Confluence Contract Job Trends in the South East

Confluence
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Confluence skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 103 74
Rank change year-on-year -8 -29 +30
Contract jobs citing Confluence 66 75 152
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.62% 1.82% 2.86%
As % of the Application Platforms category 19.08% 19.89% 28.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 43 93
10th Percentile £362 £350 £376
25th Percentile £400 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £455 £540
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -15.74% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £565 £588
90th Percentile £650 £600 £674
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 16 19
10th Percentile £63.10 - £51.00
25th Percentile £65.88 £62.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £71.00 £70.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £75.75 - £70.95
90th Percentile £78.30 £73.13 £76.53
England median hourly rate £63.40 £68.75 £66.13
% change year-on-year -7.78% +3.96% +32.27%

All Application Platform Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 346 377 540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.50% 9.15% 10.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 220 345
10th Percentile £216 £254 £207
25th Percentile £400 £382 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.70% -1.05% -
75th Percentile £600 £564 £575
90th Percentile £700 £638 £675
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 24 35
10th Percentile £15.75 £33.38 £24.00
25th Percentile £32.77 £59.84 £30.00
Median hourly rate £80.00 £63.15 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% +9.83% +159.24%
75th Percentile £81.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £99.00 £70.88 £76.36
England median hourly rate £37.50 £42.21 £26.89
% change year-on-year -11.15% +56.95% +40.60%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Confluence job vacancy trend in the South East

Confluence
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Confluence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Confluence

Confluence
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Confluence in the South East over the 6 months to 21 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Confluence in the South East

Confluence
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Confluence.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Confluence

Confluence
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Confluence in the South East over the 6 months to 21 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Confluence in the South East

Confluence
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Confluence within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 November 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
Thames Valley +23 40 £525 -4.55% 29
Berkshire +26 32 £575 +9.52% 11
Hampshire -22 9 £390 -23.53% 5
Kent +7 7 £563 +12.50% 2
Buckinghamshire -3 6 £425 -22.73% 8
East Sussex +2 5 £525 +14.13%
Surrey -5 3 £575 +57.53% 5
West Sussex -12 2 - - 4
Oxfordshire -12 2 £513 +97.12% 10
Confluence
England

Confluence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 11 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 8 (12.12%) CMS
3 1 (1.52%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 7 (10.61%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (3.03%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.15%) GitHub
2 8 (12.12%) GitHub Actions
3 6 (9.09%) Azure
4 2 (3.03%) AWS
4 2 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.03%) Slack
5 1 (1.52%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.52%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (1.52%) dbt
5 1 (1.52%) Figma
5 1 (1.52%) Lucidchart
5 1 (1.52%) OCI
5 1 (1.52%) SaaS
5 1 (1.52%) Serverless
5 1 (1.52%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.06%) VPN
2 3 (4.55%) DHCP
2 3 (4.55%) DNS
2 3 (4.55%) SSL
2 3 (4.55%) TCP/IP
2 3 (4.55%) VLAN
3 2 (3.03%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 5 (7.58%) Apache Cassandra
2 5 (7.58%) Couchbase
2 5 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.03%) Metadata
4 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.52%) Big Data
4 1 (1.52%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.52%) Redis
4 1 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 63 (95.45%) JIRA
2 12 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 8 (12.12%) Git
4 7 (10.61%) Bitbucket
4 7 (10.61%) GitLab
5 4 (6.06%) Cucumber
5 4 (6.06%) REST Assured
5 4 (6.06%) Selenium
6 1 (1.52%) Maven
General
1 31 (46.97%) Social Skills
2 14 (21.21%) Finance
3 9 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.61%) Automotive
5 4 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (6.06%) Retail
5 4 (6.06%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.55%) Manufacturing
6 3 (4.55%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.03%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.52%) Electronics
8 1 (1.52%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.52%) Legal
8 1 (1.52%) Marketing
8 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (28.79%) Project Manager
2 10 (15.15%) Senior
3 9 (13.64%) Developer
4 7 (10.61%) Senior Developer
5 5 (7.58%) Analyst
5 5 (7.58%) Tester
6 4 (6.06%) Automation Tester
6 4 (6.06%) Business Analyst
6 4 (6.06%) E-Commerce Manager
6 4 (6.06%) E-Commerce Project Manager
6 4 (6.06%) IT Manager
6 4 (6.06%) Programme Manager
6 4 (6.06%) Selenium Automation Tester
6 4 (6.06%) Selenium Tester
7 3 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Digital Project Manager
7 3 (4.55%) Lead
7 3 (4.55%) Windows Engineer
7 3 (4.55%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.67%) REST
2 7 (10.61%) .NET
2 7 (10.61%) RESTful
3 5 (7.58%) Kafka
3 5 (7.58%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (6.06%) SOAP
5 3 (4.55%) .NET Core
5 3 (4.55%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.03%) .NET Framework
6 2 (3.03%) Swagger
7 1 (1.52%) JSON
7 1 (1.52%) MUnit
7 1 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (1.52%) RAML
7 1 (1.52%) Spring
7 1 (1.52%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.15%) Mobile App
2 6 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (7.58%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (6.06%) Onboarding
4 4 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.55%) Life Science
6 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.52%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.52%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.52%) Educational Technology
7 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.52%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.52%) PMI
7 1 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.52%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.61%) Windows
2 3 (4.55%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (1.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (72.73%) Agile
2 26 (39.39%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (37.88%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (34.85%) Project Management
5 17 (25.76%) Change Management
6 14 (21.21%) PRINCE2
7 12 (18.18%) Scrum
7 12 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 10 (15.15%) CRM
8 10 (15.15%) Microservices
8 10 (15.15%) Regression Testing
8 10 (15.15%) Roadmaps
8 10 (15.15%) Test Automation
9 9 (13.64%) DevOps
9 9 (13.64%) Project Delivery
9 9 (13.64%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 9 (13.64%) TDD
10 8 (12.12%) Change Control
10 8 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (12.12%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.67%) Python
2 7 (10.61%) C#
3 5 (7.58%) Go
4 4 (6.06%) SQL
5 2 (3.03%) Java
6 1 (1.52%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (19.70%) Degree
1 13 (19.70%) PMI Certification
2 12 (18.18%) PMP
3 7 (10.61%) Security Cleared
4 5 (7.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (7.58%) SC Cleared
5 4 (6.06%) CISM
5 4 (6.06%) CISSP
6 1 (1.52%) CSPO
6 1 (1.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.52%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.15%) QA
2 7 (10.61%) PMO
3 4 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (6.06%) NIST
4 2 (3.03%) GDPR
5 1 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (9.09%) Docker
2 4 (6.06%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (4.55%) Hyper-V
3 3 (4.55%) vSphere
4 1 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.55%) Tivoli
3 1 (1.52%) CloudHub
3 1 (1.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (15.15%) Oracle
2 5 (7.58%) Atlassian
2 5 (7.58%) Salesforce
3 4 (6.06%) Citrix
3 4 (6.06%) Remedy
4 3 (4.55%) SolarWinds
4 3 (4.55%) Veeam
4 3 (4.55%) VMware
5 2 (3.03%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.52%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.52%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.52%) UiPath