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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 78 89
Rank change year-on-year -45 +11 +43
Contract jobs citing Confluence 75 77 125
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.44% 2.58% 2.22%
As % of the Application Platforms category 18.43% 25.50% 29.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 43 81
10th Percentile £321 £400 £300
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £588 £589 £573
90th Percentile £650 £626 £630
England median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 17
10th Percentile - £51.49 £53.50
25th Percentile - £58.47 £62.50
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +34.62%
75th Percentile - £64.06 £76.53
90th Percentile - £70.63 £76.92
England median hourly rate £45.46 £62.50 £67.56
% change year-on-year -27.26% -7.49% +27.47%

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 407 302 424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 7.83% 10.12% 7.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 177 255
10th Percentile £306 £263 £191
25th Percentile £425 £406 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £610 £588 £560
90th Percentile £683 £650 £608
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 17 39
10th Percentile £16.00 £33.09 £19.50
25th Percentile £30.69 £45.00 £24.00
Median hourly rate £81.00 £62.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.60% +8.70% +10.05%
75th Percentile £88.50 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £100.00 £67.50 £76.53
England median hourly rate £27.21 £46.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year -41.17% +85.00% +12.82%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 -10 46 £500 -14.16% 17
Berkshire -1 30 £500 -13.04% 7
Buckinghamshire -16 12 £322 -44.72% 6
Hampshire -63 11 £525 +20.00% 15
Surrey -5 8 £500 +57.23% 8
East Sussex +5 4 £565 +21.51% 1
Oxfordshire - 4 £500 - 4
West Sussex -10 3 £515 - 2
Kent -11 2 £565 +13.00% 6
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 23 (30.67%) SharePoint
2 7 (9.33%) CMS
3 2 (2.67%) Anypoint
Applications
1 10 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 10 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
1 10 (13.33%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (4.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.33%) FrameMaker
3 1 (1.33%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.33%) Azure
1 10 (13.33%) GitHub
2 8 (10.67%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
3 6 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (6.67%) AWS
5 4 (5.33%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (5.33%) Entra ID
5 4 (5.33%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (4.00%) Lucidchart
6 3 (4.00%) SaaS
7 2 (2.67%) Azure AKS
7 2 (2.67%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.67%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.67%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (2.67%) PaaS
7 2 (2.67%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.67%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.33%) NoSQL
2 5 (6.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 5 (6.67%) Big Data
2 5 (6.67%) Couchbase
2 5 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.33%) Power BI
3 4 (5.33%) Star Schema
4 2 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.67%) Metadata
5 1 (1.33%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.33%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.33%) Parquet
5 1 (1.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 65 (86.67%) JIRA
2 9 (12.00%) Jenkins
3 7 (9.33%) Bitbucket
3 7 (9.33%) Git
4 6 (8.00%) GitLab
5 3 (4.00%) Android Studio
5 3 (4.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (4.00%) Subversion
6 2 (2.67%) Balsamiq
6 2 (2.67%) ScriptRunner
7 1 (1.33%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 37 (49.33%) Social Skills
2 17 (22.67%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (17.33%) Finance
4 6 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.33%) Automotive
5 4 (5.33%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (5.33%) Manufacturing
5 4 (5.33%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (5.33%) Retail
6 2 (2.67%) Marketing
7 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.33%) Publishing
7 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (18.67%) Project Manager
2 12 (16.00%) Analyst
3 10 (13.33%) Developer
4 7 (9.33%) Business Analyst
4 7 (9.33%) Lead
4 7 (9.33%) Senior
5 5 (6.67%) Architect
6 4 (5.33%) Data Analyst
6 4 (5.33%) Senior Developer
7 3 (4.00%) Android Developer
7 3 (4.00%) Product Owner
8 2 (2.67%) Azure Developer
8 2 (2.67%) Digital Project Manager
8 2 (2.67%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (2.67%) Mobile Project Manager
8 2 (2.67%) Pensions Analyst
8 2 (2.67%) Platform Architect
8 2 (2.67%) PMO Lead
8 2 (2.67%) PMO Manager
8 2 (2.67%) Testing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.33%) REST
2 5 (6.67%) ADO
2 5 (6.67%) Kafka
2 5 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (2.67%) .NET
3 2 (2.67%) .NET Core
3 2 (2.67%) .NET Framework
3 2 (2.67%) Entity Framework
3 2 (2.67%) Middleware
3 2 (2.67%) OAuth
3 2 (2.67%) OpenID
3 2 (2.67%) SAML
4 1 (1.33%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.33%) HTML
4 1 (1.33%) JSON
4 1 (1.33%) React
4 1 (1.33%) RESTful
4 1 (1.33%) Spring
4 1 (1.33%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.00%) Mobile App
1 12 (16.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.33%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.67%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.67%) PMI
4 2 (2.67%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.33%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.00%) Android
2 2 (2.67%) Linux
3 1 (1.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (53.33%) Agile
2 23 (30.67%) Project Management
3 22 (29.33%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (21.33%) DevOps
5 16 (21.33%) PRINCE2
5 16 (21.33%) Scrum
6 14 (18.67%) CI/CD
7 11 (14.67%) Decision-Making
7 11 (14.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 10 (13.33%) CRM
8 10 (13.33%) Regression Testing
8 10 (13.33%) Test Automation
9 9 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (12.00%) Microservices
9 9 (12.00%) Project Delivery
9 9 (12.00%) Roadmaps
9 9 (12.00%) User Stories
10 8 (10.67%) Analytics
10 8 (10.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.67%) SQL
2 9 (12.00%) Python
3 5 (6.67%) Go
4 4 (5.33%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.00%) C#
5 3 (4.00%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.67%) Java
7 1 (1.33%) Bash
7 1 (1.33%) Bicep
7 1 (1.33%) C++
7 1 (1.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.33%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 18 (24.00%) Degree
2 17 (22.67%) Security Cleared
3 16 (21.33%) PMI Certification
4 14 (18.67%) PMP
5 13 (17.33%) SC Cleared
6 7 (9.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (5.33%) CISM
7 4 (5.33%) CISSP
8 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (1.33%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (20.00%) PMO
2 14 (18.67%) QA
3 6 (8.00%) Data Quality
3 6 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (8.00%) NIST
4 2 (2.67%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.67%) GRC
4 2 (2.67%) ISO 22301
4 2 (2.67%) ISO 31000
5 1 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (8.00%) Docker
2 4 (5.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (9.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.67%) Terraform
3 4 (5.33%) HP Quality Center
4 3 (4.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (1.33%) Grafana
Vendors
1 12 (16.00%) Atlassian
2 10 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.00%) Coverity
3 3 (4.00%) Thales
4 2 (2.67%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.67%) OpenAI
4 2 (2.67%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.67%) SAP
5 1 (1.33%) Oracle
5 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow