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 26 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 103 99
Rank change year-on-year +9 -4 -18
Contract jobs citing Confluence 1,010 842 1,082
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.80% 2.31% 2.37%
As % of the Application Platforms category 26.17% 20.82% 23.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 754 526 705
10th Percentile £325 £314 £375
25th Percentile £420 £410 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £632 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £766 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £504 £560
% change year-on-year -0.74% -10.04% +6.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 18 29
10th Percentile £28.39 £53.24 £48.92
25th Percentile £40.00 £62.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £63.27 £67.26 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% +7.62% +25.00%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £84.50 £72.38 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.27 £67.26 £64.88
% change year-on-year -5.94% +3.66% +23.59%

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 3,859 4,045 4,652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.71% 11.09% 10.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,601 2,482 3,099
10th Percentile £286 £256 £250
25th Percentile £400 £398 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £595 £638 £625
90th Percentile £713 £775 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £455 £470
% change year-on-year +4.40% -3.19% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 95 138
10th Percentile £17.35 £17.03 £14.83
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.63 £17.75
Median hourly rate £34.99 £35.00 £26.39
Median % change year-on-year -0.03% +32.63% +33.42%
75th Percentile £69.25 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £70.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £42.50 £23.75
% change year-on-year -17.65% +78.95% +35.71%

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 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
England +17 907 £525 - 196
UK excluding London +5 484 £500 -0.74% 162
London +22 453 £550 - 68
Work from Home -1 255 £513 +1.14% 93
North of England -13 179 £500 -1.19% 32
Yorkshire -13 101 £513 -0.49% 9
Midlands +23 89 £450 -5.66% 27
South West +15 87 £630 -1.95% 26
West Midlands +26 68 £475 -5.00% 14
North West -3 67 £465 -9.22% 20
South East -14 65 £525 +14.13% 62
Scotland +6 45 £500 - 5
East Midlands -3 21 £348 -14.03% 12
East of England -29 16 £425 - 12
North East -5 11 £520 +15.56% 3
Wales -1 5 £469 -10.71% 2
Northern Ireland -4 2 £320 -

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 69 (6.83%) SharePoint
2 46 (4.55%) nginx
3 17 (1.68%) Apache
3 17 (1.68%) CMS
4 4 (0.40%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.30%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.30%) CICS
5 3 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (0.30%) Traefik
6 2 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.20%) Camunda
6 2 (0.20%) FileNet
6 2 (0.20%) IIS
7 1 (0.099%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.099%) Appian
7 1 (0.099%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.099%) JBoss
7 1 (0.099%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.099%) WordPress
Applications
1 92 (9.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 87 (8.61%) Microsoft Office
3 85 (8.42%) Microsoft Project
4 81 (8.02%) MS Visio
5 56 (5.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 20 (1.98%) Trello
7 12 (1.19%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 2 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.20%) InDesign
8 2 (0.20%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.099%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.099%) EPLAN
9 1 (0.099%) Notion
9 1 (0.099%) OmniGraffle
9 1 (0.099%) Sketch
9 1 (0.099%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (1.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (0.89%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.40%) Fidessa
3 4 (0.40%) SAP ERP
3 4 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.30%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
4 3 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.20%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.20%) Shopify
6 1 (0.099%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.099%) Endur
6 1 (0.099%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.099%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.099%) SAP CRM
6 1 (0.099%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.099%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.099%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 193 (19.11%) AWS
2 147 (14.55%) Azure
3 96 (9.50%) GitHub
4 61 (6.04%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (4.46%) Amazon S3
6 44 (4.36%) Amazon EC2
6 44 (4.36%) GCP
7 40 (3.96%) Power Platform
8 38 (3.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 32 (3.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 31 (3.07%) Miro
11 30 (2.97%) Serverless
12 29 (2.87%) Slack
13 28 (2.77%) AWS CloudFormation
14 26 (2.57%) GitHub Actions
15 25 (2.48%) SaaS
16 24 (2.38%) Amazon ELB
16 24 (2.38%) AWS KMS
16 24 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
17 22 (2.18%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 48 (4.75%) Firewall
2 43 (4.26%) DNS
3 41 (4.06%) SSH
4 28 (2.77%) SMTP
5 25 (2.48%) FTP
6 24 (2.38%) HTTP
7 21 (2.08%) VPN
8 20 (1.98%) SSL
9 17 (1.68%) OpenLDAP
10 12 (1.19%) IMAP
11 10 (0.99%) BGP
12 8 (0.79%) Unified Communications
12 8 (0.79%) WAN
13 7 (0.69%) IPsec
13 7 (0.69%) MPLS
13 7 (0.69%) SD-WAN
13 7 (0.69%) VSAN
14 6 (0.59%) TCP/IP
15 5 (0.50%) DHCP
15 5 (0.50%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (4.75%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (3.66%) Power BI
3 32 (3.17%) Amazon RDS
4 30 (2.97%) Tableau
5 28 (2.77%) SQL Server
6 26 (2.57%) NoSQL
7 19 (1.88%) Metadata
8 16 (1.58%) Hadoop
9 14 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
9 14 (1.39%) Big Data
9 14 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
10 11 (1.09%) MongoDB
11 10 (0.99%) MySQL
12 8 (0.79%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.59%) Apache Cassandra
13 6 (0.59%) Couchbase
14 5 (0.50%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.50%) Oracle Database
14 5 (0.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 915 (90.59%) JIRA
2 130 (12.87%) Jenkins
3 125 (12.38%) Git
4 63 (6.24%) GitLab
5 62 (6.14%) Bitbucket
6 31 (3.07%) Selenium
7 26 (2.57%) Cucumber
7 26 (2.57%) Vagrant
8 23 (2.28%) SonarQube
9 22 (2.18%) Sonatype Nexus
10 17 (1.68%) Postman
11 16 (1.58%) JUnit
12 13 (1.29%) Maven
13 10 (0.99%) SpecFlow
14 9 (0.89%) Cypress.io
15 8 (0.79%) Artifactory
15 8 (0.79%) Zephyr
16 7 (0.69%) ScriptRunner
17 6 (0.59%) Mockito
17 6 (0.59%) REST Assured
General
1 460 (45.54%) Social Skills
2 271 (26.83%) Finance
3 178 (17.62%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (13.27%) Banking
4 134 (13.27%) Public Sector
5 49 (4.85%) Documentation Skills
6 32 (3.17%) Military
6 32 (3.17%) Retail
7 29 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
8 26 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
9 25 (2.48%) Legal
10 21 (2.08%) Investment Banking
11 20 (1.98%) Front Office
11 20 (1.98%) Manufacturing
12 17 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.58%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.29%) Automotive
15 11 (1.09%) Marketing
16 10 (0.99%) Financial Institution
16 10 (0.99%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 209 (20.69%) Analyst
2 167 (16.53%) Business Analyst
3 96 (9.50%) Project Manager
4 91 (9.01%) Architect
5 86 (8.51%) Senior
6 78 (7.72%) Lead
7 75 (7.43%) Developer
8 46 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
9 45 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
10 34 (3.37%) Delivery Manager
10 34 (3.37%) Scrum Master
11 33 (3.27%) Product Owner
12 29 (2.87%) AWS DevOps
12 29 (2.87%) Technical Analyst
13 28 (2.77%) Administrator
13 28 (2.77%) AWS Engineer
13 28 (2.77%) Platform Engineer
13 28 (2.77%) Technical Business Analyst
14 27 (2.67%) Consultant
15 25 (2.48%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (7.23%) REST
2 43 (4.26%) HTML
3 40 (3.96%) LDAP
4 39 (3.86%) .NET
5 37 (3.66%) AngularJS
5 37 (3.66%) Kafka
6 34 (3.37%) React
7 31 (3.07%) JSON
8 30 (2.97%) RESTful
9 29 (2.87%) RabbitMQ
9 29 (2.87%) SOAP
10 26 (2.57%) Web Services
11 24 (2.38%) SAML
12 23 (2.28%) CSS
13 21 (2.08%) Spring
14 20 (1.98%) Spring Boot
15 18 (1.78%) Node.js
16 17 (1.68%) HTML5
17 16 (1.58%) jQuery
17 16 (1.58%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 148 (14.65%) Product Ownership
2 47 (4.65%) Onboarding
3 32 (3.17%) Cloud Native
4 27 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
4 27 (2.67%) Management Information System
4 27 (2.67%) Replication
5 24 (2.38%) Mobile App
6 21 (2.08%) Data Centre
6 21 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (1.78%) PKI
9 15 (1.49%) Virtual Team
10 14 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (1.39%) Tandem
11 13 (1.29%) Derivative
11 13 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (1.19%) Equities
12 12 (1.19%) NHS
12 12 (1.19%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 100 (9.90%) Linux
2 83 (8.22%) Windows
3 32 (3.17%) Unix
4 29 (2.87%) VMS
5 24 (2.38%) Amazon Linux
6 12 (1.19%) Ubuntu
7 9 (0.89%) Android
7 9 (0.89%) Windows Server
8 4 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.30%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.20%) CentOS
10 2 (0.20%) Debian
10 2 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.20%) Solaris
10 2 (0.20%) zOS
11 1 (0.099%) AIX
11 1 (0.099%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.099%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.099%) MVS
11 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 654 (64.75%) Agile
2 262 (25.94%) DevOps
3 235 (23.27%) Stakeholder Management
4 233 (23.07%) Scrum
5 191 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
6 159 (15.74%) CI/CD
7 154 (15.25%) Project Management
8 144 (14.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 133 (13.17%) Change Management
10 131 (12.97%) User Stories
11 130 (12.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 111 (10.99%) Migration
12 111 (10.99%) Roadmaps
13 99 (9.80%) Project Delivery
14 94 (9.31%) Microservices
15 93 (9.21%) ITIL
16 92 (9.11%) Acceptance Criteria
16 92 (9.11%) Decision-Making
17 90 (8.91%) Test Automation
18 85 (8.42%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 183 (18.12%) Python
2 122 (12.08%) SQL
3 91 (9.01%) Java
4 68 (6.73%) JavaScript
5 65 (6.44%) PowerShell
6 32 (3.17%) Bash
7 25 (2.48%) Go
7 25 (2.48%) Groovy
7 25 (2.48%) TypeScript
8 23 (2.28%) C#
9 19 (1.88%) Perl
10 9 (0.89%) C++
11 6 (0.59%) Apex Code
11 6 (0.59%) Kotlin
12 5 (0.50%) PHP
13 4 (0.40%) C
13 4 (0.40%) R
14 3 (0.30%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.30%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.20%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 276 (27.33%) Security Cleared
2 257 (25.45%) SC Cleared
3 178 (17.62%) Degree
4 42 (4.16%) BPSS Clearance
4 42 (4.16%) PMI Certification
5 37 (3.66%) CISSP
6 34 (3.37%) PMP
7 30 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 30 (2.97%) TOGAF Certification
8 25 (2.48%) CISM
8 25 (2.48%) DV Cleared
9 15 (1.49%) CBAP
9 15 (1.49%) Master's Degree
10 13 (1.29%) AWS Certification
11 12 (1.19%) Azure Certification
12 11 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
12 11 (1.09%) CSPO
13 10 (0.99%) CCNP
14 9 (0.89%) PhD
15 7 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (8.32%) QA
2 33 (3.27%) GDPR
3 25 (2.48%) Accessibility
4 23 (2.28%) PMO
5 19 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 14 (1.39%) Data Quality
8 13 (1.29%) NIST
9 9 (0.89%) COBIT
9 9 (0.89%) WCAG
10 7 (0.69%) ISO 20022
11 6 (0.59%) GRC
11 6 (0.59%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.59%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.59%) PSD2
11 6 (0.59%) SEPA
12 5 (0.50%) NCSC
13 4 (0.40%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.30%) MiFID
14 3 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 98 (9.70%) Docker
2 31 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (2.18%) DFS Replication
5 12 (1.19%) Dovecot
5 12 (1.19%) Postfix
5 12 (1.19%) Squid
6 11 (1.09%) vSphere
7 9 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (0.69%) Firmware
9 5 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.50%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.30%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
11 2 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.20%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.099%) etcd
12 1 (0.099%) KVM
12 1 (0.099%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 96 (9.50%) Terraform
2 91 (9.01%) Kubernetes
3 65 (6.44%) Ansible
4 36 (3.56%) Grafana
5 30 (2.97%) Prometheus
6 25 (2.48%) Packer
7 24 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
8 23 (2.28%) Consul
9 20 (1.98%) OPNET
10 14 (1.39%) NetBackup
10 14 (1.39%) Puppet
11 12 (1.19%) Nessus
12 10 (0.99%) Proxmox
13 9 (0.89%) Istio
14 8 (0.79%) vRealize
15 6 (0.59%) Argo
15 6 (0.59%) SCCM
16 5 (0.50%) HP ALM
16 5 (0.50%) PowerCLI
16 5 (0.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 111 (10.99%) Atlassian
2 107 (10.59%) Microsoft
3 97 (9.60%) ServiceNow
4 50 (4.95%) Oracle
5 42 (4.16%) Salesforce
6 39 (3.86%) Remedy
7 33 (3.27%) VMware
8 30 (2.97%) HP
9 26 (2.57%) IBM
10 23 (2.28%) Cisco
10 23 (2.28%) SAP
11 22 (2.18%) Google
12 19 (1.88%) BiZZdesign
12 19 (1.88%) Commvault
13 18 (1.78%) CyberArk
13 18 (1.78%) Red Hat
14 16 (1.58%) BMC
15 15 (1.49%) Dell
16 14 (1.39%) Splunk
17 13 (1.29%) Foundry