Confluence Contracts in the North West

Confluence
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 78 117 110
Rank change year-on-year +39 -7 +9
Contract jobs citing Confluence 42 20 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.13% 0.73% 1.47%
As % of the Application Platforms category 13.68% 10.20% 18.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 15 38
10th Percentile £329 £363 £309
25th Percentile £359 £486 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +5.26% -3.06%
75th Percentile £450 £613 £530
90th Percentile £563 £635 £590
England median daily rate £512 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.74% -2.27% +4.76%
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 - -
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 307 196 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.60% 7.11% 8.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 123 187
10th Percentile £187 £230 £231
25th Percentile £325 £312 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -7.89% +5.56%
75th Percentile £510 £520 £550
90th Percentile £588 £613 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 8
10th Percentile £16.25 - £15.18
25th Percentile £22.01 £13.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.59 £32.12 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.39% +56.66% +9.33%
75th Percentile £65.13 £45.00 £26.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £46.18 £39.93
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Confluence in the North West

Confluence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Confluence in the North West

Confluence
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Confluence in the North West

Confluence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Confluence in the North West

Confluence
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cheshire +12 20 £406 -16.97% 5
Manchester +26 18 £450 -14.29% 25
Lancashire - 4 £400 - 15
Confluence
England

Confluence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (9.52%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) InVision
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (4.76%) UserZoom
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (14.29%) AWS
2 5 (11.90%) Azure
3 4 (9.52%) SaaS
4 3 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (7.14%) Slack
5 2 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.76%) IaaS
5 2 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.76%) Serverless
6 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.38%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 3 (7.14%) MySQL
3 2 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 40 (95.24%) JIRA
2 4 (9.52%) Git
3 3 (7.14%) JUnit
3 3 (7.14%) ScriptRunner
3 3 (7.14%) Selenium
4 2 (4.76%) Axure RP
4 2 (4.76%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.76%) Jasmine
4 2 (4.76%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.38%) Appium
5 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.38%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (2.38%) Gradle
5 1 (2.38%) HP UFT
5 1 (2.38%) IntelliJ
5 1 (2.38%) Maven
5 1 (2.38%) NetBeans
5 1 (2.38%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.38%) Subversion
5 1 (2.38%) WebDriver
General
1 11 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 9 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (21.43%) Finance
3 4 (9.52%) Automotive
3 4 (9.52%) Banking
3 4 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.76%) Legal
4 2 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.38%) Aviation
5 1 (2.38%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (19.05%) Analyst
1 8 (19.05%) Business Analyst
2 7 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 5 (11.90%) IT Manager
3 5 (11.90%) IT Project Manager
3 5 (11.90%) Senior
4 4 (9.52%) Developer
4 4 (9.52%) Technical Manager
5 3 (7.14%) Lead
5 3 (7.14%) Scrum Master
6 2 (4.76%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Java Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Programme Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Programme Planner
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 2 (4.76%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) CSS
1 4 (9.52%) HTML
2 3 (7.14%) RESTful
2 3 (7.14%) Spring
2 3 (7.14%) Spring Boot
3 2 (4.76%) AngularJS
3 2 (4.76%) HTML5
3 2 (4.76%) Kafka
3 2 (4.76%) Node.js
3 2 (4.76%) OpenAPI
3 2 (4.76%) Spring Batch
3 2 (4.76%) Spring Security
3 2 (4.76%) Swagger
4 1 (2.38%) Ajax
4 1 (2.38%) Chai
4 1 (2.38%) Hibernate
4 1 (2.38%) J2EE
4 1 (2.38%) jQuery
4 1 (2.38%) Spring MVC
4 1 (2.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.14%) Virtual Team
3 2 (4.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (4.76%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Android
1 2 (4.76%) Apple iOS
1 2 (4.76%) Linux
1 2 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Windows
2 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (64.29%) Agile
2 13 (30.95%) Scrum
3 10 (23.81%) Microservices
4 9 (21.43%) Project Management
4 9 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (16.67%) DevOps
5 7 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (14.29%) Kanban
6 6 (14.29%) Migration
6 6 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 5 (11.90%) Business Analysis
7 5 (11.90%) CI/CD
7 5 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (11.90%) Feasibility Study
7 5 (11.90%) Project Delivery
7 5 (11.90%) Waterfall
8 4 (9.52%) BDD
8 4 (9.52%) Generative AI
8 4 (9.52%) LLM
8 4 (9.52%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 6 (14.29%) Java
2 4 (9.52%) JavaScript
2 4 (9.52%) SQL
3 3 (7.14%) Bash
3 3 (7.14%) Groovy
4 2 (4.76%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.76%) Python
5 1 (2.38%) Ruby
5 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 8 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.52%) Degree
3 4 (9.52%) IIBA
3 4 (9.52%) ISEB
4 2 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.38%) APMP
5 1 (2.38%) CBAP
5 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.38%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.38%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) Accessibility
1 2 (4.76%) PMO
1 2 (4.76%) SLA
2 1 (2.38%) GDPR
2 1 (2.38%) PSD2
System Software
1 4 (9.52%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.76%) Progress Chef
2 2 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (2.38%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (2.38%) NetBackup
3 1 (2.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) Atlassian
1 6 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.14%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (2.38%) Dell
3 1 (2.38%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.38%) Oracle
3 1 (2.38%) SAP
3 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow