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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 88 105
Rank change year-on-year -40 +17 +23
Contract jobs citing Confluence 87 61 89
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.45% 2.08% 1.58%
As % of the Application Platforms category 19.21% 19.12% 24.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 40 58
10th Percentile £315 £375 £294
25th Percentile £406 £422 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -8.63%
75th Percentile £538 £591 £556
90th Percentile £613 £660 £616
England median daily rate £488 £506 £534
% change year-on-year -3.70% -5.15% -2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 10
10th Percentile - £51.49 £59.93
25th Percentile £44.86 £52.14 £66.25
Median hourly rate £48.72 £56.38 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.58% -19.46% +27.27%
75th Percentile £52.58 £60.72 £73.75
90th Percentile - £61.79 £77.75
England median hourly rate £62.75 £70.00 £63.75
% change year-on-year -10.36% +9.80% +10.87%

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 453 319 360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 7.57% 10.86% 6.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 205 231
10th Percentile £306 £222 £250
25th Percentile £413 £375 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £433
Median % change year-on-year - +15.61% -12.18%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £568
90th Percentile £675 £632 £609
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 11 30
10th Percentile £15.92 £13.25 £16.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £26.45 £22.61
Median hourly rate £35.22 £52.50 £30.41
Median % change year-on-year -32.91% +72.63% -47.11%
75th Percentile £45.36 £58.09 £70.00
90th Percentile £58.46 £60.13 £75.25
England median hourly rate £32.50 £52.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -38.10% +75.00% -35.14%

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 June 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
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 June 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
Thames Valley -33 32 £463 -19.57% 12
Hampshire -34 27 £513 +10.81% 17
Berkshire -15 20 £500 -13.04% 5
West Sussex - 13 £459 - 5
Surrey -8 12 £400 - 2
Buckinghamshire -41 10 £336 -41.57% 4
Oxfordshire -22 2 £500 - 4
East Sussex - 2 £459 - 2
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 16 (18.39%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.45%) SAS
3 2 (2.30%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.15%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (8.05%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.75%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (3.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (20.69%) Azure
2 16 (18.39%) AWS
3 14 (16.09%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (9.20%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (6.90%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.60%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (4.60%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.60%) GitHub
6 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (3.45%) SaaS
8 2 (2.30%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.30%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (2.30%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.30%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (2.30%) Azure Storage
8 2 (2.30%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (2.30%) Miro
8 2 (2.30%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.15%) DNS
1 1 (1.15%) Firewall
1 1 (1.15%) LAN
1 1 (1.15%) SONET
1 1 (1.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (6.90%) Power BI
2 4 (4.60%) Big Data
2 4 (4.60%) Star Schema
3 3 (3.45%) Metadata
4 2 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.30%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (2.30%) Pentaho
5 1 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.15%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.15%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.15%) MySQL
5 1 (1.15%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.15%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 75 (86.21%) JIRA
2 6 (6.90%) GitLab
3 5 (5.75%) Bitbucket
4 4 (4.60%) Artifactory
5 3 (3.45%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (2.30%) Android Studio
6 2 (2.30%) Balsamiq
6 2 (2.30%) Git
6 2 (2.30%) ScriptRunner
6 2 (2.30%) Subversion
7 1 (1.15%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.15%) TestRail
7 1 (1.15%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 34 (39.08%) Social Skills
2 21 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (18.39%) Finance
4 8 (9.20%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.60%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.60%) Legal
5 4 (4.60%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.60%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (4.60%) Retail
5 4 (4.60%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.30%) Automotive
6 2 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.15%) Aviation
7 1 (1.15%) Back Office
7 1 (1.15%) Billing
7 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.15%) Marketing
7 1 (1.15%) Military
Job Titles
1 27 (31.03%) Analyst
2 18 (20.69%) Business Analyst
3 8 (9.20%) Developer
3 8 (9.20%) Lead
4 5 (5.75%) Architect
4 5 (5.75%) Data Engineer
4 5 (5.75%) Product Owner
4 5 (5.75%) Senior
5 4 (4.60%) Data Analyst
5 4 (4.60%) Project Manager
6 3 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (3.45%) IT Analyst
6 3 (3.45%) Scrum Master
6 3 (3.45%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (2.30%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 2 (2.30%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
7 2 (2.30%) Azure Developer
7 2 (2.30%) Pensions Analyst
7 2 (2.30%) Power Platform Architect
7 2 (2.30%) Product Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.90%) ADO
2 4 (4.60%) .NET
2 4 (4.60%) .NET Core
2 4 (4.60%) .NET Framework
3 3 (3.45%) RESTful
4 2 (2.30%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.30%) Blazor
4 2 (2.30%) Entity Framework
4 2 (2.30%) Middleware
4 2 (2.30%) OAuth
4 2 (2.30%) OpenID
4 2 (2.30%) Razor View Engine
4 2 (2.30%) REST
4 2 (2.30%) SAML
5 1 (1.15%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.15%) JSON
5 1 (1.15%) React
5 1 (1.15%) SOAP
5 1 (1.15%) WebSockets
5 1 (1.15%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.99%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.90%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.45%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.45%) Taxonomies
4 2 (2.30%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.30%) FMCG
4 2 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.15%) Blog
5 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.15%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.15%) PMI
5 1 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.75%) Android
1 5 (5.75%) Unix
2 4 (4.60%) Linux
3 3 (3.45%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.45%) Windows
4 2 (2.30%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (54.02%) Agile
2 22 (25.29%) Scrum
3 21 (24.14%) DevOps
4 16 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (18.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 15 (17.24%) CI/CD
6 14 (16.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (16.09%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (14.94%) Roadmaps
8 12 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (12.64%) Data Modelling
9 11 (12.64%) Test Automation
9 11 (12.64%) User Stories
10 10 (11.49%) Analytics
10 10 (11.49%) Kanban
10 10 (11.49%) Project Delivery
10 10 (11.49%) Project Management
10 10 (11.49%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 9 (10.34%) Acceptance Criteria
11 9 (10.34%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 20 (22.99%) SQL
2 5 (5.75%) C#
2 5 (5.75%) PL/SQL
2 5 (5.75%) Python
3 4 (4.60%) PowerShell
4 3 (3.45%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.15%) Bash
5 1 (1.15%) Bicep
5 1 (1.15%) C++
5 1 (1.15%) Java
5 1 (1.15%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 30 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 23 (26.44%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.34%) Degree
4 5 (5.75%) PMI Certification
5 4 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.60%) PMP
6 3 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.45%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.15%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.64%) PMO
2 10 (11.49%) QA
3 7 (8.05%) Data Quality
4 4 (4.60%) GRC
4 4 (4.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (3.45%) ISO 22301
5 3 (3.45%) ISO 31000
5 3 (3.45%) NIST
6 1 (1.15%) JSP 440
System Software
1 5 (5.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (11.49%) Terraform
2 4 (4.60%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (3.45%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.30%) Grafana
4 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.30%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (1.15%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.15%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.05%) Oracle
3 6 (6.90%) Atlassian
4 5 (5.75%) Denodo
4 5 (5.75%) Talend
5 4 (4.60%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.30%) Coverity
6 2 (2.30%) Databricks
6 2 (2.30%) Dell
6 2 (2.30%) HP
6 2 (2.30%) Informatica
6 2 (2.30%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.30%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.30%) SAP
6 2 (2.30%) Thales
7 1 (1.15%) Cisco
7 1 (1.15%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.15%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.15%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.15%) Splunk