Confluence Contracts in the South East

Confluence
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Confluence skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Confluence over the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 108 125
Rank change year-on-year +19 +17 -29
Contract jobs citing Confluence 62 89 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.09% 1.57% 1.63%
As % of the Application Platforms category 19.31% 24.32% 15.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 57 56
10th Percentile £375 £293 £263
25th Percentile £422 £350 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £492
Median % change year-on-year - -8.45% -1.69%
75th Percentile £591 £556 £550
90th Percentile £660 £603 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.71% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 9
10th Percentile £51.49 £62.50 £22.16
25th Percentile £52.14 £67.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £56.38 £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.46% +21.74% +17.95%
75th Percentile £60.72 £75.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £61.79 £77.50 £59.75
England median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +7.69% +13.04% -17.86%

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 321 366 584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.80% 6.44% 10.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 233 423
10th Percentile £222 £246 £247
25th Percentile £372 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £430 £491
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -12.35% +3.28%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £607
90th Percentile £629 £608 £694
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 31 29
10th Percentile £13.25 £16.00 £22.33
25th Percentile £26.45 £22.61 £50.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.83 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.32% -46.39% +187.50%
75th Percentile £58.09 £70.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £60.13 £75.00 £75.84
England median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +75.00% -36.84% +130.97%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Confluence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Confluence in the South East

Confluence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Confluence in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Confluence in the South East

Confluence
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Confluence in the South East over the 6 months to 7 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Confluence in the South East

Confluence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Confluence in the South East.

Hourly rate trend 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 7 June 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
Hampshire +23 35 £463 -13.95% 27
Thames Valley +28 20 £575 +27.78% 90
Buckinghamshire +15 10 £575 +43.75% 8
Berkshire +19 9 £575 +9.52% 78
Kent - 5 £375 - 3
Surrey +1 2 - - 9
Oxfordshire +6 1 - - 4
Confluence
England

Confluence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.45%) Apache
1 4 (6.45%) CMS
1 4 (6.45%) Drupal
1 4 (6.45%) WordPress
2 2 (3.23%) Camunda
3 1 (1.61%) Smallworld
Applications
1 11 (17.74%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.13%) Azure
2 6 (9.68%) AWS
3 5 (8.06%) GitHub
4 4 (6.45%) Figma
4 4 (6.45%) PaaS
5 2 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (3.23%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (3.23%) Azure API Management
5 2 (3.23%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (3.23%) GCP
5 2 (3.23%) Miro
5 2 (3.23%) SaaS
5 2 (3.23%) Serverless
6 1 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.61%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.61%) Slack
6 1 (1.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.06%) DHCP
1 5 (8.06%) DNS
1 5 (8.06%) SSL
1 5 (8.06%) TCP/IP
1 5 (8.06%) VLAN
1 5 (8.06%) VPN
2 4 (6.45%) Internet
2 4 (6.45%) SNMP
2 4 (6.45%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (1.61%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.06%) MySQL
1 5 (8.06%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (8.06%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.45%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.84%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.23%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.23%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.61%) Couchbase
5 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.61%) GIS
5 1 (1.61%) Metadata
5 1 (1.61%) Parquet
5 1 (1.61%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 59 (95.16%) JIRA
2 11 (17.74%) Bitbucket
2 11 (17.74%) Git
2 11 (17.74%) Visual Studio
3 10 (16.13%) GitLab
3 10 (16.13%) GoogleTest
3 10 (16.13%) Jenkins
3 10 (16.13%) Robot Framework
4 9 (14.52%) Eclipse
5 4 (6.45%) Bitbucket Server
6 2 (3.23%) DBeaver
6 2 (3.23%) ERwin
6 2 (3.23%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (3.23%) Terragrunt
6 2 (3.23%) TestRail
7 1 (1.61%) Postman
General
1 22 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 15 (24.19%) Finance
3 8 (12.90%) Manufacturing
4 4 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.23%) Automotive
5 2 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (24.19%) Developer
2 11 (17.74%) Delphi Developer
2 11 (17.74%) Software Engineer
3 7 (11.29%) Analyst
3 7 (11.29%) Business Analyst
4 6 (9.68%) Embedded Engineer
4 6 (9.68%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Windows Engineer
5 5 (8.06%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Consultant
6 4 (6.45%) PHP Software Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) Senior
7 3 (4.84%) Data Analyst
7 3 (4.84%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Software Test Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.90%) CSS
1 8 (12.90%) HTML
2 6 (9.68%) AngularJS
3 5 (8.06%) SOAP
4 4 (6.45%) Ajax
4 4 (6.45%) CodeIgniter
4 4 (6.45%) jQuery
4 4 (6.45%) LAMP
4 4 (6.45%) Web Services
5 3 (4.84%) Kafka
6 2 (3.23%) .NET
6 2 (3.23%) .NET Framework
6 2 (3.23%) JSON
6 2 (3.23%) Keycloak
6 2 (3.23%) OpenJDK
6 2 (3.23%) REST
6 2 (3.23%) RESTful
6 2 (3.23%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.61%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.61%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.45%) Legacy Code
2 3 (4.84%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.61%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.61%) GNSS
4 1 (1.61%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.61%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 17 (27.42%) Windows
2 15 (24.19%) Linux
3 5 (8.06%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (6.45%) Unix
5 1 (1.61%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (46.77%) Agile
2 19 (30.65%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (30.65%) Scrum
3 16 (25.81%) Software Engineering
4 13 (20.97%) Root Cause Analysis
5 12 (19.35%) Functional Testing
5 12 (19.35%) Validation
6 10 (16.13%) Migration
7 8 (12.90%) Collaborative Working
7 8 (12.90%) Design Patterns
8 7 (11.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (9.68%) UML
9 6 (9.68%) User Research
9 6 (9.68%) User Stories
9 6 (9.68%) Wireframes
10 5 (8.06%) Analytics
10 5 (8.06%) DevOps
10 5 (8.06%) Kanban
10 5 (8.06%) Project Management
10 5 (8.06%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 18 (29.03%) SQL
2 13 (20.97%) C#
3 12 (19.35%) PL/SQL
4 11 (17.74%) C++
4 11 (17.74%) Delphi
5 8 (12.90%) JavaScript
6 7 (11.29%) Java
7 4 (6.45%) PHP
8 3 (4.84%) Python
9 2 (3.23%) Go
10 1 (1.61%) Bicep
10 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (29.03%) Security Cleared
2 15 (24.19%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.45%) Degree
4 2 (3.23%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.61%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.06%) QA
2 2 (3.23%) NCSC
3 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (8.06%) Hyper-V
1 5 (8.06%) vSphere
2 2 (3.23%) Firmware
3 1 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.61%) Docker
3 1 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (8.06%) Terraform
1 5 (8.06%) Tivoli
2 2 (3.23%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.61%) Ansible
3 1 (1.61%) Rancher
Vendors
1 19 (30.65%) Microsoft
2 15 (24.19%) Oracle
3 12 (19.35%) Google
4 11 (17.74%) Atlassian
5 6 (9.68%) Intel
5 6 (9.68%) VMware
6 5 (8.06%) Citrix
6 5 (8.06%) SolarWinds
6 5 (8.06%) Veeam
7 4 (6.45%) Zend
8 2 (3.23%) Palantir
8 2 (3.23%) Sparx
9 1 (1.61%) ESRI
9 1 (1.61%) Informatica
9 1 (1.61%) SAP
9 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.61%) UiPath