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 4 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 110 101
Rank change year-on-year -28 -9 -8
Contract jobs citing Confluence 95 54 92
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.43% 1.55% 1.85%
As % of the Application Platforms category 19.87% 14.92% 24.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 37 59
10th Percentile £287 £370 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.15% +20.24% -18.27%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £556
90th Percentile £613 £654 £607
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 14
10th Percentile £43.14 £51.64 -
25th Percentile £44.86 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -10.71% +21.74%
75th Percentile £67.47 £71.50 -
90th Percentile - £76.60 £76.75
England median hourly rate £63.50 £70.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year -9.93% +0.71% +9.80%

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 478 362 369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 7.22% 10.38% 7.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 223 229
10th Percentile £312 £221 £263
25th Percentile £413 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +12.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £599 £600 £588
90th Percentile £700 £650 £633
England median daily rate £500 £498 £525
% change year-on-year +0.50% -5.24% +0.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 15 26
10th Percentile £16.33 £13.25 £18.00
25th Percentile £31.25 £23.30 £30.00
Median hourly rate £38.72 £32.77 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.16% -53.19% +21.74%
75th Percentile £56.29 £58.09 -
90th Percentile £70.70 £68.40 £76.25
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.80 £32.50
% change year-on-year -20.08% +34.75% -31.58%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -27 32 £525 -1.18% 9
Thames Valley -50 25 £500 -4.76% 20
Berkshire -23 21 £500 -14.89% 7
West Sussex -6 16 £459 - 1
Surrey -9 16 £375 -40.00% 7
Oxfordshire -17 2 - - 6
Buckinghamshire -50 2 £500 +11.11% 7
East Sussex - 2 £459 -
Kent -3 1 £210 -44.00% 1
Middlesex - 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 (5.26%) Apache
1 5 (5.26%) nginx
1 5 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.16%) SAS
3 1 (1.05%) Anypoint
Applications
1 10 (10.53%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.16%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.05%) CATIA
3 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.05%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.05%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.05%) ENOVIA
2 1 (1.05%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 27 (28.42%) Azure
2 22 (23.16%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (15.79%) AWS
4 7 (7.37%) Azure AKS
4 7 (7.37%) Azure Key Vault
4 7 (7.37%) Entra ID
5 6 (6.32%) Azure App Service
5 6 (6.32%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (5.26%) Azure Storage
6 5 (5.26%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.21%) IaaS
7 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (4.21%) PaaS
8 3 (3.16%) Azure API Management
9 2 (2.11%) Figma
9 2 (2.11%) GitHub
9 2 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.11%) Lucidchart
9 2 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.11%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.37%) DNS
1 7 (7.37%) Firewall
2 5 (5.26%) DHCP
3 2 (2.11%) LAN
3 2 (2.11%) WAN
4 1 (1.05%) Broadband
4 1 (1.05%) SONET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.37%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (6.32%) NoSQL
3 5 (5.26%) Power BI
4 3 (3.16%) Metadata
5 2 (2.11%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.11%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.11%) Parquet
5 2 (2.11%) Pentaho
6 1 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.05%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (1.05%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.05%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.05%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 80 (84.21%) JIRA
2 7 (7.37%) GitLab
3 5 (5.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (5.26%) Bitbucket
3 5 (5.26%) Git
4 4 (4.21%) Artifactory
5 2 (2.11%) Balsamiq
5 2 (2.11%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.11%) Selenium
5 2 (2.11%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.05%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.05%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (1.05%) TestRail
General
1 35 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 26 (27.37%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (12.63%) Finance
4 7 (7.37%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (6.32%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.26%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.21%) Legal
7 4 (4.21%) Marketing
7 4 (4.21%) Retail
7 4 (4.21%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.11%) Automotive
8 2 (2.11%) Billing
8 2 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.05%) Aviation
9 1 (1.05%) Back Office
9 1 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (26.32%) Analyst
2 19 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 11 (11.58%) Developer
4 8 (8.42%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (8.42%) Senior
5 5 (5.26%) Data Engineer
5 5 (5.26%) Product Owner
6 4 (4.21%) Azure Developer
6 4 (4.21%) Computer Engineer
6 4 (4.21%) Lead
6 4 (4.21%) Project Manager
6 4 (4.21%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (3.16%) .NET Developer
7 3 (3.16%) Architect
7 3 (3.16%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
7 3 (3.16%) IT Analyst
7 3 (3.16%) React Developer
7 3 (3.16%) Senior Business Analyst
7 3 (3.16%) Senior Manager
7 3 (3.16%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.47%) .NET
1 9 (9.47%) .NET Core
1 9 (9.47%) .NET Framework
2 8 (8.42%) RESTful
3 7 (7.37%) Entity Framework
3 7 (7.37%) OAuth
3 7 (7.37%) OpenID
3 7 (7.37%) REST
3 7 (7.37%) SAML
4 4 (4.21%) ADO
4 4 (4.21%) ARM Templates
5 3 (3.16%) SOAP
6 2 (2.11%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.11%) Blazor
6 2 (2.11%) JSON
6 2 (2.11%) Playwright
6 2 (2.11%) Razor View Engine
6 2 (2.11%) React
6 2 (2.11%) Swagger
7 1 (1.05%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.05%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.21%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.16%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.16%) Taxonomies
4 2 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.11%) FMCG
4 2 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.11%) Wiki
5 1 (1.05%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (1.05%) Blog
5 1 (1.05%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.05%) Lidar
5 1 (1.05%) Media Streaming
5 1 (1.05%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.05%) Smart Meter
5 1 (1.05%) Social Media
5 1 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.42%) Linux
2 7 (7.37%) Windows
2 7 (7.37%) Windows 10
3 5 (5.26%) Unix
4 3 (3.16%) Android
4 3 (3.16%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (52.63%) Agile
2 26 (27.37%) DevOps
3 24 (25.26%) Stakeholder Management
4 22 (23.16%) Scrum
5 18 (18.95%) Sprint Planning
6 17 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (17.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 16 (16.84%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (16.84%) Project Delivery
8 15 (15.79%) CI/CD
8 15 (15.79%) Test Automation
9 14 (14.74%) Business Analysis
10 13 (13.68%) Acceptance Criteria
10 13 (13.68%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 12 (12.63%) Dependency Management
12 11 (11.58%) Analytics
12 11 (11.58%) Business Intelligence
13 10 (10.53%) Process Improvement
13 10 (10.53%) Project Management
13 10 (10.53%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 18 (18.95%) SQL
2 15 (15.79%) Python
3 11 (11.58%) C#
4 9 (9.47%) PowerShell
5 5 (5.26%) PL/SQL
6 4 (4.21%) Bicep
7 1 (1.05%) Java
7 1 (1.05%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 20 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 15 (15.79%) Degree
4 9 (9.47%) Azure Certification
5 7 (7.37%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.11%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.11%) PMP
6 2 (2.11%) SAFe Agilist
7 1 (1.05%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.05%) HNC
7 1 (1.05%) HND
7 1 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.74%) PMO
2 7 (7.37%) QA
3 4 (4.21%) GRC
3 4 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.16%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (3.16%) ISO 22301
4 3 (3.16%) ISO 31000
4 3 (3.16%) NIST
5 2 (2.11%) JSP 440
6 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (14.74%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 17 (17.89%) Terraform
2 5 (5.26%) Packer
2 5 (5.26%) vCenter Server
3 2 (2.11%) FortiGate
3 2 (2.11%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.11%) WSUS
4 1 (1.05%) Grafana
4 1 (1.05%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 16 (16.84%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.58%) ServiceNow
3 9 (9.47%) Oracle
4 5 (5.26%) Denodo
4 5 (5.26%) Talend
4 5 (5.26%) Tanium
4 5 (5.26%) VMware
5 4 (4.21%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.11%) Adobe
6 2 (2.11%) Cisco
6 2 (2.11%) Databricks
6 2 (2.11%) Dell
6 2 (2.11%) HP
6 2 (2.11%) Informatica
6 2 (2.11%) SAP
6 2 (2.11%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.11%) Splunk
7 1 (1.05%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.05%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.05%) MuleSoft