88%) JIRA Administrator
7 4 (5.88%) Technical Business Analyst
8 3 (4.41%) JIRA Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Technical Analyst
9 2 (2.94%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.76%) LDAP
2 5 (7.35%) CSS
2 5 (7.35%) Hibernate
2 5 (7.35%) HTML
2 5 (7.35%) Node.js
2 5 (7.35%) Spring Boot
3 4 (5.88%) Jest
3 4 (5.88%) JPA
3 4 (5.88%) React
3 4 (5.88%) Redux
4 1 (1.47%) Ajax
4 1 (1.47%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.47%) Bootstrap
4 1 (1.47%) Django
4 1 (1.47%) HTML5
4 1 (1.47%) jQuery
4 1 (1.47%) Kafka
4 1 (1.47%) Spring Integration
4 1 (1.47%) Spring MVC
4 1 (1.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (23.53%) Replication
2 4 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.41%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.47%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.47%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.47%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.47%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.47%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.47%) PMI
5 1 (1.47%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (32.35%) Windows
2 21 (30.88%) Linux
3 18 (26.47%) Amazon Linux
3 18 (26.47%) VMS
4 6 (8.82%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.47%) AIX
5 1 (1.47%) Solaris
5 1 (1.47%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (52.94%) Agile
2 32 (47.06%) DevOps
3 23 (33.82%) Change Management
4 18 (26.47%) CI/CD
4 18 (26.47%) Cloud Security
4 18 (26.47%) Configuration Management
4 18 (26.47%) Platform Engineering
5 16 (23.53%) Patch Management
6 14 (20.59%) Project Delivery
6 14 (20.59%) Project Management
7 11 (16.18%) Performance Tuning
8 9 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (10.29%) Agile Project Management
10 7 (10.29%) Analytics
10 7 (10.29%) Data Management
10 7 (10.29%) Microservices
10 7 (10.29%) Migration
10 7 (10.29%) Test Automation
11 6 (8.82%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 23 (33.82%) PowerShell
2 22 (32.35%) Python
3 21 (30.88%) Groovy
4 20 (29.41%) SQL
5 16 (23.53%) Java
6 10 (14.71%) Perl
7 7 (10.29%) JavaScript
8 3 (4.41%) Bash
9 2 (2.94%) R
10 1 (1.47%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.47%) Bicep
10 1 (1.47%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.47%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (51.47%) Security Cleared
2 33 (48.53%) SC Cleared
3 10 (14.71%) Degree
4 6 (8.82%) AWS Certification
4 6 (8.82%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.94%) CBAP
5 2 (2.94%) CEH
5 2 (2.94%) CISSP
5 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.94%) IIBA
5 2 (2.94%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.47%) CAPM
6 1 (1.47%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.47%) PMP
6 1 (1.47%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.94%) GDPR
1 2 (2.94%) QA
2 1 (1.47%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.47%) Automotive SPICE
2 1 (1.47%) EMIR
2 1 (1.47%) ISO 26262
2 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.47%) MiFID
2 1 (1.47%) NIST
2 1 (1.47%) SLA
2 1 (1.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (33.82%) Docker
2 16 (23.53%) DFS Replication
3 10 (14.71%) Active Directory
4 8 (11.76%) Dovecot
4 8 (11.76%) Postfix
4 8 (11.76%) Squid
5 4 (5.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (27.94%) Terraform
2 18 (26.47%) Grafana
2 18 (26.47%) Prometheus
3 8 (11.76%) Nessus
4 6 (8.82%) Proxmox
5 5 (7.35%) Kubernetes
6 4 (5.88%) SCCM
7 2 (2.94%) Kibana
8 1 (1.47%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (27.94%) ServiceNow
2 12 (17.65%) Atlassian
3 8 (11.76%) Jaspersoft
3 8 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.88%) Veracode
5 3 (4.41%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.94%) DocuSign
6 2 (2.94%) SAP
7 1 (1.47%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.47%) Databricks
7 1 (1.47%) IBM
7 1 (1.47%) Oracle
7 1 (1.47%) Trayport
7 1 (1.47%) Workday