Confluence Contract Job Trends

Confluence
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Confluence skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 103 109
Rank change year-on-year +7 +6 -22
Contract jobs citing Confluence 992 755 920
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.68% 2.39% 2.16%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.61% 21.61% 21.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 734 476 613
10th Percentile £325 £313 £380
25th Percentile £413 £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +1.29%
75th Percentile £623 £630 £650
90th Percentile £736 £747 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £553
% change year-on-year -1.60% -9.50% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 12 27
10th Percentile £27.21 £54.70 £42.76
25th Percentile £39.00 £58.47 £53.50
Median hourly rate £45.46 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.26% - +43.68%
75th Percentile £65.62 £65.51 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.70 £70.83 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.48 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -17.63% - +17.92%

All Application Platform Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,728 3,493 4,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.08% 11.05% 9.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,584 2,150 2,833
10th Percentile £290 £250 £250
25th Percentile £400 £385 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £613
90th Percentile £690 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +5.56% -2.70% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 73 130
10th Percentile £14.90 £17.08 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% +52.58% +34.72%
75th Percentile £68.54 £62.50 £63.44
90th Percentile £81.60 £66.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.31 £47.50 £22.86
% change year-on-year -44.61% +107.81% +30.61%

Confluence
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Confluence relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Confluence job vacancy trend in the UK

Confluence
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Confluence.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Confluence

Confluence
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Confluence over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Confluence in the UK

Confluence
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Confluence.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Confluence

Confluence
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Confluence over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Confluence in the UK

Confluence
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 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
England +11 897 £513 -0.97% 255
UK excluding London +23 515 £492 -1.60% 236
London -9 400 £550 +4.76% 52
Work from Home -10 238 £492 -2.90% 126
North of England -4 181 £475 -7.77% 51
Midlands +29 117 £450 -5.66% 40
Yorkshire -18 101 £506 -2.17% 21
South West +17 97 £725 +23.40% 29
West Midlands +22 82 £470 -4.08% 25
South East -9 78 £500 +7.53% 76
North West +11 70 £442 -12.86% 26
Scotland +8 34 £488 -2.50% 9
East Midlands 0 34 £402 -4.29% 15
East of England -23 14 £444 +9.30% 28
North East -6 9 £500 +11.11% 5
Wales -4 3 £400 -23.81% 6
Northern Ireland -4 2 £320 - 4

Confluence
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 80 (8.06%) SharePoint
2 29 (2.92%) nginx
3 14 (1.41%) CMS
4 9 (0.91%) Apache
4 9 (0.91%) SAS
5 3 (0.30%) CICS
5 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.30%) Traefik
6 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.20%) FileNet
6 2 (0.20%) IIS
6 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.10%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.10%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.10%) WebSphere Application Server
7 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 100 (10.08%) Microsoft Project
2 96 (9.68%) Microsoft Office
3 94 (9.48%) Microsoft Excel
4 82 (8.27%) MS Visio
5 64 (6.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 15 (1.51%) Trello
7 9 (0.91%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 4 (0.40%) Notion
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.20%) InDesign
9 2 (0.20%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.10%) EPLAN
10 1 (0.10%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.10%) MadCap Flare
10 1 (0.10%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 16 (1.61%) NetSuite
2 6 (0.60%) Fidessa
2 6 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.40%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.30%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.20%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.20%) Shopify
6 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.10%) Endur
6 1 (0.10%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.10%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.10%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.10%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.10%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.10%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 166 (16.73%) AWS
2 137 (13.81%) Azure
3 109 (10.99%) GitHub
4 55 (5.54%) Azure DevOps
5 51 (5.14%) Power Platform
6 39 (3.93%) GCP
7 32 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
7 32 (3.23%) Amazon S3
8 30 (3.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 30 (3.02%) Miro
9 29 (2.92%) Serverless
10 26 (2.62%) Microsoft 365
10 26 (2.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 24 (2.42%) GitHub Actions
12 23 (2.32%) Lucidchart
13 22 (2.22%) SaaS
14 20 (2.02%) Amazon ECS
14 20 (2.02%) Slack
15 18 (1.81%) Figma
15 18 (1.81%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 42 (4.23%) Firewall
2 34 (3.43%) SSH
3 20 (2.02%) DNS
4 19 (1.92%) FTP
5 17 (1.71%) HTTP
6 16 (1.61%) SMTP
6 16 (1.61%) SSL
6 16 (1.61%) VPN
7 14 (1.41%) OpenLDAP
8 12 (1.21%) TCP/IP
9 11 (1.11%) WAN
10 10 (1.01%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.91%) IMAP
11 9 (0.91%) VSAN
12 8 (0.81%) Ethernet
13 7 (0.71%) Network Security
14 6 (0.60%) LAN
14 6 (0.60%) Modbus
14 6 (0.60%) RS-232
14 6 (0.60%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (4.84%) Power BI
2 42 (4.23%) Tableau
3 41 (4.13%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (3.02%) NoSQL
5 23 (2.32%) Amazon RDS
6 21 (2.12%) SQL Server
7 18 (1.81%) Big Data
8 17 (1.71%) Metadata
9 15 (1.51%) MongoDB
10 14 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (1.41%) Hadoop
11 11 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
11 11 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
12 10 (1.01%) BigQuery
13 9 (0.91%) DocumentDB
14 7 (0.71%) Redis
15 6 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
15 6 (0.60%) Couchbase
15 6 (0.60%) Tick Data
16 5 (0.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 913 (92.04%) JIRA
2 123 (12.40%) Jenkins
3 94 (9.48%) Git
4 59 (5.95%) GitLab
5 53 (5.34%) Bitbucket
6 33 (3.33%) Selenium
7 20 (2.02%) Cucumber
7 20 (2.02%) Postman
7 20 (2.02%) Sonatype Nexus
8 16 (1.61%) SonarQube
9 15 (1.51%) Vagrant
10 10 (1.01%) Cypress.io
10 10 (1.01%) JUnit
11 9 (0.91%) ScriptRunner
12 8 (0.81%) REST Assured
12 8 (0.81%) SpecFlow
13 7 (0.71%) Android Studio
13 7 (0.71%) Maven
14 6 (0.60%) Zephyr
15 5 (0.50%) Artifactory
General
1 448 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 292 (29.44%) Finance
3 199 (20.06%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (15.73%) Banking
5 130 (13.10%) Public Sector
6 47 (4.74%) Military
7 46 (4.64%) Documentation Skills
8 34 (3.43%) Retail
9 32 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
10 25 (2.52%) Legal
11 23 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (2.12%) Investment Banking
12 21 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (2.02%) Manufacturing
14 19 (1.92%) Retail Banking
15 16 (1.61%) Front Office
15 16 (1.61%) Telecoms
16 13 (1.31%) Marketing
17 12 (1.21%) Automotive
18 10 (1.01%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 221 (22.28%) Analyst
2 177 (17.84%) Business Analyst
3 98 (9.88%) Project Manager
4 95 (9.58%) Architect
5 75 (7.56%) Senior
6 71 (7.16%) Developer
7 69 (6.96%) Lead
8 46 (4.64%) Solutions Architect
9 33 (3.33%) Technical Analyst
10 32 (3.23%) Technical Business Analyst
11 30 (3.02%) DevOps Engineer
11 30 (3.02%) Product Owner
11 30 (3.02%) Scrum Master
11 30 (3.02%) Service Architect
12 29 (2.92%) Delivery Manager
13 28 (2.82%) Consultant
14 27 (2.72%) Senior Analyst
14 27 (2.72%) Senior Business Analyst
15 26 (2.62%) Tester
16 24 (2.42%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (6.35%) REST
2 41 (4.13%) Kafka
3 34 (3.43%) RESTful
4 30 (3.02%) HTML
5 27 (2.72%) .NET
6 24 (2.42%) JSON
6 24 (2.42%) Spring
7 23 (2.32%) LDAP
8 21 (2.12%) SOAP
9 19 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
10 18 (1.81%) Node.js
10 18 (1.81%) Playwright
11 17 (1.71%) OAuth
11 17 (1.71%) Spring Boot
12 15 (1.51%) AngularJS
12 15 (1.51%) React
13 14 (1.41%) Apache NiFi
13 14 (1.41%) Middleware
13 14 (1.41%) SAML
14 13 (1.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 167 (16.83%) Product Ownership
2 42 (4.23%) Onboarding
3 33 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 27 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
5 24 (2.42%) Management Information System
6 20 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
6 20 (2.02%) Replication
7 19 (1.92%) Mobile App
7 19 (1.92%) PMI
8 17 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
9 16 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (1.61%) Virtual Team
10 13 (1.31%) Tandem
11 12 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (1.21%) Equities
12 11 (1.11%) Data Centre
13 10 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
13 10 (1.01%) NHS
14 9 (0.91%) PKI
14 9 (0.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 80 (8.06%) Linux
2 77 (7.76%) Windows
3 27 (2.72%) Unix
4 19 (1.92%) VMS
5 15 (1.51%) Amazon Linux
6 14 (1.41%) Android
7 9 (0.91%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.91%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.60%) FreeRTOS
9 2 (0.20%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.20%) Solaris
9 2 (0.20%) zOS
10 1 (0.10%) AIX
10 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.10%) MVS
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 620 (62.50%) Agile
2 277 (27.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 257 (25.91%) DevOps
4 231 (23.29%) Scrum
5 191 (19.25%) Problem-Solving
6 166 (16.73%) Project Management
7 164 (16.53%) CI/CD
8 152 (15.32%) User Stories
9 144 (14.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 137 (13.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 124 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
12 119 (12.00%) Change Management
13 115 (11.59%) Project Delivery
14 103 (10.38%) Migration
15 100 (10.08%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 100 (10.08%) Workshop Facilitation
16 97 (9.78%) Roadmaps
17 95 (9.58%) Test Automation
18 93 (9.38%) Decision-Making
19 92 (9.27%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 155 (15.63%) Python
2 116 (11.69%) SQL
3 64 (6.45%) Java
4 61 (6.15%) PowerShell
5 55 (5.54%) JavaScript
6 31 (3.13%) Bash
7 22 (2.22%) Go
8 21 (2.12%) C#
9 20 (2.02%) TypeScript
10 15 (1.51%) Groovy
11 10 (1.01%) C++
11 10 (1.01%) Perl
12 9 (0.91%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.60%) Embedded C++
13 6 (0.60%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.40%) C
15 3 (0.30%) Embedded C
15 3 (0.30%) PHP
15 3 (0.30%) R
15 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 288 (29.03%) Security Cleared
2 257 (25.91%) SC Cleared
3 193 (19.46%) Degree
4 51 (5.14%) PMI Certification
5 45 (4.54%) PMP
6 41 (4.13%) TOGAF Certification
7 37 (3.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 36 (3.63%) CISSP
9 32 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 27 (2.72%) Master's Degree
11 26 (2.62%) CISM
12 24 (2.42%) DV Cleared
13 22 (2.22%) CBAP
14 15 (1.51%) IIBA
15 14 (1.41%) AWS Certification
15 14 (1.41%) CSPO
16 11 (1.11%) Azure Certification
16 11 (1.11%) MBA
17 10 (1.01%) PhD
18 9 (0.91%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (7.86%) QA
2 37 (3.73%) GDPR
3 34 (3.43%) PMO
4 28 (2.82%) Accessibility
5 19 (1.92%) Data Quality
6 13 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 13 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 11 (1.11%) NIST
8 10 (1.01%) GRC
8 10 (1.01%) WCAG
9 8 (0.81%) Basel III
9 8 (0.81%) ISO 20022
10 7 (0.71%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.71%) PSD2
11 6 (0.60%) COBIT
12 5 (0.50%) NCSC
12 5 (0.50%) SEPA
13 4 (0.40%) P3O
14 2 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.20%) FIPS 140-2
System Software
1 85 (8.57%) Docker
2 23 (2.32%) Active Directory
3 19 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.51%) DFS Replication
5 11 (1.11%) Firmware
6 10 (1.01%) Squid
6 10 (1.01%) vSphere
7 9 (0.91%) Dovecot
7 9 (0.91%) Postfix
8 6 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
9 5 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.30%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.10%) etcd
12 1 (0.10%) KVM
12 1 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.10%) SRDF
12 1 (0.10%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (0.10%) Xen
Systems Management
1 87 (8.77%) Kubernetes
2 74 (7.46%) Terraform
3 59 (5.95%) Ansible
4 30 (3.02%) OPNET
5 28 (2.82%) Grafana
6 22 (2.22%) Prometheus
7 14 (1.41%) NetBackup
7 14 (1.41%) Packer
8 12 (1.21%) Consul
8 12 (1.21%) Puppet
9 11 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (1.01%) vRealize
11 9 (0.91%) Nessus
11 9 (0.91%) Proxmox
12 7 (0.71%) VxRail
13 6 (0.60%) SCCM
14 5 (0.50%) Istio
15 4 (0.40%) HP ALM
15 4 (0.40%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
16 3 (0.30%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 119 (12.00%) Atlassian
2 107 (10.79%) Microsoft
3 77 (7.76%) ServiceNow
4 50 (5.04%) Oracle
5 43 (4.33%) Salesforce
6 42 (4.23%) Remedy
7 26 (2.62%) IBM
8 23 (2.32%) SAP
8 23 (2.32%) VMware
9 22 (2.22%) HP
10 21 (2.12%) Cisco
10 21 (2.12%) Commvault
10 21 (2.12%) Google
11 20 (2.02%) BiZZdesign
12 18 (1.81%) Red Hat
13 17 (1.71%) Dell
14 15 (1.51%) CyberArk
15 12 (1.21%) Centrify
15 12 (1.21%) Cloudera
15 12 (1.21%) Palantir