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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 76 100
Rank change year-on-year -65 +24 +37
Contract jobs citing Confluence 75 75 98
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.28% 2.51% 1.78%
As % of the Application Platforms category 17.05% 24.35% 26.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 45 65
10th Percentile £310 £389 £300
25th Percentile £413 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.31%
75th Percentile £563 £590 £575
90th Percentile £625 £626 £635
England median daily rate £500 £511 £538
% change year-on-year -2.15% -4.93% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 10
10th Percentile - £49.85 £53.18
25th Percentile £44.86 £52.50 £62.50
Median hourly rate £48.72 £60.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.47% -13.57% +32.08%
75th Percentile £52.58 £63.75 £73.75
90th Percentile - £66.25 £77.75
England median hourly rate £62.75 £63.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year -1.57% +2.00% +8.70%

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 440 308 370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 7.51% 10.32% 6.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 195 244
10th Percentile £307 £263 £225
25th Percentile £413 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £436
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +14.61% -12.75%
75th Percentile £600 £589 £556
90th Percentile £670 £650 £608
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 25
10th Percentile £16.00 £25.33 £16.00
25th Percentile £30.69 £38.53 £22.61
Median hourly rate £81.00 £55.00 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.27% +42.86% -31.86%
75th Percentile £97.50 £62.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £105.50 £64.50 £76.50
England median hourly rate £28.00 £52.50 £25.50
% change year-on-year -46.67% +105.88% -27.14%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -29 38 £450 -22.25% 12
Berkshire -14 23 £500 -13.04% 2
Hampshire -51 20 £525 +18.38% 10
Buckinghamshire -35 12 £322 -44.36% 8
West Sussex - 8 £480 - 3
Surrey -11 6 £410 -
Oxfordshire -18 3 £500 - 2
East Sussex - 2 £459 - 3
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 19 (25.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.00%) CMS
3 2 (2.67%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.33%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (10.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (4.00%) MS Visio
5 2 (2.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (1.33%) FrameMaker
6 1 (1.33%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.00%) Azure
2 12 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (14.67%) AWS
4 7 (9.33%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (8.00%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.33%) Azure Key Vault
6 4 (5.33%) Entra ID
6 4 (5.33%) GitHub
7 3 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (4.00%) SaaS
8 2 (2.67%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.67%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (2.67%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.67%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (2.67%) Azure Storage
8 2 (2.67%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (2.67%) Figma
8 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (2.67%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.33%) DNS
1 1 (1.33%) Firewall
1 1 (1.33%) LAN
1 1 (1.33%) SONET
1 1 (1.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (8.00%) Power BI
2 4 (5.33%) Big Data
2 4 (5.33%) Star Schema
3 3 (4.00%) Metadata
4 2 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.67%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.33%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (1.33%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.33%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.33%) Parquet
5 1 (1.33%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 62 (82.67%) JIRA
2 6 (8.00%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.00%) Android Studio
3 3 (4.00%) GitLab
3 3 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (4.00%) Subversion
4 2 (2.67%) Artifactory
4 2 (2.67%) Balsamiq
4 2 (2.67%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (1.33%) Git
5 1 (1.33%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 29 (38.67%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (16.00%) Finance
4 7 (9.33%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.00%) Automotive
5 3 (4.00%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.00%) Retail
5 3 (4.00%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Aviation
7 1 (1.33%) Back Office
7 1 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.33%) Marketing
7 1 (1.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (26.67%) Analyst
2 14 (18.67%) Business Analyst
3 9 (12.00%) Project Manager
4 6 (8.00%) Lead
5 5 (6.67%) Architect
5 5 (6.67%) Developer
5 5 (6.67%) Product Owner
5 5 (6.67%) Senior
6 4 (5.33%) Data Analyst
6 4 (5.33%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.00%) Administrator
7 3 (4.00%) Android Developer
7 3 (4.00%) Scrum Master
8 2 (2.67%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (2.67%) IT Support
8 2 (2.67%) Platform Architect
8 2 (2.67%) PMO Lead
8 2 (2.67%) Project Administrator
8 2 (2.67%) Senior Project Manager
8 2 (2.67%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.33%) ADO
2 2 (2.67%) .NET
2 2 (2.67%) .NET Core
2 2 (2.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (2.67%) Entity Framework
2 2 (2.67%) Middleware
2 2 (2.67%) OAuth
2 2 (2.67%) OpenID
2 2 (2.67%) REST
2 2 (2.67%) SAML
3 1 (1.33%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.33%) HTML
3 1 (1.33%) JSON
3 1 (1.33%) React
3 1 (1.33%) RESTful
3 1 (1.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (21.33%) Product Ownership
2 6 (8.00%) Mobile App
3 4 (5.33%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.33%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.00%) Taxonomies
5 2 (2.67%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.33%) Blog
6 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.33%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.33%) PMI
6 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.33%) Android
2 3 (4.00%) Linux
2 3 (4.00%) Unix
3 2 (2.67%) Windows
4 1 (1.33%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (49.33%) Agile
2 19 (25.33%) DevOps
2 19 (25.33%) Scrum
3 15 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 14 (18.67%) Project Management
5 13 (17.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 13 (17.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (13.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 9 (12.00%) Analytics
7 9 (12.00%) Data Modelling
7 9 (12.00%) Kanban
7 9 (12.00%) Roadmaps
8 8 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (10.67%) Project Delivery
8 8 (10.67%) Test Automation
8 8 (10.67%) User Stories
9 7 (9.33%) Decision-Making
9 7 (9.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.00%) SQL
2 4 (5.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (5.33%) Python
3 3 (4.00%) C#
3 3 (4.00%) PL/SQL
3 3 (4.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.33%) Bash
4 1 (1.33%) Bicep
4 1 (1.33%) C++
4 1 (1.33%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 23 (30.67%) Security Cleared
2 17 (22.67%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.00%) Degree
4 8 (10.67%) PMI Certification
5 7 (9.33%) PMP
6 3 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (4.00%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.33%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.00%) PMO
2 9 (12.00%) QA
3 6 (8.00%) Data Quality
4 4 (5.33%) GRC
4 4 (5.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (4.00%) ISO 22301
5 3 (4.00%) ISO 31000
5 3 (4.00%) NIST
6 1 (1.33%) JSP 440
System Software
1 5 (6.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (12.00%) Terraform
2 4 (5.33%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (4.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (2.67%) Grafana
5 1 (1.33%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.33%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (14.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.33%) Atlassian
3 4 (5.33%) Oracle
4 3 (4.00%) Coverity
4 3 (4.00%) Denodo
4 3 (4.00%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.00%) Thales
5 2 (2.67%) Informatica
5 2 (2.67%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.67%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.67%) SAP
5 2 (2.67%) Talend
6 1 (1.33%) Cisco
6 1 (1.33%) Databricks
6 1 (1.33%) Dell
6 1 (1.33%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.33%) HP
6 1 (1.33%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.33%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.33%) Splunk