Confluence Contracts in the South West

Confluence
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 64 88
Rank change year-on-year +5 +24 -19
Contract jobs citing Confluence 53 100 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.16% 3.13% 2.34%
As % of the Application Platforms category 32.52% 33.11% 19.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 92 61
10th Percentile £485 £463 £350
25th Percentile £525 £490 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.64% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £605 £700 £675
90th Percentile £695 - £750
England median daily rate £512 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.74% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £62.50
25th Percentile - - £67.50
Median hourly rate - - £86.65
75th Percentile - - £86.66
90th Percentile - - £91.36
England median hourly rate £63.75 £62.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +2.00% +8.70% +15.00%

All Application Platform Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 163 302 443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 9.71% 9.44% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 230 350
10th Percentile £223 £220 £206
25th Percentile £406 £363 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £589 £625
90th Percentile £673 £700 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 23
10th Percentile £13.89 - £17.50
25th Percentile £14.42 - £53.75
Median hourly rate £38.71 £40.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -42.86% +30.84%
75th Percentile £75.15 £68.00 £79.13
90th Percentile £80.83 £74.44 £86.66
England median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +90.91% -12.00% +49.59%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Confluence in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Confluence in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Confluence in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Confluence in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Confluence in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Wiltshire -8 28 £575 +6.98% 5
Gloucestershire +18 11 £575 -4.17% 20
Dorset - 10 £550 - 4
Bristol +14 4 £570 -0.87% 13
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England

Confluence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 8 (15.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (9.43%) SharePoint
3 4 (7.55%) Skype for Business
4 1 (1.89%) Tomcat
Applications
1 20 (37.74%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (13.21%) Azure
2 6 (11.32%) AWS
3 2 (3.77%) Entra ID
3 2 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.77%) SaaS
3 2 (3.77%) Serverless
4 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.32%) DHCP
1 6 (11.32%) DNS
2 5 (9.43%) Skype
3 4 (7.55%) Unified Communications
4 2 (3.77%) iSCSI
4 2 (3.77%) SAN
5 1 (1.89%) BGP
5 1 (1.89%) OSPF
5 1 (1.89%) VLAN
5 1 (1.89%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.77%) Metadata
2 1 (1.89%) MySQL
2 1 (1.89%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 52 (98.11%) JIRA
2 15 (28.30%) Bitbucket
3 9 (16.98%) Git
4 8 (15.09%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.89%) GitLab
6 1 (1.89%) Zephyr
General
1 37 (69.81%) Social Skills
2 29 (54.72%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (41.51%) Public Sector
4 10 (18.87%) Finance
5 3 (5.66%) Electronics
5 3 (5.66%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.66%) Marketing
5 3 (5.66%) Military
5 3 (5.66%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.66%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.89%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 12 (22.64%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 5 (9.43%) Analyst
3 4 (7.55%) Lead
4 3 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (5.66%) Product Lead
4 3 (5.66%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 3 (5.66%) Scrum Master
4 3 (5.66%) Software Engineer
4 3 (5.66%) Test Engineer
5 2 (3.77%) Agile Delivery Manager
5 2 (3.77%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (3.77%) Governance Analyst
5 2 (3.77%) Governance Manager
5 2 (3.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (3.77%) IT Project Manager
5 2 (3.77%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (3.77%) Programme Analyst
5 2 (3.77%) Risk Analyst
5 2 (3.77%) Risk Manager
5 2 (3.77%) Senior Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (22.64%) Flash
2 8 (15.09%) REST
3 7 (13.21%) SOAP
4 1 (1.89%) .NET
4 1 (1.89%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.89%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.89%) Kafka
4 1 (1.89%) React
4 1 (1.89%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.64%) Clustering
2 8 (15.09%) PKI
3 7 (13.21%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.77%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.77%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.89%) CMDB
5 1 (1.89%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.89%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.89%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 18 (33.96%) Windows
2 16 (30.19%) Windows Server
3 9 (16.98%) Linux
4 6 (11.32%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (7.55%) Windows 10
6 3 (5.66%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (3.77%) VMS
8 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (77.36%) Agile
2 28 (52.83%) Service Management
3 25 (47.17%) System Testing
4 23 (43.40%) NsoIT
5 22 (41.51%) Waterfall
6 21 (39.62%) Critical Thinking
6 21 (39.62%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (39.62%) Validation
7 17 (32.08%) Computer Science
7 17 (32.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 13 (24.53%) Scrum
9 12 (22.64%) High Availability
9 12 (22.64%) Power Management
10 10 (18.87%) Configuration Management
10 10 (18.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 10 (18.87%) Network Virtualisation
11 9 (16.98%) Deployment Automation
11 9 (16.98%) ITIL
12 7 (13.21%) DevOps
12 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (26.42%) PowerShell
2 12 (22.64%) Python
3 8 (15.09%) Bash
4 7 (13.21%) SQL
5 1 (1.89%) Java
5 1 (1.89%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.89%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (62.26%) Security Cleared
2 32 (60.38%) SC Cleared
3 23 (43.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 21 (39.62%) Degree
5 20 (37.74%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (26.42%) Master's Degree
7 12 (22.64%) CCNA
8 10 (18.87%) CCNP
9 8 (15.09%) OCA
9 8 (15.09%) Oracle Certification
10 7 (13.21%) RHCA
10 7 (13.21%) RHCE
11 6 (11.32%) DV Cleared
11 6 (11.32%) MCSA
11 6 (11.32%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (9.43%) MCSE
13 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
13 2 (3.77%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.66%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.77%) QA
3 1 (1.89%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.89%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 25 (47.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (22.64%) VMware ESXi
2 12 (22.64%) VMware NSX
3 8 (15.09%) Active Directory
4 4 (7.55%) Hyper-V
5 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (5.66%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (1.89%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (37.74%) vCenter Server
2 8 (15.09%) Ansible
3 7 (13.21%) Progress Chef
3 7 (13.21%) Puppet
4 3 (5.66%) Terraform
4 3 (5.66%) WSUS
5 2 (3.77%) PowerCLI
5 2 (3.77%) SCOM
5 2 (3.77%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.89%) OPNET
Vendors
1 32 (60.38%) Atlassian
2 25 (47.17%) VMware
3 20 (37.74%) Cisco
4 15 (28.30%) Microsoft
5 9 (16.98%) Oracle
6 4 (7.55%) Veeam
7 3 (5.66%) SAP
8 1 (1.89%) BMC
8 1 (1.89%) Remedy
8 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.89%) SolarWinds