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 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 100 102
Rank change year-on-year -35 +2 +13
Contract jobs citing Confluence 88 66 100
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.38% 2.01% 1.76%
As % of the Application Platforms category 18.14% 18.23% 26.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 42 64
10th Percentile £319 £375 £300
25th Percentile £413 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £420
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +17.86% -14.72%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £552
90th Percentile £624 £659 £604
England median daily rate £492 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 16
10th Percentile £38.83 £51.93 £63.75
25th Percentile £42.71 £53.94 -
Median hourly rate £53.73 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.04% -10.71% +21.74%
75th Percentile £60.78 £67.63 £71.25
90th Percentile £62.17 £74.90 £76.25
England median hourly rate £62.50 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% - +12.00%

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 485 362 381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 7.62% 11.04% 6.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 221 247
10th Percentile £294 £220 £255
25th Percentile £425 £375 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £505 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% +12.22% -8.27%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £700 £650 £626
England median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 16 33
10th Percentile £16.33 £17.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.63 £30.48 £24.43
Median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.10% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £45.36 £60.72 £70.00
90th Percentile £61.24 £67.63 £75.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £50.00 £32.12
% change year-on-year -35.00% +55.69% -33.78%

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 5 July 2026.

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 5 July 2026.

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 5 July 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
Hampshire -41 32 £519 +6.41% 10
Thames Valley -45 21 £538 -2.27% 14
Berkshire -23 17 £538 +2.38% 5
West Sussex - 16 £459 - 3
Surrey -9 13 £400 -36.00% 7
Oxfordshire -25 2 - - 9
Buckinghamshire -46 2 £500 -13.04%
East Sussex - 2 £459 -
Kent -5 1 £210 -44.00% 1
Middlesex - 1 - - 1
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 6 (6.82%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.41%) SAS
3 1 (1.14%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.14%) Apache
3 1 (1.14%) CMS
3 1 (1.14%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (7.95%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.41%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.14%) CATIA
4 1 (1.14%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.14%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.14%) ENOVIA
2 1 (1.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 20 (22.73%) Azure
2 16 (18.18%) AWS
3 15 (17.05%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (5.68%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (2.27%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.27%) Azure AKS
6 2 (2.27%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (2.27%) Azure Storage
6 2 (2.27%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.27%) Figma
6 2 (2.27%) GitHub
6 2 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.27%) Lucidchart
6 2 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.27%) Miro
6 2 (2.27%) PaaS
7 1 (1.14%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.14%) IaaS
7 1 (1.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.27%) DNS
1 2 (2.27%) Firewall
2 1 (1.14%) Broadband
2 1 (1.14%) DHCP
2 1 (1.14%) LAN
2 1 (1.14%) SONET
2 1 (1.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.68%) Power BI
2 3 (3.41%) Metadata
3 2 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.27%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.27%) Pentaho
4 1 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.14%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.14%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.14%) MySQL
4 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.14%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 77 (87.50%) JIRA
2 7 (7.95%) GitLab
3 4 (4.55%) Artifactory
4 3 (3.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (2.27%) Balsamiq
5 2 (2.27%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.27%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.27%) Git
5 2 (2.27%) Selenium
5 2 (2.27%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.14%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.14%) TestRail
6 1 (1.14%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 34 (38.64%) Social Skills
2 25 (28.41%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (15.91%) Finance
4 7 (7.95%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (5.68%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.68%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.55%) Automotive
6 4 (4.55%) Legal
6 4 (4.55%) Marketing
6 4 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (4.55%) Retail
6 4 (4.55%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.27%) Billing
7 2 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Aviation
8 1 (1.14%) Back Office
8 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (27.27%) Analyst
2 17 (19.32%) Business Analyst
3 8 (9.09%) Senior
4 6 (6.82%) Developer
4 6 (6.82%) Lead
5 5 (5.68%) Data Engineer
5 5 (5.68%) Product Owner
5 5 (5.68%) Project Manager
6 4 (4.55%) Scrum Master
6 4 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (3.41%) Architect
7 3 (3.41%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (3.41%) IT Analyst
7 3 (3.41%) Senior Manager
7 3 (3.41%) Senior Project Manager
8 2 (2.27%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 2 (2.27%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
8 2 (2.27%) Azure Developer
8 2 (2.27%) Pensions Analyst
8 2 (2.27%) Product Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.68%) RESTful
2 4 (4.55%) .NET
2 4 (4.55%) .NET Core
2 4 (4.55%) .NET Framework
2 4 (4.55%) ADO
3 3 (3.41%) SOAP
4 2 (2.27%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.27%) Blazor
4 2 (2.27%) Entity Framework
4 2 (2.27%) OAuth
4 2 (2.27%) OpenID
4 2 (2.27%) Playwright
4 2 (2.27%) Razor View Engine
4 2 (2.27%) REST
4 2 (2.27%) SAML
4 2 (2.27%) Swagger
5 1 (1.14%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.14%) JSON
5 1 (1.14%) React
5 1 (1.14%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.59%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.41%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.41%) Taxonomies
4 2 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.27%) FMCG
4 2 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.14%) Blog
5 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.14%) Lidar
5 1 (1.14%) Media Streaming
5 1 (1.14%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.14%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.14%) PMI
5 1 (1.14%) Smart Meter
5 1 (1.14%) Social Media
5 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.14%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.68%) Unix
2 4 (4.55%) Linux
3 3 (3.41%) Android
3 3 (3.41%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.41%) Windows
3 3 (3.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (60.23%) Agile
2 23 (26.14%) Scrum
2 23 (26.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 20 (22.73%) DevOps
4 18 (20.45%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (19.32%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (19.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 15 (17.05%) Sprint Planning
7 13 (14.77%) Business Analysis
7 13 (14.77%) CI/CD
7 13 (14.77%) Project Delivery
7 13 (14.77%) Test Automation
7 13 (14.77%) User Stories
8 12 (13.64%) Acceptance Criteria
8 12 (13.64%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 11 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (12.50%) Project Management
10 10 (11.36%) CRM
10 10 (11.36%) Roadmaps
11 9 (10.23%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.18%) SQL
2 7 (7.95%) Python
3 6 (6.82%) C#
4 5 (5.68%) PL/SQL
5 3 (3.41%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.27%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.14%) Bash
7 1 (1.14%) Bicep
7 1 (1.14%) C++
7 1 (1.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 27 (30.68%) Security Cleared
2 21 (23.86%) SC Cleared
3 12 (13.64%) Degree
4 5 (5.68%) PMI Certification
5 4 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.55%) PMP
6 3 (3.41%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.41%) SAFe Agilist
7 2 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.14%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.14%) HNC
8 1 (1.14%) HND
8 1 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.50%) PMO
2 10 (11.36%) QA
3 4 (4.55%) GRC
3 4 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.41%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (3.41%) ISO 22301
4 3 (3.41%) ISO 31000
4 3 (3.41%) NIST
5 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.14%) JSP 440
System Software
1 4 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (12.50%) Terraform
2 4 (4.55%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (3.41%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.27%) Grafana
4 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.14%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.14%) Packer
5 1 (1.14%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (11.36%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.23%) Oracle
3 7 (7.95%) ServiceNow
4 5 (5.68%) Denodo
4 5 (5.68%) Salesforce
4 5 (5.68%) Talend
5 3 (3.41%) SAP
6 2 (2.27%) Adobe
6 2 (2.27%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.27%) Databricks
6 2 (2.27%) Dell
6 2 (2.27%) HP
6 2 (2.27%) Informatica
7 1 (1.14%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.14%) Cisco
7 1 (1.14%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.14%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.14%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.14%) Splunk
7 1 (1.14%) Tanium