Confluence Contracts in the North of England

Confluence
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 69 143 114
Rank change year-on-year +74 -29 -6
Contract jobs citing Confluence 103 42 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.13% 0.88% 1.99%
As % of the Application Platforms category 20.68% 11.83% 23.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 30 94
10th Percentile £355 £413 £335
25th Percentile £380 £489 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +0.96% +4.00%
75th Percentile £519 £613 £619
90th Percentile £625 £646 £775
England median daily rate £512 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.74% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £73.00 - -
25th Percentile £73.75 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £62.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -
75th Percentile £78.13 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £78.50 - -
England median hourly rate £63.75 £62.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +2.00% +8.70% +15.00%

All Application Platform Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 498 355 493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.11% 7.45% 8.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 235 355
10th Percentile £188 £203 £200
25th Percentile £333 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -2.63% +8.57%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £610 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 38 10
10th Percentile £16.85 £13.00 £15.89
25th Percentile £24.76 £13.31 £16.63
Median hourly rate £41.00 £15.23 £22.25
Median % change year-on-year +169.21% -31.55% +20.27%
75th Percentile £57.59 £44.47 £28.06
90th Percentile £77.00 £46.18 £36.98
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Confluence in the North of England

Confluence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Confluence in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Confluence in the North of England

Confluence
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Confluence in the North of England

Confluence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Confluence in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Confluence in the North of England

Confluence
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Confluence within the North of England 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
Yorkshire +45 59 £449 -18.45% 27
North West +39 42 £410 -18.00% 37
North East +6 8 £525 - 5
Confluence
England

Confluence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (3.88%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.94%) Tuxedo
3 1 (0.97%) nginx
3 1 (0.97%) Traefik
Applications
1 9 (8.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (7.77%) MS Visio
3 6 (5.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.94%) InVision
4 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.94%) UserZoom
5 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.97%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (9.71%) AWS
1 10 (9.71%) Slack
2 8 (7.77%) Cloud Computing
3 7 (6.80%) GitHub
4 6 (5.83%) Azure
4 6 (5.83%) Lucidchart
5 5 (4.85%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.88%) IaaS
6 4 (3.88%) SaaS
7 3 (2.91%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.91%) Miro
8 2 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.94%) GCP
8 2 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.94%) Serverless
9 1 (0.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.97%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.97%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.85%) HTTP
2 4 (3.88%) Firewall
2 4 (3.88%) Kerberos
3 2 (1.94%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.97%) DNS
4 1 (0.97%) NAS
4 1 (0.97%) NGN
4 1 (0.97%) SAN
4 1 (0.97%) Skype
4 1 (0.97%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.65%) Oracle Database
1 12 (11.65%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (10.68%) MongoDB
3 10 (9.71%) MySQL
3 10 (9.71%) Oracle Reports
4 9 (8.74%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (3.88%) Power BI
6 2 (1.94%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.94%) Tableau
7 1 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 89 (86.41%) JIRA
2 17 (16.50%) Git
3 16 (15.53%) Cucumber
4 14 (13.59%) JUnit
5 9 (8.74%) Jasmine
6 7 (6.80%) Jenkins
6 7 (6.80%) Selenium
7 6 (5.83%) ScriptRunner
8 5 (4.85%) Gradle
8 5 (4.85%) HP UFT
8 5 (4.85%) IntelliJ
8 5 (4.85%) Maven
9 3 (2.91%) Vagrant
9 3 (2.91%) Visual Studio
10 2 (1.94%) Axure RP
10 2 (1.94%) GitLab
10 2 (1.94%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.97%) NetBeans
11 1 (0.97%) Subversion
11 1 (0.97%) WebDriver
General
1 34 (33.01%) Finance
2 24 (23.30%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (21.36%) Social Skills
4 12 (11.65%) Public Sector
5 9 (8.74%) Banking
6 5 (4.85%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (3.88%) Automotive
8 3 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.91%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.94%) Legal
10 1 (0.97%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.97%) Aviation
10 1 (0.97%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.97%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.97%) Marketing
10 1 (0.97%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (21.36%) Analyst
2 19 (18.45%) Business Analyst
3 14 (13.59%) Senior
4 12 (11.65%) Developer
5 9 (8.74%) Backup Engineer
5 9 (8.74%) Commvault Engineer
6 8 (7.77%) Delivery Manager
6 8 (7.77%) Java Developer
6 8 (7.77%) Lead
6 8 (7.77%) Project Manager
6 8 (7.77%) Technical Manager
7 7 (6.80%) Senior Developer
7 7 (6.80%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (5.83%) Technical Delivery Manager
9 5 (4.85%) IT Manager
9 5 (4.85%) IT Project Manager
10 4 (3.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) JIRA Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.71%) RESTful
1 10 (9.71%) Spring
1 10 (9.71%) Spring Boot
2 9 (8.74%) Swagger
3 8 (7.77%) OpenAPI
3 8 (7.77%) Spring Security
4 7 (6.80%) Spring Batch
5 4 (3.88%) CSS
5 4 (3.88%) HTML
5 4 (3.88%) OAuth
5 4 (3.88%) OpenID
5 4 (3.88%) SAML
6 3 (2.91%) Gherkin
6 3 (2.91%) Kafka
7 2 (1.94%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.94%) HTML5
7 2 (1.94%) Node.js
8 1 (0.97%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (0.97%) REST
8 1 (0.97%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.62%) Product Ownership
2 12 (11.65%) Data Centre
3 8 (7.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (3.88%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.91%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.97%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.97%) EMC VMAX
7 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.97%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.68%) Linux
1 11 (10.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (2.91%) Unix
2 3 (2.91%) Windows
3 2 (1.94%) Android
3 2 (1.94%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.97%) CentOS
4 1 (0.97%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.97%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.97%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (54.37%) Agile
2 28 (27.18%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (22.33%) Migration
4 21 (20.39%) Change Management
5 20 (19.42%) Scrum
6 18 (17.48%) Microservices
6 18 (17.48%) Performance Tuning
6 18 (17.48%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (17.48%) Test Automation
7 17 (16.50%) DevOps
8 16 (15.53%) Continuous Delivery
9 15 (14.56%) BDD
9 15 (14.56%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (14.56%) TDD
10 14 (13.59%) CI/CD
11 13 (12.62%) Business Analysis
12 12 (11.65%) Continuous Integration
12 12 (11.65%) Data Migration
12 12 (11.65%) Project Management
13 11 (10.68%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 17 (16.50%) Java
2 16 (15.53%) SQL
3 11 (10.68%) Bash
4 8 (7.77%) Python
5 6 (5.83%) Groovy
6 5 (4.85%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.88%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.88%) Ruby
8 2 (1.94%) COBOL
8 2 (1.94%) JCL
8 2 (1.94%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.94%) REXX
9 1 (0.97%) Go
9 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.97%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (20.39%) Security Cleared
2 16 (15.53%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.80%) Degree
4 5 (4.85%) APMP
5 4 (3.88%) IIBA
5 4 (3.88%) ISEB
6 2 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.94%) CBAP
6 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.97%) CCNP
7 1 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.97%) CSPO
7 1 (0.97%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.97%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.97%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.97%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.85%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.88%) QA
3 2 (1.94%) GDPR
3 2 (1.94%) PMO
3 2 (1.94%) SLA
4 1 (0.97%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.97%) NCSC
4 1 (0.97%) PSD2
4 1 (0.97%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (11.65%) Docker
2 3 (2.91%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.91%) VirtualBox
3 1 (0.97%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (12.62%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.68%) Oracle RMAN
3 6 (5.83%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (4.85%) Ansible
4 5 (4.85%) Puppet
5 4 (3.88%) FortiGate
6 3 (2.91%) NetBackup
7 2 (1.94%) HP Data Protector
7 2 (1.94%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.97%) Consul
8 1 (0.97%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.97%) Grafana
8 1 (0.97%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.97%) Istio
8 1 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.97%) linkerd
8 1 (0.97%) Packer
8 1 (0.97%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.97%) Rancher
8 1 (0.97%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (16.50%) Oracle
2 11 (10.68%) Commvault
3 10 (9.71%) Atlassian
4 7 (6.80%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.85%) Splunk
6 4 (3.88%) CheckPoint
6 4 (3.88%) Cisco
6 4 (3.88%) Dell
6 4 (3.88%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.91%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (2.91%) Veritas
8 2 (1.94%) Google
8 2 (1.94%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.94%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.97%) Apple
9 1 (0.97%) EMC
9 1 (0.97%) IBM
9 1 (0.97%) Intel
9 1 (0.97%) NetApp
9 1 (0.97%) Red Hat