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 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 96 73
Rank change year-on-year -13 -23 +47
Contract jobs citing Confluence 77 66 141
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.75% 2.03% 2.75%
As % of the Application Platforms category 21.69% 21.57% 28.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 35 92
10th Percentile £320 £360 £401
25th Percentile £385 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £548
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -15.07% -0.45%
75th Percentile £575 £565 £588
90th Percentile £650 £589 £675
England median daily rate £505 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -2.84% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 22
10th Percentile - £54.70 £51.58
25th Percentile - £58.47 £55.00
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £62.50
75th Percentile - £65.51 £70.00
90th Percentile - £70.83 £76.53
England median hourly rate £44.23 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -29.23% - +20.19%

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 355 306 488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.05% 9.41% 9.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 171 316
10th Percentile £265 £223 £203
25th Percentile £413 £384 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £468
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -0.53% -1.58%
75th Percentile £613 £544 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £664
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 18 41
10th Percentile £15.12 £41.25 £24.00
25th Percentile - £54.81 £30.41
Median hourly rate £81.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.60% +4.17% +42.35%
75th Percentile £95.00 £64.73 £70.00
90th Percentile £101.10 £68.29 £76.10
England median hourly rate £27.21 £42.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -35.98% +70.00% +37.17%

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

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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 20 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Confluence in the South East

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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 20 January 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 +20 50 £488 -11.36% 29
Berkshire +16 34 £500 -4.76% 13
Buckinghamshire -3 12 £322 -43.13% 11
Hampshire -48 11 £395 -9.71% 8
East Sussex +8 5 £525 +14.13% 2
Surrey -8 5 £513 +53.44% 5
Kent +1 4 £621 +24.25% 4
Oxfordshire - 4 £500 - 5
West Sussex -14 2 - - 5
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 21 (27.27%) SharePoint
2 6 (7.79%) CMS
3 1 (1.30%) Anypoint
Applications
1 11 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (12.99%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (3.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.30%) FrameMaker
5 1 (1.30%) MadCap Flare
5 1 (1.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (2.60%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.99%) GitHub
2 6 (7.79%) GitHub Actions
2 6 (7.79%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (5.19%) Azure
4 3 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.90%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.60%) Azure Event Grid
5 2 (2.60%) Azure Functions
5 2 (2.60%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (2.60%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (2.60%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (2.60%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (2.60%) Copilot Studio
5 2 (2.60%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (2.60%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.60%) PowerApps
5 2 (2.60%) SaaS
5 2 (2.60%) Serverless
5 2 (2.60%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.79%) NoSQL
2 5 (6.49%) Apache Cassandra
2 5 (6.49%) Big Data
2 5 (6.49%) Couchbase
2 5 (6.49%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.19%) Star Schema
4 3 (3.90%) Power BI
5 1 (1.30%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.30%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.30%) Redis
5 1 (1.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 71 (92.21%) JIRA
2 13 (16.88%) Jenkins
3 11 (14.29%) Bitbucket
4 6 (7.79%) Git
4 6 (7.79%) GitLab
5 4 (5.19%) Cucumber
5 4 (5.19%) REST Assured
5 4 (5.19%) Selenium
6 3 (3.90%) Android Studio
6 3 (3.90%) Subversion
7 2 (2.60%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (1.30%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 41 (53.25%) Social Skills
2 19 (24.68%) Finance
3 10 (12.99%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.39%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.79%) Automotive
5 6 (7.79%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (6.49%) Telecoms
7 4 (5.19%) Retail
8 3 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.90%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.60%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.30%) Electronics
10 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.30%) Marketing
10 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.30%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (24.68%) Project Manager
2 11 (14.29%) Analyst
2 11 (14.29%) Developer
3 9 (11.69%) Senior
4 7 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 7 (9.09%) Lead
5 6 (7.79%) Senior Developer
5 6 (7.79%) Tester
6 5 (6.49%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.19%) Automation Tester
7 4 (5.19%) Selenium Automation Tester
7 4 (5.19%) Selenium Tester
8 3 (3.90%) .NET Developer
8 3 (3.90%) Administrator
8 3 (3.90%) Android Developer
8 3 (3.90%) Architect
8 3 (3.90%) Project Administrator
9 2 (2.60%) Consultant
9 2 (2.60%) IT Manager
9 2 (2.60%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.99%) REST
2 7 (9.09%) .NET
2 7 (9.09%) RESTful
3 5 (6.49%) Kafka
3 5 (6.49%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (5.19%) SOAP
5 3 (3.90%) .NET Core
5 3 (3.90%) ADO
5 3 (3.90%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.60%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.60%) Swagger
7 1 (1.30%) HTML
7 1 (1.30%) Middleware
7 1 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (1.30%) Spring
7 1 (1.30%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 8 (10.39%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (10.39%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.60%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.30%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.30%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.30%) PMI
5 1 (1.30%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.49%) Windows
2 3 (3.90%) Android
3 2 (2.60%) Linux
4 1 (1.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (64.94%) Agile
2 28 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (33.77%) Project Management
4 21 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 17 (22.08%) Scrum
6 15 (19.48%) PRINCE2
7 13 (16.88%) Project Delivery
8 12 (15.58%) Regression Testing
9 11 (14.29%) Change Management
9 11 (14.29%) Roadmaps
9 11 (14.29%) Test Automation
10 10 (12.99%) Analytics
10 10 (12.99%) Change Control
10 10 (12.99%) CI/CD
10 10 (12.99%) DevOps
11 9 (11.69%) CRM
11 9 (11.69%) Decision-Making
11 9 (11.69%) Microservices
11 9 (11.69%) TDD
12 8 (10.39%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.29%) Python
1 11 (14.29%) SQL
2 8 (10.39%) C#
3 5 (6.49%) Go
4 3 (3.90%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.60%) Java
6 1 (1.30%) C++
6 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.30%) Tcl
6 1 (1.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (23.38%) Degree
2 14 (18.18%) PMI Certification
2 14 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 13 (16.88%) PMP
4 8 (10.39%) SC Cleared
5 7 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (5.19%) CISM
6 4 (5.19%) CISSP
7 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.30%) CSPO
7 1 (1.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (18.18%) PMO
2 10 (12.99%) QA
3 6 (7.79%) Data Quality
4 4 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (5.19%) NIST
5 1 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (7.79%) Docker
2 4 (5.19%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.60%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (7.79%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.90%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 2 (2.60%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 11 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 10 (12.99%) Oracle
3 8 (10.39%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.19%) Remedy
5 3 (3.90%) Coverity
5 3 (3.90%) Thales
6 2 (2.60%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.30%) Citrix
7 1 (1.30%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.30%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.30%) SAP