Confluence Contracts in the South East

Confluence
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Confluence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Confluence over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 107 144
Rank change year-on-year +21 +37 -48
Contract jobs citing Confluence 75 100 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.49% 1.80% 1.34%
As % of the Application Platforms category 24.35% 26.39% 12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 66 46
10th Percentile £400 £300 £283
25th Percentile £425 £350 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £590 £560 £600
90th Percentile £626 £634 £694
England median daily rate £512 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.74% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 9
10th Percentile £49.85 £51.35 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £62.50 £22.16
Median hourly rate £60.50 £70.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% +33.33% -
75th Percentile £63.75 £75.00 £58.25
90th Percentile £66.25 £78.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £63.75 £62.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +2.00% +8.70% +15.00%

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 308 379 632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.23% 6.82% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 244 459
10th Percentile £263 £225 £230
25th Percentile £401 £325 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £436 £488
Median % change year-on-year +14.61% -10.51% +2.63%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £600
90th Percentile £650 £608 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 25 25
10th Percentile £25.33 £16.00 £22.16
25th Percentile £38.53 £22.61 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -36.94% +177.50%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £64.50 £76.50 £77.51
England median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Confluence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Confluence in the South East

Confluence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Confluence in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Confluence in the South East

Confluence
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Confluence in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Confluence in the South East

Confluence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Confluence in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Confluence in the South East

Confluence
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Confluence in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 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 1 May 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
Hampshire +29 48 £444 -17.49% 12
Thames Valley +40 23 £579 +26.50% 11
Buckinghamshire +23 14 £579 +65.36% 1
Berkshire +22 8 £575 +15.00% 6
Surrey -4 2 - - 6
Kent - 2 £500 - 3
Oxfordshire +4 1 - - 7
Confluence
England

Confluence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.33%) Apache
1 4 (5.33%) CMS
1 4 (5.33%) Drupal
1 4 (5.33%) WordPress
2 2 (2.67%) Camunda
3 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (21.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (9.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.33%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 5 (6.67%) AWS
1 5 (6.67%) Azure
2 4 (5.33%) GitHub
2 4 (5.33%) PaaS
3 3 (4.00%) Figma
4 2 (2.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (2.67%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (2.67%) AWS Fargate
4 2 (2.67%) Azure API Management
4 2 (2.67%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (2.67%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (2.67%) GCP
4 2 (2.67%) Miro
4 2 (2.67%) SaaS
5 1 (1.33%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.33%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (13.33%) Software-Defined Radio
2 7 (9.33%) SNMP
3 4 (5.33%) Internet
4 1 (1.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.67%) MySQL
1 5 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.33%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.67%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.33%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.33%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 68 (90.67%) JIRA
2 18 (24.00%) Bitbucket
3 17 (22.67%) Git
4 16 (21.33%) Visual Studio
5 14 (18.67%) Jenkins
6 13 (17.33%) GoogleTest
6 13 (17.33%) Robot Framework
7 12 (16.00%) Eclipse
8 10 (13.33%) GitLab
9 7 (9.33%) ERwin
9 7 (9.33%) PowerDesigner
10 4 (5.33%) Bitbucket Server
11 3 (4.00%) TestRail
12 2 (2.67%) DBeaver
12 2 (2.67%) Terragrunt
13 1 (1.33%) Postman
13 1 (1.33%) TeamCity
General
1 30 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 23 (30.67%) Finance
3 11 (14.67%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (14.67%) Manufacturing
4 4 (5.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Automotive
6 2 (2.67%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.33%) Aviation
7 1 (1.33%) Banking
7 1 (1.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (26.67%) Developer
2 16 (21.33%) Delphi Developer
3 11 (14.67%) Software Engineer
4 7 (9.33%) Analyst
5 6 (8.00%) Architect
5 6 (8.00%) Business Analyst
5 6 (8.00%) Data Modeller
5 6 (8.00%) Embedded Engineer
5 6 (8.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Software Test Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Test Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Consultant
7 4 (5.33%) Data Architect
7 4 (5.33%) PHP Software Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Senior
8 3 (4.00%) Data Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) Data Business Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) JIRA Consultant
8 3 (4.00%) Project Manager
8 3 (4.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.67%) CSS
1 11 (14.67%) HTML
2 6 (8.00%) AngularJS
3 5 (6.67%) SOAP
4 4 (5.33%) Ajax
4 4 (5.33%) CodeIgniter
4 4 (5.33%) jQuery
4 4 (5.33%) LAMP
4 4 (5.33%) Web Services
5 3 (4.00%) Kafka
6 2 (2.67%) .NET
6 2 (2.67%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.67%) Keycloak
6 2 (2.67%) OpenJDK
6 2 (2.67%) REST
6 2 (2.67%) RESTful
6 2 (2.67%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.33%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.33%) ARM Templates
7 1 (1.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.33%) Data Structures
2 4 (5.33%) Legacy Code
3 3 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.00%) Verilog
3 3 (4.00%) VHDL
4 2 (2.67%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.33%) GNSS
5 1 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.33%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 21 (28.00%) Linux
2 17 (22.67%) Windows
3 4 (5.33%) Unix
4 1 (1.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (50.67%) Agile
2 25 (33.33%) Scrum
3 24 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (25.33%) Software Engineering
5 18 (24.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 17 (22.67%) Functional Testing
7 13 (17.33%) Validation
8 12 (16.00%) UML
9 10 (13.33%) Analytics
9 10 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
9 10 (13.33%) SysML
10 9 (12.00%) Migration
11 8 (10.67%) BPMN
11 8 (10.67%) Data Management
11 8 (10.67%) Project Management
12 7 (9.33%) Data Architecture
12 7 (9.33%) Data Modelling
12 7 (9.33%) Software Testing
12 7 (9.33%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (9.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 24 (32.00%) SQL
2 18 (24.00%) C#
3 17 (22.67%) PL/SQL
4 16 (21.33%) Delphi
5 14 (18.67%) C++
6 11 (14.67%) JavaScript
7 7 (9.33%) Java
8 5 (6.67%) Python
9 4 (5.33%) PHP
10 3 (4.00%) SystemVerilog
10 3 (4.00%) Tcl
11 2 (2.67%) Go
12 1 (1.33%) Bicep
12 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.67%) Degree
4 2 (2.67%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.33%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.33%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.33%) PMP
5 1 (1.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.33%) QA
2 2 (2.67%) NCSC
3 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.33%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (6.67%) Firmware
2 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.33%) Terraform
2 2 (2.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.33%) Ansible
3 1 (1.33%) Opsgenie
3 1 (1.33%) Rancher
Vendors
1 27 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (26.67%) Oracle
3 18 (24.00%) Atlassian
4 15 (20.00%) Google
5 7 (9.33%) Sparx
6 6 (8.00%) Intel
7 4 (5.33%) Zend
8 3 (4.00%) Xilinx
9 2 (2.67%) Palantir
9 2 (2.67%) SAP
10 1 (1.33%) Informatica
10 1 (1.33%) PagerDuty
10 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.33%) Twitter
10 1 (1.33%) VMware