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 8 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 97 108
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 -37
Contract jobs citing Confluence 409 396 493
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.68% 2.16% 2.23%
As % of the Application Platforms category 24.17% 23.49% 20.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 279 331
10th Percentile £311 £350 £325
25th Percentile £395 £419 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £636
90th Percentile £638 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 16
10th Percentile £53.25 £44.70 £53.75
25th Percentile £62.50 £67.02 £56.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £77.50 - £73.75
90th Percentile £79.25 £72.00 £74.38
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year - +12.90% +15.35%

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 1,692 1,686 2,360
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.09% 9.20% 10.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,079 1,124 1,615
10th Percentile £235 £225 £199
25th Percentile £352 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £468
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -1.71% +0.86%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £479 £515 £510
% change year-on-year -7.09% +0.98% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 80 102
10th Percentile £14.80 £13.62 £14.29
25th Percentile £26.18 £17.63 £18.69
Median hourly rate £46.65 £33.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.36% -5.71% +75.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £64.31
90th Percentile £78.88 £74.44 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £43.80 £32.11 £52.50
% change year-on-year +36.41% -38.85% +135.96%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 8 August 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 +18 161 £430 -14.95% 71
Yorkshire +10 80 £425 -17.48% 34
North West +15 71 £423 -16.34% 33
Midlands +38 68 £475 -7.32% 32
Scotland +1 59 £500 -22.48% 23
West Midlands +26 55 £475 -13.64% 22
South East -21 53 £506 +18.94% 82
South West -10 43 £575 -4.17% 23
East of England -5 20 £456 -8.75% 25
North East +7 16 £525 +9.38% 7
East Midlands 0 13 £328 -7.87% 10
Wales +10 8 £475 -13.64% 6
Northern Ireland - 1 £325 - 11
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 38 (9.29%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.20%) nginx
3 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.22%) Tomcat
4 3 (0.73%) Apache
4 3 (0.73%) CMS
4 3 (0.73%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.49%) Camunda
5 2 (0.49%) Tuxedo
6 1 (0.24%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.24%) CICS
6 1 (0.24%) SAS
6 1 (0.24%) Smallworld
6 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 43 (10.51%) MS Visio
2 36 (8.80%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (8.56%) Microsoft Excel
4 20 (4.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (3.18%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (1.47%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 2 (0.49%) InVision
7 2 (0.49%) Trello
7 2 (0.49%) UserZoom
8 1 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.24%) Simulink
8 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (2.93%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.24%) Actimize
2 1 (0.24%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.24%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.24%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 75 (18.34%) AWS
2 43 (10.51%) Azure
3 20 (4.89%) GitHub
4 18 (4.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 18 (4.40%) Amazon S3
5 17 (4.16%) Amazon EC2
5 17 (4.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 16 (3.91%) Amazon ELB
6 16 (3.91%) AWS KMS
6 16 (3.91%) Power Platform
7 15 (3.67%) GCP
8 14 (3.42%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (2.93%) Serverless
10 10 (2.44%) Amazon Glacier
11 9 (2.20%) Lucidchart
12 8 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (1.71%) Amazon ECS
13 7 (1.71%) Slack
14 6 (1.47%) IaaS
14 6 (1.47%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 33 (8.07%) DNS
2 26 (6.36%) Firewall
3 19 (4.65%) SSH
4 16 (3.91%) SMTP
5 15 (3.67%) HTTP
6 14 (3.42%) FTP
7 13 (3.18%) VPN
8 10 (2.44%) DHCP
8 10 (2.44%) Unified Communications
9 9 (2.20%) TCP/IP
10 8 (1.96%) BGP
11 7 (1.71%) IPsec
11 7 (1.71%) MPLS
12 6 (1.47%) IMAP
12 6 (1.47%) OpenLDAP
12 6 (1.47%) SSL
12 6 (1.47%) VLAN
13 4 (0.98%) Kerberos
13 4 (0.98%) Skype
13 4 (0.98%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.13%) Oracle Database
2 20 (4.89%) Amazon RDS
3 16 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (3.18%) Power BI
6 12 (2.93%) Oracle Reports
7 10 (2.44%) NoSQL
8 8 (1.96%) SQL Server
9 7 (1.71%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (1.47%) Big Data
11 5 (1.22%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.22%) MySQL
11 5 (1.22%) Relational Database
12 3 (0.73%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.73%) IBM InfoSphere
13 2 (0.49%) Metadata
13 2 (0.49%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (0.49%) Star Schema
13 2 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 359 (87.78%) JIRA
2 64 (15.65%) Git
3 52 (12.71%) Jenkins
4 45 (11.00%) Bitbucket
5 25 (6.11%) GitLab
6 19 (4.65%) Selenium
6 19 (4.65%) Vagrant
7 15 (3.67%) Maven
8 14 (3.42%) JUnit
8 14 (3.42%) Subversion
9 13 (3.18%) Cucumber
10 9 (2.20%) Oracle Forms
10 9 (2.20%) SonarQube
10 9 (2.20%) Sonatype Nexus
11 8 (1.96%) GoogleTest
11 8 (1.96%) Robot Framework
12 7 (1.71%) Artifactory
12 7 (1.71%) Gradle
12 7 (1.71%) Mockito
12 7 (1.71%) PVCS
General
1 151 (36.92%) Social Skills
2 119 (29.10%) Finance
3 84 (20.54%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (14.91%) Public Sector
5 41 (10.02%) Banking
6 22 (5.38%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.69%) Legal
9 10 (2.44%) Automotive
10 8 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.71%) Retail
12 5 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.98%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.98%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.73%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.73%) Electronics
14 3 (0.73%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.73%) Marketing
14 3 (0.73%) Military
Job Titles
1 92 (22.49%) Analyst
2 80 (19.56%) Business Analyst
3 38 (9.29%) Developer
4 33 (8.07%) Project Manager
5 24 (5.87%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (5.13%) Senior
7 18 (4.40%) Delivery Manager
8 17 (4.16%) Software Engineer
9 16 (3.91%) AWS DevOps
10 15 (3.67%) AWS Engineer
10 15 (3.67%) Lead
11 14 (3.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (3.42%) Technical Analyst
12 12 (2.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (2.93%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (2.69%) Backup Engineer
13 11 (2.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 11 (2.69%) Commvault Engineer
13 11 (2.69%) Data Analyst
13 11 (2.69%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.65%) CSS
1 19 (4.65%) HTML
2 17 (4.16%) Node.js
3 15 (3.67%) Spring Boot
4 14 (3.42%) React
5 11 (2.69%) LDAP
6 10 (2.44%) Hibernate
6 10 (2.44%) REST
7 9 (2.20%) Spring
8 8 (1.96%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.96%) Jest
8 8 (1.96%) Kafka
8 8 (1.96%) RESTful
9 7 (1.71%) Flash
9 7 (1.71%) Java EE
9 7 (1.71%) JPA
9 7 (1.71%) jQuery
9 7 (1.71%) Redux
9 7 (1.71%) SAML
9 7 (1.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 40 (9.78%) Product Ownership
2 26 (6.36%) Data Centre
3 16 (3.91%) Management Information System
4 15 (3.67%) Replication
5 14 (3.42%) PKI
6 13 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (2.93%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (2.44%) Mainframe
9 8 (1.96%) Clustering
9 8 (1.96%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.96%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.71%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.98%) Derivative
11 4 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.98%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.98%) Tandem
12 3 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (0.73%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 49 (11.98%) Windows
2 43 (10.51%) Linux
3 18 (4.40%) VMS
4 16 (3.91%) Amazon Linux
5 11 (2.69%) Windows Server
6 8 (1.96%) Unix
7 5 (1.22%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (1.22%) zOS
8 4 (0.98%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.73%) Android
9 3 (0.73%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.49%) Solaris
10 2 (0.49%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.24%) AIX
11 1 (0.24%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (61.12%) Agile
2 101 (24.69%) DevOps
3 92 (22.49%) Problem-Solving
4 77 (18.83%) Scrum
5 71 (17.36%) Migration
6 70 (17.11%) Change Management
7 68 (16.63%) Project Management
8 62 (15.16%) Stakeholder Management
9 56 (13.69%) CI/CD
10 52 (12.71%) Validation
11 47 (11.49%) Project Delivery
12 42 (10.27%) Business Analysis
13 40 (9.78%) User Stories
14 39 (9.54%) Continuous Improvement
14 39 (9.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 37 (9.05%) Test Automation
16 36 (8.80%) Service Management
16 36 (8.80%) Waterfall
17 35 (8.56%) Microservices
18 34 (8.31%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 69 (16.87%) Python
2 64 (15.65%) SQL
3 56 (13.69%) Java
4 35 (8.56%) PowerShell
5 26 (6.36%) JavaScript
6 22 (5.38%) Groovy
7 19 (4.65%) Bash
8 18 (4.40%) Perl
9 12 (2.93%) C++
9 12 (2.93%) PL/SQL
10 9 (2.20%) C
11 7 (1.71%) ProC
12 6 (1.47%) Go
13 5 (1.22%) JCL
13 5 (1.22%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.98%) C#
14 4 (0.98%) Ruby
15 3 (0.73%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.73%) REXX
15 3 (0.73%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 114 (27.87%) Security Cleared
2 103 (25.18%) SC Cleared
3 57 (13.94%) Degree
4 19 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (3.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 13 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (2.93%) AWS Certification
7 12 (2.93%) CCNP
8 10 (2.44%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.96%) CBAP
10 7 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.71%) CCNA
10 7 (1.71%) IIBA
10 7 (1.71%) PMI Certification
11 6 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (1.47%) CISSP
11 6 (1.47%) PMP
12 5 (1.22%) AWS Certified Developer
12 5 (1.22%) OCA
12 5 (1.22%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.13%) QA
2 8 (1.96%) Accessibility
2 8 (1.96%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.71%) GDPR
3 7 (1.71%) PMO
4 4 (0.98%) COBIT
5 3 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.73%) NIST
6 2 (0.49%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.49%) MISRA
6 2 (0.49%) MISRA C
6 2 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.24%) EMIR
7 1 (0.24%) MiFID
7 1 (0.24%) NCSC
7 1 (0.24%) PSD2
7 1 (0.24%) SLA
7 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (7.09%) Docker
2 26 (6.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (4.89%) Active Directory
4 17 (4.16%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (3.42%) DFS Replication
6 9 (2.20%) VMware NSX
7 8 (1.96%) Hyper-V
8 7 (1.71%) vSphere
9 6 (1.47%) Dovecot
9 6 (1.47%) Firmware
9 6 (1.47%) Postfix
9 6 (1.47%) Squid
10 4 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
11 3 (0.73%) VirtualBox
12 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 2 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.24%) NFS
13 1 (0.24%) SRDF
13 1 (0.24%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 1 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 46 (11.25%) Terraform
2 31 (7.58%) Ansible
3 26 (6.36%) Kubernetes
4 16 (3.91%) Grafana
4 16 (3.91%) Prometheus
5 15 (3.67%) vCenter Server
6 13 (3.18%) Oracle RMAN
7 11 (2.69%) Puppet
8 8 (1.96%) Progress Chef
9 7 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (1.47%) Nessus
11 5 (1.22%) NetBackup
11 5 (1.22%) SCCM
11 5 (1.22%) Tivoli
12 4 (0.98%) Argo
12 4 (0.98%) FortiGate
12 4 (0.98%) Istio
12 4 (0.98%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.98%) Tivoli NetView
13 3 (0.73%) Kibana
Vendors
1 59 (14.43%) Atlassian
2 54 (13.20%) Microsoft
3 38 (9.29%) Oracle
4 31 (7.58%) VMware
5 27 (6.60%) ServiceNow
6 26 (6.36%) Cisco
7 19 (4.65%) IBM
8 16 (3.91%) Google
9 15 (3.67%) Commvault
10 8 (1.96%) Veeam
11 7 (1.71%) CheckPoint
11 7 (1.71%) Veracode
12 6 (1.47%) CA Agile Central
12 6 (1.47%) Citrix
12 6 (1.47%) Dell
12 6 (1.47%) Intel
12 6 (1.47%) Jaspersoft
12 6 (1.47%) Salesforce
12 6 (1.47%) SolarWinds
13 5 (1.22%) HP