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

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 74 108
Rank change year-on-year +19 +34 -38
Contract jobs citing Confluence 159 99 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 4.02% 2.39% 1.94%
As % of the Application Platforms category 29.83% 26.98% 22.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 71 83
10th Percentile £313 £400 £321
25th Percentile £375 £434 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £505 £538
Median % change year-on-year -15.05% -6.05% +7.50%
75th Percentile £520 £576 £650
90th Percentile £579 £645 £775
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £70.75 - -
25th Percentile £71.88 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £25.30 -
Median % change year-on-year +196.44% - -
75th Percentile £77.81 - -
90th Percentile £78.38 - -
England median hourly rate £70.50 £70.00 £63.75
% change year-on-year +0.71% +9.80% +12.88%

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 533 367 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 13.47% 8.87% 8.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 240 316
10th Percentile £235 £268 £197
25th Percentile £350 £400 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £489 £469
Median % change year-on-year -13.09% +4.32% +4.17%
75th Percentile £519 £569 £575
90th Percentile £600 £666 £668
England median daily rate £493 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -6.19% +0.96% -0.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 16 15
10th Percentile £34.50 £13.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £37.80 £13.44 £17.56
Median hourly rate £47.12 £19.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +148.00% -13.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £70.73 £37.50 £23.14
90th Percentile £76.50 £46.88 £27.65
England median hourly rate £44.50 £32.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +36.92% -31.58% +115.91%

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 3 August 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 3 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire +16 79 £425 -17.48% 38
North West +27 71 £423 -16.34% 44
North East +6 15 £538 +11.98% 4
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 9 (5.66%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.52%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.89%) Apache
3 3 (1.89%) nginx
4 2 (1.26%) Tuxedo
5 1 (0.63%) CICS
5 1 (0.63%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.63%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 24 (15.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (14.47%) MS Visio
3 12 (7.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (6.29%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (6.29%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.26%) InVision
5 2 (1.26%) UserZoom
6 1 (0.63%) Adobe Premiere
6 1 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (15.09%) AWS
2 12 (7.55%) Azure
3 11 (6.92%) GitHub
4 7 (4.40%) Power Platform
5 6 (3.77%) GCP
5 6 (3.77%) Lucidchart
6 5 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.52%) IaaS
8 3 (1.89%) Serverless
9 2 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.26%) Datadog
9 2 (1.26%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.26%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.26%) Miro
9 2 (1.26%) Slack
10 1 (0.63%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.63%) iPaaS
10 1 (0.63%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.03%) Firewall
2 5 (3.14%) SSH
3 4 (2.52%) Kerberos
4 2 (1.26%) DNS
4 2 (1.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (1.26%) X.509
5 1 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.63%) FCoE
5 1 (0.63%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.63%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.63%) LAN
5 1 (0.63%) Multicast
5 1 (0.63%) NAS
5 1 (0.63%) NGFW
5 1 (0.63%) NGN
5 1 (0.63%) SAN
5 1 (0.63%) SMS
5 1 (0.63%) SNA
5 1 (0.63%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.63%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.92%) Oracle Database
2 10 (6.29%) Oracle Reports
3 8 (5.03%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (4.40%) NoSQL
5 5 (3.14%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.14%) MySQL
5 5 (3.14%) Power BI
6 4 (2.52%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.26%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.26%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.26%) Tableau
8 1 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.63%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 131 (82.39%) JIRA
2 21 (13.21%) Git
3 14 (8.81%) Jenkins
4 9 (5.66%) Cucumber
4 9 (5.66%) Selenium
5 8 (5.03%) JUnit
5 8 (5.03%) Maven
6 5 (3.14%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.14%) Gradle
6 5 (3.14%) ScriptRunner
6 5 (3.14%) SonarQube
7 4 (2.52%) GitLab
7 4 (2.52%) HP UFT
7 4 (2.52%) IntelliJ
7 4 (2.52%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (2.52%) Subversion
8 3 (1.89%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.89%) Gerrit
8 3 (1.89%) Vagrant
8 3 (1.89%) Visual Studio
General
1 59 (37.11%) Finance
2 58 (36.48%) Social Skills
3 35 (22.01%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (16.98%) Banking
5 20 (12.58%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.14%) Legal
8 4 (2.52%) Automotive
8 4 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.89%) Retail Banking
10 2 (1.26%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.26%) Marketing
11 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.63%) Aviation
11 1 (0.63%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (32.70%) Analyst
2 46 (28.93%) Business Analyst
3 16 (10.06%) Project Manager
4 15 (9.43%) Developer
5 11 (6.92%) Lead
6 10 (6.29%) Delivery Manager
7 9 (5.66%) Backup Engineer
7 9 (5.66%) Commvault Engineer
7 9 (5.66%) Senior
8 8 (5.03%) Technical Manager
9 7 (4.40%) Engineering Manager
10 6 (3.77%) Business Manager
10 6 (3.77%) Business Project Manager
10 6 (3.77%) Data Business Analyst
10 6 (3.77%) Lead Business Analyst
10 6 (3.77%) Project Analyst
10 6 (3.77%) Technical Analyst
11 5 (3.14%) Lead Project Manager
11 5 (3.14%) Scrum Master
11 5 (3.14%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.29%) CSS
1 10 (6.29%) HTML
2 9 (5.66%) Node.js
3 8 (5.03%) React
4 7 (4.40%) Spring Boot
5 6 (3.77%) Spring
6 5 (3.14%) Gherkin
6 5 (3.14%) OAuth
6 5 (3.14%) RESTful
6 5 (3.14%) SAML
7 4 (2.52%) AngularJS
7 4 (2.52%) Hibernate
7 4 (2.52%) jQuery
7 4 (2.52%) OpenID
7 4 (2.52%) Spring MVC
7 4 (2.52%) Web Services
8 3 (1.89%) HTML5
8 3 (1.89%) JPA
8 3 (1.89%) lodash
8 3 (1.89%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 19 (11.95%) Product Ownership
2 17 (10.69%) Data Centre
3 5 (3.14%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (3.14%) Mainframe
4 4 (2.52%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.52%) Tandem
4 4 (2.52%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.26%) Derivative
6 2 (1.26%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.26%) Equities
6 2 (1.26%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.26%) IVR
6 2 (1.26%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.26%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.26%) PKI
7 1 (0.63%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.63%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (0.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.40%) Windows
2 5 (3.14%) Unix
3 2 (1.26%) Android
3 2 (1.26%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.26%) Linux
3 2 (1.26%) zOS
4 1 (0.63%) MVS
4 1 (0.63%) Solaris
4 1 (0.63%) VMS
4 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (65.41%) Agile
2 43 (27.04%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (25.16%) DevOps
4 37 (23.27%) Scrum
4 37 (23.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 32 (20.13%) Project Management
6 30 (18.87%) Change Management
7 28 (17.61%) Migration
8 25 (15.72%) Business Analysis
9 22 (13.84%) Project Delivery
10 21 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (13.21%) Decision-Making
10 21 (13.21%) Microservices
10 21 (13.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 20 (12.58%) CI/CD
11 20 (12.58%) User Stories
12 18 (11.32%) Performance Tuning
12 18 (11.32%) Translating Business Requirements
13 17 (10.69%) Requirements Gathering
13 17 (10.69%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 23 (14.47%) Java
2 21 (13.21%) SQL
3 13 (8.18%) JavaScript
4 12 (7.55%) Python
5 7 (4.40%) Bash
6 5 (3.14%) Go
6 5 (3.14%) Groovy
6 5 (3.14%) Perl
6 5 (3.14%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.52%) Ruby
8 2 (1.26%) C#
8 2 (1.26%) COBOL
8 2 (1.26%) JCL
8 2 (1.26%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.26%) REXX
9 1 (0.63%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (13.21%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.06%) SC Cleared
3 15 (9.43%) Degree
4 6 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.14%) CBAP
6 4 (2.52%) APMP
6 4 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.52%) IIBA
6 4 (2.52%) ISEB
7 3 (1.89%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.26%) CISM
8 2 (1.26%) CISSP
8 2 (1.26%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.26%) PMP
8 2 (1.26%) VCAP
8 2 (1.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.63%) CSPO
9 1 (0.63%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.77%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.14%) QA
3 3 (1.89%) GDPR
3 3 (1.89%) PMO
4 2 (1.26%) COBIT
4 2 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.26%) NIST
5 1 (0.63%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.63%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.63%) PSD2
5 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.63%) SEPA
5 1 (0.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (3.77%) Docker
2 3 (1.89%) VirtualBox
2 3 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.26%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.26%) vSphere
4 1 (0.63%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.63%) KVM
4 1 (0.63%) NFS
4 1 (0.63%) SRDF
4 1 (0.63%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.63%) Xen
Systems Management
1 13 (8.18%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.55%) Ansible
3 11 (6.92%) Oracle RMAN
4 8 (5.03%) Terraform
5 5 (3.14%) Puppet
6 4 (2.52%) FortiGate
6 4 (2.52%) NetBackup
6 4 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.89%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.26%) HP Data Protector
8 2 (1.26%) PowerCLI
8 2 (1.26%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.63%) SCOM
9 1 (0.63%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 24 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.06%) Oracle
3 12 (7.55%) Atlassian
3 12 (7.55%) Commvault
4 7 (4.40%) Cisco
4 7 (4.40%) IBM
5 5 (3.14%) CheckPoint
5 5 (3.14%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.52%) Dell
6 4 (2.52%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.89%) CA Agile Central
7 3 (1.89%) F5
7 3 (1.89%) Google
7 3 (1.89%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.89%) Splunk
7 3 (1.89%) Veracode
7 3 (1.89%) Veritas
7 3 (1.89%) VMware
8 2 (1.26%) BiZZdesign
8 2 (1.26%) Broadcom