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 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 102 99
Rank change year-on-year -34 -3 -16
Contract jobs citing Confluence 91 57 85
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.38% 1.63% 1.81%
As % of the Application Platforms category 20.50% 15.57% 21.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 37 52
10th Percentile £264 £357 £315
25th Percentile £413 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% -10.89%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £565
90th Percentile £586 £654 £609
England median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.56% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 14
10th Percentile £44.86 £51.64 £58.34
25th Percentile £51.99 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £67.47 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -10.71% +21.74%
75th Percentile £74.35 £71.50 -
90th Percentile £95.00 £76.60 -
England median hourly rate £67.47 £70.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -3.61% - +12.00%

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 444 366 391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 6.76% 10.46% 8.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 222 243
10th Percentile £313 £208 £262
25th Percentile £413 £362 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £659 £638
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 15 27
10th Percentile £15.70 £13.25 £20.07
25th Percentile £25.00 £23.30 £30.00
Median hourly rate £38.72 £32.77 £63.15
Median % change year-on-year +18.16% -48.11% +9.83%
75th Percentile £67.47 £58.09 £70.00
90th Percentile £94.75 £68.40 -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £43.80 £37.50
% change year-on-year -25.79% +16.79% -19.94%

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 3 September 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Confluence in the South East over the 6 months to 3 September 2026.

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 3 September 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
Hampshire -24 31 £525 +14.32% 12
Thames Valley -42 21 £500 -4.76% 16
West Sussex -5 18 £459 - 2
Berkshire -19 17 £500 -11.89% 7
Surrey -11 14 £388 -38.00% 7
East Sussex - 3 £459 - 1
Oxfordshire -22 2 - - 2
Buckinghamshire -41 2 £416 -7.52% 7
Kent -6 1 £210 -44.00%
Middlesex - 1 - - 1
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 5 (5.49%) Apache
1 5 (5.49%) nginx
2 4 (4.40%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.30%) SAS
Applications
1 10 (10.99%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.20%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.10%) CATIA
3 1 (1.10%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.10%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.10%) ENOVIA
2 1 (1.10%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 23 (25.27%) Azure
2 18 (19.78%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (14.29%) AWS
4 5 (5.49%) Azure AKS
4 5 (5.49%) Azure App Service
4 5 (5.49%) Azure Key Vault
4 5 (5.49%) Azure Monitor
4 5 (5.49%) Entra ID
4 5 (5.49%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (3.30%) Azure API Management
6 3 (3.30%) Azure Storage
6 3 (3.30%) IaaS
6 3 (3.30%) PaaS
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.20%) Figma
7 2 (2.20%) GitHub
7 2 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.20%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.69%) DNS
1 7 (7.69%) Firewall
2 5 (5.49%) DHCP
3 2 (2.20%) LAN
3 2 (2.20%) WAN
4 1 (1.10%) Broadband
4 1 (1.10%) SONET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.49%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (5.49%) NoSQL
1 5 (5.49%) Power BI
2 2 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (2.20%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.20%) Metadata
2 2 (2.20%) Pentaho
3 1 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.10%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.10%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.10%) MySQL
3 1 (1.10%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 79 (86.81%) JIRA
2 10 (10.99%) GitLab
3 5 (5.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (5.49%) Bitbucket
4 4 (4.40%) Artifactory
4 4 (4.40%) Git
5 2 (2.20%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.20%) Selenium
5 2 (2.20%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.10%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.10%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.10%) TestRail
General
1 35 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 23 (25.27%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (15.38%) Finance
4 8 (8.79%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.49%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (5.49%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.40%) Legal
7 4 (4.40%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.40%) Retail
8 3 (3.30%) Marketing
9 2 (2.20%) Automotive
9 2 (2.20%) Billing
9 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.10%) Aviation
10 1 (1.10%) Back Office
10 1 (1.10%) Banking
10 1 (1.10%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (24.18%) Analyst
2 17 (18.68%) Business Analyst
3 9 (9.89%) Developer
4 7 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 7 (7.69%) Senior
5 6 (6.59%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (5.49%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Architect
7 4 (4.40%) Computer Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Product Owner
7 4 (4.40%) Scrum Master
7 4 (4.40%) Technical Manager
8 3 (3.30%) DevOps Architect
8 3 (3.30%) IT Analyst
8 3 (3.30%) Lead
8 3 (3.30%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (3.30%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (3.30%) Senior Manager
8 3 (3.30%) Senior Project Manager
8 3 (3.30%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.38%) Terraform
2 7 (7.69%) .NET
2 7 (7.69%) .NET Core
2 7 (7.69%) .NET Framework
2 7 (7.69%) RESTful
3 5 (5.49%) Entity Framework
3 5 (5.49%) OAuth
3 5 (5.49%) OpenID
3 5 (5.49%) REST
3 5 (5.49%) SAML
4 3 (3.30%) ARM Templates
4 3 (3.30%) SOAP
5 2 (2.20%) ADO
5 2 (2.20%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.20%) Blazor
5 2 (2.20%) Playwright
5 2 (2.20%) Razor View Engine
5 2 (2.20%) Swagger
6 1 (1.10%) JSON
6 1 (1.10%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.98%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.40%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.20%) FMCG
4 2 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.20%) Taxonomies
4 2 (2.20%) Wiki
5 1 (1.10%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (1.10%) Blog
5 1 (1.10%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.10%) Lidar
5 1 (1.10%) Media Streaming
5 1 (1.10%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.10%) Smart Meter
5 1 (1.10%) Social Media
5 1 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.79%) Linux
2 7 (7.69%) Windows
2 7 (7.69%) Windows 10
3 5 (5.49%) Unix
4 3 (3.30%) Android
4 3 (3.30%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (54.95%) Agile
2 27 (29.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 25 (27.47%) DevOps
3 25 (27.47%) Scrum
4 21 (23.08%) Sprint Planning
5 18 (19.78%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (19.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 17 (18.68%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (18.68%) Project Delivery
7 16 (17.58%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 15 (16.48%) Business Analysis
9 13 (14.29%) CI/CD
9 13 (14.29%) Test Automation
10 12 (13.19%) Acceptance Criteria
10 12 (13.19%) Dependency Management
11 11 (12.09%) Business Intelligence
11 11 (12.09%) Software Delivery
12 10 (10.99%) Project Management
12 10 (10.99%) Roadmaps
12 10 (10.99%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 15 (16.48%) SQL
2 14 (15.38%) Python
3 9 (9.89%) C#
4 8 (8.79%) PowerShell
5 5 (5.49%) PL/SQL
6 3 (3.30%) Bicep
7 1 (1.10%) Java
Qualifications
1 32 (35.16%) Security Cleared
2 17 (18.68%) SC Cleared
3 13 (14.29%) Degree
4 10 (10.99%) DV Cleared
5 8 (8.79%) Azure Certification
6 4 (4.40%) PMI Certification
6 4 (4.40%) PMP
7 2 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.20%) SAFe Agilist
8 1 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.10%) HNC
8 1 (1.10%) HND
8 1 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.38%) PMO
2 8 (8.79%) QA
3 3 (3.30%) GRC
3 3 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.20%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.20%) ISO 22301
4 2 (2.20%) ISO 31000
4 2 (2.20%) JSP 440
4 2 (2.20%) NIST
5 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
System Software
1 12 (13.19%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.49%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (5.49%) Packer
1 5 (5.49%) vCenter Server
2 3 (3.30%) Ansible
3 2 (2.20%) FortiGate
3 2 (2.20%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.20%) WSUS
4 1 (1.10%) Grafana
Vendors
1 14 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.09%) ServiceNow
3 9 (9.89%) Oracle
4 8 (8.79%) VMware
5 5 (5.49%) Denodo
5 5 (5.49%) Talend
5 5 (5.49%) Tanium
6 4 (4.40%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.20%) Adobe
7 2 (2.20%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (2.20%) Cisco
7 2 (2.20%) Databricks
7 2 (2.20%) Dell
7 2 (2.20%) HP
7 2 (2.20%) Informatica
7 2 (2.20%) SAP
7 2 (2.20%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.20%) Splunk
8 1 (1.10%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace