Confluence Contract Job Trends in the North West

Confluence
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Confluence skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 62 83
Rank change year-on-year -41 +21 +10
Contract jobs citing Confluence 77 75 37
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.98% 3.42% 1.56%
As % of the Application Platforms category 25.41% 28.09% 22.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 62 29
10th Percentile £361 £313 £403
25th Percentile £398 £359 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £425 £518
Median % change year-on-year +5.53% -17.87% -5.05%
75th Percentile £555 £511 £565
90th Percentile £617 £620 £576
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
10th Percentile £61.45 £66.04 -
25th Percentile £65.13 £70.00 -
Median hourly rate £72.50 £75.00 £25.30
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +196.44% -
75th Percentile £73.21 £77.50 -
90th Percentile £73.53 £78.25 -
England median hourly rate £67.47 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.61% - +12.00%

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 303 267 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 7.79% 12.18% 7.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 204 108
10th Percentile £183 £301 £213
25th Percentile £358 £349 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -8.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £519 £488 £546
90th Percentile £608 £575 £639
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 5
10th Percentile £13.09 £34.50 £24.22
25th Percentile £25.41 £38.91 £25.30
Median hourly rate £29.00 £55.26 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.52% +78.26% +69.86%
75th Percentile £65.39 £73.18 £35.00
90th Percentile £72.99 £76.75 £43.25
England median hourly rate £32.50 £41.45 £47.50
% change year-on-year -21.59% -12.74% +11.76%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Confluence relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Confluence job vacancy trend in the North West

Confluence
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Confluence

Confluence
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Confluence in the North West over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Confluence in the North West

Confluence
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Confluence

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 16 September 2026. 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
Manchester -23 39 £500 +5.26% 48
Cheshire -7 31 £445 +7.23% 12
Lancashire -22 4 £400 - 7
Merseyside - 2 £675 - 4
Cumbria -19 1 £525 - 2
Confluence
England

Confluence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (10.39%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.19%) Camunda
3 1 (1.30%) nginx
3 1 (1.30%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (10.39%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (7.79%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.30%) SAP MDG
1 1 (1.30%) SAP MDG-F
1 1 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (11.69%) Azure
2 7 (9.09%) AWS
2 7 (9.09%) Power Platform
3 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Copilot
4 4 (5.19%) OpenShift
4 4 (5.19%) Slack
5 3 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.90%) Copilot Studio
5 3 (3.90%) Serverless
5 3 (3.90%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.60%) Miro
6 2 (2.60%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.30%) Akamai
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.30%) GCP
7 1 (1.30%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.79%) SSH
2 1 (1.30%) Firewall
2 1 (1.30%) Network Security
2 1 (1.30%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 8 (10.39%) MongoDB
3 7 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (7.79%) Relational Database
5 4 (5.19%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (5.19%) Power BI
5 4 (5.19%) RDBMS
6 3 (3.90%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.90%) Power Query
6 3 (3.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (3.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (3.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.30%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.30%) Big Data
7 1 (1.30%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.30%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 69 (89.61%) JIRA
2 11 (14.29%) Git
2 11 (14.29%) GitLab
3 10 (12.99%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.49%) Claude Code
4 5 (6.49%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (5.19%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.90%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (3.90%) Gradle
6 3 (3.90%) JUnit
6 3 (3.90%) Maven
6 3 (3.90%) Mockito
6 3 (3.90%) REST Assured
6 3 (3.90%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.60%) Zephyr
8 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.30%) Postman
8 1 (1.30%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (1.30%) Selenium
General
1 39 (50.65%) Finance
2 38 (49.35%) Social Skills
3 27 (35.06%) Banking
4 13 (16.88%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (12.99%) Retail
6 7 (9.09%) Public Sector
7 6 (7.79%) Manufacturing
8 5 (6.49%) Retail Banking
9 3 (3.90%) Automotive
9 3 (3.90%) Military
10 2 (2.60%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (2.60%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.60%) Marketing
10 2 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.30%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 20 (25.97%) Analyst
2 17 (22.08%) Business Analyst
3 13 (16.88%) Developer
4 8 (10.39%) Consultant
4 8 (10.39%) Senior
5 5 (6.49%) Lead
5 5 (6.49%) Security Consultant
6 4 (5.19%) Agile Delivery Lead
6 4 (5.19%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (5.19%) Finance Manager
6 4 (5.19%) Product Manager
6 4 (5.19%) SQL Developer
6 4 (5.19%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 4 (5.19%) Technical Manager
7 3 (3.90%) Business Intelligence Business Analyst
7 3 (3.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 3 (3.90%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (3.90%) Data Warehouse Business Analyst
7 3 (3.90%) Power BI Developer
7 3 (3.90%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.99%) Kafka
2 7 (9.09%) JSON
3 4 (5.19%) REST
4 3 (3.90%) CSS
4 3 (3.90%) Hibernate
4 3 (3.90%) HTML
4 3 (3.90%) JPA
4 3 (3.90%) Node.js
4 3 (3.90%) React
4 3 (3.90%) Redux
4 3 (3.90%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.30%) .NET
5 1 (1.30%) ADO
5 1 (1.30%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (1.30%) JWT
5 1 (1.30%) OpenID
5 1 (1.30%) Playwright
5 1 (1.30%) PySpark
5 1 (1.30%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 13 (16.88%) Data Structures
3 9 (11.69%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (9.09%) PKI
5 6 (7.79%) Algorithms
6 5 (6.49%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (6.49%) Management Information System
7 4 (5.19%) Credit Risk
8 3 (3.90%) Client/Server
8 3 (3.90%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (3.90%) Tandem
9 2 (2.60%) AS400
9 2 (2.60%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.60%) iSeries
9 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
10 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (1.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (1.30%) Driving Licence
10 1 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.39%) Linux
1 8 (10.39%) Windows
2 5 (6.49%) Unix
3 3 (3.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (72.73%) Agile
2 36 (46.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 22 (28.57%) SDLC
4 21 (27.27%) DevOps
4 21 (27.27%) Scrum
5 20 (25.97%) User Stories
6 15 (19.48%) CI/CD
6 15 (19.48%) Requirements Gathering
7 14 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (16.88%) AI
8 13 (16.88%) Change Management
8 13 (16.88%) Data Modelling
8 13 (16.88%) Migration
8 13 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (15.58%) User Acceptance Testing
9 12 (15.58%) Workshop Facilitation
10 11 (14.29%) Kanban
10 11 (14.29%) Test Automation
11 10 (12.99%) Project Management
11 10 (12.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 19 (24.68%) SQL
2 9 (11.69%) PowerShell
3 7 (9.09%) C#
3 7 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 7 (9.09%) Python
4 4 (5.19%) Java
5 3 (3.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.60%) Bash
6 2 (2.60%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (19.48%) Degree
2 7 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (7.79%) Security Cleared
4 5 (6.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (6.49%) CISSP
5 4 (5.19%) CEH
6 3 (3.90%) CISM
6 3 (3.90%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (3.90%) OSCP
7 2 (2.60%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (1.30%) IIBA
8 1 (1.30%) ISEB
8 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.30%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (1.30%) SANS
8 1 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.49%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.19%) QA
3 3 (3.90%) GRC
3 3 (3.90%) GxP
3 3 (3.90%) NIST
3 3 (3.90%) PMO
4 1 (1.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.30%) GDPR
4 1 (1.30%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (1.30%) Istio
2 1 (1.30%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.30%) Network Intrusion Detection System
2 1 (1.30%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 9 (11.69%) Atlassian
2 8 (10.39%) IBM
2 8 (10.39%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 6 (7.79%) Thales
5 5 (6.49%) Salesforce
6 4 (5.19%) Gemalto
6 4 (5.19%) Veracode
7 3 (3.90%) Databricks
8 2 (2.60%) DocuSign
8 2 (2.60%) Oracle
8 2 (2.60%) SAP
9 1 (1.30%) BiZZdesign
9 1 (1.30%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.30%) Cisco
9 1 (1.30%) CyberArk
9 1 (1.30%) F5
9 1 (1.30%) Informatica
9 1 (1.30%) Intel
9 1 (1.30%) Varonis