Confluence Contracts in the UK excluding London

Confluence
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 87 109 120
Rank change year-on-year +22 +11 -26
Contract jobs citing Confluence 360 412 517
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.82% 1.98% 2.15%
As % of the Application Platforms category 24.10% 23.16% 19.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 276 376
10th Percentile £332 £359 £302
25th Percentile £405 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £610 £600
90th Percentile £625 £700 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 15
10th Percentile £51.78 £53.18 £22.16
25th Percentile £58.47 £61.56 £51.25
Median hourly rate £63.75 £66.25 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% +19.37% +16.84%
75th Percentile £75.63 £73.75 £82.07
90th Percentile £78.13 £77.75 £86.66
UK median hourly rate £63.75 £61.25 £55.50
% change year-on-year +4.08% +10.36% +11.00%

All Application Platform Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 1,494 1,779 2,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.70% 8.56% 11.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 977 1,187 1,925
10th Percentile £213 £213 £201
25th Percentile £350 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 123 98
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.30 £14.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £46.18 £23.75 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -9.49% +41.84%
75th Percentile £64.50 £46.18 £65.44
90th Percentile £77.50 £69.75 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £27.52 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.01% -31.21% +81.82%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Confluence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Confluence in the UK excluding London

Confluence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Confluence in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Confluence in the UK excluding London

Confluence
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Confluence in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Confluence in the UK excluding London

Confluence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Confluence in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Confluence in the UK excluding London

Confluence
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Confluence in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Confluence in the UK excluding London

Confluence
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Confluence within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +74 103 £425 -19.05% 69
South East +21 75 £485 -3.00% 83
Yorkshire +45 59 £449 -18.45% 27
Scotland -35 54 £463 -19.57% 9
South West +5 53 £570 +3.64% 40
Midlands +53 50 £504 +6.05% 38
North West +39 42 £410 -18.00% 37
West Midlands +40 35 £512 -6.91% 30
East of England +34 24 £425 +3.60% 32
East Midlands +16 14 £449 +30.00% 6
North East +6 8 £525 - 5
Wales +6 6 £425 - 15
Confluence
UK

Confluence
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 27 (7.50%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.39%) Camunda
4 4 (1.11%) Apache
4 4 (1.11%) CMS
4 4 (1.11%) Drupal
4 4 (1.11%) Skype for Business
4 4 (1.11%) WordPress
5 2 (0.56%) SAS
5 2 (0.56%) Tuxedo
6 1 (0.28%) Appian
6 1 (0.28%) nginx
6 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.28%) Traefik
Applications
1 42 (11.67%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (7.50%) MS Visio
3 15 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (3.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.56%) InVision
6 2 (0.56%) Open Workbench
6 2 (0.56%) UserZoom
7 1 (0.28%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.28%) Simulink
7 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (2.78%) Teamcenter
2 7 (1.94%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.56%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.28%) Actimize
4 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 55 (15.28%) AWS
2 27 (7.50%) Azure
3 17 (4.72%) Serverless
4 12 (3.33%) GitHub
5 11 (3.06%) Power Platform
5 11 (3.06%) Slack
6 10 (2.78%) SaaS
7 8 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (2.22%) GCP
8 7 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (1.94%) PaaS
9 6 (1.67%) Lucidchart
10 5 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (1.39%) IaaS
10 5 (1.39%) Miro
11 4 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.11%) Entra ID
12 3 (0.83%) Alation
12 3 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (0.83%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.78%) Software-Defined Radio
2 9 (2.50%) DNS
3 8 (2.22%) DHCP
3 8 (2.22%) HTTP
4 7 (1.94%) Firewall
4 7 (1.94%) SNMP
5 6 (1.67%) Skype
6 5 (1.39%) SAN
6 5 (1.39%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.11%) Internet
7 4 (1.11%) Kerberos
7 4 (1.11%) SNA
7 4 (1.11%) Unified Communications
8 3 (0.83%) VLAN
9 2 (0.56%) BGP
9 2 (0.56%) iSCSI
9 2 (0.56%) OpenLDAP
9 2 (0.56%) OSPF
9 2 (0.56%) SSL
10 1 (0.28%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.22%) Oracle Database
2 17 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (4.44%) MySQL
4 15 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
6 11 (3.06%) MongoDB
7 10 (2.78%) Apache Cassandra
8 8 (2.22%) Power BI
8 8 (2.22%) SQL Server
9 6 (1.67%) Big Data
9 6 (1.67%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.67%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.39%) Tableau
11 3 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.83%) IBM InfoSphere
12 2 (0.56%) IDMS
12 2 (0.56%) Metadata
13 1 (0.28%) Amazon Aurora
13 1 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 324 (90.00%) JIRA
2 61 (16.94%) Git
3 54 (15.00%) Bitbucket
4 37 (10.28%) Jenkins
5 24 (6.67%) GitLab
6 20 (5.56%) Cucumber
7 19 (5.28%) Visual Studio
8 18 (5.00%) JUnit
9 15 (4.17%) Selenium
10 13 (3.61%) GoogleTest
10 13 (3.61%) Robot Framework
11 12 (3.33%) Eclipse
11 12 (3.33%) Subversion
12 11 (3.06%) Maven
12 11 (3.06%) Oracle Forms
13 9 (2.50%) Jasmine
13 9 (2.50%) PVCS
14 8 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 7 (1.94%) ERwin
15 7 (1.94%) IntelliJ
General
1 136 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 105 (29.17%) Finance
3 84 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (12.78%) Public Sector
5 19 (5.28%) Banking
6 16 (4.44%) Manufacturing
6 16 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.22%) Automotive
9 7 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.67%) Marketing
11 5 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.11%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.11%) Electronics
12 4 (1.11%) Legal
12 4 (1.11%) Military
12 4 (1.11%) Retail Banking
12 4 (1.11%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.56%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 56 (15.56%) Analyst
2 50 (13.89%) Developer
3 40 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 30 (8.33%) Senior
5 20 (5.56%) Software Engineer
6 19 (5.28%) Project Manager
7 17 (4.72%) Lead
8 16 (4.44%) Delphi Developer
8 16 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
10 14 (3.89%) Technical Manager
11 13 (3.61%) Senior Developer
12 12 (3.33%) Test Engineer
12 12 (3.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
13 11 (3.06%) Backup Engineer
13 11 (3.06%) Commvault Engineer
13 11 (3.06%) Engagement Manager
13 11 (3.06%) Java Developer
13 11 (3.06%) Oracle Developer
14 10 (2.78%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.56%) CSS
2 19 (5.28%) HTML
3 18 (5.00%) Spring Boot
4 14 (3.89%) RESTful
4 14 (3.89%) Spring
5 12 (3.33%) Flash
5 12 (3.33%) REST
5 12 (3.33%) SOAP
6 10 (2.78%) AngularJS
7 9 (2.50%) Java EE
7 9 (2.50%) Kafka
7 9 (2.50%) Swagger
8 8 (2.22%) Node.js
8 8 (2.22%) OpenAPI
8 8 (2.22%) Spring Security
9 7 (1.94%) Ajax
9 7 (1.94%) jQuery
9 7 (1.94%) Spring Batch
9 7 (1.94%) Web Services
10 6 (1.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 30 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 20 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 13 (3.61%) Data Structures
4 12 (3.33%) Clustering
5 10 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.50%) Mainframe
6 9 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 9 (2.50%) PKI
7 8 (2.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 7 (1.94%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.11%) Legacy Code
11 3 (0.83%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.83%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.83%) Verilog
11 3 (0.83%) VHDL
12 2 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.56%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 51 (14.17%) Linux
2 40 (11.11%) Windows
3 17 (4.72%) Windows Server
4 15 (4.17%) Unix
5 11 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.11%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.11%) zOS
8 3 (0.83%) Android
8 3 (0.83%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.83%) CentOS
8 3 (0.83%) VMS
8 3 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.56%) Debian
9 2 (0.56%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (56.67%) Agile
2 105 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
3 73 (20.28%) Scrum
4 51 (14.17%) DevOps
5 49 (13.61%) Project Management
6 48 (13.33%) Validation
7 47 (13.06%) Stakeholder Management
8 45 (12.50%) Migration
9 37 (10.28%) Change Management
9 37 (10.28%) CI/CD
9 37 (10.28%) Computer Science
9 37 (10.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 37 (10.28%) Test Automation
10 35 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (9.44%) Service Management
11 34 (9.44%) Software Engineering
11 34 (9.44%) Waterfall
12 33 (9.17%) User Stories
13 32 (8.89%) Continuous Delivery
13 32 (8.89%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 74 (20.56%) SQL
2 47 (13.06%) Python
3 43 (11.94%) Java
4 34 (9.44%) PL/SQL
5 25 (6.94%) Bash
6 23 (6.39%) JavaScript
7 19 (5.28%) PowerShell
8 18 (5.00%) C#
9 16 (4.44%) Delphi
10 15 (4.17%) C++
11 10 (2.78%) C
12 9 (2.50%) ProC
12 9 (2.50%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.94%) Groovy
14 5 (1.39%) JCL
15 4 (1.11%) COBOL
15 4 (1.11%) PHP
15 4 (1.11%) Ruby
15 4 (1.11%) TypeScript
16 3 (0.83%) Go
Qualifications
1 95 (26.39%) Security Cleared
2 83 (23.06%) SC Cleared
3 48 (13.33%) Degree
4 23 (6.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 21 (5.83%) Cisco Certification
6 15 (4.17%) AWS Certification
6 15 (4.17%) Master's Degree
7 12 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (3.33%) CCNA
8 11 (3.06%) CCNP
8 11 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (2.78%) AWS Certified Developer
10 8 (2.22%) OCA
10 8 (2.22%) Oracle Certification
11 7 (1.94%) ISTQB
11 7 (1.94%) RHCA
11 7 (1.94%) RHCE
12 6 (1.67%) DV Cleared
12 6 (1.67%) ISEB
12 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.94%) QA
2 13 (3.61%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.94%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.11%) PMO
5 3 (0.83%) NCSC
5 3 (0.83%) SLA
6 2 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.56%) GDPR
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.28%) PSD2
7 1 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (5.83%) Docker
3 12 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
3 12 (3.33%) VMware NSX
4 10 (2.78%) Active Directory
5 5 (1.39%) Firmware
6 4 (1.11%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (0.83%) VirtualBox
8 1 (0.28%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (6.11%) Kubernetes
1 22 (6.11%) Terraform
2 20 (5.56%) vCenter Server
3 17 (4.72%) Ansible
4 16 (4.44%) Puppet
5 13 (3.61%) Oracle RMAN
6 11 (3.06%) Progress Chef
7 8 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.11%) FortiGate
8 4 (1.11%) Tivoli NetView
9 3 (0.83%) Kibana
9 3 (0.83%) NetBackup
9 3 (0.83%) WSUS
10 2 (0.56%) HP Data Protector
10 2 (0.56%) Nessus
10 2 (0.56%) PowerCLI
10 2 (0.56%) Rancher
10 2 (0.56%) SCOM
11 1 (0.28%) OPNET
11 1 (0.28%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 76 (21.11%) Atlassian
2 61 (16.94%) Microsoft
3 59 (16.39%) Oracle
4 29 (8.06%) VMware
5 25 (6.94%) Cisco
6 21 (5.83%) Google
7 14 (3.89%) IBM
8 13 (3.61%) Commvault
9 7 (1.94%) Intel
9 7 (1.94%) Sparx
10 6 (1.67%) CA Agile Central
10 6 (1.67%) SAP
10 6 (1.67%) Splunk
11 5 (1.39%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.11%) Dell
12 4 (1.11%) Fortinet
12 4 (1.11%) Informatica
12 4 (1.11%) Red Hat
12 4 (1.11%) Veeam
12 4 (1.11%) Zend