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 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 106 73
Rank change year-on-year +1 -33 +28
Contract jobs citing Confluence 65 75 159
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.79% 1.76% 2.90%
As % of the Application Platforms category 18.57% 20.27% 27.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 41 96
10th Percentile £361 £350 £378
25th Percentile £378 £363 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £534
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -15.69% +1.67%
75th Percentile £608 £550 £588
90th Percentile £650 £600 £673
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +1.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 17 21
10th Percentile £63.10 £62.50 £51.25
25th Percentile £65.88 £67.02 £55.00
Median hourly rate £71.00 £70.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £75.75 - £70.00
90th Percentile £78.30 £72.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £62.95 £70.00 £63.75
% change year-on-year -10.07% +9.80% +1.16%

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 350 370 578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 9.63% 8.68% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 215 380
10th Percentile £206 £250 £209
25th Percentile £378 £363 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £486
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.46% +5.14%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £635 £678
England median daily rate £500 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.94% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 30 41
10th Percentile £13.21 £30.00 £24.00
25th Percentile £13.25 £41.25 £44.60
Median hourly rate £29.64 £63.15 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.07% +9.83% +207.24%
75th Percentile £65.69 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.05 - £76.10
England median hourly rate £35.25 £42.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -17.06% +57.41% +35.00%

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 22 October 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 22 October 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 22 October 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 +28 36 £518 -1.33% 47
Berkshire +34 30 £525 -8.70% 33
Hampshire -8 12 £390 -17.89% 18
Kent +9 9 £375 - 2
East Sussex +4 5 £525 +14.13%
Buckinghamshire +2 5 £475 -5.00% 5
Surrey -6 2 £625 +71.23% 3
Oxfordshire -10 1 £500 +92.31% 10
West Sussex -12 1 - - 10
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 8 (12.31%) SharePoint
2 6 (9.23%) CMS
3 1 (1.54%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.54%) Smallworld
Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (3.08%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.31%) Azure
1 8 (12.31%) GitHub
2 6 (9.23%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.08%) Figma
3 2 (3.08%) Slack
4 1 (1.54%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.54%) AWS
4 1 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.54%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (1.54%) dbt
4 1 (1.54%) Lucidchart
4 1 (1.54%) OCI
4 1 (1.54%) SaaS
4 1 (1.54%) Serverless
4 1 (1.54%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.23%) VPN
2 5 (7.69%) DHCP
2 5 (7.69%) DNS
2 5 (7.69%) SSL
2 5 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 5 (7.69%) VLAN
3 2 (3.08%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.15%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (6.15%) Couchbase
1 4 (6.15%) NoSQL
1 4 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.08%) Metadata
3 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.54%) Big Data
3 1 (1.54%) GIS
3 1 (1.54%) Redis
3 1 (1.54%) Spatial Data
3 1 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 62 (95.38%) JIRA
2 10 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 7 (10.77%) Bitbucket
3 7 (10.77%) Git
4 5 (7.69%) GitLab
5 4 (6.15%) Cucumber
5 4 (6.15%) REST Assured
5 4 (6.15%) Selenium
6 1 (1.54%) Maven
6 1 (1.54%) TestRail
6 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (47.69%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.08%) Finance
3 7 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.23%) Automotive
5 4 (6.15%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (6.15%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.62%) Retail
7 2 (3.08%) General Ledger
7 2 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.08%) Manufacturing
7 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.54%) Electronics
8 1 (1.54%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.54%) Legal
8 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (24.62%) Project Manager
2 10 (15.38%) Developer
2 10 (15.38%) Senior
3 6 (9.23%) Senior Developer
3 6 (9.23%) Tester
4 5 (7.69%) Analyst
4 5 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (7.69%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (7.69%) Windows Engineer
4 5 (7.69%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Automation Tester
5 4 (6.15%) Business Analyst
5 4 (6.15%) Programme Manager
5 4 (6.15%) Selenium Automation Tester
5 4 (6.15%) Selenium Tester
6 3 (4.62%) E-Commerce Project Manager
6 3 (4.62%) IT Manager
6 3 (4.62%) IT Programme Manager
6 3 (4.62%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.38%) REST
2 7 (10.77%) .NET
2 7 (10.77%) RESTful
3 4 (6.15%) Kafka
3 4 (6.15%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (6.15%) SOAP
4 3 (4.62%) .NET Core
4 3 (4.62%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.08%) .NET Framework
5 2 (3.08%) Swagger
6 1 (1.54%) JSON
6 1 (1.54%) MUnit
6 1 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.54%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.77%) Mobile App
2 5 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.15%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.15%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.62%) Life Science
5 2 (3.08%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.54%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.54%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.54%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.54%) PMI
6 1 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.54%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 10 (15.38%) Windows
2 5 (7.69%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (69.23%) Agile
2 25 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (32.31%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (29.23%) Project Management
5 15 (23.08%) Change Management
6 12 (18.46%) Scrum
7 11 (16.92%) PRINCE2
8 10 (15.38%) Test Automation
9 9 (13.85%) Migration
9 9 (13.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (12.31%) Conflict Resolution
10 8 (12.31%) DevOps
10 8 (12.31%) Microservices
10 8 (12.31%) Project Delivery
10 8 (12.31%) Regression Testing
10 8 (12.31%) Roadmaps
10 8 (12.31%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 8 (12.31%) TDD
11 7 (10.77%) Change Control
11 7 (10.77%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 10 (15.38%) Python
2 8 (12.31%) C#
3 6 (9.23%) SQL
4 4 (6.15%) Go
5 1 (1.54%) Delphi
5 1 (1.54%) Java
5 1 (1.54%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (18.46%) Degree
2 10 (15.38%) PMI Certification
3 9 (13.85%) PMP
3 9 (13.85%) Security Cleared
4 7 (10.77%) SC Cleared
5 4 (6.15%) CISM
5 4 (6.15%) CISSP
5 4 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.54%) CSPO
6 1 (1.54%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.54%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.77%) QA
2 6 (9.23%) PMO
3 4 (6.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (6.15%) NIST
4 2 (3.08%) GDPR
5 1 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (7.69%) Hyper-V
1 5 (7.69%) vSphere
2 4 (6.15%) Docker
2 4 (6.15%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (7.69%) Tivoli
2 4 (6.15%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.54%) CloudHub
3 1 (1.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (16.92%) Oracle
2 6 (9.23%) Citrix
3 5 (7.69%) SolarWinds
3 5 (7.69%) Veeam
3 5 (7.69%) VMware
4 4 (6.15%) Atlassian
4 4 (6.15%) Remedy
4 4 (6.15%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.08%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.54%) ESRI
6 1 (1.54%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.54%) UiPath