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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 81 107
Rank change year-on-year -63 +26 +33
Contract jobs citing Confluence 68 76 99
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.18% 2.54% 1.78%
As % of the Application Platforms category 15.96% 24.60% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 46 67
10th Percentile £312 £400 £300
25th Percentile £413 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% -1.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £589 £573
90th Percentile £650 £626 £633
England median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 9
10th Percentile - £49.85 £51.35
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% +33.33%
75th Percentile £52.58 £63.75 £75.00
90th Percentile - £66.25 £78.00
England median hourly rate £63.00 £63.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year -1.18% +2.00% +10.62%

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 426 309 377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 7.42% 10.31% 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 196 242
10th Percentile £311 £263 £214
25th Percentile £414 £411 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £444
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +12.68% -7.55%
75th Percentile £610 £591 £556
90th Percentile £675 £650 £608
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 27
10th Percentile £17.65 £25.33 £16.00
25th Percentile £37.12 £38.53 £22.61
Median hourly rate £81.00 £55.00 £30.83
Median % change year-on-year +47.27% +78.43% -44.21%
75th Percentile £95.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £104.40 £64.50 £76.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £52.50 £27.52
% change year-on-year -46.67% +90.81% -8.28%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -23 40 £500 -13.61% 9
Berkshire -11 25 £500 -13.04% 4
Hampshire -54 16 £575 +28.71% 7
Buckinghamshire -32 12 £322 -44.36% 6
Surrey -8 7 £500 - 1
West Sussex -8 4 £515 - 4
Oxfordshire -18 3 £500 -
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 20 (29.41%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.41%) CMS
3 2 (2.94%) Anypoint
Applications
1 9 (13.24%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (7.35%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (4.41%) MS Visio
5 2 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (1.47%) FrameMaker
6 1 (1.47%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (20.59%) Azure
2 12 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (8.82%) AWS
3 6 (8.82%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (7.35%) GitHub
4 5 (7.35%) Power Platform
5 4 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (5.88%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.41%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (4.41%) SaaS
7 2 (2.94%) Azure AKS
7 2 (2.94%) Azure Event Grid
7 2 (2.94%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.94%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.94%) Azure Storage
7 2 (2.94%) Figma
7 2 (2.94%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.94%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.47%) DNS
1 1 (1.47%) Firewall
1 1 (1.47%) LAN
1 1 (1.47%) SONET
1 1 (1.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.35%) Power BI
2 4 (5.88%) Big Data
2 4 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.88%) Star Schema
3 3 (4.41%) Metadata
4 2 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.94%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.47%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.47%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.47%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 56 (82.35%) JIRA
2 6 (8.82%) Bitbucket
3 4 (5.88%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.41%) Android Studio
4 3 (4.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (4.41%) Subversion
5 2 (2.94%) Balsamiq
5 2 (2.94%) ScriptRunner
6 1 (1.47%) Git
6 1 (1.47%) GitLab
6 1 (1.47%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 28 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.12%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (17.65%) Finance
4 8 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.41%) Automotive
5 3 (4.41%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (4.41%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.41%) Retail
5 3 (4.41%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.94%) Marketing
7 1 (1.47%) Aviation
7 1 (1.47%) Back Office
7 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.47%) Military
7 1 (1.47%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (23.53%) Analyst
2 11 (16.18%) Business Analyst
3 9 (13.24%) Project Manager
4 7 (10.29%) Lead
5 5 (7.35%) Developer
6 4 (5.88%) Architect
6 4 (5.88%) Data Analyst
6 4 (5.88%) Product Owner
6 4 (5.88%) Senior
7 3 (4.41%) Administrator
7 3 (4.41%) Android Developer
7 3 (4.41%) Scrum Master
8 2 (2.94%) IT Manager
8 2 (2.94%) IT Project Manager
8 2 (2.94%) Project Administrator
8 2 (2.94%) Senior Manager
8 2 (2.94%) Senior Project Manager
8 2 (2.94%) Senior Test Analyst
8 2 (2.94%) Service Manager
8 2 (2.94%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.29%) ADO
2 2 (2.94%) .NET
2 2 (2.94%) .NET Core
2 2 (2.94%) .NET Framework
2 2 (2.94%) Entity Framework
2 2 (2.94%) Middleware
2 2 (2.94%) OAuth
2 2 (2.94%) OpenID
2 2 (2.94%) REST
2 2 (2.94%) SAML
3 1 (1.47%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.47%) HTML
3 1 (1.47%) JSON
3 1 (1.47%) React
3 1 (1.47%) RESTful
3 1 (1.47%) Spring
3 1 (1.47%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (22.06%) Product Ownership
2 7 (10.29%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.41%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.41%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.41%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.41%) Taxonomies
4 2 (2.94%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.47%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.47%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.47%) PMI
5 1 (1.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.41%) Android
1 3 (4.41%) Linux
2 1 (1.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (51.47%) Agile
2 19 (27.94%) DevOps
2 19 (27.94%) Scrum
3 15 (22.06%) CI/CD
4 14 (20.59%) Project Management
5 13 (19.12%) Stakeholder Management
6 12 (17.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 11 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (14.71%) Kanban
8 10 (14.71%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 9 (13.24%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (13.24%) Roadmaps
9 9 (13.24%) User Stories
10 8 (11.76%) Analytics
10 8 (11.76%) Decision-Making
10 8 (11.76%) Project Delivery
10 8 (11.76%) Risk Management
11 7 (10.29%) PRINCE2
11 7 (10.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.18%) SQL
2 4 (5.88%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.41%) C#
3 3 (4.41%) Python
3 3 (4.41%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.47%) Bash
4 1 (1.47%) Bicep
4 1 (1.47%) C++
4 1 (1.47%) Java
4 1 (1.47%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 18 (26.47%) Security Cleared
2 12 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.76%) Degree
3 8 (11.76%) PMI Certification
4 7 (10.29%) PMP
5 3 (4.41%) SAFe Agilist
6 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.47%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.47%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.65%) PMO
2 10 (14.71%) QA
3 6 (8.82%) Data Quality
4 4 (5.88%) GRC
4 4 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (4.41%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (4.41%) ISO 22301
5 3 (4.41%) ISO 31000
5 3 (4.41%) NIST
6 1 (1.47%) JSP 440
System Software
1 5 (7.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.35%) Terraform
2 4 (5.88%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (4.41%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (2.94%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.47%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.47%) Grafana
5 1 (1.47%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.29%) Atlassian
3 3 (4.41%) Coverity
3 3 (4.41%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.41%) Thales
4 2 (2.94%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.94%) OpenAI
4 2 (2.94%) SAP
5 1 (1.47%) Cisco
5 1 (1.47%) Databricks
5 1 (1.47%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.47%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.47%) Splunk