Confluence Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

Confluence
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring Confluence skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs citing Confluence 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.86% 1.21% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 28.57% 8.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £308 - -
25th Percentile £309 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 - -
75th Percentile £334 - -
90th Percentile £336 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +1.29%

All Application Platform Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 7 24 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 3.00% 14.55% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 14
10th Percentile £310 £153 £204
25th Percentile £342 £155 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £475 £431
Median % change year-on-year -6.05% +10.14% -11.99%
75th Percentile £494 £547 £500
90th Percentile £506 £598 £504
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £12.31 £48.82 £16.12
Median % change year-on-year -74.78% +202.82% -
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £24.25
% change year-on-year -32.03% +52.58% +33.06%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Confluence job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

Confluence
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Confluence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing Confluence

Confluence
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Confluence within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 15 January 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
County Antrim -1 2 £320 - 4
Confluence
UK

Confluence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Lucidchart
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Derivative
1 1 (50.00%) Equities
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Target Operating Model
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce