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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 103 81
Rank change year-on-year +1 -22 +16
Contract jobs citing Confluence 58 80 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.68% 1.75% 2.51%
As % of the Application Platforms category 16.34% 20.57% 24.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 52 80
10th Percentile £357 £315 £324
25th Percentile £375 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £510
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -11.76% -2.86%
75th Percentile £576 £565 £588
90th Percentile £650 £609 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 18
10th Percentile £55.13 £58.34 £53.53
25th Percentile £59.06 - £55.31
Median hourly rate £66.75 £70.00 £59.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.64% +17.65% +8.18%
75th Percentile £73.63 - £69.06
90th Percentile £77.45 - £73.29
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +12.00% +10.67%

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 355 389 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.31% 8.52% 10.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 246 388
10th Percentile £207 £262 £211
25th Percentile £357 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £461
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -2.33% -3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £565 £588
90th Percentile £663 £638 £678
England median daily rate £500 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.48% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 26 38
10th Percentile £13.25 £25.06 £25.09
25th Percentile £25.75 £30.10 £51.56
Median hourly rate £32.77 £65.09 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -49.65% +12.13% +190.23%
75th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 £69.06
90th Percentile £69.95 - £75.33
England median hourly rate £41.45 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -12.74% +5.56% +109.30%

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
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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 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 16 September 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
Thames Valley +21 28 £518 -1.33% 49
Berkshire +24 20 £525 - 33
Hampshire +1 20 £444 -17.49% 9
Kent +7 7 £375 - 3
Buckinghamshire +7 7 £450 -10.00% 10
East Sussex -1 1 £485 +5.43% 3
Surrey -8 1 £625 +71.23% 6
West Sussex -8 1 - - 3
Oxfordshire -9 1 - - 6
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 (6.90%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.17%) CMS
3 1 (1.72%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.72%) Smallworld
Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (3.45%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.07%) Azure
2 5 (8.62%) GitHub
3 3 (5.17%) AWS
3 3 (5.17%) Slack
4 2 (3.45%) Figma
4 2 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.72%) dbt
5 1 (1.72%) npm
5 1 (1.72%) SaaS
5 1 (1.72%) Serverless
5 1 (1.72%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.34%) VPN
2 5 (8.62%) DHCP
2 5 (8.62%) DNS
2 5 (8.62%) SSL
2 5 (8.62%) TCP/IP
2 5 (8.62%) VLAN
3 2 (3.45%) Firewall
4 1 (1.72%) HTTP
4 1 (1.72%) SNMP
4 1 (1.72%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.45%) Metadata
2 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.72%) GIS
2 1 (1.72%) Spatial Data
2 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 56 (96.55%) JIRA
2 8 (13.79%) Bitbucket
3 7 (12.07%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.90%) Cucumber
4 4 (6.90%) Git
4 4 (6.90%) REST Assured
4 4 (6.90%) Selenium
5 2 (3.45%) GitLab
6 1 (1.72%) GoogleTest
6 1 (1.72%) Maven
6 1 (1.72%) Robot Framework
6 1 (1.72%) TestRail
6 1 (1.72%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (39.66%) Social Skills
2 15 (25.86%) Finance
3 6 (10.34%) Automotive
4 4 (6.90%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.45%) General Ledger
5 2 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.45%) Retail
6 1 (1.72%) Electronics
6 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Legal
6 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (20.69%) Project Manager
2 9 (15.52%) Analyst
3 8 (13.79%) Business Analyst
4 7 (12.07%) Developer
4 7 (12.07%) Senior
5 5 (8.62%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Tester
5 5 (8.62%) Windows Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Automation Tester
6 4 (6.90%) Data Analyst
6 4 (6.90%) Programme Manager
6 4 (6.90%) Selenium Automation Tester
6 4 (6.90%) Selenium Tester
7 3 (5.17%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) IT Programme Manager
7 3 (5.17%) Release Manager
7 3 (5.17%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.07%) .NET
1 7 (12.07%) RESTful
2 6 (10.34%) REST
3 4 (6.90%) SOAP
4 3 (5.17%) .NET Core
4 3 (5.17%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.45%) .NET Framework
5 2 (3.45%) Swagger
6 1 (1.72%) CSS
6 1 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.72%) HTML
6 1 (1.72%) JSON
6 1 (1.72%) MUnit
6 1 (1.72%) Node.js
6 1 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.72%) Qt
6 1 (1.72%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.62%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (8.62%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (6.90%) Onboarding
2 4 (6.90%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (5.17%) Life Science
3 3 (5.17%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.72%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.72%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.72%) GNSS
4 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.72%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.97%) Windows
2 5 (8.62%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (3.45%) Linux
4 1 (1.72%) VMS
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (70.69%) Agile
2 16 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (25.86%) Change Management
4 13 (22.41%) Project Management
5 12 (20.69%) Scrum
6 10 (17.24%) Acceptance Criteria
7 9 (15.52%) Migration
7 9 (15.52%) Project Delivery
7 9 (15.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (15.52%) User Stories
8 8 (13.79%) CI/CD
8 8 (13.79%) Conflict Resolution
8 8 (13.79%) DevOps
8 8 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (13.79%) Test Automation
9 7 (12.07%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (10.34%) Roadmaps
10 6 (10.34%) Validation
11 5 (8.62%) Data Migration
11 5 (8.62%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.79%) C#
2 7 (12.07%) SQL
3 6 (10.34%) Python
4 2 (3.45%) C++
4 2 (3.45%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.72%) Delphi
5 1 (1.72%) Go
5 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (18.97%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) Degree
3 2 (3.45%) PMI Certification
3 2 (3.45%) PMP
4 1 (1.72%) CSPO
4 1 (1.72%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) QA
2 2 (3.45%) GDPR
3 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.72%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (8.62%) Hyper-V
1 5 (8.62%) vSphere
2 4 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (8.62%) Tivoli
2 2 (3.45%) Terraform
3 1 (1.72%) Ansible
3 1 (1.72%) CloudHub
3 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.72%) Rancher
Vendors
1 12 (20.69%) Oracle
2 6 (10.34%) Citrix
2 6 (10.34%) VMware
3 5 (8.62%) SolarWinds
3 5 (8.62%) Veeam
4 4 (6.90%) Remedy
4 4 (6.90%) Salesforce
5 3 (5.17%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.45%) Palantir
7 1 (1.72%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.72%) ESRI
7 1 (1.72%) Google
7 1 (1.72%) Informatica
7 1 (1.72%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.72%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.72%) UiPath