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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 91 83
Rank change year-on-year -20 -8 +35
Contract jobs citing Confluence 78 66 143
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.73% 2.06% 2.66%
As % of the Application Platforms category 21.08% 21.15% 28.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 34 95
10th Percentile £321 £358 £375
25th Percentile £385 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £543
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -15.21% -1.36%
75th Percentile £574 £561 £588
90th Percentile £650 £583 £675
England median daily rate £500 £516 £550
% change year-on-year -3.10% -6.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 22
10th Percentile - £54.78 £51.58
25th Percentile - £59.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £64.88
Median % change year-on-year - -3.67% +24.77%
75th Percentile - £65.00 £71.42
90th Percentile - £70.40 £76.53
England median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -31.20% - +19.05%

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 370 312 495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.22% 9.76% 9.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 176 322
10th Percentile £257 £216 £208
25th Percentile £413 £381 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £465
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% +0.00% -2.11%
75th Percentile £613 £543 £575
90th Percentile £675 £636 £655
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 19 42
10th Percentile £15.12 £41.25 £24.00
25th Percentile - £55.00 £30.10
Median hourly rate £81.00 £62.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +29.60% +2.04% +38.97%
75th Percentile £95.00 £64.73 £70.00
90th Percentile £101.10 £67.87 £75.99
England median hourly rate £27.21 £45.00 £26.78
% change year-on-year -39.53% +68.04% +37.33%

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 27 January 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 27 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 -13.91% 27
Berkshire +19 34 £500 - 12
Buckinghamshire +2 12 £322 -43.13% 11
Hampshire -45 12 £400 -5.88% 10
East Sussex +7 5 £525 +14.13% 2
Surrey -7 5 £513 +53.44% 3
Kent -1 4 £621 +24.25% 4
Oxfordshire - 4 £500 - 4
West Sussex -11 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 (26.92%) SharePoint
2 6 (7.69%) CMS
3 1 (1.28%) Anypoint
Applications
1 11 (14.10%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (12.82%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (8.97%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.28%) FrameMaker
5 1 (1.28%) MadCap Flare
5 1 (1.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (2.56%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.82%) GitHub
2 6 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
2 6 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (6.41%) Azure
4 4 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.85%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.56%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (2.56%) Azure Functions
6 2 (2.56%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (2.56%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (2.56%) Copilot Studio
6 2 (2.56%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (2.56%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.56%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.56%) SaaS
6 2 (2.56%) Serverless
6 2 (2.56%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 5 (6.41%) Apache Cassandra
2 5 (6.41%) Big Data
2 5 (6.41%) Couchbase
2 5 (6.41%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.13%) Star Schema
4 3 (3.85%) Power BI
5 1 (1.28%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.28%) Redis
5 1 (1.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 72 (92.31%) JIRA
2 13 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 11 (14.10%) Bitbucket
4 6 (7.69%) Git
4 6 (7.69%) GitLab
5 4 (5.13%) Cucumber
5 4 (5.13%) REST Assured
5 4 (5.13%) Selenium
6 3 (3.85%) Android Studio
6 3 (3.85%) Subversion
7 2 (2.56%) ScriptRunner
8 1 (1.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (1.28%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 42 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 20 (25.64%) Finance
3 10 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.26%) Public Sector
5 7 (8.97%) Automotive
6 6 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (6.41%) Telecoms
8 4 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (5.13%) Retail
9 3 (3.85%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.56%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.28%) Electronics
11 1 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.28%) Marketing
11 1 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (24.36%) Project Manager
2 11 (14.10%) Analyst
2 11 (14.10%) Developer
3 9 (11.54%) Senior
4 7 (8.97%) Business Analyst
4 7 (8.97%) Lead
5 6 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 6 (7.69%) Tester
6 5 (6.41%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.13%) Automation Tester
7 4 (5.13%) Selenium Automation Tester
7 4 (5.13%) Selenium Tester
8 3 (3.85%) .NET Developer
8 3 (3.85%) Administrator
8 3 (3.85%) Android Developer
8 3 (3.85%) Architect
8 3 (3.85%) Project Administrator
9 2 (2.56%) Consultant
9 2 (2.56%) IT Manager
9 2 (2.56%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.82%) REST
2 7 (8.97%) .NET
2 7 (8.97%) RESTful
3 5 (6.41%) Kafka
3 5 (6.41%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (5.13%) SOAP
5 3 (3.85%) .NET Core
5 3 (3.85%) ADO
5 3 (3.85%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.56%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.56%) Swagger
7 1 (1.28%) HTML
7 1 (1.28%) Middleware
7 1 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (1.28%) Spring
7 1 (1.28%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.10%) Mobile App
2 9 (11.54%) Product Ownership
3 8 (10.26%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.56%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.56%) PMI
6 1 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.28%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.28%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.28%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.28%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.28%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.28%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.41%) Windows
2 3 (3.85%) Android
3 2 (2.56%) Linux
4 1 (1.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (65.38%) Agile
2 28 (35.90%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (33.33%) Project Management
4 22 (28.21%) Stakeholder Management
5 18 (23.08%) Scrum
6 15 (19.23%) PRINCE2
7 13 (16.67%) Project Delivery
8 12 (15.38%) Regression Testing
9 11 (14.10%) Change Management
9 11 (14.10%) CI/CD
9 11 (14.10%) DevOps
9 11 (14.10%) Roadmaps
9 11 (14.10%) Test Automation
10 10 (12.82%) Analytics
10 10 (12.82%) Change Control
11 9 (11.54%) CRM
11 9 (11.54%) Data Protection
11 9 (11.54%) Kanban
11 9 (11.54%) Microservices
11 9 (11.54%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.10%) Python
1 11 (14.10%) SQL
2 8 (10.26%) C#
3 5 (6.41%) Go
4 3 (3.85%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.56%) Java
6 1 (1.28%) C++
6 1 (1.28%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.28%) Tcl
6 1 (1.28%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (23.08%) Degree
2 15 (19.23%) PMI Certification
3 14 (17.95%) Security Cleared
4 13 (16.67%) PMP
5 8 (10.26%) SC Cleared
6 7 (8.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (5.13%) CISM
7 4 (5.13%) CISSP
8 1 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.28%) CSPO
8 1 (1.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (1.28%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.95%) PMO
2 11 (14.10%) QA
3 6 (7.69%) Data Quality
4 4 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (5.13%) NIST
5 1 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (7.69%) Docker
2 4 (5.13%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.56%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.85%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 2 (2.56%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 11 (14.10%) Atlassian
2 10 (12.82%) Oracle
3 8 (10.26%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.13%) Remedy
5 3 (3.85%) Coverity
5 3 (3.85%) Thales
6 2 (2.56%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.28%) Citrix
7 1 (1.28%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.28%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.28%) SAP